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"msg_contents": "The following query doesn't return the version of PostgreSQL currently\nrunning, but rather the version of initdb that initialized the cluster:\n\nSELECT character_value\nFROM information_schema.sql_implementation_info\nWHERE implementation_info_name = 'DBMS VERSION';\n\nIs that the intended ... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Page\n> Sent: 28 July 2005 16:16\n> To: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] --enable-thread-safety on Win... |
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"msg_contents": "Who copied?\n\nI've been to mysql site 2 mn ago (did'nt occur since at least 6 months)\ntitle says : Mysql: The world most advanced opensource database.\n\nIsn't it the title for postgresql?\n\nIt seems weird for both projects to have the same claim (although it's\ntrue for postgreql...)\n\nR... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch implements an optional EXACT keyword after the INTO keyword\nof the PL/pgSQL SELECT INTO command. The motivation is to come closer\nto Oracle's SELECT INTO behavior: when SELECTing INTO scalar targets,\nraise an exception and leave the targets untouched if the query does not\nretu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy buildfarm member opsrey has turned green, thanks to the following \ntwo things:\n * the removal of the contrib module tsearch (that was miscompiling)\n * the removal from my config of plperl and pltcl. My \ninstallations of perl and tcl link to pthread, and postgresql does... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems it's dead on the buildfarm box as well:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=snake&dt=2005-07-30%20\n01:00:01\n\n From what I can tell, the recent patch for O_DIRECT broke it. \n\n//Magnus\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:47:33 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Magnus Hag... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Tom Lane\nSent: Sat 7/30/2005 4:58 PM\nTo: Magnus Hagander\nCc: PostgreSQL-patches\nSubject: Re: [PATCHES] Updated instrumentation patch \n \n> None of these functions are getting into 8.1 anyway; we shoul... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I'm testing out the latest version of Palles ICU patch on \n> win32, and I \n> > got the build syste mworking. But it no longer works when \n> built - it \n> > used to...\n> > \n> > When initdb:ing with this version and -E UNICODE, I get:\n> > WARNING: detected write past chunk end in Ana... |
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"msg_contents": "This broke the build on AIX.\n\nAIX does not have SOL_TCP as a defined symbol in any of the system\nheader files.\n\n\t-rocco\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Bruce Momjian\n> Sen... |
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"msg_contents": "This broke the build on AIX.\n\nAIX does not have SOL_TCP as a defined symbol in any of the system\nheader files.\n\n\t-rocco\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Bruce Momjian\n> Sen... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks, I'll check it out. I didn't see much evidence on the SugarCRM site that they are interested in an DB besides MySQL. But, it is also my hope that the core SugarCRM project will come around to supporting EDB/PostgreSQL (once we have done the port for them and committed to testing and ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Steve Atkins\nSent: Sun 7/31/2005 5:35 AM\nTo: PostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n \n> So, while I can see the attraction of being able to futz with the\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nSent: Sun 7/31/2005 4:39 AM\nTo: Dave Page\nCc: Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; PostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Remote administration functionality\n \n\n> The idea of the patch was to give applications the ful... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am working on trunc and round function now. I have some problems with \ntimestemp with time zone datatype. First question?\n\nis correct behaviour (I am in GMT+2 time zone)?\n\nselect current_timestamp, date_trunc('year', current_timestamp), \ndate_trunc('month', current_timestamp... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nSent: Sun 7/31/2005 2:58 PM\nTo: Dave Page\nCc: Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; PostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n \n\n> I was thinking of a global table that ca... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been trying to figure out what to do about pg_dumpall's --clean\noption in view of our recent changes. The problem is that pg_dumpall\ntries to delete existing users and groups by putting this in its\noutput script:\n\n\tDELETE FROM pg_shadow\n\t WHERE usesysid <> (SELECT datdba FROM p... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 01:35\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n> I am thinking we will need loa... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > I am thinking we will need load_pg_hba() and write_pg_hba() that \n> > > will load and write the table to pg_hba.conf.