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[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHello,\n\nI've been using libpqxx to access a Postgres database for the last few\nmonths, and I wrote a set of classes to wrap around libpqxx, which\ngradually evolved into a small set of classes and class templates.\nThese allow database tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nIf possible, for the upcoming release we'd like to get the Contributor List on \ndeveloper.postgresql.org updated. Can everyone please take a gander at:\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/bios.php\n\n... and tell me what's out of date other than me & Vadim? i.e.:\n\nA) What contri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Chris,\n\n> I work with Marc Fournier, for those who don't know, and have been\n> working extensively with the schemas feature for Hub.Org's new Account\n> Management package. Each client's data is stored in a seperate schema\n> set asside just for them (though they will never have direct ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter,\n \n> http://advocacy.postgresql.org/about/\n> \n> This is sort of the same web page that we're talking about here, but it\n> lists the developers below the press contacts as also-rans. What's worse,\n> this is the web page that people will get to if they go to if they go to\n> http:/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Clearly I can't spell.\n\nRegards,\n\nDavid\n\n--- postgresql-7.4RC1/contrib/start-scripts/PostgreSQL.darwin Mon Dec \n 9 13:26:07 2002\n+++ /Users/david/Desktop/PostgreSQL.darwin Wed Nov 5 17:53:23 2003\n@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@\n #\n # POSTGRESQLSERVER=-YES-\n #\n-# The startup bundle ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] \n> Sent: 05 November 2003 22:27\n> To: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane\n> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List\n> \n> Guys,\n> \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 05 November 2003 23:11\n> To: Josh Berkus\n> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List\n> \n> Josh Berkus writes:\n> \n> > If p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust looking at the information schema in 7.4 and noticed something \nodd/annoying/problematic:\n\ncreate table pk(f1 int primary key);\ncreate table fk1(f1 int references pk(f1));\ncreate table fk2(f1 int references pk(f1));\n\nselect * from information_schema.referential_constraints;\n\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl] \n> Sent: 06 November 2003 14:47\n> To: Robert Treat\n> Cc: Dave Page; Peter Eisentraut; Josh Berkus; \n> pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Chan...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Forum,\n\nCould someone please send me the link and the names of the files to install\nthe version 7.4 in Windows 2000 server and XP Pro? I cannot discern the\nfiles that one is supposed to download.\n\nThanks in advance for your response.\n\nCarlos Oliva\nSenior Programmer/Analyst\nPo...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:35, Tom Lane wrote:\n> Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> writes:\n> >> -> Hash Join (cost=3D1230.79..60581.82 rows=3D158 width=3D54)=\n> > (actual time=3D1262.35..151200.29 rows=3D1121988 loops=3D1)\n> >> Hash Cond: (\"outer\".account_id =3D \"inner\".account_id)\n> >> -> H...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I start up with -i, I get the following log:\n\nLOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use\nHINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.\nLOG: database system was shut down at 2003-11-06 20:47:54 CET\nLOG: checkpoint rec...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGreetings,\n\nPostgreSQL built with:\n\nexport CC=cc\n./configure --without-readline --without-zlib\n\nThe build and install went OK.\n\n{/opt/postgres/postgresql-7.4RC1}$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data\n\nThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user\n\"postgres\". Thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi Hackers\n\nI have noticed an issue with deferrable triggers not always being\ndeferrable. Eg:\n\n alter table subsession\n add constraint fk_subsession_session foreign key (session_id)\n references session (session_id)\n deferrable;\n\n alter table subsession2\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nin the pg_stat_activity catalog there is a field called current_query but it \nis in blank when i modify the\nshow statement stat in postgresql.conf i win nothing. what am i doing wrong?\n\n\nthanks in advance,\nJaime Casanova (el_vigia)\n\n_________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "While investigating Scott Goodwin's recent report of trouble on Mac OS\nX, I have realized that we have an unpleasant little misbehavior in our\nlast several releases. After a backend crash, the postmaster will\nattempt to recycle (delete and recreate) the old shared memory segment.\nHowever...
