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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPl/J is a java procedural language for postgres. We are looking for\nalpha testers to help us find bugs, and get feedback.\n\nThe project can be found at\n\nhttp://plj.codehaus.org/\n\nBugs can be reported at\n\nhttp://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10430\n\nRegards,\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I received a copy of pgbench rewritten in Pro*C, which is similar to\nembedded C. I think it was done so the same program could be tested on\nOracle and PostgreSQL.\n\nAre folks interested in this code? Should it be put on gborg or in our\n/contrib/pgbench?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I work at Coverity where we make a static analysis tool to find bugs in\nsoftware at compile time. I think I found a security hole in\npostgresql-7.4.1, but I don't want to just report it to a public list. I\nsent email to security@postgresql.org, hoping that the address existed,\nbut I got...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhere are we on this? Is it something that can be added to dbmirror as\na patch?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nmerino silva wrote:\n> Hi all,\n> \n> The method I've used to convert DBMirror to a\n> peer-to-peer replicator was two DBMirror...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe are trying to import the TPC-H data into postgresql using the COPY\ncommand and for the larger files we get an error due to insufficient\nmemory space.\n\nWe are using a linux system with Postgresql-7.3.4\n\nIs it that Postgresql cannot handle such large files or is there some\no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\nI am working on a project in postgres..in which i designed customized data type\nand operations on it.it requires a look up table..\nI have three options regarding this table...\n1. Every time a query is executed it creates table assigns values and after\nexecution destroys it...which is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI face the following problem:\n2 tables: tblperson and tblnotes\ntblperson:\ncolums: personid (PK), name\n\ntblnotes:\ncolums: noteid(PK), personid(references tblperson(personid)), note\n\ntblnotes has notes stored written by a person from tblperson identified (FK) \nby its personid.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI've made some very encouraging tests using The GNU version of Java known as\nGCJ together with my Pl/Java implementation . At present I use GCJ just like\nany other JVM, i.e. as an interpreter. This is not very optimal since GCJ\ncan compile all Java code into shared libraries just like...
[ { "msg_contents": "Taking into account that quite a few people have repeatedly stated that \nthe components in contrib are considered more supported/recommended than \nsimilar solutions found on gborg or any other external site, I suggest \nwe move the projects dbmirror and dblink to gborg. The rserv contrib \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Valgrind'ing the postmaster yields a fair number of errors. A lot of\nthem are similar, such as the following:\n\n==29929== Use of uninitialised value of size 4\n==29929== at 0x80AFB80: XLogInsert (xlog.c:570)\n==29929== by 0x808B0A6: heap_insert (heapam.c:1189)\n==29929== by 0x808B1...
[ { "msg_contents": "This mail apparantly didn't make it through because it was too large.\nResending it without the largest file, tzlib.tgz. I've put this file (+\nthe patches) on http://www.hagander.net/pgsql/.\n\n\n//Magnus\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander \n> Sent: Sunday, April 18, ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] \n> Sent: 21 April 2004 19:16\n> To: Jan Wieck\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for \n> replication solutions\n> \n> Hello,\n> \n> My personal opinion is...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Previously posted to General list]\n\nI have an embedded system running FreeBSD (5.1) that does not have any local\n(rotating) storage (i.e. disk drives).\n\nPostgreSQL (7.3.2.1) also runs on this box and (at this point) has two\ntables. It is an extremely simple PostgreSQL configuration wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIMHO it's not all that important where the source is developed (core\ncvs, gborg etc) - whichever suits the development/release model best\nshuold be used (meaning inside core only if it should be released on the\nvery same schedule as the main backend only). \n\nWhat is more important is t...
