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[ { "msg_contents": "Does someone from core want to inform bugtraq about 7.2.2?\nCheers,\n- Stuart\n\nWestcountry Design & Print,\nHeron Road, Sowton, Exeter. \nEX2 7NF - also at -\n17 Brest Road, Derriford,\nPlymouth. PL6 5AA\nEngland\nwww.westcountry-design-print.co.uk\n\n\n\n\n\ntell Bugtraq about 7.2.2\n\n\nD...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n//@(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0005\n\nRelease data: 23/08/02\nName: Several buffer overruns in PostgreSQL\nVersions affected: all versions\nRisk: from average to low\n\n--[ Description:\n\nPostgreSQL provides you with several builint geo types\n(circle,polygon,box...etc). \nUnfortunately t...
[ { "msg_contents": "No idea sorry :(\n- Stuart\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]\n> Sent: 28 August 2002 15:36\n> To: Henshall, Stuart - WCP\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tell Bugtraq about 7.2.2\n> \n> \n> \n> having never had to...
[ { "msg_contents": "oops, sorry your correct.\n- Stuart\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Gavin Sherry [mailto:swm@linuxworld.com.au]\n> Sent: 28 August 2002 15:57\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Henshall, Stuart - WCP; 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tell Bugtraq about 7.2.2\n> \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "What I changed is covered in the CHANGES file.\nNote that this includes a bug fix I already subimtted.\nThese changes are versus 7.3 CVS and may not be backwards compatible with 7.2.\nThey do not include a bug fix for a problem I reported with cube_yyerror.\nA context diff is attached.", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi,\n\nI'm very new to this project and inspired by recent security release, I\nstarted to audit postgresql source against common mistakes with sprintf().\n\nI mostly found problems with sprintf() used on statically allocated\nbuffers or dynam...
[ { "msg_contents": "... is now implemented.\n\nBut alterations done to the bootstrap user are not dumped. This is\nconsistent with the fact that other attributes such as the password are\nnot dumped either. It would be rather involved to implement this, since\nat the time of the dump you don't know the name of...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nThis is a resend of my previous email which was stucked at moderation\napproval.. and as I don't know if anyone actually does that in your\nlist, I'm resending this now.\n\nHi,\n\nI'm very new to this project and inspired by recent security re...
[ { "msg_contents": "With beta starting September 1, what time table do we want to have? Is\nfeature freeze September 1? When do we want to package up the beta1\ntarball?\n\nI will try to have the HISTORY/release.sgml file ready for September 1.\n\n\nI am attaching the open items list.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at the sample SRFs (show_all_settings etc) and am not\nhappy about the way memory management is done. As the code is currently\nset up, the functions essentially assume that they are executed in a\ncontext that will never be reset until they're done returning tuples.\n(This...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry for the off-topic article, but I wonder anyone has been received\nthis kind of mail...\n\nI have been received following from postmaster@postgresql.org. Is this\nmail really posted by postmaster@postgresql.org? If so, could someone\non postgresql.org stop this kind of alert mail? I'm ti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane: \"And with the availability of schemas in 7.3, I think that\nmultiple databases per installation is going to become less common to\nbegin with --- people will more often use multiple schemas in one big\ndatabase if they want the option of data sharing, or completely\nseparate instal...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nAfter a crash and several restarts this morning, my postgres 7.2.1 is\nrunning very oddly.\n\nEvery time you execute a query it basially takes forever. Some of them\nactually do take forever. eg: \"select * from users\" just hangs forever. As\npeople use the site all available ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK,\n\nI seem to have recovered from my Postgres probs. I decided to do a vacuum\nfull to clean things up. I got this about halfway through:\n\nusa=# vacuum full analyze;\nERROR: No one parent tuple was found\n\nLog:\n\n2002-08-28 19:38:47 DEBUG: Index expiry_users_users_key: Pages 110; T...
