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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI've been looking at tidying up some of the repeated code which now\nresides in tablecmds.c - in particular the ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN\ncode.\n\nMost of these routines share common code:\n\n1) AccessExclusive Lock on relation.\n\n2) Relation is a table, not a system table, user... |
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"msg_contents": "[Please CC any replies, I'm subscribed nomail]\n\nHi,\n\nChapter 7 of the Developers guide in about the Page Format on disk and it's\na little out of date not to mention somewhat incomplete.\n\n1. Is there documentation elsewhere (other than the source)?\n\n2. If not, would patches be accepte... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi all.\n\nI'd like to implement a .NET Data provider for\npostgresql using the protocol as specified in\n<http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/protocol.html>.\n\n\nI think this is important because there are many sites\nout there that would be using ASP.NET and a postgresql\ndatab... |
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"msg_contents": "In order to apply a dependency of foreign keys against a column set\nthe most obvious way to go is via the unique index which in turn\ndepends on the expected columns.\n\nA(id) -> B(id)\n\nA.id -> Foreign key -> Index on B.id -> B.id\n\nIf B.id is dropped it'll cascade forward.\n\n\nThe trick... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to (finally) get my rather extensive patches (mostly\naddressing int8 versions of date/time storage) applied but am now having\ntrouble with the regression tests.\n\nI'm sure this has been on the list, but I'm not recalling the\nexplanation or workaround. My guess is that it is rel... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 19 April 2002 19:54\n> To: Rod Taylor\n> Cc: Hackers List\n> Subject: Re: Really annoying comments... \n> \n> \n> \"Rod Taylor\" <rbt@zort.ca> writes:\n> > COMMENT ON DATABASE db IS 'Comment';\n> > Now swi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 April 2002 19:45\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Rod Taylor; Hackers List\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Really annoying comments... \n> \n> \n> Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> >> I'm more inclined t... |
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"msg_contents": "I've applied patches to implement an int64-based data/time storage\nscheme. I've also accumulated some other minor fixes, which result in an\ninitdb being required (sorry!).\n\nNote that the *default* timestamp type is now TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME\nZONE. This is what we discussed previously for... |
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"msg_contents": "OK I know it's been beaten nearly to death, but no clear action has come \nof it quite yet. We all seem to agree that there is some non-optimal \nway in which the planner handles edge cases (cost wise). I don't \nbelieve that there are any fundamental type faults in any of the logic \nbecau... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tthomas@postgresql.org\t02/04/21 17:37:03\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/commands: variable.c \n\nLog message:\n\tInitialize or set a couple of variables to suppress compiler warnings.\n\tThese were for cases protected by elog(ERROR) exi... |
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"msg_contents": "I read a thread about table lock timeout but don't know whether anything has been done about it.\n\nHere is what I'd like to do:\nI don't want my transactions to be on hold for too long so I'd like to use a syntax I use on INFORMIX already:\nSET LOCK MODE TO [WAIT [second] | NOT WAIT]\nI'm us... |
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"msg_contents": "On FreeBSD/Alpha, current CVS:\n\ngmake -C common SUBSYS.o\ngmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql/src/backend/access/common'\ngcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../..\n/../src/include -c -o heaptuple.o heaptuple.c -MMD\nIn file included from .... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed a bit more to variable.c to handle integer inputs to GUC\nparameters (string and float were already supported). I've included the\ncvs log message below.\n\nFurther changes aren't precluded of course, but the code now supports\nstring, integer, and floating point inputs to para... |
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"msg_contents": "Edward (edx@astercity.net) reports a bug with a severity of 1\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nECPG: inserting float numbers\n\nLong Description\nInserting records with single precision real variables having small value (range 1.0e-6 or less) frequently resul... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been reading past threads, studying backend code, reviewing Alex \nPilosov's \"cursor foo\" patch (submitted last August/September, but never \napplied), and conversing off list with a few people regarding a possible \nimplementation of Set Returning Functions (or SRF for short). Below i... |
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"msg_contents": "We are about to need to fix a fair number of places in client code\n(eg, psql and pg_dump) that presently do things like\n\nSELECT * FROM pg_attribute\nWHERE attrelid = (SELECT oid FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'foo');\n\nThis does not work reliably anymore because there could be multiple\nre... |
