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"msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nI noticed that the table description given by \\d <tablename> in psql\ndoes not indicate whether a trigger is enabled or disabled.\n\nIn my opinion, if a trigger is disabled, that fact is essential\ninformation that a person looking at the output of \\d would want to\nknow. ... |
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"msg_contents": "head does this to me when I try to initdb:\n\npostgres@xpc1:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data\nThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user \"postgres\".\nThis user must also own the server process.\n\nThe database cluster will be initialized with lo... |
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"msg_contents": "Due to popular demand (1 person), I've compared sizes with 90 and 100 \nfillfactors, along with using the new GIN index.\n\nFindings were not surprising, except for the GIN indexes, which doubled in \nsize.\n\nAfter several ALTER/RE INDEXes, here they are:\n\nGiST\n----\n8.1 = 94990\n8.2 FF90... |
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"msg_contents": "EnterpriseDB has been running a research project to improve the\nperformance of heavily updated tables. We have a number of approaches\nprototyped and we'd like to discuss the best of these now on -hackers\nfor community input and patch submission to PostgreSQL core.\n\nThe most important ste... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\nThis is Andrew with ProV International.\n\n\n\nI have direct client requirement for the position of PostGre Database Developer at San Diego, CA. For you reference given below is the requirement. If you find this interesting and matching to skills then please send across your updated ... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon,\n\nBring it on! We at GP have been evaluating various approaches to index\norganized tables which unify index with heap storage to solve some of\nthe problems you mention. Split index and heap is a big issue in\nPostgres and we'd all welcome a good solution to it, even for limited\nc... |
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"msg_contents": "While I was poking around in src/bin/psql/describe.c, I noticed that\nwhen the query for inherited tables is opened, the code checks whether\nthe result is valid and if not, it goes straight to the error_return,\nwithout clearing result sets that may have been open at the time. See\nline 117... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n Please refer the following session snippet. It seems that creating and\ndropping an index on a table, within a transaction, leaves the table marked\nas having an index. Although, I don't think it's a serious bug, since we\nalways retrieve the list using RelationGetIndexList(), ... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nAs a result of there being two *known* outstanding bugs, we have just bundled \nup a Beta3, to allow for testing of the recent patch concerning WAL replay ...\n\nPlease download the latest beta from:\n\n ftp.postgresql.org:/pub/source/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm playing with GIN to make a full text search system. GIN comes with\nbuilt-in TEXT[] support and I use string_to_array() to make a\nTEXT[]. Problem is, if there's large number of array elemets,\nstring_to_array() consumes too much memory. For example, to make ~70k\narray elements, s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey hackers,\n\nI was doing some work in backend/utils/adt/formatting.c, and found the\nfollowing:\n\n\t\tcase DCH_D:\n\t\t\tINVALID_FOR_INTERVAL;\n\t\t\tif (is_to_char)\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\tsprintf(inout, \"%d\", tm->tm_wday + 1);\n\t\t\t\tif (S_THth(suf))\n\t\t\t\t\tstr_numth(p_inout, inout, S... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nChange Windows rename and unlink substitutes so that they time out after\n30 seconds instead of retrying forever. Also modify xlog.c so that if\nit fails to rename an old xlog segment up to a future slot, it will\nunlink the segment instead. Per discussion of bug ... |
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"msg_contents": "Design Overview of HOT Updates\n------------------------------\n\nThe objective is to increase the speed of the UPDATE case, while\nminimizing the overall negative effects of the UPDATE. We refer to the\ngeneral requirement as *Frequent Update Optimization*, though this\ndesign proposal is fo... |
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"msg_contents": "It occurred to me to run the regression tests type_sanity and opr_sanity\nover the contrib/isn code. (The easy way to do this is to copy the isn\ninstall script into the regress/sql directory and then add it to\nserial_schedule just before those two tests.) It turned up a couple\nof moderat... |
