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[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nAs a reminder, the November CommitFest is coming up in 10 days. That \nmeans you have just over a week to get your patch into shape where it's \nready to be submitted and merged. As a rule, patches which still \nrequire discussion and/or refactoring on November 20th are not goin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nJust had a feature request from Wheeler, and I don't see why it shouldn't \ngo on our todo list.\n\nCurrently, in psql you can do:\n\n\\set myvar 2008-10-23\n\nand you can do\n\n\\set myvar `date`\n\nbut you can't do \n\n\\set myvar \"Select now()\"\n\neven though you could, bizar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello there,\n\nCan anyone explain to me how the \"ps_OuterTupleSlot\" in JoinState is being used in implementing HashJoin?\n\n\nI looked at the source code. When it find a tuple in outer relation. It store the outer tuple to field : node->js.ps.ps_OuterTupleSlot\n\nBut I can't find how th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy, all.\n\nI'm interested in compressing archived WAL segments in an environment\nset up for PITR in the interests of reducing both network traffic and\nstorage requirements. However, pg_standby presently checks file sizes,\nrequiring that an archive segment be exactly the right size to b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to add an escape mechanism to PostgreSQL for entering \narbitrary Unicode characters into string literals. We currently only \nhave the option of entering the character directly via the keyboard or \ncut-and-paste, which is difficult for a number of reasons, such as when \nthe f...
[ { "msg_contents": "It turns out you cannot EXPLAIN on CREATE TABLE AS, but it seems to work \nfine if I extend the grammar as below:\n\n ExplainableStmt:\n \tSelectStmt\n \t| InsertStmt\n \t| UpdateStmt\n \t| DeleteStmt\n \t| DeclareCursorStmt\n+ \t| CreateAsStmt\n \t| ExecuteStmt\t\t\t/* by defau...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently in heaptuple.c we have duplicated code. heap_deformtuple and \nheap_formtuple are mark as a obsolete interface. Is any reason to have still \nthem? I know that they are still used on many places, but is there any stopper \nto keep these function alive?\n\n\t\tZdenek\n\n\n\n-- \nZde...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n BTree Insert requires a data-structure called BTStack to report the\npage splits that have happened in the leaf pages to non-leaf pages upwards.\nIt basically goes back and updates those non-leaf pages. But this will never\nhappen in a search operation. You never need to climb...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch adds a configuration option to pg_hba.conf for \"clientcert\".\nThis makes it possible to have different client certificate requirements\non different connections. It also makes sure that if you specify that\nyou want client cert verification and the root store isn't there, we\ngiv...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that there is a src/backend/libpq/README.SSL that contains a\ncouple of copied emails in it (it even contains our end-of-broadcast\nmessage string!) And it contains a reply to the mail, with quoted stuff!\n\nIn general, this seem to be some hints about how to use things. Things\nthat...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've occasionally talked about allowing pending-trigger-event lists to\nspill to disk when there get to be so many events that it's a memory\nproblem. I'm not especially interested in doing that right now, but\nI noticed recently that we could alleviate the problem a lot by adopting\na more...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n\nI would like to ask a help to Postgres-R... because have tried to use it with any version from CVS and normal Postgres source code but could not do patch it.\nWhat kind of form or method must be used to patch that it can work correctly?\n\nThanks.\nImre\n\n\n \nHi All,I woul...
