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"msg_contents": "After a system crash on a RH 7.2 box (2.4.7-10 kernel), I found that\nPostgres would not restart, complaining that it\t\"found a pre-existing\nshared memory block (ID so-and-so) still in use.\"\n\nThis is coming from code that attempts to defend against the scenario\nwhere the postmaster cras... |
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"msg_contents": "Did time become a reserved word in 7.2? I tried create a database with \na script that works in 7.1.3, but it fails on the word time as a column \nname.\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:06:50 -0500",
"msg_from": "Dwayne Miller <dwayne-miller@home.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Did time become a keyword in 7.2? 7.1.3 allowed it as a column name... \n7.2 rejects it.\n\nTks\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:20:21 -0500",
"msg_from": "Dwayne Miller <dwayne-miller@home.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI am preparing the update of the FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL with the \nupcoming 7.2, and I'm just wondering: is there any performance penalty \nintoduced by including --with-ssl in the default configure args? Of course, \nif SSL is actually *used*, I know what'll happen ;-) Just wonde... |
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"msg_contents": "Looking at my mailbox, I see _no_ open items for 7.2. Is this a good\ntime for RC1? Tom, can you apply that lwlock patch you are holding?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is... |
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"msg_contents": "I just tried building postgres from CVS and when I 'gmake check' I get this:\n\n---------------------\n\nAll of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.\ngmake -C src/test check\ngmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql/src/test'\ngmake -C regress check\ngmake[2]: Entering dir... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a couple functions which form the basis of an aggregate. The purpose of\nthe aggregate function is to be able to perform a GROUP BY on a one to many\ntable and produce a summary able where all the \"many\" integers will be packed\nin a single array. If this were a text search query, ra... |
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"msg_contents": "Are syntax changes from 7.1.x to 7.2 documented anywhere? I just \nnoticed that 'time' as a column name does not work the same in 7.2 as 7.1.x.\n\nSorry if this shows up twice... I posted last night but it had not \nappeared this morning.\n\nTks\nDwayne\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "For an application I have to code I currently implement ON ERROR\nTRIGGERS which shall be called after UNIQUE, CHECK, NOT NULL and REFERENCES\nviolations.\n\nThe implementation plan is as follows:\n\n1) Make `CurrentTransactionState' static in `xact.c' (done, could\n be posted for 7.2, beca... |
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"msg_contents": "> * Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb,\n> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = \"user\"\n> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n\nShouldn't that be\n\nCREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = \"user\"\n\n?\n\n-- \nKaare Rasmussen ... |
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"msg_contents": "> 2) Allow a transaction to be marked for rollback, in which case\n> it proceeds but rolls back at commit time. It is not possible\n\nSorry, can you explain one more time what's the point to continue\nmake changes in transaction which will be rolled back?\n\nHow about savepoints?\n\nVadim\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > 1. I prefer Oracle' (and others, I believe) way - put\n> statement(s) in PL block and define for what exceptions\n> (errors) what actions should be taken (ie IGNORE for\n> > NON_UNIQ_KEY error, etc).\n> \n> Some people prefer 'pure' SQL. Anyway, it can be argued which\n> is worse - the ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added this item to TODO:\n\n\t* Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching\n\nWeb shows it minimized file system caching, perhaps for sequential\nscans:\n\n\thttp://archives2.us.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-09/msg00713.php\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been experimenting with altering the SPINS_PER_DELAY number in\nsrc/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c. My results suggest that the current\nsetting of 100 may be too small.\n\nThe attached graph shows pgbench results on the same 4-way Linux box\nI described in my last message. (The numbe... |
