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[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: viy@mits.lv [mailto:viy@mits.lv] \n> Sent: 30 June 2005 10:29\n> To: Bruce Momjian; Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration\n> \n> \n> Maybe pg_trait_size() or pg_property_size(...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I have a new idea --- pg_storage_size(). \r\n>\r\n> I'm not against that one, but I think Tom's point is vaild. I cannot\r\n> think of anything better at the moment though (maybe pg_component_size,\r\n> but that's equally random) :-(\r\n> \r\n> Anyone else? Please? Someone? Anyone? :-)\r...
[ { "msg_contents": "> 2. Think of a better defense against partial-page writes.\n> \n> I like #2, or would if I could think of a better defense. \n> Ideas anyone?\n\nFWIW, MSSQL deals with this using \"Torn Page Detection\". This is off by\ndefault (no check at all!), but can be abled on a per-database level.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[sorry, resent because stalled]\n\nDear Stephen,\n\n> Right, it's a beginning to proper 'Role' support as defined by the SQL\n> specification.\n\nOk. AFAIC remember, the specification is pretty subtle and fuzzy enough so that \nthere is room for little design options.\n\n> I understand your...
[ { "msg_contents": "On AIX 5.3 with cvs head when trying to connect to the backend with\ncreateuser or psql i get\n\n psql: FATAL: unsupported frontend protocol 0.0: server supports 1.0 to 3.0\n\nHelp\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:16:01 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Samuel A Horwitz\" <horwitz@argosco...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nActually, I want to do some functions about encrytation, but only i know the md5() function in postgresql. Do you know some functions for 3des or des?\n\nThanks.\n\nJhon Carrillo\njdigital (a) cantv.net \nCaracas - Venezuela\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi all,\n \nActually, I want to do so...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 30 June 2005 14:41\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Michael Glaesemann; PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co....
[ { "msg_contents": "Ciprian Popovici discovered an entirely new way to break the safety\ninterlocks that are meant to prevent you from starting a postmaster\nin a data directory of the wrong version:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-06/msg01349.php\n\nWhile one could say this is pilot error, it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, pgsql-hackers.\n\nSorry for fludding. Bug 1614 was fixed in 8.0.3. I just tests.\n\n-- \n falcon mailto:falcon@intercable.ru\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:13:59 +0400", "msg_from": "falcon <falcon@intercable.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "First, are WAL files not allowed to end in FF?\n\nI was looking at the logs and it jumps straight from\n0000000100000194000000FE to 000000010000019500000000.\n\nYet other times it seems to end in an F: 0000000100000194000000EF.\n\n\nSecond, we have log archival enabled and the system it was a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since PostgreSQL, MySQL is written in \"C\", there is a migration away\nfrom \"C\" to its successor \"D\" language. So, there should be plan to\nmake migration from \"C\" to \"D\" in near future. It can be gradual as\n\"D\" can link together \"C\" objects. So the future version of\nPostgreSQL...
[ { "msg_contents": "Getting my UnixWare box to be part of the buildfarm. Could one of the \nknowledgeable hackers look at the failure for 'firefly' on REL7_4_STABLE and\ntell me if it's ok?\n\nThanks.\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do the transaction id's used in 2PC need to be unique across all \nsessions?\n\nDo we provide a mechanism for this ?\n\nIf not shouldn't we provide a way to create a unique transaction id ?\n\n\nDave Cramer\ndavec@postgresintl.com\nwww.postgresintl.com\nICQ #14675561\njabber davecramer@jabbe...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my application server, one db connection per thread. client may start \n a galobal transaction ,immediacy or indirect associate to a lot of app \nservers and more and more threads (db connections).\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:29:44 +0800", "msg_from": "jw <jw@sduept.com>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce - this is done:\n\no Add dumping and restoring of LOB comments\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:15:32 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "TODO item done" }, { "msg_conten...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Dawid Kuroczko [mailto:qnex42@gmail.com] \n> Sent: 30 June 2005 22:21\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration\n> \n> On 6/30/05, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:\n> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 1744\nLogged by: K.G.Sivaraman\nEmail address: ksivaram@ssd.usa.alcatel.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.0\nOperating system: Solaris\nDescription: Directory Missing\nDetails: \n\nPostmaster is successfully ru...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 1745\nLogged by: K.G.Sivaraman\nEmail address: ksivaram@ssd.usa.alcatel.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.0\nOperating system: Solaris\nDescription: Unable to delete data from the database\nDetails: \n\nWhen tr...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>> branch id: Branch Identifier. Every RM involved in the global\n>>> transaction is given a *different* branch id.\n>>\n>> Hm, I am confused then -- the XA spec definitely talks about\nenlisting\n>> multiple RMs in a single transaction branch.\n>>\n>> Can you explain?\n>\n>I oversimplified ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The regression test files plpgsql and rangefuncs both create a dup() \nfunction, and as they are run in parallel this just caused an error for \nme, as attached. This just happened once for me, but it still ought to \nbe corrected.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~p...
[ { "msg_contents": "As previously announced I have committed the update to Autoconf 2.59 as \nwell as updates of mkinstalldirs, install-sh, as well as config.guess \nand config.sub. This shouldn't have any immediate functional impact, \nexcept that you can now turn off the autom4te.cache directory (using \n~/.a...
[ { "msg_contents": "My UnixWare 7.1.4 box started flunking with it's latest run..\n\nSee the firefly entry on the buildfarm.\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 3535 Gaspar Drive, Dallas, TX 75220-3611 US...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nA number of buildfarm platforms appear to be failing regression tests \nfrom ordering differences due to the rtree_gist merge.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:12:32 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is currently anybody working on extending rtree_gist? I have seen, it is moved\nto core now. I had a look at it and because I have some experience with PGSQL's Gist API,\nI would do the job.\n\nRegards,\n\tJanko Richter\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:24:59 +0200", "msg_from": "J...
[ { "msg_contents": "Janko Richter wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> >Janko Richter wrote:\n> > \n> >\n> >>Is currently anybody working on extending rtree_gist? I have seen, it is moved\n> >>to core now. I had a look at it and because I have some experience with PGSQL's Gist API,\n> >>I would do the job.\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 02 July 2005 21:30\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration\n> \n> \n> Is a new version of this patch com...
[ { "msg_contents": "* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:\n> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:\n> > Tom, if you're watching, are you working on this? I can probably spend\n> > some time today on it, if that'd be helpful.\n> \n> I am not; I was hoping you'd deal with SET ROLE. Is it really much\n> diff...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've noticed that contrib/pgcrypto/pgcrypto.sql.in doesn't include\na volatility category in its CREATE FUNCTION statements, so the\nfunctions are all created VOLATILE. Shouldn't most of them be\nIMMUTABLE? Or do the algorithms have side effects? So far I've\nfound no discussion about this...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVS tip fails with \n ./configure --with-openssl \\\n --with-includes=/usr/local/ssl/include --with-libs=/usr/local/ssl/lib\n\n...\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/postgres/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq'\n...\n/usr/ccs/bin/ld +h libpq.sl.4 -b +b /home/postgres/testversion/lib fe-auth.o f...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch disables page writes to WAL when fsync is off, because with\nno fsync guarantee, the page write recovery isn't useful.\n\nThis also adds a full_page_writes GUC to turn off page writes to WAL. \nSome people might not want full_page_writes, but still might want fsync.\n\n-- \n Bruce...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a rough outline of what is coming for 8.1:\n\no On Monday, we will collect all submitted patches.\no Within the next 2-4 weeks, we will apply all patches that\n can be applied.\no We will make sure all changes since 8.1 are working resonably\n well and are documented. This is ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 03 July 2005 17:10\n> To: Dawid Kuroczko\n> Cc: Andreas Pflug; Dave Page; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 04 July 2005 14:54\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Dawid Kuroczko; Andreas Pflug; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Dbsize backend integration \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see new warnings in the generation of plpgsql's scanner:\n\n/usr/bin/flex -Pplpgsql_base_yy -o'/pg/source/00orig/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_scan.c' /pg/source/00orig/src/pl/plpgsql/src/scan.l\n/pg/source/00orig/src/pl/plpgsql/src/scan.l:198: warning, the character range [-�] is ambiguous in a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now, we use 'cp' in unix, and a copydir() function on Win32. \nShouldn't we be using copydir() on all platforms so we can report errors\nmore easily?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net] \n> Sent: 04 July 2005 18:21\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Dawid Kuroczko; Andreas Pflug; Bruce Momjian; \n> PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Dbsize ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Compiling HEAD I see the following 2 warnings:\n\n...\nmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/viy/prj/pgb/src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib'\nmake -C preproc all\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/viy/prj/pgb/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'\nmake -C ../../../../src/port all\nmake[5]: Entering directory ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 05 July 2005 02:39\n> To: Robert Treat\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Dave Page; Tom Lane; Dawid Kuroczko; \n> Andreas Pflug; PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HA...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe latest timezone lib changes seem to have broken Windows and Cygwin \nbuilds comprehensively. I assume that this checkin caused the problem:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-07/msg00155.php :\n\nRestructure zic #define fprintf checks to use a NO_PGPORT macro instea...
[ { "msg_contents": "On my Solaris 9/sparc box with OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta6, the pgcrypto\nregression tests fail the 3des test. I haven't checked against\nolder versions of OpenSSL; I'll do so when I get a chance.\n\nI haven't dug into the pgcrypto code yet -- is it doing anything\nthat might be platform-specific? ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This works on 7.4 and 8.0 but not in cvs head:\n\ncreate function foo(pg_type) returns oid as 'select $1.oid' language sql;\nERROR: column \"oid\" not found in data type pg_type\nCONTEXT: SQL function \"foo\"\n\nIs this intentional, or did the no-oids-by-default changes cut too deep?\n\n-- ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 06 July 2005 04:11\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Dave Page; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Robert Treat; Dawid \n> Kuroczko; Andreas Pflug; PostgreSQL-patches; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PA...
[ { "msg_contents": " I have a database in which I used domains with check constraints \nto keep all the constraints nice and uniform for like columns across \ntables. My users access and update data primarily through function \ncalls that have parameters that of DOMAIN types.\n\n These constraints wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "It should be mentioned in documentation that after pgsql's crash GiST indexes \nmay restore some \"incorrect way\": with invalid tuples. Of course, not every \ntime. Index will work absolutly correct but possibly with some performance \ndegradation (not big). 'Vacuum full' resolves this probl...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was interested as to if there were plans to develop SQL99 nested\ntables. I know with AJAX(tm) starting to grow in popularity that the\nXML features of SQL2003 would prove useful for EnterpriseDB.\n\nI have developed applications using Microsoft SQL Server since 1999. I\nhave only been prog...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per Andrew (he is having email problems):\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=viper&dt=2005-07-07%2001:10:01\n\nJoshua D. Drkae\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:38:18 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Joshua D. Drake\" <jd@commandprompt.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "How about a PQescapeIdentifier function in libpq? :)\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:54:08 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "PQescapeIdentifier" }, { "msg_contents": "Christ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHere're a couple of patches for PostgreSQL 64bit support. There're just\ntwo extension to 64bit, size of shared memory and transaction ID.\n\nPlease take a look at overview.txt for this proposal and pathces, based\nupon 8.0.3.\n\nAny discussions are welcome.\n\n-- \n--------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> Are you sure about that? That would probably be the normal case, but \n>> are you promised that the hardware will write all of the sectors of a\n\n>> block in order?\n> \n> I don't think you can possibly assume that. If the block \n> crosses a cylinder boundary then it's certainly an un...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Here's an idea:\n> \n> We read the page that we would have backed up, calc the CRC and \n> write a short WAL record with just the CRC, not the block. When \n> we recover we re-read the database page, calc its CRC and \n> compare it with the CRC from the transaction log. If they \n> differ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> Only workable solution would imho be to write the LSN to each 512\nbyte \n>> block (not that I am propagating that idea).\n\n\"Only workable\" was a stupid formulation, I meant a solution that works\nwith\na LSN.\n\n> We're not doing anything like that, as it would create an \n> impossib...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am consistently seeing the regression failure shown below on my \nWindows machine. See \nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=loris&dt=2005-07-07%2013:54:13\n\n(On the plus side, I am now building happily and passing regression \ntests with ASPerl, and hope to add ASPython an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n The current permissions checks for truncate seem to be excessive. It\n requires that you're the owner of the relation instead of requiring\n that you have delete permissions on the relation. It was pointed out\n that truncate doesn't call triggers but it seems like that w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I pulled cvs today and performed the following:\n\n./configure --with-openssl --prefix=/tmp/pgsqldev\nmake install\ncd /tmp/pgsqldev\ninitdb --no-locale -D data -l data/serverlog\n\npg_hba.conf lines:\n\n# \"local\" is for Unix domain socket connections only\n#local all all ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:32:32 -0700", "msg_from": "\"Ayush Parashar\" <aparashar@greenplum.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "<no subject>" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI am new to this list.\n\nI have made some additions to multi-byte regression tests ( ./src/test/mb),\nto include regression tests for copy command. This can be used to test\nmulti-byte extensions of postgresql and client character encoding, for copy\ncommand. The test uses the f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nThe pg_autovacuum on FreeBSD and pg 803 is not working. Just do nothing, no\nlog, nothing in screen, no daemonize.\n\nIt was ok on pg746.\n\nCould some one help me ?\n\nBest Regards\nRodrigo Moreno\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:59:20 -0300", "msg_from": "\"Rodrigo M...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nCan someone give me a reasonable explanation of what temp_buffers is for?\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nYour PostgreSQL solutions company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.800.492.2240\nPostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Programming, 24x7 support\nManaged Services, Shared ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can't seem to dump old db's:\n\n-bash-2.05b$ pg_dumpall -s -h database-dev > dump.sql\nPassword:\npg_dumpall: could not connect to database \"postgres\": FATAL: database \n\"postgres\" does not exist\n\nSeems that it is expecting the new 'postgres' database to exist on old \ninstallations?...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>>> The point here is that fsync-off is only realistic for development\nor \n>>> playpen installations. You don't turn it off in a production \n>>> machine, and I can't see that you'd turn off the full-page-write \n>>> option either. So we have not solved anyone's performance problem.\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This list and all the other PostgreSQL lists suddenly started showing up\nin my main mailbox instead of being sorted into my PG mailing list\nfolder. It turns out that the X-Mailing-List header that used to appear\nin all messages has disappeared. Is this permanent or just a\nmisconfigurati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWho is working on providing documentation for roles?\n\nI was just going to alter the docs on users to remove the SYSID part,\nbut I noticed there is nothing at all for roles ...\n\n_Is_ anybody working on it at all?\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)\n\"We are w...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've seen a couple of bug reports now about how domain constraints\naren't checked during input of a parameter that's been deduced to be\nof a domain type, eg\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2005-07/msg00009.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-07/msg00084.php...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm currently looking into a problem that a client is reporting that \npg_dump from 8.0.3 is 'skipping' one of their sequences ... I'm waiting \nfor more info, but am curious if anyone knows (or can think of?) any \nreason why this might happen? The only thing I can think of is that the \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "After months of being unable to keep up with what's going on here, I'm \ntrying to educate myself on some of the latest developments. I was \nplaying with roles a bit, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, \nor if I found a hole:\n\nworks fine:\nregression=# create role testrole2 wit...
[ { "msg_contents": "Roles cause a problem for the information schema view table_privileges. \nFor example:\n\n\nCREATE TABLE tbl_1\n(\n f1 int,\n f2 text\n);\n\nINSERT INTO tbl_1 VALUES(1, 'a');\nREVOKE ALL ON tbl_1 FROM public;\nCREATE USER user1;\nCREATE USER user2;\nCREATE ROLE role1;\n\nGRANT A...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\nI'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). \n\nIn Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/or wrap my source code? \n\n\nAtt.\n \nMárcio A. Sepp\nZYON TECNOLOGIA LTDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nHi,\n \n \nI'm looking for a way to hide t...
[ { "msg_contents": "looks like the latest pgcrypto-patches that just got applied cause\nwidespread failures on the buildfarm machines:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl\n\n\n\nStefan\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:59:35 +0200", "msg_from": "Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrun...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will be in San Jose Monday through Wednesday, so I will not be reading\nemail as frequently. I am working my way through the patch queue.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst working on the change I proposed to make domain types enforce\ntheir constraints inside the typinput/typreceive routines, I realized\nthat there's a fairly serious flaw in the design of typreceive routines:\nwe don't pass them a typmod so they cannot enforce type-specific typmod\nrestr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have just noticed this code in plperl.c:\n\n hv_store(plperl_proc_hash, internal_proname, proname_len,\n newSViv((IV) prodesc), 0);\n\nbasically, here prodesc is a pointer to a struct, and we are storing it \nas an integer in a perl hash for easy lookup by stringifi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing this compile warning in plperl:\n\n\tgcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -fno-strict-aliasing\n\t-O1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith\n\t-Wcast-align -fpic -I. -I../../../src/include\n\t-I/usr/local/include/readline -I/usr/contrib/in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI need to have in the log_line_prefix the search_path where the query \nhas run.\nSo last week I've started to read elog.c and I was thinking about a \nsmall patch there using a new \"%S\" option.\n\nFirst I've introduced a small code:\n case 'S':\n {\n List *sea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marko Kreen said:\n>\n\n>\n>\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=canary&dt=2005-07-11%2002:30:00>\n> NetBSD 1.6 with older OpenSSL. OpenSSL < 0.9.7 does not have\n> AES, but most of PGP tests use it as it is the preferred cipher.\n> And the AES tests fails anyway. I guess it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, M?rcio A. Sepp wrote:\n> > Hi,\n> >\n> > I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system\n> > (functions).\n> >\n> > In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide\n> > and/or wrap my source code?\n> \n> If you have c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \n Are there C++ APIs that enable data in postgres database to be\nextracted in xml format?\n \n Rgds\nBhanu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi,\n \n Are there C++ APIs\nthat enable data in postgres database to be extracted in xml format?\n \n Rgds\nBhanu", "msg_date": "Mon, 11 Jul 200...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nInteresting problem with pg_ctl. We have ran into this consistently as I \nam sure a lot of other people have. If PostgreSQL does not get shutdown\ncorrectly, the postmaster.pid file is still in PGDATA. This of course\ncausing problems starting up (and it should).\n\nHowever it seem...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:59:44AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:\n> Interesting. Again, this is pretty fragile with respect to, for\n> example, pg_dump(all).\n\nNo, it isn't. If you revoke permission on pg_proc, /df in psql will\nfail, as will pg_dump. Try it (you have to revoke all on pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWhat do you guys think of having a vacuum summary command? E.g.;\n\nVACUUM [FULL] [ANALYZE] SUMMARY\n\nwhere summary would only print the last lines of a vacuum verbose?\n\nfoo=> VACUUM SUMMARY;\nINFO: free space map contains 17 pages in 12 relations\nDETAIL: A total of 192 page s...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the latest HEAD, a PL/Perl function that returns a list value\ninstead of a reference causes a segmentation fault:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS integer[] AS $$\nreturn (1, 2, 3, 4);\n$$ LANGUAGE plperl;\n\nSELECT foo();\nserver closed the connection unexpectedly\n\nHere's the stack tra...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhere in the source is the decision about the placement new tuple (on\nwhich page to put it) made ?\n\nI'd like to take a look at adding \"gravity\" to that decision, do that I\ncan make postgres to decide to place new tuple (inserted or updated)\nnear the beginning of file, in order to mak...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi,\n\nThere are many commits to back branches and 8.0 branch since the last dot \nreleases were announced.\n\nAny plans for new releases before 8.1beta1?\n\nRegards,\n\n- --\nDevrim GUNDUZ\ndevrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.g...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> Ah, I see this now in our code:\n\n> CurrentLocaleConv.decimal_point = strdup(extlconv->decimal_point);\n> CurrentLocaleConv.grouping = strdup(extlconv->grouping);\n> CurrentLocaleConv.thousands_sep = strdup(extlconv->thousands_sep...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I mentioned in the last post to a thread in general detailing some \nof the hurdles of attempting to set up PostgreSQL virtual hosting, \nwe've had to hack pg_dump to achieve the behavior that we want.\n\nThe modifications we made call into question (for us, anyway) a few \ndesign decis...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nShould we add the multibyte regression tests to the buildfarm test \nsuite? Does anyone know how portable they are? I guess adding them would \nbe one way to find out.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:54:47 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm starting to get results with dbt2 on a 4-way opteron system and\nwanted to share what I've got so far since people have told me in the\npast that this architecture is more interesting than the itanium2 that\nI've been using.\n\nThis 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controlle...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI use PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and following associated drivers : \n\npostgresql-8.0-311.jdbc2.jar\npostgresql-8.0-311.jdbc2ee.jar\npostgresql-8.0-311.jdbc3.jar\n\nI want to use CachedRowSetImpl to populate one row in the following table :\n\nCREATE TABLE \"Form2\"\n(\n form2member3 int4,\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Mark,\n\nGreat stuff. One of the things that led me to PostgreSQL a couple years\nback was the exceptional OLTP performance I was able to wring out of it\nwhen running my own internal benchmarks against it. \n\nI have a couple questions (that I apologize if they are answered\nelsewhere)....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDoes PostgreSQL do the following optimisation:\n\nSELECT * FROM diary WHERE date = '2005-05-01' ORDER BY date;\n\nor in fact even better (for my situation)\n\nSELECT * FROM diary WHERE date BETWEEN '2005-05-01' AND '2005-05-01' \nORDER BY date;\n\nDoes it know that the input to the sor...
[ { "msg_contents": "A Guide to the Constraint Exclusion Feature\n===========================================\n\nSimon Riggs\t2ndQuadrant\tsimon@2ndquadrant.com\n\nINTRODUCTION\n\nConstraint Exclusion (CE) is an optimizer patch submitted for PostgreSQL\n8.1. CE aims to greatly improve the performance for certain ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis seems to have gone AWOL in the email ether, so I am resending.\n\n-------- Original Message --------\n\nTom Lane wrote:\n\n>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:\n> \n>\n>>I have just noticed this code in plperl.c:\n>> \n>>\n>> hv_store(plperl_proc_hash, internal_pron...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWill this be an option when 8.1 releases? I know there has been some\n*ahem* disagreement.\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nYour PostgreSQL solutions provider, Command Prompt, Inc.\n24x7 support - 1.800.492.2240, programming, and consulting\nHome of PostgreSQL Replicator, pl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI heard mention from Berkus that these may be going by the wayside. Any \ntruth to that?\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nYour PostgreSQL solutions provider, Command Prompt, Inc.\n24x7 support - 1.800.492.2240, programming, and consulting\nHome of PostgreSQL Replicator, plPH...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nTom made mention earlier this week that upping the checkpoint segments\nmight be a bad idea because we are committing someone to 32 megs per\nsegment. I thought it odd at the time but I figured it was an 8.1 thing.\n\nAs I review the 8.1dev postgresql.conf the checkpoint_segments op...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nIs it possible to somehow determine index's attribute number that is target\none for given scankey?\n\n\nI've checked nbtree AM code and found no evidence of such an ability. I need\nthat, because I'm storing each indexed value only once in a form of index\ntuple, consisting of only...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm sure I'm not the first to bring up this way of doing pg_upgrade,\nbut perhaps I can help seed a fruitful discussion on the matter.\n\nAs background, I'd like to go over our policy of, \"The code patch must\nbe accompanied by any doc patches that it implies.\" I believe that\nth...
[ { "msg_contents": "There were several reports of \"unable to read/write\" on Pg8.0.x win32 port:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-02/msg00181.php\n\nI encounter this several times and finally I catch the GetLastError()\nnumber. It is\n\n 32, ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION\n The process cannot ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "My last one appears to have vanished. Did this get through?\n\nCheers,\nD\n-- \nDavid Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/\nphone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778\n\nRemember to vote!\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:58:24 -0700", "msg_from": "David Fetter <david@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, All\n\nI am new to devolopment of code, so maybe the question is quit simple.\n\nI am trying to write a tools to convert a binary WAL file to a text file.\n\nI want to use ReadRecord to get the record from the file and use RmgrTable[record->xl_rmid].rm_desc to interpreter the content. But...
[ { "msg_contents": "> There were several reports of \"unable to read/write\" on \n> Pg8.0.x win32 port:\n> \n> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-02/msg00181.php\n> \n> I encounter this several times and finally I catch the \n> GetLastError() number. It is\n> \n> 32, ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION\n> ...