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[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that with more than a few thousand structures in pg_class, tab\ncompletion seems to take quite a long time in the en_US locale.\n\nSimply switching the where clauses around gets a substantial performance\nincrease. Using an index would be even better, but it remains unused due\nto th...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a galaxy far, far away Bernd wrote:\n\nThe context:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-03/msg00999.php\n\n> so joined views are even not updateable, too.\n\nI don't find the why of this on the specs and the \nthreads about this issue ignore the comment.\n\nIs this right?\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "in this list there is some discussion about adding\nsupport locale per column.\nas far as I know the final result was that:\nbecause postgresql uses glibc locale functions, and\nbecause glibc only handle one locale, postgresql also\nsuppor only one locale at the same time.\n\none solution was...
[ { "msg_contents": "Anyone,\n\nI would not describe my situation as desprate (yet), but it is painful,\nand I am looking for some information and a degree of confidence. I have\nyet to communicate w/ our sysadmin about backup/restore.\n\nWe are using version 8.0 beta 3, on Red Hat Linux, to develop a product\nth...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that this bug is still lurking in libpq:\n\nhttp://search.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-09/msg00703.php\n\nIs anybody working on it, or should I try something myself, perhaps just\nreplacing the lone recv() with pqsecure_read() ?\n\n-- \nHannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>\n", "msg_d...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMark,\n\nI looked at the *known* supported platforms list and noticed that Suse 9.1\nwas not on the list. We have been running 8.0 beta, RC1, and RC2 for\nseveral months and we have had no problems.\n\nJust an FYI\n\nThanks\n===================\nSteve Howie\nDatabase Programmer\n\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bingo! Thanks Tom.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \nSent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:33 AM\nTo: Dave Hartwig\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Can't Restart ver 8.0b3 \n\n\"Dave Hartwig\" <daveh@Routescape.com> writes:\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Le 21 déc. 04, à 06:45, Bruce Momjian a écrit :\n\n> Rémi Zara wrote:\n>>\n>> Le 16 d?c. 04, ? 22:48, Bruce Momjian a ?crit :\n>>\n>>>\n>>> I am confused by the threading failure. I don't see any free() call \n>>> in\n>>> thread_test.c. Would you go to the tools/thread directory and run \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOne of the regression failure on NetBSD mac68k is float8 (see \nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=osprey&br=HEAD).\nThe failure is due to the fact the strtod does not underflow for \n+-10e-400.\nI see in src/test/regress/resultmap that NetBSD ix86 does not overflow ...
[ { "msg_contents": "for all the hard work on 8.0, not to mention the new-look website. It's \nall shaping up to be a good new year.\n\n--\n Richard Huxton\n Archonet Ltd\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:17:58 +0000", "msg_from": "Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Very early in its existance ecpg got an oracle compat hack that enabled\nit to do a connect with just the username and use the database as\nspecified via PGDATABASE. It appears that this feature is not really\nused as it seems it segfault for quite some amount of releases. \n\nWhile trying ot...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello,\n\ntypedef struct CreateFunctionStmt\n{\n\tNodeTag\t\ttype;\n\tbool\t\treplace;\t\t\n\tList\t *funcname;\t\t\n\tList\t *parameters;\t\t\n\tTypeName *returnType;\t\t\n\tList\t *options;\t\t\n\tList\t *withClause;\t\t\n} CreateFunctionStmt;\n\nthis the the CreateFunctionStmt st...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering how index access methods reclaim the free disk pages after\nthey are no longer used. \nI noticed that only btree access method uses the free space map. I couldn't\nfind in the source code of gist special handling for free pages ( like\nmaintaining a free list ). Does that mean...
[ { "msg_contents": "The SGML docs state that include files referenced by \"@foo\" constructs\nin pg_hba.conf \"must be in the same directory as pg_hba.conf\". The\nactual implementation, however, assumes they must be in DataDir.\nThis is no longer the same thing after the introduction of the\ndata_directory and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently working with Bernd in an implementation\nof updateable views and want to know the hacker's\nopinion on this issue.\n\nWhat features have to be implemented in a first\nextension in order to the patch to be accepted? What\nfeatures can wait until a second extension?\n\nThis...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All\n\nI have discovered that when I use a table like this\n\ncreate table whois (acol name);\n\nand insert a few rows, the order by clause works correctly.\n\nI dug into the database init stuff to find that the table pg_class column\nrelname is where the pg_tables column tablename comes f...
