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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nRecently I upgraded my egcs compiler and noticed it can't compile \ncvs postgres ( 6.4 probably too) on my linux x86 machine.\n\nmake[2]: Entering directory /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster'\ngcc -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -mpentium -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL hackers:\n\nI have a problem that I recently posted in the Postgres-ADMIN newsgroup. It was not answered there, but Mr. Marc Fournier, aka Hermit Hacker, told me that it might be worthwhile (to both myself and the Postgres code hackers) to cross-post my problem. \n\nWithout ...
[ { "msg_contents": "CORBA in fifty words or less:\n \n CORBA is an architecture which specifies how to:\n - define the method signatures of an object type\n - obtain a reference to a object instance\n - invoke a method, with parameters, on an object instance\n - receive the results\n - al...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> What do the others say?\n> \nIn my opinion a redo log is more than worth the overhead. If it is\npossible to keep those databases that aren't using the log from creating\nthe shmem and semaphores until logging is turned on for them, I'd say\nyou'd eliminated all of the possible argum...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I'm currently hacking around on a solution for logging all\n database operations at query level that can recover a crashed\n database from the last successful backup by redoing all the\n commands.\n\n Well, I wanted it to be as flexible as can. So I decided to\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 09:00:14AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Michael Robinson wrote:\n> \n> > - The ORBit sources appear to be LGPL'ed, which means they can be linked to\n> > PostgreSQL without poisoning the BSD license.\n> \n> \tMico is also LGPL'd for the libra...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > What do the others say?\n> > >\n> > In my opinion a redo log is more than worth the overhead. If it is\n> > possible to keep those databases that aren't using the log from\n> creating\n> > the shmem and semaphores until logging is turned on for them, I'd\n> say\n> > you'd eliminate...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've added a new utility called vacuumdb (a la \"createdb\", etc.) to make\nvacuum'ing operations a bit easier. It accepts a few command line\nswitches like \"-a\" and \"--analyze\". It's in the main tree, in the same\nplace as the other utilities (src/bin/vacuumdb/). If anyone finds it\ninte...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n>(I assume CORBA has a recognized standard for the wire-level protocol?)\n\nIt's called the General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP). It's stream based.\nWhen the streams are TCP/IP sockets, it becomes the Internet Inter-ORB \nProtocol (GIOP, plus a specificati...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:\n>> GNOME then adopted ORBit, which has two wins: it's in C, and (this is\n>> the biggy) it has provisions to shortcut parameter marshalling,\n>\n>\tMy experience is that for pretty much every pro, there is a\n>con...what are we losing with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>Current FE/BE protocol seems pretty optimized to me, but you should know\n>the best. Seems like a waste to try and get it to match some standard,\n\nWell, I suppose you could make the same argument about SQL-92 compliance.\n\nStandards comp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Today I discovered an astonishing thing !!!\n\nIf I declare a rule on a table, PgAccess will not show that table in the\n\"Tables\" panel, but in \"Views\" panel !!!!!\nEven psql, at \\dt is showing that my table with rules is a \"view?\" !!!\n:-)\n\nI remember that one year ago, when I start...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have created a table , let's say \"people\" that has a column called\n\"id\".\nI declared this column as \"serial\", that means unique, sequential\nassigned values.\n\nI have created another table, \"students\", that inherits the columns from\n\"people\" and has other fields, let's say \"un...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do any of you sit on IRC somewhere? Sometimes I feel like the discussions\nwould be smoother/faster with real-time... I'm on efnet all the time (as\nTaral, of course :)\n\nTaral\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:26:26 -0600", "msg_from": "\"Taral\" <taral@cyberjunkie.com>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since I don't know exactly who else is working on this CORBA thing (maybe we\nshould make a list?), I'll send this here.\n\nThe OMG publishes extensive information about CORBA on their web site:\nhttp://www.omg.org/corba/\n\nThey have a beginners section (which I think EVERYONE should read) a...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:\n>> Yea, that would be neat. But considering no one really totally supports\n>> CORBA yet, and we already have tons of working interfaces, perhaps we\n>> can consider it in the future, or were you thinking in the next 6-9\n>> months?\n>\n>\tGuess t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nMinor detail, but when I did 'pg_dump -z -f dump.file dbname' and then\nwent to restore it, I found that the grant statments are like:\nGRANT ALL on \"tablename\" to \"tablename\";\ninstead of\nGRANT ALL on \"tablename\" to \"username\";\n\nI used vim to edit the dump file, so am ok...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nThis is a multipart MIME message.\n\n- --==_Exmh_18043825520\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\n\n============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\...
