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[ { "msg_contents": "SQL9x defines bit string constants with a format like\n\n B'101010'\nand\n X'ABCD'\n\nfor binary and hexadecimal representations. But at the moment we don't\nexplicitly handle both of these cases as bit strings; the hex version is\nconverted to decimal in the scanner (*really* early in the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWould it be possible to add a new attribute to pg_views that stores the\noriginal view definition, as entered via SQL?\n\nThis would make the lives of those of us who make admin interfaces a lot\neasier...\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:42:34 +0800", "msg_from"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Actually... as one with the vested interest...\n\nI'm not opposed to entering an equation in one of the basic algebraic forms. Given that line types and line segment types both exist, I'm happy to weigh the cost/benefit between choosing an lseg and entering 2 points, or choosing a line and en...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been thinking that it's really not a good idea to make the OID\nfield optional without any indication in the tuple header whether it\nis present. In particular, this will make life difficult for tools\nlike pg_filedump that try to display tuple headers without any outside\ninformation. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Command syntax is\n\n CREATE CAST (source AS target) WITH FUNCTION name(arg) [AS ASSIGNMENT]\n\nin compliance with SQL99 (AS ASSIGNMENT means implicitly invokable).\n\nDeclaration of binary compatible casts:\n\n CREATE CAST (source AS target) WITHOUT FUNCTION [AS ASSIGNMENT]\n\nDoes not hav...
[ { "msg_contents": "So being very new with this code, I'd just like to get a feel for whether\nwhat I am seeing is consistent with what others have seen when they have\nattempted to build on Mac OS X 10.1.x.\n\nI built Tcl and Tk 8.4b1, and then PostgreSQL with Tcl support enabled.\nWhen PostgreSQL builds it rep...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am considering removing the following notices/warnings, since they\nseem to be unnecessary in the brave new world of dependencies:\n\n* The one about dropping a built-in function; you can't do it anyway.\n\nregression=# drop function now();\nWARNING: Removing built-in function \"now\"\nERR...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp] \n> Sent: 17 July 2002 05:12\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Tom Lane; Rod Taylor; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] DROP COLUMN\n> \n>\n> > >From my perspective, when clie...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nHas anyone committed something that would cause me to be getting doubles of\nall my ELOG messages? Or is it something I've changed in my local CVS?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:36:15 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth....
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a query and estimations and results don´t look similar, here is explain analyze:\n\n NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nSort (cost=12443.90..12443.90 rows=1 width=93) (actual time=505331.94..505332.67 rows=175 loops=1)\n -> Aggregate (cost=12443.88..12443.89 rows=1 width=93) (actual time=4725...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all. long time.\n\ni spoke w/jan some time ago (in a hurry now -- have to call salvation army \nto have them pick up my couch!).\n\ni need to jump in an discuss/get an assignment off the todo list. i am a cs \ndoctoral student at gmu in va.\n\ni am the best programmer in the world.\n\ni wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to implement error codes. I think they would be pretty useful,\nalthough there are a few difficulties in the implementation I'd like\nto get some input on.\n\nShould every elog() have an error code? I'm not sure -- there are many\nelog() calls that will never been seen by the user, s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOne of my machines has two CPUs, and in some cases I build a pair\nof indexes in parallel to take advantage of this. (I can't seem\nto do an ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY in parallel with an index\nbuild, though.) Recently, though, I received the message \"ERROR:\nsimple_heap_update: tuple c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using Postgres 7.2.1 on a dual-Athlon running RedHat 7.3bigmem\nwith 2 Gig of RAM and a 240 Gig RAID 5 (3ware IDE RAID). I just did a\n'vacuum analyze' on the database, however the same query to two\nsimilar tables is coming up quite different. The two tables only\ndiffer in that one (\"c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed many support files for CREATE CONVERSION. Default\nconversion procs and conversions are added in initdb. Currently\nsupported conversions are:\n\nUTF-8(UNICODE) <--> SQL_ASCII, ISO-8859-1 to 16, EUC_JP, EUC_KR,\n\t\t EUC_CN, EUC_TW, SJIS, BIG5, GBK, GB18030, UHC,\n\t\t ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have faced a problem with encoding conversion while the database is\nstarting up. If postmaster accepts a connection request while in the\nstate, it issues a fatal message \"The database system is starting\nup\". Then the encoding conversion system tries to convert the message\nto client en...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone know how I should modify MergeAttributes to support dropped\ncolumns?\n\nIf the parent column is dropped, should I perhaps just instead of going:\n\ndef = makeNode(ColumnDef);\n\nI could go something like:\n\ndef = makeNullNode(); (or whatever the correct function is)\n\nOr shoul...