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[ { "msg_contents": "Here are a few open concerns about pg_dump:\n\nCritical:\n\n* pg_dumpall is not compatible with pre-7.3. It used to be ignorant but\nnow that it has extra columns in pg_database and pg_user to take care of\nit will break with older releases. This should be straightforward to fix\nfor me (I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hannu Krosing wrote:\n> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 03:17, Neil Conway wrote:\n> > \n> > Tom did some work on this as well as Chris, I believe:\n> > \n> > - Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN (Christopher)\n> \n> IIRC, some of it was originally based on Hiroshi's earlyer trial code,\n> so he should probab...
[ { "msg_contents": "A long time ago you mentioned in passing that postgres.h should be\nincluded before including any system headers. I have been desultorily\nchanging files to meet that rule, but AFAIK no one's made a pass to\nensure that it's followed everywhere.\n\nWell, now we have a reason it had better be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone maybe do a bit of a 'wc' on the cvs logs to see how much we've\nchanged between 7.2 - 7.3 compared to 7.1 - 7.2? It's evident that the\nHISTORY file shows many more changes in this release than the previous, and\nI think it'd be interesting to know how much/how fast postgres is g...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just tried to build all of contrib, and it stops at earthdistance. \nLooks like this is the cause:\n\n[...]\n\t\tdbmirror\t\\\n\t\tdbsize\t\t\\\n\t\tearthdistance\t\\\n#\t\tfindoidjoins\t\\\n\t\tfulltextindex\t\\\n[...]\n\nThe comment on findoidjoins breaks the line continuation, doesn't it...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm also getting a failure on tsearch:\n\nmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/contrib/tsearch'\ngcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I. \n-I../../src/include -c -o morph.o morph.c -MMD\nmorph.c: In function `initmorph':\nmorph.c:107: `PG_LocaleCategori...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this item completed? It sure looks like it:\n\n\t* Make triggers refer to columns by number, not name\n\ntest=> \\d pg_trigger\n Table \"pg_catalog.pg_trigger\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n----------------+------------+-----------\n tgrelid | oid | not n...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tmomjian@postgresql.org\t02/09/05 00:58:28\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc : TODO \n\nLog message:\n\tDone:\n\t\n\t> * -Make triggers refer to columns by number, not name\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:58:28 -0400 (E...
[ { "msg_contents": "Anyone else think we should add some more pins to the developer map? At the\nmoment, it looks like we have very few developers!\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:10:26 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Oleg/Teodor,\n\nI'm sorry to keep posting bugs without patches, but I'm just hoping you guys\nknow the answer faster than I...I know you're busy.\n\nWhat does tsearch have against the word 'herring' (as in the fish). Why is\nit considered a stopword?\n\nAttached is example queries...\n\nC...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt seems that my last mail on this did not get through to the list ;(\n\n\n\nPlease consider renaming the new builtin function \n\n split(text,text,int)\n\nto something else, perhaps\n\n split_part(text,text,int)\n\n(like date_part)\n\nThe reason for this request is that 3 most popular sc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI get the following error when building beta 1 on CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC9\n1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown:\n\nmake[3]: Entering directory\n`/usr/local/src/postgresql-7.3b1/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/c\nyrillic_and_mic'\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-decla...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm suspecting that something blocks mail from my home computer\n\nThis is sent to test if it is so.\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "05 Sep 2002 20:10:09 +0500", "msg_from": "Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "test, please ignore" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net] \n> Sent: 05 September 2002 16:30\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers; pgsql-cygwin\n> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] 7.3 Beta 1 Build Error on Cygwin\n> \n> \n> I just submitted a patch to pgsql-patches to fix the ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOleg,\n\nThe Porter stemming stems herring and herrings to her, which is a bit\nunfortunate. A quick fix is to put 'herring/herrings' in the exception list\nin the english (porter2) stemmer, but I'll look at this case over the next\nfew days and see if I can come up with something a bit bet...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the process of upgrading a few systems for the Beta, I ended up\nwriting a tool to upgrade the Foreign key, Unique, and Serial objects to\ntheir 7.3 version from the 7.2 version (may work on prior -- but not\nguarenteed).