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"msg_contents": "From here:\nhttp://osdb.sourceforge.net/\nWe find this quote:\n\"For you long-suffering OSDB PostgreSQL users, we offer \n\n--postgresql=no_hash_index \n\nto work around the hash index problems of OSDB with PostgreSQL V7.1 and\n7.2. As always, let us know of any problems. May the source be wi... |
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"msg_contents": " \n \n Thanks Jean.\n \n I will send a message to the ODBC list.\n At least I didn't create the project in sourceforge\n yet. I will try to get a cvs account at\n Postgresql.org\n as you said. :)\n \n Thanks very much!!!\n\nFrancisco Jr.\n\n____________________________________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:nconway@klamath.dyndns.org]\n> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:59 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What is wrong with hashed index usage?\n> \n> \n> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:15:37 -0700\n... |
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"msg_contents": "[tgl@rh1 preproc]$ make\nbison -y -d preproc.y\nconflicts: 2 reduce/reduce\n\nThis is not good.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:46:00 -0400",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>",
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"msg_contents": "Using current CVS (yesterday) I've rerun the benchmarks to see the\neffects of various NAMEDATALEN settings.\n\n3 times per setting.\n\n\nFirst time is pgbench inserts (-s 5)\nSecond time is pgbench run (-t 3000 -s 5)\n\nThird time is the postmaster during both of the above.\n\nI'll run it ag... |
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"msg_contents": "I was in Boston for a few days for a wedding. Never got time to be\nonline. I am back now. I will read my email and apply outstanding\npatches tomorrow.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Francisco Jr. [mailto:fxjrlists@yahoo.com.br] \n> Sent: 22 April 2002 22:35\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: Implement a .NET Data\n> \n> \n> \n> \n> Thanks Jean.\n> \n> I will send a message to the ODBC list.\n> At least I di... |
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"msg_contents": "I have tried using chunks technique when creating huge string for a stored \nprocedure (C code). I work like charm for small string, but when i create \nlarge strings i get a \"server closed the connection unexpectedly\" :-( I use \npalloc and repalloc for memory handling. Note! I made a stan... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tuesday 23 April 2002 04:27 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> OK, would people please vote on how to handle SET in an aborted\n> transaction? This vote will allow us to resolve the issue and move\n> forward if needed.\n\n> at the end, should 'x' equal:\n\n> \t1 - All SETs are rolled back in abo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDiscription of patch for python.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAndrew Johnson wrote:\n> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > No one has replied, so I worked up a patch that I will apply in a few\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": "Based on this report, I am adding a FUNC_MAX_ARGS define to\nsrc/include/pg_config.h.win32. Certainly if we have INDEX_MAX_KEYS in\nthere, we should have FUNC_MAX_ARGS too.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChris Ryan wrote:\n> Bruce,\n> \n> \t... |
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"msg_contents": "I also want to implement the same feature but for ecpg. On INFORMIX there is the following syntax to control timeouts:\nSET LOCK MODE TO [WAIT [seconds] | NO WAIT]\n\nThere is 2 possibilities: \n- either the pre-processor implements execution of the statement with the asynchronous functions.... |
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"msg_contents": "Each test set has 3 time sets.\n\nFirst is on pgbench -i (-s 5)\nSecond is on pgbench -t 3000 -s 5\n\nThird is on postmaster during the run of the first 2.\n\n\nThe first test on a slow harddrive has a large effect for increasing the\nnamedatalen length.\n\nSecond through 4th sets don't reall... |
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"msg_contents": "At 16:46 15/04/02 +0200, Mario Weilguni wrote:\n>And how about getting database internals via SQL-functions - e.g. getting \n>BLCSIZE, LOBBLCSIZE?\n\nISTM that there would be some merit in making a selection of compile-time \noptions available via SQL. Is this worth considering?\n\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI seem to have trouble returning large strings of text from stored procedures \n(coded in C), It works fine for smaller data?\nAnd elog prints out the result nicely; but when the result is \"returned\" it \nmakes the server disconnect???? I use the standard Datum methods (actually \nI'... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nCaveat: I'm not a pg hacker, I apologize\nin advance if this is a dumb question, but\nit has been nagging at me, and I don't\nknow who else to ask.\n\nIf the WAL is a record of all transactions,\nand if the checkpoint process can be managed\ntightly, is it possible to copy the WAL\nfiles ... |
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"msg_contents": "I wanted to correct the patch this evening after work, and will check your changes. Thanks!\n\n-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----\nVon: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nGesendet: Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 16:03\nAn: Peter Eisentraut\nCc: Mario Weilguni; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.or... |
