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"msg_contents": "I try to use initdb to create a new instance. But it fails. The call\n\npostgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1\n\nretunrs the error code 139. Don't know what that means.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de... |
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"msg_contents": "I discovered the hard way that there is no regression test for\ncopy in/out (COPY table TO stdout, etc). This is not good.\npg_dump depends on copy in/out, and pg_dump is rather a critical\nfacility, wouldn't you say?\n\nI'd suggest, in fact, that there ought to be a regression test\nspecifi... |
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"msg_contents": "pg_dump doesn't cope very gracefully at all with databases containing\nmultiple tables not all owned by the same person. It knows enough\nto issue \\connect commands in the reload script that cause the\nnew tables to be owned by the same people as before. But the reload\nscript fails with p... |
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"msg_contents": "OK guys this really concerns me. And I really do consider it a bug.\nNow if Thomas has gotten this working for 6.4 I'll shut my trap. But\nuntil I hear someone tell me that I'm overreacting or that it's fixed\nI'll continue to try to raise support for one or the other. This is my\nlittle e... |
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"msg_contents": "Hope a mention of -i can be added to the error message.\n> \n> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Klaus Fink wrote:\n> \n> > Hi there,\n> > \n> > I have actually a problem with DBD:Pg when connecting to the Postgres\n> > Server. But probably it is mainly a problem with postgres.\n> > \n> > I set up pg_hba.c... |
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"msg_contents": "I must say, I have not felt the pressure of the mailing lists recently. \n\nThanks to all who have taken up the slack by performing many PostgreSQL\nduties. I now feel I can concentrate on the items I specialize in.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillis... |
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"msg_contents": " \n>> Just tried this out, and we have a bug here:\n>> \n>> simply not implemented, not a bug.\n>\n>\tThen should generate a NOTICE to that effect...right now, its\n>misleading unless you go and do a select on pg_group to find that it\n>wasn't actually performed...\n>\n>\tAs it stands now, it... |
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"msg_contents": "Olivier Caron wrote:\n >in the user's guide (chapter _ inheritance), i see :\n >-----------------------------------------------------------\n >select * from cities *\n >\n >here the * after cities indicates that the query should be run over cities\n >and all classes below cities in the ... |
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"msg_contents": "The say the connect statement has to have the following form:\n\nCONNECT TO <SQL-server> [AS <connection name>] [USER <user name>]\n\nIt is implementation dependant how to get database name, server name resp.\nnumber and port number from SQL-server. How will we do this?\n\nHow about this?\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Great. Do we implement this in libpq?\n\nAnd do we implement the old style syntax with '@', too?\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Is there any benefit to using a url-style spec?\n> \n> postgres://server:port/dbname\n> \n> Very fashionable :)\n\nThis would be in line to JDBC's url-style:\n\n jdbc:postgresql://server:port/dbname?options\n\n--\nPeter T Mount, peter@maidstone.gov.uk, peter@retep.org.uk\nPlease note th... |
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"msg_contents": "The : is used in Informix as the delimiter to a remote tablename like:\n\tdns@dns1ifx:dnstab\nbut I like the look of your dbname syntax.\n\nI think it might still be a good Idea to start using a connection file like\nInformix (sqlhosts) and Oracle (tnsnames.ora) use it, so we could have short... |
