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[ { "msg_contents": "[Looks like this mail missed the hackers list on reply to all, I wonder\nhow it could happen... so I forward it]\n\nOn Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:00 +0100, Dave Page wrote:\n> Yes, we're talking real-time streaming (synchronous) log shipping.\n\nIs there any design already how would this be implem...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nImprovements of GIN indexes were presented on PGCon 2008. Presentation:\n http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/fastinsert_and_multicolumn_GIN.pdf\n\n1) multicolumn GIN\nThis patch ( http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/multicolumn_gin-0.2.gz ) adds multicolumn \nsupport to GIN. The basic idea is: keys (entries i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think it is good idea make a function returning set of records, \nlike xpath_table, but accepting xml data in a text paramiter. \nToday if you have a function with a xml parameter, you have to save it in \na table to use xpath.\n\nThanks,\n        I think it is good idea make a function ret...
[ { "msg_contents": "a fur cap on his head. The sledge drove round the square twice, and Kay tied on", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 May 2008 14:12:41 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Ollie Joiner\" <aalealahrh@datamarkets.com.ar>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Pgsql-hackers" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to cleanup header dependences and it seems hash_any and hash_uint32 \nfunction is candidate to move into separate c file in backend/utils/misc \ndirectory. It significantly reduce amount of unnecessary includes from files \nlike network.c ( http://doxygen.postgresql.org/network_8...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI just saw this in the docs:\n\n> Finally, NATURAL is a shorthand form of USING: it forms a USING list \n> consisting of exactly those column names that appear in both input \n> tables. As with USING, these columns appear only once in the output \n> table.\n\nThat sounds useful i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI just saw this in the docs:\n\n> Finally, NATURAL is a shorthand form of USING: it forms a USING list \n> consisting of exactly those column names that appear in both input \n> tables. As with USING, these columns appear only once in the output \n> table.\n\nThat sounds useful i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Magnus and I had the fortune to share a plane flight when leaving pgCon. \n This gave us a chance to discuss my ideas around reforming PostgreSQL \nconfiguration at some length. Here's what we came up with (Magnus will \npresumably correct the parts I got wrong):\n\nCurrently, PostgreSQL,co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, the preference clause can be rewritten using standard SQL. The syntax to duplicate the example result set is listed below. The syntax is not very flexible or easy to read. \n\nselect id \nfrom computer\nwhere (main_memory = (select max(main_memory) \n from comput...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI don't know where I can find the doxyfile which generate\n\"doxygen.postgresql.org\" web site. I found that when reading code the\ndoxygen source code is quite helpful. However, I want to generate an\noff-line copy of doxygen docs myself, but I can't find the doxyfile in\nthe lastest so...
[ { "msg_contents": "Previous thread for reference:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-06/msg00096.php\n\nThe objections to synchronized scans for VACUUM as listed in that thread\n(summary):\n\n1. vacuum sometimes progresses faster than a regular heapscan, because\nit doesn't need to check WHERE...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have attached a patch for phrase search with respect to the cvs head.\nBasically it takes a a phrase (text) and a TSVector. It checks if the\nrelative positions of lexeme in the phrase are same as in their\npositions in TSVector.\n\nIf the configuration for text search is \"simple\", then t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI found following bug - using explain in stored procedures like:\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(int)\nRETURNS void AS $$\nDECLARE s varchar;\nBEGIN\n FOR s IN EXECUTE 'EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM o WHERE a = $1+1' USING $1 LOOP\n RAISE NOTICE '%', s;\n END LOOP;\nEND; $$\nLANGUAGE...
