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[ { "msg_contents": "It's just version 0.1 but it looks very good IMO. From the READmE:\n\nGtkSQL v0.1 - 02 May 1998\n=========================\n by Lionel ULMER (bbrox@mygale.org)\n\n GtkSQL is a graphical query tool for PostgreSQL 6.3. I've written it\nto learn how to use Gtk, and this version is quite unpoli...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI think there's an error on pg_dump, \nmy environment is:\n Lynux 2.0.33\n\t PostgreSQL 6.3\n\n1) ----VARCHAR(-50)------------------------------------------\n\nI created a table as:\nCREATE TABLE utente (\n\tintestazione_azienda \tvarchar,\n\tindirizzo \t\tvarchar\n\t);\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Bruce Wrote..\n> \n> > Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > OK, thanks to Tom Lane's many patches, I have query cancel working on my\n> > > machine. However, it is not working with Unix domain sockets. I get:\n> > >\n> > > Cannot send cancel request:\n> > > PQrequestCancel() ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > 1. Implement addition of atttypmod field to RowDescriptor messages.\n> > The client-side code is there but ifdef'd out. I have no idea\n> > what to change on the backend side. The field should be sent\n> > only if protocol >= 2.0, of course.\n\nHmm. I was hoping to do something...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi...\n\n\thas anyone had any experience setting this up? I've just gone\nthrough every shred of documentation I can find, and *believe* I have it\nsetup right, but its not working as expected...\n\n\tanyone with *experience* in this...?\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 May 1998 14:28:16...
[ { "msg_contents": "Quick note... Just to say that I found a bug in postgres 6.3.2 that I just this\nminute downloaded from the ftp site... It doesn't compile under AIX 4.2.1 with\nthe latest C for AIX ver 3.1.4\n \nIt's only aminor problem, some of the variables in pqcomm.c are declared as\nint, and being passe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Originally the JDBC driver had these small writes, because the libpq code\nhad them. This had the downside that there was a lot of small packets being\nsent to the backend, slowing things up a lot.\n\nAnyhow, I've been supplied with a patch that does this buffering, and while\ntesting this, i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n Can anybody pinpoint where is wrong on lo_write(and possibly\nlo_read)? I tried to lo_import(and lo_write) few MegaBytes of data\nwith large_object but it was painfully SLOW! So I simplified the\nproblem, just test \"testlo.c\" under test/examples directory\n\n with few M...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n When I try testlo.c with some modifications, I hit \"Ctrl-C\" key\nsometimes OR program crash abnormally I got messages when I try to\nconnect a db , see below. But all other db seems to be working,\nin such case is there any way to revive server without \"restarting\" by\nkil...
[ { "msg_contents": "Got no reply on \"questions\". Someone here may want to\nknow this...\n\nI think I may have uncovered an error in the parser. The \nfollowing is the simplest example that shows the problem.\nMaybe a counter needs to be reset by 'union' or checked\nafter select not statement. I would like t...
[ { "msg_contents": "About a month ago I wrote\n> Yes, if anything were to be done along this line it'd also make sense\n> to revise libpgtcl. I think it ought to work more like this:\n> (a) the idle loop is invoked while waiting for a query response\n> (so that a pg_exec statement behaves sort of like \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have seen a few patches fly by on the list, but when I checked the\nlast snapshot was dated May 4th. Unhappily, CVSup is not working for me\nright now. Is there a later snapshot, or should I just work with this one?\n\nOh, and who should I really direct this kind of \"site admin\" questio...