[ { "msg_contents": "I asked my friends at SCO (who are productizing PG) to test\n7.4RC1 on OpenServer 5.0.7, and received this back:\n\n\nA \"make check\" fails at createdb with errors in the postmaster logfile:\n\nLOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) failed: Protocol not available\n\n\nPlus he needed to add:\n\nif test...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 06 November 2003 22:18\n> To: Robert Treat\n> Cc: Alvaro Herrera; Dave Page; Josh Berkus; \n> pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Usually db works fine & stable months, but couple days ago\nit was PANIC, and i have no ideas why this happen.\n\nNov 5 20:22:30 monstr postgres[16071]: [1] LOG: connection received: host=[local]\nNov 5 20:22:30 monstr postgres[16071]: [2] LOG: connection authorized: user=ant database=tel...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHello,\n\nI've been using libpqxx to access a Postgres database for the last few\nmonths, and I wrote a set of classes to wrap around libpqxx, which\ngradually evolved into a small set of classes and class templates.\nThese allow database tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "What is the current schedule for RC2/final?\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\n + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there\nsome items I should be doing more/less of?\n\n\to Patches\n\to TODO/FAQ\n\to Email discussion, coordination\n\to Win32\n\to Talks\n\to Books/articles\n\to Web site cleanup\n\to Source code cleanup\n\to Features/fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "People occasionally seem to ask for keeping time stamps on schema objects\n(tables, functions, etc.) about when they were created and last altered\n(in their structure, not the data in the tables). I think that this would\nbe a relatively useful and painless feature. What do others think?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl] \n> Sent: 07 November 2003 17:37\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Josh Berkus; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Chan...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 07 November 2003 19:35\n> To: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Timestamps on schema objects\n> \n> People occasionally seem to ask for keeping time stamps on \n> schema objects (tables, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm interested in changing the client encoding from within a java\nprogram. I'm using connection pooling and need to change it depending\non the client's language preference. Is there a function I can call\nwhich changes the client encoding. Something like\n\n pStmt = con.prepareStatem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can you just use the SQL logging and read that file afterwords?\n\n/djb\n\n----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: \"Jaime Casanova\" <el_vigia_ec@hotmail.com>\nTo: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>; <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>;\n<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nSent: Friday, November 07, 2003 14:5...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's my notes on how to build PostgreSQL 7.4 (CVS) on OS X 10.3 \n(7B85) with (seems to be working, but I haven't really ran any tests) \npython, tcl, perl, readline. I noticed today that you guys are just \nabout to release, so I figure I should bring this up right now. Please \nfeel...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTo produce the error, the following query was issued:\n\n select * from information_schema.tables;\n\nGenerates the following error message:\n\n ERROR: unrecognized privilege type: \"RERERENCES\"\n\nReplacing the word \"RERERENCES\" with \"REFERENCES\" in\nthe predicate \"has_table_pri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Once again it's time to consider that old problem that indexes can't\nhandle cross-datatype comparisons, for example\n\tSELECT ... WHERE int8col = 42\nwon't use an index on int8col because 42 is int4.\n\nWe have spent a huge amount of time trying to find ways to get the system\nto assign the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A general re-organization of Alter Table. Node wise, it is a\nAlterTableStmt with a list of AlterTableCmds. The Cmds are the\nindividual actions to be completed (Add constraint, drop constraint, add\ncolumn, etc.)\n\nProcessing is done in 2 phases. The first phase updates the system\ncatalog...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just fixed a bug in ecpglib that caused it to misbehave for all\ninternal array/vector types. They were treated like the external ones.\nSo ecpg expected them to be listed as '{...}' which surely failed. \n\nHowever, this bug fix involves more code changes than I like to just\ncommit into 7...
[ { "msg_contents": "All, \n\nI'm working on a school project that involves genetic algorithms. We thought\nit would be neat to parralelize the genetic algorithm in postgresql's query\noptimiser. We used pthreads and are able to spawn threads to deal with the\nquery optimization, however on exit of the thread the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nCan you pls explain how the constant values are stored in Postgresql, I\nmean using the Const Data Structure.\n\nWhat does the datum field represent?\n\nThanks\nShalu\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:15:59 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "sgupta5@ncsu.edu", "msg_from_op": t...
