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[ { "msg_contents": "When i was performancing gmake, i got a error message. The attachment is the detail, i have no ideas about it. Hope someone' help\n\n                                          Thanks", "msg_date": "Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:06:44 -0800 (PST)", "msg_from": "Unicron <ssmei_2000@yahoo.com>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe comment WRT WAL recovery and FS journals [1] is a bit misleading in\nit's current form.\n\nFirst, none of the general purpose filesystems I've seen so far do data\njournalling per default, since it's a huge performance penalty, even for\nnon-RDBMS workloads. The feature you talk ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "The proximate cause of this complaint:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-12/msg00283.php\nseems to be that the polymorphic-type code doesn't consider a domain\nover an enum type to match an ANYENUM function argument.\n\nISTM this is probably wrong: we need such a domain to ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking at the signal handling part of the synchronous \nreplication patch. It looks OK, but one thing makes me worry.\n\nTo set or clear the flag from PGPROC, to send or handle a signal, we \nhave to acquire ProcArrayLock. Is that safe to do in a signal handler? \nAnd is the perfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "This came up on irc:\n\npostgres=# show lc_ctype;\n lc_ctype \n-------------\n fr_FR.UTF-8\n\npostgres=# show server_encoding;\n server_encoding \n-----------------\n UTF8\n(1 row)\n\npostgres=# select E'\\303\\201' ILIKE E'\\303\\241';\n ?column? \n----------\n t\n(1 row)\n\npostgres=# s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't testsed, but it looks to me that the recovery.conf reading \npatch doesn't work in EXEC_BACKEND mode (= Windows). You'll need to add \nrecoveryRestoreCommand to save/read_backend_parameters in postmaster.c.\n\n-- \n Heikki Linnakangas\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "In walsender, in the main loop that waits for backend requests to send \nWAL, there's this comment:\n\n> + \t\t/*\n> + \t\t * Nap for the configured time or until a request arrives.\n> + \t\t *\n> + \t\t * On some platforms, signals won't interrupt the sleep. To ensure we\n> + \t\t * respond...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI did small tests and I found so for small tables (less 1000 rows)\nVACUUM based on visibility maps are slower than old implementation\n\nit is about 5ms X 20ms\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:31:38 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Pavel Stehule\" <pavel....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI've been bit by this about a million times:\n\nselect (func()).* executes the function once per each field in the\nreturned tuple. See the example below:\n\ncreate function foo_func() returns foo as\n$$\n declare f foo;\n begin\n raise notice '!';\n return f;\n end;\n$$ l...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, after quite some trying I have hit a brick wall. I have been unable \nto get parallel restore to work with Windows threading. No doubt I am \nmissing something, but I really don't know what. Unless someone can tell \nme what I am doing wrong, I have these possibilities:\n\n * run paral...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI saw a report at .br mailing list [1] complaining about the message's title.\nI do not try to investigate it. Am I missing something?\n\neuler=# select attname from pg_attribute where attnum > 0 and attnum <>\nALL(select conkey from pg_constraint where conrelid = attrelid and contype...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's an update to eliminate two small bitrot conflicts.\n\n\n\n\n\n-- \n Gregory Stark\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services!", "msg_date": "Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:57:38 +0000", "msg_from": "Gregory Stark <stark@enterpri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch replaces the SSL BIO wrapper code we have now, with one\nthat directly calls the send() and recv() functions instead. THis means\nthat they get passed through the rewrite macros to our internal\nfunctions on Win32, and I think this will fix some of the strange errors\nthat seem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following a failed BIOS flash on one of our machines, the Windows\nbuildfarm members Mastodon, Baiji, Narwahl and Vaquita are offline.\nThe box is under warranty, so I hope to have it fixed within a few\ndays (timing being largely dependent upon persuading an engineer to\nvisit at the same ti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm writing my bachelor thesis and I can't find anywhere what exactly means\nthe third parameter in ScanKeyword in pgsql/src/backend/parser/keywords.c -\nspecificly UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, RESERVED_KEYWORD, TYPE_FUNC_NAME_KEYWORD,\nCOL_NAME_KEYWORD. Could someone explain it to me? Thank...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Postgres Folk,\n\nIn working with tsvectors (added in 8.3), I've come to a place where \nmy syntax-fu has failed me. I've resorted to turning a result set of \nrecords into strings so that I can regexp out the record fields I \nneed, rather than access them directly, as I'm sure it's...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello all,\n\nFOSDEM 2009 will take place february 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.\nWe want to continue the great success from last year and again we have\na booth, and a devroom together with the BSD groups.\n\nPlease submit your talk(s) to fosdem@postgresql.eu until 2009-01-02,\ninclude th...
