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"msg_contents": "Worked through some troubles on irc last night, thought I would post it in \ncase anyone else sees something similar. \n\nsystem is Slackware 8.1, Linux phppgadmin 2.4.18 #2 Fri May 31 01:21:23 PDT \n2002 i586 unknown\n\n./configure was run with '--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-8.0.0' '--enable-deb... |
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"msg_contents": "KL,\n\n> Is it safe to update the atttypid of a timestamp column to be a\n> timestamptz column? I wish to do this on a production database, so I\n> need to be sure!\n\nI wouldn't try this without running it against a test database copy first. \nI've already discovered that a backend change ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPer our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could shorten the \nbeta process and make it more effective if someone can step forward to be the \n\"8.0 Beta Leader.\" This person would have to:\n1) track platform tests, namely which platforms have been tested, what ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm currently working on the psql tab-complete code, fixing quite a lot \nof bugs/annoyances in the process.\nOne of the things I'm trying to do is syncing the available commands in \npsql with the docs - during this work I found two irritating things \nregarding tablespaces:\n\n1. the... |
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"msg_contents": "I did a little test on the various options of fsync.\n\nI'm not sure my tests are scientific enough for general publication or\nevaluation, all I am doing is performaing a loop that inserts a value into\na table 1 million times.\ncreate table testndx (value integer, name varchar);\ncreate ind... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI did a little test on the various options of fsync.\n\nI'm not sure my tests are scientific enough for general publication or\nevaluation, all I am doing is performaing a loop that inserts a value into\na table 1 million times.\ncreate table testndx (value integer, name varchar);\ncreate i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nSorry if I post this mail to the wrong list, I checked each by it's \ntheme and this seems to be the best.\nI have a strange problem with an errorcontextcallback:\nGiven the following code fragment:\n mycallback->previous = error_context_stack;\n elog(DEBU... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nAttached is that patch I talked to you about on hackers. It changes the \ndescription at the top and uncomments most (but not all) of the lines in an \neffort to make it clear that commenting is not a way to restore the defaults.\n\nI've tested this on my machine and we end up with ... |
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"msg_contents": "Maybe this should be brought up-to-date slightly?\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/beta.php\n\nOr maybe point elsewhere at least where the more up-to-date info actually\nis.\n\n-- \nSerguei A. Mokhov | /~\\ The ASCII\nComputer Science Department | \\ / Ribbon Campaign\nConc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Peter,\n\nbackend/po/fr.po had 99% translations done for 7.4, and nos it is totally\nmissing for the current CVS tip (it is in the Attic)....mmmm... why? Most\nof those messasge are still applicable to the current, no? Commit message\nfrom you from 2 weeks ago says:\n\n2 weeks \tpetere ... |
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"msg_contents": "Let me be one of the first to say thank you to all of you guys for yet \nanother awesome version of PgSQL, beta or not. My company and I \nappreciate all the hard work and such that has gone into making this \nversion happen. Keep up the good work and let me know where I can help.\n\nSincer... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm looking to find all records in pg_depend that show that some columns \nin my db depend on the 'timestamp' type. So I do this:\n\nselect * from pg_depend where refclassid=1247 and refobjid=1114;\n\n1257 is the oid of the pg_type table and 1114 is the oid of the \ntimestamp type.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Some time ago I posted a patch to allow pg_autovacuum to be run as a\nservice on Windows, on the understanding that if pg_autovacuum didn't\nmake it into the backend, it would be applied. I followed up Tom's\nmessage to Matthew apologising for not including his backend integration\npatches wi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi, just built and tried the regressions tests, but it fails here:\n\n============== initializing database system ==============\n./pg_regress: line 470: 10212 Trace/BPT trap \"$bindir/initdb\" -D\n\"$PGDATA\" -L \"$datadir\" --noclean $initdb_options >\"$LOGDIR/initdb.lo... |
