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"msg_contents": "I've been buried in the backend parser/planner/executor now for the last \n2 weeks or so, and I now have a patch for a working implementation of \nSRFs as RTEs (i.e. \"SELECT tbl.* FROM myfunc() AS tbl\"). I think I'm at \na good point to get review and comments. Not everything yet has been \... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello postgresql-hackers,\n\nBeen a while sine I've particiapated on this list so I wanted to say\nthank you for the great product postgresql 7.2.1 is! I have been \ndoing some testing in preperation of a database upgrade from 7.0.3\nto 7.2.1 and I have a few small itches to scratch, so I th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAre the numbers of the directories in the base diretory and the numbers of\nthe directories under that, etc. traceable to a reference somewhere in the\npostgresql server using that data directory (such as the pg_database table\nor such)? If so, is there somewhere this is documented?\n\nTha... |
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"msg_contents": "There has been a discussion on the general list about this area. One of\nthe members produced a test case for demonstrating rapid size increase.\n\nI decided to see if I could induce similar behaviour with a more\n(seemingly) benign example.\n\nI tried this :\n\n1) Create a table and load 100... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Alvaro, Hi Nigel,\n\nThanks for your reply. I indeed already tried with a plpgsql function. But\nthat's just my problem : if I call a function from within a view's rule,\nthis function is not executed anymore with the same rights as a user had on\nthe view. So if a user may access a view, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'd like to contribute new code for Postgres geometry type 'path' operations\n(including line buffer). Where should I send this?\n\n-----------\nAlex Shevlakov,\nMotivation Free Software consulting,\nMoscow, Russia\n-----------\n\nhttp://motivation.ru",
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"msg_contents": "As I set out to do the Windows semaphore thing, I notice it can get quite ugly.\n\nIn the current CVS directory, there is pgsql/src/backend/port directory.\n\nI propose that this become a separate subproject and library. The reason I want\nthis is because the semaphore support, specifically m... |
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"msg_contents": "Doesn't appear that pg_sema is picking up the semaphore implementation\non FreeBSD.\n\n\nbash-2.05a$ uname -a\nFreeBSD knight.zort.ca 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #3: Sun Feb 3\n22:26:40 EST 2002 \nroot@knight.barchord.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KNIGHT i386\n\n\n\n\nIn file included fro... |
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"msg_contents": "Michael Enke (michael.enke@wincor-nixdorf.com) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nlower()/upper() bug on ->multibyte<- DB\n\nLong Description\nOS: Linux Kernel 2.4.4, PostgreSQL version 7.2.1\nlower() and upper() doesn't work ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I experienced a problem using pg_dump with 7.1.3. I don't know whether\n7.2 also has the same behaviour. AFAIK everything is dumped out using the\norder of OIDs. But the following example shows that it works incorrectly\nif a PLPGSQL function is recreated, assuming this PLPGSQL function w... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:03 AM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> \n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > BTW, I have been able to test the... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:44 AM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> \n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > And no, I don't want to undo thos... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:58 AM\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> \n> \"Marc G. Fournier\" wrote:\n> > \n> > On Tue, 7 May 2... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently updating pgAdmin to support schemas and have a couple of\n(well three) questions:\n\n1) How can I specify the schema in CREATE OPERATOR?\n'OPERATOR(pg_catalog.+)' notation gives an error :-(\n\n2) There are default comments for the system schemas in pg_description,\nbut C... |
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"msg_contents": "Translation from UNIX to Win32:\nhttp://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec14/art3.htm\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 7 May 2002 12:46:30 -0700",
"msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Re: OK, lets talk portability."
