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"msg_contents": "People have complained that we store passwords unencrypted in pg_shadow.\nLong ago we agreed to a solution and I am going to try to implement that\nnext.\n\nWhat we do now with crypt authentication is that the postmaster reads the\nplain-text password out of pg_shadow and encrypts it with a r... |
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"msg_contents": "Don't know about JDBC, but couldn't you just use UPDATE <xxx> SET\n<yyy>=<zzz> WHERE xmin=<stored/old xmin> AND primarykey=<stored/old pk> and\nget the number of altered records? (if its zero then you know somethings\nwrong and can investigate further)\n- Stuart\n\n> -----Original Message----... |
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"msg_contents": "Marc,\n\nwhen I try to reach http://fts.postgresql.org/ I see\nhttp://www.hub.org/\n\nwhat's happens ?\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Unive... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently using PostgreSQL v7.0.3 and I have tried to upgrade to\nv7.1.2.\n\nThe installation (./configure, gmake, gmake install) of v7.0.3 doesn't\nprovide any error message,\nbut I'm not able to use the pg_dumpall binary, even with -p option it\nsays it's not able to connect to p... |
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"msg_contents": "Could anyone please tell me what the following mean:\n\nNOTICE: Index pg_type_typname_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (124) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (114) \nNOTICE: Index pg_attribute_attrelid_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (883) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (422)\n\nI've never seen them before.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIm running some benchmarking tests on mysql, postgres and interbase\ndatabase servers.\n\ndoes anyone know the reasons why or know where i can find out some\ntechnical reasons why the postgres database server is particularly good\nin relation to the others or just by itself e.g. us... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt seems that our current way of enforcing uniqueness knows nothing \nabout transactions ;(\n\nwhen you \n\ncreate table t(\n i int4 primary key\n);\"\"\"\n\nand then run the following query \n\nbegin;\n delete from t where i=1;\n insert into t(i) values(1);\nend;\n\nin a loop from two p... |
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"msg_contents": "Guys,\n\nJust installed a new data base in my server and while running vacuum\nanalyze postgres dies with the following message:\n\n[...]\nNOTICE: Index pg_rewrite_oid_index: Pages 2; Tuples 16. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec.\nNOTICE: Index pg_rewrite_rulename_index: Pages 2; Tuples 16. CPU 0.00s/0.0... |
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"msg_contents": "OpenBSD lacks RTLD_GLOBAL, so it should be removed from\ndynloader/openbsd.h\n\n(netbsd and freebsd do have it, so its kosher there)\n\n-alex\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:41:27 -0400 (EDT)",
"msg_from": "Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>",
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"msg_contents": "If USE_READLINE exists, but HAVE_RL_FILENAME_COMPLETION_FUNCTION does not,\n-current build breaks:\ngcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations\n-I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -c tab-complete.c\n-o tab-complete.o\ntab-complete.c: In function `psql... |
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"msg_contents": "This is second take at indexability of << operator for inet types.\n\nPlease take a look at it. \n\nAlso, I have a question: I put in a regression test to check that the type\ncan be indexed, by doing 'explain select ...'. However, the expected\nresult may vary when the optimizer is tweaked. ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi to list,\n\nI had my database installed in my Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.6). I was\nusing postgres 7.1 version. Now the database got corrupted. I had no clue\nhow it got corrupted. Basically, i did found that the data of various\nusers existing (in /usr/local/pgsql/data directory). But th... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nHere is a nice article comparing OSea to run hardcore net apps:\n\nhttp://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm\n\nThe article compares Linux (RH), FreeBSD, Solaris (Intel), and Windows 2000.\nThe tests were performed against the implementation TCP/IP Architecture\... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, after persuading cvsup and cvs that it _is_ possible to have local\nmodifiable repositories, I have a clean untrusted plperl patch to offer\nyou :)\n\nHighlights:\n* There's one perl interpreter used for both trusted and untrusted\nprocedures. I do think its unnecessary to keep two perl... |