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"msg_contents": "[Please CC any replies, I'm subscribed nomail]\n\nAs promised I've given it a bit of polish and it's actually almost useful.\nYou can have a look at it http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/pgfsck.html\n\nJust unpack the files into a directory. It's just a perl script with two\nmodules so no compili... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's today's tidbit for those who like to argue about nitty little\ndetails of behavior ...\n\nPresently, the parser (in particular gram.y) has quite a few special\ntransformations for certain type and function names. For example,\n\nYou write\t\t\tYou get\n\nchar(N)\t\t\t\tbpchar\ntrim(BO... |
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"msg_contents": "I posted this some time ago to pgsql-bugs[1], to no response. So\nI'll venture to try here.\n\nPostgres breaks the standard for string literals by supporting\nC-like escape sequences. This causes pain for people trying to\nwrite portable applications. Is there any hope for an option to\nfo... |
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"msg_contents": "We have had several threads about index usage, specifically when PostgreSQL has\nthe choice of using one or not.\n\nThere seems to be a few points of view:\n\n(1) The planner and statistics need to improve, so that erroneously using an\nindex (or not) happens less frequently or not at all.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems we can create a forein key using REFERENCES privilege but\ncannot drop the table if its owner is not same as the referenced\ntable. Is this a feature or bug?\n\n-- create a table as user foo\n\\c - foo\ncreate table t1(i int primary key);\n-- grant reference privilege to user bar\ngr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhy does the password_encryption GUC variable default to false?\n\nAFAICT there shouldn't be any issues with client compatibility -- in\nfact, I'd be inclined to rip out all support for storing cleartext\npasswords...\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nNeil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm running Postgres on Mac OSX (10.1.4). Every once in a while, I \nget the following problem: for some reason the postmaster seems to \nstop running postgres. When I look at the pid attributed to postgres \n(in postmaster.pid) and check it against ps -aux, I see that either \nthe pro... |
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"msg_contents": "Assuming the following fetch statement in embedded SQL/C:\n\n EXEC SQL FETCH ALL IN selectFromTable_cur INTO\n\t:array1,\n\t:array2;\n\nis memory automatically allocated (by experimentation I guess so)?\nShould the input pointers be NULL initialised? How should the memory\nbe freed?\n\nAssumi... |
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"msg_contents": "I am going to compare a 16KB PostgreSQL system to an 8KB system. I am working\non the assumption that 16K takes about as long to read as 8K, and That the CPU\noverhead of working with a 16K block is not too significant. \n\nI know with toast, block size is no longer an issue, but 8K is not a ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been doing some benchmarking. The idea is to measure the difference\nbetween PostgreSQL 7.2.1 compiled for an 8K block or a 16K block. pgbench is\nalmost useless for measuring changes in performance, I can't seem to get any\nreal consistency, so I used the osdb to measure performance.\... |
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"msg_contents": "For tracking of Foreign Keys, Check constraints, and maybe NULL / NOT\nNULL (specific type of check constraint) I intend to create (as per\nsuggestion) pg_constraint.\n\nconrelid\nconname\ncontype ('c'heck, 'f'oreign key, ???)\nconkey (int2vector of columns of relid, like pg_index.indkey)\nco... |
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"msg_contents": "I just recently upgraded from 7.0.x to 7.2.1. I installed from\npostgresql-7.2.1-2PGDG.i386.rpm on a Linux Redhat 7.1 system. I was\nable to resolve most dependancies, except for it telling me that I\nneeded libreadline.so.4, which \" ldconfig -p|grep readline\" showed me I\nalready had, so... |
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"msg_contents": "I have enabled the multibyte support by default. The default encoding\nis SQL_ASCII. Note that I just modify configure minimu, and I will\nremove unnecessary staffs including #ifdef MULTIBYTE step by step...\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:59:31 +0900",
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"msg_contents": "\nHi all,\n\nI have a problem with metadata.........just read this .......\n\nLet us simply suppose a table \"test\" with 2 fileds \"name (varchar(10))\" and \n\"age (numeric)\" and there b values as name=\"abc\",age=\"20\".\n\nNow in a function i need to develop a list where the column heade... |
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"msg_contents": "Just exactly how does one get an array into a system table?\n\nOf course, _int2 and int2[] aren't normal C constructs so using it\nwithin CATALOG won't work.\n\nI suppose thats why the vector types were invented?\n--\nRod\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "On Saturday 27 April 2002 02:56 pm, Thomas Lockhart wrote:\n> I've posted Mandrake RPMs for PostgreSQL 7.2.1 at\n\n> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.2.1/RPMS/mandrake-8.1\n\n> Thanks to Lamar Owens for the source RPM; I didn't have to change a\n> thing to get these built for Mandrake... |
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"msg_contents": "I will be taking a vacation in April 30 to May 31. I will try to check\nemail in late May while on vacation, but I am not sure.\n\nI will of course catch up on all email and patches when I return.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.p... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a set of odd ball string operations for searching text.",
