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"msg_contents": "Hi Vadim,\n\nI am trying to understand why GetSnapshotData() needs to acquire the\nSInval spinlock before it calls ReadNewTransactionId, rather than after.\nI see that you made it do so --- in the commit at\nhttp://www.ca.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c.dif... |
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"msg_contents": "In this bit of code in src/pl/plpgsql/src/gram.y in the current CVS\nsources, curname_def is defined as PLpgSQL_expr * but it is is\nallocated the space required for a PLpgSQL_var. This looks like a\nbug.\n\nIan\n\n\t\t\t\t| decl_varname K_CURSOR decl_cursor_args decl_is_from K_SELECT decl_c... |
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"msg_contents": "> I am trying to understand why GetSnapshotData() needs to acquire the\n> SInval spinlock before it calls ReadNewTransactionId, rather than after.\n> I see that you made it do so --- in the commit at\n>\nhttp://www.ca.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/storage/ipc/sh\nmem.c.diff?... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The question is really whether you ever want a client to get a\n> \"rejected\" result from an open attempt, or whether you'd rather they \n> got a report from the back end telling them they can't log in. The \n> second is more polite but a lot more expensive. That expense might \n> real... |
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"msg_contents": "lindo=# vacuum analyze;\nNOTICE: Index probably_good_banner_myidx1: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (1) IS \nNOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (4).\n\tRecreate the index.\nNOTICE: Index probably_good_banner_myidx1: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (1) IS \nNOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (4).\n\tRecreate the index.\nNOTICE: Chi... |
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"msg_contents": "Most, or at least half, of the error messages that libpq itself generates\nlook like \"PQwhatever(): this and that went wrong\", where PQwhatever is\nusually the function that generates the error message.\n\nI consider this practice ugly. If PQwhatever is an exported API function,\nthen the... |
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"msg_contents": "> > You forget about Tx Old! The point is that changes made by\n> > Tx Old *over* Tx New' changes effectively make those Tx New'\n> > changes *visible* to Tx S!\n> \n> Yes, but what's that got to do with the order of operations in\n> GetSnapshotData? The scenario you describe can occur anywa... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I'd like to add another column to pg_rewrite, holding the\n string representation of the rewrite rule. A new utility\n command will then allow to recreate the rules (internally\n DROP/CREATE, but that doesn't matter).\n\n This would be a big help in case an... |
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"msg_contents": "> Oh, now I get it: the point is to prevent Tx Old from exiting the set\n> of \"still running\" xacts as seen by Tx S. Okay, it makes sense.\n> I'll try to add some documentation to explain it.\n\nTIA! I had no time from '99 -:)\n\n> Given this, I'm wondering why we bother with having a sepa... |
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"msg_contents": "> Anyway, what's the preferred syntax for triggering the rule\n> recompilation? I thought about\n> \n> ALTER RULE {rulename|ALL} RECOMPILE;\n> \n> Where ALL triggers only those rules where the user actually\n> has RULE access right on a relation.\n\nIn good world ... |
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"msg_contents": "One day i found these in my logs, and the vacuum process hung, effectively\nlocking everybody out of some tables...\nVersion 7.1.2\n\nVACUUM ANALYZE\nNOTICE: RegisterSharedInvalid: SI buffer overflow\nNOTICE: InvalidateSharedInvalid: cache state reset\n\nIt was sleeping in semop().\n\nAny ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > In good world rules (PL functions etc) should be automatically\n> > marked as dirty (ie recompilation required) whenever referenced\n> > objects are changed.\n> \n> Yepp, and it'd be possible for rules (just not right now).\n> But we're not in a really good world, so it'l... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Why is it possible in Oracle' world? -:)\n> \n> Because of there limited features?\n\nAnd now we limit our additional advanced features -:)\n\n> Think about a language like PL/Tcl. At the time you call a\n> script for execution, you cannot even be sure that the Tcl\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "What's the fastest way to select the number of rows in a table? If I\nuse count(*) with no whereclause, it uses a seq_scan and takes 4 secs\n(122k rows). With a where clause, it uses an index and returns in < 1\nsec. Selecting count(requestnumber), which is an indexed column, with\nno wher... