threads
listlengths
1
2.99k
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tmeskes@postgresql.org\t02/05/19 16:00:53\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/interfaces/ecpg: ChangeLog \n\tsrc/interfaces/ecpg/preproc: ecpg_keywords.c keywords.c pgc.l \n\t preproc.y \n\nLog message:\n\t- Fixed reduce/r...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm writing a function that accepts a table name and digs some information\nout about it. I'm developing on 7.3cvs w/schemas, and wanted my function to\nuse schemas.\n\nIf the user gives a full schema name (s.table), I find the table in pg_class\nby comparing the ns oid and relname.\n\nHoweve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI started getting these errors today on my test database (pg\n7.2.1). I have been vacuum/reindex/analyze(ing) the table\nall day (after updating 100000+ rows) and wondering what\ncould have caused this. \n\nThanks\nJim\n\n\n2002-05-19 18:16:18 [1673] NOTICE: \nbt_getroot[billed...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I mentioned in passing awhile ago, I'm thinking of simplifying the\nindexscan API and arranging for heapscans and indexscans to have\nessentially identical APIs. Here's the plan:\n\nheap_beginscan and index_beginscan will have near-identical signatures:\n\nHeapScanDesc heap_beginscan(Rela...
[ { "msg_contents": "Another set of SSL patches have been sent to the patches list.\n(No idea when they'll get through the system.) This is a new\nbaseline set of patches that fix many of the problems identified\nearlier and also add a number of security patches.\n\nN.B., some of these changes are visible to the...
[ { "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> I'm not sure how to do it on Cygwin, either. On Unix you'd \n> build a profilable backend...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 20 May 2002 15:16\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: More schema queries \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > gcc -g -o postgres.exe -Wl,--base-fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "With CVS tip (and float-type timestamps) I get\n\nregression=# select date('2002-02-01 00:00:00'::timestamp);\n date\n------------\n 2000-01-01\n(1 row)\n\nSeems to be the same result no matter what timestamp is put in.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 20 May 2002 11:25...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been giving some more thought to the makecert (server)\nand pgkeygen (client) programs, and may have a clean solution\nto the problem of mapping certs to pgusers.\n\n1) makecert will have the ability to generate two different types\n of certs: root (CA) certs and server certs. The ser...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there an implemented JDBC that supports SSL? How are you testing the SSL\npatches to postgresql server?\n\nThere is a posting\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2002-02/msg00139.php) that\ndiscusses how to add SSL sockets to the current JDBC source code. We at\nnuBridges http://ww...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is the first cut at mkcert.sh, a tool to create PostgreSQL\nserver certificates. It also sets up a directory suitable for the\nOpenSSL CA tool, something that can be used to sign client certs.\n\nThe root cert should be added to the backend SSL cert verification\ntools, and copied t...
[ { "msg_contents": "In ProcedureCreate() (backend/catalog/pg_proc.c) there are special cases\nfor the built-in languages that check whether the to-be-created function\nhas a valid body. ISTM that we could extend that for user-defined\nfunctions, as follows.\n\nWhen creating a language, the user can optionally r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we now have an official entry in /etc/services, shouldn't we be able\nto make use of it, by using getservbyname() if a nonnumeric port number is\nspecified?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 20 May 2002 21:12:57 +0200 (CEST)", "msg_from": "Peter ...
[ { "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> > 2200 | pg_stat_all_tables\n> > 2200 | pg_stat_sys_tables...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is the first cut at some SSL documetation for the\nPostgreSQL manual. It's in plain text, not DocBook, to make\nediting easy for the first few revisions. The documentation\nleads the code by a day or so.\n\nAlso, I'm still having problems with the patches list - none\nof my recent ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hmm. Which file(s) were growing, exactly? How many row updates is this\n> run covering?\n> \n\nThe toast table gets about 90 percent of the growth, followed by the toast \nindex at about 9 percent. The actual table + primary key stay at about 2M each.\n\nI neglected to mention what th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nFound this interesting bug:\n\njwnet=> select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.3\n(1 row)\n\njwnet=> select ('2001-07-31 10:00:00 PST'::TIMES...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am still on vacation but have access to an Internet connection today\nand am going through as much email as I can.\n\nFor the curious, I took an 18-day cruise from New York City on April 31,\nthrough the Panama Canal to Seattle, then a 2-day train from Seattle to\nLos Angeles, which is wher...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 01:00\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> > I'm confused. Does the...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 14:17\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> \n> \n> Try changing the PGOPTS setting to use\n> \n> \t-c search_path=pg_catalo...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > They are just wanting to be standard. I know this; I just can't say how I\n> > know this. But the link to the ISO definition is\n> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_14\n...\n> FWIW, here's what I see in the C99 spec pdf for mktime and the tm...
