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"msg_contents": "I have updated /HISTORY for 7.3beta2. Looking at the open items list, I\nthink we are ready for beta2 now.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 3 O P E N I T E... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nWhen I try 2 or 3 consecutive select count(*) on my database I've the \nproblem shown below.\nHere is a psql session log:\n\n[root@foradada root]# psql -d database\nWelcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for h... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI have written a small daemon that can automatically vacuum PostgreSQL \ndatabase, depending upon activity per table.\n\nIt sits on top of postgres statistics collector. The postgres installation \nshould have per row statistics collection enabled.\n\nFeatures are,\n\n* Vacuumin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI'm just curious as to the 7.3 status of a couple of things:\n\n1. Back in Feb. I wrote (in regards to Oracle behavior):\n\n\"Unlike normal queries where blocks are added to the MRU end of \nan LRU list, full table scans add the blocks to the LRU end of \nthe LRU list. I was wonderi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOK, I will save this for 7.4. Sorry, Gavin. I missed this one for 7.3.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\npgman wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:\n> > > Bruce wrote:\n> > > \"Yes, someone from India has... |
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"msg_contents": "Oleg Lebedev wrote:\n> Ok, here are all the files.\n> \n\nI'm now seeing the problem you reported. It is a bug in the new table function \ncode. Basically, you are trying to do this:\n\nDELETE FROM tablea\nWHERE NOT EXISTS\n(\n SELECT remoteid\n FROM\n (\n SELECT remoteid\n FROM... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt occurs to me that opening web page on www.postgresql.org, asking the\nuser to select the mirror, is rather unprofessional. I am sure this has\nbeen discussed before but I thought I would bring it up again anyway.\n\nSo, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? ... |
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"msg_contents": "Just an FYI - this kind of thing would be a *great* feature addition to the generic PostgresSQL release. We at Lyris often hear that \"postgressql is very slow, and the files are getting larger\" and then \"wow! it's so much faster now that we're regularly vacuuming!\" after we let them know... |
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"msg_contents": "Rohit Seth recently added support for the use of large TLB pages on\nLinux if the processor architecture supports them (I believe the\nSPARC, IA32, and IA64 have hugetlb support, more archs will probably\nbe added). The patch was merged into Linux 2.5.36, so it will more\nthan likely be in Li... |
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"msg_contents": "The Makefile for contrib/earthdistance indicates that there should be a\nregression test, but the files seem to be missing from CVS. The change to the\nMakefile was made here:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/contrib/earthdistance/Makefile.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.12\n\nWas the Makefile... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm looking at pg_dump/common.c:flagInhAttrs() and suspect that it can\nbe more or less rewritten completely, and probably should to get rigth\nall the cases mentioned in the past attisinherited discussion. Is this\ndesirable for 7.3? It can probably be hacked around and the rewrite\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nIn answer to the question posed at the end of the message below:\n\nYes, I do get the similar results.\n\nA quick investigation shows that the SPI_freetuptable at the end of\npltcl_SPI_exec is trying to free a tuptable of value 0x82ebe64 (which looks\nsensible to me) but which has a memor... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm looking at pg_dump/common.c:flagInhAttrs() and suspect that it can\nbe more or less rewritten completely, and probably should to get rigth\nall the cases mentioned in the past attisinherited discussion. Is this\ndesirable for 7.3? It can probably be hacked around and the rewrit... |
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"msg_contents": "news.postgresql.org seems to be down (and has been for a while -- I think I \ntried a day or so ago and found it down then also)\n\nJoe\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:49:39 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "> As far as getting into base postgresql distro. I don't mind it rewriting but I\n> have some reservations.\n> 1) As it is postgresql source code is huge. Adding functions to it which \n> directly taps into it's nervous system e.g. cache, would take far more time to\n> perfect in all conditio... |
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"msg_contents": "> It doesn't have to make its way into the postgresql daemon itself -- in\nfact since some people like tuning the vacuuming, it makes more sense to\nmake this a daemon. No, my suggestion is simple that some sort of\nauto-vacuumer be compiled as a stand-alone app and included in the standard\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Just got this. :-)\n\nMichael\n\n----- Forwarded message from Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> -----\n\nTo: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>\nSubject: Re: bison 1.49 release\nFrom: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>\nDate: 25 Sep 2002 11:32:42 +0200\n\n>>>>> \"Michael\" == Michael Meskes <meskes@de... |
