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[ { "msg_contents": "Josh Berkus wrote:\n> Cool. I'll tackle this in a week or two. Right now, I'm being paid\nto\n> convert a client's data and that'll keep me busy through the weekend\n...\n\nI would suggest downloading the data now. I can help get you started\nwith the create table statements and the impor...
[ { "msg_contents": "My build failed in interfaces/ecpg/compatlib because the Makefile\nreferences pgtypeslib instead of compatlib. I was wondering why\nnobody else got that problem. Maybe because they have an old version\nof informix.c lying around in pgtypeslib? Anyway, this patch should\nfix that problem.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Lamar Owen wrote: \n> Also check out the cdbs files (which contain the broadcast stuff as\nwell\n> as\n> more) at /pub/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/cdbs/ (which I would be\nmore\n> interested in doing, since I am a broadcast engineer by\nprofession....)\n> --\nUp until about 6 months ago, I w...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I'm quite familiar with RadioSoft. Can't afford any of the software;\n> familiar\n> with the products... :-)\n> \n> I've been putting together open source tools to do much of the same\nstuff.\n> With the release of the FCC's Fortran source, I've been able to do\n> virtually\n> everything I...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I configure and make in a separate build directory tree, I get\n\n\tcreatedb.c:15: dumputils.h: No such file or directory\nand\n\tprint.c:9: common.h: No such file or directory\n\nin src/bin/scripts. I don't know whether the attached change to the\nMakefile is the preferred way to fix t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm getting a compile error on cvs tip.\n\ngcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations \n-I../../../../src/include -DPKGLIBDIR=\\\"/usr/local/pgsql/lib\\\" \n-DDLSUFFIX=\\\".so\\\" -c -o dfmgr.o dfmgr.c -MMD\ndfmgr.c:330:1: directives may not be used inside a macro argument...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will be in Toronto to do training this week, Monday to Friday. I will\ntry to keep up with my email, but I am not sure.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just wanting some feedback on those psql improvements I put through. Have people been using psql in CVS? Do you like the new format? \r\n\r\nChris\r\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:38:33 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\n The first attached file is the HP ANSI C and gcc patch file for\n PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on Itanium Processer Family (IPF) system with HP-UX\n 11.22 (a.k.a. 11i version 1.6).\n\n - Use the inline assembly code in src/include/storage/s_lock.h\n - Add horology test into \"expec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Assuming that following queries are executed on PostgreSQL 7.3.\n\n\tcreate table c1 (i integer);\n\tcreate table c2 (i integer);\n\tinsert into c1 values (1 .. 100000);\n\tinsert into c2 values (1 .. 100000);\n (A) delete from c1;\n (B)\tinsert into c1 values (1 .. 100000);\n\tanalyze;...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nDoes anyone want remote access to the upcoming AMD 64 bit architecture, \nto make sure PostgreSQL runs well on it?\n\nIt's only via remote access at present, but the AMD guys are willing to \nhelp us out here.\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift\n\n\n-------- Original Mess...
[ { "msg_contents": "I like the information_schema namespace included in 7.4, but it at the \nmoment it's rather unusable to me because most views are restricted to \nshowing only objects owned by the current_user. I regularly need ALL \nobjects visible, as long as the user has rights on it.\n\n", "msg_date":...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently writing parts of a database migration howto for a\ngovernmental unit in Germany in which they want to list pros and\ncons of open source database systems especially when migrating from\nMS-SQL but also from other proprietary dbms.\n\nSince we do not have the best possible...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nJust building a new box with Slackware Linux 9 (2.4.20 kernel) and\nPostgreSQL 7.3.2 and I've run into a little problem. I've successfully\nloaded about 260Mb of data from the old server (7.3.1), however when I\nvacuum one of the databases that I've loaded, I get the following erro...
