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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've just talked to a few users on IRC who cannot restore dumps because \nthey use user-defined functions in CHECK constraints.\n\nAny chance this will be fixed using dependencies? Or maybe it's just \neasy to put all ADD CHECKs at the very end?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n \nWe are providing database solutions in postgreSQL...\nNow using PostgreSQL 7.3. It is performing well. \nBut Now we have some enterprice level requirements.\nOne of Our requirement is to provide a distributed solution in PostgreSQL.\nThe questions are...\n1. Is it posible to provi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nmy next TODO item for the Win32 port was to try to bring all the regression\ntests up. \n\nPleased to report that, with a great deal of hackage + kludges (which I hope\nto refine and submit as patches for review over the next couple weeks), all\nbut 10 tests pass!\n\n7 of these fai...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=6136\n\n Shridhar\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:47:56 +0530", "msg_from": "Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Sparc optimizations" }, { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 24 Feb ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI've already subscribed my e-mail address to the\npgsql-hackers.\n\nThe method I've used to convert DBMirror to a\npeer-to-peer replicator was two DBMirror instances\nwith one considered slave of other as the master.\n\nHere, I've stopped the loop back by dropping the\ntrigger when INSER...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I will look at c) unless someone comes up with a better idea \n> or someone else gets in first.\n\nThat would be great. Grab a hold of the cygwin sources.\nwinsup/cygwin/localtime.cc claims that it is in the public domain... needs a\ncloser look that I've given it, but might be a good sta...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> > I will look at c) unless someone comes up with a better idea \n> > or someone else gets in first.\n> \n> That would be great. Grab a hold of the cygwin sources.\n> winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc claims that it is in the public \n> domain... needs a closer look that I've given it, but migh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have 2 small questions.\n\n1. Is there any reason to exclude underscore as the first char of a \ndollar quoting delimiter (after the $), e.g. $_foo_$? I'm happy either \nway, just want to be as liberal as is reasonable.\n\n2. David Fetter asked me the other day if there was any limit on t...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI've written a summary of my findings on implementing and using \nmaterialized views in PostgreSQL. I've already deployed eagerly updating \nmaterialized views on several views in a production environment for a \ncompany called RedWeek: http:/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nRecently, I ran a huge update on an Integer column affecting 100 million\nrows in my database. What happened was my disk space increased in size and\nmy IO load was very high. It appears that MVCC wants to rewrite each row\n(each row was about 5kB due to a bytea column). In addition, V...
[ { "msg_contents": "The select statements return different data for\nmost_commons_vals depending on whether n_distinct is\nincluded in the select clause or not.\n\nI only seem to get the behavior below against int8\ncolumns - but I haven't interated through every\nconceivable data type either.\n\nIs this expecte...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/smith20010821.php3?page=3 \n \n\nMessage\n\n\nhttp://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/smith20010821.php3?page=3", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:03:05 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Mike Mascari [mailto:mascarm@mascari.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:27 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > http://www.phpbuild...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:nandrews@investsystems.co.uk] \n> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:33 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?\n> \n> \n> \n> Dann,\n> \n> Did you mean ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] \n> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:38 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n> > http://www.phpbuilder.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Mike Mascari [mailto:mascarm@mascari.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:37 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?\n> \n> \n> Dann Corbit wrote:\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>>> Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> 25/02/2004 10:31:16 >>>\n>On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:38, Paul Simpson wrote:\n>> Thank you for the advice, unfortunately, that isn't an option, you see I\n>> didn't write the application and so cannot control the calls it m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI wanted to submit some changes to the bundled postgres startup \nscript for Mac OS X. I added calls to utilize the bundled apache \nrotatelogs script in the DB startup for log rotation. Also modified \nstartup parameters file to allow using the \"SystemStarter\" utility to \nstart/...
