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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Mark Pritchard [mailto:mark@tangent.net.au] \n> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:27 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Neil Conway\n> Cc: Justin Clift; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs adv... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI get the following when I attempt to build outside of the source tree.\nAll goes well until....\n\nmake[4]: Entering directory\n`/home/jgray/postgres/pg-build/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/ascii_and_mic'\nMakefile:11: ../proc.mk: No such file or directory\nmake[4]: *** No ... |
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"msg_contents": "I just got the latest beta and it compiles ecpg grammar correctly! I had\nto make one change to my source though as bison no longer accepts a comma inside the token list.\n\nMichael\n\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > with Perl and *using placeholders and bind values*, the application\n> > developer has not to worry about this. So, usually I don't check the\n> > values in my applications (e.g. if only values between 1 and 5 are\n> > allowed and under normal circumstances only these are possible), it'... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The cash_out problem can't really be fixed until we do something about\n> subdividing type \"opaque\" into multiple pseudo-types with more carefully\n> defined meanings. cash_out is declared cash_out(opaque) which does not\n> really mean that it accepts any input type ... but one of the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Large file support is now compiled by default if available. (Use\n--disable-largefile to turn it off. That's what Autoconf gives us.)\n\nBut:\n\nThe zlib library uses unsigned ints and unsigned longs for file positions\nand offsets. Depending on how that is used in detail and depending on ... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I'm tired of hearing about this, and I've decided I can make the problem\ngo away with a day or so's concentrated work.\n\nHere is the plan:\n\nCreate several \"pseudo types\" (typtype 'p' in pg_type). We already have one\npseudo-type (RECORD), plus the logic in heap.c to reject any at... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> \"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:\n> > Would it be possible to update the system tables, so that cash_out does not take\n> > opaque but really takes type money ?\n> \n> That is part of the solution, but only part: we have hundreds of\n> functions that take \"... |
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"msg_contents": "SRA/Japan, my employer and a big PostgreSQL support company in Japan,\nhas announced they have purchased TurboLinux:\n\n\thttp://www.turbolinux.com/news/pr/020820.html\n\nHere is a summary from someone on Slashdot:\n\n * Turbolinux Inc. sold Turbolinux Japan K.K. (its Japanese\nsubsidary) ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHere's yet another. He claims malicious code can be run on the server\nwith this one.\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup from ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> \"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:\n> > Hard to say what is good for those names imho, don't like \n> \"anytype\" :-(\n> \n> How about \"any\"? It's a reserved word per SQL99, I think.\n\nI would actually stick to opaque in that case, already used in other db... |
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"msg_contents": "> >>> Hard to say what is good for those names imho, don't like \n> >>> \"anytype\" :-(\n> >> \n> >> How about \"any\"? It's a reserved word per SQL99, I think.\n> \n> > I would actually stick to opaque in that case, already used in other db's.\n> \n> I want to change the name because (a) we... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAnd another one. Sure would be nice if shit-for-brains would mention\nit to us first.\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net\n 56K Nationwide Dialup from ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:44 PM\n> > To: Vince Vielhaber\n> > Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: \n> > Buffer overflow ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:vev@michvhf.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:48 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0004: Multiple \n> buffer overflows inPostgreSQL. (fwd)\n> \n> \n> \n> And another on... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Frank Wiles [mailto:frank@wiles.org] \n> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:57 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0004: \n> Multiple buffer overflows inPostgreSQL. (fwd)\n> \n> \n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJ.R, Richard, we only have 10 days until beta. Can you give us any\nstatus on PITR?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + Christ ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Mordred,\n\nThanks for doing this testing for vulnerabilities for us.\n\nSome PostgreSQL team members have been looking to organise an \"audit\"\nteam to remove vulnerabilities like this, and your posts to BugTraq have\nassisted in getting that further mobilised.\n\nSomething that is conce... |
