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[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Per Tom's request(1000 concurrent backends), I tried current on IBM\n> AIX 5L and found that make check hungs:\n> \n> parallel group (13 tests): float4 oid varchar\n> \n> pgbench hungs too if more than 4 or so concurrent backends are\n> involved.\n\nI once had hangs during make check on A...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs the developer's faq still a valid document? After last nite's website\nchanges I've been tracking down missing items and this one pops up. The\nonly place I see it tho is in the cvs Attic. Isn't the attic where the\njunk goes that noone wants anymore? Is that where the faq belongs?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nReading through the script files again, there seems to be several\ndifferent methods of doing the same thing :\n\ni.e. if [ -x \"$self_path/postmaster\" ] && [ -x \"$self_path/psql\" ];\nthen\n\nor\n\nif [[ -x \"$self_path/postmaster\" && -x \"$self_path/psql\" ]]; then\n\n\n\n\ni...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Would this seem a reasonable thing to do? Does anyone rely on COPY\n> > FROM causing an ERROR on duplicate input?\n> \n> Yes. This change will not be acceptable unless it's made an optional\n> (and not default, IMHO, though perhaps that's negotiable) feature of\n> COPY.\n> \n> The impl...
[ { "msg_contents": "> IMHO, you should copy into a temporary table and the do a select \n> distinct from it into the table that you want.\n\nWhich would be way too slow for normal operation :-(\nWe are talking about a \"fast as possible\" data load from a flat file\nthat may have duplicates (or even data errors,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please apply attached patch to current CVS\n\nChanges:\n\n October 1, 2001\n\n 1. Implemented binary search in array\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Insti...
[ { "msg_contents": "... cs(3)\n> > Seems same as AIX 4?\n\nYes, identical.\n\n> \n> Hmm, does anyone want to produce new s_lock code for AIX that uses\n> compare_and_swap? But I'm not sure that's the problem here.\n\nI did once, but performance was worse, so I discarded it.\nSince AIX 5 still has it, I see no r...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can't do `cvs update -d -P'. I get the following error:\n\ncvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected' (/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected/#cvs.lock): Permission denied\ncvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in reposito...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The effects don't stop propagating there, either. The decision\n> not to insert the tuple must be reported up still further, so\n> that the executor knows not to run any AFTER INSERT/UPDATE\n> triggers and knows not to count the tuple as inserted/updated\n> for the command completion report...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > But what about BEFORE insert/update triggers which could\n> > insert records too?\n> \n> Well, what about them? It's already possible for a later\n> BEFORE trigger to cause the actual insertion to be suppressed,\n> so I don't see any difference from what we have now.\n> If a BEFORE trigg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nBackground:\n\nI am pursuing a MS degree at Christopher Newport University. I'm currently \nlooking for a subject for my thesis plus I've also got to do a simulated \n(scaled down) thesis proposal for class. Since my degree program is applied, \nit doesn't necessarily have to be ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt's come to my attention that users of pgAdmin (the original, not pgAdmin\nII) will not be able to dump/reload their 7.1.x databases into 7.2 without\nan additional step in the upgrade procedure.\n\nThis is because pgAdmin creates a number of views on the server which\ninclude the oid...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\n\nI've seen lots of talk about anoncvs not working, but I \ncan't even find out where it is ;(\n\nThe old address gives\n\n[hannu@taru pgsql]$ ../update.cvs \ncvs update: authorization failed: server postgresql.org rejected \naccess to /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot for user anoncvs\n\n\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ncvsweb is now working! It's available from the developer's site:\n\n http://developer.postgresql.org/\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Christof just told me that I overwrote Tom's patch fixing the setlocale\nproblem in ecpg. I did not notice that and for some strange reason did not\nget Tom's mail either. Anyway, the CVS problem was that I use cvsup to keep\nan up-to-date source tree. I have set up my system so that it updat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Did we come to any conclusion about whether to accept Gavin Sherry's\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION patch?\nhttp://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1035792\n\nAFAIR, the score was that I liked it, Bruce didn't, and no one else\nhad expressed an opinion.\n\nThe patch itself needs a little bi...
