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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI had a lock problem on my database.\nWhen I use a \"select for update\" request whitch uses an index, the\nlocking system is inconsistant. \nTake this example:\n\ntest=# \\d users\n Table \"public.users\"\n Column | Type | Modi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Wes, you could most likely solve your immediate problem if you did\nan\n> > analyze before creating the indexes.\n> \n> I can try that. Is that going to be a reasonable thing to do when\nthere's\n> 100 million rows per table? I obviously want to minimize the number\nof\n> sequential p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy first posting for a few years, I hope this the right place.\n\nI am trying trace consistent errors with installation of PostgreSQL onto \nXP with Intel Duel-Core CPUs. The errors are strange, files missing, \nthings like that.\n\nHave any members experienced difficult with this ins...
[ { "msg_contents": "I worked on this ISBN/ISSN/ISMN/EAN13 module about more than a year ago, and I was wondering if it could be made official, I honestly think it's better than the ISBN/ISSN currently included in the official release; plus mine would also probably support UPC codes and it already support the new...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some experimentation over the weekend turned up the result that $SUBJECT \nis a good idea. I had never thought about this much before, figuring\nthat in a heavily-used index the metapage would stay in cache anyway and\nso fetching it at the start of each index search isn't costing any extra\...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ben Clewett\n> Sent: 25 April 2006 16:54\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Installation on Duel-Core Pentium XP\n> \n> Hi,\n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have changed the revoke part of the patch. This time no restrictions,\nonly a warning message about a possible lockout.\n\nhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~gevik/patch/patch-0.6.diff\n\n\nTom, Alvaro,\n\nDo you think this will be accepted?\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI have been thinking about this for a while and now that Google Summer of Code\nis coming I thought I would share this idea.\n\nThe GCC people have traded their bison/flex parser with a hand written\nrecursive-descent parser for a nice speed up.\n\nSo it would be interesting to see if ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe (me and Oleg) are glad to present GIN to PostgreSQL. If community will agree, \nwe will commit it to HEAD branch.\n\nhttp://www.sigaev.ru/gin/gin.gz\nhttp://www.sigaev.ru/gin/README.txt\n\nInstall:\n% cd pgsql\n% zcat gin.gz | patch -p0\nmake and initdb, install tsearch2\n\n\nChanges fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to start a discussion regarding the TODO item \n“%Add a separate TRUNCATE permission” to gain more information.\n\nThe new TRUNCATE permission: \nIs it meant to be a general truncating permission on all tables,\nschema's like: “I, the DBA give you the privilege to TRUNCATE” \nOr ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ran afoul of these rules the other day when compiling pgsql 8.1 on\nAIX. The configure scripts are set up to look for \"xlc\" instead of\n\"cc\", and that command invokes cc with \"-qalias=ansi\", the ANSI-strict\npointer aliasing mode.\n\nSpecifically, in this mode, the compiler assumes th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please accept my apologies for this trivial question...\nI have been reading through the TODO items for the last couple of days\nand I couldn't stop wondering whether there is history of discussion\nkept or logged about the TODO items somewhere. \n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:44:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Anyone,\n\nHello our server had postgresql 7.4 when updated to 8.1.2 everything is\nworking fine, but the version of pg_dunp is 7.4\n\nHow do i upgrade pg_dump so I can dump / backup the database?\n\nThanks\n\nBob\n\nAnyone,Hello our server had postgresql 7.4 when updated to 8.1.2 everything ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a reason many of the most useful autovacuum.c elog \nstatements are set to DEBUG2? It seems to me that these should be \nset to LOG.\n\nI used autovacuum when it was a contrib module, and it failed after a \nmonth. To prevent major performance problems I went back to the \ndail...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > 4. Find the option for disabling strict alias and get configure to\nadd\n> > that.\n> \n> You'll still lose performance, but the option is \"-qalias=noansi\".\n\nMy old xlc does not show that option, it is unfortunately version\nspecific.\nThe currently compatible option to turn it off ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSome AMD64 dual core processor series has problem with atomic operation\n\"lock cmpxchg\". It does not work correctly in some case. (I don't know\nif it is bug or feature.) This problem occurred in the solaris on the\nAMD64 platform. Postgres implement own lock mechanism with similar code\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've sent 3 previous messages to the list, and none of them have \narrived, or been bounced.\n\nDave\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:59:39 -0400", "msg_from": "Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I ran afoul of these rules the other day when compiling pgsql 8.1 on\n> AIX. The configure scripts are set up to look for \"xlc\" instead of\n> \"cc\", and that command invokes cc with \"-qalias=ansi\", the ANSI-strict\n> pointer aliasing mode.