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[ { "msg_contents": "It seems we need a smart plan for handling the decimal point vs. comma\nissue. Observe: (lc_numeric = de_DE)\n\ncreate table test_f (x double precision);\nCREATE TABLE\ninsert into test_f values ('1.5');\nERROR: Bad float8 input format '1.5'\ninsert into test_f values ('1,5');\nINSERT 1690...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAgain, I'm not sure this doesn't belong on -general but have left the -hackers\nin the distribution list so it can be seen there.\n\n\nOn Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Oleg Bartunov wrote:\n\n> I see files truncated at 1Gb on my Linux server:\n> \n> -rw------- 1 postgres users 855490560 Aug 6 20:...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/buildlog.html\n\nIt would appear that the files point to the old urls, not the new ones\nas per the cvs segregation.\n\n\n", "msg_date": "08 Aug 2002 21:10:23 -0400", "msg_from": "Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>", "msg_from_op": true, "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nIf you apply the pg_stat_reset() function patch you get this regression\nfailure. Is this because it's returning a bool I guess? Shall I just fix\nthe regression test to exclude this function?\n\nChris\n\n*** ./expected/opr_sanity.out Fri Jul 19 07:11:32 2002\n--- ./results/op...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 09 August 2002 03:57\n> To: Alvaro Herrera\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER and indisclustered\n> \n> \n> If you're looking for something very ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a revised version of my previous\n\nON COMMIT DROP\n\npatch. This patch implements:\n\nON COMMIT { DROP | PRESERVE ROWS | DELETE ROWS }\n\nThe latter two are SQL99.\n\nSample usage:\n---\ntemplate1=# begin;\nBEGIN\ntemplate1=# create temp table a (a int) on commit drop;\nCREATE\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm a little out of my league on this list, but I thought I might discuss a\nproblem I'm having since it seems to have come up here recently. I have read\nthe archives w/ respect to the inheritance mechanism, the problems with it,\netc. But I still think it would be a useful thing to have i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Fixed very stupid but important bug: mixing calls of some founctions from \ncontrib/tsearch and contrib/ltree :)\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:45:27 +0400", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\n(Moved from \nRe: [PATCHES] small psql patch - show Schema name for \\dt \\dv \\dS)\n\n>> I need something other than RelationIsVisible for psql for the case \n>> when someone says \"\\d foo\" - I need to be able to decide which \n>> \"foo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, We have a problem with lower() function working differently for two\ndifferent data types\n\ntable: yuva_test\ncolumn_name\tdata_type\nyt_name1\tvarchar(255)\nyt_name2\tchar(1)\n\nThe data is\nyt_name1\tyt_name2\nyuva\t\tF\nbharat\t\tF\n1234556\tF\n234\t\tF\n\netc.\n\nWhen we run the quer...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHere's my thoughts on the matter:\n\nMore than one period throws an error (something pleasant, mentioning \nthat we do not quite support cross-database queries yet).\n\nI'll assume we are switching to the \"explicit wildcard\" system for t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@joeconway.com] \n> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:04 PM\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: stand-alone composite types\n> \n> \n> Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > Joe Conway writes:\n> >>3...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thank you, we figured out that, the query with lower() is taking too long\nand we thought it is having some problem. The actual table in our database\nhas more than 10 million rows and query is taking too long.\n\nThanks\nYuva\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Yuva Chandolu \nSent: Frida...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe recently put up a new 7.2.1 installation on Solaris 8 that serves a\n24x7 e-commerce site. The system seems to run pretty well most of the\ntime but we see a consistent form of performance anomaly.\n\nWatching pg_stat_activity the system spends most of it's time running\nsmoothly wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I intend to make 'serial' and 'serial8' domains of the int4 and int8\ndatatypes. Now they're regular types and columns in \\d will be marked\nas such. This leaves analyze.c to create the defaults but no longer\nwill it be doing any datatype conversions.\n\npg_dump and psql will be taught to...
[ { "msg_contents": "P src/interfaces/libpqxx/configure.ac\ncvs server: Updating src/interfaces/libpqxx/config\nU src/interfaces/libpqxx/config/.cvsignore\ncvs server: Updating src/interfaces/libpqxx/debian\ncvs server: failed to create lock directory for\n`/projects/cvsroot/interfaces/libpqxx/debian'\n(/projects...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a basic patch implementing create or replace trigger. It\npasses all regression tests.\n\nGavin", "msg_date": "Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:06:50 +1000 (EST)", "msg_from": "Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER...
