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[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n* Simon Riggs (simon@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:\n> work_mem= 1 GB\t\tbenefit at 8 TB\n> work_mem= 256MB benefit at 0.5 TB\n> (based upon runs on average twice size of memory, and each logical tape\n> requiring 256KB memory, i.e. min(work_mem/4, 6) * work_mem * 2, which\n> f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\n From the earlier discussion, it appears that there is a variety of\nopinions on what the COPY delimiter should be in pg_dump. This patch\nallows people to set it and the NULL string. Thanks to Gavin Sherry\nfor help with the pointers :)\n\nI didn't patch pg_dumpall, but it would ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I do not clearly understand the sorting code in PostgreSQL. If I did\nhave a good grasp of it, I would take a go at improving it.\n\nHere are some suggestions of things that I know work really, really\nwell:\n\n#1. Two pass merge (none of that silly poly-tape merge goo)\n\n#2. Load ONLY th...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Luke Lonergan [mailto:llonergan@greenplum.com]\n> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:52 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit; Tom Lane; Jim C. Nasby\n> Cc: Simon Riggs; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merge algorithms for large numbers of \"tapes\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRemove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author request.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/include:\n ecpg_informix.h (r1.16 -> r1.17)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/i...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are some articles here that are worth reading if you want to sort\nfast:\n\nhttp://research.microsoft.com/barc/SortBenchmark/\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: Wed...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:17 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jim C. Nasby; Luke Lonergan; Simon Riggs;\npgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merge algorithms for large numbers of \"tapes\"\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: gsstark@mit.edu [mailto:gsstark@mit.edu]\n> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:56 PM\n> To: Luke Lonergan\n> Cc: Dann Corbit; Tom Lane; Jim C. Nasby; Simon Riggs; pgsql-\n> hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merge algorithms for large numbers...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jnasby@pervasive.com]\n> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:44 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Tom Lane; Luke Lonergan; Simon Riggs; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merge algorithms for large numbers of \"tapes\"\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > This amounts to an assumption that you have infinite work_mem, in\n> which\n> > case you hardly need an external sort at all. If your \n> work_mem is in \n> > fact finite, then at some point you need more than two passes. I'm\n> not\n> > really interested in ripping out support for so...
[ { "msg_contents": "This email is a preliminary design for the implementation of synonyms in\nPostgreSQL. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nSynonyms are database objects which can be used in place of their referenced\nobject in SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE SQL statements.\n\nThere ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRemove Jan Wieck's name from copyrights, and put in standard\nboilerplate, with approval of author.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src:\n gram.y (r1.86 -> r1.87)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/pl/p...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net]\n> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:49 PM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Luke Lonergan; Jim C. Nasby; Greg Stark; Dann Corbit; Simon Riggs;\n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merge algorithms for la...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 3/9/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:\n> > Eh? I thought that it was just syntatic sugar that was missing. I've\n> > built lots of updatable views manually; I don't see what's difficult about\n> > it.\n>\n> I think you'll find that corner...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\nI am now trying to develop the PG to support real-time backup.My\narchitecture is somehow similar to the \"Database Mirroring\" technology of\nSQL Server 2005.The server end of the system is consisted of two DB servers\none is the Principal server,the other is the Mirror server.whenever ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Two pass will create the count of subfiles proportional to:\n> Subfile_count = original_stream_size/sort_memory_buffer_size\n> \n> The merge pass requires (sizeof record * subfile_count) memory.\n\nThat is true from an algorithmic perspective. But to make the\nmerge efficient you would ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI want do sql wrap for woid plpgsql function. But void SQL function must not \nfinish SELECT cmd. I don't know any others command which I can use.\n\nCan You help me?\nThank You\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nNajdete si svou lask...