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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been trying a gcc 4.4 snapshot (20081213) on buildfarm member\npanda. It gets a abort during the pl-install-check part.\n\nHere is the backtrace:\nCore was generated by `postgres: build-farm pl_regression [local] SELECT '.\nProgram terminated with signal 6, Aborted.\n[New process... |
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"msg_contents": "According to SQL2008 section 7.11 <window clause>, general rule 5, the\ndefault definition of window framing in a window that has an ordering\nclause but no framing (RANGE/ROWS) clause is that the window frame for\na given row R runs from the first row of its partition through the last\npeer ... |
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"msg_contents": "The last bit of performance-related hacking that seems to be needed in\nthe window functions patch is to fix things so that we can trim old\nrows from the underlying tuplestore when they're no longer needed.\nIn particular I think it's critical to be able to do this for the\nsimple cases of l... |
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"msg_contents": "The help text for the pg_restore --clean option in the documentation is IMHO more precise than the\ntext that the pg_restore binary gives:\n\ndocumentation:\n -c\n --clean\n Clean (drop) database objects before recreating them.\n\npg_restore binary:\n -c, --clean clean (drop) schema pri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAttached is the self-contained patch to skip checkpoint at pg_start_backup.\nThis is a part of Synch Rep patches, and was discussed in the following\nthread.\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/3f0b79eb0812240710j7e613f3atfd6b6fc27403546e@mail.gmail.com\n\nIn Synch Rep, we basic... |
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"msg_contents": "The core window-functions patch is now committed and ready for wider\ntesting. However, there are a number of unfinished items, at least\nsome of which I'd like to see addressed before 8.4 release. In rough\norder of importance:\n\n* Support creation of user-defined window functions. I thi... |
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"msg_contents": "It hadn't occurred to me to try the ecpg tests before committing the\nwindow functions patch :-(. It looks like those grammar additions have\nresulted in whitespace changes in a lot of the test outputs. Would you\nconfirm that there's nothing seriously wrong and update the output\nfiles?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI think I've got a nice TODO item for psql client:\n\nWhen a client connects to a database which has unknown (newer)\nversion it might be advisable to 'fallback' some commands to use\nINFORMATION_SCHEMA instead of system catalogs.\n\n\nFor instance when connected to 8.4dev server using... |
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"msg_contents": "Section 7.2.4 of the docs, third paragraph, currently reads:\n\n> Currently, use of window functions always forces sorting, and so the query output will be ordered according to one or another of the window functions' PARTITION BY/ORDER\n> BY clauses. It is not recommendable to rely on this, h... |
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"msg_contents": "I had originally sent this mail in April, but it appears to have been blocked \nbecause the attachment was too large.\n\nWhile we are in the process of dealing with CVS-Git conversion, we should also \napply this fixup to make the CVS repository more sane.\n\nCould someone with write access t... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is the latest parallel restore patch. I think this is getting \nfairly close.\n\nIncludes help text, docco and some extra error checking.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew",
"msg_date": "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:42:00 -0500",
"msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>",
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"msg_contents": "I'm still casting about to make sure I have my head around the issues\nadequately to suggest a documentation update. Here's my current\nunderstanding.\n \nThe below is intended to help define the nature and scope of the\nissue, not be the sort of text that belongs in user documentation.\n \n... |
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"msg_contents": "It has been pointed out to me that the output of the version() function \nis becoming more confusing in face of mixed 32/64 bit environments. \nOutput like i486-pc-linux-gnu just says what kind of kernel the build \nenvironment has, not whether you actually have a IA-32 build. \nConversely, a... |
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"msg_contents": "\nnbtree.h refers to LP_DELETEd tuples on line 75, but that state is now\nreferred to as LP_DEAD in itemid.h, so the comment makes no obvious\nsense.\n\nIt would seem worth documenting the name change, so that old mailing\nlist stuff makes sense.\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant... |
