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"msg_contents": "Sometime between yesterday and today queries in the form of \n\"select * from t where t.f like 'k%'\" have been broken so that they\nnever use the index (on win32, not sure about others). \n\nOn win32, at least, they have been broken for a while but this was due\nto a known issue based on th... |
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"msg_contents": "Sailesh,\n\n> BTW, do lots of people use the GEQO ? \n\nI do. I've several clients with data mining databases that literally require \n45-way joins on some queries. Even a state-of-the-art CPU balks at that.\n\n-- \n-Josh Berkus\n Aglio Database Solutions\n San Francisco\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI compiled postgres7.5devel and I see that during\ncompilation are used togheter:\n-Wall -Wmissing-proptotype -Wmissing-declaration\nthere is any reason to specify after -Wall others\nwarning ?\n\n\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 29 May 2004 00:30:53 +0200... |
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"msg_contents": "There are many warnings that do not show up with -Wall\n\nI usually use at least:\n\n-Wall -ansi -pedantic\n\nThese are also a good idea:\n\n-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes\n-Wmissing-declarations -Werror\n\nYou will also get additional warnings when o... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI'm running our regression test on top of postgresql 7.5 devel.\n\nI found this function not working anymore ( is a distillated ):\n \n\n \n \n\ncreate table test ( quota integer );\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_test ( )\nRETURNS TEXT AS'\nDECLARE\n quota RECORD;\n my_ret ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI distilled another our regression test failing:\n\ncreate table test ( id integer, quota integer );\n\ncreate or replace view v_test AS\nselect id, quota from test;\n\ncreate or replace view v_v_test AS\nselect\n t1.id,\n t1.quota\nfrom\n v_test t1 join v_test t2 using ( ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using CVS HEAD in a windows environment. I'm trying to start the\npostmaster using \"postmaster -c dynamic_library_path=C:/foo/bar\". It starts\njust fine, then, when I ask it to load a module, an error is generating\nstating:\n\nERROR: component in parameter \"dynamic_library_path\" is n... |
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"msg_contents": ">> I'm using CVS HEAD in a windows environment. I'm trying to start the\n>> postmaster using \"postmaster -c \n>dynamic_library_path=C:/foo/bar\". It starts\n>> just fine, then, when I ask it to load a module, an error is \n>generating\n>> stating:\n>\n>> ERROR: component in parameter \"dynam... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Experts,\n Trying to run sample Postgrel's ECPG(Embedded\nSQL)programs on RHL 9.0.\n\nIm unable to connect to PostgreSQL database (sirishadb) when I run\nthe program ....\n\n\n# su postgres (enter)\n\n# /usr/bin/ecpg -t -I/usr/include/pgsql/sample1.pgc (enter)\n\n# gcc -g... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nJust made CVS head on Mac OS X 10.3.4. On make check, I got\n\ntest geometry ... FAILED\n\nThis was the only test that failed. Regression diff attached.\n\nMichael Glaesemann\ngrzm myrealbox com",
"msg_date": "Sun, 30 May 2004 10:33:13 +0900",
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"msg_contents": "Is there any possibility for changing view column types now in 7.5?\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 30 May 2004 12:17:09 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_subject": "Changing view column types"
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"msg_contents": "Couple of quick protocol questions:\n\n1) What encoding is used for strings sent and received during the \nstartup phase? I can set client_encoding to a known value as a parameter \nin the startup packet, but the protocol spec doesn't appear to say how \nthe startup packet itself and the vari... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was toying around with idea of converting all the memory related parameters \nin postgresql.conf to kilobytes for simplicity and uniformity.\n\nAttached is a proof of concept patch that converts shared_buffers to kilobytes \nusing assign_hook.\n\nIt compiled all-right but I experienc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPlatform Slackware linux 9.1/ Linux 2.6.4\n\nI did a make distclean and ./configure --enable-thread-safety. The build \naborted with following error messages\n\nmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/shridhar/postgresql/pgsql/src/port'\ngcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototype... |
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"msg_contents": "CVS tip built on Debian unstable, i386, Linux 2.6.5 SMP.\ngcc 3.3.3\n\n./configure --with-openssl --with-pam --with-krb5 --with-gnu-ld\n--with-python --with-perl --with-tcl --with-pgport=5342\n--enable-thread-safety --enable-nls --enable-integer-datetimes \n--enable-debug --enable-cassert --... |