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nPlease find attached a patch that implements SQL92-compatible updatable \nviews. The patch introduces new semantics into the rule system: implicit \nand explicit rules. Implicit rules are created to implement updatable views:\n\n_INSERT\n_NOTHING_INSERT (unconditional DO INSTEAD ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n--On Donnerstag, März 09, 2006 17:23:11 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> \nwrote:\n\n> (BTW, there was some work being done on updatable views, but I think\n> it's stalled. I suspect the reason is that our current rule system\n> is just too odd to support updatable views reasonably. I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian ha scritto:\n> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:\n> \n> \thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n> \n> It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews\n> and approves it.\n\nGreat. I would just like to remind ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > Two pass will create the count of subfiles proportional to:\n> > > Subfile_count = original_stream_size/sort_memory_buffer_size\n> > > \n> > > The merge pass requires (sizeof record * subfile_count) memory.\n> > \n> > That is true from an algorithmic perspective. But to make the merge...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I'll look into it, but I was already wondering if we shouldn't bound\n\n> > the number of tapes somehow. It's a bit hard to believe that 28000 \n> > tapes is a sane setting.\n> \n> Well, since they are not actually tapes, why not?\n\nI wonder what the OS does when we repeatedly open an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nDuring my testing of large work_mem and maintainence_work_mem setting\nwrt to CREATE INDEX and sorting I encountered a number of things wrt to\ndoing various operations on such a large table (about 106GB on disk with\nno dead tuples).\nI will summarize some of the just in case some...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni am trying to download the windows version since 3 hours ago and just\nget an error page no matters if i try the FTP browser, ftp mirrors or\nbittorrent\n\n--\nregards,\nJaime Casanova\n\n\"What they (MySQL) lose in usability, they gain back in benchmarks, and that's\nall that matters...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > i am trying to download the windows version since 3 hours \n> ago and just \n> > get an error page no matters if i try the FTP browser, ftp \n> mirrors or \n> > bittorrent\n> >\n\nFixed now, thanks for reporting.\n\n//Magnus\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:49:36 +0100", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthis is from HEAD of a few days ago, it looks suspicious to me.\n8.2devel runs on port 5433.\n\nmarkus@katerina2:~/pgsql$ bin/psql -p 5433 template1 markus\nWelcome to psql 8.2devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help w...
[ { "msg_contents": " I'm now participating in a PG project.I need to modify some parts of the\nlog buffer flushing function and the data buffer flushing function.I don't\nknow where they are.\n\n \n\nCould you tell me where the following two functions are:\n\n \n\n--Log Buffer Flush:Only flush the dirty log buff...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > If so,\n> > we could perhaps recode that part using a Mutex instead of \n> a critical \n> > section - since it's not a performance critical path, the \n> difference \n> > shouldn't be large. If I code up a patch for that, can you re-apply \n> > SP1 and test it? Or is this a production sys...
[ { "msg_contents": "While trying to help somebody on IRC with slow queries against\ninformation_schema i stumbled across the following EXPLAIN buglet (much\nreduced from the original one and does not make a lot of sense therefore):\n\nfoo=# explain SELECT * FROM information_schema.constraint_column_usage\nJOIN i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was talking with Jonathan Gennick about the INS/UPD/DEL RETURNING stuff,\nand he recommended looking into the way DB2 handles similar functionality.\nAfter looking into it a bit, it's more inline with what Tom's suggestion was\nregarding a query from the operation rather than returning the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Ok, I've coded up a patch that changes the code to use a \n> mutex instead.\n> \n> Are we asserting the problem is caused by the spinlock random \n> wake-up order?\n\nNot asserting, more making a wild guess. Which I, as I said, no lnoger\nreally beleive in - but since the patch was alread...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Peter\" <peter@greatnowhere.com> writes:\n> I have stored proc that retrieves a bunch of data, stores it in temp =\n> table, computes all sorts of totals/averages/whatnots from the temp =\n> table, and inserts results in another table. It works fine (except I =\n> don't like wrapping all SQ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > Looking a my system while testing this it still loooked \n> like it was \n> > > hanging on that plac ein the code, even though I saw no \n> problems. So \n> > > I'm not convinced we can actually trust the stacktrace from the \n> > > non-default threads. So I don't think this patch will ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL Hackers,\n\nWe got a PG 8.1 on a Debian 64 bits, which does a full backup (PITR) daily.\nThen we installed a Debian 32 bits (actually, it's on VMWare) and wanted to\nrestore the previous PG cluster on it.\nAs there are a lot of indexes, specially GiST, \"pg_dump\" and \"pg_res...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Monday 13 March 2006 12:27, Magnus Hagander wrote:\n> > Great. That'll certainly help - now you don't have to wait for \n> > binaries from me.\n> >\n> > What I'd be interested in seeing is new stackdumps from a version \n> > where\n> > you:\n> > 1) Do *not* have the patch for mutexes app...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nHere are some background information to explain our issue and request.