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> Given this, I'm wondering why we bother with having a separate\n> >> XidGenLock spinlock at all. Why not eliminate it and use SInval\n> >> spinlock to lock GetNewTransactionId and ReadNewTransactionId?\n> \n> > Reading all MyProc in GetSnashot may take long time - why disallow\n> > new ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Isn't spinlock just a few ASM instructions?... on most platforms...\n> \n> If we change over to something that supports read vs write locking,\n> it's probably going to be rather more than that ... right now, I'm\n> pretty dissatisfied with the performance of our spinlocks under load.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\n>At the time of creation function body could be parsed and referenced\n>objects stored in system table (or function could be marked as dirty\n>and referenced objects would stored at first compilation and after\n>each subsequent successful after-dirtied-compilation).\n>Isn't it p... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I also think we have to leave VACUUM alone and come up with a new name\n> for our light VACUUM. That way, people who do VACUUM at night when no\n> one is on the system can keep doing that, and just add something to run\n> light vacuum periodically during the day.\n\nIf I understood what ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> When the system is too heavily loaded (however measured), any further \n> login attempts will fail. What I suggested is, instead of the \n> postmaster accept()ing the connection, why not leave the connection \n> attempt in the queue until we can afford a back end to handle it? \n\nBecau... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs promised, here is a patch to remove all support for the (non-functional\nanyway) EXTEND INDEX statement. See earlier emails for more explanations.\n\nNote, this patch makes it as if it never existed. So, if you think some of\nthe code may be useful, now is the time to speak up! :)\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > The conventional VACUUM would then be something you do as part of a DB \n> > reorganization (maybe once every month or so).\n> \n> Yes, but in other DB's if you UPDATE all rows in the table, you don't\n> double the disk space.\n\nSure, but what is wrong with keeping the space allocated fo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a problem with rules in postgres, it may be a bug, or maybe I'm doing \nsomething wrong. I'm running version 7.1.2 on a freebsd 4.3 box.\n\nHere is my table:\n\nCREATE TABLE customer (\n cono integer not null,\n Name varchar,\n ssn varchar(10),\n PRIMARY KEY (cono)\n);\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Since I am about to add a \"bulk delete\" routine to the index access\nmethod APIs for concurrent VACUUM, I need to add a column to pg_am\nto define the associated procedure for each index AM. This seems like\na fine time to clean up some of the other outstanding TODO items for\npg_am:\n\n1.... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that the query executor currently has a lot of switch statements on\nthe the type of node it is descending to. This means you get a call tree\nlike:\n\nExecProcNode\n ExecNestLoop\n ExecProcNode\n ExecMergeJoin\n ...\n\nWouldn't it be nicer if the Plan had access to f... |
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"msg_contents": "Where do I find out how to compile and run PostgreSQL under WindowsNT?\nThought I saw something about pre-built binaries available somewhere.\n\nThanks\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:11:38 -0400",
"msg_from": "\"P. Dwayne Miller\" <dmiller@espgroup.net>",
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"msg_contents": "I have committed changes for an item in TODO:\n\n* Make n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) the number of letters, not bytes\n\nPlease let me know if there is any problem.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:21:15 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "Those of you who wanted to help translating the messages of PostgreSQL\nprograms and libraries, you can get started now. I've put up a page\nexplaining things a bit, with links to pages that explain things a bit\nmore, at\n\nhttp://www.ca.postgresql.org/~petere/nls.html\n\nPlease arrange you... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n\nI gotta this problem while I was trying to work with weblogic and postgresql with storing images as byte arrays.\n\nFirst, I used JBOSS-2.2.2 as an application server and Postgresql-7.0.3 as a database serevr to run one of my Java enterprise applications. There I used \"OID\... |
