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"msg_contents": "Oops. Never mind. I did not read your message carefully.\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dann Corbit \n> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:51 AM\n> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Connexions question\n> \n> \n> It's a command line... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.coyotegulch.com/acovea/index.html\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:11:06 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Optimizer optimizer may be worth a look-see"
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've searched through libpq and looked for global or static variables as \nindicators of non-threadsafe code. I found:\n- Win32 and BeOS: there is a global \"ioctlsocket_ret variable, but it \nseems to be a dummy variable that is always discarded.\n- pg_krb4_init(): Are the kerberos li... |
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"msg_contents": "\nYesterday I was a bit worried... I switched to SuSE just 2 weeks ago... \nmy newly installed databse server was waitinI thought that I would have \nto wait so much to have RPMs for SuSE and today I see v7.4 compiled for \nmany flavors of SuSE, even for X86-64. Wow :)\n\nThanks :)\n\n-- \n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nOf course, while I was editing press releases at 2am, I started thinking about \nour next version. It seems certain that the next release, in 6-9 months, \nwill have at a minimum the Windows port and ARC, if not Slony-I as well.\n\nGiven all that, don't people think it's time to j... |
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"msg_contents": "The time from release 7.3 to release 7.4 was 355 days, an all-time high.\nWe really need to shorten that. We already have a number of significant\nimprovements in 7.5 now, and several good ones coming up in the next few\nweeks. We cannot let people wait 1 year for that. I suggest that we a... |
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"msg_contents": "I screwed up, and dropped a column when I shouldn't have.\n\nI have *not* vacuumed this DB yet.\n\nIs there any catalog mucking I can do to bring it back?\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSince I can't just go in an remove all the v's from the directory names in\nthe ftp site, without breaking any links to the ftp servers, I just\ncreated a new directory that contains the 'non-v' names, with symlink's to\nthe v'd directories ...\n\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/src/[167].*\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:04 PM\n> To: Matthew T. O'Connor\n> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:34 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark; \n> PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, b... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: ow [mailto:oneway_111@yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:39 PM\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n> \n> \n> --- Christopher Kings... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 17 November 2003 23:31\n> To: Josh Berkus\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n> Josh Berkus writes:\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> If the background writer uses fsync, it can write and allow the buffer\n> to be reused and fsync later, while if we use O_SYNC, we have to wait\n> for the O_SYNC write to happen before reusing the buffer; \n> that will be slower.\n\nYou can forget O_SYNC for datafiles for now. There woul... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: 18 November 2003 09:23\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Josh Berkus; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n> Dave ... |
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"msg_contents": "I found the uses of int2, int16 and other similiar types misleading\nin PostgreSQL's source code. Sometime it is difficult to figure out\nwhich should be prefered.\n\nMaybe int2, int4, and int8 refer to database types, while int16, int32\nand int64 refer to C data types. If this is the conven... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I'm sorry if I'm being alow here - is there any problem with running a \n> > production server on cygwin's postgresql? Is the cygwin port of lesser \n> > quality, or otherwise inferior?\n> \n> Performance, performance, perfomance... and perfomance... it is (almost) \n> always worse per... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Claudio Natoli wrote:\n\nClaudio Natoli wrote nothing of the sort :-P\n\n--- \nCertain disclaimers and policies apply to all email sent from Memetrics.\nFor the full text of these disclaimers and policies see \n<a\nhref=\"http://www.memetrics.com/emailpolicy.html\">http://www.memetrics.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAndrew Dunstan wrote:\n\n> Here's the situation as I see it:\n> . there have been lots of requests for a native Win32 port\n> . this is important to some people and not important to others\n> . the decision has long ago been made to do it, and some work \n> has been done, and more is being ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nBruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> > Speaking of which, any ETA on this? Bruce? If anyone from \n> core can indicate\n> > how they'd like this architected (from the perspective of code\n> > rearrangement), I'm willing to have a crack at this.\n> \n> \thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pg... |