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"msg_contents": "A nice paper on one alternative to consider:\nhttp://www.infy.com/knowledge_capital/thought-papers/porting.pdf\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 7 May 2002 12:55:07 -0700",
"msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Re: OK, lets talk portabilit... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:29 AM\n> To: mlw\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> \n> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:44, mlw wrote:\n> > To... |
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"msg_contents": "The requirement for Cygwin is a non-issue as I see it.\n\nSeveral groups have already done Win32 ports that do not require Cygwin.\n\nThe company I work for is one example.\n\nThe group in Japan:\nhttp://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA023283/PostgreSQLe.html\nis another.\n\nI saw some others besid... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\n\nI am running postgresql - 7.1 on Redhat 2.2.16-22 kernel.\nSometimes this the system becomes totally unusable with\n\"VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached\" error? The system is setup to have\n4096 file descriptor as default. I was wondering how many file descriptor\ndoes postgres op... |
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"msg_contents": "Does there exist a checklist for adding a new global system catalog table to\nPostgreSQL?\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 7 May 2002 22:11:15 -0500 ",
"msg_from": "\"Lee, Shawn\" <lee13@uillinois.edu>",
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"msg_subject": "Creating new system catalog"
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI would like to try compile Debian DPKG and APT-GET under Windows.\n\nThis would allow us to create a modern Windows installer for Cygwin, KDE2/3 \nand PostgreSQL. There are already existing project at \nhttp://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ and http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/... |
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"msg_contents": "Do we want a Win32 native version of PostgreSQL?\n\nThe only reasons *not* to use Cygwin is licensing, installation hassles, and\nmaybe stability or performance. Therefore, there is no strong technical reason\nto defend its removal, only a philosophical one.\n\nThe debates on licensing on thi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > This also poses the biggest problem in terms of legacy compatibility.\n> > Perhaps the answer is to add a runtime config option (and default it\n> > to ANSI) and possibly deprecate the C escaping.\n> \n> While I wouldn't necessarily object to a runtime option, I do object\n> to both the... |
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"msg_contents": "In 7.2 and before it would work to do EXPLAIN in a plpgsql function:\n\nregression=# create function foo(int) returns int as '\nregression'# begin\nregression'# explain select * from tenk1 where unique1 = $1;\nregression'# return 1;\nregression'# end;' language plpgsql;\nCREATE\nregression=#... |
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"msg_contents": "What happened to the -v option on pg_ctl? We use it and I can not find\nanywhere where it was documented that this was and did go away. What is the\nalternative now?\n\n-- \nLaurette Cisneros\nThe Database Group\n(510) 420-3137\nNextBus Information Systems, Inc.\nwww.nextbus.com\nWhere's my... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using 7.2.1 on a Debian system.\n\nIf I do an insert or update or delete on a table, postgres tells me\nhow many rows were affected.\n\nUsing the following input to psql, I got the results:\n\nINSERT 0 0\nUPDATE 0\nDELETE 0\n\nIs this expected? The principle of least suprise suggests to ... |
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"msg_contents": "If you have a Win32 workstation...\nLook here:\nhttp://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/\n\nThen click on the thing that says \"Install Now\" (Looks like a black \"C\"\nwith a green tongue).\n\nafter a small boatload of clicks, you will see a Window labeled \"Cygwin\nSetup\".\nUnder +All\nyou will f... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using OIDs for constraint names to guarentee name uniqueness, and\nintend to do the same for SERIAL sequences.\n\nThe problem with this is that the OID value seems to change with each\nrun of the regression tests depending on when the last initdb was (in\nthe case of installcheck) or para... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIs it just me or is there no downloadable HTML docs for 7.2??\n\nThere's PDF - but that's not much use...\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 9 May 2002 11:16:52 +0800",
"msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr] \n> Sent: 08 May 2002 09:37\n> To: mlw; Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> There is other issues :\n> \n> 1) Cygwin installation.\n> \n> Presently... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dann Corbit [mailto:DCorbit@connx.com] \n> Sent: 09 May 2002 00:31\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy\n> \n> \n> If you have a Win32 workstation...\n> Look here:\n> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/\n> \n> Then... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee] \n> Sent: 09 May 2002 09:57\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: jm.poure@freesurf.fr; mlw; Dann Corbit; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OK, lets talk portability.\n> \n> \n> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 09:12, Dave Pag... |