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"msg_contents": "I am (not) finding a missing file src/interfaces/libpq/fe-print.c in the\ncurrent CVSup'd cvs source tree, and psql is having trouble building\nbecause it is missing PQprint(). \n\nI assume they are related and that someone intended PQprint() to move\nfrom fe-exec.c to a new file fe-print.c.\... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm not sure about libpq as I've never used either with it. However,\nURL-style does seem to be the in thing at the moment.\n\n--\nPeter T Mount, peter@maidstone.gov.uk, peter@retep.org.uk\nPlease note that this is from my works email. If you reply, please cc my\nhome address.\n\n\n-----Origi... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to the HACKERS list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tJohn Edstrom [SMTP:edstrom@Poopsie.hmsc.orst.edu]\n> Sent:\tFriday, May 01, 1998 4:37 PM\n> To:\tpgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject:\t[QUESTIONS] admin question\n> \n> How is pg_log used?\n> \n> I don't ... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to the HACKER list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tAnton Stöckl [SMTP:tony@cys.de]\n> Sent:\tTuesday, May 05, 1998 7:57 AM\n> To:\tPostgreSQL Questions\n> Subject:\t[QUESTIONS] arrays\n> \n> Hi there,\n> \n> I just started playing around with arrays and have a q... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi !\n> Does anybody know, if there are any way to grant to user permissions\n> to\n> create 'C' function ? Psql says that only postgres can do that ....\nI think it means what it says.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> Thanx & Wishes !\n> ---------------------------\n> Sergei Chernev\n> Internet: ser@nsu.ru\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > CONNECT TO <SQL-server> [AS <connection name>] [USER <user name>]\nWhat about PASSWORD?\n\t\t-DEJ\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 7 May 1998 11:22:08 -0500",
"msg_from": "\"Jackson, DeJuan\" <djackson@cpsgroup.com>",
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"msg_contents": ">The inability to do insert seems reasonable, because there\n>would not be any safe way of knowing which table in the inheritance\n>tree was intended. However, update and delete could be expected to\n>work. I suspect that no-one ever asked for the facility!\n>\nThis and similar points have ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have found a problem with libpgtcl and cases where the linking brings\nin the old libpq libraries in the current installed directory, rather\nthan the one in the current source.\n\nHere is the link line:\n\ngcc2 -O2 -m486 -pipe -I../../include -I../../backend -I/u/readline \n-g -Wall -pg... |
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"msg_contents": "\nServer is upgraded now, and I sort of 'oops'd and forgot to move the\nmailing list/majordomo stuff over :(\n\nFixed now...\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 8 May 1998 01:06:41 -0400 (EDT)",
"msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I'm willing to add it to either libecpg or (preferable imn my\nmind) to libpq. I'd also like to add my (old style) syntax if no one\nobjects.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adena... |
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"msg_contents": "[resent as the local mail system screwed up - 10 points to guess what system\nit is ;-) ]\n\n> Okay, I'm willing to add it to either libecpg or (preferable imn my\n> mind) to libpq. I'd also like to add my (old style) syntax if no one\n> objects.\n\nI don't see why not. Handling both won't ex... |
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"msg_contents": "Let me try. Hmm, something from Microsoft? :-)\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! ... |
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"msg_contents": "I had t add a #include <sys/time.h> to get fe-misc.c to compile on my Debian\nGNU/Linux 2.0 machine.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ... |
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"msg_contents": "Bingo, you got it in one.\n\nThere are only two businesses who call their customers 'users'\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Meskes, Michael [mailto:meskes@topsystem.de]\nSent: Friday, May 08, 1998 10:26 AM\nTo: 'Peter Mount'; 'Meskes, Michael'; 'Thomas G. Lockhart'\nCc: 'PostgreSQL Hac... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I have changed ecpg to accept the following:\n\nCONNECT TO connection_target opt_connection_name opt_user\nCONNECT TO DEFAULT\nCONNECT ora_user\n\nwith\n\nconnection_target being either 'dbname[@server][:port]' or\n'{esql,ecpg,sql}:postgresql://server[:port][/dbname]'\n\nopt_connection_... |
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"msg_contents": "To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org \n\n Is your site listed with the top search engines? ListMe will \n list you with 50 search engines and indexes for $90. \n Satisfaction guaranteed! \n\nSearch engines are the only way most people have to find internet sites.\nBut if your site is... |
