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[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI've seen that postgreSQL tries to follow sql standards as far as possible, \nand that sometimes (often) brings it's own extentions. I've thought of one \nconcerning the sql command create table like.\nAs far as I've understood the documentation, one can create a table using \nanother...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is an announcement of new version of SE-PostgreSQL.\n\nNow v8.3 based SE-PostgreSQL is available\n-----------------------------------------\nSE-PostgreSQL development team published v8.3 based SE-PostgreSQL at:\n http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development\n\nYou can ob...
[ { "msg_contents": "i want to paticipate in gsoc 2008.\n\nhere is my plan:\nthe red part is came from Greg Smith(thanks for Greg Smith's advice).\n\n1.release8.2 make COPY TO can copy the output of an arbitrary SELECT\nstatement. so i think maybe COPY FROM can get data from output and 'insert\ninto' some column ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not sure how to ask this question. I have written a function, and with \nPostgreSQL 8.0.13 I can do a \"\\df+\" and see something like this under Source \nCode:\n\n\tDECLARE\n\t\tresult text;\t\n\tBEGIN\n\t\tresult := (SELECT SUBSTRING(fname FROM 1 FOR 1) ||\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSUBSTRING(mname ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a series of SQL Update statements. I would like to write a \nfunction which runs all of the SQL Update statements one at a time, in \norder from top to bottom. Can somebody share the basic syntax that I \nwould need to write the aforementioned function?\n\nPlease let me know....
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\r\nHash: SHA1\r\n\r\nHello,\r\n\r\nO.k. this appeared easy enough for even me to do it. So I did. It seems\r\nto work but I wasn't 100% positive on \"where\" I put the code changes.\r\nPlease take a look.\r\n\r\nSincerely,\r\n\r\nJoshua D. Drake\r\n\r\n- -- ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4027\nLogged by: Jonathan Guthrie\nEmail address: jguthrie@brokersys.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.0\nOperating system: Debian Gnu/Linux \"unstable\" 2.6.24\nDescription: backslash escaping not disabled i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I expected 0 ^ 123.3 to be 0, but it reported error as follows\n\npostgres=# select 0 ^ 123.3;\nERROR: cannot take logarithm of zero\n\nI find that there is a bug in numeric_power() function\nthe function caculates a ^ b based on the algorithm e ^ (lna * b)\nas you see, ln0 is not valid \n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI managed to get most of 8.3 built with VS2008EE last night. Ii had to \nchange some references to msbuild to vsbuild, which I guess is expected \nbut one compile issue surprised me.\n\nI had to change\n\n#ifdef IPV6_V6ONLY\n\nat backend/libpq/pqcomm.c:386\n\nto:\n\n#if defined(IPV6_V...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any hints and tips anywhere on practical issues for testing \nand debugging changes to a backend?\n\n(eg how to run it up and feed it SQL ideally without running a \npostmaster and execing a back end)\n\nI'm using VS2008 on XP by choice, and I'd like to investigate supporting \nsome...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Seems we should have a web site that shows our CVS logs in an\n> easily-readable form.\n> \n\nHave you looked at the web output on http://git.postgresql.org? I find this very useful for this kind of thing,and if it fits what we need, we shouldn't build another service to do the same thing.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > How about we move it to the wiki. AFAIK we can still lock it down to who\n> > can edit it if we want to\n> \n> You should confirm you can get the editing granularity you want before \n> making too many plans here if this is important. The features for locking \n> down things in Mediawi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm trying to migrate from 8.0.14 on Windows (Vista Home Premium) to \n8.3.0 and I've been trying to solve what appears to be an encoding \nproblem. My old db was in the UNICODE encoding. I know that this isn't \nsupported on 8.0.x, but it was a restore of a db from a Linux \nenv...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am reading discussion about improving count(*) performance. I have\nalso seen a TODO for this.\n\nMany people have suggested TRIGGER based solution to the slow count(*)\nproblem. I looked at the following link which presents the solution\nneatly.\n\nhttp://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/120.ph...
