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[ { "msg_contents": "Did anyone ever think about creating a library that is able to handle\nour numeric datatype? I'm currently thinking about adding this datatype\namong others to the ones know to ecpg so no one is forced to convert\nthem or work on the strings. On the other hand I'm not sure if anyone's\nintere...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to emulate a pessimistic locking system you would find in an\nold school database file system, for example cobol. Generally, when a\ncobol program tries to read a record that is locked by somebody else,\nthe read fails and either a message is displayed by the user or a error\nhan...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been thinking about improving the algorithm that the free space map\n(FSM) uses to decide what to store when it's not got enough shared\nmemory to keep track of everything. The present design uses a dynamically\nadjusted threshold for each relation, throwing away pages whose free\nspace...
[ { "msg_contents": "PgPeople:\n\nI thought this bug was fixed in 7.2.4:\n\nDBD::PgPP::st execute failed: ERROR: Parent tuple was not found\nProcess Failed: ERROR: Parent tuple was not found\n from step VACUUM FULL ANALYZE\n\n version\n----------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to compile a co of REL_7_3_2 for my laptop (initially a\nsuse 7.3 install) and it fails w/ this from bison:\n\nmake -C preproc all\nmake[1]: Entering directory `.../pgsql-server-7.3.2/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'\nbison -y -d preproc.y\npreproc.y:5560: fatal error: maximum table s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jiri Langr (jiri.langr@konero.cz) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nDeallocating of prepared statement in ECPG at COMMIT\n\nLong Description\nWhen I prepare a statement in ECPG it lives only to first explicit transaction bloc...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> I am trying to emulate a pessimistic locking system you would find in\nan\n> old school database file system, for example cobol. Generally, when a\n\n> cobol program tries to read a record that is locked by somebody else,\n> the read fails and either a message is displayed by the user o...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> Michael Meskes kirjutas K, 26.02.2003 kell 13:00:\n> > Did anyone ever think about creating a library that is able to\nhandle\n> > our numeric datatype? I'm currently thinking about adding this\ndatatype\n> > among others to the ones know to ecpg so no one is forced to convert\n\n> > the...
[ { "msg_contents": "That's my fallback position. Obviously, this will lead to false\npositives depending on server load. In my case, I'm targeting between\n30-50 users so its likely to throw timeouts for various reasons other\nthan locks even though my queries of interest are generally select a\nfrom b where i...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> That's my fallback position. Obviously, this will lead to false\n> positives depending on server load. In my case, I'm targeting between\n\n> 30-50 users so its likely to throw timeouts for various reasons other\n> than locks even though my queries of interest are generally select a\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was referring to 10.3 in the administrator's guide, regarding the\npg_lock view. According to the documentation, the view only contains\ntable level locks. However, the view also contains an xid for\ntransactions. The unclear part, at least to me, was what the role of\nthe xid was in the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just dumped and restored a rather large database, I upgraded from \n7.2.x to 7.3.x. When I went to test my application against the new \ndatabase, it was dog slow. It had all the indexes, and looked fine.\n\nThen it dawned on me, Doh! ANALYZE!\n\nShould pg_dump appened an ANALYZE for each t...
[ { "msg_contents": "This directly answers my question (wasn't previously aware that xid\ncould be queried out in such a useful fashion). Not only does this\naccomplish what I need, but now allows me to not use select ... for\nupdate and stick with a transaction based locking mechanism. The 'Why'\nisn't that i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I didn't get any responses on pgsql-sql, so I'm re-posting here...\n\n> Is the GiST examples I've looked through, in the picksplit functions,\n> I see code that looks roughly like this:\n>\n> bytea *entryvec = (bytea *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);\n> OffsetNumber i, maxoff;\n>\n> maxoff = ((V...
