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[ { "msg_contents": "I went through the README on HOT. That was really a nice and cool feature.\nHats off to the person who thought about it. I have a couple of doubts about\nit.\n\na) In the README, there is a statement like this.\n\nIn principle we could continue a HOT chain across\npages, but this would destro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\n \n\nHereby an alpha version regarding the:\n\nTODO Item: SQL-language reference parameters by name.\n\n \n\nI am sending this patch to check if I am on the right track.\n\nSo please take a look at this if possible.\n\n \n\nWhat does this patch do?\n\n \n\nAs discussed in thread...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFor some time I have been working on removing some inefficiencies from a \nlarge DW-type app. This app does a large daily batch update, and this is \nwhat is the major bottleneck. One of the things I have been doing is to \nremove unnecessary updates (which are particualrly expensive in our...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI'm now testing 8.3beta2 on a relatively big (10G) database.\nI've tried with pg_dymp -Fc/pg_restore and pg_dump/pgsql and get those\nerrors:\n\nERROR: trigger \"<unnamed>\" for relation \"objets\" already exists\nERROR: trigger \"<unnamed>\" for relation \"perso_objets\" alr...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\r\nHash: SHA1\r\n\r\nHello,\r\n\r\nThe test lab is finally starting to come to fruition. We (the\r\ncommunity) have been donated hardware via MyYearbook and Hi5. It is my\r\nunderstanding that we may also have some coming from HP.\r\n\r\nWe are currently set...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. \n\nI compiled and installed PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 2 on OS X 10.4.10 these days,\nand noticed a minor issue that may lead to some problems, occasionally.\n\nI generally run make check, and that consumes some extra disk space, of\ncourse. While versions 8.1 and 8.2 were quite happy with a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Back when we agreed that we should treat CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER as a\ndocumented, non-deprecated user command, I made a change so that it\nwould use the specified name as the actual name of the trigger in\npg_trigger. Pre-8.3 releases would auto-generate sorta-unique names of\nthe form \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "J=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=rg Beyer <Beyerj@students.uni-marburg.de> writes:\n> Attached is the log with the \"du\" output, one block for the build directory,\n> one for the installation directory, and one for the 8.3-cluster. Some\n> comments are added.\n\n> I suspect gprof to be the culprit, eve...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that processCancelRequest() emits a log message at DEBUG2 when\nit receives a cancel request with a bad key or for a non-existent PID.\nFor example,\n\n ereport(DEBUG2,\n (errmsg_internal(\"bad key in cancel request for process %d\",\n backendPID)));\n\nI t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Though 8.3 isn't out of the oven just yet, I've been thinking about the \ndead space map a lot, and decided I have to start writing down those \nthoughts.\n\nReducing VACUUM time is important, but the real big promise is the \nability to do index-only-scans. Because that's the main focus of t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am trying to run regression tests on both windows and RH.\nIt looks like that the tests on windows run slower than linux \nusing two machines with same hardware config.\n\nIs this known?\n\n\n\n------------------------------------------------\nGevik Babakhani\n\nPostgreSQL NL http:/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd a note about another issue that needs to be considered before\nchanging the TOAST size thresholds.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/include/access:\n tuptoaster.h (r1.35 -> r1.36)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was somewhat bemused just now to find that this function stopped\nworking:\n\nregression=# create function estimate_rows(query text) returns float8 as $$\ndeclare r text;\nbegin\n for r in execute 'explain ' || query loop\n if substring(r from 'rows=[0-9]') is not null then\n retur...