[ { "msg_contents": "i have a request ??\n\nIs there any intension of expanding Transaction support into PL/SQL. \nthis would simplify GUI/client code to know the if a function failed it \nroll back the transaction. right now i have to pass back some kind \nerror message that i look for to see if the transa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nAs you may have noticed\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg00470.php) we\nnow have a wiki at wiki.postgresql.org that is replacing techdocs\nwhich unfortunately never worked quite as we had hoped in it's current\nform.\n\nIt has been suggested by members of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWe need to update the SoC page:\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode\n\n... with new ideas and projects appropriate for PostgreSQL 8.4/8.5. \nPlease make suggestions. Thanks!\n\n--Josh\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:19:31 -0700", "msg_from": "Josh Berku...
[ { "msg_contents": "It appears that the older versions of PostgreSQL (7.x) do not consider\nthe daylight savings time when using TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE but the\nmost recent versions do (8.x).\n\nCan someone tell me the exact PostgreSQL version number where the\nbehavior changed?\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt app...
[ { "msg_contents": "Background:\n\nFirebird 2.1 allows:\n\nCREATE TRIGGER name ON\n(\n CONNECT\n| DISCONNECT\n| TRANSACTION START\n| TRANSACTION COMMIT\n| TRANSACTION ROLLBACK\n)\n\n\nI want to allow syntax:\n\nCREATE TRIGGER <name> event\n\nevent (3 variations, application can specify any number of them):\n A...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to propose new large object client side API for 8.4.\n\nCurrently we have:\n\n\t Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, const char *filename);\n\nBut we do not have an API which imports a large object specifying the\nobject id. This is inconvenient and inconsistent since we already have\nl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust noting what seems to me to be a bug, though perhaps not a consequential\none since we never dump out the contents of system tables and don't expect\npeople to be using aclitem for non-system tables.\n\nThe output of aclitem can't be read back back in as an aclitem:\n\n postgres=# selec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\nI've detected that a result value of pg_total_relation_size() for an\nactively updated table might be significantly differ from a result that\nis returned after explicit CHECKPOINT command execution.\n\n \n\nselect version(); \n\n\"PostgreSQL 8.2.6 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found autovacuum can be canceled by blocked backends even if the vacuum\nis for preventing XID wraparound in 8.3.0 and HEAD. Autovacuum sets\nPROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND flag just before vacuum, but the flag will be\ncleared at the beginning of vacuum; PROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND is not set\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Online Filing Tax Returns2007 \n <http://www.netfile.gc.ca/software_mbotax-e.html> \t\n\n\n\nFile your tax with NETFILE today\n\nNETFILE <http://www.netfile.gc.ca/software_mbotax-e.html> is an\nelectronic tax-filing service of CRA. This transmission service allows\nyou to file your personal...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhat are the Data Recovery feature available in postgreSQL apart from\npg_restore and PITR.\nIf my Database has corrupted its not starting which feature i can use for\nData Recovery ?\nAny help willbe highly appreciated.\n\nHi,What are the Data Recovery feature available in postgreSQL ...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\r\nHash: SHA1\r\n\r\nHello,\r\n\r\nI was just curious what the status of the Commit Fest was? As I recall\r\nit started on the 1st but I haven't seen much. Is something holding us\r\nup? Is there something I(we/community/cmd) can do to help?\r\n\r\nSincerely...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix vacuum so that autovacuum is really not cancelled when doing an emergency\njob (i.e. to prevent Xid wraparound problems.) Bug reported by ITAGAKI\nTakahiro in 20080314103837.63D3.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp, though I didn't use his\npatch.\n\nTags:\n----\nREL8_3_STA...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Greg Smith wrote:\n> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:\n> > \n> > > http://momjian.us/mhonarc/patches/msg00155.html\n> > > This patch is actually one I think I could review but I see nothing\n> > > that allows a comment or login to allow comment or anything. :(\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> > Yea, that is a big problem because the URLs are dynamic. I have the\n> > comments based on message id but there is no way to hook that to a URL.\n> \n> I have modified the code so each email message now shows a _permanent_\n> URL at the top, e.g.\n> \n> Permanent URL: htt...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found that when I added a new .o file in backend/access/hash while\nworking in an already-built source tree, the objfiles.txt file in that\ndirectory got updated, but the one in backend/access did not, leading to\nlink failure. Seems there's a missing dependency for the upper-level\nobjfil...