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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHas anyone considered creating an aggregate function that returns an \narray of all matching rows? I am not sure if this makes much sense from \na speed point of view or is possible, but it would help denormalizing \ntables when necessary. For example, consider a table that looks as ... |
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"msg_contents": "OK,\n\nOn HEAD, I am still seeing the attached failures. They didn't happen\nbefore, but appeared in the last couple of months. All other tests pass.\n\nIt seems to just be a tuple ordering issue - I really don't know what caused\nit? If necessary, I can just modify the expected result, bu... |
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"msg_contents": "I was getting CVS errors because regress/GNUmakefile does an 'rm -rf\nresults', removing the CVS directory from results. This was causing my\n'cvs update's to fail. My fix was to change 'rm -rf results' to 'rm -f\nresults/*.out'.\n\nDoes anyone know when this problem was added. I don't see... |
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"msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> I was getting CVS errors because regress/GNUmakefile does an 'rm -rf\n> results', removing the CVS directory from results. This was causing my\n> 'cvs update's to fail. My fix was to change 'rm -rf results' to 'rm -f\n> results/*.out'.\n> \n> Does anyone know when this probl... |
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"msg_contents": "A while ago, I started a small discussion about passing arguments to a NOTIFY \nso that the listening backend could get more information about the event.\n\nThere wasn't exactly a consensus from what I understand, but the last thing I \nremember is that someone intended to speed up the notifi... |
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"msg_date": "Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:56:48 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "SQL92 requires named constraints to have names that are unique within\ntheir schema. Our past implementation did not require constraint names\nto be unique at all; as a compromise I suggested requiring constraint\nnames to be unique for any given relation. Rod Taylor's pending\npg_constrain... |
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"msg_contents": " Hi,\n I know ORACLE has distributed database management features: such as\n replication. Can postgreSQL do this? Is any software available for this\npurpose for postgreSQL?\n\n Thanks,\n\nLiping\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:47:49 -0700",
"msg_from": "liping guo <liping.... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, this is what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/Alpha for libpq++. I haven't figured\nout how to build libpqxx yet.:\n\ngmake[3]: Entering directory\n`/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/src/interfaces/libpq++'\ng++ -O2 -g -Wall -fpic -DPIC -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/\ninclude -c -o pgconn... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI have given up working on the BETWEEN node. It got to the stage where I\nrealised I was really out of my depth! Rod Taylor has indicated an interest\nin the problem and I have sent him my latest patch, so hopefully he'll be\nable to crack it.\n\nSo instead, I've taken up with th... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThe attached patch implements the SQL92 UNIQUE predicate. I've written\nsome regression tests (as well as adding a few for subselects in FROM\nclauses). I'll update the documentation if/when this patch is accepted.\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nNeil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>\nPGP... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey,\n\n Oreilly and Assoc is interviewing me and they asked me two questions I \ndon't have the answers to:\n\nWhen is 7.3 set to land?\n\nWhen is 8.0 set to land?\n\n\nI said, when there done, but they want a little more ;)\n\nJoshua Drake\nCo-Author Practical PostgreSQL\nCommand Prompt, I... |
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"msg_contents": "I have tried to compile PostgreSQL with the Intel C Compiler 6.0 for \nLinux. During this process some errors occurred which I have attached to \nthis email. I have compiled the sources using:\n\n[hs@duron postgresql-7.2.1]$ cat compile.sh\n#!/bin/sh\n\nCC=/usr/local/intel_compiler/compiler60... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nA simple testing program :\n\n* * * * * * * * * * * * * * begin * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *\n\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <stdlib.h>\n\nint main (void)\n{\n unsigned int v;\n\n v = 0x87654321L;\n\n return (0);\n}\n\n* * * * * * * * * * * * * * end * * * * * * * * *... |
