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[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, 11 Jun 1998,\n\n> >Bruce Momjian:\n> >> PG_VERSION is now 6.4. initdb everyone. Or did we decide not to do\n> >> this if we could help it. I think we will still need to run initdb,\n> and\n> >> move the data files.\n> >\n> >I had thought we were going to avoid changing this unless ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to use Libpq++ for PG6.3.2 and Red Hat 5.1, and am having\ntrouble\ncompiling programs that use it. I tried #include <libpq++.h> and didn't\nlink\nand libpq dirs and I got some linker errors (not able to find such and\nsuch\nfunctions), then I tried linking the way I used to with...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a list of usenet articles about inlining that just appeared in\ncomp.compilers.\n\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)...
[ { "msg_contents": " I hate to open a potential can of worms here, but here's another\npossibility. I recall someone telling me about a database (InterBase,\nI believe it was) that could have rows with different structures all\nin the same table. In other words, they could add a field to the\ntable, and any ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Yep, I think this is do'able, UNLESS Vadim decides he needs to change\n> the structure of the data/index files. At that point, we are lost.\n\n> In the past, we have made such changes, and they were very much needed. \n> Not sure about the 6.4 release, but no such changes have been made ye...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI have a table for instance boci (row_number int, col2 float, col3\nfloat). The boci table has about 10000 rows. \nI want to update col3 column of the table in every row with different\nvalues. Desired values are in an array has 10000 elements. I want to be\nthe value of the col3 colu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm looking for a function like COALESCE() or the Oracle NVL(),\nto returns a ZERO value instead of a NULL value.\nTo have the result: NULL+1 = 1 instead of NULL+1 = NULL\nHave PostgreSQL something like this ?\nI tried to write it on C but I can't realize the beavior of NULLs,\nI c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > I have no problem with catalog changes and dumping the schema if we can\n> > write a script to help them do it. I would hope we can avoid having to\n> > make\n> > someone dump and reload their own data. I am thinking that it could be\n> > pretty inconvenient to d...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have generated new, more consistent template names:\n\nCVS/\t\t\tgeneric\t\t\tsco\naix_325\t\t\thpux_cc\t\t\tsolaris_i386_cc\naix_41\t\t\thpux_gcc\t\tsolaris_i386_gcc\naix_gcc\t\t\tirix5\t\t\tsolaris_sparc_cc\nalpha\t\t\tlinux_alpha\t\tsolaris_sparc_gcc\nbsdi_2.0\t\tlinux_i386\t\tsunos4_cc\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\ne.g.\n\n I want to delete a large object with this table\n\nCREATE TABLE image (\n name text,\n raster oid\n);\n\n-- from programmer's guide\n\nin the psql\n\nfoo=> select lo_unlink(raster) from image;\nERROR: function int4(oid) does not exist\n\nWh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi. I was able to receive mail yesterday (and mostly got caught up), but\nam off the air again, probably at least through the weekend. So if this\nhas already been brought up, sorry...\n\nI've been working on more patches for automatic type conversion, and\nthey fall on top of some of the rec...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:\n> ------------------------------------------------\n> Dropping table after aborting a transanction makes PosgresSQL unsable.\n> \n> \n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise reproducible example, i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nhello!\n\nI tried to make a function, like strftime in C\ncalled pstrtime( format, date )\n\nhere's the source... but when I compile it and create the function\nunder 6.3.2 first time it gives back an emty string.. after the backend \nstops ;(\n\nplease correct my faults,\n-----------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncurrently I'm writing a Web application, which should \nbe able to interface to any SQL database. Using perl this\nseems to be straigt forward, mainly due to the DBI module\nof Tim Bunce. What makes this task really difficult are\nthe SQL-dialects of every database. Although SQL is\nst...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was wondering what was the status of PL/Perl.\n\nThanks,\n\nEdwin S. Ramirez\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:30:19 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Edwin S. Ramirez\" <edwin.ramirez@erols.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "PL/Perl" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been playing a little with the performance tests found in\npgsql/src/tests/performance and have a few observations that might be of\nminor interest.\n\nThe tests themselves are simple enough although the result parsing in the\ndriver did not work on Linux. I am enclosing a patch belo...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:11:22 +0300", "msg_from": "Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "This message received no replies from the SQL list and I forward\nit to hackers looking for additional thoughts.\n\nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY:\n\nI have two tables with identical structure.\nOne table has a unique index on 5 of the \n6 table attributes.\n\nWhen attempting to insert from the non-index...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hi,\n> since the chance for the new template names I can configure, make and\n> start the postmaster. psql report's \"cant't resolve symbol\n> 'PQsetdbLogin'. I have solved it now by myself. In\n> src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile.in I changed\n> \n> \tifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux)\n> to\n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have written a script to remove braces around single statements, if\nthe statement is only one line in length.\n\nThe macro fixup context diff was 1,200 lines, and this diff is 12k\nlines.\n\nHope no one is sitting on patches.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Ave...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n(14 Jun 1998)\n\nHere is the long awaited optimized version of the S_LOCK patch. This\nincorporates all the precedeing patches and emailed suggestions and the\nresults of the performance testing I posted last week. I would like\nto get this tested on as many platforms as possible so I can v...