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"msg_contents": "Thank you all once again for your hard work and dedication to quality \nsoftware! Looking forward to 8.0.\n\nplatform: Mac OS X 10.3.5\nevironment and ./configure\n\nPGVER=\"8.0.0\"\nPGPORT=54800\nPGUSER=postgres\nPGTAGNAME=\"pgsql 8.0.0\"\nPGSRCROOT=/usr/local/src/pgsql-8.0.0\nPGINSTROOT=/u... |
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"msg_contents": "While investigating Satoshi Okada's bug report here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-08/msg00510.php\nI realized that it actually represents a crash-safety risk that has\nexisted since 7.2.\n\n<lecture>\nAllow me to refresh your memory about the principles of write-ahead\nlo... |
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"msg_contents": "My discovery last night of a WAL synchronization error in pg_clog led me\nto take a look at pg_subtrans too. I soon realized that in fact we are\nnot WAL-logging pg_subtrans updates at all: subtransaction start sets up\na pg_subtrans entry but makes no WAL entry for this action.\n\nSeems lik... |
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"msg_contents": "Harald,\n\n> You're talking about \"the deletion target table\". Sorry to mention\n> the M word again, but MySQL allows deleting from more than one table\n> at the same time. Should we support that?\n\nNope. In fact, I'd argue pretty strongly against any move to do so.\n\nMySQL supports m... |
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"msg_contents": "Why is the encoding WIN 1250 only for the client side? It seems that \nwith the new Windows port, folks will be interested in using it on the \nserver side.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:30:23 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "I was sent a log file for a production system that has received several \nABORT signals while under heavy load. Here's a snippet from the logs:\n\n-----------\nLOG: recycled transaction log file \"0000000A0000004B\"\nLOG: recycled transaction log file \"0000000A0000004D\"\nLOG: recycled tr... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear All,\n\tI built PG 8.0 beta1 on an Itanium 2 platform using the Intel compilers\nversion 8, and got one real difference in the regression tests that affected\nint2, int4, union, and numerology. Here's the key difference:\n\nhorta postgres 177 > diff -c int4.out ../expected/\n*** int4.out... |
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"msg_contents": "I need a real example of using bytea in the following scenario:\n\n1) A large binary object is located in a C++ memory space obtained\nthrough malloc.\n2) I want to store it in the database.\n\nWhat exactly does the code look like?\n\nThanks,\n\nKenny\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:... |
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"msg_contents": "Can we put in a recommendation in the release notes that people use 8.0 \npg_dump to do their dump? I think that will make everyone's upgrades go \nmuch more smoothly, and we will get many fewer complaints.\n\nI don't think many users realise they can use the next version's pg_dump \nto upgr... |
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"msg_contents": "> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:30:23 +0200\n> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>\n> \n> Why is the encoding WIN 1250 only for the client side? It seems that \n> with the new Windows port, folks will be interested in using it on the \n> server side.\n\nThen what about WIN1251 (Cyrillic)? :... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nAfter a downgrade to Postgres 7.2.2, I still got the xlateSqlType symbol\nnot found message. The install includes the packages:\n\nlibpgsql2-7.2.2-1mdk\npostgresql-7.2.2-1mdk\npostgresql-jdbc-7.2.2-1mdk\npostgresql-server-7.2.2-1mdk\nlibecpg3-7.2.2-1mdk\nlibpgsqlodbc0-7.2.2-1mdk\nl... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Matthew T. O'Connor [mailto:matthew@zeut.net] \n> Sent: 10 August 2004 21:41\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-development; \n> pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org; Bruce Momjian\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_autovacuum Win32 Service Code\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "I just noticed that we support NT4 according to the draft release notes\nat http://developer.postgresql.org/beta-history.txt. In actual fact, it\nprobably won't work well as Andreas' tablespace/symlink code uses\njunction points which are not available on NT4, in addition to which, we\nhave b... |
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"msg_contents": "will PITR in 8.0 be usable for \"hot spare\"/\"log shipping\" type of\nreplication or is it just for Point In Time RECOVERY ?\n\n-----------\nHannu\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:56:50 +0300",
