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"msg_contents": "I have added a timezone database to CVS, and enabled it for Win32. This\nallows Win32 to pass our pre-1970 regression tests. There are also\nplans to enable this code under Unix so we have a standard database for\nall installs and so we can query for valid timezone names.\n\nHowever, this b... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been looking at our use of fixed directory specifications in\nbinaries.\n\nRight now we have libdir (dynamic_library_path) predefined in the\ncompile, with a GUC to override it. initdb also needs to be able to\nfind its input files, and that can be overridden by an initdb flag.\n\nAdd... |
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"msg_contents": ">I have added a timezone database to CVS, and enabled it for \n>Win32. This\n>allows Win32 to pass our pre-1970 regression tests. There are also\n>plans to enable this code under Unix so we have a standard database for\n>all installs and so we can query for valid timezone names.\n>\n>Howeve... |
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"msg_contents": "I wish modify COPY command for support of CSV files (dump/load files in\nCSV format).\nI think this option is very important from import data from spreedsheet\nas OpenOffice/calc or M$/excel.\nI have found this task in TODO list, also.\n\nI've begin my work, modify COPY syntax in:\n\nCOPY tab... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry if this is a repeat. I checked the mailing list archive and this \nmessage didn't show up, so I am reposting it.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------ \n----------------------------------------\n\nHi,\n\nI'm from the Stanford Metacompilation resea... |
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"msg_contents": ">> >1) How do we set the default local timezone for our \n>database? The OS\n>> >knows the local timezone. How do we set our local timezone \n>on Win32? \n>> >On Unix? (On Unix, there is usually an /etc/localtime file that is\n>> >created during install.) Perhaps we can query the current... |
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"msg_contents": ">> Common practice, for one thing. Windows programs are typically\n>> relocatable, and Windows admins regard programs that rely on\n>> hardcoded paths very poorly indeed.\n>\n>OK, but how can that work in general? How do other programs handle \n>this? I don't think we should design a soluti... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWe are seeing occasional long lockouts from out DB. When I do a 'select * \nfrom pg_locks', I find that everybody is waiting for pg_listener, and that \nthe lock on pg_listener is currently held by a long-running ANALYZE VERBOSE.\n\nI saw the following in the change logs (not sure if it's r... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >5) We only had a compiled-in location for /lib in the past for dynamic\n> >loading, and had a GUC variable to override it. initdb always used\n> >/share in a fixed location, but it has a flag to override it. With\n> >/share/timezone, the server now requires the timezone \n> database t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nAndrew Dunstan wrote:\n> >For Win32, we could use the registry. For Unix, we can't use /etc\n> >because we can't be sure we are root. Can we create a dot-file in the\n> >user's home directory during install?\n> > \n> \n> We can't be sure we are Administrator either.\n\nExactly. IMHO, u... |
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"msg_contents": "I had lots of trouble posting so you may receive this\nmore than once. My apologies..\n------------------------------\n\nHi,\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... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nPeter Eisentraut wrote:\n> Claudio Natoli wrote:\n> > I'm yet to see a convincing argument for why we can't adopt the\n> > \"binary-location/../share\" approach as submitted late March. AFAICS,\n> > it was rejected on the basis that it was not platform independent (no\n> > arguments there... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm putting together a small package of macros and functions\nto help deal with binary cursor results from libpq, but I've run into a \nbit of a stumbling block with regard to array results,\n\nfor example:\n\n ArrayType *arr;\n uint64_t *lin;\n\n ...\nres = PQexecParams(conn, \... |