[ { "msg_contents": "== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 01 2008 ==\n\nCore has announced the goal of including easy-to-use WAL-based\nreplication in PostgreSQL.\n\n== PostgreSQL Product News ==\n\nDatabase .NET 2.1.3071 released.\nhttp://s630417.myweb.hinet.net/\n\nNavicat ver. 7.1.1 released.\nhttp://pgsql.navicat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI'm sure I'm just showing off my ignorance here, but here goes…\n\nI really need case-insensitive string comparison in my database. \nIdeally there'd be a nice ITEXT data type (and friends, ichar, \nivarchar, etc.). But of course there isn't, and for years I've just \nused LOWER(...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nThere was more time questions about array's initialisation. I propose\nfunction array_init.\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_init(sizes int[], v anyelement)\nRETURNS anyarray;\n\nFirst parameter is array of dimension's sizes. Second argument is\nvalue that will be used for initial...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to add the flags given to pg_dump into the output of the pg_dump \nfile. For text dumps, the output would go on a line below the current header, \nso output would look like:\n\n--\n-- PostgreSQL database dump complete\n--\n-- Generated by: pg_dump -s -U rob pagila \n--\n\nFor com...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've noticed that queries of the form\n\nSELECT DISTNCT foo, bar, baz\nFROM quux\nWHERE ...\n\nperform significantly worse than the equivalent using GROUP BY.\n\nSELECT foo, bar, baz\nFROM quux\nWHERE ...\nGROUP BY foo, bar, baz\n\nWhere would I start looking in order to make them a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI need to use query like:\n select (insert into test (a) values (x) returning b),c from anytable \nwhere condition\nbut it say\n ERROR: syntax error at or near \"into\"\n\nIs this a bug?\n\nFunction does not work too:\n create function addt(..) returning .. as 'insert ... ret...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a need to find out the meaning of a backend exiting unexpectedly with\nexit code 2. Leafing through the source of 8.1 I can't really find it.\n\nIs there anything in postgres which would exit with code 2, or should I be\nlooking at libraries and junk dragged in by languages?\n\nI have...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nDuring the Oracle migration tutorial by peter at PGCon, I took an action \nitem for myself to try orafce on Solaris/OpenSolaris.\nAs pg binaries are bundled with Solaris now (using Sun Studio compiler), \nI decided to try out building orafce against the same bundled binaries...
[ { "msg_contents": "pg_dump restore times can be high when they include many ALTER TABLE ADD\nFORIEGN KEY statements, since each statement checks the data to see if\nit is fully valid in all cases.\n\nI've been asked \"why we run that at all?\", since if we dumped the tables\ntogether, we already know they match...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nConsider this simple case:\n\npostgres=# TRUNCATE foo, foo;\nERROR: cannot TRUNCATE \"foo\" because it is being used by active queries in\nthis session\n\nThe above occurs because the ExecuteTruncate() function invokes\ntruncate_check_rel() in a loop. Since the same table name appears...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI'm working on a custom data type based on TEXT that does case- \ninsensitive, locale-aware comparisons, essentially by calling LOWER() \nto compare values. I'll have more to ask about this later, when I want \nto get feedback on the implementation. But right now I'm just writing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, if you do DROP something RESTRICT where there are multiple\nlevels of dependencies on the \"something\", you get reports that might\nlook about like this:\n\nNOTICE: x depends on something\nNOTICE: y depends on x\nNOTICE: z depends on y\n\nthat is, you can trace the chain of rea...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Currently there are two modes of LWLock : SHARED and EXCLUSIVE\nMostly you need to have EXCLUSIVE lock mode to make any changes, add, \ndelete and SHARED if you are just reading it. Multiple backends can \ngrab SHARED mode simultaneously while only one Backend can grab \nEXCLUSIVE at a ti...