"msg_from": "Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\ni tried a bit with errorhandling and found the following :\n(i want to ignore the dublicate key exception)\n\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test() RETURNS VARCHAR AS'\nBEGIN\n BEGIN\n INSERT INTO table a dublicate key (primary);\n EXCEPTION\n WHEN OTHERS THEN ROLLBACK;\n END... |
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"msg_contents": "Some recent change in libpq seems to interfere with gtk.\n\nAfter I tested a new pgadmin3 version on linuy yesterday, I found that \nthe GUI is hanging after PQconnectdb was called. After the call, the db \nconnection is fully functional, but the GUI mouse will show \"waiting\" \nand the prog... |
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"msg_contents": "Maybe I'm losing it, but I forced to apologize for trying to push for\n\"open_sync\" as the default.\n\nI have spent the last few days trying to come to some solid, documented\nand verifyable, conclusions about which is the best fsync method. At a\nminimum, what is the best fsync method for L... |
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"msg_contents": "Against CVS HEAD:\n\n> test=# select version();\n> version \n> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n> PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu,... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn 8.0 beta 1 I just tried:\n\n psql template1\n > begin;\n > select * from pg_class;\n ... got stuff ...\n > select * from aaa;\n ERROR: relation \"zzz\" does not exist\n > select * from pg_class;\n ERROR: current transaction is aborted....\n\nShould psql ru... |
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"msg_contents": "> In 8.0 beta 1 I just tried:\n> \n> psql template1\n> > begin;\n> > select * from pg_class;\n> ... got stuff ...\n> > select * from aaa;\n> ERROR: relation \"zzz\" does not exist\n> > select * from pg_class;\n> ERROR: current transaction is aborted....... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust found this:\n\n createdb zzz\n createlang plpgsql zzz\n psql zzz\n create function xxx() returns integer as\n $$ begin return 1; end; $$\n language plpgsql;\n \\q\n pg_dump -Fc zzz > zzz.bck\n dropdb zzz\n createdb zzz\n createlang pl... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe default setting of 'false' is a pain. And the fact it can't be changed \nby an option is even more of a pain. Any objections to adding an option to \npg_restore to allow 'die_on_errors' to be set to 'true'?\n\n -D(?) --die-on-errors\n\n\n---------------------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> CREATE FUNCTION xxx() RETURNS integer\n> AS $$ begin return 1;\n>2004-08-12 01:38:48 EST<zzz,birds>: ERROR: unterminated dollar-quoted \n>string at or near \"$$ begin return 1;\" at character 115\n\n\nJust realized the problem; pg_restore uses a trivial parser to work... |
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"msg_contents": "The core committee has agreed that this bug\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-08/msg00639.php\nis serious enough that we'd better push out update releases for\nall the affected versions. I want to hold off a day or so and see\nif a couple of currently-open bug reports can be... |
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"msg_contents": "While trying to understand dollar-quoting, I found the following in psql:\n\n select $a$ hello $a$;\n\nbehaves as expected, but psql does not like\n\n select $a$ \\ $a$;\nor\n select $a$ \\\\ $a$;\n\nShould it? How should a dollar-quote handle:\n\n $a$ \\$a\\$a $a$\n\n?\n\n\n\n---... |
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"msg_contents": "PostgreSQL version: 8.0.0beta1\nOperating system : Solaris 9\n\nBackups created by pg_dump/pg_dumpall don't set the ownership of\nimplicitly-created sequences. When backups are restored, users who\ncreated sequences may not be able to use them.\n\nHow to repeat:\n\n1. Create a test user and... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:\n>>Backslashes are not special inside\n>>dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag\n>\n>If they are not special, then shouldnt:\n>\n> select $a$\\$a$;\n>\n>result in\n>\n> ?column?\n> \\\n>\n>rather than an err... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm trying to PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 together with diet libc\n<http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/>. diet libc is a small libc designed for\ngetting small, statically linked binaries. In the past, this has often\nshown that programs were running faster. So, my current goal is to get\nPostgr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nJust re-installed a new version of Postgres 7.3.4 on a *clean* version \nof Mandrake 9.2, which seemed to work well. The reference to the \nxlateSqlType symbol is gone from plpgsql.so.\n\nAll postgres packages installed came from the original Mandrake 9.2 CD. \nAfter a little searc... |