[ { "msg_contents": "============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n============================================================================\n\n\nYour name\t\t: Billy G. Allie\t\nYour email address\t: Bill.Allie@mug.org\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nApplixware 4.4.1 proports to be able to talk to corba objects.\n\n>From the 'Builder' documentation...\n\nFor the Builder Programmer, CORBA allows you to access useful objects\nresiding in any part of your network. These objects may exist on the\nsame machine as your Builder application, or...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nJust a follow up, did that datetime stuff I submitted ever become part of\nthe soon to be 6.4.1 tree?\n\nI just never seen any reply one way or the other, and wanted to make sure\nit did not just fall into a balck hole :-)\n\nIt seemed to me that it may also be usefull to others. F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we're supposedly an \"object relational database\", is there any chance\nwe might be able to move towards supporting OQL93?\n\nTaral\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:02:34 -0600", "msg_from": "\"Taral\" <taral@cyberjunkie.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, folks, I need help on this one. We use the new structure slock_t,\nbut it is not defined in all include/port/*.h files. It is missing in:\n\t\n\t#$ ls *.h |diff - /tmp/x\n\t< dgux.h\n\t< sco.h\n\t< sunos4.h\n\t< ultrix4.h\n\t< win32.h\n\nIf any of these ports tries to access the locking...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that full support for CORBA and the COS Query Service requires us\nto enable the user to parse, prepare, and execute the query in three\nseparate stages. Are we also planning to support PREPARE? If so, we should\nco-ordinate the effort, since the full COSQS support will require pulli...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tI've run into a few problem compiling Postgres v6.4 on an Alpha\nrunning Red Hat Linux v5.2. I'm not asking anybody to drop\nwhat they're doing to fix these... hopefully I'll do that\nmyself soon :). I provide the following for informational\npurposes more than anything and to see if, per...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPardon the message, I received no responses in the other pgsql lists I\nposted this too.\n\nI'm using a fully updated RedHat 5.1 box\n\nflex version 2.5.4\nGNU Bison version 1.25\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:24:58 -0700 (MST)\nFrom: Dax Kelson <dkels...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nmore...\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:55:04 -0700 (MST)\nFrom: Dax Kelson <dkelson-list-pgsql-admin@inconnect.com>\nTo: pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org\nSubject: Re: [ADMIN] New to PostgreSQL, is this a DoS?\n\n\nOn Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dax Kelson wrote:\n\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAnother one...\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:08:27 -0700 (MST)\nFrom: Dax Kelson <dkelson-list-pgsql-admin@inconnect.com>\nCc: pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org\nSubject: [ADMIN] Permissions/security on pg_* tables?\n\n\nIs it normal/desirable for any user t...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:36:30 -0800", "msg_from": "\"David N. Cicalo\" <cicalo@elecomm.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi~ Everyone...\n\nI have some problem... with PostgreSql Version 6.4\n\nI don't know how to use text type data filed...\n\nHm...\n---------------------------------------------------------------\ncreate table test(\n id int primary key,\n data1 text)\n\nHow to use \"insert into test...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI'm working on writing a search engine, and need a branching linked list,\nor tree. When I did the message board there was a similar need which was\nover come at the application level. But I don't really want to do it that\nway this time, and at least one other person has asked ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was trying to commit Billy's fixes for mixed-case table names and have\na problem! cvs is core dumping when I try to commit psql.c. I can commit\nother files just fine (or at least did before running into this). The\nproblem is on the REL6_4 branch, and I succeeded in committing the same\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tHello\n\n\tI am the fellow trying to build 6.4 for sunos - it seems changes somewhere\nin the past have messed up the sunos4.1.4 build.\n\n\tI have a list to keep -Wall from complaining (just warnings) and have\nadded the needed #defines back for the port.\n\n\tI am down to the build in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all this relates to the 'tree type' posting.\n\nI keep crashing the backend with:\n pid = SPI_getvalue(rettuple, tupdesc, pid_index); /* get parent id */\n\nI've checked pid_index via elog() and it is 2, there are 4 fields total.\nAnd rettuple and tupdesc have been used several times ea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nWhere are the built in function defined at?\nIn particular, strpos()?\n\nThanks, have a great night.\nTerry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com> http://www.terrym.com\nsysadmin/owner Please! No MIME encoded or HTML mail, unless needed.