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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI did an initial patch for ALTER TABLE / SET NULL that should just say 'not\nimplemented' when someone tries it, but I get this:\n\ntemplate1=# alter table test alter column a set null;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"null\"\ntemplate1=# alter table test alter column a se...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nDoes anybody know a reason parse_datestyle_internal always returns TRUE?\n\n-- \nWBR, Yury Bokhoncovich, Senior System Administrator, NOC of F1 Group.\nPhone: +7 (3832) 106228, ext.140, E-mail: byg@center-f1.ru.\nUnix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nIs it valid to change a constant in src/include/miscadmin.h?\n\n===========================\n@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@\n\n #define MAXTZLEN 10 /* max TZ name len, not counting tr. null */\n\n-#define USE_POSTGRES_DATES 0\n #define USE_ISO_DATES ...
[ { "msg_contents": "If I do this as any user:\n\n\tSELECT update_pg_pwd();\n\nit crashes all backends and causes a server-wide restart. Is this\nacceptable behavior? I am sure there are other cases too. Isn't it a\nproblem that we let ordinary users crash the server and cause a restart?\n\n-------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThis message didn't seem to go through - am I being blocked by the list\nserver? Let's see if it does this time...\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au]\n> Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 1:10 PM\n> To: Hackers\n> Subj...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry about including the regression test changes in that last patch - just\nignore them.\n\nSince sending in that last patch, I've fixed preproc.y to use 5 instead of 6\nas the number of params to concatenate...\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:19:51 +0800", "msg_from"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am adding users and groups to pg_hba.conf. The coding is done but I\nam stuck on a reload issue.\n\nAs you may know, 7.2 tokenizes pg_hba.conf once, and reads those tokens\nto test every connection request. I have added code to dump the\ngroup/user mappings into global/pg_group and the po...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will be on vacation from tomorrow up to April 6th. So don't expect any\nanswer prior early April from me.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:38:43 +0100", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent a message about this yesterday, but it does not appear to have\ngot to the list.\n\nAccording to the attached message, mips builds for Linux should not use\n-mips2 in the compilation or linking. It appears that this can be\nprevented by removing the mips special case from src/template...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Removing the special-case logic in ExecTypeFromTL yields\n> \n> regression=# SELECT update_pg_pwd();\n> ERROR: getTypeOutputInfo: Cache lookup of type 0 failed\n\nWouldn't it be nice to make this a feature that allows\nstored procedures (void update_pg_pwd ()) ? Correctly register\nthis ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was trying to write a gist index extension, and, after some debugging, \nit looks like I found a bug somewhere in the gist.c code ...\nI can't be quite sure, because I am not familiar with the postgres \ncode... but, here is what I see happenning (this is 7.1, but I compared \nthe sources t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been able to compile previous versions of PostgreSQL on my SGI\nmachines, but am having trouble this time. I have an SGI O2 with IRIX\n6.5.15f, gmake 3.79.1, and MIPSPro C 7.3.1.3 compiler. I can get\nthrough the 'configure' step fine. I've copied the Makefile.irix5 up\nto the src direct...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jeff Davis asked on -general why NOTIFY doesn't take an optional\nargument, specifying a message that is passed to the listening backend.\nThis feature is supported by Oracle and other databases and I think it's\nquite useful, so I've started to implement it. Most of the modifications\nhave b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Neil,\n\nFollowing is an email I sent the other day detailing how this works.\n\nThe entry point to the underlying invalidation system is the heap\nmanipulation functions: heap_delete(), heap_update(). (I've just had a\nquick look at heap_insert() and cannot find where the cache modification\...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian writes:\n> > \n> > > I am adding users and groups to pg_hba.conf.\n> > \n> > You know what would be cool?\n> > \n> > GRANT CONNECT ON mydb TO GROUP myfriends;\n> > \n> > and it rewrites pg_hba.conf accordingly.\n> > \n> > Just a thoug...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Do we want the above syntax, or this syntax:\n> >\n> > ALTER TABLE blah ALTER COLUMN col SET NOT NULL;\n> > ALTER TABLE blah ALTER COLUMN col SET NULL;\n> \n> My only objection to the second command is that it's plain wrong. You\n> don't set anything to NULL, so don't make the command ...