[ { "msg_contents": "$ cd src/interfaces/ecpg\n$ make\n[ ... ]\nbison -y -d preproc.y\nmv -f y.tab.c ./preproc.c\nmv -f y.tab.h ./preproc.h\n/usr/bin/flex -o'pgc.c' pgc.l\npgc.l:979: warning, -s option given but default rule can be matched\n\n-Neil\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:22:59 -0500", "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is my first post to the dev list, so please be gentle. ;)\n\nWhen using the current head of pgsql, I find four errors when running \"make check\". They are all of the same nature, basically that the expected.out file has \"syntax error\", where as psql is saying \"parse error\". \n\nI ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am in Atlanta this week, doing training. I return on Friday, and\nhave no events scheduled after that.\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 R...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello again,\n\nA project I am working on has been having problems with pg_dump's output, using 7.3. Our project's database includes functions that do constraint checking for us, as well as circular dependencies. \n\nWe heard about the changes on the pgsql HEAD/7.5, and have given it a try. I...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello all,\n\nPostgreSQL, at least until version 7.4, has rather weak support for\nvarious collating sequences. What you get when you do\n\n\tselect * from table order by column\n\nis hardcoded in the database cluster at the initdb time. Yet, it is\nreasonable request to want one select to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been looking at implementing table spaces for 7.5. Some notes and\nimplementation details follow.\n\n------\n\nType of table space:\n\nThere are many different table space implementations in relational\ndatabase management systems. In my implementation, a table space in\nPostg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n a lot of people sometimes need order same data in same DB by more\n different locales. For example multi-language web application with DB\n in UTF-8. It's problem in PostgreSQL, because PostgreSQL require set\n LC_COLLATE by initdb.\n\n I think possible solution is s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello folks.\n\nAre there any Gentoo users here?\n\nDo you wish the PostgreSQL ebuild made use of SLOTS?\n- to allow installing of major versions together (eg. 7.3 and 7.4 on the \nsame host)\n- to ease migration of databases to new major versions (where a \ndump/reload is required)\n\nI've s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nDiscuss/vote/object/scream&shout:\n\nPROPOSAL: GBorg --> GForge Migration\n\nWhy do we want a full-service collaboration tool?\n\nPostgreSQL is no longer a monolithic project,\nbut rather a collection of closely related projects. Some of\nthese projects are official, some are unof...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\n> > ... In the case of a postmaster crash, I think \n> > something in the system is so wrong that I'd prefer an immediate shutdown.\n> \n> Surely some other people have opinions on this?  Hello out there?\n\nWell, my opinion is based on the question, can we restart the postmaster if i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nTim Perdue sent me this.\n\n-- \n-Josh Berkus\n Aglio Database Solutions\n San Francisco\n\nJosh Berkus wrote:\n\n> Tim,\n> \n> To follow up on the previous question, there are a few features that I'm not \n> seeing in the GForge demo online. These are all features that our \n> de...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Ahh. I forgot to detail my ideas on this. It seems to me that we cannot\n> > drop a table space until the directory is empty.\n\nAgreed.\n\n> \n> How would it get to be empty? Are you thinking of some sort of \"connect\n> database to tablespace\" and \"disconnect database from tablespa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I'm not sure I understand you correctly. The SQL standard says you can\n> call your statement as this:\n> exec sql at CONNECTION select 1;\n> \n> Here CONNECTION of course is a string, the name of the connection. So,\n> yes, we have to maintain that list to make sure we get the right\n> c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I am asking for CONNECTION being a variable of data type 'connection *' rather \n> than 'const char *'. That would avoid name lookups.\n> \n> Is that out of spec?\n\nYes, but the preprocessor could still add an optimization ala 'connection *' for\nthe hardcoded cases (exec sql set connect...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I do not intend to undertake raw disk tablespaces for 7.5. I'd be\n> interested if anyone could provide some real world benchmarking of file\n> system vs. raw disk. Postgres benefits a lot from kernel file system cache\n> at the moment.\n\nYes, and don't forget that pg also relys on the O...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it possible for Postgres Btrees to support access by logical row number ?\nIf not available is ti a huge job to support for sombebody willing to have a go ?\n", "msg_date": "27 Feb 2004 04:53:04 -0800", "msg_from": "chadzakary@hotmail.com (Chad)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi \n\nThinking of producing a modified version of Postgres to allow clients\nbypass the SQL type intefaces.\n\nHow easy is to to get cursor access to the indexes and fine grained\ncontrol of the transaction system, are their fairly clean internal\nAPIs I can leverage.\n\nCheers\nChad\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Greg Stark [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu]\n> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:17 AM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Collaboration Tool Proposal\n> \n[...snip...]\n> I might suggest again RT. It's open source and has...
