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[ { "msg_contents": "Karel Gardas wrote:\n>\n> Hello,\n>\n> first of all, I've tried to ask on pgsql-general mailing list as advised,\n> but no answer.\n>\n> I'd like to look at a possibility of integrating OpenPMF\n> (http://www.openpmf.org) with the PostgreSQL. There is a possibility to\n> have a \"weak\" integ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI'm investigating a problem my client experienced with \n\"create database xxx with template=yyy\" - they often get error\n\"ERROR: source database \"yyy\" is being accessed by other users\",\n\nI modelled situation in clean environment with very simple perl script\n( FreeBSD 6....
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWhile trying to test the arrays of complex types, I used a\nstripped-down configure. Too stripped down, it turns out.\n\nCFLAGS=\"-O0\" ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/pgsql/tip --with-pgport=2225 --enable-cassert --enable-debug --enable-depend --enable-integer-datetimes \n\nI set $P...
[ { "msg_contents": "hola ke tal,\nestoy en una bd de prueba con postgresql 8.2.3 y Winxp, y he generado un certificado SSL con nombre server.crt y server.key en la carpeta Data, y establecido la opcion a SSL=True \nno se como de la nada comenzo a darme malos resultados las funciones de postgres, me refiero a lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear mailing list,\n\nI have got a problem installing Postgres 8.2.3 on Windows XP Pro having \nall the latest updates.\nAll postgres installations, folders and the serviceaccount have been \nremoved before so that it was clean installation.\n\nThe following steps lead to a reproducible resul...
[ { "msg_contents": "When planning queries with a large IN expression in the WHERE clause,\nthe planner transforms the IN list into a scalar array expression. In\nclause_selectivity(), we estimate the selectivity of the ScalarArrayExpr\nby calling scalararraysel(), which in turn estimates the selectivity of\n*eac...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking into PG/PLSql code and following code in \nplpgsql_call_handler looks strange:\n\n /* Find or compile the function */\n func = plpgsql_compile(fcinfo, false);\n\n /* Mark the function as busy, so it can't be deleted from under \nus */\n func->use_co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Fixed the major omissions that made it incomplete.\n\n- Added sgml documentation and \\? usage\n- Added basic mvcc regression tests using new functionality\n- Fixed cursor-mode (FETCH_COUNT) functionality\n- Removed \\cwait in favour of psql variable ASYNC_DELAY\n\nI'm still not sure it's qui...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is pg_comparator the only project out there that does what it does? I\ntried patching it, and it seems OK, but I'm not terribly confident in\nmy patch. I'm hoping someone will tell me there's a great table-\ndriven rsync out there that everyone uses and I just don't know\nabout.\n\nhttp://p...
[ { "msg_contents": "The use of ActiveSnapshot throughout the code appears rather dangerous \nto me. It is a global pointer, assumed not to be set yet in some places, \nassumed to be saved and restored by the caller in others. The actual \n(context) memory it points to is sometimes explicitly freed, sometimes \nj...
[ { "msg_contents": "I returned on Wednesday from my trip to Australia and India. (I skipped\nLondon.) I returned early because my brother-in-law died on May 5 (for\ndetails see http://momjian.us/main/news.html).\n\nAnyway, I am slow catching up on email for that reason. I should be\ncaught up by Tuesday/Wedne...