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"msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > The following patch fixes all of these, and it will be in 7.3.\n> > \n> > It will? Kindly explain what the heck this is doing. It looks to\n> > me like it will probably break more cases than it fixes.... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 04 July 2002 07:40\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Hiroshi Inoue; Hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN\n> \n> \n> Well, why shouldn't we use the fact that ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed support for IS DISTINCT FROM to the head of the CVS tree.\nI did not update the catalog version, but since one enumerated type has\nadded a value it may be that initdb is actually required. Almost\ncertainly a \"make clean\" is essential.\n\nThere is more work to do, including ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI've got the logging system to the point where I can take a shutdown\nconsistent copy of a system, and play forward through multiple\ncheckpoints. It seems to handle CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE/TRUNCATE\nproperly, and things are moving forward well. Recovery to an arbitrary\npoint-in-ti... |
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"msg_contents": "> Christopher, if you are still having trouble adding the isdropped system\n> column, please let me know.\n\nThanks Bruce, but I think I've got it sorted now. One weird thing is that\nalthough I added it as being false in pg_attribute.h, I get these tuples\nhaving attisdropped set to true by... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers:\n\nI've modified commands/cluster.c so that it recreates the indexes on the\ntable after clustering the table. I attach the patch.\n\nThere are (of course) things I don't understand. For example, whether\n(or when) I should use CommandCounterIncrement() after each\nindex_create, or... |
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"msg_contents": "Were docs ever submitted for all those new SSL changes? All that code's in\nthere and I have no idea how to set up certificate auth, etc.\n\nAnd also, remember Bill Studemund's CREATE OPERATOR CLASS patch!\n\nChris\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:20:31 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "Here is my proposal for new CREATE CONVERSION which makes it possible\nto define new encoding conversion mapping between two encodings on the\nfly.\n\nThe background:\n\nWe are getting having more and more encoding conversion tables. Up to\nnow, they reach to 385352 source lines and over 3MB ... |
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"msg_contents": "OK,\n\nThis is the problem I'm having with the DROP COLUMN implementation. Since\nI've already incorporated all of Hiroshi's changes, I think this may have\nbeen an issue in his trial implementation as well.\n\nI have attached my current patch, which works fine and compiles properly.\n\nOk, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I modified pg_controldata to display a few new fields. Example output\nappears at the end of this message, and the cvs log is:\n\nAdd a few new lines to display recently added fields in the ControlFile \n structure.\nNow includes the following new fields:\n integer/float date/time storage\n m... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Let me re-write it, and I'll post it in the next version. The section\n> dealt with what to do when you have a valid restored controlfile from a\n> backup system, which is in the DB_SHUTDOWNED state, and that points to a\n> valid shutdown/checkpoint record in the log; only the checkpoint ... |
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"msg_contents": "Fix typo in xl_heaptid comment\n\nServus\n Manfred\n\n--- ../base/src/include/access/htup.h\t2002-07-04 18:05:04.000000000 +0200\n+++ src/include/access/htup.h\t2002-07-05 16:52:44.000000000 +0200\n@@ -268,15 +268,15 @@\n /*\n * When we insert 1st item on new page in INSERT/UPDATE\n * we ca... |
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"msg_contents": "On generic recovery...\n\nWhat is wrong with this strategy...\n\n0. Put the database in single user mode.\n\n1. Dump the Schema, with creation order properly defined, and with all\nconstraints written to a separate file. (IOW, one file contains the\nbare tables with no index, constraint or t... |
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"msg_contents": "As the upcoming release is breaking compatibility anyway: what do you\nthink about placing a magic number and some format version info into\nthe page header?\n\nOne 32-bit-number per page should be enough to encode page type and\nversion. We have just to decide, how we want it:\n\na) combin... |
