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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis might be a newbie question but I'm wondering how most of you are \ndebugging PostgreSQL on Windows (XP) ? Are you all using gdb? I want to \ndevelop a new data type and I'd like to trace code in a graphical interface. \nI have been trying very hard with Eclipse without success. In...
[ { "msg_contents": "A vaguely interesting interview with IBM and MS guys about cost-based \noptimizers.\n\nhttp://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=297\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:27:10 +0800", "msg_from": "Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear All,\n \nI use '$libdir/lo' for manage my Large Object for PostgreSQL 8.0.4 . Now I try to up my PostgreSQL to new version as 8.1.1 but I think I got some error about lo (Large Object).\n \nlo (Large Object) function that normally shown in function list now disappear. I'm sure that I al...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nI've an interesting error with deadlocks on a quite simple table:\n\nVersion: 8.1\nQuery : update last_modified set dataend=now() where type='list'\nDB-Error : ERROR: deadlock detected\nDETAIL: Process 10454 waits for ShareLock on transaction 1347632; blocked by \nprocess...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got this menssage:\n\nERROR: could not access status of transaction 3923741036\nDETALHE: could not open file \"/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0E9D\": No such file or directory\n\nwhen I tried to dump a database on a engine 8.0.3 running on Red Hat 9.0 Linux.\n\nI read about this, but most of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached are regression diffs for 7.4.10, compiled from source on RHEL 3 U6 \n(gcc 3.2.3 20030502, glibc-2.3.2-95.37) using:\n\nmake distclean\n./configure '--with-perl' '--prefix=/usr/local/postgresql-7.4.10'\nmake && make install && make check\n\nThe tests fail for PST/PDT in 2034.\n\nLooki...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a sort template (that can very easily be turned into a C\nroutine).\n\nIt is an introspective sort. Bentley & McIlroy proved that every qsort\nroutine will degrade into quadratic behavior with a worst-case input.\nThis function detects quadratic behavior and switches to qsort when\nn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Strike \"switches to qsort\" insert \"switches to heapsort\"\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dann Corbit\n> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:40 AM\n> To: Qingqing Zhou; Luke Lonergan\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "The test is O(n)\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:51 AM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Qingqing Zhou; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; Bruce Momjian; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Which qsort...
[ { "msg_contents": "kbforge.com is pleased to announce the first public release of \"kbforge\",\na new free desktop search application specifically designed for software\ndevelopers.\nWhat differentiates kbforge from other desktop search programs, is its\nability to assist the user in categorising the informatio...
[ { "msg_contents": "The test is designed especially for database systems, which are likely\nto be clustered on data or index (and in the general case are sometimes\nloaded in physically sorted order). In the clustered case, the only\ntime the data will not be ordered is when there has been a page split\nand the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthere's a topic that comes up from time to time on the lists, the problem\nthat pgsql functions get planned only once and thereafter the same query\nplan is used until server shutdown or explicit recreation of the function.\n\nI'd like to implement a way of automatic function replannin...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will send you an ANSI C version.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Qingqing Zhou [mailto:zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu]\n> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:08 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; Bruce Momjian; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Due to a cablemodem failure on Monday, I am offline and will probably\nbe back online in a few days. You can reach me temporarily at this\nemail address, bmomjian@gmail.com.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:51:36 -0500", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <bmomjian@gmail.com>", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:38 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Qingqing Zhou; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; Bruce Momjian; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Which qsort is used\n> \n> \"Dan...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've been looking into ways to have a better idea--automatically--of\nwhat's been going on in a database from a DDL level, and here's what\nI've come up with so far. I'd much appreciate hearing suggestions\nand/or brickbats on this.