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[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\n I'm having a big trouble with the index size! I have looked for a solution\nin the internet, but the solutions that I found don't fit for me! \n\n I developed a new data type using C and add this new type on PostgreSQL.\nBasically, the data type is: (DateADT, DateADT) with s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've now finished up initial content generation on the wiki page that \ncovers using the CVS repository:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Working_with_CVS\n\nThat includes all the helpful comments suggested on this list in last \nmonth's threads on this topic along with a full dum...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCreate a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of the\ntablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a\nlist to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list\nelement is chosen each time a temp object ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed that there are a number of places (mostly GUC assignment\nhooks) that use IsTransactionState() to decide if it's safe for them to\ndo catalog lookups. This seems pretty bogus because IsTransactionState\nwill return true in an aborted transaction. I'm not sure there's any\nact...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\n Ok, I give up! Tried a lot of things in my code! But still get error on\nindex row size. So, I'm part of my code, if someone could help me! A valid\nvalue for this type is: '(03-jan-2007 , 15-may-2010)'\n\n \n\ntypedef struct t_periodo\n\n{\n\n DateADT tvi;\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "AFAICS, Peter's recent incomplete updating of error message wording\nshould have broken every last man jack of 'em. And yet there's still\nsome green to be seen. I think we are looking at problems in the ecpg\ntest scaffolding. For instance, dragonfly claims a green build, but\nhttp://www....
[ { "msg_contents": "What happened to the idea to run all tests (including PL, ECPG, contrib(?)) by \ndefault, that is, by the top-level check/installcheck targets. Those who \nwant to run individual tests could still do so in the respective \nsubdirectories. What requirements does the buildfarm have?\n\n-- \nP...
[ { "msg_contents": "First of all, apologies if this was not meant to be a feedback/wishlist\nmailing list.\n\nBinary formats in libpq has been (probably) a long\nissue (refer to the listings below) and I want to express my hope that the\nnext revision of PostgreSQL would have better support for binary data types...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI'm currently working on splitting StartupXLog into smaller\nparts, because I need to reuse some of the parts for concurrent\nwal recovery (for my GSoC project)\n\nThe function recoveryStopsHere in xlog.c checks if we should\nstop recovery due to the values of recovery_target_xid and\nr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tried to repeat the DBT-2 runs with the \"oldestxmin refresh\" patch, \nbut to my surprise the baseline run with CVS head, without the patch, \nbehaved very differently than it did back in March.\n\nI rerun the a shorter 1h test with CVS head from May 20th, and March 6th \n(which is when I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI'm one of the Google SoC's students for PostgreSQL. While reading sql92\nstandard, I found something like this:\n\n11.36 <grant statement>\n General Rules\n 3) For every identified privilege descriptor whose action is\n SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or REFERENC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Marc,\n\nIs there a written procedure about creating tarballs? I'd like to start\nworking on 8.3 RPMs and I want to know what I should to to create a\ntarball.\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GÜNDÜZ\nPostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support\nManaged Services, Shared an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Teodor,\n\nI think there's a little bug in ginInsertValue. A page is marked as \ndirty with MarkBufferDirty after writing the corresponding WAL record \nwith XLogInsert. That's not safe, MarkBufferDirty needs to be called \nbefore XLogInsert to avoid a race condition in checkpoint, see com...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it correct that a user with CREATEROLE privilege but without CREATEDB \nprivilege can create a user with *CREATEDB* privilege, thus bypassing his \noriginal restrictions? This sequence doesn't look right:\n\npei=# create user foo1 createrole;\nCREATE ROLE\npei=# \\c - foo1\nYou are now co...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been trying to come up with a simple plan to make log rotation \nmore robust, particularly in not splitting log lines across files. Greg \nSmith complained that lines could be split if logs are rotated on size, \nbut AFAICS the danger also exists for time based rotation.\n\nMy though...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm again looking at way the GUC variables work in load distributed \ncheckpoints patch. We've discussed them a lot already, but I don't think \nthey're still quite right.\n\nWrite-phase\n-----------\nI like the way the write-phase is controlled in general. Writes are \nthrottled so that we s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nThis is a description of the GSoC work I've so for on readonly\nsupport for PITR slaves. I'm looking for any kind of comments\non this - I want to make sure that I work in a direction that\nthe community approves.\n\nWork done so far:\n-----------------\n.) Added a new GUC operational_m...