\n\nProudly powered by R H Linux 4.2, Apache ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI've been doing some more tests with the above configuration, and have\nnoticed the following problems when running the regression tests:\n\n1)\tTHE REGRESSION TEST FOR FLOAT8 IS BROKEN!!!\n\nIndeed, the \"expected\" output for the exp() operator \":\" is brain damaged.\nThis is the qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI have the following problem using PostgreSQL 6.4 on RedHat Linux 5.1 \non x86\n\nusing the following table\n\nthplus=> \\d envelope\n\nTable = envelope\n+-------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+\n| Field | Type ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anybody else using Solaris 7? I am using it on an Ultra 10\nand it has broken cvsup. It broke both the version that I built\nas well as the version available from the ftp site. Is it just\nme?\n\nThanks,\n\nMatthew\n----------\nMatthew C. Aycock\nOperating Systems Analyst/Admin, Senior\nDe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nBroder line off topic here, but...\nUpdate: The new search engine I'v been working on is almost done, except\nfor one little (==big:-) thing.\n\nTo do/maintian cross linked categories, it will need a complecated spi\nfunction that can be called by a trigger. The closest thing on ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was hoping someone could shed some light on the \nfollowing problem:\n\nAfter increasing the buffer size of the postmaster\nusing the -B option to 256, we suffered a backend\ncrash which caused the backend to crash so hard,\nno further connections could be made.\n\nI rebooted the server (an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please tell me ,\n1. Actually I have to store 2048 to 27584 short integers\ninto the one\nfield of each record. The number of data is not fixed. Presently I am\nstoring them in a file and then importing that file into the database\nand at the time of retrieval I am exporting th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just told in a completely different subject that someone has problems\nwith 6.3.2 running wild. \n\nThey use PHP and have many persistant connections. Sometimes the following\nmessages pop up:\n\nNOTICE: PortalHeapMemoryFree: 0x81c98e0 not in alloc set!\nNOTICE: PortalHeapMemoryFree: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\n I have some difficult time in using postgresql 6.4 with chinese BIG5\ncharacters. I am just looking for storing BIG characters in a text field\nand retrieve correctly. I have --enable-mb when I compile. I am on RH5.1\nintel platform, running PG 6.4.\n I just created a test...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nSmall correction to the TODO list. The \"allow ORDER BY a function\"\nfeature already exist in 6.4.\n\n EXAMPLES:\n\n SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY upper(foo);\n\n -- or any other expression for that matter\n\n SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY att1 || att2;\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\n I have some difficult time in using postgresql 6.4 with chinese BIG5\n\ncharacters. I am just looking for storing BIG characters in a text field\n\nand retrieve correctly. I have --enable-mb when I compile. I am on RH5.1\n\nintel platform, running PG 6.4.\n I just created ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > >\n> > > thplus=> select count(*) from envelope where state_id='H' or\n> > > state_id='E';\n> > > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.\n> > > This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or\n> > > while processing t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm having a little problem with CVS at the moment.\n\nWhenever I do a cvs update I get the following:-\n\nS-> unlink(pgtclsh/CVS/Entries.Static)\n -> unlink(CVS/Entries.Static)\ncvs server: Updating src/bin/pgtclsh\nS-> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)\nS-> unlink(CVS/Entrie...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that configure.in is set up to pull a fixed set of symbols\nout of the template files, by means of this rather grotty code:\n\nAROPT=`grep '^AROPT:' template/$TEMPLATE | awk -F: '{print $2}'`\nSHARED_LIB=`grep '^SHARED_LIB:' template/$TEMPLATE | awk -F: '{print $2}'`\nCFLAGS=`grep '...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just noticed that doc/FAQ_Linux and doc/FAQ_Irix have been\nzero-length files in the CVS repository since the end of August.\nThey're also that way in the 6.4 distribution tarball.\n\nThere are still copies on the website (at the URLs mentioned in\ndoc/FAQ), but I dunno where those are stored...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got a note from someone about problems installing Postgres 6.4\non HPUX, one of which was that HP's yacc wouldn't process gram.y\ndue to table overflow. That's hardly news ... but a distribution\ntarball shouldn't require gram.y to be processed; it should contain\nusable output files, no?\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just checked in a rewrite of configure's method for guessing\nthe right template file to use when --with-template is not provided.\n\nThe old method was to look for an exact match to the $host value\n(from config.guess) in template/.similar, and if that wasn't found\nto strip all version...