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[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch removes a couple of extern definitions from adminpack,\nreplacing some of them with a #include. (Cam eup with this because we\ngot a duplicate definition of DataDir when building with Visual C++).\nSeems much more correct to pull in the header file that has the\ndefinition, and...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just tried a rebuild of the MSVC stuff, and got the following error.\nAny ideas on the best way to fix that?\n\n(as you notice, I haven't pulled the very latest cvs so I haven't for\nthe min() fix that's put in now. Just let me know if the rest is also\nfixed ;-))\n\n//Magnus\n\n\nBuild sta...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've set up my laptop to sync down the full cvs repository using rsync\n(remember - windows = no cvsup). This works well, except every now and\nthen (not every time, but definitly often enough to bother me) it\nresyncs the entire repository, and not just the files that have had\ncommits to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why does adminpack install functions into pg_catalog? This is\ninconsistent with the rest of the contrib/ packages, not to mention the\ndefinition of pg_catalog itself (which ought to hold builtin object\ndefinitions). And as AndrewSN pointed out on IRC, it also breaks\npg_dump.\n\n-Neil\n\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "both cube and seg seems to do some funky stuff with flex/bison, if I'm\nnot entirely mistaken. Cube, for example, uses a rule that builds\n\"cubeparse.o\" from \"cubescan.c\". (which in turnis built from flex/bison\nfiles).\n\nIs there any reason why we don't build a file called \"cubescan.o\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> both cube and seg seems to do some funky stuff with \n> flex/bison, if I'm not entirely mistaken. Cube, for example, \n> uses a rule that builds \"cubeparse.o\" from \"cubescan.c\". \n> (which in turnis built from flex/bison files).\n> \n> Is there any reason why we don't build a file calle...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recently I ran into a \"disk full\" problem with my database. I had to\nplay with the tablespaces and locations symlinks... until the disk could\nbe cleaned just enough for the database to continue operation. I had\nplenty of space on another disk but found no *easy* way to humbly ask\npostgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "A define is needed to expose the M_PI define from the system headers.\n\n//Magnu <<earthdistance.diff>> s", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:22:31 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Magnus Hagander\" <mha@sollentuna.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "earthdistance update for msvc...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch adds a #define for BYTE_ORDER to win32.h if it's not pulled\nin elsewhere, as needed by msvc build of pgcrypto. Seems several other\nplatforms define it in their port file already, but not win32.\n\n//Magnus", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:38:13 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "Where are we on releasing beta2 or perhaps going right to an RC1\nrelease? Seems it is time for one of them.\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": "Thu, 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nIm new to PostgreSQL development and I would like to make \"introduce\" \npatch that will satisfied this point of TODO:\n\"%Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects with \none command\n\nThe proposed syntax is:\n\nGRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN public TO ph...
[ { "msg_contents": "oid2name requires an extern char*optarg to build on win32. Seems psql\njust adds it like this, so I guess it can be done without any kind of\n#ifdefs..\n\n//Magnu <<oid2name.diff>> s", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:21:00 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Magnus Hagander\" <mha@sollentuna.net>...
[ { "msg_contents": "This change has broken my AIX 5.2 buildfarm machine (asp/kookaburra),\nbut doesn't seem to break the 5.3 member (grebe).\n\nIt appears to have problems with stats being off now?\n\nWhat can I do to help debug the situation?\n\n\t-rocco\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-committers...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi .*\n\nIs there any chance to see the quota implementation described in this post\nin any next releases?\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-07/msg00392.php\n\n\nThanks you!\n----\nNick\n\nHi .*Is there any chance to see the quota implementation described in this post in an...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed something odd when trying to use the row-wise comparison\nmentioned in the release notes for 8.2 and in the docs\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-comparisons.html#ROW-WISE-COMPARISON\n\nThis sets up a suitable test:\n\ncreate type myrowtype AS (a integer, b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCurrently we have enable_sig_alarm() which provides millisecond level\ngranularity in specifying delay. I tried using it by just specifying nonzero\nvalue for the timeval.it_value.tv_usec field before calling setitimer, but\ndidn't seem to work well.\n\nDo we have any function in the p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a setup in which a table has been partitioned into 30 partitions on \ntype (1 -30), however no matter what I do i can't make the planner try to use \nconstraint exclusion on it. As you can see by the plan, it figures that there \nis at least 1 rows in each partition (Which there is not...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not sure who cares, so xzilla indicated I should drop a note here. I \njust made the xlogdump stuff work for 8.1 (trivial) and fixed a few \nother small issues that caused it to not work right both generally \nand in our environment.\n\nhttp://pgfoundry.org/tracker/index.php? \nfunc=detai...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch is required to make zic build on msvc. It enables Windows\nNT4 and newer functions in the windows API, so we can use CopyFileEx.\n\n//Magnus", "msg_date": "Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:54:51 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Magnus Hagander\" <mha@sollentuna.net>", "msg_from_op": true,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n\nI have started to work on a project that will be implemented on top of Postgresql. Therefore, I have to warm up with postgresql's internals. I downloaded the source code and currently looking at it. But I have some questions?\n\n1. How can I prepare my own query plan? (I will...
