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"msg_contents": "I encounter a situation that the server can't shutdown when a boostrap\nprocess does ReadBuffer() but gets an read error. I guess the problem may be\nlike this - the boostrap process can't read at line:\n\n smgrread(reln->rd_smgr, blockNum, (char *) bufBlock);\n\nSo it does a FATAL exit an... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to base on paper \"Generalizing \"Search\" in Generalized Search Trees\" by \nPaul Aoki, section 4.1 \"Multiple Key Support\" \n(http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/papers/csd-97-950.pdf)\n\nProposed algorithm (without details about nulls etc):\n1) n = 1 - set column's numbe... |
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"msg_contents": "We got a lot requests about including stemmers and ispell dictionaries for all \naccessible languages into tsearch2. I understand that tsearch2 will be closer to \nend user. But sources of snowball stemmers is about 800kb, each ispell \ndictionaries will takes about 0.5-2M. All sizes are siz... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've implemented most of ADD/DROP INHERITS but it's my first significant piece\nof code at this level. I would appreciate any feedback about it. In particular\nI'm worried I may be on the wrong track about how some low level operations\nwork like memory management, syscache lookups, heap tu... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI thought we added something in 8.1 for doing this, but can't seem to find \nanything ... where it reports how much memory is/was needed to do the sort \nto the logs ...\n\nIs that something for 8.2, that didn't get into 8.1? Or am I looking at \nthe wrong docs?\n\nThx\n\n----\nMarc G. Fou... |
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"msg_contents": "There are roughly 420 calls of SearchSysCache() and 217 of which are just\nreport \"cache lookup failed\". Shall we put the elog in the SearchSysCache\nitself?\n\nNotice that most search is on the \"Oid\" field -- which is *not* user\nvisible, so I think most of them can safely let SearchSysC... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tafter starting this thread \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00222.php, I thought \nI'd finally go for making foreign keys my own way instead of trying to patch \nPostgreSQL. However, I've realized that managing foreign keys with my own \nPL/SQL or C function is... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > But that's entirely inconsistent with the way inherited tables\nwork \n> > > in general.\n> > \n> > I don't see any basis for that conclusion. The properties of a\ntable \n> > are set when it's created and you need to do pretty explicit ALTERs\nto \n> > change them.\n> \n> It just se... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> \tThe solution to the foreign key problem seems easy if I \n> modify PostgreSQL implementation and take off the ONLY word \n> from the SELECT query, but it's not an option for me, as I'm \n\nI think that the ONLY was wrong from day one :-(\nThe default in other areas is table including ch... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm reading, and enjoying immensely, Fabial Pascal's book \"Practical\nIssues in Database Management.\"\n\nThough I've just gotten started with the book, he seems to be saying\nthat modern RDBMSs aren't as faithful to relational theory as they\nought to be, and that this has many *practical* ... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a cleaned-up version of the unreference file patch that was\ndiscussed extensively in May of 2005. I want to get it into the\narchives in case someone else want to work on it.\n\nHere is a reference to the work still needed on the patch:\n\n\thttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patc... |
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"msg_contents": "What type are bare strings considered if they haven't been cast? I'm curious as\nto how the first case is of size 5, and how the last case is 301...\n\ndecibel=# select pg_column_size('test');\n 5\n\ndecibel=# select pg_column_size('test'::varchar);\n 8\n\ndecibel=# ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guy,\nWhere I con download Postgres 8.2 from ?\n\nRegards\nMilen\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:56:20 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Milen Kulev\" <makulev@gmx.net>",
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"msg_contents": "\nIt does not yet exist. When it... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOn a separate note. The one major remaining piece here is in constraints. I'm\nthinking what I have to check is that every constraint present on the parent\ntable is present on the child tables. And I'm thinking I should do that by\nlooking at the constraint's textual definition (consrc).\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI read this as:\n\n1. Fix makefiles so that contrib modules such as pgcrypto are not pg_crypto\n\n2. Move directories to reflect above\n\n3. Fix source and makefiles within sub project directories to create \nbinaries and libs with correct output.. thus libpgcrypto.so.0.0 would \nbe... |