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"msg_contents": "Now we are moving closer to 8.4, please join us for testing 8.4 release.\n\nI just released new RPM sets, which is based on Dec 29 2008 CVS\nsnapshot, which includes Window Functions patch. Please note that these\npackages are **not** production ready. They are for Fedora 9 and\nRHEL/CentOS ... |
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"msg_contents": "No docs or regression tests yet, but it seems to work ... please check\nagainst Oracle and DB2 behavior. Supported cases are\n\n\tRANGE UNBOUNDED PRECEDING\t-- same as AND CURRENT ROW\n\tRANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW\n\tRANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLL... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAre we going to add pg_pltemplate entries for external PLs for 8.4? \nI mean new rows for PL/pgPSM, PL/LOLCODE, PL/php, that sort of stuff.\n\nI think we should. In fact AFAIR we said we were going to, back when\nthis catalog was invented.\n\nThis seems like a good time. Thoughts?\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4599\nLogged by: Oleksiy Shchukin\nEmail address: Oleksiy.Shchukin@globallogic.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.5\nOperating system: all\nDescription: bugfix for contrib/dblink module\nDetails: \n\nDescripti... |
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"msg_contents": "The other day I bumped into some ideas about lockfree hashtables.\nAre these of any use in PostgreSQL?\n\nhttp://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2007/03/a_nonblocking_h.html\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862\n\n-- \nSincerely,\n Stephen R. van den Berg.\n\"I h... |
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"msg_contents": "While watching WAL records float by I noticed some AccessExclusiveLocks\noccurring unnecessarily during VACUUMs.\n\nThis is caused by lines 186-189 in lazy_vacuum_rel(), vacuumlazy.c\n\n possibly_freeable = vacrelstats->rel_pages - \t\n\t\t\t\tvacrelstats->nonempty_pages;\n if (possibly_fre... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that we allow commands such as\n\nSET TRANSACTION read only read write read only;\n\nBEGIN TRANSACTION read only read only read only;\n\nUnsurprisingly, these violate the SQL Standard:\n* p.977 section 19.1 syntax (1)\n* p.957 section 17.3 syntax (2)\n\nNot planning on fixing it myse... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am play with windows function. I was surprised so these queries has\ndifferent results.\n\npostgres=# select sum(a) over (partition by b), a, b from foo;\n sum | a | b\n-----+----+---\n 19 | 1 | 1\n 19 | 1 | 1\n 19 | 2 | 1\n 19 | 4 | 1\n 19 | 2 | 1\n 19 | 4 | 1\n 19 |... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all:\n\n A quick question about shared buffers in PostgreSQL:\n\n I want to get the number of misses for the buffer pool of PostgreSQL.\nIs there any methods or\n\n performance tools I can use to get the information?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBest Wishes\n\n\nyyan\n\nDear all:Β Β Β A... |
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"msg_contents": "The kerberos configuration options (krb_caseinsens_users, krb_realm,\nkrb_server_keyfile, krb_srvname, krb_server_hostname) are all set as\nPGC_POSTMASTER. From what I can see, the only places where kerberos code\nis called is from ClientAuthentication().\n\nThat means these parameters should... |
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"msg_contents": "I have updated all the source files for a 2009 copyright; seems the\ncommit message was suppressed due to its size. Tom found a few more and\nI have adjusted for those as well.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB h... |
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"msg_contents": "I just did a fresh import of my alpha database into 8.4 and noticed\nthat the size of the database had increased significantly:\n\n8.4: 6.3G\n8.3: 4.9G\n\nTracking it down the main difference seems to a toast tables namely this one:\n\nls -ltrh 8.3/base/16516/430156\n-rw------- 1 postgres pos... |
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"msg_contents": "I've for some reason been sitting on this patch for a while, it was\nsupposed to be a part of the pg_hba changes from a few months ago.\n\nAnyway. Here's a patch that makes it possible to set krb_realm and\nkrb_server_hostname on a per-hba-row basis, instead of just for the\nwhole server.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's the patch allowing for the parameter include_realm on\npg_hba.conf, that makes the authentication system pass the user@realm\nformat username to the identmap, instead of stripping the realm. This\nwas the original reason for having regexp support in the ident maps..\n\nThe idea is to m... |