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"msg_contents": "Just started using the pgcrypt 0.4.2 (very cool stuff) and am having\nsome strange errors (not so cool). Can someone make sense of the SQL\nbelow? I'm not 100% sure what's going on or not going on...\n\n\nhost=# SELECT DIGEST('asdf', 'md5') FROM users_shadow;\n digest ... |
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"msg_contents": "\ntesting something.\n\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking\n Online Campground Directory ... |
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"msg_contents": "I normally don't make preannouncements, but this directly relates\nto Sean's question and several private inquiries.\n\nDue to popular demand, libpkixpq 0.3 will support crypto using the\nOpenSSL library. The roadmap at the current time is:\n\n\nPHASE 1: support for symmetrical encryption.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "dear sir\n\n\n\nmy database create -E UNICODE\n\ncan't run\n\ntimestamp(date '2000-12-25')\nerror message>> parse error at or near \"date\"\n\nlpad('hi',4,'??') >> not return '??hi'\nrpad('hi',4,'x') >> return error string\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndear sir\n \n \n \nmy database create -E UNICODE... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been following the spin locking discussion, and even have done some\nhacking on the spin lock mechanism to experiment.\n\nI can't get consistent results, not consistently enough to measure anything but\nthe most dramatic of changes.\n\nMy script looks like this (thanks Tom)\n\n#! /bin/... |
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"msg_contents": "Could we remove lines 552-560 of pgbench.c? The behavior that guarded\nagainst is long gone, and forcing a checkpoint every few thousand tuples\nseems to be putting a huge crimp in the speed of pgbench -i ...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 06 Jan 2002 00:22:33 -0500",
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"msg_contents": "In response to multiple requests, libpkixpq 0.3 includes limited\nOpenPGP (RFC2440) support. It is available for download at \nhttp://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/. It should not be downloaded\ncontrary to US export or local law.\n\n(It's not like this RFC is difficult to implement - I've do... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed a post from Tom saying that anoncvs was not working. This still\nseems to be the case.\n\n[swm@d swm]$ cvs -d\n:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login\n(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)\nCVS password:\nFatal error, aborting.\nanoncvs: no such use... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just asked if there are problems if a program forks() while connected\nto the backend. Of course both processes will try to access the DB after the\nfork. Is this possible at all? If so does it create timing problems? Or\nothers? I think I never tried.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nM... |
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"msg_contents": "Let's think about this:\n\nWhat is the advantage of spinning?\n\nOn a uniprocessor box, there is \"never\" any advantage because you must release\nthe CPU in order to allow the process which owns the lock to run long enough to\nrelease it.\n\nOn an SMP box, this is a bit more complicated. If ... |
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"msg_contents": "In the JDBC binding, why is PGobject a class instead of an interface?\n\nThis is a moot issue when creating a type from scratch, but Java\ncontains a large number of standard classes (not interfaces) for\nPKIX objects so I'm in a bind when trying to create my own JDBC\nextensions. \n\nSpecifi... |
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"msg_contents": "I think we have talked before about how pgbench is overly subject to\nrow update contention at small scale factors. Since every transaction\nwants to update one (randomly selected) row of the \"branches\" table,\nand since the number of branches rows is equal to the scale factor,\nthere is c... |
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"msg_contents": "I added some code to the backend to count the number of LWLockAcquire\ncalls and the number of resultant process blocks (IpcSemaphoreLocks)\nacross all PG processes. Here are the results for a pgbench run with\nscale factor 500, number of clients 10, proposed LWLock patch installed\non that ... |
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"msg_contents": "I got followings with current on AIX 5L using xlc (native AIX\ncompiler):\n\n:\n:\n:\n\"data.c\", line 357.81: 1506-068 (S) Operation between types \"void*\" and \"long\" is not allowed.\n\"data.c\", line 362.90: 1506-068 (S) Operation between types \"void*\" and \"long\" is not allowed.\n\nH... |