[ { "msg_contents": "In an attempt to move us toward 8.3 RC1 I have put all open item emails\ninto the patches queue:\n\n\thttp://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying fix independence of pg_dump.c on postgres.h. And I found \nfollowing construct in dumpSequence function:\n\n\n\n09391 snprintf(bufm, sizeof(bufm), INT64_FORMAT, SEQ_MINVALUE);\n09392 snprintf(bufx, sizeof(bufx), INT64_FORMAT, SEQ_MAXVALUE);\n09393\n09394 appendPQExpBuff...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nwe are trying to modify the source code of postgresql to support a new\ncommand pivot <colA> <colB> <tablename>\nwe are doing the following steps:\n1. After parsing the input, we are able to get the values entered by the\nuser for column A , column B and tablename.\n2. Then, from p...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > How many developers have even jumped through the hoops to get wiki accounts?\n> \n> According to\n> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&group=pgdev&limit=500\n> \n> there are currently 51 members of the group \"pgdev\" on the wiki.\n> \n\nWell, a lot of those...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch removes pg_dump dependency on postgres.h. The main reason \nfor that was discussed there:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01261.php\n\nThis fix contains several steps:\n\n1) I removed sugar word from postgres.h and put them closer to consumer \n:-). I...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed this problem in 8.2 and 8.3:\n\npei=# select mod( trunc( 1 ), 2 );\nERROR: 42883: function mod(double precision, integer) does not exist\nLINE 1: select mod( trunc( 1 ), 2 );\n ^\n\nIt apparently casts the 1 to double precision to pick the variant \ntrunc(dp)=>dp inst...
[ { "msg_contents": "This used to work in 8.2:\n\npei=# select castsource::regtype, casttarget::regtype, castcontext from pg_cast order by 1,2;\n\nBut int 8.3 it says:\n\nERROR: XX000: could not find pathkey item to sort\nLOCATION: make_sort_from_pathkeys, createplan.c:2812\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://deve...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nThis is about:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-11/msg00028.php\n\nIn order to resolve <function name>.<parameter name> the check in \ntransformColumnRef goes into case 2 which is A.B\n\nThe ideal way to resolve the func.param in this case is to perform the\ncall...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nThere will be planned downtime on tribble.postgresql.org Nov 7(tomorrow)\nfrom 11:30-12:00 GMT(estimated) affecting the following services:\n\ncvs.postgresql.org\nwwwmaster.postgresql.org\nwww.pgadmin.org\ndoxygen.postgresql.org\n\nDowntime is necessary to implement several changes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Awhile back there was some discussion about how the system assumes that\nsyntactically equal sort expressions can be considered interchangeable,\nwhich falls down if volatile functions are involved:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-11/msg01523.php\nI seem to recall the issue...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am writing tsearch2 wrapper and I testing functionality. I found\nsome little bit strange on default parser. It can't parse tags with\nnumbers:\n\ntest=# select * from parse('<h1>zluty kun se napil <b>zlute</b> vody</h2>');\n tokid | token\n-------+-------\n 12 | <\n 3 | h1\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nBeta2 crashes on restoring a dump of tsearch2-enabled database, as\nproduced by 8.2.x (x==5 IIRC) pg_dump; the shortest way I know to get\nthe SIG11:\n\n SET search_path = public, pg_catalog;\n\n CREATE TYPE tsvector;\n\n CREATE FUNCTION tsvector_in(cstring) RETURNS tsvector\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nBeta2 crashes on restoring a dump of tsearch2-enabled database, as\nproduced by 8.2.x (x==5 IIRC) pg_dump; the shortest way I know to get\nthe SIG11:\n\n SET search_path = public, pg_catalog;\n\n CREATE TYPE tsvector;\n\n CREATE FUNCTION tsvector_in(cstring) RETURNS tsvector\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 +0900, Josh Berkus wrote:\n> ./configure --with-libxml does not accept a location argument. This \n> makes it impossible to configure 8.3 with LibXML on the Mac, because I \n> can't upgrade the main libxml without breaking something, and \n> ./configure doesn't le...
