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[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> \n> The big question is how to fix this on Win32. Is a test in the\ninteger\n> division routines enough? \n\nAll divisions could be tested and the appropriate signal could get\nraised by the handler. I would hate to see what this would do to the\nsource. In win...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is an attempt to lay out a road map for updating the frontend/backend\nprotocol in 7.4. I don't at this point want to get into details on any\none of the TODO items, just get consensus that this is the set of tasks\nto be tackled. Are there any areas that I've missed (that require\npro...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The big question is how to fix this on Win32. Is a test in the\ninteger\n> division routines enough? Is there a signal to catch on Win32?\n\nAfter fighting with the docs a little bit, here is how to handle an\nint/0 in a C application. \n\n#include \"stdio.h\"\n#include \"excpt.h\"\n#inc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Justin Clift wrote:\n> \n> PostgreSQL 8.0\n> **************\n> \n> + Includes PITR and the Win32 port\n*snip*\n\nI feel like the upcoming 7.4 is the most important release since the\nintroduction of toast, maybe even since the introduction of the sql\nlanguage. I wholeheartedly agree with yo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> This is not C.\n\nI can't argue that; but it will compile on a C compiler on the Microsoft\nplatform. I'm not sure if you were answering tongue-in-cheek, so for\nthe benefit of the group:\n\n__try and __except, as far as I can tell are the only way to gracefully\nhandle ce...
[ { "msg_contents": "SQL92 defines the cursor-fetch command as\n\n <fetch statement> ::=\n FETCH [ [ <fetch orientation> ] FROM ] <cursor name>\n INTO <fetch target list>\n\n <fetch orientation> ::=\n NEXT\n | PRIOR\n | FIRST...
[ { "msg_contents": "> * Backend should pass its version number, database encoding, \n> default client encoding, and possibly other data (any ideas?) to\n> frontend during startup, to avoid need for explicit queries to get\n> this info. We could also consider eliminating SET commands sent by\n> libpq in favor of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Doug Royer wrote:\n> No, try/catch does not trap division by zero unless the underlying\n> implementation throws an error there is nothing to catch.\n> \nI am absolutely 100% sure that you can catch int/0 with a try catch\nhandler (in c++) on windows platforms (when compiled with ms/borland\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> If the backend can not handle the version I request, but can handle a\n> prior version, I'd like to know. I am planning on having handlers for\n> multiple protocol versions in the same memory space (I'm using\n> Smalltalk, BTW) so that one application can talk to various databases\nof\n> v...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 10 March 2003 18:51\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign\n> \n> \n> This is an attempt to lay out a road map for updati...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMaybe this is related to the thread [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS\nHEAD\n\nI've installed postgresql-7.3.2 on HP-UX yesterday.\n\nWhen running 'gmake -C regress check'\nthe process does not return.\n\nFile ./src/test/regress/regression.out shows\n\nparallel group (13 tests): float8 i...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > X and Y? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is SSL \n> support. I'm \n> > not sure if it's still that way, but at least it used to be \n> a pretty \n> > ugly kludge there with the connection being dropped and \n> re-connected \n> > in some cases.\n> \n> SSL support is a bad example,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Justin Clift wrote:\n> confidentiality level of the Win32/PITR patches at present, but I'd\n> guess there would be at least a few solid volunteers willing to\n> contribute to the Win32/PITR ports if we asked for people to step\n> forwards.\n\nI'd like to help. I've been following the list fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nplease apply attached patch to current CVS.\nbtree_gist now supports int2 !\nThanks Janko Richter for contribution.\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 March 2003 15:06\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign \n> \n> \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:\n> > I've installed postgresql-7.3.2 on HP-UX yesterday.\n> > When running 'gmake -C regress check'\n> > the process does not return.\n>\n> See doc/FAQ_HPUX:\n>\n> : The parallel regression test script (gmake check) is known to lock\nup\n> : whe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry I have not caught up with email yet. I have read it all, but\nhaven't gone back and addressed the emails I need to reply to or put in\nthe patch queue. \n\nI will try to complete this in the next few days. I am doing some work\nfor the SRA Win32 threaded port. \n\n-- \n Bruce Momji...