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"msg_contents": "Can anybody explain the following code detail ?\n\nA comment in execMain.c tells us:\n\n--start code snippet--\n * NB: the CurrentMemoryContext when this is called must be the context\n * to be used as the per-query context for the query plan. ExecutorRun()\n * and ExecutorEnd() must be ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have an table with ca 1.7 million records, with the following structure:\n\n Table \"iplog_gate200112\"\n Attribute | Type | Modifier \n-----------+-----------+----------\n ipaddr | inet | \n input | bigint | \n output | bigint | \n router | text ... |
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"msg_contents": "> The point is to collect comprehensive error reports, mainly about\n> failed modifications of complex structured data which is\n> created/modified concurrently by several workers in an optimistic\n> locking fashion. Because the data is so complex it won't help anybody\n> if you print out a m... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, system catalogs (pg_*) are assumed to be readable by anyone if\nthe privileges are NULL, as opposed to ordinary tables, which assume only\nowner access if the privileges are NULL.\n\nI'm currently working on privileges for functions (see also Nov. 13\nmessage, which apparently stun... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello together,\n\ni would like to add the following changes to the code so that postgres\ndoesn�t have any problems if we compile it on machines that have\ngettimeofday with 1 ARG and therefore don�t need 'struct timezone xxx'\nI�m working on a System where timezone is defined in another way... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello together,\n\n\nIn ipc.c, function InternalIpcMemoryCreate there is the following line of code:\nmemAddress = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);\n\nthis line should be changed to:\nmemAddress = (void *) shmat(shmid, 0, 0);\n\n\nat function IpcMemoryCreate there is the following line of code:\nmemAddres... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 07 January 2002 22:36\n> To: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Default permissions of system catalogs\n> \n> \n> Currently, system catalogs (pg_*) are assumed to be readable \n> by anyone if the pri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nyou re right. The problem is a mistake in a Metrowerks header file.\nI ve fixed the Metrowerks header and recompiled the library.\n\nThanks for your quick response.\n\nUlrich Neumann\n\n>>> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> 08.01.2002 13:23:40 >>>\n\nWhy is this needed?\n\nshmat is defined as... |
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"msg_contents": "I confirm that ecpg now builds again on pickier compilers than gcc.\nThat was my only remaining \"must do for RC1\" item. Are we ready to\npush this puppy out the door?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:29:27 -0500",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, this was my fault.\n\nforget about this message, but thanks for your response.\n\nUlrich Neumann\n\n>>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 08.01.2002 15:27:18 >>>\nUlrich Neumann<u_neumann@gne.de> writes:\n> This will avoid problems with MetroWerks CodeWarrior compiler.\n\nWhat, pray tell, d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Thomas,\n\ni m working on postgres for 2 new platforms, NetWare 6 and a future\n64 bit OS that is under development.\n\nOn NetWare timezone is defined as a global variable, seconds from GMT.\nBut wait, gettimeofday will be added to NetWare so there isn t any\nchange neccessary anymore.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I am seeing strange results from date/interval computations involving\nmonths.\n\nI get the correct answers because I have a negative setting relative to\nGMT. Here are my results with TZ=EST5EDT:\n\t\n\ttest=> select '2001/3/1'::date - '1 month'::interval;\n\t ?column? \n\t---... |
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"msg_contents": "I experimented today (for the first time in a long time) with building\nPostgres outside the source tree. Didn't work:\n\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/users/t/tg/tgl/builddir/src/backend/bootstrap'\ngcc -O1 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g -I../../../src/include ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am getting the following DEBUG message\n\n\tXLogWrite: new log file created - consider increasing WAL_FILES\n\nWhat would be a good number of files to shoot for, I am currently\nusing the default. Some of my table are into the Gigabyte level.\n\nThanks.\nGary\n",
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"msg_contents": "This could be useful for cleaning out a database (sequences, triggers, \nrules) without deleting it and without having to create it, thus \npreserving permissions/owner information.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 08 Jan 2002 16:19:54 -0600",
