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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs it me (who hasn't read some FAQ or a doc/man page) or\nit's a bug in the psql interactive terminal?\n\nA sample session is provided at the bottom. I just typed\na simple CREATE TABLE command and did not put closing\nparenthesis (I was typing too fast); I did put a semicolon, however...
[ { "msg_contents": "I started to think about postgresql.conf.\n\nDo you think it is a good idea, and how hard would it be, if postmaster and the\nvarious utilities were able to read their whole setup from a postgresql.conf\nfile? Many UNIX utilities do this.\n\nThink of this:\n\nsu pgsql -c \"postmaster -C /etc/...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been trying to update a table -- the update statement returns 1\nindicating that one row has been updated, but no changes were made. \n\nThis is happening on two servers: \n\n 1.my development server, running Postgres 7.0.3, RedHat 7.1 \n 2.soon-to-be production server ru...
[ { "msg_contents": " I'd like to contrast an error that I get when using like in text\n fields.\n\n I have a table A an a view v_A of A. Name is a text field (person\n names). Look at these queries:\n\n 1)\n\n \tselect * from A where name like '%DAVID%'\n\n It works pretty well and fast. Result:\n\n \tDAVID\n\tD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tI threw this to cygwin but it doesn't seem to have elisited any\ninterest over the weekend so I'm sending it here as a beta problem (not\nentirely sure if this is correct or if it should go to bugs).\n- Stuart\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Henshall, Stuart - WCP\n[mailto:SHensha...
[ { "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\n> \n> OK, I bit the bullet and made up a whole new macro for type testing.\n> Those who can't get at a new snapshot can try the attached...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \tI threw this to cygwin but it doesn't seem to have elisited any\n> interest over the weekend so I'm sending it here as a beta \n> problem (not\n> entirely sure if this is correct or if it should go to bugs).\n\n> \n> When trying to start the postmaster on win98se with cygwin\n> I get told...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following ECPG TODO item is already closed\n\no Allow SELECT of array of strings into a auto-sized variable\n\nDecent lines for HISTORY would be (ECPG enhancements)\n\n auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)\n auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAfter fresh install of PostgreSQL 7.1.3 I was having one particular query \n(JOIN), running for several hours. Upon closer investigation, it was returning \nweird EXPLAIN 'optimisations' (in essence, doing 'index' searches on fields \nthat were not constrained in the query etc). The...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guys, attached is a patch against the 7.2b3 source tree which improves\nthe i18n of the date formatting functions, using the nl_langinfo(3)\nfunction, together with an autoconf macro to test it's availability,\nalso an small change to the tab-complete feature of psql which allows\nto use tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi All,\n\n\nSince I last posted to this list I have done some work\non a multi-threaded port of Postgres 7.0.2 that I have been kicking\naround for a while. There has been some mild interest\nin this in the past so I thought I might try and start a sourceforge\nproject with what I have so...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 03 December 2001 16:05\n> To: Hor�k Daniel\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Peter Eisentraut\n> Subject: Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98 \n> \n> \n> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hor=E1k_Da...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 04 December 2001 02:53\n> To: mlw\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98 \n> \n> \n> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:\n> > I'll write and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI has compiled a postgresql 7.1.3 into a Debian GNU/Linux. The\n\"configure\" option has the 'max-backends', 'enable-locale' and\n'enable-syslog' options.\nWhen I make a:\n\tpg_dump -O -x -Fc <database> > backupdatabase.sql\nThe program tell me a \"warning\" like this:\n\nArchiver: WAR...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\nBinary files Postgres 7.1.3 for qnx6(Neutrino) avialable on http://qnx.org.ru\n \nAndy Latin\n----\n О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ http://mail.Rambler.ru/\n О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫-О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ http://ad.rambler.ru/ban.clk?pg=1691&bn=9346\n", "msg_date": "Tu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee] \n> Sent: 04 December 2001 09:06\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'Tom Lane'; mlw; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't \n> start on Win98\n> \n> \n> Dave Page wrote:\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "backend/port/dynaloader/sunos4.h has been changed between 7.1 and 7.2,\nthat causes compile error on SunOS4. \n\nrevision 1.8\ndate: 2001/05/14 21:45:53; author: petere; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2\nUse RTLD_GLOBAL flag for dlopen-style dynamic loaders.\n\nI don't know what this change is int...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed an incorrect example in doc/src/sgml/func.sgml...\n\nbrent=# SELECT EXTRACT(SECOND FROM TIME '17:12:28.5');\n date_part \n-----------\n 28\n(1 row)\n\nThe documentation says this should return 28.5. Digging a bit, I\nnoticed the following (discrepancy?). Is this desired beh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nBill Studenmund wrote:\n\n>>\n>>But as long as COPY IN considers that delimiter spec to mean \"any one of\n>>these characters\", and not a multicharacter string, we couldn't do that.\n>>\n>>If we restrict DELIMITERS strings to be exactly one character for a\n>>release or three, we could t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will be in Japan with SRA from December 6-14.\n\nI have updated the HISTORY file as of today. If people need to generate\nSGML while I am gone, merely cut/paste the relevant portions from\nHISTORY to release.sgml. Keep in mind any \"<\" and \">\" characters have\nto be remapped. Also, th...