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have a weird query execution plan problem I am trying to debug on \nPostgresql 8.2.6. I have a query that joins against a temporary table that \nhas very few rows. If the temporary table is analyzed before the query runs, \nall is well. If the temporary table is not analyzed before runnin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI tested speed SELF JOIN and correlated subquery for couting of subtotals:\n\nIt's strange, so correlated subqueries is faster, but it has much higher cost:\n\npostgres=# explain analyze select t1.id, t1.sale_date, t1.product,\nt1.sale_price, sum(t2.sale_price) from\nhistory t1 inner...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nSome cleanups of enum-guc code, per comments from Tom.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc:\n README (r1.8 -> r1.9)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/README?r1=1.8&r2=1.9)\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been reviewing the hash index build patch submitted here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00154.php\n\nAlthough it definitely helps on large indexes, it's actually\ncounterproductive on not-so-large ones. The test case I'm using\nis random integers generated lik...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've started working on revamping Free Space Map, using the approach \nwhere we store a map of heap pages on every nth heap page. What we need \nnow is discussion on the details of how exactly it should work.\n\nHere's my rough plan on the implementation. It's long, sorry. I'm fairly \nconfid...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() to use binary search instead of\nlinear search when checking child-transaction XIDs. This makes for an\nimportant speedup in transactions that have large numbers of children,\nas in a recent example from Craig Ringer. We c...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are several places in tuplesort.c (and perhaps elsewhere) where\nwe explicitly work around limitations of various platforms' qsort()\nfunctions. Notably, there's this bit in comparetup_index_btree\n\n /*\n * If key values are equal, we sort on ItemPointer. This does not affect\...
[ { "msg_contents": "The series of patches are the proposal of Security-Enhanced PostgreSQL\n(SE-PostgreSQL) for the upstreamed PostgreSQL 8.4 development cycle.\n\n [1/4] sepostgresql-pgace-8.4devel-3.patch\n provides PGACE (PostgreSQL Access Control Extension) framework\n [2/4] sepostgresql-sepgsql-8.4d...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRequest Overview\n----------------\nAdd a function to return the current PGConn used within ecpg..\n\n\nBackground\n----------\nFor years now within the Aubit4GL project we've been able to access the PGConn \nrecord used by ecpg by the highly dubious means of accessing an internal \nrecord ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIs it me or none of the mirror names can be resolved?\nftp.fr.postgresql.org host unknown\nftp.fr4.postgresql.org host unknown\n\n....\nRegards\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \t Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work)\n15, Chemin des Monges +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax)\n3119...
[ { "msg_contents": "Regarding to discussion about large segment size of table files a test \npathconf function (see \nhttp://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pathconf.html).\n\nYou can see output there:\n\n_PC_FILESIZEBITS - 3rd column\n_PC_LINK_MAX - 4th column\n_PC_NAME_MAX - 5th column\t\n_PC_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nEnable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that will\nsupport DTrace in the future.\n\nSwitch from using DTRACE_PROBEn macros to the dynamically generated macros.\nUse \"dtrace -h\" to create a header file that contains the dynamically\ngenerated mac...
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[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd URLs for :\n\n* Speed WAL recovery by allowing more than one page to be prefetched\n\n This involves having a separate process that can be told which pages\n the recovery process will need in the near future.\n\n> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nYesterday I downloaded source code from CVS following\n\ndeveloper.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html\n\nFirst of all it had problems downloading files, INSTALL text file has not\nbeen downloaded, for example.\nToday that web page isn't even available...\n\nThat's probably causing t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI want to create a custom function/query (using the C API?) that\ncollates records from a record set (takes multiple records as input)\nand produces a set of records (returns multiple records).\n\nThe Postgres docs only give examples of how to create a custom\nfunction that returns mul...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI'm novice in PostgreSQL codebase (and in English too :-)), but I'd be\nglad to make a modest contribution to this great project.\n\nBy viewing this list, I see a lot of discussions on the problem of\n\"fast count (*)\", but acceptable decision have not been formulated.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am pleased to report that the recently released flex 2.5.35 generates\ncode for our .l files that produces no gcc warnings whatsoever.\nThis is a first :-(, at least for versions of flex without any\ndownstream patches.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:12:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nDon't need -Wno-error anymore, because flex is no longer producing warnings.