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[ { "msg_contents": "Port report for Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) Linux: No errors.\n\nuname -a:\nLinux imgvmhost 2.4.26-gentoo-r3 #1 Tue Sep 7 14:20:02 EDT 2004 i686\nIntel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux\n\ngcc -v:\ngcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)\n\nconf...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Maybe we should mark the buildfarm member as \"s390 emulator\" ?\n> \n> It could be. But we'd rather use the full specification,\n> \"Hercules 2.37, ESAME S390 architecture, 31 bit mode, running Debian\n> Linux Woody\"\n\nFull support for IEEE float number instructions was added into Herc...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join \n> the buildfarm\n> > that would also be good.\n> \n> I can't put it in the buildfarm ;-) but I have access to real s390\n> hardware inside Red Hat. I'll try to run a test build and see whether\n> the regression tests pass.\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> However, one thing we can do is to try this in Makefile.aix:\n>> \t# AIX needs threads for everything that uses libpq\n>> \tLIBS += $(PTHREAD_LIBS)\n>> That is going to enable thread libs for all linking including the\n>> backend, but it might work.\n\n> That is certainly wrong. The corre...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks like --enable-cassert isn't handled properly under icc7\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herring&dt=2004-12-07%2016:30:44\n\n-- \nDarcy Buskermolen\nWavefire Technologies Corp.\nph: 250.717.0200\nfx: 250.763.1759\nhttp://www.wavefire.com\n", "msg_date": "Tue,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Port report for Solaris 8: No errors.\n\nuname -a:\nSunOS sunos58.build 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2\n\ngcc -v:\nReading specs from /gcc-3.4.0/sunos5/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.0/specs\nConfigured with: /gcc-3.4.0/src/dist/configure --prefix=/usr/site/gcc-3.4...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n======================\n All 96 tests passed.\n======================\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux paer 2.4.26-64-smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 29 04:59:03 UTC 2004 parisc64 GNU/Linux\n\npostgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid.\n\n-- \nNoèl Köthe <noel debian.org>\nDebian GNU/Linux, www.debi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have seen several cases where either pg_regress appears not to exit \nwith the expected non-zero exit status or \"make check\" does not \napparently exit with the expected non-zero status.\n\nIn particular, I've seen it on cygwin, windows, and have at least a \nsuspicion of it happening o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I already reinstall old version of PostgreSQL. However I still cannot\nrun PostgreSQL service after I reinstall on many time. I think that I\ncannot use pg_dump or all command without PostgreSQL service running. So\nWhat thing I can do now?\n\n>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> 7/12/200...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the error below a bug? Or a feature?\n\n% cat foo.sql \n\nSELECT version();\nCREATE TABLE foo ( \"key\" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, msg character(100));\nCREATE TABLE bar ( \"key\" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, msg character(100));\nCREATE VIEW baz AS SELECT * FROM foo UNION ALL SELECT * ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ni have added my own pocedural language in postgresql.\nby using the Create function command i ve also written\na procedure in that language.\n\nnow when invoke that function with \nSELECT (func_name) i receive the following error\nmessage\n\nERROR: language 17254 has old-style handler.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm a beginning developer to postgresql working on a CS Master's project trying to implement a new join operator. My question is how to effectively break down a TupleTableSlot into it's properties. I've been messing around with it for hours now and thought the code below would return the at...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi everyone\n\ni ve added my own pl language in postgresql. i ve\nfollowed the process mentioned in the documentation.\nfor the handler function i ve followed the following\ntemplate\n\nPG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(myhandler);\n\nDatum\nplsample_call_handler(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n{\n\tDatum rv;\n\t\n\t.....