[ { "msg_contents": "This report:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-06/msg00208.php\nshows that there is a nasty oversight in my patch of awhile back:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-01/msg00081.php\nwhich might cause pg_dump output to fail to reload. This is a\nregression ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe i have found a math bug/rounding problem with Money type when \nits used with SUM()... Postgresql 8.3.1\n\n--------------- Background on the Problem--------------------\n\nWe have gl_trans table with 92,000 rows with one column containing the \npositive and negative entries.\n\nIn ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently eqsel assumes that, except for the values stored as mcv's,\nthe number of times that a value appears in a table column is\nindependent of it's value. Unfortunately, this often yields\ninappropriate selectivity estimates and frequently leads to\ninappropriate plans.\n\nAs an example,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe've been making noises about dealing with TOAST tables as separate\nentities in autovacuum for some time now. So here's a proposal:\n\nLet's do it.\n\nThat's about it :-)\n\nThe only change of some consideration is that we will need two passes\nover pg_class to get the list of relat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOne of the areas where libpq seems to be severely lacking is in handling \narrays and composites in query results. I'd like to set about rectifying \nthat.\n\nIdeally this would mean that drivers using libpq could easily and \nreliably deliver such objects suitably structured in their parti...
[ { "msg_contents": "So while tagging the upcoming releases, I got annoyed once again about\nwhat a tedious, error-prone bit of donkeywork it is. You've got to find\nand update the sub-version numbers, and *not* any chance occurrence of\nthe same strings (eg s/20/21/g for version 7.4.21 would've mangled some\nco...
[ { "msg_contents": "So looking at page source for, eg,\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00338.php\n\nI see\n\n<li><strong>From</strong>: Tom Lane &lt;<a href=\"mailto:tgl@DOMAIN.HIDDEN\">tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us</a>&gt;</li>\n<li><strong>To</strong>: <a href=\"mailto:pgsql-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": "This topic has been discussed on this list and many user expect that\nPostgreSQL implements it.\nI'd like to work on this feature and hope that we can include it on 8.4.\n\nFormer discussions are here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg01093.php\n\nhttp://archives.pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI'm currently looking at a bug report in PostGIS where we are getting \nextremely long index scan times querying an index in one case, but the \nsame scan can take much less time if the input geometry is calculated as \nthe result of another function.\n\nFirst of all, I include t...
[ { "msg_contents": "It says here that CVS HEAD has a deadlock risk:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=chinchilla&dt=2008-06-09%2008:16:01\nThe problem manifested while attempting to drop a GIN index (though\nI doubt GIN is specially at fault):\n\n[484ceb40.47da:169] ERROR: deadlock detected\n[4...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nsession variables are missing feature long time. Currently nobody\nworks on package or SQL/PSM module implementation so there is some\ngap.Currently best know solution are session variables based on plper\nhash tables or Joe Conway's C implementation.\n\nI propose include Joe's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI would like to consider adding constraints to GiST indexes. I think it\nis possible to add constraints that are more sophisticated than just\nUNIQUE. My use case is a non-overlapping constraint, but I think it's\npossible for this to be more general.\n\nThe idea is to make an array in shar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, everyone:\n\n\t\tIn functin exec_simple_query(), why we run a simple query wrapped in a portal.\n\n\t\tFor instance:\n\n\t\tversion 8.3.0 ,postgres.c, Line 908\n\n\t\t/*\n\t\t * Create unnamed portal to run the query or queries in. If there\n\t\t * already is one, silently drop it.\n\t\t ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a WIP patch based on the discussions here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00863.php\n\nThe attached WIP patch improves the LAZY VACUUM by limiting or\navoiding the second heap scan. This not only saves considerable time\nin VACUUM, but also reduces the double...