\n> > \n> > Yeah, that bit is straghtforward enough, but what about the \n> situation \n> > where dba #1 updates the pg_hba table, at the same time as \n> dba #2 is \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > The difference is that if the other admin edited it in vi \n> *last week* \n> > it will still break with your way, unless every admin \n> always rembers \n> > to do\n> > load_pg_hba() before doing *anything at all*. \n> \n> Yes, good point. In thinking about this, I think we are \n> bett... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:18\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Dave Page; Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n> > It allows remote administration,... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:41\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Andreas Pflug; Dave Page; Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Douglas McNaught [mailto:doug@mcnaught.org] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:16\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dp... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:51\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Andreas Pflug; Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander; \n> PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n>\... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] \n> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:36\n> To: Magnus Hagander\n> Cc: Dave Page; Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality\n> \n> Uh, not sure why it would be h... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > > I fail to see how this is better than just editing the\n> > > file. Because\n> > > > it basically *is* a file editing function limited to \n> pg_hba.conf. \n> > > > Perhaps what we need is a file reader/writer that is\n> > > hardcoded to the\n> > > > pg_hba.conf file?\n> > > \n> > >... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWhat might this be?\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 and Dedicated Hosting\nCo-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - h... |
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"msg_contents": "Vacina contra o HIV!!",
"msg_date": "Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:31:26 -0300",
"msg_from": "pgman@candle.pha.pa.us",
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"msg_subject": "pescaria por kilo"
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> mark@mark.mielke.cc\n> Sent: 02 August 2005 05:55\n> To: Jeff MacDonald\n> Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; andrew@supernews.com; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql... |
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"msg_contents": "For the past 11 months or so[1], I've been working full-time on \nPostgreSQL as an employee of Fujitsu Australia Software Technology. I'm \ngrateful to Fujitsu for giving me this opportunity, and I've enjoyed the \npast year. However, I'm returning to university in the fall, and \ntherefore I... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI had posted this earlier, but had insufficient info (or access) to \nprovide much detail ... now, I've got the access, and this really isn't \nmaking much sense ...\n\nHave databse that \\ds shows several sequences, but one in partiicular, I \ncan't seem to 'dump' with pg_dump:\n\n public... |
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"msg_contents": "I've started scaling dbt3 up to the 10GB scale factor against CVS and\nthe fast COPY patch:\n\nhttp://www.testing.osdl.org/projects/dbt3testing/results/dev4-010/53/\n\nI'm sure there are some better database parameters I should use so\nplease let me know what to try. ;) What I've found inter... |
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"msg_contents": "As of now, translators have the opportunity to commit their translations \nthemselves as the PgFoundry project at\n\nhttp://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtranslation/\n\nEveryone who has previously worked on translations is invited to send me a \nprivate email so I can add them to this project.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "#postgresql freenode channel directed me to write the hackers list\n\nI have backup files. Version I believe is 7.4. \n\npg server stopped - short log file is pasted at end of this email\n\nPANIC re checkpoint record seems to indicate running pg_resetxlog\n\nRan pg_restxlog with -n successful... |
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"msg_contents": "ECPG seems to be a little overzealous with the new escape string syntax:\n\n% cat foo.pgc\nint\nmain(void)\n{\n putchar('\\n');\n return 0;\n}\n\n% ecpg foo.pgc\n\n% gcc -I`pg_config --includedir` -c foo.c\nfoo.pgc: In function `main':\nfoo.pgc:4: `E' undeclared (first use in this funct... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDid we recently make some fixes for FBSD that cured the problem with \nunresolved pthread* symbols for plpython? If so, should we look at \npossibly doing something similar for OpenBSD? That might clean up \nbuildfarm member spoonbill which has been failing ever since we started \ntesting P... |
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"msg_contents": "ECPG ignores SAVEPOINT if it's the first statement of a transaction:\n\n% cat foo.pgc\nint\nmain(void)\n{\n EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR SQLPRINT;\n EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLWARNING SQLPRINT;\n\n EXEC SQL CONNECT TO test;\n\n EXEC SQL SAVEPOINT foo;\n EXEC SQL DROP TABLE nosuch_1;\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "hello.....I use postgresql 8.0 . I've created the server.key and\nserver.crt in this manner:\n\nopenssl req -new -nodes -keyout server.key -out server.csr\n\nopenssl req -x509 -key /home/data/server.key -in /home/data/server.csr -out\nserver.crt\n\nand I put theese in my data home.\n\nI launc... |
