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[ { "msg_contents": "I have rebuild HISTORY to add recent release.sgml changes, and have\nstamped configure/configure.in for 7.3.\n\nMarc, if you can, please create the 7.3 tarball tonight so the mirrors\nwill be ready tomorrow. Thanks.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just spoke with Lisa Vaas from eWeek. She is writing an article on\nthe upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3 release. (The release of 7.3 is scheduled\nfor tomorrow.)\n\nShe would like comments from users about the upcoming 7.3 features,\nlisted at:\n\n\thttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/r...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nA quick question:\n\nin 7.3 the following no longer works:\n\n template1=> select 0::bool;\n ERROR: Cannot cast type integer to boolean\n\nThe statement must be rewritten as this:\n\n template1=> select '0'::bool;\n bool \n ------\n f\n (1 row)\n\nIs there a reason for this?\nI as...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking at contrib/ltree in the PostgreSQL repository. I've\nmodified the code to allow / as a node delimiter instead of . which is the\ndefault.\n\nBelow are the patches to make this change. I have also moved the\ndelimiter to a DEFINE so that other customizations are easily do...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\t\n\tI'd like to bother you with something about updating views. At present, postgresql7.3 doesn't support update on views.When I look up the source code, I see that view is implemented with rules. That is when a view is created, a corresponding ‘select' rule is created too. And I see t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Several months ago tried to implement a special postgres backend as an\nAuto Vacuum Daemon (AVD), somewhat like the stats collector. I failed\ndue to my lack of experience with the postgres source. \n\nOn Sep 23, Shridhar Daithankar released an AVD written in C++ that acted\nas a client pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have worked on several gborg projects migrated from our CVS tree, and\nall but one have new packaged releases, ready for 7.3:\n\n\tlibpq++\n\tpgeasy\n\tpgperl\n\nI am working with David Wheeler on DBD:pg and hope to have a release\npackaged up tomorrow.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "thanks in advance\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nAre you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nSelect your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@y...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Nicolai Tufar [mailto:ntufar@apb.com.tr] \n> Sent: 27 November 2002 14:02\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; PgSQL Performance ML\n> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Realtime VACUUM, was: \n> performance of insert/delete/update\n> \n> \n> I always w...
[ { "msg_contents": "By accident I stumbled across the following paragraph in the August\n2002 draft of SQL 2003:\n\n\tIf there are multiple instances of <next value expression>s\n\tspecifying the same sequence generator within a single\n\tSQL-statement, all those instances return the same value for a\n\tgiven ro...
[ { "msg_contents": "The uploaded file\n\n DBD-Pg-1.20.tar.gz\n\nhas entered CPAN as\n\n file: $CPAN/authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/DBD-Pg-1.20.tar.gz\n size: 75821 bytes\n md5: ea9e217321fb62515b3723a86ecbfcdf\n\n\nThis is the first release under new management at GBorg. Here's a list \nof changes in the ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes anybody know if postgres support a SQL statement that handles two \ndiferent databases (in the same server)?\n\n-- \nDiogo de Oliveira Biazus\ndiogo@ikono.com.br\nIkono Sistemas e Automa��o\nhttp://www.ikono.com.br\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:08:09 -0200", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Solaris tests from Martin.\n\n> Sorry for taking so long to run the tests, but I was out sick on Monday\n> and yesterday was busy in a meeting for most of the day.\n> \n> The results are the same as for RC1 - the geometry test fails with\n> the last decimal digit being off by one. I have att...
[ { "msg_contents": "More on solaris tests from Martin.\n\n> I just looked a bit further and there is a\n> regress/expected/geometry-solaris-i386.out file which diffs cleanly with\n> the regress/results/geometry.out file I generated. Perhaps the regression\n> test isn't comparing with the right file.\n>\n> Marti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been thinking about how to improve the performance of queries using\n\"WHERE x IN (subselect)\" and \"WHERE x NOT IN (subselect)\".\n\nIn the existing implementation, the subquery result is rescanned to look\nfor a match to x each time the WHERE clause is executed; this essentially\nmake...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOkay folks, I just packaged her up, and fixed up the ftp site so that\neverything points properly to it ... this way the mirrors get a chance to\npick it all up over night ...\n\nI will be sending out the press release first thing in the morning ...\n\nPlease take a look around, and let me...
