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[ { "msg_contents": "\nacctng=> vacuum radlog;\nNOTICE: BlowawayRelationBuffers(radlog, 3): block 786 is referenced\n(private 0, last 0, global 53)\nFATAL 1: VACUUM (vc_rpfheap): BlowawayRelationBuffers returned -2\nacctng=>\n\nJust got this on one of my tables...indices are all dropped before doing\nthe vacuum...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following was the result after doing a:\n\ncreate table <mirror of bad table>\ninsert into <newtable> from <oldtable>\nvacuum\n\n<1-832 removed here>\nNOTICE: Rel radlog: Uninitialized page 831 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radlog: Uninitialized page 832 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radlog: Uniniti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian\n> \n> Are you still having problems? Can you check this again? Looks like it\n> is saying you are connecting via pgsql.\n> \n\nYes on pgsql. I had the same problems with perlscripts, php/fi,\neverything I tried.\n\nMercifully, this problem went away with the March 24 version...
[ { "msg_contents": "The postgresql-?.?.?/contrib/linux/postgres.init is meant to start your\npostmaster at boot time and stop it at halt/reboot. Excelent.\nBut it is made for postgres account running tcsh. I know nothing about tchs\nand my postgres account defaults to bash. So (thanks to Steve \"Stevers!\"\nCoil...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 7 Apr 1998, Bruce Stephens wrote:\n\n> AC_CHECK_LIB(tk8.0, main, TK_LIB=tk)\n> \n> (line 618 or so)\n> \n> to\n> \n> AC_CHECK_LIB(tk8.0, main, TK_LIB=tk,, $TCL_LIB $X_PRE_LIBS $X_LIBS $X11_LIBS)\n> \n> After changing configure.in, run \"autoconf\" to reconstruct configure.\n\n\tDone and co...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:59:34 +0900", "msg_from": "\"Toshiaki Okuda\" <toshi@softbank.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:00:01 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Toshiaki Okuda <toshi@ottot.to>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn include/catalog/pg_type.h I've noticed the following code.\n\n<Code>\nCATALOG(pg_type) BOOTSTRAP\n{\n\tNameData\ttypname;\n\tOid\t\t\ttypowner;\n\tint2\t\ttyplen;\n\n\t/*\n\t * typlen is the number of bytes we use to represent a value of this\n\t * type, e.g. 4 for an int4. But for...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Send the bug report to here and Stefan (he is on the TODO list). \n> Let's see if he can fix it.\n\nHi Stefan. I ran across some funny behavior with the HAVING clause:\n\n-- try a having clause in the wrong order (OK, my mistake :)\npostgres=> select x.x, count(y.i) from t x, t y\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI have an SQL-question and a related core dump :-)\n\n> create table test\n> (\n> col1 text,\n> col2 text,\n> col3 text\n> );\n> CREATE\n> insert into test values ('one', 'two', 'three');\n> INSERT 96299 1\n> select col1, count(*) from test group by col1;\n> col1...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nTo: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: zondag 5 april 1998 21:47\nSubject: [HACKERS] On improving OO support in posgresql and relaxing oid\nbottleneck at the same time\n\n\n>Hi,\n>\n>I'm currently under ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm getting the above \"error\" *alot* in v6.3.x ... I've dropped and\nrebuilt indices, which appears to fix it for a bit, and then it happens\nagain...\n\nIdeas? Can we at least add which index is corrupted to the error message?\n\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSys...