[ { "msg_contents": "does anybody know who i can talk to about a virus/bug scanning engine for postgresql tables/webportal stuff? i would like to start a proof-of-concept thread for this. sounds strange, \ni know, but chill out, details to come.\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:44:10 -0400 (EDT)", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In include/c.h, MemSet() is defined to be different than the stock\nfunction memset() only when copying less than or equal to\nMEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT bytes (currently 64). The comments above the macro\ndefinition note:\n\n *\tWe got the 64 number by testing this against the stock memset() on\n *\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have removed bunch of #ifdef MULTIBYTE per recent pgsql-hackers\ndiscussion. All regression tests passed.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:23:15 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "#ifdef MU...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> And dealing with a real name would be nice, IMHO. \n> Otherwise we may end up with 'SMtT' as the nickname, 'SMitTy' perhaps ?\n:-)\nNever camed across with such an offensive bullshit. \nBut we will not end up with 'SMtT' nor with 'SMitTy', i am sure of it.\nAlso , i never camed across wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nplease apply small patch for README.tsearch.\n\nI've documented space usage and using CLUSTER command\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Mos...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:53:12 -0300,\n Paul Cowan <cowanpf@ednet.ns.ca> wrote:\n> I do not know if this is the right list for this question but I am at \n> the end of my rope. I have migrated a number of database into postgres \n> and every thing seems to be working fine as far as the dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "i think i might've stumbled across a tiny defect in the optimizer. \nunfortunately, i haven't the knowledge of the code to know where to \nbegin looking at how to address this problem.\n\nanyway, consider the following:\n\ncreate table foo(\n\tid int2\n);\n\ncreate table bar(\n\tid int2\n\tfo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI checked all the previous string handling errors and most of them were \nalready fixed by You. However there were a few left and attached patch \nshould fix the rest of them.\n\nI used StringInfo only in 2 places and both of them are inside debug \nifdefs. Only performance penalty wil...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi,\n\nI checked all the previous string handling errors and most of them were\nalready fixed by You. However there were a few left and this patch\nshould fix the rest of them.\n\nI used StringInfo only in 2 places and both of them are inside ...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tpetere@postgresql.org\t02/08/29 18:09:23\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/include/port: hpux.h \n\nLog message:\n\tWorkaround for broken large file support on HP-UX\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:09:23 -0400 (EDT)", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the recent talk of RULE regression failures, I thought I'd bring back\nup that I _always_ have a rule failure on Freebsd/alpha.\n\nThe files are attached...\n\nChris", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:01:53 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using the current CVS (as of ~1930 EDT, 29AUG02) on RedHat's latest\nbeta (null). I find that I need to use the -U option when trying to use\npsql and the new PGPASSWORDFILE variable.\n\nHere's what I have in my ~/.pgpw file (pointed to by PGPASSWORDFILE):\n\nlocalhost:*:az_audit:gar:tes...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is a TODO item:\n\n\t* Allow logging of query durations\n\nCurrently there is no easy way to get a list of query durations in the\nserver log file. My idea is to add query duration to the end of the\nquery string for 'debug_print_query'. My only problem is that to print\nthe duration,...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have the TODO item:\n\n * Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are now recycled\n\nThe following patch completes this item. It also makes the WAL\ndocumentation a lot easier to understand. ;-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:07 PM\n> To: Alvaro Herrera\n> Cc: Gordon Runkle; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [7.3devl] Using PGPASSWORDFILE with \n> psql requires -U \n> \n> \n> Alvaro ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it ok if Florian and I submit the improvements to the fulltextindex\ncontrib during beta?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:46:05 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "contrib feat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I proved that you can reclaim on disk space after a DROP COLUMN with toast\ntables:\n\ntest=# create table toast_test(a text, b text);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest=# insert into toast_test values (repeat('XXXXXXXXXX', 1000000),\nrepeat('XXXXXXXXXX', 1000000));\nINSERT 246368 1\ntest=# insert into toas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please correct me if I've got this wrong, but it appears from the SRF\nAPI, that a SRF cannot readily refer to the TupleDesc to which it is\nexpected to conform (i.e. the TupleDesc derived from the FROM clause of\nan original SELECT statement) because that is held in the executor state\nand n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Please correct me if I've got this wrong, but it appears from the SRF\n> API, that a SRF cannot readily refer to the TupleDesc to which it is\n> expected to conform (i.e. the TupleDesc derived from the FROM \n> clause of\n> an original SELECT statement) because that is held in the \n> exe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nThere is an open question we need broad opinion on.