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"msg_contents": "Doesn't this exist in:\n\nsrc/tools/fsync?\n\nDo we just need to make it more user friendly?\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===\nSales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240\n Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I think that the ONLY was wrong from day one :-(\n> \n> Well, sure, but until we have an implementation that actually \n> *works* across multiple tables, it has to be there so that we \n> can at least consistently support the current single-table \n> semantics. Until we have some form ... |
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"msg_contents": "> This bothers me a bit, because in \n> fact the effects if any of the tested query would have been \n> rolled back. Not sure we have any choice though. If we \n> expose the error then we'll have problems with clients not \n> showing the EXPLAIN results.\n\nI think we should leave it in top... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> On a separate note. The one major remaining piece here is in \n> constraints. I'm thinking what I have to check is that every \n> constraint present on the parent table is present on the \n> child tables. And I'm thinking I should do that by looking at \n> the constraint's textual definit... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Or maybe I should insist that a matching constraint name be present \n> > *and* that the source text match? That's more of a pain to code\nthough.\n> \n> That could also break some partitioning schemes; I don't \n> think it's a given that parents and children have matching \n> constraint... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI created a patch for PostgreSQL and x86 architecture.\nThis patch address a Opteron-specific\nbehavior regarding some assembler statements.\nThe patch based on a patch to PostgreSQL 8.0.3 which was worked out by \nRedHat.\n\nTom did change src/include/storage/s_lock.h for PostgreS... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, the only way to get a listing of tables in a schema via psql\nis to modify your search_path, which is both non-intuitive and a PITA.\nYou can do \\d schemaname., but that's the equivalent of\n\nset search_path = schemaname\n\\d *\n\nI'd like to propose that the behavior of \\d sche... |
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"msg_contents": "It's not uncommon for index creation to take a substantial amount of\ntime for loading data, even when using the 'trick' of loading the data\nbefore building the indexes. On fast RAID arrays, it's also possible for\nthis to be a CPU-bound operation, so I've been wondering if there was\nsome r... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis is where I am with the ADD/DROP INHERITS patch now.\n\n1) The syntax is:\n\n ALTER TABLE child INHERIT parent\n ALTER TABLE child NO INHERIT parent\n\n no new reserved words, no conflicts, no complicated grammar productions in\n gram.y to confuse people in the future.\n\n2) Dep... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI can guess some of these:\n\npg_get_tabledef() : Would take a table name and return the columns and \nassociated types\n\npg_get_acldef(): Would take an object name and return the associated \nroles and permissions for the object\n\npg_get_typedefault(): This one I am unsure about\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAt work, our production 8.1.x systems were having problems with\ntimezones. A new code push had newer 2006 time zones that Postgres\ndidn't recognize. \n\nTo fix this I built a custom RPM that overwrites the timezone data\nwith the latest data from nih.gov. \n\nI changed the postgres... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been interested in representing and manipulating time ranges in \nPostgreSQL, where a time range is defined by a start time and an end \ntime. Time ranges are useful, for example, in representing when some \npredicate was known valid. Similarly, time ranges can be used to \nrepresent... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'd like to check 2 things:\n\nWhat's the bison version required to compile gram.y ?\nTrying to set up a build farm machine, it seems I can't compile with bison\n2.1 ...\n\nAlso where is the documentation page that gives postgresql limits (number\nof column/table max size of col....)\n... |
