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"msg_contents": "Dear Bruce:\n\nIncluded is the abstract for my replication system I promised to you.\n\nPGCluster is a replication system for PostgreSQL. \n\nFeatures of PGCluster include:\n\n- synchronized multi-master replication\n- load balancing\n- re-synchronizing database cluster which is in\n lost-sy... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nThe backend signals code today uses pqsignal() instead of signal() at\nall places. But it uses kill() and sigsetmask() (through the macro\nPG_SETMASK) directly.\n\nI propose to change this to pqkill() and pqsigsetmask(). In pqsignal.h,\nthese would be #define:d back to kill() and se... |
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"msg_contents": "On Unix, the general rule for a shared library is to prepend \"lib\" and\nappend \".so\". On Windows, nothing is prepended and you add \".dll\". Thus for\na module named \"pljava\" you'd get:\n\nlibpljava.so on Unix and:\npljava.dll on Windows.\n\nThis is in fact so common that the Java Nativ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI think it's safe to say there is a working implementation of a signal\nhandler. The one tricky part left is to identify some smart places for\nthe backend to check the awaiting signal queue. The first one is easy:\nswitch recv() with select() with a reasonable timeout and a poll.... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nIn the past, there were several discussions in order to find suitable answers \nfor MS Windows users willing to install and run PostgreSQL.\n\nSome of you suggested that users should \"install GNU/Linux over Windows\". Not \nso easy for the basic MySQL or Ms Windows user, who... |
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"msg_contents": "> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane\n> The current thought is to add some sort of hook that allows a \n> user-defined action to be taken at the point where a WAL file \n> would normally get recycled. Presumably this action would \n> involve copying the WAL fi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I would like very much to help any way possible in solving any last\n> remaining issues. Once the CVS sources are compliable, it will be\n> easier to make meaningful contributions. I'm really looking \n> forward to testing and benchmarking the win32 port. A big thanks \n> to all who co... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAndrew Dunstan wrote:\n> Claudio Natoli wrote:\n> \n> > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too\n> > well outside of the MingW environment :-)\n>\n> \n> Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution. \n\nYes. To be more precise, my point was that d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nMight I just suggest good old \"C:\\PostgreSQL\" ?\n\nMS SQL server defaults to C:\\MSSQL, so I don't think that a directory in the\nroot path is unreasonable. Further, it makes it look more important if it\ninstalls in the root directory :)\n\nAll the best,\n\n-David Felstead\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:claudio.natoli@memetrics.com] \n> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:44 PM\n> To: 'Andrew Dunstan '; 'pgsql-hackers-win32 '; \n> 'PostgreSQL-development '\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?\n> \n> \n> \n> A... |
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"msg_contents": "I needed these, so I went and implemented them myself. I have to admit \nI'm not so wise on PostgreSQL backend stuff, and so I abstained from \nediting the fmgrtab.c and postgres.bki.\n\nSorry for that, but it just seemed too complicated. Perhaps there \nshould really be a script to do this? ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> Where can I get the latest tarball for Win32 development?\n\nThere isn't a specific Win32 tarball, but you can get nightly snapshots from\nthe usual place (ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/), or pull down the tip\nfrom CVS.\n\nReading back through the thread though, you'll find that the... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSome fool wrote:\n> It will then be a matter of fixing things like:\n> * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too\n> well outside of the MingW environment :-)\n> * general directory handling (ie. whitespaces in directory names;\n> forward/backslash path can... |
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"msg_contents": "I have spent the past 10 days doing work for SRA, my employer, and\nattending LinuxWorld in New York City. Our BOF was well attended, with\n35 people, and there were a lot of good PostgreSQL usage reports at the\nevent. I have told people to post their news items to the web site or\nadvocac... |