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"msg_contents": "Because the new 7.3 SSL code doesn't work (per Peter), and the author is\nnot responding, I am about to yank out that code. Peter suggests\nripping out all the new code rather than try to pick around and remove\njust the broken parts.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://... |
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"msg_contents": "\nbuild cleanly, just wanna make sure tha i haven't overlooked anything...\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:16:35 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "I've identified the reason for the occasional \"can't wait without a PROC\nstructure\" failures we've seen reported. I had been thinking that this\nmust occur during backend startup, before MyProc is initialized ...\nbut I was mistaken. Actually, it happens during backend shutdown,\nand the... |
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"msg_contents": "I recently downloaded and built Postgresql 7.2.2. In trying to run\nthe \"gmake check\" after the build I get an error indicating that\ninitdb failed. I turned on the debug option so the text below\ncontains some of the debug statements output from \"gmake check\". Note\nthe error at the b... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Momjian，\r\nhello,\r\nI want to make the show variable SQL to return message like pgresult. how can I revise the source code? Any suggestion?\r\nI really need you help.\r\nJinqiang Han\r\n\n\n\n\n\nDear Momjian，\nhello,\nI want to make the show variable SQL to return message like \r\np... |
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"msg_contents": "Es facil, pru�balo ...\n�Hola! Recibes este mensaje en nombre de Francisco, que est�\ndisfrutando de las ventajas de ser un usuario de Es-F�cil!\n\nA trav�s de nuestro servicio, podr�s recibir informaci�n en tu\nbuz�n de correo, y adem�s cobrar por ello. Adem�s, te ofrecemos\notras v�as para ... |
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"msg_contents": "thank you for your information.\r\nI want to use the imformation of show or other utilities sql in jdbc interface. generally resultset is empty when such sql is execute. I want to get the information like psql. How can I do?\r\nThanks again.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nYou should ask this on general, and... |
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"msg_contents": "I am getting errors when doing a checkout, related to Marc's splitting\nup the CVS tree into modules:\n\t\n\tC pgsql/contrib/earthdistance/Makefile\n\tcvs checkout: move away\n\tpgsql/contrib/earthdistance/README.earthdistance; it is in the way\n\tC pgsql/contrib/earthdistance/README.earthdis... |
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"msg_contents": "The subject says it all:\n\nDEBUG: StartTransactionCommand\nDEBUG: ProcessQuery\nERROR: Relation 0 does not exist\nLOG: statement: INSERT INTO trans (meter_id,stats_id,flowindex,firsttime,firstt...\n\nThe code generating the insert statement didn't change, just the server - but\nwhat does... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to get the client utilities to compile under win32/VS.net per \nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-win32.html.\n\nI was able to do this successfully using the 7.2.2 tarball, but using current \n7.3devel there are a number of minor issues (missing defines, adjustm... |
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"msg_contents": "The actual checking is done in INSERT/UPDATE/COPY. However, the\r\nchecking is currently very limited: every byte of a mutibyte character\r\nmust be greater than 0x7f.\r\n\r\n> Tatsuo,\r\n> \r\n> do I understand correctly that there is no checking for\r\n> convertion between local charset and... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nSome time back I posted a query to build a site with 150GB of database. In last \ncouple of weeks, lots of things were tested at my place and there are some \nresults and again some concerns. \n\nThis is a long post. Please be patient and read thr. If we win this, I guess we \nh... |
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"msg_contents": "On 26 Sep 2002 at 14:05, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:\n> Some time back I posted a query to build a site with 150GB of database. In\nlast \n> couple of weeks, lots of things were tested at my place and there are some \n> results and again some concerns. \n\n> 2) Creating index takes huge amount... |
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"msg_contents": ">Well the test runs were for 10GB of data. Schema is attached. Read in fixed \n>fonts..Last nullable fields are dummies but may be used in fututre and\nvarchars \n>are not acceptable(Not my requirement). Tuple size is around 100 bytes..\n>The index creation query was\n>\n>CREATE INDEX index1 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI've mailed this to the bugs list but that seems to have stopped working on\nthe 24th so I thought I'd better email it through on here.\n\nI have found it is possible for a user with create table permission to crash\nthe 7.3b1 backend. The crash occurs because it is possible to hav... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > configure somehow thinks it needs to #define _LARGE_FILES though, which\n> > then clashes with pg_config.h's _LARGE_FILES. I think the test needs to\n> > #include unistd.h .