[ { "msg_contents": "The previous one of these seems to being blocked because of the big\nattachments.\n\nShort stuff is embedded in this e-mail.\n\n\nHi all,\n\nI have a problem in my os/2 port of postgreSQL v8.0 and I am hoping\nsomeone can help me with it.\n\nWhen I create a database and use the commands shown...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt would appear that none of the comparision functions work on my OS/2\nport for columns defined as char or varchar.\n\nWith a table \"smalvar\" of two columns, one varchar and the other name acol \nnn\n---- --\naaaa AA\nbbbb AA\ncccc CC\n\na \"select * from smalvar where acol...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nIt was a setlocale problem\n\nThanks\n\nLorne\n\n-- \n-----------------------------------------------------------\nlsunley@mb.sympatico.ca\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:45:01 -0500", "msg_from": "lsunley@m...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFor my project (main memory DBMS), I hv written a main memory filesystem.\nIdea is, the primary copy of data will reside in main memory. (Workable \nonly for small size data, at most 2GB).\n\nNow, I want to plug this filesystem with Postgres, so that, instead of \nUnix filesystem, this main...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy. I'm starting some work on our favorite LISTEN/NOTIFY subsystem \nin the hopes of more advanced functionality. Right now I'm using a \nbastardized (RAISE NOTICE + tailing error logs) + NOTIFY to get what \nshould just be built in to the LISTEN/NOTIFY interface. Here's the \nsyntax fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Basically I want to introduce formal support for turning \n> PostgreSQL into a message bus. To start with, it won't be a \n> scalable message bus that can scale to thousands of \n> concurrent connections (that's something I'd like to do long \n> term(tm), but I digress). The problem is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sean Chittenden wrote:\n> Option 1) Use sleep(3) for the given timeout and wake up on some\n> interruptible a signal (USR2?). This is the simplest solution, but\n> likely the least portable to win32. Given the new world order of 8.0\n> and it's portability headaches, it's something I'm awar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n As was discussed on IRC a bit- In the TODO list already there's a\n blip about adding support for group ownership. In addition to this I\n think it'd be nice if you could create a schema (owned by a group) in\n which any tables/etc created were also owned by a group autom...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthere is way to display all the values (fields) in a \ntree node like this? for debug purpouses.\n\nQuery\t *query;\n\nregards,\nJaime Casanova\n\n\n_________________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nInformaci�n de Estados Unidos y Am�rica Latina, en Yaho...
[ { "msg_contents": "What are the open issues before we can release an RC3? I don't know of\nany except the btree problem OSDL found. Is that fixed? Are their\nothers?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If yo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Where can I obtain a spec for postgresql, so I can start looking at the \ncode?\n\nBenjamin\nbarai@cs.ucr.edu\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:02:59 -0800", "msg_from": "Benjamin Arai <barai@cs.ucr.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Where do I get the spec for P...
[ { "msg_contents": "> What are the open issues before we can release an RC3? I \n> don't know of any except the btree problem OSDL found. Is \n> that fixed? Are their others?\n\nThere is the issue with shared mem on Win2003 that came up the other\nday. I don't think it's a general error, but rather something\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> What are the open issues before we can release an RC3? I don't know\nof\n> any except the btree problem OSDL found. Is that fixed? Are their\n> others?\n\nThere sill may be an issue with the statistics collector resetting\nrandomly on a win32 server under heavy load...
[ { "msg_contents": "> There is the issue with shared mem on Win2003 that came up the other\n> day. I don't think it's a general error, but rather something\n> environment specific. (I've had several reports of ppl with fairly\nlarge\n> databases in production on win2003 that don't have this problem). But\n> it'd...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any plans for modifying the message outputs from the programs to\nsupport multiple languages?\n\nMost of the messages (at least in things like the database engine and\nutilities like initdb etc) have messages hard coded in English. This does\nnot affect me very much, but I have at l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm maintaining a bunch of FreeBSD ports for postgresql stuff. I get \nproblems when building postgresql with Kerberos, because packages like \nlibpqxx does not automatically understand that it will also need to link \nwith libkrb.so. Is there any \"default\" way to get gnu configure f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Isn't this fix in the wrong place?\n\n2004-03-23 22:10 momjian\n\n\t* src/bin/psql/startup.c: >>Also, what is the default connection\n\tmode of psql? It should probably be\n\t>>equivalent to \"-h localhost\", shouldn't it?\n\t>>\n\t>>\n\t>\n\t>Now that is something I had not thought of. See...