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBruce wrote:\n> Actual error code numbers/letters. I think the new elog levels will\n> help with this. We have to decide if we want error numbers, or some\n> pneumonic like NOATTR or CONSTVIOL. I suggest the latter.\n\nSince there is an actual standard for error codes, I would strongly s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, i noticed that win32 native stopped working/compiling after the SSL merge.\r\nSo i took the opportunity to fix some stuff:\r\n\r\n1. Made the thing compile (typos & needed definitions) with the new pqsecure_* stuff, and added fe-secure.c to the win32.mak makefile.\r\n2. Fixed some MULT...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile implementing DROP CONVERSION [CASCADE|RESTRICT], I'm facing\na strange problem. When I tries to delete a tuple from pg_depened, I\ngot an assertion failure:\n\nTRAP: Failed Assertion(\"!(!((tp.t_data)->t_infomask & (0x4000 |\n0x8000))):\", File: \"heapam.c\", Line: 1315)\n\nThis ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Running CVS HEAD from this morning, 'make check' fails due to an\ninitdb failure when initializing pg_depend:\n\ninitializing pg_depend...\n/home/nconway/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//data/pgsql/bin/initdb:\nline 718: 31128 Segmentation fault (core dumped) \"$PGPATH\"/postg...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking at an example of the \"no one parent tuple found\"\nVACUUM error provided by Mario Weilguni. It appears to me that VACUUM\nis getting confused by a tuple that looks like so in pg_filedump:\n\n Item 4 -- Length: 249 Offset: 31616 (0x7b80) Flags: USED\n OID: 0 CID: m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Richard:\n\nI can't quite follow this; maybe you sent a draft by accident. If you\nwant to post a patch against 7.2.1, or even better against HEAD in CVS,\nthat would be great. Or if you'd rather point me to your source online,\nthat would be good too.\n\nI just want to clarify though: is thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been working on the TODO list item \"Add SHOW command to display locks\". The\ncode is basically finished, but I'd like to make sure the user interface is okay\nwith everyone before I send it in to -patches (if you're interested, the patch\nis attached).\n\nRather than adding another SHO...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:36, Richard Tucker wrote:\n> Sorry, I didn't delimit my comments correctly before.\n> I'm offering our pg_copy/roll forward implementation to PostgreSQL.org if it\n> finds it an acceptable contribution. Progress/Multera would hand over all\n> rights to any code accept...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm getting the warnings below from current cvs. My configure line looks \nlike:\n\n./configure --enable-integer-datetimes --enable-locale --enable-debug \n--enable-cassert --enable-multibyte --enable-syslog --enable-nls \n--enable-depend\n\nJoe\n\n===========================================...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed this TODO item with the following patch, patch applied:\n\n * Merge LockMethodCtl and LockMethodTable into one shared structure\n\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed the trivial TODO item:\n\n\t* -HOLDER/HOLDERTAG rename to PROCLOCK/PROCLOCKTAG (Bruce)\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 Ave...
[ { "msg_contents": "DON'T APPLY THIS PATCH!\n\nHi All,\n\nThis is the patch of what I've done so far. I'd value any feedback!\n\nThe only thing that I'm not checking (as far as I know) is ALTER TABLE/ADD\nFOREIGN KEY and CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER, as I'm still trying to figure out\nthe best place to make the ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\ni've got a question on my problem..\ni'm using contrib/fulltextindex to index my tables to do a fulltext search\nbut i'm using a non-default locale settings on my database.\ni found out that if the locale is default 'C' then fulltextindex tables are\nscanned very fast using btree in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've recently started a new series of articles at TechDocs (\nhttp://techdocs.postgresql.org ). This will be a biweekly (or\ntriweekly if I'm busy) column, with articles covering an entire range\nof issues around my professional support of PostgreSQL.\n\nCurrently there are two ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Shouldn't the effect of ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS be\nrecorded by pg_dump?\n\nFor example:\n\nCREATE TABLE foo (col1 int, col2 int);\n\nALTER TABLE foo ALTER COLUMN col1 SET STATISTICS 100;\n\n$ pg_dumpall\n\nAfter removing the database and restoring from the dump, the effect of...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a repost. I originally posted to the novice list,\nbut it seems to be a very low traffic list, and no one seems\nto have noticed my message. Then I posted to the General\nList, where I was kindly advised to try the hackers list. So\nhere I am.\n----------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked through your CREATE CAST commit a little. Looks pretty good\nbut I had a few suggestions/concerns.\n\n* The biggie is that I'm not satisfied with the permissions checking.\nYou have \"To be able to create a cast, you must own the underlying\nfunction. To be able to create a binary c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that we have dependencies implemented, it would be a real good idea\nif operator classes could be included in the web of dependencies.\nHowever, the pg_depends code implicitly assumes that it can do a DROP,\nif demanded, for any entity referenced by a dependency link. This means\nwe need...
