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"msg_contents": "[Sorry, I hit the wrong butt on and sent this earlier before I meant to]\n\nWhen I try to run thread_test.c from the CVS tip, it hangs in an infinite\nCPU loop on both linux (RedHat AS 3.0, gcc 3.2.3) and Mac OS X 10.3.3 (gcc\n3.3). I've also tried down to gcc 2.96 on Mac OS X.\n\nIf I compi... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\n> > Seems like useful functionality. Right now, how does an administrator\n> > kill another backend from psql? They can't.\n> \n> The question to ask is \"should they be able to?\"\n\nAnd the answer is, \"Yes\".\n\nThis is a commonly requested feature by DBA's migrating from SQL Ser... |
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"msg_contents": ">> Killing backends with runaway queries is a routine administrative\n>> task.\n>\n>Cancelling runaway queries is a routine task. I'm less \n>convinced that a\n>remote kill (ie SIGTERM) facility is such a great idea.\n\nConsider a scenario like:\nUser A starts transaction.\nUser A issues a L... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nFrom what I can see, a \"make check\" runs the parallell tests and a \"make\ninstallcheck\" runs the serial tests. Is there any special reason for\nthis? And for not providing a way to run the other kind of test\ndepending on the installation?\n\nStumbled across this when doing regress... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n \n \nI am trying to get version 7.4.2 installed on a Solaris box, but\ninitdb fails because of shmmax being set too low. It does this\neven though initdb drops shared buffers as low as it can go (50).\nIs there any other way of getting around... |
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"msg_contents": "This testcase works in 7.3 but not in 7.4:\n\n------------------------------------------\n\ncreate table t1 (a int);\ncreate table t2 (b int);\n \nselect * from t1, (select b as a from t2 group by a) as foo;\n \n------------------------------------------\n\nERROR: column \"t2.b\" must appear... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > In this case, SIGINT (query cancel) will not help, because \n> all locks \n> > held by the transaction will still be held.\n> \n> Wrong.\n\nReally? \nPlease point out where I am wrong in this:\n\nSESSION A:\t\tBEGIN TRANSACTION\nSESSION A:\t\tLOCK TABLE foo IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE\nSES... |
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"msg_contents": "Community,\n\nPeople asked me to put a simple extension for PostgreSQL Open Source.\nThe attached package contains a simple functions whichs tells a remote \nTCP socket that somebody is about to modify a certain table.\n\nWhy would anybody do that?\nCurrently PostgreSQL provides a nice LISTEN... |
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"msg_contents": "SRA America is sponsoring an evening event with me in NYC. If folks\nwant to go, the details are on our web site under \"Events\".\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 ... |
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"msg_contents": "SRA America is sponsoring an evening event with me in NYC. If folks\nwant to go, the details are on our web site under \"Events\".\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 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\n\"Doesn't this encourage violation of the basic notion of a transaction?\nThe message will be sent immediately, whether or not the sending\ntransaction actually commits.\"\n\nAny postgresql C coders out there that can help us out with nested\ntransactions?\n\nThis pretty much comes ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nI would be FOR it if the README states the dangers\n\n\n\nBob Henkel 651-738-5085\nMutual Funds I/T Woodbury\nHartford Life\n500 Bielenberg Drive\nWoodbury, MN 55125\n\n\n|---------+---------------------------->\n| | Hans-Jürgen |\n| | ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am having some trouble interfacing the 7.5 server built with MINGW\nwith tools generated using other compilers.\n\nI suspect that the issue is one of default structure packing. In the\nold version we were using, we built PostgreSQL using Intel C++ or MS\nVC++ and the same for the libpq and... |
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"msg_contents": "\nignore it\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:20:14 -0300 (ADT)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>",
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nI'm still developing some advisor views to give advices about tables,\ndatabase settings and so in postgresql.\n\nI'm thinking of allowing advices about incoherent or dangerous \"host base\nauthentification\" configurations. I would like to access pg_hba.conf\nfrom within t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n I'm surprise with query plan that PostgreSQL planner prepare for\n selects with ORDER BY if all data are from sub-select that is already\n sorted.\n \n # explain select data from \n (select distinct data from addr) \n as x order by x... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n1) Is this depending on the server, or the fact that there is a\ndifferent libpq.dll in the path? Does a non-win32 client work against\nthe win32 server, and vice versa?\n\n2) Are you using the import library from mingw, or the one from the old\nvisual C++ compile? If you are using th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have been doing some experimentation for a series of articles I am \nwriting, and want to create a user with as little privilege as possible \nwho can still do the things I explicitly want him/her to be able to do.\n\nIn particular, I wanted to be able to deny any useful access to the \nm... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Anyone see a benefit of adding command line flags to initdb to force\n> lower shared memory use without require a recompile?\n[snip]\n> \n\nWhen I built and installed pgsql at work, on a production server,\nI ran into the shared memory problem. I wanted to fire pgsql up\n*right* *away*... |