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"msg_contents": "I have found that many TODO items would benefit from a pg_depend table\nthat tracks object dependencies. TODO updated.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDEPENDENCY CHECKING / pg_depend\n\n* Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL, pe... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCan anyone confirm whether I can do something like the following in a\nPL/pgsql trigger ( on table tab_a )\n\n\tSELECT INTO tab_b * FROM OLD;\n\nor do I have to do -\n\n\tINSERT INTO tab_b SELECT * FROM tab_a WHERE id=OLD.id;\n\nAll that I want to do is insert the records from OLD into... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCan anyone confirm whether I can do something like the following in a\nPL/pgsql trigger ( on table tab_a )\n\n\tSELECT INTO tab_b * FROM OLD;\n\nor do I have to do -\n\n\tINSERT INTO tab_b SELECT * FROM tab_a WHERE id=OLD.id;\n\nAll that I want to do is insert the records from OLD into... |
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"msg_contents": "in testing CVS tip(sort of), I found that you need -lcurses with\n-ledit on NetBSD 1.5.1. \n\n_tputs in undefined otherwise. \n\nLER\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 1905 Steamboat Sp... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nwe noticed you changed gist.c to handle NULLS. It seems there is\nproblem with your changes.\nin gist.c\n\n /* GIST indexes don't index nulls, see notes in gistinsert */\n if (! IndexTupleHasNulls(itup))\n {\n /*\n\n....... skipped ....\n\n /... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> we noticed you changed gist.c to handle NULLS. It seems there is\n> problem with your changes.\n....\n> I remind we have choosen to leave NULLs because vacuum complained about\n> different number of tuples in heap and index and all our opclasses work\n> correctly with NULLs. Did you chang... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n I'm not sure if this is the right address to pass comments to PostGreSQL\nteam, but here goes.\n I'm new to PostgreSQL and so far it looks quite interesting as an open\nsource DBMS. There are a few quirks (i.e. can't alter field data types?\nCan't drop fields? ,etc), but I suppose I c... |
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"msg_contents": "Running:\n\n ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN column SERIAL;\n\n Defines a column as int4 but does not create the sequence or attempt\nto set the default value.\n\nNot a big deal, but I was surprised when the column values were null.\n\n--\nRod Taylor\n\nYour eyes are weary from staring at the CR... |
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"msg_contents": "This might not be the correct list to send this to, but none of the other\nlists seemed appropriate. A friend of mine who uses postgres extensively at\nhis job suggested I might send y'all a note outlining what we do with it\nhere. \n\nIn general, I am discouraged from providing specific data... |
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"msg_contents": "I've done some searching through the mailing lists and haven't found \nany info regarding what I need.\n\nI have an array of values of type int8.\nI want to be able to rollup the data and have postgres do all the \nsumming for me. I've looked at the commands and haven't found what I \nneed.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Let me clearify. I am suggesting system table relid for each entry:\n\n> \tobject sysrelid\n> \tobject oid\n> \treference sysrelid\n> \treferences oid\n\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + I... |
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"msg_contents": "\nmorannon:~>pg_dump -t bboard openacs | less\ngetTables(): SELECT (for VIEW ec_subsubcategories_augmented) returned NULL oid\nSELECT was: SELECT definition as viewdef, (select oid from pg_rewrite\nwhere rulename='_RET' || viewname) as view_oid from pg_views where\nviewname = 'ec_subsubcatego... |
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"msg_contents": "At 22:12 16/07/01 -0500, Dominic J. Eidson wrote:\n>morannon:~>pg_dump -t bboard openacs | less\n>getTables(): SELECT (for VIEW ec_subsubcategories_augmented) returned NULL\noid\n>SELECT was: SELECT definition as viewdef, (select oid from pg_rewrite\n>where rulename='_RET' || viewname) as vie... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI know that exists a script file for postgreSQL that have the operator *=\nand others.\n\nWhere can I find that script ?\n\nThanks\n\nLuis Sousa\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:15:03 +0100",
"msg_from": "Luis Sousa <llsousa@ualg.pt>",
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"msg_contents": "I have noticed that a large fraction of the I/O done by 7.1 is\nassociated with initializing new segments of the WAL log for use.\n(We have to physically fill each segment with zeroes to ensure that\nthe system has actually allocated a whole 16MB to it; otherwise we\nfall victim to the \"hole... |
