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[ { "msg_contents": "For a module I'm thinking of writing, I need to be able to build a hash\ntable in memory. I guess with hard-disk backing if it got too big.\nnodeHash.c has some good code but it's not really generic and I'm wondering\nif perhaps someone has already done this before?\n\nSimilarly for storing r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, what about my old patch?\nRemember : it correct the propagation of the SQLWarning to the Statement\nand ResultSet..\nMay I repost it?\n \nNicolas\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHello, what about my old\npatch?\nRemember : it correct the propagation of the SQLWarning\nto the Stateme...
[ { "msg_contents": "We had a discussion a few days ago about removing attribute padding from\ndisk storage structures to fit more information on the disk.\n\nNow, I question whether it is worth the added complexity to do this, but\nthe idea of having different logical and physical numbering of columns\nseems lik...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nJust wrapped up the 2nd in the series of PostgreSQL CBT's.\n\nThis one introduces the concepts of Referential Integrity :\n\nhttp://techdocs.postgresql.org/college/002_referentialintegrity/index.php\n\nIt covers :\n\n- The basic concepts\n\n- Creating single column primary and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nJust to let you know, I'm giving a seminar to the Computer Science honours\nstudents at the University of Western Australia on March 15th, 3pm.\n\nThe talk will be titled 'Doing Business With Open Source' and will cover,\namong other things, PostgreSQL (and why it kicks arse ;) )....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nThis is a re-post, as it seems the mail didn't appear.\nI want to recompile only psql with the readline library. When I\ninstalled PG, GNU readline package was not there. Now db is running\nfine, and I don't want to disturb it. I tried doing this but things\ngot messed up. Can anybody...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've attached a patch which enhances pg_dump to use ALTER TABLE when\ndefining the primary keys of a table (instead of including this\ninformation in the table definition).\n\nThis follows a suggestion by Christopher Kings-Lynne (good idea!).\n\nThe patch is pretty simple, partly because the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have search everywhere and learned “supposedly” that if you want to\nhave long query strings with this driver you have to change the\nTEXT_FIELD_SIZE I have done this with no effect. Does anyone have any\nexperience with getting long queries to work with the unixODBC driver??\nI would grea...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 22:24, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Neil Conway wrote:\n> > Bruce suggested that this should get some code review, since a bug in\n> > pg_dump would be bad news. Any comments would be welcome.\n> \n> The issue was that the author wants it in 7.2.1.\n\nI'm confused: which auth...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 22:35, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Neil Conway wrote:\n> > I'm confused: which author? Where does this information come from?\n> \n> I thought you were the author.\n\nI am ;-)\n\n> Oh, I thought you wanted this in 7.2.1.\n\nMiscommunication, I think -- in a private email to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just submitted a patch to fix various elog() issues. I have two\nadditional proposals.\n\nFirst, I think ERROR/DEBUG/NOTICE/FATAL, etc are too generic and cause\ncompile problems/warnings, especially with Perl. I suggest renaming all\nelog levels to PG*, so it would be PGERROR and PGINFO....
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear list,\n\nI have a customer who is testing 7.2 before upgrading (from 7.1.3)\n\nThey are getting errors like :\n\ncannot extend tablename - No space left on device check free disk space\nor \nwrite to hashjoin temp file failed\n\nHowever when they attempt the same query with a 7.1.3 insta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nIs there a reason why Windows or Php users have to turn TCPIP_SOCKET on \nbefore using PostgreSQL? Would it be a security flow to allow TCPIP_SOCKET by \ndefaut?\n\nBest regards,\nJean-Michel POURE\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:13:22 +0100", "msg_from": "Jean-Miche...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.postgresql.org\n\n\nNot Found\n\nThe requested URL /css/depts.css was not found on this server.\n\n\nApache/1.3.20 Server at www.postgresql.org Port 80\n\n\n\nSorry for mailing this to the list, but I thought it should be\naddressed asap.\n\n- Brandon\n\n--------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIs there any facility currently in postgresql to take\nbackup of the WAL logs? or differential backup? Or is\nwork on this thing in progress?\n \nSalil.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi All,\nIs there any facility currently in postgresql to \ntakebackup of the WAL logs? or differential backup? Or...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI tried to migrate a UTF-8 database with Japanese content from Postgresql \n7.1.3 to Postgresql 7.2 unsucessfully.\n\nI made a pg_dump of the 7.1.3 database and tried to upload it in 7.2.\nError message was \"Invalid Unicode character sequence found\".\n\nI tried to upload data i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have sent a patch to patches that has the following changes:\n\no Uniformly spaces tags so log message are indented the same amount:\n\t\n\tLOG: database system was shut down at 2002-02-19 05:51:35 CET\n\tLOG: checkpoint record is at 0/BF1D8AC\n\tLOG: redo record is at 0/BF1D8AC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nCurrently, ALTER TABLE ... OWNER will change the ownership of a table,\nview, sequence or index -- despite the fact that its name hints that it\nis only for 'altering tables'.\n\n1) Is this behavior optimal? There is clearly a need to change the\nownership of relations other than t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > ALTER TABLE\tblah ALTER COLUMN field SET [ NOT NULL | NULL ];\n> >\n> > My question is - does the parser already support the syntax?\n> ie. Is there\n> > an empty function somewhere that says 'not implemented', or do I have to\n> > actually add the flex code for it?\n>\n> Did you miss my ...