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"msg_contents": "My dear friends,\n\nFor those who doubt PostgreSQL port is mainly an installer problem, visit \nhttp://fink.sourceforge.net. Fink is a powerfull package installer for MacOSX \nbased on dpkg and Perl.\n\nWith the collaborative help of PostgreSQL hackers, we should be able to \nrelease a single... |
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"msg_contents": "Ooops sorry about the last post (all thumbs today)\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: 08 May 2002 16:57\n> To: Thomas Lockhart\n> Cc: mlw; PostgreSQL-development; Jan Wieck; Marc G. Fournier; Dann\n> Corbit\n> Subject: Re: Path to PostgreSQL ... |
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"msg_contents": "I guess I answered my own question didn't I. The check constraint\nmethod (test, then change, and test then change) is the only way to\nguarentee uniqueness. Anything else could have interferance by the\nuser, or issues during a dump / restore where any numbered sequences\nare reset.\n\n--\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe are a small group around pgaccess and Teo (teo@flex.ro) who use pgaccess\nin our daily work and now we try to join our efforts and bring our patches\ntogether.\n\nDuring the last two weeks we managed to arrange a web server, place there\npgaccess.org and the current web site that... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Henshall, Stuart - WCP\" <SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk> writes:\n> Cygwin is not the only additon needed, cygipc will also be needed (GPL)\n> (see: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/index.html )\n\nGood point, but is this a requirement that we could get ri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Ross,\n\nGreat to hear form you. We are just thinking what to do. There was one idea\nto have a sourceforge cvs, another to have the cvs on the www.pgaccess.org\nserver. Then I found out that actually the pgaccess is in the PostgreSQL\ndistribution as well.\n\nAs for us the pgaccess is ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have tried to install postgresql 7.2.1 on the new Red Hat 7.3. The\nregression test failed in three cases:\n\n- abstime\n- tinterval\n- horology\n\nI have included to the mail the regression.diffs and regression.out\nfiles...\n\nIs there any reason? Any tip?\n\nThe machine has two processor... |
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"msg_contents": "With the current SRF patch, in certain circumstances selecting from a \nVIEW produces \"Buffer Leak\" warnings, while selecting from the function \nitself does not. Also the VIEW returns only one of the two expected \nrows. The same SQL function when declared as \"... getfoo(int) RETURNS \nin... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:33, Dann Corbit wrote:\n> \n> It took a few hundred man hours to do it. \n\nAbout 2-8 weeks for one full time programmer ?\n\n> I see the whole Win32 port as\n> a non issue. Several parties have already completed it (including the\n> place where I work -- CONNX Solut... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nThe last message of Chris helped me a lot.\n\nLet me give a short summary why do we (www.pgaccess.org) do what we do.\n\nWhat are the motives behind and what is the goal.\n\nMy company needed pgaccess exactly because of the nice visual 'schema'. The\n'schema', however, did... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:41 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > It took a few hundred man hours to do it. I s... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:56 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > Our package avoids Cygwin altogether. We wrot... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:56 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > Our package avoids Cygwin altogether. We wrot... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:markw@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:34 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA023283/PostgreS... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nAfter Marc Fournier commented, it is time for pgaccess.org to make a\ndecision.\n\nIt is clear the project needs the following tools.\n\n- web site\n- mailing list(s)\n- cvs\n- bug tracking system\n\nIt is clear, that there is a small new group with fresh desire to contrib... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nHere is a copy of a mail received from\n\"Robert Collins\" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>.\n\nJean-Michel POURE\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr] \n> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:30 PM\n> \n> Does setup.exe support uninstal... |
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"msg_contents": "1) Cygwin latest CVS installer version supports command lines.\n2) Cygwin setup.exe is not needed. According to Robert Collins, an appropriate \nsetup.ini file can be used for automatic installation.\n\nCheers,\nJean-Michel POURE\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 10 May 2002 11:46:27 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nif it is acceptable for subtransactions to use up transaction numbers,\nthen here is a half baked RFC for a possible implementation.\nIf not, forget the rest of this message.\n\nThe proposed implementation works much like the current transaction\nhandling. It needs an additional syste... |