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"msg_contents": "> user_name SQL_IDENTIFIED BY user_name\n> \n> This should allow us to accept the standard connect calls as well as the\n> Oracle ones. Is there any major db system that uses a different syntax?\n\nFor the password Informix uses:\n\tconnect to 'stores@zeusifx' USER 'informix' USING :passwd_ho... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> When I invoke psql, the default delimiter is the pipe \"|\"\n> character. I can't find the correct syntax to\n> change the delimiter back to a single space. If I\n> type :\n> \\f <whitespace> -- delimiter stays at |\n> \\f \\<whitespace> -- delimite... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\taltex@decebal.ro [SMTP:altex@decebal.ro]\n> Sent:\tWednesday, May 06, 1998 1:34 AM\n> To:\tpgsql questions; pgsql hackers\n> Subject:\t[QUESTIONS] FATAL: Backend cache invalidation\n> initialisation failed \n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> System Configuration\n> ---------------------\n> Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Sun SPARCstation-20\n> \n> Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Solaris 5.5.1\n> \n> PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.3.2) : Postg... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS and BUGS lists.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tIntegration [SMTP:abrams@philos.umass.edu]\n> Sent:\tWednesday, May 06, 1998 10:19 AM\n> To:\tpgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject:\t[QUESTIONS] Multiple tables?\n> \n> Hello,\n> \n> I have an Intel ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > When I invoke psql, the default delimiter is the pipe \"|\"\n> > character. I can't find the correct syntax to\n> > change the delimiter back to a single space. If I\n> > type :\n> > \\f <whitespace> -- delimiter stays at |\n> > \\f \\<whitespace> -- delimiter stays at |\n> > \n> > Encl... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS list.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tGiuliano P Procida [SMTP:gpp10@cam.ac.uk]\n> Sent:\tWednesday, May 06, 1998 12:54 PM\n> To:\tpgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject:\t[QUESTIONS] UInt types\n> \n> Hi.\n> \n> I would like a 32 bit unsigned integ... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS list.\n\nYou might want to try a 'make clean' and then './configure', if you ran\nconfigure before you loaded the new package it could still be reporting\nincorrectly.\n\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tZsolt Varga [SMTP:redax@agria.hu]\n> Sent:\tThursd... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nThere is a new odbc driver (version 6.30.0237) and source code at our\nwebsite (http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc). This one contains some\nbug fixes AND alot of setup options! You can now configure the driver\nmore closely to match your needs hopefully. Please click on the... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded to HACKERS and BUGS lists.\n\n> Dear postgreSQL developers,\n> \n> I like your postgreSQL very much, but I have some problems. Please\n> help\n> me!\n> \n> My first problem:\n> If I create end destroy a table several times (for instance\n> table\n> ANALOG), after some trials... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> > \n> > OK, here is my argument for inlining tas().\n> \n> I am going out of town till Monday, so don't have time to give this\n> the thoughtful response it deserves. I will get back to you on this as\n> I am not quite convinced, but obviously in the face of this I need to\n> explain my... |
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"msg_contents": "list@ListMe.com wrote:\n> From owner-pgsql-hackers@hub.org Fri May 8 09:25:01 1998\n> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:18:42 -0400\n> Message-Id: <199805081518.LAA22620@rover.listme.com>\n> From: list@ListMe.com\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Reply-To: list@ListMe.com\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Y... |
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"msg_contents": "I think that 50$ per line is a bit out there. Maybe $0.10 per line *\nnumber of people on the mailing list. Then we are charging for a\nmeasurable/growing number of people.\nI also think that you should run it by a lawyer for proofing.\n\t\t-DEJ \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\toc... |
