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[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl] \n> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:00 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:25:0...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:14 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> > We (at CONNX Solutions In...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:47 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> > Lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The regression tests will fail to start on a system that doesn't\nhave, or wasn't compiled for, unix domain sockets.\n\nThe pg_regress script will start the postmaster with the -i\noption in case of QNX and BEOS, but not for instance in case of\nWIN32.\n\nI see some options to fix this:\n- Al...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dann,\n\n> > Thus, the best test\n> > team is a bunch of people doing unplanned things with the\n> > software, on a wide variety of platforms...\n>\n> That is the worst possible test plan. It totally lacks organization and\n> there is no hint to define when the feature set has been covered. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why does the interval type not print seconds when they are zero?\n\nThis leads to inconsistent reading of the information.\n\n7.3.3:\n\nler=# select '13 minutes'::interval;\n interval\n----------\n 00:13\n(1 row)\n\nler=# select '13 minutes 1 second'::interval;\n interval\n----------\n 00:13:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all:\n I write a use define type (UUID)\n\ntypedef struct uuid\n{\n\tuint32 time_low;\n\tuint16 time_mid;\n\tuint16 time_hi_and_version;\n\tuint8 clock_seq_hi_and_reserved;\n\tuint8 clock_seq_low;\n\tuint8 node[6];\n} uuid;\n\n\nmake all btree index function and operator, such as\n\nCREA...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat happened to: void PQfreemem(void *) in libpq-fe.h? I thought it was\ngoing to be included in 7.3.3 ?\n\n-Dave\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:13:57 -0700", "msg_from": "\"David Brown\" <dbrown@octomail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "PQfreemem??" }...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAdded to TODO:\n\n\t* Change CVS $Id$ to $PostgreSQL$\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTom Lane wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > Is this a dead issue? I know several people said they wanted it.\n> \n> I'm willi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI implement 2Q algorithm to PostgreSQL for buffer management , instead\nof LRU.\nIt's known as low overhead and high performance than LRU. If you have\nsome interests , see following URL.\n\nhttp://www.vldb.org/conf/1994/P439.PDF\n\nIn my test (pgbench -S) , it improves 4% cache hit ra...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI implement 2Q algorithm to PostgreSQL for buffer management , instead\nof LRU.\nIt's known as low overhead and high performance than LRU. If you have\nsome interests , see following URL.\n\nhttp://www.vldb.org/conf/1994/P439.PDF\n\nIn my test (pgbench -S) , it improves 4% cache hit ra...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 11:04 pm, _ wrote:\n> Hi\n>\n> Thanks for the reply especially since I have resigned\n> myself not to use schema anymore and\n> unsubscribed from the list. (I subscribed just to post)\n\nI've CCd this back to the hackers list, since others may have something to \ncontr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n Can anyone give me the informatoin reagarding the last date of\nsubmission of the code to be added in next version of pgsql.\n\nbye\nSrikanth\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:29:54 +0530 (IST)", "msg_from": "Srikanth M <srikanth_m@students.iiit.net>", "msg_fro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Mark\n\nIs it me or is there a problem with ftp mirrors?\nThe latest shapshots I have here are from June 2; seems rather old..\n\nRegards\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \tTel:\t+33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work)\nQuartier d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax)\n31190 AUTERIVE ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\n> No. I want to know what the subordinate does when it's promised to\n> commit and the co-ordinator never responds. AFAICS the subordinate\n> is screwed --- it can't commit, and it can't abort, and it can't expect\n> to make progress indefinitely on other work while it's holding loc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\njust have a quick question. What i need to do is to create a shared memory\nstructure (which i can do) and maintain in it a linked list which should\nbe in shared memory too. I found the shmemqueue in postgres, but am having\nsome problems using it. I just need to have the linked list store...