[ { "msg_contents": "At Tom Lane's suggestion, I am adding a field to pg_control to hold the\ncompile-time configuration of timestamp and time storage.\n\nI notice that the compile-time locale settings are registered in that\nsame structure. And that they depend on NAMEDATALEN, which is *not* in\nthat structure. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing conflicting usage of PG_BINARY_R and \"r\" in AllocateFile()\ncalls. Is there a logic of when to use one or the other, or is this\njust badly maintained code?\n\nThe significant difference is:\n\t\n\t#ifdef __CYGWIN__\n\t#define PG_BINARY\tO_BINARY\n\t#define PG_BINARY_R \"rb\"\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to change the code that maintains the pg_shadow password cache\ninto the format used by pg_hba.conf so they can all use the same code. \nThis will allow me to cleanly use the pg_shadow code for pg_group cache\ntoo because the pg_shadow cache has binary searching for lookups. I\nwill m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI would be happy if it is possible to apply this patch to include/utils/datetime.h\nto target NetWare.\n\nOn NetWare TIMEZONE_GLOBAL is _timezone.\n\nbest wishes.\n\nUlrich Neumann\nNovell Worldwide Developer Support\n\nbegin 666 nw.diff\nM,C`Y+#(Q,6,R,#D-\"CP@(VEF9&5F(%]?0UE'5TE.7U...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got patches to enable storage of date/time values as integers\nrather than as floating point numbers, as discussed earlier. 64-bit\nintegers are (afaik) not available on every platform we want to support,\nand there *may* be a performance difference depending on the processor\nand compil...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nfor whom? you? robot?\n\nOn Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Oleg Bartunov wrote:\n\n> Marc,\n>\n> something is strange. No messages from any pg mailing lists !\n> Please, check subscribers list.\n>\n> \tOleg\n>\n> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n>\n> >\n> > do you know if any of the other ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was browsing through SQL92 and I noticed this, when discussing the\nCREATE VIEW syntax:\n\n\"5) Any <table name> that is specified in the <query expression> shall\nbe different from the <table name> of any <temporary table\ndeclaration>.\"\n\n(<query expression> is the defintion of the view...
[ { "msg_contents": "(posted last week to pgsql-general; no responses there, so I'm seeing if\nanyone here can contribute. Thanks!)\n\n\nI'm working on a site hosted in a BSD Jail; they have MySQL installed but,\nof course, I'd rather use PostgreSQL.\n\nIt installs fine but can't initdb; get the following:\n\nFix...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nIf possible please add the following patch to better support NetWare.\n\nbest regards\n\nUlrich Neumann\nNovell Worldwide Developer Support\n\nbegin 666 xlog.patch\nM+2TM(%QP9W-Q;#<R+F]R9UQS<F-<8F%C:V5N9%QA8V-E<W-<=')A;G-A;5QX\nM;&]G+F,)36]N($IA;B`Q-\"`Q-CHU-3HU.\"`R,#`R#0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\ni've found a little bug in pqsignal.h. Attached is the patch.\n(AuthBlockSig wasn't defined in one case).\nThis problem is not specific to a special platform, it may target several\nplatfroms.\n\nbest regards\n\nUlrich Neumann\nNovell Worldwide Developer Support\n\n\nbegin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust before anyone asks where it is ... I'm just rolling v7.2.1 up right\nnow and will let everyone know once its ready for a download ... I'll do\nup an announce in the morning unless anyone finds a flaw in it ...\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:38:37 -0400 (AST)", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry for the package, but the following patch need to be applied to get the new verion compiled on SCO Openserver 5.0.5 and Unixware 7.1.1", "msg_date": "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:21:31 +1100", "msg_from": "\"Nicolas Bazin\" <nbazin@ingenico.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subj...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone ever considered setting up LXR to cross-reference pgsql \nsource on developer.postgresql.org or maybe techdocs.postgresql.org? I \nhave seen it used in a couple of projects (originally written for the \nLinux kernel; lxr.php.net is another user), and it seems pretty useful. \nI set...