[ { "msg_contents": "The last two runs on baiji have failed at the installcheck stage,\nwith symptoms that look a heck of a lot like the most recent system\ncatalog changes haven't taken effect (eg, it doesn't seem to know\nabout pg_type.typarray). Given that the previous \"check\" step\npassed, the most likely ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nhead file uuid.h isn't in subdirectory ossp on Fedora Core 6 (uuid was\ninstalled from uuid and uuid-devel package). I had to change\n\n#include <ossp/uuid.h> to #include <uuid.h>\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 13 May 2007 11:41:45 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Pave...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am trying test pg_stand by. I used archive and restore commands via\nREADME.pg_standby.\n\nrecovery finish with notice in log:\n\nTrigger file : <not set>\nWaiting for WAL file : /usr/local/pgsql/archive/000000010000000000000000\nWAL file path : 000000010000...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI understand better it. Second cluster has to be an clone of first\ncluster. -> don't use initdb for second cluster. Is possible add this\nnotice to pg_standby's README?\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 13 May 2007 18:28:53 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Pavel Stehule\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi developers,\n\nConcurrently updating an updatable view seems to cause\nan unexpected result. Is it a known issue?\n\n=> select version();\n version\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 8.2.1 on i686-pc-min...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nmastodon and skylark just failed at the make stage due to a thinko on my \npart (now fixed). However, this is not correctly caught by the buildfarm \nscript, meaning that the process invoked at this stage ('build 2>&1') is \nnot exiting properly with a non-zero status on error. That needs t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhen starting up a postmaster from an older build on a database initialized\nwith a newer build I'm getting the following errors. I think I saw the same\nthing earlier going in the opposite direction too. Shouldn't there be some\nearlier errors firing from the control file version number?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI propose to unbreak this contrib module for machines that don't have \nuuid.h installed in a directory called ossp (e.g. fc6), by changing\n #include <ossp/uuid.h>\nto\n #include <uuid.h>\n\nPeople who *do* have it installed in such a directory can add to the \nbuild with a --with-includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTo follow up on this, if you look at how TODO items are created, they\noften come out of discussion threads, and sometimes more than one idea\ncomes from a discussion thread. If we moved to a trackers system, how\nwould we handle that?\n\nAlso, if I want to discuss renaming something or cl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete\nthe feature freeze until August/September. I think we need adjust\nexpectations about an 8.3 release date, and decide if we want to\nradically change our work process.\n\nBasically, to make a release anywhere near July, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While testing the buffer ring patch, I noticed that bulk inserts with \nboth INSERT and COPY pin and unpin the buffer they insert to for every \ntuple. That means that the usage_count of all those buffers are bumped \nup to 5. That's gotta be bad if you try to run a COPY concurrently with \no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n\n> I'm concerned that this one creates\n> an open-loop behavior in which the n_dead_tuples estimate will diverge\n> arbitrarily far from reality over time. I criticized the original\n> proposal on that basis, and I'm not convinced this version fixes it,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm looking for corner cases where the concurrent psql patch doesn't handle\nthings properly. I'm wondering about multiple result sets but I can't think of\nany cases where I can test them.\n\nIf you submit multiple commands at the psql prompt then psql seems to stop at\nthe first semicolon...
[ { "msg_contents": "In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review\npatches, I often get the reply, \"Oh, yea, I need to do that\".\n\nFolks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress\non getting patches reviewed and applied. As I stated earlier, we are\nnow looki...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI think one of the things that is preventing urgency is that everyone\nknows we have large patches unapplied, so they know that their lack of\nactivity is not holding up the release. Any way around that?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nbruc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe've had ecpg regression tests being doing by the buildfarm for a \nwhile, but they are not enabled for MSVC. Also, buildfarm has never \nsupported doing MBCS regression tests. In both cases the regression \ntests are driven by Unix shell scripts, and in the MBCS case at least, \nthe scrip...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now our roadmap lists the 8.3 release as July, 2007:\n\n\thttp://www.postgresql.org/developer/roadmap\n\nWhile the year might be right, the month probably is not. I suggest we\nremove the date and replace it with \"undetermined\" until we have a\nclearer target date.\n\n-- \n Bruce Mo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIt seems that it may be useful to allow something like:\n\nDROP INDEX NOWAIT.\n\nThe idea being, that the terminal will come back, the index will be \ndropped in the background. If it doesn't drop, it rollback like normal \nand logs.\n\nI bring this up now, as an idea. We can argue ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix parameter recalculation for Limit nodes: during a ReScan call we must\nrecompute the limit/offset immediately, so that the updated values are\navailable when the child's ReScan function is invoked. Add a regression\ntest for this, too. Bug is new in HEAD (due ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have updated the patch status page:\n\n http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus#current_8.3_patch_status\n\nI moved some patches that were clearly not ready to the 8.4 queue. \nLet's see what we can get applied in the next week and review our\nstatus then.\n\n-- \n Bruc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yet another potential addition to the family of operators. Some guy\nwas asking for it on IRC so...\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION interval_over_interval(interval, interval)\nRETURNS float STRICT IMMUTABLE LANGUAGE sql AS $$\nSELECT extract(epoch from $1)::float / extract(epoch from $2);\n$$;\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nmy name is Robert Mach and I am happy to by working on GSoC project for \nPostgresql. The name of the project is Integrity check algorithm for \ndata files in Postgresql.\n\nSo far, I have put together a list of possible checks for data failure \nand I would like to hear as much opin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n\n> Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that we should follow the Linux model all\n> that closely. I know there are regressions in the \"point zero\"\n> releases, and that there are bugs.\n\nThis morning a friend IM'ed me a comment about Martin Michlmayr's PhD\nthesis, which...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm attempting a patch that would allow the COPY\ncommand to copy into a view. I needed to code\nsomething so as to get a clue, but the design has\nnot been discussed so I'm posting here rather\nthan the patches list.\n\nI had a wee bit of discussion about this on IRC.\nThere was a su...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys of the pgsql-hackers list.\n\nI've received a bug report on the OLE DB list, which I suspect is\nactually a server bug. The correspondence so far is listed further on,\nbut, in a nutshell, user runs an OLE DB client on windows (OLE DB uses\nthe binary interface), and server version 8....