[ { "msg_contents": "A few days ago I have posted a pre-beta version of dblink_ora which is \nsupposed to solve some problems we had here at Cybertec (getting data \nfrom an Oracle DB and merge it with PostgreSQL). I have implemented a \nsimple piece of code (more proof of concept than production).\n\nSince I hav...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\n I've got a table , pdi, with a field pro_id defined as char(25). One fied\nog this table contains the string '1006666058' plus spaces to fill the 25\nlength (ie pro_id = '1006666058 ').\n When I run:\n select * from pdi where pdi = '1006666058' the row is returned...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 12:30 PM\n> To: Jan Wieck\n> Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Dann Corbit; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jan Wieck [mailto:JanWieck@Yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:45 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> >> -----Original Me...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:50 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > That is...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com] \n> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:25 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> On Mon, 23 Jun 200...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:nandrews@investsystems.co.uk] \n> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:30 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, folks;\nWe're running Postgres 7.3.2 and we have a core dump on HP-11.\nThis does not seem reproducible on Solaris or Linux.\nWorking with debugger we get this stack:\n\n#0 0xc0185a20 in mallinfo+0x2144 () from /usr/lib/libc.2\n(gdb) where\n#0 0xc0185a20 in mallinfo+0x2144 () from /usr/li...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\n\"Putting in \"dozens of hours\" is not the issue here --- the problem is\nthat there isn't any solution in sight, and I'm not eager to go down a\npath that has an obvious dead end.\"\n\nWell, I doubt we're breaking any new ground with this discussion. If I really \ncared about this ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've run into what seems like an old bug in the character set mapping \nfor japanese encoding while trying to extract data from my database \nusing the Java JDBC driver. The problem has to do with the japanese \nfull-width wave dash.\n\nThis problem was brought up by Tom O'Dowd way back in Fe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI have some SQL function, just regular function selects data by using 4\njoins nothing fancy,\nbut one thing pretty noticeable,\nI have to display 3 different columns with same date formatted\ndifferently,\nhere are 3 different snippets:\n\n1. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/YYYY')\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe PostgreSQL Core would like to publicly welcome welcome Josh Berkus as\nour newest member.\n\nJosh is being included especially as a \"liason\" between the\nsource-programmer and non-source-programmer contributors to PostgreSQL, in\nan effort to expand PostgreSQL volunteer documentation,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Someone's asking this in the PHPBuilder forums:\n\nhttp://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=e35a83518b040c2b4db0c7ef3867ab40&threadid=10244626\n\n---\nHi all\n\nIs there a way to disconnect users from a D.B in postgresql rather than\nkill -9 the pid user?\n\nthanks in advance\n\n---\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jan Wieck [mailto:JanWieck@Yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:10 PM\n> To: scott.marlowe\n> Cc: Dann Corbit; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n> \n> scott....
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm creating a new OpenACS package that uses PostgreSQL, and in doing\nso have encountered what seems to be a problem in PostgreSQL.\n\nSpecifically, I defined a Pl/PgSQL function with 24 parameters. This\nshould be OK under PostgreSQL 7.3, which I'm running. (I'm using the\nRPM version und...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a list of a small sample of the citations available from the ACM\non software testing:\n\nhttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=581358&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657\n0092&CFTOKEN=81653602\nhttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=376180&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657\n0092&CFTOKEN=81653602\nh...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jan Wieck [mailto:JanWieck@Yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:30 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n[snip]\n> I pers...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] \n> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:50 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Jan Wieck\n> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze\n> \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all, it looks like Lee's ECPG (and libpq) thread-safety patches\nhave been applied, and configure --with-threads is also added. I\nhave been doing some testing.\n\nOn FreeBSD 4.8, the attached sample app runs without a problem.\n\nHowever, I still encounter a threading problem on Linux (Re...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 24 June 2003 02:55\n> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr; pgsql-hackers list\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ftp mirror\n> \n> \n> > Is it me or is there a problem with ftp mirrors?\n> > The latest shap...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCurious bit of synchronicity, related discussion going on in comp.arch\non same topic, lurkers like me might appreciate the explanation given in\n\nhttp://groups.google.com/groups?selm=svudnRBY5twrXG6jXTWJkQ%40metrocast.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:49:17 +0800 (MYT)", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was researching on cache replacement strategy as well. 2Q has one\ndisadvantage see this exellent paper:\nhttp://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/#ARC see the paper\n\"ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache\" for theory and \"One\nUp on LRU\" for implementation details. ARC ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI cannot download the English pot files from the following address:\n\nhttp://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/nls.php\n\nI get 404 from each.\n\nWell, I noticed that none of them are downloadable now. Where are them? \nDoes anyone know about this?\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GUNDUZ\ndevr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n\tI want to use 'pset'command in my program\n\nit's like this.\n\nI want to do the execute the following in my program.\n\n\\pset null 'ALL'\n\nhow can this be done\n\nbye\nsrikanth\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:04:52 +0530 (IST)", "msg_from": "Srikanth M <srikanth_m@s...
[ { "msg_contents": "How come you didn't get a \"No such function with those arguments\" error that I always get when I do that?\n\nplanning=# create function oops (integer) returns int language pltcl as '\nplanning'# elog NOTICE \"blah\"\nplanning'# ';\nCREATE FUNCTION\nplanning=# select oops (cast('duh' as varc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC me on replies.\n\nI wanted to know when table partitioning was supposed to be completed. I\nwas under the impression that work had been done about 5 months ago or\nmore and that all that was needed was testing. Could someone please\nadvise?\n\nWe'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes it is TO_CHAR,\nlook like that OS ( SUN ) related issue, I assume PG uses some of the\nlib functions.\nLooks like nonsense for me, what is damn difficult in that ( formating\ndates ).\ngoing to try date_part, might help me.\n\nToo bad EXPLAIN does not provide statistic of time that spent ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to create a audit log of update and\ndelete queries against a table. I want the log on the\nserver side, since access will be done using various\nclients via ODBC. I would like to capture the user,\ncurrent datetime and the query statement. My thought\nwas to accomplish this b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know the current method for specifying alternate drives for PG tables is\nby using symlinks. I had some ideas for simple ways to do this in PG\ncode, but wanted to know if anyone was working on this right now. I'd\nhate to take the time to start messing with this if others were already on...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:26 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason \n> Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature f...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org] \n> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:10 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce \n> Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Two...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we're getting close to a freeze, I thought I'd point out these \nwarnings again:\n\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib'\n[...]\ni386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes \n-Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecp...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust a side bar to the whole thread about PHP/MySQL ... I realize that\nlibpq is intwined with the backend right now, but if anyone could think of\na way of at least adding a make target that would create a libpq.tar.gz\ndistribution, I believe it would go a long way towards making it easie...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm looking to move both of these over to GBorg, like we did with the C++\ninterfaces and ODBC ... the problem is, unlike those, I can't find anyone\nthat is actually working with it ...\n\nIs anyone using these? Anyone willing to step up and act as maintainer\nfor it?\n\nMarc G. Fournier ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/\n\thas IPv6 datatype patch (makes \"inet\" type handle both IPv4 and IPv6)\n\tfor 7.3.2. let me know how i can proceed/help.\n\nitojun\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:26:10 +0900", "msg_from": "itojun@iijlab.net", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A minor feature request:\n\nPostgreSQL supports ISO-8601 week numbers with the syntax EXTRACT(WEEK FROM\ntimestamp) or TO_CHAR(timestamp,'IW'). There is, however, no easy way to\nextract the year corresponding to the week number.\n\nSince ISO weeks may overlap year boundaries, this makes the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:59:41 -0300 (ADT), \"Marc G. Fournier\" wrote:\n> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote:\n> \n> > Seems like we should also allow for a windows specific distribution of libpq\n> > as well.\n> \n> I thought that the win32 stuff was being included as part of the base\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Shouldn't we be detecting problems with the following (haven't seen\nmention of it):\n\ntemplate1=# insert into b values('10000000-12-01 23:23:23');\nINSERT 555183 1\ntemplate1=# select * from b;\nERROR: Unable to format timestamp; internal coding error\n\nTested on reasonably recent CVS.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "/usr/local/bin/gmake -C ecpglib all\ngmake[4]: Entering directory\n`/usr/home/rbt/work/postgresql/pgsqlwarning/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib'\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g -Wall\n-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -DPIC\n-I../../../../src/interface...
[ { "msg_contents": "I saw a thread on this earlier, but I just cvsup'd (and `cvs up`, `make \nclean`, `make all`) and I'm getting:\n\nmake[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/include'\nmake -C pgtypeslib all\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib'\ngcc -...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are a number of things that need to be done in psql before feature\nfreeze. Any comments on the following points?\n\n* We need a client-side autocommit-off implementation to substitute for\nthe one removed from the server. I am inclined to create a new psql\nbackslash command:\n\t\\au...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had originally planned to spend the next week editing all the elog()\ncalls in the backend to convert them to ereport() format where helpful,\nadd SQLSTATE values, and update wording to match the style guidelines\nthat were agreed to awhile back.\n\nHowever, it looks like the same reasons t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd really like to be able to dump a single schema from 7.3 for a current \nproject.\n\nNow I can write a script to run \\dt and then \"pg_dump -t\" each table, but \nthat's not going to help me with sequences etc.\n\nOf course, in 7.4 pg_dump will do exactly what I want, which seems to give ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I created a domain with text as the data_type. When I get the row \ndescription message from the backend for a column using this domain, \nthe type OID provided is for text (25) rather than the OID of the \ndomain I created. I could have sworn I tested this in 7.3.x and the OID \nwas for my d...
[ { "msg_contents": "What's the chances of getting recursive queries in for 7.4?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:42:39 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "recursive queries" }, { "msg_contents...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this deliberate?\n\nusa=# select '1-1-2001'::date;\n date\n------------\n 2001-01-01\n(1 row)\n\nusa=# select '1-1--2001'::date;\n date\n------------\n 2001-01-01\n(1 row)\n\nusa=# select '1-1---2001'::date;\n date\n------------\n 2001-01-01\n(1 row)\n\nusa=# select '1------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI don't see a tag for in cvs for the 7.3.3 release.\n\nKris Jurka\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:19:04 -0400 (EDT)", "msg_from": "Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Missing 7.3.3 cvs tag" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "The query planner does an abysmal job with some of the most important\nviews in my DB. The execuation time with seq_scan disabled is 25ms versus\n110ms when seq_scan is enabled. Instead of modifying all my code to\ntemporarily disable seq_scan around all places this query is made (or\nmakin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOr if you want this behaviour all the time, one call of\n setvbuf(mypipe,(char *)0,_IONBF,0);\nshould do the trick (much easier than remebering to have to call fflush()\nall the time).\n\nIf not using streams, and just calling write(), then you probably don't have\nto worry.\n\nandrew\n\nB...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOne of the issues that is preventing us from migrating\nfrom an Oracle DB to Postgres is that Table\nPartitioning is not available in Postgres yet.\nPartitioning is still listed as a TO DO. Any ideas\nwhen this will be available in Postgres? Approximate\ntime frame will be good enough ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guys, surely some one's done this before? I've tried using\nPQescapeBytea too, but still get (slightly) different output. If I try\nand insert \"\\x02\\x01\\x02\\x03\\x04hello\\x05\\x64\\x99\\x45\" I get (int\nvalues of chars printed):\n\nINSERT: 2 1 2 3 4 104 101 108 108 111 5 100 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I seem to recall that Table partitioning used to be on the *urgent*\nheading of the ToDo list. Now I see it is under misc. \n\nAs people who are needing to move away from Oracle due to cost\nrestrictions, I wanted to know how much work, or what the status is of\nthis option. Please respond as...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Peter,\n\nWe have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC \nvariables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend \nversion, which are the min and max values and if possible a description. The \noption is to hardwire these things int...
[ { "msg_contents": "We are trying to do an \"all tables\" dump using the 7.3.3 pg_dump, but \nare getting no love. The pg_dump command which worked before, in 7.2, \nno longer returns any tables:\n\n pg_dump -t \"*\" dbname\n\nIs this by design, or by accident?\n\nPaul\n\n-- \n __\n /\n | Paul...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, folks;\nWe're running Postgres 7.3.2. \nAt the end of some procedure we get a core dump on HP-11.\nThis does not seem reproducible on Solaris or Linux.\nWorking with debugger we get this stack:\n\n#0 0xc0185a20 in mallinfo+0x2144 () from /usr/lib/libc.2\n(gdb) where\n#0 0xc0185a20 in mall...
[ { "msg_contents": "DOH!. Yes....You're right I totally forgot about that. My apologies. I\nbelieve though, that there is a HP testing lab that is somewhat like OSDL,\nin that they offer OSS free services and many platforms to run on. (used to\nbe compaq's developer testdrive sort of program) I believe it still ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@rbt.ca]\nSent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:33 PM\nTo: Gonyou, Austin\nCc: Thomas Swan; Nigel J. Andrews; Tom Lane; PostgreSQL Development\nSubject: RE: Two weeks to feature freeze\n\n\nOn Thu, 2003-06-26 at 16:09, Gonyou, Austin wrote...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greets,\n\n\tJust a thought for a psql enhancement, afiak, it is not easily possible for persistent connections to a database in a shell script..\n\tThe ability for psql to remain in the background reading from stdin and writing to stdout until explicitly killed. More specifically, so a shell...
[ { "msg_contents": "The system catalog columns pg_attrdef.adsrc and pg_constraint.consrc store\n\"human-readable\" versions of pg_attrdef.adbin and pg_constraint.conbin.\nDuring a rename operation, they are not and cannot be updated. We need to\nremove them and make interested applications get the information a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi\n\n\tWe have written code for a DATACUBE in PostgreSQL. We would like \nto know how and what to submit , and if there is some specific procedure \nto submit our work. Please tell us the e-mail ID we have to send the \ninformation to also.\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:14:33 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs there a way to create a table from a prepared statement? CREATE TABLE AS\nexplicitly says you have to use a SELECT statement, and the SELECT INTO\nsyntax doesn't seem to allow the use of a prepared statement either. I\ndon't see a way to use the prepared statement as a functi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Using the 7.4 pg_dump to dump a 7.2 database, restoration to 7.4 causes:\n\nREVOKE\nGRANT\npsql:22.sql:2324: ERROR: dependent privileges exist (use CASCADE to\nrevoke them too)\n\nLine 2324 is:\nREVOKE ALL ON TABLE sh2bill_action_action_id_seq FROM rbt;\n\nThis user was the owner of of the s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some nice advances to SQL standard array support were made, but there are\na few things that don't work yet in the sense of feature S091 \"Basic array\nsupport\". Joe, do you want to take on some of these? They should be\npretty easy (for you).\n\n* Declaration of multidimensional arrays (s...
[ { "msg_contents": "The documentation says the following is allowed:\n\nINSERT INTO sal_emp\n VALUES ('Bill',\n ARRAY[10000, 10000, 10000, 10000],\n ARRAY[['meeting', 'lunch'], ['','']]);\n\nI cannot find justification for this in the standard. According to my\nreading, it should be\n\nINSERT INTO sal_...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tI know that we're all in end-of-release hurry, but I've got a quick\nquestion.\n\n\tWe've got some machines that had postgres installed in /usr/local/pgsql\nand we are moving their data directories, wholesale, onto machines with\npostgres in the standard RedHat locations. This works just f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing this assembler warning using gcc version 2.95.3 20010315:\n\n {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%si' instead of `%esi' due to `w' uffix\n {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%ax' instead of `%eax' due to `w' suffix\n\nThis is while compiling commands/trigger.c and it happens...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi all,\n\nI'm playing with this for one week with no luck... :(\n\nI'm implementing the 3.0 protocol version in Npgsql, a .Net Data \nprovider for postgresql.\n\n\nI could get it working using the simple query and so, I started to work \nin the extended query.\n\nI stopped in the first m...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi\n\n\tCan someone give me the email ID of Jan Wieck who has written that \ncode in ruleutils.c? It is urgent. \n\nSumit\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:24:11 +0530 (IST)", "msg_from": "sumit <sumit@gdit.iiit.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "ruleutils.c ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello:\n\n >You must send either Flush or Sync after the Parse to force the backend\n >to emit its response to Parse. The assumption is that in many cases\n >you'll be sending Parse as part of a batch of commands, and the backend\n >should batch its responses to minimize the number of networ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's another example of domain casting not working right:\n\ncreate domain foo as varchar;\nselect cast(x.y as foo) from (select 'foo') as x(y);\nERROR: coerce_type: no conversion function from \"unknown\" to foo\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Jun...
