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"msg_contents": "> AFAICS the problem is not restricted to LIKE, we can easily find a lot\nof\n> similar problems caused by the actual parameters. For example, SeqScan\nvs.\n> IndexScan vs. BitmapIndexScan for a range query. So an improvement is\n> definitely needed.\n\n> Another way is to generate a plan on ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi I'm a new postgresql user. I wrote ACO (ant colony optimazition) and \nwant to replace it with GEQO in postres/src/backend/optimizer but I don't know how \nto compile and run the source code :(\n \n I installed postgresql-8.1.3 and cygwin but I can not use them to \ncompile the source c... |
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"msg_contents": "I have spent some time figuring out how to resolve the parsing conflicts in \nBernd Helmle's updatable views patch. The problem has now been reduced to \nspecifically this situation:\n\nCREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT expr :: TIME . WITH\n\n(where expr is a_expr or b_expr and TIME could also be TI... |
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"msg_contents": "There is path implements following item from todo list: \"Allow \ncommenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them to defaults\".\nMain idea is:\n\nGeneral config structure is extend with default_val attribute to keep \nreally default value. (There is small conflict - for string boo... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc \n> G. Fournier\n> Sent: 24 May 2006 20:06\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Michael Fuhr; Simon Riggs; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] W... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:30:36PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n> >>> I'm logged on daily interactively, and haven't noticed \n> any issues ...\n> >\n> >> Are you both referring to the same server? I've noticed that \n> >> anoncvs.postgresql.org (66.98.251.159) has been slow for a \n... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: RIPEMD160\n\nhi all,\n\ni've working built-from-source v813 installs on OSX 10.4.6.\n\nstaring with a clean 814 src tree, a similarly-config'd build completes\nwithout error:\n\n\t% postmaster --version\n\t postmaster (PostgreSQL) 8.1.4\n\nbut, on e... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to know what exactly is to be done for this TODO-item\n\n o Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the\n present australian_timezones hack)\n\nThe most recent mail in the archives about this subject seems to be:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ge... |
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"msg_contents": "I am asking again: what is the timetable for merging gborg and\npgfoundry, and if not, can we set a date to shut down to force the move.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your ba... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\r\n \r\n I am now studying PostgreSQL.\r\n\r\nin your web site: \r\nDeveloper's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL\r\nTechnical Questions\r\n2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?\r\nSince heap_open function needs the oid of the relati... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, WAL files will be archived as soon as archive_command is set. \n IMHO, this is not desirable if no permanent backup is wanted, but only \nscheduled online backup because; it will flood the wal_archive \ndestination with files that will never be used.\n\nI propose to introduce a GU... |
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"msg_contents": "I am having trouble remembering the name of the new GUC parameter,\n\"standard_conforming_strings\". I am thinking \"standard_strings\" is\nclearer, and shorter. I would like to rename this. The parameter will\nbe new in 8.2.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us\n EnterpriseD... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n \n Can anyone offer advice on this please: Intermittently a postgres process appears to crash and the postmaster service needs restarting. The following is entered in the log:\n \n 2006-03-15 09:50:03 LOG: server process (PID 348) was terminated by signal 125\n 2006-03-15 09:50:... |
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"msg_contents": "I use the \\copy command from psql to load data into postgres. I was\nfiddling with setting up a database on a HEAD build, and I got the\nfollowing new warning\n\ntesty=# \\copy episodes from 'episodes.data' with delimiter as '\\t'\nWARNING: nonstandard use of escape in a string literal\nLI... |
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"msg_contents": "When preparing to transfer blob data from one database to another (8.0.5 \nto 8.1.4), I found some interesting numbers that made me suspect that \nbytea dumping is more ineffective than expectable.\n\nI have a test dataset of 2000 rows, each row containing a bytea column. \nTotal disk usage o... |
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"msg_contents": "David Fetter wrote:\n> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:11:13AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:\n>> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>>> David Fetter wrote:\n>>>> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:33:53PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>>>>> I am asking again: what is the timetable for merging gborg and\n>>>>> pgfoundr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI encountered this the other day and set up a build farm client for it.\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=meerkat&dt=2006-05-25%2018:16:36\n\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===\nSales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm just experimenting a bit with GIN, and it is occasionally getting\nstuck looping in findParents() during WAL replay.\n\nThe attached patch seems to fix it. I also had to set ptr->off as\nadvertised in the comment above the function to avoid triggering\nassertions.\n\nGIN isn't fully trans... |
