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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI'm looking into strange locking, which happens on WinXP SP2 SMP\nmachine running 8.1.4 with stats_row_level=on. This is the only \ncombination (# of cpu and stats_row_level) which has problem - \nSMP + stats_row_level.\n\nThe same test runs fine with one cpu (restarted machine w...
[ { "msg_contents": ":-D\n\nIs that in the release notes?\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tNeil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com]\nSent:\tThursday, October 05, 2006 02:35 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tLuke Lonergan\nCc:\tAndrew Dunstan; Tom Lane; Mark Woodward; pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I allocate a new memory context via\n\n oldmcxt = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext, ...)\n persistent_mcxt = CurrentMemoryContext;\n\nHow can I store the persistent_mcxt in a persistent place that I'll be\nable to reach it in my next getting invoked? Is that possible? If n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not to cause any arguments, but this is sort a standard discussion that\ngets brought up periodically and I was wondering if there has been any\n\"softening\" of the attitudes against an \"in place\" upgrade, or movement to\nnot having to dump and restore for upgrades.\n\nI am aware that this...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nAfter over a year of problems (old site \nhttp://developer.osdl.org/markw/postgrescvs/) I have resumed producing \ndaily results of dbt-2 against PostgreSQL CVS code with results here:\n\thttp://dbt.osdl.org/dbt2.html\n\nThe only really new thing is better described stats on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I came across the following obviously corrupt macro in pg_lzcompress.h:\n\n#define PGLZ_IS_COMPRESSED(_lzdata)\t\t((_lzdata)->varsize !=\t\t\t\t\\\ne\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t (_lzdata)->rawsize +\t\t\te\t\\\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsizeof(PGLZ_Header))\nThe reason we have not noticed its broke...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTesting out the new pg_dump exclusion switches I've found that excluding a \ntable means that no functions or types will be dumped. Excluding one \ntable shouldn't exclude these objects. My real use case for this \nfunctionality is that I have a database that has 99% of its space used by ...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org\n[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Markus Schaber\nSent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:34 AM\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump exclusion switches and functi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Didn't the stats communication process get redone for 8.2?\n\nOr atleast some time-out related stuff.\n\nSince the problem seems to be related to stats_row_level being on, I\nwonder if the problem might be in that sub-system. I am guessing that\nvacuum is pushing some more stats through, whi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Agreed we need to push out the back branch releases. Let me know what I\ncan do to help.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:11:56 -...
[ { "msg_contents": "I saw you did a round of message-style policing today. Are we ready to\ndeclare a string freeze, and/or call for translation work? Given the\nrelatively quiet situation for bug reports, I'm thinking that the\nmessage translation work may be the critical path for getting 8.2 out.\n\n\t\t\tre...
[ { "msg_contents": " Column | Type | Modifiers\n--------+---------------+-----------\n c | character(20) |\n\ndecibel=# select c, c || ('x'::char) from c;\n c | ?column?\n----------------------+----------\n x | xx\n\nI would think that c || 'x' would result in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n The array_accum example aggregate in the user documentation works\n reasonably on small data sets but doesn't work too hot on large ones.\n http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/xaggr.html\n\n Normally I wouldn't care particularly much but it turns out that PL/R\n uses...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added links from the 8.2 release notes into our documentation.\nIf people have additions/changes, please let me know.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +\n", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello -hackers,\n\nI've found a bug with 8.2beta1:\n\n1) Log message:\n\nLOG: duration: 9.144 ms bind <unnamed>: UPDATE table_list SET description\n= $1 WHERE id = cas_get_table_id ( $2,$3 )\nDETAIL: parameters: $1 = '\\tag{image SRC=\"/vizier/new2.gif\"}3rd release of\nDENIS (2005Sep)', ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just realized that getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) is a pretty widely\navailable syscall --- it's specified by the Single Unix Spec and the\nman pages claim it works on all the platforms I have handy to check.\nI propose that we make use of this call where available to prevent\npeople from set...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've grepped through the source code, and the only thing I can find \nthat uses readline (or libedit) is psql.\n\nIs that correct?\n\nIf that's the case, how hard would it be to link only psql with \nreadline (or libedit)?\n\nCurrently, if you ./configure with readline support, -lreadine (o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've built man pages for 8.2beta1. They are on the FTP server at the \nusual place and should appear in the next tarball.\n\nPlease let me know if you find formatting mistakes.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:18:49 +0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Re: Darwin stuff is getting deprecated\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02238.php\n\nMac OS X has included dlopen() and friends etc since Mac OS X 10.3. \n From the dlopen(3) man page:\n\n Mac OS X 10.3 incorporated the dlcompat package written by \nJorge...