\n\nThe idea is to make a new table in pg_catalog ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI can't find any information of syntax for ANSI Conformance F262, F263. Has \nsomebody any information about this points: Extended CASE expression, comma \nseparated predicates in simple case expression\n\nThank You\nPavel Stehule\n\n__________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm trying to come up with a design for \\ commands in psql in 8.2.\n8.1 broke just about every \\ command because they now depend on roles,\nwhich is great for 8.1 or better, but not so good if you're connecting\nto DBs <= 8.0. So, I'm volunteering to code up the next version of\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Examining why psql won't do sensible stuff with COPY BINARY, I realized \nthat psql still uses PQgetline, which is marked obsolete since 7.4.\nIs this intentional or just a \"never reviewed because it works\"? \nUnfortunately, psql/copy.c also states \"if you want to use copy in your \napp, t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am trying to prove whether PostgreSQL is faster than Informix\nso I can feed the management with numbers.\n\nIn our system, there is an invoice browser view, an UNION of 12\ndifferent tables. (Yes, there are 12 different invoices, like new or\nsecond-hand cars, warranty, service, etc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have difficulties with extended queries and pgpool combo.\n\nthe background:\n\nAfter sending a query to the backend, pgpool waits for a response from\nthe backend so that pgpool can make sure that the query\ncompletes. This is necessary since pgpool needs to keep the order of\nSQL c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've spent some time looking into how we can improve our planning of outer\njoins. The current planner code slavishly follows the syntactic join\norder, which can lead to quite bad plans. The reason it does this is that\nin some cases altering the join order of outer joins can change the\nr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just read an article on LWN.net about the usage of self-modifying code\nfor selecting the optimum code for a given operation at run time. This\nis probably not a highly portable technique, but Linux has definitions\nfor i386 and the amd64 archs, so that would cover the most common\nscenari...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n I'm trying to compile postgresql and I got this message telling me \nto inform you:\n\n\"../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h\", line 806: #error: PostgreSQL \ndoes not have native spinlock support on this platform. To continue the \ncompilation, rerun configure using --disab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nQuite new to Postgres and initially driven here due to PostGIS. One \nthing I was looking at was the ability to roll back to a certain time, \nmultiple editing, and QC. Basically a version control for databases. I \nwent through the TODO list and I don't see this listed there, unle...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Qingqing Zhou\n> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:16 PM\n> To: Greg Stark\n> Cc: Jim C. Nasby; Luke Lonergan; Tom Lane; Neil Conway; Bruce Momjian;\n> pgsql...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 6:24 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Qingqing Zhou; Greg Stark; Jim C. Nasby; Luke Lonergan; Neil\nConway;\n> Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Which...
[ { "msg_contents": "The my email address is now working. If you sent an email on Monday\n_and_ received a rejection email yesterday, please resend the email,\notherwise all email has been received.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This archive:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-12/index.php\n\nwas last updated on wednesday, whereas the others:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-12/index.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2005-12/index.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nrecently someone show us this code in the spanish list...\n\n> BEGIN WORK;\n> INSERT INTO mitabla VALUES (1);\n> BEGIN TRANSACTION;\n> INSERT INTO mitabla VALUES (2);\n> INSERT INTO mitabla VALUES (3);\n> COMMIT TRANSACTION;\n> INSERT INTO mitabla VALUES (4);\n> ROLLBACK ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking at a postgresql 7.3 database that has gotten rather bloated\nin pg_statistic:\n\nVACUUM verbose pg_statistic;\nINFO: --Relation pg_catalog.pg_statistic--\nINFO: Index pg_statistic_relid_att_index: Pages 4420; Tuples 1590:\nDeleted 3789.\n\tCPU 0.33s/0.03u sec elapsed 0.96 sec.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Qingqing Zhou\n> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 5:14 PM\n> To: Bruce Momjian\n> Cc: Luke Lonergan; Tom Lane; Neil Conway; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subj...