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[ { "msg_contents": "I have found current CVS doesn't work with Perl 5.005 patch 3. It tries\nto do:\n\n\t#$ pod2man Pg.pm Pg.3\n /usr/bin/pod2man: Need one and only one podpage argument\n usage: /usr/bin/pod2man [options] podpage\n Options are:\n --section=manext (default \"1\")...
[ { "msg_contents": "Krzysztof Stachlewski wrote:\n> ----- Original Message -----\n> From: \"Bruce Momjian\" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> To: <stach@toya.net.pl>; <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>\n> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 10:45 PM\n> Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug #655: win32 client and bytea column\n> \n> > Yes, this is...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think its already been determined that the cygwin option is too low\nperforming.\n\nHowever, the apache stuff could be quite useful - but if that effort\nwere to be undertaken, it would make more sense to move all versions of the\ncode the\nthe apache runtime, for all platforms. Are there ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOn Mon, June 03 Bruce wrote:\n> > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:47:46PM +0200, Zeugswetter SB SD Andreas wrote:\n> > > When we are talking about the places where you need double escaping \n> > > (once for parser, once for input function) to make it work, I would also \n> > > say that that is v...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please apply attached patch to contrib/intarray (7.2, 7.3).\n\n Fixed bug with '=' operator for gist__int_ops and\n define '=' operator for gist__intbig_ops opclass.\n Now '=' operator is consistent with standard 'array' type.\n <br>\n Tnanks Achilleus Mantzios for bug rep...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is possible de make a cluster with postgresql ?\n\nmichael\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is possible de make a cluster with postgresql \n?\n \nmichael", "msg_date": "Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:51:06 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Vergoz Michael\" <mvergoz@sysdoor.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_sub...
[ { "msg_contents": "This report was submitted as a Debian bug.\n\n-----Forwarded Message-----\n\nFrom: russell@coker.com.au\nTo: submit@bugs.debian.org\nSubject: Bug#149056: postgresql: should not try in a busy loop when allocating resources\nDate: 04 Jun 2002 23:06:35 +0200\n\nPackage: postgresql\nVersion: N/A\...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I was wrong. '' can be sufficient. The DB just has to treat everything \nbetween single quotes as data except for '' which is treated as a ' in the \ndata.\n\nHowever raw control characters can still cause problems in the various \nstages from the source to the DB.\n\nCheerio,\nLink.\n\nL...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:34 PM\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> OK, I think I am now caught up on the Win32/cygwin \n> discussion, and would\n> l...
[ { "msg_contents": "I apologize for my English language message. I am unable to speak\nJapanese. We do have a native Japanese speaker here, who could be\ncalled upon if necessary.\n\nThe PostgreSQL team is planning to do a native Win32 port. Perhaps you\nwould like to help with the effort. In that way, your ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 05 June 2002 21:00\n> To: Mike Mascari\n> Cc: Rod Taylor; Dave Page; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Operator Comments\n> \n> \n> Mike Mascari wrote:\n> > Here's the histor...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:thomas@fourpalms.org]\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:03 PM\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Igor Kovalenko; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> ...\n> > Good summary. I think we wou...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been having a lot of fun here at the SIGMOD annual conference,\nattaching faces to names like Stonebraker, Hellerstein, Aoki,\nSeltzer (if these do not ring a bell, you ain't read enough Postgres\nsource code lately). I felt I had to pass along this gem from Joe\nHellerstein, right afte...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nProblem:\n\nWin2000 and Cygwin/postgresql-7.1 produce\n\"defunct\" processes after each run which can ONLY be killed\nby Win Task Manager. If you allow too many \"defunct\" processes\nyour database requests slow down and your number of connections\nincreases, i.e. if you\nhave 32 connecti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Steven,\n\nI found the following snippet in MSDN under CreateProcess:\n\n\"The created process remains in the system until all threads within the\nprocess have terminated and all handles to the process and any of its\nthreads have been closed through calls to CloseHandle. The handles for both...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch to contrib/intarray is attached to this message.