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello, everyone:\n\t\n\tversion 8.3.0 in function plpgsql_exec_trigger.\n\n\tin a trigger, if NEW is returned as the result and we do nothing to NEW.\n\n\n for example, we have a table like this:\n\n\tcreate table test (a int);\n insert into test values(1);\n\n\tand a trigger like:\n\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nCurrently the TOASTing code does its magic when whole tuple is\nlarger than TOAST_TUPLE_TARGET which happens to be around 2KB.\n\nThere are times though when one is willing to trade using (fast) CPU to\nreduce amount of (slow) I/O. A data warehousing types of workload\nmost notably...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of our guys in Pakistan noticed a problem with Slony that seems to\nhave manifested itself since the last zic update. Slony uses\ntimeofday() as the default value for a timestamp column:\n\n-- Executing query:\nSET timezone='Asia/Karachi';\nSELECT timeofday()::timestamp with time zone;\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgsql-hackers,hello:\n\n\n\tversion 8.3.0 in function plpgsql_exec_trigger.\n\n\tin a trigger, if NEW is returned as the result and we do nothing to NEW.\n\n\n for example, we have a table like this:\n\n\tcreate table test (a int);\n insert into test values(1);\n\n\tand a trigger like:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi pghackers:\n\n\tversion 8.3.0 in function plpgsql_exec_trigger.\n\n\tin a trigger, if NEW is returned as the result and we do nothing to NEW.\n\n\n for example, we have a table like this:\n\n\tcreate table test (a int);\n insert into test values(1);\n\n\tand a trigger like:\n\n\tcrea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane,\n\n\t er, your explanation is reasonable.\n\n\t But at least the comment \n\t if (newtuple != tuple) /* modified by Trigger(s) */\n\t {\n\t\t.....\n\t is likely to misdirect us.\n\n\t It took me a few hours to figure it out. :-(\n\n======= 2008-06-10 23:43:00 In your letter yo...
[ { "msg_contents": "While testing my xlogutils.c refactoring patch, I bumped into an \nexisting bug in the B-tree code that finishes an incomplete split:\n\nbtree_xlog_cleanup() calls _bt_insert_parent() to insert the parent \npointer. If the split page was the root page, _bt_insert_parent() \ncreates a new root...
[ { "msg_contents": "1) Overview\n\nThis proposal is part of inplace upgrade project. PostgreSQL should be able to \nread any page in old version. This is basic for all possible upgrade method.\n\n\n2) Background\n\nWe have several macros for manipulating of the page structures but this list is \nnot complete and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a\n<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature>, per my\nTODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. Sorry about that.\n\nAnyhow, Jignesh has come up with a proposal template\n<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProposalTemplate...
[ { "msg_contents": "Reflecting on this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-06/msg00344.php\nit strikes me that the elog messages in tuptoaster.c would be\nsignificantly more useful if they gave the name of the toast table\ncontaining the problem, which is readily available at the sites of\...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my .psqlrc I have:\n\n\t\\pset format wrapped\n\nand this outputs this on psql startup:\n\n\t$ psql test\n-->\tOutput format is wrapped.\n\tpsql (8.4devel)\n\tType \"help\" for help.\n\nIs this desirable? \\set QUIET at the top of .psqlrc fixes it, but I am\nwondering if we should be auto...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hm. Someone had his second finger chainsawed? Where is 8.3.2?\nThe ftp browser also shows 8.3.1 and 8.3.3, and 8.3.1 is the latest on\nthe main page.\n\nRawhide �rta:\n> postgresql-8.3.3-1.fc10\n> -----------------------\n> * Wed Jun 11 18:00:00 2008 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 8.3.3-1\n> - U...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there anyway to bind a cursor with SCROLL and WITH HOLD at the \nprotocol level?\nOr perhaps configuring it so after binding it?\n\nI know you can use DECLARE, but I believe that this inhibits the \ndriver from being\nable to select the transfer format for individual columns; it's all \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThere is a TODO Item to allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along\nwith IP addresses.\n\nI'd like to work on this feature, if nobody is working too and no\nobjection exists.\n\nThanks.\n-- \n[]s\nDickson S. Guedes\n-------------------------------------\nProjeto Colmeia - Curiti...
