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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nappended below is a simple database schema (which may not\nbe a candidate for the next Nobel Prize for SQL Database\nDesign, but represents enough of a production\ndatabase to demonstrate the following problem).\n\nAnd that is:\n\nunder 7.3 this statement:\n SELECT foo_id, thingy_na...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWe have a marketing group: PGSQL-ADVOCACY. Our problem is that we\ndon't have enough volunteers.\n\nFor example, last week Robert and Justin had job crises, and I left for\nthe mountains for Thanksgiving. As a result Marc had to pitch in at\nthe last minute to try to get some kin...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just sync'd up with cvs and tried to make clean then configure, and I'm \ngetting this:\n\nconfig.status: linking ./src/backend/libpq/v6util.c to \nsrc/interfaces/libpq/v6util.c\nconfig.status: error: ./src/backend/libpq/v6util.c: file not found\n\nIs this a missing file from the ipv6 stuff...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] \n> Sent: 05 December 2002 23:37\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group\n> \n> \n> BTW, we do coordinate with the Website development group\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working on a new interface to PostgreSQL and having a difficult\ntime. Perhaps someone here can shed some light on the subject.\n\n1.  Am I correct in thinking that the OID that I receive with the\nRowDescription is the column type?  I have several of those defined from\nthe 7.3 source co...
[ { "msg_contents": "----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: Igor Georgiev \nTo: mlw \nSent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:57 PM\nSubject: Re: Postmaster windows shell\n\n\n\n----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: \"mlw\" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>\nTo: \"Igor Georgiev\" <gory@alphasoft-bg.com>\nSent: Friday, December 06, 2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a\ndescription of it the other day. You might think it's got some medical\nconnotation, but actually the acronym is Management of External Data,\nand what it is is a standard spec for shipping chunks of SQL queries to\nremote s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a program which worked merrily under 1.3b1, but with 1.4devel\nI get the first query working (so connection OK), and the second query,\nwhich may well be wrong, getting me:\n\nDEBUG: reaping dead processes\nDEBUG: child process (pid 13025) was terminated by signal 11\nLOG: server pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have the following query:\n\nSELECT certificate_id\n INTO TEMP TABLE x_certs\n FROM certificate\n WHERE cert_status = 0 AND\n certificate_id BETWEEN 1111 AND 2222 AND\n client_id IN (1, 2, 3)\n ORDER BY certificate_id\n FOR UPDATE;\n\nIs there any reason that t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI didn't find any other list compatible with this post, I hope it is the right\nplace.\nI got a sparccenter 2000 (sun4d) few weeks ago and I wondered if the\npostgresql team was interested in testing postgres on it. It has only 2 CPUs\nat this time but I may get more cpu and system...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] \n> Sent: 06 December 2002 17:45\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group\n> \n> \n> Dave,\n> \n> > > \n> > > BTW, we do coordinate with the Webs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhat do the columns conforencoding and contoencoding refer to in\npg_conversion?\n\nHow would I convert those numbers to a string encoding name, just using SQL?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:33:32 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@family...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRod, can you comment on these warnings Joe Conway's compiler is showing?\nI don't see the warnings with gcc, but clearly they look like problems.\n\nI can just assign a NULL on definition, but I thought you should take a\nlook.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI now have the INETv6 patch working using IPv4 on my machine, and I\ndon't have IPv6 enabled in my kernel. Tomorrow, I will review the\nentire patch for portability issues, then post it so others can test it.\nI am pretty sure it is going to fail if your machine isn't INET6 aware,\nwhich m...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:58 PM\n> To: Joe Conway\n> Cc: rbt@zort.ca; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings\n> \n> \n> Rod, can you comment on these warnings Joe Co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ask me, the store of large file like 2M in one field take to postgres\na big work, you do that ? any of you do that before ? the sistem work\nfine or not ? Thanks for all\n\n--\n Saludos Horacio Miranda.\n hmiranda@yale.cl\n-------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nI've simplified the Darwin/Mac OS X startup script I submitted earlier \nin the year. This version has only the two files required by the Darwin \nstartup bundle design. Plus the sh script now uses Darwin-standard \nfunctions to start up PostgreSQL, and it checks for the presence of a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nLet's create a release team. This strategy is one well established \nin other projects and in industry. For lack of a better starting \nreference, let me suggest http://www.freebsd.org/releng/charter.html \nas a starting point for consideration. See also \nhttp://www.freebsd.