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"msg_contents": "I think this addresses all Tom's concerns. Tom? :)\n\n--\nAlex Pilosov | http://www.acecape.com/dsl\nCTO - Acecape, Inc. | AceDSL:The best ADSL in Bell Atlantic area\n325 W 38 St. Suite 1005 | (Stealth Marketing Works! :)\nNew York, NY 10018 |",
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, due to a misconfiguration I lost the mail I send, so I cannot reply\nto my last message.\n\nAnyway, I checked again and found out the guy is still using 6.5.3 so this\nis probably an old problem.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse D... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, All!\n\n\nIs there in pgsql something like\nselect @@rowcount, i. e.\nis it possible to get in sql number of rows affected by the sql last insert,\nupdate or delete statement??\n\nThanks\n\nRegards,\nSergiy.\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:42:45 +0300",
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"msg_contents": "Just wanted to share with y'all what I wanna do with plperl:\n\n1) I want to implement database access from plperl script by providing a\nperl module DBD::PgSPI which instead of using libpq interface to talk to\ndatabase would use SPI. Thus, certain client-side scripts could become\nstored pr... |
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"msg_contents": "I have finished a first pass at the planner statistics and cost\nestimation changes that I want to do for 7.2. It's now time to see\nhow well the new code does in the real world. Accordingly, if you've\nhad problems in the past with silly choices of plans, I'd like to ask\nyou to load your ... |
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"msg_contents": "Let's switch 'timestamp with time zone' back to 'timestamp'. This just\nmakes no sense.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:58:34 +0200 (CEST)",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi, some PostgreSQL users in Japan have been translating 7.1 docs into\nJapanese. I hope the work would finish within 1-2 months. My question\nis how the translated docs could be merged into the doc source tree\nonce it is done. Maybe doc/ja/src/sgml?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
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"msg_contents": "PHP HOWTO v24.0 released: ADODB connects oracle, pgsql, mysql, sybase..\n\nHello everyone:\n\nPHP Howto version 24.0 is released to public, which contains\ndetails about the ADODB to connect all types of SQL servers\nlike oracle, sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQLserver, MS Access.\nThere is A... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> \"Dave Cramer\" <dave@fastcrypt.com> writes:\n> > Can the version # of\n> > the row be made available to the client?\n> \n> There is no \"version # of the row\" in postgres, unless you \n> set up such a\n> thing for yourself (which could certainly be done, using triggers).\n\nAnd in addit... |
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"msg_contents": "First of all thanks for the great effort, it will surely be appreciated :-)\n\n> * On large tables, ANALYZE uses a random sample of rows rather than\n> examining every row, so that it should take a reasonably short time\n> even on very large tables. Possible downside: inaccurate stats.\n> We... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Let's switch 'timestamp with time zone' back to 'timestamp'. This just\n> makes no sense.\n\nImho it only makes no sense, since the impl does not conform to standard :-(\nThe \"with time zone\" requests, that the client timezone be stored in the row.\nThe \"timestamp\" wants no timezone a... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried to setup postgresql from current cvs and got\ninitdb failure:\n\nDEBUG: database system is ready\nERROR: TypeCreate: function 'int4in(opaque)' does not exist\n\ninitdb failed.\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nI'm thinking about starting a (serius) project to\nbring a good graphical interface to the administration\nand operation of postgresql, similar to what other\ndatabases have.\n\nThe goal is to be able to do all the administrative\nwork of postgresql in a single program. It would\ni... |