\nWe are currently planning a migration from PostgreSQL 7.4 to\nPostgreSQL 8.1. We work on a medium sized database (2GB) with a rather\nimportant activity (12 millions queries a day with peaks up to 1000\nqueries/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hola, necesito saber con que sentencias sql puedo controlar desde un trigger\nel número de registros a actualizar o a borrar, esto para que desde la\nconsola no se hagan deletes o updates masivos.\n\n \n\nGracias!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHola, necesito saber con que sentencias sql puedo controla...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to write a function to expose the content of WAL Files as streams,\nand then send to somewhere else, record by record. \n\n \n\nCould you tell me something about the internal structure of the WAL Files? \n\n \n\nThank you very much!\n\n \n", "msg_date": "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:53:23 +...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a simplified example of a performance problem we have seen,\nwith a workaround and a suggestion for enhancement (hence both the\nperformance and hackers lists).\n\nOur software is allowing users to specify the start and end dates for a\nquery. When they enter the same date for bo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI've been trying to build the cvs checkout of 8.1.3 on my freebsd 4.9 \nbox with a STATIC psql utility. I keep getting failures trying to hook \nin libreadline I think:\n\nlreadline -lcrypt -lcompat -lm -lutil -o psql\n/usr/lib/libreadline.a(terminal.o): In function `_rl_get_scr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Considering the amount of bug repotrs that get their first question as\n\"what's the locale\" and \"what's the encoding\", should we perhaps add\nthose fields to the bug reporting form?\n\nAnd if we should, should we add them as optional or mandatory? \n\n//Magnus\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have tried the --with-ldap option since I also intend\nto submit a patch that uses LDAP functionality.\n\nCompiling src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c on Linux I get\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline\n-Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-strict-aliasing\n-I../../../sr...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Compiling src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c on Linux I get\n[compiler error]\n\nSorry to follow myself up, but I was talking about\nsrc/backend/libpq/auth.c\n\nYours,\nLaurenz Albe\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:25:30 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Albe Laurenz\" <all@adv.magwien.gv.at>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of the key points influencing performance of certain operations is\nthe amount of memory that is available to them. Sorts, Materialize, Hash\nJoins and Aggs and hashed subquery plans all want lots of memory.\n\nStatic allocation of memory is good in some situations, but not in\nothers. In...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > Has anyone considered something like \"reportbug\" in Debian which \n> > > collects a certain amount of information about the system \n> and then \n> > > creates an email with the information included. Of perhaps a \n> > > pg_buginfo like this:\n> > \n> > pg_config and pg_controldata to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been wondering if there might be anything to gain by having a\nseparate block size for logging and data. I thought I might try\ndefining DATA_BLCKSZ and LOG_BLCKSZ and see what kind of trouble I get\nmyself into.\n\nI wasn't able to find any previous discussion but pehaps 'se...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Compiling src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c on Linux I get\n> \n> > gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline \n> > -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-strict-aliasing \n> > -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE \n> -I/usr/kerberos/include -c -o \n> > auth.o auth.c\n> > aut...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just looking at the behavior of src/port/qsort.c on the test case\nthat Jerry Sievers was complaining about in pgsql-admin this morning.\nI found out what the real weak spot is: it's got nothing directly to do\nwith good or bad pivots, it's this code right here:\n\n if (swap_cnt == 0...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent him a copy\n\n \n\n________________________________\n\nFrom: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org\n[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jonah H. Harris\nSent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:43 AM\nTo: Tom Lane\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Jerry Sievers\nSubject: R...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have seen a lot of dumb \"fixes\" to sort routines.\n\nIn a commercial sort function I saw some time ago, the check for a\ncondition that causes qsort to go quadratic was removed. There was a\ncomment there that said the engineer \"didn't see any improvement in\nperformance\". Of course, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[snip]\n> So at least on randomized data, the swap_cnt thing is a serious loser.\n> Need to run some tests on special-case inputs though. Anyone have a\n> test suite they like?\n> \n> \t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\nHere is a distribution maker that will create some torture tests for\nsorting pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Actually, if you compile with CREATE_DISTRIBS defined, it does define a\nmain() function and create sample distributions.\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: Thursday, Mar...