[ { "msg_contents": "While implementing a function for making view definitions look prettier \nin pgadmin3, I had a look at ruleutils.c to examine why there are tons \nof parentheses coming out of pg_get_viewdef. I believe that some are \nreally not needed.\n\nThese are:\n- get_rule_expr, for CASES T_RelabelType...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was wondering if there was a way, given the information in pg_trigger,\nspecifically pg_trigger.tgtype, to find out on what events a trigger is\nfired, and whether it is fired before or after those events.\n\nI've looked through the code a little in src/backend/commands/trigger.c\nand thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Greg Stark [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:36 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> \"Ron Peacetree\" <rjpeace@earthlink.net> writes:\n> \n> > AFAIK, there are only 3 genera...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com [mailto:cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:20 PM\n> To: Ron Peacetree\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort? \n> \n> \n> Ron Peacetree wrote:\n> > AFAIK, there are only 3 g...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jason M. Felice [mailto:jfelice@cronosys.com] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:10 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:36:10PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:\n> > \"Ron Peacetree...
[ { "msg_contents": "On behalf of Liberty RMS I looked at the deadlock problems caused by our\nimplementation of foreign keys. Thanks to peer review and help from\nStephan Szabo and Tom Lane (Stephan actually had \"the\" idea) it turned\nout that the comment I wrote in December 1999 was wrong.\n\nI just committed...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFollowup-To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n\nThe changes I committed to address most of the FK deadlock problems\nreported can easily be applied to the 7.3 and 7.2 source trees as well.\n\nExcept for a slight change in the text of the error message that gets\nthrown \"if one tries to delete...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Greg Stark [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:50 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Greg Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> \n> > floats are typically 64 - 96 bytes, bigints can be \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Steve Wampler [mailto:swampler@noao.edu] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:58 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jason M. Felice; Postgres-hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:39, Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > > -----Original ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Greg Stark [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:06 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Greg Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> \n> > By the use...
[ { "msg_contents": "So, there I was upgrading my DB server from 7.3.1. to 7.3.2 and like a good\nlittle admin, I recompiled my sources and ran the regression tests. Lo and\nbehold for the first time in several years of running regression tests, I\nencountered a horology error. I've had two successful 7.3.2 reg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nI'm obviously missing something here but I don't know what. This is on 7.3.2.\nWhen I use my cast I get:\n\nmydb=> select cast('truE'::text as boolean);\nWARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function text_to_bool\nWARNING: line 4 at select into variables\nERROR: CopyQuerySn...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK,\nhere's my proposal for a more economical use of parentheses.\n\n- implicit casted variables are not put in parentheses \n(myVar)::integer -> myVar::integer, no chance to misinterpret this\n- explicit CASTs are represented as CAST(... AS ...) for better \ndistinction from implicit one...
[ { "msg_contents": "Using yesterday's cvs code, I find I can no longer link to libpq as\nis_absolute_path is undefined. is_absolute_path appears in fe-connect.c\nversion 1.231. I assume that is_absolute_path is a #define somewhere, but\nI can't put my finger on it to fix... This is on NetBSD-1.6Q/i386 (reverting...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ron Peacetree [mailto:rjpeace@earthlink.net] \n> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 6:33 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> <cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com> wrote in message \n> news:20030407202001.1EC3C58E0D@cbbro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yeeep,\n\nDo anyone know if PostgreSQL has an implementation of Bit Filters or if \nanyone else i working on it actually?\n\nThx in advance ...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYeeep,\n \nDo anyone know if PostgreSQL has an implementation \nof Bit Filters or if \nanyone else i working on it actually?\n \nThx i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yeeep,\n\nDo anyone know if PostgreSQL has an implementation of Bit Filters or if \nanyone else i working on it actually?\n\nThx in advance ...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYeeep,\n \nDo anyone know if PostgreSQL has an implementation \nof Bit Filters or if \nanyone else i working on it actually?\n \nThx...
