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[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 18 December 2002 16:34\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Dave Page; Robert Treat; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ... \n> \n> \n> \"Marc G. Fournier...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guys,\n\nI've been asked by a colleague about methods to keep track of\n'previous' contents of a table - i.e. changes made and a way of\ngetting back to a previous state. Now, I know INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE\ntriggers to maintain an accompanying table is a way to do this. But, I\nhave a nagging f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings! Somewhere between 7.1 and 7.2, creating triggers on insert\nto a view has been disallowed. The docs still report it as a\npossibility -- see rules vs. triggers. Worse, we have a postgres\ndatabase relying on this feature for several years now. What can I\ndo? I suppose I could...
[ { "msg_contents": "> At this point, all the SSL2 problems are conjecture on my part, which\n> I\n> don't understand. I hesitate to do anything until someone really\n> knowledgeable can comment. Re-enabling SSL2 as part of 7.3.1 makes\n> sense until we can get a definative answer on the risks involved.\n\nI'm no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joe Conway wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n>> It seems like somehow we need a level of FROM/WHERE producing some base\n>> rows, and then a set of table function calls to apply to each of the\n>> base rows, and then another level of WHERE to filter the results of the\n>> function calls (in part...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been playing around with making it possible to create user defined guc \nvariables. This has been discussed, at least in passing, before. And it is \neven anticipated in guc.c as a possible future feature:\n/*\n * Build the sorted array.\tThis is split out so that it could be\n * re-ex...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Dave,\n\nIt works fine in psql:\nblast=# begin;\nBEGIN\nblast=# declare test cursor for select id from region where\nprotein_database = 1;\nSELECT\nblast=# move forward 99 in test;\nMOVE\nblast=# fetch forward 2 in test;\n id\n--------\n 486175\n 481881\n(2 rows)\n\nIs this a driver erro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nJust letting people know that I've mostly stopped working on ADD COLUMN now.\n\nBasically it rapidly got way out of my league!\n\nProblems are:\n\n1. Evaluating default for each row\n2. Checking against check constraint\n3. Checking against domain constraints\n4. Whether or not it's co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey guys,\n\nI was just thinking about altering column type. Now, I'm not actually going\nto implement it any time soon, but I'm just thinking about it!!!\n\nOne proposal was to introduce a new pg_attribute column called 'attlognum'\nso changing a column would involve adding a new column, dr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe link to latest version points to the currently empty source/v7.3.1.\n\n\nTommi\n\n-- \nDr. Eckhardt + Partner GmbH\nhttp://www.epgmbh.de\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:08:11 +0100", "msg_from": "Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de>", "msg_from_op": true, "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Small fix in documentation and some examples of usage.\nPlease, apply to 7.3 and current CVS\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Rus...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWas there a list of changes in 7.3.1 posted?\n\n-- \ngreg\n\n", "msg_date": "19 Dec 2002 18:19:24 -0500", "msg_from": "Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "7.3.1 Changes" }, { "msg_contents": "\nWe have not officially released 7.3.1 yet...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\r\nI have install Postgresql 7.3 with user name EDU.\r\nthen I enter the psql to change the password for EDU using \"alter user EDU with password 'aaaa''\r\nit returns \" user EDU do not exist\".\r\nI check the system table pg_user, and the user 'EDU' actually exists.\r\nBut if I take ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Han wrote:\n> \n> Hiroshi Inoue,\n> \n> >\n> >Please check and try the new *Server side prepare* DSN option.\n> >Note that the option is effective only for 7.3 severs.\n> >\n> >regards,\n> >Hiroshi Inoue\n> \n> I'm using 7.3 server.\n> The SQLRowCount after server side prepared insert returns...