[ { "msg_contents": "I didn't sit down and analyze what you did wrong, but this test worked\nfor me:\n\nDROP TABLE propsales;\nCREATE TABLE propsales (\n closingdate date,\n county varchar(50),\n city varchar(50),\n streetno varchar(10),\n street varchar(70),\n price float8\n);\nCR...
[ { "msg_contents": "The postodbc you mention is way out of date and is no longer being\nsupported.\n\nGo to http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc for the latest (updated Jun\n13th) odbc driver.\nAvailable as self-extracting install (postdrv.exe) OR source code\n(postsrc.zip).\n\nAlso, you should use the \"interfac...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsas=> explain update user set usrid = 'aaaaaaaa' where usrseqid=usrseqid('zlb');\n\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nSeq Scan on user (cost=344.07 size=658 width=154)\n\nEXPLAIN\nsas=> explain update user set usrid = 'aaaaaaaa' where usrseqid=(select usrseqid('zlb'));\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nIndex...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> The basic problem is that PostgreSQL doesn't understand that Null match any\n> datatype. \n> \n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise reproducible example, if at all possible: \n> --------------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would not worry too much about the kernel parameter change.\nSystems with such low values will need those parameter changes for most \nother databases too (since they all use SYS V shm). \nInstallations where the administrator is not involved will most likely be test/university\ninstallatio...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have applied all outstanding patches, except certain ones that I have\ncommented to the authors.\n\nIf you don't see your patch, please let me know.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a reminder. Those people who have submitted patches that change\nthe user-visible behavior of PostgreSQL will need to submit changes to\nthe manual pages and/or sgml manual so the documenation remains current.\n\nI usually start asking specific people as am creating the HISTORY file,\nb...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm wondering if we can use btree index to sort the results in a\ncertain condition. The idea is, if the order-items in the order by\nclause have a btree index, then why we need to sort them again?\n\nI'm starting to look at the executor code. However this kind of\n\"optimization\" mig...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I'm wondering if we can use btree index to sort the results in a\n> certain condition. The idea is, if the order-items in the order by\n> clause have a btree index, then why we need to sort them again?\n\nReal life tests done by bruce (and I also did some on Informix) showed \nthat sorting ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Can someone comment on this error message? It certainly looks like a\n> bug, but I can't figure out why he is getting these problems.\nWell, I comment... :) That message is old... I sent that before 6.3.2\ncame out, but 6.3.2 suffers from the same problem. Just tested it on a\n6.3.2 tar b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I accidentally lost my e-mail folder, and am restoring it from last\nnight's backup.\n\nIf anyone sent me e-mail today directly, rather than to the list, please\nre-send it. If you CC'ed it to the list, I will see it in the archives.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blyt...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I have noticed this message appears if you try query like \n\nupdate table1 set a=table2.a where b=table2.b;\n\nand there are 2 or more strings in table that contain the same \"b\". \n\nAleksey.\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:56:13 +0300 (IDT)", "msg_from": "Aleksey Dashevs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Postgres developers,\n\n My problem is writing speed, when I want to update more rows in one\ntrnsaction. In ORACLE this can be solved by cursor or 'bind array'. Is\nit possible to update changed data from cursor to the database. If not,\nwhy not. Can you tell me other method for solv...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi y'all,\n\nto unify the framework of the look an feeling of c++ programs relying on\nlibpq++ I propose to migrate to a consistant use of 'string' to represent any\ntext rather than 'char *'.\n\nEspecially I refer to PgConnection::Exec(char *), ExecCommandOk() and\nExecTuplesOk(). It is very...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe default RedHat install doesn't include pidentd, which\napparently is now required by PG (?). When I install the\nRPM for pidentd, I get past the \"unrecognized authentication\"\nproblem.\n\n\nBut I still have a configuration problem of some kind:\nI cannot connect to the postmaster.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hello Bruce!\n> \n> I don't know exactly if the following bug has already been corrected. Nor\n> do I know who is responsible for the code around prune_joinrel() and that's\n> the reason why I send this to you. Could you please forward it to the\n> appropriate mailinglist and (or) to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers.\n\nI am having problems with the new spinlock code on the SPARC linux\nplatform. (Latest CVSup)\n\nThe compiler doesn't seem to like the \"asm\" part of s_lock.h for (sparc)\n\nHere's one of the compiles that fails.\n\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/pgsql/src/backend/stor...