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"msg_contents": " \nTom Lane wrote:\n> Claudio Natoli <claudio.natoli@memetrics.com> writes:\n> > One important thing I forgot, that someone could start looking at now:\n> > * backends keeping files open when other backends are trying to\n> > delete/rename them\n> \n> > We must do better for the official po... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nSince yesterday I've noticed the errors bellow on one on the most updated\ntables in a database.\nThis db is vaccumed analyzed every half an hour...\n\nAny idea what could cause it and if I could loose data?\n\nRegards\n\n--\nJan 23 13:32:09 server postgres[2425]: [6] WARNING:... |
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"msg_contents": "We ran out of disk space on our main server, and now I've freed up \nspace, we cannot start postgres!\n\nJan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [2-1] LOG: checkpoint record \nis at 2/96500B94\nJan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [3-1] LOG: redo record is at \n2/964BD23C; undo record ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:29 PM\n> To: PostgreSQL-development\n> Cc: Tom Lane\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Disaster!\n> \n> \n> We ran out of disk space on our main server, and now I've fre... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:01 PM\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Disaster! \n> \n> \n> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": "Would it be okay if I add some .cvsignore files to cvs?\n\nSo we don't need to get rows like\n\n? po/tr.mo\n? po/zh_CN.mo\n? po/zh_TW.mo\n? utils/mb/conversion_procs/euc_jp_and_sjis/libeuc_jp_and_sjis.so.0.0\n? utils/mb/conversion_procs/euc_kr_and_mic/libeuc_kr_and_mic.so.0.0\n? utils/mb/conv... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nI would like to present to you all a new Open Source software license I've written up. It's called the Single Supplier Open Source License. I will be distributing software under this license as well as the traditional Open Source licenses found at opensource.org.\n\nYou can see a copy o... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am seeing the following compile failure in currrent CVS. Seems there\nis a conflict between readline and psql's use of the xmalloc function\nname.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\ngcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -... |
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"msg_contents": "hello,\n\nthis note is intended to describe my work on beginning to further\nintegrate xml into postgresql. first, i'd like to thank the\ncontributers of contrib/xml as their work was instrumental in helping\nme understand what support exists and where i wanted to go. thanks.\n\nmy first req... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking (and coded) a little bit on named function calls. Calls\non the form:\n\n foo (x => 13, y => 42)\n\nImplementing this means that the symbol => no longer can be defined by the\nuser as an operator. It's not used as default in pg, but I just want to \ntell you up front in cas... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all ,\n\nWould like to receive your kind attention and enormous knowledge on the \nfollowing\n\nI have a function\nsai_func_a()\nWhich does as follows and in the same order:\n1. Retrieves the latest record from the table test_sai\n (By latest I mean the record corresponding to max prim... |
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"msg_contents": "IIRC none the patches that made online vacuuming less intrusive were\nincluded in the released 7.4.\n\nWhere can I find the \"prefferred\" patch (preferrably the later one that\nyields after vacuumin N pages) for 7.3.4 or 7.4 series.\n\nI currently don't want any other fanciness that was trie... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nSorry for sending this email through a public list. As you can, I think, \nunderstand, I am not able to send you mail directly.\n\nWhenever I try to send you mail directly, I get a bounce like so:\n\n>The original message was received at Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:41:59 +0200\n>from line1... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay ... Chris was kind enough to let me examine the WAL logs and\npostmaster stderr log for his recent problem, and I believe that\nI have now achieved a full understanding of what happened. The true\nbug is indeed somewhere else than slru.c, and we would not have found\nit if slru.c had ha... |
