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[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis time it's on RH8.\n\nThe distributed RPMs complain thus:\n\n[root@alphonso andrew]# rpm --test -Uhv postgresql-*7.3.4-1PGDG.*.rpm\nerror: Failed dependencies:\n perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-contrib-7.3.4-1PGDG\n[root@alphonso andrew]#\n\nStrangely enough, I look for it and s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt looks like that right now if you have multiple constraints\nwith the same name on different tables and some are deferrable\nand some are not, SET CONSTRAINTS \"name\" DEFERRED will fail when\nit reaches the not deferrable constraint. Is this the behavior\nwe want, or do we want it to def...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've noticed that when the stats are wrong (like\nin cases where you've loaded data but reltuples\nhasn't been updated yet) that a hashed NOT IN\nseems to take a significant time penalty. Is\nthis to be expected?\n\nOn a pktest table with 1 million integers and a dual table with a single\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I stumbled across this behavior today and it seems strange if not a bug:\n\n-- this seems wrong\nvsconf=# create table foo (f1 char(1));\nCREATE TABLE\nvsconf=# insert into foo values(' ');\nINSERT 9002011 1\nvsconf=# select ascii(f1) from foo;\n ascii\n-------\n 0\n(1 row)\n\n-- this i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhy when i create domain like :\n\nCREATE DOMAIN alias_to_int AS INT;\n\nand then function like :\n\nCREATE FUNCTION func() RETURNS alist_to_int AS ' select 2::int; ' LANGUAGE\nSQL;\n\nand pg can not convert int to aliast_to_int, so i need to create cast for\nall this same types ?\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhen I try to open (using MFC) a non-forward only cursor on a view (i.e. \n- select * from viewname), I get an error of \"attribute ctid not found\". \nThere are some chances that this is an ODBC problem, but my research \nsuggests that the dependancy on ctid is created by the data...
[ { "msg_contents": "FreeBSD/Alpha, latest CVS:\n\ncd . && ./config.status --recheck\nrunning /usr/local/bin/bash\n./configure --prefix=/home/chriskl/local --enable-integer-datetimes --enabl\ne-thread-safety --with-perl --with-pam --with-openssl --no-create --no-recu\nrsion\n\n...\n\ngmake[3]: Leaving directory...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Aug 16 2003, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:\n> > Has the idea of putting the infrastructure in place to allow a full \n> > pathname to be fed to DT_SONAME been totally killed?\n> \n> What makes you think you need new infrastructure? The HPUX port has\n> used ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Aug 17 2003, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n\n> Did something changed on today's cvs.\n> \n> src/template/unixware is wrong on last line: THREAD_CFLAGS += -D_REENTRANT\n> should be THREAD_CFLAGS=\"$THREAD_CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT\"\nNo it shouldn't....\n\nThe original patch worked just fine...\n\nI'll ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nin pg is function to_hex () , but there is no function to_dec,\nbut there could be auto conversion like in c/c++ and others lang.\n\nselect 0x64;\nselect 0312;\n\n( and like in asm select 01010101b; :-)\n\nand also :\n\nselect char(0x64);\n\nor conversion :\n\nselect '0x64' :: int;\n\nneed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "ERROR: update or delete on \"ftp\" violates foreign key constraint \"$1\"\non \"ftp\"\nDETAIL: Key (ftp_id)=(11) is still referenced from \"ftp\".\n\nConsidering I have several different FTP tables in various schemas, this\nmessage doesn't have much detail. The \"Error Message Style Guide\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "You know how DEFAULT 'now' no longer works? Well, I have some old tables\nthat still have stuff like DEFAULT 'now' and DEFAULT 'today' in them and\nthey will be dumped with pg_dump using that default. Does that mean that\nmean that when I reload into 7.4, my defaults will no longer work?\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi ...\n\nI'm trying to convince my boss to use posgresql (I need RI, transactions\nand views), but he keeps comparing the project to mysql. Until now, I\nfound the answers to he's questions on the www.postgresql.org page, but\nnow I'm lost :-)\n\nWhere do I find a list of bugs both found and...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\nim having a problem while using the PQcmdTuples(). Consider the following\ncode snippet:\nthere exists a table table1 (name character(30), age integer)\n\n<...snip...>\nPGresult *res = PQexec(\"prepare p_stmt (integer) update table1 set age = age\n+ 1 where age = $1\");\nPQclear (res);\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "following is taken from postgresql-7.3.2/src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme:\n\n\"If we are setting a table level lock\n\tboth the blockId and tupleId (in an item pointer this is called\n\tthe position) are set to invalid, if it is a page level lock the\n\tblockId is valid, while the tupleId is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "See the attached file for details\n>From pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Tue Aug 19 14:39:33 2003\nX-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130])\n\tby svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC51D1B8DC\n\tfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please see the attached file for details.\n>From pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Tue Aug 19 18:48:52 2003\nX-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130])\n\tby svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC42D1D1A...