[ { "msg_contents": "That sounds like a good idea.\n\nHow about having them stored in a new system table (say pg_errormsg) which\ncontains each possible error in all the supported languages. That way, you\ncan have multiple language support when users from different countries use\nthe same server?\n\nI have done ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">.. and for ordinary column datatypes of fixed properties, it needn't\n>have *any* fields. That would more than pay for the space cost of\n>supporting a variable-width data type, I bet. I like this.\n\nActually not, since attypmod is stored with the table definition, it does not waste any s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI see that PostgreSQL mainly gives error messages in English, I see also that\nin some cases there's the possibility to configure it to give messages in \nother languages like global.c that may be configured to give messages in\nGerman.\nMySQL gives the possibility to configure it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \tint accept(int s, struct sockaddr *addr, int *addrlen);\n>\n> So AIX has the last parameter defined as size_t, huh? \n\nYes, and this is consistently done with all size parameters. (therefore also with fread, fwrite ...)\nBut only if _NONSTD_TYPES is not defined. I don't know where that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> That sounds like a good idea.\n> \n> How about having them stored in a new system table (say pg_errormsg) which\n> contains each possible error in all the supported languages.\n\nWhile this sounds good for end users, it is an absolute nightmare for somebody trying to \ngive support. Or what...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I have an idea. Can he run CLUSTER on the data? If so, the sort will\n> not use small batches, and the disk space during sort will be reduced.\n\nI think a real winner would be to use an existing index. This is what others do\nto eliminate a sort completely. Of course the optimizer has ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\n> createdb aaa - OK\n> destroydb aaa\npqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or\nwhile processing the request.\nWe have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is\nimpossible. Term...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIgnore this...\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 24 May 1998 01:08:41 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n>However, in thinking about it, I don't think there is any way to avoid\n>your solution of pid/secret key. The postmaster, on receiving the\n>secret key, can send a signal to the backend, and the query will be\n>cancelled. Nothing will be sent along the backend/client channel. All\n>oth...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: zondag 24 mei 1998 23:52\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Query cancel and OOB data\n\n\n>\"Maurice Gittens\" <mgittens@gits.nl> writes:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I put together this readme on password and crypt authentication in\nanswer to a request from a user of the Debian package.\n\nPlease check it and point out any errors or missing information.\n\n=========================================================================\n\nHow to use clear or en...
[ { "msg_contents": "This message raises the doubt of a possible PostgreSQL bug connected\nwith\nlarge objects and the locking mechanism.\n\n1) The problem\n\nI'm currently experiencing the followin problem.\nI need to store in a PostgreSQL database a large amount of double\nprecision\nnumbers (they are wavelets ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A while ago we agreed to use DB names like the JDBC standard:\n\n<protocol>:postgresql:\\\\<server>[:port]\\dbname[?<option>]\n\nBefore I start working on libpq I would like to know which protocols it\nshould accept. Is there a norm for this?\n\nSuggestions: sql, esql, pq, ecpg ...\n\nMichael...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tI am making some progress on cleaning up regression problems on\nLinux/Alpha. I have finally got datetimes from causing postgres to SIGFPE\n(floating point expections). The secret appears to be to include the\n'-mieee' compile option, via the CFLAGS line in template/linuxalpha. I am\nnot ...
[ { "msg_contents": "1. I think a last building (and maybe even regressing) snapshot would be nice.\n\n>The other tool I believe to be very effective in improving code quality is\n>code review. My experience is that review is both more effective and\n>cheaper than testing in finding problems.\n\nYes. But actually...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, it's a typo. That happens if you have to use a M$ system for work.\n:-(\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, there is a preferred standard, it defines char(5) strings that correspond to specific errors.\nIt is in SQLSTATE in ESQL/C programs and conforms to X/Open and ANSI.\nIt consits of numbers and upper case letters only. The first 2 digits are the Class the, last 3\nare the subclass. I think...
[ { "msg_contents": "Nice to know that PostgreSQL is used by greatest ISP in Russia :)\n\nVadim\nI investigated carefully POSTGRES data base (in idea to use it for our \ninternal IP routing data base, and because I have participated in Ingres \ndevelopment here in Russia in RUBIN/DEMOS project - through it was n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> OK, lets review this, with thought about our various authentication\n> options:\n> \n> \ttrust, password, ident, crypt, krb4, krb5\n> \n> As far as I know, they all transmit queries and results as clear text\n> across the network. They encrypt the passwords and tickets, but not the\n> data...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:\n> > Yes, it's a typo. That happens if you have to use a M$ system for work.\n> \n> Another thing that happens when you have to do that is that you follow\n> up someone's mail message, and end up generating a message that begins\n> with a short answer to no obvious...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm rewriting my SSL for patch so it's a little less messy, and I've\ncome across something interesting.\n\nWhat I've done is replaced Pfin,Pfout and Pfdebug with a struct called\nPGcomm.\n\npqcomm.c had Pfin/Pfout/Pfdebug as \"global\" variables. some other c\nfiles have \"extern\" entrie...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am testing a patch for removing exec() and using just fork(). I will\npost it to the hackers list for review, if that is OK. Should be only a\nfew hundred lines.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pen...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> \n> > I am testing a patch for removing exec() and using just fork(). I will\n> > post it to the hackers list for review, if that is OK. Should be only a\n> > few hundred lines.\n> \n> To do what exactly?\n> \n> --Michael\n> \n\n[FY...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey, wow. \n\nWhere is it, I am curious. I'll try AIX (will it apply to the last snapshot, I still did not have time\nto compile CVSup on my AIX box)\n\nAndreas\n\nI am testing a patch for removing exec() and using just fork(). I will\npost it to the hackers list for review, if that is OK. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have to ask, what is really so wrong with Outlook.\nAnd before you say well, you must not have used it before. I'm using it \nright now.\nAnd I have also used Pine, elm, ZMail, ...\nI often find myself hitting Ctrl-e (emacs end of line) in Outlook and \nthen I hit Ctrl-z (M$ undo).\nI'm not...
