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[ { "msg_contents": "I'm an idiot - the form on the Users Lounge has the list.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:39:24 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: Previous email about missing pgsql-sql" }...
[ { "msg_contents": " P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 2 O P E N I T E M S\n\n\nCurrent at ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/open_items.\n\nSource Code Changes\n-------------------\nFix geometry expected files\nComplete timestamp/current changes\nRemove bet...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n> If I'd downloaded this thing over a decent DSL or cable modem \n> line, bzip2 would actually be a net loss in total \n> download + uncompress time.\n\nI think the download time is a lot more important to people than \nthe uncompression time....
[ { "msg_contents": "Back in August we had a discussion about whether SPI isn't broken in\nits handling of CommandCounterIncrement:\n\thttp://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1029236\nThat discussion tailed off without any agreement what to do, but I've\njust been reminded of the problem, and I now understan...
[ { "msg_contents": "My friends, how i do to get a list of all rules in one table? Thanks!!!!\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:56:55 -0300", "msg_from": "=?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E1bio_Santana?= <fabio3c@terra.com.br>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "RULES" }, { "msg_contents": "On Tue...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGuys,\nSomething seems to be broken with the time operators in 7.2b2:\n\nregress=# select '7:00'::time - '8:00'::time;\n ?column? \n----------\n 01:00\n(1 row)\n\nregress=# select '8:00'::time - '7:00'::time;\n ?column? \n----------\n -01:00\n(1 row)\n\nregress=# select version();\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nPlease add followings to HISTORY:\n\nFormats with the correct number of columns for UNICODE in psql (Patrice)\nAdd ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)\nOptimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)\n\nAlso I suggest we note somewhere that now octet_length(text) returns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a quick news.\n\ngmake[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/t-ishii/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'\n/usr/vac/bin/xlc -O2 -qmaxmem=16384 -qsrcmsg -qlonglong -I./../include -I../../../../src/include -DMAJOR_VERSION=2 -DMINOR_VERSION=9 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -DINCLUDE_PATH=\\\"/usr/local/pgsql/include...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a patch to accept the smallest value of int8.\n\nThe smallest value -9223372036854775808 is rejected as follows:\n\n test=# create table test_int8 (val int8);\n CREATE\n test=# insert into test_int8 values (-9223372036854775807);\n INSERT 4026531936 1\n test=# inser...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think we should remove doc/internals.ps from CVS. It is something\nthat belongs on the web site, not in CVS. It is 640k.\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": "\n> Note the failure to display \"Name :: name4\". The problem is that\n> no CommandCounterIncrement happens between the second INSERT and\n> the FOR ... SELECT, so the inserted row is considered not yet visible.\n\nI wonder why the insert does not do the CommandCounterIncrement,\nsince it i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The random_page_cost is changed because of an assumption that the\nbigger systems\n> will be more busy. The more busy a machine is doing I/O the lower the\ndifferential\n> between a sequential and random access. (\"sequential\" to the\napplication is less\n> likely sequential to the physi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am learning PostgreSQL programming, but it is still so difficult.\nLet me ask some of you who have better experience than me- in fact, I am a\nnovice!\n\nI am trying to access index structure by using user-defined functions, and\nas the first step,\nI wrote the following simple user-...