[ { "msg_contents": "> http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kemme/papers/vldb00.html\n\nThanks for the link, Darren, I think everyone interested\nin discussion should read it.\nFirst, I like approach. Second, I don't understand why\nppl oppose pg-r & 2pc. 2pc is just simple protocol to\nperform distributed commits *after* di...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking into the possibility of using a hashtable to speed\nup \"x IN (SELECT y FROM ...)\" operations. Basically the idea is to run\nthe subselect once, loading its \"y\" outputs into an in-memory hashtable\n(any duplicates can be discarded); then for each outer row, probe into\...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n______________________________________________________________________\nYahoo! Cartoline: invia i tuoi auguri di Natale agli amici\nhttp://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.greetings.yahoo.com\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:41:34 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "\"=?...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following statements do not utilize an index when executed inside a\nplpgsql procedure, but does when executed interactively in psql!\n\nDoes not use index:\n\nFOR somemorerows IN \n SELECT zipcode_list \n FROM pa_zipcode_proximity\n WHERE zipcode = zipcode_in\n AND proximity <= proximity...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following statements do not utilize an index when executed inside a\nplpgsql procedure, but does when executed interactively in psql!\n\nDoes not use index:\n\nFOR somemorerows IN \n SELECT zipcode_list \n FROM pa_zipcode_proximity\n WHERE zipcode = zipcode_in\n AND proximity <= proximity...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been thinking about resource management and postgres. I want to\ndevelop a user profile system (a-la oracle) which allows a DBA to\nrestrict/configure access to system resources. This would allow a DBA to\nconfigure how much CPU time can be used per query/session for any user,...
[ { "msg_contents": "A libpq library on Mac OS X is made as a loadable library (bundle). Since a\nshared library version (dylib) of libpq does not exist, all programs which \nuse libpq are always linked with a static version of libpq.\n\nPsql made by a current make rule:\n\n $ ls -l /opt/pgsql/7.3/bin/psql psq...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Sander Steffann wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> > On the other hand, in a shared hosting environment, I don't think\n> > anyone would really like to have resource limits. What does it help\n> > if your online shop stops working because too many people are\n> > ordering stuff? IMHO...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi all,\n\nI'm planning an upgrade from 7.2.3 to 7.3.1 on some HP-UX systems.\nWith the major number bump in 7.3.1 I was expecting to be able to do\nthis upgrade without a flag day to re-compile clients, however due to\nmisnaming of the PostgreSQL shared libraries on HP-UX I can't.\n\nA sum...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks to those who did the PostgreSQL Weekly news, and submitted it to \nLinuxToday. This is a great function for the advocacy people! Many Thanks!\n-- \nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 Peter 4:11\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:12:42 -0500", "msg_from": "Lamar Owen <lama...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello,\nIs there a function that I can get type id from type name, such as from 'text' to 25, 'int' to 23. \nthanks in advance.\nJinqiang Han\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:49:1 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Jinqiang Han\" <postgresql@db.pku.edu.cn>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nYesterday I tried to help Lamar by building RedHat 6.2, 7.3 and 8.0 (with\ndefault tcl) RPMS for the 7.3.1 release. Lamar was going to put them on\nftp.postgresql.org, but it seems that he is away for Christmas... Can\nanybody else please put them on the ftp server? The RPMS are at...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nbuilding on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE; diffs attached.\n\nSeems to be a difference between 0 and -0. Is this anything to worry about?\n\nIan Barwick\nbarwick@gmx.net", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:35:52 +0100", "msg_from": "Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm working with a legacy version of nagios. In it's database routines\nit uses datetime(abstime(%lu)) to input time/date info. I've replaced those\nto use abstime(%lu). What would be the proper way to getting this done?\n\nI've looked through the docs, but can't seem to come up wit...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,all hackers of postgres\n\n when postmaster start as a service . another two processes(collector & buffer ) start their work at the same time.\n\n I have read the code and I am wondering why we need two processes to do the work. I think one process can work as well. Are there somethin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\r\nI will to make the SQL 92/99 conformance test for Postgresql, could you give me some advices\r\non which tool can meet the demand ?\r\nGreat thanks for any message.\r\nJosh\r\n\n\n\n\n\nHi all,\nI will to make the SQL 92/99 conformance test for Postgresql, could you give \r\nme som...