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"msg_contents": "This was motivated by the SELECT INTO EXACT discussion at\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00559.php.\n\nThe idea is to allow a PL/pgSQL exception to not automatically rollback\nthe work done by the current block. The benefit is that exception\nhandling can be used as... |
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"msg_contents": "I just finished converting and loading the US census data into PostgreSQL\nwould anyone be interested in it for testing purposes?\n\nIt's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL)\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:00:16 -0400 (EDT)",
"msg_from": "\"Mark Woodward\" <pgsql@mohawks... |
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"msg_contents": "I discovered the following confusing issue in CVS HEAD:\n\nCREATE TABLE test(id SERIAL NOT NULL);\nALTER TABLE TEST OWNER TO testuser;\n\nSELECT typname, typowner, relname, relowner from pg_type c JOIN pg_class d \nON (d.reltype = c.oid) WHERE typname = 'test';\n\n typname | typowner | relnam... |
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"msg_contents": "I was reminded again today of the problem that once a database has been\nin existence long enough for the OID counter to wrap around, people will\nget occasional errors due to OID collisions, eg\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg00172.php\n\nGetting rid of OID usage i... |
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"msg_contents": "postgres=# create user u1;\nCREATE ROLE\npostgres=# create schema s1;\nCREATE SCHEMA\npostgres=# create table s1.t1(f1 int);\nCREATE TABLE\npostgres=# alter table s1.t1 owner to u1;\nERROR: permission denied for schema s1\npostgres=#\n\nConsidering I am superuser, it should darn well allow t... |
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"msg_contents": "As this thread reports (some sever messages are in Chinese):\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-07/msg00247.php\n\na SQL grammar error could crash the error stack.\n\nMy explaination is that \"select;\" incurs a parse error and this error\nmessage is\nsupposed to be transla... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nCan someone with a FreeBSD 6.x installation confirm the build error \nreferred here:\n\n<http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/e.6.2005073022/postgresql-client-7.3.10.log>\n\nI maintain the postgresql ports for FreeBSD, but I have no version 6 \ninstalled yet.\n\nThanks... |
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"msg_contents": "I haven't seen this option, and does anyone thing it is a good idea?\n\nA option to pg_dump and maybe pg_dump all, that dumps only the table\ndeclarations and the data. No owners, tablespace, nothing.\n\nThis, I think, would allow more generic PostgreSQL data transfers.\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've recently had problems with slow queries caused by the selectivity \nof the <@ ltree operator, as you may see in my post here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-07/msg00473.php\n\n\nSomeone on IRC (AndrewSN if I'm not wrong) pointed out that the \nrestriction... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIf you haven't visited the buildfarm recently you might have missed a \nfew developments:\n\n. we are now reporting flags used on builds on the main dashboard page - \nI am working on making that look nicer by using icons - see \nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status4.pl for prgres... |
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"msg_contents": "It looks like when we changed regress/GNUmakefile to pull rules from\nMakefile.shlib, cygwin got broken in the process.\n\nThe problem is that regess.dll ends up being a symlink back to itself,\nbecause we do a:\n$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX): $(shlib)\n rm -f $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX)\n $(LN_S) ... |
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"msg_contents": "I just realised this mail didn't go through. Probably because it was too\nlarge for -hackers. So: repost to -patches. Sorry about that. If it's a\nduplicate, even more sorry, but I couldn't find it in the archives.\n\n(This may explain that nobody answered me :P)\n\n//Magnus\n \n\n> -----Orig... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:12:58 -0400\n> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> To: Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: Enhanced containment selectivity function \n> Message-ID: <15936.1123168378@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>\n> Matteo Beccati <php@becc... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm currently most interested in getting SugarCRM working natively on Postgres. Does anybody know a good CRM package that is BSD all the way through?? It is great that there are many CRM packages that already support the worlds most advanced open source database.