[ { "msg_contents": "People:\n\n> I almost agree, but I think things that are being actively developed to \n> eventually move into the backend, like autovacuum or slony-I should be in \n> contrib.  Things that aren't destined for backend integration should be \n> removed though, like pgbench or dblink or whatnot....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWhile playing with code to enable subtransactions in the storage\nmanager, I run across this strangeness:\n\nalvherre=# begin; begin;\t\t\t-- start a subtransaction\nBEGIN\nBEGIN\nalvherre=# drop table foo;\t\t\t-- no such table\nERROR: no existe la tabla \"foo\"\nalvherre=# comm...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joe Conway wrote:\n\n\nmike g wrote:\nIn file postgresql-7.4.2/src/backend/utils/fmgrtab.c\n\nThis is an automatically generated file. The reason for duplicate \narray_push declarations is that one-and-the-same array_push function \nis used to implement two SQL functions, array_append and \na...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Haim,\n\nIs the PostgreSQL license (http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html) LGPL \ncompatible? I have adapted some code (for jdate manipulation) into the \nOLE DB project (LGPL). I have copied over the copyright notice, but now \nI'm thinking that this may not be enough.\n\nOn the front pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWho can give an authorative answer regarding distributing PostgreSQL \nunder a different license?\n\nIn particular, the front page claims that PostgreSQL is under the BSD \nlicense. The problem is that there are two. The four clause license, \nwhich is not GPL compatible, and the t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Taking into account that quite a few people have repeatedly stated that\nthe components in contrib are considered more supported/recommended than\nsimilar solutions found on gborg or any other external site, I suggest\nwe move the projects dbmirror and dblink to gborg. The rserv contrib\nmo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a project I'm moving from mysql to postgresql. It has both a \nfair amount of code and a moderate amount of data. In MySQL the \nidentifiers are all MixedCase, but the query strings are never quoted.\n\nI would like to change the default behaviour of postgresql to not fold \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I agree with the notion that \"contrib\" be removed\n> from the main distribution. There is, however, a\n> disconnect between supporting projects and the main system.\n>\n> Take a look at the www.postgresql.org web site.\n> Most people visually filter out the side bars. I've\n> been looking...
[ { "msg_contents": "As you know, we had libpq and ecpg threading available in 7.4 via a\nconfigure flag.\n\nHowever, threading required users to report their platform's configure\nflags (something better done by configure) and run a thread test program\n(src/tools/thread/thread_test).\n\nFor 7.5, I want to use:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a blog about a recent MySQL conference with title, \"Why MySQL\nGrew So Fast\":\n\n\thttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4715\n\nand a a Slashdot discussion about it:\n\n\thttp://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/20/2229212&mode=nested&tid=137&tid=185&tid=187&tid=198\n\nMy qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > The specific details aren't especially relevant to this thread, though.\n> > What is relevant is that we agree to a commitment that we will make\n> > it easy to build modules outside the current Postgres build environment,\n> > and that we will have an ongoing commitment to make sure th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nJust so you know I'm very thankful for your hard work and I'm sure many of\nus are. I have been waiting for this kind of functionally in Postgresql!\n\n\n|---------+---------------------------------->\n| | Heikki Linnakangas |\n| | <hlinnaka@...
[ { "msg_contents": "J. Andrew Rogers wrote:\n> No. The greatest strength of Postgres, marketing-wise, are technical\n> and is what drives its growth today. I think most of the ease-of-use\n> issues are in the packaging of the larger Postgres product and\nmid-level\n> developer documentation, both of which seem ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWell, as someone could have predicted, once we actually tried running some new \nprojects on pgFoundry we ran into setup issues. We're resolving these and \nshould have stuff up and running soon.\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nAglio Database Solutions\nSan Francisco\n", "msg_date": "Fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIn current (as of a couple hours ago) clean CVS tip sources, without any\nof my local changes, I'm getting a postmaster segfault when trying to\nconnect to a non existant database. The generated core file does not\nseem to contain any useful information. The first time I saw thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have completed most of the thread changes listed below.\n\nI have added automatic thread compile/link flag detection via configure\nfrom the URL listed below. I have kept per-platform customization that\nwas used in the past. Please let me know of the new flag usage (like\n-pthread) mak...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, postgresql hackers.\n\nI am working with a client with a 20k record MySQL database (that will \nshortly expand to 100k/1m) and a few thousand lines of PHP code that \ndoes a lot of DB interaction.\n\nTheir application, with a lot of relationships between data and a bunch \nof data inte...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com] \n> Sent: 24 April 2004 08:43\n> To: Shachar Shemesh\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Robert Treat; Dennis Bjorklund; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL advocacy\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Do we p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nrunning postgres 7.4.1\n\n2 different behavior:\n\n- Inserting the following invalid line on pg_hba.conf\n\n host all all 127.0.0.1 trust sameuser # HANG\n\nthe future connections will hang leaving a postgres process\nrunning\n\n- Inserting the following line inst...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nChristopher Kings-Lynne has kindly contributed documentation to our\ncontrib/trgm module, which implements fuzzy search with GiST index support.\nNice thing about this module is that it could be used for spelling support\nin tsearch2 and it doesn't depends on language.\n\nDownloa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI'm about to finalize my patch for GUC custom variables. I did find the\nplace to add the documentation for the custom_variable_classes variable that\nI added but I can't find any documentation related to GUC functions. I've\nadded 5 new functions. 4 to allow modules to define new variab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm opening a new thread, as the previous one was too nested, and \ncontained too much emotions.\n\nI'll start by my understanding of a summary of the thread so far. The \nsolution we are seeking would have to satisfy the following conditions:\n1. Setting should be on a per-database level. A ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A sort of debate started by Bruce about what MySQL does better vs what\nPostgreSQL could do, then there was a thread about removing \"/contrib\"\nfrom the main download, and a few other posts.\n\nI don't think these are unrelated. They all fall under the umbarella of\n\"How does a new user co...