[ { "msg_contents": "I plan to upgrade to Autoconf 2.53 in the next couple of days. If anyone\nhas configure changes pending or other objections, speak now.\n\nAn RPM package for Autoconf 2.53 is available at\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/~petere/download/\n\nYou might wish to use this until your vendor comes out...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> As of CVS tip, referential integrity triggers are kinda broken: they\n> will only work for tablenames that are in the current search path.\n> I think that instead of storing just table names in the trigger\n> parameters, we should store either table OIDs or schema name + ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to work out what to do with indexes in the context of\nschemas.\n\nAs of today's CVS tip, what the code does is that CREATE INDEX can only\nspecify an unqualified index name, and the index is automatically\ncreated in the same namespace as its parent table. Thus, index names\nstil...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK. Here is a test posting to hackers and Ccing to Marc\n\n\tOleg\nOn Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n\n>\n> ah, then that's gotta be it ... can you do me a favor and email\n> pgsql-hackers a simple test, so that I can get the email out of hte\n> approved messages and show you what...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way to force PostgreSQL to bind to a specific IP address?\n\nThere doesn't seem to be anything about this in the docs, and if its not\nimplemented, it would be a useful feature to have (and an easy one to\nimplement).\n\n--\nAlastair D'Silva B. Sc. mob: 0413 485 733\nN...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't think this is me...\n\ngcc -pipe -O -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-error -I\n./../include -I. -I../../../../src/include -DMAJOR_VERSION=2 -DMINOR_VERSIO\nN=10 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -DINCLUDE_PATH=\\\"/home/chriskl/local/include\\\" -c -o\npgc.o pgc.c\npgc.c: In fun...
[ { "msg_contents": "----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: Nicolas Bazin \nTo: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org \nSent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:03 PM\nSubject: pgc.l modif. has been overwritten again\n\n\nWe need a little bit of order when several people can commit on the source code, It would be nice that they...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a complete patch to implement changing the nullability of an\nattribute. It passes all regressions tests. It includes its own quite\ncomprehensive regression test suite and documentation. It prevents you from\nmodifying system tables, non-table relations, system attributes, primary...
[ { "msg_contents": "This README file to me seems to look like this:\n\nWas the non-english version committed by mistake?\n\nChris\n\n treequery *> tree[]\n <F0><C5><D2><D7><D9><C5> <C4><D7><C5> <CF><D0><C5><D2><C1><C3><C9><C9>\n<D7>\n<CF><DA><D7><D2><C1><DD><C1><C0><D4> true, <C5><D3><CC><C9> <D7>\n<C...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just sent in this email and it will appear immediately in the list.\n\nSomewhat earlier, I have submitted a 25kb patch and then a 5kb gzipped\nversion of that patch to -hackers and -patches - it has not yet appeared on\nthe list.\n\nWhat's going on? Do posts with patches need to be approve...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK,\n\nhttp://members.iinet.net.au/~klfamily/alternotnull.txt.gz\n\nThis is an identical patch to what I've submitted twice now and hasn't come\nthrough...\n\nThis is a complete patch to implement changing the nullability of an\nattribute. It passes all regressions tests. It includes its ow...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Forwarded Message-----\n\nFrom: rmurray@debian.org\nTo: 139003@bugs.debian.org\nCc: control@bugs.debian.org\nSubject: Bug#139003: a little bit more is needed...\nDate: 27 Mar 2002 00:21:18 -0800\n\nreopen 139003\nthanks\n\nLooks like a small patch is needed as well to do the right thing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working on getting libpq to function in a multi-threaded program on\nSolaris and I was getting errors back from the library about\nbeing unable to receive from the server. It turns out that on Solaris\nyou need to compile libpq with the -D_REENTRANT flags set so that\nit defines errno to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch against 7,2 submitted for comment.\n\nIt's a little messy; I had some trouble trying to reconcile the code\nstyle of libpq which I copied from, and odbc.