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"msg_contents": "in the old days (7.0.3) i could list databases via\n\n\tpsql -l\n\nbut these days (7.1) i must\n\n\tpsql -l [-d] nameOfADatabaseFromPreordainedKnowledge\n\nprobably because of some fuxnored setting. but which?\n\n-- \nI'd concentrate on \"living in the now\" because it is fun\nand on building... |
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"msg_contents": "\nChecking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE\n-- Start of PGP signed section.\n> Hi -\n> \n> pgman wrote:\n> \n> : Most Unix filesystems will not allocate disk blocks until you write in\n> : them. [...]\n> \n> Yes, I understand that, but how is it a problem for postgresql?\n\nUh, I thought ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nOne of the biggest gaps I've found while doing performance tuning is\ncollecting execution statistics. There's EXPLAIN for the planner, but\nnothing for the executor. Maybe another verb; ACCOUNT?\n\nI'm not suggesting this as work that someone else do. I don't mind\ntrying it... |
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"msg_contents": "As some of you know, Nusphere is trying to sell MySQL with an additional\ntransaction-based table manager called Gemini. They enabled download of\nthe source code yesterday at:\n\n\thttp://mysql.org/download3.php?file_id=1118\n\nLooking through the 122k lines of C code in the Gemini director... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm playing around with the Full Text Indexing module, and I notice that\nit's case-sensitive. This seems to be pretty useless to me - especially for\nmy application. I wonder if there'd be any objections to me modifying it to\nbe case-insensitive. Or at least be configurable either... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:44:24 GMT, alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com> wrote:\n\n>\n>All computers in the world MUST sync with ATOMIC clock before 12:00 AM\n>21 July 2001!!!\n\nWHY???\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:03:55 GMT",
"msg_from": "rick@edg.nl (Rick Schippers)",
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"msg_contents": "\nWe are seeing what seems to me to be very peculiar behaviour. We have a\nschema upgrade script that alters the schema of an existing production\ndatabase. One of the things we do is create two new indexes. The script\nthen immediately performs a vacuum analyze.\n\nThe problem is (or was) th... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I just had an idea about how to avoid this cost:\n> why not recycle old log segments? At the point where the code\n> currently deletes a no-longer-needed segment, just rename it to\n> become the next created-in-advance segment.\n\nYes, since I already suggested this on Feb 26. I naturall... |
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"msg_contents": "Eugene Faukin (elf@solvo.ru) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nlibpgtcl doesn't use UTF encoding of TCL\n\nLong Description\nModern versions of the TCL (8.2 at least) use UTF encoding to internal\nstorage of the text. libpgtc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI use the libraries of function of Postgres in a\nprogram.\nIn this script, I keep connected with the postmaster\nand I submit him a lot of queries without\ndisconnecting each time. At the end of each queries, I\nuse PQclear to clean memory but I notice that the\nmemory used by the proce... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a problem white one sql request. I got this error message :\n\nWarning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions\nmust match initial ORDER BY expressions in\n/export/castor-b7/local-home/kelbertj/Prog/web/lumiere/admin/recherche_realisateurs.php\non line... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a problem white one sql request. I got this error message :\n\nWarning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions\nmust match initial ORDER BY expressions in\n/export/castor-b7/local-home/kelbertj/Prog/web/lumiere/admin/recherche_realisateurs.php\non line... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > : Most Unix filesystems will not allocate disk blocks until you write in\n> > > : them. [...]\n> > >\n> > > Yes, I understand that, but how is it a problem for postgresql?\n> >\n> > Uh, I thought we did that so we were not allocating file system blocks\n> > during WAL writes. Perfor... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\n\n Writing my interface application, which use the PQexec library, I\ncame across the PQexec() queries 8191 bytes limit.\n What useful are 4Gb text fields if I have this limit ?\n I mean, if a user make an update to this field, with a large value\n(let's say... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHow do I define a function as taking a variable number of parameters. The\ndocumentation seems to indicate (...) but, no such luck.\n\nmarkw=# create function concat( ... )\nmarkw-# returns varchar\nmarkw-# as '/usr/local/lib/pgcontains.so', 'concat'\nmarkw-# languag... |