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"msg_contents": "This has come up before, but I was reminded of it again after noticing\nhow confused psql gets if you use control-C to get out of a long\n\"\\lo_import\" operation. Usually the control-C hits while waiting for\nthe backend to respond to a lowrite() function call. As psql is\ncurrently coded... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have finished buildfarm setup, just waiting for my credentials.\nHowever, I've install tcl 8.5a and regression tests fail like this:\n\nISTM it's just cosmetic, just want to share...\n\ngmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home4/ohp/pgfarmbuild/HEAD/pgsql.24436/src/pl/plperl'\ngmake[1]: Ent... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe only way that I'm aware of for disabling this is at compile time ... \nafter running configure, you want to modify:\n\nsrc/include/pg_config.h\n\nand undef HAVE_SETPROCTITLE ...\n\nI'm CC'ng -hackers about this though, since I think you are the first to \npoint to setproctitle() as bein... |
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"msg_contents": "Here I repost the patch to implement non-transactional catalogs, the\nfirst of which is pg_ntclass, intended to hold the non-transactional\ninfo about pg_class (reltuples, relpages).\n\npg_ntclass is a relation of a new relkind, RELKIND_NON_TRANSACTIONAL\n(ideas for shorter names welcome). I... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nafter some experimentation, I came up with the attached patch,\nwhich implements parsing the following SERIAL types:\n\nSERIAL\nSERIAL GENERATED { ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT }\nSERIAL GENERATED [ ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT ] AS IDENTITY( sequence options )\n\nThe underlying type is still int4 or int... |
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"msg_contents": "Following a pgAdmin bug report, I noticed that pg_get_viewdef doesn't\nreturn the opclass when called for a specific column (in 8.1 at least) -\nfor example, for the index:\n\nCREATE UNIQUE INDEX bar_pattern_idx2 ON foofoo USING btree\n(lower((bar)::text) bpchar_pattern_ops, bar2)\n\nA query ... |
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"msg_contents": "Bah, I mean pg_get_indexdef of course :-) \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Page\n> Sent: 12 June 2006 12:12\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] pg_get_viewdef - ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >> This bothers me a bit, because in\n> >> fact the effects if any of the tested query would have been rolled \n> >> back. Not sure we have any choice though. If we expose the error \n> >> then we'll have problems with clients not showing the EXPLAIN \n> >> results.\n> \n> > I think we ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSomething someone said on IRC just now triggered a little memory ... I \nthink we should provide an option to have pg_dump work in CSV mode \nrather than text mode. This probably doesn't have much importance in the \ncase of text dumps, but in custom or tar dumps where you might want to \n... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 12 June 2006 18:32\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_INDEXdef - opclass \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> >> Following a pgAdm... |
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"msg_contents": "I looked into the timezone specifications and basically extracted a list of\nexisting offsets from the zic database.\n\nMy proposed format for the timezone files is something like this:\n\nHADT -32400 D # Hawaii-Aleutain Daylight Time\n # (America/Adak)\nHAST -36000 ... |
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"msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 13 June 2006 14:42\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_INDEXdef - opclass \n> \n> \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:\n> > Right, but how can... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhen using a temp table in plpgsql functions that has columns comprised\nfrom many tables populated by joins, how do you specify a temp table return\ntype when its generated by select into and dropped dynamically? I get an\nerror when I specify returns setof temp_table. Also when I specif... |
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"msg_contents": "> That's talking about the stats code, which has approximately \n> zip to do with setproctitle (ps_status.c). But IIRC that \n> patch is on hold because nobody particularly liked the \n> approach it's taking. I think we should investigate \n> rewriting the stats communication architecture e... |
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"msg_contents": "I cleaned up the code and added some more documentation.\n\nI think I've addressed all the concerns raised so far. Please tell me if I've\nmissed anything.\n\nThere were a few tangentially related issues that have come up that I think\nare TODOs. I'm likely to tackle one or two of these next ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am studying the postgresql kernel and the following question arose... I hope somebody out there can help me find the answers to my doubts.\n \n Scenario:\n \n Transaction T1 updates a given tuple -- xmax is set to T1 on that tuple\n ...\n later on, T1 aborts... we believe that in this circu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> >>I don't see why views should be special. Tables clearly should be \n> >>because we can open them directly.\n> >> \n> >>\n> >\n> >Ah, I didn't think of that. Good idea. So we don't need this patch?\n> >\n> > \n> >\n> \n> why do we... |