[ { "msg_contents": "there will be planned maintenance today for tribble.postgresql.org \nstarting 15:30 CEST today (24.10.2008) affecting the following services:\n\ncvs.postgresql.org\nwwwmaster.postgresql.org\nwww.pgadmin.org\ndoxygen.postgresql.org\nwiki.postgresql.org\n\ntribble had some unexpected downtimes ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The docs for FETCH indicate you can fetch from the current row using\nFORWARD 0, but\n\n SPI_scroll_cursor_fetch(someportal, FETCH_FORWARD, 0);\n\nfails for me. Is there a way to emulate FETCH FORWARD 0 with SPI?\n\nAlso, I noticed that\n\n SPI_scroll_cursor_move(someportal, FETCH_BACKWA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Was anything ever done with http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql- \nhackers/2008-09/msg01758.php ?\n\nI have a different issue I'm seeing, but I think it's related, and \nISTM it's a bug (on 8.2.10):\n\n SELECT INTO v_prev *\n\t\tFROM installments_static\n\t\tWHERE id = ( \tSELECT id FRO...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Re-sending to hackers, since the original message to pgsql-bugs has \nnot been approved for delivery in the last four days�apologies for any \nduplicates.]\n\nHowdy,\n\nI ran into this error on 8.2 a while ago, and just figured out what \nwas causing it. Here's a quick example on 8.2:\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "In view of the GiST index corruption bug that was found this week [1],\nthe core committee has determined that we should put out new update\nreleases, even though it's only been a month since the last set.\n\nUpdates will go back at least to 8.1 to fix the GiST problem ---\nstill undecided ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could someone pretty please fix the email setup on maia-4.hub.org? It\nidentifies itself as localhost e.g.:\n\nReceived: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183])\n by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CF864FDE1\n for <meskes@postgresql.org>; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:23:37 -03...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm still getting a lot of these entries in my eventlog whenever I have a\nreasonably large amount of logging:\n\nEvent Type: Error\nEvent Source: PostgreSQL\nEvent Category: None\nEvent ID: 0\nDate: 10/22/2008\nTime: 9:36:28 AM\nUser: N/A\nComputer: ------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm still getting a lot of these entries in my eventlog whenever I have a\nreasonably large amount of logging:\n\nEvent Type: Error\nEvent Source: PostgreSQL\nEvent Category: None\nEvent ID: 0\nDate: 10/22/2008\nTime: 9:36:28 AM\nUser: N/A\nComputer: ------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've recently been investigating long-running statements that,\ndespite statement_timeout settings and pg_cancel_backend() attempts,\nremain visible in pg_stat_activity and continue to hold locks. When\nthis happens, a process trace and a debugger show that the backend\nis blocked at the sen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere is my patch to add the ALTER DATABASE WITH TABLESPACE statement. It\nis part of the TODO list. It intends to allow the move of all relations\nof a database in its new default tablespace.\n\nComments welcome.\n\nRegards.\n\n\n-- \nGuillaume.\n http://www.postgresqlfr.org\n http://d...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm taking a look at doing the refactoring Tom Lane and Simon Riggs\ndiscussed here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00155.php\n\nIn terms of the buffer manager, I think we can simply introduce a new\nstrategy type BAS_BULKWRITE and make it behave identically to\nBA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, we use correlation to estimate the I/O costs of an index\nscan. However, this has some problems:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg01084.php\n\nI worked with Nathan Boley to come up with what we think is a better\nmetric for measuring this cost. It is based...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nattached patch allows to define for any PL language default values for\nparameters.\n\nExample:\npostgres=# create function fx(a int, b int default 30, c int default 40)\npostgres-# returns int as $$ select $1 + $2 + $3; $$\npostgres-# language sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\npostgres=# selec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI have problem with sending patch, so I am send link\nhttp://www.pgsql.cz/patches/defaults.diff.gz\n\nExample:\npostgres=# create function fx(a int, b int default 30, c int default 40)\npostgres-# returns int as $$ select $1 + $2 + $3; $$\npostgres-# language sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch to support two aggregate functions:\n\n1) ARRAY_AGG() -- SQL 2008 standard behavior, returns NULL on no input, \nand skips NULL inputs. \n\n2) ARRAY_ACCUM() -- Returns empty array on no input, and includes NULL \ninputs. \n\nThese accumulate the result in a memory context that...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have an open TODO item to support SQL-language functions that return\nthe output of a RETURNING clause attached to an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE query\nwithin the function. This is something that was left undone in the 8.2\ndevelopment cycle after this thread analyzed the problem:\nhttp://archi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have encountered a server crash while working with different locale\nsettings. After searching on the internet I have seen a similar issue\nwith 8.3.1 release and Tom has fixed that issue. That bug was only in\nWindows but I am getting same server crash on Linux, although I am\nusing...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a number of places in pg_hba.conf, we don't actually log what goes\nwrong - instead we just goto a label that will log \"invalid token \\\"%s\\\"\".\n\nIs there any special reason for this, other than the fact that it was\nthe easy way out? I think it would be reasonable to for example log...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's finally my attempt at the visibility map, aka. the dead space \nmap. It's still work-in-progress, but it's time to discuss some design \ndetails in detail. Patch attached, anyway, for reference.\n\nVisibility Map is basically a bitmap, with one bit per heap page, with \n'1' for pages t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nCurrently pl/proxy, dblink, DBI-link etc. each have their own remote connection\ninfo management infrastructure (or none at all). It would certainly help if\nthey could use a common connection database -- with access control, pg_dump\nsupport, etc. There have been hints that a SQL/M...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could I request that a link to the developer docs be posted along with\nthe release docs on\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/\n\n?\n\nFirst -- it is interesting. Second, if one is running CVS HEAD for\ntesting (always a service to the community, if not your data), they\nare the appr...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I promised, version 7 of the window functions is now released. At\nthe same time, git repository branch comes back to master.\n\ngit: http://git.postgresql.org/?p=~davidfetter/window_functions/.git\npatch: http://umitanuki.net/pgsql/window_functions.patch.20081028.gz\n\nIt's too huge to se...