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"msg_contents": "Write very optimized statements and run them infrequently ;)\n\nI don't really think it's possible. You need to understand how your \napplication will be used, what the resource costs are, and plan \naccordingly, (load balance, etc.)\n\n-r\n\nAt 05:00 PM 6/18/01 +0000, gabriel wrote:\n\n\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHow can I check that all functions references (OIDs)\nare OK ?\n\n\nBest Regards,\n\nJean-Francois Leveque\n\n\n____________________________________________________________________\n- http://www.WebMailSPro.com - >> \nVOTRE service d'email sans pub avec VOTRE nom de domaine\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Because we do not want the dba to decide which statistics are optimal,\n> > there should probably be an analyze helper application that is invoked\n> > with \"vacuum analyze database optimal\" or some such, that also decides \n> > whether a table was sufficiently altered to justify new ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > 3. if at all, an automatic analyze should do the samples on small tables,\n> > and accurate stats on large tables\n> \n> Other way 'round, surely? It already does that: if your table has fewer\n> rows than the sampling target, they all get used.\n\nI mean, that it is probably not usefu... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > The point is, that if the combined effort of all \"hackers\" (with the\n> > help of some large scale users) cannot come to a more or less\n> > generally adequate answer, the field dba most certainly won't eighter.\n> \n> True, but I regard your \"if\" as unproven. The reason for this c... |
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"msg_contents": "I think there will be a race condition around the time of a database\nshutdown. After a new child process is created, the system may go into\nshutdown mode. However, there is a window where the child won't know\nthis, because the signal is blocked and/or not set up yet. Note that we\ncanno... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning ...\n\n\tI'm trying to wrack my brain over something here, and no matter\nhow I try and look at it, I'm drawing a blank ...\n\n\tI have two tables that are dependent on each other:\n\n\tnotes (86736 tuples) and note_links (173473 tuples)\n\n\tThe relationship is that one note can ha... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have a table that records events, one per row. There is\na timestamp column, and an index on that timestamp. Every\nso often a process checks the number of rows in the table,\nand then deletes old events until the number of rows is below\nsome pre-set limit.\n\nThe size of the data file... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I am trying to import a file(named 'myfile') that is present in\nmy home directory into the the postgresql database using the\n*pgaccess* gui tool, it is giving the following error.\n\nERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 26, could\nnot open file 'myfile' for... |
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"msg_contents": "Is anyone else seeing this with current CVS, or is it my own breakage?\n\n*** ./expected/alter_table.out\tWed May 30 12:38:38 2001\n--- ./results/alter_table.out\tTue Jun 19 00:45:22 2001\n***************\n*** 340,347 ****\n ALTER TABLE FKTABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY(ftest1) references pktable(ptes... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> -- If I have interpreted SQL92 correctly UNKNOWN IS TRUE should return\n> FALSE, and UNKNOWN IS NOT TRUE is equivalent to NOT (UNKNOWN IS TRUE) ==>\n> TRUE. Is this correct?\n\nNo, I do not think it is valid to say \"should return true|false\"\nI think they should return UNKNOWN. Only whe... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > -- If I have interpreted SQL92 correctly UNKNOWN IS TRUE should return\n> > FALSE, and UNKNOWN IS NOT TRUE is equivalent to NOT (UNKNOWN IS TRUE) ==>\n> > TRUE. Is this correct?\n> \n> No, I do not think it is valid to say \"should return true|false\"\n> I think they should return UNKNO... |
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"msg_contents": "I am seeing this error in CVS current:\n\ngmake -f Makefile all\ngmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/pl/plperl'\nLD_RUN_PATH=\"\" ld -o blib/arch/auto/plperl/plperl.so -shared -x -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib plperl.o eloglvl.o SPI.o -rdynamic -Wl,... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've added checks in the triggers for checking to\nmake sure the row on insert/update to fk is still\nactually there at check time and that on noaction \nupdate/delete to pk that there wasn't a row added \nwith this value.\n\nWith commenting out the triggered data change check\nin the trigg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nI'm thinking about starting a (serius) project to\nbring a good graphical interface to the administration\nand operation of postgresql, similar to what other\ndatabases have.\n\nThe goal is to be able to do all the administrative\nwork of postgres in a single program. It would\ninc... |
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"msg_contents": ">>>>> \"LT\" == Lamar Thomas <lamart@home.com> writes:\n\nLT> While I know that this is not a MySQL group I was hopping for a little\nLT> help. (I could only find one MySQL group and it was in German).\n\nTry their mailing list. You can find it at www.mysql.com of all\nplaces...\n\n-- \n=-=... |