[ { "msg_contents": "We still haven't really decided what to do about libpqxx. The only\nargument I've heard so far against distributing it separately is that it\nwould induce users to use libpq++ instead. I think having both libraries\nin the distribution is going to be even more confusing, especially since\no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Appears there is a problem finding the opclass when indexing a domain.\n\nCREATE DOMAIN newint as int4;\nCREATE TABLE tab (col newint unique);\nERROR: data type newint has no default operator class for access method\n\"btree\"\n\tYou must specify an operator class for the index or define a\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/08/11 17:17:35\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : release.sgml \n\tsrc/backend/catalog: heap.c index.c pg_depend.c \n\tsrc/backend/commands: cluster.c \n\tsrc/backend/storage/buffer: bufmgr.c \n\tsrc/backe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWhilst looking around for some more PostgreSQL related stuff, this\nmessage turned up:\n\nhttp://mail.wirex.com/pipermail/sardonix/2002-February/000051.html\n\nThe interesting bit is in an email messages included about halfway\ndown. It speaks of Bad Things in the PostgreSQL ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI was investigating the bug about \"select cash_out(2)\" crashing the\nbackend. I thought fixing was a simple matter of checking whether some\nargument to the function was NULL or not.\n\nI added a NULL checking, but it obviously is not triggered, because the\ndata received is not ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just got the following example:\n\nDROP TABLE foo;\nCREATE TABLE foo (login varchar(100));\nINSERT INTO foo values ('abc');\n\nDROP FUNCTION footest1(varchar(100));\nCREATE FUNCTION footest1(varchar(100)) RETURNS varchar(100) AS '\n DECLARE\n login varchar(100);\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Gavin Sherry [mailto:swm@linuxworld.com.au] \n> Sent: 12 August 2002 15:15\n> To: Florian Weimer\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend \n> possible (was: Re:\n> \n> \n> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Flor...
[ { "msg_contents": "In 7.2.1, the psql argument to import a file from a connected database\nis \\i. From the command line its -f.\n\nAny chance we could make these consistent with eachother.\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "12 Aug 2002 11:18:17 -0400", "msg_from": "Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>", "msg_from_op": tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nIn TODO there is an item that says \"cluster all tables at once\". Might\nI ask, how is the system supposed to know on which indexes does it have\nto cluster each table?\n\nMaybe if some index had the indisclustered bit set one could select\nthat; but is it possible for some table t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I thought this might be of interest to the list:\n\nLINUXWORLD: ORACLE RELEASING CLUSTERED FILE SYSTEM CODE\nhttp://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=726336\n\n\"The company on Wednesday plans to post online the source code for its \nnew clustered file system designed for its Oracle9i Real Application \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been studying the \"No one parent tuple was found\" problem some\nmore, and I've realized there are actually two distinct problems that\nmanifest at the same place.\n\nHere are test procedures for duplicating the problems on-demand (these\nwork in either 7.2 or CVS tip):\n\nCASE 1 (trans...