[ { "msg_contents": "So far I think I have done the SunOS4 port except the parallel\nregression test. Unfortunately the machine is in production and I\ncould not increase the shmem parameters. Instead I have done the\nserial test and got 4 errors (see attached regression.diffs). Also I\nnoticed that the test scri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anybody know why test/regress/pg_regress.sh overrides --port or\nPGPORT? It would be nice if we could do two distinct tests at the same\ntime. But pg_regress.sh forces to use port 65432.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:29:47 +0900", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishi...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is an intermediate report for AIX 5L port.\n\no gmake check sometimes hungs up\n\no pgbench almost always hungs up\n\nIn summary current on AIX 5L is quite unstable(7.1 worked very well).\nFYI, here are the back trace info while pgbench hungs up. This\nincludes backtraces for 3 processe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nLet me ask you some questions about heap_insert().\nI'm trying to insert tuples into a existing table by using intenal\nfunctions\nbypassing the query executor.\nFor example, let's assume that the table name is \"MyTable\" having a Box\ntype attribute.\nAnd I want to insert a box '((1,...
[ { "msg_contents": "i have created a table\nuserlist with fields username varchar(10)\nnow i want to change it to username varchar(30)\nwithout dropping or recreating the table.\nhow do i do it?\ntina\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni have created a table\nuserlist with fields username \nvarchar(10)\nnow i want to change it to u...
[ { "msg_contents": "I saw the above message on PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0. I\nlooked in the sources for this message and it appears to be a startup\nmessage. I looked at the process and while it may be that the child\nprocesses were killed, the postmaster process is still going back to\nthe day...
[ { "msg_contents": "I may have some spare hacking time coming up, and I was thinking about\nadding a PL (Scheme) to PostgreSQL. I've found some code out there\nfor a small Scheme interpreter, but it appears to be licensed under a\n\"BSD with advertising clause\" license (as opposed to the \"modern BSD\"\nlicens...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile daily using pg_dump for a while the need for the following\nfeatures grew significantly.\nI finally came to the point of implementing them myself ;-)\n\n- pg_dump outputs the data unsorted but to manage the data in a version\ncontrol system you need it consistently sorted. So a f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe have to evaluate the possibility to integrate an open source RDBMS in our\nsoftware developments.\nI checked some stuff on Postgres, but I now have to find out whether\nPostgres integrates Stored Procedures as a feature.\n\nCan anyone tell me if it does ? In that case, my company...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I had the same problem with gprof(1) that all the timing\n information is zero. Today I found out what's going on.\n\n Under Linux fork(2) resets the ITIMER_PROF. Getting the\n itimer before the fork(2) with getitimer(2) and if pid==0\n setting it with se...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just found out something about Oracle which that looks like something\nthat could be doable in PostgreSQL. \n\nWhat do you all think:\n\nOracle's version is something like this:\n\ncreate [public] database link using [...]\n\nselect * from sometable@remotelink\n\n\nI was thinking how this c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to compile postgres on solaris 7. After running the configure\nscript and then the make I get the following error...\n\n/home/eccdev/kzorgdra/tmp/postgresql-7.1.3>make\nmake -C doc all\nmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/eccdev/kzorgdra/tmp/postgresql-7.1.3/doc'\nmake[1]: Nothing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n\tWell, just spend the past few days banging my head against a brick\nwall trying to figure out why OpenACS 4.x won't work with PgSQL v7.2b3,\nand just figured it out, or, at least, figured out part of it ...\n\n\tv7.2b3 no longer has an OID on pg_attribute?\n\n\tThe foll...