\n\nCan you please explain what exactly was n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nChange log message about vacuuming database name from LOG to DEBUG1.\nPrevents duplicate meaningless log messsages.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/postmaster:\n autovacuum.c (r1.16 -> r1.17)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:\n>> I think there are two things people typically want to know from the\n>> logs: 1) Is autovacuum running 2) Did autovacuum take action (issue\n>> a VACUUM or ANALYZE) \n>> \n>> I don't think we need mention the name of each and every databa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Larry Rosenman\" <lrosenman@pervasive.com> writes:\n>> I'd like to see a more concrete definition of what we\n>> want Autovacuum to output and at what levels.\n> \n> I would argue that what people typically want is\n> \n> \t(0)\tnothing\n> \n> \t(1)\tper-database log mess...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Uh, while you are at it, the background writer and checkpoint\n> operations need similar treatment. :-)\n> \nSure.....\n\nI'm willing to look at and work it out, if no one else is currently\nworking on it.\n\nLER\n\n>\n-------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:\n>> Also it'd be nice to have it a (4th?) level which would show the\n>> results of the equations being applied.\n> \n> That I think would fall more naturally into the category of debug\n> support --- I'm happy if we just ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I suspect a patch to convert PostgreSQL to C++ wouldn't be\n> welcomed. Haha...\n> \nChecking my calendar, I think you are about 26 days too late to make\nthat suggestion...\n\n\t-rocco\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:35:31 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Rocco Altier\" <RoccoA@Routesca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> \"Larry Rosenman\" <lrosenman@pervasive.com> writes:\n>>> I'd like to see a more concrete definition of what we\n>>> want Autovacuum to output and at what levels.\n>> \n>> autovacuum_verbosity\n> \n> Should we call i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering (for planning purposes) if anyone knew the status of\nconstraint exclusions moving up to query runtime and working for\njoins. Is this something that's coming down the pipe in the\nforeseeable future, or just on a back-burner to-do list, or probably\nnever happening, or... ?\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nThis code run without error, but do nothing\n\ndrop role x;\ncreate role x;\ncreate or replace function foo() returns void as $$\nbegin\n grant root to x;\nend;\n$$ language plpgsql;\n\\dg x\nrevoke root from x;\n\npostgres=# postgres=# DROP ROLE\npostgres=# CREATE ROLE\npostgres=# ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am stupid. 1) I don't call function.\n\nI am sorry\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nNajdete si svou lasku a nove pratele na Match.com. http://www.msn.cz/\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:36:49 +0200", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Larry Rosenman wrote:\n> Simon Riggs wrote:\n>> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>>> \"Larry Rosenman\" <lrosenman@pervasive.com> writes:\n>>>> I'd like to see a more concrete definition of what we\n>>>> want Autovacuum to output and at what levels.\n>>> \n>>> autovacuum_ve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nModify Solaris compiler build rules to use the cpp preprocessor, the the\nx86 file.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/port:\n Makefile (r1.22 -> r1.23)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/port/Makefil...
[ { "msg_contents": "Robert Treat wrote:\n> On Friday 28 April 2006 12:09, Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>> Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>>> Simon Riggs wrote:\n>>>> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>>>>> \"Larry Rosenman\" <lrosenman@pervasive.com> writes:\n>>>>>> I'd like to see a more concrete definition...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:\n>> You know, rather than adding new columns to pg_class, why not extend\n>> the stats collector to collect this information.\n> \n> +1\n> \n> \t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\nThat sounds doable. And a lot less scary for me (as ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:\n> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>>> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:\n>>>> You know, rather than adding new columns to pg_class, why not\n>>>> extend the stats collector to collect this information.\n>> \n>> T...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was looking at what it'd take to handle attaching an error cursor\nto the message about \"column \"foo\" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or\nbe used in an aggregate function\", as per recent discussion here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2006-04/msg00206.php\n\nWhile we've no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthere is a chance to add a STEP clause to the FOR statement in plpgsql?\n\nsomething like\n\nFOR i IN 1..100 STEP 2 LOOP\nEND LOOP\n\nthe STEP value must be a positive value because of the effect of the\nREVERSE clause...\n\ni think it's just a matter of fixing gram.y, plpgsql.h (to a...