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe notes below are the results of various tuning issues experienced \nrecently on a large database (several GB) that has many tables and a high \ntransient data flow (ie. thousands of records added, updated, and deleted \nevery hour) on a few tables. This kind of data flow is not at all we...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a problem with contrib/tsearch module. \n\nSimple select txt2txtidx('2-3') causes psql to crash with error:\n\nserver closed the connection unexpectedly\n This probably means the server terminated abnormally\n before or while processing the request.\n\n\nAs I found...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working on the TODO item \"Allow easy display of usernames in a group\" in \nthe context of a slightly larger effort to improve usability of arrays. I'm \nfar enough down the road to have a better idea of where I want to go with \nthis, but I'd like to vet those ideas with the list so I d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking at my problem with changed cursor behaviour in 7.3 again, I\nnoticed something interesting: a cursor in 7.3 apparently does not let \nyou scroll back to its first row at all! Neither a \"move backward all\"\nor a \"move -n\" where n is equal to or greater than the cursor's current \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "(Doh! Forgot to attach first time.)\n\nThis partially nails this TODO item:\n\n* Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands to psql\n\nI had to create a new publically available function,\npg_conversion_is_visible, as it seemed to be missing from the catalogs.\nThis required me to d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vince, Peter:\n\nI can definitely understand someone not wanting to *participate* in\nmarketing/advocacy of PostgreSQL. However, your being opposed to\npromoting PostgreSQL as an organized activity *at all* baffles me. How\ncan you be against promoting PostgreSQL? Don't you want poeple to...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n When I check out the pgsql from cvs and I complile it, an error occured .\n\ndir: pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc\nbison -y -d preproc.y\nerro information:\n preproc.y:5559: fatal error: maximum table size (32767) exceeded.\n\nHowever, I used the source from the ftp, find preproc.c ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anybody know where I can find a newer DBD::Pg module for Windows\nNT? The only pre-compiled one I can find is 0.98, which is based on a\nPostgreSQL 7.0 library set.\n-- \nRod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>\n\nPGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc", "msg_date": "09 Dec 2002 08:51:36 -0500", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a patch against DBD::Pg 1.20 which\nfixes the driver-specific function 'table_attributes'\nfor use with PostgreSQL 7.3 while maintaining\nbackwards compatibility with older PostgreSQL\nversions.\n\nTo avoid voodoo with PostgreSQL version numbers\na check is made whether pg_relchec...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI didn't read my email this weekend, so I am sorry to be late getting\nback to you on this.\n\nFirst, let me say I am excited about this patch. Several people have\nasked for IPv6 support, but you are the first person to actually submit\na patch for it.\n\nI want to comment on the patch a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Below is a short list of TODOs on sequences I wish to tackle over the\nnext week.\n\n\nCREATE SEQUENCE:\n- Addition of NO MAXVALUE and NO MINVALUE options, which use the system\nimplementation settings -- for SQL2002 compliance, and makes ALTER\nSEQUENCE slightly easier.\n\nALTER SEQUENCE:\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/wh/prod/p3.html\n\n\"MySQL® is considered the most popular open source database in the world. Fast and powerful, it is perfect for high-traffic, heavy-load sites.\"\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:36:28 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Ned Lilly\" <ned@nedsc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Using cvs source of Dec 4 15:13:\n\ntest=# \\d amount\n Table \"public.amount\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n--------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------\n id | integer | not null def...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter, Robert, Jason, Vince, Justin, et al.:\n\nFirst off, I'd like to ask everyone to CUT IT OUT WITH THE $^*&^@** FLAMING, \nALREADY! People are *attacking* each other instead of disagreeing. \nSeveral posters seem to be taking to opportunity to say everything in the \nmost insulting wa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt should have worked, but edit Makefile.shlib and remove that offending\nexport from the link line. That may fix it.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nShibashish wrote:\n> Dear Sir,\n> \n> I use SCO Open Server 5.0.5 on an intel box. Althoug...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anyone tell me how to get a tuple's TupleDesc if all that is known is the tid? Or is there an easy way to step through a tuple, retrieving the data and data type from each field?