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[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > Or the slave could reject the request.\n> > \n> > Huh? The slave has that option?? In what circumstance?\n> \n> I thought the slave could reject if someone local already had the row\n> locked.\n\nNo, not at all. The slave would need to reject phase 1 \"commit ready\"\nfor this.\n\nA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Today's cvs doesn't compile. I think it is due to\ncvs diff -r1.7 -r1.8 src/interfaces/ecpg/include/datetime.h\nI have dtime_t defined in my sys/types.h. The old version of datetime.h used\n#define dtime_t timestamp, the new one uses a typedef. Is there actually\na reason to keep dtime_t, or ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have emptied the patch queue, and have updated the HISTORY file for\n7.4. I am looking for any improvements to that file. (I have to move\nit to SGML soon.)\n\nPerhaps it is time to start looking at a final release date for 7.4?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://can...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:10 AM\n> To: Marc G. Fournier\n> Cc: Hiroshi Inoue; Tom Lane; 'Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD'; \n> 'Andrew Sullivan'; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 2...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think most people on this list will agree that having OIDs on user\ntables is a Bad Thing. For some previous discussion of why, see:\n\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg27374.html\n\nMy understanding of the conclusion of previous discussions on this topic\nis that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jan Wieck wrote:\n> Just committed a small fix for PL/Tcl.\n> \n> I don't find it on the TODO, but you might want to add it to the release \n> notes.\n> \n> * Fixed PL/Tcl's spi_prepare to accept full qualified type names in\n> the parameter type list.\n\nOops, properly added to r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Commercial systems use:\n\nMainframe:\nCICS\n\nUNIX:\nTuxedo\nEncina\n\nWin32:\nMTS\n\nDEC/COMPAQ/HP:\nACMS\n\nProbably lots of others that I have never heard about.\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:51:54 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI'm experiencing problem with Postgresql 7.4Beta 3,\nthe following function is working in Postgres 7.3.X and\nif I remember well also in 7.4beta2:\n\nCREATE TYPE foo_type AS (a INTEGER);\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo ( )\nRETURNS SETOF foo_type AS'\nDECLARE\n my_var foo_type%...
[ { "msg_contents": "A really nice overview of how various transaction managers are modeled:\n\nhttp://www.ti5.tu-harburg.de/Lecture/99ws/TP/06-OverviewOfTPSystemsAndPr\noducts/sld001.htm\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:29:37 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'd like to know if its possible to coopt the postgres storage subsystem to\nrely entirely on ram based structures, rather than disk. Any documentation\nor ideas would be appreciated.\n\nCheers,\n\nSteve\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:10:57 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Ste...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nWhat is the correct signal (and number) that should be sent to postgres \nwhen you want to roll its logs?\n\nI can't seem to see the answer...\n\nChris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:27:11 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI just spent the last half hour learning syslog and log rolling with \npostgres. Would there be objections to me expanding on the syslog \nsections in the docs?\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/logfile-maintenance.html\n\nI want to:\n\n* Add a link to the third pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think the INSTALL file needs to be updated. Its list of configure \noptions doesn't seem to mention --enable-thread-safety. I don't know \nwhat else...\n\nChris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:46:03 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have been studying the basic limitation that the number of committed\ntransactions per second possible in a relational databases. Since\neach transaction requires at least write-ahead log data to be flushed\nto disk the upper bound of transactions per second is equal to the\nnumber ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will be in Washington DC for the next two days. I will be reading my\nemail, but not as frequently.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn src/backend/parser/parse.h there is a copyright that reads as below.\nNote the bottom section that says that the GPL is only excepted for\nfiles generated by Bison *from* this file. This implies to me that this\nfile is GPL'd, and therefore shouldn't be in the tarball (or pgAdmin\nw...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\nI have developed a new buffer policy for biological databases, I want\nto implement it on postgresql.So I will have to buffer manager of\npgsql.How should I do it?