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"msg_contents": "Hello !\n\nI'm trying to use postgresql in an application that by design will give\naccess to users to a subset of the database.\n\nFor example for customers access to products_view (wich will only show\npublic offers), orders (only their own orders).\n\nI'll provide an application as user in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello !\n\nI'm trying to use postgresql in an application that by design will give\naccess to users to a subset of the database.\n\nFor example for customers access to products_view (wich will only show\npublic offers), orders (only their own orders).\n\nI'll provide an application as user in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAfter pondering on the problem for quite some time and discussing it on IRC \nwith RhodiumToad I thought the most sensible thing is to post the problem \nhere (as RhodiumToad suggested as well).\n\nThe original (although already quite reduced) problematic query and the \nrelated plan:\... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a VIEW that consists of two tables, of which contain a POINT\ncolumn. When trying to select from the view I get an error...\n\nERROR: could not identify an ordering operator for type point\nHINT: Use an explicit ordering operator or modify the query.\n\nAny suggestions??? -Nick\n",
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"msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI just wanted to report the latest on my pet project: implementing a \nnew case-insensitive text type, \"citext\", to be locale-aware and to \nbuild and run on PostgreSQL 8.3. I'm not much of a C programmer (this \nis only the second time I've written *anything* in C), so I also ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed the other day that the branches in the GIT postgresql.git\nrepository do not contain any patch after it was released. For example,\nin\n\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/?p=postgresql.git;a=shortlog;h=REL8_3_STABLE\n\nthe last commit is on 2008-02-12. For example this commit is n... |
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"msg_contents": "> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:\n> > I'm getting following error while envoking psql:\n> > $ psql\n> > psql: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5: undefined symbol: BC\n> \n> I believe this is the typical symptom of failing to link to the correct\n> variant of c... |
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"msg_contents": "i am studying the source code of postgresql and want to become a developer of it.What should i do?\nthanks\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nExplore the seven wonders of the world\nhttp://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "There are common cases where we want to remove unwanted joins from\nqueries, especially with view and Object Relational Mapping systems such\nas Hibernate etc.. (I've mentioned this before on -hackers or -perform,\nbut I can't find the links)\n\nTypical case is where we have a class that has ... |
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"msg_contents": "Docs seems to say it is, but following function fails to compile:\n\ncreate function err_else() returns void as $$\nbegin\n if 1 = 1 then\n else if 1 = 2 then\n end if;\nend;\n$$ language plpgsql;\n\nERROR: syntax error at or near \";\"\nLINE 6: end;\n\nVersion 8.3.3.\n\n-- \nmarko\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n Hello\n \n I wish to ask, whether is somebody working on this TODO point:\n \n ---\n GRANT/REVOKE\n \n * Allow column-level privileges\n * %Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema\nobjects with one command\n\n The proposed syntax is:\n \n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently we have a plugin capability for get_relation_info_hook(), but\nno corresponding capability for statistics info.\n\nSo, all calls to SearchSysCache would be replaced with a call to\nget_relation_info_hook(), if present.\n\nAny objections, thoughts?\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs www.... |
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"msg_contents": "Regd: TODO Item: Optimizer:: Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when\nthe estimated and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage.\n\n\n\nHi,\n\n\n\n We are a team of two graduate students (volunteers) who plan to work on the\nabove problem from the TODO list of the Optimizer... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nChanges related to convert* functions in postgresql 8.3 has impact on\nto_ascii function.\n\nBefore 8.3 I could do:\npostgres=# select to_ascii(convert('Příliš žlutý kůň' using\nutf8_to_iso_8859_2),'latin2');\n to_ascii\n------------------\n Prilis zluty kun\n(1 row)\n\nbut con... |
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"msg_contents": "I just posted a patch addressing the TODO item:\n\n\"Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts, perhaps XML\"\n\nThis is a modified patch originally submitted by Germ�n Po� Caama�o \nlast year. I added the DTD and some other tweaks.\n\nI did *not* delve much into the ecpg ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nattached are two patches against HEAD. The smaller one is meant to be \ncommited - it adds some functions that manipulate double-linked lists, \nnamely inserting a new cell after or before another cell and swapping \ntwo adjacent cells. It felt like being back in the first year of \nst... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhen we move from having a virtual xid to having a real xid I don't see\nany attempt to re-arrange the lock queues. Surely if there are people\nwaiting on the virtual xid, they must be moved across to wait on the\nactual xid? Otherwise the locking queue will not be respected because we\nhav... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it desirable that pg_dump doesn't dump config settings set via ALTER \nDATABASE?\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2008-04/msg00016.php\n\nI just got bitten by a DateStyle not being restored on my test DB (I \nusually set it client-side in the app). I could see someone without... |