[ { "msg_contents": "We are about to submit brand bew contrib/ltree module\n(first draft of documetation is available from\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ltree/)\nand I have a question what version to submit - 7.2 or 7.3 ?\nWe have tested the module with 7.2 and have a patch for 7.3.\nProbably bette...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi, i want to announce you the release of a new PostgreSQL Interface... its \n name is XPg, and it was made on Java under the GPL license.\n Please, check the site... it could be a useful tool for much people (although\n the application is still under development). \n \n The website of XP...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working on a rather extensive Oracle compatibility layer that I use \nwith PostgreSQL. I am considering contributing the code back to the \nproject but the problem is that the layer is currently implemented in \nC++. Simply looking throughout the sources and the dev FAQ, there's \nnever ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nif the weather stays fine, I'll be offline for up to two weeks. Hope\nthere are no show stoppers in my recent heap tuple header changes. If\nproblems arise, report them here; I'll address them when I'm back.\n\nServus\n Manfred\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:08:58 +02...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm pleased to announce the release of pgbash-2.4a.2.\nhttp://www.psn.co.jp/PostgreSQL/pgbash/index-e.html\n\nChangeLog:\n\n1.Add \"REINDEX\" as a SQL reserved word.\n\n2.Fix a bug of the single/double quotaion surrounded by the \n double/single quotation.\n ex.) \n insert into \"test\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\ni've got a question on my problem..\ni'm using contrib/fulltextindex to index my tables to do a fulltext search\nbut i'm using a non-default locale settings on my database.\ni found out that if the locale is default 'C' then fulltextindex tables are\nscanned very fast using btree in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs it possible using pl/pgSQL functions to grab data from another database\nor even another database on a different host.\n\nThanks.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:41:00 +1000 (Tasmania Standard Time)", "msg_from": "\"Dean Grubb\" <dean@atrium-online.com.au>", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems bootstrap parser(bootparse.y) does not accept partial index\ndefinitions. Is there any reason for this?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:58:38 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "part...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way of resetting the stats collector without restarting\nPostgres? I want all the pg_stat_* tables to have zero for everything\nagain...\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:43:37 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom wrote: \n> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n> > That doesn't quite work, because then no ordinary user can define a cast\n> > from some built-in type to his own type. What I'm thinking about is to\n> > implement the USAGE privilege on types, and then you need to have that to\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've finally got around to try RAMDISK with PostgreSQL. The attached doc\ncontains the test results that I'd like to share with PostgreSQL's users\nand developers groups. \n\nRegards,\nSamuel Sutjiono\n_________________________________________________\n Expand your wireless world with Arkdo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are moving to postgres from Oarcle. When we were with Oracle, we were\nusing a total of 160 connections(4 app servers each maintaining a pool of 40\nconnections). After moving to postgres we want to make it higher i.e make it\n60 connections for each app server i.e a total of 240 co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\npgaccess 0.98.8 weekly release 1 is available for download from the\npgaccess web site -\nwww.pgaccess.org\n\nThis version is the net effect of the effort started about April this year\nfor merging three large groups of patches accumulated by Bartus, Boyan and\nChris.\nSince then th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI would like to implement a function similar to the Decode function in\nOracle. I was wondering if it is possible to accept a variable number\nof parameters (array??).\n\nThanks,\nEdwin S. Ramirez\n", "msg_date": "23 Jul 2002 14:42:12 -0700", "msg_from": "ramirez@idconcepts...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a need for relation synonyms in PostgreSQL. I don't see it in \n7.2.1 but the catalog seems to be able to support it more or less.\n\nHere's what I intend to do:\n\n1) Create a duplicate record in pg_class for the base table information \nbut with the relname set to the synonym name.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "As per earlier discussion, I'm working on the hot backup issues as part\nof the PITR support. While I was looking at the buffer manager and the\nrelcache/MyDb issues to figure out the best way to work this, it\noccurred to me that PITR will introduce a big problem with the way we\nhandle loca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello together,\n\ni've seen that every process created in Postgres will \neave some memory unreleased and the garbage \ncollector of the OS has to free this memory.\n\nIs there any special reason for this or is it just \nsomething that has to be solved?\n\nUlrich Neumann\n-------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nThere is a limitation currently with Table Functions in that the return \ntuple type must be known in advance, i.e. you need a pre-defined scalar \nor composite type to use as the function's declared return type.\n\nThis doesn't work well for the type of function that needs to r...