[ { "msg_contents": "AgentM, \n\nThe treads are joined back together by the master. I did try to debug, but\nhave to say I hard a hard time with it. I have tried to debug, but didn't\nget very far. Debugging Threads is not my forte. :( \n\n\nHere is the code from :\n/src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c\n\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">From my SCO contacts re: the failure on OSR5:\n\n\nI haven't had time and won't have time to fully diagnose this until\nafter i get back from vacation. In the mean time, i am attaching a\npatch which gets OpenServer 5.0.7 to pass 92 of 93 tests with one\ntest ignored. Basically, this patch j...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\n I am Suchindra Katageri and am working as a Software Engineer at\n Linuxlabs, Atlanta, GA.\n \n I am presently working on developing libraries to make postgresql\n run on a cluster. I was wondering if it was possible to force Database\n writes to stable storage, without messing up w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way, short of using a debugger with a strategically placed \nbreakpoint, to tell if a SQL function has been inlined?\n\nJoe\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:14:32 -0800", "msg_from": "Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "How...
[ { "msg_contents": "I may have missed 1.4:\n\nPostgreSQL 7.5devel on arm-unknown-netbsdelf1.6ZE, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.2-nb1\n\nbut all tests work there. I didn't manage to compile bison 1.875 under\nNetBSD-1.6P/acorn32, as gcc 2.95.3 really didn't like it. Upgrading to\nNetBSD-1.6ZE/acorn32 upgraded to ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">you could put a view on every table that called a function?\n\nMaybe, but how can i retrieve the select statement\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nMSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* \nhttp://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI am trying to catch the \"UPDATE 0\" condition in postgresql.\nI have tried it using triggers, but they are only fired when there\neffectively is an update. So, an Update 0 does not fire triggers.\nIs it possible to make the backend raise and exception when the\nUpdate 0 happens? Thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nShould be on the mirrors now, will announce it this evening ... things\nlooked to build clean, just would like a second opinion on it ...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:49:50 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just installed kylix3 and had a problem when try to connect PostgreSQL\nI use SQLConnection to connect with PostgreSQL\nwhen I set property connection to true it cause\nan error \"unable to load libsqlpg.so\"\ncan anyone help me?\n\nthanx\nwelly\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI just \ninstalled kylix3 an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> that works well enough to make it uncommon for backends to have to\n> write dirty buffers for themselves. If we can, then doing all the\n> writes O_SYNC would not be a problem.\n\nOne problem with O_SYNC would be, that the OS does not group writes any \nmore. So the code would need to ei...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > One problem with O_SYNC would be, that the OS does not group writes any \n> > more. So the code would need to eighter do it's own sorting and grouping\n> > (256k) or use aio, or you won't be able to get the maximum out of the disks.\n> \n> Or just run multiple writer processes, which I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> wrote:\n> --- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:\n> > Michael Mauger writes:\n> > >\n> > > Emacs is not a Cygwin (Un*x emulation on Windows) executable (like\n> > > psql is)\n> > \n> > Why don't you use the native Windows version of psql?\n> > \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n'k, this doesn't look right, but it could be that I'm overlooking\nsomething ...\n\nThe function I created:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION month_trunc (timestamp without time zone) RETURNS timestamp without time zone\n AS 'SELECT date_trunc(''month'', $1 )'\n LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE;\n\n\nThe quer...
[ { "msg_contents": "To whom it may concern,\n\nPlease accept my apology if this is not the correct forum, I am new and was unable to find the correct location to send this question.\n\nIf you don't wish to answer, could you please direct me to the correct place to ask the question.\n\nThanks\n\nThe question is:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joe, do you recall the reasoning for this code in parse_coerce.c?\n\n if (targetTypeId == ANYOID ||\n targetTypeId == ANYARRAYOID ||\n targetTypeId == ANYELEMENTOID)\n {\n /* assume can_coerce_type verified that implicit coercion is okay */\n /* NB: we do NOT...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can't build postgresql from CVS. Any help ?\nThis is the message I get:\n\n\tbison -y -d preproc.y\n\tpreproc.y:6275: fatal error: maximum table size (32767) exceeded\n\n\nBison version:\n\n\tbison (GNU Bison) 1.35\n\nTIA\n.strk;\n\n-- \npallamondo.net <-- take a look !\n", "msg_date"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nWe have just packaged up our second Release Candidate for v7.4, with the\nhopes of producing a full release next week.