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc, please apply this to the 6.4 stable tree. I think we need it to\nprevent backend crashes with OR.\n\nMy cvs on stable is not working either.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If yo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting signal 10/bus error on cvs checkouts. Looks like others\nare having the same problem.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThings should be okay now, just tried it on two different\nmachines...upgraded to cvs 1.10 ..\n\nLet me know of any further problems...\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n=> SELECT datetime(current_date, '11:00');\ndatetime \n----------------------------\nMon 23 Nov 11:00:00 1998 MSK\n(1 row)\n\n I got correct result (11:00:00 MSK) on Sparc Solaris 2.5.1 and RedHat 4.2.\nI got incorrect result (17:00:00 MSK) on RedHat 5.1 and Deb...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI would like to greet averybody on the list; this is my first mail.\n\nAnyway... I need to use the UPDATE ... WHERE CURRENT OF ... clausule,\nbut it doesn't work:\n\noeptest=> update shorttest set b='blahblah' where current of c1;\nERROR: CURRENT used in non-rule query\n\nWhat doe...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n I've got a small problem.\n\nSay you have tables A and B. They both have a userid column. Table B was \nselected and previously filled with entries from table A. Lets say about \n2000 out of 40,000. Now \nI want to select everything from A that isn't in B, so about 38,000 \nentries.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Huh,\n\nI am creating a big view and then I get:\n\nPostgresSQL error message: ERROR:\nDefineQueryRewrite: rule plan string too big.\n\nThis is on 6.3.2.\n\nAny hints?\n\nDirk", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:04:47 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUmm, I am creating a big view and then I get:\n\nPostgresSQL error message: ERROR:\nDefineQueryRewrite: rule plan string too big.\n\nThis is on 6.3.2.\n\nAny hints?\n\nDirk\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:08:18 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> I use postgres v6.4. My standard database is in /usr/local/pgsql/data\n> directory and the PGDATA environment variable points to this database\n> directory. But I'd like to create another database into another\n> directory. So I tried this:\n> killall postmaster\n> initdb --pgdata=/home...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I use postgres v6.4. My standard database is in /usr/local/pgsql/data\n>directory and the PGDATA environment variable points to this database\n>directory. But I'd like to create another database into another\n>directory. So I tried this:\n>killall postmaster\n>initdb --pgdata=/home/postgres/...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tI isolated a code problem (sunos4.1.X does not have a fflush(NULL)),\nTom Lane is adding a portable workaround. Yes this is an ANSI required\nbut either forget about Sunos4.1.X or use more general code. fflush(NULL)\ncore dumps sunos4.1.X\n\n\tEven with a non core dumping build I am calli...
[ { "msg_contents": "The original message was received at Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:05:20 -0800 (PST)\nfrom hotzmac [137.78.84.130]\n\n ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----\n<psql-ports@postgresql.org> (unrecoverable error)\n\n ----- Transcript of session follows -----\n... while talking...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a simple constraint check that crashes the 6.4 backend.\n\nFixes [rattling tin cup]?\n\n\tThanx,\n\t<mike\n\ncreate table splatter (\n a int,\n b int,\n check (not (a is null and b is null))\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:58:29 -0800", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have not been able to resolve the problem with creating triggers on tables \nthat have mixed case names due to a lack of both time and knowledge of the \ncode involved. Can someone familar with that area of code assist by fixing \nthe problem or giving me pointers as to where I should look...
[ { "msg_contents": "I apologize. pgsql-questions has disappeared? (out of the loop, I am)\n\n> \n> Hello,\n> \n> My questions are:\n> \t(1) does 6.4 offer speed improvements over 6.3.2?\n> \t(2) does 6.4 offer stability improvements over 6.3.2?\n> \t(3) does 6.4 support query lengths > 8192, or data blocks > 81...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nMy database is full of tables... What's that ? Temporary tables ?\nMay I drop safety these tables ?\n\n | Owner | Relation | Type |\n +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+\n | postgres | _rpt16567_r1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe November 16, 1998 issue of \"Information Week\" mentions Postgres in\nan article on page 186 called \"Red Hat Linux: Almost Free, And Full of\nFunctions\".\n\nQuoting from the article...\n\n\"Red Hat even includes an open-source SQL database known as PostgreSQL\nDBMS, based on the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nCREATE RULE \"_RETmessages\" AS ON SELECT TO \"messages\" DO INSTEAD SELECT\n\"title\", \"mess\", \"iurl\", \"lurl\", \"posted\", \"fname\", \"lname\", \"email\",\n\"uid\", \"ppid\", \"pid\", \"bid\" FROM \"post\", \"users\" WHERE \"uid\" = \"uid\";\nERROR: Column uid is ambiguous\...