[ { "msg_contents": "This behavior doesn't look right:\n\nnconway=# create table foo (a int default 50, b int default 100);\nCREATE TABLE\nnconway=# copy foo from stdin;\nEnter data to be copied followed by a newline.\nEnd with a backslash and a period on a line by itself.\n>> \n>> \\.\nnconway=# select * from fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see this using the latest CVS code:\n\n$ make installcheck\n[ all tests pass ]\n$ pg_dump regression > /tmp/regression.dump\n$ psql template1\ntemplate1=# drop database regression; \nDROP DATABASE\ntemplate1=# create database regression;\nCREATE DATABASE\ntemplate1=# \\c regression\nYou are...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are in the process of moving to Postgres from Oracle. We were using\n\"savepoint xyz\" and \"rollback to savepoint xyz\" with Oracle. Or these\nsupported by Postgres?, if so what are the equivalent queries in postgres\nfor the same.\n\nThanks\nYuva\nSr. Java Developer\nwww.ebates.co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I get an error with current:\n\ntest=# RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"AUTHORIZATION\"\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:18:54 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_su...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Now when creating a function you can do:\n> > CREATE FUNCTION foo(text) RETURNS setof RECORD ...\n> >\n> > And when using it you can do, e.g.:\n> > SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) AS (f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp)\n> \n> Why is there the requirement to declare the type at SELECT \n> t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to create an aggregate function that works on whole tuples,\nbut the system does not find them once defined ;(\n\nhannu=# \\d users\n Table \"users\"\n Column | Type | \nModifiers \n----------+---------+-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I'm a newbie to postgresql, and I have 2 questions.\r\n\r\n1. shared memory hash key is string.\r\nwhy don't we use predefined integer value?\r\nI think it is dangerous to use string for key value,\r\nbecause it can be mistyped , which might lead us to debug more and more.\r\n\r\n2. appen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Earlier I had argued that SET LOCAL should not be used in the context it\nis now, and I had suggested SET TRANSACTION as a replacement. However,\nnow that I look at it in the implementation, this syntax is just too\nbizzare and prone to confuse.\n\nHere are a couple of examples of what is/wo...
[ { "msg_contents": " From looking at the set of implicit or not casts, I think there are two\nmajor issues to discuss:\n\n1. Should truncating/rounding casts be implicit? (e.g., float4 -> int4)\n\nI think there's a good argument for \"no\", but for some reason SQL99 says\n\"yes\", at least for the family of num...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed support codes for DROP CONVERSION. I think most of\nworks for CREATE CONVERSION/DROP CONVERSION have been done.\n\nRemaining works are:\n\no Add some conversion functions (mostly cyrillc encodings)\no Add SQL99 CONVERT command\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 26 Ju...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any development in progress to make PGSQL work on embedded Linux with other non-x86 CPUs? I'm specifically targetting an SH3 hardware platform with 128MB of FROM. I would like to know if anybody made any headstart already. Thank You.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs there any development in progres...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSomething to maybe add to the TODO list, if someone has the\ntime/inclination to work on it ...\n\nThe problem with the current auth system, as I see it, is that you can't\neasily have seperate user lists and passwords per database ... its shared\nacross the system ...\n\nThe closest you ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks. Back to work on August 12.\n\nI might read some eMail every now and then. But don't expect much, I\nhave one of my sons visiting from Germany.\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have a query \"select count(count(*)) from test group by\ntrunc(test_date)\". This works fine with Oracle but when moving to postgres I\nchanged it to \"select count(count(*)) from test group by date_trunc('day',\ntest_date)\" but I get the following error\n\nERROR: Aggregate funct...
