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"msg_contents": "\nI have a problem getting packed varlenas to work with GIST indexes. Namely,\nthe GIST code doesn't call pg_detoast_datum() enough. Instead of using the\nDatumGetFoo() macros it uses DatumGetPointer() and calls PG_DETOAST_DATUM only\nwhen it thinks it'll be necessary.\n\nI've temporarily mad... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added to the developer's FAQ that we don't want\nnon-BSD-compatible licensed patches:\n\n <li>PostgreSQL is licensed under a BSD license. By posting a patch\n to the public PostgreSQL mailling lists, you are giving the PostgreSQL\n Global Development Group the non-revokable r... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nUnfortunately we (the community) will not have WITH/RECURSIVE for 8.3. \nHowever I have spoken with a Alexey and Alvaro and Command Prompt has \ndecided to make WITH/RECURSIVE a priority for 8.4.\n\nOur current goals are to spend time over the next couple of months \ndetermining a r... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm chasing a rumor that someone is working on integrating PostgreSQL with \nthe SELinux security framework. Anyone know anything about this?\n\n-- \n--Josh\n\nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL @ Sun\nSan Francisco\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:39:02 -0800",
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'd like to take the TODO item that reads, \"Add support for arrays of\ncomplex types,\" but before I start patching, I'd like to see whether\nwhat I'm about to do makes any sense:\n\n1. In src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c, change DefineRelation as\nfollows:\n\n * After the firs... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nJust wanted to share some information I was pointed to in case no one has heard:\n\nThe kit can be found here:\nhttp://www.infor.uva.es/~diego/tpcc-uva.html\n\nThe SIGMOD paper is here:\nhttp://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0612/p06-article-llanos.pdf\n\nMark\n",
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"msg_contents": "We at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad,\nIndia, have extended the Postgres database\nsystem with the skyline operation. For this work, we were guided by our\nProf. Kamalakar Karlapalem\n(http://www.iiit.ac.in/~kamal/).\n\nWe have extended SQL 'SELECT' clause ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am trying to create a new index which is multidimensional (based on\nR-Tree) which can be used for data warehosuing. I have read the Developers'\nmanual about adding new indexes, and now I want to start coding the new\nindex.\n\nMy first step is to create the skeleton files, but I... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, I see the following warnings compiling CVS HEAD:\n\nsrc/pl/plpython/plpython.c:2006: warning: initialization from\nincompatible pointer type\nsrc/pl/plpython/plpython.c:2008: warning: 'intargfunc' is deprecated\nsrc/pl/plpython/plpython.c:2008: warning: initialization from\nincompatible ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey,\n\nOut of curiosity I benchmarked PostgreSQL 8.2.3 using huge pages for shared memory. Oracle claims fairly significant speedups with huge pages but I couldn't find any information on PostgreSQL.\n\nI used the attached patch to enable huge pages on Linux. The test hardware is a dual Noco... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the steps to reproduce it in CVS HEAD:\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux os-server 2.6.9-11.19AX #1 Fri Aug 5 05:12:07 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 \nGNU/Linux\n\n$ ./postgres --single -D $HOME/pgsql/data postgres\n\nPostgreSQL stand-alone backend 8.3devel\nbackend> show server_version;\n 1: se... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm putting this out there before we publish a fix so that we can discuss\nhow best to fix it.\n\nDoug and Sherry recently found the source of an important performance issue\nwith the Postgres shared buffer cache.\n\nThe issue is summarized like this: the buffer cache in PGSQL is not \"scan\n... |
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"msg_contents": "When we instrument the page selections made within the buffer cache, they are sequential and span the entire address space of the cache.\n\nWith respect to whether it's L2, it's a conclusion based on the experimental results. It's not the TLB, as we also tested for the 512 entries for each L... |