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"msg_contents": "Awhile back, there was a discussion about psql \\d display being really\nslow in a database with 4000 tables:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg01085.php\n\nI looked into this some, and it seems that part of the problem is that\nthe catalog caches are limited to hold no... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey,\n\nI just noticed (the hard way) that in 8.2CVS, the PG_MODULE_MAGIC header is \nnow *required* for all loadable modules. This includes non-pg modules, \nsuch as Solaris' libumem (performance improvement for malloc).\n\nFATAL: incompatible library \"/usr/lib/libumem.so\": missing magi... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRemove the limit on the number of entries allowed in catcaches, and\nremove the infrastructure needed to enforce the limit, ie, the global\nLRU list of cache entries. On small-to-middling databases this wins\nbecause maintaining the LRU list is a waste of time. On... |
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"msg_contents": "I may have some free time recently to work on the master-slave scan idea.\nI've been able to support AS-IS both SeqScan and IndexScan. Are we still\ninterested in getting it into 8.2?\n\nThere are still some problems I am not quite sure the solution. One is the\nXid assignment -- we need this... |
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"msg_contents": "Buildfarm member emu is failing in some branches with\n\nchecking libintl.h usability... yes\nchecking libintl.h presence... no\nconfigure: WARNING: libintl.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!\nconfigure: WARNING: libintl.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result\nch... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've looked into what it would take to add an INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS option to\nCREATE TABLE LIKE. This would make it much more practical to use CREATE TABLE\nLIKE to create new partitions instead of having to create new children then\nremove them from the inheritance before loading and mani... |
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"msg_contents": "Any reason why fields in the catalog tables don't have descriptions? If\nI were to create a patch to add them, what part of the code would I need\nto look at?\n-- \nJim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com\nPervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-23... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd STRICT to PL/pgSQL SELECT INTO, so exceptions are thrown if more or\nless than one row is returned by the SELECT, for Oracle PL/SQL\ncompatibility.\n\nImprove SELECT INTO documentation.\n\nMatt Miller\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml:\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, the Red Hat and (I believe) PGDG RPMs set up ident\nauthentication as the default, by running initdb with\n\t--auth='ident sameuser'\nI think several other binary distros do the same. It was pointed out to\nme recently that this does not work real well anymore on Fedora. It's\nfi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nis it me or there is a problem with the anoncvs?\ni get this when trying to update HEAD\n\npostgres@casanova:~/pgsql$ ping anoncvs.postgresql.org\nPING svr4.postgresql.org (66.98.251.159) 56(84) bytes of data.\n>From gphou-66-98-241-125.ev1.net (66.98.241.125) icmp_seq=1\nDestination H... |
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"msg_contents": "I heard an interesting feature request today: preventing the \nexecution of a DELETE or UPDATE query that does not have a WHERE clause.\n\nThe user was worried about a typo leading to:\n\n DELETE FROM very_important_table\n\nand deleting all the data. Or doing something similar with an UP... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhen I read the post related to the battery-backed disks, I come to this\nquestion: What can we improve/reduce if we have them? Since our fsync\nmethods is already be able support that (thought not automatically), we may\nwant to look into other parts. One issue is the xlog and our aim is (... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni want to make this patch usable\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-12/msg00089.php\n\nas i understand, it needs some refactor, at least plpgsql support,\npg_dump support and docs.\n\nany comments are welcome...\n\n\nalso the autor states this:\n\n> From: hyip ( at ) si... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n \n The O/S is Win 2K Server SP4 and PG version is 8.0. Here's the log file from the latest incident:\n \n 2006-06-16 09:40:01 LOG: 00000: server process (PID 4744) was terminated by signal 125\n 2006-06-16 09:40:01 LOCATION: LogChildExit, postmaster.c:2335\n 2006-06-16 09:40:0... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am thrill to inform you all that Sun has just donated a fully loaded \nT2000 system to the PostgreSQL community, and it's being setup by Corey \nShields at OSL (osuosl.org) and should be online probably early next \nweek. The system has\n\n* 8 cores, 4 hw threads/core @ 1.2 GHz. Solaris s... |