[ { "msg_contents": "The cited error message appears when loading the attached file (a cut-down\nversion of a local development version of the information schema) and then\nrunning\n\nselect * from problem_schema.element_types;\n\nOn the last seven lines of the file I've marked a part that, when removed,\nmakes t...
[ { "msg_contents": "The documentation build on developer.postgresql.org is working again.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:39:28 +0200 (CEST)", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Documentation is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\tWe have written two new files by name datacube.c in tcop directory \nand datacube.h in include directory. We have even changed some \nexsisting files. We have made a patch of the files that have been\nchanged. \n\nBut how should we send the new files datacube.c, and datacube.h along wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi all,\nI'm getting the following error when trying to do an initdb:\n\nThis user must also own the server process.\n\nThe database cluster will be initialized with locale C.\n\nFixing permissions on existing directory /var/pgsqlcvs2... ok\ncreating directory /var/pgsqlcvs2/base... ok\nc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI'm trying to read an array, using binary format code and my own \nimplementation of the 3.0 protocol in C#, at this moment i have made \ntest with arrays of int2 and float4, seems that the server sends a \nheader of 24 bytes before the data in the buffer, i need to know what \nthe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n\tWe have added the CUBE operator for PostgreSQL. Please find the \nattached patch. \n\n\tAnother thing to note is that the file datacube.c should \nbe placed in src/backend/tcop/ and datacube.h should be in src/include. \n\nThe syntax of the query is\n\nSELECT <field list><aggregate l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI noticed the patch:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-06/msg00366.php\nisn't in the patch queue. Is the patch OK?\nIf not please say what is wrong with it.\nThank you,\n- Stuart\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:16:25 +0100", "msg_from": "deststar <deststa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\nNotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message\n\n\n\nHere is another attempt at the datetime fix, to stop the ambiguity \nfor dates like \"01-13-2003\". I put the > 12 month validation in because \notherwise it is still read in as a \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all,\n\ni'm progressing with my implementation of ARC to try to replace LRU.\nI have the following questions:\n\n- When do we know we have a page fault ?\n i've found AddBufferToFreelist() to be one. but are there other places as \nwell ?\n\n- What variable holds the number of our cache ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI have interesting question that stops me now.\nSuppose I have 2 functions \n\n1. preparestate\n2. doajob\n\nfirst allocates some state using\nMemoryContextAlloc(TopTransactionContext) \nor something, another function using that memory.\n\nquestion is how I lookup that memory in second f...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Mendola Gaetano\" <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:\n> I'm improving the Dllist in these direction:\n\nAFAIR, catcache.c is the *only* remaining backend customer for Dllist,\nand so any improvement for Dllist that breaks catcache is hardly an\nimprovement, no?\n\n> 1) Avoid \"if\" statements in...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed that the OSDL benchmarks for PostgreSQL appear to require\nPostgreSQL be compiled with INDEX_MAX_KEYS as 64 rather than the default\nof 32.\n\nAny chance the default could be bumped for the 7.4 release?\n\nDoes it cause a significant performance issue?\n\n-- \nRod Taylor <rbt@r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nAt long last I put together a patch to support 4 client SSL negotiation\nmodes (and replace the requiressl boolean). The four options were first\nspelled out by Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> on 2000-08-23 in email\nto pgsql-hackers, archived here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresq...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was running a long-running vacuum full, and then halfway thru that our\nbackground vacuum process started. As well as this, there was light\nactivity on a users table from which vacuum full was removing 90000 rows.\n\nThen vacuum full failed after a while:\n\nERROR: simple_heap_upd...