[ { "msg_contents": "David,\n\nAfter making your suggested changes and then doing a \"make s_lock_test\"\nI get the following error messages.\n\n\n[postgres@sparclinux buffer]$ make s_lock_test\ngcc -g -I../../../include -I../../../backend -O2 -I../.. -DS_LOCK_TEST=1 \ns_lock.c -o s_lock_test\n/tmp/cca10794.s:...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > \n> > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > > \n> > > > > \n> > > > > Hi,\n> > > > > \n> > > > > I just send out a mail that I got a compile-error ona bsdi 2.1 machine. I \n> > > > > wanted to let you know I fixed it.\n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Authenticated sender is <lj644f@att.net>\nSubject: Bull's Eye Targeting Software\nMime-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\nEMAIL MARKETING WORKS!!\n\nBull's Eye Gold is the PREMIER email address collection tool.\nThis program all...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have tried to build Jun 20 snapshot on my linux-ppc box and failed\nto run configure. It seems the way for providing platform specific\ntemplates is changed, and Linux or MkLnux/PPC specific template is now\nrequired. Just copying the linux_sparc template as linux_ppc solved my\nproblem. I...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have built Jun 20 snapshot on my FreeBSD box. I have tried to run\ntest/bench and got following result.\n\nERROR: destroydb: database bench does not exist.\n\nThis is normal. Problem is the make command is aborted by a signal. My\nguesss is elog(ERROR) raises HUP signal, but for some reaso...
[ { "msg_contents": "If anybody has any solid ways of tracking this person and finding out the\ntrue originating hosts/domain, please email me privately. I get this\nmessage no less 4-5x/week and it comes with COMPLETEY different routes and\nhosts as they are apparently using relays.\n\nSorry for the off-topic p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent this to general:\n> I have written an aggregate function which returns a \"varlena\" type whose\n> length is proportional to the number of rows passed to the function.\n> \n> My question is what is the consensus on the best way to handle the case \n> where the input to the aggregate ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, David Schanen wrote:\n\n> Hi Marc & Mike,\n> \n> I wanted to check with you to see if you had seen my latest post to\n> pgsql-questions? \n\n\tpgsql-questions has been a discontinued mailing list for over a\nmonth now, actually...and, from the topic, this should be disc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since the removal of exec(), Thomas has seen, and I have confirmed that\nif a backend crashes, and the postmaster must reset the shared memory,\nno backends can connect anymore. One way to reproduce it is to run the\nregression tests, which on their last test will crash for an un-related\nre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIn the latest CVS I can get the backend to terminate quite\neasily with a divide by 0.\n\npostgres=> select 1/0;\npqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or while \nprocessing the request.\nWe ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nThat's what I would have half expected too but am I actually using\nany floating point arithmetic?\n\nThe function called is int4div() which simply does a, return (arg1/arg2),\nso I would have expected integer arithmetic.\n\nIf I cast to float I get:-\n\npostgres=> select 1::float8/...