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been thinking about what it will take to solve the problem noted here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-05/msg00325.php\nwhich briefly is that 8.2 is really bad at estimating the number of\nrows returned by locutions like\n\n\tSELECT ... FROM\n\t tab1 LEFT JOIN tab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Michael,\n\nLooks like your latest commit fixed the problem. Thanks for working on it.\n\nRegards, Dave\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: PGBuildfarm member vaquita Branch HEAD Status changed from \nECPG-Check failure to OK\nDate: Sun, 20 May 2007 14:24:34 -0700 (PDT)\nFrom: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello! I have the following question.\n\nFor example I have a role ID1 with members ID2 and ID3.\nRole ID2 has also members ID4 and ID5. It means that roles ID4 and ID5 are\nmembers of ID1.\nThe question: Is there any function in PostgreSQL, that finds all the\nmembers of role ID1 - even such...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n\n\nHi, \n\ni was following a thread some time ago where adding a function pg_get_tabledef\nwas one of the TODOs for 8.2, but it somehow didn't make it to the\nrelease perhaps because the functionality was not clearly defined? not\nsure.\n\nAnyway  i happen to come up with a function fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked into the curious planner behavior described in this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-05/msg00388.php\nand after a bit of experimentation was able to duplicate it in the\nregression database:\n\nregression=# explain select * from int4_tbl a where f1 in (s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI installed the source of PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on a linux machine. The installation process ended successfully but when I try to create the database cluster using the initdb command I get the following error:\n\"\ncreating conversions ... sh: line 1: 1838 Segmentation fault (core ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hay all :)\n\nFirstly, just wanted to say how much I appreceate all the hard work that \nhas gorn into postgres. It really is a fine system.\n\nAnyway, mybug: I have a test SELECT statement (Listing A - see \"sql \nlistings.txt\") wich produces different results under two simular setups \n(Li...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nStarting from a review of a patch from Itagaki Takahiro to improve LIKE \nperformance for UTF8-encoded databases, I have been working on improving \nboth efficiency of the LIKE/ILIKE code and the code quality.\n\nThe main efficiency improvement comes from some fairly tricky analysis \nand d...
[ { "msg_contents": "With a small modification to src/tools/msvc/Install.pm (see attached \npatch) it's possible for me to build with msvc and install postgres on a \nWindows xp box and leave cygwin in the PATH. Since I use cygwin \nfrequently it's usfull for me to have it in the PATH.\n\nThis might not work on W...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'd like to help reviewing patches, in particular the group index tupes (GIT)\npatch by Heikki Linnakangas\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01264.php).\nI've spoken with Alvaro about it, he gave me several links to the threads on\nhackers related to the GIT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm curious if there is a reason that SQL setof UDFs couldn't be inlined? \n\nFor example, given a sable setof SQL UDF like\nCREATE TYPE uids AS (uid integer);\n\nCREATE FUNCTION needs_secure(integer, integer) RETURNS SETOF uids AS $_$\nSELECT uid FROM needs nsec WHERE\n nsec.foo = $1 AND ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nLWN.net has published another article on our development process. This\ntimes it focus on our stated lack of (or slowness of) progress in the\nreview of the 8.3 patch queue. It is an interesting read.\n\nThe article is at\nhttp://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/235230/de029adb1cab0ab2/\n\n-- ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Developers,\nHi, I am Tasneem Memon doing MS Computer Science. I am working on my thesis these days, for which I have defined some operators theoritically as well as their algorithms, and intend to implement them in PostgreSQL. These operators(NEAR, NOT NEAR) are binary and work with NUM...
[ { "msg_contents": "Am I correct to assume that the backend does not implement cursor\ndeclaration from prepared statements? If so, is there a reason for this?\n\nThat is something like this:\n\nPREPARE p AS\n SELECT * FROM foo;\nDECLARE c CURSOR for p;\n\nAFAIRC the standard says this group of statements are...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking at Jaime's last temp_tablespaces GUC patch, i've got some\nconcerns about it's current implementation:\n\n1)\n\nThe code claims that OIDs of temp tablespaces couldn't be cached, therefore \nit is parsing and\nre-reading the GUCs in GetTempTablespace() with SplitIdentifierNames()...
[ { "msg_contents": "Chaps:\n\nI am currently after the block size being used by major rdbm's and how\ndo they take advantage of it.\n\n(ie, postgresql does interacts basically in two ways, by WAL'ing, and\nby the update activity, block size 8192)\n\nWhile I am googling this, hints will be apreciated.\n\nThanks i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI was walking through GIN am source code these days, and found that it has\nonly posting lists but no positions related those.\n\nThe reason I was doing that is, to try to implement n-gram text search index\non GIN for myself. As you know Japanese is not like English or other\nEuropea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCreate hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the planner\nand/or create plans for hypothetical situations; in particular, investigate\nplans that would be generated using hypothetical indexes. This is a\nheavily-rewritten version of the hooks pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI have the following question: where role privileges on working with tables,\ndata bases and so on are stored in PostgreSQL (In what system catalogs?)?\n\nThanks.\nAkmal.\n\nHello.I have the following question: where role privileges on working with tables, data bases and so on are s...
[ { "msg_contents": "The pgstats subsystem does not correctly account for the effects of\nfailed transactions. Note the live/dead tuple counts in this example:\n\nregression=# create table foo (f1 int);\nCREATE TABLE\nregression=# insert into foo select x from generate_series(1,1000) x;\nINSERT 0 1000\n-- wait a...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached script works in REL8_2_STABLE, but crashes current head \nwith a SEGV. It somehow manages to have the cheapest path being a NULL \npointer instead of a dummy Append.\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The buildfarm appears to be failing after the recent pgstat patch.\n\nThe failure seems to be caused by this failed assertion, which appears to\noccur fairly consistently in the ECPG tests, in the postmaster log:\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(entry->trans == 0L)\", File: \"pgstat.c\", Line: 69...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just had a rather disturbing event happen on platypus..\n\nbuildfarm@fritz.1[3:07]~/buildfarm/HEAD/pgsql.39276/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/results:271>ll preproc-variable.*\n-rw-r--r-- 1 buildfarm decibel 6328 May 26 23:42 preproc-variable.c\n-rw-r--r-- 1 buildfarm decibel 764606709...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just rearranged the code in mbutils.c a little bit to make it more\nrobust if conversion of an over-length string is attempted, and noted\nthis comment:\n\n/*\n * When converting strings between different encodings, we assume that space\n * for converted result is 4-to-1 growth in the worst...
[ { "msg_contents": "If both libedit and libreadline are available, we currently default to\nlinking against libreadline, unless the \"--with-libedit-preferred\"\nconfigure option is used. Why do we default to preferring GNU readline\nover libedit?\n\nlibedit is clearly preferable for license reasons. You could m...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> > > * Re: [HACKERS] Modifying TOAST thresholds /Tom Lane/\n> > >\n> > > At this point it seems nothing will be done about this issue for 8.3.\n> > \n> > I'm not sure anyone has an idea how to test it. TPCC isn't really useful\n> > because it has a fixed size (500 byte) string...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wonder if I should use PlPython in my projects or not.\nBrowsing on the Python list it seems that nobody is using\nit. Browsing on Google Groups I find worrysome threads talking\nabout removing support from it in future versions of PostgreSQL.\nSo, I would like to know what's the current st...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI've been testing my DB backup and restore procedure and I've run into \nsomething I can't figure out. After recovering from a PITR backup, when \nI do another pg_start_backup PostgreSQL attempts to re-archive the last \nlog again, which fails because it already exists in the archiv...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am doing a DLL project, it is in the backend/utils/mb. But it can not be maked under windows mingw.\nI require everyone to help me. Thank your very much.\n\nThe error infomations are as follows.\n\nInfo: resolving _CurrentMemoryContext by linking to __imp__CurrentMemoryContext (auto-import)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n \n\n I am new to this postgres and now struggling with creation of a user\nspecific to a database, so the user can login to that specific database\nand can do the activities as per the given credentials and can not touch\nor see any information from other databases. Can any one...