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"msg_contents": "> >>> In this case, SIGINT (query cancel) will not help, because\n> >>> all locks held by the transaction will still be held.\n> >> \n> >> Wrong.\n> \n> > Really?\n> \n> [ experiments... ] My apologies --- you are correct about \n> the present behavior. If a SIGINT arrives while waiting for... |
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"msg_contents": "> > if (query_running) \n> > cancel_query\n> > abort transaction\n> > else if (idle in transaction)\n> > abort transaction\n> > else if (idle not in transaction)\n> > graceful shutdown\n> \n> > or if that is too confusing?\n> \n> Too hazardous. Say you meant to kill a slow query, onl... |
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"msg_contents": "> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \"Magnus Hagander\" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:\n> > >> If we are going to allow session kill then of course we need\n> > >> PID for that.\n> > \n> > > I still say we need this.\n> > \n> > Well, that seems to be the consensus, so I won't stand in the way.\n> > \n> > If... |
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"msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> Josh Berkus wrote:\n> > Tom,\n> > \n> > > I don't think it's an open-and-shut decision as to whether people\n> > > actually *need* to do session kills (as opposed to query/transaction\n> > > kills). The arguments presented so far are not convincing to my mind,\n> > > certainl... |
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"msg_contents": "I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands:\n\ncp ./src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s ./src/backend/port/tas.s\ncp ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.c ./src/backend/port/dynloader.c\ncp ./src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c ./src/backend/port/pg_sema.c\ncp ./src/backend/port/sysv_shm... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi Dann,\n\nwhilst I have, on rare occasions, observed the symlink failure under MingW,\nI've never come across the other issues you've mentioned (I build from cvs,\ninstead of snapshots, but I can't imagine that causes these problems).\n\nIs it possible your MingW install is a broken? Whic... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:claudio.natoli@memetrics.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:42 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org '\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script\n> \n> \n> \n> Hi Dann,\n> \n> whilst I have, on ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dann Corbit \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:47 PM\n> To: Claudio Natoli; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script\n> \n> \n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:claudio.natoli@m... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi Dann,\n\n> > Which version \n> > are you using? \n> \n> Msys version is 1.0.\n\nOk, probably the same I'm using (MSYS-1.0.10 and MSYS-1.0.9)\n\n\n> dcorbit@DANNFAST /u/postgresql-snapshot\n> $ gcc --version\n> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.3.3 (mingw special)\n\nI'm using MinGW-3.1.0-1, which has:\ngc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have a database with about 250,000 entries in a table, PG 7.5, One\nof the fields is text. LIKE queries on this field execute much faster\nthan the equivalent regex queries.\n\n Is this what you would expect? Should I prefer LIKE to regex?\n(I'm a regex fan, but the performance hit s... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nWould it hurt anybody if operator == is made a synonym for operator =?\nas != is a synonum for <>, it would make sense.\n\nIf it does not hurt, should it be implemented by replicating pg_operator\nentries, or would a backend modification be ok? Operator != is NOT in\npg_ope... |
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"msg_contents": "In 7.4 there is an optional BY that are allowed in the definiton of \nsequences:\n\nCREATE [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] SEQUENCE namn [ INCREMENT [ BY ] �kning ]\n [ MINVALUE minv�rde | NO MINVALUE ] [ MAXVALUE maxv�rde | NO MAXVALUE ]\n [ START [ WITH ] start ] [ CACHE cache ] [ [ NO ] C... |
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"msg_contents": "Is anyone working to make the locale support in pg better? Running initdb\nto set the locale is a bit heavy. It would be nice to at least be able to \nset it per database.\n\n-- \n/Dennis Bj�rklund\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:04:09 +0200 (CEST)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nAfter an installation from CVS tip, I start the postmaster with the\n-d(anything) flag. The postmaster starts up normally. I then try to\nconnect using psql, and either a TRAP is triggered (not using -A 0)\nor an invalid cache id is found (using -A 0)\n\nWhen I start the postmaster... |
