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"msg_contents": "It seems to be about time to put out 8.2.1, since the flow of new bug\nreports has ebbed. We're also overdue for updates of the back branches\n--- for instance, we recently realized that the current 8.0.x and 8.1.x\nreleases don't know about the Canadian DST changes coming into effect in\nMa... |
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"msg_contents": "My program (indirectly) calls the following function twice,\n\ntuple = SearchSysCache(STATRELATT, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid),\n\nInt16GetDatum(colnum), 0, 0);\n\nThe first time it assigns NULL to tuple, while the second time it\nassigns a valid pointer. Why is it like that? BTW, my program onl... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks to Simon Riggs and Bruce for input that helped me put this together.\n\n-- \nBill Moran\nCollaborative Fusion Inc.",
"msg_date": "Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:47:19 -0500",
"msg_from": "Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nWiden the money type to 64 bits.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:\n cash.c (r1.68 -> r1.69)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c.diff?r1=1.68&r2=1.69)\n pgsql/src/includ... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems that the contrib regression tests, namely the cash and oid tests of\nthe btree_gist contrib module, are failing after the recent commit to\nwiden the money type to 64 bits. Example:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mongoose&dt=2007-01-03%2005:30:01\n\nAlso, on a sligh... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI notice that quite a few pg_ctl options have no long form equivalents, \nnamely these: NopPwW\n\nAlso, none of the long forms seems to be documented at all.\n\nShould this be cleared up (maybe a nice first project for lurking new \ncontributors)?\\\n\nIf we don't want long forms for some r... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've just run into a race condition with creating a database and \nconnecting to it immediately afterwards. I'm getting a \"database %s not \nfound\" error just after the first flatfiles check in InitPostgres().\n\nWhat that FindMyDatabase() there does, besides checking if the database... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am working on support scrollable cursors in plpgpsm. Scrollable cursors \nare in ToDo for plpgsql too. I need new function \nSPI_cursor_fetch_with_direction(Portal portal, int direction, long count) \nwhere is possible set direction of fetch statement.\n\nany comments?\n\nRegards... |
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"msg_contents": "Merge Joins require us to potentially Mark and Restore positions in the\ntuples arriving from executor sub-nodes.\n\nThis currently means that if the tuples arrive from a Sort node, as they\noften do in an MJ, the sort node will be instructed to prepare a random\naccess version of the sort re... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have some questions on execution plans.\n\nWhen are the following plans used ?\n\nnodeFunctionscan.c nodeTidscan.c\n\nIn particular, is the plan nodeBitmapHeapscan.c always used along with \nthe nodeBitmapIndexscan.c ?\n\nPlease, let me know if there is a previous thread on this su... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello all,\n\na friend of mine ran into a problem installing PostgreSQL 8.0.9 on a\nWindows XP Pro machine. Before anyone is asking: it has to be a 8.0.x\nversion and we even tried to install 8.2 and it did not work.\n\nOk, the problem is: after installing all the files the installer wants\... |
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"msg_contents": "I wish to estimate the total cost for a given path of a query. This\npath is a tree consists of nestloop, hashjoin, mergejoin as internal\nnodes with seqscan or idxscan at the leaves.\n\nMy approach is to cost the path bottom-up, and invoke the\n\"cost_nestloop\", \"cost_merge_join\" etc.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Minor request for clarification:\n\nI read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4\nspaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces.\n\nTrouble is, there are tabs throughout the code. What gives?\n\nShould I be replacing tabs as spaces, or leaving them alone? At ... |
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"msg_contents": "In this thread, I outlined an idea for reducing cost of WAL CRC checking\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01299.php\n\nwal_checksum = on (default) | off\n\nRecovery can occur with/without same setting of wal_checksum, to avoid\ncomplications from crashes immediately af... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI noticed this odd discrepancy:\n\npostgres=# select -0.999::numeric(3,3)::float4 = -0.999::numeric(3,3);\n ?column? \n----------\n f\n(1 row)\n\n\nI believe this is happening because the numeric is being cast to float8 and\nthen the float4-float8 cross-data-type operator is being used. It ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn postgres.c main loop, I note that we issue ReadyForQuery() *after*\nupdating pgstat and setting the ps display.\n\nWouldn't it be better to issue ReadyForQuery() and then issue the stat\nstuff in the gap between processing? \n\nThat way we would be less likely to care about pgstat and th... |