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nWhile trying to build 7.2.6 FC1 RPMs due to a request from Pierlugi today, \nI saw an error in contrib/seg. This small patch fixed the typo and we can \nbuild the RPMs now. Could you please apply it to 7.2?\n\n========================...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHeh heh heh :-)\n\n- ---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:33:48 -0500\nFrom: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nReply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com\nTo: fedora-announce-list@redhat.com\nSubject: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n======================\n All 96 tests passed.\n======================\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux crest 2.4.26-amiga #1 Thu Apr 22 00:21:18 CEST 2004 m68k GNU/Linux\n\npostgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid.\n\n-- \nNoèl Köthe <noel debian.org>\nDebian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n======================\n All 96 tests passed.\n======================\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux vore 2.4.26 #1 SMP Tue Apr 20 14:16:21 EDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux\n\npostgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid.\n\n-- \nNoèl Köthe <noel debian.org>\nDebian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n======================\n All 96 tests passed.\n======================\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux pergolesi 2.4.26 #1 SMP Mon May 24 11:59:02 CEST 2004 x86_64 GNU/Linux\n\npostgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid.\n\nSadly tcl and pam devel files weren't installed so I could just ...
[ { "msg_contents": "At this very moment, the first snapshot of pgAdmin III 1.3 is uploading, \nwhich includes the pgsql configuration file editor.\n\nFor pginstaller purposes, the command line\n\tpgadmin3 -c <pgsql-datadir>\nor\tpgadmin3 -ch <pgsql-dir>\\pg_hba.conf\nor\tpgadmin3 -cm <pgsql-dir>\\postgresql.conf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry - please ignore.\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:41:36 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nThere are a bunch of error messages saying something like\n\n\"cannot foo because bar\"\n\nFor example,\n\nerrmsg(\"cannot assign to field \\\"%s\\\" of column \\\"%s\\\" because its type %s is not a composite type\")\n\nWhat do you think of changing those to use errdetail in addi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsee:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=hare&dt=2004-12-10%2005:15:05\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:12:33 -0500", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "apparent regression pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had to fix an old, badly written web application, it had some performance \nproblems sometimes. I found out there are some links broken:\nhttp://...../?id=123456778995934853\n\nin fact the link should be:\nhttp://...../?id=1234567&78995934853\n\nwhere the part &78995934853 was random and sh...
[ { "msg_contents": "The idea that bgwriter smooths out the response time of transactions is\nonly true if the buffer lists T1 and T2 have *some* clean buffers\navailable for use when performing I/O. The alternative is that\ntransactions unlucky enough to encounter the no-clean-buffers situation\nhave to clean a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\n$ uname -a\nDarwin Computer.local 7.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.5.0: Thu Aug 5 \n19:26:16 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.21.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC Power \nMacintosh powerpc\n\n./configure --with-includes=/sw/include --with-libs=/sw/lib \n--enable-thread-safety --with-perl --with-python --...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a problem with anonymous CVS? \"cvs update\" hasn't retrieved\nanything since before last week's outage. Or did I miss another\nmessage about CVS changes?\n\n% cat CVS/Repository \npgsql\n% cat CVS/Root \n:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot\n\n-- \nMichael Fuh...