[ { "msg_contents": "On -performance we have been discussing a configuration where a bulk\ndelete run takes almost a day (and this is not due to crappy hardware or\napparent misconfiguration). Unless I misinterpreted the numbers,\nbtbulkdelete() processes 85 index pages per second, while lazy vacuum is\nable to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "FreeBSD 4.X will not support --enable-thread-safety in 7.5. Let me\nexplain why.\n\nIn 7.4, if we didn't have a *_r function, and the non-*_r function was\nnot thread-safe, we called the non-*_r function with thread locks and\ncopied the value into the passed storage pointer. I thought that...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[sorry for the repost...lists down? Problem may or may not be on win32\nversion only]\nThe catalog number was updated, so it was time to run initdb.\n\nSometime over the weekend (or since the last initdb I ran, about a\nweek), the source was updated which caused an AV & CRASH during\ninitdb...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:\n> PostgreSQL. Maybe it is in the form of a web server like Samba's SWAT\n> utility, I don't know (A SWAT type utility could run as the PostgreSQL\n\nI've found webmin to be pretty good swat type tool...it's lacking some\nthings to be a full postgres administration...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\tmomjian@svr1.postgresql.org\t04/04/26 12:06:49\n\nModified files:\n\tsrc/backend/utils/adt: acl.c \n\tsrc/include/catalog: catversion.h pg_proc.h \n\tsrc/include/utils: acl.h \n\tsrc/test/regress/expected: privileges.out \n\tsrc/tes...
[ { "msg_contents": "The thread testing program is not nice to a vpath build. I see this\nerror:\n\nchecking for gmake... gmake\nchecking thread safety of required library functions... Makefile:13: ../../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory\ngmake: *** No rule to make target `../../../src/Makefile.g...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've now completed the coding of Phase 1 of PITR. \n\nThis allows a backup to be recovered and then rolled forward (all the\nway) on transaction logs. This proves the code and the design works, but\nalso validates a lot of the earlier assumptions that were the subject of\nmuch earlier debate....
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have no idea what caused the pg_depend stuff to crash.\n\nThe AV is in postgres.exe following the first SQL call in\nsetup_depend(). The problem is not in initdb (it hasn't changed) but\nsomething in the backend. Changing the SQL statement made no\ndifference: I'd venture a guess that p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSince Phase1 is functioning and should hopefully soon complete, we can\nnow start thinking about Phase 2: full recovery to a point-in-time.\n\nPrevious thinking was that a command line switch would be used to\nspecify recover to a given point in time, rather than the default, which\nwill be...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> When all is said and done, I think the PostgreSQL project lacks a \"Product\n> Management\" group which steers the public perception and defines\n> usability. This is something *all* other systems have, including MySQL.\n\nWell, NO, not a chance. \n\nAs one of the de-facto heads of our ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n> > The AV is in postgres.exe following the first SQL call in\n> > setup_depend(). The problem is not in initdb (it hasn't changed)\nbut\n> > something in the backend. Changing the SQL statement made no\n> > difference: I'd venture a guess that postgres.exe crashes wh...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I'll check why the rmdir command is not working as expected.\n> \n> I just poked around and couldn't figure out the cause. Initdb should\n> either remove the directory if it created it, or remove everything\n_in_\n> the directory if the directory already existed. I tried the rmdir/del\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n\n>Personally I don't think that this is a \"transitional issue\" and we will\n>someday all be happy in upper-case-only-land. Upper-case-only sucks,\n>by every known measure of readability, and I don't want to have to put up\n>with a database that forces that 1960s-vintage-h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Merlin Moncure wrote:\n> > > > I'll check why the rmdir command is not working as expected.\n> > >\n> > > I just poked around and couldn't figure out the cause. Initdb\nshould\n> > > either remove the directory if it created it, or remove everything\n> > _in_\n> > > t...