[ { "msg_contents": "Another small piece of parser acrobatics to become standard conforming.", "msg_date": "Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:07:49 +0200", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "CREATE TABLE AS WITH NO DATA" }, { "msg_contents": "Peter Eis...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current patch applies cleanly to cvs head. Single integrated patch with\nall features.\n\nNew Features\n* new parameter: trace_recovery_messages allows you to get detailed\nmessages for this patch using same mechanism as log_min_messages. \ne.g. you can set trace_recovery_messages = DEBUG4 to...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the recent open sourcing of Replicator, the team has been trying\nto come up with ways to ensure an open development process. In that\nlight we have decided to have our first release 1.9 meeting on\nFreenode. All people interested in participating in a discussion about\nthe upcoming Repl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is my first proposal of PITR performance improvement for\nPostgreSQL 8.4 development. This proposal includes readahead\nmechanism of data pages which will be read by redo() routines in the\nrecovery. This is especially effective in the recovery without full\npage write. Read...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking at a VACUUM's WAL records makes me think twice about the way we\nissue a VACUUM.\n\n1. First we scan the heap, issuing a HEAP2 clean record for every block\nthat needs cleaning.\n\n2. Then we scan the index, issuing WAL records as appropriate.\n\n3. Then we rescan the heap, issuing a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The one remaining issue I'd like to address in the new FSM \nimplementation is the fact that the FSM is currently not updated at all \nin WAL recovery. The old FSM wasn't updated on WAL recovery either, and \nwas in fact completely thrown away if the system wasn't shut down \ncleanly. The dif...
[ { "msg_contents": "This file is for add to pgsql-docs, is the translation of the FAQ_solaris.\n\nI have new things to add, specially for Open Solaris plattaform specifications.\nI can write a new FAQ or just concatenate to this the other features\nof OSolaris?\n\nReggards,\n\n-- \n Emanuel Calvo Franco\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy!\n\nIt was suggested to me that this proposed feature is interesting \nenough to be floated around for discussion.\nDon't get your hopes up, because the request is extremely simple:\n\nIt could be useful to have a command that returns the table definition \n(like pg_dump -st) from wit...
[ { "msg_contents": "I won't send the full logs here, if someone's interested in it - \nhere's tar.bz2 version:\nhttp://zlew.org/pg_regress.tar.bz2\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:29:32 +0000", "msg_from": "Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "cu...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch tries to implement regexp support in the usermaps\n(pg_ident.conf).\n\nThe use-case will be to do things like realm-based matches in\nkerberos/GSSAPI authentication (will require some further hacks on that\none to expose the realm name). For example you could have:\n\nkrb\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we require every process to map the shared memory region to the same \naddress, we don't need the MAKE_PTR/OFFSET code that was needed when that\nwas not the case. This patch makes shared memory pointers just like \nregular pointers.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI am trying to build the uuid-ossp contrib module for PostgreSQL 8.3.4.\nI am building on Solaris x86 with Sun Studio 12.\n\nI built the ossp-uuid version 1.6.2 libraries and installed them,\nhowever, whenever I attempt to build the contrib module I always end up\nwith the followin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am not sure, it's probably bug.\n\npostgres=# create function t1(smallint) returns smallint as $$select\n$1$$ language sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\npostgres=# create function t2(bigint) returns bigint as $$select $1$$\nlanguage sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\npostgres=# select t1(10);\nERROR: fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch contains code cleanup in htup.h nad bufpage.[ch]. This patch is \npart of pg upgrade project. Idea of this patch is to remove any direct access to \nPageHeader and HeapTupleHeader. I already sent more complex patch including \nmutli page version control last commitfest. This pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is my latest parallel restore patch. I think it's functionally \ncomplete for Unix.\n\nMany bugs have been fixed since the last patch, and the hardcoded \nlimitation to two table dependencies is removed. It seems fairly robust \nin my recent testing.\n\nRemaining to be done:\n\n. cod...