\n\nI imagine it'll fail miserably on mixed case, or names with space...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just in time for 7.3 beta 1 :\n\nhttp://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020902/elephant.html\n\n-----------\nHannu\n\n\n", "msg_date": "05 Sep 2002 22:27:52 +0500", "msg_from": "Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "postgres crowd may find this int...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following happens in latest CVS and a fresh database:\n\ncreate table test (a int);\ninsert into test values (1);\nalter table test add column b text check (b <> '');\nalter table test add check (a > 0);\nalter table test add check (a <> 1);\n\nAfter the last command I get\n\nERROR: Chec...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have removed PGPASSWORDFILE in CVS and therefore in beta2.\n\nIt was decided that $HOME/.pgpass should always be tested, rather than\nhave an environment variable for it.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (61...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK,\n\nI note that the regression tests for the following contribs are failing:\n\ncube\nintarray\nseg\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:32:24 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Con...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't see the beta announcement on the announce list. Do we\nannounce it there?\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 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK,\n\nThe argument about using ALTER TABLE/ADD FOREIGN KEY in dumps was that it\ncaused an actual check of the data in the table, right? This was going to\nbe much slower than using CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER.\n\nSo, why can't we do this in the SQL that pg_dump creates (TODO):\n\nCREATE TABL...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\nI want to make library for visual basic to connect to\nPostgreSQL, but I have problem to get libpq.dll source\ncode. Can somebody help me ?\n(Sorry for bad english :))\n\nBest Regards,\nAchmad Amin\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nYahoo! Financ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nSome time ago I've got troubles with performance of my PG.\nAfter investigation I had found that the most probable reason was the big\nnumber of \"unused\" pages. Below follows what VACUUM reported:\n\n=======================\nvacuum verbose goods;\nNOTICE: --Relation goods--\nNOTI...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have some sql to define some functions for doing conversions between\ncube and latitude and longitude (as float8) and for calculating\ngreat circle distances between cubes (using a spherical model of the earth).\nI am not sure the code is suitable for contrib.\nThe code picks a radius of th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I make a guess I've got this due to parallel running of a program making\n> bulk INSERTs/UPDATEs into that table. Mmm...I need a way to avoid the big\n> number of unused pages in such a case. LOCK TABLE?\n\nOnly UPDATEs and DELETEs (and rolled back INSERTs) cause unused pages.\nThe trick ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, All\n I have read the source code /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c and there is a function cost_sort(...). I think the code in 464 to 465 lines must be changed to:\n startup_cost += npageaccesses *\n\t (1.0 + cost_nonsequential_access(1)) * 0.5;\n\nThe ori...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nBeen playing with the 7.3beta1 version and I've noticed a small\nproblem with dependency checking when dropping a column. If you have\na view which uses JOIN's to join tables then dropping a column will\nfail on a dependency check, even though the column being dropped is\nnot used at ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems to build cleanly here now. Perhaps anoncvs just hadn't sync'd up\nwhen you tried Jason?\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net] \n> Sent: 05 September 2002 20:38\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Dave Page; pgsql-ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWell, I swear, this is the first release we've actually kept on scheduale\nwith, as far as going into beta is concerned ...\n\nWe've just packaged up and released v7.3beta1 for broader testing ... and\nthis is a big one as far as changes are concerned.\n\n Major changes in this release:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Harris,\n\nWhat error do you get?\n\nAlso you don't need the quotes around id\n\nDave\nOn Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:06, snpe wrote:\n> Hello,\n> I have simple table with column ID and values '4' in this.\n> I user 7.3 beta1 (from cvs 05.09.2002) and autocommit off in postgresql.conf.\n> Next p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nPostgreSQL *still* has a bug where PQcmdStatus() won't return the\nnumber of rows updated. But that is essential for applications, since\nwithout it of course we don't know if the updates/delete/insert\ncommands succeded. Even worst, on interfaces like Delphi/dbExpress the\nprog...