[ { "msg_contents": "i have a view of code, and find a question.There is a variable named 'bloom_pruning\" set to be\n'false' outside function 'bloom_filter_init' in file 'bloomfn.c', and there is a stataments \nif (bloom_pruning == false)\n   return;\nat begin of the function \"bloom_filter_init\".\n\nAnd i don'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nHere is the SQL to reproduce the server crash:\n\n\nCREATE SCHEMA bug1 AUTHORIZATION postgres;\n\nSET search_path = bug1, pg_catalog;\n\nCREATE FUNCTION bug1.domain_check (integer) RETURNS boolean\nAS\n$body$\nSELECT $1 <> 0\n$body$\nLANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT;\n\nCREATE DOMAIN b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI enconterd build failure in mingw.\nDo we need a rule for win32ver.rc in pgevent/Makefile ?\n\n----\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/d/projects/head/src/bin/pgevent'\nmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `win32ver.rc', needed by `pgmsgevent.o'. Stop.\nmake[3]: Leaving directory `/d/p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nTestcase: (8.4 CVS head)\n====================\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(y int)\nRETURNS INTEGER AS $$\n select 100;\n$$ language sql;\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(y int, x integer DEFAULT 100)\nRETURNS INTEGER AS $$\n select 200;\n$$ language sql;\n\nselect my...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAppend major version number and for libraries soname major version number\nto the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.\n\nAlso, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that is what\nit does.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am developing a backend module for postgresql. For some queries,\npostgresql crashes: segmentation fault (most probably due to my own code).\nHow to get the function name & line number where it crashes?\n\nisophoqote\n\nHi,\n \nI am developing a backend module for postgresql. For som...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, Pgsql-hackers.\n\nWe would like to obtain your opinion on these two questions:\n\n\n1) We wanna append possibilities into Postgres engine, and wanna get top estimation for\nsize of code, cost and time of implementation.\n1.1) We divide possibilities to elementary features, find analogues ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, Pgsql-hackers.\n\nWe would like to obtain your opinion on these two questions:\n\n\n1) We wanna append possibilities into Postgres engine, and wanna get top estimation for\nsize of code, cost and time of implementation.\n1.1) We divide possibilities to elementary features, find analogues ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Our code contains about 200 copies of the following code:\n\ntuple = SearchSysCache[Copy](FOOOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(fooid), 0, 0, 0);\nif (!HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))\n elog(ERROR, \"cache lookup failed for foo %u\", fooid);\n\nThis only counts elog() calls, not user-facing error messages \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following plpgsql function errors out with cvs head:\n\nCREATE function test_assign() returns void\nAS\n$$ declare x int;\nBEGIN\nx := 9E3/2;\nEND\n$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';\n\npostgres=# select test_assign();\nERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: \"4500.0000000000000000\"\nCONTEXT: PL...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'll send another path with at least 1 and 3 fixed and hunt around \nagain for a header file to put this guc into.\n\nOn 10 Dec 2008, at 04:22, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp \n > wrote:\n\n> Hello,\n>\n> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:\n>> Here's an update to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAs per title, what is the lifetime of the virtual tuple TupleTableSlot*\nreturned by ExecProcNode?\n\nAny help would be appreciated.\n\nRegards,\n\nBramandia R.\n\nHello,As per title, what is the lifetime of the virtual tuple TupleTableSlot* returned by ExecProcNode?Any help would b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis patch carry support for named and mixed notation - more detailed\ndescribed at http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-08-03.html.\n\nThis use ADA syntax - name => value, that is conntroversal and\nproblematic - so I expect change of syntax.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I attached patch which add capability to reserve space on page for future \nupgrade. It is mandatory for future in-place upgrade implementation. This patch \ncontains basic infrastructure not preupgrade script itself. I'm going to send \nWIP preupgrade script today in separate mail.\n\nThis p...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current proposed patch allocates the following psql \\d commands:\n\n\\dw\tshow foreign-data wrappers\n\\dr\tshow foreign servers\n\\dm\tshow user mappings\n\nOne might object that this allocates valuable letters for infrequently \nused functionality.\n\nIn an idle second I thought, how a...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my gripe/suggestion here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00642.php\n\nI noted that it might be nice to handle check constraints over\ncomposite types. It turns out that table check constraints are not\nenforced during casts:\n\npostgres=# create table foo(f1 int,...