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"msg_contents": "I am currently working on a research project at University of Ottawa. \nAs part of the project, we need to implement a new feature for the\ntrigger creation in\nPostgreSQL, which defines aliases for the \"old\" and \"new\" data by\nadding\nthe REFERENCING clause to the CREATE TRIGGER statemen... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a table that has a candidate primary key (e.g. - unique, not\nnull) that I wish to actually assert _is_ a primary key.\n\nIs there a way to do that without too much (mwahahhaha! fiddling with\npg_class!!!) trickery?\n-- \n(format nil \"~S@~S\" \"cbbrowne\" \"acm.org\")\nhttp://cbbrowne... |
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"msg_contents": "I think we should add another column to this table:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/errcodes-appendix.html\n\nAnd explicitly list out all the exception names.\n\nI think that would be clearer and easier than having a paragraph they \nneed to read that says 'just use underscor... |
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"msg_contents": "hackers,\n\nhere's another bunch of message strings translated into sk_SK.\n\nCheers\n\nZoltan",
"msg_date": "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:39:11 +0200",
"msg_from": "Zoltan Bartko <bartko.zoltan@pobox.sk>",
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"msg_subject": "pg_dump i18n - sk"
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"msg_contents": "Hello, dump problems again.\nI'm working on a dump ToC parser for spatial database restore\n(postgis).\n\nI've noticed that pg_dump-7.3 and pg_dump-7.4 list CAST entries\nin different ways. Still 'Dump Version' is the same (1.7-0).\n\nWhat does 'Dump Version' refer to then ? Are these ToC out... |
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"msg_contents": "In backend/commands/trigger.c the following can be found:\n\n /*\n * Trigger protocol allows function to return a null pointer,\n * but NOT to set the isnull result flag.\n */\n if (fcinfo.isnull)\n ereport(ERROR,\n\nWhy?\n\nRegards,\n\nThomas Hallgren\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "[redirecting]\n\nI have abstracted this problem, and we definitely have a newline bug \nthat has to be fixed, IMNSHO.\n\nAttached are 2 scripts that are identical except that one has DOS-style \nline endings and one has Unix style line endings. The DOS-style just \nfails miserably with no war... |
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"msg_contents": "hackers,\n\nattached you may find another bunch of translated strings.\n\nCheers\n\nZoltan",
"msg_date": "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:31:58 +0200",
"msg_from": "Zoltan Bartko <bartko.zoltan@pobox.sk>",
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"msg_subject": "i18n - sk"
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"msg_contents": "Am Fr... |
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"msg_contents": "hackers,\n\nhere goes the last missing bunch of strings translated to sk.\n\nCheers\n\nZoltan",
"msg_date": "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:18:07 +0200",
"msg_from": "Zoltan Bartko <bartko.zoltan@pobox.sk>",
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"msg_contents": "Someone on IRC just reported this to_char() failure with negative\nintervals:\n\t\n\ttest=> SELECT to_char('-00:17:56.886375'::interval, 'HH24:MI:SS');\n\t to_char\n\t----------\n\t 00:-1:-5\n\t(1 row)\n\nLooks like a bug to me. :-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are having a performance problem with our database. The problem\nexists when we include a constraint in GCTBALLOT. The constraint is as\nfollows:\n\nalter table GCTBALLOT\n add constraint FK_GCTBALLOT_GCTWEBU foreign key (GCTWEBU_SRL)\n references GCTWEBU (SRL)\n on dele... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nI'm having some spare time and I'm testing what Tom Lane was\nsuggesting:\n\n===========================================================================\nTom Lane wrote:\n1. You set up WAL archiving on the master, and arrange to ship ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi ,\n\ncan anybody tell me the postgres - syntax for begin excepion end if I \nwant to ignore the error?\n\nBEGIN\n exception ...\nEXCEPTION\n WHEN OTHERS THEN ?????????????what to write for do nothing?????????\nEND;\n\nin oracle it's\n\nWHEN OTHERS THEN null; but this syntax doesn't work ... |
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"msg_contents": " Now that CA has open sourced Ingres what future do\nyou guess to Postgresql and MySQL?\n\n Don't missunderstand me, I have been using Postgresql\nfor more than 3 years and developing apps against it\nand all I got is possitive impressions, but comparing\nthe upcoming 8.0 (7.5) release with I... |