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"msg_contents": "How much work would it be to implement and how valuable would people\nfind the following additions to pg_stat_activity?\n\n1) # of transactions committed on this connection since start\n2) # of transactions rolled back\n3) milliseconds used processing requests\n4) milliseconds idle in transac... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nAs many of you know, PostgreSQL is now fundraising via Software in the \nPublic Interest. One of the things this means is that PostgreSQL \ncontributors are eligible for SPI Contributing Membership, which allows \nyou to vote in SPI elections. If your name is listed here:\nhttp://w... |
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"msg_contents": "I am working on a possible extension of postgresql mvcc to support very timely failure masking in the context of three-tier applications so i am currently studying Postgresql internals...\n\nI am wondering what are the reasons why both the MultiXactIds and the corresponding OFFSETs and MEMBE... |
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"msg_contents": "Observe the list of \"Files changed this run\" at\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gazelle&dt=2006-06-17%2000:30:01\n\nThe links to the core-system files are OK but the plpgsql files are not\ncorrect, eg\n\tpgsql/src/gram.y 1.93\nwhere it should be\n\tpgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/sr... |
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"msg_contents": "This thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2006-06/msg00005.php\npoints up that if a client program would like to refer to datatype\nOIDs by means of the pg_type.h macros (ie, write \"INT4OID\" and not\n\"23\"), it's currently forced to include postgres.h, which is not\na good i... |
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"msg_contents": "A module magic patch was added recently and I'm a bit uncertain what the implications are \nfor the external PL modules. Does it affect them at all? Will I need to provide separate \nbinaries for each bug fix release even though the API's do not change? Exactly how is the \nmagic determined?\... |
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"msg_contents": "I've gotten some insight into the stats collection issues by monitoring\nBruce's test case with oprofile (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/).\n\nTest conditions: PG CVS HEAD, built with --enable-debug --disable-cassert\n(debug symbols are needed for oprofile), on current Fedora Core 5\n(Linux ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there lovely,\nI was asearching the net few days ago. I am new to this thing.\nand saw your profible. I decided to email you cause I found \nyou attractive. I maight come down to youra city in fewb weeks.\nLet me know if we can meet each other in person.\nI am attractive girl. I am surea y... |
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"msg_contents": "In view of my oprofile results\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg00859.php\nI'm thinking we need some major surgery on the way that the stats\ncollection mechanism works.\n\nIt strikes me that we are using a single communication mechanism to\nhandle what are really two ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dears,\n\nI'm looking for a way to univocally identify the server on which a sql function or statement is running. My idea would be something close to the value returned by a 'host -f' under linux: the FQDN of the host, but even a serial code or a number would be fine to me. It needs only to ... |
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"msg_contents": "I just compiled a fresh copy from CVS head. I then tried to do an initdb \nas user 'postgres' (non admin user on my system). I get the following error:\n\n C:\\Tada\\Workspace>initdb -D data\n The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user \n\"postgres\".\n This user mus... |
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"msg_contents": "Lines 509-512 of contrib/dblink/expected/dblink.out read:\n\n-- this should fail because there is no open transaction\nSELECT dblink_exec('myconn','DECLARE xact_test CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM foo');\nERROR: sql error\nDETAIL: ERROR: cursor \"xact_test\" already exists\n\nThe error message i... |