[ { "msg_contents": "Josh, \n\ndid you try to set XML2_CONFIG prior to ./configure?\nI _am_ on Mac OS X 10.4.10, and using (in my particular case)\n\n $ export XML2_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/xml2-config\n\nas well as \n\n --with-libraries=/usr/lib/:/usr/local/lib/\n --with-includes=/usr/include/:/usr/local/includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Maybe except \n\n --with-tcl\n --with-tclconfig=DIRECTORY\n\nalthough that's not exactly what you were referring to, of course.\n\nAnyway, I think the OS X case could be worth to keep the design question in\nmind. Speaking as a not very experienced user of 'make' and friends, I'm\nappreciat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhile studying a query taking forever after an ANALYZE on a never\nanalyzed database (a bad estimate causes a nested loop on a lot of\ntuples), I found the following problem:\n- without any stats (I removed the line from pg_statistic):\nccm_prod_20071106=# explain analyze select * ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are interval * double precision operators (both ways) but none for \ninterval * numeric. Adding this would make sense since interval is now \noptionally stored as fixed-point internally. Any objections to adding this \nin 8.4?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt is well known that in some instances the Postgresql will make \nestimates of the number of distinct values in a table that can be \nquite far off reality. This then has a tendency to make the planner \nlean towards unsavory plans (read: seqscans) because it estimates the \nnumber of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007i.tar.gz\n\nPer announcement:\n\n\"...is now available; this reflects changes for Cuba and Syria\ncirculated earlier this week on the time zone mailing list.\n\nThere are no code changes, so there's no tzcode2007i; tzcood2007h\nremains current.\"\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nRegarding the function parameter ref TODO:\n\nI am trying to catch and copy an error to be re-thrown later.\nI have the following questions:\n\n1. Is the catch part in the following safe?\n2. How do I re-throw the copied error when I am not in ErrorContext anymore?\n I cannot use ReT...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst reading http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-comment.html\nI came across this user comment:\n\nRicardo B�nffy\t\t\t\t\t\t04 Sep 2007 18:15:44\n\nIt is a pretty obvious suggestion I bet was made many, many times\nbefore, but it would be very useful if you could create co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found a nice paper describing a few free space management algorithms:\n\nM. L. McAuliffe, M. J. Carey and M. H. Solomon, Towards Effective and \nEfficient Free Space Management, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD, Jun. \n1996, pages 389--400. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mcauliffe96towards.html\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ BCC to hackers.]\n\nI have added a High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication\nFeature Matrix table to the docs:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/high-availability.html#HIGH-AVAILABILITY-MATRIX\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n En...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe rationale for this patch is rather complicated, as it's related to\nthe peculiarities of Polish grammar. Please read on.\n\nI'm using PostgreSQL 8.2.4 and the ispell tsearch2 dictionary. The\nproblem is as follows. In Polish (and possibly other languages that\ndon't come to my mind...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nI'm implementing a Setup Wizard to install PostgreSQL. In the documentation\nit states that psql returns ZERO to the \"shell\" if it finished successfully.\n\n\nI'm implementing a wizard in Pascal and was wondering the correct syntax to\ncheck whether or not the shell received ZERO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi to all, \nCould it be possible to have informations about who do what on any tablespace \nor database logged in separate files, as samba does.\nI don't think that it should be the default way, since the way events are \nlogged by now seems to please all users, but I'd think that a run-time...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all.\nI want that a function return a table rows (like the doc says at 33.4.4.\nSQL Functions as Table Sources), but I want the a function return only a\nfew cols, so the same that I select into the func.\nModifying the doc example:\n\nCREATE TABLE foo (fooid int, foosubid int, fooname tex...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\nI am building an XP Pro 64 bit system, where I have installed the latest\nPostgreSQL binary distribution (8.2.5-1). Everything loaded fine, I have\npostgres up and running as a service, installed ActiveTcl and\nActivePerl, enabled PostGIS, etc. I can do the CREATE LANGUAGE 'pgtcl'\nsucc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some but not all buildfarm members are showing unexpected xml regression\ntest output:\n\n*** ./expected/xml.out\tFri Nov 9 11:44:01 2007\n--- ./results/xml.out\tFri Nov 9 12:54:10 2007\n***************\n*** 184,189 ****\n--- 184,191 ----\n ERROR: invalid XML processing instruction\n DET...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\n ts_rewrite(ARRAY[query TSQUERY, target TSQUERY, sample TSQUERY])\nreturns TSQUERY\n\nwhy we use array? Multicolumn aggregate function is maybe more natural?\n\nand we can this? It is too late for change?\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:13:30 +0100",...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nI have just been noticing that pg_dump outputs index definitions sorted \nby index name (within a given schema). Would it not be better to sort by \n<indexed_relation_name, index_name> so that we get some benefit from \ncaching the table when building multiple indexes on the same table?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI saw the item in the release notes about the new \"return query\" syntax in pl/pgsql,\nbut I didn't see any note about \"query\" being reserved now. Perhaps an explicit\nmention should be added?\n\nI loaded a dump from 8.2.4 into 8.3b2 without error. However, every function that\nus...
