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"msg_contents": "Now that psql '\\pset format wrapped' is in CVS, we should consider when\nwe want to use 'wrapped' format by default. I think psql \\df and \\dT\ncertainly can benefit from wrapped mode. \\df+ even displays, though\nthere is quite a bit of wrapping.\n\nThe attached patch uses wrapped format... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, hackers.\n\nI've been fooling around my GSoC project, and here's the first version \nI'm not actually ashamed of showing.\n\nThere's one fundamental problem I came across while writing a typanalyze \nfunction for tsvectors.\nupdate_attstats() constructs an array that's later inserted into... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed heapam.h is included in way too many places. This is bad IMHO\nbecause heapam.h itself includes a lot of other headers.\n\nA lot of these are easy to fix; the source files just need to include\nsome other headers. Standard cleanup, I don't think anybody would\nobject to tha... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nThis question may have an obvious answer I have somehow missed, but to what\nextent is locking order deterministic in PostgreSQL? For example, if\nrequests from multiple transactions arrive in some deterministic order and\nacquire locks, can one assume that locks will be gran... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile i'm working on a ecpg patch I found a bug in ecpg code. The simple \nprogram above could reproduce it. But basically it crashes (segfault) \nbecause it's trying to use a inexistent connection when we're preparing \na statement. Don't know if it deserves a ecpg_log() message. A po... |
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"msg_contents": "I see that Brendan has proposed the following definition on\nCommitFest:Help:\n\nReviewing items\n\nIf you are reviewing an item, let the other developers know by setting\nthe claimed parameter of the patch to your name. For example, if you\nstarted reviewing the following patch\n\t{{patch|ab... |
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"msg_contents": "While developing PL/LOLCODE, I've found something wrong with returning\nstrings from LOLCODE functions using 8.3.0 or greater. Using 8.4beta\nfrom a few days ago, for instance, a function that should return \"test\nstring\" returns\n\"\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x7F\\x... |
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"msg_contents": "I promise I won't expend any real effort on this until after the\ncommitfest is over, but ...\n\nWhile working on the recently committed constraints patch, I got annoyed\nby the way in which DROP CASCADE frequently emitted \"noise\" messages.\nFor instance:\n\nregression=# create table p1 (f1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found another bug when using 'exec sql include filename'. If you use a \nfilename that doesn't exist, ecpg crashes while trying to close a null \npointer. The above test case shows it. A possible fix is attached.\n\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n/* foo.h doesn't exist */\nexec sql include fo... |
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"msg_contents": "hello everybody,\n\nrecently we had a bit of a nightmare with some kernels and concurrent \nseq scans.\nthe thing we encountered was the following: a single \"SELECT COUNT(*) \nFROM table\" on a big table (50 gb) gave us constant 350 mb / sec I/O. as \nsoon as a second scan dropped in speed d... |
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"msg_contents": "hello everybody,\n\ni know that we have discussed this issue already. my view of the problem \nhas changed in the past couple of weeks, however. maybe other people had \nsimilar experiences.\ni have been working on a special purpose application which basically \nlooks like that:\n\n - 150.... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAttached is a patch to add a commandline option to pg_dump to limit how long\npg_dump will wait for locks during startup.\n\nThe intent of this patch is to allow pg_dump to fail if a table lock cannot\nbe taken in a reasonable time. This allows the caller of pg_dump to retry or\notherwise c... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nConvert wal_sync_method to guc enum.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:\n xlog.c (r1.303 -> r1.304)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c?r1=1.303&r2=1.304)\n pgsql... |
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"msg_contents": "I've started to look over Pavel's revised RAISE patch\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-05/msg00187.php\nand I've got a few quibbles with the syntax choices.\n\nPavel proposes extending RAISE like this:\n\nRAISE level 'format' [, expression [, ...] ] [ USING ( option = value ... |