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"msg_contents": "PGHOME/src/tutorial/funcs.c .....\n\nI compiled it by GCC ,but not excutable\n\ncommand: gcc -fPIC -c funcs.c\n ld -G -Bdynamic -o funcs.so funcs.o\n\nI met errer mesage ==> \" stat failed on file /../../../*.so\"\n++++++++\n****************************************************... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed changes to allow more automatic type conversion. Lots of\nfiles were touched, mostly in backend/parser/.\n\nThe new code tries to do the right thing for conversions, and does\nhandle cases which were problematic before:\n\n-- there isn't a floating point factorial operator...\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi...\nGigantic table woes again... I get\nsc=> vacuum test_detail;\nFATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted\n\nThis is a very simple table too:\n| word_id | int4 |4 |\n| url_id | int4 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi...\nGigantic table woes again... I get\nsc=> vacuum test_detail;\nFATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted\n\nThis is a very simple table too:\n| word_id | int4 |4 |\n| url_id | int4 ... |
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"msg_contents": "After making a complete fool of myself by posting a poorly\ntested (and conceived) patch to psql to enable \nspecification of a space or tab as a field separator, I \nhave posted a different and hopefully more intelligent\npatch to the patches list. A more detailed message\nhas been sent to t... |
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"msg_contents": ">\n>Postgres has type extensibility, so the algorithms for matching up types\n>and functions need to be very general. In this case, there is only one\n>function defined for factorial, and it takes an integer argument. But of\n>course Postgres now says \"ah! I know how to make an int from a fl... |
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"msg_contents": "Would people tell me what platforms do NOT support the MAP_ANON flag to\nthe mmap() system call? You should find it in the mmap() manual page.\n\n*BSD has it, but I am not sure of the others. I am researching cache\nsize issues and the use of mmap vs. SYSV shared memory.\n\n-- \nBruce Momji... |
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"msg_contents": "^_^) \n^_^) Please cut the complete filename in this message (starting at the first\n^_^) \"/\") and do an ls -l on it. \"Can't stat\" means that there is either no\n^_^) file at the specied location or it is unreadable to the backend which\n^_^) runs as \"postgres\".\n^_^) \n^_^) Gene\n^_^) ... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems like SQL functions cannot be used for defining functional\nindexes. Is this a feature or bug? (I couldn't find that restrictions\nin docs)\n\n> create table d1 (d datetime);\n> insert into d1 values('now'::datetime);\n> create index d1index1 on d1 (d);\n> create function date2month(date... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: Dave Chapeskie <dchapes@ddm.on.ca>; Postgres Hackers List\n<hackers@postgresql.org>\nDate: maandag 11 mei 1998 12:24\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Automatic type convers... |
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"msg_contents": "Maurice wrote:\n> Making an int from a float is only defined for \"small\" values of the float.\n> So for the general case such a conversion would simply overflow the int,\n> giving it an undefined value. Does this make sense to you?\n\nThis sure sounds good:\nselect (4.00000 !); -- would wor... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, There are some codes in libpq/backend communication that seem very\nstrange to me.\n\nin backend/access/common/printtup.c printtup():\n\n\t\t\tpq_putint(strlen(outputstr) + VARHDRSZ, VARHDRSZ);\n\t\t\tpq_putnchar(outputstr, strlen(outputstr));\n\nthe first line above sends the data length... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nDoes anybody knows whats a Portal?\nPostgres' code is plenty of references to them. \nie: \n\n\tProcessPortal routine called inside the executor.\n\nwhich is the difference betwen a query processed calling to processPortal and\na query processed in the standard way (ExecutorRun, Executo... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>\nTo: 'hackers@postgresql.org' <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: maandag 11 mei 1998 21:31\nSubject: [HACKERS] float --> int\n\n\n>Maurice wrote:\n>> Making an int from a float is only defined for \"small\" ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nAfter almost one year using PostgreSQL, I'm still discovering things about\nlocks, we have little documentation about it:\n\nI know that one can lock a table in the following ways:\n\n* BEGIN statement:\n If you don't explicit lock a table using LOCK statement, it will be\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n>dg@illustra.com (David Gould) writes:\n>> The idea that occurred to me is to have the postmaster\n>> \"pre-spawn\" some servers in each (configurable) database. These would run\n>> all the initialization and then just wait for a socket to be handed to\nthem.\n>> The postmaster would duri... |