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"msg_contents": "I've backpatched Thomas's fixes for the potential buffer overruns in\nthe datetime code to the REL7_2_STABLE branch. The required changes\nare pretty minimal, and the code passes the regression tests.\n\nHowever, I haven't yet seen a test-case that demonstrates the buffer\noverrun in 7.2 code... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm going to change contrib/pgstattuple so that it returns a tuple\nrather than a NOTICE using new SRF interface. I believe this way is\nmuch more convenient for users. Any objection?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:25:29 +0900 (JST)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nFew quick questions.\n\n1. How do you compile contribs with full debugging symbols. I always get\nheuristic-fencepost-blah probs with gdb even though I've configured postgres\nwith all the debugging stuff. Makes it really hard to find probs in the\ncontribs.\n\n2. Should contribs... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi Tatsuo Ishii :\n> \n> Thank you very much for your reply. Somehow I managed to restore the data by\n> creating by database in SQL_ASCII encoding. Then I changed the encoding of\n> my database into EUC_CN thru \"update pg_database set encoding=2\". But the\n> same problem happened in \"v... |
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"msg_contents": "I had a test schema containing one table.\n\n olly=# drop schema testing;\n NOTICE: table testing.testa depends on schema testing\n\n ERROR: Cannot drop schema testing because other objects depend on it\n \t Use DROP ... CASCADE to drop the dependent objects too\n\nThis seems a little ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Hmm, \"any\" would sound like it is the same as opaque. Would \"any\" really be\n> > all allowed types ? I think we would want to eliminate that \n> altogether.\n> \n> Do you plan on eliminating the COUNT() aggregate, then?\n\nAh, you want it for aggbasetype in pg_aggregate, I did not \... |
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"msg_contents": "Has anyone made a decision about the SET LOCAL needing to be changed to SET\nTRANSATION for SQL compatibiltity?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:18:12 +0800",
"msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nSir Mordred seems okay, and is happy to help us out as long as we give\nhim credit where it's due.\n\nCan't see where that would be a problem with anyone here, as it's\ntotally in line with how we work, so am going to say yes to him up\nfront.\n\n:-)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Sir Mordred,\n\nForwarded your email on to that same \"PostgreSQL Hackers\" mailing list\n(didn't seem to be anything confidential in it), just to let everyone\nknow that things will be ok from here on, etc.\n\nNo-one would generally even think to take credit for your work, as the\npeople ... |
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"msg_contents": "What's with this?\n\ntemplate1=# select current_timestamp(0);\n timestamptz\n------------------------\n 2002-08-21 16:39:40+08\n(1 row)\n\ntemplate1=# set time zone 'Australia/Sydney';\nSET\ntemplate1=# select current_timestamp(0);\n timestamptz\n------------------------\n 2002-08-2... |
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"msg_contents": "On FreeBSD/Alpha, CVS gives:\n\ngmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/src/backend/parser'\ngmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.\ngmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/src/backend/parser'\ngcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\nThis post certainly contains no valuable information,\nbut i feel i should clarify some points.\n\n1) I like postgresql and i worked with it for a long time.\n2) Solution like \"killall -9 postmaster\" was just a joke.\n3) ...Hm..i forgot...maybe later ...\n\n____________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems like this one was lost or was filtered out...\n\n//@(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0002\n\nRelease data: 19/08/02\nName: Buffer overflow in PostgreSQL\nVersions affected: all versions\nRisk: high\n\n--[ Description:\nThere exists a buffer overflow in a SET TIME ZONE command, that\nallows an... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > May be a plan could be to leave opaque, but throw a notice\n> > when it is used in a create stmt, like:\n> > NOTICE: the use of type OPAQUE should be avoided where possible \n> \n> Right, that's exactly the plan.\n> \n> Actually, I think we can tighten the use of OPAQUE quite a bit, too... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > In my paper I use C functions that take \"any tuple\".\n> > I do not yet see how I can do that without opaque if we don't \n> > have a \"row\" but only a \"trigger\" type.\n> \n> For that you would have to use \"any\", at the moment. This would give\n> you the same amount of type safet... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> If we are going to delay beta, we should decide now, not at the end of\n> August, and the delay should be until the end of September. The big\n> question is whether we have enough material to warrant a delay.\n\nI think the \"implicit casts\" todo should be adressed soon, \nnot sure ther... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >> For that you would have to use \"any\", at the moment. This would give\n> >> you the same amount of type safety you have with \"opaque\", \n> ie, none.\n> \n> > I would have to use some pg_proc magic to make \"any\" appear there,\n> > since the plan was to not make it visible at the s... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I did not mean visible, I meant useable, like in\n> > \tcreate function xx(any) returns text ...;\n> > If that is possible, what is the difference to opaque ?\n> \n> \"any\" will have the same behavior that \"opaque\" used to have, yes.\n\nOk, now I vote, that you don't implement \"any\... |