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"msg_contents": "I see that assign_xlog_sync_method() is still assigning to sync_method.\nThis is 100% wrong: an assign hook is chartered to set derived values,\nbut not to set the GUC variable itself. This will for example result\nin set_config_option() stacking the wrong value (the already-updated\none) as... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have just been working on setting up a continuous recovery failover \nsystem, and noticed some odd log lines, shown below. (Using 8.3).\n\nFirst note that our parsing of recovery.conf in xlog.c is pretty bad, \nand at least we need to document the quirks if it's not going to be \nfixed. l... |
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"msg_contents": "There's an apparently arbitary limit of 10,000,000 bytes in twophase.c\non the size of a two phase commit file. I can't see why this limit\nexists.\n\nI hit this limit by creating a prepared transaction which included\ndropping a schema with about 25,000 objects in it and then trying to\ncomm... |
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"msg_contents": "I promised to review our psql \\? output to see if I could improve it,\nparticularly the \"General\" section at the top. Below are the results.\n\nAre the new sections ideal, and in the best ordering? Should \\copyright\nbe kept in \"General\" at the top? Should \\? be listed?\n\nI also pu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All\n\n\n\nI have been trying to perform silent installation of postgres on linux and\nsolaris …..please help me with this\n\n\n\nThanks and Regards\n\nRanjeet Singh\n\n\nHi All\n \nI have been trying to perform silent installation of postgres on linux and solaris …..please help me with th... |
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"msg_contents": "The read-only plan of the query (SELECT $1 > 5) is prepared, so there is \nnot parsing or planning. Any insight into what operations account for the \nexecutor startup/shutdown time?\n\nThanks a lot,\n\nLuis Vargas \n\n\nOn May 8 2008, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n>Luis Vargas <Luis.Vargas@cl.cam.ac.uk... |
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"msg_contents": "A few warnings have crept into CVS HEAD; the attached patch fixes them.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +",
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"msg_contents": "What do we do with warnings generated by -Winline?\n\nI see this now:\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -Werror -I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -c -o \ntu... |
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"msg_contents": "Since the function-call-statistics patch is going to need the\n\"instr_time\" stuff that's currently in src/include/executor/instrument.h,\nI was looking at splitting that out into its own include file. My first\nthought about where to put instr_time.h was under src/include/port/,\nsince it'... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have just noticed that pg_standby.c is missing a $PostgreSQL:$ line.\n\nDo we have a script that goes looking for such files? Do we need one?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 14 May 2008 13:36:43 -0400",
"msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>",
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"msg_contents": "The statement:\n\n revoke all on view internal.all_objects from public;\n\nyields a syntax error. The docs show that the word \"view\" is not\nacceptable in this statement which is fine but the surprising thing is\nthat:\n\n revoke all on table internal.all_objects from public;\n\nworks f... |
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"msg_contents": "Please consider this mail as submission of PL/Proxy into core.\n\nDocumentation:\n https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/PlProxy\n\nPrevious submission with overview:\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01763.php\n\n - The code has changed rather little c... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd confirmation on how WAL files are named. I'm trying to write a tool\nwhich can tell me when we are missing a WAL file from the sequence. I\ninitially thought that the file names were monotonically incrementing\nhexadecimal numbers. This doesn't appear to be the case.\n\n00000001000001B700... |