[ { "msg_contents": "<markir@slingshot.co.nz> writes:\n> The toast table gets about 90 percent of the growth, followed by the toast \n> index at about 9 percent. The actual table + primary key stay at about 2M each.\n\nOdd. I wonder whether you are looking at an unintended behavior of the\nfree space map's thres...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dave Page \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 14:39\n> To: 'Tom Lane'\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> \n> > Also, you could try setting a breakpoint at\n> > RangeVarGetCreationNamespace (in backend/catalog/n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Noticed that increasing NAMEDATALEN to 128 is still on the TODO.\n\nGiven that the addition of namespaces for 7.3 is going to require many\nclient utilities to be updated anyway, is this a reaonable time to bring\nthis increase into the standard distribution? It seems like it would be\nminor ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 16:33\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> \n> > What I cannot do is get it to show me anything useful.\n> \n> It sounds li...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm planning to tackle the problem of killing index tuples for dead rows\nduring normal processing (ie, before VACUUM). We've noticed repeatedly\nthat visits to dead heap rows consume a lot of time during indexscans\nof heavily-updated tables. This problem has been discussed before,\nso the...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 20:09\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n>\n> \n> I guess your version of getopt() won't cooperate with -- \n> switches. I've c...
[ { "msg_contents": "A second cut at SSL documentation....\n\n\n\nSSL Support in PostgreSQL\n=========================\n\nWho needs it?\n=============\n\nThe sites that require SSL fall into one (or more) of several broad\ncategories.\n\n*) They have insecure networks. \n\n Examples of insecure networks are any...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 21 May 2002 20:31\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries \n> \n> Can you \n> trace it back a\n> little further and try to see why it's not? It w...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:10, Tom Lane wrote:\n> (snippage) That might be enough to cause the growth. It may be\n> worth playing around with the details of the threshold-setting policy.\n> \n(snippage)\n> Possibly the initial threshold set in create_fsm_rel also needs to be\n> smaller than i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, anybody can tell me about a graphical tool that help me when I wanna \nrelate tables from a postgre database and make referential integrity between \nthem?\nThank you!\nGaston.-\n\n_________________________________________________________________\n�nase con MSN Hotmail al servicio de...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that the large-object operations in pg_largeobject.c and \ninv_api.c all use SnapshotNow to access large-object tuples. This\nmeans they are not really MVCC compliant. For example, I could be\nreading a large object that someone else is writing; if he commits\nmid-read, then I will...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:nconway@klamath.dyndns.org]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:19 PM\n> To: Joel Burton\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is 7.3 a good time to increase NAMEDATALEN ?\n> \n> \n> On Tue, 21 May 2002 11:41:26 -...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom, Oliver,\n\nI haven't finished writing up my ideas for INTERVAL. However, here's \nsomething to get started:\n\nPROPOSAL FOR ADJUSTMENTS OF POSTGRESQL TIMESTAMP AND INTERVAL HANDLING\nDraft 0.1 - Part 1\n\nTimestamp\n------------------------------\nProposal #1: TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Notice that the parallel regression test runs\n\nparallel group (7 tests): create_aggregate create_operator inherit\ntriggers constraints create_misc create_index\n\ncreate_index creates an index on a table \"onek2\" which is created in\ncreate_misc. I just saw this fail because create_inde...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why not fix it completely with this stuff:\nftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/\n\nJust an idea.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 21 May 2002 18:45:31 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: Timestamp & Interval - Part 1" }, { ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > \n> > But I recall a number of rounds of bug-fixes concerning quoting in\n> > the pgsql shell scripts, so I'd not be surprised in the \n> least to hear\n> > that pre-7.2 PG releases get this wrong. Or for that \n> matter, we might\n> > still have some problems in this line on some platfo...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are certain oddities in current interval behaviour:\n\n template1=# select version();\n version \n ------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.3devel on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compil...