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"msg_contents": "The pg_stat_statements patch tries to introduce a custom GUC variable\nthat's marked with context PGC_POSTMASTER, betokening the fact that\nit's setting the allocated size of a portion of shared memory and so\nchanging it after startup is pointless/impossible.\n\nThis doesn't actually work in... |
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"msg_contents": "* Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:\n> Please find attached an updated patch for column-level privileges\n> which incorporates Alvaro's suggested changes and is updated to the\n> latest CVS HEAD. Regression tests have been added as well as\n> documentation (though this could ... |
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"msg_contents": "The pending contrib/pg_stat_statements patch has an interesting method\nfor dealing with the limited size of its shared-memory hash table\n(which has got one entry per unique statement text, userid, and database\nid, so it's not exactly likely to be small). When the hash table fills\nup, it ... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that the pg_stat_statements patch is applying pg_mbcliplen()\nto query strings, in the fond illusion that it knows what encoding\nthey are in.\n\nThis brings up a bigger issue, namely that pg_stat_activity isn't\nexactly encoding-proof either --- whatever encoding is in use in a\npar... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that we are two months into the final commit fest, it is time to\nfinalize all the open patches so we can target a February beta.\n\nThe two major outstanding patches are:\n\n\to SE-PostgreSQL: The author has done an outstanding job of\nreworking the patch so the burden is now on the co... |
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"msg_contents": "is it going to stay that way? i find it actually worse than 8.3\nbehaviour:\n\n(depesz@[local]:5840) 11:43:40 [depesz]\n# \\l\n List of databases\n Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges\n-----------+----------+----------... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch lets you control 3 pg_lzcompress knobs on a per table basis\n(note requires reloptions.patch)\n\ncompress_max_size: Controls the maximum size to be considered for\nTOAST compression.\ncompress_min_rate: Minimum compression rate (0-100%) required for\nTOAST compression to be used.\... |
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"msg_contents": "I asked the author of the QuickLZ algorithm about licensing...\nSounds like he is willing to cooperate. This is what I got from him:\n\nOn Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 17:56, Lasse Reinhold <lar@quicklz.com> wrote:\n> Hi Stephen,\n>\n> That sounds really exciting, I'd love to see QuickLZ included int... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI compiled pg_stat_statements on mingw, and got the following error.\nPGDLLIMPORT for IsUnderPostmaster seems to be needed on win32.\n\n----\nInfo: resolving _IsUnderPostmaster by linking to __imp__IsUnderPostmaster (auto-import)\nfu000001.o:(.idata$2+0xc): undefined reference to `libp... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, List.\n\nThere are cases when GEQO returns a very bad plan in some rare\nexecutions of a query. To decrease likehood of this happening, I\npropose:\n\nWhen GEQO detects that what it found is in fact a miserable plan it\nrestarts the search. Simple math shows that if the probability of... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIf we set shared_preload_libraries or local_preload_libraries to\nload some modules, \"loaded library\" messages are logged in server\nlog every new connections and autovacuum workers.\n\n LOG: loaded library \"pg_stat_statements\"\n\nMessages by shared_preload_libraries are logged... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried fixing this\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-01/msg00030.php\nby inserting SPI_push/SPI_pop calls around plperl's use of\nInputFunctionCall and OutputFunctionCall. Unfortunately it soon\nturned into a mess, because there are various control paths through\nthat code ... |
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"msg_contents": "This may not be the appropriate place to check this, but when I filed\nthe bug with the tracking number 4593, in relation to some sort order\nbehavior which seemed erroneous to me. I didn't know how I would be\nnotified if this was actually considered a bug, etc. so I thought I'd\npost here a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAttached is a simple patch to unify the log output of 'vxid' between\ncsvlog and stderr/syslog. Currently, in csvlog, vxid of an auxiliary\nprocess isn't displayed. On the other hand, in stderr/syslog, invalid\nvxid (-1/0) of that is displayed. I'm not sure why we need to change\na dis... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nFollowing test returns wrong result ..\n\nTestcase ( on 8.4 cvs head )\n=======================\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f1(retval VARCHAR DEFAULT 'Argument') RETURNS\nVARCHAR as\n$$\nBEGIN\nreturn retval;\nEND;\n$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;\n\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f2(p1 IN in... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that EmitWarningsOnPlaceholders produces its warning messages\nat elog level INFO, which makes it nearly useless for bogus custom\nvariable settings for a preloaded module: the only place such a module\ncan warn is in the postmaster log, but INFO is too low to go into the\npostmaster... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am thinking about reimplementation PL/pgPSM, where code should be\nshared with PL/pgSQL. I have idea of some middle language, that should\nbe used for both languages. This language could be based on SPI\ninterface with some procedural elements (if, jmp, return).\n\nsample\n\ncreat... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThere's a long standing requirement for filtering WAL records during\nrecovery, allowing us to select databases, tables etc.\n\nMy approach to this has been to submit a patch for rmgr plugins. \n\nThe patch has other good uses too, most especially being able to decode\nWAL records by having... |
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"msg_contents": "I am seeing the following segmentation fault when doing 'gmake install'\non CVS HEAD; any idea why?\n\n\t$ gmake install\n\t/bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs '/usr/local/pgsql/lib/pgxs/src'\n\t/bin/sh ../config/install-sh -c -m 644 Makefile.global '/usr/local/pgsql/lib/pgxs/src/Makefile.global... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry if I'm restating the obvious, however I don't understand the\nconfusion, as it seems the standard's definition isn't mysterious; it\nsimply requires that the resulting state from the concurrent execution\nof transactions (and implicitly any subset) designated to occur at the\nisolation ... |
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"msg_contents": "I just wanted to give you guys a virtual pat on the back for PG \nv8.4dev. I've been out of the computer world for a little over a year \nand we're still using v8.1 here where I work, so I'm a little behind \nthe changes timeline since v8.1, but v8.4 is looking very nice.\n\nI'm working o... |
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"msg_contents": "For heavy tailed distributions, it is possible for analyze to\nduplicate histogram boundaries.\n\nHere is the output from a test against HEAD; I've attached the test data.\n\n=# create table bug(f float);\nCOPY 100000\n=# copy bug from '/tmp/test_data.txt';\nCOPY 100000\n=# analyze bug;\nANAL... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached applied patch prevents a compiler warning; the compiler\ndoesn't know about our elog(ERROR) exit case.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard drive, Ch... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere are some Japanese README files in contrib module:\n\ncontrib/pgbench/README.pgbench_jis\ncontrib/pgrowlocks/README.pgrowlocks.euc_jp\ncontrib/pgstattuple/README.pgstattuple.euc_jp\n\nThese files are outdated and are not necessarily living there since\nthe official docs are now pr... |
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"msg_contents": "--On Montag, Januar 05, 2009 17:12:27 -0800 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> \nwrote:\n\n\n> -- Automatic View Update Rules\n\nI'm currently adressing the issues Jaime mentioned and will provide an \nupdated patch very soon.\n\n-- \n Thanks\n\n Bernd\n",
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"msg_contents": "Q1: select '' union all select ''\nQ2: select '' union all select * from (select '' ) as s\n\nversion: PostgreSQL 8.3.1, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400\n\nHi All,\n\n Q1 works just fine, but Q2 fails with:\n\nERROR: failed to find conversion function from \"unknown\" to text\n\n Q2 ... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that if an ERROR occurs during ProcessCatchupEvent() then the\nmessages back to client get out of sync with each other. I've inserted\nan optional error into ProcessCatchupEvent() to show what happens\n(attached).\n\n> postgres=# begin;\n> BEGIN\n> postgres=# d;\n> ERROR: an error o... |
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"msg_contents": "Some further reflection about Rushabh Lathia's bug report of yesterday\nled me to the realization that there's a pretty big hole in the function\ndefaults patch. Since we add default values during planning, it doesn't\nwork for any expression that's not fed through the planner. For\ninstanc... |
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"msg_contents": "After various discussions over last few months, it's now time to\nfinalise the way we handle query conflicts in Hot Standby.\n\nPlease can interested people read\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby#Query_Conflicts\nwhich is user docs for how HS will handle this. Remember we're nearly... |