[ { "msg_contents": "MLW,\n\n> > The U.S. Census provides a database of street polygons and other data\n> > about landmarks, elevation, etc. This was discussed in a separate thread.\n> > \n\nYeah, this was me. We decided to go with the FCC database because it is more \nmanagably sized and has extensive schema d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Josh Berkus wrote:\n> MLW,\n> \n> > > The U.S. Census provides a database of street polygons and other\ndata\n> > > about landmarks, elevation, etc. This was discussed in a separate\n> thread.\n> > >\n> happy to see someone put together a \"huge table\" test using the Tiger\n> database, but f...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tI'm trying to execute a postgresql function from perl. The function \ninserts data into two different tables. I prefer this a sopposed to \nusing two insert statements. Can anyone point me to any information at \nall on how to execute postgresql functions from Perl? The code for \nOracle ...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nJust to let you know I had to make a small change to the 7.2.4 tarball to get it to compile on RedHat 9. The change is;\n\nAdd #include <errno.h> to src/backend/commands/copy.c\n\nHope this is useful,\n\nAl.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll,\n \nJust to let you know I had to make a small change to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI noticed today (while trying to answer a question) that the following\ndoesn't seem to use the index on reasonably recent sources whereas it\nseems to have at 7.3.1.\n\ncreate table b1(a int, b text);\ncreate function fold_clients(int, text) returns text as 'select\n$1 || ''_'' || upper($2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nThis is to announce couple of things regarding OAS Server.\n\n1. Mailing list for OAS Server is up now. It is available at \nhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oasserver-general.\n\nSo I wouldn't be bothering you guys next time like this..:-)\n\n2. First packaging rele...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ron Peacetree [mailto:rjpeace@earthlink.net] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:07 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> \"\"Dann Corbit\"\" <DCorbit@connx.com> wrote in message \n> news:D90A5A6C612A39...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been thinking some more about the FE/BE protocol redesign,\nspecifically the desire to ensure that we can recover from error\nconditions without losing synchronization. The fact that the existing\nprotocol doesn't do very well at this shows up in several places:\n\t* having to drop and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Friends,\n\nApologize.. this posting may not relevance enough to this group.\nI am very much a newbie to posgreSQL database programming and would like\nassistance. I am finding an example how to use the database (postgreSQL) \nto store MRI/CT image data using C language interface. I hear...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've posted this problem two times in the pgsql-jdbc user list, but no \none helped me to solve it. I think this is a really serious problem in \nthe jdbc driver. I've tried different solutions with no result.\n\nWell, let me explain the problem. I've a currently working database in \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Michael Enke (michael.enke@wincor-nixdorf.com) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nServer-Encoding from EUC_TW to UTF-8 doesn't work\n\nLong Description\nSystem: SuSE Linux 8.1, kernel 2.4.19, glibc 2.2.5/glibc-locale 2.2.5\nth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not sure if anyone cares, but I know early on I needed a few large \ndatabases to test with, and I have seen a couple requests for database \nsources. On my website (www.mohawksoft.com) in \"downloads\" I posted two \nfree database loaders.\n\nThe first one (mentioned earlier) is the TigerUA ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to build the man pages from cvs, and am running into\nproblems are there detail instructions somewhere?\n-- \nDave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>\nCramer Consulting\n\n", "msg_date": "10 Apr 2003 09:10:42 -0400", "msg_from": "Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>", "msg_from_o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just derived the following rather interesting numbers concerning the\ncost of SSL-encryption in CVS tip. The test case is to COPY about 40MB\nof data to or from a server running on the same machine (RHL 8.0).\n\nWithout SSL:\n\n[tgl@rh1 tmp]$ time psql -c \"\\copy foo to 'foo2'\" regressio...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to build some SSL functionality into my C functions that\naccess the PostgreSQL database. My C functions are calling the\nroutines from libpq. By chance, are there any SSL functions inherent\nto libpq for establishing a secure connection to the postmaster?\n\nI mention this because I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\nwe're developing a C programme which needs to directly\nuse the functions of the Access Methods interface.\nIn particular, our programme contains a function,\nreadFromPG, which directly calls functions such as\nheap_open, heap_beginscan and so on in order to\nperform a low-leve...