[ { "msg_contents": "I hate to bother you developers, but I have a question about the\nPostgres server. Can someone explain to me the following error messages\nand how I can avoid them? I recieved when trying to select from a\nsimple table with about 5 rows. When there were only two rows in the\ntable, the sel...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've decided to make two separate patches, a \"communication\" patch to\nclean up the fe-be communication (to be submitted for inclusion) and\nthen a separate SSL patch. this is good because, if approved for\nmerging, will clear up a lot of inconsistency regarding the io\ncommunication in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear,\nI am french student in computer science and I'm develloping a monitoring \nas psql in java and visual with Macro, automatic creation ..... It's \nvery complete.\nIf you are interesting (it's a very good example) write me.\n\nBye\n \n-----------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just downloaded an tried mpsql (see\nhttp://www.troubador.com/~keidav/index.html) and I have to say I like it.\n\nIt's like a graphical version of psql. In fact it is modelled after Oracle's\nSQL Worksheet or similar products.\n\nNow I wonder what's the correct way to handle this kind of so...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just committed a bunch of patches, mostly to help with parsing and\ntype conversion. The quick summary:\n\n1) The UNION construct will now try to coerce types across each UNION\nclause. At the moment, the types are converted to match the _first_\nselect clause, rather than matching the \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed removal of exec(), so now the postmaster just forks a\nchild, and the child runs sharing the same address space, rather than\nforking the same binary.\n\nIn doing this, I had to consider the changes that exec performs in the\nold fork/exec. There are a few main issues. Firs...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI,\n\nROD STEWART LAUNCHES OFFICIAL WEB SITE, WWW.RODSTEWARTLIVE.COM,\nDESIGNED BY MEDIAX\n\nFree Web Cast Live from the Roxy on June 2 at 8:45 p.m. (PST)\n\nMediaX Corporation and Stiefel Entertainment announced the launch of\nRod Stewart's official Web site, http://www.rodstewartlive.com\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear sir\n\n\nI want to add keywords in psql (it is not function or operation)\nLet me know what source files must to be modified.\n\nThank you... Good Luck!\n\n--\n-----------------------------------------------------------\nTel : +82-51-582-0491(office)\n +82-51-515-2208(Fax)\nmailto:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nis there a way to get a specific release out of the repository? Say I \nwant to get 6.3.2 from the repository, or 6.2, how would I proceed?\n\nMaarten\n\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n| TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information T...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI haven't seen this, is it available anywhere?\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 30 May 1998 23:28:52 -0700 (PDT)", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "exec patch?" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI know that custom types account for a portion of overhead, and I'm\nnot by any means advocating their removal. I also know that the\nefficiency of postgres has improved greatly since the early days, and\nI'm wondering what more can be done.\n\nFor instance, would it be possible to cache r...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've noticed there are no less then 10^10 regex implementations.\nIs there a standard? Does ANSI have a regexp standard, or is there\na regex standard in the ANSI SQL spec? What do we use?\n\nPersonally, I'm a perl guy, so everytime I have to bend my brain to\nsome other regex syntax, I g...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n> If there is anything that I don't have listed at the above URL\n> (ie. that isn't bundled on the CD that you'd like to see), please \n> let me know. And, of course, if anything at the above URL is out \n> of date, again, please let me know...some stuff is ju...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are some duplicate oids in pg_proc of May30 snapshot.\n\ntest=> select p1.oid,p1.proname,p2.proname from pg_proc p1,pg_proc p2\nwhere p1.oid = p2.oid and p1.proname > p2.proname;\n\n oid|proname |proname \n----+------------+-----------\n1377|textoctetlen|char \n1374|octet_l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n\n> btw, anyone know of a package for variable- and large-precision\n> numerics? I have looked at the GNU gmp package, but it looks to me\n> that it probably won't fit into the db backend without lots of\n> overhead. Will probably try to use the int64 package in con...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nwow. i didn't realize I was in for such a nasty surprise.\nI just downloaded the latest cvs snapshot, and there appears to\nbe some major changes to the code that i've patched.