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[ { "msg_contents": "Latest output that the Snapshot PostgreSQL replication tool outputs to\na borne shell script. PostgreSQL v6.4 needs to be installed. This script\ncan run alone on the command line or under CRON control. Snapshot\nuses a named pipe to send output from \"pg_dump\" to \"psql\" and use\nthe envir...
[ { "msg_contents": "How about add to \nlibpq-fe.h\n\n#define LIBPQ_VERSION 64\n\nor something like?\n\n(I work with both 6.3 and 6.4 version and this is a problem) \n \n\n-- \nDmitry Samersoff\n DM\\S, dms@wplus.net\n http://devnull.wplus.net\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:11:22 +0300 (...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nI still have the same mistake after upgrading to v6.4.2 : \nadd_one is a simple function that add 1 to a given int. It has been\ncompiled as a .so using gcc. The first time I use it, it gives an error\nmessage, and the second and following times, it seems to work well : \n\ntemplat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I discovered different results when selecting data from base tables or\ntheir views. The only thing I can image for this strange behaviour is using\nthe date constant 'today' when creating the view. Does 'today' in a view\nuse the current day time of the view creation or the time the query is...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following patch finishes primary key support. Previously, when\na field was labelled as a primary key, the system automatically\ncreated a unique index on the field. This patch extends it so\nthat the index has the indisprimary field set. You can pull a list\nof primary keys with the f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've already asked on pgsql-general but there was now answer so I'll\ntry here.\n\nI have to play a lot with temp tables.\nCould you pls, give me a hint on emulating them under Postgres.\n\nI have to use them quite often with 10000 rows each.\nI don't use indices cause I only cache ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have two questions.\n1) Has anyone tried to compile and run Postgres 6.4.2 on a Solaris 7(2.7) machine? Was there any\nproblems or issues that need to be resolved? We are porting our app the that version of Solaris and\nwere wondering if postgres will work.\n2) I am currently running Po...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I have seen gnu sed version 1.* beat bsd sed by 2-3x.\n> \n> Partly my fault, I fear. The regular-expression code used in BSD sed,\n> last I checked, was the version I supplied for 4.4BSD... which works but\n> was done in haste and is rather slow. A much improved new release (new\n> imp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a new version of my patch for allowing pg_dump to DROP schema\nelements prior to CREATEing new ones. It is under control of the -c\ncommand line option (with the default being status quo).\n\nThe DROP TRIGGER portion still needs implementation. Anyone able to\nhelp clarify what exac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nIt seems that SPI_prepare() doesn't work well in some cases.\n\nPawel Pierscionek [pawel@astercity.net] reported about the \nfollowing case 1([SQL] drop table in pgsql).\nMichael Contzen [mcontzen@dohle.com] reported about the \nfollowing case 2(PL/PGSQL bug using aggregates).\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sir,\n I'm a graduate student of Institue of Computing Technology of Academe of Sinica.Since my major is database, I earnestly want to join the Internet developer team. Can you tell me how I can become one of the Internet developers of postgreSQL?\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hi again,\n> \n> I'm trying to use your hint, but I don't find the new select sintax in the\n> docs, so excuse me for asking again.\n> If I've got it right, whe I make a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE within a connection\n> (Autocommit = off), the selected records are blocked until the connectio...