[ { "msg_contents": "(We were discussing support for complicated data types last October)\n\nOK, I think I understand most of what the parser does to handle data\ntypes and to handle type resolution. I've started rewriting the code\ninvolved with functions, operators, and targets, and have completed a\ntrial impl...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> \n>\n>Does it make sense to have a 'row' context which is released just before\n>starting with a new tuple ? The total number or free is the same but they\n>are distributed over the query and unused memory should not accumulate.\n>I have seen backends growing to 40-60MB with queries which ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It used to be that configure asked for extra include and lib directories\nusing reasonable defaults. Now I get failures because it can't find\nreadline unless I manually add these in. Is this supposed to be picked\nup automatically from the template file? The template file has SRCH_INC\nan...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would it be possible to put the v6.3.x release notes into the v6.3.2\nsgml sources? I can go ahead and regenerate the html output (trivial to\ndo) for the release. Also, I can help with marking up the sources.\n\nThis would give us some practice on including release notes in the\nonline docs ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:\n> ------------------------------------------------\n> \n> COUNT(*) doesn't work with HAVING\n> \n> \n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise reproducible example, if at all possible: \n> \n> ------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nWe are putting the finishing touches on some enhancements to the ODBC\ndriver. One feature, in particular, uses large objects to implement\nOLE data types. We are rather please with the way it is working. Via\nMS Access, we have been able to INSERT and SELECT objects, suc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTo be released on April 15th...\n\nI've changed the cron job that creates the snapshots to run daily instead\nof weekly...recommend ppl use CVSup instead of ftp, but that's your\nperogative :)\n\nI won't build a v6.3.1-v6.3.2 patch until April 15th itself...\n\nTry it, test it, break it...t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. I'm not sure I'm posting in the appropriate list and please accept my\napologies if not. I'm currently working on a database interface in Linux/X and\nam using Postgres for the preliminary data access and testing. I hope to\nprovide access to other engines in the future. Because I'm no...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I just installed 6.3.1 and am still encountering the same\n> > problem in 6.2.1 .. that is... libpq can't manage large query \n> > results - -is always returning a segmentation fault . :(\n> > select * from foo, bar;\n> > - - where foo has 73000 records and bar 22000 records,\n> > both ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > What I would like to know is, can a large object data type be added as\n> > an internal data type? The various \"lo_\" functions should \n> > eventually be overloaded (or modified) to be able to use this data \n> > type. But it is not necessary at this time. I believe this addition ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis question was sent to me by a user who uses PostgreSQL 6.3.1.\nIs this normal?\n(Note that the patch for src/backend/optimizer/path/prune.c created by \nVadim did not help)\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi, All!\nJust installed PG 6.3.1 -- really great job, thank you guys!\n\nBut this morning I decided to play a bit with aggregate functions on\nupdate and got a bit strange(for me, at least :-) result.\nHere is an exmaple of what I did:\n========================================\nLet's create ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning everyone...\n\n\tAfter upgrading the server to -current, which is meant for\nrelease on April 15th, I'm still receiving a palloc() failure, as shown\nbelow.\n\n\tThe server is a 486DX with 64Meg of RAM, and the able that is\nbeing searched is *only* 5k records large...and the query ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi...\n\n\tI want to add the filename (index) to the error message:\n\nFATAL 1: btree: BTP_CHAIN flag was expected (access = 0)\n\n\tAt least then I can figure out which index to drop and rebuild,\ninstead of having to do them all :)\n\n\tNow, looking at _bt_moveright(), it passes Relation...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally found some time to make minor patch to pgsql 6.3.1 to\nmake it \"sort-of-work\" out of the box for Linux/Alpha. At the current\nmoment, I can get it to compile, and run 'initdb' successfully. Regression\ntests are successful for the most part, with the biggest problems being in\nany...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nPostgres 6.3.1. I was just trying to profile the backend. Somehow I\ncannot drop the log table. \nxxx=> \\d\n\nDatabase = xxx\n +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+\n | Owner | Relation | Type |\n +------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nperfect, and error message that tells me what to fix:\n\nFATAL 1: btree: BTP_CHAIN flag was expected in radhist_userid (access =\nbt_read)\n\nWhoop! :) Rebuilding that index now...\n\n\nBut, still have, and don't know where to begin diagnosing it...\n\nFATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exh...
[ { "msg_contents": "auth 83f0295d subscribe pgsql-hackers dwitten@monk.mig.missouri.edu\n\nDavid M. Witten II\nManager, Research Support and Development Group\nIntegrated Technology Services\nUniversity of Missouri, Columbia\nwittend@health.missouri.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nauth 83f0295d subscribe pgsql-hackers ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nfigure out what this means?\n\nNOTICE: Rel radhist: Uninitialized page 9422 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radhist: Uninitialized page 9426 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radhist: Uninitialized page 9428 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radhist: Uninitialized page 9431 - fixing\nNOTICE: Rel radhist: Uninitialized ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone else noticed that we certainly have a lot of people involved\nlately? I used to see about 50-75 messages a day. Now if I have not\nchecked in 6 hours, I have that same volume in just six hours.\n\nMarc, can you check the posting volume and let us know how it profiles\nfor, say, t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHas anyone looked into this? I'm just getting ready to download it and\nplay with it, see what's involved in using it. From what I can see, its\nessentially an optimized stdio library...\n\nURL is at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio\n\nMarc G. Fournier ...