\n\nit would appear as though (I've only looked at one function so far, pqGetc\nin fe-misc.c) there's now a buffer...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nit would appear that libpq now has a outgoing data buffer associated\nwith PGconn struct which only gets sent (with send()!?) when pqFlush\ngets called. the backend still appears to use and pass FILE * for\nreading and writing. I wasn't aware that you can read data from a\nFILE * sent wit...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Sun, 31 May 1998, David Gould wrote:\n> \n> > As you may have noticed, I am something of a Linux advocate. And, quite\n> > seriously, I believe it possible that in five years not even Sun will be\n> > shipping anything else. \n> \n> \tThat must be why Sun is currently paying for develope...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning...\n\n\tthe following is starting to get on my nerves :( The table I'm\ntrying to update is ~22k records, and I can't seem to get through it...\n\n\tSo, my first question is *what* does this message mean? The\nbackend gives an error about too many open files, but there are less th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anybody tell me how to set up anon CVS? I'm living inside a\nfirewall.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:10:06 +0900", "msg_from": "t-ishii@sra.co.jp", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "anon CVS inside from firewall?" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "> The only problem I haven't been able to fix to date is calling \"Dates\"\n> from a database and displaying them like \"Sunday May 31, 1998\" instead\n> \"05-31-1998\"\n> \n> Currently using PHP2.x not PHP3 yet...\n> \n> Kevin\n> \ntry:\n$mydate = '05-31-1998';\n$mon = strtok($mydate, '-');\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthey don't always work, in the case of a table with an attribute that\ncalls a function for its default value.\n\npostgres=> create function foo() returns int4 as 'select 1' language 'sql';\nCREATE\npostgres=> create table a (b int4 default foo());\nCREATE\n\n% pg_dump postgres > tmpfile\n%...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI would love a way to keep track of the connections/attempted\nconnections to the postmaster. I'm thinking that when the postmaster\naccept()s a connection, it can just insert a record into a table\n(system catalog or not) with the information, which can be updated\nafter the authenticatio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAfter reading the recent mailing list thread about PostgreSQL not\ngrowing in popularity as fast as MySQL and the lack of a legible logo, I\ngot bored and took a stab at some. I'd like to make a new logo for\npeople to pass around and also get an HTML/Logo usage page in the\ndistri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi. I'm looking for non-English-using Postgres hackers to participate in\nimplementing NCHAR() and alternate character sets in Postgres. I think\nI've worked out how to do the implementation (not the details, just a\nstrategy) so that multiple character sets will be allowed in a single\ndatab...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Constantin Teodorescu wrote:\n\n> Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote:\n> > \n> > Is there a libpgtcl.so different for v6.3.2 ?\n> \n> It seems that it is.\n> \n> You shoulnd't mix up binaries from 6.3 with libraries from 6.3.2\n> \n> I don't know what could happend, but I \"feel\...
[ { "msg_contents": "David Gould wrote:\n>\n> Steve Logue writes: \n> > \n> > After reading the recent mailing list thread about PostgreSQL not\n> > growing in popularity as fast as MySQL and the lack of a legible logo, I\n> > got bored and took a stab at some. I'd like to make a new logo for\n> > people to pass...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOn Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n\n> Hi. I'm looking for non-English-using Postgres hackers to participate in\n> implementing NCHAR() and alternate character sets in Postgres. I think\n> I've worked out how to do the implementation (not the details, just a\n> strategy) so that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI have a serious problem with PostgreSQL 6.3 concerning array of char...\nI can create table with array of char2 for exemple, but not array of\nchar.\ncreate table tab1(a char2[][]); -> OK\ncreate table tab2(a int2[][]); -> OK\ncreate table tab3(a char[][]); -> error... \n\nI can't ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all!\n\nI am trying to create a trigger to update a field on a \"son\" table\nwhen a linked field (foreign key) is modified on a table \"father\".\nexample:\n\ntable son: table father:\n--------------------- ------------------------\nid /-----< i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Basically I would rename template1 to pg_master and connect postmaster\nto this database. Then it would have access to system global sql info.\nThe problem is: postgres backends would need to do a reconnect to their \nown database instead of a connect.\n\nAndreas\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 4...