[ { "msg_contents": "See the attached file for details\n>From pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Tue Aug 19 21:38:37 2003\nX-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130])\n\tby svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020B0D1BAD3\n\tfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Do we have full Rendezvous and IPv6 support in 7.4? That is, sufficient\nto\n> shout about in our PR materials?\n\nI believe so. You can specify a rendezvous name in the conf file.\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:20:45 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\...
[ { "msg_contents": "See the attached file for details\n>From pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Wed Aug 20 03:56:14 2003\nX-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130])\n\tby svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9028CD1D139\n\tfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please see the attached file for details.\n>From pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Wed Aug 20 08:50:32 2003\nX-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130])\n\tby svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9462DD1D17...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI need someone to prepare a standard response for me to send out to inquiries \non this topic. I get them a lot.\n\nWhat I'd like is a factual, non-perjorative list of the things which \nPostgreSQL and the PostgreSQL project have that MySQL does not, with a little \nbit of explanat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOn Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mike Winter wrote:\n\n> I'm sure many on this list are sick of hearing about this problem, but it\n> was on the fix list for 7.4, but doesn't appear to have been changed.\n\nIN (subselect) was changed for 7.4 (although I'm not sure of the list\nmentions the difference)....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI've been searching the archives, but I can't find the thread from last month \nwhere we discussed the problem with Linux memory overcommits in kernel 2.4.x.\n\nCan someone point me to the right thread? I think maybe the subject line was \nsomething deceptive ....\n\n-- \n-Josh ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recent discussion of index cost estimation (\"[HACKERS] Correlation in\ncost_index()\" ca. two weeks ago) has lead to the conclusion that the\ncolumn correlation calculated by VACUUM does not always help when we\nwant to find out how well index access order corresponds to physical\ntuple posi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Antigen for Exchange found application.pif matching FILE FILTER= *.* file\nfilter.\nThe file is currently Removed. The message, \"Re: Details\", was\nsent from pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org and was discovered in IMC\nQueues\\Inbound\nlocated at Royal Group Technologies Limited/Royalgroup/MAIL...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Stephan and everyone\n\nWe have tried PG 7.3.4 (the bug still presents itself)\n\nThese are the following results..\n\nWelcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL commands\n \\? for help on int...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nHowdy! Meet Enrico, who will soon be subscribing to the list.\n\nEnrico wants to implement a new kind of indexing on PostgreSQL, and will do \nthe programming, provided that he can get some help with the PostgreSQL code. \nThe catch is that he would do better if someone could he...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just want to add my $0.03 on that.\nsingle file DB has some benefits as:\n1. ability to allocate one continues chunk on disk, \n significantly reduces disk seeks, \n mostly ancestral but still true today ( I still see DB living on none\narrays ) \n2. And of cause countless design consider...
[ { "msg_contents": "So, I needed a way to sort using collation rules other than the one the\ndatabase was built with. So I wrote up the following function exposing strxfrm\nwith an extra parameter to specify the LC_COLLATE value to use.\n\nThis is my first C function so I'm really unsure that I've done the right...
[ { "msg_contents": "How can I --enable-thread-safety and JUST need the getpwuid_r function and\nnot the strerror_r and gethostbyname_r function?\n\nUnixWare doesn't have strerror_r and gethostbyname_r, and we DONT NEED THEM!\n\nPlease help me fix this.\n\nAlso, Olivier is right, there is an issue with the unixwa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey,\n\nJust wondering if there is currently any mechanism in the contrib makefile\nhierarchy for installing header files into an appropriate directory. I didn't\nfind anything.\n\nI'm using PGSphere (spherical types/operators), and trying to help them out a\nlittle here and there. When I c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was looking at a sequence generator for sysids.\n\nIt appears to me that such an object would need to be global, and it \nlooks like the only way to create global things is in the bootstrap \ncode. But it doesn't look like the bootstrap code knows how to create a \nsequence object, so we'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHas anyone ever got libpq to compile with SSL support on Windows\n(natively, not Cygwin)? \n\nIt looks like there is some work required in fe-secure.c - just\nwondering if anyone played with it before...\n\nRegards, Dave.\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:15:44 +0100", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi--\n\nI had been thinking of the issues of multimaster replication and how to \ndo highly available, loadballanced clustering with PostgreSQL. Here is \nmy outline, and I am looking for comments on the limitations of how this \nwould work.\n\nSeveral PostgreSQL servers would share a virtu...