[ { "msg_contents": "Paul,\n\n> Your main concern about RT isn't true, at least here at my office. I\n> installed RT, with no prior experience with any OSS tracker, back in\n> October, and it worked on PostgreSQL the first time. (PostgreSQL support was\n> one of the main reasons I chose it to track issues on my\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> My apologies, then! I was operating off of the statements \n> of others, and the \n> fact that the only RT impelementations I've used were running \n> on MySQL. So, \n> questions:\n> \n> 1) can you compare/contrast RT vs. BZ vs. Simplified \n> bug-tracking, like \n> GForge?\n\nI've ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello ,\n\nCan somebody please tell me how to get the name of the\nrelation (Attribute also) from the Oid and the\notherway back (Oid from name) ??\n\nthanks\n-Ramu\n\n=====\n\" Karyathuranaam na Sukham na Nidhra \"\n\n\n www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ramu\n\n__________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "When compiling the 2004-02-27 snapshot with \"make -j 2\", the compile of\nlibpq fails with the following error.\n\ndlltool --export-all --output-def pq.def fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o\nfe-misc.o fe-print.o fe-lobj.o fe-protocol2.o fe-protocol3.o pqexpbuffer.o\npqsignal.o fe-secure.o dll...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI have two databases running on separate machines. One is a production \nserver and the other is development.\n\nI've been trying to be careful, but I've gotten out of synch with \nwhether or not I've applied the changes I've made to the development \nsystem to the production syste...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I try to commit to cvs it gets stuck and outputs this messages every\n30:th second:\n\ncvs server: [11:11:28] waiting for ishii's lock in /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_controldata/po\n\n-- \n/Dennis Bj�rklund\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:14:29 +0100 (CET)", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Working with current CVS: \n\n$ createlang plpgsql\n\ncreatelang: language installation failed:\n ERROR: could not load library \"/pgroot-cvs/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so\":\n /pgroot-cvs/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so:\n undefined symbol: downcase_truncate_identifier\n\n--strk;\n", "msg_date"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere alot here, so skip to the middle from my WAL settings if you like.\n\nI'm currently investigating the performance on a large database which \nconsumes email designated as SPAM for the perusal of customers wishing \nto check. This incorporates a number of subprocesses - several de...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello ,\n\nCan somebody please tell me how to get the name of the relation (Attribute \nalso) from the Oid and the otherway back (Oid from name) ??\n\nthanks\n-Ramu\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nMasterpieces made affordable! Buy art prints. \nhttp://go....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm looking at doing the bundle up on Sunday night, and announce on Monday\n... any outstanding back-patches that need to get in? Tom/Bruce, on\nscheduale for doing the docs changes?\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.or...
[ { "msg_contents": "Janos, \n\nSo far, all of the solutions that are being seriously considered seem to be\nfree, open-source software. I can't find any indication on your site that\nthis is software the PostgreSQL community can hack to bits as needed over\nthe years. Even if it's free now, there's the possibili...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ordering the pg_dump output by name within classes instead of OID sounds\ngood to me, too. \n\nAlso, something that might be easier for comparing schemata between\ndatabases: rather than dumping the database, have you tried using PostgreSQL\nAutodoc (http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/) which just out...
[ { "msg_contents": "Quick one:\nAnyone know how to use Putty to open a connection up under SSH which\nwill allow pgAdmin III to connect to a postgresql database ie. Only\naccess to server postgresql is on is via ssh.\n\nThanks\nHammer\n", "msg_date": "29 Feb 2004 08:46:36 -0800", "msg_from": "hholder@big...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think this is now ready for application, unless someone objects.\n\nSince the last patch I posted, I have done the following:\n\n. changed the escapes to lower case, as Peter prefers. This is also in \nline with what Apache does, which is the nearest equivalent I can think of.\n. added 2 ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following instructions on\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html does not\ncurrently work:\n\n$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login\nLogging in to\n:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:2401/projects/cvsroot\nCVS password:\ncvs login: auth...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been taking a brief look at pltcl, and particularly its ability \nto preload modules. By comparison with most of the core product this \nseems to be somewhat out of date and unpolished (e.g. hardcoded path to \nlibpgtcl.so, no use of schemas for the supporting tables, lack of \ncomme...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gavin,\n\n#1:  I really think that we should have a way to set a \"default tablespace\" \nfor any database in a cluster.    This property would be vitally important \nfor anyone wishing to use tablespaces to impose quotas.   First, the \nsuperuser would:\nALTER DATABASE db1 ALTER DEFAULT_TABL...