[ { "msg_contents": "While working on the VC++ build, I initially (accidentally) built\npostgres.exe witohut exporting all symbols (because VC++ doesn't have a\nbuiltin functionality to do export-all). When enabling it to export all,\nI noticed the binary increased more than 30% in size, and the linker\ntime incr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Theo Schlossnagle wrote:\n> Kris Jurka wrote:\n> \n> >\n> >\n> > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:\n> >\n> >> Kris Jurka wrote:\n> >>\n> >>> Anyway the test exits with\n> >>> Stuck spinlock (80618e9) detected at ./s_lock.c:355.\n> >>>\n> >>> on a linux gcc build this exits with\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having problems with crashes whenever I attempt to write something \non stdout or stderr from a UDT whenever the postmaster is running as a \nwindows service. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is this a known problem?\n\nRegards,\nThomas Hallgren\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:42...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Thomas Hallgren\"<thomas@tada.se>\nSent: 29/04/06 14:43:09\nTo: \"PostgreSQL-development\"<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nSubject: [HACKERS] stdout when running as a Windows service\n\n> I'm having problems with crashes whenever I attempt to write somet...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to implement a row-level security for application-level-user (the user is not a postgresql user), I wish to restrict access to rows in diferent tables based on this application-level-user. My idea is to use rules to rewrite queries based on the contents of a global variable that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Which brings me to the question - would it be reasonable to \n> create a \n> > .DEF file listing which symbols are exported from the \n> postgres binary \n> > to addon modules?\n> \n> No, I'd not think this is a good idea. Unlike libpq, there's \n> no clear demarcation of an intended API...
[ { "msg_contents": "In some recent activity on the patches list about responding to bug #2073,\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-11/msg00303.php\nwe've been discussing various possible tweaks to the behavior of dropping\nor modifying a serial column. The hacks involved with SERIAL seem to me\nto b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, we disallow use of both FOR UPDATE and FOR SHARE in a single\nquery, as well as use of both NOWAIT and default \"WAIT\" semantics.\nThere is no reason for this except inadequately flexible data\nrepresentation, ie, a single flag for the whole Query instead of one per\ntarget relati...
[ { "msg_contents": "> We started with #2 and have been moving slowly towards #1, \n> but I think there's a limit to how far we want to go in that \n> direction. A black box approach isn't especially \n> user-friendly in my opinion; it's not solving any problems, \n> it's just refusing to deal with the implicati...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm writing a UDT that takes a varchar argument that represents the name \nof a type. The caller may optionally qualify with a namespace, i.e. \n\"pg_catalog.varchar\", or \"public.address\". Is there a c-function \nsomewhere that will return the pg_type that corresponds to the name \n(with r...
[ { "msg_contents": "... because nowhere does it update the \"checkAsUser\" fields in the\nview's query to be the OID of the new owner. This means that\npermission checks about whether the view can access its underlying\ntables will still be done as the old owner. An example:\n\nregression=# create user u1;\nCR...
[ { "msg_contents": "How about we remove RELKIND_SPECIAL? It was there only to support\nthe XactLockTable hack, but we don't need that anymore.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nThe PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 1 May 2006 0...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our\ninfrastructure. Here's a link to a table of data I've started putting\ntogether regarding XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers on a 4-way Opteron\nsystem:\n\thttp://developer.osdl.org/markw/pgsql/xlog_blcksz.html\n\nThere are a coup...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's been some new code added to pg_resetxlog which is confusing\nenough that Coverity is convinced there's a possible memory leak in\nInsertXLogFile. I think it may actually be a bug. At the least this bit\nneeds rewriting to make it clearer what it does.\n\nWhat I think happens is this:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nLooking ahead at some of the projects I'll be working on in the future, I'm\nseeing that having an implementation of WITH/WITH RECURSIVE for working with\ntree structures is going to be a very useful feature and so would like to\nre-start the discussions on this to see whether th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:\n> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:08:41PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:\n>> The first is to add a column(s) to pg_class to hold last\n>> vaccum/analyze time \n>> for each table. The upsides would be that this puts the information\n>> in a readily accessable place that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSince yesterday (at least), the CVSup server has been down:\n\n$ cvsup -g cvsup.pgsql \nCannot connect to cvsup.postgresql.org: Connection refused\nWill retry at 14:08:50\n\n\nI hope it has not been deprecated?\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jim C. Nasby wrote:\n> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:28:21PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>> Since both vacuum and autovacuum will be cutting stats records, do we\n>> want to just have the autovacuum\n>> stats record have the fact that it was autovacuum that did the\n>> vacuum? \n>> \n>> Or, is...