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"msg_contents": " \n> whilst I have, on rare occasions, observed the symlink \n> failure under MingW, I've never come across the other issues \n> you've mentioned (I build from cvs, instead of snapshots, but \n> I can't imagine that causes these problems).\n\nI'm running off snapshots (my bison install is bad... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,\n\nis it possible to use an index on the expression '(table_1.field &\ntable_2.field)::int > 0' ?\n\nhere's the whole query:\n\nSELECT \n\tCOUNT(*)\nFROM\n\tusers AS users\nJOIN\n\tsearch_profile AS search_profile ON\n(search_profile.bin_matching_field_0 &\nusers.bin_matching_field_0)::in... |
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"msg_contents": "Fabien,\n\n> Moreover, there are many SQL flavors around, so whatever the detailed\n> syntax I learn them, it won't be the one they will have to face if the\n> database they use is different. So why bother?\n\nThere are so many Java flavors around, why bother teaching the students syntax \nat... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:55 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script \n> \n> \n> \"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:\n> > I... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWe're using pg_dump to backup our databases. The actual pg_dump\nappears to work fine. On smaller (< approx. 100 Meg) data sets, the\nrestore also works, but on larger data sets the restore process\nconsistently fails.\n\nOther facts that may be of interest:\n\n * We're running ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a log reader for PostgreSQL that is documented?\nThis query failed:\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/search.cgi?ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%\n2Fdocs%2F7.4%2Finteractive%2F%25&q=%22log+reader%22\nMaybe another terminology is used instead.\n \n\nMessage\n\n\n\nIs there a log \nreader ... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nI'm facing a problem with the unfamous:\n\n\"idle in transaction\"\n\nproblem. I'm using the JDBC driver.\n\nMainly the problem is that the JDBC interface doesn't\nprovide the method begin() for a transaction, of course this\nis not a... |
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"msg_contents": "About a year or two ago I submitted a configuration patch that allowed\nPostgreSQL to be fully configured by postgresql.conf -- enabling data and\nconfiguration to be in separate locations. The idea was that, like most\nUNIX systems, that the configuration file could be stored in the /etc\ndi... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear folks,\nI have a Tcl/Tk application which runs on Unix using either MySql or\nPostgres - this works.\nThe same Tcl/Tk application runs on Windows using MySql.\n\nDoes anyone have any recommendations for places to download Postgres and\npgtcl libraries to enable running my Tcl/Tk applicat... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dann Corbit \n> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:34 AM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script \n> \n> \n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch does two things:\n\n1) Changes the semantics of assign_search_path()/'SET search_path' so \nthat you can't set your search path to a schema you don't have USAGE \nprivs for.\n\n2) Changes psql's \\dn query and its schema tab completion query to \nincorporate ACL checking so that \\... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a good article about the new features in the C99 standard:\n\n\thttp://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw03UsingC99\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n +... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nO'Reilly is talking about hosting \"Code Sprints\" for any projects that want \nthem after OSCON this summer. For those unfamiliar with the term, the idea \nof a code sprint is to get together a bunch of hackers on some project (for \nexample, perl or postgresql) and over a day do ... |
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"msg_contents": "Why is libpgtcl still in /src/interfaces? Isn't it now on gborg? Are\nthere two of them there 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... |
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"msg_contents": "I'll be attending the MIT Sloan Innovation Lab Meeting at MIT on April\n15 and 16. The topic of the meeting is \"Exploring the Inner Workings of\nUser Innovation Communities\". Some other folks from the open-source\ncommunity will be there, including individuals from Apache, Red Hat, and\nXim... |
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"msg_contents": "> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:\n>> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:49, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:\n>>> (2) I would bet that *most* deployments of PostgreSQL only use one\ndatabase environment per server, so I'm not even sure that it would be\nan\n>>> issue for the majority of... |
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"msg_contents": "Michael,\n\n> > is it possible to use an index on the expression '(table_1.field &\n> > table_2.field)::int > 0' ?\n\nNot practically, no. \n\nIf it's important to you for comparisons to be indexed, then stop doing \nbitwise stuff and normalize your tables. Bitwise fields are what is known... |