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"msg_contents": "One more thing: the L2 is invalidated when re-written from the kernel IO cache, but the pages addressed in L2 retain their values when 'writeen thru' which allows the new data to be re-used up the executor chain.\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: ... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached is a patch to optimize contrib/pgbench using new 8.3 features.\n\n- Use DROP IF EXISTS to suppress errors for initial loadings.\n- Use a combination of TRUNCATE and COPY to reduce WAL on creating\n the accounts table.\n\nAlso, there are some cosmetic changes.\n\n- Change the out... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nThanks for a lot of feadback and good ideas on the restartable vacuum.\nHere is a new design overview of it based on previous discussions.\n\nThere are several ideas to address the problem of long running VACUUM\nin a defined maintenance window. One idea might be: when maintenance\ntim... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'd like to see the indexam API changes needed by the bitmap indexam to \nbe committed soon. Has anyone looked at the proposed API in the latest \npatch? Any thoughts?\n\nI'm quite happy with it myself, with a few reservations:\n\n- All the getbitmap implementations except the new ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there any plan for supporting XQuery or XPath in 8.3?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nSRA OSS, Inc. Japan\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:32:26 +0900 (JST)",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>",
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"msg_subject": "XQuery or =?iso-2022-jp?B?WFBhdGgbJE... |
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"msg_contents": "Overview\n--------\nCREATE INDEX, CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and VACUUM FULL all need some\nadaptation to work correctly with HOT.\n\n[This summary and proposal supercedes all previous proposals by me\nregarding utilities with HOT]\n\nThe Problem\n-----------\n\nWith HOT, CREATE INDEX may find... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nThis proposal is about access managenent to custom variables. Currently any \nuser can modify it, and isn't way to protect value:\n\nPremises:\n* variables are controlled from modules\n* syntax of custom variables is without changes\n* all modules are safe\n\nFunctions:\n* reset_cus... |
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"msg_contents": "I am taking vacation time March 7-17 and will be offline for that\nperiod. Tom, Neil, and others will be handling patches during that\ntime. However, they are not able to update the patch queue.\n\nWhen I return to email, I will process all outstanding requests well\nbefore feature freeze Ap... |
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"msg_contents": "This sounds like a good idea.\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tSimon Riggs [mailto:simon@2ndquadrant.com]\nSent:\tMonday, March 05, 2007 02:37 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tJosh Berkus; Tom Lane; Pavan Deolasee; Mark Kirkwood; Gavin Sherry; Lu... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm a bit embarrassed to bring this up here because I don't know much\nabout storage layout and indexing. It's probably a silly notion, but if\nso, could someone please tell me how and why?\n\nFirst I'll describe the situation that leads me to write this. I'm seeing\nsome performance proble... |
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"msg_contents": "Attatched you'll find a patch that I've been kicking around for a\nwhile that I'd like to propose for inclusion in 8.3. I attempted to\nsubmit this through the original xml2 author (as far back as the 7.4\ndays) but got no response.\n\nIt's really fairly trivial, but I will be using the fea... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nGood info - it's the same in Solaris, the routine is uiomove (Sherry wrote it).\n\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tTom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nSent:\tMonday, March 05, 2007 07:43 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tMark Kirkwood\... |
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"msg_contents": "----- Forwarded message from Sherry Moore <sherry.moore@sun.com> -----\n\nDate: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:34:19 -0800\nFrom: Sherry Moore <sherry.moore@sun.com>\nTo: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nCc: Luke Lonergan <LLonergan@greenplum.com>,\n\tMark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>,\n\tPavan Deolase... |
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"msg_contents": "I need some help in building new index structure using GIST.\n I have to include a procedure for restructuring the tree immediately after\ni have created the index using gist. How do i do it?\nActually I am trying to implement the slim-tree index using gist. To\nincrease the performance, a sl... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL Contributors,\n\nI seek help from designers, developers, testers,defect fixers,project \nmanagers or playing any other key role in Free/Open Source software \ndevelopment or maintenence \nin carrying out a study on practices and problems of defect management in \nvarious Free/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is to get feedback to meet the following TODO:\n\n - Simplify ability to create partitioned tables\n\n This would allow creation of partitioned tables without requiring\n creation of rules for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, and constraints for rapid\n partition selection. Options c... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nI'm observing this behavior in 8.2:\n\n\nkalman=# create table test ( a integer, b integer );\nCREATE TABLE\nkalman=#\nkalman=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_test ( INTEGER )\nkalman-# RETURNS INTEGER AS'\nkalman'# DECLARE\nkalman'# ... |