[ { "msg_contents": "People,\n\nIs there anyone that would be interested in helping to create a Macintosh OSX \nproject builder project using the c++ libraries for postgresql? I have been trying \nto get it to work but it is beyond my abilities. \n\nI am hoping that someone is willing.\n\nThanks for taking the t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Then why are these emails getting through. They start with SET NULL?\n\nWell, no they start with \"Re:\", that appeared on the list today was actually\nsent about 2 weeks ago.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:30:02 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthis isn't making any sense, unless the qmail installation that Vince has\nrunning for relaying is hosed? The queue on postgresql.org itself is near\nempty, and looking at the full headers for recent messages, delays are\nquite small except for those postings that have to be approved ...\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:46:51 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "ignore this one ..." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I'm hoping to implement SET NULL / SET NOT NULL for 7.3\n> >\n> > I've been searching the SQL99 docs but I still can't figure out the syntax\n> > for it.\n> \n> There isn't really a syntax for it. SQL only allows you to add table\n> constraints, not column constraints. A NOT NULL cons...
[ { "msg_contents": "According to the system table documentation\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/catalog-pg-type.html the\ntypdefault information is to be copied from the pg_type value to the\ntable value when the default specified is NULL or a default is not\nspecified.\n\nThe below shows that it'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the things I'd like to get feedback on doing to the foreign\nkey constraint triggers and support code. It's relatively high level\nsince I'm at the beginning stages of looking at the code that'd be\ninvolved. This might therefore be a bit premature, but I figured I'd see\nif anyone s...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi. i'm rookie in postgres, so here is my question:\ni have foreign key consisting of 2 fields (a and b). a is foreign key from\ntable aaa, b is FK from table bbb. how to create table is that complex\nforeign key consisiting of fields from different tables?\nthank you\n\n-------------------\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nPlease, apply attached patch of contrib/btree_gist to 7.2.1 and current cvs.\nThe patch fixes memory leak during creation GiST index on timestamp column.\n\nThank you.\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:47:07 +0300", "msg_from": "Teodo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I installed PostgreSQL 7.1 in NT then installed Cygwin then found\nCygwin contained PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL worked but the install was\nlong and needed lots of things not in the documentations. Later I\ndeleted PostgreSQL and Cygwin because the project was finished and the\nresult moved to a p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDue to some other stuff that I'm workign on (namely, implementing\nSpamassassin on my domains), I've finally taken the plunge into postfix\n...\n\nsendmail is no longer running these mailing lists, postfix now is ...\nlet's see if this shows any performance differences ...\n\n\n", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just submitted a patch to fix various elog() issues. I have two\nadditional proposals.\n\nFirst, I think ERROR/DEBUG/NOTICE/FATAL, etc are too generic and cause\ncompile problems/warnings, especially with Perl. I suggest renaming all\nelog levels to PG*, so it would be PGERROR and PGINFO....
[ { "msg_contents": "I just submitted a patch to fix various elog() issues. I have two\nadditional proposals.\n\nFirst, I think ERROR/DEBUG/NOTICE/FATAL, etc are too generic and cause\ncompile problems/warnings, especially with Perl. I suggest renaming all\nelog levels to PG*, so it would be PGERROR and PGINFO....