[ { "msg_contents": "I upgraded one of my RedHat machines from 8.0 to 9.0 and PostgreSQL\nstopped working, with the following error message (reformatted here\nfor readability):\n\n An old version of the database format was found.\n You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.\n See (Your ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Ummm. I'm not comfortable with using a time based period for \n> renogatiation.\n\nI think the time based approach sees it more from the angle of the \nattacker. You don't want to leave him enough time to crack your encryption\nand read happily on in real time, no ?\n\nSince some of the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "PostGIS (open source spatial objects for postgresql - \nhttp://postgis.refractions.net ) is trying to integrate a C++ geometry \npackage (GEOS - Geometry Engine, Open Source - \nhttp://geos.refractions.net ).\n\nWe are having trouble trapping exceptions thrown by the GEOS C++ \nlibrary. The ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a bit OT, but I've been struggling all day to get cvsup running \non Red Hat 9. I get lots of errors like this when compiling cvsup:\n\n/opt/src/cvsup-snap-16.1d/suplib/src/../../suptcp/LINUXLIBC6/libsuptcp.a\n(SupTCP.mo)(.text+0x84): In function `SupTCP__NewConnector':\n/opt/src/cvsu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally got a modula3 distribution to compile on Red Hat 9 (ezm3) and \nwas able to make a binary RPM for CVSup that works on RH9. In case \nanyone is interested, I've posted it here, along with the source RPM:\n http://www.joeconway.com/\n\nThere is also a source RPM for bison 1.875 that...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking at\n\nftp://ftp.be.postgresql.org/postgresql/doc/7.2/reference-7.2-A4.pdf\n\nand on page 70, CREATE TABLE, Compatibility, I find a statement that\nsuggests the writer was under a misapprehension.\n\nYou say first:\n\n<quote>\nThe CREATE TABLE conforms to SQL92 Intermediate...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI am trying to integrate an Enterprise level application to PostgreSQL.\nI need answers to some questions:\n\nThis is what we are planning:\n\n\n\t\t+---------------+\n\t\t+ Storage\t+\n\t\t+ Area\t+\n\t\t+ Network\t+\n\t\t+---------------+\n\t\t\t+\n\t\t\t+\n\t\t------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Running ./configure with CVS HEAD on my machine yields:\n\nchecking for gawk... no\nchecking for mawk... mawk\nchecking for flex... no\nconfigure: WARNING:\n*** The Flex version 2.5.3 you have at /usr/bin/lex contains a bug. You\n*** should get version 2.5.4 or later.\nconfigure: WARNING:\n**...
[ { "msg_contents": "I get the following warnings when compiling CVS HEAD:\n\nbe-secure.c: In function `open_server_SSL':\nbe-secure.c:719: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type\n\ntimestamp.c: In function `dttofmtasc_replace':\ntimestamp.c:468: warning: `%g' yields only last 2 digits of year\ntimest...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, everybody\n\n I found that in postgresql, we can only use \"select login_name as name from \nusers;\" to get an alias \"name\" for column \"login_name\", but in most other \ndatabases we can omit the \"as\", that is \"select login_name name from users;\".\n\n Now I will convert a lot...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nA few hours ago I received a phone call from some guys that had a Linux box in Brisbane, Australia, and they don't have remote access to it (on-site only).\nTheir Linux+PostgreSQL admin has split (no idea why, didn't ask questions), and they're not skilled in *nix.\n\nAnyway, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any hard recovery tools for PostgreSQL?\n\nJust suppose that all the log files are gone, and the only thing left is \nsome of the files in the /data directory. Is there any way to scan this \ndata and dump it to a file which could subsequently be used with a \"COPY \nFROM STDIN\" on...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some interesting MySQL news here:\n\nhttp://news.com.com/2100-1012-996434.html\n\n... and for those who weren't aware, this from Patrick Macdonald on the RHDB mailing list:\n\n> The Red Hat Database product was end-of-life'd last year and is no\n> longer supported by Red Hat. However, questi...
[ { "msg_contents": "My 2 cents worth.\n\nThe issue in my mind is that qsort cannot sort while the data is being read off the disk. By using a balenced tree the data can be sorted into partitions while it is being read, then these partitions can be merged.\n\nIMHO this will give the best performance.\n\nI wrote ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm generating binary copy files and was wondering if someone could quickly \nshed some light on the internal binary format used to represent time types, \nspecifically timestamp{w/tz} types. I'm in a bit of a hurry unfortunately, \nso I figured I'd try the list first in an effort to save ...
[ { "msg_contents": "For the past few days I'm seeing this when building php on machines\nwhere I build Postgres from cvs:\n\ngcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pgsql/lib\n-L/usr/local/pgsql/lib conftest.c -lcrypt -lmm -lpspell -lpq -lmhash\n-lmcrypt -lltdl -lldap -llber -lcrypt -lpam -lgmp...
