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"msg_contents": ">\n> >> > * Allow views to specify column names outside SELECT statement\n> >>\n> >> ??? what is meant by that?\n> >\n> >I have no idea. I am removing it. Does anyone else know what it means?\n>\n> It probably means:\n> create view myview (name, salary, hours) as select lname, currsal, ... |
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"msg_contents": "My AIX box only accepts %lld as the long long int printf format.\n\nIf this format also works on other platforms, I think it would be nice to use this instead of %Ld\nWhat is the standard ?\n\nAndreas\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:27:59 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have this small patch which fixes a typo in my previous lock patches.\nFortunately the bug affects only user locks.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n*** src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c~\tWed Aug 26 09:00:55 1998\n--- src/backend/stora... |
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"msg_contents": "This one is against the current archive (so it contains the one I send the\nother day). It should fix the AIX problems. Andreas, could you please try\nit? Thanks.\n\nMichael\n\ndiff -rcN ecpg/ChangeLog ecpg.mm/ChangeLog\n*** ecpg/ChangeLog\tTue Aug 25 19:11:36 1998\n--- ecpg.mm/ChangeLog\tFri... |
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"msg_contents": "Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz> writes:\n> [I wrote]\n>> Say, do you know whether the 6.3.2 Postgres release worked OK with\n>> Tcl 8? If so, it might just be that pgtclId.h needs to set\n>> HAVE_TCL_GETFILEPROC to 0 for Tcl 8.\n> I have tried this, but doesn't work. In current libpgt... |
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"msg_contents": "I am having problems with libpgtcl from the current snapshot and\ntcl-8.0p2. I gather this is because of a changing API in tcl, because\nlibpgtcl used to compile fine.\n\nWhat is the solution to these ongoing problems? Do we have a bunch of\ncompatability macros in some header file? Do we ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n\n> Are you compiling with optimization. Thay may do it.\n\nYes, and it does :-(\n\nCompiled with -O0 everything works fine (well almost).\nWith -O2, the default, I get the SIGSEGV as before.\n\nI seem to remember I had this optimisation problem so... |
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"msg_contents": "Where is it? Who is working on it? We should have it for 6.4.\n\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be you... |
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"msg_contents": "Here they are. I know people want the 6.4 feature list.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\ncidr/IP address type\nchange pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes\n\t(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)\nfix problem when DEFAULT string f... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, how is the new IP type going? I have this message\nfrom July 20th saying you were going to try and merge the Vixie code and\nthe ip_and_mac code. We would all like to have this as part of 6.4, if\npossible. I would like to move it out of contrib, and put into the main\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added more to the last item.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n 9) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?\n \n You first need to find the tuples(rows) you are interested in. There\n are two ways. Fi... |
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"msg_contents": "If anyone has been watching my trials and tribulations building\nand running the latest CVS snapshot under S/Linux on a SUN\nSPARCstation IPX.\n\nThe latest position is:-\n\nIf I compile with optimization turned off (-O0 instead of -O2)\nI get an almost clean run of the regressin tests. Only ... |
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"msg_contents": "New item.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n 10) What is elog()?\n \n elog() is used to send messages to the front-end, and optionally\n terminate the current query being processed. The first parameter is an\n elog level of NOTICE, DEB... |
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"msg_contents": "If a COPY failed, the file was never closed. The new code closes any\nopen file descriptors when copy is called after a failure.\n\nI made the file descriptor 'static' and set a flag to remember if I\nclosed the one I used previously.\n\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 B... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter, Michael has started a ChangeLog file for ecpg that lists the\nchanges and dates he makes the changes. Can you do this for 6.4? I am\nnot sure I am getting all the jdbc stuff. I could just point them to\nthat file.\n\nWhat I am doing with the HISTORY file is to tell them to look in t... |
