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[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Rob Butler [mailto:robert.butler5@verizon.net] \n> Sent: 16 April 2003 17:48\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Many comments (related to \"Are we \n> losing momentum?\")\n> \n> \n> > \n> > Oddly I don't see the link he's re...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Ben\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ben Clewett [mailto:B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com] \n> Sent: 17 April 2003 10:45\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] For the ametures. (related to \"Are we \n> losing momentum?\")\n> \n> \n> I am not a hacker of PgSQL, and ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Ben Clewett [mailto:B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com] \n> Sent: 17 April 2003 12:44\n> To: Dave Page; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] For the ametures. (related to \"Are we \n> losing momentum?\")\n> \n> \n> \n> But not the API's. N...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dave Page \n> Sent: 17 April 2003 15:21\n> To: Gavin Sherry\n> Cc: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] pg_clog woes with \n> 7.3.2 - Episode 2 \n> \n> > > > \n> > > > Dave,\n> > > > \n> > > > Is this in Reiser FS...
[ { "msg_contents": "> This would allow PG to incorporate a web services protocol. It would allow\n> servers like email, DNS, etc. to be constructed from within PostgreSQL. \n> \n> What do you think?\n\nWhile I could see PostgreSQL being used as a Soap server, I think it\nneeds to be independent of the backend it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Presently, libpq supports several environment variables (PGTZ,\nPGDATESTYLE, etc) which cause it to issue SET commands at the start of a\nconnection. Since these are plain SETs, they don't affect the session\ndefaults as far as the backend is concerned. Thus, we get this behavior\nas of 7.3...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am about to start committing changes to CVS tip to implement the\nplanned FE/BE protocol changes. My plan is to do this a bit at a time,\nsince I don't want to get far out of sync with CVS. This means that the\nactual protocol supported by CVS tip is going to change little by\nlittle. Ye...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nPostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2\n20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)\n\nOne of the backends died on me with the following in the logfile...\n\ner 127.0.0.1 SELECT: regcomp.c:331: p_ere: Assertion `!(p->next <\np->end) || ((p->next < p->end) && (*...
[ { "msg_contents": "For current version of postgresql, is it possible for a query like below \nto utilize an index?\n\nselect item_name from item where item_code like 'ABC%';\n\nEarlier versions of postgresql, eg, 6.5.3 can utilize the index.\n\n\nThanks,\nThomas.\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:56:52...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using 7.3.2 on Linux, with a decent amount of muscle behind it\n(1.5 GHz PPro CPU, 1G mem, 20M/sec disks, xlog on different disk than\ndata).\n\nI've got a database that has several foreign keys, and I'm copying a\nbunch of data from an MS-SQL server into it via Perl DBI. I noticed\nthat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks Kevin, I will try that when I return to the office on Wednesday.\n\nRegards, Dave. \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Kevin Brown [mailto:kevin@sysexperts.com] \n> Sent: 18 April 2003 10:58\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_clog woes with 7.3.2 - E...
[ { "msg_contents": " From time to time someone tells us that we'd be lots more successful\nif only we had a more user-friendly project name than \"PostgreSQL\".\nRight at the moment, I'm quite happy to be using a name that no one\nelse would want ...\n\nhttp://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/18/0344251.shtml?tid=154...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIam trying to figure out what value relID holds in postgresql. relID is \npresent is struct LOCKTAG in LOCK.h.\nAnd also, in src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme mentions 'tupleID\", I can't \nfind what tupleID represents and where its present in posgresql code\nThanks\n-sumaira\n\n\n\n\n______...