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"msg_contents": "OSDL had a tool called PLM with a primary goal to test patches against\nthe Linux kernel. It applied them and built them on multiple\nplatforms. It's a pretty simple idea and here are some links to what\nit did; the systems appear to still be up for the moment so here are a\ncouple of links... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n Please find attached the latest version of the patch attached. It\nis based on REL8_2_STABLE.\n\n It includes a few bug fixes and an improvement to the size\nestimation function. It also includes a work-around to circumvent the\nproblem we were facing earlier in xact.c; it now... |
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"msg_contents": "In another thread I was made aware that current protocol may not be \neasily extensible (if at all), and so the backend-data a certain driver \nneeds may not be so easily added.\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/protocol-message-formats.html\n\nSo if there is not already a road... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe're running out of infomask bits in the tuple header. I bumped into \nthis as I tried to apply both the phantom command ids patch, and the HOT \npatch simultaneously. They both require one infomask bit, so they \nconflicted.\n\nThis has been discussed before; I think the best approac... |
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"msg_contents": "In pgAdmin we use pg_dump's -f option to write backup files. The IO\nstreams are redirected to display status and errors etc. in the GUI.\n\nIn order to enhance the interface to allow backup of entire clusters as\nwell as role and tablespace definitions, we need to be able to get\npg_dumpall ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have the pleasure of announcing your PGCon 2007 program committee. \n\nBruce Momjian\nChristopher Browne\nJosh Berkus\nRobert Treat\nLuke Lonergan\nNeil Conway\nRobert Bernier\n\nThese people are responsible for reviewing your submissions and \nselecting the presentations for PGCon 2007.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "On Windows, if logged in as an Administrator, 'make check' fails with our\nstandard error, saying:\n\n<quote>\nExecution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not\npermitted.\nThe server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent\npossible system security co... |
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"msg_contents": "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01172.php\n\nAs discussed on -hackers, its possible to avoid writing any WAL at all\nfor COPY in these circumstances:\n\nBEGIN;\n CREATE TABLE foo..\n COPY foo...\nCOMMIT;\n\nBEGIN;\n TRUNCATE foo..\n COPY foo...\nCOMMIT;\n\nThe encl... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nStamp major release 8.3.0, and increment library version numbers.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc:\n bug.template (r1.40 -> r1.41)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/bug.template.diff?r1=1.40&r2=1.41)\n pgsql/s... |
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"msg_contents": "I've run into an annoying parsing problem while working on the NULLS\nFIRST/LAST stuff. It turns out this is ambiguous:\n\n\t... ORDER BY foo! NULLS ...\n\nIt could be that the \"!\" is a postfix operator and the \"NULLS\" is the\nstart of a NULLS FIRST/LAST clause, or it could be that the \... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nJim Nasby wrote:\n> On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:\n>> cvs update isn't too bad either. I just did a substantial update on\n>> a tree that had not been touched for nearly 6 months, and ethereal\n>> tells me that total traffic was 7343004 bytes in 7188 packets.\n>> Indi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>\n> Sent: 1/5/07, 10:48:17 PM\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] -f <output file> option for pg_dumpall\n>\n> \n> Wouldn't it be easier/better to re-point stdout at the -f file, and not\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>\n> Sent: 1/5/07, 10:52:37 PM\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] -f <output file> option for pg_dumpall\n> \n> I think this will be an exercise in time-wasting, and very possibly\n> dest... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCheck for ERANGE in exp() as well.\n\nImprove release docs for ecpg regression tests.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:\n float.c (r1.144 -> r1.145)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/util... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm trying to implement a top level node that must have a lefttree and a\nrighttree. The lefttree consists of a regular tree of other nodes required\nfor the query (that I let postgres' optimizer build on its own) and the\nrighttree should be a table scan (of a table called for in the ... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch warns users when they create documentation output\nthat has no index, and suggests re-running 'gmake'.\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. +",