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"msg_contents": "Joshua D. Drake wrote:\n>> The thing is, I thought that the scripting work for this was already\n>> done? Since we're doing CVS->CVS and mailman->mailman, the only major\n>> scripting effort was required on the gborg-sql -> pgfoundry-sql side\n>> of things, which I *thought* was already writt... |
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"msg_contents": "could CREATE TYPE be used to make a case insensitive version of varchar? \nSo that doing something like LOWER(username) = 'joe' could just be done \nlike username = 'joe' ?\n\nI want to try to avoid using CREATE TYPE with C extensions and using a \nnew operator all over the place is not an op... |
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"msg_contents": "good morning,\n\nI got a bug request for the following unicode character in PostgreSQL \n8.1.4: 0xedaeb8\n\nERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UTF8\": 0xedaeb8\n\nThis one seemed to work properly in PostgreSQL 8.0.3.\n\nI think the following code in postgreSQL 814 has a bug in it.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Shouldn't\n\n SELECT max(*) FROM foo;\n\ngive an error? Instead it's executed like\n\n SELECT max(1) FROM foo;\n\nJust like count(*) is executed as count(1).\n\nSomething for the TODO or is it a feature?\n\nps. I know it's not an important case since no one sane would try to \ncalculate m... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn c.h There is the following comment:\n\n/*\n * We want NameData to have length NAMEDATALEN and int alignment,\n * because that's how the data type 'name' is defined in pg_type.\n * Use a union to make sure the compiler agrees. Note that NAMEDATALEN\n * must be a multiple of sizeof(int), ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn PL/Py, I had the bright idea of storing bytecode in the probin field of the\nfunction's pg_proc row. However, this idea has lately become rather dim as I\nhave recently rediscovered(thanks Adrian) that this breaks dumps; pg_dump outputs\na PL/Py function as \"CREATE FUNCTION x() RET... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm new to pgsql. I could not find documentation regarding inserting of\npicture(.jpg) to BYTEA using Visual Basic (ADO connection). my code for\nMSSQL will not work. i'm using pgsql 8.1.4\n\n\ni also tried this link but an error occur about LO.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgs... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n I am constantly getting this error:\n\nmake -C pl all\nmake[2]: Entering directory `/d/Dev/postgres/pgsql_tip/src/pl'\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/d/Dev/postgres/pgsql_tip/src/pl/plpgsql'\nmake -C src all\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/d/Dev/postgres/pgsql_tip/src/pl/plpgsql/... |
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"msg_contents": "anoncvs (svr4, 66.98.251.159) is still slow responding to \"cvs update\";\nit's been spotty for about a week now. Tcpdump shows connections being\nestablished but then long delays for ACKs, sometimes long enough for cvs\nto time out. Any updates on what's going on?\n\n-- \nMichael Fuhr\n",
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"msg_contents": "Historically pg_dump has taken pains to dump ASCII control characters\nas backslash constructs, for instance \\t for tab. I am thinking this\nis not such a great idea, and that it'd be more portable rather than\nless so if we got rid of that logic and just dumped tab as tab, etc.\nIn particu... |
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"msg_contents": "\"osprey\" hasn't been able to build HEAD since the GIN code was added.\nI'm not sure that GIN is really to blame though, as the error looks\nlike an out-of-memory problem while trying to link the backend:\n\nccache gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels -f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Hackers,\n\nI have the following questions, after reading this FAQ (http:// \nwww.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item4.4) are there statistics \naround the max number of schemas in a database, max number of tables \nIn a schema, and max number of tables in a database (number that ... |
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"msg_contents": "Coverity picked up an error in dumpStdStrings() since last night. At\nline 1448 there's PQclear(res) yet it's used several times further down\n(lines 1452, 1454 and 1456).\n\nI'd actually suggest zeroing out res->tuples in PQclear so this sort of\nproblem becomes much more obvious.\n\nCoverit... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been having the COPY FROM patch that was posted on pgsql-patches\nsome time ago (I think from Hannu Krossing), sitting on my machine, with\nthe intention to commit it for 8.2. However there's something I'm not\nvery sure about -- the patch creates an execution plan by passing a\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> anoncvs (svr4, 66.98.251.159) is still slow responding to \"cvs \n> >> update\"; it's been spotty for about a week now. Tcpdump shows \n> >> connections being established but then long delays for ACKs, \n> >> sometimes long enough for cvs to time out. Any updates on \n> what's going on... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to setup Kerberos authentication with PG on Windows 2000.\n\nI have installed the MIT Kerberos Windows dlls into the PG bin directory\n- replacing the krb5_32.dll and comerr32.dll from the PG install.\nI did this because the PG install did not have the krbcc32.dll,\nwhich is needed... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been taking a look at what's needed for the non-transactional part\nof pg_class. If I've understood this correctly, we need a separate\ncatalog, which I've dubbed pg_ntclass (better ideas welcome), and a new\npointer in RelationData to hold a pointer to this new catalog for each\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > While I don't think that making WITH a fully reserved word would\ncause\n> > any great damage, I'm unwilling to do it just to save a couple of\nlines\n> > of code. \n> \n> I think we should go on and do promote WITH to a reserved keyword now\n\nOracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL and Informix also... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\r\n\r\nBelow is the notes from postgresql-8.1.3/src/backend/storage/lmgr/README:\r\n\r\n\r\nLock acquisition (routines LockAcquire and ProcSleep) follows these rules:\r\n\r\n1. A lock request is granted immediately if it does not conflict with\r\nany existing or waiting lock request, or i... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been experimenting with the exploit described in\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.50 to see if our databases\nare affected.\n\nServer is 8.1.3, database encoding UTF8.\nClient is a C program compiled and linked against libpq version 8.1.3\nthat uses UTF8 encoding.\n\nI sent the... |
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"msg_contents": "Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n> ipig wrote:\n> > Hi,\n> > Thanks for your reply.\n> > I changed the format to plain text.\n> > \n> > For the question, suppose that process p0 held the lock of object A, and the wait queue for A is p1,p2,p3,...., that process p1 is the first waiter in the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n \nHaving browsed the TODO list, one of the items that I would be interested\non working on is a debugger for stored procedures. Having searched on this\ntopic in the archives, I'm still short of some answers that would allow me\nto come up with a complete proposal that I can us... |
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"msg_contents": "> > AFAICS, this is caused by the machine attempting to relay thousands \n> > and thousands of spam emails (some quick checked showed a rate of \n> > about 1 spam / 5 seconds enytering the queue - and I know I deleted \n> > almost 20,000 from the queue)\n> \n> And how exactly would you like m... |
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"msg_contents": "> > The quick fix is, as I wrote in one of my earlier mails, to \n> configure\n> > svr1 not to tell svr4 to *retry delivery*, but to just junk \n> the mail \n> > right away. It'll still cause joe-job style problems, but it won't \n> > load up the queue for days.\n> \n> But, from my look at th... |
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"msg_contents": "> >>> The quick fix is, as I wrote in one of my earlier mails, to\n> >> configure\n> >>> svr1 not to tell svr4 to *retry delivery*, but to just junk\n> >> the mail\n> >>> right away. It'll still cause joe-job style problems, but \n> it won't \n> >>> load up the queue for days.\n> >>\n> >> But... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Run something like:\n> > > mailq | grep \"Recipient address rejected\"\n> > \n> > I thought that the above was supposed to be a perm error, \n> not temp? \n> > Does anyone know what I need to set in postfix on svr1 to \n> change it to \n> > a perm?\n> \n> Yes, htat's what I sent before... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I am trying to compile libpq with vc8. I got errors in wchar.c\n\n..\\..\\backend\\utils\\mb\\wchar.c(99) : error C2054: expected '(' to follow \n'inline'\n..\\..\\backend\\utils\\mb\\wchar.c(100) : error C2085: 'pg_euc_mblen' : not \nin formal parameter list\n..\\..\\backend\\utils\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs it just me or are the send/recv strangely asymmetric?\n\nIt seems like the recv function is designed to avoid copying so the type can\npick the data straight out of the data stream without passing through\nintermediate representations.\n\nBut the send function forces the type to copy the... |
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"msg_contents": "A month ago, pg_resetxlog got an -f flag:\n\n\t -f\tforce reset xlog to be done, if the control\n\t\tfile is corrupted, then try to restore it.\n\nHowever, the patch had identifiable problems that are still not fixed:\n\n\thttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00013.php\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nWe had a strange problem yesterday in one of our servers using PITR\n(postgresql 8.1.4). \n\nThe script used by archive_command is designed to refuse to overwrite\nany pre-existing archive file. Yesterday this situation happened and it\nrefused to overwrite a file, filling the log fi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPatch applied. Thanks.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nuol@freenet.de wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian schrieb:\n> > This patch cannot be applied. 'active_simple_exprs' is referenced but\n> > not defined. I think the new variable name is 'simple... |