[ { "msg_contents": "", "msg_date": "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:11:05 -0700", "msg_from": "Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Comments on patch for date_trunc( 'week', ... );" }, { "msg_contents": "\nHey Bruce,\n\nI never saw the patch hit the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nhi,\n\nis there same packets (or sources to compile) only for client-systems\n( headers and libs like libpq, and so on) ?\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:11:30 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "ivan <iv@psycho.pl>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "lib for clients" },...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello again patchers,\n\nHere is a proposed patch against 7.4.1 to check exact match\nof foreign key types wrt the referenced keys, and to show\na warning if this is not the case.\n\nThis is an attempt to prevent stupid bugs such as :\n\n CREATE TABLE foo(id INT4 NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY);\n CR...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nremoved from the mailing lists\n\nOn Mon, 1 Mar 2004 larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu wrote:\n\n> I don't bite, weah!\n>\n> pass: 74574\n>\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a recent discussion on IRC, some anomalies concerning CHECK \nconstraints were brought to light, in that in some cases they do not \nguarantee that the data within the table satisfies them. For example \n(against 7.4.1),\n\ntest=# create table foo (\ntest(# foo_stamp timestamptz not null,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWill create all the linages in the morning, but the bundle is created\nunder /pub/source/v7.3.6 on the main web site (soon to be on the mirrors)\n... I added code to the mk script for the 7.3.x branch so that bz2 copies\nare also made ...\n\nsizes all look about right, if someone wants to d...
[ { "msg_contents": "The IN and ANY constructs works with different kinds of collections to the \nright. This is the current situation:\n\n\n SUB QUERY VALUE LIST ARRAY\n\nIN X X\n\nANY X X\n\n\nThe SQL standard specifies that = ANY should be e...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can find rpms for rh8, rhel 3 but not rh9; is there some reason why\nthey aren't necessary? Are rhel 3 binaries compatible with rh9?\n\n-- \nDave Cramer\n519 939 0336\nICQ # 14675561\n\n", "msg_date": "02 Mar 2004 08:28:10 -0500", "msg_from": "Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>", "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi there i'm having troubles to find how to \n\nGRANT SELECT ON all-tables-onmydb TO specificuser\n\nthis is just to give the access to \"specificuser\" to query the \ndatabase and find troubles on it\n\nthnx for your time\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:14:42 -0500"...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all\r\nAre there any other docs about tsearch2 except for the 3 docs in \\contrib\\tsearch2\\docs\r\n\r\ni want some tech docs on tsearch2 thank all", "msg_date": "Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:41:17 +0800", "msg_from": "=?gb2312?B?y6fDzQ==?= <shuaimeng@db.pku.edu.cn>", "msg_from_op": tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nGavin Sherry wrote:\n> I'm going to focus on implementing this on the system(s) I'm used to\n> developing on (ie, those which support symlinks). Once that is done, I'll\n> talk with the Win32 guys about what, if anything, we can do about getting\n> this to work on Win32 (and possibly othe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBruce Momjian writes:\n> I just checked from the MinGW console and I see:\n> [snip]\n> It accepts ln -s, but does nothing with it.\n\nAnd even if it had worked, it wouldn't really matter, since we don't\nactually want to *run* the system under MinGW/msys, just build it.\n\nI think the idea ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > For tablespaces on OS's that don't support it, I think we will have to\n> > > store the path name in the file and read it via the backend. Somehow we\n> > > should cache those lookups.\n> > \n> > My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without\n> > symlinks.\n\nTo ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > I just checked from the MinGW console and I see:\n> > > [snip]\n> > > It accepts ln -s, but does nothing with it.\n> > \n> > And even if it had worked, it wouldn't really matter, since \n> we don't \n> > actually want to *run* the system under MinGW/msys, just build it.\n> > \n> > I t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see:\n> >\thttp://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction\n> >\n> > \n> >\n> \n> I don't think we could use this s/w though, unless the author is \n> prepared to relicense it. I'm sure implementing a clean room \n> version of \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI have a table of 2'500'000 tuples and 100'000 pages, and an index\non non-unique field, to each key value corresponds approximately\n50'000 tuples.\n\nDue to the updating algorithm the physical order of tuples in the\ntable happens to be such that all equal keys are placed together...