[ { "msg_contents": "RE: ability to access tables from different DB in same SQL query\n\nI have a good example right now of why this is a good feature, \nand why I suspect it is impractical or impossible to implement \none of my bread-n-butter sybase-based apps using PG. This is \nrather a fraught question, bec...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n subscribe\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:19:10 -0700", "msg_from": "Brett_McMahon@placerdome.com", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe machine has 128Meg of RAM, 256Meg of SWAP, and SWAP isn't even being\ntouched...\n\n\nacctng=> insert into radhist select * from radhist_old;\nFATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted\nacctng=> \\q\n> pstat -s\nDevice 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type\n/dev/sd0s1b 256...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm sending this one to both hackers and interfaces (not sure which one\nit really pertains to) but I have the reply-to set to interfaces.\n\nAnyway...\n\nI'm trying to set up dbd/dbi and all went well until I got to test DBD.\nThe README says it's for 6.2+, but fails when trying to create ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nthis problem appeared quite frequently in the last two years: \nthe libpq-function lo_export gives a segmentation fault.\n\nThis happend with the current snapshot (I don't remember the\ndate, it was begin of June, filesize: 3980592) on Linux-2.0.34.\nIt worked with Postgresql-6.3.2....
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:02:36 -0400", "msg_from": "Jeffrey Napolitano <jnapoli@setech.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm living in outside US and am running the export version of FreeBSD\ncoming without DES. Problem is that if I enable the crypt password\nauthentication, the FE on any platform other than FreeBSD will not\ntalk to the BE on the FreeBSD box (Of course FreeBSD can talk to\nFreeBSD). The export...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAnyone else here ever check out Slashdot? http://www.slashdot.org/\n\nLike a web news group of sorts...readers submit computer related stuff\nand other readers can then comment on them. Worth a peek once in a while.\n\nBUT, one post there today in particular caught my eye though...\n\n\"M...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nokay -- I've seriously updated the SSL patch (practically rewritten)\nand we're even using it here @ work, and it works great. If you used\nit before, be sure to read the info page as the behavior has changed\ndrastically.\n\nit is two patches now, one to funnel all be/fe communication thr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi !\n\nWandering on Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org ), I saw a post from someone\nwhich said he has convinced a publisher to do a book to help people\nmigrate to free software (from Windows background, for ex.). What is\ninteresting to us, is that he wrote that he will focus on GTK for the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all\n\nSorry for the off topic post, but we upgraded our sendmail program this week\nand I haven't received any posts from the Hackers list since (over 2 days now).\nI did receive one from the Announce list though, and I am receiving mail from\nother lists I've subscribed to. So, is the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there an isnull function avaliable in postgres, such as:\n\n select isnull(dt_field, 'now') ...\n\nThanks\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:42:03 -0700", "msg_from": "Kachun Lee <kachun@pathlink.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "isnull function" }, { "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes anyone announce PGSQL releases to Linux Weekly News?\nI noticed that the only SQL DB mentioned in the LWN is\nMySQL :-(\n\nde \n\n.............................................................................\n:De Clarke, Software Engineer UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC:...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried to implement an is_null function, such as:\n\n select is_null(dt, 'now'::datetime) ...\n\nThe following code does not seem to work:\n\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include \"postgres.h\"\n#include \"libpq-fe.h\" \n#include \"utils/dt.h\"\n\nDateTime * is_null(DateTime *...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthe query is: update process_order set processresult = 't'::bool and processmsg = '328024' where oid = 25647;\n\nit causes the backend to core dump.\n\nwhen I don't cast it to 't'::bool, I get this:\n\n ERROR: left-hand side of AND is type 'unknown', not bool\n\nvery weird. I wouldn't ex...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dearest PQSL Hackers,\n\nDoes anyone know of some one who has developed a url type ?