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"msg_contents": "Given the following CREATE TABLE instructions...\n\n1)\nCREATE TABLE message\n(\n int4 msgid PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,\n text msgtext\n);\n\n2)\nCREATE TABLE message\n(\n int4 msgid not null,\n text msgtext,\n PRIMARY KEY (msgid)\n);\n\n3)\nCREATE TABLE message\n(\n int4 msgid not null,\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian:\n I am a begineer,The question is PgSQL support the full entrity integrity \nand refernece integerity.For example.does it support \"Restricted Delete锟斤拷NULLIFIES-delete,default-delete....\",I read your book,But can not find detail.Where to find?\n\n\n>------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "> How about phppgadmin? I haven't checked in depth but\n> it seems to be able to\n> do quite a lot of these.\n\nYes, and pgaccess too, but I see cons in these two\ntools:\n\n- Pgaccess looks a bit poor. Tcl/Tk is not the\ndefinitive user interface toolkit. Yes, it is enough\nfor many things, ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Personally I'd rather take out the =NULL conversion anyway...\n> \n> I'd second that.\n\nOk, from my yesterday's mistake, and mails that M$ doesn't support it \neighter you convinced me. If this was a vote, I would also now vote \nfor removing it.\n\nAndreas\n",
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"msg_contents": "I have seen problems with extremely many concurrent users.\nI run pgbench:\n\npgbench -c 1000 -t 1 test\n\nAnd I get stuck spin lock errors. This is 100% reproducable (i.e. I\nhave nerver succeeded in pgbench -c 1000).\n\nThis is Linux kernel 2.2.18. Followings are some resource settings\ntha... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > What about a KDE or Gnome piece of software? In\n> > fact, I believe that such a\n> > project may already be in its infancy...\n> \n> Yes, I could be, but no all systems have one of them\n> installed or even installable (think not only about\n> Linux, but all the platforms in wich Post... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI'm using version 6.5.2 of PostgreSQL\n\nSometimes , I have trouble running some pl/PGSQL functions through my PHP\nWeb application. Message error is :\n\nExecOpenScanR : failed to open relation 27223\n\nAnother trouble is that i make a dump of my database every night and\nsometimes ... |
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"msg_contents": ">> - Phppgadmin is a web based tool. You need a php\n>> enabled web server. Most end users/admins don't\nwant\n>> to have to configure a web server, PHP (\"what is\n>> PHP?\") and to have a poor interface (I'm talking\nabout\n>> web based interfaces in general, not the phppgadmin\nin\n>> part... |
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"msg_contents": "I love the fact that temp tables do not exist in every PostgreSQL session,\ndon't get me wrong. \n\nThe issue is this: most \"web environments\" have the idea of a session. A\nsession management scheme based on PostgreSQL exposes PostgreSQL's worst\nbehavior. Small amount of records, high upd... |
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"msg_contents": "I was thinking that a solution to problems with all dynamically linked PLs\n(such as perl and python, which must be compiled as shared library to be\nusable), is to link them statically into postgres.\n\nAnyone disagrees? If not, I'll write some patches, probably by hacking\ndynloader to unde... |
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"msg_contents": "> Problem can be demonstrated by following example\n> \n> create table a (a numeric primary key);\n> insert into a values (1);\n> insert into a values (2);\n> insert into a values (3);\n> insert into a values (4);\n> update a set a=a+1 where a>2;\n> ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > update a set a=a+1 where a>2;\n> > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index a_pkey\n> \n> This is a known problem with unique contraints, but it's not\n> easy to fix it.\n\nYes, it requires dirty reads.\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> I think that application people would probably prefer the delete trigger,\n> insert trigger. It makes more sense, because I would interpret replace\n> as \"get rid of the old if it exists\" and \"put in a new item\". If people\n> wanted\n> to make sure code is run on delete, and they hav... |
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"msg_contents": "I would like to get the unixODBC fixs to the pgsql\nODBC driver into the pgsql distro and then remove the\nunixODBC version.\n\nI know how to do this and I am prepared to do this\nASAP...\n\nCan someone advise?\n\nPeter Harvey\n\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Ya... |