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"msg_contents": "We got a problem ticket from the customer.\nMessages in the error_log indicated problem trying to insert\na duplicate value into a table.\n \nLooking at the database (v.7.3.2 on Solaris) I'm puzzled with this:\n\nsyncdb=# \\d\nERROR: Cache lookup failed for relation 17075\n\nsyncdb=# \\di\nE... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've upgraded my production system to 741 yesterday, and just discovered\nthis log message: statistic buffer is full.\n\nWhat does it mean? filing up too fast, no more stats, need to grow?\nWhat should I do?\n\nAlso, Many thanks for this great versionn of PostgreSQL, keep going...\n\nR... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI notice that pg_dump is still dumping CHECK constraints with the table,\nrather than at the very end, as it does with all the other constraints.\nAs discussed in bug report #787, at\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2002-09/msg00278.php\n\nthis breaks your restore if your CH... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to use a function that returns a complex type. I have no problem\ncreating the function but when I try to use it I get the message:\n\nERROR: function in FROM has unsupported return type\n\nApparently, this message stems from the parser. Changing the function so\nthat it returns a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n \n\nWe're running postgres7.3 on RedHat7.3. The Postgres at boot time starts\nup from a java (1.2) class that runs the following commands in order:\n\n \n\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -w start -D /var/lib/pgsql -l\n/var/log/pgsqld.log -o -i\n\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb management\... |
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"msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> > > PeerDirect handles rename by just looping. We really can't delay a\n> > > rename. There is discussion in the Win32 TODO detail that goes over\n> > > some options, I think.\n> > \n> > Do we really have any problem with rename? We don't rename table files.\n> > The rename... |
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"msg_contents": "Ezra Epstein wrote:\n> \n> I'd like to extend SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to support a form which takes a\n> password. Looking at the source it seems, other than changes to the parser,\n> there are only 2 relevant functions in 2 files that would be affected. Each\n> function is quite small an... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch changes the existing behaviour of length(char(n)).\nCurrently, this is what happens:\n\ntemplate1=# select length('blah'::char(10));\n length\n--------\n 10\n(1 row)\n\nWith this patch:\n\ntemplate1=# select length('blah'::char(10));\n length\n--------\n 4\n(1 row)... |
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"msg_contents": "My server just had a bad crash...\nAt reboot time, the pg_xlog filesystem didn't mount...\nThe I have those errors at startup...\n\nis there anything can do to recover?\n\nJan 27 13:24:11 server postgres[3469]: [3-1] LOG: checkpoint record is at 7/B7668\nJan 27 13:24:11 server postgres[3469... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIs it just me, or is there any way a sort could be relevant in a \nsubquery? (except on queries containing volatile functions)\n\nselect a.* from test1 a, (select id from test1 order by num) as b where \na.id = b.id;\n\nThere is no constraint on the order of 'a', so why is pull_up_subqu... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking in the sql200x draft and there are no function calls \nwith named arguments.\n\nThinking more about it, I'm not sure if it really is an important addition\nat all. I've got a number of requests for the feature. so there are people \nthat want it, that much I know.\n\nI don't... |
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"msg_contents": "SQL99 part 2 clause 16.1 contains this note:\n\n NOTE 327 - The characteristics of a transaction begun by a\n <start transaction statement> are as specified in these General\n Rules regardless of the characteristics specified by any\n preceding <set transaction statement>. That is... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWith the new preload option is there any benefit/drawback to using \npl/Python versus\npl/pgSQL? And no... I don't care that pl/Python is now considered \nuntrusted.\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nCommand Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC\nPostgr... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHow feasible would it be to have a btree index on ctid? I'm thinking it ought\nto work simply enough for the normal case of insert/delet/update, but I'm not\ncompletely certain how vacuum, vacuum full, and cluster would interact.\n\nYou may think this would be utterly useless, but I have a ... |
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"msg_contents": "The Pl/Java project that I'm working on is progressing quite nicely. The\nbeta release that I just uploaded to GBorg at\nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php has most of the\nfunctionality that I have intended for the first stable release. If you are\ninterested, please ... |