[ { "msg_contents": "First off, happy holidays to all!\n\nNext, can anyone tell me the proper channel for reporting bugs and\nfeature requests for GBorg itself? I've looked around, but I may have\nmissed something.\n\nOne feature I'd really like, is to have its automatic email notification\n(for bug reports, sta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's something that's been bothering me for a while... Perhaps this\nis correct behaviour, but I can't quite see how. This does not happen\nif I replace the FETCHes by MOVEs.\n\nHere's the reference case:\n\njtv=> begin;\nBEGIN\njtv=> declare c cursor for select * from events;\nDECLARE CU...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi every one and happy Xmas. Hope you can still answer that one.\n\nWaiting for my brand you server, I've installed an old bi-PII 300 unser\nunixware 713 and trying postgresql 7.3.1 with it.\n\nCompile works ok however make check fails wile creating pl/pgsql with :\nWARNING: bt_getroot[pg_pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just found that Postgres fails to build against Tcl/Tk installed in a\nnonstandard place (specifically, I'd put tcl 8.4.1 into /opt/tcl8.4).\nThe problem appears to be that the Makefiles ignore TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC,\nwhich tclConfig.sh correctly sets up:\n\n# String to pass to the compiler so t...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\n I created a composite type as follows, but I couldn't know how to use it.\n\ntest=# create type test_type as (id int, name char(20));\nCREATE TYPE\ntest=# create table student( a test_type);\nERROR: Attribute \"a\" has composite type test_type\n\nwho can tell me? thanks!\n\t\n bigap...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'll be on vacation from 12/27/02 till 01/20/03.\n\nVadim\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:47:50 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Vadim Mikheev\" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Vacation" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I'll be on vacation from 12/27/02 till 01/20/03.\n\nVadim\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:50:06 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Vadim Mikheev\" <vmikheev@sectordata.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Vacation" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's another nice article about PostgreSQL in the enterprise:\n\n\thttp://linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=2095&tid=1\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, | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Jeroen,\n\nYou can log feature requests etc. against the gborg project on Gborg\nitself.\n\nAs for the subject lines, I get them on the lists I use - if they're not\non yours, check on the list administration page for your project.\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:...
[ { "msg_contents": "I should have some time free... and I wanted to get back to what \nseemed to be the most critical problem in the last cycle with the \nSSL code.\n\nSpecifically, it's time to think about setting up a \"policy\" file. \nThis puts a bit more work on the DBA, but it gives them complete \nflexibi...
[ { "msg_contents": "On other quick note - when we were discussing SSL sessions earlier \nI remember the concensus was that database clients usually keep a \nconnection established for relatively long times.\n\nBut now I'm not so sure - what about web servers communicating to \na database backend? They should us...