[ { "msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 22:38 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:\n>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>>>> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:\n>>>>> You know, rather than adding new columns to pg_class, why not\n>>>>> exten...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n \n\nWe're a team from Rome University (Italy) and we are working on an \n\nhacking of PostgreSQL MVCC. The basic idea is to have multiple \n\ninstances \n\nof a same user transaction concurrently executing against the DB in \n\norder to achieve fault tolerance. We do not want to bothe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers to\n> determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop \n\nI think for an even better comparison you should scale wal_buffers\ndown with increasing XLOG_BLCKSZ, so that the xlog buffer has a fixed\nsize in kb.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n I've got a patch to be reviewed for having the stats system keep\ntrack of the last\ntime a table was vacuumed or analyzed either by the user or via\nAutoVacuum.\n\nThe patch is at:\nhttp://www.lerctr.org/~ler/pg-dev/vacuum-autovacuum-times-stats.diff\n\nI'd appreciate a full ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just noticed a typo in newly added ginxlog.c. I don't have line\nnumbers, but in ginRedoSplit() it reads:\n\n\tPageSetLSN(rpage, lsn);\n\tPageSetTLI(lpage, ThisTimeLineID);\n\tMarkBufferDirty(rbuffer);\n\n\tPageSetLSN(lpage, lsn);\n\tPageSetTLI(lpage, ThisTimeLineID);\n\tMarkBufferDirty(lbuf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix calculation of plan node extParams to account for the possibility that one\ninitPlan sets a parameter for another. This could not (I think) happen before\n8.1, but it's possible now because the initPlans generated by MIN/MAX\noptimization might themselves use i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just experienced a server that was spending over 50% of CPU time in the\nsystem, apparently dealing with postmasters that were in the sblock\nstate. Looking at the FreeBSD source, this indicates that the process is\nwaiting for a lock on a socket. During this time the machine was doing\nnearl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers\nto\n> > > determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop \n> > \n> > I think for an even better comparison you should scale wal_buffers\n> > down with increasing XLOG_BLCKSZ, so that the xlog buffer has a\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\non your summer of code page [1] you outline a project \"XML improvements\".\nIs there any relation (similar goals, feature overlapping, technical\nrelation) to the \"pgxml\" project mentioned for some time on [2]? I\nhave been (remotely) following Oleg Bartunov's page on GiST usage...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL developer.\n\nAlthough it is allowed to create a cast for a domain, it seems that there \nis no way to trigger it. You can find attached an sql script to illustrate \nthe issue with postgresql 8.1.3. The create cast and create domain \ndocumentations do not seem to discuss thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "from time to time I have to drop a very large database (1TB+). The drop database command takes a long time to complete\nwhile its deleting the files. During this time, no one can connect to the database server, ps displays \"startup\nwaiting\". This is with Postgresql 7.4. Has this been a...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\nsome time ago i was told on postgresql-general about existence of \"hstore\"\npackage for postgresql.\nas i understand it is being developed by the same guys that are behind\ntsearch2, gin and (at least) recent changes in gist.\n\nwould it be possible to include this software in main post...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jim C. Nasby wrote:\n> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> \"Jim C. Nasby\" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:\n>>> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:06:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>>>> Actually, the stats socket seems like a really good bet to me,\n>>>> since all the backends...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is motivated by Jim Buttafuoco's recent gripe about not being\nable to connect while a DROP DATABASE is in progress:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00074.php\nThe whole area is really pretty grotty anyway --- the existing interlock\ndoes not prevent an incoming ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nNormally Postgres extends SQL to allow ORDER BY to include arbitrary\nexpressions not in the select list. However this doesn't seem to work with\nSELECT DISTINCT.\n\n stark=> \\d test\n Table \"public.test\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n --------+------+-----------\n col1 | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "sorry for sending the old version in the previous mail . Here I attach \nthe recent version of the patch file.