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my attempts of trying to increase performance and redundancy, I\nhave trying to get rServ replication to work.\n\nI have successfully been able to replicate between two databases on\nlocalhost.\n\n test -> Main db\n test_slave -> Slave db\n\nThe 'test' ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've updated the National Language Support status page, at\n\nhttp://www.ca.postgresql.org/~petere/nls.php\n\nNot only does it show all kinds of progress numbers, it also allows you to\ndownload .po files that are baked freshly every day for your working\npleasure. Thus, it's no longer neces...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've got most platforms ironed out, with just a few left to get a\ndefinitive report. It looks like we'll end up dropping a few platforms\nfor this release (the first time in several years that the number of\nsupported platforms decreased!).\n\nThe problem platforms with comments and questio...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking at gram.y to munge the precision support for date/time per\nrecent discussions, and am noticing once again the extensions added to\nsupport ODBC by allowing empty parens after some SQL-defined \"constants\"\n(e.g. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_USER, etc etc). Currently, these are\ndo...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tthomas@postgresql.org\t01/12/07 22:24:40\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : Makefile cvs.sgml datatype.sgml docguide.sgml \n\t installation.sgml syntax.sgml \n\nLog message:\n\tUpdate list of currently supported platfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added the option of explicitly specifying a postgresql.conf (-C) file on\nthe command line. I have also added two config file entries:\n\npghbaconfig, and pgdatadir.\n\n\"pghbaconfig\" allows multiple different databases running on the same machine\nto use the same hba file, rather tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwhile fixing a bug in ecpg that caused it to interprete a pointer to a\nstruct with a struct and thus using s.a syntax instead of s->a I found one\nrather annoying bug. If an argument is a pointer to a struct and the\nindicator is a struct ecpg segfaults. Since I don't think we can kee...
[ { "msg_contents": "Stefan Hadjistoytchev (sth@hq.bsbg.net) reports a bug with a severity of 1\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nBLOB (lo type) objects could not be restored\n\nLong Description\nHi :)\n\nProblem appeared in POSTGRESQL 7.2b3 CVS distribution\n\nAfter creating a ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "I added several error messages and hopefully by doing this removed all\npossibilities for a segfault.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:24:53 +0100", "msg_from"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've committed some small changes to try to resolve the problem of SQL99-mandated\ntruncation of precision of time fields for TIMESTAMP and TIME data types.\nPer the recent discussion, I've relaxed the mandated behavior for unspecified\nprecision of time fields for both date/time literals and...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to use the archives, and am getting the following response\nfor a query on the hackers list:\n\n An error occured! \n\n connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused\n Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'db.postgresql.org'\n and accepting connections on TCP/IP po...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've committed some small changes to try to resolve the problem of\nSQL99-mandated truncation of precision of time fields for TIMESTAMP and\nTIME data types. Per the recent discussion, I've relaxed the mandated\nbehavior for unspecified precision of time fields for both date/time\nliterals an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@fourpalms.org] \n> Sent: 07 December 2001 16:15\n> To: Hackers List; Bill Studenmund; tegge@repas-aeg.de; Mark \n> Knox; Neale.Ferguson@softwareAG-usa.com; prlw1@cam.ac.uk; Tatsuo Ishii\n> Subject: Third call for platf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello together,\n\ni�ve worked out several topics so that postgreSQL will run on NetWare in the future. \nNow I want to start to add all the stuff that is neccessary for the NetWare port peace by\npeace.\n\nI need to add some modifications to the sources and I need to add another port directo...