[ { "msg_contents": "make clean appears to have fixed the initdb crash :)\nsorry to bother... :)\n\nMerlin\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:08:56 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: FW: getting a crash during initdb"...
[ { "msg_contents": "The function format_type() fails only for interval when used on the\ninterval type\n\ntemplate1=# select format_type(oid, typlen) from pg_type;\nERROR: invalid INTERVAL typmod: 0xc\ntemplate1=# select format_type(oid, typlen) from pg_type where typname\n!= 'interval';\n-- Many results\n\n\n"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallo\n1/\nI have made one program in Access, now I need some tool who can make exe\nfile.\nWhat is the easy but good tool for that purpose and where can I get it.\n\n2/\nAlso I need (Copy protection) tool who can do returning leash between bayer\nand me (taking his serial number form his har...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All, \n\n I've been noticing that files in the pg_clog directory test to stay\naround forever, I know they are used to determine the state of\ntransaction id's, but according to the docs:\n\n \"(However, the urgency of this concern has decreased greatly with the\nadoption of a segmented st...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are features that are being worked on, hopefully for 7.5:\n\n\to tablespaces (Gavin)\n\to nested transactions (Alvaro)\n\to two-phase commit (Heikki Linnakangas)\n\to integrated pg_autovacuum (O'Connor)\n\to PITR (Riggs)\n\to Win32 (Claudio, Magnus)\n\nIf we get the majority of the...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nI think great would be an understatement.\n\nGreat work all!\n\n\n\n\n|---------+---------------------------------->\n| | Bruce Momjian |\n| | <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us|\n| | > |\n| | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nstill in the spirit of \"it may be useful to others, as it was to me, and\nit does cost very little\", and before submitting a small patch and being\nexploded because it is obviously very stupid:\n\nWould it be appropriate to contribute BIT_AND and BIT_OR aggregates\nfor in...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net] \n> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:55 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, \n> gborg, contrib,\n> \n> \n> Jim C. Nasby wrote:\n> \n> > \n> >I would...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just discovered OLAP and it looks like a competing technology with \nmaterialized views.\n\nIn a nutshell, OLAP seems to be \"pre-storing\" the results of potential \nqueries. When queries are made with those conditions, then the pre-stored \nresults are used. It seems most common for jo...
[ { "msg_contents": "No check is performed for being a superuser, the table owner or that it \nis a system table when marking an index for clustering:\n\nusa=> alter table pg_class cluster on \"pg_class_oid_index\";\nALTER TABLE\nusa=> select oid from pg_class where relname='pg_class_oid_index';\n oid\n-------\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it worth us marking any system catalog indexes as clusterable by \ndefault for performance?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:04:34 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Clustering sys...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why doesn't this work:\n\ntest=# select oid, relname, indisclustered from pg_index join pg_class \non indexrelid=oid where indexrelid > 17205;\nERROR: column \"oid\" does not exist\n\nI'm _joining_ on the oid column.\n\nIf I qualify it, it works:\n\ntest=# select pg_class.oid, relname, indis...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please could the committers review my code with a view to committing it\nonto the main dev branch?\n\nThere are additional cosmetic changes likely to be required, such as\nremoving some dead comments and streamlining log output.\n\nLet me know whether these should occur before or after first ...
[ { "msg_contents": "dear all\r\n\r\n\ti tried using tcl with ./configure --with-tcl.\r\nerrors appear when make:\r\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/sm/pgsql7.4/src/pl/plpgsql/src'\r\nbison -y -d gram.y\r\nNONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: EOF in string\r\nsed -e 's/yy/plpgsql_yy/g' -e 's/YY/PLPGSQL_YY/g' < y.tab....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm looking into adding sql standard aggregates EVERY/ANY/SOME.\nIt seems to me that there is a syntax ambiguity with ANY and SOME:\n\n\tCREATE TABLE bla(b BOOL);\n\tSELECT TRUE = ANY(b) FROM bla;\n\nIs parsed as an array-operator and there is a semantical error because no\narray is provide...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n \nI posted this subject on General discussion-list but got no takers. I'll\nrestate my query and be as brief as I possible.\n \n\"What are the issues/dangers involved in putting an external\nprocess-execution call in instance of main postgres-backend thread of\nexecution?\"\n \nThe...
