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"msg_contents": "I am back from vacation and reading email again. I should be caught up\nin less than a week (2.6k emails), and easily ready for feature freeze\nApril 1.\n\nFor the curious, I took a 10-day family vacation in Costa Rica. A\nprivate tour guide took us to three areas of Costa Rica. We saw an\... |
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"msg_contents": "In lsyscache.c we have\n\n /*\n * Array types get their typelem as parameter; everybody else gets their\n * own type OID as parameter. (This is a change from 8.0, in which only\n * composite types got their own OID as parameter.)\n */\n if (OidIsValid(typeStruct->typele... |
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"msg_contents": "'alter operator class' command isn't \"dumpable\":\npostgres=# ALTER OPERATOR CLASS name_pattern_ops USING btree RENAME TO namep_ops;\npostgres=# create table n (a name);\npostgres=# create index ni on n (a namep_ops);\n\n% pg_dump postgres | psql wow\n....\nERROR: operator class \"namep_op... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, I'm writinng again because I need to make some validation for\nthe incoming data (VALUES... on the INSERT-Stmt). This validation\nis based on adding a TIMESTAMP and a TIME kind of data.\n\n From the Shell I can make:\n\ntemplate1=# select timestamp '02/03/85 7:00pm'+'00:00:02.3450' as\... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nChanges pg_trigger and extend pg_rewrite in order to allow triggers and \nrules to be defined with different, per session controllable, behaviors \nfor replication purposes.\n \nThis will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has been stated\non pgsql-hacke... |
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"msg_contents": "I know the idea has come up a few times to do cross-column statistics to\nimprove plans when the data distributions are dependent. I found a\ncouple references in the archives:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02118.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2... |
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"msg_contents": "I just noticed that the buildfarm status page shows an \"xml\" flag in the\nlegend, but not one of the HEAD machines is flagged as building xml;\nwhich is most certainly wrong.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:11:57 -0400",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nBumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.\n\nBTW, the comment in this file says that we hope we never have more than\n10 catversion changes per day, but to even make this possible we should\nstart counting at zero, shouldn't we?\n\n\nJan\n\nMod... |
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"msg_contents": "I've noticed that if for example the autovacuum process dies (such as\nwith a kill -9 when testing my new shared mem implementation), only\nautovac and bgwriter are restarted. The stats collector is terminated,\nbut not restarted. (Same goes for a regular backend, and not just\nautovac)\n\nIs... |
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"msg_contents": "I don't know if this has come up yet but....\n\nIn terms of tagging errors we might be able to use some machine \nlearning techniques.\n\n\nThere are NLP/learning systems that interpret logs. They learn over \ntime what is normal and what isn't and can flag things that are \nabnormal.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI tried to make tuplestore free up tuples that would no longer be needed\nbecause they're older than the mark and neither random access nor rewind\ncapability was needed. This is important for three different purposes:\noptimizing merge join to not need to materialize the entire data set,\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a (small) patch to give the ability to pg_dump to export only the\nfunctions (or only one), very useful when you often develop with psql (\npostgresql.8.2.3)\n\nUsage:\n pg_dump -Q function_name DATABASE export function_name\n pg_dump -Q DATABASE export all th... |
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"msg_contents": "Students & Professors,\n\nThere are only 5 days left to submit your PostgreSQL Google Summer of \nCode Project:\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode.html\n\nIf you aren't a student, but know a CS student interested in databases, \ntesting, GUIs, or any other OSS coding, please po... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that there's a mechanism in the backend that will automatically replan\nqueries whenever anything changes about the referenced tables, we have to\nworry about whether an automatic replan might cause surprising changes in\nthe behavior of a query. I looked through the available GUC settin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThe money type is considered deprecated. I was also under the impression\nit would be eventually removed. Why are we accumulating TODOs for it?\n\n# -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type\n# Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies\n\nhttp://archives.postgre... |