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"msg_contents": "I was trying to compile 8.2beta3 on openbsd, and ran into an interesting\nissue. My account on the particular openbsd box has some restrictive\nulimit settings, so I don't have a lot of memory to work with. I was\ngetting an out of memory issue linking postgres, while I did not before.\nI f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Group!\nI am trying to work & connect php wirh PGSQL on Red Hat ES 3.\nI got some Important path like:\n /usr/share/pgsql/contrib\n /usr/include/pgsql\n /usr/bin\n\nBut I don't know how to start/stop pgsql server, Insert data from\nclient pgsql , view database files, admin database & c... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nDoes anyone know where I can find information about the PG communication\nprotocol specifications between backend and frontend?\n\nRegards,\nGevik.\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:16:46 +0100",
"msg_from": "Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>",
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"msg_contents": "Tapir appears to be failing because make check wants more than 10\nconnections for testing. What I don't understand is why it's being\nlimited to 10. initdb -d doesn't help either...\n\n...\nselecting default max_connections ... 10\nselecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 32MB/2048... |
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"msg_contents": "The recent discussion on the proposed HOT scheme has reminded me of a \nquestion I meant to ask about TOASTing when it was introduced back in 7.1(?)\n\nIf I have a table something like: (id, status, big_text) and just update \nthe \"status\" column on a row, do I have two copies of \"big_text... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAs some of you already know, I have been working on multiple postmaster\n+ RPM issue for some time. We are approaching 8.2.0, and I still could\nnot complete this.\n\nAlso, I'm having problems with my eyes which prevents me working (for\nlong hours) (Vision Fatigue); so I want to gi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi...\n\ni'm using debian sarge and when trying to compile 8.2beta3 got this fail...\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline\n-Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wno-error\n-L../../../../src/port -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/pgsql/pgsql/lib'\npreproc.o type.o ecpg.o ecpg... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm writing a little contrib for postgresql,\nto handle ean barcode datatype.\n\nIt contains operators and functions like ISBN datatype,\nand it also contains a check digit function to \ncontrol right or wrong inserts.\n\nCan this code is useful for postgresql community?\n\nNow, I'm testing m... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\n \n I'm working on a windows application with C# language and use npgsql to connect postgres DB. I'm eager to learn how to make a solo setup file which included windows application and postgres DB. My develop environment is Visual Studio 2003 and Framework 1.1\n \n I don'... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello \nwe've some trouble with buildinq postgreSQL (8.1.4.tar.gz) from code with Mingw on a windows xp home machine.\nWe've installed mingw 5.0.3 and msys 1.0.10.\n>From the msys console we've typed the following command:\n$ LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ configure --without-zlib \nand that's seems ok.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI just compiled the version in HEAD with no problems. I connected with \ntemplate1, made some tests and quited. I got the following error:\n\ntemplate1=# \\q\npsql(15213) malloc: *** error for object 0x1804e00: incorrect checksum \nfor freed object - object was probably modified after ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everybody!\n\nRemove contrib version of rtree_gist --- now in core system ?\nI have read that since version 8.1 the contrib version of rtree_gist is not\nin /contrib anymore, now is in core system, but where can\nI find it?\n\nregards\nJorge\n\nHello everybody!Remove contrib version of ... |
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"msg_contents": "Once upon a time, I put a question regarding deadlocks to the group,\nand Tom Lane immediately answered with this:\n\n>The guy waiting on the tuple-specific lock is second in\n>line to actually mung the tuple. Whoever is first in line behind the\n>current tenant will be blocked trying to acq... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nas promised on -docs, here comes my proposal on how to improve the \nreplication documentation. The patches are split as follows and have to \nbe applied in order:\n\nreplication_doku_1.diff:\n\n Smallest possible one-word change to warm-up...\n\n\nreplication_doku_2.diff:\n\n Move... |