[ { "msg_contents": "According to the release notes of 8.2, the following item should have been\nimplemented,\n\nE.1.3.11. psql<http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/app-psql.html>Changes\n\n -\n\n Save multi-line statements as a single entry, rather than one line at\n a time (Sergey E. Koposov)\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI'm in the process of generating the Windows installer for the latest\nPostGIS 1.1.4 release and I'm getting a regression failure in one of\nlibpq applications - the application in question is generating a\nsegfault.\n\nTesting so far shows that the regression tests pass witho...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd include needed for new getrusage() call.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/tcop:\n postgres.c (r1.514 -> r1.515)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/tcop/postgres.c.diff?r1=1.514&r2=1.515)\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A pgAdmin user has just pointed out that the data editor doesn't work with money columns, apparently because it casts data when inserting/updating it. The docs for money say:\n\nThe money type stores a currency amount with a fixed fractional precision; see Table 8-3. Input is accepted in a va...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just came across this code I wrote about a year ago which implements a\nfunction equivilant to width_bucket for timestamps.\n\nI wrote this when I was trying to plot some data over time, and I had more\npoints than I needed. This function allowed me to create a pre-determined\nnumber of \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "> postgres=# select \"123.45\"::money;\n> ERROR: column \"123.45\" does not exist\n> LINE 1: select \"123.45\"::money;\n> ^\n> postgres=# select \"$123.45\"::money;\n> ERROR: column \"$123.45\" does not exist\n> LINE 1: select \"$123.45\"::money;\n> ^\n\nYou ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhat is the best practice for following case:\nIn my database I have a set (~10) of schemas; my database periodically\nis being backed up and restored at another machine. I have set up\nsearch_path via \"ALTER DATABASE ... SET search_path TO ...\" to make\nall needed schemas visible to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nIs there a LinkedIn group for Postgresql/Hackers list.\nIf there is, how can i join?\nThank you.\n\n-- \nRegards,\n tzahi.\n\nItzhak Fadida\nM.Sc - Technion, Information Systems, IE Faculty\nHome Page: Http://tzahi.webhop.info\nBLOG: Http://tzahi.blogsite.org\nLinkedIn: http://www.li...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody!\nI'm Jorge from Peru South America, and this is my first post\n\nI want to know how can I add a new spatial access method into the postgresql\n(I'm doing research on spatial access methods( reading a lot of papers and\nprogramming a lot too ) but also I want to know how can I ad...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI have now resumed producing daily results of dbt-3 against PostgreSQL \nCVS code at the 10 GB scale factor with results here:\n http://dbt.osdl.org/dbt3.html\n\nI'm currently only running the load the power test because of the amount \nof time it takes to run through the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "+1\n\nMark, can you quantify the impact of not running with IRQ balancing enabled?\n\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\n<Original message contents unavailable>\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:49:12 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Luke Lonergan\" <LL...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRevise psql pattern-matching switches as per discussion. The rule is now\nto process all inclusion switches then all exclusion switches, so that the\nbehavior is independent of switch ordering.\nUse of -T does not cause non-table objects to be suppressed. And\nthe...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've posted a 6.5kB patch (as an attachment) three times over the \npast few days but haven't seen it hit the lists. Checking to see if \nthis goes through.\n\n\nMichael Glaesemann\ngrzm seespotcode net\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:29:38 +0900", "msg_from": "Michael Glae...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Everybody,\n\nI have a question about optimization of queries which includes UDFs.\nDoes anybody know what the Postgres does for optimizing the queries with\nUDFs?\nDoes the Postgres query optimizer do anything special with UDFs?\n\nThanks,\n----\nJungmin Shin\n\n \n \n \nHello  Everyb...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2683\nLogged by: Vitali Stupin\nEmail address: Vitali.Stupin@ria.ee\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.4\nOperating system: sparc-sun-solaris2.10\nDescription: spi_exec_query in plperl returns column names which a...
[ { "msg_contents": "List,\n\nFirst of all, I am not sure this list is the right one to write to.\n\nI am trying out the postgresql 8.2.beta1 with the jdbc driver contained in '\npostgresql-8.2dev-503.jdbc3.jar' downloaded from 'jdbc.postgresql.org'.\n\nThe database is accessed through iBatis version 1.3.1 --> ja...
[ { "msg_contents": "If archive_timeout is set to non 0, it seems an archive log segment is\ncreated every time checkpoint occurs even there's no database\nupdation. This leads to creating 16MB log segment files every 5\nminutes (default checkpoint period), which will in turn produce 4.6GB\nlog segments with bogu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFor 8.3, I'd like to add the following two related features to assist\nwith Index Tuning and usability:\n\n- Virtual Indexes\n\nAn index which only exists in the catalog, so is visible to the planner\nbut not the executor. This is useful where a specific SQL query is being\nhand-tuned, allo...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install.php\n\nin section PostgreSQL vs MySQL :\n[quoting]\nRegarding the choice between PostgreSQL and MySQL, MySQL is\nrecommended for several reasons:\n\n * MySQL is faster\n\n recent benchmarks using ZABBIX clearly show that PostgreSQL\n(7.1.x) is...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a following table xyz( id int , fname varchar(50), img image)\nwhere image is a data type we have created similar to lo.\n\nso when we executed an insert query on the following table :-\n\ninsert into xyz VALUES (2541, '/home/ravi/jdbc/2_down/76.jpg', '76.jpg');\n\nIt works well for n...
[ { "msg_contents": "[jks@xx ~/postgresql-8.2beta1]$ ./configure --enable-debug --with-cassert\nchecking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10\nchecking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10\nchecking which template to use... solaris\nchecking whether to build with 64-bit integer date/time support... no\nche...
[ { "msg_contents": "... as an example, I see you removed material from 8.1's FAQ_HPUX that\nis still relevant to that branch.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:37:11 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Blindly back...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm evaluating of use postgresql but for local law requirements is \nneeded for the access of some kind of data (sensitive) a log of the \naccesses (Auditing) is a feature available in many databases but i've \nseen that lacks in PostgreSQL, there are already plans to implement it \nor patche...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile returning from a function call, PL can easily interfere will be\nreturned HeapTuple's TupleDesc from fcinfo. But what if function returns\na record type? Then we must create our own TupleDesc (or AttInMetadata)\nfor the related attribute (and then create HeapTuple). So far everyt...
[ { "msg_contents": "IIRC there was an intention to allow ownership reassignment of all\nobjects in the database. Somehow views got missed (probably because they\ndon't currently have an ALTER command). If there isn't a lot of code\ninvolved in making this happen, I'd argue it should go in as a bug fix.\nIf not, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, here are my tables\n\ntable name\n{\n id integer primary key\n first_name text,\n middle_name text,\n last_name text\n}\n\ntable address\n{\n id integer primary key\n number int,\n street text,\n city text,\n state text\n}\n\ntable work\n{\n id integer primary key\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n Please find below a patch to add the array_accum aggregate as a\n built-in using two new C functions defined in array_userfuncs.c.\n These functions simply expose the pre-existing efficient array\n building routines used elsewhere in the backend (accumArrayResult\n and mak...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hai,\n\nCan anyone of you help me in finding the datatype of a particular column in\na table in Postgres?\n\nThanks and Regards,\nM.Indira\n\nHai,\n \nCan anyone of you help me in finding the datatype of a particular column in a table in Postgres?\n \nThanks and Regards,\nM.Indira", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch solves the problem with blocking backend in pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket()\nwhen it tries to send something to stat collector.\nPatch makes two thing:\n\n1) pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket(): WaitForMultipleObjectsEx now called with\nfinite timeout (100ms) in case of FP_WRITE and UDP socket....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nsorry for opening a new thread but I have just subscribed to the \nlist. We have already an implementation of an index advisor for \n7.4.8. This is the result of several master theses, so it's no \nproduction ready yet, but it works (with some limitations).\nThe main idea is:\n1. to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBefore we spring hstore on an unsuspecting world as a contrib module, in \nthe interests of good English, is it too late to change \"isexists\" to \nsimply \"exists\"?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:09:45 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI... im trying to modify the pg_class table by adding a new attribute. To\naccomplish that, i modify the next archives:\n\n- include/pg_class.h: in this file, i modfify:\n FormData_pg_class struct: i add the new attribute, example a boolean...\n .....\n bool myNewAttribute; /*...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRepair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bug\nI introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to\nANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly\nisn't an array datatype. This can ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIn a possible moment of insanity, in \n\n<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00579.php>\n\nI volunteered to try to help solve a problem Tom Lane noted: \"The\nhard part of this problem is finding a convenient way to capture\nstatus data out of the community's co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got the error mesage,\n\nERROR: could not find relation 19693 among query result relations,\n\nfrom a strange interaction between inser, foreign keys and a udf.\nAfter a but of trial and error, I came up with a test case:\n\ncreate or replace function explode_array(in_array anyarray) retur...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI have warning with MinGW....\n\nqsort.c:53:1: warning: \"min\" redefined\nIn file included from C:/MinGW/include/windows.h:48,\n from ../../src/include/pg_config_os.h:12,\n from ../../src/include/c.h:88,\n from qsort.c:46:\nC:/MinGW/incl...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried to use O_DIRECT on Linux (SuSe) Kernel 2.6, but failed to make it run.\nFor example, if I added the option in the \"open\" of BasicOpenFile(),\nI got the following error after typing \"psql -l\",\n\npsql: could not connect to server: Connection refused\n Is the server running l...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried to use O_DIRECT on Linux (SuSe) Kernel 2.6, but failed to make it run.\nFor example, if I added the option in the \"open\" of BasicOpenFile(),\nI got the following error after typing \"psql -l\",\n\npsql: could not connect to server: Connection refused\n Is the server running lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recently I've been playing with quite a big table (over 50mln rows),\nand did some SELECT ... sum(...) WHERE ... GROUP BY ... queries.\n\nThe usual plan for these is to sort the entries according to GROUP BY\nspecification, then to run aggregates one by one. If the data to be\nsorted is larg...
[ { "msg_contents": "1)\n# create temp table a ( a int ) without oids on commit delete rows;\n# insert into a values(1);\n# begin;\n# insert into a values(2);\n# commit;\n# select * from a;\n a\n---\n(0 rows)\n\n2)\n# insert into a values(1);\n# begin;\n# insert into a values(2);\n# rollback;\n# select * from a;...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I have started working on a replication section for our 8.2\ndocumentation. I will post a draft copy as soon as I finish.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +\n", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Posting here instead of hackers since this is where the thread got\nstarted...\n\nThe argument has been made that producing a hints system will be as hard\nas actually fixing the optimizer. There's also been clamoring for an\nactual proposal, so here's one that (I hope) wouldn't be very diffi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to create a few new types, and based on the type in/out\nfunctions will operate a bit differently.\n\nFor the input function finding the type Oid is easy -\n\n Oid our_type_oid = PG_GETARG_OID(1);\n\nFor output though I'm having difficulty finding out the type Oid.\n\nI've tried u...
[ { "msg_contents": "While investigating Merlin's bug report here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-10/msg00447.php\nI realized that we've completely failed to consider the interactions\nof $subject. In particular, functions.c still thinks that SELECT is\nthe only type of query that can return ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nStamp 7.3.16.\n\nTags:\n----\nREL7_3_STABLE\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql:\n configure.in (r1.217.2.24 -> r1.217.2.25)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/configure.in.diff?r1=1.217.2.24&r2=1.217.2.25)\n configure...
[ { "msg_contents": "Wasn't configure changed to complain if it's fed a bogus argument? I\njust did ./configure --with-deps on a fresh checkout and it didn't\ncomplain...\n-- \nJim Nasby jim@nasby.net\nEnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)\n"...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> Actually the patch was previously rejected.\n> \n> Oh? Sorry, I must have missed that. On what grounds was it rejected?\n\nBecause it was decided that hyperlinks are undesirable in this place.\nInstead, a simpler version of the patch was applied.\n\nSee\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsq...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCurrently a \"select * from pg_statio_user_tables;\" displays only\nheap_blks_read, heap_blks_hit stats amongst others for the main relation. It\nwould be good to have the following stats collected too. I think these stats\ncan be used to better statistically analyze/understand the blo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nhere is a patch implementing an index recommendation advisor for \n7.4.13. It consists of extensions to the planner and the catalog as \nwell as a command line tool pg_advise in contrib. The index advisor \nworks as part of the EXPLAIN statement, i.e. by\nset enable_indexadvisor=true;...
[ { "msg_contents": "But the same code worked when I inserted around 2500 images in the database. After that it started crashing. So , I don't think it's because of error in the code. Can u suggest some other possible reasons and also why is it crashing at call to memcpy().\n\n\n\n\n\nTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Postgre8.1 doesn't seem to support asynchronous I/O. Has its design\nbeen thought off already?\n\nTo tried doing with a simple example:\nFor a Index Nest loop join:\nFetch the outer tuples in an array, and then send all the\ncorresponding inner-tuple fetch requests asynchronously. Hence while...
[ { "msg_contents": "Trying to build 8.2beta1 on MacOS G5 Xserver, OS version 10.4.7. I got \nthis:\n\n\n....\ngcc -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith \n-Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -dynamiclib -install_name \n/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.5.dylib -compatibility_version ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This doesn't work:\n\nregression=# select '2006-07-13 09:20:00 EST5EDT'::timestamptz;\nERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp with time zone: \"2006-07-13 09:20:00 EST5EDT\"\n\nIt never has worked in the past, of course, but I expected it to work in\nHEAD seeing that the zic database...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\n\n\nI may have a workable idea on a way to add caching to Postgres without\n\ndisturbing the MVCC functionality.\n\n\n\nCaching, as I've been reading can provide an amazing and sometimes\n\nalmost unbelievable performance boost to a database based application,\n\nespecially for data tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, the FreeBSD ports make the following change when building\npython:\n\n--- src/pl/plpython/Makefile.orig Fri Nov 19 20:23:01 2004\n+++ src/pl/plpython/Makefile Tue Dec 28 23:32:16 2004\n@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@\n # shared library. Since there is no official way to determine this\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello there\n\nI am trying to play around with the hashjoin algorithm in postgres.\n\nI am using the statement like\nSelect count(*) from r,s where r.id=s.id;\n\nI looked at the function ExecHashJoin() in nodeHashjoin.c and cannot \nfind where the algorithm is comparing if r.id equals s.id\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I set up the following experiment:\n\nCREATE DOMAIN m_or_p AS \"char\" CHECK (VALUE = 'm' OR VALUE = 'p');\n\nCREATE TABLE test_domain (\n fkey integer not null,\n k integer not null,\n x1 integer not null,\n x2 integer,\n mp m_or_p not null\n);\n\nCREATE INDEX test_domain_k_x1_x2_m ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since installing python 2.5, tapir has been failing:\n\nhttp://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=tapir&dt=2006-10-15%2020:20:16\n\nSeveral of the failures appear to be a simple change in error reporting;\nI haven't investigated why import_succeed() failed.\n\nShould python 2.5 work with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While trying to clean up ParseDateTime so it works reliably with full\ntimezone names, I found out about a \"feature\" that so far as I can tell\nhas never been documented except in comments in datetime.c. The\ndatetime input code tries to recognize what it calls \"POSIX time zones\",\nwhich...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is an updated version of Brazilian FAQ [1]. If you prefer [2] is\nthe diff file.\nPlease apply it.\n\n[1] http://timbira.com/pg/FAQ_brazilian.html\n[2] http://timbira.com/pg/faq.diff\n\n\n-- \n Euler Taveira de Oliveira\n http://www.timbira.com/\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 16 Oc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis is almost ceratinly a perl problem that has nothing to do with postgres.\n\nPlease construct a small test case - I at least don't have time to spend\nwading through huge gobs of code.\n\nNote: if the variable is referred to by a live subroutine it will still be\nalive. See man perlref ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nShouldn't this work?\n\nselect ycis_id, min(tindex), avg(tindex) from y where ycis_id = 15;\n\nERROR: column \"y.ycis_id\" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used\nin an aggregate function\n\nIf I am asking for a specific column value, should I, technically\nspeaking, need to group b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetime\ninput routines. Remove the former \"DecodePosixTimezone\" function in favor of\nletting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()). In\nparticular this means that \"PST+3\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n \n I've loved reading all of your thoughts and comments.\n \n Yet, I'm left with the question:\n \n Can we can brainstorm a caching solution that is workable...\n \n I've seen some posts talking about some of the challenges.\n \n 1.) Only good for static data\n \n As it was proposed t...
[ { "msg_contents": "The subject line says it all.\n\nI just completed a build, test, and install of PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on an \nIntel Mac with OS 10.4.8. Every single step executed flawlessly, and \nall 98 tests passed, running the regression tests.\n\nI've got a suggestion for the documentation (INSTALL file). ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2704\nLogged by: Toru SHIMOGAKI\nEmail address: shimogaki.toru@oss.ntt.co.jp\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.4\nOperating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4\nDescription: pg_class.relchecks overflow problem\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dirk Lutzebaeck and I just spent a tense couple of hours trying to\nfigure out why a large database Down Under wasn't coming up after being\nreloaded from a base backup plus PITR recovery. The symptoms were that\nthe recovery went fine, but backend processes would fail at startup or\nsoon af...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> I checked around with some kernel/glibc gurus in Red Hat, and the\n> consensus seemed to be that we'd be better off to bypass fprintf() and\n> just send message strings to stderr using write() --- ie, instead of\n> elog.c doing\n> \n> fprintf(stderr, \"%s\", buf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not being subscribed to any more appropriate list, I post this here on \nhackers.\n\nI just wanted to download the postgresql-8.0.9 tarball. The page I got \nwas this:\n\nChoose a download mirror\nDownloading: /source/v8.0.9/postgresql-8.0.9.tar.gz\nWe could not query the database or no mirro...
[ { "msg_contents": "In 1995, Kiribati decided to move the international date line, so that\nall of the constituent islands lie on the same side. As a consequence,\nthe Easternmost islands are now at GMT+1400.\n\n(There's some controvery about whether they had the right to move the\nIDL, but they have the right t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI don't want to harass you :), but what's the status with the bitmap \nindex code? Is there something I can do to help?\n\n-- \n Heikki Linnakangas\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:41:36 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Heikki Linnakan...
[ { "msg_contents": "This has been been discussed before, but Oracle behaves differently, and IMHO \nin a more correct way.\n\nThe following query returns NULL in PG:\nSELECT NULL || 'fisk';\n\nBut in Oracle, it returns 'fisk':\nSELECT NULL || 'fisk' FROM DUAL;\n\nThe latter seems more logical...\n\n-- \nAndreas ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hai,\n\n I have encountered a problem with PostgreSQL.I have created a table\n'tab1' with a column 'a' with serial type.I entered 20 records into the\ntable.So the query\n select max(a) from tab1;\nreturned 20.When I tried the same query after the command\n truncate table tab1;\nI found that...
[ { "msg_contents": "1) Release notice mentions wronng \n(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/release.html#RELEASE-8-1-5):\n E.1.1. Migration to version 8.1.4\n\t\t\t\t^^^^^ should be 8.1.5\n2) It's very pity that ours Win32 fixes isn't in 8.1.5 :(\ntarball: \t2006-10-13 02:05:40\t\ncommit:\t\tFri ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI set on for following items in postgresql.conf\n\ndebug_print_parse\ndebug_print_rewritten\ndebug_print_plan\ndebug_print_pretty\n\nnow, I can see something in PGAdmin query tool when I execute a query.\ncan I get some idea how I can read comprehend the output?\n\n\n-- Executing qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working on my custom encryption types (as outlined in another\nthread) and was curious of one potential performance hit.\n\nOn the input and output functions for the new type, I lookup the\nencrypt/decrypt functions using -\n\n\tFuncnameGetCandidates( list_make1( makeString( \"decrypt\" )...
[ { "msg_contents": "A couple of the Makefiles in contrib don't define OBJS= as standard,\ninstead they define SRCS= and then a makefile rule for OBJS= that does a\nreplacement on that.\n\nIs there any actual reason for that? If not, could the attached patch\nplease be applied to make them all look the same. I'm ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI read a paper, which is Query optimization in the presence of Foreign\nFunctions.\nAnd the paper , there is a paragraph like below.\n\nIn order to reduce the number of invocations, caching the results of\ninvocation was suggested in Postgres.\n\nI'd like to know in detail abo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have almost finished working on multiple rpm + postmaster issue today.\nThe spec file and patches in pgsqlrpms cvs work almost as expected and\ndoes some preliminary work about multiple postmaster installation issue\n(we can build the rpms and they are installed correctly).\n\nI have...
[ { "msg_contents": "Resending... The previous 3 attempt haven't succeeded, probably because of\nsize restrictions; so sending in two parts.\n\nOn 10/18/06, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:\n>\n> Hi all,\n>\n> Please refer to the following link for a new algorithm to calculate\n> CRC, developed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When setting log_statement = 'all', statements that fail parsing are not\nlogged. For example:\n\nLOG: connection received: host=[local]\nLOG: connection authorized: user=peter database=peter\nLOG: statement: select * from pg_class;\nLOG: duration: 19.084 ms\n### here a log entry is miss...