[ { "msg_contents": "in src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme\nin the explanation of tag.objId\nwhen it says blockId does it mean\ntag.objId.blkno\nin LOCKTAG struct in Lock.h ??\n\n\nso actually the tuple id is comprised of:\nBlock Number objId.blkno AND OffsetNumber offnum ?\n\nThank you so much,\nSumaira\n\n\n\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm experiencing some problems while ordering Turkish characters. \n\nHere is that I mean:\n\nLet's say we have two records:\n\nOnder <- There are two dots on O. (ASCII CODE: 153)\nOzan \n\nIn Turkish alphabet, O (dotless) comes before O (with dots). So, Ozan \nshould be listed befo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm doing a small project modifying postgreSQL's LIMIT\nprocessing. Is there any internal priority queue\nimplementation which can let me insert a tuple, delete\na tuple, and extract the maximum tuple? It's easy to\nimplement a priority queue in the memory, but it's\nkind of overwhelmi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is my approach to the use of rename/unlink on Win32. The full\ndiscussion is at:\n\n\thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?win32\n\nBasically, rename/unlink will fail if the file is opened. You can move\nthe open file to another name, but that then requires open to loop in\ncas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tI have written a patch to PostGreSQL to produce shared \nlibrary (dylib) or plug-ins in Mac OS X. I have tested it in version \n7.3 through version 7.3.2 and worked fine with pgaccess too. \nUnfortunately I have no idea how to post it. Can you help me?\n\nHi,\n\tFrancesco Cadili\n\n>A ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Items that have names after them in the TODO-list, do these names indicate\nthat the persons are working on it now?\n\nThe item i'm extra curious about is\n\n * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)\n\nThere is also an item for handling recursive such clauses.\n\nThe simple non recu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nwe're about to finish development of our contrib/tsearch V2 module.\nNew version os available from\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/\n\nChanges:\n\n * Due to optimization of index creation new size is about two times less.\n * Added new ranking function (rank_cd...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nEdgar F. Codd has died:\n\nhttp://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5676110.htm\n\n\n- --\nGreg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com\nPGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200304210943\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nComment: http://www.turnstep.com/pgp.html...
[ { "msg_contents": "On one machine (installed as 7.3.1, upgraded to 7.3.2):\n\nusa=# select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd4.7, compiled by GCC 2.95.4\n(1 row)\n\nusa=# select ''::...
[ { "msg_contents": "We would like to know where does the main 'main()' of postgresql, Is the main in main.c in directory\ncontrib/pg_dumplo what we are looking for?\nthank you\nSumairaThe new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* \n", "msg_date": "Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:15:12 -0700", "msg_from": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a reason for this behavior?\n\nnconway=# begin;\nBEGIN\nnconway=# declare foo cursor for select 1;\nDECLARE CURSOR\nnconway=# close foo;\nCLOSE CURSOR\nnconway=# close cursor foo;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"foo\" at character 14\n\n(i.e. the CLOSE command tag is \"CLOS...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI'll be MIA from PostgreSQL development from the end of April through\ntill the end of July (and possibly the end of August). The nature of the\ninternship I have this summer is such that, to be on the safe side, I\nwon't be on any of the PostgreSQL mailing lists either. Howev...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHaving just used bit strings for the first time, I am now aware of some \nfeatures I consider a little odd, and was wondering if (a) they are \nactively being worked on, (b) if they are not considered the way to go, and \n(c) if there would be any interest in the additions/changes indicated...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:\n\n> Around 14:26 on Apr 21, 2003, scott.marlowe said:\n> \n> # Why are those two seperate issues? Why can't the same answer be easily\n> # and readily available to both the DBA and the programmer? Why does one\n> # have to first use psql -E to fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Awhile ago I proposed that we update elog() calls into a syntax like\n\n ereport(ERROR, errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_CURSOR_NAME),\n errmsg(\"portal \\\"%s\\\" not found\", stmt->portalname),\n ... other errxxx() fields as needed ...);\n\nimplemented by a macro and some su...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:\n\n> Around 11:17 on Apr 22, 2003, scott.marlowe said:\n> \n> # I'm talking more about a setup like what we have here at work. A dozen or\n> # fewer Unix/Linux geeks running the postgresql boxes via ssh with psql who\n> # know SQL and prefer a comm...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:33 PM\n> To: Dustin Sallings\n> Cc: Neil Conway; PostgreSQL Hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?\n> \n> \n> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Starting with 7.4, I observe ACLs that look like\n a*r*w*d*R*x*t*\nThis seems to be a 7.4 extension. Haven't found comments on this in the \nmailing list.