[ { "msg_contents": "This result is now seen for HEAD on buildfarm member osprey:\n\n\n================= pgsql.23138/contrib/tsearch/regression.diffs ===================\n*** ./expected/tsearch.out\tTue Dec 28 12:05:27 2004\n--- ./results/tsearch.out\tTue Dec 28 19:52:47 2004\n***************\n*** 312,322 ****\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "PostgreSQL 8.0.0rc2, 7.4.6\nSolaris 9, FreeBSD 4.11-PRERELEASE\n\nECPG's CONNECT TO DEFAULT causes a segmentation fault. This\noriginally came up in the \"Connection without database name\" thread\nin pgsql-hackers:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-12/msg00813.php\n\nExam...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to implement a trigger within 8.0.0RC2.\nI get a segfault when the trigger is fired, valgrind\nreports an illegal read being the line:\n\n TriggerData *trigdata = (TriggerData *) fcinfo->context;\n\nValgrind reports:\n\n==941== Use of uninitialised value of size 4\n==941== ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n Due to the fact that group system id's and user system id's can\n overlap, pg_class will need to change in order to accomedate group\n ownership. The things I've thought of so far, in order of preference:\n\n a) Add a boolean field 'relgroup_owned' which is 'false' when re...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, the release team is planning a PostgreSQL RC3 release for this\nFriday.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + Christ can be your ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have implemented a patch which can be used by connection pools for \ninstance.\nRESECT CONNECTION cleans up a backend so that it can be reused.\nTemp tables, LISTEN / NOTIFY stuff, WITH HOLD cursors, open \ntransactions, prepared statements and GUCs are cleaned up.\nI hope we have not miss...
[ { "msg_contents": "NUMERIC data type is hardcoded to use '.' as the decimal point.\nFLOATs are in fact hardcoded the same way (they use strtod() and sprintf() \nwhile pgsql's LC_NUMERIC is always \"C\").\nThe only data type that localizes decimal point is MONEY.\n\nit makes many problems when the decimal point ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Pursuant to Theodore Petrosky's recent trouble report, I thought I would\nsee what happens if you try to build Postgres in a directory whose path\ncontains spaces, or if the install prefix contains spaces.\n\nIt doesn't work, not even close.\n\nIt looks to me like there are a couple of hundre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBaring any cries of *STOP* ... I'm going to try and get it packaged first \nthing in the morning ...\n\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664\n", "msg_date": "Thu, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Bruce,\n\nI started to work on the uptime() for the postmaster yesterday. A \ncouple of questions:\n\na) is the name uptime() OK?\n\nb) is the return-type 'Interval' OK?\n\nc) does it make sense (... fit in the scheme?) to place the code here:\n src/backend/utils/misc/uptime.c\n\nd) Ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ntwo concurrent clients try to 'COPY ... FROM ...' to the same table,\n\"feature_link\".\n\nThe second one (pid 17983) is waiting for an ExclusiveLock on the table's\nprimary key index, \"key__idpk__flink\".\n\nThe first one (pid 17980) is inserting into the index's btree, waiting\nfor ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe only have a couple of buildfarm members reporting on versions older \nthan 7.4. Both are RedHat based systems, and both fail the contrib \nregression suites.\n\nI'm inclined to have write these off as not worth fixing, and inhibit \ncontrib regression tests for versions older than 7.4. i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIs there any reason why TSearch (not TSearch2) is still in\ncontrib? TSearch is a 7.3.x module...\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nCommand Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC\nPostgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting.\n+1-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am using the sysv_shmem.c shared memory allocation api for os/2 and I\nran into a problem when OS/2 allocates shared memory over the 2 gigabyte\naddress boundary.\n\nThe existing sysv_shmem.c tests for the return address of the segment as\nless than 0 and determines that a negative in...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello\n\nI am using the following sytex to handle exceptions in\nplpgsql (I am using postgres 8 rc1)\n\n....some code ........\n\nEXCEPTION\n WHEN NO_DATA THEN \n \tRAISE NOTICE 'NO DATA';\n WHEN OTHERS THEN\n RAISE NOTICE 'An exception occurred';\n RETURN emp_rec;\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBusy day, forgot all about it :(\n\nI've up'd all occurances of rc2 -> rc3 (so I got the win32 file in \ninclude) ... as well as upgraded the Copyright to be 1996-2005 ... the \ncommit was so large that it wouldn't go through pgsql-committers, but is \nin the logs ...\n\nAnd I upgrade the d...
