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[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Held\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 10:23 AM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently finding that the stats regression test fails with\nbitmapped index scans enabled:\n\n*** 62,68 ****\n WHERE st.relname='tenk2' AND cl.relname='tenk2';\n ?column? | ?column? | ?column? | ?column?\n ----------+----------+----------+----------\n! t | t | t ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Dunstan\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 10:46 AM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dann Corbit [mailto:DCorbit@connx.com]\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:08 PM\n> To: Andrew Dunstan; Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n> headaches!!\n> \n> > From: pgsql-hacke...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:22 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n> headaches!! :)\n> \n> [...]\n> And not much reward, eithe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hannu,\n\n> 1) possibility to explicitly change table status to READ-ONLY .\n>\n> 2) setting a flag CAN_OMIT_HEAP_CHECK after REINDEX TABLE for tables\n> that are READ-ONLY\n>\n> 3) changing postgres planner/executor to make use of this flag, by not\n> going to heap for tuples on tables where...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:59 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n> headaches!! :)\n> \n> [...]\n> I think there ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:49 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n> headaches!! :)\n> \n> [...]\n> I recall saying so...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]\n> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 4:29 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler\n> headaches!! :)\n> \n> [...]\n> I didn't mean peop...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi Tom, \n\nI've got the impression that you have worked most actively on VACUUM and\nso I ask you this directly instead of adressing pgsql-hackers list in\ngeneral. Feel free to correct me :)\n\n\nI have a problem, that I think can be solved by splitting the vacuum up\nto run in several tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have toyed around with PostgreSQL's WAL structure and we are \nwondering whether it is (theoretically) possible to replay WAL records \ncoming from a remote host while a system is working in read only mode.\n\nThe idea: We are looking for a way to implement a synchronous \nsingle-master / ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Tom, \n\nI've got the impression that you have worked most actively on VACUUM and\nso I ask you this directly instead of adressing pgsql-hackers list in\ngeneral. Feel free to correct me :)\n\n\nI have a problem, that I think can be solved by splitting the vacuum up\nto run in several tran...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I appreciate getting corrected by people I know in a limited \n> forum. I would not expect it when I do a mistakes here. Can't \n> say it ever has happend although there's often good grounds \n> for it so I have nothing to complain about. :-)\n\nI think you meant to say 'I Can't say it ever...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know I am behind in applying patches. I plan to work all through May\nto apply recent patches and those held over from the 8.0 beta period.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life...
[ { "msg_contents": "Look at the upper/lower I sent to the list, they should be able to\nreplace upper/lower for the utf8 encoding.... (and works independent of\nlocale)..\n\n... John\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Beh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ehmm,... No the upper/lower replacements I sent to -hackers\n\nICU was not me.... Tho for win32 you're better off writing wrapper\nclasses for the win32 native functions. \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am about to rip out the code that supports multiple indexscans for OR\nconditions inside a single IndexScan plan node. As best I can tell,\nthe new-style bitmap-OR code is as fast or faster than the old way\neven in fully cached test cases (ie, with no allowance for improved\nefficiency of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right, they were meant as a starting point, but if you can point me to\nhow I can obtain the current locale, then I can fix them to cover the\nremaining 15 special cases.\n\n... John \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005...
[ { "msg_contents": "That is pretty much where we are ;-)\nI think we're fine for 8.0.x with this, because if you actually need\nUTF-8 (and can live with sorting broken, no upper/lower etc), you can do\nit using a manual initdb.\n\nFor 8.1, I think the ICU approach looks a lot more promising than trying\nto do \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just for information.\nI see many regression tests failed (26 of 96). regression.diffs shows many \nerror messages like ! ERROR: unrecognized node type: 516\n\n \tRegards,\n \t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All\n I am using \n \\c [database] [user-name]\n to connect to any database.\n Any one can connect to any database. If any one knows user\nname, he/she connect to db. I want to provide some security that no\none can connect without providing pas...
[ { "msg_contents": "The basic idea is to change register_dirty_segment() to\nregister_opened_segment().\n\nThat is, we don't care if a segment is dirty or not, if someone opened it,\nthen we will fsync it at checkpoint time. Currently,\nregister_dirty_segment() is called in mdextend(), mdwrite() and\nmdtruncate(...