[ { "msg_contents": "following is taken from postgresql-7.3.2/src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme:\n\n\"If we are setting a table level lock\n\tboth the blockId and tupleId (in an item pointer this is called\n\tthe position) are set to invalid, if it is a page level lock the\n\tblockId is valid, while the tupleId is ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">A row lock is represented by storing the locking transaction's ID in\n>xmax and setting the HEAP_MARKED_FOR_UPDATE infomask bit.\n\nWhere is 'xmax' found? is it at code level or on disk?\nthanks\nJenny\n\n\n>From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>To: suzukikui@nttdata.co.jp\n>CC: pgsql-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have finished the training in Atlanta, and I am back on the job; \ngoing through email now.\n\nSeems I have events scheduled every month or every other month for the\nforseeable future. I have Mexico in September, Germany in November, and\nDenmark in January. I also have possible events fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "following is taken from postgresql-7.3.2/src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme:\n\n\"If we are setting a table level lock\n\tboth the blockId and tupleId (in an item pointer this is called\n\tthe position) are set to invalid, if it is a page level lock the\n\tblockId is valid, while the tupleId is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone explain in succinct and general terms what the difference\nbetween a NOTICE and a WARNING is? I'm currently examining the validity\nof notice and warning messages throughout the backend, but I find these\ncategories to be applied inconsistently.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI'm developing a TLS library in C# for my PostgreSQL ADO.NET Data \nProvider, i can work well using the openssl test server, using:\n\nopenssl s_server -accept 443 -key server.key -cert server.crt -tls1 -bugs\n\nBut when i try to use it for connect to postgresql (7.4 on \nWindows+Cy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Help me, please. I need to add any funtions to PostgreSql's source v. 7.32. It is too hard for a newbie himself to know what each function does. I try to understand PostgreSql structure through readme files, postgres tutorial and commentaries in postgresql source but along time i can't under...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kevin Brown wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \"Andrew Dunstan\" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:\n> > >> I object to creating gratuitous incompatibilities with the SQL standard,\n> > >> which will obstruct legitimate features down the road. The SQL standard\n> > >> says it is <schema>.<constraint...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI noticed that some date are not anymore accepted:\n\n\nPostgres 7.3.3:\n\ntest=# select '18/03/71'::date;\n date \n------------\n 1971-03-18\n(1 row)\n\n\nPostgres 7.4beta1:\n\ntest=# select '18/03/71'::date;\nERROR: invalid input syntax for date: \"18/03/71\"\n\n\nis this th...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do we acquire row level locks in postgresql and is there any feild in \nLOCK or PROCLOCK datastructes (src/include/storage/lock.h) that tells us the \nlock is row-level?\nthanks\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nEnter for your chance to IM with Bon Jovi...
[ { "msg_contents": "if table and page are locked in src/backend/storage/lmgr/lmgr.c by \nLockRelation() and LockPage respectively, in which file and by which \nfunction is a row locked?\nthanks\nJenny\n\n\n>From: \"Jenny -\" <nat_lazy@hotmail.com>\n>To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] table...
[ { "msg_contents": "It would appear that in 7.4 the order of clauses in WHERE affects the\nexecution time (not output if AND).\n\nI would think that a simple optimization would be to push off evaluation\nof a subplan whenever possible by re-arranging AND statements.\n\nIn the below example, it gives an order of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs the 7.4 beta rolls on, I thought now would be a good time to start\ntalking about the future. \n\nI have a potential need in the future for distributed transactions\n(XA). To get that from Postgres, I'd need two-phase commit, I think. \nThere is someone working on such a project\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a problem with a before trigger raising a heap_mark4update error. It\nhappens when there are many updates on the same key. OIDs are off\npresumably? Am running 7.3.2 on RH 7.3. Have looked around the archives\nand found nothing useful - a mention of a known issue and a potential pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm wondering if the good people out there could perhaps give me some\npointers on suitable hardware to solve an upcoming performance issue. \nI've never really dealt with these kinds of loads before, so any\nexperience you guys have would be invaluable. Apologies in advance for\nthe amount ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nEverything looks like it built clean ... will do a quick, more general\nannounce tomorrow, but if someone can confirm that things are good, that\nwould be great ...\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:21:23 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@postgresql.org>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nDone ... am regenerating all the archives right now:\n\n# To: jm ( at ) poure ( dot ) com\n\nOn Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Christoph Dalitz wrote:\n\n> Hello Marc,\n>\n> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:30:52 -0300 (ADT)\n> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org> wrote:\n> >\n> > as I've asked in the pas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncan anyone give me some information about new approaches to integrate\ntertiary memory devices into Postgres? Are there any news since the publication of\nOlsen in 1992 (\"Extending the Postgres Database System to manage tertiary\nstorage\")?\nThanks!\n\nRegards,\n Thomas\n\n-- \nCOMPU...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all, \nI found this code on the file variables.c and\nin the function SetVariable I read:\n\nif (strcmp(current->name, name) == 0)\n{ \n free(current->value);\n current->value = strdup(value);\n return current->value ? true : false;\n}\n\nthis mean that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's been some recent discussion on some of the FreeBSD mailing\nlists about PostgreSQL and performance. FreeBSD uses 16K blocks for\nits FS and it has been suggested that PostgreSQL on FreeBSD be\nmodified to use 16K blocks instead of 8K blocks. Are there any\nadverse reactions or reaso...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy name is Markus Kräutner, I am using PostgreSQL to build a distributed \nbiological database as part of my diploma thesis.\n\nI hope this is the right forum for my question.\n\nAt the end of several bulk inserts the following statements get executed:\n\nbegin\nupdate pom_c2996785 set...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Please hold me on the to:/cc: list since I am not subscribed]\n\nAfter talking this over with some of the great guys on IRC it was\nsuggested I ask here.\n\nI am currently working on a document about how to convert from MySQL to\nPostgreSQL (Sybase, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server are also going ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking into a block size mismatch problem between\nPostgresql and FreeBSD's FFS, I noticed that postgresql is making\nsome rather odd-sized requests to malloc(3): 0x2034, 0x2020,\n0x4018, 0x8018, etc. Most malloc(3) implementations round large\nallocations up to a multiple of a large ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nFollowing is from Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting\n-------------\n2\t-\t(NEW) strict overcommit. The total address space commit\n\t\tfor the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a\n\t\tconfigurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM.\n\t\tDepending on the percent...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi every one,\n\nI've tried to reindex one of my customer's table to gain some disk space.\n\nI had to stop after 90 m cpu...\n\nI've then pg_dump'ed the database and recreate an other both on 7.3.4 and\n7.4b\n\nBoth are still running after more than 30 minutes of CPU (100% cpu taken)\ncreati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nnew version of tsearch2 for 7.3.X is available for download from\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/.\n\nVersion for 7.4dev is available from CVS.\nChanges:\n\n * Change treating of stop words in boolean expression.\n Earlier they were considered as a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt seems when you create a new table with the \"references\" syntax the\nconstraint is created with a dependency specifically on a \"primary key\"\nconstraint on the target table. \n\nHowever when you alter a table to add a foreign key constraint the constraint\nis added with a dependency o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSo where are the new array functions and syntaces documented?\n\nSpecifically I want to know how to replace my int_array_aggregate(int) and\nint_array_enum(_int) calls. And how to replace my \"arr *= n\" calls too. \n\nI think these are supposed be \"ALL my_array\" and \"n = ANY myarray\" o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've traced through the failure reported here by Markus Kr�utner:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-08/msg01132.php\n\nWhat is happening is that as the UPDATE adds tuples (all with the same\nhash key value) to the table, the hash bucket being filled eventually\nrequires more ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nis not usefull have a mailing list in where people can\npartecipate in a sort of \"code revision\" about the \nactual code ?\n\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:06:05 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Mendola Gaetano\" <mendola@bigfoot.com>", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat is the state of things regarding having to use massive strings of \nquotes like this (taken from the 7.3 docs)?:\n\na_output := a_output || '' if v_'' || \n referrer_keys.kind || '' like '''''''''' \n || referrer_keys.key_string || '''''''''' \n then return '''''' || refer...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey, I just tried to to a search of the mail archives and got an error. \nI was trying to go here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/search.php?q=autovacuum&ps=50&wm=wrd&o=0&ul=http%3A%2F%2Farchives.postgresql.org%2Fpgsql-hackers%2F&m=all&wf=222211\n\nand got the following error:\n\nDB err: c...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a spill over from some discussions on some of the FreeBSD\nmailing lists about FS performance. After FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, the\nfile system block size was bumped from 8K to 16K. Right now,\nPostgreSQL still stores data in 8K blocks. Are there any objections\nto me increasing the blo...