\n\nmaybe something like a composite type of two varchars, one for the\nurl, one for the common name. (e.g. \"http://www.postgresql.org/\" &\n\"Postgres Home Page\".) that prints out \"<A\nHREF=http://www.p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have renamed the BindingTable to ShmemIndex. Binding table made no\nsense to me, and the table is an index of shared memory structures, so\nthe new name should be clearer.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have renamed lockt/LOCKT to locktype/LOCKTYPE for clarity.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be your bac...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any way to get user's name when user uses trigger? \n\nThank you for your answer.\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:14:46 +0300 (EEST)", "msg_from": "Alexzander Blashko <black@lins.ospu.odessa.ua>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Getting username from...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have renamed most of the variables/structures in\nbackend/storage/lmgr/lock.c. The old names were very confusing.\n\nNames like LOCKTAB, LOCKCTL, ltable, ntypes, AllTables, locktype,\nLockTableInit, tableId, tableID, lockName are gone. There are two\nprimary items in lock.c. One is the l...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have seriously updated the backend flowchart. In fact, the name is\ngone, and it is now called \"How PostgreSQL Processes a Query\".\n\nI have added several paragraphs describing the flow of data from one\nmodule to another, and have added a section describing 'exactly' what is\nstored in ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> Approved: info-gnu@gnu.org\n>> \n>> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at:\n>> \n>> \thttp://users.lanminds.com/~lord\n>> \tftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz\n>> and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that \n>> ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> \n>> It takes too long time to reload big tables...\n>\n> I have to agree here...the one application that *I* really use\n>this for is an accounting server...any downtime is unacceptable, because\n>the whole system revolves around the database backend.\n>\n> Take a look at Mi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can an SQL database (PostgreSQL) be connected to shell in a way that if\na directory is changed on shell it will update the database with the\nchanges? If so how?\nA prompt reply would be appreciated.\n\nThank in advance,\nGreg\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:13:26 -0400", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a little bit confused about permissions:\nIf I work as a user who have permissions to create databases but\nnot to create users I can't create view in my database which I own.\nIs it my 'glyuk' or postgres feature ?\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tOleg\n____________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 04:09:26 +1100 (VSD)", "msg_from": "Roman Volkoff <rv@tlg.khv.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "RE: [PORTS] Re: [HACKERS] no answer to Solaris 2.6 failure to bu" }, { "msg_contents": "\nI still cannot get postgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ndoes anyone have any idea how difficult it would be to implement, and\nperhaps point me in the right direction?\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 2 Jul 1998 19:35:40 -0700 (PDT)", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "implementing o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nokay.. in order to build my understanding of the postgres code (wow,\nthis compiles?) I'm going to print some of it out. This helped me\nlearn C many years back, by printing out the code to MOO server. of\ncourse, I could print out *all* of it, which clearly is not possible\nwith postgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Hello!\n> \n> Through some minor changes, I have been able to compile the libpq client\n> libraries on the Win32 platform. Since the libpq communications part has\n> been rewritten, this has become much easier. Enclosed is a patch that\n> will allow at least Microsoft Visual C++ to compile ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nare BLOBs deleted that are not referenced any more?\n\nImagine, I have a table with a column\n\n | text | oid | 4 |\n\nwhen this row is deleted, will postgres throw the BLOB away?\n\n---\n _ _\n _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,\n(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI have this problem:\n\nThis sample query create with Access\n\nSELECT figure.*, utenti.ragione_sociale\nFROM figure INNER JOIN utenti ON figure.codice_figura = utenti.azienda;\n\nvia-psqlODBC reports this\n\nERROR: The field being ordered by must appear in the target list'\nSTATEME...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI was looking for a libpq version to compile in Win32 platform. \n\nI'm porting my applications from mSQL to PostgreSQL 6.3.2 most of it are CGI and run at UNIX box but I will develop a Engeneering Eletric Calculation System for the Win32 platform with all data stored into PostgreSQL...