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"msg_contents": "This thread\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00134.php\nkind of wandered off into the weeds after identifying a semi-related\nbug in CLUSTER, but the original problem still remains: if a backend\ncrashes after creating some temp tables, the tables remain present.\nSuch... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nYou may know me as I worked a long time ago on pgAdmin I with Dave.\n\nAs this is an XML related question and XML is quite new, I am posting\non hackers ML.\n\nWe would like to develop a free REST database (real-estate standard)\nbased on a PostgreSQL schema. This is a free ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nYou may know me as I worked a long time ago on pgAdmin I with Dave.\n\nAs this is an XML related question and XML is quite new, I am posting\non hackers ML. If any solution is being developped, please inform us.\n\nWe would like to develop a free REST database (real-estate s... |
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"msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\n[N.B.: I tried to send this a while ago but it didn't get delivered, \nI'm assuming because, with the uncompressed patch, the email was too \nbig for -hackers. So this is a re-send with the patch gzip'd. Sorry \nfor any duplication].\n\nPlease find attached a patch adding a local... |
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"msg_contents": "hello everybody ...\n\ni am sitting here in a training and i am wondering about the \nfollowing issue ...\n\ntest=# select now() + '3 years 2 decades 4000 seconds 9 \nminutes'::interval;\n ?column?\n-------------------------------\n 2031-06-28 11:58:35.052423+02\n(1 row)\n\ntest... |
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"msg_contents": "We have written a FAQ, where are common issues collected, there\nare also discussion about design decisions and why concentrating\nonly to functions is good idea.\n\n http://plproxy.projects.postgresql.org/faq/faq.html\n\nThe patch itself is attached, and also made available here:\n\n http://... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have just released version 3.1 of the buildfarm client code, which \nincludes a fix for a perl quoting bug made 15 months ago that probably \naccounts for some odd failures we have been seeing.\n\nSee http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000040 to download.\n\nAll users are strongly recomm... |
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"msg_contents": "Sometime last year, a discussion started about including visibility \nmetadata to avoid heap fetches during an index scan:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00166.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php\n\nI think the last discussion on ... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a worked-out patch for the approach proposed here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00777.php\nnamely, that cache management for de-TOASTed datums is handled\nby TupleTableSlots.\n\nTo avoid premature detoasting of values that we might never need, the\npatc... |
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"msg_contents": "[ after recovering from choking... ]\n\nTom \"spot\" Callaway presents a vivid new image in this line:\n\n> What you're doing is analogous to using a loaded shotgun as a golf club,\n> and what you're suggesting is that we take the safety off, because it\n> interferes with your golf game.\n\nh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am trying to build a new installer application.\nI am in the process of upgrading postgresql 8.1 to 8.3.3 but i am having \na issue which i can't seemed to resolve.\n\nError output from rpmbuilder\n\n+ su -c - user'$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/app/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D \n$RPM_BUILD_RO... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm looking at the most efficient and lean way to interface with the\nDB in a least-overhead scenario to process large(r) amounts of binary\ndata.\n\nFor simplicity, I want to avoid using the Large-Object facility.\n\nIt seems that the most efficient way to communicate with the DB would\nbe t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is a small patch I posted a few months back, and then kinda forgot\nabout / got distracted with other things.\n\nIs there any interest in this? If so I am willing to put more work into\nit, if people like it or have suggested improvements. Otherwise I'll let it\ndrop.\n\nHere's wh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI saw that functions which use hash join, like as ExecHashGetBucketAndBatch\nand ExecScanHashBucket, have bucket and batch concepts.\nSo, I would like to know the differences between bucket and batch.\nI dont understand tables partitioning mechanism in hash join.\n\n\nThanks,\nAna Caro... |