[ { "msg_contents": "Trying to download 7.3.1 today I found a bad link on\nhttp://www.us.postgresql.org/sitess.html\n\nThe ftp link goes to 7.3 and the http link returns a 404 not found.\nI did successfully download 7.3.1 via the HTTP access to the main repository \nlink.\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Dec 2002 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been working on a patch to implement IPv6 connections. A working\npatch was supplied by Nigel Kukard about two weeks ago, and I have been\nimproving it. The original patch assumed the system has IPv6 functions,\nlike getaddrinfo(), so the major work was patching it into our existing\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI've recently started using Postgresql and am impressed with how\ncomplete an RDBMS system it really is. It seems that while some\ncorporations may balk at using it for day to day operational use,\nbringing in PGSQL for a more niche use will allow many professionals to\nsee its pote...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using copy to import a table. I use PQescapeString() to make\nit safe, but it seems to have a problem when there is a ' in it.\n\nThe column that is being copy is a varchar. If the string that\nis being copied is the size of the varchar, and the string\ncontains a ', I get an error that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nsubject says it all, I guess. There is hardly no difference between 7.3 \nlibpq and 7.3.1 libpq. Why the version shift? Isn't the only thing \nrectifying a version shift that there is a change in the API. Maybe there \nis, but I cannot find it.\n\nIf there is a good reason, like say \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nsubject says it all, I guess. There is hardly no difference between 7.3 \nlibpq and 7.3.1 libpq. Why the version shift? Isn't the only thing \nrectifying a version shift that there is a change in the API. Maybe there \nis a change, but I cannot find it.\n\nOne of the reasons I ask is, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've found a situation that doesn't look correct to me in 7.3.1 (and \npresumably 7.3 as well). If I alter a column so that it no longer uses a \nsequence for default values and then try to drop the aforementioned \nsequence, the dependency checking code does not allow me to drop the \nsequen...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis falls under the \"better late then never\" dept ... I would have\nmentioned something sooner, but this sort of stuff generally goes through\nthe lists like wild-fire, and since it didn't this time, I wasn't sure how\nvalid it was ...\n\n... but ...\n\n... today I received the Linux New...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nSome guys from Turkey claim that they have a code to crack PostgreSQL\npasswords, defined in pg_hba.conf .\n\nhttp://www.core.gen.tr/pgcrack/\n\nMaybe some of you want to get the code...\n\nBest regards,\n--\nDevrim GUNDUZ\nwww.gunduz.org\n\n\n", "msg_date": "31 Dec 2002 19:20:58...
[ { "msg_contents": "Postgresql 7.3.1 on Linux i386 - but from what I can see it is on all platforms\n\nIt seems pg_get_constraintdef does not remember the setting \"DEFERRABLE\" on a constraint. This has the effect that it does not show up in psql \\d commands, and it is also *not* included in backups from pg_du...
[ { "msg_contents": "The error message says all. You are trying to insert a character which\nis not a UTF-8. Probably you are inputting UCS-2?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n\nFrom: \"Atahualpa Jones\" <atahualpa@gmx.at>\nSubject: Postgresql, unicode and umlauts\nDate: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:17:15 +0100\nMessage-ID: <000d01c2b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nHappy New Year everyone,\n\nAttached is an attempt to eliminate duplicate pg_dump\noption descriptions, and have a single description for both\nshort and long options. For me, as for a translator, this\neliminates the need to maintain the two, exactly same, sets of \n24 sentences.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust got this in my mailbox:\n\n2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:\n\nhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870\n\nAnd we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):\n\nhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8...
[ { "msg_contents": "See http://polls.unixathome.org/\n\nGoal: create a voting script which uses PostgreSQL to store the data.\n-- \nDan Langille : http://www.langille.org/\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:05:07 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Dan Langille\" <dan@langille.org>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's that time of year again, when I remind everyone just how difficult life \nin the trenches with PostgreSQL can be, when the life in the trenches \ninvolves upgrades. If you don't want to read about it, then please hit \nDELETE in you e-mail (or nntp) client.\n\nI'll not get too vehement ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am sure, many of you would like to delete this message before reading, hold \non. :-)\n\nThere is much talk about threading on this list and the idea is always \ndeferred for want of robust thread models across all supported platforms and \nfeasibility of gains v/s efforts requir...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net] \n> Sent: 03 January 2003 15:36\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Justin Clift; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Dave Page\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Password Cracker\n> \n> \n> On Thu,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am trying to install postgresql-7.3 on windows and I keep getting the following error despite having downloaded a compiler. Can anyone tell me what I am not doing right? I am a newbie to postgres and development. My ultimate goal is to create a data driven application utilizing the J...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:47 PM\n> To: Shridhar Daithankar\n> Cc: PGHackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Threads\n> \n> \n> Please no threading threads!!!\n> \n> Has anyone calculated the interval and period of \...