[ { "msg_contents": "> roberto@mha.com.br (Roberto Joao Lopes Garcia) writes:\n> > Is it possible to get this patch, or it will be available only in\n> > PostgreSQL 6.4?\n> \n> Since Magnus indicated that his changes depended on the recent libpq\n> rewrite (with accompanying protocol changes), you'd have to do so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Nice to see they have added a mention of subselect(\"recursive\nsubqueries\"?), union, view, and transactions to the CrashMe comparison.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The simple way is to reduce the capabilities of the Postgres\n> > rule system. Changing the syntax of the CREATE RULE to\n> > \n> > CREATE RULE rule AS { BEFORE | AFTER } event TO table\n> > DO [ INSTEAD ] { action | NOTHING }\n> > \n> > would tell the rew...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nLast Tuesday evening I was upgrading my machine from RedHat 4.1 to 5.0\nwhen I started to smell burning. The power supplies fan had failed, and\nhad gone unnoticed until the inside of the machine was pretty warm (this\nmachine is on 24 hours a day).\n\nAnyhow, I removed the power pretty qui...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Also, are these items completed? How about our cancel query key? I\n> > think it is random/secure enough for our purposes. Can you make the\n> > changes, or do you need changes from me?\n> \n> After pulling down the current cvs sources and taking a quick look\n> around, I guess nothing...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there\n\nIs the snapshot on ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/ version 4 of\npostgresql. The timestamp is Jul 4 07:01\n\nCheers\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 08:15:07 +0200", "msg_from": "David Maclean <david@cm.co.za>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "postgresql snapsh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nEnybody knows as to receive the information\nabout the users transmitting inquiries as:\n- username,\n- string of sql-request, transmitted by him.\n\nThank you for your answer.\n \n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:49:34 +0300 (EEST)", "msg_from": "Alexzander Blashko <black@lins....
[ { "msg_contents": "... because the conditional structure assumes that pgsql will only be\nbuilt with non-gcc compilers on HPUX.\n\nThis is an entirely bogus assumption not only for HPUX, but for any\nother architecture that has gcc available.\n\nTo be able to compile, I just duplicated the \"#if defined(__hpux)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmm. I find that SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are both already in use for\ncommunication between backends. We can't really commandeer SIGURG,\neither, because it's apparently the same as SIGUSR1 on SCO\n(see src/include/port/sco.h ... so OOB wouldn't work there anyway!).\n\nAll three of SIGINT, SIGH...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi Rasool...\n\n\tI'm forwarding this into the pgsql-hackers mailing list...I'm\nbound to be overlooking *someone*'s hard work, but right now, the only one\nthat I can think of who's done any work on concurrency issues (assuming\nI'm current in that this is the 'shared/multi-user' aspect we...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Thomas, we now get:\n> select usesysid from pg_user union select null ;\n> ERROR: type id lookup of 0 failed\n> which not good either. Can you address this issue?\n\nI'm almost back on-line (I hope) after massive hacker activity took out\nthe alumni pop server at Caltech....
[ { "msg_contents": ">> I have some embedded spaces in data that should be stripped out.\n>>\n>> In the course of trying to find a way to do this, I found out some stuff:\n>>\n>> #1a\n>> \\df would be a whole lot nicer if I could do:\n>>\n>> \\df <type> and get only functions that have the given return type, o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, I've got this new code running, and it works. Sort of.\nThe postmaster and backend seem to be fine ... but psql has a tendency\nto coredump right after sending a cancel request.\n\nAfter digging into it, I realized that the problem is that psql.c is\ncoded to invoke PQrequestCancel() d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nSorry for asking the hackers directly, but I think my question will be very implementation\n\nspecific so I think only one of yor can give me the answer or thow me out the door.\n\nFirst some introductionary explanations:\n\nWe are developing a SCADA system for process automation sin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Things I'd like to see get in there before 6.4:\n\n1. On HPUX, the new no-exec method of starting the backend means that\nall the backends claim to be \"postmaster\"; there's no way to tell 'em\napart via ps(1). There is some code in postgres.c that tries to update\nthe process title informa...
[ { "msg_contents": "(I'm back on-line, I think...)\nI committed several changes to the development source tree this morning\n(~15 hours ago). The changes affect the following areas:\n\n1) There is an 8-byte integer data type. It needs some testing and\npossibly configuration help on most of the supported platfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please add to the reliability list:\n\n GRANT will not work with usernames such as \"www-data\"\n\n(unless that is already fixed?)\n\n\n-- \nOliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk\nIsle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using the latest CVS and PHP can't get a connection. Starting the\npostmaster with or without the -i flag is not the problem. Also psql\nworks fine. \n\nIf I try to use PHP to access postgres I get the following:\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I�m going ot leave for vacation later on. So don�t expect much input from me\nuntil July 27th the earliest. :-)\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes\t\tmeskes@online-club.de, meskes@debian.org\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\tUse Debian GNU/Linux! \n", "msg_date": "Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:10:5...