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"msg_contents": "> The only hard facts that we can use are hardcoded/compiled-in \n> locations and explicit information passed via command-line \n> arguments or environment variables. None of this seems to be \n> useful for Windows installations. As far as I recall, the \n> Windows installation routines onl... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPeter Eisentraut wrote:\n> Claudio Natoli wrote:\n> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > > Claudio Natoli wrote:\n> > > > I'm yet to see a convincing argument for why we can't adopt the\n> > > > \"binary-location/../share\" approach as submitted late March.\n> > > > AFAICS, it was rejected on the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI know this is off topic, but if there are any developers with \nsourceforge accounts here, they might be interested in filling out this \nquery which came throught the phpPgAdmin lists. It seems legit :)\n\nChris\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: [ppa-dev] FASD pro... |
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"msg_contents": "At 02:54 PM 3/05/2004, Tom Lane wrote:\n>Please dig deeper.\n\nI may have found the problem; all the hung processes show 'async_notify \nwaiting' in ps, and the ANALYZE eventually dies with 'tuple concurrently \nupdated'.\n\nThe routine 'ProcessIncomingNotify' in async.c does indeed try to lo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFurther to this, ProcessIncomingNotify seems to hold the lock on the \nlistener relation until it's current transaction exits. If the ANALYZE was \nnot the source of the error, but was just another victim, does that mean it \nmight hold the lock for a very long time if the analyze is length... |
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"msg_contents": "At 06:21 PM 3/05/2004, Philip Warner wrote:\n>'tuple concurrently updated'\n\nI lied. The database DO NOT logs show the same error in each case where a \nlong delay has occurred. It happens sometimes; recent process logs do show \nthe 'async_notify waiting' status, however.\n\nI'll try not to... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAndrew Dunstan writes:\n> How about if we have a configuration flag --enable-relocation which would\n> require a fixed layout based on an indeterminate root. This would have the\n> following effects:\n> \n> . if prefix did not contain 'postgres' or 'pgsql' then \n> 'postgresql' would be app... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'm not sure how would one \"send to the other backends.\" \n> Maybe write another file on disk, one for each remote \n> backend? Surely this can be done somehow. I've heard that \n> on linux-2.6 they are implementing \"POSIX message queues\" \n> (not sure what those are anyway); maybe w... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> * Is it really a good idea for database-wide ANALYZE to run as a single\n> transaction? Holding all those locks is a recipe for deadlocks, even\n> if they're as inoffensive as AccessShareLocks normally are.\n\nWasn't one idea behind that change also to not make the planner create a plan\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> tested with autoconf 2.59.\n> \n> Unfortunately, it does not. It does try to copy if a link \n> fails, unlike what we have now:\n> \n> ln -s $ac_rel_source $ac_dest 2>/dev/null ||\n> ln $srcdir/$ac_source $ac_dest 2>/dev/null ||\n> cp -p $srcdir/$ac_source $ac_dest ||\n> \n> We ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI'm from Panama.\n\nI don't speak english very well but I'm learning\nenglish.\n\nI Need help. \n\nI installed postgresql 7.4 in my computer, I'm using\nredhat 9.0 . \nI installed pgadmin III but I can't to conecct to the\nserver.\n\nThe port 5432 is not open.\n\nI have one computer. ... |
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"msg_contents": "[ WRT/ automagically re-parsing prepared statement from source when \ndependency\nplan changes.]\n\nIf done, this would have the wonderful side-effect of being able to use \nregular queries\nin plpgsql procedures which must currently be done using the EXECUTE \nform, such\nas those that just ... |
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"msg_contents": "For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are \nnested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows \nPort is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job \nprogramming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can \ngenui... |
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"msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nI'm not sure where in the docs to start looking for this, but here's\nthe situation:\n\nI'd like to be able to run large batch-process jobs for caching, but\nlimit the total resource utilization on them, something like nice(1).\nBetter still would be some way to put a max on t... |
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"msg_contents": "\nRegarding inter-data-type hash joins, would it make sense to make float\ndatatypes to hash to the same value as integral data types for integral\nvalues?\n\nConveniently this would cover the existing special case of -0 and +0 hashing\nto the same value. Something like this?\n\nDatum\nhashfl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI've whacked the subtrans patch enough so that the simple tests (i.e.\nnon concurrent) for tuple visibility work. I can create a table and\npopulate it in subtransactions, rollback or commit them selectively and\nget the desired effect at the end. Naturally, catalog entries also... |