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 March 2003 15:55\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign \n> \n> \n> I...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working on extending the functionality of PostgreSQL on Linux.\nI need to know what's the largest filesize for a single file that I can have\nunder Linux?\n\nRegards,\nPartho\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:31:54 GMT", "msg_from": "\"Partho Bhowmick\" <pbhowmick@sbcgloba...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 11 March 2003 18:39\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign \n> \n> \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThe following script is currently used to build our main website. Static\nHTML versions of each of the pages are generated from php scripts on an\nhourly basis by this script, but the other day for some reason it\ngenerated an empty index page, but gave no errors that we have been ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] wrote:\n> Sure, Neil Conway updated Jan's patches for 7.3. It is in:\n> \n> \tftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/\n\nI have not been able to run the patch against either the 7.2.1 source or\nthe 7.3.2 source. It always quits with as...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Gavin Sherry [mailto:swm@linuxworld.com.au] \n> Sent: 11 March 2003 22:38\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Website build script\n> \n> \n> Seems possible that Lynx timed out and generated and sh left \n> only ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The way I understand it, grantMask in the LOCK struct (file Lock.h) could help us find out all the lock types already granted for an object associated with the LOCKTAG.\nHow do we do the bit manipulation to 'separate' the mask to get to the different lock types associated with the object that...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do we get the actual pgproc object from the \nSHMEM_OFFSET proc /* link to pgproc of owning backend*/ in the PROCLOCKTAG struct in file Lock.h\nThe same question also for SHMEM_OFFSET lock /*link to per-lockable-object information*/ in the same struct\nIs SHMEM_OFFSET a pointer to an addr...
[ { "msg_contents": "what are the different types of lock modes available for row-level locks?\nI found a documentation on different types of lock modes available for table-level locks at \nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/explicit-locking.html\nwhere is the documentation on different types of lock m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nThinking about the numbering further.\n\nWould it be cool to decide on the version numbering of our next release \nlike this:\n\n + If it looks like we'll have Win32 and/or PITR recovery in time for\n the next release, we call it PostgreSQL 8.0\n\n + If not, we call it 7....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHiroshi Inoue wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \n> > Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n> > > What the driver has suffered from is to get the\n> > > fields' info of a query result or the parameters'\n> > > info of a statement. The info is needed even before\n> > > the execution of the s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I'm still unclear on exactly what your needs are. In the first place,\n> > are you expecting to obtain data from arbitrary SELECT statements, or\n> > only from statements of the form \"SELECT * FROM single_table\"? You've\n> > also been confusing as to whether you want transparency of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dave Page wrote:\n> I don't know about JDBC, but ODBC could use it, and it would save a\nheck\n> of a lot of pain in apps like pgAdmin that need to figure out if a\ncolumn\n> in an arbitrary resultset might be updateable.\n\nI use an open source toolkit, zeos components for postgresql, that m...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was at a client office reviewing some code. They use MSSQL and I \nnoticed that:\n\nselect * from table where field = 'blah';\ngave the same results as:\nselect * from table where field = 'BLah';\n\nI was shocked. (a) because I know a lot of my code could be easier to \nwrite, and (b) that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 00:34\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign\n> \n> \n> Dave Page writes:\n> \n> > I don't know about JDBC, b...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA@spardat.at] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 09:50\n> To: Hiroshi Inoue; Tom Lane\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 13:35\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign\n> \n> \n> > values. That code is just plain nasty in VB....