[ { "msg_contents": "hmmm... hate to resend it, but i have never seen this passing through...\nre-attempt\n\n----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: \"Serguei Mokhov\" <mokhov@cs.concordia.ca>\nSent: January 02, 2003 6:37 PM\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump.options.diff -- Take III\n\n> ----- Original Message ----- \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm just announcing here, since I'd like to see some ppl testing this out\nand let us know if there are any problems ... DNS is going to take a\nlittle while to propogate, so the old site may still come up in the\ninterium ... another reason not to announce it right away :)\n\n", "msg_d...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have started experimenting with an access layer for pgsql and have a\nquestion. I had someone on this list tell me that the oid values that\ncome back from the server are tag identifiers for that row/column\ncombination and are not type indicators. Yet, when I create multiple\ntables/colu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Mount [mailto:peter@retep.org.uk] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 12:28\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... \n> \n> \n> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Justin Clift [mailto:justin@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 13:22\n> To: Peter Mount\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...\n> \n> \n> Peter Mount wrote:\n> > \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 01:10\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Dan Langille; Peter Eisentraut; Greg Copeland; Bruce \n> Momjian; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List\n> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] v7.3.1 Bundled an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 16:36\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Hannu Krosing; Lamar Owen; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading rant.\n> \n> (2) Upgrade HAS HAS HAS to be fool proof.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI am trying to test a new join algorithm by\nimplementing it on Postgresql. \nIt would be great if you could give me some start off\npointers so as to where all in the source code I will\nhave to make changes. (I figure that I need to make\nexecutor nodes, so i might need to write nodeNe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 20:34\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... \n> \n> \n> \"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@rbt.ca] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 20:42\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...\n> \n> \n> Two thoughts:\n> \n> Are there any plans to 'strip' the use...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 21:03\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; webmaster@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS \n> switched ... \n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 21:06\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Rod Taylor; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...\n> \n> \n> On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dave Page wrote:\n> \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 22:03\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...\n> \n> \n> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 19:40, Marc G. Fournier...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: 05 January 2003 22:38\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...\n> \n> \n> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:15, Dave ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to move the typedef for AclId out of miscadmin.h, where it was\noriginally placed, and into postgres.h or c.h where most other fundamental\ntypedefs appear. As is, we've got a problem with miscadmin.h having\nto be included into many header files where it doesn't belong, and that\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is an interesting paper on how a database can evolve its schema to fit\nits app. From SlashDot:\n\nhttp://martinfowler.com/articles/evodb.html\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:13:34 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have a small nit\n\nWhy is it that bit.h is in src/include/utils and bit.c is in\nsrc/backend/lib ? \n\nI can never for the life of me remember which is in which :-)\n\n-- \nPip-pip\nSailesh\nhttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh\n", "msg_date": "05 Jan 2003 20:14:51 -0800", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "The IPv6 patch currently checks for the function getaddrinfo() and the\ninclude file netinet/ip6.h.\n\nIs this a sufficient test? Anyone with/without IPv6 that does match\nnot this test?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On FreeBSD/Alpha:\n\ngmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/src/backend/libpq'\ngcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../..\n/src/include -c -o be-fsstubs.o be-fsstubs.c -MMD\ngcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nit's very interesting to see the discussion of \"threads\" again.\n\nI've portet PostgreSQL to a \"thread-per-connection\" model based on\npthreads\nand it is functional. Most of the work was finding all the static\nglobals in the sourcefiles\nand swapping them between threads a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guys, for your convenience i've put online a source RPM for Bison\n1.875 along with binary RPMs for Redhat 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0. Hunting\naround the net i didn't find any existing Bison >= 1.50 RPMs, so this\nshould be useful for those compiling PostgreSQL (ECPG in particular)\nfrom the CVS sourc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On a slightly related note to the other threads thread [sic] going\non... Over the Christmas/New Year break i've been looking into making\nthe PostgreSQL client libraries (in particular libpq and ecpg)\nthread-safe - that is they can safely be used by a program which\nitself is using mutliple...