[ { "msg_contents": "We're about to release brand new contrib module which is\nactually is a first step of integration of OpenFTS to postgres.\nPreliminary numbers are rather impressive -\n\nzen:~/app/pgsql/GiST/tsearch_index$ time psql-dev apod -c \\\n \"select title from titles where titleidx @@ 'gist&patch';\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI just discovered PLpgSQL yesterday (yay!) as we began development of our \nmore robust database backend, but I'm seeing some odd behavior in the use \nof LOCK TABLE. The problem I'm seeing is that two database transactions, \ninitiated via JDBC, are able to obtain simultaneous ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n0. I think access to other databases is really important. There was\na discussion about that. Using a dot operator to specify a\ndatabase (schema) seems to be very standard and elegant.\nBut there is another way to implement it. Here is my\nsuggestion.\n\n1. First, some syntax:\n\nCREA...
[ { "msg_contents": "In current CVS I see a failure in the btree_gist regression test.\nIt kinda looks like the test data was changed without updating the\nexpected results, but would you verify this?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n\n*** ./expected/btree_gist.out\tWed Aug 22 14:27:54 2001\n--- ./results/btree_gist...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have used Oracle SQLOADER for many years now. It has the ability to \nput rejects/discards/bad into an output file and keep on going, maybe \nthis should be added to the copy command.\n\n\nCOPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]\n FROM { 'filename' | stdin }\n [ [USING] DELIMITERS 'de...
[ { "msg_contents": "For some reason, I seam to feel as if the inserts that should be executed by \na rule are not all getting executed, or at least, they are not getting writen.\n\nHow can I find out what the rule is really doing? The logs don't say much.\n\nAny help will be grear at this moment of stress!!! X->...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could you not include characters other than ASCII in the HISTORY file,\nplease.\n\n> Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard H舐ing)\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:14:31 +0900", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've implemented timestamp and time precision per SQL99 spec. The syntax\nis\n\n TIMESTAMP(2) WITH TIME ZONE\nor\n TIME(0)\netc etc.\n\nOne result of this is that \"timestamp\" is no longer a valid external\nfunction name (among other things) due to parser ambiguity between\n\n TIMESTAMP(2...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> You are attacking here two things: \n> \n> a) schemas, which should be done in 7.3,\n\nIs imho something different alltogether. (I know we have two opposed \nviews here)\n\n> thus multiple databases on same host would be unnecessary.\n\nI disagree :-)\n\n> \n> b) connections to remote hos...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> ------------- shell script -------------------\n> for i in 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192\n> do\n> psql -c \"explain analyze select liketest(a,'aaa') from \n> (select substring('very_long_text' from 0 for $i) as a) as a\" test\n> done\n> ------------- shell script -----------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it a bug or CEST timezone is not supported anymore ?\nI can't import my 7.1.2 database to current development version of\npostgresql\n\n\nlis=# create table test (ts timestamp);\nCREATE\nlis=# insert into test values ('23.05.2000 09:06:59.00 CEST');\nERROR: Bad timestamp external represen...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:\n> > ... There seems some problems existing in the\n> > implementation. Considering REGEX is not so slow, maybe we should\n> > employ the same design as REGEX. i.e. using wide charcters, not\n> > multibyte streams...\n> \n> Seems like a good thing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\n\tI am currently struggling to write a \"serialize\"-like function\nthat would dump a row of a table into a string-like object in a way that\nwould allow me to reconstruct the original row (or its individual\nelements) from this object.\n\n\tThe tentative plan I have is something lik...