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"msg_contents": "I just noticed that identify_system_timezone() tries to match our\ntimezones to the system timezone on the basis of probing the date\nrange 1904-2004. While doubtless this seemed like a good idea at\nthe time, it means that we'll be unable to distinguish zones whose\nhistories diverge after ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm reading through the Explain XML patch. Just a couple of quick\nobservations:\n\nThere are a few whitespace oddities which like:\n\n \tswitch (nodeTag(plan))\n \t{\n \t\tcase T_IndexScan:\n+ \t\t{\n+ \t\t\tStringInfo index;\n+ \t\t\tindex = makeStringInfo();\n\n+ appendStringInfo(inde... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm sending part of the code that I've done and is available for reviewing\nand I'm asking for your comments and some help because I'm new to\nPostgreSQL.\n\nProposal: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00857.php\n\nThe code contains changes of parser, pg_collat... |
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"msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nIn my original implementation of citext, which I'm going to start \nusing for an app I'm developing, I pull in the wstring_lower function \nfrom oracle_compat.c by simply declaring it at the top of citext.c, \njust as if it were in an include file:\n\n extern char * wstring_low... |
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"msg_contents": "Per this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-12/msg00255.php\n\nit was pretty much (again, IIRC) concluded that we want \"some better\nway\" to transfer the stats data.\n\nBut pending that we have that, how about we just move it into it's own\nsubdirectory? AFAICS that ... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, it's July 1, and time for another commit fest to begin.\nDo we have all the submitted patches queued up at\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest:2008-07 ?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:19:39 -0400",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us... |
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"msg_contents": "Platform: Windows 2003 Server 32 bit\nWindows SharedSection set to 1024,3072 based on recommendations from\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_windows.html#4.4 and\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/184802\nVersion: \"PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400\"\nAutovacuum: on\nV... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, config.sgml still describes the new \"enum\" GUC variables\nas being of type \"string\" --- but pg_settings says they are \"enum\".\nThis is not very consistent, but I wonder whether changing the docs\nwould be more confusing or less so. I note that section 18.1 doesn't\nmention t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nJust in case anyone was unclear, this is how we're trying things for\nthis commitfest:\n\n1) Starting RIGHT NOW, reviewers should claim review items they are\ninterested in or specially qualified to review.\n\n2) This weekend, I will check for all items which don't have one or\nmo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nJust in case anyone was unclear, this is how we're trying things for\nthis commitfest:\n\n1) Starting RIGHT NOW, reviewers should claim review items they are\ninterested in or specially qualified to review.\n\n2) This weekend, I will check for all items which don't have one or\nmo... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm fooling around with Guillaume Lelarge's patch to make psql's \\d\ncommands work with older server versions. The patch as submitted\nworks with servers back to 7.4 (modulo a small bug or two). I tried\nto see what it'd take to make it work with 7.3. I count about a dozen\ntrivial diffs ... |
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"msg_contents": "This is an update to my EXPLAIN XML patch submitted a few days ago.\n\nI've added a documentation patch and modified some of the code per \ncomments by Gregory Stark.\n\nBecause the main consumer of output generated by this patch will \npresumably be a machine, I didn't clutter up the docu... |
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"msg_contents": "I found the discussion about log compressing here:\r\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-03/msg00502.php\r\n\r\nBut I cannot find the scripts (pg_compresslog/pg_decompresslog), how can I get those? Will this work for 8.1 branch too? I want to use PITR, but archiving over one da... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nI don't really know much about contributing to projects, mailing\nlists, or really anything that has to do with the UNIX culture (I am\nnot a UNIX fan). So forgive my ignorance of how this is supposed to\nwork.\n\nBasically I am trying to compile postgres as a native x64 a... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> wrote:\n> --On Mittwoch, Juli 02, 2008 07:39:29 -0400 Ken Camann <kjcamann@gmail.com>\n> wrote:\n>\n>> I assume it would only really matter if you did this to\n>> a pointer, and perhaps that is happening somewhere (but I dou... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPlease find patch enclosed, including some documentation.\n\nCan we see about getting this in this commitfest?\n\nCheers,\nDavid.\n-- \nDavid Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/\nPhone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter\nSkype: davidfetter XMPP: david.f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n[I've searched archives for the subject, but couldn't find a related\ndiscussion. If there is any, sorry for duplication.]\n\nWe're migrating nearly a dozen of MSSQL servers of size ~100GiB per\ncluster. For this purpose, we dump MSSQL data to COPY files using a Java\nprogram. We have ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using the nvl() function from the orafce package. It is defined as a\npolymorphic function so its function signature is \n nvl(anyelement, anyelement)\n\nNow if I try to use the function in this very typical way\n nvl(numeric_col, 0)\n\nwe get\n\n ERROR: function nvl(numeric, integer) d... |