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"msg_contents": "We installed the 6.3.2 on our system and now the nature of our data\ncorruption has changed. It used to give us \"BTP_CHAIN errors \" message\nbut now it is doing a core dump. I have two questions.\n\n1. Is there a way to check the status of the Index files to see if they\nare OK and not corr... |
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"msg_contents": "> Would people tell me what platforms do NOT support the MAP_ANON flag to\n> the mmap() system call? You should find it in the mmap() manual page.\n> \nIRIX doesn't seem to have it (checked bith Irix 5 and Irix 6)\n\n\nAndrew\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------... |
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"msg_date": "Mon, 11 May 1998 20:43:00 -0100",
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nDoes anybody knows whats a Portal?\nPostgres' code is plenty of references to them. \nie: \n\n ProcessPortal routine called inside the executor.\n\nwhich is the difference betwen a query processed calling to processPortal and\na query processed in the standard way (ExecutorRun, E... |
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"msg_contents": "> My question is why the data length is \"strlen(outputstr) +\n> VARHDRSZ\", not just strlen(outputstr). \n\nI also think that this is a little annoying, but there seems to be no \neasy way out, since all user code has a reference to VARHDRSZ.\nTherefore all existing code would need to be por... |
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"msg_contents": "I have hit the Access 97 problem of ORDER BY not in target list with a\nsimple, one-table query. The problem does not seem to have anything to do\nwith joins.\n\nI have logged the SQL sent to the back end with the CommLog option in the\n238 driver (very useful, thanks Byron). When using OR... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've just finished working on the type\nconversion algorithms so understand the current \"atttypmod\" field a bit\nbetter, but have not decided how to extend it to multiple fields.\n\ndevide it into two 16 bit integers ? \n\nA mathematical package exists for infinite scale decimals, I think... |
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"msg_contents": "REGARDING Box operation algorithms\n\nHello,\n\nI was wondering if the algorithms used to implement the operations on\nbox/polygon/point datatypes are documented and available anywhere on the web?\n\nTIA,\nAndy\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "ocie@paracel.com wrote:\n> \n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> >\n> > Would people tell me what platforms do NOT support the MAP_ANON flag to\n> > the mmap() system call? You should find it in the mmap() manual page.\n> \n> Doesn't seem to appear in Linux (2.0.30 kernel). As another poster\n> comme... |
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"msg_contents": "I am using Byron's ODBC driver (version .0239 downloaded today) with\nAccess 7.00 under Win95 with Postgres 6.3. I am trying to link tables\ninto Access. Most tables work fine, but any field with the name 'name'\nor 'sortname' or even 'garbagename' may not be used as part of an\nindex. Thi... |
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"msg_contents": "I just tried creating a database in the current source tree, and got:\n\n\tNOTICE: _outNode: don't know how to print type 631 \n\tNOTICE: _outNode: don't know how to print type 601 \n\nThis is after a fresh initdb. 601 is:\n\n\t#define PG_TYPE_LSEG 601\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've just synced myself to cvs, an rebuilt. So far, everything has gone\nfine, except when giving the postgres super user a password:\n\ntemplate1=> alter user postgres with password ******;\nNOTICE: _outNode: don't know how to print type 644 \nNOTICE: _outNode: don't know how to print ty... |
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"msg_contents": "I need to translate some geometric objects and discovered that only a\nfew provide the plus/minus operators for translation. However, it\nseems like a trivial job to add or subtract an (x,y) pair from any\ngeometric object since they are all based on a series of points. I\ndon't mind workin... |
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"msg_contents": "I just got thelatest version from cvs and tried to initdb. But I got a core\ndump:\n\n#0 0x4011d7fc in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6\n#1 0x807b3a9 in IsSharedSystemRelationName (relname=0x817fdc8 \"pg_class\")\n at catalog.c:106\n#2 0x807b27e in relpath (relname=0x817fdc8 \"pg_class\") at c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\tIs there any plan to deal with the problem of Postgres server going\nthrough inefficiencies of the filesystem (because the separate tables are\nplaced into separate files)?\n\n\tIf on Solaris, or Sun, there is a big enough table (say 300MB), it\ntakes 600MB of the disk space, and gro... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI dropped and recreated a table and then tried to access it from a previously\nopened database connection (mod_perl). I did do a pg_dump -z -s -t for\nthe table info, and just changed a not null attribute. (anyway to change\nwithout recreating table?)\n\nI could not reproduce it in anothe... |