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dave Cramer [mailto:Dave@micro-automation.net] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 14:55\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD; Hiroshi Inoue; Tom Lane; Bruce \n> Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACK...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPeter Eisentraut writes:\n> Dave Page writes:\n> \n> > Well what I *really* need has been made quite clear in other posts,\nbut,\n> > when I say resultset in the same sentence as pgAdmin, I'm referring\nto\n> > the ability to enter an arbitrary SQL query, have the results\ndisplayed\n> > in...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 17:46\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign\n> \n> \n> What you need is an updateable cursor on the server s...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dwayne Miller [mailto:dmiller@espgroup.net] \n> Sent: 12 March 2003 18:35\n> To: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Case insensitivity, and option?\n> \n> \n> I know that the MSSQL code works because the default \n> collation sequence \n> fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Deepak Bhole of Red Hat just pointed out to me a failure that he got\nafter some 7.3 stress testing:\n\n> [ \"`~!@#$%^&*()''| \\final_db\\n,.;:'\" ]=# SELECT n.nspname, p.proname,\n> o.oprcode::oid FROM pg_operator o, pg_proc p, pg_namespace n WHERE\n> o.oid=270447::oid AND p.oid=o.oprcode::o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi Gang\n\nI can sense that I'm _really_ close to getting docbook working, but\nnot quite there yet. I'm hoping somebody can tell me where I'm\nscrewing up !\n\nI'm on a Red Hat Linux 7.3 system. Although I do have openjade\ninstalled I was finding it difficult to figure out where to point\...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I create a new table with a serial column, the first row defaults to\ninserting '1'.\n\nIf I delete all the rows from the table and want to reset the sequence, I\ncan't:\n\nERROR: users_health_types_type_id_seq.setval: value 0 is out of bounds\n(1,9223372036854775807)\n\nHow do I set th...
[ { "msg_contents": "[forwarding to -hackers]\n\nOn Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:28:12 -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi\n<franco@akyasociados.com.ar> wrote:\n>Below you can find a simplified example of a real case. \n>I don't understand why I'm getting the \"john\" record twice. \n\nISTM you have found a Postgres 7.3 bug.\n\nI...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:28:12 -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi\n> <franco@akyasociados.com.ar> wrote:\n> >Below you can find a simplified example of a real case.\n> >I don't understand why I'm getting the \"john\" record twice.\n>\n> ISTM you have found a Postgres 7.3 bug.\n>\n> I get one john...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > Does looking up by the catalog keys take no cost ?\n> > \n> > Obviously there is cost, but doing a lookup only on demand, has got to be\n> > cheaper in the long run than including the entire column definition in the\n> > message whether it's wanted or not?\n> \n> So if there are 100 f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working my way through getting the postgres win32 port (7.2.1)\ncompiled under MSVC. I got through the patch and the compilation, but\nam having problems with the linker. Trying to link the backend, I get\n43 linker errors like: \nunresolved external symbol GUC-scanstr\nunresolved exte...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp] \n> Sent: 13 March 2003 10:04\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; ZeugswetterA@spardat.at; \n> pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I am working my way through getting the postgres win32 port (7.2.1)\n> compiled under MSVC. I got through the patch and the compilation, but\n> am having problems with the linker. Trying to link the backend, I get\n> 43 linker errors like:\n> unresolved external symbol GUC-scanstr\n> unre...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA@spardat.at] \n> Sent: 13 March 2003 17:07\n> To: Hiroshi Inoue; Dave Page\n> Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protoco...