\n> \n> _LARGE_FILES is defined because it's necessary to make off_t 64 bits. If\n> you disagree, please post com... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi hackers.\n\nThere is ineresting behavior of some select query mentioned in $subj.\n\nIn working db this query takes:\nreal 3m10.219s\nuser 0m0.074s\nsys 0m0.074s\n\nit's interesting that vacuum or analyze or reinex not helpfull, BUT\n\nif dump this db and create it again (whith a... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> What could you recommend? Locking the table and selecting\n> max(invoice_id) wouldn't really be much faster, with max(invoice_id)\n> not using an index...\n\nselect invoice_id from table order by invoice_id desc limit 1;\n\nshould get you the maximum fast if you have a unique index on inv... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > shared libs on AIX need to be able to resolve all symbols at linkage time.\n> > Those two symbols are in backend/utils/SUBSYS.o but not in the postgres\n> > executable.\n> > My guess is, that they are eliminated by the linker ? Do they need an extern\n> > declaration ?\n\nFurther resear... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:21:21 -0700\nJoe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:\n\n> I just sent in a patch using the ancestor check method. It turned out \n> that the performance hit was pretty small on a moderate sized tree.\n> \n> My test case was a 220000 record bill-of-material table. The tre... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nfixing a problem with the aliases, just want to make sure it goes through\npropelry ...\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:39:06 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Further research prooved, that the AIX linker eliminates functions on a per\n> > c file basis if none of them is referenced elsewhere (declared extern or not).\n> > Thus it eliminates the whole conv.c file from the postgres executable since \n> > those functions are only used by the con... |
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"msg_contents": "I think I've identified a primary cause for the \"no such pg_clog file\"\nproblem that we've seen reported several times.\n\nA look at htup.h shows that the WAL only stores the low 8 bits of a\ntuple's t_infomask (see xl_heap_header struct). There is some fooling\naround in heapam.c's WAL re... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am so glad that postgres now keeps track of relationships between rule,\nviews, functions, tables, etc. I've had to re-do all my creation and drop\nscripts but this is definitely for the better.\n\nDuring my testing of my scripts, I have come across this message:\npsql:/u1/cvs73/DataBase... |
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"msg_contents": "Patrick Welche's recent problems (see pgsql-general) point out that the\nold CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER syntax that optionally omits a \"FROM\ntable\" clause doesn't work anymore --- the system *needs* tgconstrrelid\nto be set in an RI constraint trigger record, because the RI triggers\nnow us... |
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"msg_contents": "\nthe following was sent to the php developer's list, and they came back with:\n\n> > Isn't it generally better (where \"better\" means more secure,\n> > efficient, and easily maintained) to handle database access\n> > control using PostgreSQL's native access mappings?\n>\n> I would think so,... |
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"msg_contents": "I heard people asking for listen/notify support in the jdbc driver from different pgsql lists. I don't know what the status is about that, but here's one solution.\n\nI did this quick hack for our own purposes, maybe someone would like to pick this code up and use it as we do...\n\nThis code ... |
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"msg_contents": "... And maybe i should attach the code aswell :)\n\nI'm not subscribed to pgsql-jdbc or pgsql-announce, so please CC me if your responding...\n\nMagnus\n\n-- \n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\n Programmer/Networker [|] Magnus Naeslund\n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-... |
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"msg_contents": "When a cascaded column drop is removing the last column, drop the table\ninstead. Regression tests via domains.\n\nReported by Tim Knowles.\n\n-- \n Rod Taylor",
"msg_date": "26 Sep 2002 21:00:16 -0400",
"msg_from": "Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a set of points defined in two columns x,y and...\nhow to convert it to PATH data type using pgplsql ?\n\nThanks for help\nThomas\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:57:25 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Tomasz Zdybicki\" <zdybicki@ambient.com.pl>",