[ { "msg_contents": "I committed some fixes to remove 'current' support from the date/time\ntypes. I *think* that these are now in cvs, but I was unable to see some\nof the changes (docs changes especially) when trying to get them back\nfrom the master cvsup server. I'm a bit worried that updating cvs from\ncvs.p...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello, what is wrong?\n\npostgresql 7.1.3\nsuse linux 7.1\n\nconfigure postgresql:\n./configure --prefix=$DIR_DEST --exec-prefix=$DIR_DEST \n\t\t--enable-local --enable-multibyte \n\t\t--enable-odbc --enable-syslog --with-java\n\ninit database:\n$DIR_DEST/bin/initdb --pgdata=$DIR_DB01 --encod...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, if PG has a single-argument function named after its result\ntype, the function is assumed to represent a valid implicit type\ncoercion. For example, I can do\n\nregression=# select now() || now();\n ?column?\n----------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Mariusz Czu�ada\" <manieq@idea.net.pl> writes:\n> Is it possible (and safe) to move database files to other location while\n> server is working?\n\nNo. Shut down the postmaster first.\n\n> But had to shutdown server first. So my question (and\n> suggestion) is to consider:\n> ALTER DATABAS...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nRecently I was crawling through the INSTALL\nfile and didn't find the --enable-nls option anywhere.\nShouldn't it be mentioned there? Somewhere like before\nor after --enable-debug? Was it documented at all?\nAnd, perhaps, this file might have some other options\nmissing - not a good t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nIs it possible (and safe) to move database files to other location while\nserver is working? I had to move one to another volume/path and 'sym-linked'\nit to old dir. But had to shutdown server first. So my question (and\nsuggestion) is to consider:\n\nALTER DATABASE <dbname> { OFFLINE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it possible to specify WHERE (on a filesystem) a certain database\nshould be located?\n\nThis would be nice to have when doing mirroring (with rServ for example).\nThat way i can replicate/mirror a database on a different disk...\n\n-- \n Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nWe ( me and my teammate ) try to write a graphical client in Java.\nWe made our first stable version ( pgInhaler.ifrance.com for ones who want\nto try it ...) and we need some JDBC features for next version :\n - catch EXPLAIN plan\n - cancel QUERY\nIs it possible ?\n\nSuggestions and fe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> With DELETE FROM foo, let's suppose you have 10 pages in the table.\nTo\n> modify page 1, you write to page 11\n\nBut what with the indexes ? They would all need to be modified\naccordingly.\nIf you did something like chaining, then before long all tuples would be\n\nchained, even those t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Thus, for example, int4 to float8 seems like an okay implicit\ncoercion,\n> but not int4 to text.\n\nint4 to text is imho one of the most important implicit coercions of\nall.\nStill, a field to mark an implicit coercion function is probably a good\nthing. \n\nImho a numeric to text impli...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone looking at what happens with rserv and tables without OIDs?\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:05:12 -0500", "msg_from": "mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "create table .... without OID, and rserv" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to set up rServ to replicate my own database. I do everything\nlike the InitRservTest script does.\n\nThing is, it don't seem possible to replicate MULTIPLE columns in a table...\n\n----- s n i p -----\n[turbo@barrabas turbo]$ MasterAddTable --host=localhost --user=postgres test ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSimple, really ... using v7.2b3 that hasn't been released yet ...\n\ntraf_stats=# select EXTRACT(WEEK FROM TIMESTAMP runtime) from hourly_stats;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"runtime\"\ntraf_stats=# \\d hourly_stats\n Table \"hourly_stats\"\n Column | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOkay, PeterE got the appropriate scripts setup, and I just ran the\npackaging script, which appears to have all gone great ...\n\nAs usual, I want to give it ~24hrs to perculate through the mirrors before\ndoing a larger announce, but if anyone would like to take a quick test\nthrough and m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI examined multibyte psql.exe and libpq.dll Yesterday\naccording to the bug report from Hiroshi Saito.\nAt first the compilation didn't work at all and I found\nthe following in src/win32.mak though it's irrelevant to\nthe bug report.\n\nALL:\n cd include\n if not exist pg_config.h ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">From the gcc 3.0.2 release ntoes:\n\n\"The poorly documented extension that allowed string constants in C, C++ and\nObjective C to contain unescaped newlines has been deprecated and may be\nremoved in a future version. Programs using this extension may be fixed in\nseveral ways: the bare new...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've searched several faqs and news groups, tried using different\n./configure options. Tried tweaking src/Makefile.shlib as discribed in\nseveral usenet posts that I've found on dejanews.com. I've tried\nfollowing the instructions in the SCO specific faq and I can't get past\nthe following...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, has anyone started to translate the backend messages into\nHungarian? If not, I can start it.\n\nZoltan\n\n-- \n Kov\\'acs, Zolt\\'an\n kovacsz@pc10.radnoti-szeged.sulinet.hu\n http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/~kovzol\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOkay, now that Vince and I have the DNS re-sorted out, and I'm pulling\nfrom the right source, I've rebuilt the packages ...\n\nTom, can you check them over now and let me know if they look okay?\nHeader appears right now (/cvsroot vs /projects/cvsroot) ...\n\nI'll do an announce later on t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've found, compiled and tested the libpq++ c++ program examples. I've even\nmodified them to work with my database. Now I want to take an existing\nprogram written in c++ and add the postgres classes. I also want to do this\nin my working directory, not the samples directory. The make fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a thought, when using ORACLE there are a lot of system views that\nenable a DBA to look at how much resources are being used by ORACLE\nsystem. With this type of info the DBA is able to determine if he need\nto adjust the 100+'s of configuration options in the init.ora file. I\nhave ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just discovered an issue related to one of the bytea changes in 7.2.\n\nWhen creating a linked table in MS Access, bytea columns get mapped to \n\"OLE Object\" as a datatype, and this type is not able to be indexed. \nPreviously, it was not possible to create an index on a bytea column, so ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We had a discussion in late September about deprecating the postmaster's\n-o switch in the 7.2 documentation, with an eye to removing it in 7.3:\nsee thread starting at\n\thttp://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1036935\n\nIt wasn't entirely clear to me whether everyone had agreed to the...
[ { "msg_contents": "According to incidents.org, a new worm that infects MS SQL servers\nis currently spreading fast, and it's being used to lauch distributed\ndenial-of-service attacks against various sites: see\nhttp://www.incidents.org/diary/diary.php?id=82\n\nThe security flaw that the worm exploits is not, u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI need use a notify in rules with where conditions. In 7.1.3, i found a\nbug and i fix it. Then I downloaded the version 7.2 to verify the bug\nand to send them the patch, but the behavior had been changed.\n\ntest=# select version();\n version\n-------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\npg_get_ruledef cannot read the following rule:\n\ntest=# select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.2b3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66\n(1 row)\n\n\nWith the foll...
[ { "msg_contents": "We needed to install 7.2b3 on Irix 6.5.13 with MIPSpro Compilers:\nVersion 7.30\nwhen installing as we installed 7.1.3, it is with-template=irix5 adding\nto irix5 these lines:\n CC=cc\n CFLAGS='-n32 -O2 -r12000'\n LDFLAGS='-n32 -O2 -r12000'\n\n where -o2:\n\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGood evening ...\n\n\tOn the 23rd of November, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group\npackaged up and released v7.2b3 of our upcoming release.\n\n\tAlthough primarily a documentation and packaging related release,\nthere are several fixes for bugs reported in v7.2b2.\n\n\tFor a complete l...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch mark datatype txtidx as 'extended' storage type.\nThanks.\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:42:11 +0300", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Pls, apply patch fot contrib/tsear...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just donwloaded and built 7.2beta3 on Compaq Tru64 (Digital Unix) 4.0 on\nAlpha architecture and now all regression tests are passed.\n\ntest=# SELECT version();\n version\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.2b3 on alphae...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a patch that was posted some time ago to pgsql-patches and\nno one has commented on it.\n\nIt adds something that JDBC has that is not present in libpq (see below).\nIs it OK for inclusion?\n\nRegards to all and thanks for your time,\nFernando\n\n\n-------- Original Message --------\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did some \"benchmarks\" to check whether --enable-locale with LC_ALL=C is\njust as fast as --disable-locale, to possibly justify making locale\nsupport the default. This test only covers locale-aware comparisons,\nwhich seems to be the critical aspect for all intents and purposes.\n\nI loa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering if we should disable the writing of pre-page images into\nWAL if the user has turned off fsync?\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, | 830 Bl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n> Seems there is a problem with anoncvs:\n> cvs update: authorization failed: server \n> anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access to \n> /projects/cvsroot for user anoncvs\n\nProblems like this (and similar problems with the website) \nseem to...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > 3) how should we update the docs for this?\n> > \n> > \"--name=val may not work on some platforms, if not use -c name=val\".\n> \n> OK, I will add that it doesn't work on FreeBSD and OpenBSD,\n> specifically. This way, if it doesn't work on other platforms,\n> hopefully we will hear ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this behavior intended in the backend? The problem is that when you \ncreate a rule on an object that calls a stored function and invoke that \nrule on an insert/update/delete statement your insert/update/delete \nstatement will now return a query result to the front end over the FE/BE \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Someone on IRC complained about these lines in the server log:\n\nDEBUG: database system was shut down at 2001-11-26 16:44:06 EST\nDEBUG: checkpoint record is at 0/1361168\nDEBUG: redo record is at 0/1361168; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE\nDEBUG: next transaction id: 4484; next oid...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see following in TODO:\n\n* -Allow international error message support and add error codes[elog](Peter E)\n\nIn my understanding, adding error codes has not done yet. Is this\ncorrect?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:51:22 +0900", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Is this behavior intended in the backend? The problem is that when\nyou \n> create a rule on an object that calls a stored function and invoke\nthat \n> rule on an insert/update/delete statement your insert/update/delete \n> statement will now return a query result to the front end over ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> In the brave new world of WAL, Postgres does not flush dirty buffers\nto\n> disk at transaction commit, relying on WAL to clean up if a database\nor\n> system failure occurs. If we don't log page images to WAL then I\nthink\n> there's a hole here wherein a Postgres crash can lose data ev...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good news, 7.2b3 works fine on i386 OBSD 3.0\n\nBad news, 7.2b3 is giving random regression test failures on sparc OBSD\n3.0. I have made the necessary kernel tweaks, but am still getting\nrandom failures:\n\n path ... FAILED\n$ more results/path.out\npsql: server clos...
[ { "msg_contents": "ulimits never got changed. re-running tests, sorry.\n\n- Brandon\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n c: 646-456-5455 h: 201-798-4983\n b. palmer, bpalmer@crimelabs.net pgp:crimelabs.net/bp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cross-platform, cross-database, ERD based, data architecting tool.\n\nScreenshots\n\nhttp://www.thekompany.com/products/dataarchitect/screenshots.php3\n\nProduct Information\n\nhttp://www.thekompany.com/products/dataarchitect/\n\n--\nPeter Harvey\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:44:26...
[ { "msg_contents": "As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a\ncouple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position\nwith Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able\nto continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say\n\"Re...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am looking into some performance issues with an application I have. I \nwant to do some testing to see how much overhead TOAST adds to my \napplication. I have a table that performs a similar function to the \npg_largeobject table. I have noticed that pg_largeobject doesn't have \ntoas...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes this mean there will be two versions of PostgreSQL?\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \nSent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:21 PM\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: [HACKERS] Announcement: I've joined Red Hat\n\n\nAs most of you probably ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I just stumbled over a very hard to reproduce error. Running\n a \"VACUUM ANALYZE <table>\" concurrently to a database heavy\n under load caused a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE with full primary\n key qualification to return multiple results from that table.\n The table ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nThis came across the phpPgAdmin list, and I'm reposting it here in case it\nis actually true...? If it is, is it a Postgres or a Debian package issue?\n\nChris\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: phppgadmin-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net\n[mailto:phppgadmin-devel-admin@lists....
[ { "msg_contents": "Any chance the sequence docs could be updated to indicate sequence bounds\n(int4)?\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createsequence.html\n\nPerhaps note that int8 is coming?\n\nHow do user notes make it into the documentation proper.\n\n-AZ\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Nov ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have not recorded successful tests for the following platforms (I've\nincluded the names of folks who reported for the last release, in case\nthey are still able to test or want to hand it off to someone else):\n\nAIX Gilles Darold\nBeOS Cyril Velter\nHPUX (have 10....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Everybody.\nI am writing an application in java and want to create a databse with business logic (In a lot of functions) remotely. For that purpose I would like to get some parameters from user. these are \n\n\n1. Database Name (e.g. anaconda)\n2. Super user (e.g. postgres)\n3. Super user ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> QNX6 will fail in 7.2.X. We have patches for 7.3. I believe AIX is\n> fine thanks to work done a few weeks ago by Tatuso and others.\nHowever,\n> I am not totally sure.\n\n7.2b3 passes \"make check\" on AIX 4.3 with both xlc and gcc.\n1 Rounding difference (last digit) and 3 0 vs -0 in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm novice in PostgreSQL.\nI want to obtain current week number.\nUnder PHP I try:\n\n$query = \"SELECT EXTRACT(WEEK FROM NOW)\";\n$result= pg_exec($dbconn,$query);\n\nwhere: $dbconn - successful conection id\nBut this give me an error message.\nCan somebody help me?\nSorry for my ...
[ { "msg_contents": "AFAIR (Postgres 6.5 - 7.1.3):\n\ncd /usr/src/postgresql-X.X.X/src/interfaces/libpq++/examples\n[postgres@xxx examples]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql\nPassword:\nWelcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL comma...
[ { "msg_contents": "> MacOS 10.1.1 passes.\n\nThanks Gavin!\n\n - Thomas\n\n> ======================\n> All 79 tests passed.\n> ======================\n> \n> [localhost:~/postgresql-7.2b3] swm% uname -a\n> Darwin localhost 5.1 Darwin Kernel Version 5.1: Tue Oct 30 00:06:34 PST\n> 2001; ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:\n> > But this way the password ends up in the environment, which on many\n> > systems is visible to other processes/users (via /proc or the 'ps'\n> > command).\n> \n> Your *environment* is visible to other users? Geez, what a broken\n> system .....
[ { "msg_contents": "> Windows/Cygwin Jason Tishler\n\nOnly the \"privileges\" test failed when running \"serial_schedule\". When\nrunning \"parallel_schedule\" there are random failures with errors\n\"cannot access some file with a table/index/...\". So I think that\nPostgreSQL is OK, but the Cygwin/Windows laye...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking of re-designing my database schema to use a SERIAL\nvalue as an indentification across tables (i.e. as a foreign key).\nI've been playing with some example tables and have found the\nfollowing behavior from SERIAL:\n\n(1) I think SERIAL is defined as an int4. However, the upper...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n> authentication. This is not recommended because the password can\n> be read by others using <command>ps -e</command>.\n\n[snip long discussion on the shortcoming of 'ps'...]\n\nCan't we just say something generic like:\n\n\"because on some...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just tried on Tru64 5.1 using the Compaq C compiler. Failed the float8,\noidjoin and random tests. \n\n*** ./expected/float8-fp-exception.out Thu Mar 30 02:46:00 2000\n--- ./results/float8.out Wed Nov 28 19:29:33 2001\n***************\n*** 237,243 ****\n \n -- test for over- and u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas,\n\nsee my replace to the original email. Tru64 5.1 fails float8, oidjoin\nand random...\n\nJim\n\n\n> > Just donwloaded and built 7.2beta3 on Compaq Tru64 (Digital Unix)\n4.0 on\n> > Alpha architecture and now all regression tests are passed.\n> \n> Thanks! Has anyone tested on more ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have this problem in 7.1.3 - I can't confirm at the moment if it exists in\n7.2.\n\nI have already granted the 'au-dietclub' user delete and insert permissions\non the users_flags table at this point:\n\naustralia=> delete from users_flags;\nDELETE 0\naustralia=> delete from users_flags whe...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, the list is getting smaller fast (thanks for all of the responses!).\nHere is what I have left currently (note the addition of NetBSD/sparc,\nwhich I had inadvertently omitted from the first list):\n\nBeOS Cyril Velter\nLinux/arm Mark Knox\nLinux/s390 Neale Ferguson\nNetBSD/a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is pg_dump supposed to work against prior version databases? I was\nmoving data from an old server (running 7.2devel from several months\nago) to a new server (running 7.2b3), using pg_dump on the *new* server,\nand got the following message:\n\n# pg_dump -h 172.16.1.84 -U postgres -t el_name...
[ { "msg_contents": "In looking at some performance issues (I was trying to look at the \noverhead of toast) I found that large insert statements were very slow.\n\nMy test case involved reading a file (6M file in my tests) and inserting \n it into the database into a \"largeobject\" like table defined as follow...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone doing any work on RServ these days?\n\nI just tried to set it up. I have bits of it working, and I can probably cobble\nsomething together, but it really looks like someone put a lot of thought into\nthe trigger, but all the support code is pretty incomplete.\n", "msg_date": "Th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nit is a bug ??\n\ncreate table test (t1 int4, t2 int4);\ninsert into test values (1,1);\ninsert into test values (2,2);\ninsert into test values (3,1);\ninsert into test values (4,1);\ninsert into test values (4,1);\ninsert into test values (4,null);\n\n\n\n select * from test where t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> What modification should be made to configure.in to make it\ninclude\n> SupportDefs.h when testing for int8 uint8 int64 and uint64 size ?\n\nIs SupportDefs.h actually (probably implicitly) included by the\nPostgreSQL\nsource ? Because if it is not, PostgreSQL is quite happy not findin...
[ { "msg_contents": "The known ones are postmaster and one backends per connection. There is a\nservice process forked by postmaster periodically. What does it do? Does the\nsystem use sperate processes to detect and recollect freed buffers?\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:26:36 -0500", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI'm using postgres 7.1. I have an easy question...\n\nI want to create a primary key constraint on an existing table. The\ndocumentation says I can't . Please confirm. If this is true... How can I\nrename the existing table so I can create the new one and copy the data?\n\nThank you...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am not sure if this is the right list, but has anyone looked at\nhttp://www.osdl.org/ --> Open Source Development Lab? I don't know\nthat much about it, but it basically allows open source projects to\ntest on their hardware. It is geared towards bringing Linux projects\ninto the enterprise...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nA few months ago I asked if anyone started working on PL/JAVA, the \nansver was no. Now I started to write a java stored procedure language \nand environment for PostgreSQL. Some code is already working, and it is \ngeting interresting. So, I would like to ask you to write me your idea...
[ { "msg_contents": "While surfing through our web page I found some references about Postgres\n(the original Berkley project) starting as Ingres. Now I wonder whether we\nor let's say the original Postgres project still used Ingres or parts\nthereof. \n\nThe original Postgres FAQ say\n\nQ. What is the connectio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Of course, given that most OS's don't have the 'ps' environment\nproblem,\n> maybe we have to keep PGPASSWORD around. It is up to the group. Do\n> people want me to change my wording of the option in the SGML sources?\n> \n> <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar>\n> sets the password used if the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Configuration:\n Windows 2000 Server\n cygwin 2.78.2.9\n PostgreSQL 7.1.3\n psqlODBC 7.1.8\n pgAdmin II 1.1.66\n\nBug:\n Capital letters cannot be used in column names used in foreign key\nconstraints\n\n All Smalls succeeds:\n\n -- Table: significance\n CRE...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > This certainly sounds like these two are different projects by the\nsame\n> > > Prof.\n> > \n> > Right.\n> \n> Yes, and that's how I remember it.\n\nIIRC Postgres started out with the same [but extended] query language as\nIngres.\nSo I think they are not completely unrelated.\n\nAndr...
[ { "msg_contents": "The docs suggest that this:\n\n /* Get number of tuples in relation */\n ret = SPI_exec(\"select count(*) from ttest\", 0);\n\n if (ret < 0)\n elog(NOTICE, \"trigf (fired %s): SPI_exec returned %d\",\nwhen, ret);\n\n i = SPI_getbinval(SPI_tuptable->v...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't seem to get the locale/LIKE warning message during initdb, even\nthough pg_controldata shows a non-C locale being used.\n\nI also don't see an \"invalid LC_COLLATE setting\" when setting LC_COLLATE\nto nonsense, though I don't know if that ever was the case.\n\nWill look further...\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that we've gone through nearly one development cycle with national\nlanguage support, I'd like to bring up a number of issues concerning the\nstyle of the backend error messages that make life difficult, but probably\nnot only for the translators but for users as well. Not all of these a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes anyone have anything outstanding that holds off an RC1?\n\nSeen alot of changes over the past week, but mostly in the docs ...\nhaven't seen anything that I think is 'major' that would require a Beta4,\nanyone else?\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:58:52 -0500 (EST)", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "will do and report...\n\n> \"Jim Buttafuoco\" <jim@buttafuoco.net> writes:\n> > OIDJOIN had this...\n> > ! psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly\n> > ! This probably means the server terminated abnormally\n> > ! before or while processing the request.\n> \n> This is bad....
[ { "msg_contents": "I used the default configuration. just did a ./configure && gmake &&\ngmake check\n\n> > Just tried on Tru64 5.1 using the Compaq C compiler. Failed the\nfloat8,\n> > oidjoin and random tests.\n> \n> The float8 is certainly OK.\n> \n> The random test fails, uh, randomly, should succeed some...
[ { "msg_contents": "my error, the workstation I was compiling on had max_proc_per_user set\nto 64. Changed to 1024 and now just float8 and random fail. It looks\nlike these errors are ok \n\nJim\n\n\n> will do and report...\n> \n> > \"Jim Buttafuoco\" <jim@buttafuoco.net> writes:\n> > > OIDJOIN had this...\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I hope I'm wrong but I just noticed that since 7.0.x the \npostgresql log format has changed to much worse -\nIt now misses such important things as process id ,\ntransaction id, timestamp and query id. \n\nThe two first ones are needed to just make sense of multiple \nbackend interactions - ...
[ { "msg_contents": "My ISP changed my IP address last night. I knew the change was coming,\nbut I didn't realize it would be last night.\n\nI will not start getting email until tonight, and my web pages may be\noffline for a few days. I will let you know when everything is back in\nplace.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momji...
[ { "msg_contents": "If you want to get to the SGML build I do, you can still get to it\nusing:\n\n\thttp://216.55.132.35/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/\n\nAlso, my email is queued up at my ISP so I will not lose any mail.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering if there was a way to log the \"explain\" of a query. Not the\nfull plan mind you, just what would be the result of an \"explain.\" That in\nconjunction with query statistics would be quite helpful (and resemble some of\nthe typical logging one can do with Oracle.)\n", "ms...