\n\nSuggestions on what parts look ugly, and or where to send this\n(is there a separate ODBC place?) are welcome.\n\nThis seems to wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've mentioned a while ago that I wanted to make the --enable-locale\nswitch the default (and remove the switch), and make the choice of\nlocale-awareness a run-time choice. Here is how that might work. I've\nalready explained how I plan to get around the performance problems, so\nthis will ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a postgresql DB that contains a lot of HTML code. As you know, HTML \ncontains numerous backslash( \\ ) characters. When I use pg_dump to backup \nthe DB I get a \"CopyReadAttribute: end of record marker corrupted\" error. \nIs there any way to circumvent this problem so that I can ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a postgresql DB that contains a lot of HTML code. As you know, HTML \ncontains numerous backslash( \\ ) characters. When I use pg_dump to backup \nthe DB I get a \"CopyReadAttribute: end of record marker corrupted\" error. Is \nthere any way to circumvent this problem so that I can b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see in quote.c::do_quote_ident():\n\n\t*cp2++ = '\"';\n\twhile (len-- > 0)\n\t{\n\t\tif (*cp1 == '\"')\n\t\t\t*cp2++ = '\"';\n\t\tif (*cp1 == '\\\\')\n\t\t\t*cp2++ = '\\\\';\n\t\t*cp2++ = *cp1++;\n\t}\n\t*cp2++ = '\"';\n\nI am confused by the backslash handling. In my tests, a backslash in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the description:\n\nWhen a macro is replaced by the preprocessor, pgc.l reaches a end of file, which is not the actual end of the file. One side effect of that is that if you are in a ifdef block, you get a wrong error telling you that a endif is missing.\n\nThis patch corrects pgc.l ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've a severe problem with deadlocks in postgres, when using referential integrity it's quite easy to trigger deadlocks. I think the may be a bug in ri_trigger.c (discussed later). Here's some short example:\n\ncreate table languages (\n id integer not null,\n name text not n...
[ { "msg_contents": "just to clarify this, my example does not deadlock. I wanted to provide a simple expample, because my application has 109 (this time I counted) tables with a few (~10) \"central\" tables like \"languages\", where a lot of other table reference to. And deadlocks are quite easy to trigger with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "CREATE TABLE mytesting ( dosnotmatter text );\n\nCREATE INDEX myunique ON mytesting oid;\n\nwill this help to make sure the oid is unique? and is that right?\nif in fact the oid roll over, and insertation fail. Will reinsert get \nan new oid or the same oid retry.\nAlex\n\n\n", "msg_date...
[ { "msg_contents": "> It does a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE because we don't have a\n> SELECT ... AND PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE.\n>\n> If we would only check if the PK is there now, another\n> concurrent transaction could delete the PK, it's own check\n> cannot see our uncommitted row yet an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that create or replace function exists, what is alter function\nsupposed to do? MSSQLs alter function does the same as REPLACE. Is\nit simply an alias to the REPLACE case?\n--\nRod Taylor\n\nYour eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice\nhow restful it is to watch...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Under the \"crossSectionTests(Mixed IR)\" part of an OSDB run, a\n> large number of shared_buffers causes severe slowdown on one of\n> the tests -- it goes from a little over 200 seconds to nearly\n> 2000. I suspect internal lock contention, or maybe it's just\n> that the read() path in Li...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe archives search is not working on postgresql.org so I need to ask this\nquestion...\n\nWe are using postgresql 7.2 and when dumping one of our larger databases,\nwe get the following error:\n\nFile size limit exceeded (core dumped)\n\nWe suspect pg_dump. Is this true? Why would there ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAnd available in /pub/source/v7.2.1 ... this one has both man.tar.gz and\npostgres.tar.gz in it ... someone want to make a quick confirm while the\nmirrors pick it up?