[ { "msg_contents": "looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf\n\n#client_encoding = sql_ascii # actually, defaults to database\n # encoding\n\nNow, certainly initdb can't know for sure what encoding a future datab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I require base64 or some similar encoding scheme from a C language\nextension and need it to be as fast as reasonably possible. In \nsrc/backend/utils/adt/encode.c there are functions b64_encode and\nb64_decode which would be ideal but these are defined static and so are\nnot available to my...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nPostgres 8.4 has pg_stat_user_functions view to track number of calls of\nstored functions and time spent in them. Then, I'm thinking a \"sql statement\"\nversion of similar view -- pg_stat_statements.\n\nPrepared statements and statements using extended protocol are grouped\nby the...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgsql-hackers:\n\nThe following is Oracle's PL/SQL\n\n if resTypeTableName is null \n\tthen \n queryStr := 'select IntIID, Path FROM aaResourceData' || ' where ResType=''' || srcType || ''' and Re...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the SSL patch we discussed previously for 8.3.1.", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:35:19 -0400 (EDT)", "msg_from": "pgsql@mohawksoft.com", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "SSL configure patch" }, { "msg_contents": "pgsql@mohawksoft.com writes:\n> Here is t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nin 8.3.3 Documentation / F.34.Xml2 the Deprecation notice claims:\n\"..the core server now covers XML syntax checking and XPath queries, \nwhich is what Xml2 does, and more.\"\n\nI can't get boolean values out from function \"xpath\". I think there is a \nmissing implementation of xpath ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that \"typedef Relation *RelationData\" could be moved to\nrelcache.h instead of rel.h. This means not #including rel.h in a ton\nof header files, instead including just relcache.h. This is a good\nthing because relcache.h is a much more lightweight header; rel.h on the\nother han...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking about the proposals that have been made a couple of times\nto offer a variant of VACUUM that works by table-rewriting (ie, same as\nCLUSTER except for not sorting the rows). I thought I'd do some\nexperimentation to see what a reasonable syntax for it would be.\n\nI soon convi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBuildfarm bobcat is broken running the pltcl regression tests - see \nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=bobcat&dt=2008-06-15%2022:43:01\n\nand I have reproduced this on Fedora 9 myself. This distro has Tcl 8.5.1.\n\nI'm not sure exactly what has broken here, but I'm guessing...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n we recently try to build a costumer index type around 8.3, for now \nwant to teach\n planner to pick up specific index for our query, so we'd like to use \nsome document\n about how a query tree trun into different query plan and how to \ndecide which one\n to use. Is there an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI'm working on a patch where if you say \"\\ef foo\" in psql, it'll start\n$EDITOR with a \"CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION\" statement to recreate the\nfunction. So you edit and save and quit, and if you made any changes,\npsql will execute the statement.\n\nThe psql(/command.c) parts of t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nPossibly showing my ignorance here, but as I'm working on updating \ncitext to be locale-aware and to work on 8.3, I've run into this \npeculiarity:\n\ntry=# \\encoding\nUTF8\ntry=# select setting from pg_settings where name = 'lc_collate';\nsetting\n-------------\nen_US.UTF-8\n(1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could someone using the pgcrypto extension please verify this?\n\nSELECT encode(digest(null, 'md5'::text), 'hex');\nor\nSELECT digest(null, 'md5');\n\nTakes a few seconds, and then crashes the server with a Signal 11. My \nsystem is PostgreSQL 8.2.7. Seems to be an unchecked access to memory ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recent discussions with the PostGIS hackers led me to think about ways\nto reduce overhead when the same TOAST value is repeatedly detoasted.\nIn the example shown here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00384.php\n90% of the runtime is being consumed by repeated detoast...