[ { "msg_contents": "With 8.0 coming out in 2005, I think I should update the copyrights on\nthe files.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + Christ can be...
[ { "msg_contents": "UNICODE/UTF-8 does not work on the win32 server. The reason is that\nstrcoll() and friends don't work with it. To support it on win32, it\nneeds to be converted to UTF16 and use the wide-character versions of\nthe fucntion. Which we do not do.\n(See\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hacke...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of my testers asked me if there is a function in psql that is\nequivalent to a session log - something that will write out commands sent\nto the server and the results written to a file while still displaying the\nresults on screen.\n\nI can't find anything like this, but I think I can pu...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I do understand the problem, but don't undertstand the decision you\n>guys made. The fact that UPPER/LOWER and some other functions does not\n>work in win32 is surely a problem for some languages, but not a\n>problem for otheres. For example, Japanese (and probably Chinese and\n>Korean) does...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs was anticipated, time between Release Candidate 2 and 3 was nice and \nshort, with more changes being made now to Documentation vs Code.\n\nA current list of *known* supported platforms can be found at:\n\n \thttp://developer.postgresql.org/supported-platforms.html\n\nWe're always lookin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Marc,\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier schrieb am 02.01.2005 15:56:\n> \n> As was anticipated, time between Release Candidate 2 and 3 was nice and \n> short, with more changes being made now to Documentation vs Code.\n> \n> A current list of *known* supported platforms can be found at:\n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>Along similar lines, when I installed RC1 on a windows box it \n>installed it \n>>under the \"program files\" directory. Now, this was fine for \n>most cases, but \n>>when I had to use some of the command line tools it was \n>really crappy trying \n>>to write explicit directories under dos....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody! \n\nWhile writting some code for the backend (some SPI-like functions for a \nproject) I saw this message: \n\n\"WARNING: problem in alloc set ExecutorState: bogus aset link in block \n0x8301270, chunk 0x8304458\" \n\nI think there is something wrong with some of the memory all...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI'm new in postgres development, but I really interested in the development of label security for postgres. Label security provides mandatory acces control to the records in a table, like Oracle Label Security, and basically this is my intention to do. Well, I want to know if ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tonight regular CVS is very slow to generate a diff. Does anyone know\nwhy? Load average is only 2.0.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Roa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nare there any plans for rewriting queries to preexisting materialized\nviews? I mean, rewrite a query (within the optimizer) to use a\nmaterialized view instead of the originating table?\n\nRegards,\nYann\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:55:32 +0100", "msg_from": "Yann Mich...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have not had time to test this.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: \tRe: postgres+tcl on cygwin\nDate: \tMon, 3 Jan 2005 03:50:24 -0800 (PST)\nFrom: \tPatrick Samson <p_samson@yahoo.com>\nTo: \tAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>\n\n\n\nI succeeded in the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\nAs part of my thesis I need to implement a new algorithm for\nFull-Disjunctions and 2 older ones. \nA short explanation of what Full-Disjunction is, is that it comes to\nsolve what A natural outer join \nusually can't do when you have more than 2 relations. \nThe main goal is to retr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've uncovered a possible bug on that may be related to the other locale\nrelation issues for win32 being discussed right now. Basically, I have\na situation where a query is pulling up the wrong record based on string\ncase. So far, I have not been able to reproduce this in linux.\n\nHere ...