[ { "msg_contents": "I stumbled on another gotcha in 8.3's plpgsql:\n\ncreate or replace function foobar() returns text as $$\ndeclare\n foobar text;\nbegin return 'ok'; end;\n$$ language plpgsql;\n\n\nResults in error:\n\nERROR: syntax error at or near \"foobar\"\nLINE 3: foobar text;\n ^\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was wondering why autovacuum_freeze_max_age actually can't be set \nat runtime... guc.c points to varsup.c which says:\n\n * Note: autovacuum_freeze_max_age is a PGC_POSTMASTER \nparameter so that\n * we don't have to worry about dealing with on-the-fly changes in i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Tom,\n\nI would like to know your opinion about the way we should refer to composite\ntype params in functions.\nFor example:\n\nCREATE TABLE emp (\n name text,\n salary numeric,\n age integer,\n cubicle point\n);\n\nCREATE FUNCTION double_salary(emp)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm evaluating the option of write a PG-extension which allow the \napplication to apply some per-connection filters. This filters work at \ntable level and remove records which aren't allowed from a select \nresult-set.\n\nExample: \nCREATE CONNECTION DATA FILTER my_filter CHECKING my...
[ { "msg_contents": "The server logs \"WARNING: nonstandard use of \\\\ in a string literal at\ncharacter 44\", but the message comes with sqlstate code 22P06, which is\nin an error class (\"Data exception\"). So my application thinks it's an\nerror, and is unhappy.\n\nSince the sqlstate code is the only useful m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUse strip -x on OS/X-darwin because non-\"-x\" causes link problems:\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01470.php\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/config:\n install-sh (r1.4 -> r1.5)\n (http://developer.postgresql...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've seen several comments about shared memory under Windows being\n\"slow\", but I haven't had much luck finding info in the archives.\n\nWhat are the details of this? How was it determined and is there a\nstraightforward test/benchmark?\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:31:59 -0800"...
[ { "msg_contents": "In this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2007-11/msg00038.php\nwe saw that there is considerable new potential for user confusion\ncreated by the 8.3 extensions to allow any type name to be decorated\nwith typmod parameters (which can be either constants or identifiers).\nI s...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\ni wrote this function:\n#v+\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(TEXT) RETURNS bool language plperl as $$\nreturn (shift =~ /[a-ząćęłńóśźżĄĆĘŁŃŚÓŹŻ0-9_-]+/i) || 0;\n$$;\n#v-\n\nit's functioning it not really relevant.\n\nimportant thing is, that the creation of it fails:\npsql:z.sql:25: ERRO...