\nWhich files I will have to change & what type of changes I will have\nto make. Is there any document which describes code of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n With the recent stint of pg_upgrade statements and the impending \nrelease of 7.4 what\ndo people think about having a dedicated maintenance team for 7.3? 7.3 \nis a pretty\nsolid release and I think people will be hard pressed to upgrade to 7.4. \nOf course\na lot of people will,...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI get no response on developer.postgresql.org\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:37:42 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "developer web site down?" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems some junior electrician in Panama pulled the wrong circuit\nbreaker ... and then the mail.postgresql.org server spent an\nunreasonable number of hours fsck'ing. (Why is Marc a FreeBSD fan\nanyway? Don't ask me, I work for Red Hat.) Anyhow, due to the loss\nof project communication...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am running a large and mature mission-critical PostgreSQL implementation\nwith multiple tables that are growing at a rate of several million rows per\nmonth (the rate of addition is growing as well). It is a 24x7 operation, so\ndowntime is a party foul and apparent performance has t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Regarding the NOTICE\n\nCREATE TABLE will create implicit triggers for foreign-key checks\n\nDoes anyone care?\n\nThe other \"helpful\" notices about sequences for serial columns and indexes\nfor unique constraints have some merit, because they inform the user\nobjects that the user might be ...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nThis si my first look at the pg-code, so it may not comply with the \ncoding-standards. I haven't coded in C for a while either, so if someone \nfinds a better way to implement this, go ahead, but this patch works for me \nwith 7.4beta3.\n\nht...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:15:39 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Yanhong.Li-1\" <Yanhong.Li-1@ou.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\nI want to change the buffer policy & page structure of pgsql from which file I should start?Is any document which describe the code of buffer manager og pgsql?\n\nGet Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com\n\n Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestselle...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been noticing query planning to be different for a cursor-based \nselect and normal select.\n\nFor example, my query looks like this:\n\n=# SELECT <select clause>\n\nThe query takes about 1/4 of a second.\n\nBut, for:\n\n=# BEGIN;\n=# DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT <select cla...
[ { "msg_contents": " Two mails with updated translations for /src/backend/po/hr.po are lost.\nFirst time I send clear po file, second tar.gz - no result.\nIs something blocking mails with attachment ? I didn't receive notification\nthat mail is blocked or something like that.\nCan I try to send it to some oth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nUsing PG under Cygwin we having following error message during INSERT\nINTO\n\"FreeSpaceMap hashtable out of memory\".\n\nWhat does that mean?\nAnd if for a moment step out of knowledge 'PG under Cygwin', what in\ngeneral \nthis message is about and more important how to fix it?\n\nThank...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following code is in initdb.sh:\n\nexit_nicely(){\n stty echo > /dev/null 2>&1\n echo 1>&2\n echo \"$CMDNAME: failed\" 1>&2\n if [ \"$noclean\" != yes ]; then\n if [ \"$made_new_pgdata\" = yes ]; then\n echo \"$CMDNAME: removing data directory \\\"$PGDATA\\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following up to the discussion a few weeks ago and in accordance with the\ncriteria developed there about how a message should be classified NOTICE\nor WARNING, I have identified the following cases that ought to be\nreclassified:\n\nchange WARNING to NOTICE:\n\ntable \"%s\" has no indexes [...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs the subject says, anybody sitting on anything that they wish to get\ninto beta4? 'translation stuff' not withstanding, of course ...\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:29:53 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_su...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is problematic to produce small enough subset, due to large DB and \nrandomness of the situation.\nBut here is what we see in server log file, see below:\n\nIt seems like \nWARNING: ShmemAlloc: out of memory\nERROR: FreeSpaceMap hashtable out of memory\n\ngoes together, does it related...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n From the document, it seems that PREPARE/EXECUTE works only in the same \nsession. I am wondering whether postgres can prepare a query (save the plan) \nfor difference backends.\n\nI am working on a project which requires executing \"psql -c 'query'\" in \ncommand line multiple times....