[ { "msg_contents": "ARM platform fails the \"point\" test see below.\n\n\nparallel group (13 tests): text name char boolean varchar oid int8 int2 float4 int4 float8 bit numeric\n boolean ... ok\n char ... ok\n name ... ok\n varchar ... ok...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n We are running postgresql version 7.3.4. Due to some problem, i was asked to restart the postgres. when i try to restart the postgres i did not start and gave the following error message.\n\n Log : database system was interrupted being in recovery at 2005-01-04 20:41:00 UTC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've been poking around the indexing code, and I really don't understand the \npage structure and splittng/branching for multi-column BTree indexes. I've \nlooked in a couple DB textbooks to get a theoretically underpinning of the \nstructure of multi-column indexes, but none of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the 8.0 release around the corner, this is as good a time as ever \nto send in the last translation updates. If your files are not in CVS \nright now, I don't have them, so please send them again in this case. \nThanks.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Folks,\n> \n> I've been poking around the indexing code, and I really don't\nunderstand\n> the\n> page structure and splittng/branching for multi-column BTree indexes.\n> I've\n> looked in a couple DB textbooks to get a theoretically underpinning of\nthe\n> structure of multi-column indexes...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n> With the 8.0 release around the corner, this is as good a time as ever\n> to send in the last translation updates. If your files are not in CVS\n> right now, I don't have them, so please send them again in this case.\n\nA batch of Russian tran...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\nbest wishes, and happy new year !!!!! :) :)\n\nI implement a new type of join called \"Double Pipelined Hash Join\". This \ntype of join requires 2 hash tables; one for the left (outer) and one \nfor the right(inner) relation. At the execution phase one (or more) \ntuple(s) from the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \ni was doing some tests and found out this:\n\ncreate table foo (\n\tid\t\tserial\tnot null primary key,\n\tname\ttext \tnot null\n);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence\n\"foo_id_seq\" for serial column \"foo.id\"\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create\nimplic...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\ni forgot to mention the version it's pgsql-8.0.0rc3.\nfreshly installed.\n\nregards,\nJaime Casanova\n\n_________________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nInformaci�n de Estados Unidos y Am�rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias.\nVis�tanos en http://noticias.es...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >OK ... are you supposed to find it out by looking at the environment \n> >vars, or is there another API defined?\n> >\n> >I am planning to consolidate the platform dependency into a function \n> >defined like\n> >\n> >\tstatic bool pqGetHomeDirectory(char *buf, int bufsize)\n> >\t{\n> >\t\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHappy new year.\nI wanted to re-read the 8.0 docs but I can't find them on the (new) site.\nCan any one tell me where to look?\nAlso it seems pg is down for techdocs.\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \t Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work)\n6, Chemin d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI guess I could be just unlucky, but I see lots of locks on LWLock 13 in\nmy trace output for pgbench.\n\nAssuming I count correctly, that is SubtransControlLock.\n\nWhy would I be invoking that if I am not issuing a SAVEPOINT ?\n\nBest Regards,\n\nSimon Riggs\n\n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "First, we still do not have any test with 8.0 on the following platforms:\n\nHP-UX\nIRIX\nTru64 UNIX\nSCO OpenServer\n\nSecond, we have regressions (vs. 7.4) on the following platforms:\n\nLinux Alpha (buildfarm hare)\nLinux ARM (see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-01/msg000...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust to keep everyone in the loop at what we are looking at right now.\n\nRC4 - Packaged tonight, Announced Friday AM\nFull Release - Packaged Monday Night, PR/Announce Tuesday AM\n\nIf *anyone* is sitting on something, plesae let us know ASAP ... I'm \nplanning on packaging up RC4...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Just to keep everyone in the loop at what we are looking at right now.\n>\n>RC4 - Packaged tonight, Announced Friday AM\n>Full Release - Packaged Monday Night, PR/Announce Tuesday AM\n>\n>If *anyone* is sitting on something, plesae let us know ASAP ... I'm \n>planning on packaging u...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCheck her over .. will do a general announce in the morning ...\n\n----\nMarc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)\nEmail: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:36:16 -0400 (AST)", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I'm trying to make an array constructor function\nwork for PGSQL from 72 to 80.\nMy current problem is that in PG73 the ArrayType structure\nwants an elementtype but FmgrInfo does not contain the Oid\nof the given argument (only of the function).\n\nIs there an \"easy\" way to either:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marek Mosiewicz wrote:\n> Hello\n> \n> We made Compiere (Open source ERP system) to Firebird (Fyracle)\n> This is special version of Firebird with added Oracle compatibility\n> (Oracle\n> PL/SQL).\n> It made porting much easier, but our experience show that it\n> would be now also not very di...
[ { "msg_contents": "Andreas wrote:\n> Marek Mosiewicz wrote:\n> > Upps sorry now found it on TODO list.\n> >\n> > I was not aware that it is SQL92 standard.\n> >\n> > Is it difficult to implement ?\n> > Simplest approach would be\n> > to rewrite it to UPDATE t1 set col1 = (select cola ...), col2 =\n(select\n> >...