[ { "msg_contents": "'nother test in support of 16K blocks for FreeBSD, this time it was\n25% faster to import. -sc\n\n-- \nSean Chittenden\n\nHi.\n\nI'm implementing postgresql 7.3.4 on FreeBSD 5.1, and\ndecided to place the pgsql-folder on it's own\npartition so it was easier to test which blocksize to\ngo for...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm doing research on locking pattern of applications. I chose PostgreSQL\n7.3.3 as an example application due to availability of sourcecode.\n\nI instrumented the file backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c with printf() statements\nin order to find out the locking behaviour of typical applicati...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi ,\niam trying to run gdb on postgresql to stack-trace the functions that get \ncalled when a lock is taken.\n>gdb *program*\nwhat do i pass in place of program inorder to run gdb on postgresqql\nthanks\njenny\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nGet MSN 8 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI'm developing a TLS library in C# for my PostgreSQL ADO.NET Data \nProvider, i can work well using the openssl test server, using:\n\nopenssl s_server -accept 443 -key server.key -cert server.crt -tls1 -bugs\n\nBut when i try to use it for connect to postgresql (7.4 on \nWindows+Cy...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been fiddling away on ALTER TABLE and have a few questions about a\npossible datatype change. Just alter portions.\n\nI presume I'll need to do a table rewrite. What is the best way to\nchange a single datum? heap_modify() takes a single relation type where\nI will need to deal with dif...
[ { "msg_contents": "Will it be possible to tell a PostgreSQL back end to use *only* the new\nversion of the FE/BE protocol?\n\nThat is, will it be possible to set up a database that will reject\nconnection attempts that do not use the new protocol version?\n\nThanks,\n\tBruce", "msg_date": "29 Aug 2003 10:32...
[ { "msg_contents": "Will it be possible to tell a PostgreSQL back end to use *only* the new\nversion of the FE/BE protocol?\n\nThat is, will it be possible to set up a database that will reject\nconnection attempts that do not use the new protocol version?\n\nThanks,\n\tBruce\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "29 Aug ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\njust testing beta2 I got strange things on default values with functions:\n\ncreate table test2 (i integer, t timestamp default 'now()');\n\ntest1=# \\d test2\n Table \"public.test2\"\n Column | Type | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did manage to get past the stc and src parts\n\nafter building wcGTK-2.4.1\ncd wxGTK-2.4.1/contrib/stc;make;checkinstall\ncd wxGTK-2.4.1/contrib/xrc;make;checkinstall\n\nbut got hung up on the make for pgadmin3-0.9.1 here\n\n====================== CUT of make.log ===============\nif g++ -D...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have done some beta testing with PostgreSQL 7.4beta2.\nI have run a simple set of SQL statements 1 million times:\n\n-- START TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED;\nINSERT INTO t_data (data) VALUES ('2500');\nUPDATE t_data SET data = '2500' WHERE data = '2500';\nDELETE FROM t_data WHE...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI've always wanted to be a PoatgreSQL hacker, and I am going to try this \nchange out first. Bruce said that it's kind of low on the priority list, so \nhopefully I won't be holding anyone up if I take a while to get it right.\n\nThe bug is th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I received this from a friend:\n\nLance Rushing wrote:\n> Something bad happened in Postgres. I lost the ability to connect to the\n> 'pegasus2' database.\n> \n> i was doing some updates when I got an error, saying something about the\n> backend dying...\n> \n> When I restarted the database ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've put my 2 pending 7.4Beta2 Patches up on my website at:\n\nhttp://www.lerctr.org/~ler/postgresql/\n\nthe unixware.thread.patch file is the bits needed to allow \n--enable-thread-safety\nto work.\n\nthe unixware.shlib.patch file places an absolute pathname in DT_SONAME for\nthe shared libr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello there,\n\nI'd be willing to write a Dutch translation for pgAdmin III, if you are \ninterested in it. I'll give you the language details in advance:\nEnglish-language-name: Dutch\nNative-language-name: Nederlands\n\nPlease let me know if it'd be a good thing to do and I'll start on it w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThis is on 7.3.4\nI had altered a user like this:\nalter user set search_path = shema1,public\n\nThen I had to pgdumpall, re-initdb and restore every thing.\n\nThe alter user did'nt get through. and broke my app.