[ { "msg_contents": "28:11:2002\n\n Hi,\n\n I am not able to install Postgres on NT. If anybody has installed postgres on NT, please give me steps to that. I have read documentation about it, but unable to do that.\n\n I want to know, how shall I start building source code on Windows NT. I have VC++ installed and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nHas anyone of you a good pointer to a description of where in the system \ntables I may find what informations? I try to code a generic procedure \nwhich gets information (like field type, field length, foreign keys...) \nabout tables and fields from a system table.\n\nThank you for you...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSorry to ask this question straight out but I wasn't sure where else to get an answer! \n\nDue to the 32 character limit on column/table names, we needed to recompile PostgreSQL from the source with updated settings. It compiles fine, but on running initdb, we get the following output...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, here it is. I do not know if this will help to use postgres some more \nhere in Croatia, but ...\n\tI suppose there must be some tipping and other mistakes, but I am using this \ntranslation, and if any mistake is found, I'll try to correct.\nI translated only /src/backend, but I'll try t...
[ { "msg_contents": "When doing an alter table .. add primary key operation on columns which\nare not marked as null, would it be appropriate to mark the primary key\ncolumns not null?\n\nThis follows with create table auto-marking columns null for primary\nkeys.\n\n\nrbt=# \\d ar\n Table \"public.ar\"\n Colu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nIs there any deeper description of the \"record\" type in plpgsql?\n\nI try to iterate through whole rows and fields, but there is nearly nothing \nwritten down, or at least I am finding nearly nothing.\n\nAny help?\n\nThanks,\nsj\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:12:30 +01...
[ { "msg_contents": "ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP NOT NULL\nALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP DEFAULT\nALTER DOMAIN .. ADD / DROP CONSTRAINT\n\nNew files:\n- doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_domain.sgml\n\n-- \nRod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>", "msg_date": "28 Nov 2002 11:20:40 -0500", "msg_from": "Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs for some current_*** functions, \"select current_user;\" seems to\nwork, but \"select current_user();\" doesn't . Though current_user is\ndefined as one of functions, why does such an error occur ?\n\nrenew=# select current_user();\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"(\" at ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there!\n\nPatch itself posted to pgsql-patches.\n\nThis is a new version of patch i've posted.\nThis for PG version 7.3rc1.\n\nChanged syntax, now it's more closer to Oracle's and allows operator other\nthan '='.\nRemoved Const/Var trick, now it's a new FakeVar node used, as a side effect\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Wow, this sounds great.\n\nWhere can I get a copy? Why would anyone use anything else? ;-)\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 + Chr...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> > AFAICS the problem lies in updating several pg_clog bits at once. How\n> > can this be done without holding a potentially long lasting lock?\n> \n> Yes, locking is one possible solution, but no one likes that. One hack\n> lock idea would be to create a subtransaction-only ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Anyone know why the install target in doc/src/Makefile is coded like\nthis:\n\ninstall:\n\t$(MAKE) all\n\t(mv -f *.$(ZIPSUFFIX) ..)\n\nand not the more conventional\n\ninstall: all\n\tmv -f *.$(ZIPSUFFIX) ..\n\nor perhaps safer,\n\ninstall: all\n\tmv -f $(TARGETS) ..\n\nI just typed \"make al...
[ { "msg_contents": " While playing with one of my DBs under 7.3 to make use of its better\nexplain features, I came across a query that runs significantly slower\nunder 7.3 than\n7.2.3. At first, I thought it would be a hardware issue, so i installed both\nversions on the same box. \n7.2.3 tends to run the qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anybody explain me, how to compile postgres source code in VC++.\n\nCatch all the cricket action. Download Yahoo! Score tracker\nCan anybody explain me, how to compile postgres source code in VC++.\nCatch all the cricket action. Download \nYahoo! Score tracker", "msg_date": "Fri, 29 N...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 09:58 PM 11/28/02 -0500, you wrote:\n>Hm. Are we sure that both versions were built with the same\n>optimization level, etc? (My private bet is that Wade's 7.2 didn't\n>have multibyte or locale support --- but that's a long shot when we\n>don't know the datatypes of the columns being joi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that the system is really pretty shaky about how it chooses\nthe datatype-specific operators to implement sorting and grouping.\nIn the GROUP BY case, for example, the parser looks up an operator\nnamed '<' for the column datatype, and then sometime later the executor\nlooks up an o...