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"msg_contents": "Any reason why postgres can't detect time zone on my machine automatically?\n\nLOG: could not recognize system timezone, defaulting to \"Etc/GMT-8\"\nHINT: You can specify the correct timezone in postgresql.conf.\npostmaster starting\n-bash-2.05b$ LOG: database system was shut down at 2004... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nChristopher Kings-Lynne writes:\n> Any reason why postgres can't detect time zone on my machine \n> automatically?\n> \n> LOG: could not recognize system timezone, defaulting to \"Etc/GMT-8\"\n> HINT: You can specify the correct timezone in postgresql.conf.\n> postmaster starting\n> -ba... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI would like to know if i can add constraint and typed column upon a \ncreate view sentence.\nsomething like create view toto (a INTEGER primary key , b VARCHAR) as \nselect .....\nIf it is not possible , what to have to change in the backend sources to \nobtain the result ???\n\nThank y... |
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"msg_contents": "7.4, on not finding a postmaster:\n\n[tgl@rh1 pgsql]$ pg_ctl stop\n/home/tgl/version74/bin/pg_ctl: line 274: kill: (15273) - No such process\nwaiting for postmaster to shut down................................................................ failed\npg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down\n\nCV... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust so that everyone is aware, we are going to push the freeze date for \n7.5 to July 1st.\n\nAlthough we feel that there are enough improvements and features already \nin place for 7.5, Tom's felt that if we gave it that extra month, we could \nalso have PITR in place for 7.5 ...\n\nIf an... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just about to commit a patch that revises the btree index build\nprocedure as discussed here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-05/msg00480.php\nspecifically, not using shared buffers during index build and bypassing\nWAL-logging in favor of just fsyncing the index file... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> So what *is* your zone, exactly? I don't see how you expect us to\n> figure out why it's not matching when we don't know what it's not\n> matching.\n\nIn my case, one of these should be right:\n\nDEBUG: Reject TZ \"Australia/NSW\": at 1086048000 \"EST\" versus \"AUS Eastern\nStandard ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI had this question posed to me on IRC and I didn't know the answer.\n\nIf all that is needed to ensure integrity is that the WAL is fsynced, \nwhat is wrong with just going:\n\nwal_sync_method = fsync\nfsync = false\n\n??\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:45:34 +0800... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nTom Lane writes:\n> Hm, is this a Windows box? We already suspected that we'd \n> have to fudge on matching the timezone abbreviations on Windows ..,\n\nIn my case, yes, Win XP.\n\nCheers,\nClaudio\n\n--- \nCertain disclaimers and policies apply to all email sent from Memetrics.\nFor the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs there a way to add the current transaction nesting level in the be/fe\nprotocol without breaking compatibility? AFAICS the ReadyForQuery\nmessage is not expansible (sp?) :-(\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)\n\"The problem with the future is that it keeps tur... |
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"msg_contents": "I was playing with PL/pgSQL functions that would start and commit\ntransactions and got very weird behavior. First I just take the check\nfor TransactionStmt off, so I could execute them. With this change I\ncan write a function that opens a subtransaction, and it works, sort of;\nI can ope... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried running 'make installcheck' in contrib just now, and didn't\nget past btree_gist :-(\n\nThe interval test fails with the attached diffs. text, varchar, char,\nbytea, bit, varbit and numeric either dump core or go into infinite\nloops during CREATE INDEX. (It's probably significant t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nThis may be out of scope but I'm goign to mention it. Would error trapping\nhelp any of these issues. In Oracle PL/SQL you have an exception section to\nhandle any known or unknown errors. Is this for the future or does the\nnested xacts code include this at all?\n\n\n|---------+--... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I think an actually implementable version of this would be:\n> \n> 1. Don't log any index operations at all in WAL.\n> \n> 2. When recovering from WAL, restore all the table contents by WAL\n> replay. (This would of course include the system catalog contents that\n> describe the indexes.... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Sometime between yesterday and today queries in the form of\n> > \"select * from t where t.f like 'k%'\" have been broken so that they\n> > never use the index (on win32, not sure about others).\n> >\n> > On win32, at least, they have been broken for a while but this was\ndue\n> > to a kn... |
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"msg_contents": "> It looks to me like you have an index of type \"bpchar\" but are\nsearching\n> with type \"text.\" I find type conversions very limited with \"LIKE.\"\n> \n> I would create an index on 'vin_no' using a cast to TEXT. This should\nwork\n> on both queries.\n\nNot in this case. Just to be sure... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nSounds like a project manager type should be put into place to organize\nthis information into a straight stream instead of 50 random mists of water\n\n\n\n\n|---------+---------------------------------->\n| | Andrew Dunstan |\n| | <andrew... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nI really hate seeing all the developers wasting time and brain cycles on\nthis type of stuff. I would much rather that time and brain cycles be put\nto the design and development of the code.\n\nWould a project manager type position be of any value to take some of this\noff the dev... |