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:03 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Qingqing Zhou; Bruce Momjian; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Which qsort is used\n> \n> \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Qingqing Zhou [mailto:zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu]\n> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:13 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Re: Which qsort is used\n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:41 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Qingqing Zhou; Bruce Momjian; Luke Lonergan; Neil Conway; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Which qsort is used\n> \n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Peter Eisentraut\nSent: Sun 12/18/2005 2:25 AM\nTo: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption\n \n> Commands like CREATE USER foo PASSWORD 'bar' transmit ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nDoes VACUUMing reorder tables on clustered indices or is it only the CLUSTER\ncommand that can do that?\n\n\n/ r church\n\n\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\nThis message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am testing the durability of PostgreSQL. When a part of log \nwas lost due to the trouble(power supply trouble etc.), \nI tested about the recovery of PostgreSQL.\n\nThe loss of log was simulated by deleting the latest xlog file. \n\npostmaster startup, it only output log message \"No...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 05:37\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas \n> Pflug; Dave Page\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password \...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog@svana.org] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 08:59\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog@svana.org] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 09:38\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog@svana.org] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 10:42\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > As for Windows DLL hell, I don't know a lot about that, but if \n> > > that's such a problem, why didn't the original creators of the \n> > > windows port stick the version number in there from the start. On \n> > > UNIX, libpq is half versioned (the library is, but not \n> the symbols)...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 12:07\n> To: Martijn van Oosterhout; Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Yes.\n> > If FooApp is compiled against 8.0, it will then be unable to run if \n> > you upgrade libpq to 8.1. IIRC on Unix it will \"fall \n> forward\" to the \n> > new version if it's just a minor version upgrade (correct me if I'm \n> > wrong).\n> > On windows, it will break with an ugl...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 14:50\n> To: Dave Page; Martijn van Oosterhout\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 19 December 2005 15:00\n> To: Martijn van Oosterhout\n> Cc: Dave Page; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Peter Eisentraut; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": "While building 8.1.1 on Tru64 UNIX 5.1:\ngmake[5]: Leaving directory `/opt/build/postgresql-8.1.1/src/port'\ncc -O2 -ieee -msym -readonly_strings -pthread --thread-safe\n-D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -I./../include\n-I. -I../../../../src/include -I/opt/TWWfsw/gettext...
[ { "msg_contents": "This would be handy for testing high-concurrency workloads. \n\nhttp://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20051218\n\n -Mike\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:55:51 -0500", "msg_from": "Michael Adler <adler@pobox.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "free Sun T2000 fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I have a database that had a large table in it. I dropped the table, but\nwhen I try to full vacuum the db, it just freezes indefinitely. There are\nshared locks held on this that I can't identify. I've tried bouncing this\ninstance and ran some queries immediately after starting up. The ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a test case for a previously reported bug (see\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg01235.php):\n\ninitdb using es_MX.ISO-8859-1, start postgres using es_MX.UTF-8 and\nexecute:\n\ncreate procedural language plperl;\ncreate or replace function foo() returns int as '...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl@familyhealth.com.au] \n> Sent: 20 December 2005 01:33\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; \n> Andreas Pflug\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nI'm trying to figure out a way to modify the search_path temporarily, but\nthe \"$user\" construct is making this difficult. I need to prepend a schema\nto the path. This works fine:\n\nSELECT set_config('search_path', '$schema,' || curren...
[ { "msg_contents": "i was just wondering about the status of hannu's concurrent vacuum patch.\nare there any plans to integrate this or are there still improvements \nwhich have to be made?\n\n many thanks,\n\n hans-juergen schoenig\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:52 +0100", "msg_from":...
