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[ { "msg_contents": "I have just been looking into a bug report against the jdbc driver and I \nfound the following behavior that I can't explain.\n\nIf I run jdbc with setAutoCommit=true then notifications work as \nexpected, however if I run with setAutoCommit=false then notifications \nare not being sent from ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting this error when I attempt to connect to a production\ndatabase. All other databases have valid pg_shadow and appear to be fine.\n\nThe database version is\n\n PostgreSQL 7.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66\n\nLogging was going to the terminal (completely useles...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had a hard disk crash recently (Those IBM 45Gb drives again) and had to\nreinstall Linux (RedHat 7.2) on the new disk (Seagate)\n\nMy question is - how can I tell PostgreSQL (which I've obviously had to\nreinstall) to look at my existing database which was mounted on another\nvolume and is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom wrote:\n> > [ compare_and_swap man page ]\n> \n> Looks kinda baroque. What about the referenced fetch_and_or routine?\n> If that's atomic it might be closer to TAS semantics.\n\nThanks for the hint!\nTatsuo, can you try the performance of fetch_and_or on your machine ?\nReplace the cs() ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> On my machine the various implemtations have the following runtimes:\n> (with a modified s_lock test that does not sleep, and \n> SPINS_PER_DELAY 100000)\n> \n> with LinuxPPC asm: \t1m5.16s\t(Which may not work relyably on SMP)\n> with cs:\t\t\t1m12.25s\n> with fetch_and_or:\t1m26.71s\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry - I have been 'off scene' for some time, but a new set of projects is\ncoming up at a new place of employment. Some of the new features coming in\n7.2 (no table lock for vacuums particularly) sound necessary - but I have\nhad no luck finding any indication of a likely date for the plann...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is postgres prepared to run in cluster, or is there any project around\nit?\nThanks in advance\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:18:57 +0100", "msg_from": "Luis Amigo <lamigo@atc.unican.es>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Psql in cluster-machines" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I recently lost the ability to run postgres from a drive due to a kernal\nimplosion, as a result I have had to install a new version of postgres on\nanother drive. (Which was fine since I was changing servers anyway) I\nrecovered the files on this old machine which were in 7.0 format...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGood morning ...\n\n\tOn the 14th of January, 2002, the PostgreSQL Global Development\nGroup packaged up and released v7.2b5 (and, hopefully, our last beta) of\nour upcoming release.\n\n\tRelease Candidate 1, baring any major bug reports from Beta5, is\nschedualed for packaging and release ...
[ { "msg_contents": "What sort of cluster? \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Luis Amigo [mailto:lamigo@atc.unican.es]\nSent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:19 AM\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: [HACKERS] Psql in cluster-machines\n\n\nIs postgres prepared to run in cluster, or is there any project aro...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> NOTICE: LockRelease: no such lock\n> \n> I'm afraid now the locking is broken. Will look into more.\n\nNext try would be _check_lock (found in sys/atomic_op.h):\n\nDescription (from man page)\n\nThe _check_lock subroutine performs an atomic (uninterruptible) sequence of\noperations. The...
[ { "msg_contents": "Based on my experience with the 7.1.3 user defined type API, here are \nseveral wishlist items. (They don't seem to be in 7.2b4 either.)\n\n1) load/unload functions\n\nSome user-defined types and functions require initialization of\nglobal structures. This can be handled by code like\n\n s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I asked a while back, is anyone managing this project? It has scripts that just\nplain don't work.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:21:08 -0500", "msg_from": "mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "RServ replication" }, { "msg_contents": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The tuple toaster currently fetches toast-table rows using SnapshotAny.\nThis is quite uncool, because it will in fact find *any* row. Including\ndead rows resulting from an aborted (or, in 7.2, still-in-progress)\nVACUUM.\n\nI believe this is the explanation for a problem report I'm current...