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"msg_contents": "Subscribe\n\n-- \nWenn Sie glauben, dies sei ein großes Problem - warten Sie mal ab,\nbis wir versuchen die Lösung zu finden. (Walter Matthau)\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:20:49 +0100",
"msg_from": "Mario Guenterberg <mg@havelsoft.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI have problem building man.tar from CVS HEAD documentation\n\nonsgmls postgres.sgml | sgmlspl /docbook2man-spec.pl --lowercase --section l --date \"\u0004ate '+%Y-%m-%d'\"\nFATAL: /docbook2man-spec.pl does not exist.\n\nLooking into Makefile I see, D2MSCRIPT= $(D2MDIR)/docbook2... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to create a custom data type similar to an enumeration type. \nHowever, I'd like the mapping of the int<->string to be dynamic instead \nof hard coded. I'd like to have a table that contains this mapping that \ncan be appended to. Creating this type is not very difficult. However, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello.\nI have an unconfirmed feeling that autovac does not like system-wide\nstatement_timeout. I.e. when I in some panic move set system-wide\nstatement_timeout to 90 seconds, autovac stopped working (I do not know for\n100% if there is a dependency).\n\nUps... Now I checked that pg_dump ha... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi I've been making some changes to Postgres insertion method (InsertStmt)\nand I'm trying to find out how much tuples are stored in one specific table\nbefore the insertion of the next tuple, because of that will depend the\nexact\ninsertion method that I will use...\n\nI just really wanna k... |
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"msg_contents": "My company is currently using version 7.2 and would like to convert to the\nlatest version. Unfortunately, version 7.3 implicitly casts a null text to\nan int4. For example:\n\n \n\nCreate table employee_table (\n\n employee_id integer\n\n employee_name text\n\n employee_address text... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\n The current usage PG_TRY() looks something like this:\n\n ... normal code ...\n\n PG_TRY();\n {\n ... code that might throw ereport(ERROR) ...\n }\n PG_CATCH();\n {\n ... error recovery code ...\n ... plus anything that you wish to do ... |
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"msg_contents": "Any reason not to support renaming columns? Can this be added to TODO?\n\n\n--\nJim Nasby jim@nasby.net\nEnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)",
"msg_date": "Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:29:35 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI see a strange behaviour using root.crt. PostgreSQL always waits a\nclient certificate to check agains root.crt. But I set up a\n'hostnossl' auth line un pg_hba.conf, PostgreSQL still wants a client\ncertificate. Also fails if line is a 'host'.\n\nBetter with an example:\n\n---... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi!\n\nNow we (Oleg and me) are working on moving tsearch into core.\n\nPls, review suggested syntax. Comments, suggestions, objections will be appreciated.\n\n1) parser operation (pg_ts_parser table)\nCREATE PARSER prsname (\n\tSTART = funcname,\n\tGETTOKEN = funcname,\n\tEND = funcname,\... |
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"msg_contents": "In 8.2, utils/adt/formatting.c uses our NLS mechanism to localize day and \nmonth names (I assume for use by to_char). But since this necessarily ties \nthe outcome to the LC_MESSAGES setting, this comes out inconsistently with \nUnix locale behavior, e.g.,\n\npei@bell:~$ locale\nLANG=\nLC_C... |
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"msg_contents": "Another issue regarding the to_char localization: DY is documented to use 3 \ncharacters, but in German week names are abbreviated to 2 characters. Other \nlanguages will likely have related issues. What should we do here? I'd \nfavor that we change the 3 characters to \"some fixed length\... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using 8.2beta3 but I'm asking here before posting to the devel\nlists as suggested by that lists guidelines..\n\nFirst the question, because it might be simple and I'm stupid. However\nI'll then go into detail in case I'm not so silly.\n\nIn a database which is in recovery mode waiting o... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like SYSDATE to work syntactically and semantically the same as\nCURRENT_TIMESTAMP (or CURRENT_TIME, or whatever). I can create a\nfunction called \"sysdate\" that does the trick, but then it seems I have\nto reference the function as \"sysdate (),\" but I want to be able to get\naway wi... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nClarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourage\npeople from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does\nnot mean what you probably think. Per example from Paul Forgey.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>\n> To: Jeremy Drake <pgsql@jdrake.com>\n> Sent: 18/11/06, 07:30:48\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: syntax of operation with tsearch's configuration\n> \n> Jeremy Drake wrote:\n> > I am currently in the posi... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear PG-hackers,\n\nBased on the paper below [1], I ask: is there anyone working on, or already\ntried to such native implementation on PostgreSQL? I didn't find anything\nrelated on pgFoundry. There is also a presentation [2] related to the paper.\n\n\"By Souripriya Das, Eugene Inseok Chong,... |
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"msg_contents": "While working on fixing the recently reported hash-index problem,\nI was using a test build with a very small RELSEG_SIZE (128K),\nso that I could trigger the reported bug with a reasonably small\namount of data. And I started finding some unexpected data corruption.\nI eventually reduced it... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a first revision of a patch that adds a column to\npg_stat_activity containing the time at which the backend's current\ntransaction began, or NULL if the backend is not inside a transaction.\nThis is useful for finding long-running transactions, and AFAIK this\ninformation is not ... |
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"msg_contents": "Updates to planner statistics appear to be visible in SERIALIZABLE\ntransactions even though updated data is not. Is this intentional?\nCould that adversely affect query plans?\n\nCREATE TABLE test (x integer);\nINSERT INTO test (x) SELECT i % 2 FROM generate_series(1, 100) AS g(i);\nANALYZE... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\n\nIs there any interest in having a backslash command to psql that\nprints the current working directory? This would nicely complement\nthe functionality offered by \\cd.\n\nThe command could be either a new command like \\pwd, or simply make\nthis the behaviour of \\cd with n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n \n\nI am experiencing strange problem using tsearch with polish locale on (initdb -locale pl_PL.iso88592) and polish ispell dictionary.\n\n \n\nI have a pl/pgSQL function that creates tsvector for a given record (it basically gets texts from various tables and creates one tsvector... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, I'm hacking postgresql code to add some custom features but I met the following problem:\n\nI need to call a function right before frontend disconnects, so I looked for the section where frontend closes down the socket in PostgresMain (postgres.c)and I read the comment under \"case 'X'... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nFirst time PostgreSQL user.\n\nHere's a review of my experience so far.\n\n1.) Reading the manual\n\nLooks good feature-wise, but there's a suspicious lack of reference to\nany kind of repair utility for damaged data files. Hmm. I've been\nusing computers for long enough that I know t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe (Fabalabs) are looking into adding XA support (distributed\ntransactions) to Postgresql.\n\nI have been searching the web and came up with\nhttp://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Postgres-XA-support-t226681.html#a633000\nwhich cites some design difficulty.\n\nIt is the case that the X/Open XA ... |
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"msg_contents": "Awhile back I noted that we had a problem with the postmaster failing\nto recognize error exit from the startup process:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg01485.php\nThe discussion with Stephen Harris about signal response brought this\nback to mind --- as things stand,... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,everyone!\n I want to build a Spatial Database Cache based on PostgreSQL and\nPostGIS to accelerate GIS application.But I did not found related work while\nmany people build cache for Oracle DB2 ,such business Ralational DBMS. Do\nsomeone know or have done such related work to have a goo... |
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"msg_contents": "At leas Enterprise DB is mentioned: \n\nhttp://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2168971/open-source-databases-slice\n\n-- \n\nMed venlig hilsen\nKaare Rasmussen, Jasonic\n\nJasonic Telefon: +45 3816 2582\nNordre Fasanvej 12\n2000 Frederiksberg Email: kaare@jasonic.dk\n",
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"msg_contents": "Can pgSQL 8.x do descending indexes like mySQL 5.1?\n(so 1st column is descending and rest are asscending?)\n\n\nCan pgSQL 8.x do \"physically\" sorted table (like a forced index order) so we\ndon't need order by?\n\ntia,\n.V\n\nCan pgSQL 8.x do descending indexes like mySQL 5.1?\n(so 1st col... |