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"msg_contents": "There was an interesting thread/process discussion in the gproff\nSlashdot discussion:\n\n\thttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/05/1457231&mode=nested&tid=106\n\nThis guy had interesting comments:\n\n\thttp://slashdot.org/~pthisis/\n\nEspecially this comment:\n\n\thttp://slashdot.org/com... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:59 PM\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Thread discussion\n> \n> \n> There was an interesting thread/process discussion in the gproff\n> Slashdot discussion:\... |
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"msg_contents": "A conversation in pgsql-interfaces reminded me that it would be a good\nidea for initdb to try to set attnotnull correctly for columns of the\nsystem catalogs. Although we generally don't recommend that people\nupdate catalogs directly, it's sometimes done anyway; having NOT NULL\nconstraint... |
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"msg_contents": "We have the TODO item:\n\n * Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size\n\nI did some research on this and generated the following patch. I didn't\nfind much in the way of problems except two vacuum.c fields that should\nprobably be BlockNumber. freespace.c als... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> OK, so you do a tar backup of a file. While you are doing the tar,\n> certain 8k blocks are being modified in the file. There is no way to\n> know what blocks are modified as you are doing the tar, and in fact you\n> could read partial page writes during the tar.\n\nNo, I think all OS's... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> As noted, one of the main problems is knowing where to begin\n> in the log. This can be handled by having backup processing \n> update the control file with the first lsn and log file \n> required. At the time of the backup, this information is or \n> can be made available. The control... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> No, what I envisioned was a standalone dumper that can produce dump output \n> without having a backend at all. If this dumper knows about the various \n> binary formats, and knows how to get my data into a form I can then restore \n> reliably, I will be satisfied. If it can be easily a... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\n> Nothing. We even have audio files on the website so there is \n> no question on how to pronounce it. Some folks just aren't \n> happy unless they can change what doesn't need changing is \n> all. I guess it's their way of contributing... |
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"msg_contents": "With reference to the following mesage...We are wondering what was the resolution for the core..\n\nthanks\ngautam\n\n6.3.1: Core during initdb on SVR4 (MIPS)\n\n*\tFrom: Frank Ridderbusch <ridderbusch.pad@sni.de <mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de>> \n*\tTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <mailto:p... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, this person wants to hire someone to write a CRC function for\nPostgreSQL.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be ... |
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"msg_contents": "We have \"always\" stored our time zone offsets in a compressed\ndivide-by-ten form to allow storage in a single byte. But there are a\nfew time zones ending at a 45 minute boundary, which \"minutes divided by\n10\" can not represent. \n\nBut \"minutes divided by 15\" can represent this and a... |
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"msg_contents": "I've nearly finished off the patch Christopher distributed. Creates the\nbetween node, and passes all regression tests except horology. I need\nto update outfuncs and readfuncs -- but hope to fix the below first.\n\nSeems I have a funny case left (Note the last comparison should be\nfalse):... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nJust wondering - what is everyone working on? There's not much going on on\nthe list at the moment save lots of talk about DROP COLUMN and CREATE\nCONVERSION.\n\nWhat's going on in everyone's pipelines?\n\nCheers,\n\nChris\n\n\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nDoes the pg_tables view need to be fixed now that we have schemas?\n\nYep:\n\ntest2=# create schema a;\nCREATE SCHEMA\ntest2=# create schema b;\nCREATE SCHEMA\ntest2=# create table a.test (a int4);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest2=# create table b.test (b int4);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest2=# select * fr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThis is a short update about the current stage of pgaccess.\n\nThe development team will try to release 0.98.8 version together with\nPostgreSQL 7.3\n\nThe current areas of active development are -\n\nBoyan - the visual schema\nChris - reports and forms\n\nThere are ideas in the are... |