[ { "msg_contents": "All went mainly well - but a couple of gotchas on the build (these may be\nFedora bugs rather than PG ones). This install is pretty much brand new\n(2 days old) with very little local configuration, so should represent an\nFC3 out of the box. \n\n1. com_err.h is in /usr/include/et/com_err.h a...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:16:09AM -0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:\n> \n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: strk [mailto:strk@keybit.net] \n> > Sent: 10 December 2004 15:35\n> > To: Mark Cave-Ayland\n> > Cc: postgis-devel@postgis.refractions.net\n> > Subject: join selectivity\n> > \n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nJust for testing, I stuffed it into ExecEvalVar under the switch statement in execQual.c. This was a chosen spot I was fairly certain I could get some kind of output.\n\n\n TupleTableSlot *slot;\nTupleDesc tuple_type;\n\nThe above portion is actually part of the delivered sourc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi strk,\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: strk@refractions.net [mailto:strk@refractions.net] \n> Sent: 13 December 2004 14:05\n> To: Mark Cave-Ayland\n> Cc: postgis-devel@postgis.refractions.net\n> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] RE: join selectivity\n> \n> \n> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe still seem to have occasional problems with dropdb while running \ncontrib installcheck. The symptoms look like this:\n\n============== dropping database \"regression\" ==============\ndropdb: database removal failed: ERROR: database \"regression\" is being accessed by other use...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a strange but reproducible problem where a query does not seem to\nreturn the same results.\n\nesp=# select 1::int4, * from data1.po_line_file\nesp-# where pol_po_no = '00000002' and\nesp-# (pol_po_no = '00000002' and pol_po_rel_no = 0) and\nesp-# (pol_po_no = ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[original seems lost - sorry if it's a dup]\n\nWe still seem to have occasional problems with dropdb while running \ncontrib installcheck. The symptoms look like this:\n\n============== dropping database \"regression\" ==============\ndropdb: database removal failed: ERROR: databas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all.\nI'm getting error reports from valgrind while debugging postgis.\nIt seems that the error only shows up when I build a GiST index\nAND vacuum analyze.\n\nIf I drop the index the error goes away.\nIf I create the index the error still doesn't show.\nIf I vacuum analyze, the error is b...
[ { "msg_contents": "In recent discussion[1] with Simon Riggs, there has been some talk of \nmaking some changes to the bgwriter. To summarize the problem, the \nbgwriter currently scans the entire T1+T2 buffer lists and returns a \nlist of all the currently dirty buffers. It then selects a subset of \nthat list ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce wrote:\n> That is bizarre. Does EXPLAIN show any difference?\n> \n>\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n--\n\nesp=# explain analyze select 1::int4, * from data1.po_line_file\nesp-# where pol_po_no = '00000002' and\nesp-# (pol_po_no = ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> That is bizarre. Does EXPLAIN show any difference?\n\nUh oh.\n\nesp=# reindex table data1.parts_order_line_file;\nREINDEX\nesp=# explain analyze select 1::int4, * from data1.po_line_file\nesp-# where pol_po_no = '00000002' and\nesp-# (pol_po_no = '00000002' and pol_po_rel_no =...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > That is bizarre. Does EXPLAIN show any difference?\n> \n> Uh oh.\n> \n> esp=# reindex table data1.parts_order_line_file;\n\nwhoops, never mind that. In fact, I re-indexed the wrong table.\nReindexing makes no difference. Here, explain analyze and running query\nin psql return different ...
[ { "msg_contents": "AIX 5.1\n\nI applied Bruce's patch, configured with --enable-thread-safety and \neverything went smoothly.\n\n> ======================\n> All 96 tests passed.\n> ======================\n\nBrad.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:51:37 -0500", "msg_from": "Brad Nicholson <bnichols@c...
[ { "msg_contents": "> (2) Remove bgwriter_percent. I have yet to hear anyone argue that \n> there's an actual need for bgwriter_percent in tuning \n> bgwriter behavior,\n\nOne argument for it is to avoid writing very hot pages.\n\n> (3) Change the meaning of bgwriter_percent, per Simon's proposal. Make \n> it me...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello\n\ni am not able to write to file until the pl call\nhandler interface. this is the template which i am\nfollowing\n\nPG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(my_call_handler);\n\nDatum\nmy_call_handler(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n{\n\t...my code...\n\n\tint fd = open(\"filename\",O_WRONLY);\n\twrite(fd,buffer,strle...