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"msg_contents": "Some comments from Jason Tishler the Cygwin-PostgreSQL maintainer...\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net] \n> Sent: 10 May 2002 15:00\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Cygwin PostgreSQL Information and Suggestions\n> \... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have two tables, one has 25000 rows and the other\nhas 6.5 million rows.\n\n(25000 rows)\ntable1\n(id text,\nstart int,\nstop int)\n\nwith seperate index on three individual fiels.\n\n6.5 million rows\ntable2\n(id text,\nstart int,\nstop int)\n\nwith seperate index on three ... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 02:25, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> The remaining issue is the sort order. I think this can be solved for\n> practical purposes by creating two expected files for each affected test,\n> say char.out and char-locale.out. The regression test driver would try\n> the first o... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n I'm a hookie in this discussion list. Well, my intent is to get some informations about\nPostgreSQL internals to work on a project. There is an excellent GPL'ed tool to work with Oracle\ncalled TOra. It is as good as TOAD and SQL Navigator from Quest Software. As a meaning of\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nI personally had enough discussions during the last few days. I want to\nthank everybody who expressed their opinion and to remind you all that we\nstarted as a small group of four people who actively use and patch pgaccess\nnow, asked by Teo to see what we can do about br... |
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"msg_contents": "In the Documentation section of www.pgaccess.org I am trying to build a\nsmall sub-section where I list with few words what people use pgaccess for.\n\nPlease, drop a line if you have been using it for something useful.\n\nPlease, drop a line if you could not use it for something due to\nbugs... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi Again,\n\n10:22am up 15:06, 1 user, load average: 9.02, 9.02, 8.98\n85 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 11 zombie, 0 stopped\nCPU states: 0.0% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle\nMem: 1028484K av, 1017488K used, 10996K free, 0K shrd, 8996K buff\nSwap: 971004K a... |
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"msg_contents": "I just did a fresh build from current cvs and found the following \nregression from 7.2:\n\ncreate table test (cola bigint);\nupdate test set cola = 10000000000;\n\nIn 7.3 the update results in the following error:\n\nERROR: column \"cola\" is of type 'bigint' but expression is of type \n'do... |
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"msg_contents": "For my own protection I'm adding checks to truncate so that if there\nis an ON DELETE trigger it will not execute the truncate command.\n\nAnyway, should it really only be 'Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are\ninvolved in referential constraints'?\n\nI'm thinking it should check for an on de... |
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"msg_contents": "During some testing of pgAdmin's internals whilst adding schema support\nI noticed that altering or setting a comment on an operator actually\nsets the comment on the operator function.\n\nIn other words, change the comment on testschema.+(int4, int4) and the\ncomment is actually set on the f... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nPer the suggestion in the README.rmp-dist document with the 7.2.1 rpm I\nwould like to officially vote for an easy upgrade. I personally think it's\nridiculous that there's no way to go directly from 7.1.3 to 7.2.1.\n\nOh well :) Other than that and a few other minor issues whic... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\nI've got performance problem and while I'dont ready to describe it\nI'd like to ask about strange explain:\n\ntour=# explain analyze select * from tours where\n ( operator_id in (2,3,4,5,7) and type_id = 2 ) or\n ( operator_id = 8 and type_id=4 );\n\nNOTICE... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm working on cleaning up loose ends in pg_dump, and in particular\ntrying to ensure that objects in user schemas can be named the same\nas system objects without conflicts. Most of this works now, thanks\nto Peter's idea about explicitly setting the search path to include\njust the current... |
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"msg_contents": "In current sources (compiled without --enable-integer-datetimes) I get\n\nregression=# select interval(0) '1 day 23:44:55.667677' ;\n interval\n-----------------------\n 1 day 23:44:55.667677\n(1 row)\n\nI was expecting it to round off ... I think there's something wrong with\nthe arit... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI see the following for a view a_view;\n\n# select ctid, xmin, cmin, xmax, cmax, tableoid from a_view;\n ctid | xmin | cmin | xmax | cmax | tableoid\n------+------+------+------+------+----------\n | | | | |\n | | | | |\n | ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> EXPLAIN\n> tour=# explain analyze select * from tours where\n> ( operator_id in (2,3,4,5,7) and type_id = 4 ) or\n> ( operator_id = 8 and type_id = 3);\n> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n> \n> Index Scan using type_idx, type_idx, type_idx, type_idx, type_idx, type_idx on tou... |
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"msg_contents": "Current anon cvs does not generate GNUmakefile and src/Makefile.global. \nThe same applies with both \"make distclean\" and a fresh checkout:\n\n olly@linda:.../pgsql$ ./configure --enable-locale --enable-recode\n --enable-multibyte --enable-nls --with-pgport=9631 --with-CXX\n --wit... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been working on merging the last few variable.c variables into GUC.\nHere are some notes on what I'm planning to modify in GUC to make that\npossible.\n\n1. The variable.c routines have quite a few specialized error reports\n(eg, rejecting intervals larger than months in SET TIME ZONE). ... |
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"msg_contents": "Mac OSX, postgresql 7.2.1\n\nwhat's the reasoning behind not being able to cast a varchar as \ninteger? this seems very weird to me:\n\nLEDEV=# create table test (foo as varchar(5), bar as text);\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"as\"\nLEDEV=# create table test (foo varchar(5), bar t... |
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"msg_contents": "We have one patch for contrib/rtree_gist ( thanks Chris Hodgson for\nspotting bug and test suite ). Should we submit patch for 7.2.2 and\n7.3 ?\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSter... |
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"msg_contents": "I really like array iterators, and am interested in simplifying them\nsomewhat. Currently they required too many operator entries and\nfunctions to be truely useful in the base.\n\nPlease fill in holes ;)\n\nOk, first step. The ability to create an operator that will work on a\nvast number ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI can't see that there's any way to reset the stats collector without HUPing\nthe postmaster? Is there? Should there be?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 15 May 2002 10:25:24 +0800",
"msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "The current implementation of the kerberos 5\nauthentification in backend/libpq/auth.c truncates the\nprincipal after the first '/' or failing that, after\nthe first '@', assuming the result to be the database\nusername. This implicitly allows crossrealm\nautentification which is not good in ... |
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"msg_contents": "Considering this schema:\n\n-- Table: cnx_ds_sis_bill_detl_tb\nCREATE TABLE \"cnx_ds_sis_bill_detl_tb\" (\n \"extr_stu_id\" char(10), \n \"term_cyt\" char(5), \n \"subcode\" char(5), \n \"tran_seq\" int2, \n \"crc\" int8, \n CONSTRAINT \"pk_cnx_ds_sis_bill_detl_tb\" UNIQUE (\"extr_stu_i... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The select(min) and select(max) took as long as the table scan to find\n> the count. It seems logical if a btree type index is available (such\n> as pk_cnx_ds_sis_bill_detl_tb) where the most significant bit of the\n> index is the column requested, it should be little more than a seek\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "I know that the money type is supposed to be deprecated but I think that \nthere is still some benefit to it. It is small and fast. There are some \nproblems and I would like to address them.\n\nThe output has a dollar sign attached. This is NA centric and we said years \nago that we were ... |
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"msg_contents": "As per earlier vague hint, I'm bringing the CREATE FUNCTION syntax in line\nwith SQL99. Everything is fully backward compatible. Here is the new\nsynopsis:\n\nCREATE [OR REPLACE] FUNCTION name (args) RETURNS type\n option [ option... ] [WITH (...)];\n\nwhere option is any of these in any o... |
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"msg_contents": "I've attached a patch for libpgtcl which adds access to backend version\nnumbers.\n\nThis is via a new command:\n\npg_version <db channel> <major varname> ?<minor varname>? ?<patch varname>?\n\nUsing readonly variables rather than a command was my first choice but I\ndecided that it was inapp... |
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"msg_contents": "Just noticed this a few minutes ago on build from cvs tip:\n\nmake -C preproc all\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'\nbison -y -d preproc.y\nconflicts: 2 reduce/reduce\n\nJoe\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 16 May 2002 16:51:28 -0700",
"msg_from": "J... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm seeing this with the current CVS code:\n\n[nconway:/home/nconway/pgsql]% initdb -D /data/pgsql/pgdata\nThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user \"nconway\".\nThis user must also own the server process.\n\n/data/pgsql/bin/initdb: test: =: unary operator expected\nT... |