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have just been staring for some time at the logic in \nsrc/backend/utils/error/elog.c:send_message_to_server_log(), which \ncontains this fragment near the end:\n\n\n\n /* Write to stderr, if enabled */\n if ((Log_destination & LOG_DESTINATION_STDERR) || whereToSendOutput \n== DestD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable cases that\nwere accepted by prior Postgres releases. This takes care of the loose end\nleft by the preceding patch to downgrade implicit casts-to-text. To avoid\nbreaking desirable behavior for array...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is vacuuming any table supposed to zero the statistics for all\nshared tables? Doesn't that have implications for autovacuum? The\nexample below is in 8.2.4 but I'm seeing similar behavior in 8.1.9\nand 8.3devel. Additionally, in 8.3devel doing anything that queries\nor modifies a shared t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Was there some change in functionality reason for renaming is_array_type\nto type_is_array? It broke compilation of fulldisjunctions, which I build\nand run regression tests on in my sandbox to keep it getting too horribly\nbroken with respect to current HEAD. I got it to build and pass its...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've benn biten twice by this one:\nI enabled archiving on both my pgsql servers.\nthe archive command was a simple gzip on an nfs mounted dir.\nNow the nfs server crashed.\nBoth wal space filled up until postgresql shuts itself down because of no\nmore space for WAL.\nThat perfect...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAvoid losing track of data for shared tables in pgstats. Report by Michael\nFuhr, patch from Tom Lane after a messier suggestion by me.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/postmaster:\n pgstat.c (r1.158 -> r1.159)\n (http://devel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Clients using pqlib can get some boost by increasing tcp/ip window size.\nIt might be good to make it a settable parameter.\n\nAnyway, maybe something like this:\n\n \n\n/* ----------\n\n * connectNoDelay -\n\n * Sets the TCP_NODELAY socket option.\n\n * Returns 1 if successful, 0 if not.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nOn 6/7/07, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > \"Andrew Hammond\" writes:\n> >> Hmmm... it seems to me that points new users towards not using\n> >> autovacuum, which doesn't seem like the best idea. I think it'd be\n> >> bett...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[summarising discussion on -patches]\n\nThe situation with this patch is that I now have it in a state where I \nthink it could be applied, but there is one blocker, namely that we do \nnot have a way of preventing the interleaving of log messages from \ndifferent backends, which leads to g...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am done with refactoring the Index adviser code to make use of the current\nplanner hooks, and as part of this drive I was thinking of changing the name\nof the feature/plugin too.\n\n Since there's a possibility that the same architecture can be used by\nother types of adviser plugins (...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone think that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video\ncard as a parallel computing device? I'm working on a project using\nNvidia's CUDA with an 8800 series video card to handle non-graphical\nalgorithms. I'm curious if anyone thinks that this technology could be\nused to sp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Based on the patches status page:\n\n\thttp://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus#current_8.3_patch_status\n\nwe are a few weeks away from completing all patch review and entering\nbeta. If you have been asked to updated your patch by a patch reviewer,\nplease do so in the ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have (among other things) and ODBC/OLEDB/JDBC/.NET driver for\nPostgreSQL and we want to optimize fast mode insert/select behavior.\n\n \n\nWhen we try to do a binary mode copy from standard input, we get an\nerror message that we can't do it.\n\n \n\nHow can we programmatically insert dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working with a customer that recently discovered that some code had\ngenerated the following nice query...\n\nSELECT ... WHERE table_id = 92838278! AND ...\n\nSo their production server now has several processes that are trying to\ncompute some absurdly large factorial. There's two issues...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\n \n\nI am working on a search-related project where scaling is a major issue.\nRecently I've been experimenting with the beautifully designed rd-tree\nindexes and intarray contrib module, and it seems like a great solution for\nme.\n\n \n\nI've hit a few bumps and am looking for...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was looking to start development on the following TODO entry.\n\nAdd a separate TRUNCATE permission\n\nCurrently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.\n\n\nDoes anyone have any objections? Looks like there is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at the updatable-cursors patch\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-05/msg00264.php\nwhich attempts to implement the SQL-spec UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF\nsyntax. It's pretty much of a mess, but there are some salvageable\nideas. There are two big things I...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know we have talked about how to avoid legal email signatures on this\nlist. One idea would be for a small percentage of our users to ignore\nemails with a legal signature. I know I am less likely to reply to such\nan email.\n\nIf enough people do that, it might coerce people to avoid the...
