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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nindices.sgml contains this paragraph about hash indexes:\n\n\tNote: Testing has shown PostgreSQL's hash indexes to perform no\nbetter than B-tree indexes, and the index size and build time for hash\nindexes is much worse. Furthermore, hash index operations are not\npresently WAL-logge...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nIs it in todo or in a plan to implement lmza commpression in pg_dump \nbackups?\n\nThanks\n\nStano\n-- \n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpace Systems\n\n*Mgr. Stano LACKO*\n\nmobil: +421 908 175 753\n\nfax.: +421 2 555 72 676\n\ne-mail: lack...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked into the planning problems in HEAD discussed here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-02/msg00120.php\nAs I suspected, there are really two independent bugs there,\nthough both are in the new semi/antijoin planning code.\n\nThe first problem is the one already mention...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nRight now, when autovacuum is turned on we always assume it's supposed\nto process all tables except those that have autovacuum_enabled=false.\n\nNow, sometimes it might make more sense to keep it enabled but have it\nonly check for certain tables, and leave the majority of them disabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n# psql83 template1\nPassword:\nWelcome to psql83 8.3.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n\nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL commands\n \\? for help with psql commands\n \\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know that the fedora tzdata-2009a packages have the Argentian changes (as \nwell as some others depending on version of fedora), but I'm not sure what is \nincludedin the original package, or exactly where we pull our changes in from \nNote our release notes dont specify those changes, so I...
[ { "msg_contents": "When we have now collation per database I think following comment is\nuseless:\n\n* (2) this code is executed in the postmaster, so the setlocale() will\n* propagate to forked backends, which aren't going to read this file for\n* themselves.\t(These locale settings are considered critical\n* ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent a message describing where I was headed with the code and my \nmisgivings with Tom's concerns. I haven't seen any responses.\n\nHmmm. I can't find my message however so now I'm wondering if it ever \nhit the lists.\n\n-- \nGreg\n\n\nOn 6 Feb 2009, at 18:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momji...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the same spirit as the FreeBSD-native UUID generator that was discussed \nhere a couple months ago, I was able to link Postgres 8.4 against the UUID \ngenerator embedded in the Linux ext2fs toolchain. My code is posted at\n\nhttp://www.lmert.com/download/pguuid-for-8.4.tar.gz\n\nUnlike o...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have an open problem with CVS HEAD that ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS\ncauses problems:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-11/msg00332.php\n\nI opined at the time that what we really have here is a table whose\ntuples do not match its declared rowtype, and that the proper fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "CC=\"xlC_r -q64\" \\\nCXX=\"xlC_r -q64\" \\\nAR=\"ar -X64\" \\\nOBJECT_MODE=64 \\\nPATH=/usr/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin\n./configure\nmake\n\nMake builds fine, but pg_regress: initdb fails. src/test/regress/log reads:\n\nRunning in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up.\nThe files belonging ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A month ago I warned that we had an unusually high number of open items:\n\n\thttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg00321.php\n\nFortunately, thanks to a lot of hard work, my list of open items has\nshrunk from +200 to 44:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgsql/open\n\nNow, th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, my wal archiving broke and postgresql filled up the local disk with transaction logs, which i foolishly deleted in a moment of madness, after resetting the transaction log a few of my tables are damaged but repairable. However the system tables also seemed to have suffered. My main proble...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nEuler Taveira is arguing in an autovacuum thread that we should give\n\"storage parameters\" a different name; his argument is that\n\"autovacuum_enabled\" is not really a parameter that relates to storage.\nHe is proposing \"relation parameters\".\n\nI am against the idea of renaming ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUpdate autovacuum to use reloptions instead of a system catalog, for\nper-table overrides of parameters.\n\nThis removes a whole class of problems related to misusing the catalog,\nand perhaps more importantly, gives us pg_dump support for the parameters.\n\nBased o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any way to stop autovacuum temporarily?(other than edit\npostgresql.conf and reload it) Pgpool-II does not want autovacuum\nrunning while doing \"onlie recovery\".\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nSRA OSS, Inc. Japan\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:15:21 +0900 (JST)", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\tI need SE-PostgreSQL *ONLY* for row level security, but AFAIK SE-PostgreSQL\nworks only on SELinux. This, for me, is unacceptable, because I want to use\nrow level security on windows too. I don't need all that fancy security\nstuffs.