[ { "msg_contents": "The example here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2008-06/msg00025.php\nshows that we are failing to regenerate cached plans when a table\nreferenced by a regclass constant is removed. This is pretty minor\nin the big scheme of things, but it's still annoying since there is\ncode...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous\ndependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of\nwhich makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know people are\nworking toward a cmake or other more cross-platform toolchain. \n\nMy proposal is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is impossible to dump (with pg_dump -Ocx) and restore (with psql) a\ndatabase which contains sequences in any of 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3:\n\n[...]\n\n--\n-- Name: transaction_transaction_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema:\nmercado; Owner: prod\n--\n\nSELECT\npg_catalog.setval(pg_catalog.pg_get_s...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was a discussion back here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00189.php\nthat came to the conclusion that cross-type operators are a bad idea\nif they don't come in complete sets: if you don't have an exact match\nto the input types, and there are multiple possible c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI'm doing some analysis of PostgreSQL site traffic, and am being frequently \nhung up by the compile-time-fixed size of our regex cache (32 regexes, per \nMAX_CACHED_RES). Is there a reason why it would be hard to use work_mem \nor some other dynamically changeable limit for regex ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good day,\n\nProgress in office technologies stopped, and it has occurred because user\nhimself can not map arbitrary 3-dimensional composition _into_ a window.\nIn the same time, it's possible to keep composition in Postgres, to extract by\noperator 'select', and to transfer got binary data ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm not totally sure that bug #4253 reflects a problem in the user's\ntext search stopword files, but I'm suspicious. If I deliberately\nintroduce an encoding error into italian.stop, I get\n\nregression=# select to_tsvector('italian','prova');\nERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"U...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI keep seeing these files show up in the source tree in a VPATH build:\n\n? src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/libecpg_compatddll.def\n? src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/libecpgddll.def\n? src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/libpgtypesddll.def\n\nI am not sure if these should stay on the source dir (...
[ { "msg_contents": "I can do\n\n'abc' LIKE ANY (ARRAY['a%','b%'])\n\nbut not\n\nANY (ARRAY['abc', 'def']) LIKE '%a'\n\nThis seems to be a failing in the SQL standard. You can work around this by \ncreating your own operators, but maybe there should be a general solution, as \nthere are a lot of noncommutable ope...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hola, \nAcabo de firmar una petición pidiendo a los países del G8 que dejen de sabotear el progreso hacia un tratado sobre el cambio climático. Pensé que te interesaría esta campaña:\nhttp://www.avaaz.org/es/g8_climate_wakeup/98.php?cl_tf_sign=1\nEl futuro de nuestro planeta está en juego e...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to request a change to the PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE #define in the pgstat.h file. This value determines the max length of the SQL query contained in the PgBackendStatus structure. \n\nBy increasing the value of this #define to 32768 we are able to capture queries larger than the 1024 d...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n \nDavid Miller <miller392@yahoo.com> writes:\n\n> I would like to request a change to the PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE #define in the pgstat.h file. This value determines the max length of the SQL query contained in the PgBackendStatus structure. \n> By increasing the value of this #define to 3276...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've identified the cause of bug #4253:\n\n /* Trim trailing space */\n while (*pbuf && !t_isspace(pbuf))\n pbuf++;\n *pbuf = '\\0';\n\nAt least on Macs, t_isspace is capable of returning \"true\" when pointed\nat the second byte of a 2-byte UTF...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, there is a limitation in PostgreSQL that any ON SELECT RULE must be an unconditional SELECT action that is INSTEAD.\n\nThe reasoning is \"This restriction was required to make rules safe enough to open them for ordinary users, and it restricts ON SELECT rules to act like views.\"\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> That's not where the problem is. The people who will be left holding\n> the short end of the stick are the ones who can't raise their SHMMAX\n> setting past a couple of megabytes.\n> \n> It might be feasible to make pg_stat_activity's max string length\n> a postmaster-start-time configurat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am trying to create a TRIGGER function,that populates values to another\ntable upon inserting a value into a table. The issue is,if there is a\nexception(in Table 2) everything gets rolled back including Table1.I dont\nwant this to happen.i want the value of table1 to stay.