[ { "msg_contents": "When working on the ecpg regression stuff things, it's the first time\nI've actually used ecpg. And I notice now that it leaves incomplete and\nbroken files around when it fails. For example, I currently get:\n parser.pgc:26: ERROR: syntax error at or near \"NULLS\"\n\nwhen building. I hav...
[ { "msg_contents": "Every so often, buildfarm member skylark reports a \"StartDb:2\" failure,\nas for instance here:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=skylark&dt=2007-06-10%2023:00:01\nbut the logs contain no trace of any actual failure. What's happening,\nand why is the buildfarm failing to re...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nUpdatable cursors can be supported in PL/pgSQL.\n\nExplicit PL/pgSQL cursors are named, then we need only skip CURRENT OF\nclause in parsing of SQL statements.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:33:16 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Pavel Stehule\" <pavel....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI can probably figure it out on linux but I would like to do a one\nclick install based upon defined defaults for the Postgresql database\n(creating it as a service and load my sql file which creates the\ndatabase) - has anyone written such a how to?\n\nthanks\n\nTim\n\n", "msg_dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nStill working on the ecpg-regression-tests-on-msvc. Update to follow\nlater today I hope. But for now:\n\nI get the following error when trying to build the sql/parser.pgc test:\n c:\\prog\\pgbin\\pgsql\\bin\\ecpg --regression -o parser.c parser.pgc\n parser.pgc:26: ERROR: synta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nIt is past feature freeze which means we can't introduce new features. \nIt is possible to submit a patch for slightly different logging output?\n\nTake the following:\n\nINFO: analyzing \"pg_catalog.pg_authid\"\nINFO: \"pg_authid\": scanned 1 of 1 pages, containing 5 live rows an...
[ { "msg_contents": "SELECT 1 FROM test.dbo.a_003 \n\n \n\ngets about 60,000 records per second\n\n \n\nSELECT '1' FROM test.dbo.a_003 \n\n \n\ngets about 600 records per second.\n\n \n\nThe cause is that postgres describes the return column as \"unknown\"\nlength 65534 in the 2nd case.\n\n \n\nSince the value ...
[ { "msg_contents": "These two calls make our remote queries via libpq about twice as fast on\naverage. It seems to me like it might be a nice addition to the core\nproduct's libpq (I poked it into the spot where the Nagle algorithm is\nturned off, but another place would be fine too). Can anyone give me a\nrea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs per HOT design, a necessary condition to do HOT updates is\nthat an index column must not be updated. I am invoking the type\nspecific equality operator to compare two index columns, something\nlike this (which I think I had copied from ri_KeysEqual(), but that too have\nchanged now...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nQuick report from the front lines.\n\nI've been IM'ing with Magnus and he already fixed most problems with the\nregression tests. The buildfarm should slowly start turning green\nagain.\n\nThere is a remaining problem though, which is that it doesn't work at\nall on VPATH builds. The...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch appears to have randomly changed the format of the resultmap\nfile. Please either undo that, or update the documentation\n(regress.sgml) to describe what it is now.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:12 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss...
[ { "msg_contents": "First a comment:\n\nAt CONNX Solutions Inc., we believe sincerely that we should do whatever\nis necessary to make our customers prosper. This means creation of\nexcellent tools and being responsive to customer needs. Secondly, we\nbelieve that we should treat the customers the way that we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "If we tries to drop the table on which autovacuum is running, we have to\nwait finish of the vacuum. However, the vacuuming effort goes to waste for\nthe table being dropped or rewritten. Meanwhile, we've already had the\nautovacuum killer triggered in CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE commands.\nC...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just looking at implementing some query tuning/debugging features\nin pgAdmin, and was looking to use EXPLAIN output to get a list of the\nbase tables involved in the users' query. Unfortunately though it\ndoesn't include the schema name in the output which means I have no way\nof telli...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's results from a batch of test runs with LDC. This patch only \nspreads out the writes, fsyncs work as before. This patch also includes \nthe optimization that we don't write buffers that were dirtied after \nstarting the checkpoint.\n\nhttp://community.enterprisedb.com/ldc/\n\nSee tests...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI remember there used to be somewhere a link to a talk Tom gave (on\nOSCON 2001 maybe?) on transaction processing, SERIALIZABLE, SELECT FOR\nUPDATE, etc. I'm pretty sure it was linked to somewhere in the old\ndevelopers page, but I cannot find it in the new one or elsewhere. I\nsearc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 6/13/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> \"Josh Tolley\" <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:\n> > On a different sideline based on the original note of this thread,\n> > much as EXPLAIN doesn't include the schema, \\d doesn't include the\n> > schema to describe INHERIT relationships in 8....