\n \nI am sure that SugarCRM ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All\n\nI had added an option -r to pg_resetxlog to enable the tool can rebuild the corrupted pg_control file from the old xlog files. \n\nhere is the patch. Sorry I had tried to attached it to the mail, but it failed, I dont know why, here is the link:http://www.geocities.com/yuanjia_pg/pg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI had a system crash today. When Postgresql started I had the following in my pg.log file.\n\n2005-08-06 14:14:26 [3352] LOG: database system was interrupted at 2005-08-06 11:57:28 EDT\n2005-08-06 14:14:26 [3352] LOG: checkpoint record is at 5E5/9CAEA594\n2005-08-06 14:14:26 [3... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI would like to use postgresql for a couple of database experiments\nI've been thinking about. I found Stefan Simkovic's paper\n\"Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL.\" It is a\ngreat guide, although I'm wondering:\n1. How relevant is this paper now (with release 8... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI propose to add an internal function gettime() that transparently\nreturns the current system time, as a timestamptz with maximum\nprecision.\n\nCalling gettime() would be a more elegant approach than calling\ntimeofday() and converting it to a timestamp, and avoids some of the\np... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWith a help from Bruce, I wrote a small function which returns row\nlocking information(see attached file if you are interested). Here is\na sample result:\n\ntest=# select * from pgrowlocks('t1');\n locked_row | lock_type | locker | multi \n------------+-----------+--------+-------\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "I can fairly consistently crash CVS tip with the following:\n\nSession 1:\n\nregression=# begin;\nBEGIN\nregression=# select * from int4_tbl where f1 = 123456 for update;\n f1 \n--------\n 123456\n(1 row)\n\nSession 2:\n\nregression=# begin;\nBEGIN\nregression=# select * from int4_tbl whe... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently working on syncing psql's tab-complete code with the docs\nespecially wrt ROLES. while working on this I noticed the following things:\n\n*) there is no backslash command for getting a list of Roles (like \\du &\n\\dg for Users and Groups) - I'm considering using \\dr for... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAs I have been laboring over the documentation of the postgresql.conf \nfile for 8.1dev it seems that it may be useful to rip out most of the \noptions in this file?\n\nConsidering many of the options can already be altered using SET why\nnot make it the default for many of them?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "I returned from OSCON on Saturday. My impression is that we continue to\nbe a large player in the open source community. Years ago, we were\nconsidered a minor player, but at this OSCON we had two tutorials, 5-6\nsessions, a BOF, and field trip, which is impressive. At the BOF we had\nfour... |
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"msg_contents": "I want to write some regression tests that confirm the behavior of\nmultiple connections simultaneously going at the same tables/rows. Is\nthere something like this already, e.g. in src/test/regress? In\nparticular I want confirm the robustness of some PL/pgSQL functions in a\nmulti-user en... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, here are the options available for wal_sync_method:\n\n\t#wal_sync_method = fsync # the default varies across platforms:\n\t # fsync, fdatasync, fsync_writethrough,\n\t # open_sync, open_datasync\n\nI don't unders... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn summary, we added all those wal_sync_method values in hopes of\ngetting some data on which is best on which platform, but having gone\nseveral years with few reports, I am thinking we should just choose the\nbest ones we can and move on, rather than expose a confusing API to the\nusers.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:38:59PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > Marko Kreen wrote:\n> > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:56:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > > > Currently, here are the options available for wal_sync_method:\n> > > > \n> > > > \t#wal_sync_method =... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > Currently, here are the options available for wal_sync_method:\n> > > > \n> > > > \t#wal_sync_method = fsync # the default \n> varies across platforms:\n> > > > \t # fsync, \n> fdatasync, fsync_writethrough,\n> > > > \t ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > I think we should offer the reliable option by default, \n> and mention \n> > > the fast option for those who have battery-backed cache \n> in the manual.\n> > \n> > But only on Win32?\n> \n> We should do what's possible with what's given to us.\n> \n> On Win32:\n> \n> 1. We can write ... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, issue (1) applies to postgresql as well. It's fixed by\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00529.php.\n\n//Magnus\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Team SHATTER [mailto:shatter@appsecinc.com] \n> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:42 AM\n> To: bugtraq@securityf... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Also, why can't win32 be safe without battery-backed cache?\n> > > I can't see such requirement on other platforms.