[ { "msg_contents": "In connection with fixing\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00620.php\nI decided to insert \"Assert(ActiveSnapshotSet())\" into pg_plan_query,\nsince any path reaching that function should already have provided\na snapshot. I was bemused to find that this resulted in a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Help! \nI'm trying to use array_to_string on the pg_stats column \nhistogram_bounds...\n\ntest83=# select array_to_string(histogram_bounds::anyarray, '-') from \npg_stats where attname = 'id' and tablename = 'widgets';\nERROR: argument declared \"anyarray\" is not an array but type anyarray\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I started making the changes to increase the default and maximum stats\ntargets 10X, as I believe was agreed to in this thread:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00386.php\n\nI came across this bit in ts_typanalyze.c:\n\n\t/* We want statistic_target * 100 lexemes in th...
[ { "msg_contents": "It appears that the visibility map patch is causing pg_class.reltuples to be\nset improperly after a vacuum. For example, it is set to 0 if the map\nindicated that no pages in the heap needed to be scanned.\n\nPerhaps reltuples should not be updated unless every page was scanned during\nthe v...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!. I'm using PgBouncer with permanent connection, So, when i\ndeleting(or editing?) some functions i have an error\nERROR: cache lookup failed for function ......;\nCan you make recaching of invalidate functions?\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:28:32 +0300", "msg_from": "\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nUpper(), lower() or initcap() function truncates the result\nunder Japanese Windows with e.g. the server encoding=UTF-8\nand the LC_CTYPE setting Japanese_japan.932 .\n\nBelow is an example.\n\n$ psql\npsql (8.4devel)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\ninoue=# \\encoding sjis\n\ninoue=# show ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI've been trying to extract some information about referencing tables \nfrom information_schema, and discovering that it isn't there.\n\nFor example, take the following FK, from table Errors to table Files:\n\n CONSTRAINT errors_file_fkey FOREIGN KEY (file)\n REFERENCES file...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following commit:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-12/msg00109.php\n\nbreaks several farms. Is it know issue? I run test manually and it works.\n\n\t\tZdenek\n\nDetails:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gothic_moth&dt=2008-12-14%2021:06:00\n\n=======...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nFollowing test returns error on 8.4 cvs head. it looks like an issue\n\nTestcase: (8.4 CVS head)\n====================\n CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f007( a INTEGER,\n b INTEGER DEFAULT 10 ) RETURNS INTEGER\n AS $$\n select 10;\n $$ language sql;\n\n CREATE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, pgsql-hackers:\n\n\tI want to debug one function in postgre backend. \n\n for example, I want to debug the following function :\n\narray_set(ArrayType *array,\n\t\t int nSubscripts,\n\t\t int *indx,\n\t\t Datum dataValue,\n\t\t bool isNull,\n\t\t int arraytyplen,\n\t\t int elm...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch contains a couple of fixes in the existing probes and \nincludes a few new ones.\n\n- Fixed compilation errors on OS X for probes that use typedefs\n- Fixed a number of probes to pass ForkNumber per the relation forks patch\n- The new probes are those that were taken out fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni'm seeing a fail in the rules regression, seems like it is not\nordering the results right even when the regression has an explicit\norder by...\n\ni'm in a mingw32 5.1 on xp sp2 using msys 1.0.10 and gcc 3.4.2\n\nattached the regression.diffs\nplease make me know if i can provide mor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI ran into this problem recently:\n\nhttps://projects.commandprompt.com/public/replicator/pastebin?show=f1288d4d8%0D\n\nOf the functions the only one that will use constraint_exclusion is the\none that explicitly passes the date value. I kind of get why except for\nthe one that uses...