\nPlease apply it to 7.2 and CVS\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Steve Howe [mailto:howe@carcass.dhs.org] \n> Sent: 06 June 2002 02:37\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> Hello Bruce,\n> \n> Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 1:33:44 AM, you wrote:\n> \n> BM>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI'm trying to start to program with the PostgreSQL's geometric primitive\ntypes, and have started to write some code using them (PostgreSQL\nversion 7.1.3, installed from source). However when I\ninclude the file utils/geo_decls.h I get an error starting that the type\nPGFunction (found ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have just committed the last of the schema related changes to pgAdmin\nto CVS. This was a significant amount of work and there are bound to be\nsome bugs, so if you have a Windows PC & a little spare time, I would\nappreciate it if you could find some time to try it out with any of\nPostg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Anyway, I am pretty sure that PostgreSQL is not the culprit here. As it \n> happens this project is back on the table for me so it is interesting that \n> your email popped up now. I just compiled the latest version of PostgreSQL \n> on my AIX system and it generated lots of errors and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis problem was discovered in 7.1.2. Was wondering whether this is a known problem or not; we plan to test this on the latest postgres sometime later.\n\nWe have a large table, lets call it A, millions of rows. And in the table is a field called time, which is TIMESTAMP type. We have an in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Developers,\n\nHere's part to of my proposal to enhance, improve, and fix Timestamp and \nInterval in PostgreSQL. Part I is included after Part II in case everyone \nhas forgotten it.\n\nPlease give me feedback on this. My interest is that I develop calendaring \napps based on Postgresql,...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI received this question about buffer management. Can someone answer it?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nnield@usol.com wrote:\n> \n> Dear Mr. Momjian:\n> \n> First let me thank you for the great work you have done on PostgreSQL.\n> This is...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nSorry for the length of this but I'm trying to get an idea of where my\ncompany can contribute to the best effect so I have a number of questions.\n\nTo begin with my team and I have some energy/time/$ over the coming months\nto put directly into PostgreSQL-related development work...
[ { "msg_contents": "By the way, a colleague just reproduced this problem on a 7.2.1 postgres.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Rachit Siamwalla [mailto:rachit@ensim.com]\nSent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:27 PM\nTo: pgsql-hackers; Paul Menage\nSubject: [HACKERS] Question whether this is a known problem in 7.1.2\...
[ { "msg_contents": "After uncommenting this I receive errors about it not being a valid\noption. I assume this has been replaced by\n (server|client)_min_messages?\n\nIn which case it should be removed from what initdb installs.\n--\nRod\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:25:50 -0400", "msg_from": "\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Russell, can you provide a test case, or at least explain the\ncircumstances, please. Please maintain the Cc list.\n\n-----Forwarded Message-----\n\nFrom: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nTo: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Bug#14...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 08 June 2002 22:48\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> > \n> > > Also, it seems Win32 doesn't need these scripts, except init...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nBased on an entry in the mailing list from 30 Oct 2001 \nabout efficient deletes on subqueries, \nI've found two ways to do so (PostgreSQL 7.2.1): \n\n1.\nBEGIN ;\nEXPLAIN ANALYZE\nDELETE FROM onfvalue WHERE EXISTS(\nSELECT * FROM onfvalue j WHERE \nj.sid= 5 AND\nonfvalue.lid = j.lid...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a 7.3 dev test database, I have a table called msysconf in a schema\ncalled biblio. If I execute:\n\nALTER TABLE biblio.msysconf OWNER TO dpage\n\nI get:\n\nERROR: msysconf_idx is an index relation\n\nThere is an index with this name on the table.\n\nAny ideas?\n\nRegards, Dave.\n", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n is there any news about the Mac OS X shutdown issue?\nIt was discussed in a few April-May/2002 messages with the Subject\n\"Mac OS X: system shutdown prevents checkpoint\". In short, during a\nregular system shutdown on Mac OS X the postmaster is not terminated\ngracefully, leadin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi ,\n\nI am extremely new to PostGreSql. If any one can please answer \nthis question of mine. I want to insert/update records into the \npostgres database through C or perl code. The only condition is \nthat it should be efficient. Can anybody tell me the difference \nbetween ecpg and libpq...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: vikas p verma [mailto:vvicky72@rediffmail.com]\n> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:10 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt\n> \n> \n> Hi ,\n> \n> I am extremely new to PostGreSql. If any one can please answer \n> this q...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are moving to Postgres from Oracle. We have a few tables that have around\n8 to 10 millions of rows and their size increases very rapidly(deletions are\nvery less on these tables). How will Postgres hanlde very big tables like\nthis? or would it be very slow when compared to Oracle?...