[ { "msg_contents": "I confirmed the problem on a linux server running beta3...so this\nproblem is quite reproducible by running the attached scripts on a\nfreshly loaded database.\n\nTo reproduce the problem [adjust host,etc as necessary]: \n1. type/cat test_boolean.sql | psql template1 (this will create a\ndata...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere is a port report for NetBSD 2.0 mac68k, with sources of \npostgresql8.0.0rc1.\n\nHere is the configure line used :\n./configure --prefix=/data/postgresql/pgsql-8.0.0rc1 --with-openssl \n--with-python --with-perl --with-tcl --with-krb5 --with-pam\n\nBut some tweaking was necessar...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's becoming pretty obvious that PG 8.0 won't be released on Dec 15.\nThat was an optimistic target to begin with, and last week's network\nproblems have put it out of reach.\n\nAfter some discussion, the core committee has decided to go week-to-week\non this: once an RC release survives for...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got a down production server (will not restart) with the following \ntail to its log file:\n\n2004-12-13 15:05:52 LOG: recycled transaction log file \"000001650000004C\"\n2004-12-13 15:26:01 LOG: recycled transaction log file \"000001650000004D\"\n2004-12-13 16:39:55 LOG: database sys...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why is non-Win32 building the *.def files? Seems it should be only\nWin32. I realize distprep has to build them of course.\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, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > and stops early when eighter maxpages is reached or bgwriter_percent\n> > > pages are scanned ?\n> > \n> > Only if you redefine the meaning of bgwriter_percent. At present it's\n> > defined by reference to the total number of dirty pages, and that can't\n> > be known without collecti...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nZeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> wrote on\n15.12.2004, 11:39:44:\n> \n> > > > and stops early when eighter maxpages is reached or bgwriter_percent\n> > > > pages are scanned ?\n> > > \n> > > Only if you redefine the meaning of bgwriter_percent. At present it's\n> > > de...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone got any idea on why I see things like this from time to time? \nIt seems to be intermittent, which is odd.\n\nYou can see it on occasional ContribCheck failures on buildfarm.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew", "msg_date": "Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:47:38 -0500", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The two alternative algorithms are similar, but have these \n> differences:\n> The former (option (2)) finds a constant number of dirty pages, though\n> has varying search time.\n\nThis has the disadvantage of converging against 0 dirty pages.\nA system that has less than maxpages dirty w...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nZeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> wrote on\n15.12.2004, 15:33:16:\n> \n> > The two alternative algorithms are similar, but have these \n> > differences:\n> > The former (option (2)) finds a constant number of dirty pages, though\n> > has varying search time.\n> \n> This h...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJosh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote on 15.12.2004, 18:36:53:\n> Hmmm, I've not seen this. For example, with people who are having trouble \n> with checkpoint spikes on Linux, I've taken to recommending that they call \n> sync() (via cron) every 5-10 seconds (thanks, Bruce, for suggestion...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI asked this on general, but didn't receive any responses. Is it possible \nvia SQL to identify the time of the last stat reset (or pg_stat_reset() \ncall)? This is what I'm lacking to be able to measure query activity \nvolume over time via SQL, i.e., maybe a function similar to the fict...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI asked this on general, but didn't receive any responses. Is it possible \nvia SQL to identify the time of the last stat reset (or pg_stat_reset() \ncall)? This is what I'm lacking to be able to measure query activity \nvolume over time via SQL. Maybe a function similar to the fictitiou...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:\n> > I confirmed the problem on a linux server running beta3...so this\n> > problem is quite reproducible by running the attached scripts on a\n> > freshly loaded database.\n> \n> The attached patch fixes the problem for me.\n> \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have seen this failure several times, but not consistently, on the \nbuildfarm member otter (Debian/MIPS) and possible on others, and am \nwondering if it indicates a possible race condition on DROP SCHEMA CASCADE.\n\n ================== pgsql.30167/src/test/regress/regression.diffs =====...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nwith ./configure --prefix=/tmp --enable-thread-safety --with-tcl\n--with-perl --with-python --with-krb5 --with-pam -with-openssl\n\n======================\n All 96 tests passed.