[ { "msg_contents": "Forgive me if this is clear to everyone else, but regarding the new\nreplication options in 8.4:\n \nWill existing PITR backup techniques work without modification?\n \nWill existing techniques for warm standby with a custom script (not\nusing pg_standby) work without modification?\n \nWe wil...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'd like to clarify the coding TODO of Synch Rep for 8.4. If indispensable\nTODO item is not listed, please feel free to let me know.\n\n1. replication_timeout_action (GUC)\n\nThis is new GUC to specify the reaction to replication_timeout. In the\nlatest patch, the user cannot configur...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi....\n This is srujan and I am beginner of postgresql 8.1 and I have\njust stopped using mysql and i would like to use the dump (.sql file)\ncreated in it. I would like transfer the databases in my sql to postgresql\n8.1. Please do reply. I am waiting for it.\nThanks in Advance...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found a strange behavior on the recent v8.4devel with/without\nSE-PostgreSQL patch set. Can you reproduce the following behavior?\n\nWhen I use UPDATE statement with RETURNING clause which contains\nreferences to \"tableoid\" system column, it returns InvalidOid.\n(The correct valus is 1638...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear friends,\nI am trying to import db from oracle to pgsql,\n\nmeanwhile facing a difficulty during importing oracle numeric(38) to pgsql\nnumeric(38) column, Because in oracle that column is unique, but PGsql not\nable to correctly identify different and unique values with numeric(38)\nfie...
[ { "msg_contents": "Consider\n\ncreate function foo(f1 int, f2 int = 42, f2 int = 43) ...\ncreate view v1 as select foo(11);\n\nIn CVS HEAD this gives\n\nregression=# \\d v1\n View \"public.v1\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \n--------+---------+-----------\n foo | integer | \nView definition:\n SELECT...
[ { "msg_contents": "I saw on a summary for 8.4 that there's a generic function for use as a \nbefore row trigger that will elide null updates (ie replacement with an \nidentical row).\n\nI can see that this is great - but I was wondering if it should be more \nintegrated and turned on in the db schema.\n\nTrivia...
[ { "msg_contents": "I attached contrib module which is base of preupgrade script. It should be part \nof 8.4, but it will be required for 8.4->8.5 upgrade.\n\nThis part contains space reservation for heap/toast relations. The idea is that \nrelation is read and each block is checked if there is enough free space...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI just saw that this new patch was not considered because the previous \nversion ended being rejected.\nNote that this version of the patch aims at supporting ONLY temp tables \nthat are created AND dropped in the same transaction. We need to be able \nto use temp tables in transac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oh, and another thing --- should variadic parameters be defaultable?\nThe current patch doesn't allow it but it looks more like an oversight\nthan anything that was thought through. The boundary case for variadic\nparameters is a bit weird already:\n\nregression=# create function fv (f1 int,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI just saw that this new patch was not considered because the previous \nversion ended being rejected.\nNote that this version of the patch aims at supporting ONLY temp tables \nthat are created AND dropped in the same transaction. We need to be able \nto use temp tables in transac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have put a first draft of the wiki page dedicated to the table \npartitioning development at \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning\n\nThe page is still incomplete and need much more work but it should be a \ngood starting point for discussions and a way to move for...