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"msg_contents": "> Is there a way to do that without too much (mwahahhaha! fiddling with\n> pg_class!!!) trickery?\n\nesp=# alter table test add primary key(id);\nNOTICE: ALTER TABLE / ADD PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index\n\"test_pkey\" for table \"test\"\nALTER TABLE\n",
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"msg_contents": "Kind people,\n\nI've brought this up before, and with Dennis BjÅrklund's help, would\nlike to bring it up again. Here's the idea:\n\nI'd like to be able to create functions with named parameters that\ncould be called with the names in any order. For example,\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nI seen that Eric Kerin did the work suggested by Tom about\nhow to use the PITR in order to have an hot spare postgres,\nwriting a C program.\n\nI did the same writing 2 shell scripts, one of them perform\nthe restore the other one de... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nShould be backport the 'fix acls on owner to' on tables to 7.4? The \nother acl objects did not have owner to commands in 7.4 IIRC, but the \nalter table is definitely broken.\n\nChris\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:12:20 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chr... |
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"msg_contents": "HI,\n\nCompiling beta1 on Unixware 714 is OK, regression test are ok (with the\nmp1 patch applied)\n\nHowever make check-install fails if default_with_oids=false in\npostgresql.conf (witch is normal regarding regression tests) but they\nmight be changed in a other version when you guys change... |
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"msg_contents": "David,\n\n> Dennis has pointed out that mixing the call-with-named-parameter\n> interface with call-by-order-of-parameters one would cause confusion,\n> and I think it would be OK to disallow this type mixing, so\n\nAs we've discussed on IRC, this should be the difference between a FUNCTION \... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI run fedora rawhide and would like to try out the beta, but I like\nkeeping things \"neat and tidy\" using SRPMS where possible, as opposed to\ntgz.\n\nAnyone have an SRPM of spec file for the beta?\n\nThanks,\nSteve\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:23:02 -0500",
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"msg_contents": "I am catching up on my email. I am OK reading the email, but am\nback-logged in dealing with email that needs my attention.\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, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I see stats collector processes die in current when I suspend\npostmaster then put it in background from a terminal:\n\n$ ps x\n:\n:\n21638 pts/1 S 0:00 /bin/bash -i\n30525 pts/1 S 0:00 postmaster\n30527 pts/1 S 0:00 postgres: writer process \n30528 pts/1 S 0... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nJason Godden pointed out some weird savepoint behaviour on IRC and i've\nnarrowed this down to a simpler case.\n\nWe see the following behaviour against HEAD:\n\ntemplate1=# create table foo(i int, j text);\nCREATE TABLE\ntemplate1=# create unique index foo_idx on foo(i); -- not, c... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch implements ALTER SCHEMA ... SET TABLESPACE.\n\nThis changes the default schema tablespace but does not attempted to move\nobjects within the schema to the new tablespace.\n\nDocs, regression test and tab-completion included.\n\nThere were a few places which conflicted with my alter... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone just asked about a COPY capability to supply the column headings\nas the first line of the copy statement. Do we want to support\nsomething like that? Does anyone else want such functionality?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.... |
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"msg_contents": ">>> Does anyone have any more?\n>\n>> win32 signal safe socket handler\n>\n>I thought that was solved long ago?\n\nIf this is what I think it is (Merlin - please confirm), this relates to\nthe SSL code only. And the issue is that there are (I think - haven't\n100% verified it yet) paths in th... |
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"msg_contents": ">> That's ugly, and unfortunately %z is GNU-specific.\n>\n>Does Windows' strftime have any short zone name %-spec? Seems like a\n>quick #ifdef WIN32 to use a more compact zone name would be the best\n>solution.\n\nNo. This is what the cruft in pgtz.c (TZABBREV macro and associated\nfunction)... |