[ { "msg_contents": "mmap() is cool since it avoids copying data between kernel and user address\nspaces. However, mmap() is going to be either synchronous (\"won't return 'til\nit has set up the page table stuff and maybe allocated backing store\") or not\n(\"will return immediately but your process will silent...
[ { "msg_contents": "golem$ cd doc\ngolem$ make install\nmake all\nmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/postgres/pgsql/doc'\nrm -rf ./admin unpacked/admin\nif test ! -d unpacked/admin ; then mkdir unpacked/admin ; fi\nmkdir: cannot make directory `unpacked/admin': No such file or directory\nmake[1]: *** [admin] Erro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm still getting the following BTP_CHAIN errors on my btree index. Funny\nthing is that its the *same* index each time, and this is after dropping\nand rebulding it...\n\n...where next to investigate? Recommendations? IMHO, this is critical\nenough to hold off a v6.3.2 release :(\n\n\nF...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Please forgive me for the way this post is put together; I'm not\nactually on your mailing-list, but was just perusing the archives.]\n\nMichal Mosiewicz <mimo@interdata.com.pl> writes:\n\n> The main reason of using memory mapping is that you don't have to create\n> unnecessary buffers. Norm...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nChecking mail2news gateway...\n\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:07:38 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "The Hermit...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:49:13 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:42:11 +0900", "msg_from": "Yu HyungSic <yhc007@seed.kyungsung.ac.kr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "(no subject)" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "> I'm sure you've probably thought about this (and discarded it for\n> a variety of reasons), but here it goes anyway:\n> \n> Have some daemon (\"postmaster\" itself, perhaps) service requests for\n> pages asynchronously. For example, have each \"postgres\" client request\n> the pages from \...
[ { "msg_contents": "============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n============================================================================\n\nYour name\t\t:\tJose' Soares Da Silva\nYour email address\t:\tsferac@bo.nettuno...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, nicolas Gillot wrote:\n\n> Does anybody know if postgreSQL can run under Windows NT4 ?\n> The answer seems to be no, so which are the known bugs for this ?\n\n\tIt doesn't compile?\n\n> And when do you think, the problem will be solved ?\n\n\tWhen someone decides to work ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have noticed that when float types are divided by zero in a query, the\nthe query aborts (via elog(WARN)) with a complaint about divide by zero.\n\nAlso an integer divide by zero produces a result. On our AIX 4.1.4\nsystem 1 / 0 = 15. And 10 / 0 = 31. There is some pattern here with\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:26:59 -0400 (EDT)\n> From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ... \n> \n> [Please forgive me for the way this post is put together; I'm not\n> actually on your mailing-list, but was just perusing the archives.]\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOh whoa is me...is that how you spell whoa in this case? *raised eyebrow*\n\nOh well, irrelevant...did some deeper looking inot my local problem, and\nit turns out I had a postgres process that was just growing and growing.\nI'm suspecting that that is what caused the problem :(\n\nI've cha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n Hope I'm not making a fool of myself by posting to a list I just\njoined ... but I couldn't find much about this in the list archives.\n\nI'm looking at an application that involves several client processes\ncommunicating in real time via a pgsql database. \"Real time\" means\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone.\n\nI have made a patch to DBD-Pg-0.69 so that queries that contain the\ncasing operator \"::\" work with DBD::Pg v0.69. Without this patch, any\nquery with teh casting operator in it will not run. I could not wait\nfor a fix from the author for this, so I made the change myself...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a list of bug reports for the HAVING clause.\n\nMy question is, \"Do we disable the HAVING clause for 6.3.2?\" The bugs\nare serious and cause crashes.\n\nI have looked at the issues, and the basic problems are that the\naggregate logic expects to be attached to an actual field i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this patch planned to be included in 6.3.2 release? I do not see in\nApr13 snapshot.\n\n>Included is a patch for ecpg which seems to have some compiling\n>problems on non POSIX systems such as SunOS 4.1.x.\n>--\n>Tatsuo Ishii\n>t-ishii@sra.co.jp\n>------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n============================================================================\n\nYour name\t\t:\tJose' Soares\nYour email address\t:\tsferac@bo.nettuno.it \n\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had some time during vacation to thing about postgresql. And here's the\nfeature I'd really like to see. This one would put us miles in front of all\nothers: recursive view definitions.\n\nJust one short example:\n\nThere is that well-known parent relation: par (parent, child). The view anc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas Good wrote:\n> \n> When I pare my main() module down to simply declaring a communication \n> area (include sqlca.h) and then connecting to the db (which succeeds) \n> and subsequently running exec sql delete from $table where \n> $attribute=value; I get no stderr. But, alas, I get no ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI've just compiled the latest 6.3.2 snapshot on Digital Unix 3.2g using\nDEC's C compiler. The regression tests look good, so go ahead with the\nrelease (at least for this platform).\n\nHowever, there are two minor \"errors\". One of them is already known:\nconfigure fails when --...