[ { "msg_contents": "The way VACUUM works with the visibility map is that if any pages are \nskipped, relfrozenxid can't be updated. That means that plain VACUUM \nwon't advance relfrozenxid, and doesn't protect from XID wraparound.\n\nWe discussed this in the context of autovacuum before, and we have that \ncove...
[ { "msg_contents": "So to summarize what I think we agreed to yesterday:\n\n* CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION has to prevent reducing the pronargdefaults\nvalue of an existing function (ie, you can add more defaults but not\nremove any). This ensures a function that matched a given call before\nwill continue to do s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've had a private report of these error messages in a test of Hot\nStandby, but IMHO these aren't related to that patch. It seems more\nlikely to be related to the new VACUUM code? Certainly hot standby does\nnothing to the normal flow of existing WAL records.\n\nLOG: database system was in...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby\n\nnow contains a link to latest version of this patch. This is still at\n\"v5\", just brought forward to CVS HEAD.\n\nI will be doing further work on the patch from here and will reply to\nthis post each time I submit a new version.\n\n-- \n Simon ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently SIGINT is ignored during <IDLE> in transaction, but we have\nrecently agreed to allow this to cancel the transaction. We said we\nwould do this in all cases, so this is a separate feature/patch (though\nHot Standby requires it).\n\nA simple change allows the transaction to be cancel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Teodor Sigaev,\n\nI am getting server crash in contrib regression. May be I am doing something\nwrong here. Regression diff is attached.\n\nBTW these queries work fine outside the regression.\n\n\n-- \n Ibrar Ahmed\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com", "msg_date": "Wed, 17 D...
[ { "msg_contents": "Latest version of rmgr hooks patch for later review in current\ncommitfest.\n\n(Minor update to CVS HEAD).\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com\n PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support", "msg_date": "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:24:00 +0000", "msg_from": "Simon Riggs <simon@2n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone ever managed to get uuid generation working on FreeBSD?\nThere seems to be no way to build contrib/uuid-ossp successfully,\nand no apparent agreement anywhere as to whether this is problem\nwith pg or with the misc/ossp-uuid port.\n\n(I tried this, without success, a couple of week...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hot Standby won't work with hash indexes because they are\nnon-recoverable.\n\nWe have a number of ways of dealing with this:\n\n1. Workaround: Implement WAL for hash indexes\n\n2. Specific Solution: make hashcostestimate() massively increase cost of\nscans during recovery so that they will v...
[ { "msg_contents": "I created a function for testing the patch, but when i run following command, the function always raise an exception \n\nselect test_in_params('first');\nERROR:  plpython: function \"test_in_params\" failed\nDETAIL:  exceptions.NameError: global name 'first' is not defined\n\nhere is the scri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nFollowing INSERT..SELECT with GENERATE_SERIES for bulk insertion returns\nerror on 8.4 cvs head. It looks like an issue.\n\nTested on : *8.4 CVS Head*\n\nCREATE TABLE t1 ( x int, y char(4));\nINSERT INTO t1 VALUES ( 1, 'edb');\nINSERT INTO t1 SELECT 10 + GENERATE_SERIES(50,60)...
[ { "msg_contents": "create table a(a int not null);\ninsert into a(a) select generate_series(1,6000000);\ncreate table b as select * from a where a%10 <> 0;\ncreate index fooa on a(a);\nalter table b alter column a set not null;\ncreate index foob on b(a);\n\nvacuum analyze verbose;\n\n\ngj=# explain select a.a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whenever a B-tree index scan fetches a heap tuple that turns out to be \ndead, the B-tree item is marked as killed by calling _bt_killitems. When \nthe page gets full, all the killed items are removed by calling \n_bt_vacuum_one_page.\n\nThat's a problem for hot standby. If any of the killed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nSQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities\n\nThis doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules\nlike plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for\nmanaging their connection information.\n\nMartin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut\n\nMo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere's a patch for improving the general reloptions mechanism. What\nthis patch does is add a table-based option parser. This allows adding\nnew options very easily, and stops the business of having to pass the\nminimum and default fillfactor each time you want the reloptions\nproces...