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"msg_contents": "pg_dump/pg_dumpall fail with the following messages (verbose output\nselected):\n\n...\n-- dumping out user-defined procedural languages\n-- dumping out user-defined functions\nfailed sanity check, type with oid 59770787 was not found\n\nOS: Linux kernel 2.2.16\nPostgreSQL v. 7.0.3\n\nI've ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFor the record:\n\n http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/englishusage/d0081889.html\n\ndependent or dependant\n\n \"Dependent is the adjective, used for a person or thing that depends\n on someone or something: Admission to college is dependent on A-level\n results. Dependant is the noun... |
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"msg_contents": "> If you want to make oids optional on user tables,\n> we can vote on that.\n\nLet's vote. I'm proposing optional oids for 2-3 years,\nso you know how I'll vote -:)\n\n> However, OID's keep our system tables together.\n\nHow?! If we want to find function with oid X we query\npg_proc, if we wa... |
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"msg_contents": "> OK, we need to vote on whether Oid's are optional,\n> and whether we can have them not created by default.\n\nOptional OIDs: YES\nNo OIDs by default: YES\n\n> > > However, OID's keep our system tables together.\n> > \n> > How?! If we want to find function with oid X we query\n> > pg_pr... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, I will be visiting Red Hat engineers in Toronto tomorrow\n(Thursday). I will be back online Friday.\n\nI should also mention that Jan, Tom, and I will be at the O'Reilly\nconference all next week.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJ-P wrote:\n> > I need to create a new system table like pg_log to\n> > implement a replication scheme. The big problem is\n> how\n> > I could get an OID for it, a unique OID that is\n> > reserved for that table???\n\nHiroshi Inoue wrote:\n>\n> \n> Do you need the following ?\n> \n> visco=#... |
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"msg_contents": "> Yes, nowhere near, and yes. Sequence objects require disk I/O to\n> update; the OID counter essentially lives in shared memory, and can\n> be bumped for the price of a spinlock access.\n\nSequences also cache values (32 afair) - ie one log record is required\nfor 32 nextval-s. Sequence' da... |
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"msg_contents": "I need to programatically relax a constraint during db syncronization. I\ntried setting tgenabled to false in the pg_trigger table, but it didn't seem\nto make a difference.\n\nThx,\n\nHowie\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:08:31 GMT",
"msg_from": "\"Howard Williams\" <howi... |
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"msg_contents": "\tI've followed the threads of needing to run vacuum nightly, and even\ngot an answer to a slow updating database regarding needing to vacuum. But I\nhaven't see the question asked:\n\nis it possible to completely turn off the revision tracking feature so that\nvacuum does not need to be run ... |
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"msg_contents": "/home/projects/pgsql partition at hub.org is down to zero free space...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:18:06 -0400",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\n I've tried again sending large queries using libpq on Windows\nenvironment, without success.\n I downloaded the PostgreSQL v7.12 sources, compiled libpq.dll using\nMicrosoft's Visual C++ 6.0, and tried sending a large query.\n The problem is, when the query... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi !\nMy system is i686/Linux Mandrake 7.0/Postgresql v-7.0.2.\nI found a bug in the sql command ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT..., when I tried to add a composite foreign key constraint \n(a FK with more than one attribute). The problem is in the file identified by \n$Header: /home/projects/pgs... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi !\nMy system is i686/Linux Mandrake 7.0/Postgresql v-7.0.2.\nI found a bug in the sql command ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT..., when I tried to add a composite foreign key constraint \n(a FK with more than one attribute). The problem is in the file identified by \n$Header: /home/projects/pgs... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm pretty new to postgresql.. I'm using a fresh compile/install of postgresql 7.1.2 without any special options.. but here's my problem:\n\nsemantic=# create temp table ttmptable(lookup_id int, rating int);\nCREATE\nsemantic=# SELECT doEverythingTemp(20706,2507);\n doeverythingtemp \n-------... |