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"msg_contents": "<AndrewSN> this needs to be posted on -hackers or -bugs, so that tom, oleg and teodor can take a look\nLogs here\nhttp://rafb.net/paste/results/NgHkIl17.html\n\nAnil\n\n\n\n\n \n____________________________________________________________________________________\nSponsored Link\n\nCompare mor... |
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"msg_contents": "First guys, thanks for the help getting my mapped data types together.\nThey work great until I run a query on a table where one is an index\ncolumn. The planner produces really bad plans (uses nested loop where\nmerge join would work). I ran ANALYZE on each of the tables in the query\nbefore... |
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"msg_contents": "I am interesting in PostGis and postgreSQL and want to do something on\nit. My idea is to build a Spatial Database Cache to accelerate GIS\napplications .So I want to ask you some question and hope to get your\nanswer. 1. As we all know, PostGis is a Spatial extention for\nPostGreSQL. And... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,everyone\n I want to measure the performance of PostgreSQL, Who can tell me how to\nprofile the PostgreSQL.\nAny suggestion is welcomed.\n\nhi,everyone\n I want to measure the performance of PostgreSQL, Who can tell me how to profile the PostgreSQL.\nAny suggestion is welcomed.",
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"msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL gurus, \n\nthank you very much for all your most valuable work. PostgreSQL 8.2beta3 \ncompiled flawlessly on my newest box, running Ubuntu 6.10 on a few Dual Core \nOpteron 875 processors using gcc-4.1.2; I did'nt find quite a similar box in \nthe build farm list.\n\nBest wish... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am working on a server that send queries to a distant database based on a PHP script executed twice a second. \n\nSometimes, if the distant server goes down the local SELECT dblink query can keep running indefinitly. This is strongly disturbing my server if by night the daily server ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI was thinking a bit about a problem that was mentioned in the \ndiscussion TomD, Simon Rigga and I had about enums and foreign keys, \nnamely that often we find dozens of tiny little reference tables \nlittering the data model, or else we find a table that somehow \nconsolidates them, plus... |
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"msg_contents": "I have update the 8.2 open items list:\n\n\thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems\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",
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"msg_contents": "I've been trying to optimize a Linux system where benchmarking suggests \nlarge performance differences between the various wal_sync_method options \n(with o_sync being the big winner). I started that by using \nsrc/tools/fsync/test_fsync to get an idea what I was dealing with (and to \nspot... |
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"msg_contents": "I think it's a recurrent question... but i want to know more about the\ncurrent developpement status of \"Hierarchical queries\" in postgresql.\n\nTwo years ago, this line appeared in the TODO List\n(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html) :\n\nAdd SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason why the vacuum tracking columns in pg_stat_all_tables \netc. were added before the existing columns? I find this to be a very \ninconvenient regression because I use the counter columns much more \noften. What is the rationale for that?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://dev... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane answered to a question from Francois Rigaudie:\n>> Since there is no timeout possibility with dblink I look for a\nsolution to\n>> that problem.\n> \n> Doesn't statement_timeout work?\n\nTo expand on this:\ndblink will login as a certain user on the remote database.\nIf your design i... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just testing the statement_timeout solution. Here are my strange results :\n\n- the distant database uses a specific user, indeed, but the problem occurs when that database server falls down. So my problem is to control my local query execution.\n\n- we set up a benchmark where 2 distin... |