\n\nI want to share with you my \"security\" exp...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently testing HotStandby v9g.\n\nSeems like this patch version misses to update guc.c, which still \nreferences XLOG_DEBUG when compiled with WAL_DEBUG. This got replaced with \nXLOG_DEBUG_FLUSH, *_BGFLUSH and *_REDO, resulting in a compile error. Maybe \nwe want to reflect those chan...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nWhat is a good delimiter to use for COPY command. Im trying to use COPY command to copy data from one table to another in 2 different databases. \nCan you suggest a unique delimiter that I can use for this COPY command\n\nThanks\nSharmial\n\n\n\n \nHi,What is a good delimiter to use...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd support for specifying port numbers.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n src:\n TODO (r1.13 -> r1.14)\n (http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pg-migrator/src/TODO.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14)\n pg_migrator.c (r1.34 -> r1.35)\n (ht...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the new snapshot maintenance code, it looks like we can advance the\nxmin more aggressively.\n\nFor instance:\n\nS1:\nINSERT INTO foo VALUES(1);\n\nS2:\nBEGIN;\nDECLARE c1 CURSOR FOR SELECT i FROM foo;\n\nS1:\nDELETE FROM foo;\n\nS2:\nDECLARE c2 CURSOR FOR SELECT i FROM foo;\nCLOSE c1;\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote (in response to Kevin Grittner's recent issues):\n> Reflecting on this further, I suspect there are also some bugs in the\n> planner's rules about when semi/antijoins can commute with other joins;\n\nAfter doing some math I've concluded this is in fact the case. Anyone\nwant to check...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had an email today about an old bug that I reported back in July 2008.\n\n \n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-07/msg00026.php\n\n \n\nI didn't receive any response at the time and I didn't really follow it up.\n\n \n\nMy report contained a full re-creation script to reproduc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been putting a little bit of thought into how to go about testing the\nperformance of this patch. From reading the previous threads quite a bit of\ntesting was done with a certain data set where all that tested found it to\nbe a big winner with staggering performance gains with the skew...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:\n> Merlin Moncure wrote:\n>> > PQinitSSL(0) was specifically designed to allow applications to set up\n>> > SSL on their own. How does this not work properly?\n>>\n>> this has nothing to do with who initializes ssl. th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jeff Davis asked me if I'd be willing to do a review of the GIN fast\ninsert patch about two weeks ago, but I haven't actually had a chance\nto read through it in detail until tonight. I can't say I really know\nanything about GIN (though I did take this opportunity to RTM), so\napologies in...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The idea I came up with for benchmarking was a little similar to what\nI\n> remember from the original tests. I have a sales orders table and a\n> products\n> table. My version of the sales orders table contains a customer\ncolumn.\n> Data\n> for 10 customers is populated into the sales ord...
[ { "msg_contents": "We often discuss changing user-visible behavior of various kinds and are \nusually clueless on the question of \"someone might rely on this\" or \"how \nmany people are still using this\" etc. Still, it is clearly often \nuseful to revise interfaces from time to time.\n\nI have been thinking...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI've been recently testing PostgreSQL 8.3.4 (upgrade to 8.3.6 is\nscheduled) with a large number of connections from separate boxes each\nusing a locally installed pgpool-II set in connection pooling mode, for\nup to 2500 concurrent open connections.\n\nGiven I was using 8.3, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nsome years ago there was some plans about parser's extensibility. I am\nable write bison extensions, but I thing, so lot of work should be\ndone via hooking of transform stage.\n\nI did small example - real implementation of Oracle's decode function.\nIt's based on hooking transformE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHow can I copy the PlannerInfo structure?\nI have *root variable that is PlannerInfo and I would like to pass this\nvalue to another variable that I created (the same type - PlannerInfo).\nCan you help me? I only found function that copies PlannedStmt structure.\n\nThanks,\nAna Car...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently facing with a strange behavior during HotStandby Testing. \nThat's what i'm actually doing:\n\nMASTER:\n\nCREATE DATABASE foo;\n<do something in there, e.g. restoring a dump>\n\n<wait until xlog segments get consumed by standby node (using \narchive_timeout)>\n\nSTANDBY:\n\npost...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n[...]\n>\n> In my understanding, the row-level ACLs feature (plus a bit enhancement)\ncan\n> help your requirements. I developed it with SE-PostgreSQL in parallel,\nbut also postponed to v8.5 series.\n> It enables to assign database ACLs on individual tuples, and filter out\nviolated tup...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nI've been working on some scripts (for pgfoundry) which help in \n\"cleaning up\" databases which have TSearch and other contrib modules \ninstalled to schema public. However, I ran into this odd issue:\n\nERROR: btree operators must return boolean\nSTATEMENT: CREATE OPERATOR CLASS...