[ { "msg_contents": "In contrib/btree_gist/ I see:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION gint4_union(bytea, internal)\n RETURNS int4\n AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME'\n LANGUAGE 'C';\n\nbut gint4_union does this:\n\n INT4KEY *out = palloc(sizeof(INT4KEY));\n [...]\n PG_RETURN_POINTER(out);\n\nIs the int4 return type declared above a b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Merlin,\n\nJust as a suggestion: In most of my applications, we have a security layer \nwhich is implemented through server-side functions. These functions keep a \ntable updated which contains:\n\nlock_table\nrecord_id\nlock_user\ntime_locked\n\nThis allows us to avoid nasty \"your update ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have done up a new way of dumping table data:\n\nIndexes:\n \"users_users_pkey\" PRIMARY KEY btree (userid),\n \"users_users_username_key\" UNIQUE btree (username),\n \"expiry_users_users_key\" btree (expiry),\n \"users_users_email_lower_idx\" btree (lower(email)),\n \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a known bug/race condition in vacuum on 7.2.4?\n\nI find this error in my log files about once a week, but\nit is not reproducable manually. \n\nNOTICE: Index pg_statistic_relid_att_index: Pages 5; Tuples 410:\nDeleted 449.\n\tCPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec.\nERROR: MemoryCo...
[ { "msg_contents": "(This didnt' seem to get through :( )\n\nHi,\n\nI have done up a new way of dumping table data:\n\nIndexes:\n \"users_users_pkey\" PRIMARY KEY btree (userid),\n \"users_users_username_key\" UNIQUE btree (username),\n \"expiry_users_users_key\" btree (expiry),\n \"users_users_email...
[ { "msg_contents": "Chris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:50:21 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Are my emails getting through at all???" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> Just as a suggestion: In most of my applications, we have a security\nlayer\n> which is implemented through server-side functions. These functions\nkeep a\n> table updated which contains:\n>\n> lock_table\n> record_id\n> lock_user\n> time_locked\nThat's an excellent and even portable i...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the examples I've seen, in the consistent method we have:\n\n if (GIST_LEAF(entry)) [...]\n\nbut in compress we have:\n\n if (entry->leafkey) [...]\n\nI can see what the latter's doing, but I'm not sure what GIST_LEAF\ndoes, or why you'd want to use it.\n\nAlso, I noticed this in src/bac...
[ { "msg_contents": "While learning how to read query trees, I have been puzzled by the\nassertion in the manual that the :resultRelations of an INSERT holds\n`the table (or view!) where the changes take effect,' because in all\nof the INSERTs I have generated the resultRelation in fact appears\nempty, and the de...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGoing through the issues in doing dirty reads in foreign keys I've come up\nwith a few cases that I'm fairly uncertain about how to handle with\nregards to deadlocks and figured I should ask for advice because I think\nI'm missing something painfully obvious, but don't get large enough bloc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking over the code in backends/access/gist, and I noticed this\nin gist.c, in gistdoinsert():\n\n\tinstup = (IndexTuple *) palloc(sizeof(IndexTuple));\n\tinstup[0] = (IndexTuple) palloc(IndexTupleSize(itup));\n\tmemcpy(instup[0], itup, IndexTupleSize(itup));\n\n\tret = gistlayerinsert(...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nignore this ...\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:25:58 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Testing ..." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nignore this one too ...\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:38:35 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "test 2 ..." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Stef\n\nI had the same problem some time ago. I wanted to define a trigger \nfiring on CREATE TABLE (pg_class). This won't work because in most cases \nsystem tables are not accessed using the \"standard\" way for processing \nqueries (parse -> rewrite -> plan -> execute). Therefore trigge...