[ { "msg_contents": "dear all\r\n\t\r\ni compiled postgresql7.4 ,but when type in make ,error appeared as following:\r\n\r\nbison -y -d gram.y\r\nNONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: EOF in string\r\nsed -e 's/yy/plpgsql_yy/g' -e 's/YY/PLPGSQL_YY/g' < y.tab.c > ./pl_gram.c\r\n/bin/sh: line 1: y.tab.c: No such file or di...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello,everyone! I want to know how postgresql remain its unique index unique after i have change it.For example: create table human(age int,name char(2));then in the pg_attribute catalog the unique index pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index willuse relid of 'human'and attnum of age to create a ind...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Yes, it was vague. The question is now that we are a month away, do\nwe\n> want to target June 1, mid-June, or July 1.\n\nIf I may humbly chime in here...there currently is no binary packing for\nthe win32 port. Magnus is currently working on an installer/service\nma...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI know the issue of pre-fork PostgreSQL has been discussed previously.\nSomeone mentionned pre-fork can be implemented when schemas become available\nin PostgreSQL because there will be less of the need to run multiple\ndatabases.\n\nI think Oracle 7 uses pre-forking and it helps speed...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Well, if Win32 doesn't complete by June 1, do we still do the feature\n> freeze? I don't want to be adding features after the freeze, that is\n[...]\n> As I remember, we decided that we should not make decisions to extend\n> the feature freeze date just before the fre...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com] \n> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:45 PM\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion\n> \n> \n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > Well, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBelow are a couple of diffs.\n\nThe first is the fix I made in configure - on my W2K machine with the \ncurrent MinGW/MSys I was getting the previously reported symlink problem \nevery time. With the looping patch (yes I *know* it's ugly, and we have \nto get to the root of the problem, but...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seemingly completely opposite to my usual focus on large scale\nenterprise issues and requirements, I'm looking into PostgreSQL on small\nhandheld devices. Clearly these have limited memory and little \"disk\"\ncapability...\n\nAre there some ports available to various devices?\n\nWhat is the...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n> The other point, especially about Win32, is to see if we can \n> spread the load a bit. Perhaps Claudio, Magnus, Merlin and Bruce \n> should start trying to farm out specific tasks. \n\nHere are the tasks, off the Win32 page, I see as necessary to drop in:\n\n* Handle sync() by openi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> > Win32 has continued on a steady pace for six months now.\n> \n> Be honest ... 6 months ago, did you believe the Win32 work would have\n> taken >6 months? How many of the current issues could you have\n> anticipated? How many will crop up in the next month?\n\nFWIW, the backend port...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,everyone,\tI want to know how postgres remain its unique index unique after i have change it,Forexample:\tCREATE TABLE human(age INT,name CHAR(30));then in pg_attribute catalog the unique index pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index will use the relid of'human' and attnum of age to create a in...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > It doesn't even compile on my platform.\n> \n> Then we have some work to do ... but that work won't get done \n> if the code is disabled by default.\n> \n> Or did we pick an upstream library so bad that it should be \n> *expected* to fail to compile everywhere? If that's true \n> then I ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> Basically it is updating the logs as soon as it receives the\n> notifications. Writing 16 MB of xlogs could take some time.\n\nIn my experience with archiving logs, 16 Mb is on the contrary way too \nsmall for a single log. The overhead of starting e.g. a tape session\nis so high that y...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Yes, it was vague. The question is now that we are a month away, do\n> we\n> > want to target June 1, mid-June, or July 1.\n> \n> If I may humbly chime in here...there currently is no binary \n> packing for the win32 port. Magnus is currently working on \n> an installer/service manager ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Are there some ports available to various devices?\n> \n> What is the lowest memory footprint PostgreSQL has achieved?\n> [8Mb was last quote]\n> \n> How little disk space has anyone achieved?\n> Is that an available port, or just a set of configure options?\n> \n> Is there a definitive lis...