[ { "msg_contents": "On SGI multiprocessor machines, I suspect that a spinlock\nimplementation of LWLockAcquire would give better performance than\nusing IPC semaphores. Is there any specific reason that a spinlock\ncould not be used in this context?\n\n+-----------------------------+----------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n1234567890\nHi!\nI write function on plpgsql and have some troubles:\n\nI have table \"owe\" : uid int4, date int4, cost float4;\nI want to select into \"owe_old\" : DECLARE owe_old float4;\n\ncur_date := date_part(''year'', now()) || ''-'' || date_part(''month'', now()) || ''-01'';\n\twe h...
[ { "msg_contents": "The field pg_language.lanispl seems to have several different meanings:\n\n1. This is a user-defined language.\n\n2. This language may be dropped.\n\n3. You may define a trigger using a function defined in this language (or\n in C or in internal).\n\n4. Functions defined in this langua...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch implements START TRANSACTION, per SQL99. The\nfunctionality of the command is basically identical to that of\nBEGIN; it just accepts a few extra options (only one of which\nPostgreSQL currently implements), and is standards-compliant.\nThe patch includes a simple regression...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to add the ability to use a sub-select in a CHECK constraint.\nCan someone elaborate on what changes would be needed to support\nthis? From a (very) brief look at execMain.c, ExecEvalExpr() seems\nto support subplans already, so I wouldn't *guess* it would be too\ninvolved, but I'd a...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems JDBC in current does not compile with jdk1.3.0. Is this a\nintended change or am I missing something?\n\n\t :\n\t :\n [javac] /usr/local/src/pgsql/current/pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2ResultSet.java:13: getStatement() in org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Res...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've just managed to recover from a fun Postgres lock up experience!\n\nBasically Postgres seemed to have hung, with a stack of idle postmaster\nprocesses. There was an idle VACUUM process and an idle CHECKPOINT process\nrunning as well.\n\nI finally managed to get it restarted (after...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\nAs I understand every time there is a request to postgres a new backend is made, and when the request is finished, even if the connection is already active the backend dies. I wonder if is there any parameter that allow backends to remain beyond a transaction. Creating a new backend e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to\ntake care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "29 Jul 2002 09:38:52 -0400", "msg_from": "Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "GPL License" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.ca] \n> Sent: 29 July 2002 14:39\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: [HACKERS] GPL License\n> \n> \n> Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may \n> be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.ca] \n> Sent: 29 July 2002 14:44\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] GPL License\n> \n> \n> > > -----Original Message-----\n> > > From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.ca]\n> > > Sent: 29 Ju...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI need small help in outer joins in postgresql. We have three tables created\nusing the following scripts\n\nCREATE TABLE \"yuva_test1\" (\n \"yt1_id\" numeric(16, 0), \n \"yt1_name\" varchar(16) NOT NULL, \n \"yt1_descr\" varchar(32)\n);\n\nCREATE TABLE \"yuva_test2\" (\n \"yt2_id...
[ { "msg_contents": "The problems noticed by Peter E several weeks ago have not yet been\nresolved:\n\n http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0207082049460.1247-100000%40localhost.localdomain\n\n(namely, that libpqxx and the new SSL code have not been fully\nintegrated into the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI tried yuva_test1 left outer join yuva_test2 and yuva_test1 left outer join\nyuva_test3 in the same query in Oracle. I tried the following query in\npostgres and it worked...\n\nselect yt1_name, yt1_descr, yt2_name, yt2_descr, yt3_name, yt3_descr from\n(yuva_test1 left outer join yuva...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHave any organizations run TPC benchmarks against PostgreSQL other than\nthe old and much maligned GreatBridge benchmark? It is unfortunate that\nthere are not any moderately standard benchmarks available regarding\nPostgreSQL. I do not need to say \"PgSQL is better than X\", but it would\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI had occasion (and a perfectly good reason) to install 7.1.3 on \na fresh server [1]. Installation succeeded as normal, data failed\nto load because some relation names go beyond\n31 characters. <smack forehead>, alter NAMEDATALEN,\nrecompile. initdb fails immediately after the message\n\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "The query without alias is working fine. Thanks for the performance hint, we\nwere actually using this query on very big tables and definitely we would\nhave slipped into performance problems with aliases. Now we are safe. Thanks\na lot Marc.\n\n-Yuva\nSr. Java Developer\nwww.ebates.com\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCurt Sampson wrote:\n> I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance\n> offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started\n> to come up with anything.\n\n\nTable inheritance offers data model extensibility. New (derived) tables\ncan be added to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "> As for why PostgreSQL is less popular than MySQL, I think it is all\n> momentum from 1996 when MySQL worked and we sometimes crashed. Looking\n> forward, I don't know many people who choose MySQL _if_ they consider\n> both PostgreSQL and MySQL, so the discussions people have over MySQL vs....