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"msg_contents": "ppport.h is throwing warnings when compiling on Fedora Core 5\n(with perl-5.8.8-4). I gather from the comments in the head\nof that file that we ought to look for a newer version.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 30 May 2006 08:29:18 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I cant find any function, which tells me something like session\nid. Is there something like that? I need it in my AM, because I need\nto know, if something which I wrote in file was written in this\ncurrent session or previously.\n\nAnd second thing - it would be great if I could save po... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it possible to use a binary copy of the cluster on a 64 bit build \nof pg 7.4.x that was created on a 32bit bild of 7.4.x\n\nassuming x is the same and integer-date-times are not enabled ?\n\nDave \n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 30 May 2006 08:50:23 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nI'm building postgresQL on Sparc10 and the build goes fine unil initdb.\n\n\n/usr/local/bin/gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\n-Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing initdb.o\n-L../../../src/port -lpgport -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq\n-L../../../src/p... |
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"msg_contents": "When is this patch going to be applied? Is there a bug that I can \nfollow along?\n\nthanks.\n\njeff\n\n\n\n\n * From: Bruce Momjian <pgman ( at ) candle ( dot ) pha ( dot ) pa ( \ndot ) us>\n * To: Yannick <ybgn ( at ) free ( dot ) fr>\n * Subject: Re: Compile libpq with vc8\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPerhaps one of you can help me.\nI am a IT Executive Recruiter from a Search firm in Toronto looking \nfor a Postgres Developer/ Administrator to work on a Two week(80 \nhours) contract to fix my clients Postgres Problem.\n\nMy client in situated in Toronto, Canada and needs someone to... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nActually I'm building it first time. The system didn't have prior\nversions of postgreSQL installed. I took postgresql-8.1.3.tar.gz code\ndistribution. \n\nI'll try to remove it from the code.\n\nThanks.\n\nStella Averbukh\n_________________________________\nSenior Software Lead... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom Lane:\n\n> ALTER TABLE childN DROP INHERITS old_parent;\n> ALTER TABLE childN ADD INHERITS new_parent;\n\nI think you would have to make INHERITS a reserved word to make that happen:\n\nstark=> create table integer (i integer);\nCREATE TABLE\nstark=> alter table test add inherits intege... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's a question. I wish to add a function to libpq to escape \nPostgreSQL identifiers. Will this function be subject to the same \nsecurity/encoding issues as PQescapeString?\n\nChris\n\n-- \nChristopher Kings-Lynne\n\nTechnical Manager\nCalorieKing\nTel: +618.9389.8777\nFax: +618.9389.844... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI sent this to the hackers list, as this is the people I wish to contact.\n\nDo any of you guys use linkedin.com and want to add me to your contacts \nnetwork?\n\nI'm keen to get into a network of PostgreSQL-related people - for future \njobs/contracts purposes.\n\nMy linkedin.... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Sent: 31 May 2006 04:16\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: Hackers\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQescapeIdentifier\n> \n> > Christopher Ki... |
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"msg_contents": "> > On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 08:21:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n> >> I'm pretty sure we had agreed that magic blocks should be \n> required; \n> >> otherwise this check will accomplish little.\n> \n> > Sure, I just didn't want to break every module in one \n> weekend. I was \n> > thinking of a... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been playing around with COPYing large binary data, and implemented \na COMPRESSION transfer format. The server side compression saves \nsignificant bandwidth, which may be the major limiting factor when large \namounts of data is involved (i.e. in many cases where COPY TO/FROM \nSTDIN/S... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Tom,\n\nThank you for the advice. I removed pqsignalinquire() method and it\nworked just fine. \n\n\nStella Averbukh\n_________________________________\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \nSent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:29 AM\nTo: Averbukh Ste... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm getting grudgingly more used to CVS HEAD's behavior of stuffing a\nmultiline command into the history buffer as a single item, but there's\nstill something bothering me about it. I've finally put my finger on\nwhat. I think it should not combine SQL text and backslash commands\ninto a s... |
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"msg_contents": "After re-reading what I just wrote to Andreas about how compression of\nCOPY data would be better done outside the backend than inside, it\nstruck me that we are missing a feature that's fairly common in Unix\nprograms. Perhaps COPY ought to have the ability to pipe its output\nto a shell co... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Pflug\n> Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41\n> Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,\ni was just trying recursive function invocation and got a server crash when i changed a GUC variable max_stack_depth, to a high number. \nfallowing is what i have tried.\n\nselect max_val from pg_settings where name='max_stack_depth'; -- returns 2097151\nset max_stack_depth=2097151;\nCR... |