"msg_from": "Thomas Swan <tswan-lst@ics.olemiss.ed... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm getting a warning:\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wcast-align\n-Wpointer-arith -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include\n-I../../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../../src/include -c -o\ndata.o data.c\ndata.c: In function `ECPGget_data':\ndata.c:... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have made a new version of pgbench which allows not to update\nbranches and tellers tables, which should significantly reduce the\ncontentions. (See attached patches against current. Note that the\npaches also includes changes removing CHECKPOINT command while\nrunning in initializa... |
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"msg_contents": "Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into the market\n\nA Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)\nSecond Edition (revised and enlarged and covers latest version of\nPostgreSQL 7.1.3),\nPublished Jan 2002\nAuthor: Al Dev\n\nInternational Edition: The cost of the book is v... |
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"msg_contents": "What is the difference between the postmaster binary and the postgres\nbinary? Does the postmaster act as nothing more than a multiplexor for\npostgres processes or something?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:38:21 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n I am srinivas.I want to know whether there is\nany possibility for importing the orclae database in\nto postgresql database i.e, importing oracle data dump\nfile to postgresql database including all\ntables,views,constraints etc,if possible please send\nme the procedure for d... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>I have dreamed of the ability to go GRANT ALL ON DATABASE database_name TO \n>USER username and then add a table and them\nbe able to have permissions to access that table.\n\nFunny you should mention this ... my roomate is sys admin at a colocation \ncompany that is in the process of swic... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just got a bug report that originated in the programmer not knowing he had\nto include sqlca to use whenever. When I told him he asked me why it isn't\nincluded automatically. Now that's a tricky question. :-)\n\nI do know that Oracle also asks the programmer to include sqlca, but ho... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Did time become a keyword in 7.2? 7.1.3 allowed it as a column name...\n> > 7.2 rejects it.\n> \n> Yes. We now support SQL99 time and timestamp precision, which require\n> that TIME(p) be a type specification. So there are parts of the grammar\n> which cannot easily fit \"time\" anymore.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Michael wrote:\n> I just got a bug report that originated in the programmer not knowing he had\n> to include sqlca to use whenever. When I told him he asked me why it isn't\n> included automatically. Now that's a tricky question. :-)\n> \n> I do know that Oracle also asks the programmer to in... |
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"msg_contents": "I recently got a Debian bug report about 3 architectures where char is\nunsigned by default. There were 2 locations identified in the code\nwhere a char is compared with a negative value, and should therefore be\ndeclared as a \"signed char\". There may be others in 7.2, but I don't\nmyself... |
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"msg_contents": "The current version of the interfaces/libpgtcl/Makefile fails to build a\nshared lib on platforms where the shlib needs to resolve symbols from \nthe loading executable (tclsh) at link time. (only affects AIX?)\n\nThe current version of pl/tcl/Makefile fails to build on some platforms,\ne.g. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom asked about pg_upgrade as part of our initdb for timezone.\n\nI have made some improvements to pg_upgrade in CVS and have successfully\nmigrated a regression database from a 7.2 to another 7.2 database using\nit. (At least the tables show some data; very light testing.)\n\npg_upgrade is... |