[ { "msg_contents": "Mattias Kregert <matti@algonet.se> writes:\n> Async communication between backend and frontend would be really nice.\n> I use Tcl a lot and I really miss this. It would be wonderful to have\n> libpgtcl do callbacks, so that info on-screen could be automagically\n> updated whenever something c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am currently designing a database that I expect to put into use after\n6.4 is released. This makes use of inheritance, and I would like to\nask about how inheritance will relate to the handling of constraints.\n\n1. I would like to be able to say:\n\n create table job\n (\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just thought I'd try the cluster command. What am I doing wrong.\nReadHat 5.0\n6.3.1 rpm's\n\n[djackson@www]$ psql template1\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a pair of patches that (I hope) finish the configuration\nissues with tcl/tk and make the recognition of the two packages\ncompletely parallel in organization. This should make future changes\neasier to maintain.\n\nHope to see this in 6.2.2.\n\nCheers,\nBrook\n\n====================...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nPaul Lisewski wrote:\n\n> Byron,\n> Thanks very much for your prompt response. After renaming a few\n> columns (password and position), I've got my exisitng application\n> working correctly, with the following minor problems:\n>\n> {fn UCase(...) ODBC function is not suppo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't remember if it has been mentioned.\n\nAnyhow, I think that it would be nice to change fsync'es into\nfdatasync'es (of course as an autoconf-igurable option). I don't think\nit's necessary to update all file's metadata each time a file is\nflushed.\n\nI dunno where it's implemented. Bu...
[ { "msg_contents": "testing the (postgresql 6.3.1 included) jdbc ImageViewer example.\nIt works. No errors.\nBut in the pgsql log I fond these (actually many more):\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n-----------\nApr 17 10:08:02 digital logger: NOTICE: DateStyle is Po...
[ { "msg_contents": "Running the regression test on pgsql 6.3 returned no diffs.\nRunning the regression test on pgsql 6.3.1 returned *lots* of diffs !\nSo I wonder, should I stick to 6.3 or accept 6.3.1 ?\n\nClaudiu\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:47:01 +0300", "msg_from": "\"SC Altex Impex SRL\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this really a bug? I haven't seen any (commercial) system supporting\nthis kind of transaction recovery. Once you drop a table the data is\nlost, no matter if you rollback or not. \n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de ...