[ { "msg_contents": "> 4. How exactly should a killed index tuple be marked on-disk? While there\n> is one free bit available in IndexTupleData.t_info, I would prefer to use\n> that bit to expand the index tuple size field to 14 bits instead of 13.\n> (This would allow btree index entries to be up to 10K when BLC...
[ { "msg_contents": "There seems to be a pg_dump issue with inherited tables when columns\nare added to the parent table after creating the child table. Here is\nhow to repeat the problem.\n\nCreate a test database and run the following SQL statements:\n\ncreate table a (x int);\ncreate table b (y int) inherits ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have looked at the cube datataype in the contrib but I''m not sure \nthat I'm on the right way\n\nI have found these functions:\n\n-- support routines for indexing\n\nCREATE FUNCTION cube_union(cube, cube) RETURNS cube\n AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);\n\nCREATE FU...
[ { "msg_contents": " From a recent bug report:\n\ntest72=# create sequence s;\nCREATE\ntest72=# begin;\nBEGIN\ntest72=# select nextval('s');\n nextval\n---------\n 1\n(1 row)\n\ntest72=# drop sequence s;\nDROP\ntest72=# end;\nNOTICE: LockRelease: no such lock\nCOMMIT\n\nThe NOTICE is a symptom of bad prob...
[ { "msg_contents": "It occurs to me that part of the problem with wasted and incomplete\nefforts can be fixed with a clear security policy. The part that\nI'm interested in is provided below, in a very truncated form.\n\n\nSecure Communications Channels\n------------------------------\n\nSecure communications c...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current KSQO code is currently #ifdef'ed out, and the 'ksqo' GUC\nvariable does nothing. Is there a reason for keeping this code around?\n(or conversely, what was the original justification for disabling it?)\n\nShould I just send in a patch getting rid of it?\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nN...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gents,\n\nI am looking for a more precise polygon overlap test and any comment/pointers/suggestions are appreciated. Attached is the modified poly_overlap in geoops.c. \n\nIf the polygons pass the bounding box check, the following tests will be carried out. The tests are terminated as soon...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kenneth Chan [mailto:kkchan@technologist.com]\n> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:24 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] A more precise polygon_overlap()\n> \n> \n> Gents,\n> \n> I am looking for a more precise polygon overlap tes...
[ { "msg_contents": "This might be a possible fit:\nhttp://www.magic-software.com/Applications.html\n(see \"Boolean operations on 2D polygons. Based on BSP trees\" near the\nbottom of the page).\n\nThe license agreement might be acceptable. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't\nbe sure how free it really is to use from ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nJust in case anyone is around, I've recently arrived in Costa Mesa, California from Australia for a couple of weeks on business. So, if anyone's in the area - it might be cool to catch up...\n\nChris\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi guys,\n \nJust in case anyone is around, I've recently \narr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent this earlier, but accidently sent it from the wrong account\nand it's been sitting in the pending spool all day.\n\nSince writing it, I've sketched in server-side GSS-API and SASL\nsupport for my prior patches. The objective isn't to immediately\nsupport either, but to ensure that fut...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI talked to one of the bison guys and he told me where to find a beta\nversion of bison 1.49. And this one translates the grammar without a\nproblem, no more table overflow. So once they will release the\nnew bison we should be able to expand our grammar.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meske...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI got an corrupted table,,, unfortunately with pretty important data :(\n\nVACUUM tells me:\n\nNOTICE: Rel relx: TID 2344/5704: OID IS INVALID. TUPGONE 1.\nNOTICE: Rel relx: TID 2344/5736: OID IS INVALID. TUPGONE 1.\nNOTICE: Rel relx: TID 2344/5768: OID IS INVALID. TUPGONE 1.\n\n(th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tHi!\n\n\tI have sended the message below to pgadmin-support but receive no\nanswers... I hope you can help me on this...\n\n\tIs there any server timeout that is undocumented?\n\n\tI've issued a query like the one below and the server timed out after \n180min (+/-). The query \"construct_wa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been giving a lot of thought to some of the questions raised\nby my SSL patch, and have both a conclusion and a really stupid\nquestion.\n\nFirst, the conclusion is that what I'm working on is \"secure sessions.\"\nAs I mentioned before, that's not just encryption (e.g., SSH tunnels),\nb...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just looked at Bruce's talk about PostgreSQL history and saw the\nflowchart slide. This would probably give a good poster too. Do we have\nthis flowchart available as eps, gif, whatever?\n\nOr Bruce, do you have a version that you could send me?\n\nThanks a lot.