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"msg_contents": "As you probably know, PostgreSQL is quickly approaching the beta period\nfor its next release (7.3).\n\nIt would be heavily appreciated if you could attack the new source base\nstarting now and throughout the beta period in an attempt to make the\nnext release extra secure and stable from the... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n\tThis afternoon, Bruce Momjiam created a new project on GBorg for\nlibpq++, and Jeroen T. Vermeulen created one for libpqxx ... Both projects\nsource directory from the central CVS repository have been copied over,\nincluding full history logs, and can be viewed at:\n\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nthey are no longer on the central repository, but are on GBorg ... I've\nmade the appropriate chagnes to configure and Makefiles to reflect the\nfact that libpq++ is no longer part of the central distribution, *but* I\nused 'cvs remove' to remove the files themselves, so that the old branch... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThat's one thing that I can't touch, since I have no idea about SGML :(\n\nBruce, can you extract that and add it to the CVS repository for libpq++?\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:23:28 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nltree is good and fast at indexing hierarchies, right? XML is a standard\nway of storing hierarchies, right? Would there be any way of allowing ltree\nto index XML text fields to allow really fast XPath searches?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:52:59 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:vev@michvhf.com] \n> Sent: 22 August 2002 03:25\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] libpq++ and libpqxx removed \n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 22 August 2002 03:28\n> To: Vince Vielhaber; Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] libpq++ and libpqxx rem... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Ok, now I vote, that you don't implement \"any\" and use \"opaque\".\n> > I don't think we want two types that do the same thing.\n> > Is it that you like the name \"any\" more than \"opaque\" ?\n> \n> No, it's that I want to deprecate \"opaque\" so that we can catch old\n> uses that sh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\nThere is no need to ask me to attack a postgresql source code,\nas long as i remember myself, i was always in studing someone's source code\nor disasm output..\nBy the way, the code i write being a plain web programmer, even for small\nprojects is fairly buggy:-))).\nOne little thing sav... |
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"msg_contents": ">\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:\n\n> Are we all caught up now on the known bugs/fixes? Would it be reasonably\n> safe to do up a quick v7.2.2 Security Fix Release tomorrow afternoon?\n\nMaybe it makes sense to wait about a week.\n\n\n\n________________________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "The original problem with \"opaque\" is gone in CVS tip:\n\nregression=# select cash_out(2);\nERROR: Function cash_out(integer) does not exist\n Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types\n You may need to add explicit typecasts\n\nHowever, I'm not en... |
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"msg_contents": "does the recent security activity, including several reported exploits \nand patches, as well as the mention of creation of an audit team merit \nthe creation of a new pgsql-security list?\n\nas someone working with a paranoid sysadmin, i'd find it to be of use...\n\nany thoughts? would there... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been using postgres for a little over a year now, and overall I've\nbeen very pleased with it. Thanks!\n\nThe psql client is really nice, but I was frustrated by the lack of a\n\"no-autocommit\" mode. So, I made a few small modifications to the client\nto wrap everything in a tran... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust got a note from Jeffrey on this, and he acknowledges that he is\ncontinuing to maintain DBD::Pg through CPAN, so we won't be moving it to\nGBorg ...\n\nBruce, he mentions having tried to contact you via email, but being\nunsuccessful due to your anti-spam blacklist filters :(\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Just got a note from Jeffrey on this, and he acknowledges that he is\n> > > continuing to maintain DBD::Pg through CPAN, so we won't be moving it to\n> > > GBorg ...\n> >\n> > Ok. Are there plans to remove interfaces/perl5 from the CVS tree?\n> \n> Yes ... that will be moved over to G... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > People should really use DBD::Pg (good that it stays on CPAN). \n> \n> Why do you say that?\n> \n> Pg's interface seems a bit closer to libpg's interface than DBD::Pg.\n> I would think that would be an advantage.\n\nWell libpq is very nonstandard same as interfaces/perl5. Since I like\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nI've been try to check the anoncvs out since Tom posted about the cstring stuff\ntoday and I keep getting this:\n\n$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -P pgsql\ncvs server: existing repository /projects/cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir does not match /projects/cv... |