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"msg_contents": "I was trying to work around limitations with \"partitioning\" of tables \nusing constraint exclusion, when I ran across this little oddity:\n\n-- works\ntest=# select * from (select time from url_access_2006_06_07 order by 1 \nlimit 2) as ss1;\n time\n---------------------\n 2006-06-... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhile investigating some problems with buildfarm member spoonbill I came \nacross this piece of code in pg_regress.sh, which seems less than robust:\n\n\n # Wait till postmaster is able to accept connections (normally only\n # a second or so, but Cygwin is reportedly *much* slower). ... |
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"msg_contents": "As I read, the kill_prior_tuple optimization doesn't work for bitmap scan\ncode. To fix this problem, we have two choices.\n\nOne is still use the kill_prior_tuple trick in a modified way. Heap TIDs\nrecycling should not be a problem. This is because generally we always hold\npin of the last ... |
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"msg_contents": "http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/\n\nCheck out the article on sync_file_range():\n\n----\nlong sync_file_range(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes, int flags);\n\nThis call will synchronize a file's data to disk, starting at the given \noffset and proceeding for nbytes bytes (or to the end of ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I would like to see some checking of this, though. Currently \n> I'm doing testing of PostgreSQL under very large numbers of \n> connections (2000+) and am finding that there's a huge volume \n> of xlog output ... far more than \n> comparable RDBMSes. So I think we are logging stuff we... |
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"msg_contents": "I propose a patch to make pg_regress.sh more modular. I'd like to do\necpg regression tests for my soc project and don't want to duplicate\nfunctionality. I put those parts of the code that parse the command line\nand set up the environment variables and the database into sh-functions\nand mo... |
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"msg_contents": ">\n> ...omissis...\n>\n> yes, it's for contrib modules. but you can access it via SHOW so maybe it\n> makes sense to include it in pg_settings as well. Not for now but for the\n> future maybe...\n\nI agree: it could be a useful feature.\n\ngiampaolo\n\n\n> \n> \n> Joachim\n> \n> -- \n> Joachi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm still fighting with pltcl test that doesn't return the error message\nwhen \"elog ERROR \"message\" is called.\n\nI've played witrh pltcl.c pltcl_error and removed the calls to PG_TRY,\nPG_CATCH and PG_ENDTRY to proove that elog it self had a problem...\n\nHow can I check what ... |
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"msg_contents": "As of CVS tip, PG does up to four separate gettimeofday() calls upon the\narrival of a new client command. This is because the statement_timestamp,\nstats_command_string, log_duration, and statement_timeout features each\nindependently save an indication of statement start time. Given what\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMotivation:\n----------\n\nThe main goal for this Generic Monitoring Framework is to provide a common interface for adding instrumentation points or probes to\nPostgres so its behavior can be easily observed by developers and administrators even in production systems. This framework will al... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, a quickie:\n\nI was offline last week due to my ADSL line going down, so I was unable\nto follow the discussions closely. I'll be back at the\nnon-transactional catalogs and relminxid discussions later (hopefully\ntomorrow or on wednesday).\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera ... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice buildfarm member snake is unhappy:\n\nThe program \"postgres\" is needed by initdb but was not found in the\nsame directory as \"C:/msys/1.0/local/build-farm/HEAD/pgsql.696/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/build-farm/HEAD/inst/bin/initdb.exe\".\nCheck your installation.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "As I follow Relyea Mike's recent post of possible memory leak, I think that\nwe are lack of a good way of identifing memory usage. Maybe we should also\nremember __FILE__, __LINE__ etc for better memory usage diagnose when\nTRACE_MEMORY is on?\n\nRegards,\nQingqing\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI'm trying to use PAM auth on PostgreSQL, but I still cannot\nget success on PAM auth (with PG813 and RHEL3).\n\npg_hba.conf has\n> host pamtest all 0.0.0.0/0 pam\n\n/etc/pam.d/postgresql is\n> #%PAM-1.0\n> auth required pam_stack.so service=s... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to determine why thrush has been failing on PG CVS HEAD for\nthe past few days. Could you try running the attached program on that\nmachine, and see what it prints? I suspect it will dump core :-(\n\nNote: you might need to use -D_GNU_SOURCE to get it to compile at all.\n\n\t\t\t... |