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"msg_contents": "> I don't think we dare risk a wholesale change in the way \n> pltcl is built\n> for 7.2. We're already through the ports testing process for 7.2, and\n> I don't want to start it over again.\n\nOk, that is what I asked for, that you look at it, thanks. 7.3 then.\n(Of course there have been o... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Imho it would be nice if we could allow \"select timestamp(xxx);\",\n> > and this has been the umpteenth request in this regard, and 7.2 is not even\n> > released yet.\n> \n> afaicr one of the very sticky areas is the SQL99-specified syntax for\n> date/time literals:\n> \n> timestamp(... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that in some places we compare the result of getopt(3) to\n\"EOF\", and in some other places we compare it to \"-1\". I think we\nshould standardize on one or the other; anyone have an opinion\nwhich it should be?\n\nThe man pages I have here (HPUX and Linux) both describe the\nend-... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDid I ever send in a bug report about pg_dump 'crashing' while dumping a\ndatabase where one of the tables gets drop'd while the pg_dump is running?\n\nNot the easiest thing to reproduce, mind you, cause its a matter of that\none in a million timing thing ... but, if you run pg_dump against... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nRegarding bzipping postgres tarballs:\n\nDid we ever reach a consensus on this issue? I'd like to see \nalternate forms start appearing for each version (moving forward) \nso that people can download either (for example) \npostgresql-7.2.tar... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch to the python bindings adds C versions of the often-used query\nargs quoting routines, as well as support for quoting lists e.g.\ndbc.execute(\"SELECT * FROM foo WHERE blah IN %s\", (myblahlist,))\n\nPlease consider incorporating this patch into postgresql,\n-- Elliot",
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"msg_contents": "The attached curves are for pgbench in a scale-factor-500 database,\npostmaster options -F -N 100 -B 3800 on a 4-way Linux machine,\ncurrent CVS sources.\n\nI noticed that with the default WAL options, the system was spawning\na checkpoint process every fifteen seconds or so during the pgbenc... |
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"msg_contents": "Seen these Postgres Books?\n\nhttp://www.ptf.com/dossier/sets/Post.shtml\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:37:15 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "If you're interested in what DOSSIER is all about, check this:\n\nhttp://ezine.daemonnews.org/200201/meta.html\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:38:30 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI hope, that this is not too off topic for this list, but anyway, it \nshould be easy for any PG-expert.\n\nI need to run a shell script that logs in to Postgresql, executes a \nquery and logs off again.\n\nIn MySQL, I did it like this:\n\n'mysql -u user -ppassword < script.sh'\n\nMy p... |
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"msg_contents": "Daniel wrote: (stripped to info I used)\n> NOTICE: Pages 17722: Changed 0, reaped 0, Empty 0, New 0; \n> Tup 1706202: Vac 0, \n> NOTICE: Index iplog_test_ipaddr_idx: Pages 5621; Tuples 1706202. CPU \n> NOTICE: Index iplog_test_ipdate_idx: Pages 4681; Tuples 1706202. CPU \n\n> -> Seq Sca... |
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"msg_contents": "\nImho the simplification, that seq scan startup cost is 0.0 is\nonly valid when we expect to return most of the rows.\n\nWhen expecting only 1 row, imho the costs need to be 50 % for\nstartup and 50 % rest. Assuming, that on average the row will be \nin the middle of that relation file.\nWhe... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> [with the new effective_cache_size = 6400]\n\nThis seems way too low for a 512 Mb machine. Why does your OS\nonly use so little for filecache ? Is the rest used for processes ?\nFor the above number you need to consider OS cache and shared_buffers.\nYou can approximatly add them together ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > What is actually estimated wrong here seems to be the estimated\n> > effective cache size, and thus the cache ratio of page fetches.\n> \n> Good point, but I think the estimates are only marginally sensitive\n> to estimated cache size (if they're not, we have a problem, considering\n> h... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > > What is actually estimated wrong here seems to be the estimated\n> > > > effective cache size, and thus the cache ratio of page fetches.\n> > > \n> > > Good point, but I think the estimates are only marginally sensitive\n> > > to estimated cache size (if they're not, we have a ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have had a postgres 7.1.3 database running for a few months. I have\na perl application that runs several sql commands and populates the\ndatabase. I have been running the following command without any\nerrors until a few days ago (keep in mind that no code has changed):\n\ninsert into w_h... |