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"msg_contents": "Because I've lost a lot of data using postgresql (and I know for sure this\nshould'nt happen) I've gone a bit further reading documentations on my\ndisks and...\n\nI have FUJITSU MAP3367NC 36G 10000 rpm disks, those disk have a write\ncache of 8Mb, if someone could tell me hox to turn it off.... |
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"msg_contents": "POSTGRESQL: Summary of Changes since last release (7.4.1)\n----------------------------------------------------------\n26 Jan 2004\n\nThis is a summary of most changes since code versions marked 7_4_1,\nrather than a weekly news bulletin, a summary of desired future items,\nor the definitive ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have serious problems past 4 days in receiving mail lists from\npostgresql.org. Subscribers living in the jp domain are receiving via\na relay host named powergres.sra.co.jp (this is an authorized relay\nhost for jp domain, and this configuration has been approved by Marc).\n\nAfter... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\nI search a way to realize following:\nWhen a user connects to a databse, a function of my should be executed. The\nbest would be a system table where the active Databaser Users are in, and\ncreating a Trigger on it. But there is not such a table.\n\nSometold me to modifying the source... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All, \n\n I'm looking for some details on how the locking system works in\nrelation to transactions dealing with INSERTs and UPDATEs. The version\nof PostgreSQL is 7.3.2 and the connections to the database are going\nthrough a JDBC driver. The details of what we are running into are as\nfo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt seems JDBC driver does not handle if a INSERT SQL statement\nperformed by executeUpdate() is actually a SELECT, which is rewritten\nby the rule system. \n\nException in thread \"main\" postgresql.stat.result\n\tat org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdb... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Hackers,\n\nFirst: I think I have sent out a msg with no body. I'm sorry, I have to communicate thru a weird Win98 machine, it gets things screwed up sometimes.\n\nI would like to take up the translation of pgsql msg strings into slovak (sk_SK). It is fairly similar to czech (cz_CZ), so ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe current version of dirmod.c causes a compilation failure under MingW:\n\n../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o.b)(.text+0xe1): In function\n`pgrename':\ne:/cygwin/opt/diff8c/pgsql/src/port/dirmod.c:38: undefined reference to\n`errstart'\n../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o.b)(.text+... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA small comment on Oracle's implementation of persistent bitmap indexes:\n\nOracle's bitmap index is concurently locked by DML, i.e. it suites for OLAP\n(basically read only data warehouses) but in no way for OLTP. \n\nIMHO, \nLaimis\n\n> Maybe the lack of heap/btree consistent ordering in ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/transaction-iso.html#XACT-READ-COMMITTED\n\nReading this:\n\n\"\nBEGIN;\n UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100.00 WHERE acctnum = 12345;\n UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE acctnum = 7534;\n COMMIT;\n\nIf two such transacti... |
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"msg_contents": "Just want to share in case you want to make a change\nin the code, or perhaps tell us that we didn't do the right thing.\n\nAt some point we needed to add -DTCL_THREADS and -D_REENTRANT\nto the makefiles and then we ran into a problem with pgtcl library.\n\nThis seems to be HP specific (HP-11... |
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"msg_contents": "In src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,\r\n766 line must be exits in block of 'else if (elm >1)' too.\r\n\r\nBecause, strpos() function make a wrong result in multibyte string. \r\nline 796\r\n------------\r\n ps1 = p1 = (pg_wchar *) palloc((len1 + 1) * sizeof(pg_wchar));\r\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI need Postgres support for the following update syntax :\n\nupdate table1 set (col1, col2, col3) = (select f1, f2, f3 from table2\nwhere id=5) where rownum=3;\n\nupdate table1 set (col1, col2, col3) = (select f1, f2, f3 from table2\nwhere id=table1.parentid) where rownum=3;\n\nThes... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIs is possible to change the transaction behaviour not to abort when a\nsyntax error occurs.\n\nI've done some searches on the list, and have not found anything.\n\n-ESR-\n",
"msg_date": "30 Jan 2004 07:43:06 -0800",
"msg_from": "ramirez@idconcepts.org (Edwin S. Ramirez)",
