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[ { "msg_contents": "I've been bothered for awhile about a couple of inconsistencies in our\nhandling of user-defined type names: you can't schema-qualify a type\nname that you use to prefix a literal constant, and you can't use\ntypmod qualifiers with user-defined types. Shachar Shemesh's complaint\ntoday about...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI've created a lock timeout patch and it's attached.\n\nWhen a transaction is blocked by another transaction because of\nwaiting a lock, we need a lock timeout in some cases.\n\nUsing this patch, the lock timeout is enabled with\n'lock_timeout = xxxx' directive in postgresql.con...
[ { "msg_contents": "Chris KL just raised an issue on IRC:\n\ntest=> create table test (a int4) tablespace pg_default;\nERROR: permission denied for tablespace pg_default\n\nThis wasn't encountered in my original patch because\npg_tablespace_aclmask() had this test reasonably early on:\n\n+ if(tbloid == DEFAUL...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch includes serverlog rotation with minimal shared \nmemory usage as discussed and functions to access it.\n\nRegards,\nAndreas", "msg_date": "Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:55:55 +0200", "msg_from": "Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_s...
[ { "msg_contents": "je suis un jeune �tudiant en fin de cycle et je dois faire mon \nmemoire de fin de cycle\nsur le th�me suivant gestion electronique d'une ecole la base doit se \nfaire avec\n postgresql /php sous linux j'ai reussi � installer linux et \npostgresql \n d�ja\n\n mais comment taper les c...
[ { "msg_contents": "(sorry I have to post it again in plain text)\nI'm currently working on a master student research project ��support\ntriggers on columns�� that is supervised by a professor from my university\n(Ottawa U). I have contacted Neil Conway whose name is with this item on\nthe TODO list. It happene...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have set returning function written in 'c', declared as:\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION check_view (text,text) RETURNS setof pg_attribute\n AS '/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libplpq.so','check_view' LANGUAGE 'c'\n WITH (isstrict);\n\nWhen I call this function from psql :\n\tSELECT attrelid,attnum F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that PG will have tablespaces I can stick my really high I/O data on a\nfiberchannel array, and save some money by putting the rest of it (also the\nmajority of it) on less expensive SCSI RAID sets. Will I also be able to\ntune individual tablespaces with the likes of random_page_cost? ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Survey: \"Motivation of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) Developers\"\n\nWe (Marc R�ttig and Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) are currently working\non a survey on the motivation of open source developers as part of\na \"Computer Science and Society\" project at the CS department of the\nUniversity...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All -\n\nWe are reviewing possible database and operating systems solutions for our\ncompany and we are looking at running PostgreSQL on Linux.\n\nDoes PostgreSQL have the capability to handle the following requirements?\nIs anyone successfully running an application with similar character...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently working on a master student research project \"support triggers\non columns\" that is supervised by a professor from my university (Ottawa U).\nI have contacted Neil Conway whose name is with this item on the TODO list.\nIt happened that he actually lives very close to me(Queen'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would anyone else think that dumping:\n\nSET client_min_messages TO warning;\n\nIn pg_dumps would be cool?\n\nIt would mean that while restoring a dump you can actually see the wood \nfor the trees when trying to see ERRORs and WARNINGs the the massive \nspam of messages you get while restori...
[ { "msg_contents": "As part of my testing, I noticed this bug. My database has a \nsearch_path set in the database vars. It dumps lik ethis:\n\nDROP DATABASE usa;\nCREATE DATABASE usa WITH TEMPLATE = template0 OWNER = usadmin ENCODING = \n'LATIN1';\nALTER DATABASE usa SET search_path TO 'public, contrib';\n\nN...