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"msg_contents": "There are several reasons why Postgres' hash indexes currently suck,\nbut one of the bigger ones is that the time to build an index on a\nlarge existing table is excessive, eg\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2007-03/msg00064.php\n\nI'm not sure if this has been discussed before, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all;\n\nI have been looking at the TODO and have found something that I find \nsort of odd and we should probably reconsider:\n\nOne of the items under data types is:\n\n * Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round?\n\n Currently NUMERIC _rounds_ the result to the specified ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have read all the email from when I was on vacation. I am now fully\nback at work.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nbruce wrote:\n> I am back from vacation and reading email again. I should be caught up\n> in less than a week (2.6k emails... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm a student and I'm planning to submit a project for Google Summer of\nCode. I would like to receive feedback about to implement the vacumm\nscheduling in order to allow maintenance's windows.\n\nI have read the whole discussion about \"Autovacuum improvements\"[1]\ntaken in January. Alva... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe version 5.0 of HOT WIP patch is posted on pgsql-patches. This\nfixes the VACUUM FULL issue with HOT. In all the earlier versions,\nI'd disabled VACUUM FULL.\n\nWhen we move the HOT-chain, we move the chains but don't carry\nthe HOT_UPDATED or HEAP_ONLY flags and insert as many index\nen... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nNative shared memory implementation for win32.\nUses same underlying tech as before, but not the sysv emulation layer.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql:\n configure (r1.535 -> r1.536)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/con... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nFollowing Tom's lead... should we also remove this? We have had it for a\ncouple of releases, and really all we are doing is protecting the use of\nbad queries.\n\nCan we remove it?\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===\nSales/Suppor... |
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"msg_contents": "is there an existing mechanism to do user based connection controls in \nPostgres 7.4? \n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:23:05 -0400",
"msg_from": "\"Saqib Awan\" <ssawan786@hotmail.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Limiting user connnections on 7.4"
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"msg_contents": "I got :\n\n2007-03-21 20:56:17 CET ERROR: relation 71478240 deleted while still \nin use\n2007-03-21 20:56:17 CET ERROR: relation 71478240 deleted while still \nin use\n2007-03-21 20:56:17 CET ERROR: relation 71478240 deleted while still \nin use\n\non 8.1.8 my production server here.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI was looking at the TODO list today and noticed that we don't seem to \nhave an item for libpq cursor support. I see it's been discussed in the \npast ( e.g. \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2000-09/msg00082.php ). \nWe have occasional reports of libpq apps blowing up on h... |
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"msg_contents": "You can now checkout a pgsql converted to svn repo here:\n\nhttp://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/repo/\n\nIt updates every four hours or so.\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===\nSales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile coding the autovacuum stuff I noticed that the dllist.c doubly\nlinked list infrastructure is using malloc(). And the failure cases are\nhandled in #ifdef FRONTEND exit(1) #else elog(ERROR) #endif.\n\nThis seems a bit ugly, but more importantly, it doesn't let me free the\nwhole... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI would like to propose adding new character set \"JIS X\n0213\"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0213).\n\nJIS X 0213 is a relatively new Japanese goverment standard (defined in\n2000, revised in 2004), and becomes important for Japanese\nusers. Moreover some commercial OSs includin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nMy customer found a problem about PL/pgsql functions and TRUNCATE command.\nIf you execute PL/pgsql function includeing TRUNCATE command concurrently, \ncauses \"relation ... does not exist.\" or \"relation with OID XXXXX does not exist\" against\nexists table.\n\nHere's a testcase to... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI found LIKE operators are slower on multi-byte encoding databases\nthan single-byte encoding ones. It comes from difference between\nMatchText() and MBMatchText().\n\nWe've had an optimization for single-byte encodings using \npg_database_encoding_max_length() == 1 test. I'll propo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm looking for a way to regenerate the plpgsql function cache, without\nCREATE OR REPLACE function or restarting database...\nSometimes, tables could be dropped and recreated, and then all our\nfunction working on these tables failed...\nIn fact we've more than 100 functions in our in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThere are many users (especially novice) asking about better and\neasier configuration of tsearch2, which is quite complicated\ncurrently. Even new FTS features in 8.3 (e.g. much clearer\nconfiguration with SQL commands) won't help much for users that want\nsimple \"several clicks\"... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI want to contribute with new features in Data mining. In the University of\nNariño (Colombia) works in new operators and primitives in Knowledge\nDiscovery in Databases and We had integrated several operators in a own\nversion named PostgresKDD, We like integrate this features in the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm seeing the following regression failure in PL/Tcl. It seems to be\njust an ordering issue, and the order in which a trigger is fired.\n\nThis is a pristine, freshly updated copy of CVS head as of right now.\n\nI'm not sure why the buildfarm is not having this problem.\n\n\nalvherr... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nHere is the latest version of Load distributed checkpoint patch.\n\nI've fixed some bugs, including in cases of missing file errors\nand overlapping of asynchronous checkpoint requests.\n\nRegards,\n---\nITAGAKI Takahiro\nNTT Open Source Software Center",