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"msg_contents": "to look into an idea I currently have I need (and implemented) a new \npiece of memory that resides in (Postgres) shared memory. My data \nstructures are in place an the new database seems running fine. Even \nunder high load :-)\n\nSince these data structures are for collecting informat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI have been following the mailing list and reading the source code \nfor a little while, and was wandering if someone could fill in the \ngaps for me. Does PostgresQL view updates and inserts performed in a \nfunction as part of the same transaction or are they considered \n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All, I am having an issue with a deadlock scenario in PostgreSQL 8.3.1I have the following database postgres, what I do is create two tables t1 and t2 in this database and I have the following fileds t1(a_id smallint, fn character(20), ln character(20), rt smallint)t2( c_id smallint, c_nam... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is an updated version of the patch, with a debug_explain_min_duration\nparameter to allow explaining of just slow-running queries. I've also incorporated\na couple of Simon Riggs' suggestions for formatting the output better.\n\nDo I need to post this to -patches, or is that now obsolete... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\tI have a patch that I have been using to support postgresql's\nnotion of ident authentication when using unix domain sockets on\nSolaris. This patch basically just adds support for using \ngetupeercred() on Solaris so unix sockets and ident auth works just\nlike it does on Linux and e... |
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"msg_contents": "it concerns me that despite it being day 3 of the July commit fest,\npeople are still being advised to add new items to the wiki page.\n\nTo make the idea work, we need to stick to the rules we defined when\nwe came up with the concept - specifically, no new patches once the\nfest begins!\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everyone,\n\nMy first posting to the group..\n\nI came from a mysql background (~7 years, small/mid database, about \n55gig), where I could do \"SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST;\" to see all the queries \ncurrently queued/running on the system. I found it a very useful feature.\n\nThe Postgres equi... |
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"msg_contents": "I just noticed that setting log_rotation_age to a value larger than 24 \ndays results in rather weird output (I have not actually tested yet if \nthat affects the functionality too or just the output):\n\n\ntest=# show log_rotation_age;\n log_rotation_age\n------------------\n -2134967296ms... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nFix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation:\n* Don't cut off the prefix. With this fix, it's again readable.\n* Properly store it in the Global namespace as intended.\n\nTags:\n----\nREL8_3_STABLE\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/po... |
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"msg_contents": "I performed review of merged patch from Robert Treat. At first point the patch \ndoes not work (SunOS 5.11 snv_86 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240)\n\n truncate ... ok\n alter_table ... FAILED (test process exited with exit code 2)\n sequence ... ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs I proposed a month before, I am working on window function.\nAlthough this work is at quite early step, I would like to introduce\nit since a part of it have been finished. If you can afford and are\ninterested in it, please review the document and patch, or compile the\napplied sou... |
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"msg_contents": "What's the deal with this type? Is it used internally?\nIt's the only type that seems to have anything meaningfull in\ntypdefaultbin and typdefault columns in pg_type.\n-- \nSincerely,\n Stephen R. van den Berg.\n\nWARNING: Do not look into laser with remaining eye\n",
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"msg_contents": "OK, this one should work against CVS HEAD.\n \nDean.\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Auto-explain patch> From: simon@2ndquadrant.com> To: dean_rasheed@hotmail.com> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:42:55 +0100> > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:58 +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote:> > H... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been thinking about the complaint here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-07/msg00201.php\nand I think that the real issue boils down to the fact that timestamp\ninput checks a name against the timezone abbrevs list first, and the\nzic database second; whereas the variou... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello guys,\n\nThis is my first post to this list..\n\nI'm using PostgreSQL8.3.3 and I moved postgresql.conf to the\noutside of DATA direcotory, and invoked postgres via pg_ctl\nas following.\n\npg_ctl -w -D /data -o '--config-file=/home/hirano/postgresql.conf' start\n\nThis seems to work wel... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm about to add/cleanup some missing descriptions for aggregates and \nfunctions (such as corr(), enum_first()....) and discovered that stddev(), \nmin() and others doesn't have a pg_description entry, too. Is there a \nreason for that? Maybe keep off redundant information from pg_descriptio... |