[ { "msg_contents": "seems evgen has got a sql99 compliant version of recursive SQL out and would agree to relicense it.\nare there any other concerns regarding evgens work? or do you want to encourage him to go this route? i have the impression he would happily join in on the postgres developement wrt recursive ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust wrote a function that takes view name as argument and generates INSERT, \nUPDATE and DELETE rules for that view. It is working OK (thanks to Tom), but \nI have trouble with INSERT rule. \nWhen inserting directly into table, default values are filled in when the \nfield is not in the in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\n> I'd accept a mechanism to enforce a timeout at the lock level if you\n> could show me a convincing use-case for lock timeouts instead of\n> statement timeouts, but I don't believe there is one. I think this\n> proposal is a solution in search of a problem.\n\nHmmm ... didn't we arg...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> create view myinst as select * from dblink('dbname=sva4_int1','select ....\n> from inst') as (.......);\n>\n> The view connect not to a remote database. It uses the local database.\n> You can read the data from table inst without any restrictions! (Select *\n> from myinst ...)\n> This pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having trouble accessing specific schemas and wonder if maybe I\nhaven't installed something properly in 7.4.2. Here is what is\nhappening:\n\nSELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA;\n\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \".\"\n\nThis error appears when I try to access ANY specific...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCould some kind person please contact hans@strader.xs4all.nl and ask him to\nfix the filters that generate bounces from things I send to PG mailing\nlists? My attempts have failed.\n\nI get this:\n\n... while talking to strader.xs4all.nl:\n<<< 550 5.7.1 <hans@strader.xs4all.nl>... Please ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Tom,\n> \n> > I'd accept a mechanism to enforce a timeout at the lock level if you\n> > could show me a convincing use-case for lock timeouts instead of\n> > statement timeouts, but I don't believe there is one. I think this\n> > proposal is a solution in search of a problem.\n> \n> Hmmm ....
[ { "msg_contents": "A while ago it was speculated that it might be nice to have a default \nservice in libpq's pg_service.conf file that would supply missing \nconnection parameters if none are specified elsewhere, so users could, \nsay, set the default server host in a configuration file instead of \nenvironmen...
[ { "msg_contents": "PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0.3.2-7)\n(1 row)\n\n\nHmmm... Makes me think I'm accessing the wrong version of PostgreSQL. Does that sound likely?\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm rounding up last bits of Archive Recovery work now...\n\nOne of these is to give my humble opinion of where Archive Recovery fits\ninto the mix of options for PostgreSQL. This is effectively a\n\"positioning\" of the high availability options.\n\nFirstly, my experience comes from larger...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have about 200 functions in a schema and I have to grant execute \nprivilege on all these functions to a group.\n\nI have found on the web an interesting function for grant access on table.\n http://www.lerctr.org/pgnotes/pgnotes.html \n(http://www.lerctr.org/pgnotes/grant-all.html)...
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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi \ni have a table of dates let's say:\n\n1/1/2004\n8/1/2004\n15/1/2004\n29/1/2004\n5/2/2004\n12/2/2004\n\nI am searching for a way to have the minimum date and maximum date for dates seperated by one week whitout gaps between them.\nwhich will give the following output:\n1/1/2004 , 15/1/200...
[ { "msg_contents": "For the past few days I have experienced compile failure with CVS HEAD \non win32.\nThe culprit is src/port/pipe.c which uses ereport() when it only \n#includes \"c.h\".\n\nI cured the error by #including \"postgres.h\" - but after a bit of \nthought suspect that \"utils/elog.h\" is all that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nAs many of you will know, I recently placed a news item on\nwww.postgresql.org to try to get some new developers working on\npsqlODBC. I was pleseantly surprised to find that after just a few days\nI had received eight responses from people interested in joining the\nproject. This ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Overholt [mailto:overholt@redhat.com] \n> Sent: 28 June 2004 16:45\n> To: jacob koehler (RRes-Roth)\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; gppl@inbox.ru; Alexander Rüegg\n> Subject: Re: recursive SQL\n> \n> \n> * jacob koehler (RRes-Roth) <jacob....