[ { "msg_contents": "anoncvs is still broken:\n\ncvs server: Updating src/interfaces/libpqxx/config\ncvs server: Updating src/interfaces/libpqxx/debian\ncvs server: failed to create lock directory for\n`/projects/cvsroot/interfaces/libpqxx/debian'\n(/projects/cvsroot/interfaces/libpqxx/debian/#cvs.lock): Permissi...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Cced to hackers list]\n\n> I'm seeing a regression test failure with the latest CVS code, in the\n> 'conversion' test. I've attached the 'regression.diff' file -- the\n> failure occurs consistently on my machine.\n> \n> I'm mailing you because I believe the test in question is for code you\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Don Baccus wrote:\n\n> Give it up. You're acting like a turkey. If you aren't, skin yourself\n> a new non-turkey skin.\n\nSince he appears not to be able to avoid abusive ad hominem attacks,\nI'm now sending mail with \"dhogaza@pacifier.com\" in the From: header\nto /de...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIn 7.2.1, MasterInit script (rserv command) does not work correctly,\nbecause $libdir is not defined in it.\n\nI think $libdir should be replaced in Makefile as below.\n\nIs it correct?\n\n--- Makefile Mon Mar 11 13:39:14 2002\n+++ /tmp/Makefile Tue Aug 13 18:19:21 2002\n@...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > OK, seeing as no one voted, and only Tom and I objected originally, we\n> > will keep the code as Thomas has applied it, namely that PGXLOG/-X is\n> > recognized by initdb, postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl.\n> \n> We will? It looks to me like Thomas lost the vote 2-to-1.\n> \n> Unless ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm thinking that temporary views should be pretty trivial to\nimplement.\n\n* Allow temporary views\n\nThis should be as simple as modifying gram.y (to set\nViewStmt->view->istemp) and some logic in RemoveTempRelations() to remove\nthe view's rule\n\n* Require view using temporary...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a patch for pg_dump which adds a possibility to dump\na part of table, for example:\n\ndump Top.Science.Astronomy heirarchy from dmoz catalog\n\npg_dump -d -t dmoz -w \"select * from dmoz where path <@ 'Top.Science.Astronomy'\" dmoz\n\nWe found it's very useful. We'd like to extend it...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Looking at how to deal with this, is the following going to be\n> portable?:\n> \n> in pg_dump/Makefile:\n> CFLAGS += -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_OFFSET_BITS=64\n> \n> in pg_dump.h:\n> #ifdef _LARGEFILE_SOURCE\n> #define FSEEK fseeko\n> #define FTELL ftello\...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I attaempt to compile the lastest cvs version I get the following error\n\ngmake[4]: Entering directory \n`/usr/local/postgres/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_ascii'\ngcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations \n-I../../../../../../src/include -...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthis is an announcement of OpenFTS 0.33 release.\nPlease, find archive in download area at openfts.sourceforge.net\n\nThis is a major release ! It has a lot of enhancements.\nIt's required PostgreSQL 7.2.1 (7.2.2 from CVS would be better)\n\nSome major changes:\n\n1. We moved from usin...
[ { "msg_contents": "CHANGES:\n\nAugust 13, 2002\n Use parser of OpenFTS v0.33.\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:05:48 +0400", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Please, apply patch for contrib/tsea...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content\npinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible\nnature of the system.\n\nWould it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in\nobjects (say, inet type, numeric type, associ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 13 August 2002 18:24\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] libpqxx \n> \n> \n> JDBC and ODBC are almost separate projects already, and \n> perhap...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 04:08, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:\n> Dear all,\n> \n...\n\n> Of course, I am aware that view definitions aren't just stored, but that \n> a lot of rewriting is involved before storing the actual execution \n> plan. Modifying a view definition would entail re-proces...
[ { "msg_contents": "I posted this earlier but it didn't seem to go through. I apologize in\nadvance if you've gotten this twice. Since I posted earlier this error\nhappened 2 additional times. It's now a critical issue for our site:\n\n\n\nI'm seeing the following error about once a week or so:\n\n2002-08-13 12:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've just done some performance comparisons between contrib/fulltextindex\nand contrib/tsearch. Even with every optimisation I can think of for\nfulltextindex, tsearch is 300 times faster ;)\n\nPlus it doesn't require a separate table or complicated queries.\n\nI think we should stron...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI think this belongs on gborg. Would you create a project there?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHans-J�rgen Sch�nig wrote:\n> \n> At my talk at the Oreilly Open Source Convention I have presented a \n> simple tool for journaling databases....
[ { "msg_contents": "\ncvs server: Updating src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/ascii_and_mic\ncvs server: failed to create lock directory for\n`/projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/ascii_and_mic' (/projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/ascii_and_mic...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nThe fulltextindex Makefile looks like this:\n\nsubdir = contrib/fulltextindex\ntop_builddir = ../..\ninclude $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global\n\nMODULE_big = fti\nOBJS = list.o chtbl.o fti.o\nDATA_built = fti.sql\nDOCS = README.fti\nSCRIPTS = fti.pl\n\ninclude $(top_srcdir)/con...