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"msg_contents": "Does anyone know if it is possible to define a Postgres C function as taking a\nvariable number of parameters? The fmgr code will pass it, but I don't see any\nway to use \"create function\" to register it.\n\nDoes one have to issue a create function for each additional parameter?\n\nI am try... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone on IRC just mentioned that mere mortals can create tables in\ntemplate1. If the user restricts template1 access to users via\npg_hba.conf, certain commands will not work that use template1\nconnection. \n\nAny solutions? I think we need table creation permissions even if we\ndon't ... |
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"msg_contents": "Straight out of Allied peace talks, we've got this article up at mysql.com\nhttp://www.mysql.com/news/article-76.html\n\nOne wonders what happened to the postal or email systems that this couldn't\nhave been delivered privately.\n\nIn all honesty, it appears mysql.org was overdue, the level o... |
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"msg_contents": "Reported by Tatsuo with 1000 backends all waking up at the same time:\n\n\t* Create spinlock sleepers queue so everyone doesn't wake up at once \n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your li... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> As I mentioned already I'm implementing updatable cursors\n> in ODBC and have half done it. If OIDs would be optional\n> my trial loses its validity but I would never try another\n> implementation.\n\nBut how can you do that ? The oid index is only created by \nthe dba for specific tables... |
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"msg_contents": "uvscan doesn't extract out MIME attachments but amavis does. You have to\nhave a whole lot of un archivers on the system for that reason.\n\nDave\nOn Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:13, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:\n> Hmmm - I'm pretty sure that uvscan won't automatically extract out MIME\n> attachem... |
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"msg_contents": "Has anyone here thought about using the spread libraries for WAL\nreplication amongst mutliple hosts? With this library I think it'd be\npossible to have a multi-master replication system...\n\nhttp://www.spread.org/\n\n I'm not familiar enough with the guts of postgres to be able to\... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tmomjian@hub.org\t01/07/21 00:32:42\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/interfaces/libpq: fe-connect.c win32.h \n\nLog message:\n\tI downloaded new source for lib (only few hours old !!!), and made\n\tchanges on this new source to... |
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"msg_contents": "Muggins here volunteered to get RAISE to accept any expression that\nevaluates to a string rather than just a string constant. Think I can see\nwhy it wasn't that way already.\n\nHad a look, and this is easy enough:\n\nRAISE NOTICE ''Hello '' || $1 || '' World'';\n\nAlso, I can do:\n\nRAISE N... |
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"msg_contents": "Take these queries:\n\nselect * from foo as F, (select * from bar where name = 'bla') as B where\nF.name = B.name\nunion all\nselect * from foo as F, (select * from bar where name = 'bla') as B where\nF.type = B.type\n\nOR \n\ncreate temp table B as select * from bar where name = 'bla';\nsele... |
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"msg_contents": "I like the idea of adding an INSERT ... RETURNING capability,\nper Philip Warner's suggestion of about a year ago\n(http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=68704). We did not\nfigure out what to do if the INSERT operation is rewritten by a rule,\nbut I have an idea about that. ISTM tha... |
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"msg_contents": "----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: eCommerce Software Solutions Inc. \nTo: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org \nCc: pgsql-cygwin-request@postgresql.org \nSent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 9:15 PM\nSubject: Leaking Handles in Postgres 7.1.2 on Cygwin dll 1.3.2 on Win 2000\n\n\n\n\nThe situation is this:\... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying create a unique index using more than one field and\napplying a function in one field to achieve case insensitive\nuniqueness but postgresql doesn't accept. \n\ncreate table a( \n id int primary key,\n id2 int not null,\n name varchar(50),\n unique(id2, lower(name))\n ); \n\... |