\n\nA full ChangeLog is available at:\n\n\tftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/sources/v7.4/ChangeLog.RC1.to.RC2\n\nBut, one of the highlights is that support for tcl8.0.x has be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Failed to build on Solaris.\n\nSummary\n1. Checking for pstat... no\n2. Regression Failur stats ..... FAILED .\n3. Not running stats buffer process and stats collector process.\n\n------------------------------------------------\nEnvironments\n SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4m sparc\n SunOS...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have seen that a bug related to duplicated keys is in 7.4rc2. As far \nas I have seen a bug like that has already been discovered during the \n7.3 era. Is this bug going to be fixed?\n\nHere s the description:\n\nDROP TABLE public.testtabelle;\n\nbegin;\n\nCREATE TABLE public.testtabelle\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "andrew@dunslane.net wrote:\n\n> Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a \n> small \"hit team\" that would take some high profile open source \n> projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be \n> the most obvious candidate, but there are certai...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear community,\n\nfor some reason the post I sent yesterday night still did not show up on \nthe mailing lists. I have set up some links on the developers side under \nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1.html\n\nThe concept will be the base for some of my work as a Software Enginee...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do we have any data on how many people download the partial tarballs\n(-base, -opt, etc.)? I have a feeling that more people are confused by\nthem than use them.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:44:06 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "Peter E...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n I have a problem with compile PostgreSQL from cvs with tag REL7_4_STABLE\nError is 'ECPG_ARRAY_NONE is not declared' (in execute.c)\nHEAD (7.5.devel) compile fine\n\nPlease help\n\nRegards\nHaris Peco\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:26:08 +0000", "msg_from": "snpe <sn...
[ { "msg_contents": "What facilities are/will be available for hot(online) backups with the\n7.4 release? PITR, something else? TIA.\n-- \nAustin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>\nCoremetrics, Inc.\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:46:41 -0600", "msg_from": "Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have a problem with compile PostgreSQL from cvs with tag\n> REL7_4_STABLE\n> Error is 'ECPG_ARRAY_NONE is not declared' (in execute.c)\n\nMy fault. extern.h wasn't committed and I didn't notice. Sorry.\nIt should be fixed now.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nEmail: Michael at Fam-Meskes ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't seen any discussion on the topic, so thought I might start\none. We currently provide rpms for Red Hat 7.x, 8.x, and 9, and I'm\nassuming that we'll have rpms for all of those for 7.4 once release time\nrolls around. However, given that Red Hat is dropping support for 7.x\nand 8.x v...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Cannot assign requested address\n> \n> Hmm ... that's sure the problem, but what can we do about it? ISTM that\n> any non-broken system ought to be able to resolve \"localhost\". Actually\n> it's worse than that: your system resolve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear All,\n\tI have compiled and tested Postgresql-7.4beta4 on SGI Irix\n6.5.20 using the MIPS Pro 7.4 compilers and on SGI Altix using the gcc\n2.96 compilers and both ports passed all tests within the limits of\nnumerical accuracy.\n\tWhat is the URL for reporting successful ports? --Bob\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Speaking from a non-profit whose enterprise data sits inside postgres, \nwe would be willing to invest a few thousand dollars into the pot of \nsynchronous multi-master replication. Postgres-r sounded absolutely \nmarvelous to us back in the day that it was rumored to be one of the \npossible...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just committed the implementation of ARC into the 7.5devel tree.\n\nThis doesn't contain the vacuum page delay, or the test implementation \nof the background writer based on the checkpoint process. These two need \nsome more discussion and bouncing around.\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#==========...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat is the status of CVS head? Isn't it in sync\nwith 7.4.RC2? I just upgraded from CVS and rebuilt\nclean and initdb now gives this lovely informative\ninitdb failed message.\n\nI haven't had trouble previously with cvs head or\nother versions.\n\n$ sudo make install\n...\nPostgreSQL in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Barring surprises, we will institute a code freeze in the 7.4 branch\ntonight with an eye to wrapping the release Sunday. Is anyone aware\nof critical loose ends that still need to be dealt with?\n\nThe only thing on my own radar screen is a couple of reports of the\nstats collector failing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think I have some more information on the statistics collector startup \nproblem on Solaris.