[ { "msg_contents": "(Or, protocol upgrade phase 1...)\n\nAfter digging through our many past discussions of what to do with error\nmessages, I have put together the following first-cut proposal. Fire at\nwill...\n\n\nObjective\n---------\n\nThe basic objective here is to divide error reports into multiple\nfiel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the regular expression used by Postgres POSIX compliant?\n\nRegards,\nPartho\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:27:54 GMT", "msg_from": "\"Partho Bhowmick\" <pbhowmick@sbcglobal.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Regular expressions in PostgreSQL" }, { ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While doing the previous post, I found that the following fails, should it?\n\nPG 7.3.2 on FreeBSD:\n\n\nler=# \\df interval\n List of functions\n Result data type | Schema | Name | Argument data types\n------------------+------------+----------+--------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[7.3.2 on debian unstable]\n\nWe recently had an unclean server shutdown and now a pg_dump command\ncrashes the backend:\n\npg_dump: PANIC: open of /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog/0003 failed: No\nsuch file or directory\n\nShould we restore from a known good dump after an initdb?\n\n-- \n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > for that, we get what exactly? Fetching one row at a time is\n> > *guaranteed* to be inefficient. The correct response if that bothers\n> > you is to fetch multiple rows at a time, not to make a less robust\n> > protocol.\n> I don't feel strongly either way on this one, but IIRC the S...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI talked to Bruce and I've chosen a project, which will be nested\ntransactions and hopefully savepoints. I have started reading previous\ndiscussion on the topic, and looking at the code to see what's involved.\n\nAFAICT, transaction mechanisms and states is the first thing to v...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some people were mentioning an error message style guide. Here's a start\nof one that I put together a while ago. Feel free to consider it.\n\n\nSize of message\n---------------\n\nThe main part of a message should be at most 72 characters long. For\nembedded format specifiers (%s, %d, etc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nOne can alter a user to set a validity timestamp. However, unless one\nuses the ugly kludge of setting a date very far into the future, there's\nno way to set this validity forever.\n\nShould I make a patch to correct this? Should be quite trivial.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera (<alvhe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL hackers,\nI am developing a disk IO scheduler for Linux and am aiming to\nhave it included in the stable 2.6 release. Due to its design,\nperformance regressions do appear, and are often more specific\nto the workload in question than with other schedulers, hence\none has to g...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\ni've successfully installed Postgresql 7.3.2 on Mac OSX 10.2.4, and can \naccess/administer as necessary\n\nexcept, i can't seem to CREATELANG, specifically plpgsql .....\n\nthe command:\n\n createlang --pglib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib --dbname=apache_auth plpgsql\n\nsimply returns:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all,\n\ntried this on pgsql-admin & darwin-kernel lists, and unfortunately, not a \n'nibble' ...\n\ncan ne1 here spare a moment?\n\nthanks!\n\nrichard\n\n---------- Forwarded Message ----------\n\nhi all,\n\ni've successfully built postgreSQL 7.3.2-STABLE on Mac OSX 10.2.4.\n\nmuch trouble...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nxor% uname -a\nFreeBSD xor 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #7: Thu Mar 6 21:53:07 MSK 2003 \n teodor@xor:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/XOR i386\nxor% gcc -v\nUsing built-in specs.\nConfigured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler\nThread model: posix\ngcc version 3.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20021119 (...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all hackers,\nI can startup database using command \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data\".\nBut when I debug it using gdb and set args -D /usr/local/pgsql/data, it can't startup database. it says;\nFATAL: Database \"postgres\" does not exist in the system catalog.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all.\r\n I have read some codes on transaction abort operation. When the transaction abort, it seem that \r\nall the tuples related in the transaction have not been deal with. it XMIN equals to the tuple create transaction \r\nID. Its XMAX equals null. Of cource , It make some records...