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"msg_contents": "> I notice from your postings on the PGSQL-hackers archives that you have been\n> experimenting with PGSQL and Pgbench. I have not been able to get PGSQL to\n> scale on multiple processors. Tom Lane says this is due to the\n> implementation of spin-locks. Have you made any fixes or additions... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, but I'm not familiar with TH8TISASCII encoding at all. Is there\nany documentation for it on the web?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n> Dear Sir,\n> \n> I have obtained your email address through the PostgreSQL documentation. I\n> understood you are the specialist of the localisation on PostgreSQ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Sorry for writting to you but I can�t go further because we are having\n> trouble trying to set multibyte in our environment. When I tried to run\n> ./configure --enable-multibyte=LATIN2 and after this gmake, I receive lots\n> of errors and I don�t know how to proceed. I�m from Brazil... |
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"msg_contents": "When I delete a table that has an OID, the OID does not get deleted\ncorrect? How can I delete the data from the large object?\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:49:07 +1000 (EST)",
"msg_from": "Grant <grant@conprojan.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "Would it be possible to offer an option for the OID column to get its value\nfrom an int4 primary key (settable on a per table basis maybe)?\n- Stuart\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tHiroshi Inoue [SMTP:Inoue@tpf.co.jp]\n> Sent:\tSaturday, July 21, 2001 7:31 AM\n> To:\tZeugswetter A... |
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"msg_contents": "We are evaluating PostgreSQL for a possible port to our\nproprietary hardware platform. The hardware is a very\nhigh end (processing power, I/O throughput, storage capacity)\nstorage system, attached to a host machine running Windows2K.\nThe question is what's the right way to do it. The fo... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to have statistics on when my database was last backed up or\nvacuumed. Currently, I'm implementing this by using simple shell\nscripts that write a date stamp to ascii files. I was wondering\nwhether this is or could be a feature added to Postgres?\n\nFor example, could one of the p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\t\n\tI remember that in earlier versions of Postgres.\n\tYou have to do something (which I cannnot remember) to enable\n\ta user to create plpgsql functions.\n\t\n\twhich versions of postgres were they?\n\nthanks in advance.\n\nBill\n-- \nThe mark of a good party is that you wake ... |
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"msg_contents": "Try this:\n\ntest=# create table test (a int4);\nCREATE\ntest=# grant select, update on te\n\nStop there and press 'TAB' to complete the word 'test'.\n\nYour command line then gets rewritten to :\n\ngrant select, update on SET\n\nIt seems that it occurs when you have commas in there...\n\nChr... |
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"msg_contents": "I was thinking that this would help stop OID wrap around while not totally\nbreaking clients that used OIDs as row identifiers as they'd now have the\nint4 primary key value (although I guess there could be risks if the client\nassumes there'd be globally unique). Also the primary key would h... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nJust created a db from a pg_dump file and got this error:\n\nERROR: copy: line 602, Bad timestamp external representation '2000-10-03\n09:01:60.00+00'\n\nI guess its a bad representation because 09:01:60.00+00 is actually 09:02,\nbut how could it have got into my database/can I do any... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello friends,\n\nWhat is the best way to parse and store an XML document in PostgreSQL?\nI would like to store fwbuilder (http://www.fwbuilder.org) objects in \nPostgreSQL.\n\nAny information is welcome.\n\nRegards, Jean-Michel POURE\npgAdmin Development Team\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 24 J... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, so I've defined a grammar for string_expr, which means the following\ncurrently works:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION foo_raise_loop(text) RETURNS text AS '\nDECLARE\n a ALIAS FOR $1;\n i integer;\n myrec RECORD;\nBEGIN\n i:=0;\n FOR myrec IN SELECT * FROM colours LOOP\n i:=i+1;... |
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"msg_contents": "From: Alex Crettol <AlexC@BassSoftware.com>\nSubject: RE: Thai data import into PostgreSQL\nDate: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:39:20 +1000\nMessage-ID: <415719E2420CD4118EEF00001C1902FE339760@bassex.melb.basssoftware.com>\n\n> Tatsuo,\n> \n> Thank you for your reply. \n> \n> I unfortunately do not hav... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm porting some stored procedures from a MSSQL server, and thought\nI'd use PL/pgSQL.\n\nThe original code is checking the insert with the line:\n\n if (@@Error != 0)\n\nHow do I do the same thing in PL/pgSQL?\n\n-- \n Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's j... |
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