[ { "msg_contents": "I happened across this page:\n \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_(database_systems)\n \nI was all set to be righteously indignant over the slander of\nPostgreSQL, but figured I should check the SQL standard to be sure of\nmy ground. The only version of the standard I have available ri...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking at the window-functions patch and wondering just what kind\nof trouble we'll get into if we leave its new plan node type named just\n\"Window\". I've already confirmed that this is a direct conflict against\na typedef in <X11/X.h>, and I'd be not the least bit surprised if it's\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nDon't use OidIsValid to check the return value of transformGenericOptions,\nbecause transformGenericOptions returns an array, not an Oid. I'm not\nsure if this fixes the crashes seen in buildfarm, but it should be fixed\nanyway.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter wrote:\n> SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities\n> \n> This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules\n> like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for\n> managing their connection information.\n\nIt seems this is a pile of pretty useless c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently setting \"log_error_verbosity = terse\" causes all HINT output\nto the log file to be suppressed (along with some other stuff).\n\nI propose that this behaviour be changed such that 'terse' is ignored\nfor all log messages of FATAL or PANIC severity.\n\nThe main reason for this is m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now we don't allow setting reloptions to toast tables:\n\n=# alter table pg_toast.pg_toast_16395 set (fillfactor = 40);\nERROR: \"pg_toast_16395\" is not a table or index\n\nHowever this is needed for autovacuum, per previous discussion.\n\nI'm wondering if I should just allow all relo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nthe march 2008 commitfest added a patch[1] with extended information for\n\\l+. The may 2008 commitfest added a patch[2] which reformats the\npermission output in \\z. I like the new output in \\z, but the \\l+\noutput is still missing this feature. The attached patch solves this\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\njust out of curiosity, why TRUNCATE doesn't support ONLY?\n\naudit=# TRUNCATE only postgres_log;\nERROR: syntax error at or near \"only\"\nLINE 1: TRUNCATE only postgres_log;\n\n-- \nAtentamente,\nJaime Casanova\nSoporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL\nAsesoría y desarrollo de sistemas\...
[ { "msg_contents": "The window functions patch defines some API functions and macros for\nwindow functions. These are currently defined in executor/nodeWindow.h,\nbut that seems to me like a fairly inappropriate location. The executor\nmain body, which would be the normal consumer of that include file, has\nno...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey folks,\n\nIt doesn't stop to bug me, that postgres will return 0 number of \naffected rows, if table is triggered.\nNow, question is - is this fixable, but no one cares, or is it some \nsort of a design/implementation flaw and we just have to live with it.\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 22...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm wondering if following behavior of PostgreSQL regarding lock\nconflict is an expected one. Here's a scenario:\n\nSession A:\n\tBEGIN;\n\tSELECT * FROM pg_class limit 1; -- acquires access share lock\n\nSession B:\n\tBEGIN;\n\tALTER TABLE pg_class ....;\t-- waits for acquiring acce...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have cleaned up a couple of badly broken encodings in cvs commit\nmessages in:\n\nsrc/backend/utils/error/Attic/exc.c,v\n\n\nper discussion with Alvaro, by simply editing the RCS file directly in\nthe cvs repository. Only the commit message was changed (broken\ncharacter removed)\n\nShould ...