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"msg_contents": "How do I unsubscribe from here?\n\nThank You,\nAnthony\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:23:15 -0400",
"msg_from": "\"Anthony W. Marino\" <anthony@AWMObjects.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAs of today, a Bugzilla has been made available at -\n\nbugzilla.pgaccess.org\n\nThis is a pretty straight forward installation of Bugzilla 2.14.2\n\nIt is currently empty. There are even no components so the first bug\nsubmissions can be either request for components or have to wai... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm pleased to see some renewed interest in pg_access. It seems obvious to me that MS Access is not currently...and probably never will be able to handle data in a robust and reliable fashion. MS Access' apparent success is due to the user interface quality and \"ease of use\" for \"non-pro... |
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"msg_contents": "In syscache.c, the structure cachedesc contains a field reloidattr that is\nsupposed to contain the number of an attribute that is an OID reference to\nanother table. But what if there are two such attributes?\n\nThe concrete case is an index on pg_cast (castsource, casttarget), which\nboth ... |
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"msg_contents": "There seems to have been an accumulation lately of stuff that was simply\ndumped into the source tree without any sort of integration. I am\nparticularly talking about interfaces/ssl and interfaces/libpqxx. No\ndoubt both of these things are useful in the end, but as they are right\nnow the... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Eric,\n\nThanks for your input! I'm still in favor of developing a Windows version of PostGreSQL. But I don't think that intelligent people are going to want to use any version of Windows (especially since the news of DRMOS and TCPA included in Windows XP and soon to be implemented in ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs there a bug tracking system someone online for the postgres engine? \n\nI was unable to locate one via the web site.\n\nThanks,\n\tJames\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:05:33 -0500",
"msg_from": "James Maes <jmaes@sportingnews.com>",
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"msg_contents": "When trying to perform a full vacuum I am getting the following error:\n\nERROR: No one parent tuple was found\n\nPlain vacuum works fine. Thinking it might be a problem with the \nindexes I have rebuilt them but still get the error. What does this \nerror indicate and what are my options ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust a test to make sure both are being used properly ... should help\nincrease overall list speeds ...\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:09:01 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIs there a proper 'powered by postgresql' .gif or something?\n\nCan't find anything like this.\n\nIavor\n\n--\nIavor Raytchev\nvery small technologies (a company of CEE Solutions)\n\nin case of emergency -\n\n call: + 43 676 639 46 49\nor write to: support@verysmall.org\n\nwww... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI looked around for a definitive answer to this question but to no avail. It appears that PostgreSQL does not implement the SQL function REPLACE() , which, in MySQL works like this:\n\nREPLACE(str,from_str,to_str) \nReturns the string str with all all occurrences of the string from_st... |
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"msg_contents": "Consider\n\n\tCREATE TABLE foo (f1 int primary key);\n\n\tCREATE TABLE bar (f1 int references foo);\n\n\tDROP TABLE foo RESTRICT;\n\nShould this succeed? Or should it be necessary to say DROP CASCADE to\nget rid of the foreign-key reference to foo?\n\nOur historical behavior is to allow the ... |
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"msg_contents": "<delurk - reading from the archives, so please cc me on responses>\n\nNote that before bugzilla really supports postgresql, we (ie the bugzilla\nteam) are going to need DROP COLUMN support, as well as support for\nchanging a field's type. This is because thats how upgrades are done, when\nnew... |
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"msg_contents": "IMHO, I believe that the standard should be adhered to if at all possible.\nSince Cascade was added, Restrict must be the default is my reading of the\nstandard.\n\nSo that everyone can talk from the same sheet, the 1999 SQL Standard for DROP\nTABLE follows:\n\n\n11.20 <drop table statement>\... |
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"msg_contents": "IMHO, I believe that the standard should be adhered to if at all possible.\nSince Cascade was added, Restrict must be the default is my reading of the\nstandard.\n\nSo that everyone can talk from the same sheet, the 1999 SQL Standard for DROP\nTABLE follows:\n\n\n11.20 <drop table statement>\... |