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nwith the since 7.4 deprecated copy support functions in libpq, is there \nany define or other way to figure out if compiling against a pre-7.4 or \npost-7.4 libpq?\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgivene...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greg Stark wrote:\n> imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a Microsoft\n> Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free\nto do\n\nI have often wondered, in a completely off-topic and unproductive sort\nof way, if exactly that has not already been do...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIn the last few days, a number of issues have come up on [HACKERS] and\n[PERFORM] that have made important contribs to the PITR topic. Moreover,\nwork such as tablespaces has sufficient cross-over with PITR to make it\nimportant to double post things, which defeats the object of having a\ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Am I missing something here?\n\nagelis=# select B'1'::int;\n int4\n------\n 1\n(1 row)\n\nagelis=# select 1::bit;\n bit\n-----\n 0\n(1 row)\n\nagelis=# select B'1'=1;\n ?column?\n----------\n f\n(1 row)\n\nLast I checked, binary 1 and integer 1 were equal. Is this a bug, or is there...
[ { "msg_contents": "After some substantial progress on the Slony-I engine development, I'd \nlike to give a little status report and invite everyone who wants to \nparticipate in this project to join the mailing list and the development \nteam.\n\nThe project homepage is here:\n\n http://gborg.postgresql.org...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com] \n> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:28 PM\n> To: Greg Stark\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?\n> \n> \n> Greg Stark wrote:\n> > imposed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have caught up on my email and am working on the 7.4.2 branding now.\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...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nToday Michael Steil and I have tested PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on Nintendo Game \nCubes.\nAll regression test (but stats - stats collector was off instead of on) \nhave passed successfully.\n\n\n[root@192 root]# uname -a\nLinux 192.168.0.47 2.6.3 #20 Wed Mar 3 12:22:07 CET 2004 ppc unknown ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> - Dispose names of connectiong and replace them with a pointer.\n\nYou cannot dispose the names, you can only add something to also allow pointers.\nThe names are in the ESQL/C standard.\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:00:56 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Zeugswetter Andrea...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Today Michael Steil and I have tested PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on Nintendo Game\n> Cubes.\n> All regression test (but stats - stats collector was off instead of on)\n> have passed successfully.\n\nWhat about the XBOX? :-)\n\nMerlin\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 4 Mar 2004 06:58:42 -0500", "msg_fro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nDear Hackers,\n\n\nMotivation\n----------\n\nAs a basic user of postgresql, I've been quite disappointed by the lack of\nhelp provided by postgresql error messages dealing with syntax and\nsemantical errors, especially in long sql statements:\n\n ERROR: syntax error at or near \"(\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I recently had the 'joy' of needing to compile a copy of 7.1, to\nsupport a fairly crusty application where we'd have to do more testing\nthan we can justify in order to upgrade to some (vastly) newer\ngeneration.\n\nRan into a couple of things worth mentioning:\n\n1. Had a whole lot of gory...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jan,\n\n> What I am looking for is a super-comfortable GUI application that makes\n> planning and configuring a master-cascaded-multislave replication system\n> doable by everyone who can identify a clickable button.\n\nI personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the Sl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\r\n\r\nI made new system catalog.I think it is successful.But i got an error when\r\nI tried to select statement to get content of this catalog.This error is\r\n\"catalog is missing 2 attribute(s) for relid 16652\".So,I found the source\r\ncode that this error occurs.This file is relca...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> \"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:\n>>>> My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without\n>>>> symlinks.\n>\n>> To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see:\n>> \thttp://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction\n>> I thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Participants\nDave Cramer\nThomas Hallgren\nLaszlo Hornyak\n\nThroughout this document, the solutions are called Pl/J (using remote calls\nand one JVM) and Pl/Java (using one JVM per connection).\n\n1. Common interfaces.\nLaszlo provided Thomas with an URL so that he could download their solu...