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"msg_contents": "hello all,\n\nI am using an xml -> sql generator where foreign key are specified\nafter the columns are. The sql is written as the xml file is being\nparsed so, the foreign key stuff must be written after the fact.\n\nThe problem I need to solve is adding the on Delete/on Update constraints.\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > update a set a=a+1 where a>2;\n> > > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index a_pkey\n> >\n> > We use uniq index for UK/PK but shouldn't. Jan?\n> \n> What else can you use than an index? A \"deferred until\n> statement end\" trigger checking for duplicates... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone know who looks after ODBC source code -\nincluding the GNUmakefile stuff in the odbc dir of the\ndistro?\n\nPeter\n\n\n\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nGet personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail\nhttp://personal.mail.yahoo.com/\n",
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"msg_contents": "How far off is 7.2? Ages? I want to add the rest of the ALTER TABLE\nfunctionality for 7.2, but I've just been busy - don't worry I haven't\nforgotten!\n\nThis is my personal TODO list:\n\n* ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY\n\t- Done, except code that detects whether or not a pk already exists\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd certainly be keen on helping out with a Java/Swing approach. It would be\nan excellent test of the meta-data stuff in the JDBC driver and to catch any\nommissions. I'm willing to provide a homepage etc if wanted (and for some\nreason the main postgres site isn't used), maybe Sourceforge c... |
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"msg_contents": ">Hello!\n\n>Why not go back to the roots of postgres?\n\n>PostgreSQL is written completely in C. The\ndevelopment community has\n>shown that it is\n>possible to write efficient code for different\n>platforms with pure C.\n\n>The administration task can be separated in 2\ndifferent tasks:\n>A ... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0200, RISKO Gergely wrote:\n> Hello!\n> \n> I saaw your patch for 7.0.2, but it is hard to port to 7.1.2 for me,\n> because I haven't got any knowlendge in postgresql programming.\n> Can you give me a nocreatetable patch for postgres 7.1.2?\n\n I'd like, bu... |
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"msg_contents": ">For an admin tool you might want to display OS info ,\n>server load,\n>database file sizes, logfile viewing etc. \n>I have been working on such a tool for my own use , (\n>GTK+ based front\n>end) and decided that a client / server model would\nbe >the most useful\n>approach. I was probably g... |
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"msg_contents": "Mikheev, Vadim wrote:\n> > > > update a set a=a+1 where a>2;\n> > > > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index a_pkey\n> > >\n> > > We use uniq index for UK/PK but shouldn't. Jan?\n> >\n> > What else can you use than an index? A \"deferred until\n> > statement en... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nSorry for crossposting. As probleme may occur from both sides, I thouth it\nwould be quicker.\n\nWhat I have:\nopenssl 0.9.6a\nopenssh 2.9p1\npostgresql 7.1.2\nunixware 711\n\nAfter install of openssl and openssh , I can successfully ssh and sft,\nslogin etc between the two unixwar... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a session I had on a system.\n\nxdb=# select * from chart where glaccount = '1100-0000';\n glaccount | gldesc | gllevel_id \n-----------+--------+------------\n(0 rows)\n(Note: There is a matching row that this failed to find.)\n\nxdb=# select * from chart where glaccount <= '1100-00... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Incrementing comand counter is not enough - dirty reads are required\n> > to handle concurrent PK updates.\n> \n> What's that with you and dirty reads? Every so often you tell\n> me that something would require them - you really like to\n> read dirty things - no? :-)\n\nDi... |
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"msg_contents": "HELP!\n\nI am converting an app from Oracle to Postgresql and running into a\nsignificant difference in the behavior of a connection after an SQLException\nhas been asserted. I am looking for the \"correct\" way to deal with the\nissue.\n\n From a number of experiments, it appears that the on... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhile testing postgresql with openssl on Unixware, I had this problem that\npsql alaways replied \"PRGN not seeded\".\n\nThat because psql does'nt not seed it in anyway. That's all right on\nsystems that have /dev/urandom (or whatever is ok for openssl)\n\nThe hack is simple: insta... |