[ { "msg_contents": "As part of a network reconfiguration at my home, I was offline from\nMonday at 9AM to Tuesday at 2PM EST. My backup ISP did a poor job and\nrejected all my email sent to me during that period. If you emailed and\ngot a rejection, please resent it now.\n\nI have moved to a new backup ISP tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI've got a problem with sorting polish words in postgresql 7.4.2\n\nFor example, I've got couple of polish cities in my table 'x', results \nof sorting are:\n(select city from x order by city asc)\n\nBydgoszcz\nGda�sk\nI�awa\n��d�\n�arn�w\nMalbork\nWarszawa\n\nSo \"�ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am writing to you all just to inform you of a bug(probably), that I\ncame across while trying to install PostgreSQL 8.1.0-2 and 8.1.1-1 on\nWinXP with SP2, using the PostgreSQL installer.\n\nI had done a windows clean install and then installed straight away\nPostgreSQL 8.0.4. It was the o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWe need to find a solution for a strange problem. \nWe have a plpgsql FUNCTION which performs an heavy job (named\ntest_func). \n\nCREATE or replace function test_func(z int) returns integer as $$\ndeclare\ntst integer;\nbegin\n--\n-- Large jobs with z\n--\ntst := nextval('test_tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting the following error(s) when replicating tsearch2 from v \n7.4.x to v 8.1.0\n\n\nremoteWorkerThread_1: copy from stdin on local node - \nPGRES_FATAL_ERROR ERROR: function \"spell_init(text)\" does not \nexist@4000000043a9708d21558414 CONTEXT: COPY pg_ts_dict, line 1, \ncolum...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n... seems to be behaving oddly:\n\ndllwrap -o rainbow.dll --def rainbow.def rainbow.o\nc:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/8.1/lib/pgxs/src/MAKEFI~1/../../src/utils/dllinit.o\n-Lc:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/8.1/bin -lpostgres\nc:\\mingw\\bin\\..\\lib\\gcc-lib\\mingw32\\3.2.3\\..\\..\\..\\..\\mingw32\\bin\\ld.exe:...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all,\n\nNot sure it's the right group, but I've spent the afternoon googling and\ntrying on this.\n\nIn PHP (Apache Module)\n\nI try pg_exec(\"COPY blah TO STDOUT WITH blah\");\nIt runs for ever...\n\nHow can I get the output of COPY in PHP?\n\nCopy_from is not an option because the goal ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When we discussed online REINDEX recently we focused on the REINDEX\ncommand itself rather than look at alternative approaches.\n\nOne reason to REINDEX is because of index page splits getting things out\nof sequence and generally bloating the index.\n\nWhen we VACUUM, each index is scanned i...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have encountered a very nasty but apparently rare bug which appears to\nresult in catalog corruption. I have not been able to pin down an exact\nsequence of events which cause this problem, it appears to be a race\ncondition of some sort. This is what I have been able to figure out so\nf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that Oracle supports i18n dependant behavior in its to_char\nformatting functions (at least for its 10g release) I was wondering if\na patch to support this in PostgreSQL will get accepted. I was hoping\nto work on this now that I have some spare time.\n\nRegards,\nManuel.\n\n", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nNow, statements EXECUTE INTO and SELECT INTO allow using list of scalars. \nFORe and FORs allow only ROW o RECORD VARIABLE. I'll plan and I did it \nenhance this stmts:\n\n<for> := FOR <target> IN {SELECT | EXECUTE} ... LOOP\n<target> := {row|record|comma separated list of scalar var...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having just optimized COPY to avoid writing WAL during the transaction\nin which a table was first created, it seems worth considering whether\nthis should occur for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE also.\n\nIt is fairly common to do data transformation using INSERT SELECTs and\nUPDATEs. This is usu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Right, if the cardinality changes, you realize this before execution and\n> optimize/save the plan again. A further optimization would be to save\n> _multiple_ plans for a single prepared plan based on constants and\n> choose one of the other, but that is beyond whe...