[ { "msg_contents": "After a couple of hours reading the SQL:2008 spec, I've come to some\nconclusions about the semantics that are demanded for window functions.\nAnyone want to to check my work?\n\n* If window functions are used together with aggregates or grouping,\nthe grouping and regular aggregation happens...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I've understood limitations of the PostgreSQL implementation of\nSERIALIZABLE transactions, at least the only example given in the\ndocumentation, revolve around a rather unlikely situation:\n \nGiven concurrent transactions T1 and T2 and non-overlapping sets of\ndata A and B, T1 reads dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL developers,\n\nI am re-sending this to keep this last change to the\ninternal hash function on the radar.\n\nKen\n............\nSorry about the delay for this update to the new hash\nindex implementation. I was trying to get the WAL logging\nin place and forgot to post the act...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCleaning up the parallel restore patch I came across a question I might \nhave asked before, but one which in any case I worked around:\n\nWhy do we carefully define fseeko() for WIN32 but then not define \nHAVE_FSEEKO, which makes doing the former pretty much pointless?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew...
[ { "msg_contents": "As the patch stands, whenever XLOG segment is switched in XLogInsert, we \nwait for the segment to be sent to the standby server. That's not good. \nParticularly in asynchronous mode, you'd expect the standby to not have \nany significant ill effect on the master. But in case of a flaky netwo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The protocol between primary and standby haven't been discussed or \ndocumented in detail.\n\nI don't think it's enough to just stream WAL as it's generated, so \nhere's my proposal. Messages marked with \"(later)\" are for features that \nhave been discussed, but no one is implementing for 8...
[ { "msg_contents": "The window functions patch is laboring under the delusion that it can\ncall an aggregate's final function and then go back to invoking the\ntransfn some more on the same data. This is merest fantasy :-(\n\nregression=# select array_agg(q1) over(order by q1) from int8_tbl;\nserver closed the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSome people want to disable xlog archiving only during synchronous\nreplication. So, first, I created and attached the self-contained patch\nto control xlog archiving dynamically. Since it would still take time to\nfix whole patch of synch rep, and opening it at a time would burden\nre...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is an idea to improve the implementation of SE-PostgreSQL.\nI need a copied relkind in pg_attribute, to help its decision\nmaking.\n\nWhen we access on pg_attribute via ALTER TABLE or DML statement\ndirectly, SE-PostgreSQL checks privilleges for the fetched tuples.\nIf the relation pointed...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>> Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@frogthinker.org> 12/22/08 11:42 PM >>>\n> If you want to know how to build SERIALIZABLE with a database that \n> provides SI (Snapshot Isolation), read \n> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1376616.137669\n \nThe link didn't seem to work for me, but I think I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "WITH RECURSIVE tree(b, l, lv) AS\n (\n (\n WITH RECURSIVE t(b, l) AS\n (\n select b/11.6, 0 AS l from (select \ngenerate_series(0,30)::float8 b union all select generate_series(30,0, \n-1)::float8 b) ziew\n UNION ALL\n select (b*1.06), l+1 FROM t WHERE l < 3\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni'm getting this error when triyng to build the hot standby (v5 from\n20081218 obtained in the wiki) on mingw\n\nmake[4]: Entering directory `/home/Administrador/pgsql/src/backend/access/heap'\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\n-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-la...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found include/storage/itempos.h is not included from any sources.\nWhat is it for? Should we remove it from the source tree?\n\n----\nstruct ItemSubpositionData\ntypedef ItemSubpositionData *ItemSubposition;\n----\n\nRegards,\n---\nITAGAKI Takahiro\nNTT Open Source Software Center\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Any plans to enable the extra parameter string for notifies? Apparently, it was \nseriously considered as it is a member of PGnotify and has a reserved spot in \nthe 'A' command sent by the backend.\n\n-- \nAndrew Chernow\neSilo, LLC\nevery bit counts\nhttp://www.esilo.com/\n", "msg_date...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is the V3 of PITR performance improvement (readahead). The\nchange of the code is as follows:\n\n1) Now readahead is integrated into the core so that it can deal with\nsync.rep's log shipping.\n2) posix_fadvise() call was integrated with Greg Stark's patch.\n\nStill need some more work...