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Mes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nCan anyone help me how to add big amount of data into database?\n\nI tried COPY, first the addition speed was good, but after each minute it\nbecame worser and worser.\nYou can see the table illustrating this below.\n\nThere were ~10,000,000 records.\nThere were no indexes created o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm wondering about alternative accesses to a PostgreSQL data base\nby means other than SQL. I know one can map many things to SQL, but\nlet me think outside the box for just a moment:\n\n- Sending a parse tree in XML for processing by the optimizer.\n This circumvents the SQL langua...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've altered the PL/Tcl build to use the configured compiler, not the one\nTcl wants, pursuant to earlier discussion. This leaves open the issue of\nthe export file that libpgtcl needs on AIX. That looked too confusing to\nme to touch it.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:38, Joe Conway wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > The remaining degradation is actually in seqscan performance, not\n> > indexscan --- unless one uses a much larger -s setting, the planner will\n> > think it ought to use seqscans for updating the \"branches\" and \"teller...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> This is the first time I have ever seen repeated pgbench runs without\n> substantial performance degradation. Not a bad result for a Friday\n> afternoon...\n\nCongatulations :-) This sounds great !!!\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 24 May 2002 23:03:35 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Zeu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe've got rather strange problem with updating and GiST indices.\nBelow is a test run:\n\ndrop table tst;\ncreate table tst ( a int[], i int );\ncopy tst from stdin;\n........\n\\.\ncreate index tsti on tst using gist (a);\nvacuum full analyze;\n\n\ntest=# update tst set i = i+10 whe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a new contrib function called \"pgstatindex\", similar to\npgstattuple but different in that it returns the percentage of the\ndead tuples of an index. I am posting this for review purpose.\n\nInstallation of pgstatindex is pretty easy:\n\nunpack the tar package in contrib directory.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "It occurs to me that we could get rid of the\nReferentialIntegritySnapshotOverride flag (which I consider both ugly\nand dangerous) if we tweaked ExecutorStart to accept the snapshot-to-use\nas a parameter. Then RI queries could pass in SnapshotNow instead of\nthe normal query snapshot, and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "If a VACUUM running concurrently with someone else's indexscan were to\ndelete the index tuple that the indexscan is currently stopped on, then\nwe'd get a failure when the indexscan resumes and tries to re-find its\nplace. (This is the infamous \"my bits moved right off the end of the\nworl...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is my first pass at a sample C function returning \nsetof composite. It is a clone of SHOW ALL as an SRF. For the moment, \nthe function is implemented as contrib/showguc, although a few minor \nchanges to guc.c and guc.h were required to support it.\n\nI wanted to post it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUsing a recent build (22.5) from CVS, if I create a set returning\nfunction in SQL like this:\n\nfunc_test=# CREATE TABLE foo (id INT, txt1 TEXT, txt2 TEXT);\nCREATE TABLE\nfunc_test=# INSERT INTO foo VALUES(1, 'Hello','World');\nINSERT 24819 1\nfunc_test=# \nfunc_test=# CREATE OR REPLACE F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a reason for the following behavior?\n\nnconway=# create table a (col1 int);\nCREATE TABLE\nnconway=# insert into a default values;\nINSERT 1883513 1\nnconway=# copy a to '/tmp/output';\nCOPY\nnconway=# create view myview as select * from a;\nCREATE VIEW\nnconway=# copy myview to '/t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi every one.\n\nI just moved (at last!) to 7.2.1. Works like a charm...\nI'm suprised though by the number of WAL files.\n\nI have 8 files where postgresql.conf says WAL_FILES=4.\n\nWhat did I miss ? (I have no outstanding transaction)\n\nFWIW, t's on UW711.\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a revised patch for a sample C function returning setof \ncomposite. (Same comments as last time -- It is a clone of SHOW ALL as \nan SRF. For the moment, the function is implemented as contrib/showguc, \nalthough a few minor changes to guc.c and guc.h were required to support \nit.)\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe ( me and Teodor) are looking for some postgresql, Web short-time contracts.\nIf somebody have some offering, please contact for details.\nI estimate we'll have financial problem till autumn.\nOur experience:\n\n1. Search engines - small and medium scale for dynamic sites\n (custom...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncould anyone please enlighten me about the status of replication? I do\nexpect lots of questions about this, and I'm not really sure if I can\npromise it for 7.3. :-)\n\nYes, I know it#s marked urgent in the TODO list, but no one seems to be\nlisted as tackling this topic.