\n\nCurrently pgaccess stores its own data in the database it works with.\nSome people do not like that. To store it elsewhere invokes a number of\nissues such as:\n\n- where is this somewhere\n- converting form all versio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Iavor Raytchev [mailto:iavor.raytchev@verysmall.org] \n> Sent: 30 August 2002 16:44\n> To: pgsql-hackers; pgsql-interfaces\n> Subject: [HACKERS] pgaccess - where to store the own data\n> \n> \n> Hello everybody,\n> \n> There is an open question we nee...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just sync'd up and am getting:\n\nmake[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/port'\nmake[3]: PERL@: Command not found\nmake[3]: *** [sql_help.h] Error 127\nmake[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/bin/psql'\nmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2\nmake[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/pgsql/sr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@joeconway.com] \n> Sent: 30 August 2002 16:52\n> To: Iavor Raytchev\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers; pgsql-interfaces\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] pgaccess - where to store \n> the own data\n> \n> \n> Iavor Raytchev wrote:\n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greets all,\nWhile attempting to clean up some memory leaks, I have encountered some \ndifficulties. In the code for PQclear() we have the check:\n\n if (!res)\n\treturn;\n\nThe problem arrises when the result object pointer you are passing to clear \ncontains not a null and not a valid res...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHI all,\n\nSorry to interrupt your busy list.\n\nI was wondering if you could recomend a good source code db/indexer that\ncould be used to search through the postgresql code?\n\nThanks,\n\n-- \nLaurette Cisneros\nThe Database Group\n(510) 420-3137\nNextBus Information Systems, Inc.\nwww.ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "Grep just to find things.\n\nDoxygen to see what is going on in exquisite detail.\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:23:13 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: source code indexer" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Using current CVS sources (as of 1500 EDT), 'make check' fails at the\ndatabase initialization step.\n\nThis box is running RH 7.3 with all current RH updates, and has\nsuccessfully built Pg 7.2.1 and 7.2.2.\n\nHere's how I'm configuring it (same as I'm doing under the RH Null Beta,\nwhich wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The alter_table regression test is now failing for me (RH Null).\n\nIt appears that the problem is that the backend is giving back a\ndifferent error message than expected when dropping a column from a\nnon-existent table:\n\n-- try altering non-existent table, should fail\nalter table foo dr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Matthew T. OConnor [mailto:matthew@zeut.net] \n> Sent: 30 August 2002 18:59\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Iavor Raytchev; pgsql-hackers; pgsql-interfaces\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pgaccess - where to store the own data\n> \n> \n> > > What do people think ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I couldn't get any good answers off the ADMIN list, can you help me?\n\nI haven't been able to finding information on this, or at least I\nhaven't known the right keywords to search for.\n\nWe are trying to make a fully contained, CD-runable version of postgres\nfor advocacy purposes.\nT...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>Tyler Mitchell wrote:\n>> Hi, I couldn't get any good answers off the ADMIN list, can you help me?\n>>\n\n>Or at least not one that you liked, huh ;-)\n\nOoops \"good\" is a relative term. I should phrase it \"I couldn't get any\nanswers that directly met my application needs\" :)\n\nI kno...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:08:59PM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:\n>>\n>> I know that I need to at least get some more understanding on the\nprocess\n>> that takes place.\n\n>The problem is that PostgreSQL doesn't have a \"read only\" mode. So\n>you can't really do it this way.\n\nOkay, tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know this one has been a pain, but I'm getting regression failures on:\n\n abstime ... FAILED\n tinterval ... FAILED\ntest horology ... FAILED\n\nunder RedHat 7.3 and RedHat Null Beta.\n\nThanks,\n\nGordon.\n-- \n\"Far and away the best prize that...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have moved my main computer to my new house. The DNS is still being\nupdated, but the new IP address is:\n\n\t207.106.42.251\n\nVince, would you update the developer's page and change\n'candle.pha.pa.us' to this fixed IP address. It may take a few days for\nthe IP to completely propogate....