\n======================\n\nLinux bruckner 2.4.25 #1 Wed Feb 25 10:32:54 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux\n\npostgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm using Postgresql on FreeBSD, and would like to get \"order by\" to work \nwith unicode. The OS does have collation implemented for unicode (UTF-8) \nlocales. Some freebsd people point me towards IBM:s ICU kit.\n\nHow much effort would be required to get postgresql to sort properly,...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Only if you redefine the meaning of bgwriter_percent. At present it's\n> > defined by reference to the total number of dirty pages, and that can't\n> > be known without collecting them all.\n> > \n> > If it were, say, a percentage of the total length of the T1/T2 lists,\n> > then we'd ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have rebuild the filesystem on my indy (MIPS) that Andrew reported on. The first run completed 100%, I would give \nit a couple more runs before we can say its the filesystem not Postgresql that was causing the drop to fail.\n \n\n\n---------- Original Message -----------\nFrom: Andrew Du...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Hmmm, I've not seen this. For example, with people who are having trouble \n> with checkpoint spikes on Linux, I've taken to recommending that they call \n> sync() (via cron) every 5-10 seconds (thanks, Bruce, for suggestion!). \n> Believe it or not, this does help smooth out the spike...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHas any thought been given to making integer datetimes the default on \nplatforms that support it? Are there any performance implications? I saw \nthe Tom Lane raised this when it was added, and it looks like the \ndecision was deferred. I know that, ceteris paribus, I would rather have \nf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nWhy does the append resulting from a inheritance take longer than one \nresulting from UNION ALL?\n\nsummary:\nAppend resulting from inheritance:\n-> Append (cost=0.00..17.43 rows=2 width=72) (actual \ntime=3.876..245.320 rows=28 loops=1)\nAppend resulting from UNION ALL:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "As per \nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herring&dt=2004-12-16%2018:46:18\n\nThis combination of OS/compiler does not result in a working copy.\n\nAndrew and i have been digging into this for better than a week now, and \nsomething just dosent look right.\n\n\n-- \nDarcy Bus...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\n Found a similar message on the archives, but from 2 years ago, and not too much about this.\n\n(8.0 rc1 the guilty one)\n\nguido=# \\d test1\n Table \"public.test1\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n--------+-...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, Magnus just pointed out that src/include/pg_config.h.win32 had the\nversion string of 8.0devel rather than the correct 8.0.0rc1.\n\nI have added a mention in tools/RELEASE_CHANGES that this file should be\nupdated during beta and rc as well as final release. This file is used\nby VC and...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am a programmer who works on a couple of products that use PostgreSQL \nas their backend (http://www.nopali.com, http://www.iwanttops.com). \nBoth my clients need to receive notifications when rows in the database \nchange. Thus far, we've been rolling our own because LISTEN/NOTIFY \ndoes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been thinking on how to do shared row locking. There are some very\npreliminar ideas on this issue. Please comment; particularly if any\npart of it sounds unworkable or too incomplete.\n\nThere are several problems to be solved here: the grammar, the internal\nSelectStmt represe...
[ { "msg_contents": "This did'nt get thru so I repost it!\n\n8.0.0rc1 fails to compile on Unixware 714 with --enable-thread-safety :\nCC=cc\nLDFLAGS=\"-R/usr/local/lib\"\nANT_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta/ant\nJAVA_HOME=/usr/java2\nPATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jakarta/ant/bin\n#PREFIX=\"-prefix=/databases/pgsql-v7.4 --with-po...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like some views on the following issue.\n\nThe pljava function call handler will resolve a class name using a \nloader that in turn uses a specific table in the PostgreSQL database. \nHence, the caller of the function must have select permissions on that \ntable or the function will fail....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have implemented several requested improvements, which I hope will \nprove useful. Since this whole piece of work exists for the benefit of \nthe pg developers, I'm posting some info here.\n\nThe latest version includes these features:\n\n. the log page shows the system type near the top ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIn testing RC1 today I attempted to use pg_dump -h cygwin_box mydb | psql -h RC1_box mydb\n\nIt started off ok but at somepoint while transferring data over in a table it went astray. I started getting rows and rows of syntax errors most of them saying \"invalid command \\N\". \n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy. As many may have noticed, I've been working on getting \npgmemcache in shape for the 8.0 release. Well, I'm nearly done, but \nthought I'd give the folks here on hackers@ a chance to thump on things \nand start using it or testing with it. There's now a real installation \nprocess a...