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"msg_contents": "\nsatoshi nagayasu wrote:\n> I'm trying to use PAM auth on PostgreSQL, but I still cannot\n> get success on PAM auth (with PG813 and RHEL3).\n>\n> pg_hba.conf has\n> > host pamtest all 0.0.0.0/0 pam\n>\n> /etc/pam.d/postgresql is\n> > #%PAM-1.0\n> > auth requi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Indeed, I've been wondering lately if we shouldn't resurrect \n> > LET_OS_MANAGE_FILESIZE and make that the default on systems with \n> > largefile support. If nothing else it would cut down on open/close \n> > overhead on very large relations.\n\nI'd still put some limit on the filesi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nJust a note that pltcl is now passing regression tests on Unixware.\nFor some unexplained reason, it did'nt pass with tcl-8.5 but is ok with\ntcl -8.4.13.\n\nbuild farm build script updated accordingly.\n\nMy next try will be python.\n\nRegards\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \t ... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Tom Lane\" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: \n> > Indeed, I've been wondering lately if we shouldn't resurrect \n> > LET_OS_MANAGE_FILESIZE and make that the default on systems with \n> > largefile support. If nothing else it would cut down on open/close \n> > overhead on very large relations.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello folks,\nInitdb seems to barf on me during the pg_authid bit. Below are the specifics. \nPlease ask if you need anything else. The build is CVS -HEAD.\n\nInitdb output:\npgsql@arch-~:bin/initdb \nThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user \"pgsql\".\nThis user m... |
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"msg_contents": "A bug reported by Josh Drake, crashes 8.1 and CVS HEAD:\n\nTest case is:\n\ncreate table pk (id bigserial primary key);\ninsert into pk values (DEFAULT);\ninsert into pk values (DEFAULT);\ninsert into pk values (DEFAULT);\nupdate pk set id = max(id) + 2;\n-- SEGV\n\nsimple eh? :-)\n\nThe back... |
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"msg_contents": "In pursuit of eliminating some redundant gettimeofday() calls, I just\ntried to change struct Port's session_start field to TimestampTz,\nwhich necessitated including utils/timestamp.h in libpq/libpq-be.h.\nThat caused things to blow up real good :-(. The problem is that\nbackend/libpq/md5.c... |
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"msg_contents": "Oswaldo Hernandez just reported this in the pgsql-es-ayuda list.\nBasically, a conversion between UTF8 and windows_1250 can crash the\nserver.\n\nI recall a bug around this general code but I don't recall it being able\nto provoke a PANIC.\n\nTo reproduce, create a cluster with UTF-8 encoding... |
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"msg_contents": "After twelve years of using the domain candle.pha.pa.us, I have moved to\na new domain that is easier to remember, momjian.us.\n\n\tNew email address: bruce@momjian.us\n\tNew web site: http://momjian.us\n\nThe domain candle.pha.pa.us will continue to function indefinitely, but\nif you ... |
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"msg_contents": "Below are links for the patch and binary (image) files for argument\nhandling improvements in ppa. You can view the original concept @\nhttp://jawed.name/pgsql_soc. It provides support for both JS and JS\ndeficient users.\n\nI tried to keep it within the coding guidelines set forth.\n\nI appr... |
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"msg_contents": "ubsubscribe\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:38:28 +0300",
"msg_from": "\"Jad Madi\" <jadmadi@gmail.com>",
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"msg_subject": "ubsubscribe"
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"msg_contents": "I redid my previous measurements after finishing up the weekend's\nhacking. The numbers shown below are elapsed time in seconds for\n\n\ttime psql -f testfile.sql postgres >/dev/null\n\nusing CVS HEAD and REL8_1_STABLE branch tip, compiled --enable-debug\n--disable-cassert, no nondefault opt... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there any way to select the UTF-8 as server-side encoding at initdb\ntime?\n\nThis guy reported he wasn't able to do it:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-11/msg00062.php\n\nIn pgsql-es-ayuda I have a guy asking how to do it as well:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.o... |
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