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"msg_contents": "Hi there, we've partioned a table (using 8.2) by day due to the 50TB of\ndata (500k row size, 100G rows) we expect to store it in a year.\nOur performance on inserts and selects against the master table is\ndisappointing, 10x slower (with ony 1 partition constraint) than we get by\ngoing to... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nPostgreSQL allow only catch exception (elevel ERROR). SQL/PSM requires that \nwarnings are catchable too. Simply solution's is adding one callback to \nerror's processing of errors on level WARNING.\n\ntypedef struct WarningHandlerCallback\n{\n bool (*callback) (v... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nSQL/PSM default for SQL procedures are SECURITY DEFINER (like views), but \nPostgreSQL default is SECURITY CALLLER. Is acceptable to define security \nflag in dependency to used language?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule\n\n________________________________________________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "on an Intel based Solaris 10U2 box using Sun Studio 11 with\n-xarch=generic64 we get a compile time failure in contrib/pgcrypto\nbecause BYTE_ORDER is not defined.\n\nin src/include/port/solaris.h we define it to little endian only for\n__i386 - however in 64bit mode the compiler only defines... |
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"msg_contents": "I am putting together searches on the catalog info and came up with a \nselect that was rather slow and I noticed that in the explain analyze \nthere is a sort step on one of the left joins which I don't think \nbelongs there.\n\nI found the small error in my query (using tl.oid instead of tr... |
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"msg_contents": "On solaris 10U2 using the Sun compiler we get segmentation faults in\nnearly all of the ECPG regression tests on a 64bit built. the resulting\ncores look similiar to:\n\n\nCurrent function is ECPGget_variable\n 91 var->pointer = va_arg(APREF, char *);\n(dbx) where\n=>[1] ECPGget_v... |
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"msg_contents": "jackal's builds have been failing since xml.c started using \nxmlSaveToBuffer. It turns out that xmlSaveToBuffer is not yet \nimplemented in the version of libxml2 that comes with OS X (10.4.8), but\nit is being implicitly defined during the build.\n\nThe version of libxml2 on jackal is 2.6.... |
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"msg_contents": ">\n>\"Pavel Stehule\" <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com> writes:\n> > SQL/PSM default for SQL procedures are SECURITY DEFINER (like views), \n>but\n> > PostgreSQL default is SECURITY CALLLER. Is acceptable to define security\n> > flag in dependency to used language?\n>\n>I'd vote no, even if Peter i... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt occurs to me that we don't need to write full page writes on newly extended\npages. Is that optimization in the code already? I would check except I'm not\neven sure where to look for it. \n\n-- \n Gregory Stark\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n",
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2873\nLogged by: Jonathan Hull\nEmail address: jono@fabsoftware.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1 / 8.2\nOperating system: Linux\nDescription: Function that returns an empty set with a 'not null'\ndomain erro... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am working on scrollable cursors, and MOVE statement has relation to it.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nChcete sdilet sve obrazky a hudbu s prateli? http://messenger.msn.cz/\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>> SQL/PSM default for SQL procedures are SECURITY DEFINER (like views),\n> \n> I can't find this in the standard. Where did you get this \n> information?\n\nI only have a draft version of SQL:2003, which says in the 'Foundation'\nbook, chapter 11.50 (\"<SQL-invoked ... |
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"msg_contents": "one of my new buildfarm boxes (an Debian/Etch based ARM box) is\nsometimes failing to stop the database during the regression tests:\n\nhttp://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=quagga&dt=2007-01-08%2003:03:03\n\nthis only seems to happen sometimes and only if --with-tcl is enabl... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch fixes vcbuild so you can build without OpenSSL and libz\nshould you want to. This disables the sslinfo and pgcrypto modules\nbecause they require the libraries to build at all.\n\n//Magnus",
"msg_date": "Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:56:37 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a simple README file (part from Dave P, if my memory is not\nmistaken) for the vcbuild stuff. Please put in src/tools/msvc.\n\n//Magnus\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:09:43 +0100",
"msg_from": "Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>",
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"msg_contents": "There was some discussion recently of simplifying the sorting code (and\nhopefully making it a tad faster) by eliminating support for using\nrandomly-chosen operators in ORDER BY ... USING, and requiring USING to\nspecify an operator that is the < or > member of some btree opclass.\nThis stri... |
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"msg_contents": "It looks like pltcl regression tests are failing due to the recent ORDER\nBY ... USING change.\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mongoose&dt=2007-01-09%2002:30:01\n\n-- \nHorse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on\npeople.\n\t\t-- W. C. Fields\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nHere's a prototype for what I had in mind, the sections that will\nprobably be of most interest are pgsql and bizgres.\n\nThis link shows all tracked repositories:\nhttp://folio.dyndns.org/repository/report\n\nThis link shows all tracked patches for pgsql:\nhttp://folio.dyndns... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nHey, is there any good reason why FSM is sized by a static GUC variable? \nWhy couldn't we just automatically have the system use as much memory as \nit needs for FSM, provided that it's not more than some reasonable limit, \nlike 15% of shared memory?\n\nSeems like that would elimi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I've been studying some nested tables properties, and I use PostgreSQL\nas my default DBMS.\n\nThe question is...\n\nAre there some advances for the implementation of this propertie in any\nupcoming version of PostgreSQL?\n\nI'll be waiting for your answers.\nThanks\n--\n\nHi, I've been s... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch against PostgreSQL-8.2.1 was discussed on [INTERFACES].\nIt fixes bcc32.mak makefiles for the Borland BCC compiler to build libpq\nand psql*. There are also changes to some header files to hide some things\nBCC doesn't like.\n\n*Note: psql compiles with bcc after the patch,... |
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"msg_contents": "http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/catalog-pg-opfamily.html\nstates that\n\n\"Operator families are described at length in Section 33.14.\"\n\nwhich does not seem to be the case. Did it get missed in a commit?\n\nRegards, Dave.\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwhat are the assumptions PostgreSQL normally does about atomic \noperations? I see sig_atomic_t is used in signal handlers. Additionally, \nthere is a match for a cmpxchg instruction in some solaris ports code, \nbut that's about what I found in the source.\n\nAm I safe assuming that p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nWhen running \"make installcheck\", the DLL files for the regression tests\nare loaded from the source tree \"../../../contrib/\" etc. While this\ncertainly makes a bit sense, it poses a problem for binary\ndistributions that want to run the regression tests. It also causes a\nsmall pr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni'm trying to share some info between backends but i cannot figure how\nto do it...\ni was reading bgwriter.c and autovacuum.c hoping there is something\nthat can show me the way to go...\n\ncan you, please, guide me on this?\n\n-- \nregards,\nJaime Casanova\n\n\"Programming today is a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone\n\nWas running a VACUUM on a database on a partition which was running out \nof disk space. During VACUUM the server process died and failed to restart.\n\nRunning PostgreSQL 8.1.4\n\nI basically want to get the system back up and running ASAP with as \nlittle data loss as possibl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\nI have a feature request as I think it is not possible with the actual version:\n\nI want to load huge amount of data and I know that COPY is much faster than doing inserts.\nBut in my case I have an already filled table and rows (not all, only partly) from this table\nshould be r... |
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"msg_contents": "Assuming a working xml type, what do you think the future of the \ncontrib/xml2 module should be?\n\nAt the moment, I'd imagine that we add duplicate versions of most \nfunctions, where appropriate, that use the xml type instead of the text \ntype. Perhaps we should supply two sets of SQL fi... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently says\n\nNumber of disk-page buffers allocated in shared memory for WAL data. \nThe default is 8. The setting need only be large enough to hold the \namount of WAL data generated by one typical transaction, since the \ndata is written out to disk at every transaction commit. This ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all!\nRunning a vac on an 8.2 client connecting to an 8.2 database (following \nexample was for a 14 row static table) - vacuums will sit (for lack of a \nbetter word) for anywhere from ten to twenty minutes before taking a \nlock out on the table and doing work there. Once the vacuum d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all. I'm getting a checkpoint request failed message when I try to\nexecute a CREATE DATABASE command. Since it was a fresh install, I've\nincluded the entire server log up to the point of the error. I\ntruncated the log output two lines after the error message.\n\nIs there a way I can ... |
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"msg_contents": ".. appears to have killed win32. It did kill my manual MSVC builds, but\nit also seems to have killed win32 buildfarm members yak and snake:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=yak&dt=2007-01-11%2020:32:11\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=snake&dt=2007-01-11%2... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking at improving the planner so that it can handle things\nlike backwards-order mergejoins, and I'm starting to realize that the\nold assumption that mergejoinable operators had only one associated sort\nordering is wired into even more places than I thought. In particular,\nth... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm seeing the following on cuckoo:\n\ngcc -pipe -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\n-Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels\n-fno-strict-aliasing -g -dynamiclib -install_name\n/Users/buildfarm/buildfarm/HEAD/inst/lib/libecpg.5.dylib\n-compatibility... |
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"msg_contents": "I caught this thread about O_DIRECT on kerneltrap.org:\n http://kerneltrap.org/node/7563\n\nIt sounds like there is much to be gained here in terms of reducing\nthe number of user/kernel space copies in the operating system. I got\nthe impression that posix_fadvise in the Linux kernel isn't... |