[ { "msg_contents": "Over in pgsql-patches, Magosanyi Arpad <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu> wrote:\n> libpgtcl segmentation faults in any pg_exec call, if it fails for any reason\n> There is a patch which has worked for me. The real problem might be in\n> PQreset, which can't reset a conninfo based connection. The patc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was just browsing the PostgreSQL site and stumbled on a link to \n\nhttp://datasplash.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/tioga/\n\nWhich appears to be a really nifty data visualization tool for databases.\nIt also appears to use/support Postgres95 though there seems to be some\nquestion of it working o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed a patch that shows the backend status on the 'ps' line\nfor each process:\n\n24081 ./bin/postmaster -i -B 401 -d -o -F -S 1024\n24089 /usr/local/postgres/./bin/postgres postgres test idle \"\" \"\" \"\" (postmaster)\n24106 /usr/local/postgres/./bin/postgres postgres test S...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 19:25:06 -0400", "msg_from": "Chris Olivier <mjaunes1@tampabay.rr.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "(no subject)" } ]
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[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI really need a Standard Deviation aggregate function so I will\ntry to write one.\n\nI know about the man pages for \"create aggregate\" and \"create\nfunction\". Is there something else I should look at?\nJust a few pointers could save me a few hours of hunting around.\nAll advic...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Wed, 3 June 1998, at 20:29:52, David Gould wrote:\n> \n> > Ok, can I laugh now?\n> > \n> > Seriously, if we are going to have a separate backend to do the table access\n> > (and I agree that this is both neccessary and reasonable), why not have it\n> > be a plain ordinary backend like al...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> I had asked you how to calculate this and the variance early last\n>> year. One (I think the variance) was two-pass because of the need\n>> for the average, but I thought the StdDev would work with the struct.\n\n>Variance is just square of std. dev, no?\n\nNo ! Stdev is divided by co...
[ { "msg_contents": "David Gould wrote:\n>The Perl Module \"Statistics/Descriptive\" has on the fly variance calculation.\n>\n>sub add_data {\n> my $self = shift; ##Myself\n> my $oldmean;\n> my ($min,$mindex,$max,$maxdex);\n>\n> ##Take care of appending to an existing data set\n> $min = (defined ($self->...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFirst of all I would like to thank you for your work on the Statistics Module.\nUnfortunately a lot of books differ in their formula for variance and stdev.\nIn Europe the below corrected definition where stdev is not simply the sqrt of variance\nseems to be more popular.\nFor large po...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFor on-the-fly standard deviation calculations with an eye towards\nnumerical accuracy, check out:\n\nChan, T.F, and Lewis, J.G., \"Computing Standard Deviations: Accuracy\",\nCommunications of the ACM, Vol 22, No. 9, September 1979, p. 526\n\nand\n\nWest, D.H.D, \"Updating Mean and Varianc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, ADM. Diego Cueva wrote:\n\n> \n> Hi Everybody.\n> \n> I have problems with my CGI programs in C.\n> When i execute the CGI, the message \"Internal Server Error\" is displayed \n> in the browser.\n> This error only ocurr when i compile the programs using -lpq\n> \n> Exist d...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\npgsql-hackers\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 19:13:34 -0400", "msg_from": "Chris Olivier <mjaunes1@tampabay.rr.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "dfas" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning all...\n\n\tJust curious, but what *is* planned for v6.4? We have a TODO\nlist, but I imagine there are things on that TODO list that ppl are\nplanning on for v6.4? Can we add a \"planned for v6.4\" to various items,\nsuch that ppl have an idea of what they could be expecting? Ev...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> \n> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:\n> \n> > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote:\n> > > This of course is most useful if the remaining platforms adopt it too.\n> > > Given current trends, I suspect this will happen.\n> >\n> > I suspect you're talking ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was trying to change to cluster command to do the its writes clustered \nby a 100 tuples, thus hoping to improve performance. However, the code \nI've written crashes. This has certainly to do with some internal states \nof pgsql that aren't preserved in a HeapTuple.\n\nCould somebod...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI saw the file INSTALL and I ran regression tests, I saw lots of failed tests,\nwhat do they mean?\nIf I have failed tests, how do I fix it? If I don't run regression tests, what's\nthe consequences I have?