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"msg_contents": "Shridhar, Tom,\n\nAs long as we're messing around with PostgreSQL.conf, I propose that we \ncomment the file much more thouroughly -- in the style of Apache's httpd.conf \nand our own pg_hba.conf (though maybe not quite as long as hba). Someone \nproposed this for 7.4 and we ran out of time... |
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"msg_contents": "I've noticed yet another hole in our handling of object permissions,\nwhich is that ALTER OWNER doesn't modify the object ACL list at all.\nThis leads to unpleasant results. For example, in CVS tip:\n\nregression=# \\c - alice\nYou are now connected as new user \"alice\".\nregression=> creat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs there a reason why repalloc() does not behave the same as realloc?\nrealloc(NULL, size) behaves the same as malloc(size), and it seems\nuseful behavior -- I wonder why repalloc() chooses to Assert() against\nthis exact condition?\n\nI assume this is because the NULL pointer wou... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi\n\nIn SQLite or MySQL there is a statement INSERT OR REPLACE , is something\nlike this in postgres , or could be ?\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:52:05 +0200 (CEST)",
"msg_from": "ivan <iv@psycho.pl>",
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"msg_contents": "> Hmmm, snipped from your reply was the explain plan from the query\nwhere it\n> was clear you were using two different character data types: bpchat\nand\n> text. That, alone, may have been a problem.\n> Looking at your defaults, did you do:\n> initdb --locale=C somepath\n\nI reran initdb --l... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it me or has the default locale of created databases change at some point?\n\nCurrently, on Linux, if one does not specify a locale, the locale is taken\nfrom the system environment and it is not \"C.\"\n\nWhile I can both sides of a discussion, I think that choosing a \"locale\"\nwithout ... |
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"msg_contents": "Has anyone seriously looked at how it would impact things to give the \nDBA the option of storing certain indices in RAM instead of on disk?\n\nQueries (both select and insert/update) against heavily indexed tables \ndo most of the reads and writes to the index trees and relatively little \nr... |
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"msg_contents": "\nhi\n\nwhere can i set min/max number of process which are waiting for\nconnections from clients ?\n\nbye\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:01:11 +0200 (CEST)",
"msg_from": "ivan <iv@psycho.pl>",
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdjust our timezone library to use pg_time_t (typedef'd as int64) in\nplace of time_t, as per prior discussion. The behavior does not change\non machines without a 64-bit-int type, but on machines with one, which\nis most, we are rid of the bizarre boundary behavio... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just looking at this macro:\n\n/*\n * PageGetMaxOffsetNumber\n * Returns the maximum offset number used by the given page.\n * Since offset numbers are 1-based, this is also the number\n * of items on the page.\n *\n * NOTE: to ensure sane behavior if the pag... |
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"msg_contents": "Seeing how PITR, nested transactions, and other exciting developments \nrelated to transactions are being developed, I am getting curious about how \nPostgreSQL actually implements transactions. Investigating Materialized \nViews has led me to look closely at how transactions work and such.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes, Slonik's,\n\nit't true. After nearly a year the Slony-I project is entering the BETA \nphase for the 1.0 release. Please visit\n\nhttp://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/news/newsfull.php?news_id=174\n\nfor further details.\n\n\nJan Wieck\n\n-- \n#=====================================... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nGoing through the regress test sql files I noticed that when testing\nstring functions there was no upper / lower case tests.\n\nI see upper / lower being used in the select_having and select_implicit\nfiles in the GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses.\n\nGood enough or should I submit pat... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\non the gborg front page is a link to the \"pgreplication\" project as one \nof five \"top\" projects. This thing has had zero updates since its last \nattempts agains PostgreSQL 7.2 and appears literally dead.\n\nCan someone please remove that?\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#====================... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jan Wieck\n> Sent: 04 June 2004 12:50\n> To: Karel Zak\n> Cc: Slony-I Mailing List; PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL \n> advocacy; PostgreSQL General\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "I was thinking a bit more about Alvaro's suggestion of the other day\nthat repalloc(NULL, size) should be allowed. I'm still convinced that\nthat's a bad idea, but it occurs to me that there is another corner\ncase in the palloc stuff that there's a better case for changing.\nSpecifically, I... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hegedus, Tamas . [mailto:Hegedus.Tamas@mayo.edu] \n> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:37 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] TimeOf(Subselects|Joins)FromLargeTables?