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"msg_contents": "Yesterday I reported a WAL problem that could lead to tuples not being\nmarked as committed-good or committed-dead after we'd already removed\nthe pg_clog segment that had their transaction's commit status.\nI wasn't completely satisfied with that, though, because on further\nreflection it se... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nSeems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with\nnewer psql doesn't work. Here, server is 7.2.1:\n\n$ psql alvherre\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \".\"\nWelcome to psql 7.3b1, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribut... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nAm experimenting to find out what kind of performance gain are achieved\nfrom moving indexes to a different scsi drives than the WAL files, than\nthe data itself, etc.\n\nHave come across an interesting problem.\n\nHave moved the indexes to another drive, then created symlinks to t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nI did a vacuum from within a function, and it went sig11 on me.\nIs it illegal to do that?\n\nThe function:\n\ndrop function xorder1_cleanup();\ncreate function xorder1_cleanup() RETURNS integer AS '\ndeclare\n x record;\n c integer;\nbegin\n c:=0;\n FOR x IN SELECT order_id,co... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAs was previously discussed (and now that I'm mostly back from the dead\n... damn colds) I've just branched off REL7_3_STABLE ... all future beta's\nwill be made based off of that branch, so that development may resume on\nthe main branch ...\n\nSo, for those doing commits or anoncvs, remem... |
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"msg_contents": "Was there a workaround for the errors in time handling for rh7.3 dist?\n\nI get there regression failures:\n abstime ... FAILED\n tinterval ... FAILED\ntest horology ... FAILED\n\nI remember the discussion about old dates, but not if there was any f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWould it be beneficial for us to extend \"pg_config\" to update the\npostgresql.conf file?\n\ni.e.\n\npg_config --sort_mem 16384 --shared_buffers 800\n\npg_config -d /some/datadir --sort_mem 16384 --shared_buffers 800\n\netc?\n\nNot sure if it should trigger a restart of postmaster... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nDoes 7.3 support \"SETOF RECORD\" in plpgsql ?\nAs far as I test it, a function using it in plpgsql always seems to return\nno row. On the other hand, a sql function returns correct rows. \n\nIf 7.3 doesn't support it in plpgsql, I would think plpgsql needs to raise\nan error rat... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: CoL [mailto:col@mportal.hu] \n> Sent: 24 September 2002 13:23\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Web site\n> \n> \n> Hi,\n> \n> >>So, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? This \n> >>could be done based ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nNow that the ODBC driver has moved from the main distro to\nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/, we can no longer use the\nmain build system under *nix.\n\nCan someone who knows make better than I (which is probably the vast\nmajority of you!) knock up a makefile so the drive... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPeter, the author is questioning why his Makefile changes were wrong. \nWould you elaborate?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\npgman wrote:\n> \n> Done.\n> \n> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "I read a good article about the problem Intel is having with the 64-bit\nItanium. I think there are some good leasons in the article:\n\n\thttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/technology/circuits/29CHIP.html\n\nThere is also a Slashdot discussion about the article:\n\n\thttp://slashdot.org/arti... |
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"msg_contents": "I am using postgres 7.2, and have rule on a table which causes a notify if\nan insert/update/delete is performed on the table.\nThe table is very very small.\nWhen performing a simple (very simple) update on the table this takes about\n3 secs, when I remove the rule it is virtually instantane... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI'm trying the following:\nBEGIN;\nselect current_timestamp into mytable;\n.\nsome queries\n.\ninsert current timestamp into mytable;\nCOMMIT;\nWhen I call this with the \\i <filename> command, all is working fine,\nbut the two current_timestamp entries are the same, there is no\ndif... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > and mb conversions (pg_ascii2mic and pg_mic2ascii not\n> > > > found in the postmaster and not included from elsewhere)\n> >\n> > shared libs on AIX need to be able to resolve all symbols at linkage time.\n> > Those two symbols are in backend/utils/SUBSYS.o but not in the postgres\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOK, I just received this answer from an Oracle 9 tester. It shows\nCURRENT_TIMESTAMP changing during the transaction. Thanks, Dan.\n\nDan, it wasn't clear if this was in a transaction or not. Does Oracle\nhave autocommit off by default so you are always in a transaction?\n\n-------------... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 01:10, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > Given what Tom has posted regarding the standard, I think Oracle \n> > is wrong. I'm wondering how the others handle multiple \n> > references in CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in a single stored \n> > procedure/function invocation. It seems to me... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 03:31, Tom Lane wrote:\n> Offhand this seems kinda inconsistent to me --- I'd expect \n> \n> regression=# select extract(week from date '2002-09-30');\n> date_part\n> -----------\n> 40\n> (1 row)\n> \n> to produce 39, not 40, on the grounds that the first day of... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm done making back-patches for 7.2.3. Over to you, Bruce ...\nattached is the REL7_2_STABLE branch history since 7.2.2.