\n\nThanks,\nNate Sommer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan anyone tell me how to get a tuple's TupleDesc \nif all that is kno...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have had similar troubles, related to oid overflow. I had to modify pg_dump \nto properly cast queries that contain oids. This is against 7.1.3 source. The \npatch was hacked quickly, in order to get a corrupted database reloaded, and \nthis while I was traveling in another country... so it...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 01:56 AM 10/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n> but I'm sure Glenn would be pleased to send 'em to\n>you on request.\n\nI've found a link:\n\n http://www.delphis.com/java/java.html\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\nPhilip Warner | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry for this being so long but I want to describe this as thoroughly as possible.\n\nI am having two problems with foreign keys. One is a performance problem and the other is a deadlock problem but they are related to the same root cause. I am running PostgreSQL 7.3 (the released version...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at the recently-committed ALTER DOMAIN patch, and I\nthink it's got some serious if not fatal problems. Specifically, the\napproach to adding/dropping constraints associated with domains doesn't\nwork.\n\n1. Insufficient locking, guise 1: there's no protection against someo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOK, I wonder if adding -ldl will help. You need to link to the library\ncontaining the ldopen function.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nShibashish wrote:\n> Thanks for the help. I edited the src/makefiles/Makefile.sco and removed\n> the exp...
[ { "msg_contents": "With this pg_hba.conf (line numbers from vi, of course):\n\n 48 # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD 49 \n 50 local all all ident sameuser\n 51 host all 127.0.0.1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I am doing some experiments on dead tuples, I am looking of reusing the\ndead tuples apace in a particular page during the \"Update\".This patch \nis meant for the tables\nwhich are heavily updated to avoid vacuum very frequently.By using it \nwill arrest the size of\ntable for hea...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust wondering where I should put my modified tuning notes. I was planning \non making them section 3.7 in the Admin guide. Does that sound reasonable?\n\nThe current version can be seen at:\n\n http://www.rhyme.com.au/manuals/pgsql-7.3/postmaster-tuning-software.html\n\nI think it's i...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/ is down\n\nWarning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: The Data Base System \nis shutting down in /usr/local/www/www/idocs/opendb.php on line 3\nUnable to access database\n-- \nDan Langille : http://www.langille.org/\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 11 Dec 200...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> Alvaro Herrera writes:\n> \n> > Would it work to make \\d tab-completable in a way that showed both the\n> > commands that are available and the objects they describe? e.g.\n> >\n> > \\d<tab> would show something like\n> > \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have worked with Shibashish Satpathy to add support for SCO Openserver\n5.0.4 using gcc in 7.3.1. The port was accomplished via a small change\nto template/sco. Seeing as it was an unsupported platform, this is a\nno-risk change, because now it _does_ work.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch fixes minor bugs in dictionary generator in contrib/tsearch \n(contrib/tsearch/makedict/makedict.pl)\n\nThank you.\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev\nteodor@stack.net", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:22:25 +0300", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>", "msg_from_op": tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a way to get pg logging of plans to be produced in the terse \nformat like when a user types \"explain select * from foo where bar = x\"\n\nThe plan logging is very verbose. Having a lighter version of the \nlogging would be helpful in pinpointing troublesome queries without \nsloggi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI had the following behaviour reported by a pgAdmin user on PostgreSQL\n7.3 (reproduced here on 7.3rc1 as it's all I have right now):\n\ndave=# create function dave.testfunc() returns int4 as 'select 1 + 2'\nlanguage sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\ndave=# select proacl from pg_proc where proname = '...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 12 December 2002 16:48\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Problem with function permissions \n> \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > I w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was bemused to notice that pg_dump is currently unable to dump the\nregression database. The domain regression test leaves an empty table\n(one with zero columns), which causes pg_dump to produce\n\n--\n-- TOC entry 172 (OID 675837)\n-- Name: domnotnull; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner:...