[ { "msg_contents": "* Does version check on pgbison per previous discussion. Accepts 1.875,\nor >2.0 except 2.1.\n* Sets the stacksize from the makefile (as added to the standard\nmakefiles for mingw)\n* Factor out a function read_file that reads a complete file, cuts down\nthe code a bit.\n* Support for buildin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Neil Conway\" <neilc@samurai.com>\nTo: \"Peter Eisentraut\" <peter_e@gmx.net>\nCc: \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>; \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>\nSent: 21/10/06 02:03\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] adminpack and pg_c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Neil Conway\" <neilc@samurai.com>\nTo: \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>\nCc: \"PostgreSQL-development\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nSent: 20/10/06 21:19\nSubject: Re: adminpack and pg_catalog\n\n> It breaks in the sense of \"completely not w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Actually, the system that we want to build up will keep incomplete information with a decomposition based approach. So a normal relation R will be represented on 3 different relations (T:template, C: components, W:worlds). According to this representation a normal selection with constant on R...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear list,\n\n \n\nI recently discovered the crosstab function in postgresql.\n\nWhat I'm trying to accomplish is turn this:\n\n \n\nSuppliernumber Productnumber Price\n\n0 2 0.8\n\n0 3 1.2\n\n1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm trying to implement estimated_count() function that's mentioned in\nthe TODO list. First of all, I wanted to learn if this TODO item is\nstill valid? I looked at the related -hackers discussions, does anybody\nwant to say more sth related with the implementation?\n\nAlso I've some ...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the upcoming release of PostgreSQL 8.2, it is once again time to \nupdate the message translations. If you want to help, see \n<http://pgtranslation.projects.postgresql.org/> for instructions and \nother information. If there are already active translation teams, \nplease communicate w...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Page\n> Sent: 21 October 2006 21:20\n> To: PgAdmin Hackers\n> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] FW: [HACKERS] adminpack and pg_catalog\n> \n> \n> [Ooops...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is probably terrible timing, but I noticed Tom had done some nice\ntidying up on pg_freespacemap to eliminate the clumsy conversion to and\nfrom strings. This patch does a similar thing for pg_buffercache.\n\nI did wonder about not showing buffers that are invalid or not in use\n(current...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI am trying to implement smartvacuum(), which do vacuum only tables having\nmany dead rows, instead of autovacuum.\nI read sources of autovacuum and pgstat, and found it could be if\nsmartvacuum() gets information from pgstat like autovacuum does.\n\nconcerns:\n1. autovacuum makes vac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n Michael Kounavis has given a green signal (please refer the forwarded\nmessage).\n\nBest regards,\n\n-- \ngurjeet[.singh]@EnterpriseDB.com\nsingh.gurjeet@{ gmail | hotmail | yahoo }.com\n\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nFrom: Kounavis, Michael E <michael.e.kounavis@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Mario Weilguni wrote:\n>> This has been been discussed before, but Oracle behaves differently,\nand\n>> IMHO in a more correct way.\n>>\n>> The following query returns NULL in PG:\n>> SELECT NULL || 'fisk';\n>>\n>> But in Oracle, it returns 'fisk':\n>> SELECT NULL || 'fisk' FROM DUAL;\n>>\n>>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nHow long are we supporting MVCC?\nIt is from the beginning or is it added later to PG\n\n-- \nRegards,\nGevik Babakhani\nwww.postgresql.nl\nwww.truesoftware.nl\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:50:33 +0200", "msg_from": "Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I'm from Venezuela, and I've been making some modifications\nto Postgre's Catalog, but it seems to be a problem creating the Template1\nDatabase.\n\nWhen the creation of the database is starting this is what happens:\n\nluis@Baco:~> /home/luis/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /home/luis/pgsql/data/...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am running versions 8.1.2 and I installed 8.2B last week. I dumped \nthe data from a rather large (several million records) from the old into the \nnew version.\n\nMy two observations are as follows... Also, keep in mind these are truly \njust observations, I didn't use any benchmarking to...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am running versions 8.1.2 and I installed 8.2B last week. I dumped \nthe data from the old version into the new version. The db consists of \nseveral million records. Total disk usage is approximately 114GB.\n\nMy two observations are as follows... Also, keep in mind these are truly \njus...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried to use COPY command to export and import tables from catalog, \nbut COPY command has problem with data type regproc. See example\n\n create table test (like pg_aggregate);\n copy pg_aggregate to '/tmp/pg_agg.out';\n copy test from '/tmp/pg_agg.out';\n\nERROR: more than one func...