\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:48:57 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am attempting to produce a profile for a slow query run on Solaris -\n(c.f previous thread titled \"Solaris performance\"). \n\nI am a bit confused about the the output I am seeing, as the times do not get anywhere close to the 1 hour elapsed time that the query takes....(see \"notes\" \ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nSome example:\ncompile and install contrib/tsearch module\nand now:\nwow=# create table foo (bar txtidx);\nCREATE\nwow=# \\d foo\n Table \"foo\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers\n--------+--------+-----------\n bar | txtidx | not null\n\n\nWhy field 'bar' has modifier 'no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Original titles:\n Patch to add real cancel to ODBC driver\n Patch to add real can--cel to ODBC driver\n\nBruce, sorry to bother you, would you forward this onto the list?\nI can't post for reasons I can't fathom.\n\n-----\nPatch against 7,2 submitted for comment.\n \nIt's a little messy; I h...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's done.\n\nNote some behavioral changes:\n\n* The cache file config.cache is now off by default. If you still want\nit, run './configure -C'.\n\n* Specifying --host now means you are cross compiling. So don't do it.\nUse --build if you really have to. Which you don't.\n\n* Running 'auto...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been talking with Bruce Momjian about implementing query\ntimeouts in the JDBC driver. As things stand, you can call\nsetQueryTimeout() or getQueryTimeout(), but a slow query will never\nactually timeout, even if a timeout is set. The result of a timeout\nshould be a SQLException.\n\nB...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthere, let's see if that doens't hurt things too much\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:47:34 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "administrivia = no" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Configure fails checking for types of arguements to accept().\n\n\nFull log at: http://www.zort.ca/temp/config.log\n\nchecking sys/ipc.h presence... yes\nconfigure: WARNING: sys/ipc.h: present but cannot be compiled\nconfigure: WARNING: sys/ipc.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?\nconf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Configure worked, compile failed :)\n\ngcc -pipe -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations\n-I../../../src/include -c -o pqcomm.o pqcomm.c\npqcomm.c: In function `StreamConnection':\npqcomm.c:395: `TCP_NODELAY' undeclared (first use in this function)\npqcomm.c:395: (Each undecla...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI just read the annoucement of the public beta for Red Hat Linux's new\nserver-oriented edition (code named Pensacola) :\n\nhttps://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/redhat-watch-list/2002-February/000466.html\n\nOne of the things this mentions being included/tuned in its kernel is...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\ni have a C-language function and need to escape some strings returned\nfrom SPI_getvalue to insert into another query string.\nIs there a proper way to do the escaping or should i use\nmy own functions for that?\nOr i'm totally wrong and there's a better way to get the values\nfro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nRecently we got into problem of giving permission to data directory.\n\n(1) Actually we are doing project on PostgreSQL in group of two. We installed individual copy of PostgreSQL into our group directory.\n(2) When I created data directory and ran \"initdb\" it makes me( takes my ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nsomeone asks me about an utility to check any PostgreSQL database\ndata to be sure that:\n1) there is not any page corrupted \n (by a memory fault or a damaged disk)\n2) re-check any constraint inserted into the database\n\nI really don't know if PostgreSQL itself has any crc check o...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've seen several reports now of 7.2 postmasters failing to start\nbecause of weird networking setups --- if it's impossible to create\na loopback UDP port on 127.0.0.1, 7.2 will exit with\n\tPGSTAT: bind(2): Cannot assign requested address\n\nIt occurs to me that a more friendly behavior wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIn IRC, \"StuckMojo\" commented that the following behavior doesn't seem\nto be ideal:\n\nnconway=> create table my_table (col1 int default 5, col2 int default\n10);\nCREATE\nnconway=> create view my_view (col1, col2) as select * from my_table;\nCREATE\nnconway=> create rule insert...