[ { "msg_contents": "By chance I just noticed that lseg equality is coded as\n\nDatum\nlseg_eq(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n{\n LSEG *l1 = PG_GETARG_LSEG_P(0);\n LSEG *l2 = PG_GETARG_LSEG_P(1);\n\n PG_RETURN_BOOL(FPeq(l1->p[0].x, l2->p[0].x) &&\n FPeq(l1->p[1].y, l2->p[1].y) &&\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nJust out of interest, if someone was going to pay you to hack on Postgres\nfor 6 months, what would you like to code for 7.4?\n\nMy ones are:\n\n* Compliant ADD COLUMN\n* Integrated full text indexes\n* pg_dump dependency ordering\n\nWhat would you guys do? Even if it isn't feasi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like the eWeek article has been published:\n\nhttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,732789,00.asp\n\nSorry for sounding like such a dork :)\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:21:00 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "There isn't one!\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:25:07 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Postgres 7.3 announcement on postgresql.org" }, { "msg_contents": "Christopher K...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nI'm just curious, will your proposed in/exists optimizations help for\nqueries like:\n\ndb=# explain delete from dns_expired_domains where domain_id in (select\ndomain_id from dns_expired_domains group by domain_id having count(*)=14\n);\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nSeq Scan on dns_expire...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nChristopher Kings-Lynne pointed out on hackers:\n\n> Looks like the eWeek article has been published:\n\nhttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,732789,00.asp\n\nOverall, I think the article is very good, and some \nexcellent quotes were pres...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nThe archives for the following mailing lists appear to \nhave two identical links to November 2002:\n\nadmin\nadvocacy\nannounce\nbugs\ncygwin\n\nHere's one of them:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/\n\nGreg Sabino Mullane ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is an updated version of our developers biography page. I am\ninterested in locations for:\n\n\tChristopher Kings-Lynne\n\tBarry Lind\n\tDave Page\n\tRod Taylor\n\nThe format is usually large city, state/province, country. \n\nAlso, I would like Company, Company URL for anyone interest...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://odbc.postgresql.org/\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Horacio Miranda [mailto:hmiranda@yale.cl] \n> Sent: 30 November 2002 14:54\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] about ODBC\n> \n> \n> Someone know any ODBC driver without problem with U...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: David Wheeler [mailto:david@wheeler.net] \n> Sent: 30 November 2002 20:18\n> To: David Walker\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed?\n> \n> \n> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 04:34 PM, David Wa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOk, someone else posted their data warehousing wishlist, I want to post my\nsingle item OLP wishlist: Plan stability. This is the natural conclusion of\nhaving prepared queries.\n\nThis is one area where it would be possible to totally beat Oracle's\nimplementation by a huge margin. And it'...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was thinking of hacking on postgres a bit. I want to start with filling out\nthe operations list for data types that seem to be missing obvious operators.\n\nIn particular I'm thinking of things like \n\n. an aggregate function for cidr that would find the smallest enclosing netblock.\n. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis is weird, it seems like min and max aren't being optimised symmetrically.\nIt seems like both of these should result in similar plans and run equally\nfast. Instead the first is actually really slow and the second is perfectly\nquick.\n\n\n\nfoo=# explain select max(postalcode) from po...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any reason why the tseach indexes couldn't be modified to just work\non TEXT fields and not TXTIDX fields. Is there really a reason to have the\nTXTIDX type?\n\nI mean, when the index is created over the text column, instead of just\nindexing the text as-is, index the txt2txtidx'd v...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm seeing this:\n\nI have indexed the suspended_off column.\n\nusa=# explain analyze UPDATE users_users SET suspended=false,\nsuspended_on=NULL, suspended_off=NULL WHERE suspended_off='2002-02-02';\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nIndex Scan using users_users_susp_off_idx on users_users\n(cost=0.00....