[ { "msg_contents": "First, of course, thanks for all the work on postgresql.\n\nI've been using 6.3 on two SGI O2's (irix 6.3) for a about six\nmonths. I tried to make 6.4, and came across bunches of errors,\nnot in the build, but in making a new database on it, and running\nthe regression tests.\n\nLike 6.3, I...
[ { "msg_contents": "This was reported as a bug with the Debian package of 6.3.2; the same\nbehaviour is still present in 6.4. \n\nbray=> create table foo ( t text[]);\nCREATE\nbray=> insert into foo values ( '{\"a\"}');\nINSERT 201354 1\nbray=> insert into foo values ( '{\"a\",\"b\"}');\nINSERT 201355 1\nbray=> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nReleasing 6.4.1 is a good news.\nBut would you confirm the following \"memory leak\" problem?\nIt is reproducable on 6.4 (FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE).\n\nRegards\n\n[On Nov 13, takehi-s@ascii.co.jp (SHIOZAKI Takehiko) writes:]\n>Hello!\n>\n>A background postgres porocess gets larger with...
[ { "msg_contents": "After having a talk with an analyst of META GROUP I believe that adding\nCORBA support is THE most important addition we can make. It really seems a\nlot is developing there. The one big problem CORBA still has of course is\nperformance.\n\nAlso they told me that there is no ORB that implemen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking for a 6.4 RPM for RH Linux - is one available yet? I don't know\nhow it's done (does Redhat do it?) but I'd really appreciate any effort\non this front.\n\nAlso, someone on the SQL list said they thought a developer is working\non joining indexes. I'm looking for improvements for join...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi...\nPostgreSQL v6.4 have fatal error!\n\nMy machine is Digital Alpha 1000.\ni attempt to install PostgreSQL version 6.4..\nBut i face in of compile error!! \n\nhu.....\n\nSome body know..why..??\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:50:04 +0900", "msg_from": "\"Ki won, Song\" <sc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHas anyone been getting my posts about Corba, Java & JDBC over the last\ncouple of days?\n\nI'm subscribed both at home (retep.org.uk) and at work (maidstone.gov.uk)\nbut I'm not seeing any of my posts to the list (which I normally do).\n\nIt's just that the message included some problem ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:\n\n> It's possibly stronger on features, but it's slower than mysql. It is\n> speed he's emphasizing.\n\n\tI've never actually installed mysql, so can't really compare the\ntwo, but I've been using PostgreSQL for everything I need an RDBMS for\ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have a strange behavior while copying from a text file, I don't know\nif this will be considered a bug or a feature.\n\nI have this text file:\n------------------------\nXXX|QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLA\nA01|BAIO\nA02|BAIO CHIARO\nA03|BAIO OSCURO\n------------------------\n\nand this tab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have run into a problem dropping and re-creating tables with\ntype SERIAL:\n\nCREATE TABLE t ( s SERIAL);\nDROP TABLE t;\nCREATE TABLE t ( s SERIAL);\n\ngives\nERROR: t_s_seq relation already exists\n\nThis looks like the implicitly created sequence t_s_seq is not dropped\ntogether ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsubscripe\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:29:56 -0200 (EDT)", "msg_from": "Gilmar Ribeiro da Rosa <gilmarrr@cwbone.bsi.com.br>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n here are some details I would like to discuss before beeing\n too deep in the implementation that it's hard to change them\n later.\n\n Point 1 is an extension of the pg_database relation that is\n required to see the actual redolog state of a database. New\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just done in CURRENT tree.\nRegression tests are OK.\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 28 Nov 1998 05:51:26 +0700", "msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "HeapTuple changed" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I changed some minor stuff in Thomas Good's man page for ecpg and would like\nto see this one replace the man page for ecpg we currently have in CVS. It's\nattached. Or should this one go to patches too?\n\nThanks\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Manager of the Western Branch Office, Date...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n On FreeBSD 3.0 Nov. 1998 - ELF\n \n The snapshots for 981128, 981127, 981114 and 981106 all\n test the same on the regression tests.\n\n The backend dumps core on the regression tests 3 times when running\n create_function_2, triggers, and alter_table.\n In addition to thes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am attaching here my humble patch for pg_dump utility modified by me\nfor readability purposes.\n\nThe main (and single) thing that is doing is changing the layout of\npg_dump'ed table structure by writing a single field per line so viewing\nand changing the structure will be easi...