[ { "msg_contents": "I\nwould\nlike\nto\nleave\nthe\nlist\n... \n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nAcelerador POP\nAcelere a sua conexão discada em até 19 x. Use o Acelerador POP. É grátis, pegue já o seu.\nhttp://www.pop.com.br/acelerador\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to invite all the PostgreSQL developers/users and their\nfamilies who live near Philadelphia to a barbeque/pool party at my house\non Saturday, July 14, 3-7pm. Directions to my house are at:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/directions.html\n \nPlease RSVP by Monday, July 9 with a cou...
[ { "msg_contents": "We currently have processed 15 of the 40 patches in the patch queue\nduring our two months in feature freeze. Based on that progress, I\nestimate we will enter beta in September.\n\nWhile we have made progress on more than 15 patches, we also have left\nmany of the more complex patches to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nWhen running on a 64-bit server, are 32-bit ints padded to 64-bit?\n\nSpecifically, I'm interested if I actually end up making my table any\nsmaller if I move from 64-bit integer primary key to 32-bit. (Need to\nkeep the index as small as possible to fit in cache)\n\n64-bit on Debian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Gregory Stark wrote:\n> > \"Bruce Momjian\" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:\n> > \n> > >> No, we did substring() too :)\n> > >\n> > > Uh, I looked at text_substring(), and while there is an optimization to\n> > > do character counting for encoding length == 1, it is still a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\n I have a question about passing parameters to a C function. Imagine the\nexample by PostgreSQL:\n\n \n\nPG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(complex_add);\n\n \n\nDatum\n\ncomplex_add(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n\n{\n\n Complex *a = (Complex *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);\n\n Complex *b = ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n It'd be nice to have a NOTICE printed when a wait-on-lock takes longer\n than a few seconds. It doesn't need to be precise and it doesn't have\n to be repeated over and over, just once. Perhaps even controlled by a\n GUC, though NOTICEs are generally ignored by non-intera...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone actually read these?\n\nLOG: database system was shut down at 2007-05-30 17:54:39 CEST\nLOG: checkpoint record is at 0/42C4FC\nLOG: redo record is at 0/42C4FC; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE\nLOG: next transaction ID: 0/593; next OID: 10820\nLOG: next MultiXactId: 1; ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just to get an opinion, which is better:\n\ncould not open transaction log file \"%s\": %m\ncould not open control file \"%s\": %m\ncould not open data file \"%s\": %m\ncould not open temporary file \"%s\": %m\ncould not open whatever file \"%s\": %m\n\nor just:\n\ncould not open file \"%s\":...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm trying to write a trigger on insert which should insert the row \nin another\ntable. The table on which to insert the row should be selected at \nruntime and\nit is not know in advance. For example, let's say we have a table with\ntwo columns, a date and an integer. a row is i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just finished giving someone the standard advice to wait a bit before\ntrying to drop a database that'd just been accessed:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-05/msg01505.php\n\nAFAICT a \"real\" fix for this would involve making PQfinish() synchronous\n(don't return till ba...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe at Cybertec have developed cast functions in C between\ninet/cidr <-> bytea for a client and we would like to submit it.\n\nThis is how it works:\n- IPv4 inet/cidr value will return 4 bytes if the netmask covers all 32 \nbits.\n It returns 5 bytes if the netmask is shorter than 32 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am currently writing some curriculum on managing IO with PostgreSQL \nand I keep running into the parameter checkpolint_timeout. This seems to \nbe incorrect as it is not really a timeout as much as an interval...\n\nThoughts?\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \n\n === ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nMake large sequential scans and VACUUMs work in a limited-size \"ring\" of\nbuffers, rather than blowing out the whole shared-buffer arena. Aside from\navoiding cache spoliation, this fixes the problem that VACUUM formerly tended\nto cause a WAL flush for every pag...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nI now have a simple test case which shows significant performance \ndegradation on 8.3devel for a specific query, apparenly due to an \nunnecessary call to Top-N sort. I've tried to forward the test case to \nthe lists but the package is 3.5m, so I'm putting it on pgFoundry instead:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\n I'm developing an application that needs a different data type. So, I have\nimplemented this new data type inside postgresql using C, as documentation\nshows to.\n\n \n\n Basically, the data type is a composition of two timestamps, like:\n(timestamp, timestamp) and it is cal...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nTop of the day to you. Let me crave your indulgence to introduce myself to you. \nI'm Mr. Richard Jones from OmniPay Company in United Kingdom\nThe OmniPay Company is the World's largest and most established trader of \nDigital Gold and Silver (also known as e-currency, Digital Curren...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is on Intel OSX, anon CVS download today.\n\nBuild process:-\n\n1. make distclean\n2. ./configure --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-integer-datetimes \n--prefix=/Users/grant/Development/bin/pgsql --enable-depend\n3. make all install\n\nThe query with no EXPLAIN (ANALYSE) co...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 3326\nLogged by: Galy Lee\nEmail address: lee.galy@oss.ntt.co.jp\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3\nOperating system: Red Hat 4.\nDescription: Invalid lower bound of autovacuum_cost_limit\nDetails: \n\nHello\n\nI...