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"msg_contents": "All:\n\nDoes anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the \nnear future. What is the decission to develop on this platform since Sun \nis pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever.\n\n-- \nChristopher Smiga\nSystem Engineer (Sun SCSA)\nN2 Broadband Network Operations\nPhone: ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: ow [mailto:oneway_111@yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:39 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n> \n> --- Dann Cor... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: ow [mailto:oneway_111@yahoo.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:23 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?\n> \n> \n> \n> --- Dan... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nIs there any pre-existing protocol for a company to pay for specific\nfeatures to be added to PostgreSQL?\n\nI've gotten full executive buy-in to the idea that it would be far\ncheaper to sponsor and pay for people to develop the enterprise features\nwe need in Postgres than to d... |
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"msg_contents": "Mr. Rogers,\n\n> Is there any pre-existing protocol for a company to pay for specific\n> features to be added to PostgreSQL?\n\n> Are other people/companies already doing this, either officially or\n> unofficially, and what is the general protocol for going about doing\n> this?\n\nOther compa... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking all over but I can't seem to see a company that is\nproviding *up-to-date* postgresql support and provides their own\nsupported binaries. Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely here?\n\nTIA\n-- \nAustin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>\nCoremetrics, Inc.\n",
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"msg_contents": "Shridhar,\n\nI was looking at the -V/-v and -A/-a settings in pgavd, and really don't \nunderstand how the calculation works. According to the readme, if I set -v \nto 1000 and -V to 2 (the defaults) for a table with 10,000 rows, pgavd would \nonly vacuum after 21,000 rows had been updated.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi list,\n\nFirst of all, many thanks to everyone who contributed to 7.4 - I'm just\nstarting to rebuild parts of our CMS to make use of some of the new\nfeatures - very welcome indeed.\n\nWhilst looking through the new information_schema objects in the DB, and\nbrowsing the documentation f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI read about the padding-of-CHAR-values changes in the release notes for\n7.4.\n\nMaking PostgreSQL less standard compliant is sad; I also disagree\nwith the statement that trimming of trailing white-space is what people\nexpect.\n\nWhat's worse, and this may be classified as an err... |
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"msg_contents": "Testing postgis support in PG7.4 (2003-11-11)\nI've encountered to this problem:\n\n ERROR: could not identify an ordering operator for type geometry\n HINT: Use an explicit ordering operator or modify the query.\n\nWhenever I issue one of these commands:\n\n\tgis=# select the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, please apply patch below to correct the EXEC SQL CREATE SCHEMA\nconstruct in ECPG. Currently (versions 7.3.x, 7.4) the preprocessor\nemmits \"create scheme\" in error, rather than \"create schema\".\n\nA workaround also exists for those who require it (but I guess no-one\napart from me do... |
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"msg_contents": "Running initdb:\n\ncreating template1 database in /pgroot-cvs/data/base/1 ... child process was terminated by signal 11\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:35:55 +0100",
"msg_from": "strk <strk@keybit.net>",
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"msg_subject": "initdb segfaults - latest cvs"
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"msg_contents": "\n> >>1. Open WAL files with O_SYNC|O_DIRECT or O_SYNC(Not sure if \n> > Without grouping WAL writes that does not fly. Iff however such grouping\n> > is implemented that should deliver optimal performance. I don't think flushing \n> > WAL to the OS early (before a tx commits) is necessary, s... |
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"msg_contents": "My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem, where\nwe modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working. We\nhave a grasp as to why this happens, but I was wondering if this v7.4\nupgrade fixes this issue?\n\nDon Sceifers\nHarvest Info",
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"msg_contents": "Does with(isStrict) still work ?\nIf not when did postgres drop its support ?\n\nTIA\n--strk;\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:42:15 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nIs there some magic I can use to keep the following from happening in\nthe when I build from the .spec file? I'm starting with the\nPostgresql 7.3.4 spec file, version bumped, patches removed.\n\nconfigure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info\n\nIs there som... |