[ { "msg_contents": "Should the following piece of code cause an:\nERROR: <unnamed> referential integrity violation - key referenced\n from b not found in a\nOr should it work because the check is deferred and in the\nend no violations are present?\n\ncreate table a(ia int primary key);\ncreate table b(ia int re...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]\n> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 3:42 PM\n> To: Tom Lane; Manfred Koizar\n> Cc: Christoph Haller; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Efficient DELETE Strategies\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK I know this has been long delayed but I've finished some work on the \nabove. The coster is actually doing a fairly good job. I only recieved \none submission from someone with data that replicated the problem, and \nwas myself hard pressed to replicate the situation. It's more-or-less ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are you using crypt on the connection?\n\nUnfortunately, crypt is not reentrant.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: David Ford [mailto:david+cert@blue-labs.org]\n> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 6:16 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: vikas p verma; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce, this error and the one in your earlier post are not indicative\nof the bug, but rather of the connection failing - looking at the\ncreated ecpgdebug file should confirm this.\n\nI have since compiled 7.3 with the patch locally and cannot recreate\nthe bug (after messing around with the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello together\n\ni've seen a lot of discussion about a native win32/OS2/BEOS port of\nPostgreSQL.\n\nDuring the last months i've ported PostgreSQL over to Novell NetWare\nand i've\nchanged the code that I use pthreads instead of fork() now.\n\nI had a lot of work with the variables and clean...
[ { "msg_contents": "If you double-alias a column in a query (yeah, stupid, I know, but I did \nit by mistake and others will too!), then the dreaded \"fmgr_info: \nfunction <number>: cache lookup failed\" message is kicked out. For example:\n\n select * from company c, references r where r.company_id=c.company....
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just committed changes which implement three SQL99 functions and\noperators. OVERLAY() allows substituting a string into another string,\nSIMILAR TO is an operator for pattern matching, and a new variant of\nSUBSTRING() accepts a pattern to match.\n\nRegression tests have been augmented ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just committed changes which implement three SQL99 functions and\noperators. OVERLAY() allows substituting a string into another string,\nSIMILAR TO is an operator for pattern matching, and a new variant of\nSUBSTRING() accepts a pattern to match.\n\nRegression tests have been augmented ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I *really* need to get my majordomo account fixed up to keep from\nstalling posts from my various accounts to the various lists. \n\nI think that I can enter some aliases etc to allow this; where do I find\nout how? Searching the -hackers archives brought no joy since the\nobvious keyword...