[ { "msg_contents": "Because of a runaway process on postgresql.org, CVS is working\nintermittently, if at all. I have contacted Marc.\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...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anyone fix this?\n\n$ cvs up\ncan't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv40296\nNo space left on device\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:51:08 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "CVS se...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've developed patches to be able to specify the location of the WAL\ndirectory, with the default location being where it is now. The patches\ndefine a new environment variable PGXLOG (a la PGDATA) and postmaster,\npostgres, initdb and pg_ctl have been taught to recognize a new command\nline ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nWhen I try to do a cvs up I get this:\ncan't create temporary directory /var/tmp/cvs-serv39998\nNo space left on device \n\nAnd on the 15min SGML docs site there's this:\n\nChanges in this build:\ncan't create temporary directory /var/tmp/cvs-serv39998\nNo space left on device \n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current ODBC drivers on the website don't appear to work with recent\ndevelopment.\n\nI'm able to login, but immediately after it throws the error 'Blank'\nwith a large negative number above (-2^16 or so).\n\n\nI don't have Visual C, so would it be possible for someone to build a\nnew (wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nd'oh, always helps go rotate those damn logs ... auto-rotation now in\nplace, shouldn't happen again for a good long time (had >6gig taken up in\nvery very big log files *sigh*) ...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:19:38 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrap...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my original statement_timeout code, if a query string had multiple\nstatements, I would time the statements individually. I have modified\nit so it now times the entire string collectively.\n\nDo people realize that if you pass a single string to the backend, it\nmakes the string into a s...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/07/30 01:24:56\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : catalogs.sgml xindex.sgml \n\tsrc/tutorial : complex.source \n\nLog message:\n\tRewrite xindex.sgml for CREATE OPERATOR CLASS. catalogs.sgml finally\n\tcontain...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've discussed at least a couple of times before that it would be nice\nto be able to create stand-alone composite types. Tom mentioned that\nideally this would be done as part of a refactoring of system tables so\nthat attributes belonged to pg_type, instead of belonging to pg_class.\nBut i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some weeks ago i wrote about one problem(called as \n\"Bug of PL/pgSQL parser\"):\n\n\"eutm\" <eutm@yandex.ru> writes:\n> Dear Sirs!:)I encounted one small problem,working with\n> PostgreSQL 7.3devel.It can look a\n> bit strange,but i have to use whitespaces in names of\ndatabases,tables,fiel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nThis is another cut of the DROP COLUMN patch. I have split the drop\nfunction into two parts - and now handle dependencies.\n\nProblems:\n\n1. It cascade deletes objects, but it _always_ cascades, no matter what\nbehaviour I specify. Also, it doesn't give me indications that it's...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Andrew Sullivan wrote:\n\n> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:43:52AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n>\n> > since as soon as there are two 'bruce' users, only one can have a password\n>\n> I guess I don't understand why that's a problem. I mean, if you're\n> authenticating use...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have implemented the ROW keyword, but am not sure that I've gotten\nwhat the spec intends to be the full scope of functionality. It may be\nthat I've missed the main point completely :)\n\nIf someone has the time and interest I'd appreciate it if they would go\nthrough the SQL99 spec and se...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got patches to adjust the interpretation of hex literals from an\ninteger type (which is how I implemented it years ago to support the\n*syntax*) to a bit string type. I've mentioned this in a previous\nthread, and am following up now.\n\nOne point raised previously is that the spec may ...