[ { "msg_contents": "From the Department of Redundancy Department:\n\nAttached is a perl script called 'pguniqchk'. It checks the uniqueness\nof unique constraints on tables in a PostgreSQL database using the\nPG_TABLES and PG_INDEXES system \"tables\".\n\nWhy would this be useful?\n\nIf you're planning to dump ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In testing the new 7.3 prepared statement functionality I have come\nacross some findings that I cannot explain. I was testing using PREPARE\nfor a fairly complex sql statement that gets used frequently in my\napplicaition. I used the timing information from:\nshow_parser_stats = true\nshow...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone.\n When I studied system catolog,I can't understand a concept \"operator strategies for an access method\", Who can tell me what it's that and where I could find document on the Web. Thanks for your reponse very much, especially thank Hannu Krosing.\n\n Guo longjian...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nNow I'm testing connectby() in the /contrib/tablefunc in 7.3b1, which would\nbe a useful function for many users. However, I found the fact that\nif connectby_tree has the following data, connectby() tries to search the end\nof roots without knowing that the relations are infinite(-5-9-1...
[ { "msg_contents": "SIMILAR TO doesn't implement the SQL standard, it's only a wrapper around\nthe POSIX regexp matching, which is wrong. I thought someone wanted to\nfix that, but if it's not happening it should be removed.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:15...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone else feel that the pg_hba.conf inline documentation is getting\ntoo long? The default file is now 259 lines. I feel we should try to cut\nthis down to about 30-50 lines that have a reminder function, not a\ncomplete specification.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Didn't we want to remove that option?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:23:52 +0200 (CEST)", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "--with-maxbackends" }, { "msg_contents": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIn http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/runtime-config.html,\nthe SEARCH_PATH variable description mentions the use of\ncurrent_schemas(), but this function doesn't exist (or it didn't exist\nlast time I updated:\n#define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200209021\n)\n\nWhat exists ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is my configuration :\ntemplate1=# select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.3b1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.4\n(1 row)\n\n128 Mb of RAM with a PIII933\nLinux debian woody\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ Discussion moved to hackers.]\n\nI recently added a test for JAVA_HOME to configure.in to issue a more\nhelpful message when Ant can't be run rather than throwing a more\ngeneric Ant failure message and expecting people to look in config.log.\n\nMy question is should we be doing such checks...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to compile PostgreSQL 7.2.2 under the Mac OS X 10.2/Darwin \n6.0 (Jaguar) and having some difficulties. I'm using a clean install so \nthere shouldn't be any customizations hindering the compilation \nprocess. I have it stored in /usr/local/pgsql and I configure it as \nbelow:\n\n....
[ { "msg_contents": "I found the following while poking around. RangeVarGetRelid takes a \nsecond parameter that is intended to allow it to not fail, returning \nInvalidOid instead. However it calls LookupExplicitNamespace, which does \nnot honor any such request, and happily generates an error on a bad \nnamespa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI didn't download the beta but compared the CVS checkouts and it appears\nthe ecpg directory is still the one from 7.2 not the one tagged\nbig_bison. Will this one be moved into the mainstream source? Else we\nwould be stuck with a non-compatible parser.\n\nIf I shall move it, please t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSorry to insist, may be my previus subject was miss understood ...\nrefering to this message :\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-09/msg00461.php\n\nBut I can't import my data from 7.2.2 into 7.3b1 ...\n1- Many errors during importation of the data\n2- Seems to use all ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nHere are the proposals for solutioning the \"Return proper effected\ntuple count from complex commands [return]\" issue as seen on TODO.\n\nAny comments ?... This is obviously open to voting and discussion.\n\n-- \nBest regards,\n Steve Howe mailto:howe@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nYou might be interested in the results of the Australian Open Source Awards:\n\nhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/06/1031115931961.html\n\nJustin Clift and I both rated mentions - Justin for the Postgres websites\nand myself for BSD Users Group WA.\n\nOne good things is that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Because we have seen many complains about sequential vs index scans, I\nwrote a script which computes the value for your OS/hardware\ncombination.