\n\nDhanaraj M wrote:\n\n> I saw the following in the TODO list.\n> clients-psql\n> ============\n> 1. Have psql show current values for a sequence\n>\n> Hence, this patch displays th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm finishing my career in computer engineering. To finish that I've\nto develop a new implementation of R*-tree. My teacher Prof. Dr.\nSeeger, http://dbs.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/Home/People/Professor has\nalready one done, now he wants me to add it to PostgreSQL using Gist.\nNow ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Comparing the lists of functions exported by libpq and those declared\nby libpq-fe.h turns up a fair number of descrepancies. Most of these\nfunctions are declared by internal header files. For clarity I think we\nshould clarify the situation, either explicity declare them for\nexternal users...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gentlepeople,\n Now that the patch is out for keeping the last\nautovacuum/vacuum/analyze/autoanalyze\ntimestamp in the stats system is pending, what's the consensus view on\nwhat, if any,\nlogging changes are wanted for autovacuum?\n\n I have the time and inclination to cut code quickl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm trying to write a PL/Python function which is to be called from a\nrule. I'd need pass the OLD and NEW tuple records to the function.\nUnfortunately that does not work: 'pl/python functions cannot take type\nrecord'.\n\nWhat I have figured out by reading the source code: OLD and NE...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a foreign key constraint that I'd like to alter. I'd rather not\ndrop and re-create it due to the size of the table involved. All I need\nto do is add an ON UPDATE CASCADE.\n\nIs it ok to set confupdtype to 'c' in pg_constraint (and will this be\nall that's needed) or is it safer to dr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Rod Taylor wrote:\n> I don't know about anyone else, but the only time I look at that mess\n> is to find poor tuple/table or tuple/index ratios and other\n> indications that vacuum isn't working as well as it should be.\n> \n> How about this instead:\n> \n> Log when the actual autovacuum_vacu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Natives getting restless... :)\n\nAny plans for a release?\n\n----- Forwarded message from Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> -----\nOn Tue, May 02, 2006 at 14:20:03 -0400,\n \"Matthew T. O'Connor\" <matthew@zeut.net> wrote:\n> Hey all, I was just wondering if there were any plans to get 8.1.4...
[ { "msg_contents": "I often find myself wanting to know how many transactions per second \na database is committing to disk, as well as how many queries per \nsecond it's processing. While Larry's busy making stats changes, I'd \nlike to propose a few more counters:\n\nNumber of commits: Ideally, this would o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi William(uniware), Chuck and Hackers,\n\n I have been interested in doing complete PGSQL development in MSVC\nfor a long time now. With reference to one of Chuck's mails to\n-hackers-win32 with the same subject, you said that you were able to\nsuccessfully compile PG 8.1 with some minor ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Hi William(uniware), Chuck and Hackers,\n> \n> I have been interested in doing complete PGSQL \n> development in MSVC for a long time now. With reference to \n> one of Chuck's mails to\n> -hackers-win32 with the same subject, you said that you were \n> able to successfully compile PG 8....
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Yes. There is a patch pending on -patches which fix almost all of \n> > these in HEAD. (There are a few tiny things related to perl and NLS \n> > that aren't included in it ATM. And I'm just assuming you're seeing \n> > the same problems as I was but I didn't base my work off \n> vcprojec...
[ { "msg_contents": "VC++6.0 isn't a very good compiler and it's not very compatible with\ngcc, while Visual Studio 2005 compiler is much more compatible and has a\nbetter optimizer.\n\nPlus, VC++6.0 had a closed \"proprietary\" data format for .dsp and .dsw\nfiles, while the current Visual Studio uses a standard...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > You mean they have a tool that parses GNU Makefiles and generate VC \n> > project files? Sure, that might be interesting. I've seen I \n> think two \n> > others, and tried, but they fell over badly because the pg build \n> > system was too complicated. But I beleive I'm still allowed \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Am I correct in the thought that the various files listed below are not\nused by the database and can be safely removed? There were no other\nactive db connections when I issued this command.\n\nI think truncate (Slony) left them behind.\n\nssdb=# select file\n\tfrom pg_ls_dir('base/'|| (sele...