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"msg_contents": "\nsorry -- of course, the view stored the query plan which had the oid of the\nrelation, and since I'd recreated it, I couldn't select from the view.\nsorry. (sheepishly)\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 13 May 1998 17:21:56 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "Someone was complaining about sequential scan speed, so I decided to run\na test.\n\nI have run the test by performing a total read-through of a 177MB table.\nThis exceeds all my cache sizes by over two times, so the cache is\ntotally useless (\"cache wipe\"). I have timed PostgreSQL's seque... |
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"msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 14 May 1998 09:08:50 +0000",
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"msg_contents": "Argh! No surprise it hang. I just managed to start it without its input.\nStupid me!\n\nAnyway, I still have core dumps. \n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.o... |
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"msg_contents": ">> - Could we use mmap:ing of files at a higher level then\n>> src/backend/strorage/ipc/ipc.c to get even better performance\n>> and cleaness?\n>\n>Yes, we could use mmap() to map the actual files. I will post time\n>timings on this soon.\n\nI do not think this will be a practicable solu... |
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"msg_contents": "> The problem with using a real file is that the filesystem is going to be\n> flushing those dirty pages to disk, and that could really hurt\n> performance.\ndefinitely\n> Actually, when I install Informix, I always have to modify the kernel to\n> allow a larger amount of SYSV shared memory. ... |
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"msg_contents": "This was an unexpected difference between these two types and I wonder\nif it was meant to be this way. Previously, a char8 field with the\nstring 'abc' would return 'abc' as expected. Now, with char(8), I get\nback 'abc ' instead. You can see this with my PygreSQL module\nor the C int... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> This was an unexpected difference between these two types and I wonder\n> if it was meant to be this way. Previously, a char8 field with the\n> string 'abc' would return 'abc' as expected. Now, with char(8), I get\n> back 'abc ' instead. You can see this with my PygreSQL module\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "INTERNET WIRE: http://www.internetwire.com\n\"Connecting Business to the World\"\n\nNOTE: List instructions and contact information at the end of this email.\n\nTo Get Full-Text Stories, click on the link associated with the story you wish to read.\n\nMay 14,1998 Headlines:\n\nAgents Technolo... |
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"msg_contents": "(moved to hackers list)\n\n> I am working on extending locale support for char/varchar types.\n> Q1. I touched ...src/include/utils/builtins.h to insert the following\n> macros:\n> -----\n> #ifdef USE_LOCALE\n> #define pgstrcmp(s1,s2,l) strcoll(s1,s2)\n> #else\n> #define pgstrcmp(s1,s2,... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone posted a (readonly) benchtest of mmap vs\nread/write I/O using the following code:\n\n for (off = 0; 1; off += MMAP_SIZE)\n {\n addr = mmap(0, MMAP_SIZE, PROT_READ, 0, fd, off);\n assert(addr != NULL);\n\n for (j = 0; j < MMAP... |
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"msg_contents": "INTERNET WIRE: http://www.internetwire.com\n\nNOTE: List instructions and contact information at the end of this email.\n\nTo Get Full-Text Stories, click on the link associated with the story you wish to read.\n\nHeadlines for May 15,1998\n\nAmerican Heart Association: Heart-Healthy Greeting... |