[ { "msg_contents": "While fooling around with the GIN fast insert patch tonight, I managed\nto hang my test database. :-(\n\nI'm going to try to reproduce this, but here's approximately what I did.\n\ncreate table foo (id serial, x int[], primary key (id));\ncreate index foo_gin on foo using gin (x);\ninsert in...
[ { "msg_contents": "With reloption patch, we can set WITH options to toast tables.\nHowever, fillfactor for toast tables is useless, no?\n(autovacuum options will work as expected, though.)\n\nTuples in toast tables are never updated. When the main tuple is updated,\nold toast tuples are deleted and new ones are...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI noticed Tom Lane made SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE work on inheritance trees.\nBut todo list is not updated to reflect this change.\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Inheritance\n\nActually, there is a patch trying to remove the ONLY clause on the foreign \nkey checks on the inheritance...
[ { "msg_contents": "One independent change included in the Hot Standby patch is the change \nto the way subtransaction cache works. With the patch, only \nsubtransactions that don't fit in the subxid cache in PGPROC are marked \nin pg_subtrans. To make that work, XidInMVCCSnapshot() always scans the \nsubxid arr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n I am involved in porting Spacewalk <https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/>'s\nbackend DB schema from Oracle to Postgres. We are almost done with table\nmigration, and are now attempting procedure/function porting.\n\nA few things have been sorted out\n(link<https://www.redhat.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been examining multi-major-version binary packaging again, and I was \nwondering whether we have a good overview over which pieces of the \ninstallation are backward compatible (that is, they can be shared between all \nmajor versions) and which are not. For example, psql 8.4 can now pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know we've already had a discussion on the naming of the pg_restore -m \noption, but in any case this description in pg_restore --help is confusing:\n\n-m, --multi-thread=NUM use this many parallel connections to restore\n\nEither it is using that many threads in the client, or it is usin...
[ { "msg_contents": "We need insert rows to a catalog table that would store partitions info:\n\nCATALOG(pg_partition,2336) BKI_WITHOUT_OIDS\n{\n Oid partrelid; /* partition table Oid */\n Oid parentrelid; /* Parent table Oid */\n int2 parttype; /* Type of partition, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > > Now that pg_migrator is BSD licensed, and already in C, I am going to\n> > > spend my time trying to improve pg_migrator for 8.4:\n> > > \n> > > \thttp://pgfoundry.org/projects/pg-migrator/\n> > \n> > What is the plan no...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm compiling PostgreSQL 8.3.6 on AIX 5.3.0.0 with GCC 4.2.0 and it is working.\n\nBut, after message \"All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to\ninstall.\", when it starts regression test, some unexpected (?) occurs.\n\nFirst I doing only a *make* and it is doing *make instal...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI'm a bit confused when the proper way to use GIST versus GIN indexes \nwith integer arrays.\n\nThe documentation states:\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/intarray.html\n\nThe choice between GiST and GIN indexing depends on the relative \nperformance characterist...
[ { "msg_contents": "I whipped up a quick dtrace probe for one of our servers to monitor connection \nattempts. My goal was to monitor for any connection attempts from a specific \nrole within the database. Unfortunatly you can't set logging of connections \nfor a specific user, and logging all connections on t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am the packager of postgresql for mandriva, and I receive this bug to\ntoday\n\nhttps://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47722\n\npostgresql8.3-contribe missed some files like uuid-ossp.sql\n\nDescription of problem:\nuuid-ossp was not found in the .spec file\n\nBy take a look in the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am the packager of postgresql for mandriva, and I receive this bug to\ntoday\n\nhttps://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47722\n\npostgresql8.3-contribe missed some files like uuid-ossp.sql\n\nDescription of problem:\nuuid-ossp was not found in the .spec file\n\nBy take a look in the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was helping a customer today with what is becoming a common theme with\na lot of work we do. Basically, \"It was working fine until recently.\"\nNow 90% of the time it is as simple as running an ANALYZE VERBOSE and\npicking apart relations that aren't being maintained properly and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nConsider the following on latest sources:\n\npostgres=# create type c3 as (y int, z c1);\npostgres=# create type comptype1 as (elem1 int);\n\npostgres=# create type comptype2 as (elem1 int, elem2 comptype1);\npostgres=# \\d comptype2\nComposite type \"public.comptype2\"\n Column | Ty...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI found this today. Note, auto vacuum has been disabled for this\nrelation for a very, very long time. At the very end you will see that\nthis relation has been autovacuumed previously as well. We have a manual\ncron to vacuum this table every hour so I am unsure why autovacuum is\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "It would be very useful if there were an option to have ts_headline append\nellipses before or after a result fragement based on the position of the\nfragment in the source document. For instance, when running ts_headline(doc,\nquery) it will correctly return a fragment with words highlighted...
[ { "msg_contents": "I try to fix foreign_data regression test for Czech locale (HEAD). For\nexample I replaced \n\nSELECT * FROM information_schema.user_mapping_options ORDER BY 1, 2, 3,\n4;\n\nwith following statement:\n\nSELECT * FROM information_schema.user_mapping_options ORDER BY 1, 2,\n3::name, 4;\n\nwhich...
[ { "msg_contents": "The pg_autovacuum system catalog will be deprecated in 8.4,\nbut my customers use them to control autovacuum to emulate\nmaintenance window. So, I'm trying to re-implement the catalog\nusing a VIEW and RULEs in 8.4.\n\nThe attached is a WIP script, but I have some questions around it:\n(XXX: ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4660\nLogged by: ITAGAKI Takahiro\nEmail address: itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.3\nOperating system: Fedora 8\nDescription: float functions return -0\nDetails: \n\nFloat8 versio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI found BNF for SQL 2003 and I found there some small difference.\nStandard use keyword ESCAPE, but PostgreSQL use keybord UESCAPE.\n\nAnybody knows reason?\n\n <Unicode character string literal> ::=\n [ <introducer> <character set specification> ]\n U <ampersand>...
[ { "msg_contents": "plperl's nls.mk contains\n\nGETTEXT_TRIGGERS:= _ errmsg errdetail errdetail_log errhint errcontext \nwrite_stderr croak Perl_croak\n\nAs far as I can tell, croak() and Perl_croak() are provided by the Perl \nlibrary. So it is quite unclear to me how we expect their argument \nstrings to be t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRedefine _() to dgettext() instead of gettext() so that it uses the plpgsql\ntext domain, instead of the postgres one (or whatever the default may be).\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src:\n plpgsql.h (r1.108 -> r1.109)\n (...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to add a --freeze parameter to vacuumdb for use by the\nbinary upgrade utility, and for symmetry with the existing VACUUM\noptions; patch attached.\n\nI could also accomplish with with PGOPTIONs but this seem like a cleaner\nsolution.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nwe present two variants of GIN fast insert patch, since we're not sure\nwhat is a the best solution:\n\nv0.28.1\n- remove disable cost in gincostestimate\n- per http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/499466D2.4010808@sigaev.ru\n gingettuple could force cleanup of pending lis...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch adds to pg_dumpall --binary-upgrade by restoring\ninformation about frozen xids for relations and databases. I think this\nis the last patch I need to complete my TODO items for the pg_migrator\nbinary upgrade utility.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> htt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI see a regression test failure in my mingw-vista port\nwhen I invoke the command\n make check MULTIBYTE=euc_jp NO_LOCALE=yes\n.\nIt causes a crash at tsearch.\nThe crash seems to occur when the server encoding isn't\nUTF-8 with no locale.\nThe attached is a patch to avoid the crash.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed all the outstanding pg_migratory TODO items.\n\nI still have more work to do in cleanup and testing, but if people want\nto look at my progress, now is a good time.\n\nYou can download the current CVS here:\n\n\thttp://pgfoundry.org/scm/?group_id=1000235\n\nand you can subscr...