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"msg_contents": "I try to install postgresql7.4.2 on macosx from source\nwhen initdb create conversions it tell me \ncound not access $libdir/ascii_and_mic file \ncan somebody tell me how to resolve it \n\n\n\nthanks\n \n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:29:56 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "Alexander Cohen wrote:\n> > Alexander Cohen wrote:\n> >> Has anyone attempted to write a version of pg_ctl in C code? Is it in\n> >> the works anywhere?\n> >\n> > Someone attempted, but never completed it a few months ago, so no, no\n> > one is working on it right now. Use initdb.c as an exa... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nI'm used to have a \"umask 077\", but I cannot have that at the time with\npostgresql. This fact is among the many various \"surprises\" I had while\ndiscovering postgresql, and this is easy to fix.\n\nThus I'd like to add a user defined default public acl for postgresql\nd... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jeroen T. Vermeulen [mailto:jtv@xs4all.nl] \n> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 7:28 AM\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Dann Corbit; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 beta version\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:38:13PM -0400, Bruce... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPoint 1 I completely agree on: byte order, alignment, padding, etc.\nis different for each platform and data cannot directly be exchanged.\n\nPoint 2: who really needs C++ ??\n\n\n\n\n-------- Urspr�ngliche Nachricht --------\nBetreff: Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 beta version\nDatum: Mon, 12 Apr 20... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jeroen T. Vermeulen [mailto:jtv@xs4all.nl] \n> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:25 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 beta version\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:55:45AM -0700, Dann... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jürgen Cappel [mailto:email@juergen-cappel.de] \n> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:33 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 beta version]\n> \n> \n> \n> Point 1 I completely agree on: byte order, alignment... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jeroen T. Vermeulen [mailto:jtv@xs4all.nl] \n> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:00 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 beta version\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:35:15PM -0700, Dann ... |
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"msg_contents": "For my own amusement I'm reading the sql 92 spec about character sets. \nThere are some concepts that are a bit difficult that maybe someone can \nexplain for me:\n\n character set\n character repertoire\n\nfor example in 4.2.1 it says:\n\n A character set is described by a character set... |
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"msg_contents": "\n<sorry, I resend this as I have not received it from the list, and it does\n not appear in the archives...>\n\n\nDear Tom,\n\n> > defaults in \"src/backend/utils/adt/acl.c\".\n>\n> I'm unconvinced that this is a good idea.\n\nHmmm.\n\n> In the first place I am unsure what sorts of surprisin... |
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"msg_contents": "<quote who=\"Andrew Hammond\">\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n>> Andrew Hammond <ahammond@ca.afilias.info> writes:\n>>>I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's\nrotatelogs for logging.\n>> Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're done.\n>\n> It's ... |
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"msg_contents": "[ discussion re/ default state of minimal rights, as opposed to the \nmore generous situation today snipped ]\n\nJust to add fuel to the fire, as an ex-college sys-admin having had to \ndeploy both Oracle and postgres, I would have to say that Oracle \nallowed me to deploy a database containe... |
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"msg_contents": "I've spent some more time reading specs today. Together with Peter E's\nexplanataion (Thanks!) I think I've got a farily good understanding of the\nparts talking about locales now.\n\nMy next question is about lexing. The spec says that one can use strings \nof different charsets in the queri... |
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"msg_contents": "In the process of optimizing some queries, I have found the following\nquery seems to degrade in performance the more accurate I make the\nstatistics on the table... whether by using increased alter table ...\nset statistics or by using vacuum..\n\nSELECT \n\tcount( cl.caller_id ), \n\tnpanxx... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nIs there any reason why FRONTEND is not specified in the ecpg build\n(specifically the pgtypeslib)? I'm running into build problems because\nit pulls backend-specific stuff from port.h in\n(postgres_fe.h->c.h->port.h) when tweaking the timezone code.\n\nOr should FRONTEND perhaps even ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a query that works in 7.3.6 but not in 7.4.2 unless I turn\noff enable_hashjoin. I'm joining a table of network interfaces and\na table of networks so I can find additional info about a particular\ninterface's network. To speed up the join, I'm indexing the\ninterface IP addresses us... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm thinking it's time to remove the \"MySQL\" conversion tools from the \nPostgreSQL source tree and put them somewhere they might be maintained. \nI've just done some testing, and neither one works with current versions of \nMySQLdump.\n\n-- \n-Josh Berkus\n Aglio Database Solut... |