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"msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@svr1.postgresql.org\t04/05/05 01:48:48\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml/ref: alter_table.sgml \n\tsrc/backend/bootstrap: bootparse.y \n\tsrc/backend/catalog: dependency.c heap.c index.c \n\tsrc/backend/commands: cluster.c inde... |
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"msg_contents": "I am seeing the following failure of initdb in CVS:\n\t\n\tThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user \"postgres\".\n\tThis user must also own the server process.\n\t\n\tThe database cluster will be initialized with locale C.\n\t\n\tcreating directory /u/pg/data ... ok\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nI'm in the process of porting an existing MS-SQL database to PostgreSQL.\nThe application uses OLE DB (and that's why I'm writing the OLE DB for\nPostgresql). One of the requirements is that we will introduce as little\nchanges to the application. It has to be able to work with bo... |
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"msg_contents": "I am wondering if there is a simple way to implement a read() blah and write() blah function to a database.\n\nThe application I'm looking at is very simple and this is all that is required. In the past I used a cursor - did the select, then retrieved the records one at a time.\n\nAny sugges... |
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"msg_contents": "The SPI_fnumber (returns the column number using a name) is case sensitive.\nI think a patch would be appropriate. Either to the documentation that could\nstate this fact and suggest lowercasing the colname parameter, or to the\ncode to make it case insensitive. I'd be happy to provide the on... |
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"msg_contents": "We're sort of halfway there on coping with the Turkish-locale i-vs-I\nproblem. I'd like to finish the job for 7.5.\n\nWhat we presently have is that identifier and keyword downcasing is done\nwithout trusting tolower():\n\n /*\n * SQL99 specifies Unicode-aware case normalization, whic... |
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"msg_contents": "Part of dump file:\n\nCREATE DOMAIN doc_ident AS bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT \nnextval('doc.seq_doc_id'::text)\n\tCONSTRAINT cnst_chk_doc_id CHECK fn_chk_doc_id(VALUE);\n\n\nIt should look like this:\n\nCREATE DOMAIN doc_ident AS bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT \nnextval('doc.seq_doc_id'::text)\n\tCONS... |
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"msg_contents": "Two very minor points with the new alter table (not sure if they are\neven bugs are have already been addressed).\n\n1. alter table alter type on a clustered index seems to drop the cluster\n(by design)?\n\n2. alter table cluster on seems to give a strange error message of the\nindex name is ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 06 May 2004 15:49\n> To: Dave Page; pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] pg_autovacuum Win32 service patch\n> \n> Hi!\n> \n> A few quick comments:\n> 1a) Please ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it feasible or practical to consider adding ALTER DOMAIN TYPE type?\n(basically following the same rules as ALTER TABLE). \n\nI don't mind bringing down all the views before I do this, it would be\njust great if you could change domains from a centralized location.\nOracle offers this fea... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> I tweaked things so that the clustered flag is preserved for indexes\n> that aren't directly affected by the ALTER TYPE. It would take more\n> work to preserve the setting for an index that is rebuilt by ALTER\nTYPE,\n> and I'm not even sure that it's sensible --- the new ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Yes. This is something I was going to look at doing in the next\nrelease.\n\nQuick question: \nWith your potential changes, you would then be able to alter a domain\nthat is involved in RI constraints between 2 or more tables without\nbringing down the constraints, yes? This would be gre... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> If we were willing to abuse the ALTER TABLE syntax some more, it would\n> be possible to support changing the datatypes of f1 and f2\n> simultaneously, thereby allowing the above to work. The\ninfrastructure\n> for hacking multiple tables in parallel is already there in CV... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a minor problem. I'd like to use the Makefile.shlib that comes with\nPostgreSQL when creating the pljava.dll. Due to the way native methods are\nlinked in Java, I need to use the dlltool option \"--add-stdcall-alias\" when\nI create the dll definition file. In the Makefile.shlib, the d... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPostgreSQL's new collaboration site for associated projects, pgFoundry,\nalso known as projects.postgresql.org, is up and running at\nhttp://www.pgfoundry.org/. This is the beginning of our transition from\nour own GBorg to a framework which is maintained and improved by a broad\nexternal ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI have a table with ~ 3e+6 rows on it.\n\nI do select on this table in this way:\n\n\n(1) select * from user_logs where login_time::date = now()::date;\n\n\nconsider that login_time is a TIMESTAMPTZ with an index on it.\n\nIf I use the select in this way:\n\nselect * from user_logs w... |
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"msg_contents": "\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"Ismail Kizir\" <ikizir@tumgazeteler.com>\nTo: \"Tom Lane\" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nSent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:22 AM\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Fixing the Turkish problem\n\n\n> Tom,\n>\n> Thank you very much for turkish locale fix.\n> I think, that simple a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have discovered a problem with psql 7.3.4 where it does not seem to like statements containing \"NATURAL CROSS JOIN\". I have a test that I have created that will show the problem. Please have a look at it, give it a try, and let me know if there is a problem with the program or w... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a table with a tsearch2 index on it. Now, I have all the \ntsearch2 stuff installed into a 'contrib' schema. I have had to change \nthe default database schema to include the contrib schema as \nbehind-the-scenes, tsearch2 looks for its tables, and cannot find them \neven if the func... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\ntoday I was tryng to delete an index but I had the following\nerror:\n\nERROR: cannot drop index activation_code_code_key because constraint activation_code_code_key on \ntable activation_code requires it\nHINT: You may drop constraint activation_code_code_key on table activation_c... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> FireBird: ALTER COLUMN <column> TYPE <type>\n> DB2:\tALTER COLUMN <column> SET DATA TYPE <type>.\n> Oracle:\tMODIFY <column> <type>\n> MSSQL:\tALTER COLUMN <column> <type> <constraints>\n> MySQL:\tBoth Oracle and MSSQL\n> Sap:\tMODIFY <column> <type>\n> \n> Spec:\tNothing (obvious) on cha... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust added a rule to postfix's config file to try and clean up some of the\ntrash going through the server, namely:\n\nsmtpd_helo_restrictions =\n\tpermit_mynetworks,\n\treject_unknown_hostname,\n\treject_invalid_hostname,\n\treject_non_fqdn_hostname,\n\tpermit\n\nsmtpd_sender_restrictions ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI with to write a new builtin type, I seen that what I have to do is:\n\n1) ad on pgsql/src/include/utils/builtins.h\n the signature for my function that will manipulate my\n type\n\n2) ad on pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt\n a new file my_type.c\n with the implementa... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\n\nPlease find attached a preliminary patch to fix schema ownership on first\nconnection. It is for comments and advices as I still have doubts about\nvarious how-and-where issues, thus it is not submitted to the patch list.\n\n(1) It adds a new \"datisinit\" attribute to pg_dat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nabout you is it ok for you if I write the email built in type ?\n\nI know of course that I can do it with a DOMAIN.\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 08 May 2004 14:14:10 +0200",
"msg_from": "Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I've been having an off-list discussion with Neil Conway about the\nhandling of lists in the backend's nodeToString and stringToNode\nroutines (outfuncs.c and readfuncs.c). Currently, the same string\nrepresentation\n\t\t(1 2 3 4)\nis used for a List of integer-flavor Value nodes, a List of ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any reason I shouldn't submit a patch that makes it so that we \nhave comments on 100% of the catalog objects? I don't see any reason \nwhy we shouldn't do it...\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 08 May 2004 23:00:30 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chrisk... |
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"msg_contents": "Win32 is going to need relocatable installs, and Unix packagers have\nasked for this too.\n\nA relocatable install is one where you can do 'gmake install', tar up\nthe directory where you installed it, then untar it on to another\nmachine with the same operating system, but into a different d... |