\nI tried \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\nwe have faced lately dumps not valid, the bug can be replicated using a 8.2.9 or\na 8.3.1 server.\n\nThese are the steps to create the database that will generate a not valid dump:\n\n-------------------------------------------------------\nCREATE TABLE t_public (\n a integer\n);\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nAt the developer meeting, we determined that one thing needed to speed \nup the commitfests is a list of people who were available to review \nassigned patches, and someone to do the assigning. Well, for July I'm \nthe assignor, and I'm looking for some assignees. Here's how it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Linux jd-laptop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008\ni686 GNU/Linux\n\nUsing built-in specs.\nTarget: i486-linux-gnu\nConfigured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c\n++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared\n--with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian is having a pool party and barbecue at his house on\nSaturday, August 9, for Postgres community members in the Philadelphia\narea and nearby states. Families are welcome. Food and drink will be\nprovided, and, of course, swimming is encouraged. Please come anytime\nbetween 2pm ...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I will be presenting at this Tuesday evening's New York PHP\nmeeting. I will be mostly talking about EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus:\n\n\thttp://www.nyphp.org/index.php\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Josh,\n\nCan i hope to your interest ?\n\n>>> I stated details of proposal on page 2-13, 67-75 of pdf-document\n>>> http://sql50.euro.ru/sql5.16.4.pdf , and i ask to implement it.\n>>> All my proposals are public domain.\nJB>> I'm confused. You're planning to develop this\nDT> I can't make t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm working on light-weight SQL logging for PostgreSQL.\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00601.php\n\nI divide the SQL logging feature into a core patch and an extension module.\nI hope only the patch is to be applied in the core. The extension module\nwould be better ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe following patch set is our second proposals of SE-PostgreSQL.\n\nIt contains many of fixes and improvements from the previous version.\nPlease add them a reviwing queue of the next commit fest.\n\nThanks,\n\nList of Patches\n===============\n\n[1/4] Core facilities of PGACE/SE-Post...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking a bit about how we pad columns of type NAME to\nfixed-width, even though they're semantically equivalent to C strings.\nThe reason for wasting that space is that it makes it possible to\noverlay a C struct onto the leading columns of most system catalogs.\nI don't wish to propo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWith lots of help from Greg Sabino Mullane, I've set up a git\nrepository for the WITH RECURSIVE patches on\n<http://git.postgresql.org/>.\n\nWhat other patches would people like to try maintaining this way until\ncommitfest?\n\nIt looks like gitosis is a good way to grant write acc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I recently mentioned I am speaking in New York City tonight. I am also\nspeaking about open source in Massachusetts in July; see my events web\npage for details on both events:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/events.html\n\nAlso, I assume people like these details posted to hackers and advocacy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am trying to compile libpq.dll with MSVC 2003 on windows, using \npostgresql-8.3.3, but I get the following compile error:\n\n Creating library .\\Release\\libpqdll.lib and object .\\Release \n\\libpqdll.exp\nlibpq.lib(dirmod.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol \...
[ { "msg_contents": "The way I read it, the current btree index stores the index value and the\nTID of every tuple having that value. When you have a table with three\ncolumns, you index one of them and you get an index which is practically as\nlarge as the table itself.\n\nSupposing the table is generally or st...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found this error message in my log files repeatedly:\n\nError: failed to re-find parent key in \"ledgerdetail_2008_03_idx2\" for\ndeletion target page 64767\n\nI though \"hmm, that index looks broken. I'd better re-create it.\" So, I\ndropped the index and then tried to create a new one to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm getting following error while envoking psql:\n\n$ psql\npsql: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5: undefined symbol: BC\n\nThis is Linux glibc 2.3.4 and readline 5.1.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nSRA OSS, Inc. Japan\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:40:57 +0900 (JST)", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAfter experiencing a seg fault on RHEL5's command line php, I did the\nfollowing investigation.\n\nAs I dot not have a RHEL5 box available with debugging tools, I\nreproduced the bug on CentOS5.\n\nReproduction on Centos5\n-----------------------\n[root@unknown-00-16-3e-30-f0-0d ~]# ph...