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n2002-09-30 16:57 tgl\n\n\t* src/backend/utils/adt/: date.c, datetime.c (REL7_2_STABLE):\n\tBack-patch fixes to work around broken mktime() ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHere is an email from Gavin showing a problem with subqueries and casts\ncausing errors when they shouldn't.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGavin Sherry wrote:\n> Hi Bruce,\n> \n> Thanks to a user query (handle: lltd, IRC) I came across a b... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 30 September 2002 21:11\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?)\n> \n> \n> Dave Page writ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Attached is a patch to fix the mb linking problems on AIX. As a nice side effect\n> > it reduces the duplicate symbol warnings to linking libpq.so and libecpg.so\n> > (all shlibs that are not postmaster loadable modules).\n> \n> Can you explain the method behind your patch? Have you tr... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs it my imagination, or is there a problem with the way pg_dump uses off_t \netc. My understanding is that off_t may be 64 bits on systems with 32 bit \nints. But it looks like pg_dump writes them as 4 byte values in all cases. \nIt also reads them as 4 byte values. Does this seem like a p... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed that some of my queries don't work anymore because they're using\nthe floor function:\ne.g.: select type, floor(date_part('epoch', dataend)) as ts from\nlast_modified\n\nWhy is floor not working anymore? I guess I can use round too, but I don't\nwant to modify semantics.\n\nRegards,... |
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"msg_contents": "If it's of any use the following link gives some info on different schemes\nand details on an ISO week numbering standard.\n\nhttp://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm#WkNo\n\nBest Regards,\n\nTim Knowles\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:36:09 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "what's the default lock in pgsql?\n\nif I issued insert(copy)/or update processed\non the same table but on different records\nthe same time, how those processes will\naffect each other? \n\nthanks.\n\njohnl\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:30:38 -0500",
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"msg_contents": "What is the reason for maintaining separate rscale and dscale values in\nnumeric variables?\n\nI am finding that this arrangement leads to some odd results, for\nexample this:\n\nregression=# select (exp(ln(2.0)) - 2.0);\n ?column?\n---------------------\n -0.0000000000000000\n(1 row)\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nOver the last few weeks we've put together a new \"Advocacy and\nMarketing\" website for PostgreSQL:\n\nhttp://advocacy.postgresql.org\n\nIt's now ready for public release. It has the first few case studies,\nlists the major advantages to PostgreSQL, and provides a place you can\n... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems queries like:\nselect ... from table where id='' (an empty string) do not work anymore, it worked up to 7.2. This will make migration to 7.3 quite difficult for some application, especially for oracle applications. \nWould'nt it be better to evaluate such expressions to false.\n\nReg... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok, I checked this again. Up until 7.2, it was possible to compare an empty string to a number, and it worked::\ne.g.: select * from mytable where int4id='' \nworked fine, but delivered no result. This is exactly what Oracle did here,\na comparison like this does not work:\n\nSQL> select * fr... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 01 October 2002 21:05\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?)\n> \n> \n> Dave Page writes... |
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"msg_contents": "This is small README fix for contrib/intarray. Thank you.\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net",
"msg_date": "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:57:51 +0400",
"msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>",
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"msg_subject": "Please, applay patch to current CVS"
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"msg_contents": ">> But oracle accepts this one:\n>> SQL> select * from re_eintraege where id='';\n>> no rows selected\n>> because oracle treats the empty string as NULL\n>\n>Oracle does that for string data, but it doesn't do it for numerics\n>does it? In any case, that behavior is surely non-compliant with... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust in case anyone enjoys these sorts of things :) It deals with the\nwhole .org TLD assignment ...\n\n\thttp://forum.icann.org/org-eval/gartner-report\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:14:55 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "It's just a cosmetic change, fixes the help screen. Should be applied in /contrib/vacuumlo\n\nRegards,\n \tMario Weilguni",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:05:17 +0200",
"msg_from": "Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>",
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"msg_subject": "small patch for vac... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Attached is a patch to fix the mb linking problems on AIX. As a nice side effect\n> > > it reduces the duplicate symbol warnings to linking libpq.so and libecpg.so\n> > > (all shlibs that are not postmaster loadable modules).\n> > \n> > Can you explain the method behind your patch? Hav... |