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"msg_contents": "I am now warning that we have an unusually large number of open items\nthat must be either completed or moved to the TODO list before 8.4 can\nbe released. \n\nEveryone knows about the commit fest wiki items, but I am tracking 291\nthreads that need some type of attention; if only 50% of th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOn Tue, 2009-01-06 at 11:30 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Simon Riggs wrote:\n> > \n> > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:21 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > I have already approached developers to get help in completing these\n> > > items, but got little assistance.\n> > \n> > If you can s... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been thinking that we are setting up the foreign-data wrapper dummies \nwrongly.\n\nEventually, the postgresql_fdw library should contain an implementation that \nactually connects to a PostgreSQL database and does useful things (dblink \nreplacement, basically). Right now, we are pro... |
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"msg_contents": "executor/spi.h includes far more than it needs, starting with postgres.h\nwhich as a general rule we don't expect any other header file to\ninclude. I think the argument for this was to keep things simple for\nSPI-using loadable modules, but I doubt that it's really improving their\nlives mu... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nThis makes all the \\dX commands (most importantly to most: \\df) work\nlike \\dt does, in that it requires a \\dXS to see system items.\n\nGreg Sabino Mullane\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/bin/psql:\n command.c (r1.200 -> r1.201)\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm running Debian PostgreSQL v8.3.5-1 on x86 in 32-bit mode.\nEvery once in a while, some backends start taking 100% CPU, as can be seen\nbelow in the excerpt from the process table:\n\n27256 ? Ss 0:04 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/post\n27299 ? Ss 0:... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAny one could throw some light on how the unicode support is enabled in \nthe postgresql code? I know that this is a step during the installation \nto select the default locale of the postgresql system & other place is \nduring the creation of a database, there is a option to select th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBased on the comments below, are we sure constraint_exclusion still\nneeds to be a parameter and can't be on by default?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGreg Smith wrote:\n> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:\n> \n> > Greg Smith <gsmit... |
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"msg_contents": "Error code 25001 is used for \"SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL must be\ncalled before any query\" when it's an ERROR. However, it also means\n\"there is already a transaction in progress\" when it's a NOTICE.\n\nSo we cannot distinguish them just by checking the error code.\n\nSo my question ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nConsider the following with latest CVS sources:\n\npostgres=# create table temp(val float4);\nCREATE TABLE\npostgres=# insert into temp values (415.1);\nINSERT 0 1\npostgres=# select * from temp where val = 415.1;\n val\n-----\n(0 rows)\n\n!?\n\nThe reason seems to be that 415.1 ends u... |
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"msg_contents": "I just noticed that optimizer/cost.h is not #include'd by plancat.c,\nwhich is not too cool because the former has the extern declaration\nfor the constraint_exclusion global variable while the latter has\nthe actual definition. I didn't run it down in the CVS history to\nmake sure, but I im... |
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"msg_contents": "I have recently fixed the configure script to recognize Python 3.0. But \nnote that building and running PL/Python with Python 3.0 does not \nactually work. It looks like several symbols have been removed or \nchanged. It would be good if the Python pundits around here could take \na look.... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a simple user-define window function as a test, which\ncalculates moving avg(). Writing this, I found that even with current\nspecification (i.e. limited frame clauses), user-define function can\nemulate some kinds of moving frame for simple purpose.\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nWhile running test with bind varible getting segmentation fault. ( CVS Head\n8.4)\n\nFor testcase, please find the crash.c (C test) and test.java ( JDBC test)\nattached with the mail.\n\nHad a quick look at the core dump and found the call stack for the\nsegmentation fault.\n\n(gdb... |
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"msg_contents": "While working on TRUNCATE with ONLY, I said to myself, hmm, when writing\n\nTRUNCATE ONLY a, b\n\nit might be a bit confusing whether the ONLY refers to a or both a and \nb. Then I noticed that the SQL standard requires parentheses, like\n\nTRUNCATE ONLY (a), b\n\nwhich is clearer. While we... |