[ { "msg_contents": "What exactly does pgmemcache do?\n\nI am guessing it has to do with PostgreSQL, Memory, and Caching, but the\nreadme listed below only talks about how to install it -- not what it\ndoes.\n\nWhen I tried to fetch this document, I get \"Document not found\":\nhttp://people.FreeBSD.org/~seanc/pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPostgresql-8.0.0rc1\n\nhardware: HP Dual PPro\nos: Linux Slackware 10.0.0\nkernel: 2.6.9-ac16 SMP\ngcc: 3.3.4\nconfigure: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql --with-tcl --with-perl \n--with-x --enable-syslog --with-openssl --with-pgport=5432 --with-odbc \n--enable-thread-safety\n\n8.0.0be...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any chance we could do a little low-risk housekeeping on \ncontrib in stable branches? Specific low hanging fruit I'd like to see \nfor the 7.4 branch is adding cube/expected/cube_1.out to the branch, and \nbackporting the contrib/Makefile changes Tom put in the other day. \n(There...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all, I added a new variable-length field to the pg_class catalog, but \nI did something wrong, and I can't tell what else I'd need to change. (I \nknow about how extending pg_class is bad and all, but it seems to be the \nsimplest solution to my problem right now, and I'd just like to get ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This weekend, I decided to teach Ethereal to decode the FE/BE protocol\nproperly: until now, it could only extract likely-looking strings from\nthe conversation, which I found woefully inadequate for debugging. I'm\nhoping the result will be useful to other people too:\n\n <http://www.oryx...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nafter several weeks away I downloaded today the 8.0rc1 and I\ntested it with our application.\n\nI'm having a bounce of errors because IMMUTABLE and STABLE\nattributes for some of my functions. Let me explain with an example,\nwhat I do is ( plpgsql )\n\n\nmy_id_user = sp_id_user( a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm tring to understand a part of code of postgres and I saw a line like\nthis:\n\"bms_is_subset(restrictinfo->right_relids,outerrelids)\" (createplan.c,\nfunction get_switched_clauses() at ~/src/backend/optimizer/plan).\nI don't understand the data types of the the arguments\nof ...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello\n\nwhat is the value of yyin variable for postgresql\nparser. \n\nIt might be the default(\"stdout\") when postgresql is\nin interactive backend mode...but what happens when\nclients from different workstations sends their\nqueries?\n\n\n\n\t\t\n__________________________________ \nDo y...
[ { "msg_contents": "Respected Sir\n\nThis is srinvas.\n\nI have been working with Postgresql and have created tables,constraints and so on.\n\nNow i am writing stored functions using refcursor and the stored function have created successfully. But i have problem to validate the parameters passed in the call func...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom lane wrote:\n> Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:\n> > I think if we allow the lock manager to spill to disk (and I think\nwe do\n> > need to allow it) then we should also be able to control the amount\nof\n> > shared memory allocated.\n> \n> You mean like max_locks_per_transact...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\n From the TODO items:\nUse index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index\nwhen used with non-consecutive keys to reduce heap\naccesses.\nFor an index on col1,col2,col3, and a WHERE clause of\ncol1 = 5 and col3 = 9, spin though the index checking\nfor col1 and col3 matches...
[ { "msg_contents": "Barring loud squawks, Marc will bundle up 8.0RC2 this evening sometime.\nAnybody got last-minute stuff?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:04:46 -0500", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Heads up: RC2 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote on 20.12.2004, 19:34:21:\n> Alvaro Herrera writes:\n> > To solve the problem I want to solve, we have three orthogonal\n> > possibilities:\n> \n> > 1. implement shared row locking using the ideas outlined in the mail\n> > starting this thread (pg_clog-lik...