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"msg_contents": "I believe I see the mechanism for the 7.2b4 failure reported by\nChristian Meunier this morning:\n\n> pg_dump: query to get data of sequence \"account_num_seq\" failed: FATAL 2:\n> open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0000 failed: No such file or directory\n> server closed the connection une... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI am interested in learning more about HLR/VLR database systems for wireless \nroaming services. Do you know any free implementation under PostgreSQL?\n\nThe idea would be to offer a free HLR/VLR service in the European Union to \nall 802.11a user. Any information about interacti... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > With the new pgbench, I ran a test with current and 7.1 and saw\n> > not-so-small differences. Any idea to get better performance on 7.2\n> > and AIX 5L combo?\n> \n> I'm thinking more and more that there must be something weird about the\n> cs() routine that we use for spinlocks on AIX... |
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"msg_contents": "If have some problem with updating `pg_relcheck' entries. Who can help ?\n\nPostgreSQL version:\n\n CVS of Jan 03 with some additions for my CREATE ERROR TRIGGER project\n (announced on this list). Among those is the following change in\n pg_relcheck:\n\n \tNameData\trcname;\n \ttext\t\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> This topic seems to come up a lot. Is there something we are missing in\n> the FAQ?\n\nMost of the reports we seem to see are the usual, \"but the seq scan is actually \nfaster\" case. Daniel actually has a case where the optimizer chooses a bad plan.\n\nThe difficulty seems to be, that ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhy does postgresql have to die if the disk fills up? Can't it just\ngo into an idle state and complain or something?\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Should the permissions of a deleted user get assigned to a new user\nas in the example below?\n\nMartin\n\n$ createdb test\nCREATE DATABASE\n$ psql test\nWelcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL commands\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I was running a stock 7.2b4 Postgres with pgbench.\n\nRedHat Linux 7.2, stock everything.\nDual PIII 650MHZ\nSMP kernel\n1G RAM\nEXT3 file system\n\nAdaptec SCSI disks, one for /base and ont for/pg_xlog\n\npgbench scaled to 50\n\n./pgbench -n -t 100 -h $HOST -c 100 bench\n\nIt hung in the che... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed fixes for the recently reported problem with adding\ntimestamp with time zone to intervals. As pointed out earlier, there\nwere one or two places which did not make the right choice between\n\"zoneful\" and \"zoneless\" forms of support routines.\n\nI've also committed some add... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been doing some benchmarking on RedHat 7.2\nThe machine\nDual PIII 650, 1 Gig RAM.\n18G IBM SCSI LVD main drive with /pg_xlog\n9G Seagate UW SE with /base.\n2 Adaptec SCSI controllers.\n\nChanges to default postgresql.conf:\ntcpip_socket = true\nmax_connections = 128\nshared_buffers = ... |
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"msg_contents": "I just spent some time trying to understand the mechanism behind the\n\"XLogFlush: request is not satisfied\" startup errors we've seen reported\noccasionally with 7.1. The only apparent way for this to happen is for\nXLogFlush to be given a garbage WAL record pointer (ie, one pointing\nbeyo... |
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"msg_contents": "For those of you who don't already know, the catalog version was updated\ntoday to fix problems with timestamp with/without timezone. This will\nrequire an initdb for all 7.2beta users.\n\nThe good news is that I have successfully migrated a 7.2 regression\ndatabase without an initdb using p... |
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"msg_contents": "> > What is \"isync\"? Also, how I can implement calling \n> \n> sorry no idea :-(\n> \n> > compare_and_swap in the assembly language?\n> \n> In assembly language you would do the locking yourself,\n> the code would be identical, or at least very similar to\n> the __APPLE__ __ppc__ code.\n> \... |
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"msg_contents": "I am testing pg_upgrade. I successfully did a pg_upgrade of a 7.2\nregression database into a fresh 7.2 install. I compared the output of\npg_dump from both copies and found that c_star dump caused a crash. I\nthen started doing more testing of the regression database and found\nthat the r... |