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the following patch for the following reasons:\n\t\n\tRemove sleep() and use single PG_SLEEP call for Win32 signal handling\n\tand consistency.\n\t\n\tChange PG_USLEEP to use SleepEx() for signal interuptability.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.p... |
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"msg_contents": "As some know, win32 doesn't have sync, and some are concerned that sync\nisn't reliable enough during checkpoint anyway.\n\nThe trick is to somehow record all files modified since the last\ncheckpoint, and open/fsync/close each one. My idea is to stat() each\nfile in each directory and comp... |
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"msg_contents": "In config/c-compiler.m4 I read\n\nif test \"$ac_env_CFLAGS_set\" != set; then\n CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS $pgac_cv_prog_cc_no_strict_aliasing\"\nfi\n\nThis means that a configure operation as innocuous-looking as\n\n\tCFLAGS=\"-O3\" ./configure\n\nwill break the build on gcc >= 3.3 because it will fa... |
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"msg_contents": "I am running vanilla Fedora Core 1 - test1 for x86_64\nrunning an update system running kernel 2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp\nThe system is a dual opteron pogolinux box with 512M and a IDE RAID 1\nfrom 3ware\n\nI downloaded postgresql-7.4.1-1PGDG.src.rpm\nand built it on the system. (rpmbuild --rebui... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI upgraded two servers today from 7.3.* to 7.4.1. In both cases, the \nschemas which existed in the original databases were not created in \nthe new database.\n\nThe CREATE SCHEMA commands are there...\n\n\\connect \"freebsddiary.org\"\n--\n-- PostgreSQL database dump\n--\n\nSET... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI upgraded two servers from 7.3.* to 7.4.1. In both cases, the \npgcrypto functions failed to migrate.. I used pg_dumpall. This is \nthe cause of the problem: \n\nfreshports=# CREATE FUNCTION digest (text, text) RETURNS bytea\nfreshports-# AS '$libdir/pgcrypto', 'pg_diges... |
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"msg_contents": "My search was wrong. This is a known issue.\n\nSorry for the post.\n-- \nDan Langille : http://www.langille.org/\nBSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:15:56 -0500",
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"msg_contents": "I would like to register a \"transaction callback\" in the backend. Don't\nthink it's possible today and my question is, how hard would it be to\nimplement something that would enable this registration?\n\nIdeally, I'd like a \"beforeCompletion\" that is executed prior to the start\nof the co... |
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"msg_contents": "We frequently recommend to people that they increase sort_mem while\ncreating btree indexes. It is reasonable to have a larger setting\nfor that purpose, since (1) a single backend isn't going to be doing\nmultiple index creations in parallel (whereas complex queries could\neasily be doing m... |
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"msg_contents": "> We might think that the Turkish-locale problem Devrim Gunduz pointed\nout\n> is a must-fix, too. But I'm not convinced yet what to do about it.\n \nHere is a first try to fix what Devrim Gunduz talked about.\n\nPlease be patient with me for it is the first major patch\nI submit and I reali... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello ...\n\nI remember that somebody was working on some sort of bitmap index some \ntime ago (maybe 1 year or two).\nDoes anybody know if there is some sort of half-ready code or so around?\nDoes anybody know if there is somebody working on that?\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tHans\n\n\n-- \nCybertec... |
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"msg_contents": "how find backend id for pg_temp_nnn with SPI_language ?\nThank\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:16:49 +0100",
"msg_from": "alban <alban.minassian@wanadoo.fr>",
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"msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nThe fine folks in #postgresql brought this up, and it seems like,\nwell, a bug. In order to make certain kinds of changes on a SEQUENCE,\nyou have to issue an ALTER TABLE statement. Shouldn't alterations\nlike RENAME TO, OWNER, etc. to a SEQUENCE all (be able to) go through\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nFirst, many thanks to all who helped with my crashes probs. Not fixed yet\nbut has been analyzed as a need to upgrade the BIOS.\n\nThen as I said before, I have this problem with stats buffer I know have a\nphantoom query:\n\nScript started on Sun Feb 1 20:05:56 2004\n~ 20:05:56: p... |