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPlease find enclosed a WIP patch to add the ability for functions to\nsee the qualifiers of the query in which they're called. It's not\nworking just yet, and I'm not sure how best to get it working, but I'd\nlike to see this as part of 8.4, as SQL/MED is just way too ambitious\ngi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a table (accounts) with 600,000,000 rows. A heavy high-concurrent\nworkload that makes mostly updates on this table generates a lot of dead\ntuples in its run, which is expected due to MVCC.\nThe problem is that even though autovacuum is enabled, the autovacuum worker\ndoes n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm posting on hackers because I think that there is a problem in one\nof three places, and I'm not sure which:\n \n(1) The documentation needs clarification.\n(2) A LOG message needs clarification.\n(3) There is a bug in recovery. (unlikely)\n \nThis issue was previously posted here with...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere is a nice little feature within MSSQL where it is possible to\nenumerate all MSSQL servers on the local network. \nI wonder how this can be made possible with PG. Pinging every IP:PGPORT\nwithin the current subnet is one of the options but I guess that would be\njust a bad soluti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch submitters,\n\nPlease make sure your patches are on the November CommitFest wiki page, with \ncorrect and updated links.\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-11\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL\nSan Francisco\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:26:09 -0700", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "If I read this right, SQL would allow writing\n\nTABLE foo;\n\nas a top-level command, equivalent to SELECT * FROM foo; (see production \n<explicit table>). It can be used whereever a SELECT or VALUES can be used.\n\nThis is probably about as useless as some of my other recent patches, \nbut...
[ { "msg_contents": "GetAttributeByNum has first parameter as HeapTupleHeader, but most functions \nuse Datum and after that they call DatumGetHeapTupleHeader. The difference is \nthat DatumGetHeapTupleHeader performs detoast on tuple(row type).\n\nIs it intention do not detoast in these functions or it is a bug...
[ { "msg_contents": "Back in March, I played around with various hacks to improve COPY FROM \nperformance: \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00145.php\n\nI got busy with other stuff, but I now got around to try what I planned \nback then. I don't know if I have the time to finish this for ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sun Studio is producing these compiler warnings (among others):\n\n\"tsquery_op.c\", line 193: warning: syntax error: empty declaration \n\"tsquery_op.c\", line 194: warning: syntax error: empty declaration \n\"tsquery_op.c\", line 195: warning: syntax error: empty declaration \n\"tsquery_...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch requires patch: \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/490875FA.4020709@sun.com\n\nIt add t_ver information into HeapTuple structure and add DatumGetHeapTuple \nfunction which allows to reduce code on many places.\n\n\t\tZdenek\n\n\n-- \nZdenek Kotala Sun Microsys...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that we are going to bump Page Layout Version to version 5 (see CRC \npatch for detail). Maybe it is good time to do some other changes. There is a \nlist of ideas (please, do not beat me :-). Some of them we discussed in Prato \nand Greg maybe have more.\n\n1) HeapTupleHeader modifi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is an updated posix_fadvise patch against CVS HEAD. It's my first patch\ngenerated using git, yay. I remembered to strip out configure (WHY is that\nSTILL in CVS!?) and convert it to context diff, but if there's anything else\nI've missed just shout.\n\nChanges from before:\n\n1) Based o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please find attached my current patch for automatic view update rules. \nThis is a stripped down version of my former patch discussed before 8.3 \nwithout CHECK OPTION support and less invasive changes to the rewriter \nitself.\n\nI'm currently cleaning up the code with all occurences of mul...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following query:\nSELECT * FROM Customers_connxstore where customerid > 'specd'\n\nReturns the row containing Customers_connxstore.customerid == 'SPECD'\n\nI would expect to get that row if the query was:\nSELECT * FROM Customers_connxstore where customerid >= 'specd'\n\nThe other operato...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nin the spanish list someone reports that the following function\ndoesn't even compile:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION select_temporal(OUT valor integer) RETURNS SETOF record AS\n$BODY$\nbegin\nreturn query select 1::integer;\nreturn;\nend;\n$BODY$\nLANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;\n\nand this is the e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nAttached is a patch for a synchronous log-shipping replication which\nwas discussed just a month ago. I would like you to review this patch\nin Nov commit fest.