\n> \n> \n> Dear Dann,\n> \n> However, the pgsql developers do not recommend to ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello ,\n\nCan some one educate me about how to understand the timings produced by \n'postgres -te' option\n\neventhough some of the timings i could understand, I would like to know how \nthe different stats provided there are affecting the total execution \nultimately !!!\n\n\nThanks in ad... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear All,\n\n(I asked the general-list, I had some advice, but the final conclusion was to ask the developers and tell them a possible mistake of the query planner, too.)\n\nI am a biologist and I do not know what to expect from an RDB (PgSQL).\nI have large tables: 1215607 rows in prots, 218... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hegedus, Tamas . [mailto:Hegedus.Tamas@mayo.edu] \n> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 5:18 PM\n> To: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: [HACKERS] TimeOf(Subselects|Joins)FromLargeTables?\n> \n> \n> Dear All,\n> \n[snip]\n> -----------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "There's just one thing left to do to make composite types useful as\ntable columns: we have to support I/O of composite values. (Without\nthis, pg_dump would fail to work on such columns, rendering them not\nvery useful in the real world.) This means we have to hammer out a\ndefinition for ... |
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"msg_contents": "With 7.5 feature freeze coming nearer, administrative interface \ndevelopers probably would like a list what new features they should \nsupport, i.e. which ddl features where added. Here's a list of relevant \nchanges as far as I extracted them, please complete.\n\n- $ Quoting\n- TABLESPACE\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nA postgresql migration I am doing (the same one for which the OLE DB \ndriver was written) has finally passed the proof-of-concept stage \n(phew). I now have lots and lots of tidbits, tricks and tips for SQL \nServer migration, which I would love to put online. Is pgFoundry the \n... |
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"msg_contents": "DBMS like MySQL and hsqldb (the only two I know that can keep and\nprocess tables on the heap) have a CREATE DATABASE case in which the\n'database' is specified to reside in memory, that is RAM. For some\ndata handling cases for which persistence is not important, this is\nall you need.\n\n T... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am using Postgres 7.3.4 over linux Redhat 7.3 on\ni686 machine.\n\nMy app has one parent table and five child tables. I\nmean the parent table has a primary key and child\ntables have foreign key relationship with parent. \nMy App is doing 500 inserts initially in each table.\nAfter a... |
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"msg_contents": "For adminstrator's convenience, I'd like to see a function that returns \nthe serverlog.\nAre there any security or other issues that should prevent me from \nimplementing this?\n\nRegards,\nAndreas\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 07 Jun 2004 02:01:18 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "\n> We could safely sort on the hash value, but I'm not sure how effective\n> that would be, considering that we're talking about values that already\n> hashed into the same bucket --- there's likely not to be very many\n> distinct hash values there.\n\nI think we can safely put that on the t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI checked out the windows port to play with. It compiled file but 'make check' \nproduced attached regression diff.\n\nI am using the nightly snapshot. Is it too early to look at these failures or \ndid I do something wrong? I was following usual ./configure;make procedure after \ninst... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane\n> Sent: 07 June 2004 14:30\n> To: Andreas Pflug\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] serverlog function (log_destination file... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 07 June 2004 15:32\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Andreas Pflug; PostgreSQL Development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] serverlog function (log_destination file) \n> \n>\n> If I were trying to solve Andreas' problem, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Andreas wrote:\n> \n> AFAICS, we have some alternatives:\n> - try to grab the currently created files/syslog/eventlog. \n> Seems hard to \n> do, because we'd depend on additional external tools.\n> - redirect stderr to a postgresql.conf known file. \n> Disadvantage: breaks \n> piping.\n> - ma... |
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"msg_contents": "> > If I were trying to solve Andreas' problem, I'd pipe stderr \n> > to some program that stores recent log output in a file that \n> > I know the location of and can read from the hypothetical \n> > log-grabber function. Actually I don't see that there's any \n> > need to involve Postgres ... |
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"msg_contents": "Are there any tools available to dump datafiles for debugging purposes? I think there is a corruption problem in Postgresql 7.4.2 with and only with the Ltree module. \nI've seen broken ltree entries in my database, and there were no updates on the tables. This occurs once or twice a day, at ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nUsing community PostgreSQL 7.4.2 I have tried to vacuum this database to \nno avail. Everytime\nI try I get this referenced errror. I even dumped and restored to a new \ndatabase an get the same error.\nI was also able to reindex the database but no help there.\n\nNot much to say on... |