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"msg_contents": "While checking out Rushabh Lathia's recent report I noticed $subject.\nThis is inconsistent because PQexec() returns PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY.\nIs it something we should fix, or leave well enough alone on backward\ncompatibility grounds?\n\nThe cause seems to be that the backend (correctly) returns ... |
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"msg_contents": "Looking at the open item about the new error message shown when Kerberos\nis compiled in, and not used:\nassword:\nFATAL: password authentication failed for user \"mha\"\npsql: pg_krb5_init: krb5_cc_get_principal: No credentials cache found\nFATAL: password authentication failed for user \"... |
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"msg_contents": "***********************************\nPHP Quebec is proud to present the PHP Quebec Conference 2009. \n***********************************\n\nWhen: From 4 to 6 March 2009\nWhere: Downtown Montreal at the Bonaventure Hilton Hotel, at 900 de la GauchetiοΏ½re West\nWhat: For three days, PHP and dat... |
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"msg_contents": "Quick patch to mention CITEXT in the parts of the FAQ that discuss \ncase-insensitive comparisons.\n\nBest,\n\nDavid",
"msg_date": "Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:20:52 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"David E. Wheeler\" <billing@kineticode.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I've mentioned before that I don't like the slotid stuff. From an \narchitectural point of view, we should try to keep the extra \ncommunication between primary and standby to a minimum, for the sake of \nrobustness. The primary shouldn't have such a big role in keeping track \nof which xids ... |
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"msg_contents": "Quick patch to mention CITEXT in the parts of the FAQ that discuss \ncase-insensitive comparisons.\n\nBest,\n\nDavid",
"msg_date": "Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:00:20 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"David E. Wheeler\" <david@kineticode.com>",
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"msg_contents": "\nI have just noticed that we do not include a description of the values \nused in confupdtype and confdeltype for pg_constraint in the system \ncatalog docs. Should that be remedied, or is there some reason?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
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"msg_contents": "I have mentioned this as a side issue in another thread. I thought\nthat it would be useful to start a separate thread for this. Perhaps\nthis won't be so difficult to code and we can forget all about the ReST\ndiscussion.\n\nSo, I guess psql should pass XML to the user's filter and simply ... |
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"msg_contents": "The foreign_data test case is failing when I run \"make installcheck\" \nagainst a server that's been initialized with a locale other than C \n(en_GB.UTF-8).\n\nThe reason is the different ordering of upper and lower case characters, \nper attached diff file. We can simply add an alternative ... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is the latest version.\n\nChanges:\n\n. some tidy up as variously requested.\n. some common code is factored out\n. some descriptive comments added\n. platform specific stuff (e.g. spawn, reap) is factored out\n. --truncate_before_load is gone, and we now do this during parallel \nre... |
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"msg_contents": "I wonder if this can be improved:\nhttp://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/optimizer/planner.h.diff?r1=1.41;r2=1.42\n\nSimilar examples can be found elsewhere ...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:52:22 -0500",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tg... |
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"msg_contents": "The hot standby patch has some hacks to decide which full-page-images \ncan be restored holding an exclusive lock and which ones need a \nvacuum-strength lock. It's not very pretty as is, as mentioned in \ncomments too.\n\nHow about we refactor things so that redo-functions are responsible fo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI attached the updated version of Synch Rep patch (v5) on wiki.\nThe description of \"User Overview\" is also already updated.\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NTT%27s_Development_Projects#Synch_Rep\n\nOn Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:\n>> 4. s... |
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"msg_contents": "I often get confused about how to do linking in SGML so I wrote up\n/doc/src/sgml/README.links and added the file to CVS. Peter, would you\nreview it and make any improvements? Thanks.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB ... |