[ { "msg_contents": "Damn - I'm getting it too:\n\nP src/backend/utils/fmgr/fmgr.c\nP src/backend/utils/mb/conv.c\nP src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c\nP src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/Makefile\ncvs server: failed to create lock directory for\n`/projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Added to TODO:\n> \n> \to Cluster all tables at once using pg_index.indisclustered or primary key\n> \n> > > And what happens with those tables that do not have any such index?\n> > \n> > Nothing, would be my vote. You'd just re-CLUSTER all tables that have\n> > been clustered before, th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do any of the encodings with encoding max length > 1 have a constant \ncharacter size (e.g. unicode?). If so, how hard would it be to add \nanother member to pg_wchar_tbl, say:\n\nbool mblen_is_const; /* all chars = max bytes this charset */\n\nThen those character sets code gain back much...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know this is a off topic. I found this in my mailbox not long ago.\nI'm sharing because I thought it might be of some interest. While it's\nobviously a PR move by IBM, it certainly was nice to have something of\nscale like SF to tout in Postgres' favor as a success story.\n\n\nHere's a sn...
[ { "msg_contents": "While the REFERENCES privilege controls who can create foreign keys\nreferring to one's tables, it seems you can evade it by using CREATE\nCONSTRAINT TRIGGER directly.\n\nThis is the \"slave\" portion of a FK constraint I got from pg_dump:\n\nCREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER \"$1\"\n AFTER INSERT...
[ { "msg_contents": "I needed to move a PostgreSQL database to another product but I noticed\nthat the pg_dump output contains a few artifacts that make the output\nnonportable. Most of these should be relatively easy to fix. Here's my\nlist:\n\n* Boolean values should be dumped as true and false (rather than '...
[ { "msg_contents": "In PostgreSQL 7.1, this code goes smoothly.\n\n create table test (name varchar(5));\n insert into test values('abracadabra');\n\nLong input string was silently trimmed. But in PG7.2 an error is triggered.\n\nOK, I suppose this is just a new feature, not a bug but. But...\n\n...Is it po...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been getting this for at least two days:\n\n[matthew@zeut src]$ cvs -v\nConcurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)\n\n[matthew@zeut src]$ cvs -z3 -d \n:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -P pgsql\n\n[...]\n\ncvs server: Updating pgsql/src/backend/u...
[ { "msg_contents": "A couple questions regarding encrypted passwords:\n\n(1) There was talk of changing the default value of the\n 'password_encryption' GUC variable for 7.3; AFAIK, this hasn't\n happened yet. Should this be done?\n\n(2) What is the reasoning behind the current storage format of\n MD5-e...
[ { "msg_contents": "interesting.\n\n\n\n>From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>\n>To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, \n><hs@cybertec.at>,<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\n>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] journaling in contrib ...\n>Date: Thu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHere are some comments on the open 7.3 items. We have to start pairing\nthis down if we are going to hit beta in 2.5 weeks:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 3...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe that\nSELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');\nahould give a fairly large integer --- in 7.2 I get 982373920.\nBut CVS tip (without the int64-timestamp option) produces\n982.35592. Broken, no?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed this behaviour:\n\nusa=# SELECT rr.id, rr.name, rr.description FROM recipe_recipes rr WHERE\nrr.ftiidx ## 's';\n id | name |\ndescription\n-----+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------\n------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER doesn't respect attisdropped. Unfortunately I\nreally don't have the time to submit a patch at the moment - sorry :(\n\nctest=# create table master (x int unique, y int4 unique);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index 'master_x_key' for\ntable 'm...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've implemented large file support for pg_dump, in what I hope is a\nportable fashion. Please review the attached patch.\n\nThis needs an additional option from autoconf, because pg_dump prints a\nhex offset which needs to be either %Lx or %llx, but there is no hex\nequivalent to INT64_FORM...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think we are going to see more company-funded developers working on\nPostgreSQL. There are a handful now, but I can see lots more coming.\nI am going to work on getting those funding companies more visibility. \nWe originally were concerned that such involvement may harm the\ndevelopment p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tI'm planning on trying out a version\nof the check done for foreign keys that does\na query on the fktable with a NOT EXISTS\nsubselect rather than the current run the\ntrigger for each row (thus doing one query\nper row of the table). I want to see if this\ntends to be faster than what w...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWho the hell are these people and why can't they configure their\nown MTA?\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at...