[ { "msg_contents": "[3rd day of trying to track down a SEGV]\n\nIn gistSplit() I see:\n\n newtup[0] = gistFormTuple(giststate, r, v.spl_rattr, v.spl_rattrsize, v.spl_risnull);\n\nbut v.spl_rattrsize hasn't been initialized:\n\n (gdb) p v.spl_rattrsize[0]\n $136 = -1073749368\n\nIs this going to be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just before the return from gistSplit() I see this:\n\n (gdb) p (*newtup)[0]\n $147 = {t_tid = {ip_blkid = {bi_hi = 0, bi_lo = 34}, ip_posid = 1}, t_info = 136}\n (gdb) p (*newtup)[1]\n $148 = {t_tid = {ip_blkid = {bi_hi = 65510, bi_lo = 65535}, ip_posid = 65535}, t_info = 24575}\n (gdb)...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ repost, as original message of 28-Feb seems to have gotten lost ]\n\nI said:\n> I was able to reproduce a problem as follows: run the tsearch regression\n> test, then do \"cluster wowidx on test_txtidx\". This appears to lose\n> one row:\n\nAhh ... it took me way too long to realize what w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am working on a project that acquires real-time data from an external\ndevice that I need to store and be able to search through and retrieve\nquickly. My application receives packets of data ranging in size from 300 to\n5000 bytes every 50 milliseconds for the minimum duration of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Todo items:\nAdd ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values\n\nAlso updated create sequence docs to mention NO MINVALUE, & NO MAXVALUE.\n\nNew Files:\ndoc/src/sgml/ref/alter_sequence.sgml\nsrc/test/regress/expected/sequence.out\nsrc/test/regress/sql/sequence.sql\n\n\nALTER ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone.\n\nEnvironment:\nOS: UW 713\nPG: 7.3.2\n\nI've been banging my head for a few weeks on this one and could'nt find\nany answer:\n\npg_dump is crashing with SIGSEGV before it connects to database.\nI've re-compiled with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert and even that\ndid'nt help...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:46:17 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Testing ... ignore ..." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Are we supposed to report bugs with the CVS tip of PostgreSQL, or are\nwe to assume that the developers are well aware of problems there and\nare already working on them? After my most recent CVS update I find\nthat I cannot run createlang either to import the plpgsql nor the\nplpython langu...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have verified this problem under both 7.3.2 and the CVS tip.\n\nThe attached example is far simpler than the actual code in our\napplication, but may nevertheless benefit from some explanation. We\nhave several tables with two ON INSERT rules:\n\n [TABLE policy_accounts]\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Merlin Moncure \nSent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:47 PM\nTo: 'Peter Eisentraut'\nSubject: RE: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] XML ouput for psql\n\nMy 0.2$: keep the xml formatting rules as simple as possible and rely on\nxslt to do the document markup (going out) and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI need some insight on the best way to use a RAM drive in a Postgresql \ninstallation. Here is our situation and current setup:\n\nPostgresql 7.2.1\nDual PIII 800\nRAID 5 SCSI disks\nPlatypus 8GB PCI QikDrive (the RAM drive). http://www.platypus.net\n\nThe Platypus RAM drive is a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nAs promised, I've been looking over the error handling (especially \nthe archived discussions) and it's a real rat's nest. :) I'm not \nsure where we should start, but just getting some error codes \nenabled and out there would be a great ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Let me preface this by expressing my appreciation for all the hard work\nfor the people who develop, maintain, and support PostGreSQL. I've been\nusing it for a little over two years for a variety of projects and have\nbeen extremely happy with both the software and the support on these list...
[ { "msg_contents": "We are developing a Win32 port of PostgreSQL 7.3(different from Jan's\nimplementaion, in that we are using a thread model. In the future I\nhope we could contribute the source code). We have done a power\nfailure testing using the test tool made by Dave Page:\n\nSubject: [HACKERS] Win32 Power...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:00:47 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "test to be ignored ..." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 05 March 2003 02:23\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n>\n> So far we found interesting facts. Our Win32 port passes his \n> test in most cases. However ...