[ { "msg_contents": "My nightly regresison tests bailed on sparc and i386 obsd:\n\ngcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations\n-I./../include -\nI../../../../src/include -DMAJOR_VERSION=2 -DMINOR_VERSION=9\n-DPATCHLEVEL=0 -DI\nNCLUDE_PATH=\\\"/usr/local/pgsql/include\\\" -c -o descriptor.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWith the changes that have been going on, I'd like to release *something*\nthis week ... my personal feeling is to go with a Beta4, since not all\nchanges were docs related ...\n\nDoes anyone have an opinion on this? I'd like to wrap something up\ntonight/tomorrow morning, unless someone h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Got it. The AIX compiler apparently feels free to rearrange the\nsequence\n\n\t\tproc->lwWaiting = true;\n\t\tproc->lwExclusive = (mode == LW_EXCLUSIVE);\n\t\tproc->lwWaitLink = NULL;\n\t\tif (lock->head == NULL)\n\t\t\tlock->head = proc;\n\t\telse\n\t\t\tlock->tail->lwWaitLink = proc;\n\t\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI'm fixing the function editor in phpPgAdmin, however there's a problem. We\nuse this query to return a list of all the possible function return types:\n\nSELECT typname\nFROM pg_type pt\nWHERE typname NOT LIKE '\\\\\\_%' AND typname NOT LIKE 'pg\\\\\\_%'\nEXCEPT\nSELECT relname\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello together,\n\nsorry for asking again, but my server was broken yesterday and the result was that I haven�t got\nthe responses to my post from yesterday. If someone has answered, please do it again. Thank you.\n\n\nHere the post again:\ni�ve worked out several topics so that postgreSQL wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Does anyone have an opinion on this? I'd like to wrap something up\n> tonight/tomorrow morning, unless someone has something they are really\n> sitting on?\n\nI know there aren't too much Hungarian users but I'd like to fix hu.po in\nthe backend which can cause crash now. This should be do...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMaybe I am missing something obvious, but I am unable to load\nlarger tables (~300k rows) with COPY command that pg_dump by\ndefault produces. Yes, dump as INSERTs works but is slow.\n\n\"Cant\" as in \"it does not work with the default setup I have\nrunning on devel machine\" - 128M mem, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "If the recent problem reports from Kenoyer and Eustace are the same\nthing you saw, then the problem must exist in 7.1 as well as current\nsources.\n\nThe best idea I've had so far is that there's something going wrong in\nold-style VACUUM, probably in the chain-moving code which is horridly\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUnless I hear any out-cries against it, I'm going to wrap up beta4 first\nthing Tuesday morning, for an announce on Tuesday evening ... is anyone\nsitting on anything that they want me to wait a day or two for this?\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:26:24 -0500 (EST)", "msg_fro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any problem at all with just twiddling the 'attnotnull' field in\nthe pg_attribute table to make a column NULL where before it was NOT NULL?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:46:02 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: 11 December 2001 12:14\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Explicit configuration file\n> \n> \n> \n> Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > \n> > mlw writes:\n> > \n> > > > That could be mildly useful, alth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Lamar wrote:\n> > I would like postgresql.conf to not \n> > get overwritten if I have to re-initdb.\n\nThis is something I would also like. \n\nBruce wrote:\n> I wonder if we should go one step further. Should we be specifying the\n> config file on the command line _rather_ than the data dir...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWon't announce it until later tonight, to give mirrors a chance to pull\nit, but I just packaged it up and created a README.ChangeLog file in the\nftp section ...\n\nLet me know if there are any glaring errors ...\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:50:41 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having a very scary problem.\n\nFirst, here's my system: smp dual PIII800 512MB memory running redhat 6.2\nkernel 2.2.18\nPostgreSQL 7.1.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66\n\nIn a nutshell, my primary key index got a NOTICE to recreate when the\ndatabase was vacuumed. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I hope this message wasn't posted multiple times, but i was having some\ntrouble sending it the first time......\n\nI'm having a very scary problem.\n\nFirst, here's my system: smp dual PIII800 512MB memory running redhat 6.2\nkernel 2.2.18\nPostgreSQL 7.1.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by...
[ { "msg_contents": "What about the common file having an entry for each 'instance' set up on \nthe system.\n\nIt could be formatted something like...\n\nName DataDir ConfFile AutoStart\n\nthen pg_ctl could be called with an Instance name and start or stop the \ninstance.\nthe initd script could scan the file l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Okay, here's a follow up to my previous messages \"ACK table corrupted,\nunique index violated.\"\n\nI've been trying to clean up the corruptions that i mentioned earlier. I\nfelt most comfortable shutting down all my application servers, restarting\npostgres, doing a dump of my database and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Build and test run sucessfully on Linux/390 and\nLinux/PlayStation2 with low-order-digit diffs in\ngeometry.\n\nPermaine\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:23:40 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Permaine Cheung\" <pcheung@redhat.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: Third ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having heard nothing on the list yet about the reported unsuccessful\nparallel regression tests on Cygwin with 7.2b3, I thought I'd have a play\nmyself having found a spare few minutes.\n\nSystem: Windows XP Professional, PIII 850MHz, 512Mb RAM, 32Gb disk\nuname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC20 1.3.3(0...