\n> > \n> > It can, you just need to learn how to configure your \n> system. There are \n> > two different options to make it safe on win32 without \n> battery backed\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > That can definitly be debated. Properly maintaned on proper \n> hardware, \n> > it's quite reliable these days.\n> > Most filesystem corruptions that happen on windows are \n> because people \n> > enable write caching on drives without battery backup. The \n> same issue \n> > we're facing... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I dunno about workstation OS, but on the server OSes it certainly \n> > isn't default.\n> \n> At least on XP Pro it is default.\n\nYuck.\n\n\n> > > The professional probably tests it on his own desktop. I don't \n> > > think PostgreSQL reaches the data center before passing \n> the run o... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Now thinking about it, the guy had corrupt table, not WAL log.\n> > > How is WAL->tables synched? Does the 'wal_sync_method' \n> > > affect it or not?\n> > \n> > I *think* it always fsyncs() there as it is now, but I'm \n> not 100% sure.\n> \n> No. If fsync is off, then no fsync is do... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Now thinking about it, the guy had corrupt table, not WAL log.\n> > > How is WAL->tables synched? Does the 'wal_sync_method' \n> > > affect it or not?\n> > \n> > I *think* it always fsyncs() there as it is now, but I'm \n> not 100% sure.\n> \n> wal_sync_method is also used to flush pag... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, pg_config will tell about the configure options that were\nused, but it does not let you find out if any environment variables were\nused to determine CC, CFLAGS, etc. More than once I've found myself\nwanting to verify that information about an installation. So I'm\nconsidering ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am programming a new set of functions for manipulation blobs, one \nof the functions is that I want to get the size of the blob.\n\nThe function is coded in C and goes like this:\n\nDatum\nblob_size(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n{\n Oid blob_oid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);\n uint32 blobsize = 0;\n b... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Hackers,\nIn the early days of savepoints (then nested transactions), it was\npossible to push and pop sub-transactions in a kind of FIFO stack.\nWhile the savepoint method certainly has its advantages, there are some\nthings I really miss about the old behavior, mostly because you had\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Bcc: \nSubject: Multi-valued NULLS\nReply-To: \n\nCan someone tell me what is the current discussion is on the\nimplementation of the SQL-3 standard for multi-value NULLs\nfor PostgreSQL?\n\nhttp://diuf.unifr.ch/ds/courses/db/pdf/whysql3.htm\n\nQuote from that document:\n You will have noti... |
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"msg_contents": "Looks like there's a standard XML way of returning query results:\n\nhttp://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20050801/\n\nChris\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:33:12 +0800",
"msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>",
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"msg_contents": "I have noticed a deficiency in the current query optimizer related to \n\"full outer joins\". Tom Lane has confirmed to me that it will not be 8.1 \nmaterial. I am not able to wait for 8.2\n\nI am in the lucky situation that my project has money to hire \nconsultants, so I would be very inter... |
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"msg_contents": "[Please CC any replies so I don't have to follow them via the archives]\n\nHi,\n\nI'm trying to create a set of types that are going to share the INPUT\nand OUTPUT functions (written in C). For output you can determine the\ntype from the arguments, but for INPUT you can't. The prototype is\nr... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\n------------------------------\nSQL statement<select t0.po_number, t0.po_site_id, t0.po_supp_id, \nt1.pol_number,\nt1.pol_po_id, t1.pol_balance, t1.pol_qty, t1.pol_p_id, t1.pol_message, \nt1.pol_de\nldate from s_purchase_order t0 left outer join s_purchase_orderline \nt1 on t0.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm stuck with a web app that periodically has truly awful query\nresponse times. The cause may be an interaction between system load,\nvacuum-analyze scheduling, the occasional wild variation in join\nselectivity, and stats collection. Logging the queries and running them\nlater doesn't crea... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have an example of runs that illustrate a performance \nproblem that occurred between installing the 7/18 and 8/1 \ndevelopment release codes. I'm running on a PPC64 8-way system, \nwith 16GB of memory (on a 15GB virtual machine), with a DBT2 \nworkload configured as a 16 warehouse DBT2 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nI found index access methods use LP_DELETE for invisible tuples,\nbut it seems to be ok to remove LP_USED instead of adding LP_DELETE.\n\nI tried the following simple replacements:\n - '|= LP_DELETE' => '&= ~LP_USED'\n - 'ItemIdDeleted' => '!ItemIdIsUsed'\nand then, it passed... |
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"msg_contents": "Do we automatically close files opened with AllocateFile() on\nereport(ERROR)?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + Christ can be you... |