[ { "msg_contents": "Someone asked earlier about how to change a bunch of existing tables int the \nPUBLIC schema to some other schema. For grins I tried:\n\nregression=# select oid,* from pg_namespace ;\n oid | nspname | nspowner | nspacl\n--------+------------+----------+--------\n 11 | pg_catalog |...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've spent today messing with making the planner substitute inline\ndefinitions of simple SQL functions, per the comment in\nsrc/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c:\n\n * XXX Possible future improvement: if the func is SQL-language, and its\n * definition is simply \"SELECT expression\", we cou...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello\n\nIn PostgreSQL 7.2/7.1:\n\ntemplate1=# select text(2.000::numeric);\n text\n------\n 2\n(1 row)\n\nIn 7.3:\n\ntemplate1=# select text(2.000::numeric);\n text\n-------\n 2.000\n(1 row)\n\nThe text(numeric) function doesn't round numbers. :(\n\nThis is bug or feature? :)\n\n\n\t\t\t\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why are the features provided by PostGIS not added to the core of \nPostgreSQL?\n\n Hans\n\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:25:37 +0100", "msg_from": "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <postgres@cybertec.at>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Why not ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nWas just looking at the project page for Compiere, an Open Source\nERP+CRM solution that is usually in the top 10 most popular SourceForge\nprojects.\n\nThey were attempting to port Compiere from Oracle to PostgreSQL, but\nhave stopped (apparently) because PostgreSQL doesn't suppo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Han Holl's recent complaint about memory leaks in SQL-language functions\nhas started me thinking again about making plan trees read-only to the\nexecutor. This would make it a lot easier to manage memory cleanly in\nthe SQL function executor, and would eliminate a lot of plan tree\ncopying ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The PostGIS project has been making use of GiST for about a year now and \n(thanks to the excellent work of Oleg and Teodor) have found it to be a \nmost excellent indexing system.\n\nWe are about to apply for some government R&D funding, and one of our \npotential subprojects is creating GiS...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there a known problem with TOAST tables growing indefinitely in 7.2?\n\nWe have a database that has large text chunks inserted & deleted regularly, \nand despite regular vacuums, the toast table continues to grow. We can not \ndo a VACUUM FULL since it's a 24x7 system, but we do VACUUM f...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:14:43 -0500\n> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> \n> Jochem van Dieten <jochemd@oli.tudelft.nl> writes:\n> > Tom Lane wrote:\n> >> This has nothing to do with USAGE on the schema; it is just a matter of\n> >> being able to read the system catalogs.\n> \n> > <qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Karel Zak [mailto:zakkr@zf.jcu.cz] \n> Sent: 02 December 2002 11:26\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist\n> \n> \n> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:51:26AM -0800, Christopher \n> Kings-Ly...
[ { "msg_contents": "Native Windows port\nPlz don't forget poor victims of Microsoft !!!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNative Windows port\nPlz don't forget poor victims of Microsoft \n!!!", "msg_date": "Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:38:42 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Igor Georgiev\" <gory@alphasoft-bg.com>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been getting reports of one of my test scenarios for libpqxx\nfailing with postgres 7.3. At the moment I can't reproduce this (I'm\nstill on 7.2) and I can't find anything pertinent in CVS commit\nmessages, mailing lists etc. so I'd really appreciate any lucidity from\nthis list.\n\nMy ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\nJust compiled the 7.3 branch from source and made some tests using the \nJDBC driver coming with it. I did some tests with the henplus \nJDBC-shell and noticed some problems quering the database meta data:\n\n o the foreign key name is 'wierd'\n ---\n DatabaseMetaData meta ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now ALTER .. ADD PRIMARY KEY insists that the columns must be NOT\nNULL first. I'd like to change it so that it automatically creates the\nNOT NULL constraint (same as CREATE TABLE). I didn't see anything in\nthe spec for or against doing this automatically.\n\nI believe the best way...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've hacked the spec file from a 7.2.x source RPM to produce a 7.3 source RPM. \nI've also created a set of i686 binary RPMs. These are *not* official PGDG \nRPMs, and I'm not an RPM expert by any means (so use at your own risk!), but \nI've posted them in case anyone is interested. I'll leav...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17\n> To: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?\n> \n> \n> I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of \n> P...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nAfter I upgraded 7.2.3 to 7.3 I started to get the following errors:\npg_atoi: zero-length string\n\nits seems that i get it when not all field have content:\n\nthis is one example that generate the error:\ninsert into images (section_id, pic_date, image_order) values ('8',\n'2002-12-03...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com [mailto:cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com] \n> Sent: 03 December 2002 12:16\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any \n> issues? Anyone? \n> \n> \n> > I've looked long and hard and can't f...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: 03 December 2002 12:44\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?