[ { "msg_contents": "> As part of createdb, the new database will have to have it's public\n> schema changed to world-writable.\n\nI have to admit that much of the schema related discussion has been over my\nhead, but I think what I understand you to be saying here is that the\ndefault would be to allow anybody t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Igor,\n\nThanks for your information.\n\nI was aware of the \"signal\" problems and i've done it with thread based\nsignals\nThis part is functional on my platform but it isn't fully cooked.\nAnother problem\nis to make this part portable.\n\nYour assumption to replace SysV semaphores with...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthere were several people at my talk asking if PostgreSQL is available\non Novell Netware. I know I read about someone working on this, but\ndidn't follow the thread at all since I do not have any Netware servers.\n\nDoes anyone out there know more?\n\nThanks in advance.\n\nMichael\n--...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm running a transaction with about 1600 INSERTs.\nEach INSERT involves a subselect.\n\nI've noticed that if one of the INSERTs fails, the remaining INSERTs run in about\n1/2 the time expected.\n\nIs postgresql optimising the inserts, knowing that it will rollback at the end ?\n\nIf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Michael,\n\nI know all about the story of PostgreSQL for NetWare.\n\nI will tell you the story now:\nFirst I want to introduce myself:\nI'm a Novell DeveloperNet SysOp and i'm working with the database\nteam and the C Library team at Novell in Provo/Utah.\n\nThe story starts last year in m...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Michael Meskes [mailto:meskes@postgresql.org]\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:41 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:08:22PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think libpqxx, the alternative to libpq++, is just about ready for\nprime time. That means integrating it with the main source tree, I\nsuppose, but I have no idea where to start--particularly because libpqxx\nhas its own configure setup.\n\nAnyone who can help me with this?\n\n\nJeroen\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": " Deletion of data from a PostgreSQL table is very slow.\n\n It would be nice to have a very fast delete like \"truncate table.\"\n\n Now, truncate is a very dangerous command because it is not logged (but\n the same is true for other operations like bulk copy and select into).\n So ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I should apologize for being rather harsh about embedded SQL for\nPostgreSQL.\n\nTo be fair, it does function and it certainly isn't trivial to\nimplement. I am sure that those who have worked on this project have\ninvested very many hours of blood, sweat and tears making it work.\n\nI actua...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:ler@lerctr.org]\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:36 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature request: Truncate table\n> \n> \n> On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:32, Dann Corbit wrote:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:42 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Michael Meskes; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > I should apologize f...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:20 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Michael Meskes; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit \n> > > I assume this is because...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just so you know, current CVS HEAD passes all tests on FreeBSD/Alpha (a\n64bit machine) with this configure:\n\n./configure --prefix=/home/chriskl/local --enable-integer-datetimes --enable\n-debug --enable-depend --enable-cassert --with-pam --with-openssl --with-CXX\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_da...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we just had the discussion about index size, I have written a\nsection for our administration manual that shows ways of finding the\ndisk usage for specific tables and databases:\n\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/diskusage.html\n\nI also updated README.oid2name to sh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[pgsql-announce removed and pgsql-hackers added]\n\nI have applied your patches with small corrections. Please grab the\nlatest source and let me know if something is wrong.\n\nThanks.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n> Hi Ishii-san,\n> \n> The patches are attached.Please apply it.\n> \n> Thanks,\n> Bi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently serial is dumped as a sequence and appropriate default\nstatement.\n\nWith my upcoming dependency patch serials depend on the appropriate\ncolumn. Drop the column (or table) and the sequence goes with it.\nThe depencency information does not survive the pg_dump / restore\nprocess h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks for reading. A few disclaimers:\n\n1. I am a newbie. I program for a living, but my work in pg has so far \nbeen at the \"devoted hobby level,\" using pg and PHP. For an example of \nwhat I have done with pg, you can visit www.the-athenaeum.org, a site I \none day hope to make into...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added the recent threads discussing a Win32 port to CVS\nTODO.detail, and have added an item on the TODO list:\n\n\t* Create native Win32 port [win32]\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Michael Meskes [mailto:meskes@postgresql.org]\n> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 3:06 AM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt\n> \n> \n> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:46:47AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > I should apolo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know you guys love subject lines like this, but I have a humble\nrequest. Would it be possible to have either a GUC setting or a grammar\nchange to allow TEMPORARY tables to be dropped at transaction commit? I\nknow the standard defines the lifetimes of temporary tables to be that\nof the s...
[ { "msg_contents": "... while talking to sss.pgh.pa.us.:\n\n>>>>>> MAIL From:<david+cert@blue-labs.org>\n>>> \n>>>\n<<< 550 5.7.1 Probable spam from 68.9.71.221 refused - see http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?68.9.71.221\n554 5.0.0 Service unavailable\n\nTom, if you block everyone on cable, dialup, d...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch, which is built upon the \"HeapTupleHeader accessor macros\"\npatch from 2002-06-10, is supposed to reduce the heap tuple header size\nby four bytes on most architectures. Of course it changes the on-disk\ntuple format and therefore requires initdb. As I have (once more)\nopened ...