[ { "msg_contents": "> For the past few days I have experienced compile failure with CVS HEAD\n> on win32.\n> The culprit is src/port/pipe.c which uses ereport() when it only\n> #includes \"c.h\".\n\nTry replacing \"c.h\" with \"postgres.h\". I fixed that on the win32\nbinaries and forgot to mention it.\n\np.s. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In phpPgAdmin, I need to know if the backend supports tablespaces or \nnot. What is the most reliable way of detecting that the backend is the \nwin32 native version and hence does not support tablespaces? Version \nstring info?\n\nOr alternatively, what is the most direct way of detecting ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> In phpPgAdmin, I need to know if the backend supports tablespaces or\n> not. What is the most reliable way of detecting that the backend is\nthe\n> win32 native version and hence does not support tablespaces? Version\n> string info?\n> \n> Or alternatively, what is the most direct way of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Does the win32 build have a pg_tablespace table? are there any rows in\n> it?\n> \n> Was thinking the combination of the two queries would be able to\n> determine table space support in some fashion:\n> \n> select * from pg_class where relnamespace = (select oid from\n> pg_namespace where...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm seeing this:\n\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/postgres/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib'\n...\ngcc -O1 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -DFRONTEND -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I../../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seeing how small storage for a number type is compared to a text type, \nand seeing how they tend to be queried on a lot, shouldn't it be \nreasonable for the default stats number for numerics to be 100 instead \nof 10?\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:56:53 -0400", "msg_from": "J...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nNot sure how worthwhile others will find this small patch (to CVS HEAD), \nbut we found it useful. It adds the column comments to the \ninformation_schema.columns view.\n\nHope it's useful.\n\n:-)\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift", "msg_date": "Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:0...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was all set to launch into a diatribe about the half dozen performance\nissues I think we *must* fix in the new nested-transactions code, and\nthought I'd back it up by citing some pgbench numbers. So I ran pgbench\nruns using yesterday's CVS tip and current. I had to fix a small memory\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "In addition to the ecpg warnings mentioned by Tom, I'm also seeing \ncompile warnings wrt plpython:\n\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql-cvs/pgsql-7.5/src/pl/plpython'\ngcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes \n-Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I. -I/usr/include/pytho...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\n,\nI am on a mission to simply keep a starving project off the ground by updating an old mysql->pgsql perl conversion script which does its conversion very differently from the one under contrib/. There is an old link to \nhttp://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/sql.html\non techdocs under the sec...
[ { "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: 01 July 2004 05:33\n> To: Justin Clift\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to \n> inf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nNot sure if this is a known issue or not, but I think I may have found a \nbug with the way view definitions are shown... at least in psql.\n\nUsing 7.5 development CVS (as of a few hours ago) or even 7.4.3, if I \nconnect using it's version of psql to a database (of the same vers...
[ { "msg_contents": "Okay folks, it's July 1, and the long-threatened feature freeze for 7.5\nis now in place. That means future patches that introduce new features\nwill be held off till the next development cycle. Bug fixes, cleanup\nof loose ends, and (ahem) documentation are of course still welcome.\n\nSinc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there going to be an option to abort the complete transaction without \nknowing how deep you are? Perhaps something like \"ABORT ALL\".\n\nThe reason I suggest this, is that I can foresee an application or user \nleaving nested transactions open inadvertently, or not knowing how \ndeeply ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jeroen wrote:\n> I see how making PREPARE obey rollbacks would be inconvenient for some\n> existing code, but frankly I'm getting a bit worried about the \"why\nshould\n> I care whether what I do is committed or not?\" argument. I guess one\n> could\n> say that about lots of statements: \"I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nplperl update from Andrew Dunstan, deriving (I believe) from Command Prompt's\nplperlNG. Review and minor cleanup/improvements by Joe Conway.\n\nSummary of new functionality:\n- Shared data space and namespace. There is a new global variable %_SHARED\n that functio...
[ { "msg_contents": "My guess at a crude translation:\n \nI am a young student at the end of the cycle and I must make my term project of the end of the cycle on the topic of electronic management of a school database, which must be done with PostgreSQL/php under Linux. I have assistance to install Linux and Pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently working on a master student research project \"support triggers\non columns\" that is supervised by a professor from my university (Ottawa U).\nI have contacted Neil Conway whose name is with this item on the TODO list.\nIt happened that he actually lives very close to me(Queen'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, I know it's not possible, but can anyone suggest an alternative for \nthis problem?\n\nI've written a very simple trigger-driven replication system, which \nworks in stages. First the trigger generates an entry in a log table \nwhich is a fully formatted sql command... insert into/delete...
[ { "msg_contents": "gmake[3]: Entering directory `/space/1/home/chriskl/pgsql/src/pl/plperl'\ngcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -fpic -DPIC -I. \n-I/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/CORE -I../../../src/include -c -o \nSPI.o SPI.c -MMD\nSPI.xs: In function `XS__spi_exec_query':\nSPI.xs:51: `aTHX_' undeclared (first ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The big picture here is that with the current behavior, it is\npossible\n> > to keep track of existence of prepared statements without wrapping\nor\n> > even being aware of transaction activity. This is tremendously\nuseful\n> > for handling them in a generic way because transactions and...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Right now, I'm transitioning to ExexPrepared to skip the string\nescaping\n> > step on the client side. I would hate to lose that ability.\nExecParams\n> > is a little more work to set up (doable, though).\n> \n> OTOH, if you're taking client code queries and replacing them with\n> EXECU...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm wondering about the following statement in TransactionIdSetStatus():\n\n *byteptr |= (status << bshift);\n\nWhen the status is SUBCOMMITTED, the bytemask will have 11 for those two\nbytes; therefore, when OR-ing a 10 or 01 mask (committed or aborted),\nshouldn't the byte remaing the sa...