[ { "msg_contents": "IIRC, there hasn't been any direct benchmark for it (though I've wanted to do that but had no time), but it's been the olnly real explanation put forward for the behaviour we've seen. And it does make sense given the thread-centric view of the windows mm.\n\n/Magnus \n\n> ------- Original Mes...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> ------- Original Message -------\n> From: \"Trevor Talbot\" <quension@gmail.com>\n> To: \"Magnus Hagander\" <magnus@hagander.net>\n> Sent: 10/11/07, 23:17:13\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit\n> \n> As for desktop heap, only 65KB of the servi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. \n\nCompiling PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 2 on OS X 10.4 leads to some configuration\nproblems, at least for an ordinary user like me -- so please bare with me if\nthe following is due to user error and not PostgreSQL's fault.\n\nSome necessary notes on my environment:\n-- OS X 10.4.10 /w Xcod...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm building beta2 --with-system-tzdata, my /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules\nis a symbolic link to localtime, which is Europe/London; the horology test\nfails in three places:\n\n --- expected/horology.out\t2007-07-25 18:22:36.000000000 +0100\n +++ results/horology.out\t2007-11-10 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI'm one of the hibernate(http://hibernate.org) team commiters and I'm here\nto ask you for a little help :-)\nI'm trying to improve the support of hibernate to Postgre(and other\ndatabases), but I'm don't have *that* knowledge in database functions and\nbehavior. I'm already done ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have a pretty small table (~20MB) that is accessed very frequently and\nrandomly, so I want to make sure it's 100% in memory all the time. There is\na lot of other staff that's also gets accessed frequently, so I don't want\nto just hope that Linux file cache would do the right thing for ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I had a chance to test one of the real world cases with Oracle and\nPostgreSQL. Create a Table with 10 million rows (i worked on a 1GB RAM\nmachine) both in oracle and Postgresql. Just write a JDBC program for\na 'select *' on that table. With PostgreSQL as backend, java crashes\nsay...
[ { "msg_contents": "Something Tom Dunstan just mentioned has made me ask the question \"Why\ndoes our full text search feature look so strange?\". It's the\noperator-laden syntax that causes the problem.\n\nBy any stretch, this query is difficult for most people to understand:\n\nSELECT * FROM text_table\nWHERE ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdjust script to be consistent (thanks Tom for the fix).\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/contrib/uuid-ossp:\n uuid-ossp.sql.in (r1.4 -> r1.5)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/uuid-ossp/uuid-ossp.sql.in?r1=1.4&r2...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vacuum is a better thing to run, much less CPU usage.\n\n- Luke\n\nMsg is shrt cuz m on ma treo\n\n -----Original Message-----\nFrom: \tGreg Smith [mailto:gsmith@gregsmith.com]\nSent:\tMonday, November 12, 2007 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time\nTo:\tAlex Drobychev\nCc:\tpgsql-hackers@postgresql...
[ { "msg_contents": "\npostgres=# select *,(select typname from pg_type where oid = castsource) as source,(select typname from pg_type where oid = casttarget) as target from pg_cast where castsource = 25 or casttarget = 25;\n castsource | casttarget | castfunc | castcontext | source | target \n------------+---...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am new to PostgreSQL.. coming off MS SQL Server.....\ncan you please add me to your mailing lists...etc\n\nThank you !!\n\nRegards,\n\nRobert Alster\nSr. Software Engineer \nCommercial Simulation\nDirect: 703.234.2159 \nrjalster@rockwellcollins.com\n\nHello\n\nI am new to PostgreS...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am running tests with PG8.3b2 on Solaris 10 8/07 and I still see IO \nflood when checkpoint happens.\nI have tried increasing the bg_lru_multiplier from 2 to 5 from default \nbut I dont see any more writes by bgwriter happening than my previous \ntest which used the default.\n\nTh...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\nI am having a problem loading functions from a text file into postgres\non the Windows platform. If the source code stored in the file contains\ntabs, they get changed to \\x09, which causes problems when the function\nis executed. As an example see attached, which preserves the tabs in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per a recent bug in which the planner can behave very differently at <\n100, and accounting for the fact that analyze is still plenty fast on\ntoday's systems even at a tenfold increase, attached is a patch to\nchange default_statistics_target from 10 to 100.", "msg_date": "Tue, 13 Nov 20...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was playing with a Nevada server and noticed a rush on the FPU\n(the Nevada has a single shared FPU for its 32 threads).\nLooking at the spinlock code, I found :\n\n cur_delay += (int) (cur_delay *\n\t ((double) random() / (double) MAX_RANDOM_VALUE) + 0.5);\n\nI understand the reasoning ...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I understand it*, the situation here is:\n\n1. Client support in pgadmin\n2. Support in the Windows installer (optional?)