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"msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> I am testing pg_upgrade. I successfully did a pg_upgrade of a 7.2\n> regression database into a fresh 7.2 install. I compared the output of\n> pg_dump from both copies and found that c_star dump caused a crash. I\n> then started doing more testing of the regression database... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, I have tested pg_upgrade with 7.1->7.2 and 7.2->7.2 databases, and\nit seems to work fine. It is ready for wider testing.\n\nTo use pg_upgrade, copy it from CVS to somewhere in your path. Edit the\nfile and change ENABLE=\"N\" to ENABLE=\"Y\". Then, read pg_upgrade.sgml\nfor the steps ... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just looking at the latest pg_upgrade revision. Maybe it works for\nparticular installations, but before we can think about releasing this, at\nleast the issues below need to be addressed.\n\nIt seems to require that the data directory is under a directory named\n\"data\" and that your... |
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"msg_contents": "On 01/12/2002 06:03:44 PM Karl DeBisschop wrote:\n> On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 03:32, David Terrell wrote:\n> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:07:50AM +0100, Alexander Pucher wrote:\n> > > I need to run a shell script that logs in to Postgresql, executes a\n> > > query and logs off again.\n\n> > > My ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just read one of those MySQL-PGSQL comparison on a German Linux magazine\nthat's not exactly known to be well informed. :-)\n\nThis article really cries for a reply. Here are some extracts:\n\nThe only benchmarks that everyone can download for free to test MySQL\nversus PostgreSQL ar... |
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"msg_contents": "Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released\ninto the market\n\nA Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)\nSecond Edition (revised and enlarged and covers latest\nversion of PostgreSQL 7.1.3),\nPublished Jan 2002\nAuthor: Al Dev\n\nInternational Edition: \n----------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there ever going to be a release?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:35:34 -0500 (EST)",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Release time"
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"msg_contents": "Peter E... |
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"msg_contents": "I am pleased to announce the release of libpkixpq 0.4, a major release.\n\nNEW FEATURES\n------------\n\n - documentation\n\n - support for PKCS7 asymmetric encrypted messages.\n (OpenPGP symmeric encryption support has been dropped, at\n least temporarily.) The PKCS7 asymmetric encrypti... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, somewhere, sometimes ago Tom Lane mentioned that he's working on the Tablespace on his personal TODO list.\nI'm just throwing idea here, perhaps Tom already think of it. But I send it anyway. \n\nIf the Tablespace is the same concept with Oracle then it can take ad... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > isync only affects the running processor.\n> \n> I have tried LinuxPPC's TAS code but AIX's assembler complains that\n> lwarx and stwcx are unsupported op. So it seems that we need to tweak\n> your code actually.\n\nThe problem is, that the default on AIX is to produce architecture inde... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom wrote:\n> > The question is: how does one find the proper value? That is, is it\n> > possible to design planner benchmarking utility to aid in tuning\n> > Postgres?\n> \n> The trouble is that getting trustworthy numbers requires huge test\n> cases, because you have to swamp out the effect... |
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"msg_contents": "dear sir\n\nI have 7.1.3 sql statement \" select '<chinese> 中文測試' \" In unicode datbase ,\nbut I try 7.2b4 can't run \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndear sir\n \nI have 7.1.3 sql statement \" select \n'<chinese> 中文測試' \" In unicode datbase ,\nbut I try 7.2b4 can't run",
"msg_date": "Mon, 14 Jan ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom writes:\n> \"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:\n> > The problem is, that the default on AIX is to produce architecture\n> > independent code (arch=COM). Unfortunately not all AIX architectures\n> > seem to have these instructions.\n> \n> AIX does more than one ... |
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"msg_contents": "Um, and then there's darwin on the dual g4's.... SMP POSIX code on PPC is\nnot limited to AIX and Linux (ugh). freebsd 5.0 is rumored to be smp and run\non ppc as well.\n\nalex\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:26:32 -0500",
"msg_from": "Alex Avriette <a_avriette@acs.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Now that I have moved pg_upgrade into /contrib, can I enable the script\nso you don't have to change ENABLE=\"Y\" to run it? Seems safe.\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... |
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