\n\nThis will be interpreted by pgadmin2 and pgadmin3 as\n GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, RULE, REFERENCE, TRIGGER\nI wonder if ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm happy to report that the bizarre problems I previously posted on the\nnew server I was building have now been resolved. Having tried a new\ndisk, new SCSI card, new SCSI cable and run memtest86 and badblocks\nnumerous times it seems that the problem was finally soved by\ndowngr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Every\n\nI'm porting my cygwin DB access programs to native win32\nenvironment with mingw gcc, but something was incorrect\nduring my linking stage(The C code was generated by ecpg.exe\nfrom a pgc file). It seemed to be caused by incomplete\nlibraries(lack of ECPGdo, sqlca, etc), because the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed 7.4 has an EXECUTE INTO statement that is a prepared form of\nSELECT INTO. But since SELECT INTO is sort of less preferred than CREATE\nTABLE AS for several reasons, would it not be better if we named that\nstatement CREATE TABLE ... AS EXECUTE plan_name? That form would make\nmor...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com] \n> Sent: 23 April 2003 16:27\n> To: Shridhar Daithankar\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?\n> \n> \n> Actually, most of the Unix guys are happy with psql, while \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:\n> At 11:51 AM 23/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> The only way to get the same answer both ways would be to legislate that\n>> int-to-bitstring conversion puts the integer's LSB at the left\n\n> That's what I think we need to do. Alternatively, we p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi Everyone - this is my first post (but I have been lurking on and off for\na couple of years). Congratulations on a steadily improving product!\n\nThis is not a question, just some observations on performance that I thought\nmight trigger someone's thinking on ways to improve query optimi...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\nWe are working on a project where we want to create a single linked list \nthat holds information of all the locks taken or being waited for by \ntransactions in Postgresql. Since main in src/backend/main/main.c will be \nrun just once when the Postgresql starts up, can declaration and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\nIn our project, we have unix socket networking going on and the Postgresql \ncode is the server in this process. We would want the postgresql database to \nrun as usual while it is transferring data (as a server) to another program \n(the client, in our case, a GUI). Therefore, we would ...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\n-- Within a SINGLE call of LockAcquire, is it possible for GrantLock() to be \ncalled multiple times?\n\n\n\nThanks\n-SUmaira\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nThe new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* \nhttp://join.msn.com/?page...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAfter reading an article about pgfs:\nhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1383\nI can't find pgfs, and it seems the author had not maintain it for a\nlong time. Would anyone know any other project do the same thing?\nThanks.\n\n- Kevin\n\n", "msg_date": "24 Apr 2003 18:18:2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks to Joe Conway, I've added pdf versions of the 7.3.2 docs to the\nwebsite (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/), but the ftp site still points\nto the 7.2 pdf's as the current version.\n(ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/doc/) can we get a 7.3 directory added and\npoint current version to that? ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Added to my list...\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net] \n> Sent: 24 April 2003 14:33\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] putting new pdf docs on ftp site\n> \n> \n> Thanks to Joe Conway, I've adde...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt seems my message from yesterday did'nt get thru..\n\npg_dump is crashing on 1 database here. FWIW, it's the only that doesn't\nbelong to me (superuser)\n\nAlso it's SQL ASCII and has french local characters, I doubt this is the\nproblem because I have plenty of databases like th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just wanted to report this:\n\nThe libpqdll.def (MS VC++) and blibpq.dll (Borland) DEF files\nare missing entries for the exported functions PQunescapeBytea(),\nPQfeeMem() and PQsendSome(), thus they won't be included in the Dll.\nThis is for the CVS - HEAD version of these files.\n\nKarl\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\nWe've created a dynamically loadable module which\nreads data by directly invoking the access methods;\nnow we need to create a new table and to write data in\nit by calling backend functions, as we cannot use SQL\nstatements.\n\nHere is our function body:\n\n...\n\n/* DUMMY_TU...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking at libpq, you can see Win32 requires closesocket() while Unix\nuses just uses close().\n\nI have to add this type of change to the backend for Win32, so I am\ninclined to make all the socket close calls closesocket() and #define\nthat as close() on Unix? It would remove quite a few W...
[ { "msg_contents": "Actually, what I'm suggesting first is much more straight forward. Each\noperation must take place on a row set. When you've got a bunch of tables\nthat are joined together, and columns with unique indexes are specified in\nthe where clause to be equal to some simple value (regalrdless of whi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just updated to cvs tip, did `make clean`, `configure`, and `make all` \nand got this:\n\ni386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes \n-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/include -I/usr/kerberos/include \n-c -o auth.o auth.c -MMD\nauth.c: In function `pg_krb5_recvauth':\nauth...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>\"S -\" writes: \n> > We are working on a project where we want to create a single linked list \n> > that holds information of all the locks taken or being waited for by \n> > transactions in Postgresql. \n> \n>How will you maintain such a list, when the underlying state is \n\n>constantly...