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"msg_contents": "There is so much going on, I am having trouble keeping things straight.\nJust thought I would let everyone know. ;-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust so that everyone knows, Dave Page created a project on GBorg for the\nODBC driver, and I've just finished moving it over and removing it from\nthe main tree ...\n\n2 down ... so many more to go :)\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:46:03 -0300 (ADT)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy primary use of Postgres is as the backend database for a busy web site.\nWe have a cron job that just emails us the tail of our database, php, apache\nlogs every night. That way we can see some problems.\n\nThese logs almost always contain some errors. For instance, this is what I... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOkay, just packaged it up (too fast for you Lamar? *grin*) ... I put the\nfiles in /pub/source/v7.2.2-prerelease for now, but will rename the\ndirectory to purely v7.2.2 tomorrow afternoon and put out an announcement,\njust to give 12 or so hours for ppl to confirm that the packaging doesn'... |
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"msg_contents": "This is the same patch as 20020822_01_pitr.patch.gz, but in the correct\nformat (context diff), and the 'wal_arch_dir' parameter of\npostgresql.conf.sample is changed to 'wal_archive_dest', which is what\nit should have been.\n\n\n-- \nJ. R. Nield\njrnield@usol.com",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe current prompt in psql for password is merely\n\nPassword:\n\nwhich is Ok when one is using psql interactively as one know exactly\nwhich username and database server is specified. However, when using it\nfor programs like vacuumdb, createuser, createdb, clusterdb etc is not\nimme... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone seen this:\n\nhttp://www.palslib.com/sitemap.html\n\nLoads of fantastic DBMS articles - many from techdocs. The XML & Database\nsection is really interesting and is already giving me heaps of ideas about\nimproving the XML stuff for later releases.\n\neg.\n\nhttp://www.rpbourret.com/x... |
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"msg_contents": "Greeting Hackers! Had some questions about integer array type...\n\nIf I have a integer[] field in a table, which already has the values\n{1,2,3,6,17} and I additionally want to add the value '45' to this\narray, is there any easier way than SELECTing the current values and\nthen updating the... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry all,\n\nI got in a hurry and posted before clearing out the Cc stuff. I only\nmeant to bother Lamar. :-)\n\n\nRod\n-- \n \"Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for...\"\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT)",
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"msg_contents": "\nJust to give time for the mirrors to pick up the directory change, and\nVince to change his pointers, I'm going to announce the release later this\nevening ... both the binary and source directories have been renamed\naccordingly, as well as appropriate links changed from the top of hte ftp... |
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"msg_contents": "The new CREATE OPERATOR CLASS command will presently let you create an\nindex opclass if you own the datatype the class is for. With the\nrecent emphasis on security I'm thinking that this is not an adequate\npermission check. We don't have any reasonable way of checking that\nthe provided ... |
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"msg_contents": "This should not happen, I guess:\n\nalvh=> CREATE TABLE test_inh (a int);\nCREATE TABLE\nalvh=> CREATE TABLE test_inh_child (b int) INHERITS (test_inh);\nCREATE TABLE\nalvh=> ALTER TABLE test_inh_child RENAME a TO c;\nALTER TABLE\nalvh=> SELECT * FROM test_inh;\nERROR: Relation \"test_inh_ch... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDue to recent security vulnerabilities reported on BugTraq, concerning\nseveral buffer overruns found in PostgreSQL, the PostgreSQL Global\nDevelopment Team today released v7.2.2 of PostgreSQL that fixes these\nvulnerabilities.\n\nThe following buffer overruns have been identified and addre... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm out of town and my car broke down. I probably won't be back at my\nmachine until Tuesday. Don't expect too many replies from me until then. Sorry\nthat I can't fix the large file stuff right away.\n\nBtw., the 7.2.2 release contains the wrong documentation, as usual.\n\n-- \nGMX - Die ... |
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"msg_contents": "I want to make a function that converts text to cube and the \"obvious\"\nthing to do is to call cube_in with the pointer from the text data.\nHowever this depends on the text string being 0 terminated. I am very\nsure that this is the case, but since I want to submit this change back\nas a p... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nWould someone apply the attached patch to the development source and let me\nknow if the autoconf step fails or works. I've only got autoconf 2.13 available\nand the file needs 2.53 apparently. If it works could I also have a copy of the\nresulting configure script, or patch, please.\n\nF... |