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"msg_contents": "\nLooking at postmaster.c, my head started to spin a little. I think I \nunderstood that exec case or not, by the time we get to BackendRun we \nhave already done all the fork/exec action. Have I read this correctly?\n\n(This code is getting rather intricate. A Readme file might be nice. \nJu... |
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"msg_contents": " \n> Looking at postmaster.c, my head started to spin a little. I think I \n> understood that exec case or not, by the time we get to BackendRun we \n> have already done all the fork/exec action. Have I read this correctly?\n\nYes. In the normal case, fork() then BackendRun. In the EXEC_BACKE... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> It needs rewritten. The hacks inserted for ExecBackend have largely\n> destroyed the former structure (such as it was), and the lack of any\n> commentary added with said hacks didn't help. I am thinking \n> of tackling that rewrite once the dust has settled.\n\nAnything in particular?... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom Lane wrote:\n> What does SSDataBaseInit have to do with acquiring configuration\n> parameters? (Answer: nothing.) Why is it being called here at all,\n> and why only in the EXEC_BACKEND case? Sure can't figure \n> that out from\n> the uncommented code. Is it a good idea to do it? I... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nWe are trying to fix another problem we have with Turkish locale.\nOrder in which tuples are returned by SELECT .. ORDER BY .\nstatement differs from the one returned by UNIX sort utility or\nwhat strcoll() function will suggest. It is specific to a locale so \nyou will not like... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> One thought I had was that there should be a common subroutine to do the\n> stuff that a new postmaster subprocess needs to do immediately at\n> startup. This includes setting IsUnderPostmaster, MyProcPid,\n> on_exit_reset in the fork() case, reloading global variables in the\n> exec()... |
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"msg_contents": "\nUnder Win32, localtime returns NULL for dates pre 1970.\n\nA number of places in the code fail to check from a NULL return from\nlocaltime, with none seemingly more problematic than those calls within\nDetermineLocalTimeZone, which causes SEGVs in a number of tests (which\nclearly pass pre ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'd not recommend spending a lot of time on patching the existing code. \n> Erroring out rather than crashing is probably sufficient.\n\nAgreed.\n\nThis fixes the ones bugging me now. I'll provide others as I trip over them.\n\n[Note: this'll mean some changes to the tests for Win32]\n\nCh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nIn what version of Postgres did the pg_stat_activity view appear?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:50:39 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "pg_stat_activity"
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"msg_contents": "Steve Tibbett wrote:\n> I think users would prefer %ProgramFiles%\\PostgreSQL - that's what Mozilla\n> and some other projects do, although still other projects do\n> %ProgramFiles%\\GNU\\PostgreSQL. \n\nWhat would be the reason to put PostgreSQL into %ProgramFiles%\\GNU ?\n\n\nJan\n\n> \n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nI think I have found a feature of pg_restore that may be a bug.\n\nIf the --clean option AND --dbname=database option are used with an\ninitially empty database, the restoration fails, although the very same\noptions with a \"| psql database\" works fine.\n\nThe internal psql with... |
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"msg_contents": "The suggested location is %ProgramFiles%\\CompanyName\\ProductName but GNU products often don't have a \"company\", so some projects use GNU as the company name.\n\nI'd rather it was simply %ProgramFiles%\\PostgreSQL myself.\n\n - Steve\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Jan Wieck [mailto:J... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch brings up to date what I did last year (now unfortunately \nbitrotted) to allow the logging of the end of a session, enabled by the \nconfig setting \"log_session_end - true\". It produces lines like these:\n\nfor a local connection:\n[21340] LOG: session end: duration: 0:00:23.41... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I figured out what was the problem.\nglibc's LC_COLLATE file under /usr/lib/locale/tr_TR\nis wrong! And it has been wrong for many years now. And\nnobody noticed it. PostgreSQL is innocent here.\n\nI checked it many times over and over again with \ntest programs and different environmen... |
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"msg_contents": "As you can see, I am trying to apply patches while I am on the road so I\nam not able to put them in the queue and do the normal patch application\ndelays.\n\nMy goal is to apply when I know I am around to fix things in case they\nbreak, and it seems to be working. When I return I will go ba... |