[ { "msg_contents": "I thought of something I'd overlooked in my original proposal for error-\nhandling upgrades: what about reporting where an error occurs in a PL\nfunction?\n\nCurrently, plpgsql has a hack that prints a separate WARNING giving\nthe error location, but this is pretty darn ugly. It should be pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "On the SQL list earlier today, I posted the following, and Josh Berkus \nrightfully told me to post it here....\n\n\n> I was looking for the source for this a month or so back, and couldn't \nfind\n> it. I needed similar stuff.\n>\n> If someone could guide me, I **MIGHT** find the round tuit...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:02:51 +0800,\n Jinqiang Han <postgresql@db.pku.edu.cn> wrote:\n> Bruno Wolff III,\n> \n> \tDid you notice that postmaster is a link to postgres. So argv[0] is postgres not postmaster...\n> \tI wonder if postmaster.c is still in use. It is really weird.\n\nargv[0] g...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, I was a good boy and tried -interfaces first. No answer.\n\nI'm trying to get a functioning version of plpython on FreeBSD, while\nusing python from the ports system.\n\nThe problem is that the ports system build python with thread\nsupport. postmaster doesn't have thread support, so when...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have decided to start beta June 1. There will be no new large\nfeatures added after mid-May.\n\nHopefully, Final release will be in July or August.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm currently working on an implementation of cursors that can function\noutside the transaction that created them (the SQL spec calls them\n\"holdable cursors\"). I can see 2 main ways to implement this:\n\n(1) During the transaction that created the holdable cursor, don't do\nanyt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having a little problem with 7.3's tsearch:\n\nusa=# select brand,description, ftiidx from food_foods where description\nilike '%frapp%';\n brand | description\n| ftiidx\n-----------+---------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI've been looking at what is involved into making nested transactions\npossible. So far I've identified the following things. Please comment.\nAdditions are welcome.\n\n\nResource Management\n-------------------\n\nWe will create and select a new memory context for each subtrans...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi - there is a problem with PQescapeBytea for Win32. Since libpq is a DLL, \nall memory allocated from within the DLL needs to be freed from within the \ndll.\n\nPQescapeBytea allocates memory, but there is no function call back into the \nDLL to free this memory. This causes heap corrupti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I suppose that is ok. But the default compiler flags in the provided \nmakefile for libpq is non-multithreaded. That should at least be fixed I \nwould think.\n\nIf it's not a big deal for you, I would say that in the name of safety for \nthose people who don't look closely at these things, i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nActually this isn't even working for me. I just compiled the libpq dll with \n/MT (multithreaded), and I still get corruption in my app. I even tried \nlibpq compiled with multithreaded-debug (/MTd), which my app is using now, \nand still same problem. I think a separate function would be ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sure - I figured since it's a 1-line function, someone would just write it \nthemselves in the next release. But here it is attached. I'm not sure \nexactly how you like your patches submitted, so here is a zip file with the \nmodified libpq-fe.h and fe-exec.c files.\n\nThe only change is the...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 18 March 2003 06:26\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign \n> \n> \n> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n> > .....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nToday I discovered that if there is a compund primary key on a table, I can \nnot create a reference from another table to one of the fields in the primary \nkey..\n\nLook at this..\n\nphd=# create table tmp1(a integer,b integer,primary key(a,b));\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oracle is now providing higher level support for United Linux than for\nRed Hat Linux:\n\n\thttp://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/3315.html\n\nI wonder if that is related to Red Hat's support for PostgreSQL.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@can...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 18 March 2003 14:45\n> To: Peter Eisentraut\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] Upgrading the backend's \n> error-message infrastructure ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I connect to a non-existing server over Unix-domain sockets I now\nsimply get\n\ncreatedb: could not connect to database template1: could not create socket: No such file or directory\n\nThere used to be a more verbose message along the lines of \"Is the server\nrunning on ... and accepti...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tpetere@postgresql.org\t03/03/18 17:19:47\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : manage-ag.sgml \n\tdoc/src/sgml/ref: createdb.sgml createlang.sgml createuser.sgml \n\t dropdb.sgml droplang.sgml dropuser.sgml \n\tsrc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jason Hihn wrote:\n> That's only part of it. Since I'm a developer, I think more software\nis\n> key.\n> Getting products that require MySQL is a big downside to PostgreSQL.\nMost\n> of\n> the time too, those products are great and win over a lot of people.\n> (vBulletin, Slashdot.org) Of cou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\nI have read some code on transaction part.\nWhen the new transaction starts, it record the snapshot of database containing the current transaction id,etc. So depending on the snapshot\n, the transaction decide which tuple is visible.\nBut transaction could also be implemented by lock....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\r\nI have read some code on transaction part.\r\nWhen the new transaction starts, it record the snapshot of database containing the current transaction id,etc. So depending on the snapshot\r\n, the transaction decide which tuple is visible.