[ { "msg_contents": "Goal: on a prduction server, to gradually shrink a table (no matter how \nlarge) back to < 10% free space without \"noticeably\" interrupting write \naccess to it. (\"noticeably\" = without taking any exclusive locks for \nmore than a few seconds at a time.)\n\nI am thinking about making thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "We are now packaging RC2. If nothing comes up after RC2 is released, we\ncan move to final release.\n\nThe open items list is attached. The doc changes can be easily\ncompleted before final. The only code issue left is with bgwriter. We\nalways knew we needed to find better defaults for i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI have a few people in Europe trying out the rc1 port for OS/2 and they\nhave run into a problem with the locale settings\n\nThey have a locale set as de_DE_EURO and the initdb program really does\nnot like this because the setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) call returns a zero\nlength string...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> I am confused. If we change the percentage to be X% of the entire\n> buffer cache, and we set it to 1%, and we exit when either the dirty\n> pages or % are reached, don't we end up just scanning the first 1% of\n> the cache over and over agai...
[ { "msg_contents": "Will do...\n\nthanks\n\nLorne\n\nIn <20041221015620.H37736@ganymede.hub.org>, on 12/21/04 \n at 01:56 AM, \"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@postgresql.org> said:\n\n\n>check her over ..\n\n>----\n>Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services\n>(http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> In general, I agree with Tom: I haven't seen many programs that use\n> extended SELECT FOR UPDATE logic. However, the ones I have seen have\n> been batch style programs written using a whole-table cursor - these\n> latter ones have been designed for the cursor stability approach.\n\nI thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote on 21.12.2004, 07:32:52:\n> Gavin Sherry writes:\n> > I was also thinking of benchmarking the effect of changing the algorithm\n\n\"changing the algorithm\" is a phrase that sends shivers up my spine. My\nown preference is towards some change, but as mini...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote on 21.12.2004, 05:05:36:\n> Bruce Momjian writes:\n> > I am confused. If we change the percentage to be X% of the entire\n> > buffer cache, and we set it to 1%, and we exit when either the dirty\n> > pages or % are reached, don't we end up just scanning ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> If we don't start where we left off, I am thinking if you do a lot of\n> writes then do nothing, the next checkpoint would be huge because a lot\n> of the LRU will be dirty because the bgwriter never got to it.\n\nI think the problem is, that we don't see wether a \"read hot\" \npage is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI'm testing now RC2 against our application and I'm experiencing\nintermittent errors. I isolated this test:\n\n\nCREATE TABLE users (\n\tid_login SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,\n login TEXT\n);\n\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_id_user ( TEXT )\nRETURNS INTEGER AS $$\nDECLARE\n a...
[ { "msg_contents": "After all this time I finally got around to vacuuming the database\nwith dbt2 with pg_autovacuum. :)\n\thttp://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-010/215/\n\nDoesn't look so good though, probably because I'm not using optimal\nsettings with pg_autovacuum. So far I have only tried the...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello\n\ni am not able to execute the yyparse() function\ngenerated by flex from within the pl call handler\nfunction.\n\ndoes any one knows the reason for this failure? and\nhow can it be rectified\n\nthank you\n\n\n\n\t\t\n__________________________________ \nDo you Yahoo!? \nSend a seasona...
[ { "msg_contents": "In plperl.c, there are some memory leaks, fixed in the following diff file.\nBecuase Perl_eval_pv doesnot release stack, repitition of calling\n'plperl_trigger_build_args' makes stack growing up.\n\nThe next simple example exhaust memory:(using perl v5.8.0)\nwhile (1) {\n AV *av = newAV();\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nFirst some specifics:\n\nOS Linux FC1\n1 Gig of Ram\nIDE RAID 1 array\nAMD 2200 XP\n\nRunning both 8.0rc2 and 7.4.6 for testing. The function is a plphp\nfunction. The code for the function is below:\n\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_users(bigint[]) RETURNS SETOF \nresolved_users_...