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"msg_contents": "Since upgrading to 7.3 I've noticed that the ORDER BY clause seems to \nignore leading spaces/punctuation for eg we have a simple table with 6 \nrows containing:\n\n'a'\n'b'\n'c'\n'd'\n' bill'\n'-bill'\n\nSELECT * FROM table ORDER BY 1;\n\ngives:\n\na\nb\n bill\n-bill\nc\nd\n\nwhich is differ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nwe have a patch for contrib/tsearch2 we'd like to commit for 7.4.1.\nIs it ok ?\n\nWe added support for compound words using ispell dictionaries.\nIt's rather important feature for agglutinative languages like\ngerman, norwegian (tested). This work was sponsored by ABC Startsiden... |
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"msg_contents": "I just installed a 7.4 on windows/cygwin. I restored a dump but\nran out of disk space during the creating of an index. In psql I\nsaw the \"ERROR: could not extend relation ....\".\n\n From that point on it seems to have stopped logging most things.\n\nThe ERROR and HINT are not in the log... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Yurgis Baykshtis\" <ybaykshtis@micropat.com> writes:\n> However, we still experience random PG failures on a weekly basis.\n\n> PANIC: rename from /data/pg_xlog/0000002200000009 to\n> /data/pg_xlog/0000002200000012 (initialization of log file 34, segment 18)\n> failed: No such file or dire... |
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"msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nHere's something I came up with for finding whether a PostgreSQL 7.4\nuser is in a group.\n\nCheers,\nD\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION in_group (text, text) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '\nDECLARE\n the_user ALIAS FOR $1;\n the_group ALIAS FOR $2;\n dummy text; -- SELECT INTO d... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Yurgis Baykshtis\" <ybaykshtis@micropat.com> writes:\n> The most interesting thing is that rename failure is always followed by\n> IpcMemoryCreate and vice-versa, IpcMemoryCreate always comes after the\n> rename error.\n\nThat is not \"interesting\" ... it's exactly what I'd expect for the ... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed the following code in src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c,\ncirca line 390:\n\n\t\t/*\n\t\t * Are we converting a relation to a view?\n\t\t *\n\t\t * If so, check that the relation is empty because the storage\n\t\t * for the relation is going to be deleted. Also insist that\n\t\t ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nI'm having a little problem with my .net data provider for postgresql 7.4.\n\nI'm executing a little sample that does:\n\n1. Connect to the server.\n2. Start transaction.\n3. Execution of an invalid SQL command.\n4. Catch exception and rollback transaction.\n\nAfter send the rollbac... |
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"msg_contents": "I use PostgreSQL as a default database in our solution and with the\n7.2 version I was able to tar up the area pointed to by the --prefix\nbuild argument and untar to an arbitrary path as part of my product\ninstallation and I could initdb the database no problem and get a\nrunning database s... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm thinking about attacking pg_dump's lack of knowledge about using\ndependencies to determine a safe dump order. But if there's someone\nout there actively working on the problem, I don't want to tread on\nyour toes ... anyone?\n\nAlso, if you've got uncommitted patches for pg_dump, please... |
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"msg_contents": "I have uploaded a first cut at the RPM's to ftp.postgresql.org. While I am \nnot 100% convinced of the need to do so, I have restructured the directories, \nand await comment on that.\n\nCurrently the upload is for Fedora Core 1 only. The source RPM should compile \non most recent Red Hat's... |
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"msg_contents": "I was at the ObjectWeb Conference today; ObjectWeb\n(http://www.objectweb.org) being a consortium that has amassed quite an\nimpressive array of open-source, Java-based middleware under their\numbrella, including for instance our old friend Enhydra. And they\nregularly kept mentioning Postgr... |
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"msg_contents": "We're looking at storing the equivalent of very large rasters images\nin\npostgres. Our understanding is that postgres stores large objects\nas little pieces in rows of a table. As our images would be 30MB-4GB\nin size, this would be a lot of rows. Has anybody used a different\nmechanism to s... |
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"msg_contents": "James,\n\n> I'm not sure what Oracle has to do with any of this. If I wanted to use\n> Oracle, I would buy Oracle. \n\nGood. Your original post, which appeared to propose carbon-copying a number \nof features from Oracle -- I didn't necessarily read it that way, but several \nother people d... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI suspect it might be because I'm running in a jail'd environment, but\nwhat should I be looking at to confirm?\n\ncould not create socket for statistics collector: Protocol not supported\n\nit appears to be running though:\n\npgsql 60120 0.0 0.1 14112 3420 ?? SsJ 3:32AM 0:00.01 /us... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm in the middle of implementing function parameter names. In pg_proc \nthe types of the parameters are currently stored as an oidvector, but \nhow should I store the parameter names?\n\nWould it be a good idea to create a namevector in the same way as\noidvector? Would a normal array like n... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is what I get:\n\npeter ~$ pg-install/bin/initdb pg-install/var/data\n...\ncreating directory pg-install/var/data ... initdb: failed\n\nNo points for details in the error message here either.\n\nIf I create pg-install/var first, then it work.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "While people add more executable files to CVS (cf. initdb.c), can we do\nsomething about it?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:26:10 +0100 (CET)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there demand for this syntax:\n\nALTER SEQUENCE ON table(col) CYCLE 100;\n\nIt would allow us to become sequence-name independent...\n\nChris\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:07:23 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "\nMain needs partitioning is useful for:\n- partition elimination for queries (e.g. seq scans only scan relevant partitions)\n- deleting/detaching huge parts of a table in seconds\n- attaching huge parts to a table in seconds (that may have been loaded with\n\ta fast loading utility (e.g. loa... |
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"msg_contents": "Sander Steffann has built Red Hat 6.2, 7.3, 9, and RHEL 2.1 RPM's for me, and \nI have uploaded them. The release is different; 0.3PGDG and 0.4PGDG. I will \nbe looking at his spec file differences and updating the source RPM soon. \nThe binary RPM for Fedora will remain at 0.2PGDG for now... |
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"msg_contents": "With a recent snapshot of CVS HEAD:\n\nmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nconway/build-pgsql-cvs/src/backend/parser'\ngcc -O0 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I/home/nconway/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -I/home/nconway/pgsql/src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI know you're all busy with 7.4 comming out and I was wondering if some\none could have an idea about the following:\n\nI host a game that does a HEAVY use of postgresql working like a charm.\nBut when the server is a little busy (like when Marc approves a WAG of\nmail), postgresql... |
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"msg_contents": "GCC supports the -Wshadow command-line option:\n\n -Wshadow\n Warn whenever a local variable shadows another local\n variable, parameter or global variable or whenever a\n built-in function is shadowed.\n\nCurrently, enabling this for the PostgreSQL tree pr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nseems for regexp which works in 7.3 is failing in 7.4.\nIs't possible to configure pgsql to be compatible with 7.3 regexp ?\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... |
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"msg_contents": "Some systems that can run 32-bit and 64-bit executables have lib64\ndirectories alongside lib directories. (You could also imagine any other\nalternative compilation mode in place of \"64\".) This requires some\nadjustments in the PostgreSQL build system.\n\nCurrently, when you specify --wi... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, I've been spreading rumours about fixing the internationalization\nproblems, so let me make it a bit more clear. Here are the problems that\nneed to be fixed:\n\n- Only one locale per process possible.\n\n- Only one gettext-language per process possible.\n\n- lc_collate and lc_ctype need... |
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"msg_contents": "Have you looked at what is available from \nhttp://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ ?\n\nSeems they have a compatible license, but use some C++.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:49:15 +0100",
"msg_from": "\"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI was looking thr. the source and thought it would be worth to seek opinion on \nthis proposal.\n\n From what I understood so far, the core shared memory handling is done in \npgsql/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c. It is linked by configure as per the \nruntime environment.\n\nSo ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nI've run across a pretty serious problem with pg_autovacuum. \npg_autovacuum looses track of any table that's ever been truncated \n(possibly other situations too). When i truncate a table it gets a \nnew relfilenode in pg_class. This is a problem because pg_autovacuum \n... |
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"msg_contents": "here's a patch that joins on pg_class.oid instead of \npg_class.relfilenode, also i have renamed the table structure from \nrelfilenode to relid.",
"msg_date": "Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:36:20 -0700",
"msg_from": "Brian Hirt <bhirt@mobygames.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I really like the idea of taking a snapshot backup with postgres, using\neither volume manager or hardware splits in a disk array to get a\nphysical backup.\n\nIn other, lesser database systems :) the system is structured to prevent\nproblems arising from \"split block\" writes, meaning that ... |