[ { "msg_contents": "What is the preferred method (if there even is one) for modifying the\ncomment on a language? \n\nI vaguely remember it being documented that it was stored in\npg_language.lancompiler and specified using the LANCOMPILER option to\nCREATE LANGUAGE or by updating the record directly. pgAdmin ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 14 June 2002 14:49\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Language Comments \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > What is the preferred method ...
[ { "msg_contents": "As you probably know, SQL99 has dropped the rather useless\ncategorizations of \"basic\", \"intermediate\", and \"advanced\" SQL\ncompliance and instead lists a large number of labeled features. I've\nput these into an appendix for the docs (not yet committed to cvs).\n\nThe list is organized...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nQuestion:\n\n How feasible would it be to create this functionality in PostgreSQL:\n\nOne creates a test version of a database that initially consists of \nread-links to the production version of the same database. Any code he/she \nthen writes that reads from a table reads from the pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom, Bruce,\n\nBack in 7.1.0, we had a problem where no index could be used on ORDER\nBY ... DESC statements. Has this been fixed? I'm writing an article\non indexing.\n\n-Josh Berkus\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:32:03 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Josh Berkus\" <josh@agliodbs.com>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n'Afternoon folks,\n\nI think I'm going blind I just can't spot what I've done wrong. Can someone\nhave a quick glance at this function, and relevent table definitions, and tell\nme what I've got wrong please?\n\nThe error message I'm getting when I try to use it with:\n\nSELECT new_transa...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are various paths of control in md5_crypt_verify that do\n\n\t\tif (passwd)\n\t\t\tpfree(passwd);\n\t\tif (valuntil)\n\t\t\tpfree(valuntil);\n\nIsn't this now pfree'ing part of the saved pre-parsed pg_pwd data?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:08:16 -0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks for reading. A few disclaimers:\n\n1. I am a newbie. I program for a living, but my work in pg has so far \nbeen at the \"devoted hobby level,\" using pg and PHP. For an example of \nwhat I have done with pg, you can visit www.the-athenaeum.org , a site I \none day hope to make int...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just committed changes to include an SQL99 feature list as an\nappendix in the User's Guide. While preparing that I noticed a feature\nor two which would be trivial to implement, so we now have LOCALTIME and\nLOCALTIMESTAMP function calls per spec (afaict; the spec is very vague\non the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\ni'm trying to use the instruccion \"copy\" of psql in windows\nbut it fails, it's posible to do that? how?\n\nthanks.\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:20:21 UT", "msg_from": "mmendez@inntecra.com", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "please help me with psql!" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "What does this mean, and what could be causing it?\n\nFATAL 2: InitRelink(logfile 0 seg 173) failed: No such file or\ndirectory\n\nThat's the second time in as many months that I have received this\nerror when trying to start postmaster after a crash -- both times a\nserver reboot remedied th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have finally caught up on my email. The first week after returning\nfrom vacation, I read the 3400 emails from May (~100/day), and the\nsecond week dealt with emails requiring special attention. All\noutstanding patches should now be applied.\n\nI am now back to trying to polish up open i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 16 June 2002 01:09\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL odbc list\n> Subject: Re: [ODBC] [HACKERS] KSQO parameter\n>\n> > either ... does anyone out there want to work on it?...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nComments below to keep context intact...\n\nOn Saturday 15 June 2002 04:13 pm, Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n> Matthew Tedder dijo:\n> > On Friday 14 June 2002 04:41 pm, Bill Cunningham wrote:\n> > > Matthew Tedder wrote:\n> > > > How feasible would it be to create this functionality in\n> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been busy working on my presentation on concurrency for the\nupcoming O'Reilly conference. While doing so, I've been thinking\nmore about the question of when to do SetQuerySnapshot calls inside\nfunctions. We've gone around on that before, without much of a\nconsensus on what to do; s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that gram.y doesn't handle with optional WITH in CREATE USER,\nALTER USER, CREATE GROUP very well. It duplicates the actions, rather\nthan creating an optional WITH clause.\n\nI have fixed this, and made WITH in CREATE DATABASE optional for\nconstency.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing massive regression failures on a freshly compiled, initdb'ed\nversion of CVS:\n\n 16 of 81 tests failed, 1 of these failures ignored. \n\nThe first failure I see is:\n\t\n\t COPY COPY_TBL FROM '/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/test/regress/data/constrf.data';\n\t- E...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ahh, that would be us then :-) Yes, there is a (very) active .NET\nprovider project underway - it can be found at\nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql. Note though, that this is a\nnative .NET provider being written in C#, it is not OLE-DB (which would\ncertainly be a useful addition t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI need to do some testing of pgAdmin on a database with very large oids\n(> 4,000,000,000). Is there anyway I can wind the oid counter forward\nwithout having to do a few billion inserts?\n\nI'm on a test system so I can initdb if required.\n\nThanks, Dave.\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 17 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I posted this last week but got no responses :-( - It's not causing me\nproblems but if it is a bug... \n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dave Page \n> Sent: 10 June 2002 15:11\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: ALTER TABLE... OWNER bugette\n> \n> \n> In a 7....