[ { "msg_contents": "An interesting article on sorting and comparison count:\nhttp://www.acm.org/jea/ARTICLES/Vol7Nbr5.pdf\n\nHere is the article, the code, and an implementation that I have been\ntoying with:\nhttp://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/algos.zip\n\nAlgorithm quickheap is especially interest...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi ,\n\nHere is the requirements :\n\n1. Development & Support team can ONLY have READ Only ACCESS\n to PRODUCTION Database. They will NOT have access to create\n stored procedure & functions in the PRODUCTION on the fly.\n\n2. During application support, need to write script which\n us...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nCould anybody tell me what is the smallest working page size for\npostgresql ?\n\nI have a table where access is highly random over huge table getting\nusually only one small tuple from each page. One way to get more\nperformance could be using smaller page size, so the per-tuple read\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net]\nSent: Fri 12/23/2005 2:42 PM\nTo: Martijn van Oosterhout\nCc: Greg Stark; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Andrew Dunstan; Peter Eisentraut; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andreas Pflug; Dave Page\nSubject: Re...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are some TODO items about allowing spaces in directory names in various \nplaces. I spent the connection-less time on the train today experimenting \nwith several scenarios. This is the status:\n\nInstalling into a directory containing spaces in names works as of a CVS head \na few we...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> There's also Kerberos, which I'm happy to say seems to be \n> getting more and more use. I'd really like to get ODBC \n> Kerberos working, at least with MIT kerberos and then maybe \n> someday (if I can manage to get it\n> working...) setup some cross-realm stuff with the Windows AD and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > ODBC and Kerberos works just fine, if you use the 8.1 ODBC \n> driver. I \n> > use it all the time :)\n> \n> That's what I had heard, I just havn't gotten it working yet \n> myself. :) Believe me when I say that I *really* want to have \n> it working though; this postgres->pam->libpam-krb...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've looked at the issue of assimilating the options of postmaster and \npostgres, which has been mentioned now and then over the years. Basically, \nwe have five conflict cases that need to be resolved by breaking one or the \nother, namely:\n\n-N\n postmaster: max_connections\n postg...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've gotten interested again in the issue of row comparisons, eg\n\t(a, b, c) >= (1, 2, 3)\nWe've discussed this before, the most comprehensive thread being\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-07/msg00188.php\nbut nothing's gotten done. Unless someone's already working on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have several questions in understanding xlog code:\n\n(1)\nIn RecordTransactionCommit():\n\n\t* (If it made no transaction-controlled XLOG entries, its XID appears\n\t* nowhere in permanent storage\n\nWe have this in XLogInsert():\n\n\t/* Insert record header */\n\trecord->xl_xid = GetCur...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to take a look at fixing the fact that procedural languages do \nnot check the constraints associated with domain types. I think there \nare two separate issues:\n\n(1) In PL/PgSQL, we need to check domain constraints whenever we assign \na new value to a variable of a domain type.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have found long standing bug with with certain Asian multibyte\ncharsets handling(original report was made by Mr. Ishida).\n\nSome text operations on certain Asian charsets such as EUCj-JP code\nset 3 (JIS X 0212) make wrong results. As far as I know, these\ninclude:\n\n- strpos\n- regular ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The TODO list has an item \"add missing date selectivity\", which is a\nhang-over from 1999 or before.\n\nIs this still an issue? Can somebody describe exactly what it is?\n\nI can't find the exact discussion of what the problem was/is, so its\nbetter to ask directly...\n\nBest Regards, Simon...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nJust a small thank you to all the developers of PostgreSQL for making\n2005 another incredible year for Command Prompt, Inc.\n\nCommand Prompt hopes to continue increasing it's community contributions\nnext year.\n\nMerry Christmas everyone!\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\nPreside...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[moved to -hackers]\n\nPetr Jelinek said:\n> Andrew Dunstan wrote:\n>>\n>> Just because we can run with very little memory doesn't mean we have to.\n What is the point of having lots of memory if you don't use it? We are\ntalking defaults here. initdb will still scale down on\n>> resource-s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nMinor doc tweak: \"NOT NULL\" is redundant with \"SERIAL\" in example.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:\n create_domain.sgml (r1.26 -> r1.27)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_dom...