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"msg_contents": "A last stand, a fall out actually.\n\nIf we suspend TCP input to the distant database long enough, the local Postgres finaly loose completely the connection. After that, allowing again the networkd trafic will not recover the dblink channel and the local query will hang... forever and ever.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm replying to a thread that is two years old (\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2004-10/msg00099.php\n), but:\n\n >Tom Lane wrote at Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:21:29 -0400:\n >>Christoph Haller <ch ( at ) rodos ( dot ) fzk ( dot ) de> writes:\n >> You cannot PQclear(pgresult_varibl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy editor starts a shell session to communicate with psql. On builds \nafter 8.1.1 this is no longer working on Windows. It seems that I'm \nno longer getting the password prompt (even if using the -W). \nEverything appears to be the same as before if I run interactively \nfrom the... |
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"msg_contents": "Avg performance for these two datatypes can be improved by *not* \ncalculating the sum of squares in the shared accumulator \n(do_numeric_accum). However there is a little subtlety as this function \nis also the shared by variance and stddev!\n\nThis patch:\n\n- Modifies do_numeric_accum to h... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nfollowing example shows a weird behavior with the transaction status \nidentifier\nin psql's prompt and the \\copy command:\n\n\nbernd@[local]:bernd #= SELECT version();\n version \n\n--------------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's what I see as the remaining things we need to resolve before\nwrapping 8.2RC1:\n\n* Brendan Jurd's recent report about from_char/to_char not being\nconsistent about 'D':\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00226.php\nIs this a bug? If so I think we should fix it n... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to use the dynahash package to construct a hash table whose\nkeys are an array of k Datums. The value of \"k\" for a particular hash\ntable is known at hash_create() time. This raises two questions:\n\n(1) How should variably-sized keys be represented?\n\nThe simplest way would be ju... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nShould be available on ftp.postgresql.org by now, as I uploaded it mid-evening \non Friday ... please run through it for anything obvious ...\n\nDaveP is aiming for a Windows binary to be ready by Monday, after which we will \ndo a general a... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> OK, I modified test_fsync.c by copying the defines from xlog.c, and\n> fixed the O_DIRECT alignment and check write()/fsync().\n\nI just tested your new test_fsync as included in the 8.2rc1, and it's \nworking perfectly for me now on Linux. All ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason other than existing code why HBA should not allow\n\"ident\" to be combined with other authentication methods?\n\nRight now there's no fall-back mechanism for when an ident map doesn't\ncover a particular login attempt. The code isn't really structured to\nallow one, and I'... |
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"msg_contents": "While trying to finish the support for standard_conforming_strings in \nthe JDBC driver, I realized that there is also a new variable \n\"backslash_quote\" that controls whether a back-slash may be used to \nescape a single quote inside a string constant.\n\nAssuming the documentation is corr... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHeads up.\n\nI have just discovered a tiny fix that is needed when compiling on Windows\nwith a very late model libintl.h. Essentially we need to add vfprintf to\nthe list of items we stop the libintl headers from hijacking. I am still\ntesting, but this change (3 extra lines in port.h) sho... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI created an additional system table that i need in my system. The table \ncontains attributes (username, att1, att2, ...)\nI need to scan the table for a certain username while retrieving the tupled \nordered by att1.\n\nIf i understand correctly, i may use systable_beginscan() and \nsy... |
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"msg_contents": "In the bufmgr code we keep track of reference counts on individual\nbuffers. We do this with a local array that grows in proportion to the\nsize of shared_buffers.\n\nWhen we have a high shared_buffers, together with a very large number of\nconnected users then this will waste considerable RA... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSolaris port already uses Intimate Shared Memory (ISM) which provides\nfor huge pages (amongst other things).\n\nLinux also supports HugeTLB, but the linux port doesn't allow this to be\nused, as yet. There was a previous objection to supporting this:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems possible to vary both BLCKSZ and XLOGSEGSZ rather than have\nthem set within pg_config_manual. There are a number of use-cases where\nvarying these values will offer increased performance (and for many\ncases, no difference at all, I accept).