\n> \n> \n> Dave Page wrote:\n> \n> >\n> >No pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm evaluating tsearch contrib module, and i get a backend crash when\ni'm about to use a tsearch function.\n\nWhen i issue\nupdate things set nidx=txt2txtidx(productname),\ndidx=txt2txtidx(longdescription);\n\nThe backend dies in a segfault.\nThe system is redhat 7.3 dual athlon w/ 1GB memor...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am thinking of tweaking EXPLAIN so that it performs ExecutorStart()\nand ExecutorEnd() even when you just do plain EXPLAIN (and not EXPLAIN\nANALYZE). The immediate reason for this is an internal change (details\nbelow) but it would have a couple of user-visible side effects:\n\n1. Permiss...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't see any 7.3 tag created when we did the 7.3 release. (I do see\nthe 7.3 branch.)\n\nMarc, can a tag be added to match the 7.3 release tree?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If you...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nit there anybody out there, who could correct this annoying \njavascript-redirection at gborg.postgresql.org? If you go to \nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org and select \"Database administration tools\" there \nis a javascript-script (??), which redirects the browser to sourceforge.\n\n\nTo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not that anyone cares, but I notice in the commit logs for MySQL 4.1, it now\nhas subselects.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:55:40 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "MySQL update...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:22:41AM +0000, Sigurdur Gunnlaugsson wrote:\n> \n> test=# move -10 in test_c;\n> MOVE 4\n> test=# fetch 1 from test_c;\n> schemaname | tablename | tableowner | hasindexes | hasrules | hastriggers\n> ------------+-----------+------------+------------+----------+---...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 03 December 2002 23:34\n> To: Justin Clift\n> Cc: Dave Page; Marc G. Fournier; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global \n> Development Group Announ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks to Rod Taylor's kind help in donating a system account, I've been\nable to test libpqxx against postgres 7.3. Unfortunately, I'm running\ninto several problems. One thing that broke libpqxx was a change in \ncursor behaviour that according to Sigurdur Gunnlaugsson seems to be\ngone i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe just received this message through the contact form on the Advocacy site.\n\nThought it would be nice to hear.\n\n:-)\n\n\n(btw Ajay, you're probably best to upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.2.3 or 7.3 \n[just released], as 7.2.1 had a few nasty bugs in it)\n\nRegards and best wishe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Justin Clift [mailto:justin@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: 04 December 2002 10:59\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Marc G. Fournier; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global \n> Development Gr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hai friends,\nI have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000.\nI have a table, with one field haveing\nnextvalu('raj_seq') as default value.;\nnow i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq\nto 9999999.\nHow to do this change?\nIf i drop and recreate the raj_seq, then i have to\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] \n> Sent: 04 December 2002 13:41\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Justin Clift; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global \n> Development Group An...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] \n> Sent: 04 December 2002 13:56\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Justin Clift; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global \n> Development Group An...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I've been trying to ask on general, and tried to search the\narchives without much result, so I'll try here.\n\nI'm using PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on Solaris 8/sparc. In a table, I have a\ntext field, which may contain long ascii strings. However, when trying\nto put data larger than about 32000 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed an interesting difference in query behaviour:\n\ncms=# CREATE TABLE foo(bar int);\nCREATE\ncms=# SELECT * from foo where bar=1.7;\n bar\n-----\n(0 rows)\n\ncms=# SELECT * from foo where bar='1.7';\nERROR: pg_atoi: error in \"1.7\": can't parse \".7\"\n\nIs this the same problem as ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Forgive me for not digging through the source code myself, but can\nanyone tell me if setQuerySnapshot behavior within functions was changed\nin 7.3 so that subsequent select statements can see committed data? I\nknow there was some talk about changing the behavior, but I'm wondering\nif it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just tried a make runcheck with source from Dec 4 15:13 GMT, and:\n\nCore was generated by `postgres'.\nProgram terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.\n#0 ExecGetTupType (node=0x8453978) at execProcnode.c:744\n744 slot = hashjoinstate->jstate.cs_R...
[ { "msg_contents": "(gdb) print *((HashJoin *) node)->hashjoinstate\n$4 = {jstate = {type = T_HashJoinState, cs_OuterTupleSlot = 0x0, \n cs_ResultTupleSlot = 0x84527cc, cs_ExprContext = 0x8453e60, \n cs_ProjInfo = 0x84546e0, cs_TupFromTlist = 0 '\\000'}, hj_HashTable = 0x0, \n hj_CurBucketNo = 0, hj_CurTu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I must have had an old object file in the build tree... It's all happy\nnow.\n\nSorry for the noise,\n\nPatrick\n(geometry fails just because of the ordering of the rows in \"twenty\")\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:32:19 +0000", "msg_from": "Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>...