[ { "msg_contents": "============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n============================================================================\n\nYour name\t\t:\tJose' Soares\nYour email address\t:\tsferac@bo.nettuno.it \n\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The biggest problem is that if you have many clients listening on the same\n> thing they are signaled at the same time and all of them try to access the\n> pg_listener table for write. The result is that you have a lot of waits on\n> the table and sometimes also deadlocks if you don't do th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's what I propose to do with libpq to make it more useful for\nreal-time applications. Any comments or better ideas?\n\nThe point of these changes is first to allow frontend applications to\nreceive NOTIFY responses without having to generate dummy queries,\nand second to allow a fronten...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tCould some one tell me please what symbols the Dec UNIX compiler\ndefines on the Alpha? Bascially run src/tools/ccsym of the pgsql source\ntree, and send me the output. I need this to sort out the differences\nbetween how to setup defines for Dec Alpha code sections and Linux/Alpha\ncode ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wonder why it sometimes restores the data. Maybe because it's still in\nthe same area of the disk/file?\n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\nI was wondering if you used any leak finding tools in your code? There\nseems to be a few mallocs that don't get freed, and a few internal buffer\noverruns.\nI don't know if it will work for you, but I'd suggest trying out a proggie\ncalled memcheck. I use it for wireless terminals (DOS ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am running a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system that requires sfio to be installed. I\nam also running FastCGI for faster CGI access as well as maintaining open\ndatabase connections.\nCompiling craps out, but the fix is quite simple. You might want to\ninclude something in the config script. Here is wha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am sorry. I cant't English well.\nI want to know something.\nMay I ask you a question?\n\nMy system is a Linuxbox which is Redhat 5.0( Pentium 133MHz 80Mbyte Ram 120Mbyte Swap Memory) and\nRedhat 5.0)Pentium 160MHz 16Mbyte Ram 60Mbyte Swap Memory).\n\nI Install PostgrSQL 6.3.1.\nAnd I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nI have some problems with transactions and locks...\nI have 5 questions about it...\n \n1. NOTICE: (transaction aborted): queries ignored until END\n *ABORT STATE*\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n I would like to know what's mean the above messag...
[ { "msg_contents": "v6.3.2 980419 builds OK on FreeBSD v3.0 -snap-980222\nNo config problems, works just fine.\nThanks for a very fine version of postgreSQL v6.3.2\n\njim\nkapsaris@aol.com\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:37:44 EDT", "msg_from": "Kapsaris <Kapsaris@aol.com>", "msg_from_op": tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\t>> Meskes, Michael wrote:\n\t>> > \n\t>> > Is this really a bug? I haven't seen any (commercial) system\nsupporting\n\t>> > this kind of transaction recovery. Once you drop a table the\ndata is\n\t>> > lost, no matter if you rollback or not. \n\t>\n\t>SOLID restores a dropped table with rol...
[ { "msg_contents": "When do we start submitting new features for 6.4? I finally can compile my\nsources again. Thus ecpg 2.0 is not that far away.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@deb...
[ { "msg_contents": "gram.y says:\n\nopt_indirection: ...\n | '[' a_expr ']' opt_indirection\n | '[' a_expr ':' a_expr ']' opt_indirection\n\t\t...\n\nIMO a_expr is exactly where I have to enter C variable support. That is I\nadd a new case to a_expr: named cinputvariable which amon...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it desireable to be able to set PGSQL variables to values of C variables\nlike this?\n\nexec sql set foo to :bar;\n\nNot difficult to implement. But how is the reverse done?\n\nexec sql show foo into :bar\n\n???\n\nMichael\n\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm building 6.3.2 as I write, and I've noticed one small glitch so\nfar. The configure script tells me that Perl support will be disabled\nbecause PostgreSQL has not been previously installed, which I felt was\na bit mean of it, seeing as I've got 6.3.1 installed. It turns out\nthat the te...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> ./configure in 6.3.1 used to propose to me a template configuration file\n> (for me it was linux-elf).\n> \n> 6.3.2 ./configure did not. He choosed linux by default. I forced it with\n> --with-template=linux-elf but in Makefile.global didn't appear\n> LINUX_ELF=true.\n> \n> I had to ent...
[ { "msg_contents": "Developers of Postgresql, I like to say 'Thank you' for providing\n6.3.2.\n\nI just finished compiling 6.3.2 on my MIPS SVR4 platform and the\nregressions tests are currently running and I must say, it never have\nbeen looking better.\n\nI had major problems with 6.3 and 6.3.1. Apparently som...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:29:57 -0500", "msg_from": "Hostmaster@phoenixcomm.net", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "For some reason my system isn't compiling the shared libraries anymore. I\ntracked this down to the symbol LINUX_ELF being undefined. However, I have\nno idea where this should be defined. Since I run quite a lot of beta-test\nsoftware like gcc 2.8.1 this may be a system problem. Or should th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using PostgreSQL 6.3.2.\n\nAs reported in some messages ago PostgreSQL has problem with\n\"... where some_field in (select ...\" type subqueries.\nOne of the solutions was to create indecies.\nI created two indecies for character(9) fields key and newkey:\ncreate index key_i on bik (key);...