[ { "msg_contents": "This behavior exists in 8.1.4 and CVS HEAD. \n\nI list below my preexisting schema, a set of commands that behave as I\nexpect (and result in an ERROR), and a similar set of commands that do\nnot behave as I expect (and result in a PANIC). Note the position of\n\"BEGIN\" in each.\n\nThis is q...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHere is my first draft of a new replication section for our\ndocumentation. I am looking for any comments.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nReplication\n===========\n\nDatabase replication allows multiple computers to work together, making\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a new replication documentation section I want to add for 8.2:\n\n\tftp://momjian.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/replication\n\nComments welcomed.\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 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a patch for WAL logging tuple freezes in vacuum, per discussion\non pgsql-bugs.\n\nThis patch is against CVS head. Should this be backported to stable\nbranches? I think it should.\n\nAfter writing the patch, I realized that it needs some thought if \nbackported, because WAL records of...
[ { "msg_contents": " \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] \n> Sent: 24 October 2006 14:30\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: pgsql-core@postgresql.org\n> Subject: Re: [CORE] Schedule for release? \n> \n> > In pgAdmin we have a simple bootstrap script the writes all \n> the version\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just set up to build with MSVC on a brand new box, and came across a\ncouple of more fixes:\n\n* New versions of OpenSSL come with proper debug versions, and uses\nsuffixed names on the LIBs for that. Adapts library handling to deal\nwith that.\n\n* Fixes error where it incorrectly enabled ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe have a problem with CE that I want to verify is either expected\nbehavior, a bug or something else :).\n\nYes constraint exclusion is on.\n\nI have tried increasing the default_statistics_target (all the way 1000)\nno change in behavior.\n\nQuery plan with ORDER BY:\n\n Limit (c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a query that throws \"org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: An I/O error \noccured while sending to the backend\". Here is a simplified version of it \nwhere I used pg_database, but any table or view do the same.\n\nPreparedStatement pstmt = connection.prepareStatement(\"select ? f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce, \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org \n> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian\n> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:16 PM\n> To: Hannu Krosing\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation; PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re...
[ { "msg_contents": "i want to implement materialized views in postgresql . to do as i\nwant to modify the code in backend but i don't know what r the files i have\nto modify. so please help me by mentioning about the backend code.\n\n         i want to implement materialized views in postgresql . to do as i want...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \tcan anybody tell me what is the computational complexity of \nexternal sorting algorithm used by postgres in terms of time and space.\nAnd one more question is how does # of DISK I/O's vary by varying jsf and \nsize of data while using external sorting algorithms to sort(I mean is it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems that plpgsql in 8.2B1 thinks that selects of the form ' .... \nand foo not in (select ... )' should be function calls, not \nsubselects. These worked fine in 8.1.\n\nHere's a smallish script which reproduces the problem on 8.2RC1 / OSX:\n\nIf you comment out the 'and NEW.id not in (s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been analyzing Ed L's recent report of index corruption:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-10/msg01183.php\n(thanks to Ed for letting me have the actual index to study).\nI think I've figured out what happened to it. nbtree/README says\n\n: The notion of a half-dead pag...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found the root cause of the bug I reported at:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-10/msg00211.php\n\nWhat happens is this:\n* Out of memory condition causes an ERROR\n* ERROR triggers an AbortTransaction()\n* AbortTransaction() calls RecordTransactionAbort()\n* RecordTransact...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have compiled postgres 1.8.5 on Windows XP from source using MinGW, however the GIST index cannot be created since the following errors pop up:\n\nHINT: You must specify an operator class for the index or define a default operator class for the data type.\nERROR: data type character varyi...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am leaving Friday for a two-week trip for EnterpriseDB. I am\ngoing to Tokyo, Islamabad (Pakistan), and Pune (India). I return on\nFriday, November 10. I will have Internet connectivity, but of course I\nwill not be online as frequently as usual.