[ { "msg_contents": "on RH 7.2, 7.3, and Null Beta.\n\nHere's the important part of the diff of expected (<) and results (>):\n\n6a7\n> ERROR: Function iso8859_1_to_utf8 does not exist\n11c12\n< ERROR: conversion name \"myconv\" already exists\n---\n> ERROR: Function iso8859_1_to_utf8 does not exist\n15a17\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n Just briefly describe my problem.\n I have two tables.\ncreate table A(\n a1 serial primary key,\n a2 varchars(10)\n);\ncreate table B(\n b1 integer primary key,\n b2 Integer,\n foreign key(b2) references a(a1)\n)\ninsert into A values('123'); \nselect a1 from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everybody,\n\nThis e-mail contains pgaccess strategic information.\n\nBest,\n\nIavor\n\n--\nwww.pgaccess.org\n\n\nPGACCESS STRATEGY IN THE EVE OF POSTGRESQL 7.3\n\n-------------------------\n1. pgaccess 0.98.8 beta 1\n-------------------------\n\nAs the new policy of PostgreSQL is to ke...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is pretty chump and easy to get around, but it took me a sec to\nfigure this out. Anyway, the short and skinny being that with the new\nAutoCommit GUC turned off, create(lang|db) won't work until you bail\nout of the transaction. A quick hack would be to insert an \"ABORT;\"\nin each o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs someone's suggestion, we are going to continue accepting patches\nthrough Sunday night, EDT, which will give us Monday to make sure all\nthe patches are in. I will have the HISTORY/release.sgml ready by then.\n\nAt that point, we can collect any other open items, like doc updates,\nand ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a reminder that once all the patches are in, I need to run\npgindent.\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 can be your ba...
[ { "msg_contents": "Although it seems no one who's thought about it is very happy with the\ncurrent state of play for implicit casts, we have run out of time to\nimplement any real solution for 7.3.\n\nAfter looking through the archives, it seems that the only serious\nstep backwards from 7.2 behavior is Barry L...
[ { "msg_contents": "It says here that CREATE CAST insists the cast function be immutable.\nThis seems wrong to me, in view of the fact that we have numerous\nbuilt-in casts that don't adhere to that rule --- for example,\ntimestamptz(date) is not immutable because it depends on the timezone\nsetting.\n\nPerhaps ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to find when WAL log files are rotated. The message is:\n\n 2002-02-11 21:18:13 DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000005\n\nand it is printed in MoveOfflineLogs(), and MoveOfflineLogs() is only\ncalled by CreateCheckPoint(), but I can't see where CreateCheckPoint()\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nany idea what we do with ecpg for the upcoming freeze? Do we use the\nbeta version of bison? If so, do we merge the branch back into main?\n\nI just synced the parsers and found one more problem. The embedded SQL\ncommands EXECUTE and PREPARE do collide with the backend commands. No\ni...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tmomjian@postgresql.org\t02/09/01 19:26:06\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : func.sgml runtime.sgml \n\tsrc/backend/tcop: postgres.c \n\tsrc/backend/utils/misc: guc.c postgresql.conf.sample \n\tsrc/bin/psql : tab-complete.c \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI'm new to this list...and PostgreSQL. I've got my server all up and \nrunning...and I am porting an application that had been using MSSQL as \nits backend.\n\nWhen I use my app to browse around (i.e., SELECTS), everything is \nbehaving nicely. I am not having such luck with U...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now, I am going through my email box trying to resolve any open\npatches or items. Once I am done I will let people know. Hopefully\ntomorrow we can deal with cleanups and documentation, as well as\nanything we missed.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.ph...
[ { "msg_contents": "Up to now, if you created a table with\n\n\tSELECT ... INTO foo FROM ...\n\nthen the new table \"foo\" would have OIDs.\n\nAs of CVS tip I have changed this to create a table without OIDs.\nI'd have preferred not to make such a change at the last minute,\nbut the hack we had in place was quit...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do I get a list of what tsearch considers a stop word?\n\neg. 'and', 'or', 'the', 'up', 'down', etc. There seem to be heaps of\nthem...!\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:57:47 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "We're offering a small reward for a PG hacker that can code up a\nmysqldiff-like utility for PG. For those unfamiliar with mysqldiff:\nhttp://adamspiers.org/computing/mysqldiff/\n\nCreating something similar for PG is slightly more involved (because\nof the ref. integrity issues, among othe...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm still getting conversion test failures on RH 7.2, 7.3, and Null beta.