\n\nI inserted the following into pgstat.c:\n\nif (bind(pgStatSock, addr->ai_addr, addr->ai_addrlen) < 0)\n{\n\n/* what type of socket are we trying to bind? */\nfprintf(stderr, \"Address family is %...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached diff is another attempt for distributing the write IO.\n\nIt is a separate background process much like the checkpointer. It's \npurpose is to keep the number of dirty blocks in the buffer cache at a \nreasonable level and try that the buffers returned by the strategy for \nrepla...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey Bruce,\n\nWhen you get around to it, can you commit the patch I submitted that \ndumps conversions in pg_dump. I need that in to complete my COMMENT ON \npatch.\n\nI think it's pretty safe to apply, and I'm not 100% sure I still have a \nlocal copy of the patch, so I can't let it drift t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just updated to the current REL7_4_STABLE cvs, and get\na problem at line 18048 where cat isn't on the path writing\nthe config.status file.\n\nIf I add /usr/bin/ to the cat invocation, it works.\n\nWhat's broke?\n\n(I updated using:\n\ncvs update -rREL7_4_STABLE -P -d\n\n)\n\n\nLER\n\n\n--...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear,\n\nI'd like to make new system catalog table.Could you let me know how to do\nabout that?\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:28:33 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "kkim3@ncsu.edu", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Making new system catalog" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I anyone going to email the people who last reported the unsupported \nplatforms to see if they'll re-test?\n\nShall I? Or should someone more official?\n\nChris\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:30:41 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed tonight that the new initdb introduced a subtle change of \nbehavior. I use a shell script to automate the process of\n- rm old data directory\n- mkdir new data directory\n- initdb\n- load from pgdumpall\nNow, that second step is not needed, but as of today it produces an \nins...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi , \n\nmy database seems to be taking too long for a select count(*)\ni think there are lot of dead rows. I do a vacuum full it improves\nbu again the performance drops in a short while ,\ncan anyone please tell me if anything worng with my fsm settings\ncurrent fsm=55099264 (not sure h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Everyone,\n\nThis is my first post here so please tell me to go somewhere else if this\nis the wrong place to post questions like this.\n\nI am using PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and have used earlier versions (7.1.x onwards)\nand with all of them I noticed same problem with INSERTs when there is a\nl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n what use pure XML Docbook (non-SGML) for 7.5 PostgreSQL docs?\n\n XML advantage:\n\n - more clean and simple conversion into printable\n formats by FO (Formatting Objects),\n - needn't huge TeX stuff (!),\n - Java based XSLT/FO processors like FOP (support PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, Prin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good morning,\n\n I am new to Postgres, so excuse for such question, but I can't find it\nin dokumentation.\nI have table cities. I can insert into it, select from it, but cat run such\ncommand\ndistance=> \\d cities\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \".\"\n\n\ndistance=> \\d cities;...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is a pgsql-performance list, which was created for questions like yours. \nYour problem was brought up many times before, so searching the archives is \nan alternative. \n\nRegards, Christoph \n\n> \n> Hi Everyone,\n> \n> This is my first post here so please tell me to go somewhere els...
[ { "msg_contents": "When i try to configure postgres before compilation returned errors:\n\n[wolk@Lucutus postgresql-7.3.4]$ ./configure --infodir=/usr/share/info\nconfigure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info\nTry `./configure --help' for more information.\n\nThe infodir option is present in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nShould the jdbc driver compile ok with 7.4RC2?\n\nI configure like so\n\n./configure --with-perl --with-java --with-libs=/sw/lib\n--with-includes=/sw/include\n\nBut it fails with this\n\ncompile:\n\nBUILD FAILED\nfile:/usr/local/install/postgresql-7.4RC2/src/interfaces/jdbc/build.xml:114:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Slavisa Garic [mailto:Slavisa.Garic@infotech.monash.edu.au] \n> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:37 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] INSERT extremely slow with large data sets\n> \n> \n> Hi Everyone,\n> \n> This is my first...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:07:43, Josh Berkus wrote:\n\n> One thing I've not seen an answer to: does Postgres run acceptably on \n> other people's Solaris boxes? If this bug is preventing running on \n> Solaris at all, I'd say fix it ... Solaris is a major platform. If it \n> only affects us...