[ { "msg_contents": "I send it now the 3rd time because I'm not sure my mail works, as it has not appeared on pgsql-hackers\n\nHi Tom, \n\nI've got the impression that you have worked most actively on VACUUM and\nso I ask you this directly instead of adressing pgsql-hackers list in\ngeneral. Feel free to correct ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:23 AM\n> To: Simon Riggs\n> Cc: josh@agliodbs.com; Greg Stark; Marko Ristola; pgsql-perform;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Bad n_distinct estimati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\n I'd like to introduce the concept of (dynamically loaded) stream\nfilters that would be used to wrap calls to send/recv by the FE/BE \nprotocol. The initial \"StreamFilter\" will be a zlib compression \nfilter. Yeah, I know it could just be added along-side (in the\nsame way a...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]\n> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:08 PM\n> To: Andrew Dunstan\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Greg Stark; Marko Ristola; pgsql-perform;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Bad n_distinct estimation; ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]\n> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:43 PM\n> To: josh@agliodbs.com\n> Cc: pgsql-perform; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Bad n_distinct estimation; hacks\n> suggested?\n> \n> Josh ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I find the following behavior confusing:\n\nneilc=# create table t1 (a int, b int);\nCREATE TABLE\nneilc=# create table t2 (a int, b int);\nCREATE TABLE\nneilc=# create table t3 (a int, b int);\nCREATE TABLE\nneilc=# create rule t1_rule1 as on insert to t1 where NEW.a > 100 do \ninstead inser...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi PSQL Hackers,\n\nI have done the following Post to PSQL Performance, but Richard Huxton \nsay it\nmight be a better Idea to post it again on you List so i forward the \nmessage.\n\napoc9009@yahoo.de wrote:\n\n> Hi all,\n>\n> Ia a Guy from Germany an a strong Postgres believer!\n> It is the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Say guys, could you look into why btree_gist is failing its timetz\nregression test in the 8.0 branch, if built with\n--enable-integer-datetimes? Several of the buildfarm machines\nare showing this, and I've reproduced it locally.\n\nWhen I saw it I said to myself, \"Oh, I forgot to back-pat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I took a pg_dump -Fc from a Pg 8.0.1 installation on (Solaris / Sun)\nwith Slony installed and attempted to restore to 8.0.2 on Linux / x86\nwithout Slony installed.\n\npg_restore skipped all of the Slony related items, but then it\nimmediately jumped up to 700MB of memory usage and 99% CPU, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are rules even needed anymore? Can't you do this all\nwith triggers? If you want to \"DO INSTEAD\" just use a\nrow based trigger, and return null. Or is this less\nefficient?\n\nLater\nRob\n--- David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:\n> On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:\n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\nI'm writing an application in C that basically converts binary data into something meaningful. My first attempt was to parse the binary and insert directly to the database in one step. But this proved to be very slow. So I decided to go with a two step process. The first step is to...
[ { "msg_contents": "For this particular scenario, can't you just create\ntwo ON DELETE rules? The first would delete from b,\nthe second from a. Perhaps an example with a scenario\nlike this can be added to the doc's?\n\nSo, the short answer is you can only perform one query\nin a rule, but you can have multi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Gurmeet Manku [mailto:manku@CS.Stanford.EDU]\n> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:01 PM\n> To: Simon Riggs\n> Cc: Tom Lane; josh@agliodbs.com; Greg Stark; Marko Ristola;\n> pgsql-perform; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Utkarsh Srivastava;\n> snt@iastate.edu\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wonder if there's any use for an allow_large_objects = true/false GUC \nparameter?\n\nIt'd be nice to be able to switch it off as part of site policy so that \nthe security holes in it aren't able to be exposed, plus you can \nguarantee as the site admin that pg_dumpall will produce a compl...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I'm doing a restore and go to start the postmaster it starts\nlisting off warnings as a result of the pid file being in place. Not a\nbig deal, but it might be suggested that the tar or cpio process exclude\nthe postmaster.pid.\n\n-- \n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:34:12 -040...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Greg Stark [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu]\n> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:00 AM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Rod Taylor; Greg Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> Gurmeet Manku\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Bad n_distinct estimation; hacks\n> suggested...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been reviewing Alvaro's patch for shared row locks, and come across\nsome corner cases that may need discussion. Does anyone disagree with\nthe following statements?\n\n1. If several transactions are holding shared lock on a row, and one\nof them wants to actually modify the row (or upg...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]\n> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:25 AM\n> To: Andrew Dunstan\n> Cc: Mischa Sandberg; pgsql-perform; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Bad n_distinct estimation; hacks\n> suggested?...
[ { "msg_contents": "What happens if for reasons of broken tape, disk, etc. you lose some of\nyour WAL logs which happens to correspond to the middle of the snapshot\nbackup?\n\nThe equivalent would be to:\n\n1) Start the snapshot backup (tar)\n2) Stop logging usable WAL logs (say a tape jammed or disk is corrupt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nMy name is Juan, and I am interested in being a PostgreSQL Developer. I \nwould like to contribute with items in the TODO list. I am new to the list, \nand would like to know if you have reservations or beliefs applicated to the \nmembers of the developer community, so if I can ente...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am very excited to see companies involved in PostgreSQL development. \nIt gives us funding for developers and features that is new for us. We\nhad Fujitsu funding some features for 8.0 and that really helped us.\n\nHowever, there was a lot of coordination that happened with Fujitsu that\nI...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > If we did not define\n> > it that way, I think your example would have to error out --- how\n> > would you choose which INSTEAD rule wins?\n> \n> The documentation says that they evaluate in alphabetical order by \n> name. So I would expect that the first one to have its WHERE statement...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIn one of our maintainance apps that shuffles some data across\nindependent databases, we need to enshure data consistency, and decided\nto do this by acquiring a lock in the target database. Now we do not\nwant the application to wait indefinitely for this lock, but fail and\ncompl...
[ { "msg_contents": "You might remember that when we released 8.0, the plan was to have a\n12-month development cycle for 8.1, unless there were Win32 problems\nthat required complex fixes, in which case we would have a shorter 8.1\ncycle.\n\nWell the good news is that there have been almost no Win32 problems, bu...
[ { "msg_contents": "As a user, I would definetly prefer to see 8.1\nreleased sooner with the feature set listed below,\nthan wait another 6+ months for a few other features. \nAdditionally, the beta may go smoother/faster if you\ndon't have too many huge features going in at once.\n\nJust my opinion.\nLater\nRob...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > However, there was a lot of coordination that happened \n> with Fujitsu \n> > > that I don't see happening with the current companies involved. \n> > > Companies are already duplicating work that is also done by \n> > > community members or by other companies.\n> >\n> > That is why we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > However, there was a lot of coordination that happened with Fujitsu\nthat\n> > I don't see happening with the current companies involved.\nCompanies\n> > are already duplicating work that is also done by community members\nor\n> > by other companies.\n> \n> That is bound to happen no matt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nImplement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key references\nto eliminate unnecessary deadlocks. This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE\nparalleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. The implementation uses a new SLRU\ndata structure (managed much like pg_subt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, pgsql-hackers.\n\nI have an idea ( :-) ) about\n SELECT field1,agregate(field2) FROM view GROUP BY field1;\n(and its variant SELECT agragate(field2) FROM view)\nwhere view is SELECT ... UNION ALL ... :\n\nAs i understood from thread\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-perf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI'd like to report about suprising (for me) results of performance testing of\nbitmap indexes in nested loop join plans. \n\nI have the table q3c\n\ntest=# \\d q3c\n Table \"public.q3c\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n--------+--------+-----------\n ipix | bigint | \n er...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nWhile trying to determine if SPI_cursor_move can rewind\n(and receiving a great help from the guys at the irc), we\nfound out that since the count parameter is int\nand FETCH_ALL is LONG_MAX then setting\nthe count parameter to FETCH_ALL to rewind\nwill not work on 64bit systems.\n\nOn m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greets,\n\nWell, I've been solo'ing it for over a year now, and it's definitely\ntime to make my presence known to the community and invite others to\nparticipate as I can't keep putting it off as I have been. There has\nalways been something else that I wanted to \"finish up\" before making\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I read the hackers list all the time, and have for\nyears, and my company sponsors PG events every few\nmonths, and I would consider myself fairly \"plugged\nin\" to PG, and this is the first I have seen/heard of\nthe PostgreSQL Foundation \nhttp://thepostgresqlfoundation.org/\n\nPerhaps a l...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> Kris Jurka wrote:\n> > One thing that definitely would be nice would be to be able to combine \n> > funds from various sponsors for various features. Alone a company can't \n> > spring for it, but by pooling resources it could get done. This is a lot \n> > tougher to coordin...