[ { "msg_contents": "While playing around with a preliminary version of the information schema\nI get a failure in the type_sanity regression test here:\n\n-- Look for basic types that don't have an array type.\n-- NOTE: as of 7.3, this check finds SET, smgr, and unknown.\n\nSELECT p1.oid, p1.typname\nFROM pg_typ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello I'm an Italian student of computer science at\nUniversity of Rome \"La Sapienza\". I've to analyze some\ndaemons which run under root privileges with a tool\ndeveloped by my departement. This tool intercepts\ncritical syscalls, like Execve, and blocks illegal\ninvocation of that primiti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n Using Postgresql 7.3 (CVS REL7_3_STABLE today), I received the following\nerror:\n\ndropsites=> delete from cart_stores;\nERROR: heap_update: (am)invalid tid\n\nThis came from a database that was dumped from 7.2.1 using 7.2.1's pg_dump\nand imported into 7.3. I was able to delete ...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 04:08 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n>Should we remove this error check, thereby effectively making\n>zero-column tables first-class citizens?\n\nI should wait 2 minutes before hitting 'send'.\n\nThe other option is to disallow the steps that resulted in the zero-column \ntable in t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOK, so what do we do with 7.3.1. Increment major or minor?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\npgman wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > Tom Lane wrote:\n> > >> Wrong --- if you need a recompile ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:\n\nWin32 Port:\n\n\tKatie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32\n\tport for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of\n\tDecember.\n\nPoint-In-Time Recovery (PITR)\n\n\tJ. R. Nield did a PITR pat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: \tSteve King \n> Sent:\t12 December 2002 11:45\n> To:\tpgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject:\tDuplicate oids!\n> \n> Forgive me if this is a previous question but I cannot find any\n> information on it in any of the mailing lists.\n> \n> I have a...
[ { "msg_contents": "The ctids are different however vaccum is run on this table and the record\nis updated.\nThe machineid is a SERIAL and so should also never be duplicated.\n\n ctid | oid | machineid\n--------+---------+-----------\n (7,18) | 9646238 | 12\n (7,10) | 9646238 | 12\n\n\nAny he...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> How hard would it be to extend PITR for master-slave (hot backup)\n> repliaction, which should then amount to continuously shipping logs to\n> slave and doing nonstop PITR there :)\n\nI have not looked at the PITR patch yet, but it might be\npossible to use the same PITR format to queue...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/12/13 15:35:57\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/test/regress: resultmap \nAdded files:\n\tsrc/test/regress/expected: geometry_1.out \nRemoved files:\n\tsrc/test/regress/expected: geometry-positive-zeros.out \n\nLog m...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Note that while Spread is open source in the sense that \"the source is\n> > available\", it's license is significantly more restrictive than\n> > PostgreSQL's:\n> > \n> > http://www.spread.org/license/\n> > \n> \n> Interesting. It looks like a modified version of the old BSD license...
[ { "msg_contents": "On RedHat 8.0 (upgraded from Red Hat 7.2 with PostgreSQL 7.2.3), \"make\ncheck\" gives the following error:\n\n\"/home/postgres/postgresql-7.3/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//usr/loc\nal/pgsql/bin/pg_encoding: relocation error:\n/home/postgres/postgresql-7.3/src/test/regress/./tmp_check...