[ { "msg_contents": "The messages output by the \"scripts\" always seemed unnecessary to me, e.g.,\n\n$ createdb foo\nCREATE DATABASE\n\nA Unix program (hi Magnus) shouldn't need to say anything if the requested \naction succeeded.\n\nI believe the history of this output is actually that these scripts simply \nus...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, (First of all, sorry for my english),\n\nI'm in a project that involves including sqlf sentences to make postgres\nunderstand the fuzzy querys, i mean, make people to create fuzzy\npredicates, these are words like fat, tall, young, old, in an sql sentence.\nI guess the first step is c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have found a problem by using timestamp datatyp in postgresql. The\nminimum value should be '4713-11-24 00:00:00 BC' but it's possible to\nuse '4714-11-24 00:00:00 BC'. I have found the problem by using a binary\ncursor where I get the value as double. Is this the right list for\npos...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was idly thinking about Joseph Shraibman's problem here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-05/msg01011.php\nin which a large hash join seemed to be blowing out memory.\nBy chance I tried the following test case:\n\njs=# create table ml (jid int);\nCREATE TABLE\njs=# insert ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n-> INDEX Scan USING tickets_q1_import6 ON tickets_q1 tickets \n(cost=0.00..2.06 rows=1 width=0)\n-> INDEX Scan USING tickets_q1_import6 ON tickets_q1 tickets \n(cost=0.00..2.06 rows=1 width=0)\n\n\nNote that those are actually *2* different tables in different schemas. \nIt would be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear All, \nI am explaining here how i have defined the operators NEAR and NOT NEAR in my research paper. I want critics/comments from all of you on the operators.\n \nThese operators belong to the category of “Fuzzy Operators” proposed in the paper for ANSI SQL.\n \n\nNEAR\n \nIt deals with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAssume the following:\n\nindex on: (id, adate)\n\nconstraint CHECK(adate > '01-01-2007' AND adate < '04-01-2007');\n\nThe planner will not use the index listed above. It does work if we have \nan index on just timehit in addition to the above. (of course)\n\nIs this expected?\n\nJos...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been looking at the syslogger code in connection with the CSV log \noutput proposal, and I'm quite concerned about the way it translates \nevery \\n into \\r\\n for Windows output. This has several problems, not \nleast of which is that we can by no means assume that every \\n has no...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am attending events in Italy, California, Pennsylvania, Finland,\nand Russia in the next few months:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/events.html\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry for my ignorance, but I haven't been able to keep up lately -- \nwhat is the difference between pg_detoast_datum_packed and \npg_detoast_datum, and how do I know when to use each? E.g. I notice that \nthe related macro PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP is used in place of PG_GETARG_TEXT_P \nin many (bu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes anyone object if I change these two config help lines:\n\n\n --enable-thread-safety-force force thread-safety in spite of thread \ntest failure\n\n --with-krb-srvnam=NAME name of the default service principal in \nKerberos [postgres]\n\n\nto:\n\n\n --enable-thread-safety-force fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> From: decibel@decibel.org> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] To all the pgsql developers..Have a look at the operators proposed by me in my research paper.> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:13:54 -0500> To: tasneememon@hotmail.com> > On Jun 1, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Tasneem Memon ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking at the tsearch-in-core patch I was distressed to notice\nthat a good fraction of it is derived files, bearing notices such as\n\n/* This file was generated automatically by the Snowball to ANSI C compiler */\n\nOur normal policy is \"no derived files in CVS\", so I went looking ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that in 8.3, when I kill the postmaster process with SIGKILL or \nSIGSEGV, the child processes writer and stats collector go away \nimmediately, but the autovacuum launcher hangs around for up to a \nminute. (I suppose this has to do with the periodic wakeups?). When \nyou try to r...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAll,\n\nFollowing some public and not so public discussion a little while back, \nI decided to ask a group of people to help me to create an \nexperimental tracker instance for bugs and possibly features, to assist \nour development efforts. The people I chose were some I have worked with \...