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc:\n Makefile (r1.131 -> r1.132)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI am trying to create a kind of simple procedural language for PostgreSQL. \nThe first version was compiled with MinGW/gcc for PostgreSQL 8.2.6 and it worked OK. \n\nWhen PostgreSQL 8.3.0 was shipped, I tried to recompile all my code for this version, but it \ndidn't work (almost ever...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did checking of current head. There is some problems\n\ntest boolean ... ok\ntest char ... FAILED\ntest name ... ok\ntest varchar ... FAILED\ntest text ... ok\ntest int2 ... ok\ntest int4 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\ni have an issue with tseach2, i just installed postgresql 8.3.1 on windows \nusing UTF8 server encoding / client encoding and LOCALE Canada / French.\n\nCREATE DATABASE mydbWITH OWNER = me ENCODING = 'UTF8';\nCREATE TABLE product\n(\n product_id SERIAL NOT NULL,\n name ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI'm novice in PostgreSQL codebase (and in English too :-)), but I'd be\nglad to make a modest contribution to this great project.\n\nBy viewing this list, I see a lot of discussions on the problem of\n\"fast count (*)\", but acceptable decision have not been formulated.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI tested head again from scratch with negative results:\n\nhttp://www.pgsql.cz/data/regression.diffs\nhttp://www.pgsql.cz/data/regression.out\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n\n\n[pavel@nemesis pgsql]$ uname -a\nLinux nemesis.nat.buk.cvut.cz 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Mar 12\n18:17:20 EDT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI wonder, if the following is correct and provides expected result:\n\ntest=# select generate_series(1, 2), generate_series(1, 4);\n generate_series | generate_series\n-----------------+-----------------\n 1 | 1\n 2 | 2\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n> Good. I'll bring the patch up to date with HEAD.\n\nDid you post an updated patch to HEAD?\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nThe PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:08:14 -0300", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've written a custom C-language function that takes a SQL select \nstatement as it's input parameter, runs the query using the SPI \ninterface, iterates over all the results of the select using a cursor \nand collates the data using a tsearch type binary tree, then walks the \ntree to...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know you are i a C state but,\nA string plus a NULL string is A string\nmandi TOM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI know you are i a C state but,\nA string plus a NULL string is A \nstring\nmandi TOM", "msg_date": "Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:57:16 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Omar Bettin\" <o.bettin@tiscali.it>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current Unique constraint relies directly upon a Unique index to\ntest for uniqueness.\n\nThis has two disadvantages: \n\n* only B-Trees currently support Uniqueness\n* We need to create an index on *all* of the columns of the primary key,\nwhich may end up being a very large index as a r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, our sort algorithm assumes that its input is unsorted. So if\nyour data is sorted on (a) and you would like it to be sorted on (a,b)\nthen we need to perform the full sort of (a,b).\n\nFor small sorts this doesn't matter much. For larger sorts the heap sort\nalgorithm will typicall...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm trying to write a version of the MIN aggregate for values of RECORD\ntype. I'm somewhat stuck on getting type information about the argument\nout, I can determine how many attributes it's got but I can't seem to do\nany better than that. Does anyone have any good pointers into th...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, February 10, 2008 18:35, Gurjeet Singh wrote:\n> libpqxx seems to have moved around quite a bit. The attached patch\n> corrects\n> libpqxx's homepage.\n\nThanks for that. However just http://pqxx.org/ would be best. I'm just\nsetting up new hosting, and I may not get everything comp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI did some tests with gcc 4.3 on the branches from 7.4 to 8.3 and head.\n8.3 and head don't have a problem. All others failed in the\nContribCheck state.\n\nYou can see the results on buildfarm member panda.\n\n\nKurt\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:51:05 +0100", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "A recent message from a would-be mysql converter led me to realize\nthat we don't check for array decoration when we expand \"serial\".\nSo this is accepted but doesn't do what one might expect:\n\nregression=# create table foo (f1 serial[11]);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to build PostgreSQL 8.3.1 on OpenVMS 8.3 Alpha, patched to\nUPDATE v6.0 ECO:\nDEC AXPVMS VMS83A_UPDATE V6.0 Patch Install Val 14-MAR-2008\n\nUsing the HP C compilers:\nHP C Version 7.3 for OpenVMS Alpha Systems\nHP C++ Version V7.3 for OpenVMS Alpha Systems\n\nAnd...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs an attempt at a first PostgreSQL patch, I'd like to see if I can do \nanything about this issue.\n\nI've read both the attached threads;\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php\n\n\nThere...