[ { "msg_contents": "A few days ago I sent some patches in to complete primary key support.\nI haven't seen them and I was wondering if you had to be subscribed\nto the pathes list in order to submit like the others.\n\n-- \nD'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves\nhttp://www.druid...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI\nHi all!\n\nI've just released the first version of GNOME-SQL, which is a tool for\naccessing databases from different RDBMS. Right now (version 0.1) only\nPostgreSQL is supported but I am right now starting to include MySQL and\nlater on I will do with ODBC...\n\nCurrent version is quite...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've posted another set of patches for date/time types. They fix arcane\nproblems with BC dates; if you don't use them very often then you may\nnot want to bother patching at this time. The fixes are in the\ndevelopment tree for the next release.\n\nLook in ftp://postgresql.org/pub/patches/dt...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am forwarding this to hackers to see if anyone can comment on it.\n\n[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]\n> \n> -----Original Message-----\n> De: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> Para: Juan Alvarez Ferrando <juan@suzuki.es>\n> CC: Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >> I'd say, go ahead and release them. If you'll tell me where to find\n> >> them, I'd like to put them on my own web site too.\n> > Will do. May not get to it for a little while, since I want to build and\n> > test one more time to make sure I remember how to do it.\n\nI've posted new sta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone thought of putting a bzip2-compressed tarball up there? Might save\nbandwidth...\n\nTaral\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:48:23 -0600", "msg_from": "Taral <taral@cyberjunkie.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "gzip vs bzip2 in packing" }, { "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSorry about this. I _try_ to keep up with the list, I really do...\n\nWhat exactly is MVCC? I'm not familiar with the term. It sounds\nlike something better than row-level locking, and I'll bet one of \nthe 'C's stands for commit.\n\nInquiring minds want to know.\n\nThanks,\n\n-- cary\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I use a modified version of contrib/apache_logginig. The table I am\nusing:\n\nCREATE TABLE combinedlog (\n host text,\n accdate abstime,\n request text,\n authuser text,\n cookie text,\n referer text,\n useragent text,\n stime int2,\n status int2,\n bytes int...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I found Large File Summit in Linux Weekly News.\n LFS is a kernel patch (very experimental) that allows big files on\n32-bit linux (ext2 and UFS file systems only).\n URL - ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/\n\n I cannot test it - my linux partition is only 512M, and I have 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "I still wonder if the for-update-tests in SelectStmt: are okay. Shouldn't\nthe test check for intersect_present=TRUE instead of intersectClause !=\nNULL?\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just checked the ecpg docs. There are ecpg.1 and ecpg.sgml, a man page and\na converted texinfo file. I remember Tom saying something like the manpages\nshall be computed from the sgml source. Is this correct?\n\nIf so I wonder how it should work. The ecpg.sgml file contains totally\ndiffer...
[ { "msg_contents": "See attached file. Now accepts \"exec sql whenever sqlwarning\".\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux!\nEmail: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have PostgresSQL installed on my BSDi. I have a database which is hosted\nin a \nUnix Oracle Server. I'd like to import (every day) a table into my Postgre\nServer.\n\nWhat is the solution?\n\nThanks in advance for your help.\n\nLionel MOTTAY.\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18...
[ { "msg_contents": "[I am CC'ing Xshare on this.]\n\nI am very impressed with Xshare at http://www.xshare.com. They have a\nnice timely list of open source Unix software, with nice descriptions\nand links to home pages.\n\nI have worked with them on a number of issues, and they have been\nhelpful. Of course, t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good job with the PostgreSQL ODBC driver Byron!\n\n - Tom\nHowdy all,\n\njust a status update on MySQL problems. According to one of our engineers\nmore familiar with Data, it would seem that I've been misinformed about\nwhat levels of ODBC and SQL Grammar conformance we...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've posted new static binaries for CVSup on Linux on the ftp site:\n\n ftp://postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/cvsup-15.5-*linux*.tar.gz\n\nThere are binaries for both libc5 and glibc2 platforms, and I've\nincluded binaries in separate tar files for cvsupd, the server-side\nprogram just in case it h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Cary,\n\nI'm following this list on the PostgreSQL Home Page, and I'm not \na PostgreSQL hacker, but I do know my acronyms and my database\ntheory.\n\nMVCC stands for Multi Version Concurrency Control.\n\nIt is a feature which is very, very powerful, and deals with the\nfact that multip...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recently I have started seeing this error when starting the server.\n\nshell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories\n\nHere is the command I use to start PostgreSQL.