[ { "msg_contents": "After you run the program with CREATE_DISTRIBS defined, you will have\nthe following integer distributions of 4 million entries:\n03/16/2006 01:34 PM 16,000,000 trig.int\n03/16/2006 01:34 PM 16,000,000 camel.int\n03/16/2006 01:34 PM 16,000,000 reverse.int\n03/16/2006 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> So my feeling is we should just remove the swap_cnt code and return to\n> the original B&M algorithm. Being much faster than expected for\n> presorted input doesn't justify being far slower than expected for\n> other inputs, IMHO. In the context of Postgres I doubt that perfectly\n> sorte...
[ { "msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-\n> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dann Corbit\n> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:42 PM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Jonah H. Harris; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Jerry Sievers\n> Subject: Re: [HACK...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, my point was that it is a snap to implement and test.\n\nIt will be better, worse, or the same.\n\nI agree that Bentley is a bloody genius.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:27 PM\n> To: Dann Corbit\n> Cc: Jo...
[ { "msg_contents": "What sense is this supposed to make?\n\n=> begin;\nBEGIN\n=> blah;\nERROR: ...\n=> commit;\nROLLBACK\n^^^^^^^^\n\nEven if this is justifiable, this behavior is not documented (in any obvious \nplace).\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Fri,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Someone sent the following request to the Debian bug tracking system:\n\n\"\"\"\nIt'd be nice if the .psql_history file were per-database. This is\nbecause the commands executed on different databases are likely to be\nvery different, so there is no good reason to lose history for db1 when\nw...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWanted to update you on a few things regarding speaking at the upcoming \nPostgreSQL Anniversary Summit:\n\n-- There are only 13 days left to submit a proposal. Please do so. We'd \nrather not be forced into a last-minute rush to evaluate all of the stuff \nin April. Remember thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Josh Berkus\"<josh@agliodbs.com>\nSent: 18/03/06 01:55:04\nTo: \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\"<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nCc: \"pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org\"<pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>\nSubject: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seeing failure on 8.1 as well.\n\nBTW, I keep forwarding these, but is there any need? Are enough hackers on the status change lists anyway?\n\n/D\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"PG Build Farm\"<pgbuildfarm-web@hosting-two.commandprompt.com>\nSent: 18/03/06 02:13:19\nTo: \"pgbuildfarm-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone built postgresql on this platform ?\n\nDoes it work ?\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:17:46 -0500", "msg_from": "Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "OSX intel" }, { "msg_contents": "\nOn Mar 18, 2006, at 22:17 , Dave Cr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nUpon rebooting one of our main production database servers, we were\ngreeted with this:\n\n(@)<2006-03-18 23:30:32.687 MST>[3791]LOG: database system was\ninterrupted while in recovery at 2006-03-18 23:30:26 MST\n(@)<2006-03-18 23:30:32.687 MST>[3791]HINT: This probably means that\ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking through the postgresql source code, I notice that there are many places \nwere palloc is used but the return value is not checked to see if it is null. \nThere are a few places such as:\n\n if (!PointerIsValid(result = palloc(CASH_BUFSZ + 2 - count +\n\t\tstrlen(nsymbol))))\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI finished implementation dbms_pipe package for PostgreSQL. It fully support \nprivate, public pipe, explicitly or implicitly created pipes, limits for \npipes. Please look: \nhttp://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/818/orafce-2.0.0-preview.tgz\n\nThis version contains plvstr and plvda...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Devrim GUNDUZ [mailto:devrim@commandprompt.com] \n> Sent: 19 March 2006 23:08\n> To: Josh Berkus\n> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org; Dave Page; \n> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL \n> Anniversary P...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > Well, aside from anything else, we seem likely to have \n> you, Devrim, \n> > > Magnus and maybe even Robert Treat there (Robert?). Which\n> > would mean\n> > > a good time for a meeting of the Web Team, yes?\n> > \n> > It seems that I'll be there, and yes, a PostgreSQL.org web \n> dev...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net] \n> Sent: 20 March 2006 08:31\n> To: Dave Page; Devrim GUNDUZ; Josh Berkus\n> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL \n> Annive...