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"msg_contents": ">Since we do have control over the timezone library now, one possible\n>answer is to extend the src/timezone API so that it's possible to\n>convert/format against more than a single timezone. We could then\n>remember the zone setting inherited from the postmaster and always use\n>that when f... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for the late reply, missed your initial response.\n\n> \"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:\n> >> Does anyone have any more?\n> \n> > win32 signal safe socket handler\n> \n> I thought that was solved long ago?\n\nAs magnus wrote, we need to confirm that ssl sockets ... |
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"msg_contents": "Might be worthwhile to look at SQL*Server BCP format files:\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adminsq\nl/ad_impt_bcp_9yat.asp\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref\n/ts_ba-bz_4fec.asp\n\nA TCL/TK front end would be especially... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nMany hackers worked for PostgreSQL 8.0.0 release, which was one of the\nmost active development period of PostgreSQL history. We got too many\ncontributors for this release which is a great success, I think.\n\nA lot of other OSS proj... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThat'd likely be useful. Either specify the column\nnames with COPY or \\copy, or put them in the data file\nand pass an option to the command to look for them.\nThe only time this could be a problem is if you forget\nto tell COPY to look for the field names in the file\n(AND specify the fi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI my work I have problem with some ugly SQL. Processing some query takes 2 \ndays and more (problem is in queries not in PostgreSQL). I can't wait on \nend of query and can't take text of query from serverlog. Text of queries \nhas about 2 - 7 Kb. I have problem identifi queries in o... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\ncan this be made a TODO?\n\nThanks\n\n-- \nMarkus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>\n\nMarkus Bertheau wrote:\n> Hi,\n> \n> PostgreSQL doesn't allow the creation of a foreign key to a combination\n> of fields that has got no dedicated unique key but is unique nonetheless\n> bec... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nI just received a question about psql. They want psql to show 'only' the \ndatabases that the 'current_user' owns.\n\nI'd like to hack it for them but I don't know where \\l is called and \ndefined. Could someone point me where the co... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nlooking at how ctid is used is clear to me:\n\n\ninsert line (A) in a table; ==> ctid = (0, 1);\nrollback an update for the line (A);\ninsert a line (B) in the table; ==> ctid = (0, 3);\nvacuum full;\ninsert a line (C) in the table; ==> ctid = (0, 2);\n\nI was expecting this f... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear hackers,\n\nSome minor comments about the new tablespace feature in 8.0beta1:\n\nIt seems to me that tablespaces and sequences are not yet prefectly\nintegrated.\n\n(1) the \"CREATE SEQUENCE foo TABLESPACE disk2\" syntax does not seem\n to be implemented.\n\n(2) when creating an imp... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to build 7.4.3 under Solaris 9 with gcc and static linking of \nlibgcc. This requires passing '-static-libgcc' when linking both \nbinaries and shared libraries.\n\nPassing 'LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc' to configure only partially works. \nBinaries are correctly linked with that flag, b... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSorry for delay, working through the packages ...\n\n7.4.4 is available via ftp right now if anyone wants to take a quick peak \nat it ... they seem right, based on sizes ...\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.org ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to run initdb on win32, freshly compiled from CVS HEAD, but I \nget the following error:\n\ncreating template1 database in data/base/1 ... failed to get token \ninformation: 122\n\nAny ideas?\n\nRegards,\n\nThomas Hallgren\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:27:08 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "Yes, one :-)\n\nIs your account by any chance a member of a large number of groups? If\nso, how many?\n\nThere is a fixed buffer of 1024 bytes. I have a feeling ythat one has to\nbe changed to dynamic.\n\n//Magnus\n\n>-----Original Message-----\n>From: Thomas Hallgren [mailto:thhal@mailblocks... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIf someone wants to take a peak at it ... it *shrunk* from 7.3.6 ...\n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 10367088 Aug 17 15:53 postgresql-7.3.7.tar.gz\n-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 11288430 Mar 4 21:35 postgresql-7.3.6.tar.gz\n\nI'm re-running the build right now, to see if there are any errors ... |