\nWould anyone tell me, thanks.\n\nBest regards,\nDoug.\n\n", "msg_date": "M...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All.\n\nMy mailer munged the intro text in my last post. Here is the text in a more \nreadable form.\n--\nI am submitting the following patches to the June 6, 1998 snapshot of \nPostgreSQL. These patches implement a port of PostgreSQL to SCO UnixWare 7, \nand updates the Univel port (...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had recieved your mail. Thank you.\n\nIf I wish to add keyword for editing image :example keyword => ImageUnion,\nWhich files must to be changed.\n\nWould you expain where to begin and how to do something.\n\nAnd would you expain functionality of files in executor directory to me.\n\nI am ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h there is this well-meaning comment:\n\n/*\n * We can't use the conventional \"bool\", because we are designed to be\n * included in a user's program, and user may already have that type\n * defined. Pqbool, on the other hand, is unlikely to be used.\n */\n\nUnf...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added code to the postmaster to generate a random cancel key by\ncalling gettimeofday() on postmaster startup and on the first invocation\nof a backend, and merged the micro-seconds of the two times to seed the\nrandom number generator.\n\nI added a PostmasterRandom() function which re...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Bruce,\nsome great steps forward. Actually postgres is called from postmaster\nand display's the usage() from postgres. I have compared it with older\nversion's but can't see anything strange here. \n\nPostgres itself runs if called with a database. BTW how should I stop\nit. I have tried ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[reposted from pgsql-admin list]\n\n\nHi,\n\nWe have a rather simple database with 2 tables and 2 indices. The tables\ncontain char, int, and bool type fields, and both has ~60000 records now.\n\n-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3727360 Jun 5 11:45 mail\n-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 18...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Fredrick Meunier wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote:\n> > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Fredrick Meunier wrote:\n> > > CREATE VIEW ALL_TEXT (TEXTIDTF,TEXTNSEG)\n> > > AS SELECT B.BLBJ,B.NSEG FROM BLBJ B WHERE B.BTYP = 1\n> > > ERROR from backend during send_query: 'E...
[ { "msg_contents": "jerome doucerain wrote:\n> \n> Please, can you tell me if row-level lock is functional \n> in Postgres 6.3.2 and I have to do to get it ?\n...\n\nDavid Hartwig wrote:\n> \n> Everyone especially Vadim,\n> I agree with Marc. Row locking is huge. In my user community, it is\n> unacceptable to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey, guys...\n I suppose this probably belongs in questions, but I thought I might\nget a quicker answer here. I have a table in a customer's database\nthat has gotten quite large via lack of vacuuming (57MB). Queries\ninvolving this table started failing in the form of the backend just\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "PG_VERSION is now 6.4. initdb everyone. Or did we decide not to do\nthis if we could help it. I think we will still need to run initdb, and\nmove the data files.\n\n\n -- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, P...
[ { "msg_contents": "Once upon a time Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> OK, here is my argument for inlining tas().\n> \n> This output is for startup, a single query returning a single row result\n> on an indexed column, and shutdown. Guess who is at the top of the\n> list, tas(). Mcount() is a gprof internal counter, so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim Mikheev said:\n> \n> Brandon Ibach wrote:\n> > \n> > Hmmm... well, the table may be 57 Meg, but then, the backend\n> > running the vacuum has consumed 5 1/2 hours of CPU time so far, and\n> > still going strong, so something tells me there may be something\n> > deeper. :)\n> \n> Did ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim Mikheev said:\n> \n> Well, could you use gdb to attach to backend runnig vacuum ?\n> \n> Vadim\n> \n Okay... using pg_dump to get the data out of the table is causing\nmuch the same situation. I did a backtrace in gdb, but unfortnately,\nI'm running a copy of postgres without debuggi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim Mikheev said:\n> \n> Brandon Ibach wrote:\n> > \n> > Vadim Mikheev said:\n> > Okay... using pg_dump to get the data out of the table is causing\n> > much the same situation. I did a backtrace in gdb, but unfortnately,\n> > I'm running a copy of postgres without debugging symbols, so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Am I right in my thinking that Postgres does not have a pseudo timestamp\nfield that is updated whenever a row is added or updated? Did it used\nto have one before time travel was removed?\n\nIf no timestamp field, are there any other pseudo fields that are\nupdated every time? I noticed t...