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"msg_contents": "> Peter, Michael has started a ChangeLog file for ecpg that lists the\n> changes and dates he makes the changes. Can you do this for 6.4? I am\n> not sure I am getting all the jdbc stuff. I could just point them to\n> that file.\n> \n> What I am doing with the HISTORY file is to tell them ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThomas A. Szybist <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> \n> Hi, yes, I'm having trouble as well. \n\nSorry to hear that but I don't feel quite so alone now ;-)\n\n> \n> I'm crashing anytime I create a table, (-O2). I just tried the 8/29 snapshot.\n> I've got an environment set up now to try a few thin... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, here is the HISTORY file for 6.4. New items will be added to the\nend as they are done. This is now on the web site at the end of the\nTODO list.\n\nLooking over the list, this is clearly an enhancement release, many new\nfeatures. Any performance measurements compared to 6.3.2 would b... |
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"msg_contents": "I mentioned that people should send it documenation updates for the new\n6.4 features.\n\nLet me list the places that often have to be updated:\n\n\tcommand-line arg printout from inside the program\n\tpsql help in psqlHelp.c\n\tman pages\n\tsgml docs\n\nI am not suggesting you have to learn ... |
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"msg_contents": "As far as I am concerned, we are ready to go.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be your backup. | ... |
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"msg_contents": "I haven't been examining the 6.4 cvs or snapshots, so this may or may not\nbe relevant. \n\nIn 6.3.2 and prior versions, the man page for psql incorrectly\nindicated that -T as a command line option turned off the printing\nof column names in the output. Actually, the lower case option, -t\... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the last thing I think I promised for 6.4. It is a script that\nwill allow 6.3.* users to upgrade to 6.4 without reloading all their\ndata.\n\nIt works by copying the user tables/index files to a backup directory,\ndestroying and recreating the database, then using the\npg_dump/pg_du... |
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"msg_contents": "> Applied. Autoconf done.\n> \n> Wow, Bruce! That was fast. You're on the ball tonight.\n\nI have been doing my pre-release marathon to get things ready. There is\nno other way to do it. It has to be done.\n\nI have finally finished after doing nothing else except sleep for the\npast ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have installed pg_upgrade in the pg_dump directory, so it now gets\ninstalled as part of the system. I have added a manual page with\ninstructions on its use, and have mentioned the command in the INSTALL\nfile.\n\nPlease let me know how it works. My testing on a small data sample\nworked... |
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"msg_contents": "backend/libpq/pgcomm.c no longer compiles on my system. The cvs log sez\n\nMassimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>\n> socket-flock.patch\n> use advisory locks to check if the unix socket can be deleted.\n> A running postmaster keeps a lock on that file. A starting\n> postmaster ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am planning on running pgindent on Monday, in preparation for the next\nrelease.\n\nI assume no one will be sitting on any big patches. If you are, let me\nknow and I will wait.\n\nMarc, I assume we are on schedule for a Tuesday beta release.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nI am porting my old contrib modules to 6.4. While testing string_io I found\nthis strange bug:\n\ndz=> select textin(textout('a\\007b'));\ntextin\n------\nab \n(1 row)\n\ndz=> \\i /usr/local/pgsql/lib/sql/string_io.sql;\n...\ndz=> select textin(c_textout('a\\007b'));\ntextin\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nI have ported my old contrib modules to the last pgsql snapshot.\n\nHere is a tar file the new directories, which substitute the old ones\nin contrib. Please remove the old directories array, datetime, miscutil,\nstring and userlock before unpacking the tar file in contrib.\nYo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIs it 'lo_unlink' a secure function?.\nI've problems with it. I'm using a database with large objects (images) and\nI've problems\nwith that, this problems are:\n\n* Sometimes, when I tried to export a large object with SQL command:\n\n SELECT lo_export(oid '65570', '/tmp/myf... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have some patches to man pages (listen, unlisten and create_sequence).\n\n-- \nMassimo Dal Zotto\n\n+----------------------------------------------------------------------+\n| Massimo Dal Zotto email: dz@cs.unitn.it |\n| Via Marconi, 141 ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Thomas A. Szybist\" <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> > \n> > Again, if someone wants to conditionally compile the directories to find\n> > the offending file, I am sure we can get a fix for it.\n> > \n>\n> At first look it seems to be: backend/catalog... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm having a little trouble updating to the latest cvs tree, because\nI can't dump my existing database, neither with the latest pgdump source\nnor with that of two weeks ago. I've run out of steam to debug it\ntonight, but it looks like the failure is occuring while pgdump tries\nto locate ... |
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"msg_contents": "Looks like the changes to createdb and pg_dumpall are causing some\nproblems.\n\nIt expects createdb -help to work, and it doesn't.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi,\n> \n> I am having problems with the sub-select in PostgreSQL. As I have not\n> tried to use these before, I am not sure if the problem is with me, SQL\n> or PostgreSQL.\n> \n> I have two tables:\n> \n> CREATE TABLE tab1 (\n> locus char16,\n> shortname char8\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Changes at the time of pgindent run:\n\n\tCInfo -> ClauseInfo\n\tJInfo -> JoinInfo\n\treturn (0) -> return 0\n\tRelationGetTupleDescriptor -> RelationGetTupleDesc\n\tx[] -> *x\n\trelrdesc -> rel\n\nAnyone have any problems with these changes?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | ... |
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"msg_contents": "Also, during the pgindent run, we have TypeTupleForm and\nAttributeTupleForm, while we also have Form_pg_class, etc.\n\nSeems they should be named similar. It will make the Developers FAQ\nitem 9 easier to understand if we have uniform way to cast a HeapTuple\npointer.\n\n\tTypeTupleForm -> ... |
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"msg_contents": "> >Looks like the changes to createdb and pg_dumpall are causing some\n> >problems.\n> >\n> >It expects createdb -help to work, and it doesn't.\n> \n> Oops. I'll fix this.\n\nHere are patches for bin/createdb/createdb.sh.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n\n-------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm just trying the three ecpg examples. Perftest gives me a stange NOTICE\nline on every statement:\n\nNOTICE: CAN't OPEN INDEX 18346 - SKIP IT\n\nI tried again after running initdb, but still get this notice, just with a\ndifferent number: 18314.\n\nAlso the last step gives an error:\n\nsql... |
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"msg_contents": "As I mentioned before, I did some trials on my LinuxPPC box last week\nend. First I compiled with -O0. To my surprise, things got worse than -\nO2. Seems tas() for PPC (storage/buffer/s_lock.c) never works if\ncompiled with -O0. Included are patches that should fix the problem\n(of course I h... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>Another idea would be to do actual UNION queries:\n>\n>\tSELECT * FROM tab\n>\tWHERE (x=3 and y=4)\n>\tUNION\n>\tSELECT * FROM tab\n>\tWHERE (x=3 and y=5)\n>\tUNION\n>\tSELECT * FROM tab\n>\tWHERE (x=3 and y=6) ...\n>\n>This would work well for tables with indexes, but for a sequential sca... |
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"msg_contents": "Thomas A. Szybist\" <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> > Bruce Momjian\n> > \n> > Again, if someone wants to conditionally compile the directories to find\n> > the offending file, I am sure we can get a fix for it.\n> > \n> \n> At first look it seems to be: backend/catalog/indexing.c.\n> Maybe Keith c... |
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"msg_contents": "The recent changes in the tracing code are unfortunately not portable.\n\n#define PRINTF(args...) tprintf(TRACE_ALL, args)\n\nis not accepted by all compilers. Is there another way to express this ?\nIs my AIX xlc Version 3.1.4 the only one with this problem ? \n\nAndreas\n\n"... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Sir,\n I've used UNION operator to combine 3 queries.\n But I found that\n - the number of tuples return from UNION operation was LESS than\n\nthe sum of each query tuples\n - UNION or UNION ALL return the same result set\n\n PLEASE SUGGEST ME WHERE IS IN... |