\n\nThanks a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncould anyone please enlighten me about the status of replication? I do\nexpect lots of questions about this, and I'm not really sure if I can\npromise it for 7.3. :-)\n\nYes, I know it's marked urgent in the TODO list, but no one seems to be\nlisted as tackling this topic.\n\nThanks a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please,\nI saw some articles about de implementation off some security rules like\nNO CREATE TABLE and the possibility of the implementation in version 7.2\nof PostgreSQL.\nCould you confirm this information? Is there this implementation in 7.2?\n\nIf not, what coul I do to create a user with...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello hackers!\n\nDoes anyone know what the message \"invalid length of startup packet\"\nin /var/log/messages means? It says it's \"fatal\" - so what is the reason\nfor this message, what does it mean and what can I do against it?\n\nI use the latest postgresql-release on a heavily loaded ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI just noticed plpgsql evaluates all AND'ed conditions even if the first\none fails. Example:\n\n\telsif TG_OP = ''UPDATE'' and old.type_reponse = ''abandon''\n\nThis will break stuff if the trigger is used on INSERT as\n\"old.type_reponse\" will be substituted and return an error.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "uff, I am ashamed....\n\nTracing the problem I found out that the invalid startup packets were not\ntriggered by the webserver either... looking more precisely I found out\nthat the messages appeared regularly every 180 seconds in /var/log/messages\n\nThis led me to the thought, that this has...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> FOR row IN select_query LOOP\n> statements\n> RETURN NEXT row;\n> END LOOP;\n\nInformix has \n\tRETURN x1, x2, x3 WITH RESUME;\n\nThis seems reasonable to me. PostgreSQL could also allow\nreturn x with resume, where x is already a composite type.\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to implement some code to recreate tables as we discussed\nformerly. But it's not so easy... :-) My first blind alley is that\ndropping a function which is occured in a CHECK constraint or\na DEFAULT constraint, I get \"fmgr_info: function 12345678: cache\nlookup failed\" or \"Func...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Perl build (PL/Perl and the Pg interface) now use the configured\ncompiler and flags and none of the MakeMaker stuff. (I've kept the\ninterfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL file in case someone wants to resurrect it\nfor a Win32 build, for instance.) Since doing Perl builds without\nMakeMaker is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This �feature� does not affect the original version of poly_overlap as only a bounding box test is preformed. I modified poly_overlap in an attempt to improve the preciseness of poly_overlap. The function works when the column is not indexed or when the column is indexed using rtree_gi...
[ { "msg_contents": "With 7.1.3, large indexes with null values allowed in one or more of the\ncolumns would cause crashes. (I have definitely seen this happen).\n\nHere is a project that mentions repairs:\nhttp://postgis.refractions.net/news/index.php?file=20020425.data\n\nHave repairs been effected in 7.2? Ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:37 PM\n> To: Andrew Sullivan\n> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Re : Solaris Performance - 64 bit\n> puzzle\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> ... Turned out that npts of the\n> polygon retrieved from the table is 0 (the other polygon is a constant\n> and its attributes are correct). I suspect the �feature� might\n> affect other functions that uses polygons->npts like poly_contain.\n> Would anyone happens to know the identity of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello all,\n\nsometimes I have got a problem with one of my tables.\n\nIt has got 25 columns, one unique key and an additional index.\nThere are about 368.000 rows in this particular table.\n\nSometimes after running for several days the table is corrupted.\n\nIf the tablename is \"tablenam...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmmm, the very simple example didn't expose the issue probably because it has only two rows of data and the index is not being used. \n\nFor poly_contain, I guess one alternative is to use the result of the box_contain test and not proceed to the point_inside test if one of the poly->npts ==...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:07 AM\n> To: Jan Wieck\n> Cc: Oleg Bartunov; Teodor Sigaev; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Null values in indexes \n> \n> \n> Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> wri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nWhatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed\nto be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list? I believe Bruce was the\none who handled it.\n\nOla\n\n-- \nOla Sundell\nola@miranda.org - olas@wiw.org\nhttp://miranda.org/~ola\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 3...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmmm, the really simple example didn't work probably becaure there are not enough rows in the test tables for the system to use the index instead of doing a sequential scan.\n\nFor poly_contained and other functions that use npts, maybe the code can take into account that npts maybe 0 by doin...