[ { "msg_contents": "The information schema is supposed to contain a view SQL_SIZING which is\ndefined thus:\n\n List the sizing items defined in this standard and, for each of\n these, indicate the size supported by the SQL-implementation.\n\nBut the standard does not define any \"sizing item\" o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to implement read-only transactions following the SQL spec,\nso we can check off this item on the supported list. According to the\nlist I gathered, the following commands will fail if the transaction is\nread-only:\n\nalter *\nanalyze\ncheckpoint\ncluster\ncomment\ncreate *\nde...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a query using two postgres tables. \nOne is called \"CNX_DS_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB\" and the other is called\n\"CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB\".\n \nI am getting 3 times slower performance than Microsoft Access when\nperforming a left outer join.\n\nHere are the tables in question:\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe don't support OS/400 yet do we?\n\n:-)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift\n\n-- \n\"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those\nwho work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the\nfirst group; there was less competitio...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:nandrews@investsystems.co.uk] \n> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:58 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] I feel the need for speed. What am I \n> doing...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:27 PM\n> To: Justin Clift\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support? \n> \n> \n> Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:\n> > We don't support...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just got my Christmas thank-you from Austria! It is by far the coolest\nletter I have ever received. Have the other contributors got them as well?\n\nThanks you guys,\n\nChris Kings-Lynne\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:01:43 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-L...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:26 PM\n> To: Nigel J. Andrews\n> Cc: Dann Corbit; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-general@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] I feel the need for speed. What am I \n> do...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a machine with 4 CPU's and 2 gigabytes of physical ram.\n \nI would like to get PostgreSQL to use as much memory as possible. I\ncan't seem to get PostgreSQL to use more than 100 megabytes or so.\n \nHow can I optimize the use of PostgreSQL to get the maximum throughput\nin a configur...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:30 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and memory usage \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nJust found out that the \"pgdiff\" utility (the one for comparing two \ndifferent PostgreSQL database's) was released and uploaded to \nSourceForge in November:\n\nhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pgdiff\n\nHave people already looked at this?\n\n:-)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOK, what do we ship as a default?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNigel Kukard wrote:\n> Sorry i'm not subscribed to hackers, guess i must get soon!\n> \n> \n> Anyway what i think should happen is follows, if in the configuration file\n> we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-head/src/backend'\nMakefile:145: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?).\nStop.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:04:37 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nAlso received a through the Advocacy website asking if anyone has \nported PostgreSQL to the AlphaServers under VMS.\n\nAnyone know if we run on VMS? Last time I touched VMS (about 10 years \nago) it wasn't all that Unix-like.\n\n:-)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kristis Makris [mailto:devcore@freeuk.com] \n> Sent: 07 January 2003 03:05\n> To: Francisco Figueiredo Jr.\n> Cc: npgsql-general@gborg.postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [Npgsql-general] Get function OID and function \n> calling support\n> \n> \n> Hi Fran...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lamar.owen@wgcr.org] \n> Sent: 07 January 2003 06:12\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Hackers; pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Thank-you to Cybertec Geschwinde & Schonig\n> \n> \n> On Monday 06 January 2003 21...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nDoes psql support UTF-8 encoding?\n\n>su postgres\n>psql template1\n>CREATE DATABASE foo_é WITH encoding = 'Unicode';\ndoes not work.\n\nIt seems that Schema objects only accept ASCII letters.\nDo I miss something?\n\nCheers,\nJean-Michel POURE\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 7 Jan 200...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a problem...\nWe're using cursors to be able to fetch X tuples from the server.\nIf we would take 'em all our app would blow up because of memory\nconstraints.\nWhat i would like to is something like this:\n\nmag=# create table test (id serial unique primary key, txt text);\nmag=# inse...