[ { "msg_contents": "> If we change the syntax, say by using SUBCOMMIT/SUBABORT for\n> subtransactions, then using a simple ABORT would abort the whole\n> transaction tree.\n\nQuestion: with the new syntax, would issuing a BEGIN inside a already\nstarted transaction result in an error?\n\nMy concern is about say,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now subtrans.c is not compiling. SlruCtlData is missing the\n'locks' member in slru.h.\n\nMerlin\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:20:25 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "anonymous cvs failure...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Right now subtrans.c is not compiling. SlruCtlData is missing the\n'locks'\n> member in slru.h.\n\nWhoops, I see what happened...never mind (sorry).\nMerlin\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:22:31 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "The one question that gets asked the most on these lists AFAICS is:\n **can you tell me what version you're running?**\n\n...and we just had a case of confusing the version itself (which seems\nto be a reasonably easy mistake to make).\n\nThis information is not displayed at startup, even at ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's the promised list of things I think we still need to fix to\ncomplete the nested-transactions project. I assume you have a private\ntodo list as well --- can we compare notes?\n\n\nCursors have a whole range of issues, as is already under discussion.\nPresent design for bufmgr and ind...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear developers,\n\nclassifying the questions we got those three days in the PostgreSQL \nbooth on LinuxTag, we had three ever repeating topics, two of them \nnon-surprising:\n- what's the difference to MyS***\n- what about win32 native\n- what about Oracle portability.\n\nThe third question ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nSo far, I have found two places where one can find the SQLSTATE error\ncodes: a header file, and the errcodes-appendix doc. Those are\nexcellent places.\n\nDid I miss how to get a list of them in SQL? If I missed it because\nit isn't there, what would be a good way to have a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have returned from Germany and Armenia. I will post a summary of my\ntrip soon. I am going to take tomorrow off and start catching up on\nemail starting Monday. I estimate it will take me 3-5 days to catch up.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting a CVS HEAD compile failure in plperl:\n\t\n\tgmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/pl/tcl/modules'\n\tgmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/pl/tcl'\n\tgmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/var/local/src/gen/...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[ BCC to general and hackers.]\n\nHere is a great PostgreSQL article that appeared recently. It\nhighlights companies supporting PostgreSQL and our upcoming 7.5\nfeatures:\n\n\thttp://software.newsforge.com/software/04/07/01/0721222.shtml?tid=72&tid=82\n\n(I have submitted it to our News w...
[ { "msg_contents": "--\n-- An SQL error causes subsequent function creation of an otherwise\n-- healthy function to fail WHEN RUN with:\n-- ERROR: creation of function failed:\n-- (in cleanup) Undefined subroutine &PLPerl::mksafefunc called at (eval 4) line 4.\n-- \n-- Workaround is to close and reopen th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe README.spi said that $rv->{rows} should return the number of\nrows affected for INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE. It seems to return NULL.\n@{$rv->{rows}} also returns NULL.\n\n\n-- drop table users ( email text, who text );\ncreate table users ( email text, who text );\ninsert into users value...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[ BCC to hackers.]\n\nI just returned from a twelve day trip to Germany and Armenia. LinuxTag\nin Germany was a big success. We had our own booth and lot of people\ncame to talk to us. The things users asked about (nested transactions,\nreplication, PITR, Win32) are already being working...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> begin;\n> declare cursor c ...;\n> fetch 1 from c;\t\t-- returns tuple 1\n> begin;\n> fetch 1 from c;\t\t-- returns tuple 2\n> rollback;\n> fetch 1 from c;\t\t-- returns tuple 1 again\n> \n> This is mightly ugly but I think it's the most usable of the options\n> seen so far....