[ { "msg_contents": "This worked in 7.3:\n\nregression=# select '1999-jan-08'::date;\nERROR: date/time field value out of range: \"1999-jan-08\"\nHINT: Perhaps you need a different \"datestyle\" setting.\n\nSetting DateStyle to YMD doesn't help, and in any case I'd think that\nthis ought to be considered an una...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Slavisa Garic [mailto:Slavisa.Garic@infotech.monash.edu.au] \n> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:12 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Slavisa Garic; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] INSERT extremely slow with large data sets\n> \n> \n> H...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:14:34, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Would you please check CVS HEAD. Tom has just applied the patch fix\n> this and we could use more testers.\n\nCVS HEAD compiles fine and all regression tests pass on my Sol 2.8 and 2.9\nboxes.\n\n-derek\nDerek Morr\nGPG public key: http...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallo,\n\nI'm trying to call plpgsql functions from c functions directly through \nthe Oid, but i have a problem: it seems that the plpgsql interpreter \ncalls SPI_connect and fails even if the caller has already \nspi-connected. I am working on recursive functions in c and so i can not \ncal...
[ { "msg_contents": "No luck on general, so I'll try here:\n\nI'm trying to figure out what version of a source code I have. I know\nit's a 7.2 release, but how can I find out of it's 7.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4,\netc. FROM THE SOURCE CODE, not from compiling (it doesn't compile, it's\ntesting code).\n\nThanks\n- B...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the SRA sync() code for Win32. As you might know, fsync on\nWin32 is _commit, and sync() is _flushall. However, _flushall only\nflushes only _open_ kernel buffers, not dirty buffers that have been\nclosed. Therefore, on Win32, during checkpoint, you have to open,\nfsync(_commit), c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nRecently, several pgAdmin3 users complained about missing accentuated \ncharacters. The problems mostly came from the ASCII database encoding, which \nprovides arbitrary storage of accentuated characters.\n\nDuring installation of a Debian station, I noticed that the Debian \...
[ { "msg_contents": "running 7.4RC2+ (from last week).\n\nI got the following:\n\n$ debug -ic -c core* /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres\nWarning: No debugging information in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres\nCore image of postgres (process p1) created\nCORE FILE [_bt_getroot]\nSIGNALED 10 (bus code[BUS_OBJERR] address[...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nI think that the bittorrent (cf <http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent>)\nserver is ready to go at <http://bt.postgresql.org>. Bug/failure\nreports more than welcome :)\n\nCheers,\nD\n-- \nDavid Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/\nphone: +1 510 893 6100 cell: +1 415 23...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n'k, I just tag'd REL7_4 and built the bundles ... the files are available\nunder ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v7.4beta, and I've open'd up the\nftp server there to 100 connections so that ppl can get in and test it ...\n\nIt is 6:15pm AST here right now ... at ~9pm, I will move those...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n'k, I just moved the release into the /pub/source/v7.4 directory from the\nv7.4beta one ... RC2 is still in place, so that I don't break a bunch of\nlinks ... tomorrow night, I'll remove the RC2 ...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:23:20 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> 1. Open WAL files with O_SYNC|O_DIRECT or O_SYNC(Not sure if \n\nWithout grouping WAL writes that does not fly. Iff however such grouping\nis implemented that should deliver optimal performance. I don't think flushing \nWAL to the OS early (before a tx commits) is necessary, since writin...
[ { "msg_contents": "-- value-independent transition function\nCREATE AGGREGATE newcnt (\n sfunc = int4inc, basetype = 'any', stype = int4,\n initcond = '0'\n);\n\nCOMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt (any) IS 'an any agg comment';\nERROR: syntax error at or near \"any\" at character 30\nCOMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to add a new column to pg_attribute that specifies the\nattribute's \"logical position\" within its relation. The idea here is\nto separate the logical order of the columns in a relation from the\non-disk storage of the relation's tuples. This allows us to easily &\nquickly change co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to add a new column to pg_attribute that specifies the\nattribute's \"logical position\" within its relation. The idea here is\nto separate the logical order of the columns in a relation from the\non-disk storage of the relation's tuples. This allows us to easily &\nquickly change co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI don't think it's a FAQ, Is it possible to limit then number of\nsimultaneous connexions one can make to a particular databse.\n\nE.G: I have 128 connexions max of witch I wan't to restrict at most 60 to\ndatabase x, leaving in the worst case 68 for all others...\n\nAm I clear?\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "The PostgreSQL group has recently had a patch submitted with a snippet\nof code from FreeBSDs src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c.\n\nhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c?annotate=1.27\n\nIs this intentionally under the 4 clause license or does the copyright\nfrom the website (2 clau...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's a command line option for the server.\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/app-postmaster.html\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: ohp@pyrenet.fr [mailto:ohp@pyrenet.fr] \n> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:21 AM\n> To: pgsql-hackers list\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Connexio...