\n\nUnder BSD/OS on one SCSI disk, I get a random_page_cost around 60. Our\ncurrent postgresql.conf default is 4.\n\nWhat do other people get for ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDell Inspiron 8100 laptop, 1.2GHz Pentium, 512Mb RAM, Windows XP Pro\nCYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC9 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown\n\nrandom_page_cost = 0.924119\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 09 Septe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Probably nothing important, but I saw it in\n src/backend/commands/prepare.c:\n\n 1/ ExecuteQuery() (line 110). Why is needful use copyObject()? The\n PostgreSQL executor modify query planns? I think copyObject() is\n expensive call.\n\n 2/ Lines 236 -- 245. Why do you \"check for pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Linux RedHat 7.3 (ext3, kernel 2.4.18-3)\n512MB Ram\nAMD Athlon 500\nIBM 120GB IDE\n\n\n[hs@backup hs]$ ./randcost.sh /data/db/\nCollecting sizing information ...\nRunning random access timing test ...\nRunning sequential access timing test ...\n\nrandom_page_cost = 0.901961\n\n\n\n[hs@backup...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to populate a 7.3 database from a 7.2 dump. I used 7.3's\npg_dumpall, but this did not handle all the issues:\n\n1. The language dumping needs to be improved:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION plperl_call_handler () RETURNS opaque\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> What do other people get for this value?\n> \n> Keep in mind if we increase this value, we will get a more sequential\n> scans vs. index scans.\n\nWith the new script I get 0.929825 on 2 IBM DTLA 5400RPM (80GB) with a 3Ware\n6400 Controller (RAID-1)\n\nBest regards,\n\tMario Weilguni\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I don't think we should add tuple counts from different commands, i.e.\n> adding UPDATE and DELETE counts just yields a totally meaningless\n> number.\n\nAgreed.\n\n \n> I don't think there is any need/desire to add additional API routines to\n> handle multiple return values.\n\nYup.\n\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> could you please make a complete table of all\n> possible situations and the expected returns? With complete I mean\n> including all combinations of rules, triggers, deferred constraints and\n> the like. Or do you at least see now where in the discussion we got\n> stuck?\n\nImho only view r...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHELP!!!\n\nI'm stuck for strange reason!\nThis is my first attempt to use pg_lo concept in my apps:\n\n...\n Oid oid;\n PGconn* dbcon = PQconnectdb(conninfo.c_str());\n oid = lo_creat(dbcon, INV_WRITE | INV_READ);\n int pgfd = lo_open(dbcon, oid, INV_WRITE | INV_READ);\n...\n\n\nlo_open ALW...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@rbt.ca] \n> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:55 AM\n> To: Steve Howe\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Rule updates and PQcmdstatus() issue\n> \n> \n> > existed, had a brief discussion on the subject, and \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL people,\n\n\tSorry for jumping into this conversation in the middle.\n\tAutocommit is very important, as appservers may turn it on or off at\nwill in order to support EJB transactions (being able to set them up, roll\nthem back, commit them, etc. by using the JDBC API). If it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ross J. Reedstrom [mailto:reedstrm@rice.edu] \n> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:26 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Rod Taylor; Steve Howe; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Rule updates and PQcmdstatus() issue\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Sep 09, 2...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am trying move my development database to 7.3b1.\n\nHowever, when I try to restore from a 7.2.2 dump to the 7.3.b1 server I get\nthe following error:\n\npg_restore -U nbadmin -h lnc -p 5432 -d stats -Fc /tmp/stats.pgdmp\n\npg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: funct...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've put together some packages for the 7.3beta1 release. The can be\nfound here along with a tenative FreeBSD port:\n\n http://66.250.180.19/postgresql-7.3beta1/\n\nThe differences in the files are that the postgresql-7.3b1-O3.tbz has\nbeen compiled with -O3 where as the postgresql-7.3b1....
[ { "msg_contents": "In an attempt to beef up the PostgreSQL port for FreeBSD, I've added\nan option for adding additional optimization, similar to what MySQL\ndoes by compiling the server with -O6. I'm only compiling at -O3 with\nthe flag at the moment, however I wanted to ping the idea around to\nmake sure thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Tom,\n\n>> <herve@elma.fr> writes:\n>> But when I try to import it inside 7.3b1 I get this :\n>> (seems that the copy command is not fully compatible with the 7.2.2\n>> pg_dumpall ?)\n>>\n>> Many thinks like this : (I have only copied some parts ...)\n>> Size of the dump about 1.5 Gb ......