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"msg_contents": "Helps if I attach the patch...\n\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:36:19 +0100 (BST)\nFrom: Nigel J. Andrews <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: A configure.in patch check\n\n\n\nWould someone apply the attached patch ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've just been thinking that the documentation doesn't cover the maximum\ninput string lengths for various data types well. Case in point, the\ndate/time code: there was a fair amount of discussion about validation\ninput, including checking for 'unreasonable' string lengths. Unles... |
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"msg_contents": ";;; From: sugita@sra.co.jp \n;;; Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:22:14 +0900 (JST) \n;;; \n;;; ;;; However, that doesn't explain... |
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"msg_contents": "I am going through my mailbox trying to tie up any loose ends before\nbeta. This is SOP --- standard operating procedure. ;-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard driv... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have been corresponding with Bob Devine for a few years. He was at\nBerkeley during the Postgres days and knows quite a bit about\noptimizers and storage systems. I will put his name at the bottom of\nthe optimizer README and if people have questions, he is willing to\nanswer them as be... |
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"msg_contents": "TODO item:\n\nAdministration -\n\tReserve last few process slots for super-user if max_connections\n\treached\n\n\nNotes:\n\nAdded GUC superuser_reserved_connections such that non-superuser connections\nare only acceptable in the first\n(max_connections - superuser_reserved_connections) backe... |
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"msg_contents": "Does anybody know 7.2.2 if xtar ball has been repacked? Peter pointed\nout the previous tar ball included wrong docs.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:08:50 +0900 (JST)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been having a lot of trouble with deadlocks in 7.2.1 because of\nforeign keys. I dug out a couple of messages from the list archives\nwhich cover this topic.\n\nOne particular message indicates a fix was being worked on.\n--------\nDate: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:03:06 -0700 (PDT)\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\"..if someone has direct SQL access to your database, they can\nalready do more damage than what this vulnerability addresses. Specifically\nDROP TABLE is available to users with direct SQL command line access...\"\n\nThat's true of course, but i really dont want to do any damage, i might... |
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"msg_contents": "\n//@(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007\n\nRelease data: 26/08/02\nName: Remote DoS condition in PostgreSQL\nVersions affected: all versions\nConditions: entry in a pg_hba.conf file that matches attacker's host.\nRisk: average\n\n---[ Description:\n\nUpon connecting to a database, postmaster wi... |
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"msg_contents": "The point is really simple.\nAllocate a huge chunk of memory (no sense to cause out of memory error,\nas palloc will bail is a requested size > 1 gb). The postgres will be ready\nto suck your input,\nvia pg_getbytes(), now in a loop send junk to postgresql.\nOf course you can fork a number of... |
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"msg_contents": "Not a lower strength lock, I would, but I'm not so familiar with the postgres\ninternals. I modified ri-triggers.c to exclude certain tables from the\nlocking itself (because I know the tables are not updated).\n\n-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----\nVon: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone23... |
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"msg_contents": ">Hey, if I can connect to postmaster I can DoS it quite easily, but\nflooding it\n>with connection requests.....\n\nHm, that's true of course, but now i will do this with a couple of\nconnections.\nLets say, bot on a owned machine, connects to a database, \nsend a crafted packet,\npostgresql ... |
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"msg_contents": "By the way, seems like a beer DOSsed me a little:-).\nI've made i mistake in email subject. Remove->remote\n\n\n________________________________________________________________________\nThis letter has been delivered unencrypted. We'd like to remind you that\nthe full protection of e-mail cor... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm looking at modifications to dblink to allow it to make use of table \nfunctions. One item which is very much needed is the ability to define \ndblink as returning setof record, so that it can return a tuple as \ndescribed at runtime in the query string.\n\nI'm trying to come up with the b... |