[ { "msg_contents": "How about removing LINUX_ELF from all Makefile.in's?\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire...
[ { "msg_contents": "They are still in all those Makefile.in's that created shared libraries.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, that was what I meant to say. Just remove the ifdef's. But then\nthere may be some AOUT systems left.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, it is. But Marc, you made a small mistake. In configure you have to\ncheck for template/linux-elf not linux-elf:\n\n*** configure.orig Tue Apr 21 14:47:20 1998\n--- configure Tue Apr 21 14:48:06 1998\n***************\n*** 670,676 ****\n \n echo \"$ac_t\"\"$TEMPLATE\" 1>&6\n \n!...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> > \n> > \t>> Meskes, Michael wrote:\n> > \t>> > \n> > \t>> > Is this really a bug? I haven't seen any (commercial) system\n> > supporting\n> > \t>> > this kind of transaction recovery. Once you drop a table the\n> > data is\n> > \t>> > lost, no m...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the old configure, where it prompted you, configure properly\nguessed I was bsdi-3.0. Now it tries:\n\n\tchecking setting template to... template/bsd/os\n\t\n\ttemplate/bsd/os does not exist\n\t\n\tAvailable Templates (set using --with-template):\n\nWhy can't it use the same guessing it...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have had problems with LINUX_ELF and/or PORTNAME *not* being defined\nand shared libraries *not* being compiled. I would like to make the\nfollowing observations, based on the Makefiles generated for a linux\nsystem, with elf, and with glibc v2.06.\n\nThe configure command line was:\n\n[/us...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've patched postgreSQL for SSL (secure socket layer) support. This\nis the encryption used by secure web servers and browsers. Useful for\nencrypting your postgres connections. Will eventually be useful for\nauthentication as well.\n\ninformational page:\thttp://www.chicken.org/pgsql/ss...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> >\n> > Hi All\n> >\n> > I just upgraded to 128MB RAM, and really don't need ALL of it MOST of the\n> > time, and the main reason for it was to help with database speed.\n> >\n> > But then I got to thinking, is there a way to just semi-permently put a\n> > database ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n> > \n> > I'm using PostgreSQL 6.3.2.\n> > \n> > As reported in some messages ago PostgreSQL has problem with\n> > \"... where some_field in (select ...\" type subqueries.\n> > One of the solutions was to create indecies.\n> > I created two indecies for character(9) fields key a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n\n> BTW, IN is slow (currently :) - try to create 2-key index on bik (bik,\nnewkey) \n> and rewrite your query as\n> \n> select * from bik b1 where EXISTS (select newkey from bik where\n> bik = '....' and b1.key = newkey)\n> \n> And let's know... (Note, that index on (newkey, bi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > As David Gould mentioned, we need to do pre-fetching of data pages\n> > somehow.\n> > \n> > When doing a sequential scan on a table, the OS is doing a one-page\n> > prefetch, which is probably enough. The problem is index scans of the\n> > table. Those are not sequential in the main hea...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:\n\nYour example is very exhaustive Herouth. I tried it with SOLID and in fact\nit leaves SOLID database inconsistent.\n\nI see that PostgreSQL BEGIN/END statements are slight different from SQL\ntransactions that begins with a implicit begin transactio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've never seen this one reported before...just doing a \\d in psql:\n\nsalesorg=> \\d\nNOTICE: SIMarkEntryData: cache state reset\nPQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel\n\tbefore responding.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally b...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> \n> Hi, all\n> \n> Is the following sentence true ?\n> \n> * LOCK TABLE statement don't allows read access to locked tables by\n> the other users.\n> If another user try to SELECT a locked table, he must attend\n> until the locked table is released.\n> \n> I have...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it correct that the following two statements are equal?\n\nselect \"a\" from foo;\n\nselect a from foo;\n\n\nThat results in the following problem for ecpg:\n\nWhen I'm in SQL mode (that is after reading \"exec sql\") I do not get\nquotations. But what do I do with this?\n\nexec sql whenev...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> When using aio for file or raw device access the following functions \n> have to be used (from sys/aio.h):\n> \nint aio_read(int, struct aiocb *);\nint aio_write(int, struct aiocb *);\nint aio_cancel(int, struct aiocb *);\n\tint aio_suspend(int, struct aiocb *[]);\n\n\tThe...