[ { "msg_contents": "For the next release, I'd like to implement permissions for procedural\nlanguages. It would be one permission called USAGE, which allows the user\nto create a function using that language. I will reuse the aclitem[]\napproach, in the same way as I'm already doing for functions.\n\nThe first...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello,\n\n I wanted to know about how good when we use\npostgresql when compared to oracle.Does 10 MB\nPostgresql Software Be Comparable to around 500 MB\nOracle 7.3 Software?Does it supports and provides same\nsort of security,redundancy,robustnessand fine tuning\nof Oracle?.\n\n____...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter, \n\nrunning \"make update-po\" in backend/po/ I'm always getting very short .po\nfiles and the .pot file is also about 7K. It seems to be the fact that\nxgettext gets text only from postgres.c and postmaster.c. What's the\nproblem? Version: beta3 and beta5 (I didn't try beta4 but it's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The tuple toaster currently fetches toast-table rows using SnapshotAny.\n> This is quite uncool, because it will in fact find *any* row.\n\nWell, doesn't it need to find *any* row, since the accesses to heap and toast\nare not \"atomic\" (not interlocked) ?\n\n> Including dead rows resul...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> You're right, lazy VACUUM doesn't create this issue. My mistake.\n> But VACUUM FULL does.\n> \n> > I can only see a problem with a partway through vacuum \n> full, that aborted.\n> \n> Exactly.\n\nCan you try give me a hint, why an aborted VACUUM FULL will not allways be \na problem (als...
[ { "msg_contents": "select now() + cast('71 minutes' as interval) as case1\n , cast('71 minutes' as interval) + now() as case2\n , now() + cast('5 minutes' as interval) as case3\n , cast('5 minutes' as interval) + now() as case4\n , now();\n\n\nThe above works as expected in 7.1, but in 7.2 c...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Daniel Kalchev [mailto:daniel@digsys.bg]\n> \n> Well, we already played around this by first creating new table \n> ordered by \n> random().\n\nThis seem to have little meaing if there's only one ipdate value\nwhich satisfies the WHERE clause and the inde...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey, I decided to download and run beta5 through a few paces, and just ran \ninto something that I wouldn't think it good, but maybe it's expected.\n\nI loaded a decent size database that we support. From within psql, I \nperformed a \"select * from quesresp\" which has 4.6 million rows. Af...
[ { "msg_contents": "You said ignore this one, but I would like to ask a question :)\n\nTrafic on news.postgresql.org is really low lately...\nI used see Tom's posts everywhere, but I don't see his post\nanyhwere now.\n\nIs news server having problems?\nShould I actually read mail list?\n\nThank you.\n\n-- \nYasu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\nI am using PostgreSQl for the first time.I need to understand the source\ncode of PostGreSql inorder to extend it.\nI read your poston the net regarding PostGresql. Can u let me know how I\nshould go about studying the source code of Postgresql? Is there is a good\nbook or docs or website...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are we prepared for RC1? Can we set a day for it? Friday?\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 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear community, dear friends,\n\nI know it is feature freeze, so forgive me for this (ancien) question : would \nit possible to add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW and CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER in \ncurrent PostgreSQL 7.2 release? Otherwise, it will take another year before \nthese long-needed feature...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was reassigned (temporarily thank you very much! :) to the test\ndepartment at work to do some performance tests on our PostgreSQL\n(v 7.1.3) database.\n\nI've seen quite a number of test/benchmark programs on the 'Net, but\nnone that fits the purpose...\n\nWe all know that 'there is no pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > How do we know, that a (newly) FrozenXid tuple does not still have \n> > a (visible) duplicate ?\n> \n> It's *not* visible, if you are applying any visibility checks whatever.\n> But SnapshotAny bypasses all visibility checking.\n\nI am concerned about the case where VACUUM FULL:\n1. in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nwhen I'm trying to access database from the remote host using jdbc I'll\n\nget following error message:\n\n----------------------------------\nPostgreSQL basic test v6.3 rev 1\n\nConnecting to Database URL = jdbc:postgresql://polaris:5432/coda_lg_db\nException caught.\nSomething unusual...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I am concerned about the case where VACUUM FULL:\n> > 1. inserts heap tuple to new location using FrozenXid\n> > 2. updates original heap tuples's xmax\n> \n> It doesn't matter whether it's FrozenXid or not. The tuple is not\n> visible if it's got the wrong setting of HEAP_MOVED_OFF/IN...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting a NOTICE in logs about once a day:\n\nNOTICE: Rel s: TID 212/16: DeleteTransactionInProgress 0 - can't\nshrink relation\n\nThis is generated by vacuum. This does not happen after removing the\ncontents of the relation and re-inserting the data. I noticed this kind of\nerror in r...