[ { "msg_contents": "XSLT could be used to convert virtually any xml table format directly\ninto an insert statement. For me, this is better than using a\nprogramming language plus a parser. XSLT is quite powerful and fast and\nis build on top of xpath, and is a closer fit to the declarative\nprogramming model ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is just about a total conversion of the backend to an xml document\nserver. The marriage of xml and sql is awkward and not easily\nretrofitted to existing databases.\n\nIts pretty much proven that hierarchal storage techniques (xml included)\nare more difficult to manage and use than tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the so-called debug TTY functionality that you can set in libpq in\nvarious ways still existing? I can't seem to activate it and the code\ndoesn't show much reference to it.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:13:35 +0100 (CET)", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Chris,\n\n> The concern of course is if something happends to the RAM drive we are \n> S.O.L. and have to go to the last backup (pg_dump happens each night).\n\nThis is the drawback to RAM drives, period. If there was some way to use a \nRAM drive without risking your data, everyone would do...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had written a piece of code about two years ago that used the \naggregate feature of PostgreSQL to create an array of integers from an \naggregate, as:\n\nselect int_array_aggregate( column ) from table group by column\n\nWhile it seems pointless to create an array on a select, it has a \np...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am back from China and Japan. Most of my visitations were private,\nbut I did speak at Renmin University in China.\n\nI will catch up on my email in the next few days.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610)...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are Windows binaries on the PostgreSQL FTP server mirrors, for\nexample,\n\nhttp://ftp.de.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/binary/v7.3.1/Windows/\n\nthat users are having problems with. Apparently there is no name or\naddress of any creator available. So who did this and would like to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a reminder on the purpose of the core group --- it is to handle\nitems that require confidentiality, like confidential discussions with\ncompanies and for discipline.\n\nMarc wants the core group to do as little as possible, so that almost\nall activity is done in the open, and the other...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, my contract with SRA has been renewed for another year, meaning I\nwill continue the next year working on PostgreSQL full time. \n\nI want to thank SRA for their support of the PostgreSQL effort by\nemploying me. As you may know, Tatsuo Ishii also works for SRA full\ntime and he is a g...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI tried to go buy a shirt off the pgsql.com site, but when it comes to\nshipping it just has:\n\ninternational shipping zone 1\ninternational shipping zone 2\ninternational shipping zone 3\ninternational shipping zone 4\ninternational shipping zone 5\n\nHow am I supposed to know which ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It would be nice if PGAvd could receive row level stats without a large\nhit to simple queries.\n\nRan a simple test. Calling pgstat_report_tabstat() at a frequency of\nonce per second reduces the time taken for row level stats to be\nnegligible:\n\n500k select TRUE statements took:\n6:50 wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nFeels like we've been isolating a whole bunch of bugs in 7.3.2 recently, \nsome of which are causing crashes out in the real world.\n\nWondering when we feel it'd be good to start assembling a 7.3.3? I'm \nthinking in about two weeks or so, to give a bit more time to catch bugs \...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> Given the repeatedly-asked-for functionalities (like error codes)\n> for which the stopper has been the long-threatened protocol revision,\n> I'd think it might be boring, but would hardly be thankless. Heck, I'd\n\n> expect a few whoops of joy around the lists.\n>\nYes. Error codes woul...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kevin Brown [mailto:kevin@sysexperts.com] \n> Sent: 06 March 2003 04:37\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> \n> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:\n> > Sorry, but it does not help. The page says we could use\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nJust received notification the server hosting the postgresql.org \nwebsites suffered a catastrophic failure a few hours ago.\n\nThe admin guys are working to fix it, but it could take at least another \n8 hours (no guarantee's here).\n\nNo more detailed info at present, but wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 05 March 2003 13:49\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> \n> > > So far we found interesting facts. Our Win32 port passes his\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 06 March 2003 14:00\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> \n> > > Sorry, but it does not help. The page says we could use\n> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Agreed, but I still keep thinking that despite some peoples \n> claims that Windows ain't up to it, DB2, SQL and Exchange \n> Server as well a probably others that don't use raw \n> partitions have got over this problem, so therefore we should \n> be able to. Admittedly Microsoft have a bit...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 06 March 2003 15:17\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> I'm sure FlushFileBuffers() is usesless for files opend with \n> open()...