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"msg_contents": "Bcc: \nSubject: Adding MERGE to the TODO list\nReply-To: \n\nCan we add the MERGE command to the TODO list?\nIs anyone actively examining this issue?\n\nAnd yes, I realize it is not for 7.5.\nIt would be good to be able to say it is on\nthe list for some future release, however.\n\nThanks,\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nCan we add the MERGE command to the TODO list?\nIs anyone actively examining this issue?\n\nAnd yes, I realize it is not for 7.5.\nIt would be good to be able to say it is on\nthe list for some future release, however.\n\nThanks,\n\nelein\n===================================================... |
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"msg_contents": "[Third attempt to send this - dunno where they're all going!]\n\nI forgot to CC the start of this to -hackers last time - please see\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-05/msg00034.php\nfor background.\n\nFollowing Magnus' suggestions yesterday I made the following change... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:psql@shemesh.biz] \n> Sent: 09 May 2004 10:20\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: marcs@znep.com; pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Relocatable installs\n> \n> I don't think that's a proble... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear postgresql hackers,\n\nI'm trying to find out what happens if I use nested transactions in\npostgresql from 7.2.x to 7.4.x. I visited and surfed across many webpages\nand documents but I did not find anything (I did not look at the sources\nyet). I know nested transactions did not work ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there a way the CLUSTER command can be changed to not take an \nexclusive lock on the table, and instead allow reads on the old table \nand index, just preventing writes?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 10 May 2004 16:01:52 +0800",
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"msg_contents": "hello!\n i want to insert jpeg pictures into a bytea field and i implemented a \nSPI extension. this function reads the jpeg-file from the filesystem, \nconverts it into a octal-coded string to pass the sql-parser, and then \nexec's the insert statement. this is rather slow, and i'd like t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAre we supposed to be able to rename view columns or not? You can't if \nyou replace the view, but you can if you rename the column.\n\ntest=# create view test as select 1 as a;\nCREATE VIEW\ntest=# \\d test\n View \"public.test\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers\n--------+------... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm not sure how important these changes are, but perhaps we'll find fsync\nfaster than O_SYNC on linux 2.6.6 where O_SYNC was faster before?\n\n\n<akpm@osdl.org>\n\t[PATCH] ext3 fsync() and fdatasync() speedup\n\t\n\text3's fsync/fdatasync implementation is currently syncing the inode via ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis patch also looks relevant to Postgres for two reasons. \n\nThis part seems like it might expose some bugs that otherwise might have\nremained hidden:\n\n\t This affects I/O scheduling potentially quite significantly. It is no\n\t longer the case that the kernel will submit pages for... |
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"msg_contents": "This resultmap patch and regression test result file allow the join \nregression test to succeed under Mingw.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew",
"msg_date": "Mon, 10 May 2004 13:15:57 -0400",
"msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Further design plans for PITR...as posted previously, Bruce and I had a\nlong discussion recently to iron out the major thinking and a good deal\nof the detail also.\nIn overview, major change is introducing an ARCHIVE process running\nunder control of the Postmaster, similar to Stats collect... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI'm trying to figure out how to log the subtransaction operations.\n\nA simple idea would be to add the committed subxact Xids to the\nxl_xact_commit and xl_xact_abort structs. However, this will be a\nvariable length array, and those structs already have variable length\narrays ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nsomeone of you sent me an example of a new data type\ncalled tinyint.\n\nI seen that is using a well directory structure just\nfor compile a tinyint.c.\n\nIs there any \"empty\" structure that I have to use in\norder to delivery compile my email.c or I can\njust use a single line com... |