[ { "msg_contents": "test\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. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "test\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. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas Lockhart wrote:\n\n> > I has pg_dump my DB in 7.1.3 and try ro pg_restore it in 7.2\n> > version.\n> > psql:/.../dbdump/.dbrestore.tmp:1624094: ERROR: copy: line 1, Bad\n> > timestamp external representation 'Fri 25 Jan 23:59:59 2002 KRAT'\n> > psql:/.../dbdump/.dbrestore.tmp:1624094:...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 11:00, Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:\n> > Now, the InnoDB guys have done some benchmarks:\n> \n> If I did some benchmarks comparing Postgres and MySQL, and they came out\n> in favor of PG, I'm sure the MySQL guys wou...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAfter spending this evening and last with Bruce trying to figure out *why*\nhe can't post to -hackers, I email'd one of the Majordomo developers,\nfiguring that maybe we had some sort of database corruption ... after he'd\nlooked around a bit, the conclusion is that Bruce just posts too muc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking and it seems that by the next release of Postgres we might\nhave:\n\n* Schemas\n* Domains\n* Maybe a new on-the-wire protocol\n* ...and maybe prepared statement support to go along with??\n\nDoesn't this seem like postgresql 8.0, rather than 7.3?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst on the topic of new features...\n\n(You guys might be getting the impression that I'm hunting around for\nsomething to work on!)\n\nHas anyone any ideas on how to add CREATE ASSERTION (ie. global CHECKs)\nwithout adversely affecting performance?\n\nIs this feature just way too hard?\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all, I just need to know if there is a way to invoke or use the windows\nversion of odbc to open the curser on the server side and not fetch the whole \nresultset to the client. This makes small quarys from big tables take a lot \nof time. ie. I do a \"select * from product\" I know that I...
[ { "msg_contents": "This SQL query works in 7.1.3, but not in 7.2, how come?\n\nselect count(*) from log where starttime between now()-interval(60*60) and now() and statuscode='2';\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"*\"\n\nIf I precalculate 60*60, I get this:\n\nselect count(*) from log where starttime be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nAs usual, I am working in pgAdmin2, Dave Page's excellent GUI \n(http://pgadmin.postgresql.org).\n\nSometimes I create objects in the GUI, sometimes I run SQL queries directly. \nIn this case, pgAdmin2 is not aware when the schema changes. Then, I have to \nrefresh display ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> \n> Thread added to TODO.detail/replication.\n> \nHere is what I have...\n\nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org/genpage?replication_72todo\n\nIt's just for the pg-replication project, and needs some\nfurther discussion.\n\nDarren\n> \n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Feb 2002 9:51:06 -0500", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter, I'm having second thoughts about this change:\n\n2001-09-02 19:52 petere\n\n\t* src/bin/psql/command.c: Parse the arguments of \\connect as SQL\n\tidentifiers, so that they expose the expected behavior in\n\tmixed-case situations.\n\t\n\tbug report from James Pattie, 2001-08-31\n\nwhi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nAfter migration to PostgreSQL 7.2, modifying a function with CREATE OR \nREPLACE foo, and running the function, backend returns :\n\nfmgr_info: function 20071: cache lookup failed.\nAny idea?\n\nBest regards,\nJean-Michel POURE\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:42:12 +0100...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guys, \n\nWhile porting an aplication from 7.0 to 7.2 I found a bug with the use\nof DateStyle variable:\n\nmasm@dep4$ psql test\ntest=# set DateStyle to 'European' ;\nSET VARIABLE\ntest=# select now()::date;\n now\n------------\n 2002-02-21\n(1 row)\n\ntest=# \\c test\nYou are now connect...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI currently encountered problems when executing the lower() and upper()\nfunctions on strings that contain\nspecial (umlaut) chars.\nThe db version is 7.2 and the database is created as UNICODE.\n\nWhen f.e. selecting the following \"select lower('�');\" the result is still\nthe Up...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nAre stored sql or pl/pgsql (and in fact other langs) precompiled on Postgres\nfor efficiency???\n\nThis is a question that came up as part of GeekLog development...\n\nThanks,\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:31:07 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings...