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing a bug in CVS in pg_dump/pg_restore with -o:\n\n $ dropdb test\n $ createdb test\n $ pg_dump -Fc -b -o test > /bjm/out\n $ dropdb test\n $ createdb test\n $ pg_restore -v -d test /bjm/out\n pg_restore: connecting to database for rest...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was playing around with adding a couple new SET commands (REAL_FORMAT\nand DOUBLE_PRECISION_FORMAT as per todo list item) and I ended up\nplaying with GUC a bit.\n\nI've cleaned it up a bit - most of the changes should be fairly\nself-explanitory from the patch. Some of the configuration op...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI have a database that contains a chronological journal of activity. For\n various reasons, this journal contains both complete and incomplete records,\n and while all records are timestamped, the primary key is not strictly ordered\n by timestamp.\n\nWhat I want to do is update ea...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have enabled /contrib/pg_upgrade and added a mention in the README\nthat it is lightly tested. I have not received any testing reports\nsince I finished it earlier this week.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us |...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I see followings in current:\n\ncreate table t2 (t date primary key)\n[insert some data into t2]\n select *,age(t) from t2 where age(t) = '9 mons 30 days'::interval;\n t | age \n------------+----------------\n 2001-03-18 | 10 mons\n 2001-03-19 | 9 mons 30 days\n(2 rows...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not sure where to send this, or if it is time for RC1, but here is a small\ncontribution.\n\nIt is an integer array aggregator and enumerator. It allows you to use the\n\"group by\" clause to create an integer array, then allows you to extract the\narray as a set of rows.", "msg_date": "F...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just got this explanation for the autocommit setting. Maybe we should add\nthsi to the docs.\n\n----- Forwarded message from Robert Hufsky <Robert.Hufsky@ser.at> -----\n\nFrom: \"Robert Hufsky\" <Robert.Hufsky@ser.at>\nTo: \"Michael Meskes\" <meskes@debian.org>\nSubject: autocommit in ecpg\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just an FYI that the recent problem I had (in 7.2b2) naming a column \n'Time' is not present in this beta. Although it was not critical that I \nhad a column named time, it does ease my porting effort.\n\nAlso... \n\nwhen I downloaded 7.2b5 and compiled using the steps\n\n./configure --with...
[ { "msg_contents": "PostgreSQL often uses terminology in programs and documentation that is\nvague and meaningless to anyone who is new to the system or not familiar\nwith the implementation. Users are often heard to complain that in\nPostgreSQL everything is named differently. We should clean these things\nup...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat is the default maximum limits for a text column, and how can I extend\nit past those limits, if possible :>\n\n\n Chris Bowlby,\n -----------------------------------------------------\n Web Developer @ Hub.org.\n excalibur@hub.org\n www.hub.org\n 1-902-542-3657\n ----------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe use pg_dump nightly to dump data from all tables in our databases (only\ntable data, makes restore easier, trust me on that).\n\nMy question is this:\n\nI have many tables that have millions of rows.\n\nLet's say I start the pg_dump...\n\nThen, an update in a transaction occurs that upda...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm starting to think about how to do SQL-compatible schemas in Postgres.\n\nOne of the first issues that comes up is that Postgres has interpretations\nof qualified (dotted) names that conflict with what the standard says to\ndo. This stuff is a hangover from Berkeley days and PostQUEL. Br...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>Maybe it's time for someone to prepare an \"official\" glossary that sets\n>out all these terms carefully, so that people will have something to\n>refer to when they're trying to pick a word to use.\n\nMaybe we could coax Robert Easter to add to his already wonderful page\nof Essential Dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "AFAIK we are go for 7.2RC1.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:24:43 -0500", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Ready for RC1?" }, { "msg_contents": "\nYup, going to bundle her first thing when ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm thinking about how we don't really have native compatability for\nWindows.\n\nApparently Apache has designed their own cross-platform compatibility\nlayer which other projects can use, so that most of the cross-platform\ncoding concerns are taken care of.\n\nHas anyone out ther...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAOL buying Red Hat?\n\nhttp://news.com.com/2100-1001-819243.html\n\nAny truth to this rumor?\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is is possible to add GNU/GPL licence to the next\nrelease of the pgsql in addition to the UCB licence.\n\nThe UCB licence applies to old code several years ago,\nbut by law it is required to include it forever with\npgsql. \n\nI am proposing that in addition to UCB, all the new\ncode added/c...