\n3. Not in /contrib\n\nNow, I realise \"it's too late for 8.3\" is a bloody good argument, but \nI'm curious as to whether packagers on other platforms are planning. \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Letting psql execute a script file that is really a directory doesn't complain \nat all:\n\n$ psql -f /tmp\n\nShould we do some kind of stat() before opening the file and abort if it's a \ndirectory?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Wed, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Any last-minute fixes out there?\n\nWith luck this will be the last beta --- we are thinking RC1 in about\ntwo weeks and final in early December, if no showstopper bugs are\nreported. So get out there and test it ...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:41:39 -...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do we care to maintain a maximum width for programs' --help output (and psql's \n\\?)? I think 79 characters was once a recommendation (or perhaps 72), but we \nhave a couple of violations either way, which I'd like to fix, but what to?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "hold the presses...\n\nNarwhal just broke :-(\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK\nto Make failure\nDate: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:23:06 -0800 (PST)\nFrom: PG Build Farm <pgbuildfarm-web@hosting-two.commandprompt.com>\nTo: p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\n\nupdate files for beta3\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql:\n configure (r1.570 -> r1.571)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/configure?r1=1.570&r2=1.571)\n configure.in (r1.536 -> r1.537)\n (http://developer....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn GiST, I found that after the crash recovery, NSN and right page link\nare initialized. We can search all the records in this case but\nperformance may become a little worse because we cannot traverse leaves.\n\nI'm not sure if it is preffered behavior.\n\n-- \nKoichi Suzuki\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI've been writing some code[1] to support Javascript in the backend.\nI've got the basic bits working, the next job for me is implementing\nSPI support. Currently, it runs simple bits of code like the\nfollowing:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION jsinc(n INTEGER) RETURNS INTEGER LANGUAGE pljs ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe came across a problem when you want to dump only one schema.\nThe ASCII output when loaded with psql into an empty database\ndoesn't produce an identical schema to the original.\nThe problem comes from this statement ordering:\n\nSET ... -- some initial DB parameters\n...\nSET searc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI cannot find my bug. I would to get tuple via ExecutorRun. But it\nworks only with one field in target. With more fields I got last\nfileld on first position and others fields are null. Can somebody help\nme?\n\nPavel Stehule\n\npostgres=# call print(10,20,30);\nNOTICE: nargs 3\nNO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nIt was my bug :(. I forgot increase resno.\n\nClassic situation. When you are search bug, search elsewhere.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:58 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Pavel Stehule\" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFunction AllocSetStats uses fprintf instead of standard logging method. \nIs there any reason for it? If not I will rewrite it to use \nelog(NOTICE,..) instead.\n\n\t\tZdenek\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:46:13 +0100", "msg_from": "Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just noticed that the \"pg_ctl register\" synopsis was updated to have a\n-t parameter. This does not seem to make sense to me. Is it correct?\nDoes it do anything?\n\nMy thinking is that we should just remove the -t from that synopsis.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some of you have already been doing a great job, but I would like to point out \nthat with the upcoming release of PostgreSQL 8.3, it is once again time to\nupdate the message translations. We are now near a string freeze, which has \ntraditionally been associated with the first release cand...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nGIN index build's allocatedMemory counter needs to be long, not uint32.\nElse, in a 64-bit machine with maintenance_work_mem set to above 4Gb,\nthe counter overflows and we never recognize having reached the\nmaintenance_work_mem limit. I believe this explains out-...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was some discussion in pgsql-performance about the problem that\nthe live-and-dead-tuple counts that ANALYZE reports to the stats\ncollector don't reflect insert-in-progress tuples properly:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-11/msg00225.php\nI proposed a patch here:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nLooking again at bug report [1], I agree that's a glibc bug. Numbers in\npt_BR has its format 1.234.567,89; sometimes the format 1234567,89 is\nacceptable too, ie, the thousand separator is optional. I guess that\nsome locales use the 'optional' thousand separator too (yep, they are\na...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nin 8.1, how do I find the relfrozenxid of a table?\n\nwe're running 8.1.9, and have turned off autovacuum for a wee bit too\nlong...\n\nthanks to the verbose warnings, we still have a few million transactions\nleft before it locks up, although thats not much time for us.\n\nI'd like to focu...