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"msg_contents": "Thomas A. Szybist <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> \n> > \n> > If I compile backend/catalog with -O2 then the table creation is\n> ^^^\n> > OK. So it looks like it may be indexing.c, even with Bruce's\n> > recent fixes.\n> \n> Do you mean -O0 here?\n> \n\nYes, a ty... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've just posted to the patches list the update for the JDBC driver ready\nfor the beta.\n\nThe only thing that still needs work on before 6.4 is the new Object\nserialisation code, but as that's been in the driver for a couple of\nmonths now, I can finish it off while we are in beta ;-)\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "The following is a scenario I ran on my AIX box using the Sunday night\nsnapshot. Notice that, after creating an index on foo, relname can not\nbe selected without a wildcard \"%\" on both ends of foo. Equal \"=\" does\nnot work either. It is as if a hidden character is sitting in front... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\ntwo errors:\n1.) missing include (for FreeBSD 3.0-current?) in libpq-fe.h: (Patch below)\n2.) when firing the attached query (query.sql)\n on data which schema is attached(y.sql),\n the backend crashes during the query.\n (droping tage_1 fixes the problem btw.)\n\nany ideas?\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Tatsuo Ishii wrote:\n\n> Has anyone seen sh syntax erros in configure?\n> ----------------------------------------------\n> checking for ginstall... test: syntax error\n> no\n> checking for installbsd... test: syntax error\n> no\n> checking for bsdinst... test: syntax error\n> no\n> checking ... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> > \n> > The old code in this section was somewhat mangled.\n> > \n> > Can I telnet into this machine?\n> > \n> \n> I'm afraid I'm dialup only but would be willing to liase with\n> you and be online for you to telnet in, if no alternative\n> p... |
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"msg_contents": "I have completed the source code cleanups for 6.4.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be your backup. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n\n> \n> > Thomas A. Szybist <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> > > \n> > > > \n> > > > If I compile backend/catalog with -O2 then the table creation is\n> > > ^^^\n> > > > OK. So it looks like it may be indexing.c, even with... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> \n> > Thomas A. Szybist <szybist@boxhill.com>\n> > > \n> > > > \n> > > > If I compile backend/catalog with -O2 then the table creation is\n> > > ^^^\n> > > > OK. So it looks like it may be indexing.c, even with B... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\ntwo errors:\n1.) missing include (for FreeBSD 3.0-current?) in libpq-fe.h: (Patch below)\n2.) when firing the attached query (query.sql)\n on data which schema is attached(y.sql),\n the backend crashes during the query.\n (droping tage_1 fixes the problem btw.)\n\nany ideas?\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n\n> \n> > (gdb) print attrNums[attOff]\n> > $3 = 15\n> > (gdb) print *hTupDesc\n> > $5 = {natts = 0, attrs = 0x0, constr = 0x0}\n> > (gdb) print fInfo\n> > $6 = (FuncIndexInfo *) 0x0 \n> > \n> \n> I believe this is the pg_proc.prosrc index. This is ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm taking a MS level database design class this semester, and didn't\nreally want to use the school's ORACLE database on their machines, so...\n\nI built the postgres-6.3.2 package on my NetBSD-current/pc532 machine\nover the last few days. For those of you who care slightly, this is\na NS3... |
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"msg_contents": "When running my perftest example I still create an unaccessible index:\n\npostgres@feivel:~/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg.mm/test$ ./perftest\nI needed 14 seconds and 761468 microseconds for the insert test.\nNOTICE: CAN't OPEN INDEX 18378 - SKIP IT\nI needed 28 seconds and 444260 microseconds f... |
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"msg_contents": "> I can not reproduce on my Linux box. Assertions show nothing. This can't be\n> good.\n> Andreas, are you having any success?\n\nThe goodies:\n\tusing %lld for int8 I get\nint8 .. ok\ncreate_function_2 .. ok\nselect_having .. ok\n\nThe down side:\ncreate_index .. failed\n\nSame problem... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried adding the PRIMARY KEY info to pg_class but the resulting data\nbase system simply dumps core everywhere. Can someone point me to the\nareas that need to be addressed? Here's what I did. I added a field\ncalled \"relprimary\" to pg_class in pg_class.h as type Oid then added\n-1 to ... |