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"msg_contents": "http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/tsearch_core-0.41.gz\nhttp://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/ftsdoc/\n\nChanges\n1) added command\n ALTER FULLTEXT MAPPING ON cfgname [FOR lexemetypename[, ...]] REPLACE\nolddictname TO newdictname;\n2) added operator class for text and varchar\n CREATE INDEX idx... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe have found that psql in PostgreSQL 8.2.3\nhas problems connecting to the server\nrunning on Solaris 10/Sun SPARC.\n\n$ uname -a\nSunOS dev-machine 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440\n\nIt seems that somehow the system provided\nGCC 3.4.3 miscompiles timestamptz_se... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm new to PostgreSQL, having done a little work with MySQL in the\npast. Part of the reason for changing to PostgreSQL is some of the\ndifferences but to understand them I need docs of course. Now there\nare plenty of books, but I can't find any to examine in local\nbookshops (pretty poor ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm posting this to performance in case our workaround may be of benefit to someone with a similar issue. I'm posting to hackers because I hope we can improve our planner in this area so that a workaround is not necessary. (It might make sense to reply to one group or the other, depending o... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nWe no longer need to palloc the VacuumStmt node; keeping it on the stack is\nsimpler.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/postmaster:\n autovacuum.c (r1.34 -> r1.35)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe have had several customers get bit by the 8.2.3 stats collector bug.\nIt is also starting to get reported in areas such as IRC. The really bad\nthing about this bug is that you won't know what is wrong unless you\nknow where to look, PostgreSQL will just appear slow and tying up ... |
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"msg_contents": "tsearch2 regression tests are also failing on win32/msvc, with attached\ndiffs.\n\nAny pointers on where to start? ;)\n\n//Magnus",
"msg_date": "Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:07:57 +0100",
"msg_from": "Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Should anyone be looking for me for some reason... I'll be in New \nZealand from Mar 24 - Apr 8, and will have very limited access to email.\n--\nJim Nasby jim@nasby.net\nEnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "I've always been annoyed by the implementation of\nHeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility (in src/include/utils/tqual.h):\nthe normal case of an MVCC snapshot is the last one handled,\nand we can't expand the set of special cases without slowing\nit down even more. Also, as noted in tqual.h, the way w... |
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"msg_contents": "(perhaps with the committing and then reversing of the custom variables\npatch?)\npostgres=# show datestyle;\n DateStyle \n-----------\n ISO, DMY\n(1 row)\npostgres=# set datestyle='DMY,ISO';\nSET\npostgres=# show datestyle;\n DateStyle \n-----------\n ISO, DMY\n(1 row)\n-- \n Gregory Stark\... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone has pointed out to me that we have non-PostgreSQL/Berkeley\ncopyrights on a number of files:\n\t\n\tsrc/port/rint.c\n\t* Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH\n\t\n\tsrc/backend/port/dynloader/aix.c\n\t* This is an unpublished work copyright (c) 1992 HELIOS Software GmbH\n\t* ... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone has pointed out that the following files have the 4-part BSD\ncopyright, which includes the advertising clause:\n\n\tsrc/backend/port/darwin/system.c\n\tsrc/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c\n\tsrc/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c\n\tsrc/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c\n\tsrc/backend/u... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nPostgreSQL suppots SJIS, BIG5, GBK, UHC and GB18030 as client encodings,\nbut we cannot use them as server encodings. Are there any reason for it?\nAFAICS, we can support them only if we add each pg_xxx2wchar_with_len().\n\nI'd like to add server-side SJIS supports for Windows Japan... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nAs AUTOVACUUM is having multiple workers now, the semantics of\nautovacuum_cost_limit also need to be redefined.\n\nCurrently, autovacuum_cost_limit is the accumulated cost that will cause\none single worker vacuuming process to sleep. It is used to restrict\nthe I/O consumption o... |
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"msg_contents": "It's been known for years that commit_delay isn't very good at giving us \ngroup commit behavior. I did some experiments with this simple test \ncase: \"BEGIN; INSERT INTO test VALUES (1); COMMIT;\", with different \nnumbers of concurrent clients and with and without commit_delay.\n\nSummary ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI propose integration plpgpsm into core PostgreSQL.\n\nplpgpsm is SQL/PSM language implementation for PostgreSQL based on pl/pgsql \nruntime. Currently this modified runtime exists for PostgreSQL 8.1, 8.2 and \nCVS HEAD.\n\nSome information:\n* http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plpsm/\n... |
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"msg_contents": "At this time Postgresql is unable to guarentee that complex* referencial\nintegrity (RI) constraints can be enforced using standard (read non-C)\ntriggers or SQL. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the MVCC model,\nas it allows multiple transactions to modify a snapshot of the data at a\nc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis feature (ability to add a message payload to a NOTIFY) is on the \nTODO list and I had undertaken to implement it. However, pressure of \nother work has conspired to make that difficult, and Abhijit Menon-Sen \nrecently very kindly offered to help out.\n\nTherer was some discussion of ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm not sure if this is a bug, missing feature, misunderstanding on my part?\n\nI checked the TODO list and couldn't find anything on it.\n\nI currently have a 750 million row table, indexes are > 10 GB, so trying\nto partition it.\n\nThe basic -\n\nconstraint_exclusion + exact match = OK\nco... |
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"msg_contents": "While experimenting with the proposed CREATE INDEX support with\nHOT, I realized that SI invalidation are not sent properly for pg_index\nupdates.\n\nI noticed the following comment in relcache.c\n\n/*\n * RelationReloadClassinfo - reload the pg_class row (only)\n *\n * This function is used... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFYI, I have received permission, below, to remove the Andrew Yu\ncopyright. Thanks.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAndrew Yu wrote:\n> \n> Hi Bruce,\n> \n> This header is originally part of a separate library\n> package for dynamic loading... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere's an update of a code to improve full page writes as proposed in\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01491.php\nand\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00607.php\n\nUpdate includes some modification for error handling in archiver and\nre... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl\n\nCould we sort the results by System, please? At least as an option.\n\nIt's currently fairly hard to review the details to see whether a\nparticular release level is supported/tested. The sort order changes\nover time, which isn't useful.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI recently came accross a problem with the use of IN clause in a\npartial index with a varchar(3) field. Int, char and text seems to be\nOK (test case is provided below).\n\nVersion is 8.2.3 running on a Fedora Core 3 (RPM rebuilt from the PGDG ones).\ntest=# SELECT version();\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems possible to reduce overall WAL volume by roughly 25% on common\nworkloads by optimising the way UPDATE statements generate WAL. I've got\na practical proposal that looks like it can be completed in a few more\ndays work and fits very well with HOT UPDATEs.\n\nThis is likely to have b... |
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"msg_contents": "In CVS HEAD:\n\ncontrib/tsearch2/dict_syn.c:124: warning: 'slen' is used uninitialized \nin this function\n\nInduced by the recent pg_verifymbstr() patch.\n\n-Neil\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:27:12 -0400",
"msg_from": "Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>",
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: RIPEMD160\n\n\n> Included is a more eloborate example, which has some webby thing at\n> http://www.familiedobbelsteen.nl/printer-test/ (should work).\n\nMuch too elaborate - I'm sorry, but I don't think anyone here is willing \nto wade through nearl... |
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"msg_contents": "Right now, all the patches I think are ready for review are in the patch\nqueue:\n\n\thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n\nHowever, with feature freeze coming on Sunday, I am worried because\nthere are a significant number of patches that have are not ready for\nreview because t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Everyone,\n\nI very much understand why SJIS is not a server encoding. It contains\nASCII second bytes (including \\ and ' both of which can be really\nnasty inside a normal sql) and further, half-width katakana is\nrepresented as one byte-characters, incidentally two of which coincide\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI found in queue patch simply \"custom variables protection, Pavel Stehule\" \nwhich you removed and didn't find my patch for scrollable cursors in \nplpgsql.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nEmotikony a pozadi programu ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n From what I can see, the ecpg thread tests (src/interfaces/ecpg/threads)\ndon't ever run. They rely on ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY to be set, but even when\nI build with --enable-thread-safety, it's not set. This is because ecpg\ndoes not pull in pg_config.h, and also does not specify it on ... |
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"msg_contents": "If I change the code in one of the ecpg regression tests (porting tests as\nwell to non-pthread win32), am I supposed to manually change the .c files\nin the expected directory? Or is ther some other process for it?\n\n//Magnus\n",
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"msg_contents": "In another thread I wrote:\n> ... One thing I was just thinking about is that it's silly to have\n> the threshold constrained so strongly by a desire that tuples in toast\n> tables not be toastable. It would be trivial to tweak the heapam.c\n> routines so that they simply don't invoke the to... |
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"msg_contents": "Running the JDBC driver's regression test suite for the first time in a \nwhile I got a lot of failures that I would have to guess are related to \nplan invalidation work. Attached is a self contained test case and the \nJDBC driver's log of what protocol messages it is sending.\n\nThe end r... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been working on the patch to enhance our group commit behavior. The \npatch is a dirty hack at the moment, but I'm settled on the algorithm \nI'm going to use and I know the issues involved.\n\nHere's the patch as it is if you want to try it out:\nhttp://community.enterprisedb.com/groupc... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/tsearch_core-0.43.gz\n\nChanges:\n1 Ispell dictionary now supports hunspell dictionary's format which is used by\n OpenOffice >= 2.0.2\n http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries\n Changes in format is addressed, basically, to better support of com... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry to start another thread while we are still discussing CREATE\nINDEX design, but I need help/suggestions to finish the patch on\ntime for 8.3\n\nWe earlier thought that CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (CIC)\nwould be simpler to do because of the existing waits in CIC.\nBut one major problem w... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI ran into an interesting problem with a customer today. They are \nrunning Jabber XCP (not the one we use). Unfortunately, the product has \na bug that causes it to leave connections persistent in a transaction \nstate. This is what it does:\n\nBEGIN; SELECT 1;\n\nBasically it is v... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, i need you help Postgres gurus...\n\nI have been modified postgres for a while... and i need to test the\nperformance (for now, only time) of my modifications against the original\npostgres....\n\nMy first approach was to use the function clock() of the time.h C library,\nin the postgres... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a web site showing all the uncompleted patches for 8.2 that I am\nworried about:\n\n\thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold\n\nI can update the list as I get feedback.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi...\n\nI was trying to execute \\timing in a psql console.... but the command that i\nalways get is \\t .... Is something that im missing??? or is an Error???\n...My version of postgres is 8.1.4....\n\nBye.\n\nHi...I was trying to execute \\timing in a psql console.... but the command that ... |
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"msg_contents": "I seem to remember that we'd agreed that autovacuum should ignore any\nglobally set statement_timeout, on the grounds that a poorly chosen\nsetting could indefinitely prevent large tables from being vacuumed.\nBut I do not see anything in autovacuum.c that resets the variable.\nAm I just bein... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear everyone,\n\n I'm a college student,now I am doing the topic about the postgresql storage\nmanagement as my thesis. I wish I can get help here about where should I begin. I\nam reading the book Database System Implementation and reading the source\ncode,mainly in storage/smgr,I hope so... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPlease find attached the WIP version 1 of the auto partitioning patch. There\nwas discussion on this a while back on -hackers at:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00375.php\n\nPlease note that this patch tries to automate the activities that currently\nare carri... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is an updated DSM patch. I've left the core function of DSM only\nand dropped other complicated features in this release.\n\nVACUUM finishs faster with the patch, but it's obvious... DSM vacuum\nsweeps only pages that have many dead tuples and leave some of them\nafter vacuum.\n\nI'l... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to make the following changes to recovery related code over the\nnext few days/weeks. If anybody insists I do this by freeze or not at\nall, then I'll submit patches for 1,3,4,5,10 before Saturday night. I'd\nrather take a bit more time and do this in one drop and there are some\ncod... |
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"msg_contents": "PL/Proxy is a small PL whose goal is to allow creating\n\"proxy functions\" that call actual functions in remote database.\nBasic design is:\n\nFunction body describes how to deduce final database. Its either\n\n CONNECT 'connstr'; -- connect to exactly this db\n\nor when partitioning is u... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere is a proposal to add a client side encoding CP51932. CP51932 is\nan encoding for Japanese, defined by Microsoft. It is similar to\nexisting EUC_JP encoding but some characters are mapped\ndifferently. Unfortunately for most Windows apps \"EUC-JP\" means\nCP51932. As a result, for ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am working on a course project on implementing collection of statistics\non views in pgsql. The statistics will be used in conjunction with view\nmatching in the optimizer, to improve selectivity estimates.\n\nFor this to be possible, I need to be able to execute view definitions\nfr... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a surprising article about how Oracle has made open source\nprojects, like PostgreSQL, safe from claims of infringing Oracle\npatents:\n\n\thttp://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A0F5F220-5940-470D-8564-CEA7E2D2B954. Oracle, like IBM, Sony, RedHat, and Novell, is now a member ... |
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"msg_contents": "While cleaning up some pg_migrator code\n(http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pg-migrator/) it occurred to me that a\ntypical libpq client application spends a lot of code constructing SQL\ncommands. The code typically looks like this:\n\n a) allocate enough room to hold the command ... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon;\nTom;\n\nKoichi is writing.\n\nYour question is how to determine WAL record generated between\npg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup and here's an answer.\n\nXLogInsert( ) already has a logic to determine if inserting WAL record\nis between pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup. Currently ... |
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"msg_contents": "Isn't CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY prone deadlock conditions ?\nI saw one with VACUUM today. But I think it can happen with other\ncommands like VACUUM FULL, CLUSTER, CREATE INDEX\nCONCURRENTLY and so on. These commands conflict on the\nShareUpdateExclusiveLock held by CIC and hence would wait f... |
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"msg_contents": "This may have the nice side effect of pushing 'possibly patented' technologies into the FOSS realm, but again I wonder what the duration/persistence of Oracle's committment is?\n\nI think I will ask our lawyers to review this.\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Messag... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch changes the way pgbench outputs its latency log files so that \nevery transaction gets a timestamp and notes which transaction type was \nexecuted. It's a one-line change that just dumps some additional \ninformation that was already sitting in that area of code. I also made a \nc... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch puts entries in the log file around some backend events that \nregularly cause client pauses, most of which are visible only when running \nwith log_min_messages = debug2. The main focus is regularly occuring \ncheckpoints, from either running out of segments or hitting a timeout.... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch changes all implicit casts to text to assignment and \ncleans up the associated regression test damage. This change has been \ndiscussed for the longest time; I propose that we bite the bullet and \ndo it now.\n\nThe issue described in \n<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgs... |
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"msg_contents": ">I'm informed that the last statement of a function that returns void cannot \n>be a SELECT. How else is one supposed to call another function which also \n>returns void?\n>\n>E.g.,\n>\n>CREATE FUNCTION foo (a int, b int) RETURNS void\n>\tLANGUAGE plpgsql\n>\tAS $$ do important things $$;\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Please see the HOT version 6.3 patch posted on pgsql-patches.\nI've implemented support for CREATE INDEX and CREATE INDEX\nCONCURRENTLY based on the recent discussions. The implementation\nis not yet complete and needs some more testing/work/discussion\nbefore we can start considering it for ... |
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"msg_contents": "ISTM we've just invented the concept of one-time plans to allow CREATE\nINDEX to work effectively with HOT.\n\nI'd like to extend that thought back over towards constraint exclusion.\nCurrently we don't allow STABLE functions to be used for constraint\nexclusion because that mean plans were v... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nShould we announce? There is some web work etc.. to be done.\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===\nSales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240\nProviding the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solution... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm looking on pid file creation code (src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c \n - CreateLockFile) and I have couple of questions:\n\n1) Is there still some reason have negative value in postmaster.pid? It \nhappens only if backend runs in single mode. But I think now is not \nnecessary to use it... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm seeing a problem on my benchmark machine: checkpoints stop happening \nafter the ramp-up period.\n\nIt looks like the bgwriter gets starved waiting on the \nCheckpointStartLock. The CheckpointStartLock is held in shared mode over \nan XLogFlush when committing, which on an extremely busy ... |
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"msg_contents": "Can I declare a struct in a function's declaration section? Something\nlike this:\n\nstatic void\nfoobar(void)\n{\n\tstruct foo {\n\t\tOid\t\tfoo;\n\t\tint\t\tbar;\n\t};\n\n\tstruct foo baz;\n\n\tbaz.foo = InvalidOid;\n\tbaz.bar = 42;\n\n}\n\nI tried here and GCC does not complain, with -std... |
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"msg_contents": "PG Hackers,\n\nWe've had a proposal to work on Async I/O for Google SoC, and it's a great \nlooking proposal. However, none of the current SoC mentors feels up to \ntaking it on; is there any hacker who can do it?\n\nI'd hate to drop this proposal just because we can't mentor it. Anyone?\n\... |
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