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nI'm currently working on my thesis and I chose psql. What I need to do\nis defining a new type in psql.\n\nIt should be dynamic array.\n\n| 1 | 2 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 2.1 | . .. . .\n\n\n// This one is not working\ntypedef struct Myindex {\n\tdouble *indexes;\n\tint level;\n\tint size;...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Here are the proposals for solutioning the \"Return proper effected\n> > tuple count from complex commands [return]\" issue as seen on TODO.\n> >\n> > Any comments ?... This is obviously open to voting and discussion.\n> \n> We don't have a whole lot of freedom in this; this area is \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> What is the difference\n> between a trigger, a rule and an instead rule from a business process\n> oriented point of view? I think there is none at all. They are just\n> different techniques to do one and the same, implement \n> business logic in the database system.\n\nThe difference is ho...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Oh, this is bad news. The problem we have is that rules don't\n> distinguish the UPDATE on the underlying tables of the rule from other\n> updates that may appear in the query.\n> \n> If we go with Tom's idea and total just UPDATE's, we will get the right\n> answer when there is only one...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: 10 September 2002 05:58\n> To: Sean Chittenden\n> Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Optimization levels when compiling \n> PostgreSQL...\n> \n> \n> Sean Chittenden <se...
[ { "msg_contents": ">OK, I have a better version at:\n\nThe script is now broken, I get:\nCollecting sizing information ...\nRunning random access timing test ...\nRunning sequential access timing test ...\nRunning null loop timing test ...\nrandom test: 14\nsequential test: 16\nnull timing test: 14\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way to determine the location of files in a database\nwithout being the postgres user? Essentially i'm after the setting of\nPGDATA so i can then show disk status (df) for that partition.\n\nThe pg_database catalogue has 'datpath':\n\n If the database is stored at an alternative ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I realise that this has already been done, by Joe Conway I think. Indeed I was\nlooking at this just before beta1 when I happened to notice the post giving the\nplpgsql function. However, as I had started work on it and I was interested in\nseeing how things should be done I continued, only n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was just contacted by a customer about the SQLProcedureColumns call in\nour odbc driver. It appears this call is undefined in the standard odbc\ndriver but is available in odbcplus. Could anyone please enlighten me\nwhy this was forked and not merged into one driver? Is there a probl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Michael Meskes [mailto:meskes@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: 10 September 2002 20:42\n> To: PostgreSQL Interfaces; PostgreSQL Hacker\n> Subject: [HACKERS] ODBC problem/question\n> \n> \n> Hi,\n> \n> I was just contacted by a customer about the \n> SQLProce...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:10 PM\n> > To: Michael Meskes\n> > Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker; Marc G. Fournier\n> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.3beta and ecpg\n> > \n> > \n> > \n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs there some documentation on TOAST? In the SGML docs there isn't even\na description of it, and in the release notes I cannot find anything but\nvery light mentions. I've seen descriptions scattered around the web\nwhile Googling, but they are very light and don't seem \"offic...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the open items:\n\n P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 3 O P E N I T E M S\n\n\nCurrent at ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/open_items.\n\nSource Code Changes\n-------------------\nSchema handling - ready? interfaces? client app...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk] \n> Sent: 11 September 2002 07:29\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Lamar Owen; Bruce Momjian; Philip Warner; Laurette \n> Cisneros; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]\n> \n>\n> Let me reiterate. I got...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Actually there is one more problem. The backend introduced the EXECUTE\n> command just recently. However, this clashes with the embedded SQL\n> EXECUTE command. Since both may be called just with EXECUTE <name>,\n> there is no way to distinguish them.\n> \n> I have no idea if there's a st...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I know this is not really related, but wouldn't the plan be to make\n> > ecpg actually use the backend side \"execute ...\" now that it is available ?\n> \n> Maybe I misunderstood something. Do you mean I could use the backend\n> PREPARE/EXECUTE to prepare and execute any statement I ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a perl script called 'pgrefchk'. It checks the referential\nintegrity of foreign keys on tables in a PostgreSQL database using the\nPG_TABLES, PG_PROC, PG_CLASS and PG_TRIGGER system \"tables\".\n\nIt was created in the same vein as the pguniqchk script which checks the\nuniquene...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wanted people to see a screen shot of the new pgaccess to be releases\nwith 7.3:\n\n\tftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/pgaccess.gif\n\nIt looks amazing.