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"msg_contents": "In transcribing Jose's reference page docs, I've come across examples\nwhere Jose has exposed deficiencies in Postgres' support of SQL92. I've\nfixed several (easier than transcribing more words :) and I've run into\na bit of trouble on the latest one with the\n\n CREATE TABLE tablename DEFA... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIts not a rave review or anything like that, but its nice that we're\nrecognized as finding standards compliance a priority :)\n\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:27:25 +0200\nFrom: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>\nTo: Jack Freelander <jack@cs.cs.miami.e... |
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"msg_contents": "Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>\n> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> > Can we try a simple -O rather than just -O2 and -O0. Could this be \n> > some type of optimizer bug in gcc2/Solaris?\n> > Everything is pointing to indexing.c, from both the initdb failure and\... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, I have found the problem. I looked AGAIN at CatalogIndexInsert(),\nbecause all problems seem to be localized there. I remembered something\nTom Szybist said yesterday while we were on the phone about Datum only\nbeing one value.\n\nI said they are chained together, which I saw in IndexF... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nI'm just taking an update from CVS.\n\nI'll kick off the process to build and test before I go to bed\nand then check the results in the morning.\n\nIt's 1:45am and I've just logged off from work, connected to my\nISP and seen this mail.\n\nI look forward to seeing a clean set of re... |
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"msg_contents": "I am still waiting for the first report from my index fix.\n\nAnyone?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nJust to confirm, your fixes are just the job.\n\nThe regression tests run fine with only the failures I have always\nseen due to maths precision and SIGFPE handling.\n\nThanks for your persistence in tracking this \"bug\" down.\n\nKeith.\n\n\nBruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\nI still have the same problems with one of my indices. To reproduce this\nproblem just go into pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/test and type make; createdb\nmm; ./perftest.\n\nThe index number1 will never go away.\n\nMichael\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\nI still have the same problems with one of my indices. To reproduce this\nproblem just go into pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/test and type make; createdb\nmm; ./perftest.\n\nThe index number1 will never go away.\n\nMichael\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Here is the result of regression test of the latest cvs\non Linux box, p200MMX, I compiled pgsql witj egcs using\n-O2 -mpentium - just failed tests:\n\ngeometry .. failed\nhorology .. failed\nconstraints .. failed\nconstraints .. failed\ntriggers .. failed\ncreate_index .. failed\nsanity_chec... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Lorenzo,\n\n PostgreSQL v6.4 which is, currently in Beta and scheduled for release\nOct. 1, is planned to have an IPV6 type (can't remember what it was\ndecided to call it). You might just want to grab the current snapshot\nand see what it has to offer.\n\t\t-DEJ\n\n\n\n> Hello, \n> \n... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Thu, 03 Sep 1998, you wrote:\n> >> Is there something like:\n> >> SET LOCK MODE {TO WAIT | TO NO WAIT | TO WAIT n}\n> >> in postgresql?\n> >> Thanks\n> >What does it do?\n> >\t-DEJ\n> \n> It means if during your transaction you've found something\n> locked you will WAIT for it, or NO WAI... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi patchers/hackers.\n\nHere's a patch for initdb that does two things.\n\n1) Encloses the created rulenames in quotes to preserve case\n in the creation step. (stores _RETpg... instead of _retpg...)\n I believe _RET is standard for views.\n \n2) Renames pg_view to pg_views and pg_rule ... |
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"msg_contents": "I put some extra checks to make sure a query was a good candidate for\nrewrite into a UNION. Besides the existing checks:\n\n1. Make sure the AND/OR tree was rectangular. ( i.e. 3 X 4 or 10 X\n3)\n2. Only one table.\n3. Must have an AND dimension.\n4. At least 9 OP expressions tot... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce mentioned that he'd had some trouble applying my last set of\npatches, because he'd already run his reformatting script against\nthe files involved. So, I took the trouble to grovel through a\n\"diff --ignore-all-space\" comparison of tonight's cvs tree with what\nI had last week. (I ... |