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"msg_contents": "In thinking about how to communicate to users about reducing continuous\narchiving storage requirements, I realized we don't mention pglesslog in\nour official documentation.\n\nThe attached patch documents how to use pglesslog and gzip/gunzip to\nreduce storage requirements. Comments?\n\nAl... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane committed some parts of the posix_fadvise patch today; here\nis my attempt at a re-merged version for the benefit of anyone\nattempting to do performance testing, etc. It passes regression tests\nbut I haven't tested it much beyond that.\n\n...Robert",
"msg_date": "Sat, 10 Jan 2... |
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"msg_contents": "Recovery doesn't have a test framework as yet. I would like to add one\nfor this release, especially since we have so much recovery-related code\nbeing added to the release (and manual testing is so time consuming).\nTesting Hot Standby will also test sync rep, PITR etc, and could easily\nunc... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRe-enable the old code in xlog.c that tried to use posix_fadvise(), so that\nwe can get some buildfarm feedback about whether that function is still\nproblematic. (Note that the planned async-preread patch will not really\nprove anything one way or the other in bui... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nImplement prefetching via posix_fadvise() for bitmap index scans. A new\nGUC variable effective_io_concurrency controls how many concurrent block\nprefetch requests will be issued.\n\n(The best way to handle this for plain index scans is still under debate,\nso tha... |
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"msg_contents": "This test case:\n\nCREATE TABLE atable(n int);\nCREATE TABLE btable(n int);\n\nCREATE RULE insteadrule AS ON INSERT TO atable DO INSTEAD delete from \nbtable;\n\nCREATE FUNCTION rulecrash() RETURNS void AS $$\nbegin\n insert into atable values(1);\nend;\n$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;\n\nSELECT rulec... |
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"msg_contents": "This is V4 patch to improve file read during startup for review.\n\nBasic algorithm is same as V3 but works with Gregory's fadvise patch.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg00026.php\n\nThis patc also include additional patch for posix_fadvise to skip\nprefetch of page... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nTweak order of operations in BitmapHeapNext() to avoid the case of prefetching\nthe same page we are nanoseconds away from reading for real. There should be\nsomething left to do on the current page before we consider issuing a prefetch.\n\nModified Files:\n-------... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nAs I think has been previously noted, using pg_restore with -1 (single\ntransaction) is fundamentally incompatible with -C (we can't CREATE\nDATABASE inside a transaction) and often incompatible with -c (we don't\ndo DROP IF EXISTS, so if the objects don't exist the entire restore will... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Davis wrote:\n> ate: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:52:00 -0800\n\n> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 08:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n> > That code has been working like this for eight or ten years now and\n> this\n> > is the first complaint, so taking away functionality on th... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\neven if 7.4 is almost at the end of it's lifetime i found a bug/problem\non a fairly new laptop (not surprising: during upgrade tests). All\ntimestamp regression tests failed, only \"th\" was emitted.\n\nI tracked the problem done to the function str_numth() in\nsrc/backend/utils/ad... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\n\nduring the last three months, I've compiled my thoughts and ideas around\nPostgtres-R into a rounded concept covering lots of aspects. It\nintegrates findings from up-to-date research papers and it's meant to\nlighten up the future direction of development for Postgres-R. See... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nO.k. so I admit I probably should have known this already but I didn't.\nNormally I setup logging to use -%a.log. However I had a requirement\ntoday that is having me setup a flat filename... as in postgresql.log.\n\nWhen I set it up, it automatically appended the time so I got:\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "While regress/GNUmakefile appears to make an effort to run the regressions\ntests with or without locale depending on the users choice, .e.g.,\n\n# locale\nNOLOCALE =\nifdef NO_LOCALE\nNOLOCALE += --no-locale\nendif\n\nthe pg_regress.c implementation spoils that completely by unconditionally\... |
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