[ { "msg_contents": "As Bruce already pointed out this seems to be the most wanted feature of\nall. I just finished working through my notes from Linuxtag checking\nwhat people asked about PostgreSQL and yes, the feature most people\nasked for was PIT.\n\nOf course this is closely related to replication, but I wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the complete NIST regression test:\nftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/nist.ZIP\n\nYou have to use passive ftp to get files from my site because of the\nfirewall.\n\nThe zip is about 6 megabytes compressed.\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:27:45 -0700", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Martin Coxall [mailto:coxall@cream.org] \n> Sent: 17 June 2002 13:05\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Marek Mosiewicz; \n> PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL odbc list\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Native OLE DB. What do you think about it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks Tom,\n\nI suspect hacking pg_resetxlog is beyond my capabilities right now, but\nif I do get anything I'll post a patch. I'll probably end up using\ngdb...\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 17 June 2002 15:00\n> To:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 17 June 2002 15:32\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FW: ALTER TABLE... OWNER bugette (repost) \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nGiven the amount of qoute nesting we do in Postgres, I thought that we need a \nfunction that handles automatic doubling of quotes within strings. I've \nwritten one in PL/pgSQL (below). I'd really love to see this turned into a \nbuiltin C function.\n\n-Josh\n\nCREATE FUNCTION d...
[ { "msg_contents": " \nYour patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:\n\n\thttp://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n\nI will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJoe Conway wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:01 PM\n> To: Jan Wieck\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> Jan Wieck wrote:\n> > > And pg_ctl will be ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:20 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jan Wieck; Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > > > It...
[ { "msg_contents": "In order to make domains spec compliant I've added the ability for the\nexecutor to handle Constraint * types, which it applies appropriately.\ncoerce_type wraps domains with the appropriate Constraint Nodes as\nrequired. I've run into a rather simple problem however.\n\nCREATE DOMAIN int4no...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally hit bison's limit and cannot find any easy to remove rules in\nthe ecpg part of the parser anymore. There may be some in the backend\npart, but I'd like to keep those in sync.\n\nFor the time being I update my machine to a development snapshot bison\n1.49, but that doesn't look like...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am new to PostgreSQL, but I am interested in the Win32 port.\nI have studied the architecture of other databases like Oracle.\n\nThey have had to turn their multi-process model used on Unix into a fully\nmulti-threaded one on Win32. I have the feeling that they have had the same\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tmomjian@postgresql.org\t02/06/18 13:56:41\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/parser: gram.y \n\nLog message:\n\tWrap long gram.y lines.\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:56:41 -0400 (EDT)", "msg_from": "momjian@postgresql.org (...
[ { "msg_contents": "How about we add the preproc.c file generated by bison 1.49 to cvs?\nCould that create problems elsewhere? \n\nThe version that is part of the source tree now is generated on the\nserver, isn't it?\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian...