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[ { "msg_contents": "My Solaris 9 box has the same regression failures for copy2, domain,\nand alter_table in REL7_3_STABLE that caribou and stoat are showing\n(geometry fails on those boxes as well, but passes on mine).\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=caribou&dt=2005-07-14%2006:42:19\nhttp:/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Qingqing wrote:\n> There were several reports of \"unable to read/write\" on Pg8.0.x win32\n> 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 GetLastError()\n> number. It is\n> \n> 32, ERROR_SHARING_...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Andrew Dunstan\n> Sent: 14 July 2005 13:35\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] windows regression failure - prepar...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net] \n> Sent: 14 July 2005 14:36\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] windows regression failure - prepared xacts\n> \n> \n> \n> Short answer:\n> \n> . your box wil...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net] \n> Sent: 14 July 2005 15:17\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] windows regression failure - prepared xacts\n> \n> \n> >Yep, no problem there. Well, I say tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've applied Alvaro's latest integrated-autovacuum patch. There are\nstill a number of loose ends to be dealt with before beta, though:\n\n* Not all the functionality of the current contrib code seems to have\nmade it in. In particular I noted the \"sleep scaling factor\" is\nmissing, as we...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, the recommended way to ask \"have I already created a temp\ntable named foo\" is something like\n\n\tselect * from pg_class\n\twhere relname = 'foo' and pg_table_is_visible(oid);\n\nIf there's a possibility that a regular table named 'foo' exists,\nthen this isn't good enough and y...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did some testing and I think that I can confirm this - on my \nworkstation under Windows 2000 with latest CVS and gcc 3.2.3 it randomly \nfails (it sometimes works and sometimes fails even with same binary) on \nprepared_xacts and always fails on rules.\n\nTested 3 rebuilds and about 10 che...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> Currently, the recommended way to ask \"have I already created a temp\n> table named foo\" is something like\n> \n> \tselect * from pg_class\n> \twhere relname = 'foo' and pg_table_is_visible(oid);\n> \n> If there's a possibility that a regular table named 'foo' exists,\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> That would respond to the abstraction concern in a more complete\n> fashion. I thought about that one too, but felt that the ability to\n> look at the whole pg_class row (and not only check existence) had some\n> value. Also, I've seen people doing things like\n> \t... where relname LIKE ...
[ { "msg_contents": "PostgreSQL hackers:\n\n8.0.3 is working great for me on Mac OS X Tiger, but I do get a \nsegfault every time I exit pssql:\n\npsql(7466) malloc: *** error for object 0x1806600: incorrect checksum \nfor freed object - object was probably modified after being freed, \nbreak at szone_error to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nWould it be useful to have a pg_get_prepared(name) function that returns \ntrue or false depending on whether or not there is a prepared query of \nthat name?\n\nPerhaps we could have a way of checking the parameter types of it as well?\n\n(Also no-one replied to my PQescapeIdenti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI needed prepared queries in plperl, but there's none, so I baked a patch that\ndefines two extra perl functions, spi_prepare and spi_exec_prepared, and it\nseems to work more-less ok. The patch is here,\n\n http://www.karasik.eu.org/misc/plperl.diff\n\nbut it's not in any way a fina...
[ { "msg_contents": "This may sound silly, but any chance we could change autovacuum_* GUC\nvariables to be vacuum_auto_* instead?\n\nThis way when you issue a SHOW ALL, all of the vacuum related parameters\nwould be in the same place.\n-- \n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:47:09 -0400", "msg_from": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I spent a little time today cleaning up easily-fixed problems that are\ncausing buildfarm failures in various back branches. Hopefully that\nwill result in a few more \"green\" entries over the new few days. While\nI was looking, I noticed several machines that seem to be failing\nbecause o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThis small patch improves the performance of INSERT and UPDATE. By my \nmachine, these changes raised the performance about 5%~10% in pgbench. \nPlease take a benchmark in a reliable environment. Since I may forget \nsome required changes, I specify that this patch is experimenta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThis small patch improves the performance of INSERT and UPDATE. By my\nmachine, these changes raised the performance about 5%~10% in pgbench.\nPlease take a benchmark in a reliable environment. Since I may forget\nsome required changes, I specify that this patch is experimental. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since tom seems to be fixing the back branches, I added 7.3 and 7.2 to\nfirefly's set of branches it tries. Unfortunately\nneither one went green :(.\n\nAlso, 7.4 seems to now need some contrib check hacking. (It got further,\nbut not green yet).\n\nJust FYI.\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman...
[ { "msg_contents": "BTW, I noticed that the buildfarm HOWTO says\n\n> ... Finally, I set up a\n> cron job on the mirror machine to update the mirror every 15 minutes - this\n> should not be too big a deal, as CVSup is extremely efficient, and even\n> doing this so frequently should not incur a lot of bandwidth u...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have what seems a pretty solid theory about the intermittent check\nfailures on buildfarm member loris. Every non-Windows platform executes\nthe parallel regression tests using C locale ... but not Windows,\nbecause of this hack in pg_regress.sh:\n\nunset LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MONETARY LC...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm finding it a bit annoying that the buildfarm results pages will only\nshow me what the program thinks I need to know. For example, to debug\nthe current 7.4-branch dblink failures, it'd be awfully useful to\ncompare the build logs of those systems to the same machines' logs for\nthe not-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Buildfarm member penguin has never got past this point in half a year of\ntrying:\n\ncreating template1 database in /home/postgres/pgfarmbuild/REL7_4_STABLE/pgsql.7701/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1... ok\ninitializing pg_shadow... TRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(StrategyEvaluationIsValid...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just ran pg_dumpall from today's CVS against a 14 April server - I got:\n\npg_dumpall: query failed: ERROR: type \"e\" does not exist\npg_dumpall: query was: SELECT spcname, pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(spcowner) AS spcowner, spclocation, spcacl FROM pg_catalog.pg_tablespace WHERE spcname NO...
[ { "msg_contents": "It appears to be getting the wrong address for tsearch()\n\nProgram received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.\nReason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x0000011b\n0x9009a7c8 in tsearch ()\n\nHowever if I set a break point for tsearch, I get\n\nbr tsearch\nBreakpoint 5 at 0x...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmmm...could we allow truncate in cases where all the FK's on a table \nrefer only to that table itself?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:09:21 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Trun...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a plpython_error_1.out file that will fix cuckoo.\nUnfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to submit it as an actual\npatch, so it's just a file attachment. It should go in\nsrc/pl/plpython/expected.\n-- \nJim C. Nasby, Database Consultant decibel@decibel.org \nGive...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm switching the aftermath of this thread -- http:// \narchives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00501.php -- to - \nhackers since it raised issues of potential concern to developers.\n\nAt various points in the thread, Tom Lane said the following:\n\n\"I have an old note to myself th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like it's time for an update to the config.guess/config.sub scripts.\n\nSCO (don't yell, I'm just the messenger), released OpenServer 6, and needs\nupdated versions to compile. \n\nDo I need to generate a patch, or can we just get them updated in HEAD?\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n I've been doing a code audit (review) for my own personal use of the \n7.4.x series code base and have come across something that I'd like to get \nmore details on, if it is possible to do so.\n\n I've been going over the communications section and am curious how this \nsegment ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 19 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n> Larry Rosenman wrote:\n> > Do I need to generate a patch, or can we just get them updated in\n> > HEAD?\n> \n> They were updated two weeks ago and there weren't any SCO-related \n> changes since then. If you have patches, please submit them to \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 19 2005, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:\n> > Looks like it's time for an update to the config.guess/config.sub \n> > scripts.\n> \n> Didn't we just do that?\n> \n> 2005-07-01 14:17 petere\n> \n> \t* configure, configure.in, config/config.guess, config/con...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-07/msg00096.php describes\nwhat I think is causing octopus to fail. What's also interesting is\nthese patches from the FreeBSD port:\n\ndecibel@flake.2[13:48]/usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server/files:37>cat patch-plpython-Makefile patch-src-...
[ { "msg_contents": "The email below about FreeBSD's involvement in Google's Summer of Code\ngot me thinking; would there be value in trying to attract college\nstudents to working on either PostgreSQL development, or using\nPostgreSQL in projects? Even though we missed getting in on the summer\nof code this year...
[ { "msg_contents": "So far, the CE patch covers only inherited child tables and is only\neffective when enable_constraint_exclusion is true.\n\nThere have been various requests for this to work with UNION ALL views\nand also with normal queries.\n\nSince we have a GUC that can turn this behaviour off, and is off...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, i have just installed 10.4 on one of our machines and cannot get \npast this error during make\n\ngcc -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith \n-Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -dynamiclib -install_name \n/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.4.dylib -compatibility_versio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAt least on my machine, the latest Cygwin seems to break \ncomprehensively, with a SEGV when starting postmaster. It looks like \nit is failing ion the code that looks for the highest settable FD, but \nit's hard to say - the stack gets corrupted so getting a reliable \nbacktrace is hard....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDid I miss a docbook upgrade or something here?\n\nopenjade -V draft-mode -D . -c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -d stylesheet.dsl -i output-text -t sgml -V nochunks standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml >INSTALL.html\nopenjade:installation.sgml:873:44:X: reference ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There appear to be several bugs in the at time zone patch recently applied.\n\n\nshow timezone;\n TimeZone \n----------\n UTC\n(1 row)\n\nselect now();\n now \n-------------------------------\n 2005-07-20 23:38:57.981128+00\n(1 row)\n\n\n*** WORKS ***\n\n\n select CU...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHaving an issue with 10.4.2 at the moment when i initialize the \ndatabase no user is being created.\n\nI have setup Postgresql 8.0.3 on 10.3 without any issue, has anyone come \naccross this problem before?\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:35:57 +1000", "msg_from": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, All\n\n \n\nI am preparing to enhance the pg_resetlog to support recover corrupted pg_control data from WAL. I had finised the code now and testing it, but before I bring it out for patch review, I want to discuss some issues here to get some advice.\n\n \n\nThe functionality of reset the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can't contribute with any technical advice, but as a user I had to resort\nto using pg_resetxlog few times.\n\nI wonder if it is possible to make it more user-friendly. It was never clear\nto me whether it was sufficient to run it\n\nwithout any arguments, and if not what these arguments sh...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgman wrote:\n> Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \n> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > >> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > >>>> #define DAYS_PER_YEAR 365.25\n> > >>>> #define MONTHS_PER_YEAR 12\n> > >>>> #define DAYS_PER_MONTH 30\n> > >>>> #d...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking into fixing the --enable-thread-safety option on\nWindows.\nAt the moment, we have some simple pthread emulation that may be used in\n\nlibpq if --enable-thread-safety is used. The Makefile is slightly\nbroken,\nhowever this should be easy to fix (properly) for someone more\...
[ { "msg_contents": "In round figures:\n\nSince there are 365.2422 days per tropical year, there are 31556926\nseconds per year (give or take leap seconds).\n\nRef:\nhttp://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/cale\nndar_calculations.htm\n\n\nSo 31557600 seems to be off by quite a bit.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nNo doubt several/many of you are planning on attending OSCON 2005. The \nPostgreSQL community will have a large, commercial booth in the exhibit \nhall at OSCON this year, sponsored by SRA and CommandPrompt. And we need \nyou to help staff it.\n\nBased on last year, I expect that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I have PostgreSQL 8.0.3 running on a \"workstation\" with 768 MB\nof RAM, under FreeBSD. And I have a 47-milion row table:\n\nqnex=# explain select * from log;\n QUERY PLAN \n---------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI tried the latest cvs this morning (07/22 11:00 CET)\nand interval test fails.\nHere's the regression.diffs.\n\n*** ./expected/interval.out\tFri Jul 22 10:32:21 2005\n--- ./results/interval.out\tFri Jul 22 11:07:54 2005\n***************\n*** 217,224 ****\n -- updating pg_aggregate.ag...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks, Bruce, for improving and applying the interval->day patch. \nI've been busy with work and slow in catching up on what you actually \ndid (I still need to go back and look) and look forward to learning \nwhat remained to make the patch more complete.\n\nI'm hoping to get the docs an...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVS HEAD is consistently failing on snake in pl/tcl, whilst\nREL8_0_STABLE is passing just fine.\n\n select * from T_pkey1 order by key1 using @<, key2;\n key1 | key2 | txt\n\n \n------+----------------------+------------------------------------------\n- ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch fixes the interval regression on my AIX box (kookaburra) by\nonly doing integer math on the interval, instead of float/double math.\n\nI think this is the correct way to handle this, since it's an integer\ndata type.\n\nI don't know if it will fix Olivier's problem, since I wasn't ...
[ { "msg_contents": "365.2425 is the exact value computed by the formulas found in the\nGregorian calendar (a very good approximation of reality).\n\n365.2422 is the physical reality of how long it actually takes (but\nthere are tiny wobbles in it).\n\nhttp://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html\n\n> -----Origi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Apparently, the Gregorian calendar has been fixed. From this:\nhttp://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/ross/phys2081/time/calendar.htm\n\nWe have this:\n\"The Gregorian calendar has been modified since (before anything could\ngo wrong) to bring the Gregorian 365.2425 down to 365.2422 by cutting\...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net] \n> Sent: 22 July 2005 17:56\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm failure - pl/tcl on snake\n> \n> \n> \n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> >\"Dave Page\" <dpag...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nIn the stats test, delay for the stats collector to catch up using a\nfunction that actually sleeps, instead of busy-waiting. Perhaps this\nwill resolve some of the intermittent stats failures we keep seeing.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/test/r...
[ { "msg_contents": "This still does not fix the problem.\n\nI had done my patch to try to mimic the way 8.0 had handled the math\nwith the remainders, but to carry it over another bucket (day).\n\nThe problem that I see is that we are taking day_remainder and\nmultiplying by USECS_PER_DAY. Which is a double * i...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am seeing the same stats regression failures in CVS, even after\nthe recent commits to improve sleep().\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 Robe...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 23 July 2005 20:01\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] For review: Server instrumentation patch\n> \n> \n> This patch looks good. The only question I have i...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is a bug in the in-memory bitmap index on the CVS Tip.\n\nConsider this query: select * from bt1 where g=2 and e=20, which will generate the following query plan:\n\n QUERY PLAN \n-------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Because I wanted the standard platform behaviour of both. \n> For backend \n> > storage subsystem purposes, it's certainly necessary to emulate *ix \n> > behaviour of deleting a file in use, but for generic file \n> access IMHO \n> > the generic behaviour should be exposed.\n> \n> I'm goi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > How is this different from the fact that the superuser can \n> already use \n> > COPY to accomplish the same thing?\n> \n> COPY can accomplish a few of the same things, much less \n> conveniently (for instance, it's darn hard to write an \n> arbitrary binary file through COPY).\n\nRight. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCould we please add this TODO that I just found missing, much to my \nannoyance?\n\n. md5 function for bytea\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:32:22 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "sugges...
[ { "msg_contents": "One pretty silly point: I notice that\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/index.html\nsays \"The build farm software does not currently run on Windows\".\nThis is out of date no?\n\nOne not so trivial question: do we have a policy about system/compiler\nupdates on buildfarm members? Arguably, if I'm...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > It could be argued that there should be provision for a \n> limitation on \n> > the locations in which COPY can write (and maybe read) files.\n> > If COPY is a security hole then we should close it, not use that as \n> > precedent to open another hole.\n> \n> Yeah. It's worth pointing ou...
[ { "msg_contents": "<snip good explanation. Thanks.>\n\n> > Let me suggest another nice way for a superuser to do \n> whatever he wants.\n> > How about \"CREATE UNTRUSTED PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE\"? If you have say \n> > pl/perl or pl/tcl on the system, you just create the \n> untrusted version \n> > and away you go ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 25 2005, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n\n> Sorry to follow up my own post but this is weird.\n> \n> I've tested again and more closely.\n> And intervall check is ok when configured with --enable-debug and fails\n> (with the same error) otherwise.\n> \n> It could be a compiler optimizer bug or...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >> That'd be fine with me --- but we have to introduce that\n> >> *before* we add obvious new security risks, not after.\n> \n> > So what do you think of the proposed GUC?\n> \n> Well, it has more or less the same problem as the GUC in the \n> COPY-only-to-given-places proposal, which is th...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I still think, security considerations aside, that an API \n> for config \n> > settings would be a much better piece of design than providing file \n> > system access functions.\n> \n> I agree with that. \n\nFor the record, me too. But I don't see that happening for 8.1,\nconsidering the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 25 2005, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n\n> Hi Larry,\n> \n> I'm quitge sure you'll see a problem if you remove --enable-debug\n> --enable-cassert from your ./configure\n\nDo we have a clue as to which .c module the compiler/optimizer is (possibly)\nscrewing up? \n\nI have connections in SCO's...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 25 2005, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n\n> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Larry Rosenman wrote:\n> \n> > Date: 25 Jul 2005 12:47:01 -0500\n> > From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>\n> > To: ohp@pyrenet.fr\n> > Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\n> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] regression ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 25 July 2005 15:18\n> To: Magnus Hagander\n> Cc: Andrew Dunstan; Andreas Pflug; Bruce Momjian; Dave Page; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] For review: Server instrumentation patch \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust curious as to whether or not a warning or something should be issued \nin a case like:\n\n SELECT c.*\n FROM company c, company_summary cs\n WHERE c.id = cs.id\n AND cs.detail = 'test'\nORDER BY cs.fullname;\n\nUnless I'm missing something, the ORDER BY clause has no effe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUsing an 8.0.3 database, if I do:\n\nCREATE GROUP testgrp WITH USER pgsql;\nGRANT ALL ON timezone TO GROUP testgrp;\nDROP GROUP testgrp;\n\nThe table permissions still contain the reference to the 'group':\n\n public | timezone | table | {pgsql=arwdRxt/pgsql,\"group 100=a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please find attached diffs for documentation and simple regression \ntests for the new interval->day changes. I added tests for \njustify_hours() and justify_days() to interval.sql, as they take \ninterval input and produce interval output. If there's a more \nappropriate place for them, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The new SET ROLE code has a bit of a problem with rollback of SET\noperations. For example,\n\nregression=# create user foo;\nCREATE ROLE\nregression=# create role bar;\nCREATE ROLE\nregression=# set role bar;\nSET\nregression=> show role;\n role \n------\n bar\n(1 row)\n\nregression=> begin...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 26 2005, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n\n> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> > FWIW, I just checked that CVS tip works OK for me without these options,\n> > with either integer or float timestamps. I don't see any new warnings,\n> > either.\n> > It could well be that the recent cha...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 26 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:\n\n> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:02:02PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:\n> > > Can you try rebuilding python and it's dependencies WITHOUT_THREADS?\n> > > \n> > > I think that would get us where we need?\n> \n> Worked: \n> http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > If you want to secure your system against a superuser()-level \n> > intrusion then you need to secure the unix account, or disable \n> > creation of C-language and other untrusted languages (at least).\n> \n> Very likely --- which is why Magnus' idea of an explicit \n> switch to prevent s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'd like to suggest altering the syntax of VACUUM so that it is possible\nto issue the command VACUUM DATABASE. The keyword DATABASE would be\noptional, to allow backward compatibility.\n\nThe reasons for this are better understanding and comprehension. Soooo\nmany people are confused about...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >>> If you want to secure your system against a superuser()-level \n> >>> intrusion then you need to secure the unix account, or disable \n> >>> creation of C-language and other untrusted languages (at least).\n> >> \n> >> Very likely --- which is why Magnus' idea of an explicit switch to \...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 26 July 2005 22:01\n> To: Magnus Hagander\n> Cc: Stephen Frost; Andrew Dunstan; Andreas Pflug; Bruce \n> Momjian; Dave Page; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] For review: Server instrumenta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recent cvs versions are failing the following script;\n\ncreate table oidtest(a time default now()) with oids;\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION oidtest() RETURNS integer AS $oidtest$\n DECLARE\n insert_oid_var INTEGER;\n BEGIN\n INSERT INTO oidtest DEFAULT VALUES;\n GET DIAGNOSTICS insert_oid...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nBasic documentation for ROLEs. The user-manag chapter still needs to\nbe rewritten, but at least the reference pages are reasonably sane.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml:\n reference.sgml (r1.54 -> r1.55)\n (http://developer...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI ran across this yesterday on HEAD:\n\ntemplate1=# grant select on foo, foo to swm;\nERROR: tuple already updated by self\n\nWe could do away with the error by producing a unique list of object names\n-- but that would impose an extra cost on the common case. It seems to me\nthat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to use pgsl as an interpreter (in the sense of\nexecve(2)). In short, if a file begins with the line\n\n\t #! /path/to/psql -f\n\nit should be interpretable by psql. The normal semantics of execve(2)\nensure that this will work perfectly (indeed a file containing\n\"#!/path...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. I was just wondering, assume we have such tables:\n\nCREATE TABLE data (\n foo text,\n somename_id integer not null references (somenames)\n);\n\nCREATE TABLE somenames (\n somename_id serial PRIMARY KEY\n somename text NOT NULL\n);\n\nAnd a view:\n\nCREATE someview AS SELECT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 27 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:\n\n> \n> \n> ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n> \n> >In the meantime would'nt it be nice to try to understand what happens and\n> >correct it?\n> >\n> >I'm a bit afraid that 8.1 is not used on unixware because people don't\n> >have/want the patch installed.\n> >\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jul 27 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Andrew Dunstan wrote:\n> > \n> > \n> > ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:\n> > \n> > > In the meantime would'nt it be nice to try to understand what happens \n> > > and correct it?\n> > >\n> > >I'm a bit afraid that 8.1 is not used on unixware because people don't...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nJust for clarification, will the new integrated autovacuum require that \nstatistics are on?\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\nManage...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI ran a wal_buffer test series. It appears that increasing the \nwal_buffers is indeed very important for OLTP applications, potentially \nresulting in as much as a 15% average increase in transaction processing. \nWhat's interesting is that this is not just true for 8.1, it's tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Did anyone get a chance to think about this? I'd like to fix this for\n8.1, but it should also make life easy with the new libpq based ODBC\ndriver improvements if I can produce an appropriate patch sooner rather\nthan later!\n\nRegards, Dave.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Neil (or anyone else with an opinion),\n\nI'm finding several uses in the planner for some new List primitives\ndefined as below. I'd like to push these into list.c, but before that,\nhas anyone got any serious objections? How about suggestions for better\nnames?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\...
[ { "msg_contents": "SCO is seeing the following failure without -O, but no failure with -O:\n\nThe sanity_check diffs show:\n*** ./expected/sanity_check.out Wed Jul 27 17:58:12 2005\n--- ./results/sanity_check.out Wed Jul 27 18:09:41 2005\n***************\n*** 17,22 ****\n--- 17,24 ----\n circle_tbl ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nThis is a list of things people mentioned as interesting to do for\nvacuum/autovacuum, during the last autovacuum discussion thread. Some\nof them are wishful thinking, others are doable.\n\nNeil, Gavin: both of you mentioned that you didn't like autovacuum as a\nlong term soluti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a situation where i need to select a couple of rows from an\ninherited table\ncollection. The statement I'm using is:\n\nSELECT * FROM parent NATURAL JOIN interesting\n\nwhere interesting is a 1 column temporary table with the primary key's\nof the rows\nI'm interested in.\n\nAll the ...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 28 July 2005 02:39\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] --enable-thread-safety on Win32\n> \n> Dave Page wrote:\n> > Did anyone get a chance to think about th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I ran a wal_buffer test series. It appears that increasing the \n> wal_buffers is indeed very important for OLTP applications, \n> potentially resulting in as much as a 15% average increase in \n> transaction processing. \n> What's interesting is that this is not just true for 8.1, it'...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 28 July 2005 14:29\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] --enable-thread-safety on Win32\n> \n> Dave Page wrote:\n> > \n> > \n> > > -----Original Message-----...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 28 July 2005 16:08\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] --enable-thread-safety on Win32\n> \n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housin...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm testing out the latest version of Palles ICU patch on win32, and I\ngot the build syste mworking. But it no longer works when built - it\nused to...\n\nWhen initdb:ing with this version and -E UNICODE, I get:\nWARNING: detected write past chunk end in Analyze Column 01472ED0\n\n\nAny idea...
[ { "msg_contents": "At EnterpriseDB we're doing a little project along these lines. In our lab, and soon for our company, we are running SugarCRM on EDB-Postgres. Alas you say, but SugarCRM only supports MySQL:\n \nEDB ships a nifty java based ETL tool with our product that is 99.5% based on the Enhydra Octo...