[ { "msg_contents": "Various recent and not so recent problem reports got me thinking again \nthat it might be worth switching our shared library build system to \nlibtool. Among those are:\n\n- Guesswork about which spellings of -rpath, -export-dynamic, -fpic etc. \nwork on a particular platform or compiler.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> My feeling is that the *.txt is actually misleading because \n>people will\n>> think of it as a file full of freeform text (paragraphs) and not a\n>> configuration file.\n>\n>Why would they think that? If notepad tends to auto-wrap files then\n>this argument has some force; I'm not very f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nIf this is not the appropriate list I apologize.\n\nAnyway, I am using Borland Delphi 7 and Zeoslib PG access components and \nI have just noticed that when I restore a database from\n7.x and then load the function source into my program and make a change, \ni.e. compile it, the next tim...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni was looking at the unsuported features in the RC4\ndocs and found this:\n\nF671| Enhanced integrity management| Subqueries in\nCHECK| intentionally omitted \n\nWhy is it *intentionally omitted*?\nIs it to hard? or has some side-effects?\n\n just a question!\n\nregards,\nJaime Casanov...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want make some components for pqsql + Delphi, exists some PQ API ?\n\nThanks\n\nAldik\nCzech Republic\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:09:06 +0100", "msg_from": "Ales Pavel <talpa@suchdol.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Delphi+pqsql" }, { "msg_conten...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that several uses of getuid() have snuck into the code, mostly\nin relatively-recently-added SSL code. I assert that these all are\nwrong and should be checking geteuid(). Is anyone going to complain\nthat we need an RC5 to change this?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRecent changes to interfaces/libpg/fe-connect.c have broken MSVC builds, \nwhich I am reliably informed are definitely still required - at least \nsome uses of libpq.dll made with gcc apparently cause the resulting \nbuilds or applications to blow up.\n\nThe trouble seems to come from these...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Hi.\n>\n>Have a happy new year !:-)\n>\n>Hmm..\n>Will I have to put the check that Japanese(ja) doesn't move in \n>Japanese version (MS932) others?\n\nI don't think so, but it's probably a good idea to include a readme.txt\nfile in the next ZIP file that states that it's the japanese version...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Recent changes to interfaces/libpg/fe-connect.c have broken \n>MSVC builds, \n>which I am reliably informed are definitely still required - at least \n>some uses of libpq.dll made with gcc apparently cause the resulting \n>builds or applications to blow up.\n\nCan you get some more specifics...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>>The trouble seems to come from these 2 lines:\n>>>\n>>>+ #define _WIN32_IE 0x0400\n>>>+ #include <shlobj.h>\n>>>\n>>>First, on MSVC, _WIN32_IE is already defined at that point. \n>If you get \n>>>around that then processing the include file causes errors.\n>>> \n>>>\n>>\n>>Interesting -...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:\n>> Creating library .\\Release\\libpqdll.lib and object \n>.\\Release\\libpqdll.exp\n>> libpq.lib(fe-connect.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved \n>external symbol \n>> __imp__SHGetSpecialFolderPathA@16 referenced in function \n>_pqGetHomeDirecto...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>>The error appears to be on line that uses NEAR and complains \n>about it \n>>>... I see that the MinGW windef.h defines NEAR as empty, while \n>>>the MSVC \n>>>windef.h defines it as \"near\". Don't know if that makes a difference.\n>>> \n>>>\n>>\n>>Some reading up on MSDN gives this:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not sure what form success reports are supposed to take.\nI glanced at the website and didn't see anything obvious, but\nI didn't dig too hard.\n\nI have a box running 8.0.0rc4 on OpenBSD 3.6 with an AMD Opteron\n(amd64). It configured cleanly. The first pass with make got stuck\nin a loo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current plans are to wrap the PG 8.0 final tarball Monday evening, with\npublic announcement Wednesday morning (\"morning\" and \"evening\" measured\nin North American east coast time zones). The slightly longer than\nusual delay is to let the Windows installer team put up a final Windows\ni...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anyone please tell me where in the source code, I can find the\ncompelte query.\n\n\n-- \n\nRegards\nImad\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:24:03 +0500", "msg_from": "imad <immaad@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Information Required" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Where are we on this? I think Andrew and I both think *.txt is \n> > confusing. We need to decide on Monday if we should change the \n> > current *.txt names. We can either leave it unchanged, \n> remove *.txt, \n> > or change it to *.config.\n> \n> > >>> APPDATA/postgresql/pgpass.txt\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just committed a small patch for a segfault in ecpg that I learned\nabout this morning. So don#t be surprised about a commit that close to\nthe release.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nEmail: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De\nICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: meskes@jabber.org\...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've seen a few reports of the above-mentioned error message from\nPG 8.0 testers, but up till now no one had come up with a reproducible\ntest case. I've now found a trivial example:\n\nsession 1:\tcreate table a1 (f1 varchar(128));\nsession 2:\tinsert into a1 values('abc');\nsession 1:\ta...