[ { "msg_contents": "Create a separate user and both of you use sudo to start the database.\nIf you're insistent on keeping yourself owner of the data then use sudo to\ngive permission to your project partner to start the database.\n\nOn Sunday 31 March 2002 05:49 am, Amit Khare wrote:\n> Hi Peter,\n> Thank you v...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Yeah, although it'd still be a good idea probably to convert the dump form\n> to ALTER TABLE in any case. The one downside that was brought up in the\n> past was the time involved in checking dumped (presumably correct) data\n> when the constraint is added to very large tables. I can prob...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch against 7,2 submitted for comment.\n\nIt's a little messy; I had some trouble trying to reconcile the code\nstyle of libpq which I copied from, and odbc.\n\nSuggestions on what parts look ugly, and or where to send this\n(is there a separate ODBC place?) are welcome.\n\nThis seems to wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian writes:\n> \n> > I think there are two ways of making this capability visible to users.\n> > First, you could do:\n> >\n> > \tSET query_timeout = 5;\n> >\n> > and all queries after that would time out at 5 seconds. Another option\n> > is:\n> >\n> > \t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I recently discovered a problem inserting a user-defined type when \ngoing through a rule. I'm not sure if it's a -hackers or -users question,\nbut since it involves the interaction of a user-defined type and rules\nI thought it envitable that I would end up here anyway.\n\nThe object in que...
[ { "msg_contents": "----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: Nicolas Bazin \nTo: PostgreSQL-development \nCc: Tom Lane ; Bruce Momjian ; Michael Meskes \nSent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:30 AM\nSubject: Always the same ecpg bug - please (re)apply patch\n\n\nHere is the description:\n\nWhen a macro is replaced by the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI created a schema *inoue* and tried the following.\n\n # create table inoue.t1 (id serial primary key, dt text);\n NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 't1_id_seq'\n for SERIAL column 't1.id'\n NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index\n 't1_pk...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a request from our customers to link two database servers through the ISDN link.\n\nWe found the dblink in the contrib directory, and it works ,but there is one big problem.\nI'll try to explain it using the sample from README.dblink:\n\nSAMPLE:\n create view myremotetable as\n select...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> So the work that would need to be done is asking the driver to request the\n> timeout via \"BEGIN WORK TIMEOUT 5\"; getting the backend to parse that\n> request and set the alarm on each query in that transaction; getting the\n\nWell imho that interpretation would be completely unobvious....
[ { "msg_contents": "Is PostgreSQL unicode compliant/ready?\n\nDoes it store/export text in Unicode wide-character format, or single\ncharacter strings?\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:53:03 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Kevin McPherson\" <kevinmcp@en-tranz.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subj...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOver this past weekend, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group packaged\nup and put onto our ftp server PostgreSQL v7.2.1 ... a bug fix release, it\nfixes a critical bug in v7.2:\n\n sequence counters will go backwards after a crash\n\nOther fixes since v7.2 include:\n\n Fix pgaccess ka...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are implementing a database for maintaining our IP addresses. Looking \nin the current documentation, it seems that INET/CIDR types only support \nIPv4 addresses until now, although \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2001-09/msg00236.php\nseems to suggest a patch for IPv...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone seen this:\n\nERROR: dtoi4: integer out of range\n\n\non 7.1.3\n\nWhat worries me, is that at startup time, the log shows:\n\nDEBUG: database system was shut down at 2002-04-02 23:16:52 EEST\nDEBUG: CheckPoint record at (82, 1928435208)\nDEBUG: Redo record at (82, 1928435208); ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since I'm about to have to edit pg_proc.h to add a namespace column,\nI thought this would be a good time to revise the current proiscachable\ncolumn into the three-way cachability distinction we've discussed\nbefore. But I need some names for the values, and I'm not satisfied\nwith the idea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWould it be an idea to have pg_dump append an ANALYZE; command to the end of\nits dumps to assist newbies / inexperienced admins?\n\nReason being is that I noticed that when I just restored a 50MB dump that\nthe pg_statistic table had no contents...\n\nI think it'd be an idea...\n\nChr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nNow that Tom's modified the EXPLAIN output to appear as a query result,\nmaybe SHOW and SHOW ALL should also be modified in that way. The current\nNOTICE: business is a bit messy, and it sure would assist projects just as\npgAccess, phpPgAdmin and pgAdmin with displaying configura...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThere was a message posted in March regarding this. Bruce replied that this \nissue did not come up often. However, I think there is more to it than \nthat. I think one reason that it does not come up is because most Oracle \nDBAs are not going to dig through mailing lists and take th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nAs part of my ongoing quest to understand grammar files, I've been trying to\nimplement BETWEEN SYMMETRIC/ASYMMETRIC.\n\nI've attached my current work. Can someone please look and tell me if I'm\non the right track? With this patch, I get parse errors after BETWEEN if I\ngo:\n\nS...