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"msg_contents": "Awhile ago I said that I wanted to create a new flavor of table-level\nlock for concurrent VACUUM to get on a table. RowExclusiveLock is\nnot the right thing because it is not self-exclusive, whereas we don't\nwant more than one VACUUM mangling a table at a time. But anything\nhigher locks ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Any better ideas out there?\n\nNames were always hard for me -:)\n\n> Where did the existing lock type names\n> come from, anyway? (Not SQL92 or SQL99, for sure.)\n\nOracle. Except for Access Exclusive/Share Locks.\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:26:09 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "Short description:\n\n PostgreSQL allows perl stored procedures to be created. This module\n will provide access to the PostgreSQL database from inside your stored\n procedure.\n\nFor longer description, see http://www.formenos.org/PgSPI/README\n\nIt is available at http://formenos.o... |
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"msg_contents": "At 05:56 PM 22-06-2001 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>> Since 64 is already too much to let 7.1 fit in SHMMAX = 1MB, I think\n>> the original rationale for using 64 is looking pretty broken anyway.\n>> Comments?\n>\n>BSD/OS has a 4MB max but w... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a way to call SPI_prepare in case the precise datatype is not\nknown? \n\nExample, having a statement like 'select count(*) from foo where\nfieldname=$1' where I know that $1 is a stringish type and it _should_ be\nconvertable using xxx_in (CString-to-datum conversion functions), how... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nI've read that 7.2 release is planned in 2 months.\nDo you have a plan to work with index_formtuple ?\nThis is a stopper for our work on implementation of\nB-tree using GiST. We have implemented B-Tree for int4\nand timestamp/datetime types but with some hack\n(all keys are of type va... |
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"msg_contents": "If someone was interested in joining the development team, where would\nthey...\n\n- Find a description of the open source development process used by the\nPostgreSQL team.\n\n- Find the development environment (OS, system, compilers, etc)\nrequired to develop code.\n\n- Find an area or tw... |
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"msg_contents": "Can one of you knowledgeable people tell me why current CVS as of \na week ago would have the backend running this query grow to \n600 meg+?\n\n\nINSERT into traffic_summary\nSELECT asn,protocol,\ncast(sum(pkts_src) as float) as pkts_src,\ncast(sum(pkts_dst) as float) as pkts_dst,\ncast(sum(b... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is documentation describing plperlu differences from plperl.\n\nPlease apply :)\n\n--\nAlex Pilosov | http://www.acedsl.com/home.html\nCTO - Acecape, Inc. | AceDSL:The best ADSL in the world\n325 W 38 St. Suite 1005 | (Stealth Marketing Works! :)\nNew York, NY 10018 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI make queries on catalog tables in order get metadata about table\nattributes. I need this metadata in order to help me controlling the data\nthat users enter using html forms dynamically generated with PHP.\n\nThe problem I've found is that the attribute that stores the info about data\nl... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a patch (including documentation this time :) containing two\nfunctions, base64_encode(bytea) and base64_decode(text) with obvious\nfunctionality.\n\nCode was initially taken from public-domain base64.c by John Walker but\nmuch simplified (such as, breaking up long string into mul... |
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"msg_contents": "Thank you all for your feedback. Now I know there is\ninterest for this tool. I'm going to do it. I will be\nbusy until the last week of July (including a little\nvacation) so I'm going to start the work in August.\nWhen the basic desing/shedule was ready and I had some\ncode I will announce ... |
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"msg_contents": "has anyone thought about applying the write-ahead log\nto the results of a vacuum that allows both readers and writers?\nin other words, couldn't vacuum just record the highest commited \ntransaction id, say \"TX\", run the vacuum in a private space,\nthen apply the write-ahead log for all t... |
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"msg_contents": "http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6354466.html\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:24:02 +0700",
"msg_from": "\"Andy Samuel\" <andysamuel@geocities.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Red Hat DB = PostgreSQL confirmed !"