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"msg_contents": "> >>>Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a \n> >>>replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED would be \n> COPY ... TO '| \n> >>>/bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to\n> >>\n> >>receive the\n> >>\n> >>>reduced stuff.\n> >>\n> >>Forgot to mention:\n> >>COPY COM... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been thinking about the planner's costing problems again,\nparticularly in connection with Philippe Lang's complaint here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-05/msg01526.php\nInvestigation showed that the planner is much too optimistic about the\nusefulness of a multi-ind... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I wonder if we'd be able to ship gzip with the windows \n> installer, to \n> > insure proper integration.\n> \n> 'Fraid not. It's GPL'd.\n> \n\nWell, if we want to go down that route, we could probably hack up\nsomething simple around zlib. IIRC, there's even sample code in there\nfor how... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm strongly tempted to put src/tutorial/beard.c out of its misery.\nIt doesn't compile and probably never has --- not only is it missing\nneeded #includes, but it references a symbol INV_MD that I can find\nno trace of anywhere. And it's certainly not a good example of\nbackend programming ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > >>I wonder if we'd be able to ship gzip with the windows \n> installer, to \n> > >>insure proper integration.\n> > >\n> > >'Fraid not. It's GPL'd.\n> > \n> > Well, one implementation of it is. zlib is new-bsd-ish, though, and \n> > includes minigzip, which should be just fine for use in a... |
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"msg_contents": "Something like this would be maybe possible, but this select can\nreturn more rows, when the user is connected with more instances...\n\nDavid Hoksza\n\n________________________________\n\n>> Hi, I cant find any function, which tells me something like session\n>> id. Is there something like t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI am a Google soc student and in need of some help \nwith PostgreSQL internals:\n\nMy C function can run (and already running)\nfor a very very long time on some\ninputs and reiterate on relations using SPI.\nBasically, I open portals and cursors to relations. \nAlso note that I always o... |
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"msg_contents": "Looking at http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/stable_snapshot/ surely we have \nacheived stability at least once since 2005-11-26.. :-) Can we get that \nfixed? \n\n-- \nRobert Treat\nBuild A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL\n",
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"msg_contents": "meerkat and snake both have persistent \"CVS-Unknown\" failures in some\nbut not all branches. I can't see any evidence of an actual failure\nin their logs though. What I do see is \"?\" entries about files that\nshouldn't be there --- for instance, meerkat apparently needs a \"make\ndistcl... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been making another pass over getting rid of buildfarm failures.\nThe remaining ones I see at the moment are:\n\nfirefly HEAD: intermittent failures in the stats test. We seem to have\nfixed every other platform back in January, but not this one.\n\nkudu HEAD: one-time failure 6/1/06 in... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI would like to implement \"Allow postgresql.conf file values to be \nchanged via an SQL API, perhaps using SET GLOBAL\" functionality. Is \nthere anybody who works on it? Is there any detailed explanation?\n\n Thanks Zdenek\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:46:45 +0200",
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of \n> Andrew Dunstan\n> Sent: 02 June 2006 03:31\n> To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 'CVS-Unknown' buildf... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net] \n> Sent: 02 June 2006 12:18\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?\n> \n> \n> That's why I said \"almost always\... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom had posted a question about file compression with copy. I thought\nabout it, and I want to through this out and see if anyone things it is a\ngood idea.\n\nCurrently, the COPY command only copies a table, what if it could operate\nwith a query, as:\n\nCOPY (select * from mytable where foo... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, but I thought it that was the most appropriate list for the issue.\n\nI was following these instructions:\nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/docs/custom-dict.html\n\nAnd what happens is that the function works just once. Perhaps a malloc/free\nissue?\n\n\n$ psql fu... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom et al,\n\nBruce and I talked a little bit about modularizing the xlog code a bit\nmore. As you know, one of the PostgreSQL Summer of Code projects is\nto enhance xlogdump. This and other projects which would like to be\nable to use the xlog code directly (like resetxlog in the -f option... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that we've got a nice amount of tuneability in the bgwriter, it \nwould be nice if we had as much insight into how it's actually doing. \nI'd like to propose that the following info be added to the stats \nframework to assist in tuning it:\n\nbgwriter_rounds - number of rounds that hav... |