[ { "msg_contents": "What's with this?\n\ncurrent pwd = /home/chriskl\n\nusa=# \\i ddlpack/kl_setnotnull.sql <-- tab completes properly\nDROP\nCREATE\nusa=# \\i ~/ddlpack/kl_setnotnull.sql <-- tab completes properly\n~/ddlpack/kl_setnotnull.sql: No such file or directory\nusa=#\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The determination of locale is now done as follows:\n\ncollate/ctype:\n\ninitdb --lc-collate, initdb --locale, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LANG\n\nmessages/monetary/numeric/time:\n\nHave GUC variables lc_messages, etc. The default is \"\", which means to\ninherit from the environment (or whatever se...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found out, that there are some probably temporary relations in one of my \ndatabases, with names (that show in vacuum verbose output) like \npg_temp.12720.0.\n\nAre these the result of CREATE TEMP TABLE or simmilar and if so, can such \nrelations be safely dropped? Perhaps a good idea to ad...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 03 April 2002 02:50\n> To: Hackers\n> Cc: Tom Lane; peter_e@gmx.net\n> Subject: SHOW ALL as a query result\n> \n> \n> Hi All,\n> \n> Now that Tom's modified the EXPLAIN output to a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nWith regards to the proposed command.c refactoring...\n\nI've done it by removing command.c and replacing it with\n\nportal.c\nalter.c\nlock.c\nnamespace.c\n\nIs that a good idea? Will it break too many outstanding patches?\n\nBasically the portal fetch/destroy commands go in port...
[ { "msg_contents": "Take this update statement:\n\nupdate mytable set foo=foo+1 where bar='xxx';\n\nIf that gets executed more than once at the same time by multiple instances of\npostgresql. Will foo ever lose a count? \n\nI am assumed that foo will always be correct and that the database will manage\nany conte...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTake this update statement:\n\nupdate mytable set foo=foo+1 where bar='xxx';\n\nIf that gets executed more than once at the same time by multiple instances of\npostgresql. Will foo ever lose a count? \n\nI am assumed that foo will always be correct and that the database will manage\nany con...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt's a stupid thing ... but really useful ...\n\nWhen we use, like me, psql all the time with the function VACUUM, psql\nmake the completion of tables names, and of the word ANALYZE ...\n\nWhy not the same for VERBOSE ? and for the new function FULL, and FREEZE\n??\n\nMay be in the TOD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nI sent a list of items I would like to work on for my Master's Project\nyesterday, but didn't hear back. I don't want to be a pest, but was\nwondering when you turned on your anti-spam software -- is it possible I got\nkicked out and you didn't get my reply?\n\nThanks,\nMike Shelton\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm playing with the new schema functionality.\n\nI login to a database as a user yamada.\nThere I created 2 schemas yamada and inoue.\nBy accident I made 2 tables with the same name\nvs1 in both public and yamada schemas.\n\nI can see the content of yamada.vs1 by the command\n select...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nSome questions:\n\n1. What is the difference between abstime and timestamp - they seem to\ndisplay equally...\n\n2. Since int4 and abstime are binary compatible (ie int4::abstime works), is\nthere any serious problem with updating a pg_attribute row for an int4 and\nchanging it to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nI attached a message from my colleague and think it'd be interesting\nto you. A short history: During developing of one project on\nWindows platform, Teodor has discovered a pretty nice feature of Gigabase\n(free embedded database by Konstantin Knizhnik,\nhttp://www.geocities.com/kkni...