"msg_date": "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:44:48 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Decode is a simple function inspired by Oracle's decode function, useful for\ncreating queries that work on both Oracle and PostgreSQL.\n\nconcat(...) concatinates multiple strings into one string.",
"msg_date": "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:29:48 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Looks like regproctooid() was removed here:\n/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/regproc.c\nversion 1.66 Thu Apr 25 02:56:55 2002\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/regproc.c.diff?r1=1.65&r2=1.66\n\nbut it was added to pg_dump.c here:\n/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_d... |
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"msg_contents": "Feeding `pg_config --configure` into configure no longer works, as the\noutput of `pg_config --configure` now includes hypens (as in\n\"'--enable-cassert' '--enable-debug'\"), which configure rejects.\n\nThis appears to come from the change in the Makefile\n(/src/bin/pg_config/Makefile), wher... |
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"msg_contents": "Has anyone considered adding support for GSSAPI\nauthentication/communication? The Java SDK version\n1.4 adds support for GSSAPI and it would be nice to\nuse it with the JDBC driver to provide Kerberos\nauthentication and secure communication.\n\nI played with the code and got authentication... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've already posted, a few weeks ago a concern about timestamp and\nindices.\n\nMy problem was that on my 7.1.3 db, I have timestamp columns with\nfonctinal indices as date(column).\n\nThes indices (indexes) wont work anymore because they're not marked loosy.\n\nI've been told that... |
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"msg_contents": "In utils/int8.h we currently have\n\n/* this should be set in pg_config.h, but just in case it wasn't: */\n#ifndef INT64_FORMAT\n#warning \"Broken pg_config.h should have defined INT64_FORMAT\"\n#define INT64_FORMAT \"%ld\"\n#endif\n\nI would like to remove this. The #warning command is not ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been thinking more about how to fold the routines in variable.c\ninto the standard GUC structure. I think that we really want to do\nthis, so that (a) these parameters can be set from GUC sources such as\npostgresql.conf, pg_database.datconfig, and pg_shadow.useconfig, and\n(b) we only ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm planning to add a mechanism to backend/utils/cache/inval.c that will\nallow additional modules to register to get notification of syscache and\nrelcache invalidation events. Right now, only the syscache and relcache\nget told about it --- but there's no reason we couldn't call additional... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tuesday 30 April 2002 02:36 am, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:\n> > We have been very fortunate to have avoided such problems since we\n> > started six years ago, and I hope it never happens.\n\n> There sure are a lot of arguments in the hackers list tho :) I do wish\n> people would be a ... |
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"msg_contents": "Appears psql needs to know how to differentiate between it's own temp\ntables and those of another connection. On the plus side, this takes\ncare of a TODO item to add temp table listings to psql.\n\nConnection 1:\n\ntemplate1=# create temp table junk(col1 int4);\nCREATE\ntemplate1=# select ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Do we want this feature?\n> -----------------------------------------------------\n> Based on the many posts on this topic, I think the answer to this is a\n> resounding yes.\n\nDefinitely!\n\n> How do we want the feature to behave?\n> -----------------------------------------------------\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Current CVS tip has most of the needed infrastructure for SQL-spec\nschema support: you can create schemas, and you can create objects\nwithin schemas, and search-path-based lookup for named objects works.\nThere's still a number of things to be done in the backend, but it's\ntime to start wo... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 30 April 2002 18:32\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [INTERFACES] Schemas: status report, call for developers\n> \n> \n> Current CVS tip has most of the need... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm working on a revised patch for PREPARE/EXECUTE. The basic code\nhas been written (although I've been delayed due to the workload at\nschool). I'm now trying to add support for preparing queries with\nparameters, but it is failing at an early stage of the game:\n\nnconway=> prepare q1 as s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPureFTPd has got really good Postgres support:\n\nAuthenticates off postgres, with definable queries to return stuff like\nhomedirs, quotas, password hashes, etc.\n\nCool.\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 1 May 2002 10:07:13 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm having problems restoring a dump. I get this:\n\nYou are now connected as new user chriskl.\nERROR: Unrecognized language specified in a CREATE FUNCTION: 'plpgsql'.\n Pre-installed languages are SQL, C, and internal.\n Additional languages may be installed using... |
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"msg_contents": "I've run into an interesting issue. A very long running transaction\ndoing data loads is getting quite slow. I really don't want to break\nup the transactions (and for now it's ok), but it makes me wonder what\nexactly analyze counts.\n\nSince dead, or yet to be visible tuples affect the pl... |
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"msg_contents": "The following steps should fix the configure and\ncompile problems that was occuring with installing\nPostgres 7.2 on HPUX 11.11. using the gcc compiler\n(See below for reference posts)\n\nfor compiling postgres 7.2 or 7.2.1 on HPUX11.11 \nrun ./configure \n=> checking types of arguments for ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been taking a look at fixing the TODO item:\n\n o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)\n\nMy first plan of attack was to replace the current list of ResTargets\nin InsertStmt with a list of lists. The problem with that approach is\nthat:\n\n (a)... |
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"msg_contents": "I've got a table, view, and rules as below. The permissions are set up in\nsuch a way that I can use it just fine as myself via psql. When I try to\naccess the data using an ms access interface via odbc, I get the first\nrecord in the view, but any attempts to go to other records cause ms a... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Team,\n\nI've read your comments. No, I don't think that MVD's are the best thing since sliced bread....but they do have a certain \"simplicity\" that seems to hold the key to high speed analysis of large volumes of streaming data from the \"eyes\" of a robot. This stream of data must ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Team,\n\nI'm wide open to other ideas for the support of robotic vision through tools already built into PostGreSQL. But you've already admitted to certain speed limitations...and robotic vision is going to require much more intense processing power. An MVD might allow the data stream ... |
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"msg_contents": "Surely the real strength of Pick, Unidata et al. is not so much the mv\nfields (which can be relatively easily emulated using array types) but\nthe data dictionaries and the way the same field can be defined in\nmultiple ways (data formats) with different names, or that you can\ncreate pseudo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello:\n\nI took a look at the SSL code in libpq/fe-misc.c and noticed what I \nthink is a small problem. A patch is included at the bottom of this \nemail against anoncvs TopOfTree this evening.\n\nThe SSL library buffers input data internally. Nowhere in libpq's code \nis this buffer be... |
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"msg_contents": "There is a report from a debian user about a vulnerability in\nPostgreSQL pre 7.2. Here is a possible attack scenario which allows to\nexecute ANY SQL in PostgreSQL.\n\nA web application accepts an input as a part of SELECT qualification\nclause. With the user input, the web server program wo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nOn 7.2.1 debian-unstable PG hangs when trying to drop a table which\ncontains a field referencing another field in the same table as a\nforeign key. \n\nIs it legal/orhtodox to use a \"references\" on another field of the same\ntable?\n \nStrangely after restarting PG the drop succee... |
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"msg_contents": "I have postgres 7.0 working on a red hat 7.1 installation, but now need to\nupgrade to postgres 7.2.1 to have the benefit of non-locking vacuuming.\n\nIs it possible to install postgresql 7.2.1 on to a red hat 7.1 installation?\nI've been trying but it complains that it can't find dependencie... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nhaving been chased away from pgsql-novice by Rasmus Mohr, I come here\nto try my luck :-) I'm still new to this; so please be patient, if I\nask silly questions.\n\nThere has been a discussion recently about saving some bytes per tuple\nheader. Well, I have the suspicion, we can eli... |
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"msg_contents": "\tI am a bit new to postgresql. I have used it in a few applications, however, \nin the current application we are beginning to see a need for replicated \ndatabases. I am trying to find out more information about how to do automatic \nreplication with postgresql. \n\tI have gone through the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Team,\n\nThis sounds good to me. Especially the comment about software patents.\nSoftware source code can be written with different variable names and\nslightly different coding styles. But when a specific function needs\nimplementation, often there is only one logical approach. If th... |
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"msg_contents": "In current sources:\n\nregression=# select '60'::interval;\n interval\n----------\n 00:01\n(1 row)\n\nregression=# select '1.5'::interval;\n interval\n-------------\n 00:00:01.50\n(1 row)\n\nThat is, '60' is read as so many hours, '1.5' is read as so many\nseconds. This seems a tad inconsis... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nThe info about DLM is from some Compaq and Oracle\nemployees who I know from Digital days.\n\nWhile it is not confidential information \n(the DLM is not being marketed as such) the\nSW engineers have lifed the code from VMS --> \nCompaqTRU64 (was Digital Unix on Alpha) -->\nRDB Port to ... |
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"msg_contents": "Mission Statement:\n\"To KICK Gluteus Maximus!\"\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 2 May 2002 19:32:35 -0700",
"msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?"
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"msg_contents": "Lol\nThis gets my vot... |
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"msg_contents": "Boban Acimovic was kind enough to give me access to a Solaris 8 system\nto track down a reproducible server crash. What I find is that strxfrm\nis buggy on that system. Given locale is_IS.ISO8859-1, the call\n\n\tstrxfrm(<ptr>, \"pg_amop_opc_strategy_index\", 58)\n\nwas observed to scribble... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any rhyme or reason to these ISO format date parsing rules?\n\ntest=# select '1-1-1'::date;\nERROR: Bad date external representation '1-1-1'\ntest=# select '69-1-1'::date;\n date\n------------\n 2069-01-01\n(1 row)\n\ntest=# select '50-1-1'::date;\n date\n------------\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote in another tread:\n> PS: I did like your point about BITMAPLEN; I think that might be\n> a free savings. I was waiting for you to bring it up on hackers\n> before commenting though...\nSo here we go...\n\nHi,\n\nin htup.h MinHeapTupleBitmapSize is defined to be 32, i.e. the b... |
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"msg_contents": "Using this configuration:\n./configure --enable-locale --enable-recode --enable-multibyte\n--enable-nls --with-pgport=9631 --with-CXX --with-perl --with-python\n--with-tcl --enable-odbc--with-unixodbc --with-openssl --with-pam\n--enable-syslog --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-depend ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n\tJust a heads up that over the next little while, I'm planning on\nmaking a bunch of commits in order to work on making the code able to work\nnatively in the above environments ... my work will mostly focus on Win32\n(since I have no OS2/BeOS installs), but alot of the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThe SQL92 spec has this to say about SET CONSTRAINTS DEFERRED:\n\n a) If ALL is specified, then the constraint mode in TXN of all\n constraints that are DEFERRABLE is set to deferred.\n\n b) Otherwise, the constraint mode in TXN for the constraints\n identified by... |
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"msg_contents": "This small patch reloads dynamic libraries whose modification time is\ngreater than that at the time it was initially loaded. This means that\nconnections do not need to be reinitialised when a library is recompiled.\n\nThere is a problem with this, however: if dlopen()'ing the new patch\nfai... |
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"msg_contents": "Upon doing some inspection of apache 2.x, it seems that me making a SysV\nWindows .DLL for PostgreSQL, while a cool project, would be unnecessary.\n\nThe APR (Apache Portable Runtime) seems to have all the necessary support. The\nproblem is that it has its own API.\n\nWe should find a way to ... |
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"msg_contents": "Although I can't tell for sure, I really don't think it's the output of the\nUPDATE 0 that is causing the problem. I configured the server to log all\nqueries last night, and it looks to me like it (MS Access) is doing stupid\nstuff. (Like issuing a select on all fields (but not *), and then ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:07 PM\n> To: mlw\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports \n> \n> \n> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": "help\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 05 May 2002 11:40:50 +0300",
"msg_from": "Vladimir Zolotykh <gsmith@eurocom.od.ua>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "help"
}
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI found a strange error (at least at first glance I had thought it\nseems so):\n\nmail=# select * from accounts_log where login='trading';\n id | login | debet | credit | when \n------+---------+-------+-----------+------------------------------\n 6289 | t... |
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"msg_contents": "It is sunday morning and I have been musing about some PostgreSQL issues. As\nsome of you are aware, my dot com, dot died, and I am working on a business\nplan for a consulting company which, amongst other things, will feature\nPostgreSQL. As I am working on the various aspects, some issue po... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm using:\n\nCVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot\n\nStill no tag for 7.2.1.\n\nCould I (again) request that a tag be set for the current public release \nof this product?\n\nCheers.\n\n-- \n\nJack Bates\nPortland, OR, USA\nhttp://www.floatingdoghead.net\n\nGot... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently there's an int16 t_natts in HeapTupleHeaderData. This\nnumber is stored on disk for every single tuple. Assuming that the\nnumber of attributes is constant for all tuples of one relation we\nhave a lot of redundancy here.\n\nAlmost everywhere in the sources, where HeapTupleHeader-... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 21:56, Tom Lane wrote:\n> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:\n> > We could provide a PGSemaphore based on an APR mutex and a counter,\n> > but I'm not sure of the performance impact. We may want to implement\na\n> > \"generic\" semaphore like this and one optimized for p... |
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