[ { "msg_contents": " From time to time people using PostgreSQL for the Smalltalk StORE\nrepository system are having performance problems. There are some\ncommon solutions such as suggesting they run vacuum analyze, or apply\nthe latest StORE schema tweaks.\n\nI'm wondering if there is a document somewhere that...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ron Peacetree [mailto:rjpeace@earthlink.net] \n> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:02 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?\n> \n> \n> \"\"Dann Corbit\"\" <DCorbit@connx.com> wrote in message \n> news:D90A5A6C612A394...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\ngood news:\n we're about to finish tsearch V2. We've added new ranking function,\n and generation of text fragments with query terms highlighted.\n\nbad news:\n we won't release it without documentation.\n\nTodo:\n port OpenFTS to new tsearch.\n\n\nWe'd like to have tsearc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Caffeinate The World wrote:\n\n>\n> --- Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:\n> > Hi there,\n> >\n> > good news:\n> > we're about to finish tsearch V2. We've added new ranking\n> > function,\n> > and generation of text fragments with query terms highlighted.\n> >\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jeff Davis [mailto:jdavis-pgsql@empires.org] \n> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:07 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?\n> \n> \n> On Monday 14 April 2003 09:30 pm, Dann Corbit wrote:\n> >\n> > And abou...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ron Mayer [mailto:ron@intervideo.com] \n> Sent: 15 April 2003 05:38\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Cc: ron@intervideo.com\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?\n> \n> \n> IMVHO it's reference customers/users more than books & windo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kevin Brown [mailto:kevin@sysexperts.com] \n> Sent: 15 April 2003 01:30\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?\n> \n> I seriously think the native Win32 port of Postgres will make \n> a big difference, be...
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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody!\n\nI have to insert a lot of data (more than 1.000.000 rows) in various \ntables. I use stored procedures in C to insert the data. It is necessary \nto run ANALYZE after inserting a some thousand rows into a table. Can \nsomeone tell me how to call ANALYZE \n(or analyze_rel(Oid ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature\n> > that people seem to ask about every week.\n> \n> Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in\n> quite some time.\n\nImho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just been having an informative off-list conversation with Mike\nSykes. As he pointed out in a message that Marc forwarded to the list\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-04/msg00411.php\nwe shouldn't feel bad about the fact that our temp table implementation\ndoesn't con...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nNew to the Hackers list, but long time lurker on the archives. Also a member of the Postgres-r list. Just thought I would join in now to give my opinions on this thread.\n\n> One of the features that PostgreSql must have, IMHO, is support for\n> cross-db operations (queries, u...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> > > > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature\n> > > > that people seem to ask about every week.\n> > > \n> > > Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in\n> > > quite some time.\n> > \n> > Imho it is well documented, and the an...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:17 PM\n> To: Robert Treat\n> Cc: ow; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? \n> \n> \n> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:35 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Robert Treat; ow; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> write...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nYour Pgconn already is SSL encrypted.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nG. Anthony Reina wrote:\n> Thanks for the reply Bruce.\n> \n> Yes, I'm aware of the pg_hba.conf setting to require SSL connections, \n> however I was specifically asking i...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ron Mayer [mailto:ron@intervideo.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:07 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Tom Lane\n> Cc: Robert Treat; ow; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? \n> \n> \n> \n> Dann wrote:\n> >Sure you c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, or how it happened.\n\nI have a database where I deleted all records from all tables. I\nrun a vacuum full and am left with about 1 GB of data.\n\nWhat I think is happening is that it somehow thinks that data is\nstill in use by an other transanction...
[ { "msg_contents": "I beg to differ with Tom Lane's opinion, but schemas do not solve the\nproblem with multi-database queries because of the following reasons:\n\n1) When dealing with large databases, the use of multiple databases\nreduces the risk of wiping out all the data, and reduces the recovery\ntime in c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been thinking about this for a while. Now that we have a \npractical methodology for returning full rows from functions, we could \nmake this sort of thing pretty \"easily.\"\n\nHow should it look? How much work is worth putting into it?\n\nMy thinking is that there is a module in cont...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed a first-draft revision of the FE/BE protocol document;\nyou can read it at\nhttp://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/protocol.html\nor in a few hours at\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/protocol.html\nI'd appreciate it if people would look it over for bo...