[ { "msg_contents": "David Fetter wrote:\n> Folks,\n> \n> Perhaps I've misunderstood this, but in PostgreSQL 8.3.5, I get\n> disparate results from ~ and SIMILAR TO. For example:\n\nDid you read the docs? ^ is not an anchor.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nPo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm interested in data representation and debug of optimizer routines. \nThus, I've changed the debug functions of allpaths.c to make a \ngraphviz-like output of RelOptInfo structure.\n\nAny idea about this?\nIs there some project or improvement like this?\n\nTanks,\nAdriano Lange\nC3S...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nStart background writer during archive recovery. Background writer now performs\nits usual buffer cleaning duties during archive recovery, and it's responsible\nfor performing restartpoints.\n\nThis requires some changes in postmaster. When the startup process has d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\nI want to try to add a multi calendar system for pgsql. I want to know if it\nwill be accepted as a patch to pgsql?\n\nMore details:\nMulti calendar systems are useful for several languages and countries using\ndifferent calendar: Hijri, Persian, Hebrew, etc.\nFor implementation...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\ni've been testing new -m option of pg_restore with great pleasure.\nfirst, let me thank the developpers, it cut restoring time by half.\n\nis it normal that -m doesn't cope well with -C?\n\ncreatedb db\npg_restore -m 4 -d db db.dmp\nworks like a charm while\n\npg_restore -C -m 4 -d tem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRemove the special cases to prevent minus-zero results in float4 and float8\nunary minus operators. We weren't attempting to prevent minus zero anywhere\nelse; in view of our gradual trend to make the float datatypes more IEEE\nstandard compliant, we should allow m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I read function \"EvalPlanQual\", I found the following code:\n\n if (heap_fetch(relation, &SnapshotDirty, &tuple, &buffer, true, NULL))\n {\n /*\n * If xmin isn't what we're expecting, the slot must have been\n * recycled and reused for an unrelated tuple. This implies ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I would like to help with the translation from english to romanian.\n I could not contact the people in charge for the Romanian translations.\n\n I already completed the plpgsql-ro.po but I don't know how or where to\n submit it.\n\n Latter I found out that the module is under still u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thought folks might get a kick out of this since he's referenced all \nover our code: http://www.appelbaum.net/\n-- \nDecibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org\nGive your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Feb ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI was just updating a function in pgTAP that, given a schema name and \nan array of function names, returns a set of those function names that \nare not in the named schema. I got it working with a subquery, and \nDavid Fetter suggested that I try an EXCEPT query instead. The onl...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was revisiting the issue of how to prevent psql from prompting for a \npassword, for batch operations, previously discussion here:\n\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org/msg18440.html\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org/msg20002.html\n\nI noticed that th...
[ { "msg_contents": "create table foo(a int, b int);\npostgres=# create function rfoo() returns setof foo as $$ begin return\nquery select foo from foo; end; $$ language plpgsql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\nTime: 25.606 ms\npostgres=#\npostgres=#\npostgres=# select rfoo();\nERROR: structure of query does not match functio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey guys,\n\nI had two running threads here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-02/msg00859.php\nhttp://www.postgresqlforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=1574\n\nBoth have not come to a succesful conclusion.\n\nIn very short (but you better read the threads):\nDuring inst...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked into the bug reported by Cott Lang that pg_type.typowner is\nincorrect for a table's toast table after a rewriting ALTER TYPE\ncommand. The problem occurs because an entirely new toast table\nis built during the rewrite. The correct table owner is passed to\nheap_create_with_catalo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hadoop backend for PostGreSQL....\n\nA problem that my client has, and one that I come across often,\nis that a database seems to always be associated with a particular\nphysical machine, a physical machine that has to be upgraded,\nreplaced, or otherwise maintained.\n\nEven if the database i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am checking this functionality and I am afraid, so option all is broken.\n\n postgres=# select * from pg_stat_user_functions; funcid | schemaname\n| funcname | calls | total_time | self_time\n--------+------------+----------+-------+------------+-----------\n 24608 | public | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have written a presentation about the major 8.4 features known so far:\n\n\thttp://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/features.pdf\n\nComments? Suggestions? Please email me offlist and I will update the\nPDF.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd quotes to message\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src:\n pl_exec.c (r1.234 -> r1.235)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c?r1=1.234&r2=1.235)\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Feb 20...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is my problem and also the question. I'd like adding a field in\nPath structure and Plan structure as follows:\n\ntypedef struct Path{\n....bla bla bla\n\nCost energy_cost;\n\n....bla bla bla\n\n\n}\n\n\ntypedef struct Plan{\n....bla bla bla\n\nCost energy_cost;\n\n....bla bla bla\n\n\n}...
[ { "msg_contents": "Howdy,\n\nI have a question about the design consideration for system catalogs.\nSome of tables include arrays to hold the variable informations, such\nas tracking the procedure declaration informations in pg_proc. To store\nthe informations for procedure parameters, there are proargtypes,\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \nCould you please let me know what are the outstanding features that are still to be developed in the respective patches?\n \nI'am currently referring the wiki: \"Todo and Claim\" for NTT and for HotStandby, i see that almost all issues are closed. Are there any features / refactoring ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \nSteps to re-produce the sync replication bug:\n \n- Setup the Primary server and standby server\n- Don't execute any transactions on the Primary server\n- Initiate a switchover by creating a finish.trigger on the Standby server\n- The standby server (the startup process) will terminat...
[ { "msg_contents": "(back to reviewing the main hot standby patch at last)\n\nWhy do we need recovery procs? AFAICS the only fields that we use are\nxid and the subxid cache. Now that we also have the unobserved xids\narray, why don't we use it to track all transactions in the master, not \njust the unobserved o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi to All,\nIam new to the group and to postgresql. Currently Iam trying to understand how does the planner work by using gdb. During the execution of a plan I observed a variable \"BTREE_MAGIC\" which is defined 0x053162 and called, 'the magic number of btree pages'. I couldnt understand the...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ still working on the planner issues exposed by Kevin Grittner's complaint ]\n\nI've concluded that my introduction of FlattenedSubLink as a transient\nrepresentation for flattened EXISTS/IN clauses was a Bad Idea. The core\nproblem is that it messes up the delicate order of operations in\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that join.out is inconsistent with join_1.out, because the\nlatter failed to get updated here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-01/msg00249.php\n\nThe CVS history for join_1.out says that it was created in order to\nsupport some Windows-specific behavior. Since ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Running the following against HEAD and REL8_3_6:\n\ncreate table foo (a varchar(500));\ncreate view bar as select case foo.a when '1' then 'foo' else 'bar' end as\nfa from foo;\n\\d bar\n\nCauses as assertion in the backend:\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(((((Node*)(((list_head(((OpExpr *)\nw)-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a patch that modifies psql \\dX commands to treat objects\nin information_schema as \"system objects\". This prevents them from\nshowing up in \\dX *.* and polluting the user objects list. This is\nespecially annoying if user objects are in multiple schemas, and\none wants to get ...
[ { "msg_contents": "... and the build logs don't show any particular reason for it.\nWhat is wrong, and why isn't the buildfarm script capturing a\nuseful error message?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:40:45 -0500", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>", "msg_from...
[ { "msg_contents": "When we take the snapshot of running transactions in the master, in \nGetRunningTransactionData(), it only includes top-level xids and those \nsubxids that are in the subxid caches. Overflowed subxids are not \nincluded. Isn't that a problem? When the standby initializes the \nrecovery procs ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Should we log a warning at startup when effective_cache_size is less\nthan shared_buffers?\n \n-Kevin\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:21:20 -0600", "msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "effective_cache_size le...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nLast week, i took some time to check if i was still able to write some\nbasic C code. So i looked into the TODO list and picked some trivial items.\n\nThis one is very basic, it just shows the child tables of a specific\ntable when you type \\d <tablename> in psql :\n\n\n# create ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAndrew Gierth was just pointing out to me how badly broken our XPath \nprocessing is.\n\nFor fear of passing an ill formed fragment of xml to the processor, we \nstrip the xml declaration if any and surround what's left with '<x>\" and \n'</x>' and prepend '/x' to the supposed xpath. This i...
[ { "msg_contents": "While writing a shared-library extension for Postgres, I needed to output\nSQL expressions from trees. The only facility for doing that seems to be the\ndeparse code in ruleutils.c, which is really intended for outputing rules\nand constraints, not for producing general SQL, so it didn't do q...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is the doc patch for the recently added probes.\n\n-Robert", "msg_date": "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:29:59 -0600", "msg_from": "Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@Sun.COM>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "DTrace doc patch for new probes in 8.4" }, { "msg_contents": "\nPatc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> KaiGai Kohei wrote:\n>> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>>> KaiGai Kohei wrote:\n>>>> The series of SE-PostgreSQL patches for v8.4 were updated:\n>>>> [1/5] http://sepgsql.googlecode.com/files/sepgsql-core-8.4devel-r1608.patch\n>>>> [2/5] http://sepgsql.googlecode.com/files/sepg...
[ { "msg_contents": "If Kerberos V5 is not installed on a Windows platform, the following\nerror dialog is returned upon attempted installation:\n\nPosgres.exe - Unable to Locate Component\n\nThis application has failed to start because krb5_32.dll was not found.\nRe-installing the application may fix this proble...