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"msg_contents": "There is a lot of going back and forth about shared memory buffers and postgres\nworking \"out of the box.\"\n\nThis is sort of a discussion I'd like to see. I've been using Postgres for a\nlong time, several years and in a few jobs, it is an excellent product, with a\ndepth of configurabilit... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tpetere@hub.org\t01/06/23 19:29:48\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/bin/initdb : initdb.sh \n\nLog message:\n\tDon't use a temp file. It was created insecurely and was easy to do without.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 23 Jun 200... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been trying to get PostgreSQL to work with Apple's \nWebObjects application server. WebObjects uses JDBC as an \ninterface to back-end databases, translating between SQL and a \npure object model.\n\nI had a problem with incorrect SQL being generated and sent to \nthe PostgreS... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nOne more question/comment.\n\nIn order to track down the problem with the interaction between \nWebObjects and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, I had to insert a \nfair amount of logging. This logging will be useful for anyone \nelse who's in a similar position, trying to get some piece... |
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"msg_contents": "Had trouble getting ERWin to work with postgres (even with the Oracle\nlook alike views).\n\nSo, I wrote a small perl script which outputs XML for Dia to import.\nWorks pretty good.\n\nMore details can be found at: www.zort.ca/postgresql\n\n<a\nhref=\"http://www.zort.ca/postgresql/\">http://... |
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"msg_contents": "I recently ran across this (i think) bug relating to constraints and\nfunctions written in plpgsql. It seems that I'm getting erroneous foreign\nkey violations. I've included two scripts which create the simplest test\ncase I can reproduce. One script has a foreign key defined and the other... |
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"msg_contents": "I forgot to mention that this is happening on 7.0.3and 7.1.1 -- and I'm\nrunning on a RedHat 7.0 machine.\n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"Brian Hirt\" <bhirt@berkhirt.com>\nTo: \"Postgres Hackers\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nCc: <bhirt@mobygames.com>\nSent: Sunday, June 24, 200... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nI agree that log4j is probably overkill. I also understand the need for \nbetter logging. I have been fortunate that I can run through a debugger \nso that I have been able to track down any problems I have had when the \nserver sql statment log isn't sufficient.\n\nThe one good t... |
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"msg_contents": "Actually the problem is worse than I thought. Not only do all the \nget/setXXXStream methods assume the datatype is a BLOB, but also the \nget/setBytes methods. This means that it isn't possible to support \nbytea as the binary datatype without also breaking some backward \ncompatability.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > This patch will implement the \"ENABLE PRIVILEGE\" and \"DISABLE PRIVILEGE\"\n> > commands in PL/pgSQL, which, respectively, change the effective uid to that\n> > of the function owner and back. It doesn't break security (I hope). The\n> > commands can be abbreviated as \"ENABLE\" and... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Still, it's an interesting alternative. Comments anyone?\n> \n> SelfExclusiveLock is clear and can't be confused with other \n> lock types.\n\nHow about giving it a label ? SelfExclusive would somehow suggest,\nthat you can have more than one self exclusive lock.\nLike:\n\tlock table a... |
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"msg_contents": "\nhttp://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_database.html\n\n-- \n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #\n# Let's break this rule - forgive me. ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Anybody else want to object to this abbreviation idea ?\n> \n> I thought we already agreed to change the names per Peter's suggestion.\n> \n> I didn't like the original names whether abbreviated or not ...\n\nGood. I have not seen that agreement, maybe it was implied.\nI am not sure whe... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I am not sure whether the feature does not actually present a security \n> > hole ? Two collaborating users can pass each other their privileges.\n> \n> I don't see any (new) security risk here. Code written by one user can\n> be executed with the privileges of another --- so what? Th... |
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"msg_contents": "(Sorry if you receive this twice, but I sent it Saturday evening and it\nnever made it to the list)\n\nThanks for your thorough review and comments, Tom.\n\nHere's a new patch for review. Summary of changes/response to earlier\ncomments:\n- add a routine for NullTest nodes -- done.\n- declare... |
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