[ { "msg_contents": "With current CVS, I did\n\nregression=# create table foo (f1 date default current_date,\nregression(# f2 time default current_time,\nregression(# f3 timestamp default current_timestamp);\nCREATE\nregression=# \\d foo\n Table \"foo\"\n Column | Type ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nI notice HISTORY in CVS doesn't mentioned any development we did\nwith GiST. Should we write some info ? Major things we did:\n\n1. Null-safe interface to GiST\n2. Support of multi-key GiST indices\n\nTODO\nAdding concurrency for GiST\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n______________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "#create table t (v varchar);\n#insert into t values ('0123456789a0123456789b0123456789c0123456789d');\n\n#select v from t;\n\n v \n----------------------------------------------\n 0123456789a0123456789b0123456789c0123456789d\n(1 row)\n\nSo far, so go...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nProblem: the external representation of time and timestamp are\n less precise than the internal representation.\n\nWe are using postgresql 7.1.3\n\nThe timestamp and time types support resolving microseconds (6 places beyond the decimal), however the output routines round the value...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi people,\n\nIs it possible for Postgresql to bind to one IP address? \n\nI'm trying to run multiple postgresql installations on one server.\n\nThe unix socket could be named accordingly:\n\nPostgresql config bound to a particular port and all IPs.\n.s.PGSQL.<portnumber> \n\nPostgresql confi...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\n\nBy default the backend process for postgresql is 32. I\nincreased the N and B value and got to 140. Iam not\nable to increase it any more. The present N value is\n1024 and B value is 2048. Can anyone help me in this.\n\ncheers\n\nbalsu\n\n________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this an expected behavior? I could not see why t1 and t2 are\nshowing different time resolutions...\n\ntest=# create table t3(t1 timestamp(2), t2 timestamp(2) default current_timestamp);\nCREATE\ntest=# insert into t3 values(current_timestamp);\nINSERT 16566 1\ntest=# select * from t3;\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:\n> >> Perhaps it'd be a better idea for the option of a freebie\nconversion\n> >> to be checked earlier, say immediately after we discover there is\nno\n> >> exact match for the function name and input type. Thomas, what do\nyou\n> >> thin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Andreas, have you tried CVS tip lately on AIX? What's your results?\n\nAll 77 ok, no hangs, with make check on single CPU AIX 4.3.2. \nOnly problem on AIX is, that the argv[0] stuff does not work anymore\n(I think since we don't exec() anymore), which is rather annoying.\n\nAndreas\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Only problem on AIX is, that the argv[0] stuff does not work anymore\n> > (I think since we don't exec() anymore), which is rather annoying.\n> \n> Hmm, perhaps we are selecting the wrong PS_STRINGS method for AIX?\n> Please look at src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c and see if one of\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can we set a date for beta? If we are at least a week away, we should\nsay that so people know they can keep working.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch fix memory leaks in src/backend/utils/fmgr/dfmgr.c .\nThis leaks is very significant with massive update/insert tables with gist \nindexes in one transaction or with following sequence of commands:\n1. COPY in table large number of row\n2. CREATE GiST index on table\n3. VACUUM ANALYZE\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t01/10/04 13:52:24\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/parser: parse_coerce.c \n\tsrc/backend/utils/adt: format_type.c \n\nLog message:\n\tMake the world safe for atttypmod=0 ... this didn't use to mean anything,\n\tbut ti...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems to me that when there is no explicit precision notation\nattached, a time/timestamp datatype should not force a precision of\nzero, but should accept whatever it's given. This is analogous to\nthe way we do char, varchar, and numeric: there's no length limit\nif you don't specify on...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI am having troubles compiling Postgresql 7.1.3 on OSX 10.1\n\nI have the following error:\n\n---- cut ----\ncc -no-cpp-precomp -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes\n-Wmissing-declarations -bundle -undefined suppress -bundle -undefined\nsuppress fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-mis...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn trying to solve a bug in 'ALTER TABLE tbl RENAME col1 TO col2',I \nnoticed (what must be) a typo in src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y\npatch attached, tho it might be easier if you just look for this\nline in the file:\n\nopt_column: COLUMN { $...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I am quite sure that all AIX Versions accept the CLOBBER method,\n> > thus I ask you to apply the following patch, to make it work.\n> \n> CLOBBER does not work with AIX5L, nor CHANGE_ARGV. (SETPROCTITLE,\n> PSTAT and PS_STRINGS can not be used since AIX5L does not have\n> appropreate h...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > ... then trailing zeros are hacked out,\n> > two digits at a time.\n> \n> I was wondering why it seemed to always want to produce an even number\n> of fractional digits. Why are you doing it 2 at a time and not 1?\n> I should think timestamp(1) would produce 1 fractional digit, not\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> BTW, still I'm getting the stucking backends. New info: a snapshot\n> dated on 10/3 works fine.\n\nI allways have trouble with those different date formats. Do you\nmean, that the problem is fixed as of 3. October, or that an old\nsnapshot from 10. March still worked ?\n\nSnapshot of 1. O...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just finished up some work bringing a Linux/FreeBSD server project to\nWindows. Enough to test at least. (I have to find a version of getopt() for\nWindows) What I found was surprising.