[ { "msg_contents": "Ladies and Gentemen,\n\nin a database project I ported an Oracle database definition to\nPostgreSQL 7.3.2 as an aside. During this process I found a \ncouple of incompatibilities in the SQL dialects of both DBMS.\n\nI compiled the following list for whatever it might be good for -\nfor exampl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this a bug?\n\n(using CVS code from yesterday)\n\nnconway=# create view baz (a,b) as select 'hello', 'world';\nWARNING: column \"a\" has type \"unknown\"\nDETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway.\nWARNING: column \"b\" has type \"unknown\"\nDETAIL: Proceeding with relation cre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI'm just trying to understand this situation:\n\nSession 1\n---------\nBEGIN;\nSELECT * FROM tab WHERE id=1 FOR UPDATE;\n\nSession 2\n---------\nUPDATE tab SET blah=1 WHERE id=1;\n<waits>\n\nSession 1\n---------\nUPDATE tab SET blah=1 WHERE id=1;\nERROR: deadlock detected\n\nSessi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Consider the following:\n\n$ psql test\ntest=# create temp sequence ts;\nCREATE SEQUENCE\ntest=# create table tt1 (id int not null default nextval ('ts'), str varchar(255) not null);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest=# insert into tt1 (str) values ('str1'); \nINSERT 455106...
[ { "msg_contents": "Maybe someone here is also interested ;)\n\nIf you've found the Sourceforge Compile Farm a bit lacking in\nthe numbers of systems available, I highly recommend the HP\ntestdrive program (ok, to be fair, it was originally the DEC\ntestdrive program to allow you to play with OSF/1 on Alphas, \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry, no benchmark results in this post, but I do have a few notes to\npass along for folks:\n\n1) FreeBSD -devel port now has configurable block sizes\n2) 65K blocks fail, I think erroneously\n3) The size of the postmaster proc and friends explodes to 45MB\n4) effective_cache_size is a bad ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a somewhat large table, 3 million rows, 1 Gig on disk, and growing. Doing a\ncount(*) takes around 40 seconds.\n\nLooks like the count(*) fetches the table from disk and goes through it.\nMade me wonder, why the optimizer doesn't just choose the smallest index\nwhich in my case...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking for candidates who have experience in developing database/OS kernel\nusing C/C++/Java\n\nThis is for position(s) in south bay area, CA.\n", "msg_date": "2 Oct 2003 14:10:42 -0700", "msg_from": "ukris03@yahoo.com (Database)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "US-CA D...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nNoticed a few late commits ... will tag-n-bundle beta4 tonight around\nmidnight, which should give the mirrors a chance to pick it up ...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:31:44 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have returned from Washington, but one of my sons is in the hospital\nwith a mild pneumonia. I think he is coming home tomorrow, so I will\nread all my email this weekend.\n\nIt might seems strange I am reporting this, but I went away a while ago\nand didn't inform the hackers list, and s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nIf someone could help me with this, it would be cool. How do I query \nthe catalogs to find the underlying index for a constraint? (Assuming \nthe constraint is primary or unique)\n\nChris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:18:48 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Ki...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCheck her over and let me know if there are any problems ... will do a\nfull general announce tomorrow for it ...\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:39:15 -0300 (ADT)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@postgresql.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Beta4 T...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\nthe problem is to avoid users from viewing functions code (in general db\nstructures) when connecting to db by means of pgpadmin client.\nMy db contains several tables and functions and I need to make users viewing\nonly a restricted\nnumber of tables. It works for tables, as it's possibl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallo,\n\nI wonder if there is a way to call functions in plpgsql having their oid.\nAs an example: suppose i have a table that contains oids to functions \nand i have some statements that select some rows and must call the \ncorresponding functions. Of course i can do it using dynamic sql \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\ni notice that when HeapTuple data are populated by a trigger\nthen the table oid can be retrieved from HeapTuple->t_tableOid.\n\nWhen HeapTuple is populated by \nSPI_exec(\"select * from foobar when id=667\");\ntuple = SPI_tuptable->tvals[0] (id is PK and row with 667 exists)\nthen t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I get the error message below when trying to 'make' current cvs:\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I../../../../src/include/utils -I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -c timestamp.c -o timestamp.o\nIn file incl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joshua, et. al.