\n\nThe main pgaccess page is:\n\n\thttp://www.pgaccess.org\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 September 2002 18:21\n> To: Oliver Elphick\n> Cc: Dave Page; Tom Lane; Lamar Owen; Philip Warner; Laurette \n> Cisneros; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]\n> \n> \n> Olive...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 September 2002 17:38\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Cc: developers@pgaccess.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] New pgaccess\n> \n> \n> I wanted people to see a screen shot of the new pgaccess to \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 September 2002 22:13\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Oliver Elphick; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]\n> \n> \n> Dave Page wrote:\n> > > That's a pretty big hurtle. I think we a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 September 2002 22:28\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Oliver Elphick; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]\n> \n> \n> Why can't we do the remapping in the SQL grammar and remove \n> t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIf you define a column as:\ncol timestamp\nIn 7.2.x didn't it default to timestamp with timezone?\n\nAnd now in 7.3(b1) it defaults to timestamp without timezone?\n\nIs this right?\n\n-- \nLaurette Cisneros\nThe Database Group\n(510) 420-3137\nNextBus Information Systems, Inc.\nwww.nextb...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> We can revisit that decision if you like, but you must convince us that\n> it was wrong, not just say \"of course we should change it\".\n\nI am sorry, but at that time I did not have time for the discussion,\nand now is also very tight for me :-(\n\nFour reasons I can give:\n\t1. execute...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDoes anyone know any implementation of a fixpoint operator (recursive\nqueries) for postgreSQL?\n\nThanks,\nLuciano.\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:55:16 +0100 (BST)", "msg_from": "Luciano David Gerber <gerberl@cs.man.ac.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject":...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am going to be away from Thursday night to Sunday on a retreat. \nI will be checking my email but may not be able to reply quickly.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, SRA, the leading PostgreSQL support company in Japan, has renewed\nmy employment contract. This will allow me to continue to devote 100%\nof my working hours to improving PostgreSQL and assisting them and their\ncustomers. It is a pleasure working for them.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nAm just wondering if we've ever considered adding a PGXLOG environment\nvariable that would point to the pg_xlog directory?\n\nIn a Unix environment it's not real necessary as filesystem links can be\ncreated, but in other environments (i.e. the Native windows port) it's\nlook...
[ { "msg_contents": "MySQL wins Prestigious Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Award:\n\nhttp://www.mysql.com/news/article-109.html\n\nAn amusing quote from the article:\n\n\"If you're one of the people who has been saying, 'I can't use MySQL because\nit doesn't have [feature you need here]', it's time to read up on...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 12 September 2002 00:53\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Oliver Elphick; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]\n> \n> \n> OK, I am going to add these items to the open items list \n> beca...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 12 September 2002 06:27\n> To: Justin Clift\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?\n> \n> Also, I have heard symlinks are available in native...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've come upon a misbehaviour of drop column, where drop column\nunconditionally drops inherited column from child tables.\n\nWhat it should do is to check if the same column is not inherited from\nother parents and drop it only when it is not\n\nHere is the test case:\n\n\nhannu=# create tab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had a similar problem with collation and case conversion in LATIN2.\n\n> Are you sure, that you've system locale (LANG variable) set to\n> something.ISO8859-2 when you've invoked initdb command?\n\nThat was a bit tricky cause I just set LC_ALL=pl_PL - for most programs\nit is enough.\n\nBut...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n I have file with this code:\n\n----------\n\\l\nSHOW SERVER_ENCODING;\nSHOW CLIENT_ENCODING;\n\n--- Languages table\n---\nCREATE TABLE lang\n(\n\t--- 'id' is here lang abbreviation\n\t---\n\tid\t\tvarchar(3) PRIMARY KEY,\n\tname\t\tvarchar(16) NOT NULL\t--- lang fullname\n);\n\nCOP...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDoes anyone know any implementation of a fixpoint operator (recursive\nqueries) for postgreSQL?\n\nThanks,\nLuciano.\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:33:13 +0100", "msg_from": "Luciano Gerber <gerberl@cs.man.ac.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "fixpoint" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe're looking to get an initial \"PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing\" site\nup an running in the next day or so.\n\nWhilst we know of a reasonable number of large places running PostgreSQL\n(as shown on the\nhttp://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/supportcontracts.php page),\n...