\n\nMy confiugre arguments are:\n\n./configure --prefix=/opt/postgresql --with-java --with-python --with-openssl --enable-syslog --enable-debug --enable-cassert\n--enable-depend\n\nIt appears that the functions are not ...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tmomjian@postgresql.org\t02/09/02 02:27:05\n\nModified files:\n\tcontrib/fulltextindex: README.fti fti.c fti.sql.in \nAdded files:\n\tcontrib/fulltextindex: WARNING uninstall.sql \n\nLog message:\n\tIn case Florian and I don't finish...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have finished going through my email box and applying patches from the\npatches queue. There is one patch left in the queue related to tcl\nnotification of connection failure. Tom wants to look at that.\n\nI am running tests now on the code.\n\nTomorrow, I will run pgindent and create the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whatver happened to Rod's work on the BETWEEN command? I remember he got to\nthe stage of realising a lot of execetor changes had to be made...?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:36:06 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've tried to evaluate the compatibility of the current CVS version to our current 7.2.1 version, and noticed that 7.2.x dumps are not compatible with 7.3, not even in cleartext format. \nTimestamps in 7.2.x are this format: 2002-07-04 15:19:11.363562+02\n7.3 expects a timestamp per de...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see:\n\n/usr/jakarta-ant-1.4.1/bin/ant -buildfile ./build.xml all \\\n -Dmajor=7 -Dminor=3 -Dfullversion=7.3devel -Ddef_pgport=5432 -Denable_debug=yes\nBuildfile: ./build.xml\n\nBUILD FAILED\n\n/usr/local/src/pgsql/current/pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc/./build.xml:51: Class org.apache.tools.an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm planning to experiment with a new index access method. More\nspecifically I want to plug an external index program in to postgres as an\nindex.\n\nDoes anybody have some hints on how I can find some info on where to\nbegin? I have looked a little bit on the GIST project, and in the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm playing around with the CVS version and noticed a change from 7.2 in \nregards to serial datatypes - they no longer automatically have an \nindex. Is this a deliberate thing? I did a search in the archives but \ndidn't come across mention of the change. A pointer to discussion on \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom, when you loosened the restriction on reindexing toast tables, did\nyou continue to restrict indexing of system tables to the superuser? Is\nthat required?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that the \"multibyte\"-based character set recoding is a fixed part of\nthe feature set, is there any need to keep the \"Cyrillic\" recode support?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 3 Sep 2002 00:25:54 +0200 (CEST)", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gettext cannot handle compile-time string concatenation with macros. This\nis a made-up example:\n\n printf(gettext(\"now at file position \" INT64_FORMAT), (int64) offset);\n\nAt the time when the message catalogs are extracted, INT64_FORMAT is\nunknown.\n\nThe solution in the Gettext ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust a quick one before I package up the wrong thing ... where should I be\npulling docs from? :)\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:27:44 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Docs for v7.3 ..." }, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like we got an honourable mention *sigh*:\n\nServer Appliance: SnapGear for Lite/Lite+ SOHO Firewall/VPN Client\nHonorable Mention: Sun Microsystems for Cobalt Qube\nSecurity Tool: GPG\nWeb Server: IBM for xSeries\nHonorable Mention: Sun Microsystems for Cobalt RaQ XRT\nEnterprise Appli...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce suggested that we need a porting guide to help people look for\napplication and client-library code that will be broken by the changes\nin PG 7.3. Here is a first cut at documenting the issues.\nComments welcome --- in particular, what have I missed?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n\nRev...
[ { "msg_contents": "If we got rid of the other NOT NULL != CHECK (a IS NOT NULL) instance, may\nas well get rid of the one on this page:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-createdomain.html\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:13:51 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lyn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc, do you want to start trimming /contrib? I know the MySQL and\nOracle tools each have their own websites.\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 Rob...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am still working on the 7.3 HISTORY file. I have extracted the items,\nbut I have to worksmith them and write an introduction.\n\nIt is midnight here now. I don't think I can finish before ~3am and at\nthat point, I am not sure I will know what I am writing.\n\nBasically, one day of featu...