[ { "msg_contents": "> It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group\n> communication based and requires the group communication system to\n> guarantee total order. The tricky part is, that the local transaction\n> must be on hold until the own commit message comes back without a prior\n\nNo,...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group\n> \n> Well, Darren's PDF at:\n> \n> \tftp://gborg.postgresql.org/pub/pgreplication/stable/PostgreSQLReplication.pdf.gz\n> \n> calls Postgres-R \"Type: Embedded, Peer-to-Peer, Sync\". I don't know\n> enough about replicat...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> \n> Darren, can you clarify this? Why does it send that message? How does\n> it allow commits not to wait for ordered writesets?\n> \n\nThere are two channels. One for total order writesets \n(changes to the DB). The other is simple order for\naborts, commits, joins (systems joinin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thank you for a good workaround.\n\nEven BETTER would be to fix the aggregates so workarounds wouldn't have to\nbe found.\n\nThanks again,\n\nL.\nOn Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:\n\n> \n> \n> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------\n> \n> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Odd Sort/Limit/Max Pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "A basic version of the SQL information schema is now available in newly\ninitdb'ed database installations. There's still a bunch of work to do to\ncreate all the views that the spec defines.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:32:09 +0100 (CE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nWhy not use libgda, Gnome-DB database provider, to be able to attach foreign \ntables inside PostgreSQL. Would it be hard to achieve?\n\nMany users are looking for such a solution to be able to query/update tables \noutside PostgreSQL in Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2 or even MyS...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee] \n> Sent: 14 December 2002 19:10\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Information schema now available\n> \n> \n> Peter Eisentraut kirjutas L, 14.12.2002 kell 05:32:\n> > A ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The description of AsciiRow says that for each field it contains \"the \nvalue of the field itself in ASCII characters\". The description is here:\n \nhttp://postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/protocol-message-formats.html\n\nLooking at the bytes comming over the Frontend/Backe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nI wonder what the PageGetMaxOffsetNumber macro is supposed to do (in a\nbtree index page)?\n\nThe scenario is the following: I need to get the pointer to a btree\npage (leaf or internal) in its parent page, to call _bt_itemdel on it.\nThe only thing I can think of is to use...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello, Joe Conway. \n\nit seems the crosstab function you write in contrib/tablefunc can't work.\nit saids that A column definition list is required for functions returning RECORD.\nHow can i make it work?\nthank you very much\n\nbest regard,\n\nJinqiang Han\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon,...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've now got a copy of pg_filedump and compiled it, can you tell me the\ncommand line parameters to pass it (and the file that I must process) so I\ncan give you exactly what you require.\n\nThanks\nSteve\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nSent: 13 Decem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a trigger in my database that checks to see if there is another \nrecord in the table, and when there is if the type is correct. (if the \nfirst one is of type \"parent\", the other has to be of type \"child\").\n\nWhen updating these records in a transaction, the trigger only w...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/12/16 11:22:46\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/nodes: nodes.c \n\tsrc/backend/utils/mmgr: mcxt.c \n\tsrc/include : c.h \n\tsrc/include/nodes: nodes.h \n\tsrc/include/utils: memutils.h palloc.h \n\nLog mes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom, Folks:\n\nJoe and I were discussing your recent discussion about the costs of VACUUM and \ntuple maintainence, and I had an interesting idea.\n\nHow hard would it be to add a \"WITH (VACUUM)\" option to UPDATE and DELETE \nqueries? This option would cause the regular vacuum activity --...
[ { "msg_contents": "Steve King <steve.king@ecmsys.co.uk> writes:\n> Files output from pg_filedump are below,\n> I have two tables with duplicate oids and these are the pg_filedumps for\n> them.\n\nHmm. You seem to have a rather unusual usage pattern for these tables\n--- it looks like there are *lots* of failed...
[ { "msg_contents": "No :)\n\nMagnus\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 01:33:02 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Magnus Naeslund(f)\" <mag@fbab.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: Is anybody out there !!!" }, { "msg_contents": "", "msg_date": "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:31:32 -0800", "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "(I forwarded the mail to the general list so that we keep onlist, next\ntime use 'reply to all' or similar...)\n\nzahid rahman <zahidr@btconnect.com> wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> Excellent!\n>\n> I have just downloaded postgresql.\n> I am in the process of downloading cygwin as per install file.\n> I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nI have the following problem\n\nI want to use using a function on result of subselect:\n\nI create the following function:\n\nhannu=# create or replace function pg_fields(pg_user) returns text as '\nhannu'# tup = args[0]\nhannu'# return tup[\"usename\"] + \":\" + str(tup[\"usesysid\"])\nh...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\n postgresql supports dynamic sql with parameters in SQL function bodies,\n but not in interactive queries. why?\n\n when i wrote a dynamic sql with parameters, ODBC just filled the values of parameters into query string and sent it to server as a static query string.\ni think it's not...
[ { "msg_contents": "Update on replication:\n\nWe have several things happening with Postgres-R replication:\n\n\to Someone is porting the 7.2-based Postgres-R code to 7.3\n\to Darren and I are in discussion with the Spread folks,\n\t attempting to get a more BSD-friendly license from them\n\to People are ev...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see a few malloc's in backend/access/transam/xlog.c that don't check\nto see if malloc returns NULL/failure. I think there should be at least\nan Assert() in there.\n\nAlso, seems we use malloc() a few other places where palloc should be\nused, like variable.c. Is that correct?\n\n-- \n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think the python interface in /interfaces/python should be moved to\ngborg. It already has its own web site:\n\n\thttp://www.druid.net/pygresql/\n\nand there is also another one, pyPgSQL, at:\n\n\thttp://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/\n\nIt would be good to get both of them listed in the gborg i...