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"msg_contents": "have an SQL file with a set of about 3000 insert statements. This\nfile is executed twice from a remote client machine running Windows\nXP. The first time it is executed against a Windows 2003 Server\nrunning PostgreSQL 8.0. The second time it is executed against a\nWindows 2003 Server runnin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHow can we accrately estimate the \"seq_page_fetch\" and \"random_page_fetch\" costs from outside the postgres using for example a C routine. Using a very simple program in C, I have two sets of files. I want to access one set randomly i.e. pulling data from random locations within the... |
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"msg_contents": "[ cc'd to pgsql-jdbc which seems the group most likely to be affected\n by any protocol change ]\n\nSo I've been working on a plan cache module per my earlier proposal,\nand I've run up against a problem with getting exec_parse_message\nto use it. The problem is that the current rather hack... |
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"msg_contents": "Incidentally, we tried triggering NTA (L2 cache bypass) unconditionally and in various patterns and did not see the substantial gain as with reducing the working set size.\n\nMy conclusion: Fixing the OS is not sufficient to alleviate the issue. We see a 2x penalty (1700MB/s versus 3500MB/s)... |
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"msg_contents": "I've updated the GIT patch at http://community.enterprisedb.com/git/. \nBitrot caused by the findinsertloc-patch has been fixed, making that \npart of the GIT patch a little bit smaller and cleaner. I also did some \nrefactoring, and minor cleanup and commenting.\n\nAny comments on the design... |
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"msg_contents": "I need to find out if anybody can give me some advice on incremental backups\nand restores \n\nReason: backup size \n\n \n\nabrie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI need to find out if anybody can give me some advice on\nincremental backups and restores \nReason: backup size \n \nabrie",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI made some tests to prove that GENERATED can help\nboost performance. I created a table like this:\n\ncreate table t1 (\n id serial,\n i1 integer,\n i2 integer,\n g1 integer generated always as (\n case when i1 is null then i2\n when i2 is null then i1\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI am right now working on to get HOT and VACUUM FULL work\ntogether. I hit upon a bug which I initially thought is\nsomething that HOT has introduced. But I can reproduce\nit with CVS HEAD as well.\n\nHere is what I do: Create a table a simple table with\nthree columns and one index.... |
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"msg_contents": "Yep - we're paying attention Josh!\n\nI like the category being explored with skyline, I'm not sure yet how it fits with existing 'soft data' models and applications that use them.\n\nIf SKYLINE is interesting to app developers, maybe we should consider it for Bizgres?\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI want to propose some very simple changes to autovacuum in order to\nmove forward (a bit):\n\n1. autovacuum_naptime semantics\n2. limiting the number of workers: global, per database, per tablespace?\n\nI still haven't received the magic bullet to solve the hot table\nproblem, bu... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to change ProcessUtility to take a couple of additional\nparameters, which it in turn would pass down to those (relatively few)\nutility statements that need one or both:\n\n* query_string: source text of command, if known (can be NULL)\n* is_top_level: TRUE if command is being drive... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPlease see HOT WIP patch, version 4.1 posted on -patches.\nhere are not any significant changes since the version 4.0 patch that\nI posted a week back.\n\nThis patch includes some optimizations for efficiently looking\nup LP_DELETEd tuples. I have used the recent changes made by\nTom/Heik... |