\n\nThe outline of this patch is as follow;\n\n1) Walsender\n\nThis is new process to focus on sending xlog through the positio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is an implementation of distinct types, known from SQL99 and \nbeyond. They are like domains, except that they don't have defaults or \nconstraints and they do not allow implicit casting to their base type. \nThe latter aspect is what makes them distinct types. They are useful to \ncre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is an implementation of distinct types, known from SQL99 and\nbeyond. They are like domains, except that they don't have defaults or\nconstraints and they do not allow implicit casting to their base type.\nThe latter aspect is what makes them distinct types. They are useful to\ncreate ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed my work on the patch for commit fest.\n\n[Design Doc]\nhttp://umitanuki.net/pgsql/wfv08/design.html\n\n[Patch itself]\nhttp://umitanuki.net/pgsql/wfv08/window_functions.patch.20081031.gz\n\n[Git repository]\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/git/~davidfetter/window_functions/.git\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCurrently we enable archive_mode only at server start. The reason for\nthis was to protect against people enabling archive_mode half way\nthrough somebody else running a bulk load without WAL and then having an\nincomplete backup.\n\nAll we need to do is this:\n\n* When we change archive_mo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUnite ReadBufferWithFork, ReadBufferWithStrategy, and ZeroOrReadBuffer\nfunctions into one ReadBufferExtended function, that takes the strategy\nand mode as argument. There's three modes, RBM_NORMAL which is the default\nused by plain ReadBuffer(), RBM_ZERO, which r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nMy old personal mail server is on its last legs. I'm migrating to a\nnew mail server (running Archiveopteryx, yaaay) this weekend. However,\nthat will mean interruptions in mail sent to josh@agliodbs.com, and may\neven result in my getting kicked off some lists.\n\nIf you need to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n I am having a project in Postgres where I had modified code in\ngram.y...I have added new command along with grammer and returning\nlist of parse nodes as opposed to single node inside actions\nblock....I want to process each of them in postgres.c file...But, I\ncouldn't find any d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, the result of ExecutorRun is typically NULL, but if it's\nexecuting a SELECT and you pass a limiting count and the SELECT stops\nearly because of that limit, then you get back a TupleTableSlot\ncontaining the last tuple processed.\n\nThis is pretty ugly.\n\nThere is only one call s...
[ { "msg_contents": "We'd like to improve usefulness of a new multicolumn feature of GIN index ( \nalready in CVS HEAD ), which is currently a bit limited because of lack of GIN \nsupport for most data types. For example, it'd be very useful to combine native \nGIN-supported data types, like text search, hstore,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAllow SQL-language functions to return the output of an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE\nRETURNING clause, not just a SELECT as formerly.\n\nA side effect of this patch is that when a set-returning SQL function is used\nin a FROM clause, performance is improved because the out...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all In-place upgrade fans,\n\nDavid Fetter (thanks) configured Git repository for me and I put all patches \ninto it. Currently you can start play (of course not on production database :-).\n\nCurrent version of in-place upgrade supports only select with \"small\" limitation \n - indexsc...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is really first patch which is not clean up, but it add in-place upgrade \nfunctionality. The patch requires other clean up patches which I already send. \nYou can find aslo GIT repository with \"workable\" version.\n\nMain point is that tuples are converted to latest version in SeqScan ...
[ { "msg_contents": "attached is a patch which enables plpython to recognize function with\nmultiple OUT params as returning a record\n\n\npy=# create or replace function addsub( in i1 int, in i2 int, \npy=# out o1 int, out o2 int) as \npy=# $$\npy$# return i1 + i2, i1-i2\npy$# $$ language plpythonu;\nCREATE F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hot Standby patch, including all major planned features.\n\nAllows users to connect to server in archive recovery and run queries.\n\nApplies cleanly, passes make check.\n\nThere's no flaky code, kludges or other last minute rush-for-deadline\nstuff. \"It all works\", though really for a patc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nUnofficially, well done to everybody that submitted patches in time for\nCommit Fest. The queue has grown significantly over last few days and\nit's clear many people have been working very hard right up to the\ndeadline. \n\nDepending upon how you count it there are around 5 multi-month me...