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"msg_contents": "There's a behavior in pg_dump that annoyed me a little bit, the last few \ntimes i had to deal with it:\n\nConsider you have to dump a specific namespace only, you are going to use\n\npg_dump -n <your_schema> [-t <tables>].\n\nI found it a common use case to restore this dump into a different... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhy is deadlock_timeout set at SIGHUP?\n\nIf it effects statement behaviour it ought to be a USERSET. Using CPU\ntime isn't a problem we protect against anywhere else.\n\nI'd like to be able to set deadlock-prone transactions lower, yet keep a\nfairly high setting for others.\n\n-- \n Simon... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice log_temp_files is a PGC_USERSET parameter, which is out of step\nwith our current thinking on who is allowed to initiate logging.\n\nIs there a rationale for this? Or should we set this to PGC_SUSET like\nall the other logging functions?\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI've gone through the first round of \"round robin reviewer\" assignments. \n Each of you who volunteered and doesn't already have a patch should \nnow have a personal e-mail from me.\n\nI'm taking the approach of assigning each reviewer one patch, with the \nidea of getting it d... |
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"msg_contents": "I have developed the first part on my patch to get postgres running\nnatively on 64-bit Windows. It makes no changes to the postgres code\nbesides adding some win64 specific header files to the port directory.\n The rest of it is modifications to the Perl scripts in src/tools/msvc\nto get ev... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm looking for materials explaining GEQO module. I've found\nsomething related in\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg40584.html \nand PostgreSQL's documentation.\n\nNevertheless, is there some other cientific publication about it?\nI've tried also send em... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe've detected what I think is some sort of index corruption in 8.1.\nThe server is running 8.1.11, so AFAICT the problem with truncated pages\nin vacuum is already patched and accounted for (i.e. we reindexed, and a\nbit later the problem presented itself again). There haven't been a... |
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"msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI find that, in psql, if I set\n\n\\SET QUIET 1\n\nThen, even with \\timing toggled on, no timing info is output.\n\nRelatedly, this doesn't seem to turn off quiet mode:\n\n\\SET QUIET 0\n\nAre these bugs?\n\nThanks,\n\nDavid\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:07:17 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "I'm in the process of finishing a native Protocol 3 PostgreSQL driver\nwritten in Pike.\nAnd while trying to make it make intelligent decisions regarding binary\nor text encoding of different columns and parameters, I run into the\nOIDs of types.\n\nIn looking through the specs, I decided tha... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a new version of a patch to add a CITEXT contrib module. \nChanges since v2:\n\n* Optimized citext_eq() and citext_ne() (the = and <> operators, \nrespectively) by having them use strncmp() instead of varstr_cmp(). \nPer discussion.\n\n* Added `RESTRICT` and `JOIN` clauses to t... |
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"msg_contents": "These are my review comments on Mark Woodward's \"SSL configure patch\":\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/36152.64.119.130.186.1213364119.squirrel@mail.mohawksoft.com\n\n(The patch is whitespace-damaged and the one fe-secure.c hunk doesn't\napply cleanly to the latest source, but ... |
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"msg_contents": "good morning everybody,\n\ni know that this is really a hot potato on the mailing list but i think \nit is useful to discuss this issue.\nin the past few months we have been working with a customer to improve \nevgen's CONNECT BY patch.\nas we have a nice and promising WITH RECURSIVE patch th... |
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"msg_contents": "I have had some idle thoughts on the issue of identifier case folding. Maybe \nwe can collect our ideas and inch closer to a solution sometime. Or we \ndetermine that it's useless and impossible, but then I can at least collect \nthat result in the wiki and point future users to it.\n\nBack... |
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"msg_contents": "In trying to port postgres to 64-bit Windows, I've encountered a\nnumber of issues which may (or may not) affect other compilers. If\nyou followed the other thread, this is mostly a summary with a bit\nmore details so feel free to ignore it. Some of these may have some\nminor effects on oth... |
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"msg_date": "Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:33:44 +0900",
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"msg_contents": "Generally, the patch looks fine. There are few issues still:\n\n- plpgsql: the result columns _do_ create local variables.\n AIUI, they should not?\n\n- pg_dump: is the psql_assert() introduction necessary, considering it\n is used only in one place?\n\n- There should be regression test fo... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed that some of the entries in pg_cast are shaped in a way that CREATE \nCAST wouldn't let pass. For example, the cast from cidr to varchar is \neffectively defined as\n\nCREATE CAST (cidr AS varchar) WITH FUNCTION text(inet) AS ASSIGNMENT;\n\nbut CREATE CAST wouldn't allow this becau... |
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"msg_contents": "I am setting up a postgres database on a standalone system with a randomized\ntext password. However, the db will contain very sensitive data and my boss\nis worried about the possibility of someone being able to crack the db data\nif they stole the machine. Can anyone point me to information... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nHave received exactly zero feedback on the question of whether I should \nbe assigning reviewers to \"WIP\" patches or not.\n\n--Josh\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:58:11 -0700",
"msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThis commitfest we have a number of non-committer reviewers doing \nreviewing. When they're done with their review, how do they \"handoff\" \nto a committer for final check and commit?\n\n--Josh\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:59:56 -0700",
"msg_from": "Josh Berkus <jo... |
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"msg_contents": "I was wondering, if there is any real advantage to actually specify say\n64 for the maxrows parameter to the Execute message in the PostgreSQL\nnetwork protocol?\n\nI.e.:\n- Is it easier on the server, because it somehow uses less total memory when\n batching the Executes with 64 rows at a t... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to generate a patch with respect to the current CVS head. So\nai rsynced the tree, then did cvs up and installed the db. However, when\nI did initdb on a data directory it is stuck:\n\nIt is stuck after printing creating template1\ncreating template1 database in /home/postgres/dat... |
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"msg_contents": "> After sleeping on this, I think we should follow your idea.\n>\n\nHmm. I preferred your idea ;-) It reduces the number of new parameters\nback down to 3, which makes it easier to use:\n\n* trace_min_planner_duration - int, PGC_USERSET\n* trace_min_executor_duration - int, PGC_USERSET\n* tra... |
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"msg_contents": "The new data type, UUID, is stored as a string -char(16)-:\n\n------------\nstruct pg_uuid_t\n{\n unsigned char data[UUID_LEN];\n};\n#define UUID_LEN 16\n------------\n\nbut this it's very inefficient as you can read here [1].\n\nThe ideal would be use bit(128), but today isn't possibl... |
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"msg_contents": "set pgsql-hackers digest\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:20:27 -0300",
"msg_from": "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabr=EDzio_de_Royes_Mello?= <fmello@dbseller.com.br>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "digest"
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"msg_contents": "\nOn Jul 10, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Fabrízio de ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a patch that I will be submitting to add to the build system the \ncapability of reporting on test code coverage metrics for the test \nsuite. Actually it can show coverage for any application run against \nPostgreSQL. Download Image:Coverage.tar.gz \n<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/I... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nafter long discussion with Mr. Kotala, we've decided to redesign our\ncollation support proposal.\nFor those of you who aren't familiar with my WIP patch and comments from\nother hackers here's the original mail:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00019.php\n\nIn ... |
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"msg_contents": "I was trying to set up warm standby for an 8.1.11 instance, and was using\npg_standby's -l option so that it creates links and does not actually copies\nfiles. After struggling for a few hours, I found two problems; one big, one\nsmall.\n\nThe smaller issue is that even if we do not end the r... |
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"msg_contents": "Ooops. That last patch had an embarrassing little typo which caused it to not\nactually record the planner times.\n\nThis new version fixes that and also includes a little patch to psql so that it\nignores any backend notices during tab-completion, which otherwise just get\nin the way. Trace ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn March of last year Tom fixed up a lot of places to reduce the places where\nwe lose typmod info including Const structures:\n\n> revision 1.128\n> date: 2007-03-17 00:11:05 +0000; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +7 -6;\n> Fix up the remaining places where the expression node structure... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n\nI've been followed the postgres main page intruccion to build the examples\nof libpq library.Unfortunatelly the examples was just for linux enviroment.\nNevertheless, i finally built the example program in my winxp, but i got\nthis message when i ran it: \"the aplication coul... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt's often said that the golden rule of WAL is that we must log the\nchanges before actually doing the changes. However it seems to me that\nin _bt_delitems we're modifying the page (calling PageIndexMultiDelete)\nbefore actually logging what's going to happen. Why is this OK?\n\nI s... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm getting many Delivery Failures on list postings.\n\nI think this is because my emails are now coming from a different\ndomain. I've changed this because it's used as the basis for permalinks.\n\nSo if you have me set in your spam filter White List then you'll need to\nreset it. Thanks an... |
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"msg_contents": "Am I correct in the assumption that even though the network protocol\nspecifically allows individual columns of a copy command to be\nbinary or text format, the current COPY command in 8.3 doesn't\nsupport specifying that?\n\nAm I missing something in the network protocol which allows me\nto ... |
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