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at the tsearch patch a bit, and I think there needs to\nbe more thought given to the permissions required to mess around with\ntsearch configuration objects.\n\nThe TSParser objects reference functions declared to take and return\nINTERNAL arguments. This means that the und...
[ { "msg_contents": "$subject would be bad because of potential deadlocks against other\ntransactions that might try to exclusive-lock more than one table.\n\nWe should be OK for actual vacuum operations, but I think that if\nautovac chooses to just ANALYZE multiple tables, it will do it in\none transaction and a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe ECPG regression tests appear to be broken on MinGW (see buildfarm \ntrout and vaquita). Please tell me that this isn't a line ending problem \nlike it appears on cursory inspection.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:47:58 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunsta...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have these GUC variables that define a fraction of something:\n\n#autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.2\t# fraction of rel size before\n\t\t\t\t\t# vacuum\n#autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.1\t# fraction of rel size before\n\t\t\t\t\t# analyze\n\n#bgwriter_lru_percent = 1.0\t\t# 0-100% o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been testing the new UUID functionality in 8.3dev and noticed that\nUUIDs are sorted using memcmp in their default in-memory layout, which\nis:\n\n \n\n struct uuid {\n\n uint32_t time_low;\n\n uint16_t time_mid;\n\n uint16_t t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's an updated WIP version of the LDC patch. I just spreads the \nwrites, that achieves the goal of smoothing the checkpoint I/O spikes. I \nthink sorting the writes etc. is interesting but falls in the category \nof further development and should be pushed to 8.4.\n\nThe documentation cha...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current discussion about the tsearch-in-core patch has convinced me\nthat there are plausible use-cases for typmod values that aren't simple\nintegers. For instance it could be sane for a type to want a locale or\nlanguage selection as a typmod, eg tsvector('ru') or tsvector('sv').\n(I'm...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All,Recently, I have been involved in some work that requires me to monitor low level performance counters for pgsql. Specifically, when I execute a particular query I want to be able to tell how many system calls get executed on behalf of that query and time of each sys call. The idea ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had the same problem so I tried building with increasingly older versions of the MinGW runtime. It turns out version 3.9 is the more recent version without the conflict in sys/time.h.\n\n\n\n\n \n____________________________________________________________________________________\nLoo...
[ { "msg_contents": "In utils/adt/tid.c, there's two mysterious functions with no comments, \nand no-one calling them inside backend code AFAICT: currtid_byreloid and \ncurrtid_byrelname. What do they do/did?\n\n-- \n Heikki Linnakangas\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 15...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nNow that we've fixed the partial/interleaved log line issue, I have \nreturned to trying toi get the CSV log patch into shape. Sadly, it still \nneeds lots of work, even after Greg Smith and I both attacked it, so I \nam now going through it with a fine tooth comb.\n\nOne issue I notice is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> From: josh@agliodbs.com> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> Tasneem,> > > > The margins to the op2, i.e. m1 and m2, are added dynamically on > > > both the sides, considering the value it contains. To keep this > > > margin big is important for a certain reason discussed later.> > > The NE...
[ { "msg_contents": "> From: decibel@decibel.org> To: tasneememon@hotmail.com> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] To all the pgsql developers..Have a look at the operators proposed by me in my researc> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:37:19PM +0000, Tasneem Memon wrote:> > We can make the system...