\n\nsu postgres -c \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -S -D /usr/local/pgsql/data\"\n\nD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I want to hack into CYR_RECODE. I need to reimplement encoding selection\nalgorithm. Actually I want to add a few bytes of code - after default\nselection I want to SET destination encoding.\n From you, folks, I need the following information:\n\n1. How to add new SET command?\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCurrently psql show views like:\n\nDatabase = hygea\n +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+\n | Owner | Relation | Type |\n +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+\n | postgres | a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just uploaded the RPMs of PostgreSQL 6.4.2 to\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/.incoming directory.\nCan someone please move it up to pub directory??\n\nthanks\n\nal dev\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:45:28 +0000", "msg_from": "Al Dev <alavoor@yahoo.com>", "msg_from_op": tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've gotten a fairly recent snapshot from FTP and compiled it\nup on Alpha/linux.\n\nOn running, the forked process dies with a palloc error....it\nwas trying to grab 4 gig worth of memory.\n\nI've tracked this problem down to\nbackend/utils/cache/relcache.c\n\nin function init_irels:\nlen ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers:\n\nI plan to do some research on indexing and concurrency control, and\nimplement \nthe algorithms into PostgreSQL. Do some comparison on them.\n\nWould anyone suggest me where I should go into first?\n\nI saw there should be a developer's guide out there, but I looked all over\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Would anyone suggest me where I should go into first?\n>\n>I saw there should be a developer's guide out there, but I looked all over\n>the web and\n>could not find it. Please point me the direction. Thank you.\n\nYou can find all documentation as part of the normal Postgres distribution\nin...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found this item on a list of security vulnerabilities:\n\nmysql(1114) Remote stack overflow, create world-writable root-owned\nfiles\n\n(Port 1114 is mysql's listening port). I guess Postgres doesn't have a\nvulnerability for root ownership since nothing we do is run under the\nroot account...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am sending this patch to hackers because I think it needs some\ndiscussion before being added. I'm not 100% sure that there\nisn't some internal issue with making these changes but so far\nit seems to work for me.\n\nIn interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h there are some structures that include\nch...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is just weird. I tested my changes before sending them in and\nthey worked. The indisprimary field got set to TRUE just as it was\nsupposed to when I created a primary key. Now that I have pulled in\nthe updated surces from the tree it doesn't work any more. I went\nover all the curr...
[ { "msg_contents": "With latest CVS sources, the UNION regress test isn't working.\nWell, it's still giving the right query results, but it's also\nproducing a lot of messages like this:\n\nNOTICE: equal: don't know whether nodes of type 600 are equal\n\nThat's a failure according to the expected output...\n\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Someone (you, according to the cvs logs) checked in an update to the\n> \"expected\" file for the datetime regress test, but didn't check in the\n> corresponding update to the test file itself. sql/datetime.sql is\n> still dated 1997 ...\n\nIt came from someone, not sure who. Can someone ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've built some linux rpms for cvsup, both client and server. At the\nmoment, I've posted ones which are statically linked for libc5, but plan\nto build some glibc2/libc6 versions as well, and perhaps ones which are\nnot statically linked (which would then require at least one Modula-3\nlibra...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:42:19 -0500 (EST)\nFrom: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid....
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been doing some more backend profiling, and observe that in a large\nSELECT from a table with lots of columns, nocachegetattr (the guts of\nheap_getattr) is at the top of the list, accounting for about 15% of\nruntime.\n\nThe percentage would be lower in a table with fewer columns or no ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Came across this offhand remark on another mailing list:\n\n> 2. The code for substitute versions of snprintf() and vsnprintf(),\n> for systems without native versions has been replaced. nmh\n> now uses the version of these routines taken from the Apache\n> web server code.\n\nH...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have some SQL table-creation scripts that include foreign key clauses,\nin the hope that it will be implemented soon. This has shown up what seems\nto me to be an inadequacy in the planned linkage between foreign keys and\ninheritance.\n\nConsider these tables:\n\ncreate table invoice\n(\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "With 6.4 or current sources, I find that coercing a datetime to float8\nis a no-op:\n\ntreetest=> create table dt1 (t datetime);\nCREATE\ntreetest=> insert into dt1 values('now');\nINSERT 159593 1\ntreetest=> select t from dt1;\nt\n----------------------------\nSun Jan 24 18:28:50 1999 EST\n(...