[ { "msg_contents": "Done.\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net] \n> Sent: 24 April 2003 14:33\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] putting new pdf docs on ftp site\n> \n> \n> Thanks to Joe Conway, I've added pdf versions...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nthis is actually a repost from the BUGS-list where I got no answer.\n\nI'm using 7.3.2 and encounter the problem that a SELECT query that uses\na function with a constant argument is quite slow. The function is\ndeclared STABLE. Here's an example:\n\nSELECT ... FROM table WHERE c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems this is too new for pgsql-sql, so I ask here:\n\nHow can I address the rows affected by an insert/update/delete statement \nin pl/pgsql?\nThe doc says that NEW and OLD will be NULL for statement triggers, which \nmakes sense because NEW and OLD are of type RECORD, capable of holding \no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI couldn't find anything obvious in the archives, but if I dump a\ndatabase created in 7.2, then foreign keys are created using CREATE\nCONSTRAINT TRIGGER statement. These do not appear to create entries in\npg_constraint in 7.3.x, so as the database is developed further, we end\nu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know pg_namespace has been in release for one rev, but I was\nwondering if for consistency sake there was any interest or desire or\nplans to change the system catalog to pg_schema.\n\nCREATE SCHEMA [schema_name];\n\nSET search_path = foo,pubic;\n\nSELECT * FROM pg_namespace;\n\nSELECT * FR...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that CVS tip is rid of the need for libpq to do a \"select\npg_client_encoding()\", I am wondering if we shouldn't make an effort\nto get rid of psql's \"SELECT usesuper FROM pg_catalog.pg_user ...\"\nstartup query. All in the name of reduction of connection startup\ncosts, of course.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know this is a bit off-topic, but I was hoping someone can point me in \nthe right direction. I've been spinning my wheels on this for a while now.\n\nI'm having trouble with PL/R giving me a SIGSEGV *only* on Red Hat 9. \nI've isolated it (at least the symptom) down to this: on RH9, a call...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n>From: Tom Lane \n>To: \"Sumaira Ali -\" \n>CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org \n>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Putting code in main of src/backend/main/main.c \n>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 00:28:19 -0400 \n> \n>\"Sumaira Ali -\" writes: \n> > \nWhat do you mean by underlying state? And also, each e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIn order to limit the number of global variables each transaction needs,\nI plan to submit parts of the previous nested transaction patch. Those\nare the deferred trigger queue and the snapshot structures.\n\nThe idea is that those patches do not change any functionality, and\nsho...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy. It looks as though the checks that allow for access to schemas\ndoesn't check the correct permissions of the running user in that if a\nfunction is being run as the security definer, the schema checks still\ncheck the session_user. Am I missing the work around someplace or is\nthis a...
[ { "msg_contents": "The type \"name\" can be subscripted like an array to access the individual\n\"char\" elements. But since a character stored in a \"name\" value isn't\nnecessarily one byte, this is incorrect. Does anything rely on this\nfacility, or would it be better to remove it for type \"name\"?\n\nHer...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems current does not handle PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable\ncorrectly.\n\n$ PGCLIENTENCODING=SJIS psql test\nWelcome to psql 7.4devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL commands\n \\? for help on i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n\nHI,\n the proclock datastructure in Lock.h , i understand that it represents a transaction(lock-holder) but is a ProcLock created for a each object a transaction holds lock or waits on?\nthank you\nsumairaSTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*\n", "msg_date": "Su...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the holding[ ] array or ProcLock empty when the transaction( ProcLock) is waiting for the Lock-object it is associated with?\n \nAnd also,  can only one one transaction(ProcLock object) hold lock on Lock-able object at a time?\n \nthanks\nsumairaAdd photos to your messages with MSN 8. Ge...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nLooking through the query preparing and stats analyze code, I noticed that\nprepared queries using an analyzed table are not replanned. I imagine that\nsome users of prepared queries would not want the above behaviour, plan\nstability etc, but surely others would.\n\nI didn't notic...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the LockData datastructure define in Lock.h, for the holders and locks arrays of  LockData , is \nholder->tag.lock the same as locks[ i ] ? \n \nthanks\nSumairaAdd photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:25:44 -0700", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The point at issue is that the \"stable function\" classification was\n> defined and implemented to provide a semantically valid way of deciding\n> whether it's safe to treat an expression as an indexscan qualifier.\n> There is no code that attempts to do anything else with it.