[ { "msg_contents": "A message entitled \"Having Fun With PostgreSQL\" was posted to Bugtraq\ntoday. I haven't read through the paper yet so I don't know if the\nauthor discusses security problems that need attention or if the\narticle is more like a compilation of \"Stupid PostgreSQL Tricks.\"\n\nhttp://www.sec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI found simply function which is buggy, but it crashes server\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(anyarray)\nRETURNS anyarray AS $$\n SELECT $1[k]; -- k is bug\n$$ LANGUAGE sql;\nSELECT test(array[10,2,3]);\n\nCorrect function works well.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n\nOutput:\npostg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why do we require that t_hoff is MAXALIGNed? ISTM that if the first \nfield in a tuple doesn't require alignment, it could be stored \nimmediately after the null bitmap, without padding.\n\n-- \n Heikki Linnakangas\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 18 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that time-based GUC variables can be spelled like\n\t1h\tbut not\t\t1hr\n\t1min\tbut not\t\t1m\n\t1s\tbut not\t\t1sec\nThis is inconsistent and confusing. I don't object to the ones on the\nleft as being the standard spellings for printout, but if we're not\ngoing to have a simple u...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've changed the on-disk database format in 8.3, so we have an\nopportunity to change other things also. There is a patch thats been on\nthe patch queue for some time called numeric508, submitted Dec 2005;\nI've updated this patch now for 8.3 to remove bit rot (an hour's work).\nThis is post...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nArrange for quote_identifier() and pg_dump to not quote keywords that are\nunreserved according to the grammar. The list of unreserved words has gotten\nextensive enough that the unnecessary quoting is becoming a bit of an eyesore.\nTo do this, add knowledge of the...
[ { "msg_contents": "We currently have a need for a PostgreSQL Developer to fill a permanent\nrequirement with our company here in San Diego. Details below. Please\ncontact Lance Perry at 858-550-1658 or lperry@kforce.com for further\ninfo. \n\n \n\nTitle: SQL Server/PostgreSQL Database Developer \n\nThis positio...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have two types of tables, for sake of argument lets call it these:\n\n1) product 10,000,000 rows\n2) product_activity 1,000,000,000 rows\n\n90% of the type the product table is accessed by product_id, 80% of\nthe time that product id would be in the last 1,000,000 rows of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The maximum for bgwriter_delay is currently 10 seconds. That's a long \ntime, and in fact if you set it to a value greater than 1 s, the sleep \nis split into 1 s intervals with a call to AbsorbFsyncRequests in \nbetween them.\n\nIs there a use case for a setting > 1 s? We could simplify that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Postgres developers, \n\nI have been working with Oracle for few years now in my work, and I tried some free databases for a project that I'm developing for my own use, I have tried H2,FireBird and postgres, and found the last to be the most stable and feature-rich, so thanks for all the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do you guys need something PG specific or built into PG?\n\nActiveMQ is very nice, speaks multiple languages, protocols and supports a ton of features. Could you simply use that?\n\nhttp://activemq.apache.org/\n\nRob\n\n\n\n \n___________________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI got this answer in my\n version\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 8.3devel on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)\n4.1.2 20061...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found that the autovacuum launcher continues to run and spawn workers\nafter reloading the configuration file with autovacuum = off in CVS HEAD.\n\nWhat should we do after autovacuum is disabled runtime? I think the\nlauncher should not spawn any new workers. It can be fixed easily,\nbut th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI have enabled autovacuum in our PostgreSQL cluster of databases. What I\nhave noticed is that the autovacuum process keeps selecting the same\ndatabase to perform autovacuums on and does not select any of the others\nwithin the cluster. Is this normal behaviour or do I need to do\...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/tsearch_core-0.52.gz\n\nPlan was:\n\n1) rename FULLTEXT to TEXT SEARCH in SQL command\ndone\n\n2) rework Snowball stemmer's as Tom suggested\ndone\n\n3) ALTER FULLTEXT CONFIGURATION cfgname ADD/ALTER/DROP MAPPING\ndone\n\n4) remove support of default configuration pe...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been reflecting a bit about whether the notion of deferred fsync\nfor transaction commits is really safe. The proposed patch tries to\nensure that no consequences of a committed transaction can reach disk\nbefore the commit WAL record is fsync'd, but ISTM there are potential\nholes in w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally was able PL/R to compile and run on Windows recently. This has \nlead to people using a Windows based client (typically PgAdmin III) to \ncreate PL/R functions. Immediately I started to receive reports of \nfailures that turned out to be due to the carriage return (\\r) used in \nst...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tI think I'll have some spare time and I wanted to add some documentation of \ncontrib modules as discussed in [1]. Then it was suggested only some of the \ncontrib modules should be in the main docbook documentation. IMHO all of them \n(except start-scripts, probably) should be there s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> That may have been true until we started supporting Windows...\n>> Swedish_Sweden.1252 is what I get on my machine, for example. Principle\n>> is the same, but values certainly aren't.\n>\n> Well, at least the name is not itself translated, so a mapping table is\n> not right out of the q...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> How would this work for initdb with locale C?\n>\n> I'm worrying about that too.\n\nenglish '{en_GB, en_US, C}'\n\nI suppose, that locale name always has a dot separator exept C locale ---\nwhich is well known exception\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:21:17 +0400 (MSD)", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I apologize for not grabbing more information before the evidence was gone,\nbut I think there may be a vulnerability to database corruption on PITR\nrecovery if a stop is done with the \"fast\" option right after a database logs\n\"archive recovery complete\". We normally have about 17 seco...
[ { "msg_contents": "In connection with bug #3403\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-06/msg00114.php\nI've come to the conclusion that we really shouldn't do *any* processing\nof utility commands at parse analysis time; they should be left as\nraw-grammar output trees until execution.\n\nThe key reas...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am visiting California until Wednesday, June 27, to attend a\nfuneral. I will be reading email, but not as frequently.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thank you to everyone for input on the naming of Feature \"X\".\n\nThe clear winner of the parameter naming was synchronous_commit, which\nwould imply we refer to the new feature as Asynchronous Commit in the\nrelease notes and general discussions.\n\nI will be now be starting to make changes...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am still very unhappy about the way the MSVC builds work. Although we \nhave managed to make it sort of work with the buildfarm script, it is \ndistinctly fragile. Last night, for example, I had a build failure due \nto a badly installed zlib. The error state didn't come back to the \nbui...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to inform, that New Zealand changed DST rules and new \ntimezone files are available. See \nhttp://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended\n\nPatch for head attached. I kept zic.c untouched, but I think it would be \nnice to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI spent the best part of the day trying to work this out - I was working on a\nsystem setup with PG 8.2, and wanted to work with 8.3 for development.\n\nI installed as follows:\n\n1. CVS checkout\n2. ./configure prefix=~/install_dir\n3. gmake prefix=~/install_dir\n4. gmake install pre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm trying to understand what a soft deadlock is as described by deadlock.c.\n\nAs best I understand if a process, A, is waiting for a lock and is being\nblocked only because someone, B, is ahead of it in the queue but hasn't been\ngranted the conflicting lock we want to jump A ahead of B.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis seems odd. It's not deciding that it's ambiguous or coming from another\ndatatype for which no implicit cast exists. It knows perfectly well that it\nwants to convert to text but fails?\n\n\npostgres=# select 'a'||b from (select 'b' as b) as x;\nERROR: failed to find conversion functi...
[ { "msg_contents": "A number of people have complained that it is possible to make a base\nbackup and then shutdown the server before the last xlog file has been\narchived. Others say they would like to be able to make a backup and\nknow it is complete.\n\nMaking the archiver continue while the file is archived ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm testing HOT patches, applying to CVS HEAD.\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-05/msg00065.php\nI found a few issues in the patch. Some of them might already have\nbeen fixed, but anyway I'll report them for information.\n\nI don't see any problems excluding the foll...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\ntriggers in PostgreSQL are cascading by default. From section 34.1.\nof the 8.2 manual:\n\n \"If a trigger function executes SQL commands then these commands\n may fire triggers again. This is known as cascading triggers.\n There is no direct limitation on the number of casc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just had an epiphany, I think.\n\nAs I wrote in the LDC discussion,\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-06/msg00294.php\nif the bgwriter's LRU-cleaning scan has advanced ahead of freelist.c's\nclock sweep pointer, then any buffers between them are either clean,\nor are pinned...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres\ninstallations whose pg_config program does not appear first in the PATH.\nPer gripe from Eddie Stanley and subsequent discussions with Fabien Coelho\nand others.\n\nModified Files:\n-------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\nI have created a new data type \"mychar\". How can I specify a limit for it?\n\nThis (unlimited version) works fine:\ncreate table table_a(col_a mychar);\n\nThis gives an error:\ncreate table table_a(col_a mychar(10));\nERROR: syntax error at or near \"(\" bei Zeichen 34\nZE...