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"msg_contents": "RPMs for the security bugfix release 7.2.2 are available now for your happy \ndownloading in two forms and versions on ftp.postgresql.org. You may have to \nwait on mirror propagation, which could take a few hours.\n\nFor those who want it as close to the previous release as possible, I have... |
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"msg_contents": "Joe Conway and I have just committed some changes in the internal\nrepresentation of Postgres arrays: an element-type-OID field is added to\nthe array header, and alignment calculations are now done the same way\nas in ordinary tuple storage, instead of taking shortcuts. I believe\nthat thes... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lamar.owen@wgcr.org] \n> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:41 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane\n> Cc: Sir Mordred The Traitor; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: \n> Rem... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been getting the subject message ever since upgrading to 7.2.1. I \ntried 7.2.2 with the same thing. It seems to be related to my chkpass type \n(see contrib) as it only happens on tables with that type. I tried it on a \nnew database with a very simple table and still see it. Afte... |
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"msg_contents": "How do I do an insert and retreival for bytea field using embedded SQL? \nAnybody have a code example? I'm trying to port from informix to \npostgresQL.\n\nThanks\n\nMike\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:59:36 GMT",
"msg_from": "Mike Sacauskis <mikejsNOSPAM@mbay.net>",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Could the index scan be made to\n> > handle cases where the index tuple it was stopped on is gone?\n> \n> Don't see how. With no equal keys, you could test each tuple you scan\n> over to see if it's > the expected key; but that would slow things down\n> tremendously I fear. In any cas... |
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"msg_contents": "Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands?\nThis would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having\nunix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support.\n\nActually, we should just leave the 'ALL' off. That will make them behave\nlike ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> What we really need is some mode on template1 that says, \"I am not\n> world-writable, but the admin hasn't made me world-non-writable, so I\n> will create new databases that are world-writable\". Does that make\n> sense?\n\nI think template1 public should be non-world-writeable by defau... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry to bother, but it seems my last to messages (one to the news and\none yesterday to the pghackers list) did'nt go through..\n\nThe problem related to difficulties with plperl and 7.3 on UW 711\n\nRegards\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \tTel:\t+33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work)\nQuartier d'Harrau... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFolks, I discussed with Harald a month ago how to improve the psql \\?\ndisplay. I have implemented his idea of mentioning '+' for the options\nthat can use it, and that is in CVS.\n\nHis other idea is to group the backslash commands into sections, so they\nare not all one big alphabetical... |
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"msg_contents": "pg_resetxlog uses a non-standard options parsing method: The -l option\nrequires two arguments (-l fileid seg). I propose to change this to -l\nfileid,seg which is the standard way to separate suboptions.\n\nSecondly, the -n option appears to be redundant with pg_controldata. Do\nwe need it... |
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"msg_contents": "\nYes, this is the counter case, where the '@' disappears; so it appears\nmagically for local users, and disappears for global users.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nRobert Treat wrote:\n> Is the converse to this:\n> \n> $ psql -U postgres@ t... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nI tried the chkpass thing on both CVS tip and 7.2 (REL_7_2 or something\nlike that), and didn't see any error.\n\nThis is Linux on Intel.\n\n(sorry, I deleted the thread by accident).\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)\n\"El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch fixes the so-called DoS possibility when processing the\npassword packet in recv_and_check_passwordv0(). Nothing fancy, I just\nadded a sanity check to ensure that we bail out if the client enters\nan obviously-bogus length.\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nNeil Conway <neilc@samurai.com... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nNow that we have prepared statements, should the foreign key code be changed\nto use them? I think it's highly likely that they will be reused in a\nconnection. Might be an idea.\n\nAlso, what if the person wants to prepare a view? Should they have to\nPREPARE <view select> or shoul... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> My guess, seeing as very few probably use LIMIT and FOR UPDATE together,\n> is to swap them and document it in the release notes. Was I correct in\n> my guess?\n\nSounds good to me.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:29:46 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Zeugswetter Andreas S... |
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