[ { "msg_contents": "After a few minutes, my postgres dumps core.\n\n\n(gdb) where\n#0 0x041ee52d in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.40.3\n#1 0x04226c37 in abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:65\n#2 0x1c1c2fcb in errfinish ()\n#3 0x1c1c3be1 in elog_finish ()\n#4 0x1c040598 in _hash_expandtable ()\n#5 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've working with XML in Postgres 8.3 and am trying to find a way to\ncreate a text-based index from an XPath that returns multiple nodes. For\nexample, if I have an XPath like\n\n/elem[@key=\"mykey\"]/text()\n\nwhich might return a few text nodes like\n\nvalue1\nvalue2\nvalue3\n\nI'd like 3 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "postgresql01.managed.contegix.com and therefore developer.pgadmin.org\nand nagios.pgadmin.org will be going down for maintenance sometime\nshortly after 9AM GMT today. Downtime is expected to be around 15 minutes.\n\nApologies for the short notice.\n\nRegards, Dave\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that there is some variation in the way that different rmgrs\nuse elog levels.\n\nHeap uses PANIC always\nBTree uses LOG and PANIC\nGIN uses ERROR always\nGIST uses ERROR always\n\nBtree issues a LOG during forget_matching_split(), but does nothing\nduring forget_matching_deletion()....
[ { "msg_contents": "If the postmaster is stopped with 'pg_ctl stop' while an\r\nonline backup is in progress, the 'backup_label' file will remain\r\nin the data directory.\r\n\r\nThere is no recovery.conf file present.\r\n\r\nWhen the server is started again, it attempts to recover from\r\nthe checkpoint marked ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI have found an interesting FRONTEND/BACKEND protocol behaviour. Let's \nconsider following query:\n\"SELECT 1; SELECT 2; SELECT3; SELECT4;\"\n\n1) If I send it as a simple query - I'm getting:\n- correct results for SELECT 1; SELECT 2; SELECT3; SELECT4;\n- and then one ReadyForQuer...
[ { "msg_contents": "I mentioned in #postgres a bit ago to no avail that I couldn't get my \nplperl stored procedures to work after upgrading to OS X 10.5, with only a \nobtuse \"ERROR: null prosrc\". I was using 8.2.4 and didn't want to make a \nbig deal about a non-current release, but today I had a chance to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just installed v8.3beta3 and discovered that the way WAL archiving \nis handled has changed.\n\n From postgresql.conf:\n #archive_mode = off # allows archiving to be done \n(change requires restart)\n #archive_command = '' # command to use to archive a logfi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi -hackers,\n\nI'm currently testing 8.3devel on the database of one of our customers\n(4 GB database used by a website - mostly read only activity). My main\nconcern was to discover if there is any query choosing a bad plan in\n8.3 for one reason or another.\nWhile I didn't find anything fa...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello\n\nI am playing with methods. It's +/- function with first hidden arguments.\n\nexample: sin(10) ~ (10).sin() is equivalent.\nlegal is substring('aaaa',1,3).upper() too etc\n\nI spent some time with bison (without success).\n\nindirection_el:\n '.' attr_name\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All, \n\nI was exploring through the BuildFarm specific perl\nscript run_build.pl. \nI executed the perl script and it went on file by\ndownloading the latest PostgreSQL source code that is\n8.3Beta2, after successful completion of the script it\ncreates the required set of logfiles in the...