[ { "msg_contents": "While trying to update the regression test database for PostgreSQL 7.1 beta2\nfor SGI Irix 6.5 (it passed), I got the following message:\n\nWarning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: Relation 'regresstests' does not exist in\n/usr/local/www/developer/regress/regress.php on line 258\nDatabase wr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to thank Barry and Dave and others for taking the lead in\nimproving our jdbc code. Having you people evaluate and apply patches\nis a big help. In the past, our jdbc interface was quite lacking, but\nno more. This release will have major jdbc improvements, and it will\nonly get bet...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nTom - you mentioned recently that your changes to the parser mean that my\nadd unique code is deprecated. You also mentioned that your changes will\nmake ADD PRIMARY KEY also work.\n\nIf that is true, then the fact that both of these work should be put in the\nHISTORY file (ADD UNIQUE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\nIn this attachment is my changes in Postgres-7.1.3 for QNX6 Neutrino. Copy this \ninto work directory and run:\npatch -u -i pgsql713-qnx6.diff -p1\n\nBest regards\nAndy Latin\n----\n О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ http://mail.Rambler.ru/\n О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫-О©╫О©╫О©...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@fourpalms.org] \n> Sent: 13 December 2001 05:58\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin\n> \n> \n> > Having heard nothin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all you hackers :-)\n\nI'm 27 years old. I work on databases purposes in a major french Open Source\ncompany. It is called IDEALX. We made some good stuff in Open Source (like the\n1st free P.K.I. , an XML Editor, etc.. in GPL see idealx.org). Personally, I\nprefer free software, but I pre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net] \n> Sent: 13 December 2001 12:33\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - Cygwin\n> \n> \n> Dave,\n> \n> On Wed, Dec 12, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a tool that would let me upgrade a database with a new\nschema (without loosing data)?\n\nI have a database, x weeks later there is a new schema.. I want the\npossibility to skip that upgrade (if I don't need the added features,\nI don't want to upgrade)... When I decide I want to up...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@fourpalms.org] \n> Sent: 13 December 2001 05:58\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin\n> \n> \n> > Having hea...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Right, 7.2b4 passes *all* tests both parallel and \n> sequential on Windows 2000\n> > Server.\n> > On XP Pro, and by the sounds of it, any other non-server releases of\n> > Windows, parallel tests will fail randomly due to Winsock \n> backlog limit of 5\n> > on these systems (as pointed o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Things have firmed up nicely for the 7.2 release. We currently have\nseveral NetBSD platforms which have not reported success for 7.2, maybe\nonly because they have a relatively small user base (and aging\nprocessors) nowadays. If anyone still has a m68k, VAX or arm running\nNetBSD, let us kn...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA@spardat.at] \n> Sent: 13 December 2001 15:47\n> To: lockhart@fourpalms.org; Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Platform Testing -...
[ { "msg_contents": "works for me. doug if you'd like an account on a 10.1 machine i can arrange\nthat. i've got both the client and the server flavors available. there was\nsome bizarre two-level-namespace problem, but it seems to work okay now.\n(update, yeah, just checked again to make sure. 10.1, 10.1.1, and\...
[ { "msg_contents": "oh, if youre going to do testing tonight, one thing i didnt do.. apple has\ntheir new 'developer tools' out, which *will* include a different\ngcc/make/other stuff. so you might try installing that too.\n\nalex\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Doug McNaught [mailto:doug@wireboard.com]\nSe...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I want to compile libpgtcl on a AIX 4.3.2 RS6000 but I have \n> problem at the linking phase.\n> I ran the ./configure like that:\n> $ sh ./configure --with-CC=gcc --with-includes=/usr/local/include\n> --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib\n> --with-tkconfig=/usr/l...
[ { "msg_contents": "while explaining this query.\n\nWe're getting this strange result:\nLimit (cost=840340.22..840340.22 rows=6 width=53) (actual\ntime=-3035.03..-3034.97 rows=3 loops=1)\n -> Sort (cost=840340.22..840340.22 rows=7 width=53) (actual\ntime=-3035.07..-3035.05 rows=3 loops=1)\n -> Aggreg...
[ { "msg_contents": "So was anything decided?\n\nWill postmaster have a \"-C\" option to specify a configuration file?\nWithin this file will one be allowed to specify data directory and/or hba\nconfig file?\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:50:21 -0500", "msg_from": "mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n A simple question: when is last day when is possible send some text\n for 7.2? (or is now too late?:-)\n\n Karel\n\n PS. I have and still work on some Czech transaltions.\n\n-- \n Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>\n http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/\n \n C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http:/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Dave,\n\nIt is observed that while creating table, once we define the attributes and\ntheir properties, we can not change the attribute type. e.g. If we have\ndefined an attribute of type int. Now if one want to change it to numeric,\nit is not allowed thorugh the pgAdmin GUI. However we h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nare there any reasons why 'explain analyze' produces different numbers ?\n\nI just did dump/reload my test database and for the first time I get:\n\nastronet=# explain analyze select *\nastronet-# from\nastronet-# messages,message_parts\nastronet-# where messages.status_id in (5,8) AN...
[ { "msg_contents": "See http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2001/nf20011211_3015.htm \nand figure out why I've posted it here... :-)\n\n(spoiler: a security hardware company is using PostgreSQL in a security \nappliance based on open source software) _In_Business_Week_.:-O\n-- \nLamar Owen\nWGCR Inte...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom wrote:\n> > Would a patch for src/pl/tcl/Makefile still be accepted for 7.2 ?\n> \n> If it's simple and low-risk, probably so. Please submit it anyway,\n> so we'll have it on file even if the decision is to hold it till\n> 7.3.\n\nUnfortunately the issue is in both interfaces/libpgtcl an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n the guy under the nickname WhiteNinja: These idiots at GMX\n again don't accept mail from Yahoo. Do you have another\n address?\n\n\nJan\n\n--\n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wron...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I'm trying to clean up a bug in pg_dump where specifying a table\nwith the '-t tablename' argument fails to generate the necessary\nCREATE SEQUENCE statements for columns of type SERIAL that are not\nnamed \"id\" (example at bottom of email).\n\n So... The gist of the problem is tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat are we doing with the SunOS port? It is failing the 'bit'\nregression test. I can easily do the work if people tell me how they\nwant this handled.\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n> > > SunOS Tatsuo Ishii\n> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nHas anyone used mno-cygwin to build native Windows applications?\nCan it be used to compile PostgreSQL natively under Windows?\n\nBest regards,\nJean-Michel\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:42:21 +0100", "msg_from": "Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf.fr>", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 15 December 2001 18:06\n> To: jm.poure@freesurf.fr\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [CYGWIN] Requirement for pgAdmin browser.\n>\n> > Pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee] \n> Sent: 14 December 2001 18:31\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD'; lockhart@fourpalms.org; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I agree with Lee, I also like Oracle's options for a discard file, so\nyou can look at what was rejected, fix your problem and reload if\nnecessary just the rejects.\n\nJim\n\n\n> Peter Eisentraut writes:\n> > I think allowing this feature would open up a world of new\n> > dangerous ideas,...
[ { "msg_contents": "I guess I will maintain this for people who want it.\n\nThis allows\n\npostmaster -C /etc/pgsql/mydb.conf\n\nThe \"-C\" option specifies a configuration file.\n\nIn the config file there are two more options:\n\ndatadir = '/u01/postgres'\nhbaconfig = '/etc/pgsql/pg_hba.conf'\n\nThe \"datadir\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've examined a cygwin hangup issue for a pretty long time. \nIt seems there are plural causes though it's hard for me\nto identify them all.\n\nAnyway I found some unexpected SIGALRM cases.\nIt may be caused by a cygwin's bug but isn't it safer to\nreturn immediately from HandleDe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas,\n\ndo you know if there are perl equivalent for datetime validity check ?\nI use Date::Parse to validate datetime stuff I insert into postgresql,\nbut seems postgres is smarter. For example,\n'Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:37:16 -5:00' if fine for postgresql but\nproduces error in Date::Parse :...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n> 'Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:37:16 -5:00' if fine for postgresql but\n> produces error in Date::Parse :-)\n\nDate::Parse is not parsing it because of your timezone: \"-5:00\"\nis not legal; according to ISO 8601 it should be one of:\n+HH:MM, +HH, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have made binary distributions of;\n\n- unixODBC \n- PostgreSQL Driver\n- MySQL Driver\n\navailible to the public at http://www.codebydesign.com/DataArchitect.\n\nThese binary distributions are based upon Open Source code which was \nconfigured and built on the Mac OSX.\n\nAll distributions...