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"msg_contents": "Josh, Hans, et. al.\n\nPlease take this thread OFF LIST IMMEDIATELY.\n\nIts content is no longer appropriate for the Hackers mailing list, and we get \nenough traffic. Flamewars are not a part of our community.\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nAglio Database Solutions\nSan Francisco\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> In case of WAL per database, the operations done on a shared catalog from a \n> backend would need flushing system WAL and database WAL to ensure such \n> transaction commit. Otherwise only flushing database WAL would do.\n\nI don't think that is a good idea. If you want databases separat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI am working on a Knoppix distribution of my program.\nI do have it working, but the size of the database on\ndisk is becoming a factor. (I copy it to ramdisk\nbefore starting postmaster).\n\nHow can I change (minimize) the size of the db on\ndisk? Are there any parameters I can set... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDon't know if it's bad, but make check reports a regression failure on\njoin.\n\nHere's the regression.diffs\n\n*** ./expected/join.out\tThu Sep 25 08:58:06 2003\n--- ./results/join.out\tTue Nov 25 23:46:27 2003\n***************\n*** 1732,1739 ****\n | 6 | 6 | six |\n | 7... |
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"msg_contents": "--- ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> wrote:\n> IMHO, not only data need to loaded before FK constraints are created but also\n> there has got to be a feature to allow creation of an FK constraint WITHOUT\n> doing the verification that all loaded/existing records satisfy the FK\n> constraint. The abi... |
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"msg_contents": "Recently I have come across a simple issue which made me think about it.\nWhen we create a tmp table (SELECT INTO, CREATE TABLE AS) the planner \nwon't know anything about its content after creating it.\nMany people use temp tables heavy when the amount of data for a certain \nanalysis has to... |
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"msg_contents": "I know this is an attempt to save myself reading the mailing list, but still \nthe issue remains:\n\nthe psql from version 7.4 does not talk to a 7.2.4 database.\n\nThe CHANGELOG indicates, that both server and libraries keep compatibility \nwith versions after 6.3 - still there is no switch ... |
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"msg_contents": "A fair number of the performance problems posted to mailing lists are\nthe result of the query planner choosing a poor query plan. Some of\nthese instances are due to a defect in PostgreSQL (e.g. index type\ncomparisons), but many of them are caused by inaccurate statistics:\neither ANALYZE h... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> Q2: New situation: Why is it not a good idea to backup the database\n> >> files of a cluster incl. all c_log and x_log (log files last) to get a\n> >> \"physicaly hot backup\".\n> >> In principle it is the same situation like a server which is crashing\n> >> (not a once but during some t... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, I've successfully tested on NetBSD Sparc and added it to the\nsupported list for 7.4.1.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:58:56 +0100 (CET)",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > There are no such libraries. I keep hearing ICU, but that is much too\n> > bloated.\n> \n> At least it is kind of \"standard\" and also something what will be\n> maintained for foreseeable future, it also has a compatible license and\n> is available on all platforms of interest to post... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI apologize if this post is inappropriate.\n\nDoing some development work, me and my co-worker discussed some \noptimizations strategies. One of the ideas that came up was materialized \nviews. Trading disk space to summarize queries, and payi... |
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"msg_contents": "Building PostgreSQL outside the source tree is slightly broken:\n\n(Using the current CVS HEAD code)\n\n$ mkdir ~/test-pg-build\n$ cd ~/test-pg-build\n$ ../pgsql/configure\n[ output omitted]\n$ make\n[ output omitted; make succeeds ]\n$ touch ../pgsql/configure # i.e. cvs up\n$ make\n\nTh... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nIt seems to me that the root cause of some of the optimizer failures that come\nis the optimizer's attempt to assign a single \"expected cost\" value to every\nchoice. In fact it seems it should have also a \"minimum cost\" and \"maximum\ncost\" in addition to the \"expected cost\". Often... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n pg_largeobject uses a loid identifier for the loid. What do we think it\nwould take to move that identifier to something like bigint? I don't really\nknow the underlying internals of pg_largeboject but it does seem that\nif we made it have:\n\n 1. A larger identifier\n 2. An... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI'm just interested in what everyone's personal plans for 7.5 \ndevelopment are?\n\nShridar, Gavin and myself are trying to get the tablespaces stuff off \nthe ground. Hopefully we'll have a CVS set up for us to work in at some \npoint (we didn't think getting a branch and co... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBased on discussions on -hackers, and baring any objections betwen now and\nthen, I'm going to go through all files in CVS and change:\n\n\t$Id$ -> $PostgreSQL$\n\nI will do this the evening of Friday, November 29th ...\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n \nWe are attempting to setup a database application on a Linux box, but we are\nhaving\nproblems loading data with particular dates.