[ { "msg_contents": "My experience with windows backend work is that you have to turn off all\nbuffering and implement your own write cache of sorts. Flushing is not\nthe only reason: heavy buffering of files (the default behavior) also\ntends to thrash the server, because the cache does not always release\nmemo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a table that is likely to grow over the next few years at a rate\nof 1K-2K rows/day. As the vast majority of the activity on the table\n(other than the inserts) will be selects of data for the current day, I\nhave a cron job that drops and recreates a partial index just after\nmidnight...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com]\n> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:47 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Aggregate \"rollup\"\n> \n> I had written a piece of code about two years ago that used the\n> aggregate feature of Post...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAny way to recover?\n\nFATAL 2: open of /usr/local/pgsql/5432/pg_clog/06F6 failed: No such file or directory\n\nThe RAID controller went on our server today ... is it safe to just\n'touch' the files, or is this a 'restore from backup and deal with the\nlosses' sort of thing? :(\n\n\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 07 March 2003 01:33\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> \n> > > As I said in the previlus mails, open()+_commit() does the\n> >...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp] \n> Sent: 07 March 2003 08:37\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing\n> \n> \n> > \n> > Ah, but Jan/Katie's code *did not* survive the powerfails. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Query\nselect * from TABLE limit10;\nreturns all rows, but it seems to me this is a syntax error...\n\npgsql 7.3.2 and current CVS has this bug.\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:25:41 +0300", "msg_from": "Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nunsubscribe pgsql-hackers tgv_gobo@hotmail.comSTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* \n", "msg_date": "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:45:34 -0330", "msg_from": "\"Adam Harnett\" <tgv_gobo@hotmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> A larger point is that this is still a protocol revision; pretending\nit\n> ain't is just willful obscurantism. You can tell it's a protocol\nrevision\n> because you will need to rewrite client-side libraries to take\nadvantage\n> of it. If we try to look the other way an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHave you seen\nlibpq - C Library\nFunctions Associated with the COPY Command\nThis is best way to INSERT large amounts of data.\n\nRegards, Christoph\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:49:47 +0100", "msg_from": "Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been trying to get information on a programming interface to the database. Over the last while Dave Page and I have emailed each other. Dave has suggested I join the hacker maillist.\n\nThus I am forwarding the communication I sent to Dave. I hope this is approriated in this channel. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Considering the time zone abbreviations that are accepted on input, I find\na couple of bogosities:\n\nWDT\t+09:00\tWest Australian Daylight Time\nAWST\t+08:00\tAustralia Western Standard Time\nWADT\t+08:00\tWest Australian Daylight Time\nWST\t+08:00\tWest Australian Standard Time\nWAST\t+07:...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFYI.\n\nVince.\n-- \n Fast, inexpensive internet service 56k and beyond! http://www.pop4.net/\n http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com\n Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio.\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\n Date: Fri, 7 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't been able to get to it all morning.\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:04:57 -0500", "msg_from": "mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "What's up with www.postgresql.org?" }, { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote:\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> I haven't been able to get to it all morning.\n> \nI think its time to consider migrating off of mysql on the web server.\n\nMerlin\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:09:36 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas T. Thai [mailto:tom@minnesota.com] \n> Sent: 07 March 2003 17:05\n> To: mlw\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?\n> \n> \n> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote:\n> \n> I couldn't get to it y...
[ { "msg_contents": "mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] wrote:\n> I use PostgreSQL with C++ all the time. I actually have a SQL class\nthat\n> abstracts libpq and ODBC, so I'm pretty much past a lot of the \"how I\n> want to use it\" stuff.\n\nWhat about libpq++? I have not used the thing, but if he absolutely\nin...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is the 'proof of concept' cygwin windows build. Strangely, I have\na newer build than the one on the ftp server. Is there a binary version\nof postgres with Jan's patch available?\n\nMerlin\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent...
[ { "msg_contents": "I admit, I suck at math, but I really thought postgres would ERROR on \nthis:\n\nfoo=# select 1/0;\n ?column?\n----------\n 0\n(1 row)\n\nMore surprising is that this does ERROR:\nfoo=# select 1/0.0;\nERROR: division by zero on numeric\n\nIs this a bug, or do I need to go back to hi...