[ { "msg_contents": "As suggested, I intend to create a 'CoerceToDomain' node in the\nexpression tree rather than attempting to apply the create the\nconstraints tests immediately.\n\n1. Create a new function in the executor to handle domain coercions:\nExecEvalCoerceToDomain()\n\n2. Move coerce_type_constraints ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nooops, sorry, that was what I meant (its been one of those days *grin*)\n\n\nOn Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:\n\n> > From what I've been able to tell *so far*, Postgres-R is\n> > going to preclude the ability for either to work ...\n> > Vadim is currently reviewing the code,\n>\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> Not the code, just Darren' pdf (\"slide show\" -:()\n> and discussion in hackers' list.\n> \n\n\nYou might want to read this paper. Its not very long, and\nwill give you much more insite on the postgres-r work.\n\nhttp://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kemme/papers/vldb00.html\n\nDarren\n\n", "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nAs you may know, we don't check the tgenabled status of deferred\ntriggers (e.g. AFTER triggers) -- they are added to the deferred queue\nand executed regardless.\n\nThis is pretty clearly a bug, but when it's been mentioned before, there\nwere three possible fixes suggested:\n\n(1)...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have prepared the 7.3 CVS branch in preparation of a 7.3.1 release\nsoon. Please check it.\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 + Ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have not been aggressive about backpatching documentation improvements\ninto 7.3.1. Is that something I should check?\n\nAs I remember, we didn't update the official docs for minor releases. \nIs that still true?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could you put a note in HISTORY about the incompatability with pre-7.3\nSSL clients?\n\n --Nate\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:42:31 -0600 (CST)", "msg_from": "Nathan Mueller <nmueller@cs.wisc.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: 7.3.1 stamped" }, {...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I believe that pre7-3 SSL clients will work in 7.3.1, or am I wrong?\n\nIn 7.3 the SSL protocol switched from SSLv2 to TLSv1. If the server\nmethod is switched to SSLv23_method it will be backwords compatable with\npre-7.3 clients without sacrificing the added security of TLSv1 for\nnewer s...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I am confused. How can we switch back to SSLv23_method and still be\n> compatible with TLSv1_method. Does SSLv23_method support both?\n\nSSLv23 understands SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1. When used in a client it uses\nSSLv2 but tells the server it can understand the other ones too. Check\nout the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Well, we break backward compatibility so people can't use SSL2 to\n> connect to the server. Backward compatibility to a broken protocol\n> isn't what I would call secure. Is that accurate?\n\nI suppose. As long as the incompatibilty is mentioned in HISTORY I'm\nfine.\n\n --Nate\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like they've caught up on a lot of our features. I have to say I\nappreciate them adding SERIAL as an alias for AUTO_INCREMENT. Perhaps we\nshould return the favour? :)\n\n(BTW, sorry to ppl who aren't interested, but I think it's important to see\nwhat other db's are doing. Also, so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\r\nI have installed the Postgresql 7.3 . But I think something is wrong with authority.\r\nI have made the following operations:\r\n1. I enter the psql and run 'alter user postgres with password 'postgres''\r\n2. I change the pg_hba.conf and set the auth_type from 'trust' to 'password...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all!\nI get the following error when trying to connect to a pg-7.3 database on\nSolaris8 with the 7.3 JDBC-driver.\nHere is my output on the Solaris box:\nwww=> select version();\n version\n- -----------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGoing to announce later this evening to give the mirrors a chance to catch\nup ... let me know if there are any problems ..\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:18:00 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] \n> Sent: 18 December 2002 14:51\n> To: Robert Treat\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...\n> \n> \n> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have made the change and am just building v7.3.1 right now ...\n> should be\n> available in a few minutes, and I'll announce it this evening as being\n> available ... can you grab a copy and make sure that it works as\n> expected?\n\nIt works fine for me.\n\n --Nate\n", "msg_da...