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"msg_contents": "This small patch adds a Makefile for /contrib/reindexdb/ and renames the README to README.reindexdb. \n\nRegards,\n\tMario Weilguni",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:12:45 +0200",
"msg_from": "Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Diff for ... |
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"msg_contents": "Any news about new DBD::Pg ?\nIt's a stopper for many projects based on perl interface\nto use 7.3.\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Universi... |
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"msg_contents": "You all know this FAQ: \"Why does Postgres not use my index?\" Half of\nthe time this problem can easily be solved by casting a literal to the\ntype of the respective column; this is not my topic here.\n\nIn many other cases it turns out that the planner over-estimates the\ncost of an index... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nI'd like to help work on some 7.4 features, however, since you've not seen\nmy name before, I'm obviously new to the list and the org.\n\nI really like working on speed optimizations and rewrites. I have 15 years\nexperience with C++-based systems and databases, and have worked on\nc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI received this via personal email. I assume the author wants it\nshared. It shows CURRENT_TIMESTAMP changing within a function!\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSteve Hulcher wrote:\n> Oracle 9i.\n> \n> Hope this is helpful\n> \n> \n> --SQ... |
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"msg_contents": "Good day,\n\nI just stumbled across this peculiarity in PL/Perl today writing a method\ntoinvoke Perl Regexes from a function: if a run-time error is raised in an\notherwise good function, the function will not run correctly again until\nthe connection to the database is reset. I poked around... |
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"msg_contents": "\nLooks good from my end, Peter, I pulled the same docs that I pulled for\nv7.2.2, which I hope is okay?\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:45:05 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "v7.2.3 - tag'd, pac... |
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"msg_contents": "Forgot to cc' the list.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Curtis Faith [mailto:curtis@galtair.com]\nSent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:59 PM\nTo: Tom Lane\nSubject: RE: [HACKERS] Advice: Where could I be of help?\n\n\nTom,\n\nHere are the things that I think look interesting:\n\n1) Elimi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 01 October 2002 21:05\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?)\n> \n> \n> Dave Page writes... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n>\n>Has anyone done the corresponding experiments on the other DBMSes to\n>identify exactly when they allow CURRENT_TIMESTAMP to advance ?\n>\n\nThis applies up to Oracle 8.1.6, maybe it helps:\nAccording to a co-worker, Oracle advances the time in transactions:\nselect ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nI've been waiting to see how a patched file differs from my version.\n\nThe patch was added to the to apply list last week I think (it wasn't mine btw)\nand I've been doing cvs diff to view the differences so I can tell when the\npatch has been applied. Additional information given by thi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nHave been thinking for a while now about viable ways to Open Source the\nFlash based training material that has been in development from last\nyear.\n\nAfter discussing this with a number of people for suggestions, feedback,\nadvise, etc, these are looking to be the general co... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nToday we concluded test for database performance. Attached are results and the \nschema, for those who have missed earlier discussion on this.\n\nWe have (almost) decided that we will partition the data across machines. The \ntheme is, after every some short interval a burst of data wi... |
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"msg_contents": ">My limited reading of off_t stuff now suggests that it would be brave to \n>assume it is even a simple 64 bit number (or even 3 32 bit numbers). One \n>alternative, which I am not terribly fond of, is to have pg_dump write \n>multiple files - when we get to 1 or 2GB, we just open another fil... |
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"msg_contents": "Good day,\n\nI just stumbled across this peculiarity in PL/Perl today writing a method\nto invoke Perl Regexes from a function: if a run-time error is raised in\nan otherwise good function, the function will never run correctly again\nuntil the connection to the database is reset. I poked aro... |
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"msg_contents": "tom lane wrote:\n> But more globally, I think that our worst problems these days have to do\n> with planner misestimations leading to bad plans. The planner is\n> usually *capable* of generating a good plan, but all too often it picks\n> the wrong one. We need work on improving the cost mod... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking at the TODO lists and caching issues and think there may\nbe a way to greatly improve the performance of the WAL.\n\nI've made the following assumptions based on my reading in the manual and\nthe WAL archives since about November 2000:\n\n1) WAL is currently fsync'd before c... |
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