\n\nIs it a pg_dump bug? I haven't tested on 7.4b\n\nBTW, would'nt it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Frank,\n\nA Dutch translation of pgAdmin3 would be most welcome - thanks for\nvolunteering! You should find all the details of how to get started at\nhttp://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/translation.php, if not, please email\nthe pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org list (not pgsql-hackers) with any\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a problem with DNS? a few hours ago, www.fr.postgresql.org was\nnot defined, now that it works again, ftp.fr.postgresql.org dosn't exist\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \t Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work)\n6, Chemin d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax)\n31190 AUTERIV...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at fixing the problem reported a few days ago whereby\na bucket split in a hash index messes up the state of concurrent scans\nof the index, possibly causing some tuples to be missed by the scans.\nAFAICS the only way to fix this is to prevent such a concurrent split.\nAccor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI found the item mentioned in the subject on the PostgreSQL TODO list[1],\nbut it isn't marked for implementation for 7.4, so I'm wondering whether\nthere is any somewhat concrete plan on when this will be implemented? 7.4?\n7.5? 8.0?\n\nThanks in advance.\n\n[1] http://developer...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI have function \n\nCREATE FUNCTION foo(date, date, INTEGER[]) RETURNS INTEGER \n\nArray and array's functions works fine, but I need call this function \nwith empty array. I can't use array constructor for empty array. When \nI call function foo with e.a. ,I get syntax error. I can ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I seen on this list a lot of energy ( also little flames involving SCO \n& Co. ) spent on thread safety;\nwas really necessary spent so much energy in this direction?\nI was at Fosdem in Bruxelles ( I spoke there about the use\nof postgres in my project ) and I seen al people there \nwas real...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI tried 7.4 beta2 and had difficulties setting up TCP/IP with it. It complains \nabout mising pg_hba.conf-entry.\n\nAfter installing and initdb I edited my postgres.conf to enable tcpip \n(tcpip_socket = true) and added a pg_hba.conf-entry like this:\n\nlocal all all ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I have just subscribed to the hackers mailinglist to telll what my \nadventures are with 7.4.b2 and OS X so far.\n\nI have encountered some problems, and have some solutions, off which I \ndo not know if they break the port, or do something wrong.\n\ngcc3.3\n=====\nFirst, gcc3.3 on 10.2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Maybe to free up Bruce for major patches (eg. PITR, etc.), we should promote\nsomeone else to 'minor patch' committer?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:24:48 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n Can anyone tell me the approximate pg 7.5 release date?\n Thanks\nJosh\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:29:43 +0800", "msg_from": "\"postgresql\" <postgresql@db.pku.edu.cn>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "PG7.5" }, { "msg_contents": "\n\nOn Tue...
[ { "msg_contents": "When trying to build the CVS source on a HP-UX 11.00 box:\nHP-UX hpux B.11.00 A 9000/800\nWe got the configure error:\n\n<error>\nchecking types of arguments for accept()... configure: error: could not \ndetermine argument types\n</error>\n\nCheck the config.log, it said that the configure sc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nAfter holding my breath for quite a while, it bursts out... I'd really like to \nget a status update on said port. \n\nThe reason is, it's seemingly put on hold for me. After this port was talked \nover on the list, there seemed to be an explosion of effort, with initial \nsuccess stor...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nhello\n\ni've tried to write a stored function in C++, using the libpq library, but\nthe g++(3.3.1) was unable to pass through the headers. there are a lot's\nof reserved words used in structs as member names, such as delete,using,\nnamespace,...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nhello\n\nthanks to Andreas Pflug's hint, it's now working, thank you.\n\nlibpq++ is not gone, i just don't like it. I've written an other C++ API\nfor databse systems, name SDBI, but i cannot use it for a stored procedure\n:)\n\nthanks\n\nBye,...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nhello\n\nonce again :)\nthe code is this:\n text *src;\n void *tmp;\n src = (text*)tmp;\n\nand the error message:\nerror: parse error before `)' token\n(at (text*_)_)\n\noriginally i've tried to use the macro PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0), but when i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIn the LockTag if tupleId is represented by blkno and offnum then is blockId \nmentioned below the same as blkno?\n\n\nfollowing is taken from postgresql-7.3.2/src/backend/storage/lmgr/readme:\n\n\"If we are setting a table level lock\n\tboth the blockId and tupleId (in an item pointer this...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't be\nfixed without an on-disk format change. The biggest one is that the \nhashm_ntuples field in hash meta pages is only uint32, meaning that\nhash index space management will become confused if the number of\nentries exce...