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"msg_contents": "The just-committed patch for tracking function call stats allows anyone\nconnected to a given database to see all function-call stats that have\nbeen collected within that database. I am wondering whether we need to\nclamp down on that at all.\n\nKnowing the runtime of a function is sometime... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI got some errors:\n\nIn file included from gistget.c:20:\n../../../../src/include/pgstat.h:15:36: error:\nportability/instr_time.h: není souborem ani adresářem\nIn file included from gistget.c:20:\n../../../../src/include/pgstat.h:326: error: expected\nspecifier-qualifier-list befor... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n I changed the postgresql.conf file (of an 8.2.4 server), and issued\nrelaod using pg_reload_config(). Following are the messages I see in the log\nfiles:\n\nMay 14 21:38:40 sfphotodb001 postgres[29658]: [19-1] 2008-05-14 21:38:40\nPDTLOG: received SIGHUP, reloading configurati... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nas I posted already in the general newsgroup our company has decided\nthat we would like to sponsor the implementation of materialized views\nfor Postgres.\nHowever at the moment we have no idea about the complexity of the\nimplementation and therefore what the cost would be. Since the... |
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"msg_contents": "The \"cardinal\" in pgbuildfarm has been taken down for server/hardware\nmaintenance.\n\nRegards,\nGevik \n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 15 May 2008 09:14:12 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Gevik Babakhani\" <pgdev@xs4all.nl>",
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"msg_contents": "I am using PostgreSQL's SSL support and the conventions for the key and\ncertifications don't make sense from the client perspective. Especially\nunder Windows.\n\nI am proposing a few simple changes:\n\nAdding two API\nvoid PQsetSSLUserCertFileName(char *filename)\n{\n user_crt_filename =... |
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"msg_contents": "Adding \"sslkey\" and \"sslcert\" to the PQconnectdb connection string.\n\nAfter some discussion, I think it is more appropriate to add the key/cert\nfile for SSL into the connect string. For example:\n\nPQconnectdb(\"host=foo dbname=bar sslmode=require\nsslkey=/opt/myapp/share/keys/client.ke... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that we have customizable segment sizes for heap and WAL at compilation \ntime i would like to have some runtime variables to query that information \n(besides pg_controldata). I can imagine to have the following names:\n\nsegment_size: Reports heap segment size\nwal_segment_size: Reports... |
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"msg_contents": "I have submitted a patch that does two things: (1) fixes a bug in the\nclient SSL code that never appended the home directory to the root\nrevocation list. and (2) adds 4 new fields to the connect string:\n\nsslkey=fullepath_to_file\nsslcert=fullpath_to_cert\nssltrustcrt=fullpath_to_trusted_c... |
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"msg_contents": "I got this on HEAD while doing lots of CREATE -> COPY -> DROP on table.\n\n(...)\nDEBUG: ProcessUtility\nDEBUG: drop auto-cascades to toast table pg_toast.pg_toast_16774\nDEBUG: drop auto-cascades to type pg_toast.pg_toast_16774\nDEBUG: drop auto-cascades to index pg_toast.pg_toast_16774_... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, hackers.\n\nI'm reading the source codes of hash and reviewing Neil's old patch of\nimproving hash index.\nHere is some detail plan. I'm trying to adjust Neil's patch to the current\nversion of PostgreSQL first. I'm not quite familar with the code yet, so\nplease make some comment.\n\n* P... |
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"msg_contents": "Since ecpg localization was added today, I am unable to compile\nsrc/interfaces/ecpg. I get:\n\n\t$ gmake -w clean\n\tgmake: Entering directory `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg'\n\trm -f\n\tusage: rm [-dfiPRrW] file ...\n\tgmake: *** [clean-po] Error 1\n\tgmake... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSomething committed in about the last 24 hours or so has caused my \nWindows buildfarm members to hang completely while running the \nregression tests. It's happened for both MinGW and MSVC builds.\n\nTo get the buildfarm run to complete in some fashion, I had to kill 2 \npsql processes, an... |
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"msg_contents": "Buildfarm member spoonbill's last four HEAD builds have all failed in\nthe same utterly bizarre way. It looks like about half of the test\nresults files got truncated at random places --- no errors, no nothing,\nthe file just ends early. What's up with that?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
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"msg_contents": "\npsql's print.c contains this piece of code:\n\n/*\n * PageOutput\n *\n * Tests if pager is needed and returns appropriate FILE pointer.\n */\nFILE *\nPageOutput(int lines, unsigned short int pager)\n{\n /* check whether we need / can / are supposed to use pager */\n if (pager\n#ifndef... |
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"msg_contents": "I was displeased to discover just now that in a standard RPM build of\nPG 8.3, psql and the other basic client programs pull in libxml2 and\nlibxslt; this creates a package dependency that should not be there\nby any stretch of the imagination.\n\nThe reason of course is that configure puts -... |