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[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to take a crack at implementing point in time recovery. My\nplan is to do this as gently as possible in a number of small\nself-contained steps. I'd appreciate lots of critcial feedback. \n\nAlternatively, if someone else is looking into this please let me know\nso I can either ba...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe attached email shows that Solaris benefits from the ISM or Intimate\nShared Memory setting during shmat() shared memory creation. It causes\nprocesses mapping the same shared memory to shared mapping pages _and_\nlocks the pages in RAM.\n\nI know many OS's lock shared memory in RAM any...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nHere are some stupid questions. Please don't get\nannoyed answering them.\n\n(1) I ran postgres in interactive mode. it showed me \n\"backend>\" prompt. now how to get out of it? I tried\nq,quit,stop, shutdown etc but it did not worked.\n\n(2) now the problem is the process is runn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthere is a problem with restore if oid of user defined function is used as\na reference ( for index creation, for example ). This is a pain especially\nfor novice. Built-in functions doesn't dumped, so there are no problem with\nthem. We regularly encounter this kind of problem with ou...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> It seems to me that you can get the desired results without any\n> locking. Assume that you start archiving the WAL just after a\n> checkpoint record. Also, start copying data files to your backup\n> medium. Some not inconsiderable time later, you are done copying\n> data files. You c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com> writes:\n> Add hooks for begin_backup and end_backup at a data file level. Between\n> the calls begin_backup(myfile) and end_backup(myfile), writes to myfile\n> will be disabled allowing the file to be safely copied.\n\nI pasted some Oracle documentation below ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The only assumption I am aware of \n> that I am making is that two identical databases, given the same set of \n> arbitrary transactions will end up being the same. \n\nUnfortunately I do not think you can make that assumption. Since \nresponse time of the two machines will be different you...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering what direction we want to take for replication? There\nis a group at:\n\n\thttp://gborg.postgresql.org/genpage?replication_research\n\nworking on a fairly advanced replication solution that they hope to add\nto 7.3. However, has everyone reviewed that information? Is this t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Yes. But I think you might have to avoid \"vacuum full\" during data file backup.\n> \n> Why? If vacuum is unsafe in this scenario, wouldn't it also be unsafe\n> in event of a system crash?\n\nI was not sure we are 100% crash safe during \"vacuum full\".\nBut yes, now recalling your last...
[ { "msg_contents": "As you can see, I am going through the items we put on hold while in 7.2\nbeta and am asking for updated patches if avaialble. I will be moving\npatches that are ready to the patches area and will announce this so\nthey can be reviewed before application.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I have done my best to split out the accepted patches from the other\nopen items in 7.3. My logic was to move any patch that generated no\nnegative feedback into the to-be-applied queue at:\n\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n\nI need people to review those patches and tell m...
[ { "msg_contents": "The patches and patches2 mailbox files can be downloaded in mbox format\nfrom:\n\n\tftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches*.mbox\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 h...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a full list of what was originally in the 7.3 file at:\n\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches3\n\nand mbox in:\n\n\tftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches3.mbox\n\nPeter has already sent me a nice summary.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.p...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers\n\nFortunately it's the UDP service entry, but, check this out:\n\npostgresql 5432/tcp PostgreSQL Database\npostqresql 5432/udp PostgreSQL Database\n ^\n\nTom, any chance you could correct this? <:~) -sc\n\n\n-- \nSean Chittenden...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having some problems with query optimisation, using postgresql 7.2.\n\nBasically, I'm hacking on porting bugzilla to pgsql, and I'm trying \nvarious queries on a very small subset of the schema:\n\nCREATE TABLE bugs (\n bug_id integer NOT NULL auto_increment,\n assigned_to integer NOT N...
[ { "msg_contents": "MP2 amitk Normal amitk 2 355 2002-02-23T13:22:00Z 2002-02-23T13:22:00Z 4 1910 10890 90 21 13373 9.2720 1 \nHiAll,\n\n \n\nHereis at your disposal my implementation Idea of a TODO item titled ���AddFree-Behind Capability For Large Sequential Scans���. I cordially invite yourc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm interested in point-in-time-recovery (or archive recovery) too.\nI'm wondering current implementation of CHECKPOINT is whether \"SHARP\"\nor \"FUZZY\" checkopint. If it's a \"SHARP\" one, it would be a serious\nperformance bottle neck according to the Gray's transaction book. Does\nanybod...