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momj...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am running into this limitation ALOT with Tsearch2. What are my\noptions to get around it. Do I have to compile PostgreSQL with a\ndifferent block size?\n\nIf yes, what are the downsides to doing so (outside of not being able to\ndo straight upgrades)?\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. D...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI am now trying to implement pg_get_domaindef() function which is in the TODO \nlist and ran into a minor issue.\n\nWhen the following command is given\n\nCREATE DOMAIN testdomain AS text CONSTRAINT testconstraint NOT NULL;\n\nI couldn't find the CONSTRAINT name ('testconstraint' i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWith no new additions submitted today, I have moved my text into our\nSGML documentation:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/failover.html\n\nPlease let me know what additional changes are needed.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nRecently while doing a little research on how we could do perl module \npreloading nicely, I constructed the following:\n\n create function loadmods() returns void language plperlu as $$\n use LWP::UserAgent;\n $$;\n select loadmods();\n create function loadurl() returns text langu...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch makes the short_desc and extra_desc fields of the GUC table\nmore consistent: both text in both fields should be complete sentences\nthat begin with a capital letter and end in a period.\n\nNote that this patch breaks the translations of these strings, so I\nhaven't applied it yet....
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch handles the simple case where a user wants to\nincrease the user-defined storage size of a variable length object,\nsuch as VARCHAR or NUMERIC, without having to rebuild the table.\n\nIt does so by verifying that no transform was defined and testing\nwhether the user simply...
[ { "msg_contents": "We're getting deadlock error messages in the production database logs \nduring times of inactivity, where the only other thing using the \ndatabase (we think) is the every-15-minutes pg_dump process. There \nare still database connections up-and-running from unused Hibernate \nJava proces...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know you're collecting results for beta testing, so I thought I'd pass on the error I ran into. This may have failed just because I'm running an old version of RedHat (7.1)\n\nWhen I tried to build postgresql 8.2 beta 2, the compile failed with these errors:\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prot...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking of recommending this to someone, but wanted to try it on my\nown first; good thing that I did. I think it is broken as of now.\n\nI assume that the error thrown for 'select 1', inside a transaction, with\n'on_error_rollback on', is not supposed to raise it's head !!!\n\nOr am I...
[ { "msg_contents": "> [ Memo to hackers: why is it that log_min_error_statement = error\n> isn't the default? ]\n\nTo avoid spamming the logs with every failed SQL statement?\n\nYours,\nLaurenz Albe\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:23:12 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Albe Laurenz\" <all@adv.magwien.gv.at>",...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2724\nLogged by: Alexey Zayats\nEmail address: alexey.zayats@gmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.5\nOperating system: SuSE 10.0 Linux 2.6.13 x86-64\nDescription: Could not check connection status with \"s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI want to print the query-plan that will be used before the execution of the query. Therefore put this line at the beginning of the ExecutorStart() function located in execMain.c :\n\nprint_plan(queryDesc->plantree,queryDesc->parsetree);\n\nHowever, it did not work. What I want to ask ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\n\n> > I want to print the query-plan that will be used before the execution\n> > of the query. Therefore put this line at the beginning of the\n> > ExecutorStart() function located in execMain.c :\n> >\n> > print_plan(queryDesc->plantree,queryDesc->parsetree);\n\n> print_plan writes ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm using postgresql 8.1-407 jdbc driver with postgresql 7.4.13 database and \nit seems like there is an issue when the driver is used in jdbc \ntransactions. I'm using this version of the jdbc driver, cause I haven't \ncame across any fixes for the 8.1.4 security issuse for the 7.4.1...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> FYI, I am leaving Friday for a two-week trip for EnterpriseDB. I am\n> going to Tokyo, Islamabad (Pakistan), and Pune (India). I return on\n> Friday, November 10. I will have Internet connectivity, but of course I\n> will not be online as frequently as usual.\n\nMy plans ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "since rev. 1.105 of include/port.h all files that inlcude postgres_fe.h \nare forced to use pg_qsort() instead of qsort. Was that intended?\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for bein...