[ { "msg_contents": "we have the following plan:\nAggregate (cost=40018.00..40048.08 rows=401 width=41) (actual\ntime=44807.96..44931.81 rows=2 loops=1)\n -> Group (cost=40018.00..40028.02 rows=4011 width=41) (actual\ntime=44677.19..44803.74 rows=3131 loops=1)\n -> Sort (cost=40018.00..40018.00 rows=...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe /really/ need to add regression tests for the PLs if it is at\nall possible.\n\nDoes it make sense to sed the $with_tcl, $with_perl, and $with_python \nvalues into the pg_regress script after modifying it to to \n\"createlang\" the appropriate language when the corresponing with_lang\nop...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > override TCL_SHLIB_LD := $(shell echo $(TCL_SHLIB_LD) | sed \n> 's/-Wl,-soname.*//')\n> \n> I suspect that the above works only because -Wl,-soname is the last\n> switch in TCL_SHLIB_LD; any following switches would be removed too.\n> Perhaps better\n\nJust have to say: I can't beleive ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Don't you all trust Makefile.shlib ?\n> \n> I do trust Makefile.shlib. I don't trust a large revision of the pltcl\n> build process on the day we intend to put out RC1. That's a recipe for\n> embarrassment.\n\nYes, I know, and do accept that :-) Just had to rid myself of a little\nann...
[ { "msg_contents": "Continuing to think about implementing SQL schemas for 7.3 ...\n\nToday's topic for discussion: which types of Postgres objects should\nbelong to schemas, and which ones should have other name scopes?\n\nRelations (tables, indexes, views, sequences) clearly belong to schemas.\nSince each rela...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have an open-source project that I'm joining. I'd like to use a\nPostgreSQL-type license for the project. Could someone point out where\nthe license for PostgreSQL is located in the source?\n\nThanks.\n-Tony\n", "msg_date": "21 Jan 2002 15:49:33 -0800", "msg_from": "reina@nsi.edu (T...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nRegarding the licensing thread:\n\nAny chance we can limit this topic (and perhaps future ones) \nto a single list? I think everyone involved reads both HACKERS \nand GENERAL. \n\nThanks,\nGreg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>\nPGP Key: 0x...
[ { "msg_contents": "Did you guys know that TOra now has postgres support?\n\nhttp://www.globecom.se/tora/\n\nI think it's mostly in the new alpha version.\n\nLooks like it would be quite awesome.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:33:58 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chris...
[ { "msg_contents": "In regards to my previous email, look at the changelog for 1.3.2-alpha:\n\nhttp://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=70037\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:35:17 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone else noticing this? Perhaps it is a Postfix thing or a procmail\nthing but I keep getting messages joined together. It only happens with\nmessages from PostgreSQL lists. I get a bunch of messages in one until\nthere is one non-PostgreSQL message which seems to break the link. My...
[ { "msg_contents": "How is it possible to give a user only read-only access to a database? Of\ncourse that's easy on a per table base, but what if the user must not be\nable to create his own tables? I was never in a situation where I needed\nsuch a setup but was just asked and frankly, I don't know.\n\nMichael\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUsing the EXPLAIN command I have notice that PostgreSQL performs\nredundant Sort operations in several cases.\n(postgresql-7.1.2 on Linux)\n\nThe 3 examples use the following schema:\ncreate table t (a int, b int);\ncreate view v as select * from t order by a;\n\nThe first case containing a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n For those on IRC, i am drauku/slipjack/chrish.\n\n First i would like to start off by coding a feature that DarcyB,\n nick from IRC, suggested as a starting point for me. A max connections\n settable limit. Since Bruce said that in 7.2 the pg_hda.conf gets\n reloaded i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n Here is the todo item -> * Allow temporary views\n\n What exactly does this mean by temporary? by connection? it deletes\n itself in x seconds?\n\nThanks,\nchris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:24:31 +0000", "msg_from": "Chris Humphries <chumphries@devis.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIts wrap'd and on the main ftp site now, to be propogated as mirrors pull\nit ... will announce tomorrow, to give the mirrors a chance to grab, but\nif anyone wants to take a quick peek, make sure everything looks okay that\nwould be cool ... file sizes look about right based on the past be...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n> If you are subscribed to multiple PG lists, it's a real good idea\n> to set up your subscriptions so that you get just one copy of\n> cross-posted articles, because you will see plenty of 'em ---\n> and you're wasting your breath to sugges...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n>I believe you want to set \"unique\" mode on *all* the PG lists that you\n>are subscribed to; leastwise that's what works for me. Rather than\n>issuing the command for each list individually, you can just use the \n>shorthand\n\n>set all u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hannu Krosing wrote:\n> On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 02:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > Chris Humphries wrote:\n> > > Hello All,\n> > > Here is the todo item -> * Allow temporary views\n> > > \n> > > What exactly does this mean by temporary? by connection? it deletes\n> > > itself in x secon...