[ { "msg_contents": "First, let me say that our 7.2 release was a huge success. It was of\nvery high quality and well received by the community.\n\nI want to address a concern I have heard from many of you --- the long\nduration of the beta period. I think there are two major causes. \nFirst, the quality of our...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHere is Peter's analysis of our current 7.3 backlog:\n\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches2\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWell, since I'm complaining I might as well go through the pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry, poor subject line, \"phone\". Same message.\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. | Drexe...
[ { "msg_contents": "After reading the summary of Peter's comments on the patches in the\nlist, I thought I would provide a little more explanation, as he\nsuggests.\n\nAt present, functions that take text arguments retrieve them via the\nPG_GETARG macros. This reconstructs the whole value into memory\n(potential...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems to me that it'd be a good idea to have a form of SET SESSION\nAUTHORIZATION that restores the effective session ID to whatever user\nname was originally authenticated.\n\nIn particular, this would eliminate the need for hacks like pg_dump's\nneed to know a superuser name for certain ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When COPYing data to a table which uses foreign keys, if there\nis a reference to a key which is not there, the copy fails\n(as expected) but there is no error message.\n\nHmm. Looking at it more, seems like there is an error message\nwhen using:\nCOPY \"f\" FROM '/home/lee/f.dat';\n\nbut _no...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a nice article about tuning Oracle for Linux:\n\n\thttp://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=5840\n\nIt would be nice to have some of these numbers for PostgreSQL. Does\nno-access-time affect performance? What about the other parameters?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Young (young@my-feiqi.com) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nChinese characters query bug.\n\nLong Description\ndb=> select objectid, name from state where countryOId=39 and name='xxx' order by name; \n\t (Here xxx is a Chine...
[ { "msg_contents": "This question is for the hardcore SQL Server gurus out there.\n\nIn summary, the question is pertaining to setting up a custom trace using\nextended stored procedures in production. The idea is to find the source of\na deadlock that occurs on occasional basis. My question deals mainly with\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. I am looking into how to use the embedded libraries, and a doubt appeared.\n\nI saw on the docs that connect has a parameter \"as dbase_name\". I supose this is to differentiate between two connections. Now, how do i use that in subsequent sql commands? how do i tell a query is for con...
[ { "msg_contents": "FreeBSD/Alpha\n-------------\n\nIn my continuing quest to keep postgres 64bit clean... I haven't attached\nany patches cos I'm at work - so people feel free to fix them!\n\nintagg\n------\n\nchriskl@alpha:~/pgsql/contrib/intagg$ gmake\nMakefile:26: warning: overriding commands for target `in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I've attached a patch which should improve the performance of WAL by\nreducing the fsync time\n and write time by 50%(if OS page size is 4k) , if the transaction\ngenerate the WAL data less then 4k. Instead of\n writing every time 8k data in to the WAL file it will write only the\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nDo you think it would be possible to display Japanese data in pgAdmin2 if we \ncould recode UFT-8 (Server-side) into some Windows-compliant encoding \n(client-side) using SET CLIENT_ENCODING = WIN_JAP\n\nAre there some (undocumented) Windows Japanese encodings available in \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I think what should work is this: Assign\n> \n> SHLIB_LINK = $(TCL_LIB_SPEC) $(TCL_LIBS)\n> \n> unconditionally. If the port doesn't like mention of shared lib\n> dependencies, it should ignore SHLIB_LINK in Makefile.shlib. \n> If the port wants to have -lc, it should add it to SHLIB_L...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have developed a 'C' function to provide Oracle decode() functionality.\nwe have developed a C function DECODE which accepts an SQL Query and\nreplaces occurence of decode with case-when-then-else-end and returns the\nquery. There is no limitation of fixed number of parameters. This needs...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've added a fairly large number of time zones to the date/time parser.\nThey were originally mentioned in my zinc time zone database but without\nsufficient information to actually enable them. Ruslan gave me a\nreference to a web site with more time zone details so I was able to\nfill in qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have lately begun having problems with our production database\nrunning postgres 7.1 on linux kernel v 2.4.17. The system had run\nwithout incident for many months (there were occasional reboots). Since\nwe upgraded to kernel 2.4.17 on Dec. 31 it ran non-stop without problem\nunti...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFirst off:\n This is a suggestion for minor changes to the output generated by the \\?\n command in psql. While it is more of a documentation issue, it would\n involve changing code (well, a few strings) - is this the right place for\n raising the subject? I would be happy to submit a p...