[ { "msg_contents": "findoidjoins doens't seem to compile:\n\ngmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/contrib/findoidjoins'\ngcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../sr\nc/interfaces/libpgeasy -I../../src/interfaces/libpq -I. -I../../src/include \n -c -o findoidjoi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know everyone is busy with the 7.3beta, but maybe this is something to think of before releasing the beta. Currently VACUUM will vacuum every table, but sometimes\nit's desireable to leave tables untouched because the're mostly static or protocol tables. In my case this would be the pg_larg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nIt's probably a pretty basic question explained in some document I haven't seen\nbut...if I do something like a CreateTupleDescCopy() how do I know my memory\ncontext owns everything allocated without following the code all the way\nthrough until it returns to me?\n\n\n-- \nNigel J. Andre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nignore if you see this ...\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:10:40 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Just testing tighgter UCE controls ..." }, { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Marc G. F...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I do not think we need or want a control table for this; certainly I see\n>no need for per-table manual control over this process. There should\n>probably be a few knobs in the form of GUC parameters so that the admin\n>can control how much overall work the auto-vacuumer does. For instance...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:\n\n> > Are you guys competing for the modesty award? ;-)\n> > I heard Stallman is trying to win it this year. :-)\n> \n> Hah, that's a good one.\n> \n> For doing what - telling you not to call it GNU/Linux, only Linux/GNU ?\n> :-)\n\n SELECT FreeP...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems it wants to run a redo entry that doesn't exist.\n\nNot a big deal as it's a test environment only. It was recently\nupgraded from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2. I'm wondering whether the person who did\nthe upgrade shutdown the daemon before installing.\n\n\n\nFATAL 1: The database system is start...
[ { "msg_contents": "i've hacked out a webdav (apache2) interface to pgsql. i'd love\nto replicate the browsing/managing interfaces of the bigname\nRDBMS's using webdav for pgsql but i'm not sure how far i'll\nget. right now the 0.1.15 release supports a fair number of\nbrowsing options (tables, columns, function...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone else get this rubbish when they post to -php ?\n\nOur domain isn't on any blacklists AFAIK...\n\nChris\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: GWAVA [mailto:Postmaster@akf.dk]\n> Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 11:24 AM\n> To: chriskl@familyhealth.com.au\n> Subject: [GWAVA:fku1...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, the HISTORY file is updated, and 7.3 is branded and ready for beta1.\n\nI used the same HISTORY categories Peter made in 7.2. I liked them.\n\nPlease review the HISTORY file. I am sure there are improvements that\ncan be made.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://can...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone.\n I can't understand Tid Scan, Who can tell me what it's that and where I could find document on the Web. Thanks for your reponse.\n\n Guo longjiang Harbin China\n______________________________________\n\n===========================================================...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, Mr. Tom Lane\n I am a chinese student studied in Harbin institute of technology. I want join to PostgreSQL Global Development Group and I want work on the planner/optimizer. I have been reading the source code for 2 months. There many data strucutres I can't understand. Can you tell ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I found one bug in file src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c and there were your name, related with Multibyte enhancement, so i write to you.\n> Functions upper,lower and initcap doesn't work with utf-8 data which is not of Latin letters.At my work i do databases for Russian users ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWarning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in\n/usr/local/www/gborg3/html/index.php on line 52\n\nWarning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in\n/usr/local/www/gborg3/html/include/project.php on line 196\n\nWarning: Supplied argument is not a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Shridhar Daithankar dijo: \n> \n> > On 4 Sep 2002 at 3:24, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > OK, the HISTORY file is updated, and 7.3 is branded and ready for beta1.\n> > \n> > Some minor stuff,\n> \n> In the schema changes description:\n> \n> \"Schemas allow users to create objects in thei...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI think I figured why I can't buil plperl on unixware 711/OpenUnix 800.\n\nIt seems Makefile.shlib has changed between 722 and 73 and -z text has\nbeen added. However with this on, it fails to build libperl.so\n\nMaybe I'm wrong, but could someone consider this patch.\n\nRegards,\n\n--...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I talked to Marc and he is going to package up beta1 tonight.\n\nAny more changes to HISTORY?\n\nI want to run pgindent in an hour. Does anyone have a problem with\nthat?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nUnder what conditions would the following statement cause the USERS\ntable to lock out selects?\n\n\nalter table my_coupons\n add constraint FK_mc_user_id\n FOREIGN KEY (mc_frn_user_id)\n REFERENCES users(user_ID);\n\n\nss\n\nScott Shattuck\nTechnical Pursuit Inc.\n\n\n\n", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Call me crazy, but shouldn't the following work? :~|\n\n\nCREATE FUNCTION t() RETURNS TEXT AS '\nDECLARE\n\tcol_name pg_catalog.pg_attribute.attname%TYPE;\nBEGIN\n\tcol_name := ''uga'';\n\tRETURN col_name;\nEND;\n' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';\nCREATE FUNCTION\n\n\nSELECT t();\nWARNING: plpgsql: ERR...