\n\nMy server project is like a database cache for Web servers. It is used to keep\nsession information ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "My friends,\nI'm brazilian and I am developing a project that need to develop a function that returns me the amount of users connected in the bank, and the amount of lock's in a table, and the space in disk placed for one determined database! Can you help me with the solution ? How can I get ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had a catastrophic crash on one of our webservers here and took the\nopportunity to upgrade it. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I am unable to\ncompile either 7.1.3 or the current snapshot of postgres.\n\nThe error I get is rather opaque:\n\n/usr/bin/ld: -undefined error must be used when...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 9:41 AM -0400 10/5/01, Alex Avriette wrote:\n>I had a catastrophic crash on one of our webservers here and took the\n>opportunity to upgrade it. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I am unable to\n>compile either 7.1.3 or the current snapshot of postgres.\n>\n>The error I get is rather opaqu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > BTW, still I'm getting the stucking backends. New info: a snapshot\n> > > dated on 10/3 works fine.\n> > \n> > I allways have trouble with those different date formats. Do you\n> > mean, that the problem is fixed as of 3. October, or that an old\n> > snapshot from 10. March still work...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy hackers,\n\nShould I file a bug or is this known (or fixed)?\n\nThanks!\n\nLaurette (laurette@nextbus.com)\n\nHere's the psql ready test and description:\n\n--\n-- BUG Description:\n-- A float with zeros on the right of the decimal\n-- fails conversion to an interval.\n-- interval ( int...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have found some kind of problems with a rule I have on one of my databases, \nand after some mailling with Tom, and re-checking my logs I find out that the \ninserts look like the are getting (if I look at the logs) but the data is not \nthere!\n\nThis is the RULE:\n\nCREATE RULE admin_inse...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have encountered a problem with plpgsql and I would appreciated it\nif anyone could help me with this.\n\n\nIf I have a relation say:\n\nemp_id | salary\n---------------------------\n1 | 40000.00\n---------------------------\n2 | 45600.00\n---------------------------\n3 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nWhile playing around with trying to add foreign keys to the \n\\d table display in psql, I noticed that tableinfo.triggers \nis not used once it is set. I think it is meant to go here:\n\n /* count triggers */\n if (!error && tableinf...
[ { "msg_contents": "If I try:\ncvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/cvsroot login \nI get a time out\n\nIf I go to the cvs repository checkout link on\ndeveloper.postgresql.org\nI get the following:\nNot Found\n\nThe requested URL /TODO/docs/stylesheet.css was not found on this\nserver.\n\n\nCan someo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI need to use some Chinese characters in charset MS950(CP950) but \nnot in Big5. Big5 and MS950 encoding are very much similiar but \ncurrently there is no support for MS950 and I will need to add it.\nI've read files in src/backend/utils/mb directory but still not\nsure what files to mo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch works for my case...\n\nregression=# create table test (id serial, col1 varchar(64));\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'test_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'test.id'\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UNIQUE will create implicit index 'test_id_key' for table 'test'\nCREA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nHere are few more translated messages into Russian\nfor the PG_DUMP component.\n\nPlease apply to </src/bin/pg_dump/ru.po>\n\n--\nSerguei A. Mokhov", "msg_date": "Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:22:13 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Serguei Mokhov\" <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca>", "msg_from_o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI would like to ask your opinion and about your intuitions\non the question: is it secure to use the cvs version\nof postgres instead of 7.1? (The more specific question\nis below...)\n\nSorry for enlarging the traffic of th elist with this\npossibly non-interesting question.\n\nTo ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm curious as to whether anybody has gotten PostgreSQL to work with a\ndatabase that lives on some sort of read-only medium...like a CD.\n\nI've looked around in the newsgroups and I've seen a comment by Bruce\nMomjian that it can't currently be done...and I've seen a different comment\nby T...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm curious as to whether anybody has gotten PostgreSQL to work with a\ndatabase that lives on some sort of read-only medium...like a CD.\n\nI've looked around in the newsgroups and I've seen a comment by Bruce\nMomjian that it can't currently be done...and I've seen a different comment\nby T...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kelly Harmon <kelly.harmon@byers.com> wrote in message news:9pr7f7$k0j$1@news.tht.net...\n> SO...I dug around through the code a little and found where the error was\n> coming from and changed the code so that if the open attempt with O_RDWR\n> fails, the code tries again with O_RDONLY. This...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I've made some inroads towards adding 'ignore duplicates'\n> functionality to PostgreSQL's COPY command. I've updated the parser\n> grammar for COPY FROM to now accept:\n> \n> COPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]\n> FROM { 'filename' | stdin }\n> [ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter' ]\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Hi,\n> \n> It apears that getting Postgres and OSX 10.1 to work is not just a\n> case of some compiler flags.\n> \n> I have attached a patch, not sure who wrote this patch, but it seems\n> to work for me!\n> \n> I am asuming that the author has submitted it to the pgsql team, but\n> if not ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr] \n> Sent: 08 October 2001 14:43\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR \n> REP...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 08 October 2001 15:13\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'Jean-Michel POURE'; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Bruce \n> Momjian; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CRE...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 08 October 2001 16:43\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; The Hermit Hacker\n> Subject: Daily snapshots hosed (was Re: [pgadmin-hackers] \n> [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTIO...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dave Page \n> Sent: 08 October 2001 16:52\n> To: 'Tom Lane'; Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; The Hermit Hacker\n> Subject: RE: Daily snapshots hosed (was Re: [pgadmin-hackers] \n> [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION?)\n>\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I changed the number of shared buffers to 3000 and my database locks\non a simple query. I must kill the database with pg_ctl stop -m i. \nNeither \"smart\" nor \"fast\" stops appear to succeed. One CPU gets\npinned.\n\nWhen I set the number of shared buffers to 64 everything is fine. No\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are we ready for beta on Wednesday? I don't know anything holding us up\nat this point. Seems like major work has stopped and everyone is ready\nto start testing.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs said in another mail, I have tried to add iso-8859-15 (Latin 9) &\niso-8859-16 (Latin 10) to PostgreSQL, I think I have done mostly all\nthat's necessary. But I miss two things :\n\n- latin92mic/mic2latin9/latin102mic/mic2latin10 in conv.c\n- the leading character value in pg_wchar....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs said in another mail, I have tried to add iso-8859-15 (Latin 9) &\niso-8859-16 (Latin 10) to PostgreSQL, I think I have done mostly all\nthat's necessary. But I miss two things :\n\n- latin92mic/mic2latin9/latin102mic/mic2latin10 in conv.c\n- the leading character value in pg_wchar....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI could not execute sample code of plsql.sgml. PostgreSQL version is 7.1.3.\nThen I made patches for reference. \n\n1) cs_refresh_one_mv function sample code bug. *** 512,526 ****\n2) Singule quotation missing. *** 1152,1158 ****\n3) cs_refresh_mviews function sample code bug. *...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello! \nI have a trouble with PostgreSQL 7.1.3 (and 7.1.2 too). My OS is Solaris 8x86 with russian locale. PostgreSQL was builded from sources and configured with : --enable-locale --enable-multibyte=WIN. \nMy problem with sorting lowercase russian words in the text fields (type - \"varcha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've noticed that text(bool) isnt a defined function (nor does\n'true'::bool::text work). \n\nIt would be great to have this defined.\n\nSince \"select 'false'::bool\" gives 'f' and \"select 'true'::bool\" gives\n't', perhaps text(bool) should return 't' or 'f'.\n\nA case can, also, be given ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just updated...\n\npeter=# SELECT EXTRACT(DOW FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');\nERROR: Timestamp with time zone units 'dow' not recognized\n\nThis is documented to work.\n\npeter=# SELECT EXTRACT(DOW FROM TIME '20:38:40');\nERROR: Interval units 'dow' not recognized\n\nThe expression ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my understanding below row value constructors(I hope this term is\ncorrect) exaples should return true, but PostgreSQL does not.\n\ntest=# select (1,0) > (0,0);\n ?column? \n----------\n f\n(1 row)\n\ntest=# select (0,1) > (0,0);\n ?column? \n----------\n f\n(1 row)\n\nIn my understanding,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nNow that postgresql doesn't have field size limits, it seems to\nme they should be good for storing large blobs, even if it means\nhaving to uuencode them to be non-binary or whatever. I don't\nlike the old large object implementation, I need to store very large\nnumbers of objects and...
[ { "msg_contents": " >Use bytea, its for 0-255, binary data. When your client\n >library does not support it, then base64 it in client side\n >and later decode() into place.\n\nThanks, bytea sounds like what I need. Why no documentation on this \nimportant data type?\n\nDoes the Java client library support sett...
[ { "msg_contents": "Receiving a request to add ISO 8859-15 and 16, I review the multibyte\nsupport code and found several errors in it.\n\n1) There is a confusion between \"LATIN5\" and ISO 8859-5. LATIN5 is not\n ISO 8859-5, but is actually ISO 8859-9. Should we rename LATIN5 to\n \"ISO8859-5\" (or whatever...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi List,\n Iam pretty new to this list as well as PostgreSQL. I hope to find some crucial info from here.\nThnx in advance to all those who would contribute to it.\n\nIam basically an Oracle Consultant.\n\nAt first i would like to clarify how to enforce password for a user i have created....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \nI've done some research on your request, \nbut I could not find very much to help you. \nWhat I've found about \n1) Connections \nhttp://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?runtime-config.html\nenable LOG_CONNECTIONS (boolean), LOG_PID (boolean) \nto log database users \n2) Table locks \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIn dump file statement which grants permissions on view exists before\nstatement which create view.\nFor tables and sequences permissions dumped in correct order.\n\n--TOC Entry ID 124 (OID 150248)\nGRANT ALL on my_view to group sales;\n\n... skipped\n\n--TOC Entry ID 123 (OID 19410...
[ { "msg_contents": "Apologies for posting to [Hackers], have already posted to [Patches]\nwith no reply.\n\nWhen trying to pg_dump on 7.1.2 (& 7.1.3) I get the following error\nmessage:\n\nbash-2.04$ pg_dump dwh\ngetTables(): SELECT (for PRIMARY KEY NAME) failed for table nlcdmp.\nExplanation from backend: ERROR...
[ { "msg_contents": "peter=# select current_timestamp;\n timestamptz\n-------------------------------\n 2001-10-10 01:04:54.965162+02\n(1 row)\n\npeter=# select extract(timezone_hour from current_timestamp);\n date_part\n-----------\n -2\n(1 row)\n\nPlus or minus?\n\npeter=# select extract(timezon...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking a bit at the MULE encoding wrt to latin 9 and 10. It\nseems that there is no support for the Euro at all in it.\n\ne.g. when I tried to use \"recode\", which does recognise iso-8859-15\nand 16, and convert to MULE, whatever I do, I obtain \"EUR\" for the\neuro sign, OE, oe, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOur FAQ, item 4.16.2 has:\n\n\t$newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq');\n\tINSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal');\n\nIs this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can\nyou call SQL server-side functions natively from Perl?\n\n-- \n Bruce M...
[ { "msg_contents": " >Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com> writes:\n >> ... I don't\n >> like the old large object implementation, I need to store very large\n >> numbers of objects and unless this implementation has changed\n >> in recent times it won't cut it.\n >\n >Have you looked at 7.1? AFAIK it has no parti...
[ { "msg_contents": "When adding an index to a (quite large, ~2 million rows) table\nPostgreSQL continues to do sequential lookups until VACUUM ANALYZE is\nrun. Naturally performance is poor.\n\nThe CREATE INDEX statement takes considerable time.\n\nSeen with 7.1.3 on Intel Linux (RedHat 7.0 & 7.1 and Solaris 2.6...
[ { "msg_contents": "A customer's machine hangs from time to time. All we could find so far is\nthat postgres seems to be in state \"idle in transaction\":\n\npostgres 19317 0.0 0.3 8168 392 ? S Oct05 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data\npostgres 19983 0.0 0.8 8932...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a function in PL/pgSQL which needs the current time in seconds\nexpressed as an int4. In 7.1 I was able to get this (I thought) with\ndate_part(''epoch'', timestamp ''now'') . That doesn't seem to work for me\nin last week's -current.\n\nHere's the PLpgSQL:\n\n v_seed := date_pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Zembu has decided to release the result of a recent Postgres developement\nproject to the Postgres project. This project (for which I was the lead\ndeveloper) adds Oracle-like package support to Postgres. I'm in the\nprocess of making a version of the patch which is relative to the current\nc...
[ { "msg_contents": "i've had similar problems before. Looks like some thing is in a transaction,\nblocked on something else. Then vacuum comes in, locks half the tables, and\nthen gets stuck on a table that the transaction has modified. Now most of\nyour other transactions will block forever. Then the connection...
[ { "msg_contents": "Possible job...\n\n - Thomas\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: Postgre SQL Developer - Chicago, IL\n Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:01:12 -0400\n From: \"Crystal, Jennifer\" <JCrystal@LucasCareers.com>\n To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu\n\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe'd like to submit new module contrib/tsearch which\ncontains implementation of new data type txtidx -\na searchable data type (textual) with indexed access.\n\nIt's based on current CVS and will not works with earlier\nversion of PostgreSQL.\n\nArchive is available from\nhttp://www.s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've noticed general buggyness with ecpg on one of my source files for\na while now but it only got really annoying after setting up overnight\nbuild on Linux (output corrupt code), Solaris (output correct code),\nAIX (crashed) and HPUX (crashed).\n\nAfter comparing the output from ecpg on Li...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello \n\nEasy question - does Postgres support Java stored procedures ?\n\nChris\n\n Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services\n----------------------------------------------------------\n ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY **\n---------------------------------...