[ { "msg_contents": "Lately I've noticed that local (UNIX socket) clients using libpq4\n8.1.9 (Debian 8.1.9-0etch1) and the same version of the server can\nhang forever waiting in poll(). The symptom is that the local client\nwaits forever, using no CPU time, until it is interrupted by some\nevent (such as attac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, hackers!\n\nI have very simple (but IMHO very progressive) idea for Google SoC project:\n\nMy idea is to add package (and \"package group\") concepts to PL/pgSQL & \nto front-end such functionality with a special Mono project for \nPostgreSQL server-side development.\n\nThis functional...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,Everyone!\nI'm a student in China. and I'm preparing for GSocC2008 in these days.\nThere are two questions about GSoC.\n\n1. There's a paragraph about the Example Proposal Ideas in PostgreSQL Summer\nProjects website.\n\n*TODO Items*: A number of the items on our TODO list have been mar...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[ BCC to core.]\n\nRight now we have no way to communicate as a group if our community\nemail infrastructure isn't working.\n\nTherefore, I have created an email list on my machine that can be used\nfor communication in such situations. It is called:\n\n\tpgsql-emergency@momjian.us\n\nI en...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not sure how many people noticed this -patches discussion:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00282.php\nso I'm reposting on -hackers.\n\nThe conclusion I drew from that thread is that we should send the text\nof all queries involved in a deadlock to the server log, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, we started the commit fest with 2k emails. We now have 787 emails\nleft to process, and many are done but waiting for me to add TODO items\nor just delete them.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://postgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Gregory Stark wrote:\n> > \"Bruce Momjian\" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:\n> > \n> > > You can get the message-ids by grep'ing the mbox file, and the comments\n> > > are all:\n> > >\n> > > \thttp://js-kit.com/rss/momjian.us/msgid-*\n> > >\n> > > e.g.\n> > >\n> > > \thttp://js-kit...
[ { "msg_contents": "SQL200n specifies a new qualifier on a TRUNCATE command\n\nTRUNCATE TABLE foo\n\t[ CONTINUE IDENTITY | RESTART IDENTITY ]\n\nCONTINUE IDENTITY is the default and does nothing, like now.\n\nRESTART IDENTITY will reset the SERIAL sequences back to the original\nstart value.\n\nSeems like a % pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "SQL200n specifies a new command similar to our LIMIT\n\nFETCH { FIRST | NEXT } n { ROW | ROWS } ONLY\n\nand also that the OFFSET command can have an optional suffix\n\n{ ROW | ROWS }\n\nSeems like a % project for the TODO list\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs\n 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've compiled PostgreSQL 8.3.1 using gcc 4.2.3 on HP-UX 11i v1, and all went\nwell. PostgreSQL works and everything, except for psql client:\n\n$ ldd /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql\n =>\n /usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2\n /usr/lib/libdld.2 => /usr/lib/libdld.2\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nDoes anybody know if is it possible to store images in Postgre? If it is\npossible which data type should I use?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\n--\nR&D | Alea Management & Technology Solutions\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:06:09 -0300 (BRT)", "msg_from": "r&d@alea.inf.br...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm trying to code a GiST opclass to index prefix searches (select ... from t \nwhere t.prefix @> query), now using a prefix_range datatype. This datatype is \na varlena one, and storing it to disk and indexing it with BTrees work ok, \nbut I'm failing to have my GiST opclass working, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI created a page for our current commitfest:\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest:March\n\nNot all patches are there yet. I only added the latest version of each\npatch. I'll continue after lunch.\n\nI also created one for the next commitfest:\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone on hackers interested in touring Washington on Monday after PG\nEast? Magnus and I are planning to go. Please email me privately for\ndetails.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterpris...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a refreshed patch that makes integer datetimes the default.\nPlatforms that don't have a working 64-bit integer type will fail to\nconfigure by default; they can specify \"--disable-integer-datetimes\" to\nswitch back to using floating-point based datetimes.\n\nBarring any objecti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Our organization is looking for a hot-standby option for PostgreSQL that\nuses the WAL (transaction) data to keep the standby current and also allows\nthe standby to be read-only accessible for reporting. We have implemented\nWAL shipping through a set of scripts we developed and that works ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've finished (hopefully) the code to handle a current list of open\nsnapshots in a transaction. I'm now wondering how to put it to good use\n;-) I'm not posting it yet -- first I want to get some feedback on the\nprevious patch I posted,\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I had a chance to go through the Hash join code of Postgresql and had the\nfollowing thoughts.