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Switches set to historical:\n> \n> > schema search path = (user's own schema, \"any\" schema, postgres)\n> \n> > [ default creation schema = user's own schema ]\n> \n> > The searching in \"any\" schema (i.e., any owner) will let will find \n> > things that where defined the way they...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> PostQUEL-isms that no longer work:\n> \n> table.col.func\t\tMust rewrite as func(table.col)\n> \n> table.func1.func2\tMust rewrite as, eg, func2(func1(table.*))\n> \n> While there are a couple of examples of the above two constructs in the\n> regression tests, I doubt they are used much i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I don't buy that. If all you're looking for is preserving\n> \n> foo.bar <==> bar(foo)\n> \n> for compatibility, then you can simply say that \"bar\" cannot be\n> schema-qualified in the left form (so it needs to live in the current or\n> the default schema). We currently only have on...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been thinking implementing auditing for Postgres 7.3 and wanted to\nsee if anyone had any thoughts about it.\n\nAuditing would allow a user to log queries executed upon different\n'schema' objects - I use the loose sense of the word here. The user would\nbe able to define the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: 23 January 2002 00:02\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: Fernando Nasser; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: RFD: schemas and different kinds of Postgres objects \n> \n> \n> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n I would like to work on the show locks, and temp\n views todo items. These seem like a good place for\n me to start. Can anyone give me any pointers as to\n where i should look to get a list of the locks and\n where the view and temp tables code is for reference?\n\n\nthanks,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Murray Prior Hobbs [mailto:murray@efone.com] \n> Sent: 23 January 2002 12:57\n> To: Justin Clift\n> Cc: Gavin Sherry; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Auditing and Postgres 7.3\n> \n> it should be possible to run an audit trail b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI would like to know if \"Add OR REPLACE\" to-do item is on PostgreSQL 7.3 \nradar list.\n\nThere is a strong need for :\n- CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW,\n- CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER.\n\nPlease let me know if someone is working on theses features. This would help \npgAdmin II and other...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kaare Rasmussen [mailto:kar@kakidata.dk] \n> Sent: 23 January 2002 14:10\n> To: jm.poure@freesurf.fr\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Add OR REPLACE clauses to non-FUNCTION \n> object creation in PostgreSQL 7.3\n> \n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was talking to Tom Lane yesterday about our current postgresql.conf\nWAL options and we came up with the following TODO items I just added:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n* Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance\n* Remove ...
[ { "msg_contents": "GCC CVS now outputs a multiline version string:\n\n[teg@halden teg]$ gcc --version\ngcc (GCC) 3.1 20020115 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.1-0.18)\nCopyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\nThis is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO\nwarranty; not even for ME...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have talked in the past about a possible implementation of\nsavepoints/nested transactions. I would like to more formally outline\nmy ideas below.\n\nWe have talked about using WAL for such a purpose, but that requires WAL\nfiles to remain for the life of a transaction, which seems unaccep...
[ { "msg_contents": "If the installed perl is built with threads support, plperl won't\nbuild. Here is a fix for dealing properly with this, by Chip Turner\n(cturner@redhat.com) \n\n--- postgresql-7.2rc1/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c.back\tWed Jan 23 15:08:32 2002\n+++ postgresql-7.2rc1/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c\tWed Jan 2...
[ { "msg_contents": "PL/Perl tries to handle an \"undef\" result from a Perl function (which\nshould convert to a SQL NULL) with code like so:\n\n /* XXX is this the approved way to check for an undef result? */\n if (perlret == &PL_sv_undef)\n {\n retval = (Datum) 0;\n fcinfo->isnull = tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have talked in the past about a possible implementation of\n> savepoints/nested transactions. I would like to more formally outline\n> my ideas below.\n\nWell, I would like to do the same -:)\n\n> ...\n> There is no reason for other backend to be able to see savepoint undo\n> information...
[ { "msg_contents": "> So the failure-to-start-up problem can be blamed entirely on 7.1's\n> failure to do anything with LSN fields in pg_log pages. I was able to\n\nNo, first reported problem can be blamed on RAM failures.\n\n> So I am still dissatisfied with doing elog(STOP) for this condition,\n> as I regard ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nMichael Devogelaere, the guy who writes the QMail-SQL package has\nrecently started moving away from using PostgreSQL to MySQL.\n\nIn his experience, MySQL works better. Now, he's just tested them over\nthe weekend, and what he reports is that PostgreSQL *crashes*. Doesn't\njust...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > How about: use overwriting smgr + put old records into rollback\n> > segments - RS - (you have to keep them somewhere till TX's running\n> > anyway) + use WAL only as REDO log (RS will be used to rollback TX'\n> > changes and WAL will be used for RS/data files recovery).\n> > Something li...