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"msg_contents": "hi, hackers!\ndo you plan some improvments on subqueries?\nUnfortunately, in v6.3.2 they often works very slowly, and thus\nare useful only on quite small tables :-(\n\nThanky you\nAleksey.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:15:19 +0300 (IDT)",
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"msg_contents": "src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c:\n\n> socket-flock.patch\n>\n> use advisory locks to check if the unix socket can be deleted.\n> A running postmaster keeps a lock on that file. A starting\n> postmaster exits if the file exists and is locked, otherwise\n> it deletes the sock... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nWell, maybe you'll like at least my reasons to ask this\nquestion in the subject field.\n\nI want to know:\n1. Whether PostgreSQL can stand the near real-time\ndemands of a financial trading environment?\n2. Whether there are any examples of this in actual usage?\n\nMy reasons are:... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust added a more generic looking one from the sendmail\ndistribution...there will be errors with it, as I have yet to test it\nunder Solaris...\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:35:23 -0400 (EDT)",
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"msg_contents": "> > The person who said they were going to work on the IP type has not\n> > responded to my requests for a status, and nothing has been added in\n> > that area in 6.4.\n> \n> That would be me. What I said was that it looked like the thing to do\n> was to pick the best ideas the three impleme... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>In your example:\n>\n> SELECT x.a, x.b, count(y.a) FROM t1 x, t2 y\n> WHERE x.a = y.a GROUP BY x.a, x.b;\n>\n>Are you suggesting that if there are rows in t1 that are not in t2, that the\n>count could/should be zero?\n\nNooooooo, the count can only be 0 if you do an outer join in thi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOpen portability issues:\n\n/usr/local should be searched for lib and include for all ports if present \n(currently not working, I have libreadline there)\n\nthe stream functions on AIX need a size_t for addrlen's in fe-connect.c and pqcomm.c.\n\nlock.c still has an incompatible TPRINTF(fla... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\nI am getting the following errors. I am using 6.3.2 on linux Redhat 5.1\n\ncreate table person (person_id int not null,\nmarital_status char(1),\nunique(person_id));\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UNIQUE will create implicit index\nperson_person_id_key for table person\nCREATE\nMy comments: T... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\n\n select min(oid) from pg_class;\n ERROR: function min(oid) does not exist\n\nI got this surprise while trying to optimize a hack for the PostgreSQL\nfunctions in Keystone (http://www.stonekeep.com/keystone).\n\nroland\n\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-... |
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"msg_contents": "D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:\n> \n> >\n> > pg_index is good place for all _3_ key types because of:\n> >\n> > 1. index should be created for each foreign key -\n> > just for performance.\n> > 2. pg_index already has int28 field for key attributes.\n> > 3. pg_index already has indisunique (note ... |
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"msg_contents": "Off topic, but I now have a home office webcam. You can see it at:\n\n\thttp://www.op.net/~candle\n\nI will be on-line all day today, so you can click on the bottom link to\nsee a live feed.\n\nHowever, I will not be working today, so the chair will be empty.\nHowever, I will leave a little ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\nI've applied the junkfilter because I want to use the ODBC-driver to \nlet\nAccess make some querys on a postgres-db.\n\nBut since this patch i can't Delete tuples anymore. A 'Delete from \ntable\nwhere x=1;' will crash the backend. :-(\n\nAny hints?\n\nI tryed this with postgresql.6.3.2... |
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"msg_contents": "I see a number of people tried the cam today:\n\t\n\tbootp-150-57.bootp.Virginia.EDU\n\thectic-2.jpl.nasa.gov\n\tdial1-06.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE\n\tROMANI.kfunigraz.ac.at\n\tclassyad.com\n\tmtcc.demon.co.uk\n\tj8.sbu32.jaring.my\n\tdialin4.sf.medweb.net\n\twww-proxy-2.maz.net\n\ttl-1.proxy.is-europ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've found the following SISGEV while playing around with a snapshot of\nSeptember 3rd.\n\nI did a make all (with -g); make install; rm -rf data; initdb\n\nHere's what I've done in gdb:\n\n[postgres@jeroenv bin]$ gdb postgres\nGDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copi... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQLers,\n\nFew days ago I posed a question about\nusage in a real-time environment etc.\n\nHere is a better version of that question:\n\nAs I understand PostgreSQL still has table\nlevel locking when multiple users access\nthe database. This hardly allows for a\nmulti-user databas... |