[ { "msg_contents": "A couple of admin nice-to-have's based on the last few weeks of 24x7\noperation are:\n\nAllow DBA/Database Owner to log in even when max_connections has been\nreached so they can determine which queries are hung via\npg_stat_activity etc. and perform any other needed work to restore\nstabilit...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just testing my product running on a 7.3 snapshot from a few days \nago. And I ran into the following change in behavior that I consider a \nbug. You can no long insert large values into a bigint column without a \ncast. Small values (in the int range work fine though).\n\nOn 7.3 I g...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI notice that the new default for the contrib Makefiles is to build\nlibfti.so, etc. instead of the old fti.so. Won't this cause dump restore\nproblems for everyone already using the contrib? Anyone mind if I change it\nto use MODULES instead of MODULE_big for backwards compatibility...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I'm playing with creating an auto vacuum daemon, but it is my first \ntime inside the pg source code and I'm a bit lost.\n\nI have gotten as far as having a vacuum daemon created on postmaster startup. \nIt's just a fork from the postmaster, cribbed mostly from the stat collector \nco...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nIt's taken some real time and effort to get this list together, but many\ngood people and many good companies have decided to stand up and show\noff that they use PostgreSQL for *serious* projects. For some, it's\neven Mission Critical.\n\nTo compliment this, PostgreSQL Inc. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm running Red Hat 7.3 at home. For the fun of it, I put:\n #define NO_MKTIME_BEFORE_1970\n\ninto /src/include/port/linux.h and then did:\nmake clean\nmake all\nmake install\ninitdb\nmake installcheck\n\nBut I'm still getting the < 1970 regression test failures. What else do \nI need to do...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have added the names of the people who have the power to complete each\nitem. It may not be the original author.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 3 O P E N...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would it be useful to implement the SET SCHEMA command from SQL92? (I\nassume it's also in 99.)\n\nI guess that SET SCHEMA should change the front of the search path, so\nthat it would change the schema reported by current_schema(). It would\nbe a simplified form of SET SEARCH_PATH.\n \n-- ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > It's nonlocal constraints that are the problem, and here foreign keys\n> > and UNIQUE constraints are certainly the canonical examples. Both of\n> > these would be largely solved with table-spanning indexes I think.\n> \n> Note that the other obvious way to solve this would be to store...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm using the ltree module and located several problems, I think not all problems are really ltree related but might be a pg_dump/pg_restore problem.\n\nHere are the problems I've encountered:\n* pg_restore tries to create a table with ltree and ltree[] datatypes before the type itself...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it possible for the cvs emails to include a URL to the appropriate\nentries in cvs web?\n\nThe below is current:\n\nModified files:\n src/backend/utils/adt: ruleutils.c\n\n\nIs this possible?\nModified files:\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils...
[ { "msg_contents": "A recent change made XLogDir dynamically sized. There was a question of\nwhether this was a good idea since there are lots of other places that\nuse MAXPGPATH.\n\nI have now found that pg_resetxlog doesn't compile anymore because\nXLogDir is a char* now instead of a char[].\n\nShould I fix p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n From earlier postings it seems like there is no way to check that a temp \ntable exists; at the time Tom suggested schemas might solve the problem. I \nwas wondering if:\n\n (a) schema did solve the problem\nor\n (b) there was any chance of a backend function to get a temp table O...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis has been discussed before in the context of misunderstanding the \nmeaning of 'iscachable', but I now have a use for cached function results, \nand have seen at least one other posting with a similar need.\n\nThe reason I need it is that I have a few functions that do recursive \ninher...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can't find any TODO item that mentions fixing pg_dump's deficiencies\nconcerning choosing an order to dump the database objects in. The\nexisting method (basically, dump in OID order) tends to fail in\nsituations where you've used ALTER TABLE, and in any case it breaks down\ncompletely aft...
[ { "msg_contents": "I get the following compiling the current CVS code with gcc 3.1:\n\n...\nfe-connect.c: In function `connectDBComplete':\nfe-connect.c:1081: warning: suggest parentheses around && within ||\nfe-connect.c:1086: warning: implicit declaration of function `gettimeofday'\n...\npg_controldata.c: In ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to propose dropping the auto-creation of UNIQUE indexes on\nserial columns for the following reasons:\n\n1. Serials with indexes are quite difficult to handle in pg_dump. It\nmeans that the implicitly created unique index must be destroyed prior\nto loading the data, then re-created...