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"msg_contents": "I just submitted a patch to support SSL client certificates.\nWith this patch the Port structure is extended to include a\nnew field, 'peer', that contains the client certificate if \noffered.\n\nThis patch also cleans up the SSL code. Most of this should\nbe invisible to users, with the exc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been developing a program with the postgres jdbc 2 driver, jdk-1.3.0 and\npostgres 6.5.\n\nWhen I start my program up it bombs like so:\n\nSomething unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. Please report\nthis exception: Exception: java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: No such\nf... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwhat do we have planned for the next release? In the TODO file there are\nquite a lot of points but I don't like to talk about things we will\neventually do, but would like to present what we will implement for 7.3\nresp. 8.0. \n\nIMO the most important stuff seems to be:\n\n- replicat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nsince we will show PostgreSQL related stuff on Linuxtag in Germany next\nmonth, I'd like to get some PostgreSQL posters for the booth. But I have\nno idea where to find some. \n\nDo we have that kind of stuff? Or where could I get it? Preferable of course as file so I can print it myse... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:\n> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n>> Michael seems to feel that the tuple count should be nonzero if any\n>> of the replacement operations did anything at all.\n\n> Here we usually add triggers, for replication, accounting... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have some schema queries/thoughts that I would appreciate some\nhelp/insights/fixes with/for please!\n\n(Apologies if these have been asked before or have been addressed in a\nrecent snapshot - my ISP's been having routing problems recently & I\ncan't reach postgresql.org via http ri... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 17 May 2002 21:26\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > 1) All the system view... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> helpdesk=# select relnamespace, relname from pg_class where relname like\n> 'pg_%';\n\n> relnamespace | relname\n> --------------+---------------------------------\n> ...\n> 2200 | pg_user\n> 2200 | pg_rules\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 17 May 2002 23:24\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > helpdesk=# select reln... |
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"msg_contents": "The contents of the error message are:\n\nconn->errorMessage.data\t0x00312440 \"pqFlush() -- couldn't send data:\nerrno=0\nNo error A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed\nimmediately.\n\nfor this:\n\n if (PQputline(conn, pszBCPdata[i++]) == EOF)\n\t\t\t printf(\"Er... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:10 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Error on PQputline() \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> > The contents of th... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:38 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Error on PQputline() \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> >> You're running li... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 18 May 2002 00:01\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: More schema queries \n> \n> There was already some discussion about making a variant version of\n> current_schemas() t... |
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"msg_contents": "The documentation of the sequence privileges on the GRANT reference page\ndoesn't match the code.\n\nDocumented:\n\ncurrval:\tUPDATE\nnextval:\tUPDATE\nsetval:\t\tUPDATE\n\nActual:\n\ncurrval:\tSELECT\nnextval:\tUPDATE\nsetval:\t\tUPDATE\n\nBut shouldn't it more ideally be\n\ncurrval:\tSELECT... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI would like to transform UTF-8 strings into Java-Unicode. Example :\n- Latin1 : 'é'\n- UTF-8 : 'é' \n- Java Unicode = '\\u00233'\n\nBasically, a Unicode compatible ascii() function would be fine.\nascii('é') should return 233.\n\n1) Has anyone written an ascii UTF-8 safe wrapp... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking at the authentication and networking code and\nwould like to float a trial balloon.\n\n1) add SASL. This is a new standards-track protocol that is often\n described as \"PAM\" for network authentication. PostgreSQL could\n remove *all* protocol-specific authentication ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n [My apolgies if this turns up in the lists twice (now three times) but my\n mailer claims it's been in the queue for them too long. Not sure why it\n thinks that since it's only a few minutes since I sent it.]\n \n \n On Fri, 17 May 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n > Nigel J. Andrews writ... |
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"msg_contents": "I came across another bug in the SSL code. backend/libpq/pqcomm.c:pq_eof()\ncalls recv() to read a single byte of data to check for EOF. The\ncharacter is then stuffed into the read buffer.\n\nThis will not work with SSL. Besides the data being encrypted, you\ncould end up reading a byte f... |
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"msg_contents": "For those who want to play on the bleeding edge of CVS, can someone provide the syntax for the recently-checked-in set-returning functions? I've got it figured out when I'm returning a many rows of single column, but not for many rows of several columns.\n\nIf someone can do this, and no one ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking at the uses of scanCommandId with some suspicion.\nWe recently fixed a problem wherein cursors were seeing the effects\nof commands started after the cursor was opened (in the same\ntransaction), and I think there may be more such problems. I don't\nlike the way that SQL fu... |
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