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"msg_contents": "I have an idea, let me know what you all think.\n\nrather than do:\n\nselect sum( field) from largetable\n\nI want (need) to be able to do something like this:\n\nselect setval('myseq', select sum(field) from largetable);\n\nand in a trigger\n\nSELECT addval('myseq', field_size);\n\nI have al... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to compile psql using MinGW but the only way to succeed with that\nis apparently to configure \"--without-readline\". I've searched for a pure\nMinGW port of the readline package and I found one at\nhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep/. Apparently it's too old. I also\ntried t... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf \n> Of Shridhar Daithankar\n> Sent: 08 June 2004 08:34\n> To: Andrew Dunstan\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development; pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Why does postgres maintain a loader logic of its own? I can understand that\nthe dynamic_library_path is necessary in order to configure everything in\none single place. But why not just merge it with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or\nPATH on Windows) and then let dlopen do the rest using a stripped f... |
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"msg_contents": "> > And BTW, I was not running the regression in a cygwin shell. \n> > It was a msys shell\n> > only. I am thinking of knowcking off cygwin in favour of \n> msys. But I \n> > don't find CVS with msys.. I need to find a commandline cvs \n> for daily \n> > use. WinCVS is just too much GUI for m... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nIt seems that current cvs head regression tests are broken, at least on my \ndebian laptop. That does not help with developping some new patch...\n\nsh> uname -a\nLinux sablons 2.4.20-3-686 #1 Sat Jun 7 22:34:55 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux\nsh> ./configure\nsh> make\nsh> cd src... |
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"msg_contents": "\nNext Monday, we're going to put out a 7.4.3 release, incorporating all the \nlittle patches that have been back-patched to date ... I just setup a cron \njob that will build a nightly snapshot of 'stable', that is available on \nthe ftp server under /pub/stable_snapshot ...\n\nIf anyone has... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been down several roads about how to handle data that has to change\non a very frequent and rapid manner.\n\nThink about summary tables, WEB session tables, etc. As great as MVCC is\nfor the vast majority of uses. The overhead of updates and deletes can\nkill a project that needs to cons... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dann Corbit\n> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:21 PM\n> To: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm nearly ready to commit a patch that adds support for INSERT and\nUPDATE assignments to individual fields of composite columns,\nalong the lines of\n\nUPDATE mytab SET complex_col.r = (complex_col).r + 1 WHERE ...;\n\nINSERT INTO mytab (complex_col.r, complex_col.i) VALUES(1.1, 2.2);\n\nTh... |
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"msg_contents": "----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: <pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org>\nSent: June 08, 2004 2:27 PM\n\n> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:03:22 -0300 (ADT)\n> From: \"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@postgresql.org>\n> Subject: Releasing 7.4.3 ...\n\n> Next Monday, we're going to put out a 7.4.3 releas... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Gurus,\n\nI tried to shuffle through the archives but was lost in the technical\ndetails. Please feel free to tell me a search keyword suitable for my case\nif there's any.\n\nQUESTION1: is this error _always_ harmless (other than transaction\nrollback)?\nQUESTION2: is this reported exac... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n \n \n(warning: rehashing of issues ahead)\n \nSometimes when I talk to technical people about using PostgreSQL,\nI get a strong reaction along the lines of \"it's ugly, complex, and\nhard to set up.\" While we have gotten better than we used ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, List,\n\nI recently stumbled across a problem that I can't really get across.\n\nWe have a database cluster (PG 7.4.2) that was initialized as follows:\n\n $ pg_controldata /data/dir\n pg_control version number: 72\n Catalog version number: 200310211\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Why is this wrong ?:\n\nDROP SCHEMA test CASCADE ;\nCREATE SCHEMA test;\n\nCREATE TABLE test.parent (\n\tid serial PRIMARY KEY,\n\topis text \n);\n\nCREATE TABLE test.child_data (\n\tid serial PRIMARY KEY,\n\tid_parent int ,\n\tpodaci text,\n\tFOREIGN KEY (id_parent) REFERENCES test.parent(id... |
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"msg_contents": "I am wondering why thread_test.c is checking for mktemp()? That function \nis nowhere used in the libpq.\n\nAlso, I would suggest that we allow to build the libpq with thread \nspecific compiler options, even if it is not entirely thread safe. It \nwould require that a really multithreaded ap... |