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"msg_contents": "I have just applied a patch to centralize the attribute alignment and\nsize computations in two new macros, att_align() and att_addlength().\n\nThis removes many switch statements that performed this task.\n\nIt probably does not change any functionality, but I was uncertain that\nall the ali... |
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"msg_contents": "Gerald Fischer wrote:\n\n> Hi Jose, hi Hackers!\n>\n> I reinstalled Postgresql with this patch about 10 times in the last 2 days, but without success. :-(\n>\n> I tried now to use the snapshot, and it compiled nearly without problems (in /src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y is a ';' missing... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi David!\n\nOn Mon, 07 Sep 1998 10:56:21 -0400, David Hartwig wrote:\n\nFirst of all I want to thank you for your mail.\n\n>> I reinstalled Postgresql with this patch about 10 times in the last 2 days, but without success. :-(\n>>\n>> I tried now to use the snapshot, and it compiled nearly w... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a very recent addition at line 664 of copy.c It will not\ncompile on AIX 4.1 Help!\n\ngmake[2]: Entering directory `/gnu/postgresql-6.4f/src/backend/commands'\n\nxlc -I../../include -I../../backend -qchars=signed -qmaxmem=8192\n-qhalt=w -qsrcmsg -qcheck=divzero -I/usr/local/incl... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>Also, could someone test is HAVING without aggregates\n>disallowed or not:\n>\n>select a, min (b) from x group by a having a = 0;\n\nallowed in Informix:\n a (min)\n No rows found.\n\nAndreas\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:40:30 +0200",
"msg_from": "Andreas Zeu... |
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"msg_contents": "In the constraints test, a table (primary_tbl) is defined with a primary key. \nThe table is created, shows up in the list of table using the \\dt command, but \ndoes not exist if you use the \\d command, or any SQL statement referencing the \ntable. Here is the output from the \\dt and \\d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi David!\n\nOn Mon, 07 Sep 1998 17:48:52 -0400, David Hartwig wrote:\n\n>> >> Please help, because I would need a running system tomorrow :-( (For the moment it will do it without delete, but not for ever).\n>> >>\n>> >\n>> >It is difficult for me to figure out what your problem is. What ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear pgsql-hackers :\n\nIt was a good opportunity to know you and PostgreSQL\nthrough Internet. As we are researching on various kinds of DBMS, we\nfind it valuable to use for our new R&D project.\n\nFirst of all, I would like to introduce myself to you. I work for Cheil\ncomputer & commun... |
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"msg_contents": "It works! I can run perftest without having to keep an unaccessible index.\n\nI do have some problems with heap_delete though:\n\nsql error Error: ERROR: heap_delete: (am)invalid tid\n line 120.\nsql error Error: ERROR: heap_delete: (am)invalid tid\n line 120.\nsql error Error: ERROR: heap... |
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"msg_contents": ">\n>Theory: Could it be that the index is ok, but that pg_class is corrupted. This\n>is based on the earlier observation that shows the most recent inserts and\n>updated no being appended to the end of the table.\n\nNo, I don't think so, when a table gets \"lost\" there are more entries in ... |
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"msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n> Please apply this patch...\n\nand guess what ? Yes, it ist true !\ncreate_index .. ok\n\non AIX 4.2.1\n\nVadim you are again a hero\n\nAndreas\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:27:53 +0200",
"msg_from": "Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe libpq-function PQfsize() now returns\nint instead of short. It looks like, that\nthis needs some adaption in the backend, \nbecause now the size of a variable length\nfield is returned as 65535 instead of -1.\n\nEdmund\n-- \nEdmund Mergl mailto:E.Mergl@bawue.de\nIm Haldenh... |
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