[ { "msg_contents": "ACK!!!!! must rember which MTA I'm useing...\nWhen useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\\254' copyfrom reads past the\ndelimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert\n\n\nWhat the ?? why dind' tthat go through with the body of the text.. *sigh*\nI'll resend in the AM.. \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a strange behavior of postgresql 7.1.3 and 7.2 when I make a\nquery without limit it works reazonable but when using limit the\npostgresql eats all cpu for a long time, when using explain to see\nwhat postgresql is trying to do I got two complete different\nstrategies to do it.\n\nCan ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the previous post I didn't provide the tables to make the test,\nhere I put the tables available at:\n\nhttp://unolotiene.com/test_tables.sql.bz2\n\nAs well I redid the test with only two tables and the problem is still\nthere.\n\nUsing \"limit\" makes postgresql eats all cpu for a while.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I thought I should just raise a couple of points -I think I may have\nbeen the person Tom Lane was referring with respect to refactoring\ncommand.c. I am still happy to go through and do this, though I think\nthat Neil Conway may be active there at present.\n\n1) Division between files.\n\nI ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having frustrated with performance on Windows box I'm wondering if it's\npossible to get postgresql optimized for working without shared memory,\nsay in single-task mode. It looks like it's shared memory emulation on disk\n(by cygipc daemon) is responsible for performance degradation.\nIn our...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPee - Gee - Sequel\n\npgSQL\n\nIs much easier to say...\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nArthur Nicewick\nAmerican Management Systems\nCorporate Technology Group\nart_nicewick@ams.com\n(703) 267-8569\n\nQuote of th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Christopher's patch to fix docs regarding single- and double-quotes in\nSET syntax got me looking at gram.y. It turns out that although we allow\nlists of double-quoted strings in SET, we do not allow lists of\nsingle-quoted strings (the latter should have been preferred afaik). And\nalthough...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch solves the problem.\n\nAt 09:16 PM 2/26/02 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:\n>> When useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\\254' copyfrom reads past the\n>> delimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert\n>> \n>> \n>> What the ?? why dind' tthat go through with the bo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Release 7.2:\n\nWhere the last field of a line contains an empty string, COPY\nincorrectly inserts a NULL. This will cause data to be loaded\nincorrectly from pg_dump. This happens because, when a newline is seen,\nCOPY needs to know whether there was a preceding delimiter and use an\nempty...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please, apply attached patch for contrib/tsearch to 7.2.1 and current CVS. It \nfix english stemmer's problem with ending words like 'technology'.\n\nThank you\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:28:17 +0300", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any plans to provide support for keyword indexes in Postgre? The\nidea is to efficiently index every word in a long text column, in order to\nsupport queries such as :\n\nSelect... from Products where ProductDescription like \"%wool%\" and\nProductDescription like \"%black%\"\n\nTh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good Day All,\n\neWeek has posted a poll that asks which database server is most critical\nto your organization.\n\nThe poll tracks the following databases:\n\n - IBM DB2\n - Informix\n - Microsoft SQL Server\n - MySQL\n - Ingres\n - Oracle\n - PostgreSQL\n - Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed in a post recently that it was possible to rename objects other\nthan tables in pg_class using ALTER TABLE RENAME. I've now implemented this\nin pgAdmin II for views, sequences and indexes.\n\nToday I've had cause to dump my test database and found a minor problem:\n\ndumping databa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alright, here I am for discussion. I feel somewhat out of context\nthough. There's been good deal of discussion in PATCHES/PORTS already.\nShould I introduce the patch again or someone who already looked into it\nwill explain where do we stand now? Note also, the patch was later split\ninto p...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Neil Conway [mailto:nconway@klamath.dyndns.org]\nSent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:04 PM\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] eWeek Poll: Which database is most critical to\nyour\n\n\nOn Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:30, Zak Greant wrote:\n> Goo...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Neil Conway [mailto:nconway@klamath.dyndns.org]\nSent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:42 PM\nTo: Dann Corbit\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] eWeek Poll: Which database is most critical to\nyour\n\n\nOn Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:20, Dann Co...