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"msg_contents": "> > The compilers from Microsoft and Borland atleast aren't\n> > compatible.\n> \n> But that shows up as link errors, not at runtime, right?\n\nCorrect. Microsoft and Borland use different library packaging formats,\nCOFF and OMF. However (non C++) DLLs are compatible and you can extract\na... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n As mentioned in the PostgreSQL Weekly News, SQL2003 has been approved.\n Looking at one of the recent drafts it appears that MERGE has been\n added to the spec. MERGE is described as \"Conditionally update rows\n of a table, or insert new rows into a table, or both.\" Sup... |
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"msg_contents": "Is anyone working on an analysis of where PostgreSQL\nmeets, deviates and exceeds the new SQL2003 standard?\n\nIf not, I'm going to work on one, but I don't want\nto re-invent the wheel. If someone else has done some\nof this or wants to do some of this it would be\nbetter to work together.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I just found out that datestyle affects the output of COPY, and hence\npg_dump:\n\n\ttest=> create table test(x date);\n\tCREATE\t\n\ttest=> insert into test values ('2001-07-31');\n\tINSERT 17239 1\n\ttest=> set datestyle to 'postgres, dmy';\n\tSET\n\ttest=> copy test to '/tmp/x';\n\tCOPY\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nNever mind. I found out that pg_dump already does a SET datestyle =\n'ISO' before dumping, so all the dates are in ISO format.\n\nI just need to mention that COPY honors Datesyle.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\npgman wrote:\n> I just found... |
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"msg_contents": "How can multiple SQL statements be included in one prepare command? The goal is to reduce chatter between the client and server by submitting an atomic tranasaction set. My interface is libpq. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow can multiple SQL statements be included in \none prepare command? The goal is to ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe are able to compile without issue but it won't start. The exact same \nconfig works perfectly with 7.3.6. Here is the output:\n\n$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D data\nDEBUG: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: PostmasterMain: initial environ \ndump:\nDEBUG: ------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "We've had a backend crash with sig 11 during connection. My guess is\nthere's something up with (maybe) the IPv6 support on AIX. I seem to\nrecall something similar recently, but I can't find the post in the\narchives. Suggestions?\n\n\noxrslive=# SELECT version();\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All, \n\n I've got an issue that I've been trying to track down some results to.\nI've noticed that on a recent PostgreSQL server that I've been working\non has a few relations that do not exist:\n\nselect relname, relnamespace, reltype from pg_class where relname ~*\n'sql_';\n rel... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n Hello,\n\n I am trying to work with the Postgresql-7.3.4 and can you\n please help me with it.\n I have the following problem:\n I want to access the RelOptInfo data structure from the executor module.\n Basically I have added a flag to the RelOptInfo data structure and at\nthe\n time of... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI for those of you tracking Linux development\nkernel performance on PostgreSQL. \n\n-----Forwarded Message-----\nFrom: Mary Edie Meredith <maryedie@osdl.org>\nTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org\nSubject: DBT3-pgsql large performance improvement 2.6.6-rc1\nDate: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:51:47 -07... |
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"msg_contents": "Hans, Andrew,\n\n> > I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to \n> > look in contrib before they look at gborg.\n\npgFoundry/project.postgresql.org will be up by next week, I promise. \nWorking on it now.\n\nThis should increase the visibility of non-core compone... |
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"msg_contents": "I just tried an experiment that I thought would improve the performance \nof the PostGIS spatial index.\n\nThe old way used a BOX (bounding box of 4 doubles) as the key in the index.\n\nThe new way uses a bounding box of 4 single-precision floats (its only \n16 bytes long - a BOX is 32). I t... |
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"msg_contents": "> Couple of observations:\n> \n> 1. Are you sure your data is handled as 32 bit all the way through? Run\n> time casting will offset performance gains on 32 bit floats. Is your\n> comparison routine casting to double?\n\nI thought this might be the case - but I thought it would be small. T... |
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"msg_contents": "Would folks report on the current status of these projects:\n\t\n\to nested transactions (Alvaro Herrera)\n\to tablespaces (Gavin Sherry)\n\to PITR (Simon Riggs)\n\to 2-phase commit (Heikki Linnakangas)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhen executing a prepared select statement, the returned RowDescription\nprotocol message does not have any information for the table oid or column\nposition. Running the equivalent select without prepare provides this\ninformation, so I don't see why the act of preparing and executing the... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there any reason why the 'ON COMMIT' behaviour feature is not \navailable if you use CREATE TABLE AS ...?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:19:30 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI've did pg_dumpall of a number of databases on 7.4.2 install of\nPostgreSQL then imported that into another 7.4.2 install. This is on\nDebian Sid, every 5 hours, there's a script\n/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance which runs on the database,\nVACUUMing it and such. The next tim... |