[ { "msg_contents": "To the PostgreSQL Community:\n\n \n\nAll of us at EnterpriseDB want to thank the community for creating an\namazing base upon which to build our new company. It's been a busy year\nfor us, going from zero to 70 people, raising venture capital, and\nworking hard to promote both PostgreSQL itse...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\r\n \r\nas far as I have understood, the WAL backup that you control via \"archive_command\" is the PostgreSQL equivalent to what other databases let you do with an incremental backup. That is, if you don't forget to include the current WAL block.\r\n \r\nI have found a script to deter...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm thinking about whether we can't improve the message for \"missing\nFROM-clause entry\" to somehow account for situations where the table\ndoes exist in the query but it's referenced from an improper place,\nas in bug #2130 (filed a couple hours ago, not yet visible in mail list\narchives)...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that we are using the term \"Online Backup\" in our\ndocumentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.\n\nTo me, \"online backup\" is doing a backup while the system is online\n(online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump. I know a lot of\ndatabases us \"O...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nPostgreSQL source tree had init scripts in contrib/ years before:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/linux/?hideattic=0#dirlist\n\nI suggest to push the init scripts again into contrib/, for people who \ndon'u use packaged versions and need init scripts.\n\nW...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere're lots of places in the code which uses either pg_tolower()\nor just tolower() - without aware of MB characters; or some\non-their-own implementations of pg_tolower(). (Actually, AFAIK,\nwhole MB case conversion is broken in -rHEAD.)\n\nFor instance, consider backend/utils/adt/{...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've noticed some inconsistencies in the handling of build-time enabled GUC \nsetttings. For example, a non-SSL enabled server will happily accept ssl = \non and simply ignore it. On the other hand, several syslog related \nparameters are not accepted at all when syslog is not enabled.\n\nI...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings all,\n\nIf you're not interested in COLLATE, operator classes or related\nthings, stop now, this is quite a long email.\n\nFirstly, status. PostgreSQL doesn't really support collations at all.\nThe order of strings is defined at initdb time by the locale then and\ncannot be changed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm currently considering setting up online backup procedure and I\nthought maybe it would be a useful feature if the online logs could be\nwritten into more than one place (something like oracle redo logs\nmultiplexing). \n\nIf I got it right if the server's filesystem crashes complet...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does the regression test need to be updated as well for this?\n\nI am seeing a failure on my buildfarm machines.\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> Sent...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile trying to initdb using cvs tip, it dumps below error output:\n\n ...\n creating configuration files ... ok\n creating template1 database in pgd/base/1 ...\n FATAL: failed to initialize TimeZone to \"UNKNOWN\"\n child process exited with exit code 1\n ...\n\nI edited some f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings everybody,\n\nAs part of the changes I would like relating to collations, the two\nsort options in inlineApplySortFunction() using only a less-than\noperator may become unsupportable. This has been indirectly discussed\nbefore [1] and no-one seemed to have an issue with it then. Int...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to contribute to localize the application to italian language. \nDo you want my help??\n\nI wait your reply.\n\nMichele\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:02:39 +0100", "msg_from": "Michele Pigozzo <pigozzo.michele@libero.it>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The issue is that if I set my machine's locale to Turkish or \n> French, say, it doesn't matter what locale I set during \n> initdb or in postgresql.conf, the server's log messages \n> always seem to come out in the machine's locale.\n\nDoes this happen only for those locales? And how spe...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The issue is that if I set my machine's locale to Turkish \n> or French, \n> > say, it doesn't matter what locale I set during initdb or in \n> > postgresql.conf, the server's log messages always seem to \n> come out in \n> > the machine's locale.\n> \n> Does this happen only for those lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like the plperl changes hurt Snake :-(\n\nC:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32iop.h:304:1: warning: \"kill\" redefined\nIn file included from ../../../src/include/c.h:821,\n from ../../../src/include/postgres.h:48,\n from SPI.xs:2:\n../../../src/include/port.h:197:1: w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe this is one of the projects that we have slated for removal, since \nit lives nicely elsewhere. Is it worth me writing up a patch to remove the \nfiles and update the README to provide pointers to the project site and maybe \na few other places like the oraclecompat project (and may...