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nThis is an off-topic message about a new project called FreeOSZoo involving \ntwo pgAdmin member, Jean-Michel and Raphaël.\n\nYou can visit our site on:\nhttp://www.freeoszoo.org\n\nWe provide packages for QEMU, a fast PC emulator for GNU/Linux, Win32 and Mac \nOS X. The pack...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi \ni have an ordered table of dates let's say:\n\n1/1/2004\n8/1/2004\n15/1/2004\n29/1/2004\n5/2/2004\n12/2/2004\n\nI am searching for a way to have the minimum date and maximum date for dates seperated by one week whitout gaps between them in a string.\nwhich will give the following output:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems mail.postgresql.org refuses mail for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nat present?\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:20:38 +1000", "msg_from": "\"John Hansen\" <john@geeknet.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Relay Access Denied" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nYes, The API is changed slightly, which I should have made clear.\n\nThe number of rows is reported in a member called 'processed'. If actual \ndata is returned (i.e. from a select), then that data is returned in the \n'rows' member (it will be a ref to an array of refs to hash.\n\nRun this...
[ { "msg_contents": "Disregard,\n\nWas sent to postgresql.com\n\n...\n \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: John Hansen \nSent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:21 PM\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Relay Access Denied\n\nSeems mail.postgresql.org refuses mail for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nat present?\n"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCan anyone suggest why I might be seeing this effect (each notice comes \nout once per row plus once per function call)\n\nthanks\n\nandrew\n\nandrew=# create function tstset() returns setof tst language plperl as $$\nandrew$# elog(NOTICE,\"tstset called\");\nandrew$# return [{i=>1,v=>\"one...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThere is a known security issue with the perl Safe module versions up to \nand including 2.07 (and 2.08 had a life of 1 day before 2.09 was \nreleased). see\n\nhttp://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1323\n\nCurrently we have this in plperl.c:\n \"require Safe;\"\n\nI am thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking at a couple of features that are possible to add.\n\n>From what people have said before on list, one of the useful features of\nPITR is to recover from rogue transactions.\n\nI have a suggestion that I'd like some considered thought on. I've given\nit a couple of weeks thought. My...
[ { "msg_contents": "Taking advantage of the freeze bubble allowed us... there are some last\nminute features to add. \n\nSummarising earlier thoughts, with some detailed digging and design from\nmyself in last few days - we're now in a position to add Point-in-Time\nRecovery, on top of whats been achieved.\n\nTh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI'm trying to seriously restrict what a particular user can see within a \ndatabase. Using various schemas, rules, groups and grants, I've managed \nto restrict them to only being able to _do_ what I want them to, but \nthey can still _see_ the rest of the schemas, system tables,...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> - by time - but the time stamp on each xlog record only specifies to the\n> second, which could easily be 10 or more commits (we hope....)\n> \n> Should we use a different datatype than time_t for the commit timestamp,\n> one that offers more fine grained differentiation between checkpoi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Well, the proposal of implementing it like holdable cursors means using\n> a Materialize node which, if I understand correctly, means taking the\n> whole result set and storing it on memory (or disk).\n\nWould it help to hold the lock for a record that is the current cursor position,\niff...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is bad breakage in the DROP TABLESPACE command if the only thing \n\"in\" that tablespace is the default tablespaces for a schema:\n\ntest=# create tablespace myspace location '/home/chriskl/loc';\nCREATE TABLESPACE\ntest=# create schema myschema tablespace myspace;\nCREATE SCHEMA\ntest...
[ { "msg_contents": "The same thing may also apply to the default tablespace of a database as \nwell...\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:08:18 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "More thoughts on drop tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there some way to determine the specific relation involved when a deadlock \noccurs? For example in the following error message (with log level set to \nverbose):\n2004-07-03 20:30:44 [21347] ERROR: 40P01: deadlock detected\nDETAIL: Process 21347 waits for ShareLock on transaction 10441...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi ppl,\n\n\tWhat need to do (understand, to devel) to allow several\npostgres instance running from several server to access to the\nsame data (no replication at all) hosted on a SAN ?\n\n\tI'm probably wrong but i think this type of dev should\nbe easier to realize than replication ? Becau...