[ { "msg_contents": "About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing\nfor me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and\nmisc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly consistently by\nrunning \"make check\" over and over again until the problem crops up.\n\nThe ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nJust came across the website for the first \"GCC Developers Summit\", to \nbe held May 25-27, 2003.\n\nhttp://www.gccsummit.org/2003/\n\nMight be of interest to some people here.\n\n:)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift\n\n-- \n\"My grandfather once told me that there...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do we precompile SQL functions yet? I see it on the TODO list and I\ncan't remember if it is done.\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 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is no declaration of charset in the main webpage. Something like\n\n<meta content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\">\n\nwould be nice. What is worse is that there are several charsets used. In\nthe International part I have to set mozilla to use utf-8 for it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Justin Clift wrote:\n> > This is the 'proof of concept' cygwin windows build. Strangely, I\nhave\n> > a newer build than the one on the ftp server. Is there a binary\nversion\n> > of postgres with Jan's patch available?\n> \n> Uh Oh.\n> \n> When you say \"newer version\", what gives the fee...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> I checked into this, and indeed OS X 10.2 is behaving funny: integer\n> divide by zero doesn't raise any signal, it just returns a bogus\nanswer.\n> They're within their rights to do so according to the ANSI C spec\n> (wherein division by zero is stated to have undefine...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to implement SQL99/200x ARRAY support (well, at least the \nbasics). Does anyone have objections to the following grammar/semantics?\n\n===========================================================\nPer SQL200x - examples\n===========================================================\ncr...
[ { "msg_contents": "In fact I have fixed my database (source code rocks!) but I thought I would \nshare my experience with the list in case anyone else sees this. I am \nrunning PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i386--netbsdelf. I created two user defined \ntypes, glaccount and section. See attached SQL file that creates t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm about to change the parsetree representation of DECLARE CURSOR\nto look more like a standard utility statement: a DeclareCursorStmt\nnode with a SELECT querytree dangling from it. This will make it\npossible to remove the cursor-specific elements of Query nodes\n(isPortal, isBinary), rat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Postgres' implementation of cursors has always had a problem with doing\nMOVE or FETCH backwards on complex queries. It works okay for simple\nseqscans and indexscans, but fails for plans involving joins,\naggregates, and probably other cases. This happens because the executor\nroutines for...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Justin Clift [mailto:justin@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: 09 March 2003 09:57\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; greg@turnstep.com; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the \n> FTP server...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> 2. Error out only if a backwards fetch is actually attempted on a plan\n>> tree that can't handle it (which could only happen if SCROLL wasn't\n>> given). This is efficient and flexible, but it exposes implementation\n>> details to the user, in that whether an error occurs will depend on\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yuliyan Topalov (jtopalov@mail.bg) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nCan not INSERT Cyrilic characters when use UNICODE database\n\nLong Description\n Hi!\n There's a bug when use try to insert Cyrilic characters:\n Error ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl] \n> Sent: 10 March 2003 15:43\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Justin Clift; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the \n> FTP server?\n> \n> \n> \n> Really? Wher...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have an application which syncs Access databases with PostgreSQL (I \nknow that this is VERY ugly). It is a simple script based Access \napplication. People wanted that application because they are familiar \nwith Microsoft stuff. When Access establishes a connection to PostgreSQL \neveryt...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm receiving duplicates of all posts from pg mailer. None of the other \nlists I have seem to be affected. Any way I can check if my email is \nduplicated in the subscription list?\n\nDwayne\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:23:40 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Dwayne Miller\" <dmille...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> I just tested the SRA Win32 threaded port and both SELECT 1/0 and\nSELECT\n> 0/0 crash the process. I have reported this to Tatsuo.\n\nThe PeerDirect version (beta4) does the same thing. This is the version\nbased on the 7.2.1 source that I have been testing for a wh...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:\n> > Joe Conway kirjutas E, 10.03.2003 kell 05:35:\n> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_push (anyarray, anyscalar)\n> >> RETURNS anyarray\n> \n> > could you make it\n> > RETURNS typeof($1)\n> \n...