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"msg_contents": "(Resending since it didn't work the first time. Not sure if attaching a \ntar file was the culprit.)\n\nI'd like to propose adding the following probes (some of which came from \nSimon) to 8.4.\n\nI think these probe provide very useful data. Although some of the data \ncan be collected now, ... |
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"msg_contents": "WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1\n\nHere are patches to implement WITH RECURSIVE clause. There are some\nlimitiations and TODO items(see the \"Current limitations\" section\nbelow). Comments are welcome.\n\n1. Credit\n\nThese patches were developed by Yoshiyuki Asaba (y-asab@sraoss.co.jp)\nwith some... |
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"msg_contents": "\nRecently while adding $PostgreSQL markers to a bunch of .c and .h files \nI ran into trouble with the ecpg regression tests and had to revert the \nchange for a handful of files. However, it occurred to me that we could \nhave pg_regress tell diff to ignore such lines, by passing it the \na... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am working on moving the notification buffer into shared memory as \npreviously discussed. Since pg_listener will no longer exist, I think we \nneed to provide a couple of information functions.\n\nI suggest:\n\npg_listened_events(out event name) returns setof record\npg_pending_events(ou... |
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"msg_contents": "Have any Windows-using hackers tried to look into the reports of\n$SUBJECT on 8.3? We have two fresh reports:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-05/msg00106.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-05/msg00109.php\nand this isn't the first time we've heard of it.\n\nI... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nAgro-Annuaire.com\n\n\n\nSi vous ne\nparvenez pas à visualiser correctement cette newsletter,\ncliquez ici \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRecommendez cette News à un ami\n Nous vous prions de nous\nexcuser si cette lettre d'information vous a causé un\ndésagrément.\n Pour ne plus rec... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDear pgdev,\n\nI've played with triggers a bit, and I have noticed that there seem to be \nno way to add a trigger on events such as \"prepare\", \"commit\", \"rollback\", \n\"savepoint\", if I'm not mistaken. Also, possible interesting events could \nbe \"create\", \"alter\" and so, but it... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All, \n \nI am trying to install PostgreSQL(postgresql-8.2.4-1PGDG.i686.rpm) on a 64 bit machine, when I try to install I get the following error message:\n \n:/home/dump/postgres32bit # rpm -ivh postgresql-server-8.2.4-1PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-8.2.4-1PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-libs-8.2.4-1... |
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"msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI just saw Robert Lor's patch w.r.t. dtrace probes. It looks very \nsimilar in what we've done. We run a nice set of probes in production \nhere that allow us to track the details of checkpointing and statement \nexecution. I've given a few presentations around these probes an... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\n \n\n I am trying to install PostgreSQL(postgresql-8.2.4-1PGDG.i686.rpm) on \n\n a 64 bit machine, when I try to install I get the following error\nmessage:\n\n \n\n \n\n :/home/dump/postgres32bit # rpm -ivh \n\n postgresql-server-8.2.4-1PGDG.i686.rpm\n\n postgresql-8.2.4-1PGDG... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWithin exec_prepare_plan there are calls to exec_eval_datum to identify the\nargtypes of the involved parameters. However exec_eval_datum actually fills\nup value, isnull entries in these cases causing unnecessary additional calls\nwhen all we need is the datum type. Such unnecessary e... |
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"msg_contents": "I wonder if there is any merit to the idea of storing the 'create\nview' statement that created the view in an appropriate place. There\nare basically two reasons for this:\n\n*) preserve initial formatting, etc.\nDatabase functions when viewed with \\df+ in psql appear nice and clean\nas I ... |
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"msg_contents": "The problem is that the implied join predicate is not being propagated. This is definitely a planner deficiency.\r\n\r\n- Luke\r\n\r\n----- Original Message -----\r\nFrom: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org>\r\nTo: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI sent rpm package to Devrim and for next two months I am don't will\nwork on it.\n\nI did some work on sharing code plpgpsm and plpgsql. Without lexer and\nparser it can share about 100KB (from 400KB). If we allow callbacks in\nparser - it can share about 200KB. But it's need relati... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am returning back to my patch and older proposal\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg00318.php .\n\nSome work did Neil Conway\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00501.php and\nhe commited half of this patch - RETURN QUERY part.\n\nProblema... |
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"msg_contents": "Per discussion of various hackers at PGCon, the May commitfest is\nfinished. The remaining patches on the queue are Heikki's map-forks\npatch, which was WIP not intended to be committed now; and Merlin\nand Andrew's libpq hooks patch, which is still in flux and not\nready to commit now.\n\nS... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4186\nLogged by: Thomas H\nEmail address: me@alternize.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.1\nOperating system: Windows 2003\nDescription: set lc_messages does not work\nDetails: \n\nthe patch discussed here [1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI would to use EXECUTE USING for optimalisation query\n\nSELECT * FROM tab WHERE column = param OR param IS NULL\n\n(if param isn't null then use param else ignore this params)\n\nPlanner can do it:\n\npostgres=# explain select * from test where a = 100 or 100 is null;\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've ported the patch of Sushant Sinha for fragmented headlines to pg8.3.1\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-11/msg00508.php)\n\nW.r.t, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg00806.php\nI can continue the work until this becomes an acceptable patch fo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nWe are using postgresql version 8.1 and our database size is 7gb. Ram Size\nis 2 GB.\n\nwhile trying to take backup through pg_dump i am getting following error.\n\noka97: pg_dump amtdb > amtdb.out\npg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967293\npg_dump: SQL co... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe idea of this patch is to avoid the need to make explicit grants on\nsequences owned by tables.\n\nThis patch make:\n- GRANT INSERT ON TABLE extend to GRANT USAGE ON SEQUENCE (currval, nextval)\n- GRANT UPDATE ON TABLE extend to GRANT UPDATE ON SEQUENCE (nextval, setval)\n- GRAN... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n Can this random order in archival of files be explained?\n\ngrep archived /var/log/localmessages\n\n2008-05-23 08:43:43 PDTLOG: archived transaction log file\n\"00000001000009BD0000009D\"\n2008-05-23 08:44:41 PDTLOG: archived transaction log file\n\"00000001000009BD000000A0\" ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been puzzled by a couple of recent buildfarm failures:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2008-05-22%2006:00:01\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=vaquita&dt=2008-05-19%2020:00:03\n\nBoth fail the timestamp test like this:\n\n*** ./expected/tim... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI recently (on my flight to Ottawa) changed ecpg to use the keyword list\nof the backend instead of its own. This means that there is one less\nfile to sync manually. However, it also means that an additional keyword\ndefined in the backend will break compilation as ecpg doesn't have t... |
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"msg_contents": "Would anyone object to \\df displaying a function's volatility? Maybe\nlimit it to \\df+?\n\nIdeally we would have a short header for the column so that it doesn't\ntake too much space, and specify the setting with a single letter. The\nmeaning of each letter we could display at the bottom ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThese patch implements the TODO item: Have psql show current values\nfor a sequence.\nComments are welcome.\n\n* Credits\n\nThe original patch were developed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira\n<euler@timbira.com>\nbut how he is a little busy, he sends it to me and I made some changes\nt... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n Does the command ALTER INDEX take exclusive lock on the objects involved?\nSpecifically I am looking at ALTER INDEX ... SET TABLESPACE. The docs do not\nmention anything about this. I assume it would, and can do a few tests (or\nlook at code :) ), but asking here wouldn't hurt!\... |
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"msg_contents": "good morning,\n\nsome days ago i have fallen over an issue which feels more or less like \na bug. consider:\n\n\ntest=# create role xy LOGIN;\nCREATE ROLE\n\ntest=# grant connect on database test to xy;\nGRANT\n\ntest=# drop role xy;\nERROR: role \"xy\" cannot be dropped because some objects... |
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"msg_contents": "I want to start working to implement packages in PostgreSQL and would\nlike to learn how to change the tables of the catalogue. \n\nI want to useit pg_namespace table to create a \"sub-schema\" that will be used to\ngroup the functions like in Oracle\n\n--\nNabucodonosor Coutinho\n",