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"msg_contents": "postgres=# select 'NaN'::numeric = 'NaN'::numeric,\n 'NaN'::float8 = 'NaN'::float8;\n ?column? | ?column? \n----------+----------\n t | t\n(1 row)\n\nThis behavior is inconsistent with most people's notion of \"NaN\" -- in\nparticular, it is inconsistent with IEEE754. ... |
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"msg_contents": "\"PostgreSQL 8.1.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd6.0, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518\"\n\nStarted seeing this in the logs this afternoon...scaring the begeezus out of me.\n\nJan 11 19:20:19 prod-app-1 postgres[1752]: [5-1] 1752 ERROR: could not access status of transaction 19240... |
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"msg_contents": "Looking backwards in the logs we see it a few other times this month...\n(Autovacuum occurring just prior)...same transaction ID\nHow could it be the same transaction ID from several days prior?\n\nJan 2 03:05:04 prod-app-1 postgres[8524]: [4-1] 8524 LOG: autovacuum: processing database \"... |
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"msg_contents": "I had a problem when upgrading a database from 8.1.4 to 8.2.1:\nSorry, the error messages are in german.\n\npg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:\npg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1531; 1259 3477393 INDEX idx_inspektionen_dat_inspektion \npg_restore: [archive... |
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"msg_contents": "Mario Weilguni wrote:\n> \n> I had a problem when upgrading a database from 8.1.4 to 8.2.1:\n> Sorry, the error messages are in german.\n> \n> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:\n> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1531; 1259 \n> 3477393 INDEX idx_inspektio... |
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"msg_contents": "I wrote:\n> > > I find it very unlikely that you would \"during normal operations\"\nend up\n> > > in a situation where you would first have permissions to create\nfiles in\n> > > a directory, and then lose them.\n> > > What could be is that you have a directory where you never had\n> > > per... |
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"msg_contents": "I just had a thought about fixing those Windows \"permission denied\"\nproblems. The case that we believe we understand is where the bgwriter\nis trying to execute a previously-logged fsync request against a table\nfile that is pending delete --- that is, actually has been unlink()'d,\nbut s... |
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"msg_contents": "On 1/12/07, org@kewlstuff.co.za <org@kewlstuff.co.za> wrote:\n>\n>\n> Hi Gurjeet.... glad you copied me, else would have missed it.... no longer\n> subscribed.\n>\n\nI also almost missed your mail. I was monitoring just the conversation\n(gmail) that I sent you mail in, but since you changed ... |
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"msg_contents": "PostgreSQL 8.1.5 and 8.2.1\n\nboth on W2K3, installed from the standard win32 msi installer.\n\nProblem:\n\nin postgresql.conf\n\nssl=on\n\nbut the files server.key etc. are NOT present.\n\nResult: PostgreSQL service does not start. And no error message in any\nlog I could access: nothing in ... |
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"msg_contents": "These two items are complete in 8.2, IIRC\n\nAllow constraint_exclusion to work for UNIONs like it does for\ninheritance, allow it to work for UPDATE and DELETE statements, and\nallow it to be used for all statements with little performance impact\n\nFix memory leak from exceptions \nhttp://a... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to use the PG_TRY/PG_CATCH exception handling:\n\nbool\nxml_is_document(xmltype *arg)\n{\n\tbool\t\tresult;\n\txmlDocPtr\tdoc;\n\n\tPG_TRY();\n\t{\n\t\tdoc = xml_parse((text *) arg, true, true);\n\t\tresult = true;\n\t}\n\tPG_CATCH();\n\t{\n\t\tErrorData *errdata = CopyErrorData();... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nI am using the latest 8.2 source that I compiled with Sun Studio 11 and \ntested it on Solaris 10 11/06 against an app server. I find that the CPU \nutilization was higher than I expected and started digging through it.\n\nAparently the top CPU usage comes from the following sta... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd support for xmlval IS DOCUMENT expression.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/executor:\n execQual.c (r1.206 -> r1.207)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/executor/execQual.c.diff?r1=1.206&r2=1.20... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been thinnking how to improve autovacuum so that we can convince\nmore people that it can be enabled by default. Here are my thoughts.\nThere are two areas of improvements:\n\n1. scheduling, and\n2. process handling, i.e., how to have multiple vacuum processes running\n at any time.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "We need to decide on how to handle encoding information embedded in xml \ndata that is passed through the client/server encoding conversion.\n\nHere is an example:\n\nClient encoding is A, server encoding is B. Client sends an xml datum \nthat looks like this:\n\nINSERT INTO table VALUES (xm... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached is a patch to define O_DIRECT by ourselves on Windows,\nand to map O_DIRECT to FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING.\n\nThere will be a consistency in our support between Windows and other OSes\nthat have O_DIRECT. Also, there is the following comment that says, I read,\nwe should do so.\n| ha... |
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"msg_contents": "So I've been working on the scheme I suggested a few days ago of\nrepresenting \"equivalence classes\" of variables explicitly, and avoiding\nthe current ad-hocery of generating and then removing redundant clauses\nin favor of generating only the ones we want in the first place. Any\nclause ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm becoming confused by the encoding conversion API, in particular by \nthe function\n\npg_do_encoding_conversion(unsigned char *src, int len, int src_encoding, \nint dest_encoding);\n\nSince the function in various circumstances passes back src directly, \nyou might get back a string that e... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there a way to temporary disable a constraint (without drop and\nrecreating it) in postgresql?\n\nThanks\n_______________________________________________\nCe message et les �ventuels documents joints peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles.\nAu cas o� il ne vous serait pas... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHow do we handle this situation?\n\n We go to insert a record in the heap, find no free space, so we extend the\n table and insert it into a new page. Then we insert an index entry pointing\n to the new tuple. Then some other backend (or bgwriter) comes along and\n decides the index page is... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI written an index to improve similarity search like images search, string search etc...\nMy index code is written in C and it is not linked with any dmbs, and I would to connect it to postgresql.\n\nAny suggest to begin my work?\n\nThanks\nEnrico\n\n\n-- \nIf Bill Gates had a penny for ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just come across what seems to be a bug in our current planner\ncode. The existing code understands about transitive propagation of\nequalities: given\n\n\tSELECT * FROM a, b WHERE a.x = b.y AND a.x = 10\n\nit will deduce b.y = 10 and then remove the a.x = b.y condition as\nredundant. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nImplement width_bucket() for the float8 data type.\n\nThe implementation is somewhat ugly logic-wise, but I don't see an\neasy way to make it more concise.\n\nWhen writing this, I noticed that my previous implementation of\nwidth_bucket() doesn't handle NaN correctl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nLet me ask about the background of configuration files. I couldn't\nfind the relevant information in the 8.2 documentation. I'm sorry to\ncause you trouble.\n\nIn section \"17.1. Setting Parameters\", include directive is described.\nWhy was this directive prepared? What usage is... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt seems to me that the latest french .po files in pgtranslation are not\nused in the 8.2.1 release and I wonder why. How do you synchronize\nbetween the pgtranslation project tree and the PostgreSQL CVS source\ntree ? and how often is it done ?\n\nThanks.\n\nRegards.\n\n\n-- \nGui... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nWhen I compile with gcc on Solaris with -m64 flags, all shared lbiraries fail.\n\nCan someone fix the following in Makefile.shlib\n\n\nifeq ($(PORTNAME), solaris)\n ifeq ($(GCC), yes)\n LINK.shared = $(CC) -shared\n else\n LINK.shared = $(CC) -G $(CFL... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nThe attached patch fixes a bug in plpython.\n\nThis bug was found while creating sql from trigger functions\nwritten in plpython and later running the generated sql.\nThe problem was that boolean was was silently converted to\ninteger, which is ok for python but fails when the created\... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is some material from an updated src/backend/optimizer/README\nthat describes the optimization principles that the EquivalenceClass\nrewrite is depending on. Can anyone see any holes in the logic?\n\nI'm particularly interested in the discussion of allowing\nEquivalenceClasses to be... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n This patch fixes a bug of case of extraction of pg_trigger.tgargs.\n There was a problem when we used a long argument in defining trigger,\npossibly resulting in a server crash.\n\nExample:\n\n We defined a CREATE TRIGGER such as follows and registered trigger.\n In this ca... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't find an authoritative answer to this question.\n\nMany of the keywords listed in keywords.c are defined with symbolic\nnames that end in '_P' (underscore P).\n\nWhat differentiates those keywords from the other keywords? What does\nthe 'P' stand for?\n\nAre those PostgreSQL-specific ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n This patch fixes a bug of case of extraction of pg_trigger.tgargs.\n There was a problem when we used a long argument in defining trigger,\npossibly resulting in a server crash.\n\nExample:\n\n We defined a CREATE TRIGGER such as follows and registered trigger.\n In this ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Recenly, I've been researching and putting together a proposal for window\nfunctions. I have not finished this but when I do, I will post it. A nice\nlist of examples can be found here[1].\n\nRather than spend a lot of time talking about the problems window\nfunctions present to the planner a... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2907\nLogged by: Adriaan van Os\nEmail address: postgres@microbizz.nl\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.4\nOperating system: Mac OS X 10.4.6, intel\nDescription: pg_get_serial_sequence quoting\nDetails: \n\nIn or... |
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