[ { "msg_contents": "printtup() does a SearchSysCache call for each attribute of each tuple\nin order to find the appropriate output routine for the attribute's\ntype. (Up till yesterday it did *two* such calls per attribute, but\nI fixed that.) This is fairly expensive, amounting to about 10% of\nthe runtime i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWell, I thought I'd test to see how postgres handles tables larger than\n2Gb, mainly because some data sets I have will end up that big, and I know\nof atleast one project out there (www.tass-survey.org) that's using\npostgres and will hit this limit.\n\nNow, I know that (in theory), when a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am sending this mail on hackers list because the bug list seems to be\ndissapeared !\n\nSomething strange start happening on my PostgreSQL server :\n\nLinux RedHat 5.2 i386 Pentium machine 64 Mb RAM\nPostgreSQL 6.4.2 official release\n\nthere are a number of maximum 6 users working simultan...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRe: memory allocation.\n\nApache uses a set of memory \"pools\" that are cleared at\ndifferent times. I.E. there is one pool that is freed\nat the end of each page request. So code can just allocate\nfrom that pool and not worry about it getting freed.\n\nPerhaps a pool for each transacti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got the bug working on Sparc Linux also. Don't understand why\nyou can't recreate it.\n\nD.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us] \nSent: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:21 AM\nTo: DGowin@avantec.net\nCc: pgsql-core@postgreSQL.org; kraken@bluer...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'll recheck everything tonight and recompile with the latest\nsource on a fresh Red Hat machine.\n\nD.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: jwieck@debis.com [mailto:jwieck@debis.com]\nSent: Monday, January 25, 1999 1:33 PM\nTo: DGowin@avantec.net\nCc: pgsql-core@postgreSQL.org; pgsql-hackers...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've been looking at fixing the the timestamp problem on the alpha.\nI can get it working but I'm wondering if there is any particular\nreason that postgres is currently being limited to 2038 as being\nthe top year.\ndefine UTIME_MAXYEAR (2038)\n\nAs you probably know....time_t (a long) on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nIn looking for how to do table constraints psql help says:\n\nsoftware=> \\h create table\nCommand: create table\nDescription: create a new table\nSyntax:\n CREATE TABLE class_name\n (attr1 type1 [DEFAULT expression] [NOT NULL], ...attrN)\n [INHERITS (class_name...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone else seeing major breakage of the regression tests with\ntoday's (Monday's) CVS checkins? Or did I break something myself?\n\nI'm seeing wrong answers in tests numerology and select_having;\nplus coredumps in opr_sanity, subselect and rules. Also the same\nunexpected messages in u...
[ { "msg_contents": "My changes for primary key support weren't quite right. This change\ncompletes the job.\n\n*** ../src.original/./backend/parser/analyze.c\tMon Jan 25 23:44:26 1999\n--- ./backend/parser/analyze.c\tTue Jan 26 08:39:05 1999\n***************\n*** 714,719 ****\n--- 714,720 ----\n \t\tindex = ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > Thank you very much for the response of the other mail i`ve sent.\n> > > I want to make you a very important question. This is critical\n> > for\n> > > my pourposes and i cannot find a clear answer in the documentation\n> > of\n> > > postgres.\n> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "So good,\n\tI'm just starting a couple of db projects, and would like to run\nthem on PG, whose feature set seems rich enough for my needs... Now, I see\nalmost any new release added very useful stuff (as opposed to some well\nknown office suite new releases, adding mostly uncollected garbage...
[ { "msg_contents": "Included patches fix a portability problem of unsetenv() used in\n6.4.2 multi-byte support. unsetenv() is only avaliable on FreeBSD and\nLinux so I decided to replace with putenv().\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n----------------------------- cut here ----------------------------\n*** ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Included patches make some enhancements to the multi-byte support.\n\no allow to use Big5 (a Chinese encoding used in Taiwan) as a client\n encoding. In this case the server side encoding should be EUC_TW\n\no add EUC_TW and Big5 test cases to the regression and the mb test\n (contributed b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim changed the parser to allow FOR UPDATE for all queries except those\nfor which QueryIsRule is set to true. Does that mean we allow FOR UPDATE for\nunions etc? Or do all these cases set QueryIsRule?\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a very small bugfix. \n\nMichael\n\nP.S.: Did we find a solution for the patches list yet? It seems MArc is busy\nas my resubscription process doesn't get acknowledged too.\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "After recent changes I find an error with SUM when summing more than\none column. Here is the test sequence.\n\nDROP TABLE x;\nCREATE TABLE x (a int, b int); \nINSERT INTO x VALUES (1, 5);\nINSERT INTO x VALUES (2, 7);\nSELECT * FROM x;\nSELECT SUM(a) FROM x;\nSELECT SUM(b) FROM x;\nSELECT S...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > But I have a llitle problem. I`m afraid that the lipq++ interface\n> > > doesn't have this funcion call. Is it true?