[ { "msg_contents": "Christian Mair wrote:\n> Hi,\n\nHi Christian!\n\n> \n> I've recently added guppie to the buildfarm:\n> http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=guppy&br=HEAD\n> \n> I see random failures on make check which appearantly are\n> guppie's fault. Instead of the expected outputs one ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nA PL/Java user reports that his backend runs out of memory when he uses \nPL/Java to execute huge queries towards a remote database and return the \nresult. PL/Java is designed not to collect data in memory when it \nreturns result sets. Each call to the function handler will be \ndispat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThis patch is well, I hope. I didn't look on it half year. Contains: SQL/XML \nsupport + doc by D.Fetter\nhttp://candle.pha.pa.us/mhonarc/patches_hold/msg00134.html\n\nregards\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nNajdete si svou lasku ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI and Teodor are going to give a talk on conference \n\"Corporate database systems-2006\" here in Moscow and we need info about new \nfeatures planned in 8.2 release. Bruce, do you have a list of them ?\n\n\n \tRegards,\n \t\tOleg\n________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nI discoverd what seems to be a bug in postgresql 7.4.12 (also on\n7.4.7).\n\nI have an example located at http://foo.fot.nu/psql/ with a simple\nexample that delevers the correct result on 8.1 (tested by some nice\nperson at #postgresql).\n\nIt seems like the state variable is res...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n I have recented joined and working on postgres. I fixed a bug that I \nsaw in the mailing list. I ran the regression test that is available in \npostgres. It was successful and now I need the following details..\n\n1) Test suits that i could get to test my code..\n2) How can I put...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey Tom,\n\nIn regards to your last email to me, I'd like your help and advice. In the\npast, I'd heard that you block a ton of emails, so I'm not sure whether you\nreceived my response or not. If you would, please reply to me privately\nwith info. Thanks!\n\nSorry for posting this to the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Imagine the following scenario:\n\nFunction 'A' returns SETOF 'x'. It will issue a query using SPI that \ncalls function 'B'. This function returns SETOF 'y'.\nEach tuple of 'x' is formed from some data in 'y'.\nThere will be millions of tuples so building a set of 'y' in memory is \nnot an o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm updating the information schema for SQL:2003. I'm having some \ndifficulties with the \"sequences\" view. It should look approximately \nlike this (uninteresting stuff omitted):\n\nCREATE VIEW sequences AS\n SELECT CAST(current_database() AS sql_identifier) AS sequence_catalog,\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n# select version();\n version\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)\n(1 row)\n\nsimple example:\n# cr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have some odd results from timing two versions of an update query, and\nwas hoping to get a better handle on how to interpret this. The query\ndoes an update of one table. One version does three NOT IN tests\nagainst three related tables. The other version does the logically\nequivalent ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am heading on vacation starting tomorrow/Thursday, and return the\nfollowing Thursday, March 30th. I will be in Florida with my family.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us\n SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have been having a short talk with Devrim this evening about the\npgnixInstaller[1] project he started[2] a while ago.\n\nI have briefly read over the thread following the project announce, \nparticularly comments on issues about package systems of distributions \nand integration wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI read a post in the archives saying about storing explain output directly\ninto tables. Is this feature present in postgres now??\nI have a software in which I need to display the explain output in a Tree\nformat, for which I need to parse the textual plan and get the relvant\ninformat...
[ { "msg_contents": "How amazing is that? I call it a night and come back to find that a bug has been identified and patched while I sleep.\n\nWhen will it appear in the binaries (I see that the release version is still 8.1.3)? I thought about trying to compile from source, but after looking at the mingw page was...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Plan C would be to say that we don't need to preserve \"SELECT * FROM\n> seqname\", but I'll bet there would be some hollering.\n\nI'd like to hear this hollering first, before we create tons of views\n:-)\nImho it is not a problem to remove it, I am for Plan C.\n(Those with need for the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI've been trying to get a local mirror of the cvs repository, but my\nconnection attempts using rsync to cvsup.postgresql.org are always\nrefused when I try to actually retrieve the pgsql-cvs collection. I tried\nto use rsync because cvsup is simply not an option for me.\n\nI'd like...