\n\nMost of the PostgreSQL user base don't... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a localization bug waiting to happen:\n\nstatic char *\nlocalize_month_full(int index)\n{\n char *m = NULL;\n\n switch (index)\n {\n case 4:\n m = _(\"May\");\n break;\n\n\nstatic char *\nlocalize_... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIs there anything that may prevent two PostgreSQL servers to share the\nsame pg_xlog directory; while one is using read-only and the other one\nis using the same partition for read and write? The problem is: If we\nshare the same pg_xlog between production server and warm standby\ns... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Guys\n\nIs there any particular reason why you can't do something like:\n select '10.1.1.1'::inet + 1;\n\nI would dearly like to be able to autoincrement an INET field. Even better I\nwould like to be able to specify subnet or range limits on the\nautoincrement, but that would be just icin... |
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"msg_contents": "I've now got to custom datatypes that map from an int2 value on disk to \na string by way of a table for each. Currently, I load these tables into \na dynahash per function call (fcinfo->flinfo->fn_extra). This is working\ngreat is most situations. The problem situation is where there are man... |
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"msg_contents": "[jks@jks-work-desktop /tmp/tmp/postgresql-8.2rc1]$ \nsrc/tools/make_diff/difforig\n./doc/src/sgml/ref/rollback_to.sgml\n*** ./doc/src/sgml/ref/rollback_to.sgml.orig 2006-11-27 \n16:57:41.000000000 -0500\n--- ./doc/src/sgml/ref/rollback_to.sgml 2006-11-27 17:02:43.000000000 -0500\n*********... |
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"msg_contents": "The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/\n\n- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not many\nQs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it clearly\nworks, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise w... |
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"msg_contents": "ecpg_config.h doesn't get installed -- should it be? ecpg_informix.h\nand pgtypes_timestamp.h include pgtypes_interval.h, which includes\necpg_config.h, which doesn't exist.\n\n% echo 'int main(void) {return 0;}' > foo.pgc\n% ecpg -C INFORMIX foo.pgc\n% gcc -I`pg_config --includedir` -c foo.... |
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"msg_contents": "I wanted to run pgindent, which carefully ensures that you have entab \nfrom src/tools/entab available, but then it also uses detab, which I \ncan't find anywhere. Where is it?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:43:58 +... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent does\nnot destroy them. Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/parser:\n parse_clause.c (r1.158 -> r1.159)\n (http://develo... |
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"msg_contents": "We are currently debugging a problem with error messages like this:\n\nERROR: 53100: could not write block 2427137 of relation \n1663/706306048/706314280: No space left on device\n\nThe device has plenty of space left. The problem appears to be this \ncurious code in src/backend/storage/fil... |
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"msg_contents": "The smallest BLCKSZ that you can compile is 256. But ...\n\nThe smallest BLCKSZ that actually works is 1024, because of this code in \nguc.c:\n\n case GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS:\n val /= (BLCKSZ / 1024);\n\nMaybe it's worth adding an #error here to prevent smaller sizes being \nused?\n\nThe ... |
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"msg_contents": "One exceedingly minor logging issue I just noticed in looking at the log\nfrom a beta3.\n \n[2006-11-28 06:37:08.152 CST] 14775 <postgres dtr [local]> NOTICE: \nnumber of page slots needed (2296208) exceeds max_fsm_pages (1000000)\n[2006-11-28 06:37:08.152 CST] 14775 <postgres dtr [local]> HI... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOne thing I want to look at for 8.3 is improving custom variable \nclasses. Right now these are all user settable, which makes them quite \ninappropriate for security related settings (such as which perl modules \nto load for use by trusted plperl). I'm wondering if we should perhaps \nallo... |
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"msg_contents": "Unless I'm missing something, pg_dump is not allowing selective dump of\na table where the table name is mixed case. The -t switch still works\nfor lower case. Even though quotes weren't previously needed on the\npg_dump command line, I tried that with no better luck.\n \npostgres@DTR3:~> p... |
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