[ { "msg_contents": "What does everyone think about adding self-tuning histograms\nto PostgreSQL?\n\nBriefly, a self-tuning histogram is one that is constructed without\nlooking at the data in the attribute; it uses the information provided\nby the query executor to adjust a default set of histograms that are\ncr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers!\n\nI would like to add configurablity to my language handler function, now it is compiled in. Is there any api in the server to do this?\n\nthanx:\nLaszlo Hornyak\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 30 May 2002 16:25:00 +0200", "msg_from": "Laszlo Hornyak <hornyakl@rootshell.be>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 01:16, Josh Burdick wrote:\n> BUG: this isn't properly set up to deal with multiple users.\n> For example, if A computes a median, then B could read the data\n> from the median_tmp table. Possibly you could fiddle with\n> transaction isolation levels, or add a user fiel...
[ { "msg_contents": "ACK! Sorting to find a median is criminal.\n\n\"Introduction to Algorithms\" by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson,\nRonald L. Rivest\nISBN: 0262031418\nexplains the better algorithm very well.\n\nHere is a freely available C++ template (written by me) for a bunch of\nstatistics (everyth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a program written in C that demonstrates 2 median/selection\ncomputation techniques:\nACM Algorithm 727 (implementation by Sherif Hashem) \nQuickSelect (implemented by me).\n\nSince it is written in C, it would be useful to PostgreSQL project\nwithout any fanfare.\nftp://cap.connx.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there. I'm yet another developer working full-time on a native windows\nport. I'm also working closely with Jan Wieck (next office). I know there is\na reluctance to modify the code base to support native win32, and I realize\nthat no decision has yet been made. However, ...\n\nA few o...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:17 PM\n> To: Josh Burdick\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; josh@agliodbs.com\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] finding medians\n> \n> \n> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 01:16, Josh Burdick wrote:\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:25 PM\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Cc: Katherine Ward; Thomas Lockhart; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small changes to facilitate Win32 port \n> \n> \n> \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to determine if database growth (with LO) that I'm seeing during\na pg_restore is fixed by the patch identified at\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-04/msg00496.php , but when\nI attempt to restore from a 7.2.1 created dump into my newly created\n7.3devel database,...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:24 PM\n> To: Ron Snyder\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Can't import large objects in most \n> recent cvs (20020531 -- approx 1pm PDT) \n> \n> \n> Ron Snyder <snyder@r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Argh. I just realized that I gave this the wrong subject-- it should've been\n\"Can't pg_restore large objects\"\n \n> Digging a bit, I've discovered this:\n> 1) usesysid 1 owns the database in the old server, but all \n> the tables are\n> owned by 'qvowner' (and others).\n> 2) qvowner does n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I have been trying to get the make_ctags script working. On Redhat 7.3 \n(that is all I have access to at the moment.) the script generates the \nfollowing output:\n\n[matthew@zeutrh73 src]$ pwd\n/home/matthew/src/pgsql/src\n[matthew@zeutrh73 src]$ ./tools/make_ctags\nctags: Unknown o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tHi all!\n\n\tFirst of all, thanks for your fine job and the answers to a problem\n(which I thought it was a PG bug) I posted some days ago. I've solved it!\n\n\tNow I've got another strange issue to post...\n\n\tBriefing: the program runs daily and this (please see below) error\ndoes not al...