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"msg_contents": "8.0.0beta1 tarball built with gcc 3.2.3 under Solaris 9 on a E250 \n(ultrasparc). I see the same bug as described in \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2004-05/msg00248.php: a mask \nof 255.255.255.255 in pg_hba.conf is rejected with\n\n> LOG: invalid IP mask \"255.255.255.255\" in... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nnow that we have the tablespace support don't you think that\neach tablespace needs his own costs instead of a system wide\none ?\n\nI searched in the archives and on the TODO list without success.\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n\n---... |
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"msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n I tried compile some program with latest CVS libpq:\n\n gcc -O2 -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -I/usr/include/httpd\n -Wall -I/usr/lib/postgresql/include -DLIBAPMOM_FUNCALL=1 -Wall\n -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations `xml2-config --cflags`\n `Wand-config --cppflags` ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > There is a fixed buffer of 1024 bytes. I have a feeling \n> ythat one has \n> > to be changed to dynamic.\n> > \n> You're quite right. The 'InfoBufferSize' denotes 1122 bytes \n> after this call.\n> \n> if(!GetTokenInformation(AccessToken,TokenGroups,InfoBuffer,102\n> 4,&InfoBufferSize)) ... |
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"msg_contents": "The OSDL provides two services to aid in development processes: The\nPatch Lifecycle Manager (PLM) and the Scalable Test Platform (STP).\nRecent releases allow software other than the linux kernel to be\nactively tested.\n\nPLM (http://www.osdl.org/plm-cgi/plm) can be used for storing a seri... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have just noticed that \\d+ tablename doesn't show the table \ncomment/description - should it? Is this a TODO?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:26:42 -0400",
"msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "p... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm seeing \"gcc: unrecognized option `-pthreads'\" over and over when \nbuilding from cvs tip.\n\n# pg_config --configure\n'--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-8.0' '--with-pgport=55435' '--with-perl' \n'--with-tcl' '--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib' '--without-tk' '--with-python' \n'--enable-nls' '--enable-... |
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"msg_contents": "While fixing the gui for pg_dump and pg_restore, I painfully noticed \nthere's no option for the password.\nAfter some tests, I found that using the PGPASSWORD environment variable \nwill do the job. I'm a bit irritated that it's marked \"deprecated\" in \nthe docs, the .pgpass solution isn't... |
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"msg_contents": "Friends,\nI would like to know if PostgreSQL can run as a Distributed Data Base \nManagement System. Is possible, throught PostgreSQL, to implement \nhorizontal partition, this is, to fragment tables horizontally?\nFor example, can I have a Data Base with 1 table, where it is \nhorizontally f... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just noticed that there are some severe bugs in the column-aliasing\nfeature in the presence of dropped columns. For instance\n\nregression=# create table t1(f1 int, f2 int, f3 int);\nCREATE TABLE\nregression=# select * from t1 as t(a,b);\n a | b | f3 -- o... |
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"msg_contents": "Magnus Hagander wrote:\n> >> \twin32 binary version stamps\n> >\n> >Magnus has just gone on holiday for a couple of weeks but \n> >before he left\n> >he did tell me he'd submitted what was hopefully the final patch for\n> >this. I haven't seen it yet though - is it stuck in the queue?\n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Short bug report:\n\nWhen installing PgSQL into a non-standard location (like /opt/foo) the \nconfigure script decides to install all the contrib libraries and \nplpglsq into /opt/foo/lib/postgresql. This would be fine, except that \nbackend does not recognize this directory as a place to be... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nI'm trying to build RPMS for 7.3.7 but I have a problem. \ncontrib/earthdistance seems empty, so configure exits with error:\n\nmake[1]: Leaving directory \n`/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/postgresql-7.3.7/contrib/dbsize'\nmake[1]: Entering ... |
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"msg_contents": ">>>How about an environment variable that points to a .pgpass type file.\n>>\n>>You can do that today: point $HOME at some temp directory or other.\n>>AFAIR pg_dump doesn't make any other use of $HOME ...\n>>\n>>>Or we could even play games with PGPASSWORD - if it names an \n>existing file \n... |
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