[ { "msg_contents": "> VC++6.0 isn't a very good compiler and it's not very compatible with\n> gcc, while Visual Studio 2005 compiler is much more \n> compatible and has a better optimizer.\n> \n> Plus, VC++6.0 had a closed \"proprietary\" data format for .dsp \n> and .dsw files, while the current Visual Studio u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm reading through the source code of intarray contrib module. Despite\nbeing at the beginning, I've some questions to ask. I'd be so\nappreciated if anybody can help.\n\n\n[1]\nWhat's the function of execute() in _int_bool.c? As far as I can\nunderstand, some other functions (eg. exe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Chuck McDevitt\"<cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>\nSent: 05/05/06 18:01:49\nTo: \"Magnus Hagander\"<mha@sollentuna.net>, \"Gurjeet Singh\"<singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>, \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\"<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, \"uniware@zedware.org\"<uniware@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Statically link the c library, and your problem is solved.\n\nOr ship the dll with the installer, like any normal commercial\napplication would. Microsoft specifically grants the right to do this.\n\nThere is no other \"runtime\" besides the c library.\n\nEither approach is simple, and doesn...
[ { "msg_contents": "The first item on the todo list is \"remove behaviour\nof postmaster -o\". Does that simply mean remove the\noption and the associated processing from\npostmaster.c?\n\nIs anyone working on this?\n\nI've attached a naive patch that does what I've\ndescribed above. It compiles and passes the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:\n-- Start of PGP signed section.\n> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:47:33PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:\n> > > If you like I can split it into two patches, one patch splits the openssl\n> > > stuff out of the main files and a second ...
[ { "msg_contents": "(missed the mailing list last time)\nHi William,\n\n Thanks for the steps to succeed with vcproject. I am sure that\nthere will be a few more tweaks involved (like setting VC's include\npath etc.). I will try to build it and consult/inform you if there is\nany deviation from the README.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nSeeing as how width is so unused relative to the other items in the\nexplain output, how about removing it from the normal explain output\nand requiring people to do an explain verbose if they really need to\nsee it? It would have the virt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\n I cannot compile PL/Perl and PL/Python under x86_64. I'm running\nIntel Pentium D 3.2GHz Dual-core, Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 port, kernel\n2.6.16.14, gcc 3.4.4, glibc 2.3.2, perl 5.8.8, Python 2.4.3.\n\nimacat@yuki ~ % uname -a\nLinux yuki 2.6.16.14-allmods #1 SMP Sat May 6 18...
[ { "msg_contents": "This implements a proposal made last november:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00578.php\n\nBasically, it tries to catch people loading modules which belong to the\nwrong version or have had certain constants changed, or architechture\nmismatches. It's a bit more fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can create a function that takes a two dimension int array:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION twodims(int[][]) RETURNS void AS ...\n\nbut there's nothing stopping me from calling this function with an \narbitrary number of dimensions on the array.\n\nI'd like to map a parameter like the one above to a c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why does this query take so long? (PostgreSQL 8.0.3, FC4)\nHopefully I have provided enough information below.\n\nLOG: statement: SELECT * FROM x WHERE f IN \n($1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16,$17,$18,$19,$20,$21,$22,$23,$24,\\\n$25,$26,$27,$28,$29,$30,$31,$32,$33,$34,...
[ { "msg_contents": "When working through my cleanup of the vc++ build scripts, I came across\na handy feature. I originally thought it'd cut down the size of my\nscripts, and it does - but not very much. However, it might be handy\nelsewhere. I have no idea if this feature is available for other\nplatforms/compi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > For VC++ you can add a #pragma directive to the header \n> files to direct \n> > the compiler/linker to link with a specific library.\n> \n> Count on Microsoft to invent stupid \"features\" :-(. \n\nI guess stupid is a relative matter - I find it quite handy.\n\n> If the directive includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > It will work just fine when you don't, as long as you include the \n> > directory where the lib file is in your LIB path. Which is the same \n> > way the linker commandline option works. I don't see how \n> that makes it \n> > useless, though.\n> \n> If you have to include (the equivalent...
[ { "msg_contents": "The mention of the changes to the btree scan code in the latest weekly\nnews got me curious so I started looking at the 'executive summary'\n(read as: README) of the patch changes for both the scan patch and the\nbtbulkdelete patch. If my understanding is correct, vacuum will only see\na spee...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tI'm developing an object persistency framework for which I'd love to have\nbetter support for inheritance in PostgreSQL. I could already map subclasses\nwith the current inheritance facilities, but the problem is with Primary and\nForeign Keys.\n\n\tThere's a TODO for implementing Inde...