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"msg_contents": "I think soon people are going to start calling me Mr. Big...Tables...\n\nI have a big table. 40M rows.\nOn the disk, it's size is:\n 2,090,369,024 bytes. So 2 gigs. On a 9 gig drive I can't sort this table.\nHow should one decide based on table size how much room is needed?\n\nAlso, this simp... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tI took the time today to take a close look at the regression tests\nthat fail when they are run on Linux/Alpha. I used the May 16th snapshot\non my RH4.0 UDB for the tests.\n\n\tThere are four types of failures that I could determine....\n\n* Error message mismatch: One error message is i... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, thanks to Tom Lane's many patches, I have query cancel working on my\nmachine. However, it is not working with Unix domain sockets. I get:\n\n\tCannot send cancel request:\n\tPQrequestCancel() -- couldn't send OOB data: errno=45\n\tOperation not supported\n\nThis is under BSDI 3.1.\n\nD... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm currently feeding ecpg with Oracle's examples. It accepts almost all of\nit, except the prepare statement and the typedef stuff. I'd like to do the\nsame with examples from other DBs. So if you have embedded SQL stuff from\nIngres, Informix, Sybase, whatever, please try it with ecpg and s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n\nCan anybody who has access to the www.postgresql.org website add the \nmention of the pgsql-interfaces mailing list.\n\nI wrote to the webmaster there with no results.\n\nI think it should reduce the number of people who try to subscribe to \nthe old (officially dead) postodb... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't remember what the outcome was, but what about UNICODE?\n\nOne of the partially implemented bits of JDBC is the handling of UNICODE\nstrings (which Java uses all the time).\n\n--\nPeter T Mount, peter@maidstone.gov.uk, peter@retep.org.uk\nJDBC FAQ: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres\nPle... |
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"msg_contents": "> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > OK, thanks to Tom Lane's many patches, I have query cancel working on my\n> > machine. However, it is not working with Unix domain sockets. I get:\n> >\n> > Cannot send cancel request:\n> > PQrequestCancel() -- couldn't send OOB data: errno=45... |
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"msg_contents": "INTERNET WIRE: http://www.internetwire.com\nNews and Links from Around the Web\n\nNOTE: List instructions and contact information at the end of this email.\n\nTo Get Full-Text Stories, click on the link associated with the story you wish to read.\n\nHeadlines for May 18,1998\n\nCNN Interactiv... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt appears that compiling with Kerberos 5 support turned on against MIT\nKerberos 1.0.5 produces some breakage.\n\nAnyone seen this?\n\n(I'm keen to use Kerberos 5 as its a deployed company wide and Sybase does\nnot support it so it would make PostgreSQL look really good if this\nworked.)\n... |
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"msg_contents": " It just occurred to me, while browsing through the last hacker's\ndigest, that OOB might be more trouble than it's worth. What about\nhaving the Postmaster listen on a second socket as an alternative?\nCertain commands could be issued there, outside of the main connection\n(possibly even ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, ALL!\n\nI came back\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 19 May 1998 13:27:06 +0800",
"msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>",
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"msg_contents": ">Use TCP. On most modern systems (eg Linux ;-) ), TCP especially on the\nlocal\n>machine is very efficient. Not quite as efficient as a Unix domain socket,\n>but close enough that no one will notice.\n>\n\n\nUnix domain sockets are not only more efficient. They also are less of a\nsecurity\nr... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Any ideas?\n\nUse TCP. On most modern systems (eg Linux ;-) ), TCP especially on the local\nmachine is very efficient. Not quite as efficient as a Unix domain socket,\nbut close enough that no one will notice.\n\nI have not experienced noteable performance differences on my AIX box either... |
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"msg_contents": "> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:47:59 +0200 (CEST)\n> From: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>\n> Subject: example code\n> \n> I'm currently feeding ecpg with Oracle's examples. It accepts almost all of\n> it, except the prepare statement and the typedef stuff. I'd like to do the\n> same with e... |
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"msg_contents": "Andreas Zeugswetter writes:\n> Here is the Informix demo stuff.\n> I guess only demo[1-3].ec are of any significance. I guess these are all copyrighted,\n\nThanks a lot. Now I have: Oracle, Informix, YardSQL (if they have some, I\nhaven't checked yet) and Interbase (once the download finishes... |
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