\n\nSorry for weighing in on this discussion so late; I've gotten behind on the \nHackers digests, since there are some 90 messages a day.\n\nI don't see anything wrong with the idea of maintaining a 7.3 tree for bug \nfixes and testing if /contrib modules can be backported. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Steve ,\n\nI m interested on similar things but I m too new to PostgreSQL to give any hint .\nMy first approach is to compile with a different compiler to get a idea of the system.\n\nBest regards\n\nGottfried \n\n\n\n\"Steve Yalovitser\" <yalo@integrasoftware.com> schrieb am 03.10.03 17...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI now have a C implementation of initdb, which successfully runs with \n\"make check\" on my several linux machines, and compiles on Windows/MinGW \ntoo (can't run make check on Windows because we haven't got a native \npostgres yet - I'm going to create a small dummy Windows postgres that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is for relational database theory experts on one hand and\nimlementers of real-world alications on the other hand. If there was\na chance to start again and design SQL afresh, for best\ncleaness/power/performance what changes would you make? What would\n_your_ query language (an...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@svr1.postgresql.org\t03/10/03 16:26:49\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : runtime.sgml \n\tsrc/backend/catalog: pg_proc.c \n\tsrc/backend/utils/misc: guc.c postgresql.conf.sample \n\nLog message:\n\tAdd GUC parameter check_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe we have agreed to call a string freeze as of beta 4.\n\nThat means that any string changes for the sake of prettiness are now to\nbe avoided. (Here, \"strings\" means any strings that compose messages seen\nby the user.) This also includes adding new strings. String changes\nbeca...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just contemplating how to make postgres parallel (for DSS \napplications)... Has anyone done work on this? It looks to me like there \nare a couple of obvious places to add parallel operation:\n\nStage 1) I/O , perhaps through MPIO - would improve tablescanning and \nload/unload operati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Darko Prenosil writes:\n\n> I see that hr translation for libpq is applied, but not that one for\n> backend that I send few days ago.\n> Is there any problem with it ?\n\nIt might have gotten caught in my mail filters. I've taken it from the\narchives and applied it now.\n\n-- \nPeter Ei...
[ { "msg_contents": " P O S T G R E S Q L\n\n 7 . 4 O P E N I T E M S\n\n\nCurrent at ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/open_items.\n\nChanges\n-------\nFix REVOKE ALL ON FUNCTION error when removing owner permissions\nImprove speed of building ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do to a bug in pgtypeslin I've been experimenting with the day of week\nstuff a little bit and I found that we do not agree with the output of\nthe cal command on older dates. I have no idea which one is correct:\n\nmm=# select to_char('1000/01/01'::date,'D');\n to_char\n ---------\n 4\n(1 ro...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was a discussion on -interfaces that might need more consideration.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2003-09/msg00026.php\n\n\nApparently, it has so far been an undocumented feature of libpq's function\nPGfnumber (return column number from column name) that the column ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 05 October 2003 20:41\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQfnumber and quoted identifiers\n> \n> \n> Strange no one complained about it unti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL masters,\n\nI know this might like a childish question and you \nprobably might have a good laugh over this but I\nwould like to learn how PostgreSQL works inside-out.\nCould anyone please give me some pointers of where to start\nin/from the sourcecode?\n\nI am grateful for an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL masters,\n\nI know this might look like a childish question and you \nprobably might have a good laugh over this but I\nwould like to learn how PostgreSQL works inside-out.\nCould anyone please give me some pointers of where to start\nin/from the source code?\n\nI am grateful ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any reason other than historical that the System Views setup \nisn't a separate script fed to postgres by initdb, like, say, the \ninformation schema file? If there isn't a good reason should we unwire \nit as part of moving to a C version of initdb?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n\n\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Resending because i did not attahc the file .. !! Sorry for the mistake...\n\nHello, \n\nI just translated the psql.pot file into Italian language and tested it in 7.4beta3. It seems to work just fine. The \"it\" language is not in the nls.mk so it must be added. I don't know if there is some...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tpetere@svr1.postgresql.org\t03/10/05 18:49:12\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/catalog: aclchk.c \n\nLog message:\n\tWhen revoking privileges from the owner, don't revoke the grant options,\n\tto avoid recursively revoking everythi...