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"msg_contents": "I got:\n\ngcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I/home/alvherre/CVS/pgsql/source/13commitOpt/src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -I/home/alvherre/CVS/pgsql/source/13commitOpt/src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFRONTEND -c -o pg_dumpall.o /home/a... |
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"msg_contents": "I've appended a quote from Ch 41 on the SPI; I'd like\nto make sure I understand the implications of this. If\nI've allocated resources inside my procedure (file\nhandles or what-not), how would I clean those up in\nthe case of a transaction abort? Could I Notify my\napplication that the tran... |
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"msg_contents": "A new BETA tarball for the Slony-I replication system is now available \nfor download form the project homepage:\n\n http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/projdisplay.php\n\nRegards, the Slony-I project team\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:19:28 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "I have emailed Michael Meskes to get his help in resolving open ecpg\nissues for 7.4.X.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + Christ c... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tI am using table inheritance and it simplifies things for me a lot, but there \nis one thing that is missing: trigger inheritance (I do not mean constraint \ntriggers).\n\nSo far I wrote function that copy all non-constraint triggers from parent to \nchild table, but I must call that fun... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Mohawksoft\":\n\n> I don't think anyone who has seriously looked at these issues has\n> concluded that PostgreSQL works fine in these cases. The question is what,\n> if anything, can be done? The frequent update issue really affects\n> PostgreSQL's acceptance in web applications, and one wh... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nClean up generation of default names for constraints, indexes, and serial\nsequences, as per recent discussion. All these names are now of the\nform table_column_type, with digits added if needed to make them unique.\nDefault constraint names are chosen to be uniqu... |
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"msg_contents": "Near the end of repair_frag() in vacuum.c -- under the comment /* clean\nmoved tuples from last page in Nvacpagelist list */ -- there is code\nthat marks itemids as unused. Itemids affected are those referring to\ntuples that have been moved off the last page.\n\nThis code is very similar to... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wisely wrote:\n> While we clearly want this functionality, I tend to agree with Barry\n> that COMMIT IGNORE ABORT (and the other variants that have \n> been floated)\n> is a horrid, confusing name for it. I would suggest using \n> END with some\n> modifier, instead. Perhaps\n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD\n> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:20 AM\n> To: jearl@bullysports.com; tswan@idigx.com\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Greg Stark;... |
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"msg_contents": "Stop me if you've heard this before.\n\n\nI'm looking at fast calculation of aggregates (sum(), max(), count())\nacross large tables, or across fairly simply defined subsets of those\ntables.\n\nLets say that, for a given aggregate function on a given table (with a\ngiven where clause, perhap... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nBruce Momjian wrote:\n\n| Gaetano Mendola wrote:\n|\n|>Bruce Momjian wrote:\n|>\n|> > I understand your points below. However, the group has weighed in the\n|> > direction of clearly showing non-default values and not duplicating\n|> > docume... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > With the rule system and two underlying tables one could make it work by \n> > hand I think.\n> \n> The rule system could be used to do this, but there was some discussion of\n> using inherited tables to handle it. However neither handles the really hard\n> part of detecting queries tha... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI think I found bug related to table inheritance (or at least very weird \nbehavior). \nHere is simplified example:\n\n\tDROP SCHEMA master CASCADE;\n\tDROP SCHEMA skladisno CASCADE;\n\tCREATE SCHEMA master;\n\tCREATE SCHEMA skladisno;\n\n\tCREATE TABLE master.analiticki_subjekti (\n\t\tid ... |
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"msg_contents": "As you may or may not be aware, I've been sort of ranting about high speed\nfrequently updated tables the last few days. Sorry if I've annoyed anyone.\n\nIt occured to me last night that PostgreSQL's recent capability of\nreturning sets of rows from functions was a feature that a long abandon... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql@mohawksoft.com [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:39 AM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Dann Corbit; Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD; \n> jearl@bullysports.com; tswan@idigx.com; Bruce Momjian; Greg \n> Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.o... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql@mohawksoft.com [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] \n> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:37 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD; \n> jearl@bullysports.com; tswan@idigx.com; Bruce Momjian; Greg \n> Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.o... |
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