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"msg_contents": "Currently, PostgreSQL implements the SQL Standard transaction isolation\nlevel of Read Uncommitted as being equivalent to Read Committed. That is\na valid decision, though I wish to propose an alternative.\n\nAt the moment, a long running SQL Statement can prevent xmin moving\nforward, which ... |
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"msg_contents": "I maintain the project \"Temporal PostgreSQL\" on pgfoundry:\n\nhttp://pgfoundry.org/projects/temporal\n\nReference docs available here:\nhttp://temporal.projects.postgresql.org/reference.html\n\nThis project provides a data type called \"period\" (formerly t_interval).\nThis type is an inter... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n I have worked on a project and on my free time I made a port of a\nspecific metaphone algorithm, adapted for Brazilian portuguese. I used\nmainly the code presented in contrib/fuzzystr/dmetaphone.c to make the\npostgresql interface.\n So, I question if here is the best place for such ... |
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"msg_contents": "Most of the GUC variables that have been converted to enums have an\nextra_desc string that lists the valid values --- in HEAD, try\nSELECT name,extra_desc,enumvals from pg_settings where vartype = 'enum';\n\nISTM this is just about 100% redundant with the enumvals column and\nshould be remov... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThanks to all who respnoded to the WITH RECURSIVE patches V0.1. Here\nare TODO items so far. Lines starting with \"*\" are my comments and\nquestions.\n\n- SEARCH clause not supported\n\n * do weed this for 8.4?\n\n- CYCLE clause not supported\n\n * do weed this for 8.4?\n\n- the num... |
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"msg_contents": "I would like to create functions in the core and then access it.\nHowever, I do not know how to do it. Looks like all functions in the\ncore are not accessible from outside. For example ts_headline_opt which\nis there in the core seems to be not present in pg_catalog. \nThis is the query I us... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nExplicitly bind gettext() to the UTF8 locale when in use.\nThis is required on Windows due to the special locale\nhandling for UTF8 that doesn't change the full environment.\n\nFixes crash with translated error messages per bugs 4180\nand 4196.\n\nTom Lane\n\nModif... |
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"msg_contents": "There are several GUC enums that accept values that aren't documented\nanywhere; the worst offender being backslash_quote, which has more\nundocumented spellings than documented ones:\n\n/*\n * Although only \"on\", \"off\", and \"safe_encoding\" are documented, we\n * accept all the likely v... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4204\nLogged by: Tomasz Rybak\nEmail address: bogomips@post.pl\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.1\nOperating system: Debian Linux\nDescription: COPY to table with FK has memory leak\nDetails: \n\nI tried to use ... |
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"msg_contents": "After some discussions at PGCon, I'd like to make some proposals for\nhint bit setting with the aim to reduce write overhead.\n\nCurrently, when we see an un-hinted row we set the bit, if possible and\nthen dirty the block.\n\nIf we were to set the bit but *not* dirty the block we may be able... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have a complex query where making a small change to the SQL increases\nrun-time by > 1000 times.\n\nThe first SQL statement is of the form\n\nA JOIN B ON (a.id = b.id) LEFT JOIN C ON (a.id = c.id) \n\nand the second is like this\n\nA JOIN B ON (a.id = b.id) LEFT JOIN C ON (b.id = c.id)\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, \n\n\tI'm working on implementation of collation at database level using\nsystem locales as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. You can read my\nproposal on the wiki page -\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Gsoc08-collation . I'm building this\nover Alexey Slynko's patch sent two year... |
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"msg_contents": "I have locked down access to all dblink_* functions, so that only \ncertain privileged users have access to them, and instead provide a set \nof SRF functions defined as security definer functions, where I connect \nto the remote server, fetch some data, disconnect from remote server, \nand r... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom brought this up during the PGCon developer meet. After thinking a\nbit about it, I think it's actually possible to avoid the second heap\nscan, especially now that we've HOT. If we can remove the second pass,\nnot only would that speed up vacuum, but also reduce lots of redundant\nread an... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe would like to be able to use and ship pg_regress and the PostgreSQL \ntest suite independently of the PostgreSQL build environment, for \ntesting and maybe even as a separate package to be build and shipped \nwith the OS for others to test their setup. Does this sound like a sane \n... |