[ { "msg_contents": "time '05:00' + interval '2 hours' <== Shown below beside the '-' Name.\n\ndate '2001-09-28' + interval '1 hour' <== also shown beside the '-'\nName.\n\n\n\nThe results look appropriate however, so flipping the +'s to -'s\nshould be enough.\n\n\n\nTable 4-16. Date/Time Operators\n\n Name ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've just added a new column to a table, and I am updating it to have a\nvalue. The table has only 18000 rows, and yet the query takes in the order\nof 10 minutes to complete. This is the process running:\n\n\nlast pid: 57224; load averages: 0.40, 0.50, 0.59 up 1+18:57:4...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nSorry to say this, but I'm feeling we're getting near to needing a\n7.1.4.\n\nA lot of places won't upgrade to 7.2 final until a few bug-fix point\nreleases are out the door anyway, and we all know that 7.1.3 is pretty\ngood.\n\nDo the Hackers think we've got time to generate a fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr] \n> Sent: 24 January 2002 15:59\n> To: Kaare Rasmussen\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Add OR REPLACE clauses to non-FUNCTION \n> object creation in PostgreSQL 7.3\n> \n> \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > How about: use overwriting smgr + put old records into rollback\n> > segments - RS - (you have to keep them somewhere till TX's running\n> > anyway) + use WAL only as REDO log (RS will be used to rollback TX'\n> > changes and WAL will be used for RS/data files recovery).\n> > Something li...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, the fix for Trond's autoconf issue is in. I think we could roll\nRC2 now.\n\nAre we in docs freeze yet? I'm working on an overhaul of the plperl\nchapter of the programmer's guide, and plan to commit it sometime\ntoday or tomorrow. Unless I'm told not to.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",...
[ { "msg_contents": "teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:\n> Reposting, it didn't seem to make the list yesterday.\n\nOkay, done that way it looks like it won't break anything. Patch\napplied.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:41:51 -0500", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "We know that backend startup time is something we'd like to cut down as\nmuch as possible, but has anyone ever looked at backend *shutdown* time?\n\nI'm sitting here watching Michael Devogelaere's benchmark with \"top\",\nand despite the fact that there's only one client process at a time,\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n Is there anyway to restrict the database owner to access only to his/her database? because if I assign the dba right to the database owner, he/she will be able to access other databases in the same server. Is there anyway to restrict that?\n\n\nRegards,\nLau NH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi ,\nLook at pg_hba.conf file usually under /usr/local/pgsql/data .\nregards\nOmid Omoomi\n\n>From: \"Lau NH\" <launh@perridot.com>\n>To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\n>Subject: [ADMIN] Database access right\n>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:39:14 +0800\n>\n>Hi al...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nSince I was at first Oracle DBA, I've been told many times at\nprofessional trainings that when there is a table wich primary key is\ngenerated by a sequence, it is worth create a RTREE index on it rather\nthan a BTREE (for index balancing reasons).\n\nBut, I wanted to try it with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> > \n> > This would be a *whole* lot simpler if we forgot the notion of \"any\"\n> > and made the search order look like\n> > \n> > \t(temp, private, public, system)\n\nI am starting to see the advantages and like it. I also like the exact \nname \"public\" for the p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please apply small patch to contrib/oid2name\n\n--- oid2name.c.orig Thu Jan 10 14:07:44 2002\n+++ oid2name.c Fri Jan 25 14:42:01 2002\n@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@\n case 'h':\n fprintf(stderr, \"\\n\\\n Usage: pg_oid2name [-d database [-x] ] ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs't late to submit new contrib module for 7.2 ?\nIt's almost ready and tested, we have to write README.tree.\n\nNew module creates new data types 'tree', 'treequery' for tree-like data and\nprovides indexed access methods using Btree or GiST.\nNode represents as a path to the root, so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n> How about: use overwriting smgr + put old records into rollback\n> segments - RS - (you have to keep them somewhere till TX's running\n> anyway) + use WAL only as REDO log (RS will be used to rollback TX'\n> changes and WAL will be used for RS/data files recovery).\n> Somethin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI am in the process of adding some external interfaces to the temporary \nrelations (started as a goal of being able to view temporary \ntables in psql with \\d). How do I choose a new OID when adding something \nto include/catalog/pg_proc.h...