[ { "msg_contents": "What is the encoding of the database names in pg_database???\n\nI wish to display the names of all available database on a webpage, but\nsince each database name is encoded differently, it's not possible. Is the\nsolution to go 'set client_encoding to 'utf8' and then do the SELECT? Is\nthat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThere are various places in the backend, such as FreeFile(), where the\nreturn value of fclose() is not tested. Whilst we would often notice any\nproblems with writing to data files due to testing on fsync(), it could\naffect things like COPY ... TO, CreateOptsFile() and more.\n\nA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was just going thr. dblink code and noticed that dblink cursors are wrapped \nin their own transaction.\n\nIf an application instantiates a transaction to do 10 things, one of which is \nto fetch a cursor over dblink, how will it work?\n\nIMO the instantiation of transaction block s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI know I should have clubbed in last post but did not notice.\n\n1. Why is that dblink allows only one persistent connection? It should allow \nmore than one persistent connections to same or different databases, \nsearchable by name. Of course we do not expect number of remote connect...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI took a look at the docs for Postgres views & rules. I also took a look at dblink. I think there is a very plausible way to get \"cross-db\" queries in postgres\n\n1) Support for 2PC added.\n2) Modify dblink (if it needs modification) to operate within the current transaction...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nA week or 2 back I reported a problem with 7.3.2 failing to open pg_clog\nfiles ([HACKERS] pg_clog woes with 7.3.2).\n\nTom Lane was kind enough to login and do some debugging on a couple of\noccasions and found corrupt pages in a database on the system. After the\nfirst session, h...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> \n> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 19:40, Rob Butler wrote:\n> > \ta) create remoteview ... (all necessary information about remote machine\n> > and query) b) create view [local | remote] .... (necessary info)\n> > \tc) create view remote-server.schema.table (necessary info)\n> \n> That is no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all\n\nIn earlier threads on the Hackers mailing list there were discussions of a few things that I would like to comment on. Sorry in advance for the length of this post.\n\nFirst, PostgreSQL needs 2PC AND eager replication AND lazy replication all at the same time. Of those however,...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \t...Except if you need only few records from remote database(on ISDN link for \n> example) and remote view (dblink) first selects all the records from remote, \n> and after that WHERE clause is executed on prepared result. \n\nYou are absolutely right. Hadn't considered that situation. \...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Oddly I don't see the link he's referring to, but I've always thought it\n> unfortunate that the postgresql community didn't hold onto those domain\n> names.\n\nHmm, very odd. I just went out to: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/gborg/projdisplay.php today by following the link from ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When Bruce started the \"Are we losing momentum\" thread he said:\n\n\"... Specifically, they are concerned about Red Hat dropping their Red Hat Database and instead distributing PostgreSQL as part of Red Hat Enterprise Server ...\"\n\nRedhat Database is based on Postgres correct?\n\nWhat are...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed they recently updated a whole slew of postgresql\nvulnerabilities. I believe most of the updates were based on the release\nof several fixes for older PostgreSQL versions on the \"Immunix\" OS as\nmentioned here: http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/5270\n\nthe specific updates a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nTom Lane wrote:\n\n>>What about Oracle's Create database link syntax?\n>> \n>>\n>\n>What about it? Does anyone beside Oracle support it? Can we implement\n>it without running afoul of Oracle patents? Quite honestly, I'm afraid\n>to base any feature on \"this is how Oracle does it\",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Debian has just upgraded flex to 2.5.31. This breaks the contrib\nmodules that use flex (cube, seg and tsearch) and probably also the main\nscanner.\n\nIs anyone looking at changing the lexer sources to work with the new\nflex?\n\n-- \nOliver Elphick Oliver.Elp...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 16 April 2003 16:22\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_clog woes with 7.3.2 - Episode 2 \n> \n> \n> How annoying. My bet would be on the SCSI adaptor being t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 17 April 2003 04:40\n> To: Kevin Brown\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_clog woes with 7.3.2 - Episode 2 \n> \n> \n> Considering that, I would bet a good deal that the probl...