\n \nMy colleague, Arnold Mavromatis has already made postings to the pgsql-bugs\nlist,\nbut we are still no closer to having the bug fixed, so I thought I'... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI know this sounds kind of silly, but I think I would like to be able to \nsend a query to PostgreSQL, and have it parse it into a tree, and then pass \nthe tree back to me somehow. Of course, I don't want the query to actually \nexecute.\n\nW... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is really not a problem, may be in other circumstances...\nThis output has been obtained from a PostgreSQL 7.3.4\n\n===\ntestdb=# select to_timestamp('23:20:30.123456', 'HH24:MI:SS.US')::time;\n to_timestamp\n-----------------\n 23:20:30.123459\n(1 row)\n\ntestdb=# select to_ti... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nExplain analyze takes 3 times more time for execution. Why?\n\nwow=# \\timing\nTiming is on.\nwow=# select max(click.accesses) from click;\n max\n----------\n 10944762\n(1 row)\n\nTime: 105,654 ms\nwow=# explain analyze select max(click.accesses) from click;\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n Consider the following input data:\n 1234,24.50,10-Jan-2003,10/1/03,10-01-2003,hiall\n\n The interpretation for the numbers is:\n 1234 = 12.34, 24.50 = 24.50\n The interpretation for the dates is:\n January 10th, 2003, October 1st, 2003, October 1st, 2003\n\n I don't believe it... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nnew version of tsearch2 is available for testing from\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2\n\n* tsearch-v2-7.3.tar.gz - full archive for 7.3.X releases\n* tsearch-v2-7.4.patch.gz - patch for 7.4 release\n\nChanges:\n\n * Implement support of compound words i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just noticed some incorrect behaviour for postgresql-7.4 related\nto locale.\n\nAfter installing 7.4 I created database completely from scratch\nwith cyrillic locale:\n\nsu postgres\nexport LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R\nexport LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.KOI8-R\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /db2/pgd... |
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"msg_contents": "Late in the 7.4 release we've added a patch that changed -fpic to -fPIC\nfor Linux Sparc. We wanted to investigate that issue further later on.\n\nI've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.\nSo I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence... |
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"msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n in our TODO is the item: \"Add PL/PgSQL packages\".\n\n I thought about it and for example Oracle's CREATE PACKAGE / PACKAGE\n BODY seems really interesting and modular. IMHO it's interesting item\n in PostgreSQL TODO, but I think there a is small collision between the\n sch... |
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"msg_contents": "> ... if its just me mis-reading the numbers, let me\n> know ... it just \"feels\" off\n\nHere's what I see:\n\n> time psql -c \"explain analyze SELECT count(rec_id) FROM url\" 186_archives\n QUERY PLAN\n-------------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "As of this change:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2003-11/msg00278.php\nI can't seem to configure --with-krb5.\n\nThe configure script I've used (derived from what the the RH9 RPM spec \nfile does) for quite some time now is:\n\n./configure \\\n --host=i386-redhat-linux \\\... |
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"msg_contents": "pg 7.4.0\n\nHi,\n\n From the server log:\nNov 28 16:31:02 srv postgres[2484]: [1076-7] ^I-- Disable triggers\nNov 28 16:31:02 srv postgres[2484]: [1076-8] ^IUPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class SET\nreltriggers = 0 WHERE oid = 'test'::pg_catalog.regclass;\n\nIf table with the name \"test\" exists in se... |
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"msg_contents": "[snip]\n\n\n> Stored procedures can be a 2-edged sword. They can lead to business logic\n> being scattered between the persistence layer and the business layer.\n> Thats not good for maintaining the application 3 years down the line.\n> Triggers can also cause maintenance problems. Its so eas... |
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"msg_contents": "We have seen a couple instances recently of WAL recovery failing due to\nthe recently added code that validates a page header as soon as the page\nis read in, for example Olivier Prenant's crash report here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-10/msg01505.php\n\nThis failure ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBruce is going to do whatever magic he needs to on Tuesday, after while\nI'll bundle it up for testing (at which point in time Peter should point\nout any oops I happen to have made, no after, eh? *evil grin*) ... then\nwe'll do an announce of its availability on Wednesday ...\n\n----\nMarc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust as an FYI, there are continuing talks on FreeBSD's mailng lists about\nthis issue, in hopes of getting it corrected ... if anyone here is using\nFreeBSD, you'll want to check out the -current mailing list, where\ndiscussions are taking place ...\n\nUpdate code for testing is included h... |
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