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"msg_contents": "Actually, the answer is even clearer, the standard calls for the specification\nof \"CASCADE\" or \"RESTRICT\" and doesn't support _not_ having that specified.\n(the <drop behavior> is NOT [drop behavior] aka optional)\n\nNOTE: <drop behavior> ::= CASCADE | RESTRICT \nas defined in 11.2\n\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "As I currently have Rod's dependency code set up, an index derived from\na UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY clause can't be dropped directly; you must drop\nthe constraint instead. For example:\n\nregression=# create table foo (f1 text primary key);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create impl... |
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"msg_contents": "I think that we are getting into two or three issues here. If I may:\n\n\t(1) Is DROP TABLE <foo> acceptable by the standard?\n\t(2) Should we break \"old\" functionality?\n\t(3) assuming we support the old syntax: \n\t\tshould DROP TABLE <foo> be functionally the same as \n\t\tDROP TABLE <f... |
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"msg_contents": "I have committed changes enabling new CREATE CONVERSION/DROP\nCONVERSION SQL commands. You can issue these SQL commands, but they\njust add/remove tuples to/from new system catalog pg_conversion.\nStill needs lots of work...\n\nInitdb required.\n\nFor those who wishes to try these (currently)... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > > Changing data types probably won't appear. I don't know of anyone\n> > > > working on it -- and it can be quite a complex issue to get a good\n> > > > (resource friendly and transaction safe) version.\n> > >\n> > > I'd be happy with a non-resource friendly and non-transaction-safe v... |
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"msg_contents": "The estimator only uses effective_cache_size, it never looks at\nNBuffers. So shouldn't we add\n\tif (effective_cache_size < NBuffers)\n\t{\n\t\telog(NOTICE, \"adjusting effective_cache_size to %d\",\n\t\t NBuffers);\n\t\teffective_cache_size = NBuffers;\n\t}\n\nsomewhere near\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't improve performance on this query:\n\nSELECT\n supplier.name,\n supplier.address\nFROM\n supplier,\n nation\nWHERE\n supplier.suppkey IN(\n SELECT\n partsupp.suppkey\n FROM\n partsupp\n WHERE\n partsupp.partkey IN(\n SELECT\n part.partkey\n FROM\n part\n WHER... |
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"msg_contents": "I think that is the proper behavior Tom.\n\nAlso I agree with Bruce that this might be an oversight in the standard. That\nis why standards evolve. As I write this I am also sending a note to H2 asking\nabout this very issue. The latest working draft still has this construct.\n\nDana\n\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "What should be the permissions required to create a cast?\n\nCurrently, it's approximately first come, first serve. You probably need\nto have execute privilege on the function, but that is the least concern.\n\nWith no permissions required on either the source or the target type, it's\neasy... |
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"msg_contents": "Mac OS X:\npostgres% psql --version\npsql (PostgreSQL) 7.2.1\ncontains support for: multibyte\n\nLEDEV=# create table test1 (foo varchar(5));\nCREATE\nLEDEV=# create table test2 (foo char(5));\nCREATE\nLEDEV=# insert into test2 (foo) values ('S');\nINSERT 3724249 1\nLEDEV=# insert into test1 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I guess the strangest part was that both a.foo = 'S' and b.foo = 'S' but\n> not a.foo=b.foo; (a.foo is varchar(5) , b.foo is char(5) )\n> \n> I guess that tha 'S' that b.foo gets compared to is converted to 'S '\n> before comparison but when comparing varchar(5) and char(5) they are\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\nWe�re two doctoring students and we have a little problem to resolve.\nWe�re using Grass5pre3 and PostgreSQL 7.2 (Linux)to map vehicular\npollution of our city. We have a map of the streets and we have to\nassign 24 values (+ the label) to each street.\nWhat would be a smart way to solve ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tDear Sirs!:)I encounted one small problem,working with \nPostgreSQL 7.3devel.It can look a\nbit strange,but i have to use whitespaces in names of databases,tables,fields\nand so on(like \"roomno jk\").It's possible to create them all and work with them\n(INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE),but PL/pgSQL... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Has anyone studied how other DBMSs handle CHAR vs VARCHAR? Judging\n> from the number of questions we get on this point, I have to wonder\n> if we are not out of step with the way other systems do it.\n\nWell, I already gave the Informix example, that compares them as equal.\n(they obvio... |