\n> > > Have you got any examples of the using of PQsendQuery and Non Blocking\n> > > queries using this interface lipq or libpq++? I will be very usefull for\n> > > m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Fixed now.\n\n\n> I am working on it.\n> \n> \n> > After recent changes I find an error with SUM when summing more than\n> > one column. Here is the test sequence.\n> > \n> > DROP TABLE x;\n> > CREATE TABLE x (a int, b int); \n> > INSERT INTO x VALUES (1, 5);\n> > INSERT INTO x VALUES (2, 7)...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed the problem I introduced with aggregates. They should work\nnow, and the HAVING regression test should work too.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard dri...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I am working on temp tables. I may have something for 6.5,\ndepending on when we start beta.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n 1. I've just committed some changes to PL/pgSQL and the SPI\n manager.\n\n It's a speedup of PL/pgSQL execution by calling\n ExecEvalExpr() in the executor directly for simple\n expressions that return one single Datum.\n\n For ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current CVS sources are giving silly values for the cost fields of\nEXPLAIN output:\n\ntreetest=> explain select * from marketorderhistory order by ordertime;\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nSort (cost=??????? size=1610612736 width=1081364283)\n -> Seq Scan on marketorderhistory (cost=??????? si...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there a workaround for an undeclared NAN in backend/utils/adt/float.c\non FreeBSD? I thought I compiled this before, but right now I don't see\nany evidence that I did. If I did, the only difference between then and \nnow would be adding tcl support. The sources are cvsup'd from 1/11/...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ntesting ...\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:47:41 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "a test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\ntest\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:50:30 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "a test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\ntest\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:51:09 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "a test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:51:56 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:52:44 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:54:12 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca\nSystems Administrator, Acadia University\n\n \"These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer\"\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 06:06:41 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFYI regarding the recent performance issues.\n\nThis lib is ported to win32. I don't know, how many unixes are \nsupported. Perhaps it's better to reuse something and not to \nreimplementit from scratch. But you are to decide.\n\nforwarded from comp.os.linux.announce\n\n---\n\nmmalloc ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n just committed partial support for mixed case identifiers in\n PL/pgSQL using the \"Identifier\" syntax.\n\n Partial means, that PL/pgSQL does not support all possible\n identifiers that can occur. Inside double quotes, only\n alphanumerics or underscore are ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi... hope to send this e-mail to the right place!\n\nWe are a non-commercial place, and I'm working for no money. We are in need\nof working with a database for 9 diferents but relatted databases (something\nlike 9G of information).\n\nWe started using PostgreSQL 6.3.2, but as we had lots of...
[ { "msg_contents": "At release 6.4.2, COPY does not respect column defaults: \n\njunk=> create table testbed (\njunk-> f1 int4 default 5, \njunk-> f2 float default 7.34,\njunk-> f3 datetime default now(),\njunk-> f4 text default 'default');\nCREATE\njunk=> copy testbed from stdin;\nEnter info followed ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everybody,\n\nI found a problem running Postgres 6.4 and 6.4.2 on our HP-Ux \n10.10 system. (Compiling with gcc 2.7.1.3 or gcc 2.8.1 makes no \ndifferences.)\n\nAfter two SQL errors (e.g. SALACT instead of SELECT or insert \nsomething into a none existing table) the backend dies abnormally...
[ { "msg_contents": "> And just seconds short of 3 hours after my report. I wonder how long\n> it would take to get a fix from Oracle for something like this.\n> \n> Thanks.\nThat depends on weather they already have the patch and were just\nwaiting for you to ask for it before giving it to you, or if the really...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was asked this off-list but thought a cc: to the list was appropriate:\n> If, as you say, Postgres can't use a GPL'd library, does that mean that\n> Postgres itself isn't GPL'd? If so, then what is it? I'm having trouble\n> understanding all of the nuances of open source, GPL, etc.\n\nPostg...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Thus spake Jackson, DeJuan\n> > > And just seconds short of 3 hours after my report. I \n> wonder how long\n> > > it would take to get a fix from Oracle for something like this.\n> > > \n> > That depends on weather they already have the patch and were just\n> > waiting for you to ask for i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am attaching a file containing changes needed for adding temp tables\nto the backend code. This is not a complete patch because I am adding\nnew files and stuff. It is attached just for people to review.\n\nThe basic question is whether this is the proper way to do temp tables.\nThis impl...
[ { "msg_contents": "*** From dbi-users -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. ***\n\nJust thought I would write in to let everyone know I haven't had the\n\"DBD::Pg::db do failed: pqReadData()\" problem\never since I converted all my columns that were 'text' to 'varchar()'.\nI can live with the limit of...
[ { "msg_contents": "test=> create table test (x int);\nCREATE\ntest=> insert into test values (1);\nINSERT \ntest=> insert into test values (2);\nINSERT 19787 1\ntest=> select * from test;\nx\n-\n2\n(1 row)\n\ntest=> drop table test;\nDROP\ntest=> select * from test;\nx\n-\n1\n(1 row)\n\ntest=> drop table test;\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi, \n\nI sent the following message to the pgsql-general \nlist on the 24th but haven't received any answers\nfrom PostgreSQL developers, only from other people\nwho are experiencing the same problems.\n\nI would say the errors I am describing are quite\nserious and I was wondering whether...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi, \n\nI sent the following message to the pgsql-general \nlist on the 24th but haven't received any answers\nfrom PostgreSQL developers, only from other people\nwho are experiencing the same problems.\n\nI would say the errors I am describing are quite\nserious and I was wondering whether...
[ { "msg_contents": "regression=> SELECT 1 AS two UNION SELECT 2;\nNOTICE: equal: don't know whether nodes of type 600 are equal\ntwo\n---\n 1\n 2\n(2 rows)\n\ngdb:\n\n#0 equal (a=0x179f10, b=0x1c1490) at equalfuncs.c:746\n#1 0x7bf4d in remove_duplicates (list=0x167d90) at prepqual.c:563\n#2 0x7b86a in qual...
[ { "msg_contents": "\t>> test=> create table test (x int);\n\t>> CREATE\n\t>> test=> insert into test values (1);\n\t>> INSERT \n\t>> test=> create temp table test (x int); <--\n\t>> CREATE <--\n\t>> test=> insert into test values (2);\n\t>> INSERT 19787 1\n\t>> test=> select * ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Note this one contains the one I send the other day. If that one was already\napplied this one will fail partly. If this is the case tell me and I resend\na correct version.\n\nMichael \n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I have a production server with Postgres 6.4.2. Every night crom runs\nmaintainance script, that contayned VACUUM ANALYZE (I use psql).\n Few days ago the scrip failed with usual \"... backend closed\nconnection\". I changed it to just VACUUM (this worked) and started\ninvestig...
[ { "msg_contents": "pgsql-docs-digest \n\nCorrea Vargas <i-correa@merlin.uniandes.edu.co> wrote on pgsql-docs\nlist:\n> \n\n[snip]\n\n> Hello!\n> ...Or do you think that is better to install a most recent version?!...\n\n6.4.2 (the current version) is much much more advanced than the 6.0\nversion.\nI would defin...
[ { "msg_contents": "and this is now the DEFAULT isolevel.\n\nI run some tests to ensure how it works, but not so much.\nUnfortunately, currently it's not possible to add\nsuch tests to regression suit because of they require\nconcurrent transactions. We could write simple script to\nrun a few psql-s simultaneous...
[ { "msg_contents": "ANOQ of the Sun wrote:\n> Clark Evans wrote:\n> > I am going to write a DOM implemention for PostgreSQL,\n> > which is licensed under the BSD license. Would you\n> > consider releasing a copy of your work under the BSD\n> > license so that I could use it in PostgreSQL?\n> \n> Very much so......
[ { "msg_contents": "Berkley types,\n\tDr. Stonebraker developed some code in 1991 called Visionary.\nThat \nallowed a user to visually datamine a database engine's data. Does the\noriginal\nsource to this project still exist? And could Postgres benefit from it\nas a\ndatamining tool for Postgres clients?\n\nD.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having a few problems getting updates from anon CVS.\n\nUpon issuing the \"cvs update\" command I get the error:-\n\nFatal error, aborting.\n: no such user\n\nI decided to try a complete checkout so renamed the directory \nand my ~/.cvspass file and logged on again.\n\nmtcc:[/export/home/...