\n\nSo the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am working on a project which requires INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING\nfunctionality. As far as I can tell, Oracle is one of the only commercial\ndatabases supporting this functionality. I checked DB2, Informix 7.2\n(which is the most recent release for which I have a manual), Sybas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Somebody could explain me why this query...\n\n\t SELECT *\n\t FROM articulos,eans\n\t WHERE articulos.id_iinterno=eans.id_iinterno\n\t AND eans.id_iean=345\n\nis slower than this one? (the difference is the quotes around the\nnumber....)\n\n\t SELECT *\n\t FROM articulos,eans\n\t WHERE artic...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 07:37 PM 28/04/2003 +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:\n>Oracle is one of the only commercial\n>databases supporting this functionality.\n\nDecRDB does too; it restricts update...returning to only return one row, \nand throws an error if more than one row is updated. It covers 95% of \ncases, but ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch for contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree modules.\n\nDownload from: \nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/patches/intarray_ltree.patch.gz\n\nChanges:\n1 intarray: bugfix for int[]-int[] operation\n2 intarray: split _int.c to several files (_int.c now is unused)\n3 ntarray (gist__i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm looking for information on the scalabality of the LISTEN/NOTIFY\nmechanism. How well does it scale with respect to:\n\n- hundreds of clients registered for LISTENs \n\n I guess this translates to hundreds of the corresponding backend\n processes receiving SIG_USR2 signals....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI'm working with tsearch, but there's a problem with words with trailing TM\nsymbol or (C) symbol. Tsearch will not stem these words, hence they are\nunsearchable.\n\nEg:\n\n6 Under 6 Salads (no dressing): Veggie DeliteT\n\nIs indexed as:\n\n'6' 'dress' 'salad' 'veggi' 'deliteT'\...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Nov 14, Neil wrote:\n\n >>I'd like to implement FOR EACH STATEMENT triggers. AFAICS it shouldn't\n >>be too tricky -- so if there's some show-stopper that prevented it\n >>from being done earlier, let me know now, please :-)\n\n >>Some random notes on the implementation I'm thinking of:\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am facing an error I haven't seen in my entire life.\nI am running a simple set of COPY statements:\n\nBEGIN TRANSACTION;\n DELETE FROM t_artikel_attribut WHERE lief_nr = '9060';\n COPY t_artikel_attribut (art_attr_id, a_code_lief, art_attr,\n bearb_dat, bearb_usr, lief_nr) F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear,\n\n\tI saw a project about stream data process engine named TelegraphCQ on http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu. It's said to be part of postgresql.\n\tBut why can't I find it in the postgresql cvs? Can anyone tell me where is it? Or whether postgresql has anything about stream data process...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was some talk in the context of the new protocol to do some\nenhancements in the area of the \"binary\" format to make it useful across\ndifferent architectures etc.\n\nThe SQL standard defines a concept called \"transform groups\", which are\nbasically pairs of input/ouput functions th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm in the process of creating some patches to fix the Cygwin specific\nbuild issues mentioned in the following post:\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-04/msg00053.php\n\nI was able to resolve all problems except for the following:\n\n 1. src/include/port/win32defs.h ...
[ { "msg_contents": "PG Folks,\n\nCould we have a .conf option to turn OFF the \"Adding Missing From Clause for \nTable ... \"? I'd far rather have a fatal query error than have Postgres \nautomatically insert the tables it thinks I wanted. This automated adding in \ntables also seems very inconsistent with Po...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Also, I would like to know whether or not the following is an acceptable\n> > way to get ecpg.dll linked against libpgtypes.a:\n> > \n> > +++ interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/Makefile 2003/04/29 17:40:25\n> > @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ OBJS= execute.o typename.o descriptor.o \n> > conn...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs the behaviour I describe below expected? I'm thinking that it isn't, \nespecially when compared with the comparable behaviour from Oracle and Sybase.\n\nI'm running PostgreSQL 7.3.2.\n\nI believe the problem is with transaction behaviour when using SELECT ... FOR \nUPDATE with LIMIT.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > client 2 can carry on processing now, \n> > and its SELECT * FROM work WHERE alloc IS NULL LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE;\n> > **returns no rows** despite the fact the second row matches.\n> \n> This is annoying but I do not think it is readily fixable, because the\n> LIMIT filter acts before the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been working with JR's PITR patch (certainly not a much as I would\nhave liked, sorry) and would like to discuss the following proposed\nmodifications with the group.\n\n1. Syntax\n\nJR's patch did not include the notion of forward recovery to a specific\npoint in time (just to the end o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've committed some updates in the memory management README file to\ndescribe what I'm about to do to the backend's memory management\nconventions, in support of the new FE/BE protocol's extended-query\nfeatures. You can read about it at \nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-ser...