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"msg_contents": "\"create user foo with createdb\" will create a user with createdb privilege.\n\"create user bar with createuser\" will create s superuser who can createdb,\ncreateuser, and update system catalog.\n\nWhy not change the option \"createuser\" to \"superuser\", or do something\nto make is easier... |
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"msg_contents": "The CREATE TABLE synopsis shows this:\n\nCREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } ] TABLE table_name (\n { column_name data_type [ DEFAULT default_expr ] [ column_constraint [ ... ] ]\n | table_constraint\n | LIKE parent_table [ { INCLUDING | EXCLUDING } DEFAULTS ] } [, ... ]\... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm working on the promised DROP OWNED patch, and just noticed that it\nneeds modifications to the Grant/Revoke machinery that are too invasive\nto consider for 8.1; the problem is that ExecuteGrantStmt takes textual\nnames for objects and grantees, and what I have from pg_shdepend are\nOids.... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied everything reasonable that was in the patch queue. The\nremaining items need attention and comments..\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, | ... |
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"msg_contents": "Would anybody object to a patch to update psql's tab completion for\nSET/RESET/SHOW to include everything that SHOW shows for a superuser?\n\nI count about 65 variables that SHOW shows that are missing from\npgsql_variables in tab-complete.c. Does the list intentionally\nomit certain variabl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all.\nI've been reported memory limit hits\nduring a postgis index construction\n(GiST index).\n\nThe indexed tuples are about 425 millions.\nThe index key is a box2d object (4*sizeof(float)).\n\nThe machine has 4 Gb of RAM, and operations are\npeaked at ~2.4 Gb of usage.\n\nIs there a way... |
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"msg_contents": "[Please CC any replies, thanks]\n\nHi,\n\nI got this nice error, and according to Tom Lane[1]:\n\n> Depending on what PG version you're using (which you did not say,\n> naughty naughty) there are paths in interactive query entry that\n> might try to execute datatype input functions before set... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, with the patch queue shrinking, it is time to consider a date for\nbeta. The current plan is to start beta in 7-10 days, so possible dates\nare August 19 or 22.\n\nWe will need to have all major patches addressed, the release notes\ndone, and the major documentation usable.\n\n-- \n Bru... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nI wasn't paying attention to the mailing lists (or the release notes)\nwhen dollar-quoting was developed, and I stumbled across it in the\ndocumentation today.\n\nI just wanted to say, nice work!\n\nI've definitely known the pain of doubling my single quotes ad\nnauseum, and th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA little while ago I rather rashly opined that we could extend the \nbuildfarm to do (optional) performance testing. After thinking about it \nfor some time I now think that might not be such a good idea. We can \ncertainly leverage a lot of the technology used and experience gained in \nbu... |
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"msg_contents": "I am thinking the proper term for the first column of pg_stat_file() is\n\"size\", not \"length\".\n\n\ttest=> select * from pg_stat_file('.');\n\t length | atime | mtime | ctime | isdir\n\t--------+------------------------+------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI played around with roles a bit today and noticed some minor things:\n\nALTER ROLE seems to support ALTER ROLE <name> ROLE <name> - but that\nform is not mentioned in the docs:\n\nplayground=# CREATE ROLE myrole;\nCREATE ROLE\nplayground=# CREATE ROLE myrole2;\nCREATE ROLE\nplayground... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt seems that ALTER INDEX foo OWNER TO bar; doesn't work anymore.\nThe error is foo is not a table or a view.\n\nThat's not a problem per se, but pg_dump continues to issue those\ncommands.\n\nThis is since a few weeks on CVS.\n\nRegards\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \t Tel... |
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"msg_contents": "The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases\nin the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical\nmass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify\nupdates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime\nnext week, afte... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have negotiated with the author of pl/Ruby to release plRuby under the \nPostgreSQL license. The reason I did this is the following:\n\n1. I felt we needed a truly OO language in core.\n2. plPython isn't really moving forward and has the whole \ntrusted/untrusted issue.\n\nNow any... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n>> ... but everybody else is locked out completely, because the ALTER takes\n>> an exclusive lock on the table. It's a bit misleading to describe that\n>> as a local change.\n\n> The pre-8.1 method was to UPDATE pg_class.relt... |
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