[ { "msg_contents": "transatlantic=# select '23:59:59.72'::time(0) without time zone;\n time \n----------\n 24:00:00\n(1 row)\n\nSo dumping a table with times derived from the timestamp then fails on the\nreload with:\n\npsql:transatlantic.dat:43681: ERROR: copy: line 5818, Bad time external representation '...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent this message to pgsql-performance yesterday, but as of now (about 30\nhours later) I haven't yet received a response. So I figured I'd see what\nyou guys think. Please help if you can. Thanks!\n\n==========\n\nI am having some problems with user-defined functions in version 7.3. Th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have built and am uploading RPMS for 7.3. Mirror propagation being what it \nis, it may take a day or two for these packages to make the rounds.\n\nYou may find them at:\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.3/RPMS\n\nSource RPM in SRPMS, Red Hat 8 RPMS in redhat-8.0. I will be building...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am not sure you are going to be happy with our nested transactions.\n\nYour text is:\n\n> (1) embedded transactions\n> - i.e. the \"outer\" transaction can rollback an \"inner\" committed\n> transaction\n> - currently the commit of the inner transaction would commit statements\n> of the i...
[ { "msg_contents": "if I create a table like this \"create table test (nuber int4,id_num\nint4,primary key(id_num));\"\nMy question is, � I can do this ?\n\"insert into test (number) values (10);\"\n\"insert into test (number) values (22);\"\n\"insert into test (number) values (3);\"\n\nand make a function to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Debian packages of 7.3 for i386 architecture are available in Debian's\nunstable archive, as those people tracking unstable will already have\nnoticed. I will get round to producing packages for stable when all the\nimmediate problems are fixed.\n\nThere are various packaging bugs that I am ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lamar.owen@wgcr.org] \n> Sent: 05 December 2002 04:23\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group\n> \n> However, I seriously question the need in the long term for \n> our s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Scott Lamb [mailto:slamb@slamb.org] \n> Sent: 05 December 2002 06:37\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group\n> \n> I'm volunteering to do work here. I could at the very least \n> go ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following script crashes 7.4devel.\n\nSET geqo_threshold=2;\nCREATE TABLE t1 (a int primary key);\nCREATE TABLE t2 (a int);\nSELECT * FROM t1,t2 WHERE t1.a=t2.a;\n\n#0 0x0811001c in best_inner_indexscan (root=<incomplete type>,\nrel=<error type>, \n outer_relids=<error type>, jointype...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of PostgreSQL for Windows\n>Currently it installs a customized version of Cygwin, PostgreSQL 7.2.3, cygipc, psqlodbc, and pgadminII\n>I currently have the setup done.\n\nCool :)\n\nI'm now working on postmaster windows shell. It's not finished...
[ { "msg_contents": "This error is accompanied by a suggestion to change SEMMNI or SEMMNS. \n In this case, that suggestion is not appropriate. Read below for \nthe scenario.\n\nSuggestion: Can we modify the error message to include checking for a \nrunning postmaster?\n\nReasoning:\n\nDuring my dbinit, I found ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We support \"alter table add foreign key\". How about supporting \n\"alter table drop foreign key\"?\n\n- he said as he went to drop a foreign key\n-- \nDan Langille : http://www.langille.org/\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:02:00 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Dan Langille\" <dan@lan...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am poking around at upgrading PostGIS to work with version 7.3. So \nfar, the changes seem relatively minor. There is one odd quirk though. \nHaving gotten the PostGIS types and index bindings loaded, and having \nloaded a table full of spatial data, trying to do\n\n \\d thetable\n\nret...
[ { "msg_contents": "Due to a late-night typo, the 7.3-1 RPMset released last night would start the \npostmaster for the first time, but not subsequent times. I have corrected \nthe problem and uploaded a 7.3-2 RPMset. If you do not want to download the \nwhole set again to fix a single-character bug, edit the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nMessing about with ADD COLUMN...\n\nI'm not certain how to re-evaluate the default expression for each row? How\ndo I do this? I have access to raw_default and cooked_default it seems.\n\nThanks,\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:24:08 -0800", "msg_from": "\...