[ { "msg_contents": "I always had been doubious about the \"must\" in the error message \n\"Attribute must be GROUPed or used in an aggregate function\".\n\nI certainly agree that there are many situations in which having an\nungrouped attribute in the target list is nonsense (undefined), but I \nsometimes find s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I think AIX will need this too. Anyway I can't check it, since \n> the snapshots are not produced anymore (last is from 24.3.) (Marc ?) :-(\n\n>That's fixed as of last night (thanks Marc) --- seems cvs.postgresql.org\n>had an old bison and so the build was failing.\n\n\nThanks!\n\nIn fact...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear members of the PostgreSQL Community,\n\nI registered the congress at the European Parliament (Brussels Thursday 8 May \n2003 9:00-12:00 room ASP 1G2) to explain in 2 minutes how PostgreSQL and some \nof its offshots (pgAdmin & PhpPgAdmin) can benefit the economy.\n\nIf you are interested...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed that there is an inconsistency between the way that\nPREPARE executes multiple queries (since PREPARE itself accepts\nonly one SQL statement, any such multiple queries must have been\ngenerated by rule expansion) and the way that it is done in\npg_exec_query_string(). The latt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nour parser allows the into clause only between the target list and the\nfrom clause. While this is surely the was I usually use that clause,\nothers dbms are different. Informix e.g. allows it also as the very last\nclause after the having clause.\n\nIs there a reason (standard?) why w...
[ { "msg_contents": "src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c has started throwing\nwarnings:\n\ntimestamp.c: In function `dttofmtasc_replace':\ntimestamp.c:468: warning: `%g' yields only last 2 digits of year\ntimestamp.c:606: warning: `%x' yields only last 2 digits of year in some\nlocales on non-BSD systems\...
[ { "msg_contents": "case '/':\n\tif (pset.db)\n\t\tstrncpy(buf, PQdb(pset.db), MAX_PROMPT_SIZE);\n\tbreak;\n\n\nIn the above code segment from prompt.c (PSQL sources) it appears\nPQdb(pset.db) is returning NULL for me.\n\n(gdb) run\nStarting program: /usr/home/rbt/work/postgresql/dbdocs/bin/./psql\nWelcome to ps...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI just noticed that if two updates are done in the same PLPGSQL procedure, \nthen all the BEFORE triggers fire just before the updates, but that all the \nAFTER triggers fire when the procedure exits. This is contrary to what \nhappens in Dec RDB, not sure about others. It is also a little ...
[ { "msg_contents": "AFAICT news.postgresql.org stopped mirroring the -patches mailing list\nat or around 2003-02-28.\n\nServus\n Manfred\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 02 May 2003 11:27:47 +0200", "msg_from": "Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "comp.databases.postgres...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I just noticed that there is an inconsistency between the way that\n> PREPARE executes multiple queries (since PREPARE itself accepts\n> only one SQL statement, any such multiple queries must have been\n> generated by rule expansion) and the way that it is done in\n> pg_exec_query_string(...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nSorry if this has been posted already; I don't remember having seen it:\n\nhttp://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003050101226OSSVSW\n\nThe link is to Linux Today because of the talk backs.\n\n-- \nKaare Rasmussen --Linux, spil,-- Tlf: 3816 2582\nKaki Data ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwhen using views that aggregate tuples during a join operation, indices on\nthe tables used in the view are ignored.\n\nThis problem appears consistently with 7.3.1, 7.3.2 and today's CVS\nversion (2003-05-01).\n\nPlease see below for a full database session typescript.\n\nIs there any...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi everybody,\nwe've noticed a seemingly strange behaviour when\ninserting fixed-size tuples into disk blocks.\nWe created a new table (which obviously is empty) and\nwe inserted some fixed-size tuples by directly using\nthe interface function simple_heap_insert. All the\ntuple attributes are...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n Iam trying to collect informatin about the locks in postgresql and I am thinking about making a call to GetLockStatusData (present in /src/backend/storage/lmrg/lock.c) from src/backend/main/main.c . Would the informatin I collect by calling GetLockStatusData in \nsrc/backend/main/main....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes anyone know whether it's a good idea to put code in backend/main/main.c\nthat forks a server process (which continually sends data<-- resulting from \na call to GetLockStatusData())\nto a client?\n\n\nGetLockStatusData() function exists in src/backend/storage/lmgr/Lock.c.\n\nIf NOT a g...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm getting a crash if I run 'psql' with no arguments:\n\nProgram received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.\n0x4207a991 in strncpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6\n(gdb) bt\n#0 0x4207a991 in strncpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6\n#1 0x08050f54 in get_prompt (status=PROMPT_READY) at prompt.c:111\...