\r\nBut transaction could also be implemented ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is, what I've put together from various messages posted\nNovember/December last year.\n\n\t. Subtrans trees\n\t. Transaction states\n\t. Tuple visibility\n\t. HeapTupleSatifiesUpdate\n\t. Shortcuts\n\t. Still missing\n\t. Objections and suggestions\n\n\nSubtrans trees\n--------------\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello,\nwhat is RIR rules in Rewriter? What RIR means?\nThank you very much.\nJinqiang Han\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:32:25 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Jinqiang Han\" <postgresql@db.pku.edu.cn>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "inquiery" }, { "msg_conte...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Actually this isn't even working for me. I just compiled the libpq dll with \n> /MT (multithreaded), and I still get corruption in my app. I even tried \n> libpq compiled with multithreaded-debug (/MTd), which my app is using now, \n> and still same problem.\n\nNo, you need to use multith...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having a problem with my postgresql email. I cannot access my imap\naccount on postgresql.org anymore. For two or three days now no mail to\nmeskes@postgresql.org has made it to me. And I wasn't able to conatct\nMarc so far. The account is there as I can login via ssh.\n\nSo if you want t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nJust stumbled upon this. Is it correct to conclude that foreign keys are not \ninherited from this text?\n\n--------------------\nphd=# create table perbookings(type smallint) inherits (bookings);\nCREATE TABLE\nphd=# \\d perbookings;\n Table \"public.perbookings\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I see no concurrency problems. If two or more backends visit the same\n> tuple, they either write the same value to the same position which\n> doesn't hurt, or one sees the other's changes which is a good thing.\n\nAFAIR, on multi-CPU platforms it's possible that second transaction could\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I see no concurrency problems. If two or more backends visit the same\n> tuple, they either write the same value to the same position which\n> doesn't hurt, or one sees the other's changes which is a good thing.\n\nAFAIR, on multi-CPU platforms it's possible that second transaction could\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nwe have a little problem in new version of tsearch we're currently\nworking. We've implemented concatenation operation for txtidx type\nand treat concatenation with NULL as NULL (as it should be).\nBut people get confused with such behaivour. Do we obliged to\nfollow NULL rule ? ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom pointed out a problem with our current error handling with\nautocommit off:\n\n\tSET autocommit TO off;\n\tlkjasdfasdf;\n\tSELECT 1;\n\tCOMMIT;\n\nIn our current code, SELECT is considred to be in a new transaction. \nThis patch fixes that by making the SELECT be part of the aborted\ntran...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had the misfortune of having to attend a .NET forum. It was \ninteresting, it seems like Microsoft is gonna may anyone's dog able to \nwrite web service applications. The catch being that it will only run on \nWindows .NET.\n\nAnyway, on to MySQL. The had a booth there. I asked their techn...
[ { "msg_contents": "To improve handling of autocommit off mode, I am proposing a change in\nour next release. Right now, if you pass multiple queries in the same\nstring to the backend:\n\n\tpsql -c 'INSERT INTO test VALUES (1);INSERT INTO test VALUES (2);\" template1\n\nthe query is considered to be a single t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHere are a list of features that might be in 7.4. I know there are\nseveral people involved in each of these items.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nWire protocol changes\nPoint-in-time recovery\nWin32 port\nCursors WITH HOLD and WHERE CURRE...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wednesday 19 March 2003 04:33 am, you wrote:\n> Dave Cramer <Dave@micro-automation.net> writes:\n> > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 19:00, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:\n> >> ODBC(maybe JDBC also) has cross-transaction result sets\n> >> (rather than cursors) since long by simply holding all\n> >> results fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been amusing myself the last several evenings by working on a\nreimplementation of the NUMERIC datatype, along the lines of previous\ndiscussion (use base-10000 digits instead of base-10 so that the number\nof iterations of the inner loops decreases by a factor of about 4).\n\nIt's not r...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations\n-I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -c -o\ncommon.o common.c -MMD\ncommon.c:184: conflicting types for `cancelConn'\ncommon.h:30: previous declaration of `cancelConn'\nmake[3]: *** [common.o] Error 1\nmake[3]: L...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI just noticed that comparing a text to a varchar results in an index not \nbeing used without a cast in some circumstances. Given that they have \nidentical internal representations (or so I believe), that seems a little odd.\n\nCan anyone shed some light on this for me? I assume it has so...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm going to be looking into this, and was wondering what things people \nwere looking for as formatting types.\n\nI don't have the original discussions, and don't want to just invent stuff.\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-981...