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"msg_contents": "Yup, we're overdue for that, so:\n\nAfter some discussion among core and the packagers list, we have\ntentatively set June 9 as the release date for minor updates of\nall supported PG release branches (back to 7.4). As has been the\nrecent practice, code freeze will occur the preceding Thurs... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\npg_regress has a --dbname option (which actually take a list of database \nnames):\n\n --dbname=DB use database DB (default \\\"regression\\\")\n\n... but the PostgreSQL regression test suite does not really support this:\n\n[jaustvik@host:regress] ggrep -R \"regression... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, in my particular case I need to configure Postgres to handle only a\nfew concurrent connections, but I need it to be blazingly fast, so I need it\nto cache everything possible. I've changed the config file and multiplied\nall memory-related values by 10, still Postgres uses only less t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\nI'm new to the core PostgreSQL code, so pardon the question if the answer is\nreally obvious, and I'm just missing it, but I've got a relatively large web\napplication that uses PostgreSQL as a back-end database, and we're heavily\nusing memcached to cache frequently accessed d... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it feasible to add the ability to catch exceptions from COPY?\n\nDarren\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 28 May 2008 17:32:34 -0700",
"msg_from": "Darren Reed <darrenr+postgres@fastmail.net>",
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"msg_subject": "Catching exceptions from COPY"
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nI'm really uncomfortable with just having recursive queries return a \ncost of \"1000\" or some similar approach. That's always been a problem \nfor SRFs and it looks to be a bigger problem for WR.\n\nHowever, it doesn't seem like the computer science establishment has \nmade a lot o... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:\n\n> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Sabbiolina <sabbiolina@gmail.com> wrote:\n> > Hello, in my particular case I need to configure Postgres to handle only\n> a\n> > few concurrent connections, but I need it to be b... |
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"msg_contents": "The Postgres core team met at PGCon to discuss a few issues, the largest\nof which is the need for simple, built-in replication for PostgreSQL.\nHistorically the project policy has been to avoid putting replication\ninto core PostgreSQL, so as to leave room for development of competing\nsolut... |
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"msg_contents": "While running a database-wide analyze on 8.3.1, I received the following:\n\nERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint\n\"pg_statistic_relid_att_index\"\n\nI've only seen this once before, and because I don't have time to look\nat the code at the moment, I figured I'd post it as ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: RIPEMD160\n\n\nI've got a BSD system I work on that is jailed and has low shared memory\nsettings. So low that I cannot even initdb to create a test 8.3.1 database.\nIt tries to create template1 with shared_buffers of 50 and max_connections\nof 13. ... |
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"msg_contents": "On 5/29/08, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> wrote:\n> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:05:18PM -0700, Robert Hodges wrote:\n> > people are starting to get religion on this issue I would strongly\n> > advocate a parallel effort to put in a change-set extraction API\n> > that would allow c... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a proposal of a non-standard, albeit useful functionality in \nPostgres (it is also a quite long email message).\n\nBackground:\nI'm currently working on a GSoC project for PostgreSQL \n(http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Gsoc08-tss). But at the same time, I'm \nnow at the point where I ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason that we can't add a trigger to a table while a \nselect is running? This is a serious pain when trying to setup \nlondiste or slony.\n-- \nDecibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org\nGive your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #18... |
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