[ { "msg_contents": "An example that Elein put up yesterday:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-04/msg01384.php\ncaused me to realize that type output functions that depend on\nadditional arguments to determine what they are dealing with are\nfundamentally security holes. It is trivial to crash 8...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was some previous discussion in a thread starting at\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-01/msg00750.php\nabout expanding the pg_locks view to provide more useful support\nfor contrib/userlock locks. Also, the changes Alvaro and I just\nfinished for sharable row locks me...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just finished writing the PG rules to maintain a bunch of materialized \n(aggregate) views on a ROLAP cube --- yes, I've seen Jonathan \nGardner's \"matview\" for postgres; didnt cover what I needed :-(. PG \nhappens to be pretty convenient for roll-your-own OLAP, thanks to \nRULES and ARRAY ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greets, [apologies if an earlier dup gets \"unswallowed\"]\n\nWell, I've been solo'ing it for over a year now, and it's definitely\ntime to make my presence known to the community and invite others to\nparticipate as I can't keep putting it off as I have been. There has\nalways been something...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n-------Original Message-------\n \nFrom: Dennis Bjorklund\nDate: 05/01/05 17:57:44\nTo: Alvaro Herrera\nCc: adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr;\npgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1\n \nOn Sun, 1 May 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n \n> Well, if proces...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there a readme somewhere on how modules are supposed to use custom \nGUC variables? If there is I have missed it.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 01 May 2005 18:38:22 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject":...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI want to pull authorization information from LDAP for my PostgreSQL\ndatabase. I use kerberos for authentication, so I do *not* want to use\nLDAP for authentication. I want to pull group membership from LDAP and\nmatch it to the kerberos-provisded usernames. Preferrably the users\nsho...
[ { "msg_contents": "> In the earlier thread there was talk of separate views for system\n> and user locks, but on reflection I think that's the wrong approach;\n> principally because it will be impossible to get exactly-simultaneous\n> snapshots of the system and user lock states if there are two views\n> involv...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:04 PM\n> To: PostgreSQL advocacy\n> Cc: Kris Jurka; Andrew Dunstan; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement\n> \n> [...
[ { "msg_contents": "Third repeat post. Sorry if previous ones suddenly pop up too.\n\n\nARCHIVE TABLES\n\nthis is a further development ofthe \"read-only tables\" proposal,\nWHich answers Tom's question - 'how such a tables comes to exists'\nand inspired by someones (can't find the mail, sorry) suggestion \nto ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> > This seems perfectly ok...as long as there is 1:1 correspondence\nbetween\n> > locktag and lock for all present and future types of locks. I'd\nlike to\n> > point out though that when querying for user locks it's kind of nice\nnot\n> > to wade through transaction locks, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 12:17 PM\n> To: PostgreSQL advocacy\n> Cc: Dave Held; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement\n> \n> > [...]\n> > Really? ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > A properly implemented user lock system would likely\n> > maintain a global sequence shared by all lockable objects, tuple or\n> > otherwise.\n> \n> That'd just be equivalent to require that user tables are created WITH\n> OIDS, only the counter wouldn't be shared with system tables ... ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 12:33 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL advocacy\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement\n> \n> [...]\n> PostgreSQL is...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \"Merlin Moncure\" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:\n> Fair enough, although I think that at least one major application of\n> user locks would be equivalent to tuple locks. Somebody was asking\n> for named user locks in the previous thread, and the easiest way to\n> get that is to m...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> > If you don't do that, then yes I can see why it would feel as if\n> > the proposer was at a loss once someone like Tom writes his opinion.\n> > \n> > However Tom isn't the final word, he just happens to have a lot of \n> > weight as anyone within the project of good standing...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nApplied.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\npgman wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:\n> > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote:\n> > >> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:\n> > >>> I feel that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:21 PM\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL advocacy; Dave Held;\n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Decision Process WAS: \n> Incre...
[ { "msg_contents": "PLEASE RESPOND WITH A (.DOC) COPY OF YOUR RESUME\n\nPosition Summary:\nOur client is looking for a singular candidate to drive the overall\ndatabase strategy for their fast-growing office in Skokie, IL. Our\nclient has over 300 PostgreSQL databases, which roll up nightly into\nOracle Warehous...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\n> > (P.S. on a complete tangent, \"call a spade a spade\" is actually a racist\n> > expression originating in the reconstruction-era South.   \"spade\" does\n>\n> You must be from California.  :-)\n\nWell, yes. Actually, from San Francisco, which is even worse. And I just \nspe...
[ { "msg_contents": "As someone who has made a few minor contributions and plenty of\nsuggestions, but who is not on the core team, I would like to offer my\nobservations.\n\nEvery suggestion I have ever made that had any merit at all has\neventually worked its way into PostgreSQL (most -- perhaps all -- were\nal...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n> One way to handle this is to have an option, set by\n> the client, that\n> causes the server to send some ignorable message\n> after a given period\n> of time idle while waiting for the client. If the\n> idleness was due to\n> network partitioning or similar failure, then this\n> ensures...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > well, the old ones are GPL. I've made a few attempts to contact the\n> > original author...he's MIA. Since 95% of the implementation is in\nthe\n> > backend, it seems odd to have a GPL interface.\n> \n> I agree. Wasn't it you that was proposing to rewrite the module from\n> scratch to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n-- adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr wrote:\n\n> So this means, If client does never try to send data the\n> resources would be going to be held.\n> I think it is not a good solution to find zombie / dead\n> connection and clear them..\n\nWith TCP/IP you DON'T have any other options th...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:33 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Decision Process WAS: \n> Increased\n> company involvement\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:50 PM\n> To: josh@agliodbs.com\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL advocacy; Dave Held;\n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Decision Proces...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:17 PM\n> To: andrew@supernews.com\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Oliver Jowett [mailto:oliver@opencloud.com]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:06 PM\n> To: Chuck McDevitt\n> Cc: Tom Lane; andrew@supernews.com; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1\n> \n> Chuck McDevitt wro...
[ { "msg_contents": "As you probably already read on pgsql-announce, we are looking to\nrelease updates in the 7.3 and later branches shortly, due to some\nrecently identified security issues. (BTW, thanks to andrew@supernews\nfor reporting the conversion-function problem.) There's not a definite\ntime set yet,...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've had a couple of cases recently where we had to advise DBAs to make\nmanual changes in the system catalogs --- see for instance the 7.4.2\nrelease notes or\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php\n\nIt'd be nicer if this sort of thing could be handled automati...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that explain analyze emits a little bit funny reslut for\nbitmap scans:\n\nBitmapOr (cost=157.36..157.36 rows=18894 width=0) (actual time=9.406..9.406 rows=0 loops=1)\n\nWhy actual rows=0?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 03 May 2005 18:11:28 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from"...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello there\n\ndoes postgresql support distributed database\n\ntq\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 03 May 2005 17:18:58 +0800", "msg_from": "\"mohammad izwan ibrahim\" <izwan@orenda.com.my>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "distributed database" }, { "msg_contents": "mohamma...
[ { "msg_contents": "> We've had a couple of cases recently where we had to advise \n> DBAs to make manual changes in the system catalogs --- see \n> for instance the 7.4.2 release notes or \n> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php\n> \n> It'd be nicer if this sort of thing could be h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any regression tests or unit tests beyond 'make check', or\npossibly benchmarks which not only measure performance but also verify\nthat the results are correct? I have patches which I want to test\nunder high load from multiple concurrent clients, so 'make check'\nisn't enough. G...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:12:33PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:\n> Well, there's nothing that says you have to actually refer to locks by\n> name. When I proposed this what I proposed is that the userlock module\n> provide a dedicated means to map a lock name to a lock number, and\n> reserv...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:31 AM\n> To: Hannu Krosing\n> Cc: Heikki Linnakangas; Neil Conway; Oliver Jowett;\n> adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr; Peter Eisentraut; Alvaro Herrera;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]\n> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:05 PM\n> To: xzilla@users.sourceforge.net\n> Cc: Dave Held; pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Decision Proc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried disabling public EXECUTE access on the built-in conversion\nfunctions, as we recommended yesterday, and found that it has one\nsmall problem: the conversion regression test fails. The test is\nexpecting that unprivileged users can create conversions, but since\nCREATE CONVERSION requ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:39 PM\n> To: Heikki Linnakangas\n> Cc: Hannu Krosing; Neil Conway; Oliver Jowett;\n> adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr; Peter Eisentraut; Alvaro Herrera;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's an assertion in multixact.c, MultiXactIdExpand function, line 273:\n\n Assert(!TransactionIdEquals(multi, xid));\n\nwhere multi is a MultiXactId and xid is a TransactionId.\n\nIsn't this bogus? If I understand the code correctly, multixactids and \nregular xids live in complete...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr\n> [mailto:adnandursun@asrinbilisim.com.tr]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:36 PM\n> To: Dave Held; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1\n> \n> [...]\n> Yes, this looks like go...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Papers/actual-icde-submission.pdf\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 3 May 2005 14:46:53 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Interesting article on transactional algorithms includes PostgreSQL\n\tstu...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:20 PM\n> To: Dave Held\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1\n> \n> \n> \"Dave Held\" <dave.held@arraysg.com> writes:\n> > How about a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Held\n> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:41 PM\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1\n> \n> > -----Or...