[ { "msg_contents": "To be clear, this is not about \\N as the default external\nrepresentation for NULL, I'm talking about a string consisting of the\ntwo characters backslash and uppercase-N.\n\nCREATE TABLE nonu (tx text NOT NULL);\nINSERT INTO nonu VALUES ('\\\\N');\nSELECT * FROM nonu;\nCOPY nonu TO stdout;\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nDuring a pg_dump, does the extra_float_digits option only affect the \nCOPY data, or could it possibly also affect column defaults, view \ndefinitions, etc?\n\nChris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:48:08 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@family...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nShouldn't this be a WARNING or an ERROR? Trying to create a table \nWITHOUT OIDS that inherits from a table WITH OIDS silently ignores the \nWITHOUT OIDS specification. It think that should be a warning...\n\ntest=# create table a (a int4);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest=# create table c () inh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\nHi, developers !\n\nPostgreSQL is growing....\nApplications are growing older and larger too.\n\nDon't we need some printing tools?\nI feel I need a tool to print relation and unheritance diagrams from sources \non SQL.\nMy sources are too large to drawing diagrams manually now.\nI ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI notice you cannot COMMENT ON the following:\n\n* Cast\n* Conversion\n* Operator class\n\nDocs:\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-comment.html\n\nIs that a deliberate omission, or is it an oversight? If it's \ndeliberate, it seems kind of arbitrary. Or have the docs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone know why 'pg_restore -d' doesn't display the commands being\nexecuted, like you see when you don't use '-d':\n\n\tpg_dump -Fc test >/tmp/test.db\n\tpg_restore < /tmp/test.db\n\tpg_restore -d test < /tmp/test.db\n\nThe first pg_restore displays the commands, while the second does n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\npg_encoding appears to have 2 personalities, (name=>number and vice \nversa) depending on whther or not its parameter begins with a digit \n(which is in itself fragile - what if you gave it \"3foo\"?).\n\nHowever, from an initdb POV I am assuming that we are only interested in \nthe name=>n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have designed a new indexing tecknique for biological database now I want to implement it in pgsql so what the work I will have to do? From where I should start?\nGet Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com\n\n Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n It seems to me that the below should not be able to happen.\n\n\n\npostgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a';\nCREATE USER\npostgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a';\nERROR: CREATE USER: user name \"with\" already exists\n\n\nSincerley,\n\nJoshu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Below is a 7.2.4 example of the rserv log with inet data type. You will\nnotice that inet cast to text, and the log entry are differently (one\nfrom unknown directly to text via a trigger, the other from inet cast to\ntext).\n\nI see this hasn't been changed in the 7.4 version. Is there inten...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nI'm trying to compile PostgreSQL 7.4 beta4 on Irix 6.5.5, o200, r10000 \n(IP27) with MIPSPro compilers version 6.5.\n\nI've read FAQ_IRIX and saw these lines:\n\n\"PostgreSQL 7.2 has been run on MIPS r8000, r10000(both ip25 and ip27)\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I grabbed the patched BSD indent from a mirror. Here's a couple of points:\n\n. with a little trial and error GNU indent 2.2.9 actually did quite a \nreasonable job for me last night. But I guess YMMV. I'm curious to know \nwhat nasty mangling it does.\n. the file is a compressed tar file - i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n I believe that the Int8/BigInt items are known issues but I have a \nknew programmer that ran into it\nover the weekend (he didn't call me when he encountered the problem, \nwhen he should of) and we have a\ncustomer that burned some significant time on it as well. Will this be \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPardon me if this has already been discussed and rejected for good reason. \n\nNow that we have Statement-level triggers, is there any reason we shouldn't \nhave triggers on SELECT? Such triggers could be extremely useful for \ndatabases with tight security audit requirements.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Seun Osewa [mailto:seunosewa@inaira.com] \n> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:52 AM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Dreaming About Redesigning SQL\n> \n> \n> Hi,\n> \n> This is for relational database theory experts on one hand ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having trouble overloading functions in plpgsql using PostgreSQL \n7.3.2 on OS X.\n\nI have created two functions with the following declarations:\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION set_entity_type(BIGINT,TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:52:06 -0500", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having trouble overloading functions in plpgsql using PostgreSQL \n7.3.2 on OS X.\n\nI have created two functions with the following declarations:\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION set_entity_type(BIGINT,TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN \nAS ' ...