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"msg_contents": "How can I configure postgreSQL to search without acents?\n\nIs PostgreSQL have this support?\n\nI configured my locale to pt_BR, that support acents, create table with\nenconding \"latin1\", but nothing works. I know that I can use function\n\"TO_ASCII\", and \"select like \"t_s%\".\n\nLike:\... |
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"msg_contents": "Shutdown of an idle postmaster used to take about two or three seconds\n(mostly due to the sync/sleep(2)/sync in md_sync). For the last couple\nof days it's taking more like a dozen seconds. I presume somebody broke\nsomething, but I'm unsure whether to pin the blame on bgwriter or\nWindows... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> Shutdown of an idle postmaster used to take about two or three seconds\n> (mostly due to the sync/sleep(2)/sync in md_sync). For the last couple\n> of days it's taking more like a dozen seconds. I presume somebody broke\n> something, but I'm unsure whether to pin the blame on bgwrite... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello !\n\nI'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and I need to create a R-Tree index that\nuses more than one column in a table.\n\nWhen I run the instruction it appears this message bellow:\n\nDefineIndex: access method \"rtree\" does not support multi-column\nindexes\n\n\nHow can I solve this problem ... |
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"msg_contents": "Has this been beaten to death now? Just curious if PITR was in Dev tree\nyet. Been out of the loop. TIA.\n-- \nAustin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>\nCoremetrics, Inc.\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:17:38 -0600",
"msg_from": "Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I have backed out the background writer sync option. Tom's concerns \nwhere right and my test results have been very questionable.\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there anyone working on recursive queries for 7.5? I know there is a \n patch that implements it on 7.4 (I can't seem to find the guy's \nwebpage), but that uses Oracle syntax.\n\nWasn't there some guy at RedHat doing it? Is RedHat working on PITR?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 0... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI have a situation that I need flexible number columns to model the business requirements. It could go up to 1000 columns and will be a sparse matrix. One option I was considering was to have a table with col1......col1000 \nOther option I can consider is store all of them as name value... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI think this is most surprising behavior -- shouldn't the UPDATE raise\nan error?\n\nalvherre=# create table foo (a int[]);\nCREATE TABLE\nalvherre=# insert into foo values (null);\nINSERT 33649 1\nalvherre=# update foo set a[3] = '42';\nUPDATE 1\nalvherre=# select a, a is null from fo... |
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"msg_contents": "> I am concerned that the bgwriter will not be able to keep up with the\n> I/O generated by even a single backend restoring a database, let alone a\n> busy system. To me, the write() performed by the bgwriter, because it\n> is I/O, will typically be the bottleneck on any system that is I/O b... |
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"msg_contents": "Bit sets are remarkably useful functionality. I suggest putting it\ninto the core product.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] \n> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:22 AM\n> To: David Helgason\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re... |
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"msg_contents": "Chris, Robert\n\n> As a side note, I thought Joe Conway also had an implementation of\n> this...\n\nYes, we already have a connect_by function, and have had since 7.3. Look \nin /contrib/tablefuc. \n\nI think that's as far as we want to go implementing Oracle's syntax, though \n*external*... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been very slowly continuing my work on two-phase commits for a couple\nmonths now, and I now have my original patch updated so that it applies to\nthe current CVS tip, with some improvements.\n\nThe patch introduces three new commands, PREPCOMMIT, COMMITPREPARED and\nABORTPREPARED.\n\nTo... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon,\n\n> I'd vote for a new list dedicated to discussing \"Robustness\" issues,\n> such as PITR and the fsync/sync issues.\n <snip>\n> The list probably would remain clearly differentiated, in the same way\n> [Performance] covers lots of areas not discussed in [Hackers].\n\nActually, Simon... |
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