[ { "msg_contents": "Enclose a patch for new WAL records for relcache invalidation.\n\nNot conclusively tested, but seems to work fine, so please regard this\nas a prototype-needs-review.\n\nWe definitely need a regr test framework to support this type of patch.\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs \n EnterpriseDB ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all.\n\nAs this is my first post to this particular mailing list, let me preface this \nwith a couple of items:\n\n1) I have, indeed, searched far and wide for the answer to my question. I have \nread and understood the responses to similar posts posing similar questions. \nMy next stop...
[ { "msg_contents": "PGFoundry is responding with:\nPgFoundry Could Not Connect to Database:\n\n-- \nJonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1300\nEnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301\n33 Wood Ave S, 2nd Floor | jharris@enterprisedb.com\nIselin, New Jersey 08830 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nJust to let you know that I've compiled and tested PostgreSQL 8.2 beta2 \non a Ubuntu 6.10 and all worked fine\n\nGreat work\n\nLeonel\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:59:41 -0700 (MST)", "msg_from": "\"Leonel Nunez\" <lnunez@enelserver.com>", "msg_from_op": tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Clarification of when it's not appropriate to use this option.\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs \n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com", "msg_date": "Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:16:04 +0000", "msg_from": "\"Simon Riggs\" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_sub...
[ { "msg_contents": "Basically, I'm wondering if anyone can see a problem with my standard \nworkaround to the macro-expansion-vs-nextval problem with view. I can't \nsee how PG changes might break it, but I might be using it in a \npresentation to others so thought I'd best check.\n\n\nBEGIN;\n\nCREATE TABLE foo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, everybody,\n\nI am developing a postgresql-based distributed relational data integration\nsystem which is like the IBM DB2 Information Integrator. And I have started\na pgfoundry project: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ignite .(codes on it have\nalready been obsolete.)\n\nThe goal of th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce, all:\n\nThis is a longstanding performance issue which just came up again on IRC, \nand I can't find a TODO item for it. So I'd like it added to TODO. \nSuggested phrasing:\n\n-- Improve performance of queries with IN() clauses containing hundreds or \nmore literal values, possibly b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current beta seems to have the 2006k version of the zic database. The current\nzic database is version 2006n however. Since this update does not include\nsource code but just data files I would vote to do the update in beta, what\ndo others think?\n\nOne prominent update concerns Brazil which...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at adding SASL or GSSAPI as an auth method. I have \nsome questions about how to handle the flow of control changes.\n\nWhen you do one of the above, an authentication is not (necessarily) \na simple one-packet exchange. In fact the exchange may involve \ntrying several...
[ { "msg_contents": "These are logs from Beta 2.\n\nDid I miss a discussion where we removed the name of the portal \nduring parse, and bind ?\n\n5715%2006-11-01 01:02:26.631 PST%454862a0.1653%SELECT LOG: execute \nS_2: select t0.c_id, t0.c_contact, t0.c_credit_limit, t0.c_state, \nt0.c_zip, t0.c_phone, t0.c_...
[ { "msg_contents": "I created a user-defined function which has a remote Web serivce invokings\ninside and executed with select statement.\n\nselect <functionname>( parameters)\n\nWhen I implemented in a static way of Web service invoking, it worked.\nHowever, when I tried with a dynamic invoking, I had followin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi We have been making some modifications to postgres catalog, but\nit seems to be a problem with one of the fields we just added, exactly\nin the time when inserting the right values to that specific field.\n\n1. This is what It happens:\n\n**************************************\ntemplate1=#...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\n* Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:\n> > The plain non-VALUES list form is also significantly faster than it\n> > was, but I think it will only result in a bitmap indexscan plan type.\n> \n> Yeah, even bitmapscans break down at 1000 values ...\n\nIn a similar vein, perhaps 8.2 fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "EnterpriseDB has created a new project at pgFoundry -\nhttp://pgfoundry.org/projects/pg-migrator/\n\npg_migrator is a tool that can in-place upgrade existing data without\nthe usual dump/reload cycle.\n\nThe pg_migrator project site (at pgFoundry) contains a complete\nimplementation of the fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Gurjeet,\nI include pgsql-hackers in this discussion ...\n\nAm 01.11.2006 um 17:38 schrieb Gurjeet Singh:\n\n> Hi Kai,\n>\n> I am working with Simon at EnterpriseDB, and am currently \n> working on porting\n> your patch to 8.2 sources. I have done a quick hack to make it work \n> on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've reposted this from pgsql-performance where I got no response.\n\n==========================================\n\nHi,\n\nI wanted to use \"exp1 is not distinct from exp2\" which I tough was syntaxic \nsugar for\nexp1 is not null and exp2 is not null and exp1 = exp2 or exp1 is null and \nexp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI have some encoding problems. \n\n1.) Expression of output of log of server\nhttp://inet.winpg.jp/~saito/pg_bug/postgresql-2006-11-02_192633.log\nThis is not in the output for the translation by GetText and is ..Native.. message.\n(Japanese windows--Shift_jis message)\n\n2.) The messa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've noticed a trend in the PostgreSQL code base - for some reason, we\ntend to avoid initializing automatic variables (actually, the code base\nis pretty mixed on this point).\n\nFor example in _bt_check_unique() we have:\n\n___________________________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yesterday I wrote:\n> * On successful completion, the cutoff XID is stored in\n> pg_class.relvacuumxid, and pg_database.datvacuumxid is updated\n> if appropriate. (The minxid columns are now useless, but unless there\n> is another reason to force initdb before 8.2, I'm inclined to leave them...
[ { "msg_contents": "We found the problem on one of our production 8.1 servers; a big concern is \nthat it breaks dumps (allows you to dump a table with a value that can't be \nrestored). Seems to be a problem in 8.2 as well. Here is the test case:\n\npagila=# create table t1 (c1 timestamp);\nCREATE TABLE\npagi...
[ { "msg_contents": "There have been several reports that people could not vacuum any more or\nobserved strange locks even after server restart. The reason was that they\nstill had uncommitted prepared transactions around.\n\n\nI wonder if it could help to change the log level from\n\n ereport(LOG,\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Our WAL backup documentation says in some parts of it:\n\n...\"%p is replaced by the absolute path of the file to archive...\" [1]\n\nI think this is (at least for 8.1 and upcoming 8.2 releases) wrong, since \nthe archiver\nreplaces this with pg_xlog/<LOGFILENAME> only, so that the archive co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nDoing recently the CLUSTER operation with (SELECT .. ORDER BY ...) instead\nof CLUSTER I realized that that operation requires the free space equal to \ntwice! the size of the table size :-( (which is unfortunately a serious \ndrawback of the SELECT method, comparing to the plai...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nLife moves on, and I have found it increasingly difficult to maintain \nthe buildfarm on a day to day basis (not that it needs much, but my \navailability is unpredictable). So the good people at CommandPrompt have \nresponded to my plea for help, and are taking over the management of the \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am working on the changes necesssary to fix the plperl issue raised a \nweek or so ago. I have code that can detect if we can safely run two \ninterpreters. However, things are complicated by the fact that plperl.c \nuses a couple of perl hashes to store data: plperl_proc_hash and \nplpe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a patch that fixes a minor error in CheckLDAPAuth() in 8.2:\nwhen an LDAP handle is obtained via ldap_init(), it needs to be released\nvia ldap_unbind(). The code did this, but only if an error did not\noccur.\n\nI fixed this by adding the appropriate ldap_unbind() calls in error\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Compiled fine. Still a few warnings (using Fedora Core 6 / AMD64).\n\nThe new PG_MAGIC_MODULE requirement threw me for a loop. I expect it\nwill catch others off guard as well.\n\nOne of my complicated queries that I threw at it seems to run about\n10% - 20% faster now, which is pretty sweet....
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL gurus, \n\nhaving read through the thread on the topic cited above, I still think the change - however well-founded it may be - carries a problem: That of an upgrade on installations that relied on the statement. \n\nCurrently, I'm preparing to switch a PostgreSQL-8.0.3-instal...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI tried to work with NULL items in an array but there are two things I\ndon't understand. (I just did a cvs update, make, make install... so\nsources are current.)\n\nOn http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/arrays.html, you can read :\n To set an element of an array constant...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have made some progress with what I think is needed to have two \ninterpreters for plperl. This is a lot harder than the pltcl case for \ntwo reasons: 1. there are no restrictions on having 2 tcl interpreters, \nand 2. tcl does not need to save and restore context as we have to do \nwith pe...