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"msg_contents": "After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, \"Anonymous\" <anonymous@msn.com> belched out:\n> Does anybody here know how to hack into a mysql database?\n\nYou might want to visit a mailing list devoted to MySQL; they might\nknow...\n-- \noutput = reverse(\"gro.gultn\" \"@\" \"enworbbc\")\nhttp:... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but I keep thinking that PostgreSQL is\na PITA to configure. It isn't that I don't know how, or can't read the\ndocuments, it's just that there is too many things that can go wrong or\nleave me with the \"How does that work?\" feeling where I need to test\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to make a small suggestion that would enable external modules \nto manage dependencies to PostgreSQL versions. Consider the following code:\n\n#if PGSQL_MAJOR_VER > 7 || (PGSQL_MAJOR_VER == 7 && PGSQL_MINOR_VER > 4)\n result = HeapTupleGetDatum(tuple);\n#else\n /* PostgreSQL ... |
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"msg_contents": "Our customer has problems with Pg 7.3.2 on Solaris.\nThere are numerous errors in the app. server log and in the database log,\nincluding these:\n\nLOG: open of /mnt_c1t2d0s0/<some-path>/postgresql/pg_xlog/0000000000000001\n(log file 0, segment 1) failed: No such file or directory\nLOG: inv... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nstrange errors with a empty table:\n\nkalman=# create table test();\nCREATE TABLE\nkalman=# select * from test t union select * from test t1;\nERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 0\n\n\nI think this have to return:\n\n\n--\n(0 rows)\n\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I think this argument is largely a red herring ... but if it makes you\n> > feel better, we could change the contents of the commit timestamp to\n> > be gettimeofday() output (seconds+microseconds) instead of just time()\n> > output. That should be precise enough for practical purposes... |
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"msg_contents": "At the risk of getting my butt kicked again, is there any way we can\ntalk about how to deal with threads on UnixWare and the libpq stuff?\n\nHas any other platform come up with a need to look for the real pthread_* \ncalls from libpq?\n\nI would REALLY like us to support threaded programs in... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes, this is another vain attempt to get some attention to the custom \nconfig variables patch that I've submitted (twice) :-)\n\nBut it's also a relevant question.\n\nGiven that the design is accepted and a custom variable will use \nqualified names I'd propose a change to the SQL parser so ... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch incorporates a number of changes suggested by the group. The\npurpose of this patch is to move postgresql to a position where all\nconfiguration options are specified in one place. The postgresql.conf file\ncould completely document a postgresql environment.\n\n\nIt adds this funct... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a re-post, and still the state of things.\n\nThere were a few posts after this because of my STRENUOUS objection below.\n\nI still think we should enable threads somehow on this platform.\n\n\n--On Monday, March 22, 2004 11:14:59 -0600 Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> \nwrote:\n\n>\n>\... |
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"msg_contents": "I got tired of reading complaints about how upper/lower don't work with\nUnicode, so I went and prototyped a solution. The attached code uses\nthe C99-standard functions mbstowcs and wcstombs to convert to and from\na \"wchar_t[]\" representation that can be fed to the also-C99 functions\nto... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI'm stuck trying to figure out how to decrease reference counting for\nrelcache entries at subtransaction abort.\n\nInitially I thought I could just drop them all to zero, because a\nsubtransaction boundary should be enough warranty that the entries are\nno longer needed. However... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA couple of months back, in order to deal with a client that was being\nDDoS'd, we setup an 'offsite' server that we have about 1.4TB of bandwidth\ninto ... the machine itself isn't super powerful, but we also have very\nvery little on it ...\n\nWe moved bittorrent and ftp over to it about ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I know, this sucks, but, I don't see any other way, other than linking\n> *ALL* libpq-using programs (including initdb and friends) with -K\npthread.\n\nHow about making a libpq.so (without pthread) and a thread safe\nlibpq_r.so ?\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 13 May 2004 09:54:02 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everyone,\n\n Is there a way to find out how many dead index nodes are in a btree based \nindex? I'm attempting to track down how much of my index is bloated because \nof dead nodes...\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 13 May 2004 09:11:19 -0300",