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"msg_contents": "While it's a couple of weeks old, in case it hasn't been seen by \"those\nwho need it\", the folllowing thread on linux kernel discusses the\nfsync-and-IDE-writecache interactions. There is also a comment on MacOS\nX - I have no idea if that was already known, but I thought it might be\nworth... |
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"msg_date": "Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:10:39 +0200 (METDST)",
"msg_from": "Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Re: executing prepared select, missing RowDescription info"
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"msg_contents": "The proposed new sampling method\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00036.php and\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-04/msg00045.php)\nbasically incorporates two independant changes:\n\n(1) Two-stage sampling: Stage one collects a random sample of pages... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI might have some time left to spend on the item \"Allow external interfaces\nto extend the GUC variable set\"\nfiled under \"Administration\" on the TODO list. I'm thinking of an approach\nwith the steps:\n\n1) Increasing my own understanding of the GUC code\n2) Suggest a solution on th... |
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"msg_contents": "I've got a problem with these variables in freelist.c:\n\nstatic int\t\tstrategy_cdb_found;\nstatic int\t\tstrategy_cdb_replace;\nstatic int\t\tstrategy_get_from;\n\nWhy are these per-backend? Shouldn't they be in shared state?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 19 Apr 2004... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt seems to me that new 'begin isolation level ...' syntax does not work\nwith current cvs head:\n\n#\n# old syntax:\n#\npsql> SELECT VERSION();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.5devel on i686-pc-l... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the attached patch that complete TODO item:\n\n o -Allow dump/load of CSV format\n\nThis adds new keywords to COPY and \\copy:\n\n CSV - enable CSV mode\n QUOTE - specify quote character\n ESCAPE - specify escape character\n FORCE - force quot... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAs I was playing around with prelimiary stuff for regression testing the \nCSV patch, I had a couple of ideas I thought I might float.\n\nContext: many of the tests will write a table out and read it back into \na duplicate table and then perform a symmetric difference on the 2 \ntables. Ma... |
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"msg_contents": "The snapshots in ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/ (and mirrors) appears not\nto have updated since Apr 5th. These are supposed to be generated\nnightly, right? If so, they seem broken.\n\n\n//Magnus\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:47:51 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Magnus Hagander\" <mha@... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nHere is a temp fix for the locale issues on win32. It passes regression\ntests, but is *NOT* ready to be applied (if nothing else, it at least\nneeds more error checking).\n\n\nThe issue is that locale settings were not inherited by the postgres\nbackends when they were execed... In... |
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"msg_contents": "I work at Coverity where we use static analysis to find bugs in\nsoftware. I ran a security checker over postgresql-7.4.1 and I think I\nfound a security hole. I'm not familiar with the postgres source, so\nthis report may be false. My interpretation of the code follows.\n\nI'd appreciate ... |
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"msg_contents": "With initdb written now in C, we don't need a pg_encoding binary\nanymore.\n\nI have removed it from CVS. There were no mentions of it in the docs.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If you... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear Hackers\n\nI apologize in advance if this posting is construed as spam. \n\nAs many of you are aware, the database research group at UC Berkeley\nis building TelegraphCQ, a system for processing continuous queries\nover data streams. TelegraphCQ was built with the PostgreSQL source\nba... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n I've recently been trying to make use of domains but have\nencountered some violations of the rule of least surprise.\n(PostgreSQL 7.4.2)\n\nI couldn't create an array of a domain, eg:\n\n CREATE DOMAIN mydomain AS integer;\n\n CREATE TABLE mytable (\n stuff mydomain[]... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nI'm trying to use some RULE as simple and maybe slower TRIGGER, so as to\nmake it impossible for a row to be modified once a boolean is set to lock\nit.\n\n CREATE TABLE foo(data TEXT, locked BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE);\n\nThis cannot be done with a CHECK constrain... |
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