[ { "msg_contents": "To all the PostgresQL Developers,\n\nI just wanted to take a minute to say a very big thank you to everyone who\nhas made PostgresQL the outstanding database that it is. I have been using\nit for more than 5 years now, and it has never ceased to amaze me just how\nstable, featureful and downr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Trying to work in the new role features into the information schema, I \nnoticed that there might be a few incompatibilities between the \nimplementation and what the SQL standard would like to see.\n\nThe way I understand this is that, according to the SQL standard, there \nshould be a curre...
[ { "msg_contents": "I could have swore that this worked in earlier releases of Postgresql \ni.e. 7.4.\n\nCREATE TABLE public.test\n(\njunk double NOT NULL,\nCONSTRAINT junk_pkey PRIMARY KEY (junk)\n)WITHOUT OIDS;\n\nNow it gives a error that type double does not exist.\n\nDuring the summer of 2004 I ported a lar...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's only partially compatible: Like I mentioned earlier, csup currently\nonly acts as an alternative cvs checkout client.\n\nJoel\n\n\nOn Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 3:15 PM, Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:\n\n>Is csup protocol-compatible with cvsup? If so people could use it\n>without Marc ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "[I thought this had gone out to the list when I first sent it, but now I\nsee that it didn't]\n\nActually, I've already looked at it very closely (spent a whole day\nbrowsing the latest source code, in fact). The problem is csup still\ndoesn't support mirroring of the repository \",v\" files....
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\n> OK. Here is my follow-up question. Why is this explicit parameter binding\n> necessary? When would I want to have pg_type be something other than\n> PG_BYTEA when inserting into a bytea column?\n\nYou wouldn't, but the trick is gettin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it worth allowing this:\n\nselect count(*) from users_users where position('ch' in username) = 0;\n\nTo be able to use an index, like:\n\nselect count(*) from users_users where username like 'ch%';\n\nAt the moment the position() syntax will do a seqscan, but the like \nsyntax will use an ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI'm currently investigating the feasibility of an alternative PL/Java implementation that \nwould use shared memory to communicate between a JVM and the backend processes. I would very \nmuch like to make use of the routines provided in shmem.c but I'm a bit uncertain how to add \na segm...
[ { "msg_contents": "I now have two minor bugs for which patches exist.\n\nI am game to write up some better instructions for installing mingw to compile postgresql on Windows if there are any notes on which packages need to be installed. I have successfully compiled and installed on Linux.\n\nIf there were a pla...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nTake the following:\n\ntemplate1=# alter user foo rename to bar;\nNOTICE: MD5 password cleared because of role rename\nNOTICE: MD5 password cleared because of role rename\nALTER ROLE\ntemplate1=#\n\nNow we have to reset the password.. which seems an extra\nstep that shouldn't be r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Background:\n\nDomains lay the groundwork for inherited basetypes\nor subtypes. By defining a domain and overriding \noperators and possibly creating an operator class, then a domain\ncan be created which inherits the storage method\nand all of the functions of a basetype. The domain\nconst...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\n I fixed a bug. I downloaded the recent version of postgres using CVS. I \nmade the changes and tested. I dont know how to create a patch. Should i \nlogin and execute diff command? Can u explain the steps in detail??\n\n\nPlease help me in this regard..\n\nThanks\nDhanaraj\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nAs of Monday I'm at Sun Microsystems. Since I'll be officially the \n\"PostgreSQL Community Guy\" there I expect to have a lot more time to devote \nto community stuff. Not that GreenPlum hasn't been generous with supporting \nme (they have, very much so) but Sun has offered me so...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > \"Joshua D. Drake\" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:\n> >> Is there any reason why we don't allow rsync access to the \n> cvs repo?\n> >\n> > That'd be Marc's bailiwick not mine ... but rsync from the anoncvs \n> > mirror seems like it couldn't pose any serious security threat.\n> > Marc?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPlease register as soon as you can. Speakers must register, too, thanks!\nhttp://conference.postgresql.org/Registration\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nAglio Database Solutions\nSan Francisco\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:34:30 -0800", "msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.co...