"msg_from": "Chris Bowlby <chris@pgsql.co... |
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"msg_contents": "--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:05:22 -0400 Bruce Momjian \n<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:\n\n\n> Basically, as things set right now in CVS, Unixware is ready to go\n> because it thread for everything. We don't have per-template thread\n> settings anymore because we test all of it in configu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n \n\nWhere can I find information about the trigger execution model of postgresql\n? In particular I want to know how triggers are fired when an update happens\nin the database. Is the trigger evaluation and firing part of transaction ?\nPlease let me know where I can find more informa... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nloading a function written in C I get this error:\n\n#create function email_in( cstring ) returns email AS 'emaildt.so', 'email_in' LANGUAGE C STRICT;\nNOTICE: type \"email\" is not yet defined\nDETAIL: Creating a shell type definition.\nERROR: could not load library \"emaildt.so\... |
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"msg_contents": "Deepak Bhole of Red Hat asked me about the following situation:\n\nregression=# create table test (f1 int);\nCREATE TABLE\nregression=# revoke insert,update,delete,references on test from postgres;\nREVOKE\nregression=# \\z test\n Access privileges for database \"regression\"\n Schema | ... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Matthew T. O'Connor [mailto:matthew@zeut.net] \n> Sent: 13 May 2004 21:40\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_autovacuum Win32 service patch #2\n> \n> Anyway, not havin... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> BTW, what are your plans for state saving/reversion for the lock manager\n> and buffer manager? The lock state, in particular, makes these other\n> problems look trivial by comparison.\n\nWhy can't we keep all locks until main tx end ? Locks are not self conflicting\nare they ? So the on... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Why can't we keep all locks until main tx end ?\n> \n> For committed subtransactions we have to do that, yes, but for aborted\n> subtransactions we must release. Otherwise you can't implement a retry\n> loop around a potentially-deadlocking operation.\n\nOk, that would certainly be goo... |
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"msg_contents": "I all,\nI'm tryng to declare my email type.\nI think I have to do it in this way:\n\ncreate type email ( INPUT = email_in,\n OUTPUT = email_out,\n RECEIVE = email_recv,\n SEND = email_send,\n INTERNALLENGTH = VARI... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nnew version of contrib/pg_trgm (former trgm) is available for\ndownload from http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/pg_trgm\n\nOne bug was fixed, upgrade is simple, no index rebuilding is required.\n\ncontrib/pg_trgm module provides fuzzy search with GiST index support\nbased o... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAndrew Kopciuch has submit new version of his \"Introduction to tsearch2\",\nwhich is available from\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/docs/tsearch-V2-intro.html\n\nHe added explanation of how to backup and restore databases that\nfeatures tsearch2.\n\n\tRegard... |
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"msg_contents": "We have a feature freeze scheduled for either June 1 or whenever a major\nfeature is completed, whichever is last.\n\nFor Win32, we have open:\n\n\tfsync (Tom)\n\trelative installs (Bruce)\n\ttimezone (Magnus)\n\nThere is a company that wants to fund some PostgreSQL features but I\ntold them ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nwhat is the purpose of two function send and receive\nwhen a new type is defined ? When these two functions\nare called ?\n\n\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 14 May 2004 20:56:28 +0200",
"msg_from": "Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>",
"msg_fro... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIn looking at the CatCache code it's clear to me that there's no point\nin copying the whole structure like I did to the Relcache; it's much\nbigger, and there's not much that can change inside a subtransaction:\nCatCacheRemoveCTup can't be called, because ReleaseCatCache will not... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nCan someone tell me how can i let the inner plan in a nestloop join NOT to \nrestart for each tuple of the outer Plan ..\nso essentially, my inner plan has to be executed only once and not 'n' times \n.. where 'n' is the number of outer tuples ...\n\nI tried by commenting ExecReScan... |
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