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"msg_contents": "So, what should the behavior be of a constant declared as\n\nCHAR 'hi'\n\n? Right now it fails, since SQL9x asks that the char type defaults to a\nlength of one and our parser does not distinguish between usage as a\nconstant declaration and as a column definition (where you would want\nthe \... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to look at the performance of the query optimizer (both the\ntraditional one and GEQO) when joining large numbers of tables: 10-15,\nor more. In order to do that (and to get meaningful results), I'll\nneed to work with some data that actually requires joins of that\nmagnitude. Ideall... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/07/12 14:43:20\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : catalogs.sgml release.sgml \n\tdoc/src/sgml/ref: alter_table.sgml comment.sgml \n\t drop_aggregate.sgml drop_domain.sgml \n\t dr... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that the pg_depend mechanism is mostly in there, it is no longer\na good idea to delete things directly (for example, by calling\nheap_drop_with_catalog or even just heap_delete'ing a catalog tuple).\n\nThe correct thing to do is to call performDeletion() with a parameter\nspecifying what... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm going to change the pg_dump command to pull these constraints out of\npg_constaint where possible, creating the appropriate alter table add\nconstraint command (see primary key).\n\n\nShould unique constraints created with 'create index' (no entry in\npg_constraint) be re-created via alte... |
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"msg_contents": "[Cc:ed to hackers]\n\nFrom: nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway)\nSubject: pgbench questions\nDate: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:57:37 -0400\nMessage-ID: <20020713045736.GA9258@klamath.dyndns.org>\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> I was looking at doing some performance profiling on PostgreSQL, and\n> I had a few q... |
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"msg_contents": "I encountered a problem while implementing new CREATE\nCONVERSION. Since converion procs are dynamically invoked while doing\nan encoding conversion, it might fail for some reasons:\n\n(1) stale pg_conversion entry. If someone re-register that proc, the\n oid might be changed and the refer... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI somehow feel that I do not know anymore what are the current expectations\nfor a release date for 7.3.\n\nAnd when do you think it will be stable enough so that testing of interfaces\n(like pgaccess) will be meaningful (is this the period you call 'slow\ndown').\n\nIavor\n\n--\nww... |
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"msg_contents": "The answer from H2 (Jim Melton).\n\nWhen this feature was being voted on, some vendors had \"cascade\" as a default,\nothers had \"restrict\". So, the compromise was not to define a default.\n<grumble grumble>\n\nAs such providing a \"default\" is a vendor extension and compliance simply\nre... |
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"msg_contents": "I was trying to see if it was possible to create an 'internal' function \nafter bootstrap (i.e. without listing in pg_proc.h). The test case below \nillustrates that it is indeed possible.\n\ntest=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION mytest(text,int,int) RETURNS text AS \n'text_substr' LANGUAGE 'inte... |
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"msg_contents": "Probably the most succinct explanation would be to copy & paste from the \nterminal...\n\ntjhart=> create table a_line( foo line );\nCREATE\ntjhart=> insert into a_line ( foo ) values( '(0,0), (1,1)' );\nERROR: line not yet implemented\ntjhart=> select version();\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been running a few functions within schema's. It's annoying that\neverything needs to be qualified as it doesn't allow the functions to be\nmoved very easily.\n\n\nWould it be appropriate for the function to have it's own schema as\npre-pended onto the user path while in the users funct... |
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"msg_contents": "RAISE seems to be quite wonky.\n\nThe below function fails to compile due to the function call in the\narguement.\n\ncreate function test(text) \n returns bool \n as '\nbegin\n raise exception ''test %'', quote_literal($1);\n \n return false;\nend;\n' language plpgsql;\n\n\nLikewise, the ... |