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"msg_contents": "We got another report of this failure today:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2006-06/msg00020.php\nwhich I found particularly interesting because it happened on a Fedora\nmachine, and I had thought Fedora impervious because it considers\nglibc-common a standard component. Seems ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was looking at this todo item and I was wondering why we want to do \nthis? I have had to use -o -P on many occassion and was wondering if \nthere is something new to replace it in newer PostgreSQL?\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ==... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tHello,\n\tSometimes people complain that UPDATE is slow in postgres. UPDATE...\n\n\t- generates dead tuples which must be vacuumed.\n\t- needs to hit all indexes even if only one column was modified.\n\n\tFrom what I know UPDATE creates a new copy of the old row with the \nrelevant C/TID... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -------- Original Message --------\n> From: \tTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>\n> kudu HEAD: one-time failure 6/1/06 in statement_timeout test, never seen\n> before. Is it possible system was under enough load that the 1-second\n> timeout fired before control reached the exception block... |
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"msg_contents": "> Unfortunately, this fell over first time out:\n> http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=loris&dt=200\n6-06-04%2012:09:33\n> The fix handled directories, but we got a false positive from \n> a rename not being immediate either, it seems. Bloody Windows!\n\nAre you running this fro... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just noticed that psql's unformatted output uses too much\nmemory. Is it normal? It seems that psql draws all records\nof a query off the server before it displays or writes the output.\nI would expect this only with formatted output.\n\nProblem is, I have an export that produces 500... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have two questions to ask:\n\n1. How to flush buffer in postgres? I'm not able to see the changes that I\nmake in my code. Sometimes the output comes and sometime it's not. What\nmight be the problem?\n\n2. I have added a new field in RESDOM structure, made necessary\nmodifications i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nI'm rewriting fillfactor patch, per the following discussion,\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg00287.php\nNow fillfactor can be set using WITH syntax:\n - CREATE INDEX index ON table USING btree (columns) WITH (...)\n - CREATE TABLE table (i intege... |
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"msg_contents": "Just got this rather surprising result:\n\nregression=# \\timing\nTiming is on.\nregression=# explain analyze select * from tenk1 a join tenk1 b on a.unique1 = b.unique2;\n QUERY PLAN ... |
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"msg_contents": "Following patch provides new contrib module pgsslinfo, which contains\nseveral server-side functions, which allow to examine information about \nSSL client certificate, used to connect to the server.\n\nThis information can be used for example, for logging user access. \n\nTextual information... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a table that I am using to store email token data for DSPAM.\n\nI'm noticing that a handful (4-16) of rows with duplicate columns\n(uid,token) are sneaking into the table every day despite the\nprimary key constraint.\n\nThe server currently processes a few thousand emails per day, and... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone please explain why in include/utils/datetime.h (struct datetkn)\nthere is a check for _AIX that either initializes a char* pointer or a char\narray? Is there any advantage of a char-array except for warnings of some\ncompilers if the initilization string is too long?\n\nApart from... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, here's my problem, I have a nature study where we have about 10 video\ncameras taking 15 frames per second.\nFor each frame we make a few transactions on a PostgreSQL database.\nWe want to keep about a years worth of data at any specific time.\nWe have triggers that fire is something inte... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Roberto Rezende de Assis wrote:\n\n> Hello, I would like to know where in the source-code of postgres is located \n> the code of the aggregate functions min, max, avg.\n\nThey're in src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c\n\n> I wish to develop more statistical aggregate functions... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just saw these in the TODO list:\n\no %Disallow changing DEFAULT expression of a SERIAL column?\n This should be done only if the existing SERIAL problems cannot be \nfixed.\no %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences\n because pg_dump does not dump the changes\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nI have a question about pg_depends, namely how do you identify the dependency\ntied to a given relationship. Specifically to handle DROP INHERITS. Is there\nany other reason there might be a dependency between two tables other than\ninheritance? If there was how would you tell the depende... |
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