\n\n- Currently postgres takes the heaptuple from the slot and creates and\nminimal_tuple and copies it into the temp file.\n\nI think the creation of minimal_tuple in the middle is a overhea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst fooling with bug #4058 I noticed that xml2's .c files were being\ncompiled without -g or any of the various warning flags we normally use.\nI saw this:\n\ngcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fpic -I. -I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -c -o xpath.o xpath.c\n\nwhen I exp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nNeil Conway sent me a patch that sketched out a plan to make quals\nvisible to functions, and Korry Douglas filled in much of the rest of\nwhat you see attached here. Mistakes are all mine. :)\n\nRandom observations:\n\n* It appears I've botched the call to deparse_context_for_plan...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm referring to the discussion in this thread:\r\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00946.php\r\n\r\nAs expressed in the thread, I think that there should not be\r\na backup_label file in the data directory after a clean shutdown,\r\nbecause\r\na) it's probably an overs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n I was rsyncing a fresh copy of CVS repository, and suddenly, midway\n(around heap.c) rsync complained. When after many retries I couldn't start\nit, I restarted the OS.\n\n Since it is a VM running inside Vista (from where I could ping and\nbrowse anoncvs.postgresql.org), I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nStrengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:\n pg_dump.sgml (r1.99 -> r1.100)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml?r1=1.99&r2=1.100)\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, Hackers:\n\nI've post a question about GSoC before.\n[GSoC] (Is it OK to choose items without % mark in theToDoList) && (is\nit an acceptable idea to build index on Flash Disk)\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00859.php\n\nNow, I start a new thread since the top...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI am creating an agent that runs alongside the postgres written in c++, I\nhave a question: How send sql queries directly for the database without\ngoing need to make any connection?\nWhat I call function, which I use file?\n\nThanks,\n\n-- \nPedro Belmino.\n--------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI am creating an agent that runs alongside the postgres written in c++, I\nhave a question: How send sql queries directly for the database without\ngoing need to make any connection?\nWhat I call function, which I use file?\n\nThanks,\n-- \nPedro Belmino.\n----------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I spent part of today looking at Gevik Babakhani's patch to let\nSQL-language functions refer to their parameters by name instead\nof just as $n. It's not ready to go yet but there are interesting\ndefinitional issues here, especially when you look ahead to using\nthe same mechanism for reso...
[ { "msg_contents": "Was working on some documentation today and I realized that I've taken for \ngranted the lore about not using large values for shared_buffers in \nWindows without ever understanding why. Can someone explain what the \nunderlying mechanism that causes that limitation is? From poking the \nar...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm scoping a project to display the choices and plans the \nplanner/optimizer considers while PostgreSQL develops a plan. It would \nbe primarily a teaching tool but may be of use to users curious about \nthe inner workings of the planner. \n\nThis is in contrast with EXPLAIN, which provide...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have found a way to have permanent URLs that stay permanent even if\nthe email is moved from the patches queue to the patches_hold queue.\nThe trick is to use <base> to specify the base directory in the html.\n\nThe new URLs look like:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/mhonarc/message-id/44DA31B1.3090...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was under the impression that I could start a \"psql -f pipe\" and then\nfeed it commands through the pipe using echo, and expect it to hang from\none command to the next. Of course, this doesn't work -- my guess is\nthat echo sends an EOF after the line I send, so psql sees the EOF in\nth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\n For PG versions < 8.3 (specifically 8.2) I wanted the %r parameter to be\nsubstituted by the last restart point, just as the recovery code does in >\n8.3. I assumed there would be objections to it (else it would have already\nbeen there in 8.2.x), so started looking for workaro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI am trying to implement indexing mechanism for the Expression type data using GIST. For that purpose I need to store some extra information in the Meta-Data of the GIST Index.\nThe information is entered when the index is created on the table. Can any body give me some suggestion ...