[ { "msg_contents": "> * Handle sync() by opening all file opened since the last \n> fsync and fsync'ing those\n> \t- Tom's got this one, as is the most crucial outstanding part\n\nYes, this is defintly the largest part of the code missing.\n\n\n> * Win32 installer\n> \t- I believe Magnus already has something i...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 30 April 2004 11:40\n> To: Simon Riggs; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small OS ports & Handheld devices\n> \n> It definitly is there fro Windows Server 2003, in the new \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > It definitly is there fro Windows Server 2003, in the new port. But \n> > since you are talking handhelds, are you possibly referring \n> to Windows \n> > Mobile 2003? That is a whole different beast, and *not* included in \n> > the\n> > win32 part (no Win CE variants are)\n> \n> Nor are ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 30 April 2004 13:01\n> To: Dave Page; Simon Riggs; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Small OS ports & Handheld devices\n> \n> Not having looked at the code, I think you are go...
[ { "msg_contents": "I read in the manual that the libpq functions PQputline(conn, cmd) and\nPQendcopy(conn) have been deprecated and that PQputCopyData(conn, cmd,\nsizeof(cmd)) and PQputCopyEnd(conn, msg) are the replacements.\n\nI'm trying to convert a program that works just fine with the old\nfunctions. I ass...
[ { "msg_contents": "We noticed that one of our high-volume insert tables was being vacuumed \nevery time pg_autovacuum woke up. (I\"m running it with the default \nthreshold values, and a 900-second sleep cycle.) The table has a few \nmillion rows in it. With \"debug = 2\" on, here's what the pg_autovacuum \nlog...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nIt seems to me that the current default setup for a new database which is\ngiven to some user is not consistent (createdb -O calvin foo or\nCREATE DATABASE foo WITH OWNER calvin).\n\nIndeed, although the database belongs to the owner, the \"public\" schema\nstill belongs to...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to understand how Postgres organizes data and handles IO\noperations so that I will better know how to optimize a Postgres\ndatabase server. I am looking for answers to specific questions and\npointers to where this stuff is documented.\n\nHow does Postgres organize its data? For examp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n> > > No, I agree that that would be foolish ... but there has also been alot\n> > > done on the code over the past few months that even *one* of those\n> > > features should be enough to put it over the top ...\n> >\n> > OK, what is the plan for feature freeze?\n> >\...
[ { "msg_contents": "We run a multithreaded application that uses postgres 7.4 on Linux\n2.4.18, dual cpu Xeon processor machine. We have occassional weird\ncrashes and have tried a lot of things to reproduce them in house, but\nin vain. We do have coredumps and I have listed the backtraces and\ntheir common char...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs this expected? If so, why? I'd expect the prepared stmt to be\ndeallocated.\n\nalvherre=# begin;\nBEGIN\nalvherre=# prepare tres as select 3;\nPREPARE\nalvherre=# rollback;\nROLLBACK\nalvherre=# execute tres;\n ?column? \n----------\n 3\n(1 fila)\n\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does ecpg need to use the same timezone database as the backend?\n\nI just committed code so it will not, but I am not sure.\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, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing a hung regression test just after \"numerology\" on Unix.\n\nIf you set USE_PGTZ to yes in Makefile.global and define USE_PGTZ in\npg_config.h, you might see it too.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us |...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n>Does ecpg need to use the same timezone database as the backend?\n>\n>I just committed code so it will not, but I am not sure.\n>\n\nI think it should not use it, for the following reasons:\n\n* When ecpg is used to write a program, this is a client program. I'd\nexpect a client program t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian said:\n> Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n>>\n>> No no ... the date isn't floating on Win32 ... the date is floating on\none of the major features (PITR, 2PC, etc) ... if Win32 happens to be the\nfirst major feature, so be it, but it is not contigent on Win32 ...\n>\n> So you are floati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI know the issue of pre-fork PostgreSQL has been\ndiscussed previously.\nSomeone mentionned pre-fork can be implemented when\nschemas become available\nin PostgreSQL because there will be less of the need\nto run multiple\ndatabases.\n\nI think Oracle 7 uses pre-forking and it helps sp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n>> Right at the moment I am thinking we may end up keeping only about one\n>> file out of the existing src/timezone import, so maybe it doesn't need\n>> a whole subdirectory anyway?\n\n> We will still need the timezone databas...
[ { "msg_contents": "(I'm not on -hackers, but saw this in the archives)\n\nAlvaro Herrera wrote:\n> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:44:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre ( at ) dcc ( dot ) uchile ( dot ) cl> writes:\n>> > Is this expected? If so, why? I'd expect the prepared stmt to be\n>> > d...