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, John Fieber wrote:\n\n> In working with the two, I've also found a couple complicated\n> join queries where I just couldn't get the optimizer in\n> PostgreSQL (6.3.2 and 6.4) to do the right thing, resulting in\n> several minutes of processing per query, while mySQL did t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nOn Sat, 28 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n> On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, John Fieber wrote:\n> \n> > In working with the two, I've also found a couple complicated\n> > join queries where I just couldn't get the optimizer in\n> > PostgreSQL (6.3.2 and 6.4) to do the right thing, resulting i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Several people have mentioned the need for a platform-specific FAQ for\nHPUX. I've finally stepped up and drafted one ... it's doubtless not\nvery complete yet, so if you have had problems using Postgres on HPUX\nwould you take a look and see what can be added or improved?\n\nI've placed the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just checked into the main-branch CVS tree some revisions\nto allow autoconf to decide whether the system has POSIX signals\nor not, rather than relying on the platform os.h file to tell us.\nThis seems to be the only reasonable way to support all the\ndifferent versions of HPUX correc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe subject says all.\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tOle\t\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)\nInternet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~meg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Sir/Madam:\n\nA few days ago I stumped into a site mentioned words along the post??? The database can handle 200 Giga Byte of data and the CD was $6.00. Today I did my search again I could never find it. Are you the proper site that I should be in or you could point out otherwise. Does y...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm going to remove subj...\n\nbuf_internals.h:\n\n /*\n * I padded this structure to a power of 2 (PADDED_SBUFDESC_SIZE)\n * because BufferDescriptorGetBuffer is called a billion times and it\n * does an C pointer subtraction (i.e., \"x - y\" -> array index of x\n * relati...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\nI'm a new user of PostgreSQL 6.3.2. I plan to build Distributed Databases\nwith PostgreSQL and JDBC, but i don't now where to start? Could anyone\nhelp me?!\n\n\nAkmal Hasan\n****************\nakmal_h@mailcity.com\nakmal92@student.te.ugm.ac.id\n\n \n\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon...
[ { "msg_contents": "\t>>> Another question is whether a SERIAL field should automatically\nbe\n\t>>> UNIQUE (ie, create a unique index on it to prevent mistakes in\nmanual\n\t>>> insertion of values for the field).\n\t>\n\t>> Once again - I would like to see SERIAL compatible with\n\t>> SERIAL/IDENTY in other RD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n while on the redolog, I've came across a little detail I'm in\n doubt about. Currently it seems, that the 'C' response to the\n frontend is sent before the transaction get's really\n committed in the backend. So there is a little chance that\n the backend...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nLooks like Sun has been paying attention to the good features of Linux and\nimplementing them. I guess Sun decided that that game can be played both\ndirections. :)\n\nhttp://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1998/swol-11-insidesolaris.html?1101a\nhttp://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1998/swol-11-solari...
[ { "msg_contents": "I installed the postgres version from the (freebsd) ports\ncollection. When I try to connect to the backend server, this\nhappens:\n\nbash-2.02# su pgsql -c \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D\n/usr/local/pgsql/data -d 2\"\nFindExec: found \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres\" using argv[0]\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Found today two ugly bugs in pg_dump :\n\nEnvironment : Linux i386 RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36 kernel, Pentium 233 MMX\nPg version : PostgreSQL 6.4\n\n1. It's easy reproductible :\n\n(login as user teo, createdb rights granted)\n$ createdb test\n$ psql test\npsql=> create table people (id int4, name ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a quick question. What is the current state of PostgreSQL on Windows\nNT (yeuch).\n\nI'm asking, because I'm pushing PostgreSQL here, and their eye's lit up as\nsoon as they heared that someone has got it running (even partially\nhelps).\n\nAnyhow, I'm not too worried, as I'll have it ru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am Loan Pham, a student from the University of Oklahoma.\n\nI am doing independent study on indexing techniques for object\noriented databases, and trying to implement an indexing technique in\nPostgreSQL. I already installed PostgreSQL v6.4 on a Sun machine\n(SunOS 5.5, Sparc.) Wo...