\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION set_entity_type(BIGINT,BIGIN...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> . using \"wb\" for writing out on Windows is so that we don't \n> get Windows' gratuitous addition of carriage returns. I will document that.\n\nPlease use the #define PG_BINARY_W from c.h which is defined\nwith the correct letters for all platforms (\"wb\" on Windows).\n\nThat is how Pet...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, as you guys know I've been tinkering with sun-vs-linux postgres for\na while trying to come up with reasons for the HUGE performance\ndifferences. We've all had our anecdotal thoughts (fork sucks, ipc sucks,\nufs sucks, etc) and I've had a breakthrough.\n\nKnowing that GCC only produces...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Devrim,\n\tI have been using Postgres on Irix for over 8 years, and I have only\nused the SGI provided compilers. GCC doesn't work well on Irix. In addition,\nyou can build a 64 bit version of PostgreSQL. Here's the script we used for\nPostgreSQL 7.3.2:\n\n#!/bin/ksh -x\n\n./copy_local_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I've done some more testing on our IDE drive machine.\n\nFirst, some background. The hard drives we're using are Seagate \ndrives, model number ST380023A. Firmware version is 3.33. The machine \nthey are in is running RH9. The setup string I'm feeding them on startup \nright now is: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "gist supports only balanced trees but I have to implement index as suffix tree which is highly unbalanced.How can I do this?\n\n\n\"monu_indian\" <monu_indian@indiatimes.com> writes:\n> I have designed a new indexing tecknique for biological database now I want to implement it in pgsql so wha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm seeing this compile warning on today's CVS tip:\n\n$ make src/backend/commands/tablecmds.o\ngcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I./src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o src/backend/commands/tablecmds.o src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c\nsrc/backend/commands/tablecmds....
[ { "msg_contents": "The MS runtime docs on setlocale() contaiun the following statement:\n\n At program startup, the equivalent of the following statement is executed:\n\n setlocale( LC_ALL, \"C\" );\n\nDoes this have any effect on us? Does it mean, as it appears to, that the locale will not be inherited from ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the following behavior intentional? If so, what's the reasoning\nbehind it?\n\nnconway=# select 1::bit;\n bit \n-----\n 0\n(1 row)\nnconway=# select '1'::bit;\n bit \n-----\n 1\n(1 row)\nnconway=# select X'1'::bit;\n bit \n-----\n 0\n(1 row)\nnconway=# select 1::bit varying;\nERROR: canno...
[ { "msg_contents": "This would be a good idea I think. DB2 has a page-cleaner background process that periodically writes out dirty pages to disk. Reduces checkpoint I/O. \n\nI don't see much point in serializing all bufferpool I/O through a separate dedicated backend. Informix uses something like this.\n\n--\nP...
[ { "msg_contents": "4:12p\nDear all,\nI am facing problems with the postgres(7.3.1) on windows machine(98). The problem is with pg_recvbuf. And here are the logs..\nCan any one teach me more on this\nLOG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection\nLOG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection\nLOG...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI found on the readme the following lines:\n\n\n\ndeleteThreshold is equal to:\n vacuum_base_value + (vacuum_scaling_factor * \"number of tuples in \nthe table\")\n\ninsertThreshold is equal to:\n analyze_base_value + (analyze_scaling_factor * \"number of tuples in \nthe tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tmomjian@svr1.postgresql.org\t03/10/09 01:34:02\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/template : bsdi freebsd netbsd openbsd qnx4 \n\nLog message:\n\tRe-add -pipe compile flags for bsd's.\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:34:02 -0300 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \n I am an Oracle DBA having 4 +years of experience and want to\nmigrate to postgreSQL .\nPlease kindly Assist me for Documents to convert Oracle Application to\nPostgreSQL .\nAnd also send me the links to open source code for postgreSQL.\n \nThanks& Regards,\n \nSrikanth Pentako...
[ { "msg_contents": "The $Config-stuff is useable from the regular perl binary, \n'perl -V:ccflags' for example. \n\n-- Magnus\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org\n[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian\n\nDo we want to try this approach that t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have to work on some software which is using JDBC and libpq (via JNI) in\nthe same process to connect to the same Postgres database. The software\nis heavily multithreaded.\n\nWhen running under heavy loads and accessing the database under JDBC and\nlibpq at the same time, we get ob...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi.\n\nIf this isn't the right list for this type of question, please redirect\nme to the relevant list.\n\nI get the following error trying to restore a 7.2.2-dump-file in 7.4b4:\n\npsql:nbeweb-db-as_copy-7.2.2.dmp:2051589: invalid command \\...
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