[ { "msg_contents": "IBM has rewritten their Domino database system to use the new\nsys_epoll call available in the Linux 2.6 kernel.\n\nWould Postgresql benefit from using this API? Is anyone looking at\nthis?\n\nAnthony\nhttp://xminc.com/mt/\n", "msg_date": "4 Mar 2004 14:16:43 -0800", "msg_from": "anth...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks to me like there are now *two* copies of the built manpages in\nthe 7.3.6 tarball, as well as some extraneous .md5 files:\n\nOnly in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: man-7.3.tar.gz\nOnly in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: man.tar.gz\nOnly in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: postgres.tar.gz\nOnly in postgresql-7.3.6...
[ { "msg_contents": "1. I installed the latest version of Mingw from:\nhttp://www.mingw.org/download.shtml\n \n2. I installed the current snapshot of Postgresql.\n \n3. I tried ./configure -- went fine\n \n4. I tried make clean -- went fine\n \n5. I tried make and hit a few snags.\n \n6. For both:\n/postgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am able to build now, and perform initdb. However, I cannot run the\npostmaster. I don't know how far along the port is. What is the\ncurrent state of the port to Win32?\n\ndcorbit@DANNFAST /usr/local/pgsql/bin\n$ postmaster -D u:/pgdata\nLOG: select() failed in postmaster: No such file...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> First of all, symlinks are a pretty popular \"feature.\" Even Windows\n> supports what would be needed. Second of all, PostgreSQL will still\n> run on OSes without symlinks, tablespaces won't be available, but\n> PostgreSQL will still run. Since we are all using PostgreSQL without\n\nM...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I've seen both these messages after each other when -i is not \n> > specified. Been meaning to adress the issue of it not failing \n> > gracefully without -i on win32.\n> >\n> > Anyway. It seems the postmaster goes down while a child process is \n> > still going up (stats collector, I gue...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear patchers,\n\nNew submission attempt, with new message wording. Also, the message is\nonly shown once, and the offending key component is not shown.\n\nHave a nice day,\n\n-- \nFabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr", "msg_date": "Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:59:25 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni'm using the jdbc postgresql driver. I need to fetch the oid of a just \ninsertet row\n(getGeneratedKeys() feature). That' why i ask you to provide me the \nsource code\nto implement this feature.It would be glad if you tell me how and where \nto get\nthese sources.\n\nThank you very ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI have a problem understanding the code to make certain in join are \nperformed properly. Specifically I have problems understading when \nIN_UNIQUE_{INNER,OUTER} is a valid jointype.\nIts in joinrels.c:make_join_rel.\n\nConsider this example:\n\nSELECT * FROM a,b WHERE a.id = b.id AND ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Quoting Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>:\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:\n> > My idea for platforms that don't support symlinks would be to simply\n> create\n> > a tblspaceoid directory inplace instead of the symlink (maybe throw a\n> warning).\n> > My feeling is, that using the sa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHere are the 7.4.2 release notes I made. I have a few question:\n\nWhat detail do we need on the pg_statistics alignment fix? Do we need\nto show an UPDATE query to fix database? What are the ramifications of\nleaving it alone?\n\nA few categories list \"various fixes\" for rare fixes we...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a couple of question about PITR. I believe some of the things that \nPITR must do may be applicable to materialized views and some other \nprojects I've been thinking about.\n\nI guess I should ask how PITR works. I imagine it does something like the \nfollowing. Correct me if I am wro...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 3/3/04 6:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:\n> John Siracusa <siracusa@mindspring.com> writes:\n>> Given an index like this:\n>> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX i1 ON t1 (c1) WHERE c1 IS NOT NULL;\n>> and a query like this:\n>> SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE c1 = 123;\n>> I'd like the planner to be smart en...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems to me the following should Just Work:\n\nnconway=# create table t1 (a timestamp);\nCREATE TABLE\nnconway=# insert into t1 values (now());\nINSERT 17164 1\nnconway=# insert into t1 values (now());\nINSERT 17165 1\nnconway=# insert into t1 values (now());\nINSERT 17166 1\nnconway=# ins...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI know Bruce did the RELEASE NOTES and all that week bit early, so I just\nwant to make sure there is nothing outstanding before I package her up ...\n\nI'll do it around midnight GMT tonight baring any raised hands ...\n\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http...