[ { "msg_contents": "n file included from fe-connect.c:24:\nlibpq-int.h:337: warning: `struct timeval' declared inside parameter\nlist\nlibpq-int.h:337: warning: its scope is only this definition or\ndeclaration, which is probably not what you want.\nfe-connect.c: In function `connectDBComplete':\nfe-connect.c:10...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs you can see, the open items list is greatly shrunk. We have two\nweeks to go and most of these seems do-able, except for point-in-time\nrecovery, which may not make it. I haven't heard anything recently on\nit.\n\nWould someone put together a porting document for schema changes and\ndr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nConni is the author of a German PostgreSQL book, and is also a member of\nthe PHP documentation team.\n\nShe's updating some parts of the official PHP manual at present, an\nshe'll be up to the PostgreSQL section pretty soon.\n\nDoes anyone have stuff they'd like to see includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just noticed that a bunch of places use strVal() to access the name\nfield of an Ident node. (Try changing strVal() to\n\n#define strVal(v) (AssertMacro(IsA(v, String)), ((Value *)(v))->val.str)\n\nand watch the fur fly...)\n\nThis works, at the moment, because Ident and Value no...
[ { "msg_contents": "# Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential\nconstraints\n\nThe above is on the TODO list. Are there any thoughts as to what we\nwant to do with this? The patch I submitted earlier received heavy\nfeedback saying it wasn't wanted due to rules and triggers (foreign\nkeys) ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOK - I assume from everybody else's silence that they either (a) agree with \nthe idea, or (b) think Tom hit the idea on the head, so they feel they \ndon't need to respond.\n\nSo what I would like to do is implement a simple version of this to attempt \nto justify my claims of performance ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm seeing this:\n\ntest=# create schema s1;\nCREATE SCHEMA\ntest=# set search_path to 'public, s1';\nERROR: Namespace \"public, s1\" does not exist\n\nAm I missing something?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:31:05 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having contributed to the need for pg_dump/initdb/restore when\nupgrading from 7.2 to 7.3, I plan to submit a patch which *could* make\nfuture transitions easier.\n\nbufpage.h:\n\ntypedef struct PageHeaderData\n{\n...\n\tuint32\t\tpd_type;\t\t/* kind and version */\n...\n}\n\n#define PKIND_HE...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Seems with above you are not able to constrain what qualifies for a\n> > supertable row, you would only be able to specify constraints that\n> > apply to all it's subtables.\n> \n> Yes, that's the whole point. If I have a constraint on a table, I think\n> it should *never* be possible f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nIt would be really neat if the contrib makefile could run an sql script upon\nuninstall as well as removing the files. Is that a neat idea? Means it can\nget rid off all the functions, types, etc. automatically.\n\nUnfortunately it's a bit beyond my meagre Makefile abilities...\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSurprised it took this long.\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking\n http://www.camping-usa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Using pg_dump and pg_dumpall I ran into the following problems and had \naddressed it earlier to this list with no response.\n\nUsing PostgreSQL 7.2.x\n\n1. create a user with createdb privilege.\n2. create a database as that user (allowing that user full reign over \nthat particular db)\n3....
[ { "msg_contents": "foobar\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:26:20 -0600", "msg_from": "\"Andrew J. Kopciuch\" <akopciuch@bddf.ca>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "ignore me" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "CREATE CAST WITHOUT FUNCTION is capable of creating binary equivalences\nthat will crash the backend when used (eg, between pass-by-value and\npass-by-reference datatypes). The existing restriction that you must\nown one of the datatypes hardly seems like an adequate permissions\ncheck ... e...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:22 PM\n> To: Mark Pritchard\n> Cc: Justin Clift; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: \...
[ { "msg_contents": "The 'type_sanity' and 'domain' regression tests seem to fail with CVS\nHEAD. Here's the diff:\n\n*** ./expected/type_sanity.out\tSun Aug 4 15:48:11 2002\n--- ./results/type_sanity.out\tTue Aug 20 01:32:35 2002\n***************\n*** 16,22 ****\n SELECT p1.oid, p1.typname\n FROM pg_type as p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> I read (in some other message) that this buffer overrun problem has been\n> known for a very, very long time.\n\nNo, the problem you're referring to (cash_out() and friends) is *not*\na buffer overrun.\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nNeil Conway <neil...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:48 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Neil Conway; Mark Pritchard; Justin Clift; Tom Lane; \n> Christopher Kings-Lynne; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordr...