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[ { "msg_contents": "I posted some fairly detailed benchmark results for my Synchronized Scan\npatch and it's interactions with Simon Riggs' Recycle Buffers patch\nhere:\n\nhttp://j-davis.com/postgresql/patch15-results.html\n\nThe results are in the form of log files that contain lots of useful\ndebugging info:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "As you can see from my email traffic today, we have a significant number\nof patches that were never completed by the authors, or were completed\nbut not adjusted and resubmitted based on community feedback. I feel\nwe have more this release than usual. I warned about this last week.\n\nNo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Magnus.\n\nconfigure was changed the cvs head.\nIs this what you intended it?_?\n\nI think necessary to recover it.\n\n*** configure.orig Tue Apr 3 17:51:06 2007\n--- configure Tue Apr 3 17:52:21 2007\n***************\n*** 16732,16739 ****\n # For each platform, we need to know a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI noticed that the plan invalidation is not immediately effective.\nNot sure whether it's worth fixing or has any other side-effects,\nbut thought would just post it.\n\nI was testing the following scenario:\n\n\n session1 session2\n\n CREATE TABLE test\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While going through some log files, we noticed that some of the log entries \nare \"garbled\". For example:\n\n2007-03-27 01:19:44.139 UTC [1761474] oxrsa aepp xx.xx.xx.xx LOG:\nduratio2007-03-n: 3751.27 01:19801 ms :44.139 statemenUTC [421940]\noxrt: EXECUsor\ng aTE <unnaepp 10.4med> [P0....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello all!\nThis is my first post! I am interested in finding out what queries have\nbeen made against a particular database in postgres. The version of Postgres\nis 8.0 running on Mandrake 10. The queries are made by client computers\nover the network. What steps must I take to accompli...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nTom Lane wrote:\n> Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au> writes:\n>> Is there any way to change the text qualifier in PG\n> \n> No. I suppose you could hack the Postgres lexer but you'd break\n> pretty much absolutely everything other than your Access code.\n> \n>> or the case s...
[ { "msg_contents": "This used to work in 8.2:\n\npsql postgres -c \"VACUUM table1; SELECT now()\"\n\nBut in cvs head it throws an error:\nERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string\n\nThis must be because of the recent changes to PreventTransactionChain.\n\nShould we try to keep th...
[ { "msg_contents": "This used to work in 8.2:\n\npsql postgres -c \"VACUUM table1; SELECT now()\"\n\nBut in cvs head it throws an error:\nERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string\n\nThis must be because of the recent changes to PreventTransactionChain.\n\nShould we try to keep th...
[ { "msg_contents": "In this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-03/msg00145.php\nwe eventually determined that the reported lockup had three components:\n\n(1) something (still not sure what --- Martin and Mark, I'd really like\nto know) was issuing random SIGTERMs to various postgres process...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since contrib/xml2 seems to be staying with us at least for now, this \nsmall patch enables it to be built and installed from the contrib \nMakefile when --with-libxml is given to configure.\n\nIf there's no objection I'll apply in a day or two.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew", "msg_date": "Wed, 04 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any reason we don't have an abs() function for intervals?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:11:28 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "absolute interval" }, { "msg_contents": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI cannot see any docs about pg_internal_init files in our docs. I got an\ne-mail today regarding this issue and it says here are ~300\npg_internal_init.* files in data directory. There is only 1 database in\nthe cluster. Also, he says PostgreSQL crashes sometimes during the day\n(this ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere is the autovacuum patch I am currently working with. This is\nbasically the same as the previous patch; I have tweaked the database\nlist management so that after a change in databases (say a new database\nis created or a database is dropped), the list is recomputed to account\nf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that we are in feature freeze, I wanted to outline a few things\npeople can anticipate during this period.\n\nFirst, you might notice I am trying to stick to a schedule and move the\nprocess along as best as I can. It isn't that I want to be harsh, but\nthe community wants to get 8.3 rel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not just EDB :-)\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tChris Browne [mailto:cbbrowne@acm.org]\nSent:\tWednesday, April 04, 2007 10:07 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tpgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject:\tRe: [HACKERS] Modifying TOAST thresholds\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that the CheckpointStartLock starvation has been taken care of, I'm \nseeing another problem with checkpoints in my test run: mdsync never \nfinishes.\n\nHere's what's happening:\n1. checkpoint calls mdsync\n2. mdsync start processing pending fsyncs from pendingOpsTable\n(at this point, n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a fix for the problem that on a busy system, mdsync never \nfinishes. See the original problem description on hackers:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg00259.php\n\nThe solution is taken from ITAGAKI Takahiro's Load Distributed \nCheckpoint patch. At the beginni...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems the change of the XML messages now causes more or less every\nbuildfarm member to fail the XML test. Meaning all the ones that don't have\nlibxml, but that seems to be the vast majority...\n\nLooks like a missing update to regression tests?\n\n//Magnus\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 5 Apr ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFollowing a suggestion by Tom Lane, I have written some code that will \nreject reports from members running very old script versions. In a week \nI intend to turn it on and require script version 1.45 as a minimum. \nThat version is 18 months old. 1 month later I propose to set that to \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "transaction_guarantee.v11.patch \n- keep current, cleanup, more comments and docs\n\nBrief Performance Analysis\n--------------------------\n\nI've tested 3 scenarios:\n1. normal\n2. wal_writer_delay = 100ms\n3. wal_writer_delay = 100ms and transaction_guarantee = off\n\nOn my laptop, with a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm in the process of building a new box that will have Dual Xeon 5120's\n(Dual Core), and 4G of ram and 2.4T of disk (6x400G SATA).\n\n \n\nIt will have CentOS 4.4 X86_64 as the base os with VMWare Server running on\nit. \n\n \n\nI am willing to run any X86 or X64 OS's in VM's as buildfarm c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Along the way in applying Greg Stark's varvarlena patch, I removed\nHEAP_HASCOMPRESSED, which was not used and AFAIR never had been used\nfor anything. Don't all propose a use for that bit at once...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:26:31 -0400", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \n I want to get the coding details regarding postgres optimizer. Essentially, which files correspond to which functions, how the algo is implemented, the flow etc.. Where can I find this material ?\n \n Also, how to I start changing Postgres Code using eclipse platform (with tracing, d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current version of postgres support only 1GB chunks. This limit is \ndefined in the pg_config_manual.h header file. However this setting \nallows to have maximal 2GB chunks. Main problem is that md storage \nmanager and buffile use \"long\" data type (32bits) for offset instead \n\"off_t\" de...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>\n> To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>\n> Sent: 06/04/07, 15:33:20\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?\n> \n> yeah improving windows coverage might be a nice th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nDoes anyone know if pgsnmpd is still actively developed?\nThe last version (0.1b1) is about 15 months old.\n\ngreetings, Florian Pflug\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:12:39 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Florian G. Pflug\" <fgp@phlo.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: \"Florian G. Pflug\" <fgp@phlo.org>\n> To: \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\n> Sent: 06/04/07, 20:12:39\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Fate of pgsnmpd\n> \n> Hi\n> \n> Does anyone know if pgsnmpd is still actively developed...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen using views built with left joins, and then querying against these\nviews, there are a lot of join in the plan that are not necessary, because I\ndon't select/use any column of each table in the views every time. Tables\nthat are left joined and never referenced anywhere else in t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI am having trouble with fixing my code for this recent varlena patch:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-04/msg00081.php\n\nMy module is fulldisjunctions.\nI have several problems but first i wish to address the following.\nThis is an excerpt from my code:\nnewtset-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWould it be acceptable to invoke pg_ctl in the API functions to stop and\nrestart the server?\n\nthanks\n\nHi all,Would it be acceptable to invoke pg_ctl in the API functions to stop and restart the server?thanks", "msg_date": "Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:02:44 -0400", "msg_from": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Awhile back Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> wrote:\n> Making cluster MVCC-safe will kill my back-door of clustering a hot\n> table while I run a full DB backup.\n\nAre we agreed that the TRUNCATE-based workaround shown here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00606.php\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI used the development version of PostgreSQL to compile my module \nfulldisjunctions. The install scripts works well there (passes).\nHowever, i wanted to check if it still works (backward compatible) with the \nstable version and it complains on these lines in the sql script when i do \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs a part of my university project, I am trying to modify the postgres code\nto support parallel system.\n\nAs the first step I have partitioned the data on different processors. And\nhave kept a master node to process all the query requests. Whenever my\nmaster node is queried I need ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thinking about XPath's output in cases such as 'SELECT xpath('/a', '<b\n/>');' I've realized that in such cases an empty array should be\nreturned (now we have NULL for such cases).\n\nWhy? Because database _knows_ that there is no element -- this is not\nNULL's case (\"unknown\").\n\nThen I'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Historically, pg_filedump\nhttp://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/utilities.html\nhas relied on the size of a page's special space to determine which kind\nof index it is looking at (btree, hash, etc) so that it can dump the\ncontents of the special space nicely. This is pretty ugly of course,\nbut ...
[ { "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/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi *\nI am using the postgresql-8.2.3, with a jdbc-8.2-504.... (the GeoNet\nwebServer tool...) My question is :\nIs the <<PostGresDB>> server able to log the whole <<SELECT>> query?\n{made by a prepared statement????}\nLooking at the log I can see only queries of the type:\n\n(cut)..............
[ { "msg_contents": "Kris Kennaway wrote:\n> If so, then your task is the following:\n> \n> Make SYSV semaphores less dumb about process wakeups. Currently\n> whenever the semaphore state changes, all processes sleeping on the\n> semaphore are woken, even if we only have released enough resources\n> for one wait...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a reason that \\da doesn't show the functions result type, like \\df \ndoes? I would find that information useful.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:40:37 +0200", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx...
[ { "msg_contents": "psql's \\d command tells you about outgoing foreign key constraints\n(ie, ones referencing another table from this one). It doesn't tell\nyou about incoming ones (ie, ones where another table references this\none). ISTM it'd be a good idea if it did, as \"are there any incoming\nforeign key...
[ { "msg_contents": "The new uuid type is lacking documentation. Could you please work on that? \nAt least assemble a list of things that exist so that others can build \ndocumentation around that.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:24:26 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have this exact problem a lot. There are actually cases where you can\neliminate regular joins, not just left joins. For example:\n\nCREATE TABLE partner (\n\tid\t\t\tserial,\n\tname\t\t\tvarchar(40) not null,\n\tprimary key (id)\n);\n\nCREATE TABLE project (\n\tid\t\t\tserial,\n\tname\t\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> forwards:\n> Yes but there are still a lot of wakeups to be avoided in the current\n> System V semaphore code. More specifically, not only do we wakeup all\n> the processes waiting on a single semaphore everytime something changes,\n> but we also wakeup al...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was trying to use gcov on Postgres and ran into a problem where some contrib\nmodules were missing the key libcov symbols and failed to load. Korry very\nhelpfully tracked down the missing bit: the broken modules were ones built\nusing \"gcc -shared\" according to the rule in Makefile.lin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a question about SHM_QUEUE. Why do we need this component?\n\nWe've already made some modules under the assumption that the base offset\nof shared memory is mapped to the same address for all processes.\nSee comment in freespace.h:\n\n * Note: we handle pointers to these item...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cann't we remove this param?\nWe can rewrite like this:\n1.XLogReadBuffer:\n * remove init;\n * everytime we cann't read a block, just \"log_invalid_page\" it, and return\nInvalidBuffer;\n2.Also rewrite all functions calling XLogReadBuffer with \"init=true\": skip\ncurrent block if XLogRead...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nmingw-runtime-3.10 introduced a gettimeofday declaration in sys/time.h\nthat is not compatible with port.h.\n(current is mingw-runtime-3.12)\n\nint __cdecl gettimeofday(struct timeval *__restrict__,\n\t\t\t void *__restrict__ /*\ttzp (unused) */);\n\nThe problem was already reported by Mar...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have built some UUID generation functions using the library at \n<http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/>. This should cover all the usual ways to \ndo it, and it also provides some special constants that could be useful.\n\nI have attached the code, but the code is actually against 8.2 with uu...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Windows Vista, IPv6 is enabled by default, and cannot be uninstalled,\nor disabled easily on the loopback adaptor. localhost is ::1 by\ndefault, and the enhanced 'security' makes it insanely difficult to edit\nthe hosts file.\n\nThis means that the regression tests fail to run, leaving a\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that when psql accepts input from stdin or -f (but not -c),\nand timing is set to on in .psqlrc, timing results are printed out to\nstdout even when -q (quiet) is passed in.\n\nThis may not be the perfect solution, but it fixes the problem (I'm\nhaving problems with bash scripts tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Should we create an email list just for migration questions? Seems it\nwould be appropriate.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be you...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nMy website has been having issues with our new Linux/PostgreSQL \nserver being somewhat slow. I have done tests using Apache Benchmark \nand for pages that do not connect to Postgres, the speeds are much \nfaster (334 requests/second v. 1-2 requests/second), so it seems that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRESET SESSION, plus related new DDL commands. Patch from Marko Kreen,\nreviewed by Neil Conway. This patch adds the following DDL command\nvariants: RESET SESSION, RESET TEMP, RESET PLANS, CLOSE ALL, and\nDEALLOCATE ALL. RESET SESSION is intended for use by connecti...
[ { "msg_contents": "As the README for xlog says: There're two kinds of WAL records:\n* WAL record that contains enough information to re-generate the entire\ncontents of a page;\n\nduring recovery of these records, blocks are read with:\n buffer = XLogReadBuffer(reln, blkno, true);\n\nso it can be sure that the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nShouldn't the final command below cause a 'column \"b\" does not exist error'?\n\ncreate table update_test (a int, b int);\ncreate table supdate_test(x int, y int);\ninsert into update_test values (20, 30);\ninsert into supdate_test values (40, 50);\nselect a, (select b from supdate_te...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI'm very excited that my project for implementing read-only queries\non PITR slaves was accepted for GSoC, and I'm now trying to work\nout what tools I'll use for that job.\n\nI'd like to be able to create some sort of branches and tags for\nmy own work (only inside my local repository ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi AllJ\n \n I am working on a project for testing the performance of Oracle, EDB, and postgres and looking for a OLTP benchmarking tool which can do the benchmarking on all these databases. Can anyone please help me on this? \n \n Thanks in advance to all for you kind co-operati...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's no way in the pg_ tables to identify when a check constraint on\nan inherited table should not be inherited. Example:\n \ncreate table t1 (col1 number(10));\n \ncreate table t2 () inherits t2;\n \nalter table only t1 add constraint ck_col1 check (number <> 0);\n \nNow, run pg_dump an...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've written the following function definitions to extend\ngenerate_series to support some temporal types (timestamptz, date and\ntime). Please include them if there's sufficient perceived need or\nvalue.\n\n-- timestamptz version\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_series\n( start_ts timest...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm working to implement a new feature to pg_dump: the ability to dump\nobjects like function, indexes... And I notice that there some usefull\nfunctions like pg_malloc, pg_calloc... So I've added pg_free to avoid the\nsequence if-not-null-free-point-to-NULL, now I'd like to add a func...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI searched some notes about this topic. I didn't find any usefull sample. \nLot of samples are about external stored procedures and others about using \ntable expression like\n\ncreate function foo(i1)\nreturns table (a1 int)\nas\n return table(select a1 from tab)\n\nisn't clear if ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nCurrently on the wishlist [1] we have the following items as \"posponed\":\n* WITH RECURSIVE hierarchical queries (Gregory Stark)\n* SQL:2003 windowing queries (Gavin)\n* Fix permissions properly on custom GUC vars (Andrew Dunstan)\n* Create a mechanism for plperl to load modules sa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd --with-libxslt configure option\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql:\n configure (r1.543 -> r1.544)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/configure.diff?r1=1.543&r2=1.544)\n configure.in (r1.510 -> r1.511)\n (h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIn 8.2.x version of postgres, there is a configuration switch \n--with-libedit-preferred prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline.\nHowever, I don't see this switch in 8.1.x.\nSince people still use 8.1.x version, is there any plan to back-port \nthis feature?\nIf so, I like to work...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current documentation for RESET exhibits a certain lack of, um,\nintellectual cohesiveness:\n\nName\n\nRESET -- restore the value of a run-time parameter to the default value\n\nSynopsis\n\nRESET configuration_parameter\nRESET ALL\nRESET { PLANS | SESSION | TEMP | TEMPORARY }\n\n\nThat on...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nWhen I try to build CVS HEAD on OSX 10.4, compiling\nsrc/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.c fails with:\nIn file included from preproc.y:6951:\npgc.l:3:20: error: config.h: No such file or directory\nIn file included from pgc.l:28,\n from preproc.y:6951:\npreproc.h:996: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nOur seven students and projects have been officially announced by Google:\nhttp://code.google.com/soc/postgres/about.html\n\n Column-level privilege implementation for PostgreSQL\nby Guodong Liu, mentored by Andrew Dunstan\n ER diagraming tool for pgAdmin\nby Euler Taveira de Olive...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm wondering why a IN b isn't equivalent to a = ANY b for arrays, as it \nis for subqueries.\n\nThat is, why can't you write\n\nSELECT 1 IN ( ARRAY[1, 2, 3] );\n\nwhen you can write\n\nSELECT 1 = ANY ( ARRAY[1, 2, 3] );\n\n?\n\nI'm guessing that there is a semantic inconsistency between thes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Florian,\n\nI am right now running an rsync of the Pg CVS repo to my work machine to\nget a git import underway. I'm rather keen on seeing your cool PITR Pg\nproject go well and I have some git+cvs fu I can apply here (being one\nof the git-cvsimport maintainers) ;-)\n\nFor the kind of wor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Shouldn't we write xlog record before we do a physical operation?\n\nAn test case:\n1. set full_page_writes off;\n2. startup database; create a table; insert 100000 rows in it; shutdown\ndatabase;\n3. startup database again; delete all rows from this table;\n4. vacuum this table, and it will ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n I think I found a bug, or at least a POLA violation. At work, I created\na user that is NOT a superuser, nor can that user create databases. When I\ndid a create database foo owner bar, all the schemas are set to be owned by\nthe superuser that created the database, not the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I announced alpha version of SE-PostgreSQL about one month ago,\nI'm working for development of a security facility integrated with\nsecure operating system.\n\nIt provides database users fine grained mandatory access control\nincluding row and column level one, and integration with operat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am sending this email on behalf of Russel Smith. He discovered this\nbug and his description follows:\n\nVerified on 8.2.3 on Fedora Core 6\nVerified on 8.1.3 on RHEL4, custom compile. (I can't control the update to 8.1.8)\n \nThe output of an empty role name would possibly not be a problem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there\n\nI made some changes in postgresql source code to let the table function work in iteration fashion rather than materialization fashion. My main modifications are in 'exec_simple_query' function, I changed 'portalRunSelect' to return just one tuple instead of 'FETCH_ALL'. I made oth...
[ { "msg_contents": "New buildfarm member Narwhal is failing the PL regression tests for \nPython on REL8_1_STABLE. This appears to be because it's running Python \n2.5 (the causes being a deprecated module - whrandom - and some changed \nmessages).\n\nThe former problem was fixed by Peter, and the latter by Tom ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI'm trying to get the buildfarm to run on my XP x64 machine (still in\n32-bit mode), and it's acting weird on me :-(\n\nThe plpython tests because of:\n+ NOTICE: ('import failed -- No module named bisect',)\n\nand\n! ERROR: plpython: function \"import_test_two\" failed\n! DETAIL: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dunno if anyone's noticed, but buildfarm member jackal has been crashing\nintermittently in the \"cluster\" regression test. I found out that I can\nreproduce that here on a Mac Mini (apparently the same or nearly same\nhardware/software as jackal) --- just repeat the parallel tests often\ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "The \\COPY command rejects multibyte delimiters. Is this intentional \nbehavior?\n\nHere is an example of the behavior:\n\npgsql@compaq ~ $ touch foo\npgsql@compaq ~ $ psql -p 5555\nWelcome to psql 8.3devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "How can I create a schema during initdb time?\nFor example pg_catalog, pg_toast, information_schema are created during\ninitdb time. Likewise I want to create my own schema at initdb time. How can\ni do it? Also how to create a table into this schema at that time itself?\n\nThanks\nSharat.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "A recent discussion led me to the idea that FK triggers are fired\nunnecessarily during an UPDATE if the foreign-key column(s) contain\nany NULLs, because ri_KeysEqual() treats two nulls as unequal,\nand therefore we conclude the row has changed when it has not.\nI claim that both ri_KeysEqua...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAlso done for PL/pgSQL:\n\n< \t\to Add support for WITH HOLD and SCROLL cursors\n> \t\to -Add support for WITH HOLD and SCROLL cursors\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc:\n TODO (r1.2170 -> r1.2171)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUpdate error message for COPY with a multi-byte delimiter.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/commands:\n copy.c (r1.280 -> r1.281)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/copy.c.diff?r1=1.280&r2=...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm mostly done with my review of the \"Automatic adjustment of \nbgwriter_lru_maxpages\" patch. In addition to issues already brought up \nwith that code, there are some small things that need to be done to merge \nit with the recent pg_stat_bgwriter patch, and I have some concerns about \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got a database corruption/backend crash problem with my 8.1.3 \ndatabase on Mac OS X Server 10.4. I'm beginning the process of \ntrying to recover it. If anyone is interested in trying to fully \nunderstand the what, where, and why of the crash, please contact me. \nI've provided ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are two additional patches in the VACUUM code. One is Heikki's\npatch to recalculate OldestXmin in the vacuum run.\n\nhttp://groups.google.es/group/pgsql.patches/browse_thread/thread/b2cfc901534d8990/40ba5b2fbb8f5b91\n(much nicer than our archives because the whole thread is there, not...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally got a chance to look at a reproducible case of this, thanks\nto Vlastimil Krejcir. It's now blindingly obvious that my patch of\n2006-11-19, which was intended to fix bug #2737, has broken things.\n\nThe problem is partly a misordering of operations in\n_hash_expandtable(): it call...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 3242\nLogged by: Marcin Waldowski\nEmail address: M.Waldowski@sulechow.net\nPostgreSQL version: 8.2.3 and 8.2.1\nOperating system: Windows XP SP2\nDescription: FATAL: could not unlock semaphore: error co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI would like to submit a patch so that the\nCOPY statement can import data into a view.\n(Maybe if this works I'll see about copying\nout of a view.)\n\nRather than spend a whole lot of time figuring\nout all the calls to use and all the detail,\nI'm going to go ahead and post now. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 3244\nLogged by: William Lawrance\nEmail address: bill.lawrance@bull.com\nPostgreSQL version: cvs HEAD\nOperating system: Linux\nDescription: problem with PREPARE\nDetails: \n\nThis program that does \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am seeing the following compiler warnings in CVS HEAD:\n\n\tanalyze.c:471: warning: `diff' might be used uninitialized in this function\n\tvacuumlazy.c:220: warning: `diff' might be used uninitialized in this function\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nin doc there are for returned value:\n\nSPI_processed and SPI_tuptable are set as in SPI_execute if successful.\n\nBut for move statement is SPI_tuptable undefined. Move statement only move \ncursor. Doesn't return anything.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n_____________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI found one unsupported form plpgsql's fetch statement which is supported \nby postgresql.\n\nPostgreSQL knows\nFETCH 3 FROM ....\n\nbut plpgsql needs everytime direction's keyword. It's need small fix. I am \nsorry.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n____________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI believe I have discovered the following problem in pgsql 8.2 and HEAD,\nconcerning warm-standbys using WAL log shipping.\n\nThe problem is that after a crash, the master might complete incomplete\nactions via rm_cleanup() - but since it won't wal-log those changes,\nthe slave won't kn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello people,\nI'm thinking in project and implement \"data fragmentation\" based on\ncatalogs inside\npgcluster as my university final project. I would like suggestions and\nwould be happy if anyone help me to define it. Sorry if this is the\nincorrect list...I had no answer on \"pgcluster-g...
[ { "msg_contents": "The error message we currently produce when a deadlock occurs is pretty\nunfriendly:\n\n ERROR: deadlock detected\n DETAIL: Process 32068 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation\n 16413 of database 16384; blocked by process 32064.\n Process 32064 waits for AccessExclusiveLock ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFollowing up on some complaints we've had about extremely large plan times for\nlarge partitioned tables I've been doing some profiling. I've constructed a\nsituation where it takes upwards of 30 seconds to plan a simple query like:\n\npostgres=# explain select * from a where i between 999 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\nFor a particular query, are there any functions which can give me the\nstart-up cost, total run-cost, number of rows and width?\n\nThanks,\nSharat.\n\nHelloFor a particular query, are there any functions which can give me the start-up cost, total run-cost, number of rows and width?Than...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once\non 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on\nthe same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other\nbuilds however.\n\nAnyone have any idea what might be wrong? It seems unlikely t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI translated some things and I corrected many others in the\ntranslation of pgadmin3 for Portuguese of Brazil. It incorrectly had\nmuch translated thing, and much thing with translation of one another\none. It would like to know you as I can disponibilizar this my small\ncontributio...