[ { "msg_contents": "I finally have a working version. Please have a look at the attached files\nincluding a changed version of gram.y and and automatically created version of\npreproc.y. To recreate just run \"awk -f parse.awk < gram.y > preproc.y\".\n\nIs it okay to change gram.y this way? It does run the regre...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nThis is my first patch review for PostgreSQL. I did submit a patch last\ncommit fest (Boyer-Moore) so I feel I should review one this commit fest.\nI'm quite new to PostgreSQL so please don't rely on me totally. I'll do my\nbest. Heikki is also reviewing this patch which makes me feel...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of the long-terms goals I'm working toward is wrapping a \"wizard\" \ninterface around the tuning guidelines described by \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server now that \nthose have gone through a fair amount of peer review. Attached is a first \nsimple version ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nthere is a chinese parser for tsearch2 available from \nhttp://code.google.com/p/nlpbamboo/wiki/TSearch2 under BSD license.\n\nIt'd be nice to have it for chinese text search configuration we are currently\ncompletely missing, as well as for japanese language ( any guess ?)\n\nUn...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nAttached is an initial patch I've been playing with which uses Bloom\nfilters to reduce unnecessary processing of outer tuples in hash\njoins. In short, this works by creating a Bloom filter, adding all\nrelevant tuples for the inner relation, and querying the filter (for\nexistence)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Trying out a few different scenarios I ran across this:\n\n1/ Setup master and replica with replica using pg_standby\n2/ Create a new database (\"bench\" in my case)\n3/ Initialize pgbench schema size 100\n4/ Run with 2 clients and 10000 transactions\n5/ Replica gets assertion failure\n\nThis...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-11\ncurrently says that it's closed to new submissions, but this isn't\nparticularly helpful when the link it gives for where to submit them\npoints right back to itself. So, where should we make CommitFestOpen\nredirect to?\n\nThe problem I'm ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I met a problem with parsing Datum,\nis there any good way to parse this\nkind of value? Because I want to get\nthe value in an attribute of a table.\nIn TupleTableSlot, there is a tts_values\nwhich is Datum type. Does anyone know how\nto parse it?\n\nBest Regards,\nZhe HE\nTEL: (001) 646-789...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nBrendan Jurd submitted a patch to add a pg_typeof() builtin function:\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-09/msg00029.php\n\nI've reviewed the patch and it looks fine. An updated version is\nattached, having made these changes:\n\n1) Rebased to current CVS head\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a stored procedure and I need a SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE lock in \nthis procedure (otherwise data will get corrupted).\n\nAccording to the documentation the LOCK statement is useless and will \nsilently fail if not executed inside a transaction. (btw: this sounds \ndangerous to me...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am testing PostgreSQL on Federa 10. There is Perl 5.10. After\nsuccessful compilation I got error\n\nCREATE LANGUAGE plperl;\nERROR: could not oad library \"/........plperl.so\": ... undefined\nsymbol: boot_DynaLoader\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 3 Nov 2008 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWith the new request-based pgstat reading mechanism, it is easy to fix\nan autovacuum \"bug\". Basically for an autovac worker the delay is\nreduced, so that the data is very fresh. Patch attached.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nT...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all, I'm new in list\n\nI have seen this on the todo list GRANT/REVOKE\n\n\" Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects\nwith one command The proposed syntax is: GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN\npublic TO phpuser; GRANT SELECT ON NEW TABLES IN public TO phpuser; \"\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wonder if pg_typeof() should be marked stable instead of immutable?\nIts results certainly depend on the contents of system catalogs ...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:38:28 -0500", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>", "msg_from_op": true,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI met some problem with get date type value\nfrom a table. I have a Datum which stores this\nvalue as an integer and I want to get its date\nvalue. Is there anyway that I can print it out?\n\nBest Regards,\nZhe HE\nTEL: (001) 646-789-3008\nAddress:965 Amsterdam Avenue,\nNew York, NY 1002...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIs there any way to print out the stack trace of the current location?\n\nI am looking for something like print_stack_trace(); that I can insert in\narbitrary location in the code.\n\nThank you,\n\nRegards,\n\nBramandia R.\n\nHi all,Is there any way to print out the stack trace of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While doing some tests yesterday I ran into the situation where the \nstandby database would appear to go back into 'warm' mode after it was \nrestarted. The set of steps to reproduce the behaviour is:\n\n1/ Setup master and replica with replica using pg_standby\n2/ Initialize pgbench schema ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Another corner case:\n\n1/ Setup master and replica with replica using pg_standby\n2/ Create a new database (I used 'bench')\n3/ Initialize the pgbench schema of size 100 in 'bench' (just to ensure \nthe logs with the db creation get archived)\n3/ Attempt to connect to 'bench' on the replica\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFirst to introduce myself, I am working in Sun Cluster engineering and I \nam responsible for the integration (the agent) between PostgreSQL and \nSun Cluster. The PostgreSQL agent provides a feature which uses WAL file \nshipping and pg_standby as a replacement for shared storage.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nTo be reviewed easily, I'm splitting Synch Rep patch into some pieces.\nAttached is a patch of signal handling changes for Synch Rep.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-09/msg00950.php\n\nThough I've posted the WIP patch previously, this is a finished one.\nPlease fee...