[ { "msg_contents": "Mark,\n\nI've tried to run some performance tests on your Scalable Test Platform\nbut the tests failed at the build step.\n\nI guess the problem is near line 282 of\nhttp://khack.osdl.org/stp/294734/logs/run-log.txt\n\n| + wget -nv -t 0 --waitretry=60 -r http://stp/data/dbt-2/postgresql-7.4.t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm getting this error whenever I try to change the superuser of my\ndatabase to anything != postgres.\n\nThe same error shows up if I do \"-U <someuser>\" on Unix and \"someuser\"\ndoes not exist in /etc/passwd. Probably the same reason - since win32\nwill not have any users in /etc/p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI have the same problem, discussed earlier in the groups, but not even\nable to solve it and run psql/creatdb etc., of postgres. I have tried\nuncommenting the TCPIP_SOCKET=True and port= lines in the\npostgressql.conf inside my data directory.\n\nI am not using cygwin too on windows...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nwhile playing around with the tablespace stuff I noticed that on can't see\nthe tablespace a table is in when querying the pg_tables view.\nI think the tablespace a table is in is a valuable information and should\nbe shown there. This also applies to any ohter related view (like\npg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Well, Tom does seem to have something with regard to StartUpIds. I feel\n> it is easier to force a new timeline by adding a very large number to\n> the LogId IF, and only if, we have performed an archive recovery. That\n> way, we do not change at all the behaviour of the system for people...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI would like to knwo how to extends the storage manager to other device \n( i try to add remote device to postgres engine).\n I saw that i have to implement the interface f_smgr describe in smgr.c \n, but I do not know how to tell to postgres to use my new device .\nIs anyone could help ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Few days old snapshot produces an error when making tsearch2 module:\n\ndict_ispell.o(.text+0x31b):dict_ispell.c: undefined reference to\n`pg_strcasecmp'\ndict_ispell.o(.text+0x420):dict_ispell.c: undefined reference to\n`pg_strcasecmp'\ndict_ispell.o(.text+0x500):dict_ispell.c: undefined ref...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n in Czech database conference we talk about windows PostgreSQL port and\n windows encodings now. The current code expect use win1250 as FE\n encoding only. That's right for non-windows systems, but native windows\n knows work with this encoding. The encodings separation ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've discovered that CREATE DATABASE doesn't redo correctly in an\narchive recovery test.\n\nThis isn't a bug --in the current code--, because when crash recovery\noccurs, the database directories are already there, so this only doesn't\nwork when using the PITR patches. During archive reco...
[ { "msg_contents": "As a result of the constraint output functions being shared between\npg_dump and psql, some of the output is mis-quoted in the display area\nfor columns including quotes. Notice it's correct in the table Column\nlist, but the constraint has the escaped versions.\n\nThoughts?\n\nrt=# create ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alvaro, Hackers:\n\nI've been giving this some thought. Here's what I came up with:\n\nWe should NOT use the savepoint syntax. Alvaro's Nested Transactions are not \nsavepoints, they don't meet the spec, and they don't behave the same. Using \nstandard syntax for a non-standard feature w...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi,\n\nwhile playing around with the tablespace stuff I noticed that one can't\nsee the tablespace a table is in when querying the pg_tables view.\nI think the tablespace a table is in is a valuable information and should\nbe shown there. This also applies to any ohter related view (like\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI will be away from the 9th to the 16th or 17th of July, and will have no\nnet access during that time. I'm hoping that in the meantime other\ninterested people will pick up the remaining tasks (docs, test suite, fix\nfor 'select foo() when foo returns a composite, other bugs).\n\nI will tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Note: my ISP is having problems with email, so probably a duplicate\nof this will be published as soon as their SMTP starts working again]\n\n\nThere's a point that hasn't been raised in discussion of subtransactions\nhere and it's what to do when a function aborts.\n\nIf I have a plpgsql fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Magnus Hagander\n> Sent: 06 July 2004 21:46\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Initdb error \n> \n> Hi!\n> \n> I'm getting this erro...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nOut of necessity, I've implemented user quotas in 7.4.3. What would the \nprocess be for having this reviewed and combined? I have a patch for \n7.4.3 ready, but wanted to know if you suggest that I patch the latest \ncvs instead. Below if some information on the implementation.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Sir:\n\nI am a graduate student of computer science at University of Ottawa. \nProfessor Kiringa is my supervisor.\n\nCurrently, I am working on a group project. As part of the project, I\nwould like to implement a new feature for the trigger creation in\nPostgreSQL, which defines alias...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi. I want to begin helping develop postgresql.\n \nI have an up-to-date computer, a dell dimension 4600, built with lots of extras. I have an MS in CS, and have worked with postgres in industry.\n \nCan someone tell me what software I need? I guess I need a compiler. What compiler do I need?...