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"msg_contents": "OK,\n\nDROP COLUMN now seems to work perfectly. All the old test cases that failed\nnow work fine.\n\nHowever, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed. I want to\ngive them a name that no-one would ever want to use as a legit column name.\nI don't like this behaviour:\n\ntest... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> However, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed. I want to\n> give them a name that no-one would ever want to use as a legit column name.\n> I don't like this behaviour:\n\nYes, how about prepending a character that would usually need to be escaped.\n\nI like Hannu's prop... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to use a closed source program with PostgreSQL over ODBC\n\nThe problem is that it tries to make a table which has a column called\n'cmin' which of course not allowes.\n\nAre there any plans of either \n\n1) (optionally) renaming such sytem columns in the ODBC layer \n\n2) renaming... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, more DROP COLUMN funny business:\n\nAssuming that selects, updates and deletes all ignore the dropped column,\nwhat happens with things like alter table statements?\n\nYou can still quite happily set the default for a dropped column, etc.\n\nWill I have to add a dropped column check in ev... |
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"msg_contents": "Can somebody point me to any escape handlers in the COPY mechanism. I \nhave grepped and examined to the best of my ability and haven't found \nany indication that there even is an escape handler around COPY.\n\nJust to give a little background, using pgdump in \"default\" mode creates \na du... |
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"msg_contents": "The fmtId() function used in pg_dump for optional quoting identifiers\nhas bothered me for a while now. The API is confusing: the returned\nvalue needs to be used before fmtId() is called again, because the\nbuffer the return value points to is re-used for each call of fmtId().\nThat leads to... |
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"msg_contents": "Just to give a little background, using pgdump in \"default\" mode creates \na dump file that includes inline newlines and tabs. The solution is to \nuse the -Fc option but it's a little late for that if all one has is a \n\"default\" dump file. I was hoping to simply run a conversion on the... |
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"msg_contents": "An example is:\n\nregression=# create table foo (f1 text);\nCREATE TABLE\nregression=# insert into foo values ('zzzzzzzzzzzzz');\nINSERT 148289 1\nregression=# insert into foo select * from foo;\nINSERT 148290 1\nregression=# insert into foo select * from foo;\nINSERT 0 2\nregression=# insert... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the following diff to make the sharing of C files among\nmodules more sane. Instead of having configure.in set the file name to\nstrdup.o and have the Makefiles specify the path, I set it to the full\npath $(top_builddir)/src/utils/strdup.o and have the makefiles use\nthat dir... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 03:53, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> The following system table columns are currently unused and don't appear\n> to be in the line of resurrection.\n> \n> pg_language.lancompiler\n> pg_operator.oprprec\n> pg_operator.oprisleft\n> pg_proc.probyte_pct\n> pg_proc.properbyte_cp... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added:\n\n\tAC_CHECK_LIB(getopt, main)\n\nto configure.in to allow PostgreSQL to perhaps find getopt_long() in a\nseparate library.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life i... |
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"msg_contents": "We had a fixed version of getopt() that would properly warn users that\nthey compiled psql without long options on systems with buggy getopt's,\nlike FreeBSD.\n\nNow that I have added a search for libgetopt.a, which may find\ngetopt_long on those platforms, I have removed utils/getopt.c. No\... |
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"msg_contents": "We have src/utils for stuff supposedly that is used by the backend and\nother binaries, and src/backend/port for stuff used only by the backend.\n\nHowever, over time, this distinction has broken down and we have a\nnumber of backend/port stuff used in other binaries. I propose moving\nthe s... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been conversing with Bruce off-list about getting people together \nfor dinner one night during next week's OSCon in San Diego. Please email \nme if you are interested with your preferred day/time and I will try to \ncoordinate something.\n\nAlso FYI there is a PostgreSQL BOF scheduled:\... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\tmomjian@postgresql.org\t02/07/15 20:51:37\n\nModified files:\n\tconfig : docbook.m4 \n\tdoc/src/sgml : features.sgml \n\nLog message:\n\tThis fixes 2 inaccuracies in the recently added SQL99 feature list docs.\n\tUNIQUE and DISTI... |
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