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"msg_contents": "It has been brought to my attention by Tokuharu Yuzawa that our calling\nof WSAStartup() in DllMain() (libpqdll.c) is incorrect. Basically we're\ncalling WSAStartup() so that the client application does not have to.\nHowever, due to the fact that WSAStartup() can itself load libraries,\nthere... |
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"msg_contents": "Adding to this:\n\nAyush recently wrote a C program that emulates PG IO to do this analysis, and we came out with (predictably) a ratio of sequential/random of 20-50 (for a single user). This is predictable because the random component is fixed at the access time of a single hard drive no ma... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm a grad student at UC Davis studying the postgres community and I\nwanted to know if some on this list could help me out. I'm studying\nthe factors that affect people \"graduating\" from being mailing list\nparticipant to developers with write access to the repository. Is it\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>\n> To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>\n> Sent: 08/03/07, 20:37:33\n> Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove unsafe calling of WSAStartup and WSACleanup from DllMain.\n> \n> No, it shouldn't.\n> \n> First,... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon,\n\n> Not checkpointing at all is not a good plan, since this will lead to an\n> enormous build up of WAL files and a very long recovery time if the\n> system does fail.\n\nI appreciate your detailed comments.\nFollowing your comments, I revised the problem.\nSigres-0.1.3 does checkpoin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\nWas wondering if people would mind having a read over what I plan to do for my \nundergraduate honours project - you can get the proposal here:\n\nhttp://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~eddie/489_Proposal.pdf\n\nWhat I'd basically like to know is \na) Is this problem worth solving? \nb) Is there ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n I am adding some new files into the system, so I wonder what I need \nto do to\nupdate the Makefiles?\n Is the system smart enough to recognize my new files and add \ncorresponding entries into the Makefiles?\n Thanks.\n\nRegards\nYu\n",
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"msg_contents": "Is there a particular reason why CLUSTER isn't MVCC-safe? It seems to me \nthat it would be trivial to fix, by using SnapshotAny instead of \nSnapshotNow, and not overwriting the xmin/xmax with the xid of the \ncluster command.\n\nI feel that I must missing something, or someone would've alre... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon,\n\nWhat happens to the data when the function is dropped or replaced?\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tSimon Riggs [mailto:simon@2ndquadrant.com]\nSent:\tFriday, March 09, 2007 06:20 AM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tNikhilS\nCc:\tShane Amb... |
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"msg_contents": "Reviewing earlier threads, I realised that there was a potential\nbug/loophole in PITR backups in conjunction with avoiding WAL for bulk\noperations. This would be rare, but should be fixed.\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg01113.php\n\nSay you issue COPY, CREATE INDEX... |
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"msg_contents": "Patch to implement buffer cache recycling for scans, as being discussed\non pgsql-hackers.\n\nApplies cleanly to cvstip, passes make installcheck when used by default\nfor all SeqScans. Tested with scan_recycle_buffers = 1,4,8,16\n\nShould be regarded as WIP. Presumably there are some failure... |
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"msg_contents": "Cool!\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tSimon Riggs [mailto:simon@2ndquadrant.com]\nSent:\tFriday, March 09, 2007 02:32 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tLuke Lonergan; ITAGAKI Takahiro\nCc:\tSherry Moore; Tom Lane; Mark Kirkwood; Pavan Deolasee; G... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a low-level, very detailed description of the implementation of\nthe autovacuum ideas we have so far.\n\nlauncher's dealing with databases\n---------------------------------\n\nWe'll add a new member \"nexttime\" to the autovac_dbase struct, which\nwill be the time_t of the next time ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSo to implement recursive queries I think what we need is a memoizing node\nlike Materialize which allows multiple simultaneous readers. \n\nLooking into how to implement this I find that the read position of a\nMaterialize node is actually implemented directly in tuplestore.c.\n\nThat mean... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm occasionally seeing calls to pg_database_size() fail with\n\nERROR: could not stat file \"/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16404/1738343\": No such file or directory\n\nSo far I haven't noticed any other problems that might be related\nto this error. This database frequently uses temporary tabl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am working on backport plpgpsm to 8.1. This interpret is based on plpgsql \n8.2. There is some strange. Where I do rollback transaction, then on 8.1 \npostgresql go down on segfault. 8.2 and 8.3 works well.\n\nI don't see any important difference, why 8.1. have to down.\n\n#0 0x08... |
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"msg_contents": "Why don't we have some kind of error check for people entering things\nlike INTERVAL '1' DAY in their query, since we don't handle it.\n\n \n\nselect now() =now() + interval '1' day;\n\n ?column?\n\n----------\n\n T\n\n \n\nThis seems scary... We allow something through and then ignore it?\... |
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"msg_contents": "I wrote:\n> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara@mac.com> writes:\n>> (gdb) info locals\n>> block = 0x4395000\n>> chunk = 0x4395010\n>> priorfree = 0x5395020\n>> chunk_size = 16777216\n>> blksize = 70864912\n>> (gdb) p *block\n>> $5 = {aset = 0x306d10, next = 0x0, freeptr = 0x5395020 <Addr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI didn't get any response on the GENERAL list so i'm escalating this ....\n\nWe have several independent database servers with ~50GB+ databases running\npostgres 8.0.x. We are planning to upgrade these databases to postgres\n8.2.xover the weekend\n\nWe plan to use the following step... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's a patch to change the amgetmulti API so that it's called only \nonce per scan, and the indexam adds *all* matching tuples at once to a \ncaller-supplied TIDBitmap. Per Tom's proposal in July 2006: \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg01233.php\n\nThe patch also add... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\"Jonathan Scher\" <js@oxado.com> writes:\n\n> I attach gdb to /usr/.../bin/postgres, then I put a breakpoint. Whenever\n> postgres stop on that breakpoint, it just kills/restarts the server instead of\n> asking me what to do.\n\nNot sure why it's crashing but you don't want to run postgres... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nMake configuration parameters fall back to their default values when they\nare removed from the configuration file.\n\nJoachim Wieland\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:\n xact.c (r1.234 -> r1.235)\n (http://devel... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThis seems wrong to me:\n\npostgres=# create table test1 ( testy int );\nCREATE TABLE\npostgres=# insert into test1 values ( 5 );\nINSERT 0 1\n\npostgres=# create function void_func ( IN theval int ) returns void as $f$\npostgres$# update test1 set testy = $1;\npostgres$# $f$ langua... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nOne of the Sun benchmarking guys ran across this issue, using a fairly \nrecent (within the last 4 weeks) 8.3 snapshot. It appears to me that the \n8.3 planner is unable to tell that, if the value for the first column of \nan index scan is a constant, the second column doesn't need t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI moved czech wiki from http://postgresql.interweb.cz to \nhttp://www.pgsql.cz. Can somobody update web link?\n\nThank You\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nEmotikony a pozadi programu MSN Messenger ozivi vasi konverzaci. \nhttp://me... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've a problem with a database, I can dump the database to a file, but \nrestoration fails, happens with 8.1.4.\n\nSteps to reproduce:\ncreate database testdb with encoding='UTF8';\n\\c testdb\ncreate table test(x text);\ninsert into test values ('\\244'); ==> Is akzepted, even if not ... |
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"msg_contents": "It appears that we didn't do enough research in regards to the recent\nDST switch. We poorly assumed that having our machine's timezone files\nup to date would be sufficient not knowing that our version of\npostgres relied on its own timezone files.\n\nThe question is... can we symlink the sh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWhen updating for DST we found this nifty problem. This does not happen\non 8.2.\n\npostgres=# SET TIMEZONE TO 'PST8PDT';\nSET\npostgres=# select now();\n now\n-------------------------------\n 2007-03-13 10:41:07.034754-07\n(1 row)\n\npostgres=# SET TIMEZONE TO PST8PDT... |
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"msg_contents": "\nPlease see the version 4.4 of HOT WIP patch posted on pgsql-patches.\nI have fixed couple of bugs in the earlier version posted. Other than\nthat there are not any significant changes in the patch.\n\nThe row-level fragmentation had a bug where we were\nunintentionally sorting the line poi... |
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"msg_contents": "I need help in understanding certain things in gist ...\n1. What is the functionality of gistplacetopage() function in gist.c ?Can\nyou please give me detail description of this function.\n2. I have left and right buffers with values that I have filled. Now, how do\nI write these changes(buff... |
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"msg_contents": "\nin nodeHash.c, the function ExecChooseHashTableSize() uses two different \nmethods for determining the number of buckets to use.\n\nthe current code looks something like:\n\nif (ntuples * tuplesize > work_mem * 1024)\n\tbuckets = (work_mem * 1024) / (tupsize * 10);\nelse\n\tbuckets = ntuple... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a better way than going to time_t and back? I am currently\nusing this:\n\n\tdb->next_worker =\n\t\ttime_t_to_timestamptz(timestamptz_to_time_t(current_time) +\n\t\t\t\t autovacuum_naptime);\n\n(db->next_worker is a TimestampTz, as is current_time.\nautovacuum_naptime is intege... |
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"msg_contents": "I got a backend crash in Postgresql 8.2.3 with the plpgsql function.\n\nThe following statement in psql causes a signal 11:\n\npsql=# create function testpl() returns void as 'begin return; \nend;'language 'plpgsql';\n\nThe debug output is as follows:\n\nDEBUG: 00000: StartTransactionCommand... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have coded up a patch which solves the following TODO. I will submit a\npatch for this soon:\n\n\n - UPDATE\n - Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (SELECT...)\n\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg01306.php\n\n\nThe question is that since this e... |
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"msg_contents": "The Google Summer of Code web page lists as possible project\n\nECPG Enhancments: Enable ECPG to generate calls directly for libpq \nrather than calls to its own libraries.\n\nWhat would be the point of that?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks\n\nI am trying to make CLUSTER command just a bit verbose,as an option \nhere. Added bits to gram.y that should support CLUSTER [VERBOSE] ... \nbut psql doesn't seem to pick it up.\nWhere else do I need to update it, besides gram.y, cluster.c and of \ncourse adding new field to Cl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI figure - I should start brand new thread for this one - so here you \ngo.\n\n\nI am in a need for verbose CLUSTER. Ie. one that would give me \nfeedback and progress.\nBecause CLUSTER is divided into two major operations, (data \nreordering, index rebuild) - I see it this wa... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'd like to add the ability to show global counters of a couple of\nthings currently available in pg_stat_all_tables (for example number of\nrows added etc) in a global counter for the entire cluster, for\nmonitoring of an entire cluster without having to connect to each\nindividual da... |
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"msg_contents": "Last try there was a fight about syntax of introduced commands. And we (Oleg and \nme) developed variant of patch with another syntax. We will not change docs \nuntil agreement will be reached, current version \nhttp://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/ftsdoc/\n\nFollowing demonstrates subset of ... |
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"msg_contents": "While fooling with getting SPI to use the plancache, I got annoyed again\nabout how SPI_prepare() and related functions refer to SPI plan pointers\nas \"void *\". I'm all for having the structure be opaque to callers, but\nto me \"void *\" means \"any old pointer\", which this surely is not.... |
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"msg_contents": "So I just updated my x86_64 machine to Fedora Core 6, and I find that\nrebuilding our CVS HEAD gives a batch of noise that was not there\nbefore:\n\n/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so when searching for -ltcl8.4\n/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libdl.so when ... |
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"msg_contents": "For discussion:\n\nAttached is the completed patch that changes pg_trigger and extends\npg_rewrite in order to allow triggers and rules to be defined with\ndifferent, per session controllable, behaviors for replication purposes.\n\nThis will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has ... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHi all,\nI'm observing that is not allowed to LOCK a table in a\nSTABLE/IMMUTABLE function but at same time is allowed\na SELECT FOR UPDATE.\n\nIs that normal?\n\n\n\n\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32)\nComment: U... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nDear PostgreSQL community\n\nConcept for a PostGIS application to Missing People:\n\nThis is a proposal for design a new concept for integrated PostGIS application\nand how to implement features to improve tracking information about missing\npeople. This application will be useful in disa... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nWhat is the safest way to access/modify the pg_class attribute\nand still avoid any race conditions with the other backends ?\n\nA specific example is: To solve the CREATE INDEX problem with\nHOT, I am thinking of adding (along with other things) a pg_class\nboolean attribute, say hot_upd... |
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"msg_contents": "Have now also tried:\n\ndownloading 8.2.2 and compiling it - no luck when running initdb (same\nerror)\n\nrerunning configure with and without --with-includes=/mingw/include --\nwith-libraries=/mingw/lib (always running --without-zlib) - same error\n\nI have been searching newsgroups, archive... |
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"msg_contents": "On Windows Server 2003, if you create a tablespace to a location that \ndoesn't exist, then try to remove that tablespace, you get an error that \npg_tblspc/##### does not exist. It appears that postgres created the \ntablespace internally, but not the folder. When you try to drop the \ntab... |
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"msg_contents": "The current buildfarm webpages make it easy to see when a branch tip\nis seriously broken, but it's not very easy to investigate transient\nfailures, such as a regression test race condition that only\nmaterializes once in awhile. I would like to have a way of seeing\njust the failed build a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nRegarding the mentioned TODO item, the past discussion as I see from the\nfollowing thread:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg00879.php\n\n\nconcludes that during vacuum full, the relations' indexes should be\nrecreated via REINDEX, rather than updatin... |
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"msg_contents": "I just tried building with Bison 2.1 on msvc, and it broke. For one\nthing, the .BAT file rejects 2.1 as broken instead of 2.0, which is\nobviously incorrect :-)\n\nBut the generated C file also does not compile causing the error on\nhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/93az0868.aspx, bec... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everybody.\n\nI am a student and I would like to have your opinion on a project I\nplan to submit for GSoC. At school, when I work with relational\ndatabases I have problems to test tables' structure and queries\nbecause I need to insert test data manually, which is very unpleasant.\nTh... |
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"msg_contents": "Wow, nice!\n\nCan you tell us:\n- how big is the table\n- cardinality of the column\n- how big is the index in each case\n- how much memory on the machine\n- query and explain analyze\n\nThanks!\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tGrzegorz Jaskiew... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe recent ecpg commit seems to have broken MSVC builds:\n\n\ndescriptor.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _pg_snprintf \nreferenced in function _ECPGget_desc\nerror.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _pg_snprintf\nmisc.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external sym... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm currently facing a common problem with queries using ILIKE: it\ncan't use an index except if the pattern begins with non alpha\ncharacters.\n\nThe usual trick recommended in the doc is to use lower() and LIKE but\nit leads to bad row estimates (it's constant whatever the search... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there\n\nI am trying to modify the execution of the table function to work in iterator fashion instead of materializing the output. I have been digging the Postgresql code source for about a month now and I can figure out where the execution of the table function works. I will be very grat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there\n\nI am trying to modify the execution of the table function to work in iterator fashion instead of materializing the output. I have been digging the Postgresql code source for about a month now and I can figure out where the execution of the table function works. I will be very grat... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nThere are few things I realized over the weekend while going\nthrough the code:\n\n1. It looks like a bad idea to use ALTER TABLE .. to chill a table\nbecuase ALTER TABLE takes AccessExclusive lock on the table.\nBut it would still be a good idea to have ALTER TABLE .. to turn\nHOT-upda... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently amgettuple returns one matching tuple at a time, in index \norder. I'm proposing two changes to add support for\n- candidate matches\n- partial ordering\n\nThose two features are essential to make clustered indexes work, and in \nthe future, binned bitmap indexes that don't have a b... |
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