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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs there any reason we don't have an pg_get_operatordef() in 8.4, other \nthan nobody writing the code? I don't see any issues in archives ...\n\n--Josh\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:49:55 -0800",
"msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>",
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"msg_contents": "We're using SIGQUIT to signal immediate shutdown request. Upon receiving \nSIGQUIT, postmaster in turn kills all the child processes with SIGQUIT \nand exits.\n\nThis is a problem when child processes use system(3) to call other \nprograms. We use system(3) in two places: to execute archive_c... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4680\nLogged by: Denis Afonin\nEmail address: vadm@itkm.ru\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.6\nOperating system: Linux Debian Lenny\nDescription: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion\nfunctions\nD... |
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"msg_contents": "As discussed at \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/603c8f070902251956s16eee4a7l495d75d3ddccc78a@mail.gmail.com, \nit's time to stop pushing hot standby into 8.4, take the time to work \nout the remaining details, and schedule it for 8.5. It will be a great \nfeature when it's release... |
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"msg_contents": "I was looking into adding new specific SQL:2008 error codes for invalid \nLIMIT and OFFSET values (see attached patch), when I came across an \nexisting error code definition:\n\n#define ERRCODE_INVALID_LIMIT_VALUE MAKE_SQLSTATE('2','2', '0','2','0')\n\nThis definition has been in our source... |
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"msg_contents": "This is an updated and properly autoconf-guarded patch for this \npreviously reported issue:\n\n\"\"\"\nJacek Drobiecki recently sent me a patch which stops postgresql to\nactively violate the system limit of maximum open files\n(RLIMIT_NOFILE) in src/backend/storage/file/fd.c, function\ncoun... |
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"msg_contents": "I looked into Maxim Boguk's complaint here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-02/msg01226.php\nin which the planner preferred to use an index despite the column\nbeing searched on being a lower-order column in that index.\n\nIt turns out that the reason the planner is preferr... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nTemporarily (I hope) disable flattening of IN/EXISTS sublinks that are within\nthe ON clause of an outer join. Doing so is semantically correct but results\nin de-optimizing queries that were structured to take advantage of the sublink\nstyle of execution, as seen ... |
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"msg_contents": "Say I have:\n\nselect foo (\n select foo from bar1\n union all\n select foo from bar2\n union all\n select foo from bar3\n ...\n) a order by foo desc limit X;\n\n\n(and I can give you few other examples around the same 'note', say \nwith when foo=N in outer subselect)\n\nWould anyon... |
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"msg_contents": "The REL7_4 members of the buildfarm are all red this morning,\nwith this symptom in initdb:\n\ncreating template1 database in /usr/src/pg/build-farm-2.17/build/REL7_4_STABLE/pgsql.18854/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1... ok\ninitializing pg_shadow... ok\nenabling unlimited row size f... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWe seem to have acquired a cardinality() function with almost no \ndiscussion, and it has semantics that are a bit surprising to me. I \nshould have thought cardinality(array) would be the total number of \nelements in the array. Instead, it seems it is a synonym for \narray_length(array,1)... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nAttachment contains patch for support mixed and named notation with\nspecial (PostgreSQL) syntax as was talked before.\n\npostgres=# create function dfunc(a int, b int = 1, c int) returns\ntable (a int, b int, c int) as $$\n select $1, $2, $3;\n$$ language sql;\nCREATE FUNCTION\npos... |
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"msg_contents": "FragmentDelimiter is an argument for ts_headline function to separates\ndifferent headline fragments. The default delimiter is \" ... \".\nCurrently if someone specifies the delimiter as an option to the\nfunction, no extra space is added around the delimiter. However, it does\nnot look good ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nCurrent wrapped format doesn't break rows well (after white chars). I\npropose change this behave (to more typical for text):\n\nCurrent:\n\npostgres=# \\pset format wrappedOutput format is wrapped.\npostgres=# select a from test;\n a\n----------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "While reading the GIN code, I just rediscovered that the GIN partial \nmatch support suffers from the same problem that I criticized the \"fast \ninsert\" patch about, and searching the archives I found that I already \ncomplained about that back in April:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pg... |
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"msg_contents": "I have an app that needs to create about 50 partitions per day. I'm planning \nto boost up max_fsm_relations to about 100,000, so I won't have to worry \nabout changing it again until I can upgrade to 8.4 ;-) According to the \ndocs, this should take about 6MB of shmem, which is no big deal,... |
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"msg_contents": "It looks like for row-wise comparison, only the first column is used\nfor generating the expected row count. This can lead to bad plans in\nsome cases.\n\nTest case (takes seconds to minutes hardware depending):\n\ncreate table range as select v as id, v % 500 as key, now() +\n((random() * 1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere is UnusedLock1 in LWLockId enumerations in storage/lwlock.h .\n|\tUnusedLock1,\t\t\t\t/* FreeSpaceMapLock used to be here */\n\nI thought it is for keeping LWLockId same as 8.3 at first,\nbut we've already split SInvalLock to SInvalReadLock and\nSInvalWriteLock. So the IDs are ch... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCurrently, the startup process ignores SIGHUP.\n\nThe attached patch allows the startup process to re-read config file:\nwhen SIGHUP arrives, the startup process also receives the signal\nfrom postmaster and reload the settings in main redo apply loop.\nObviously, this is useful to cha... |
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"msg_contents": "there will be planned maintenance tomorrow(4 March 2009) from 09:00 to \n10:00 CET for the following servers and corresponding services:\n\nbarzan.postgresql.org - affecting:\n\n * xindi.postgresql.org (wiki.postgresql.org)\n * rakhar.postgresql.org (planet.postgresql.org)\n * pentarus.pos... |
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"msg_contents": "hi all,\n\nAfter Andrew corrected the bug I found on pg_restore (-C -m misbehaving \none with the other), I played again yesterday.\n\nbefore the end of restore, I get this :\n\npg_restore: launching item 4202 INDEX idx_typeper_actif\npg_restore: [custom archiver] could not close archive file... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nWho's looking at SEPostgres other than Jaime and Tom? Do we have any \nother reviewers?\n\nWe could get this closed out faster with a couple more.\n\n--Josh\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:53 -0800",
"msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed that if you start from a clean tree, it doesn't work to build\npg_dump because gram.h has not been generated yet:\n\nmake -C ../../../src/backend/parser keywords.o\nmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/alvherre/Code/CVS/pgsql/build/00head/src/backend/parser'\ngcc -O0 -Wall -Wmi... |
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"msg_contents": "After some discussion the pgsql-security team has decided that we must\ntreat this bug as a security issue:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php\nbecause an unprivileged user can crash his backend and thereby create\na denial-of-service situation. There's no point ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4689\nLogged by: \nEmail address: \nxuan--2009.03--submitbug--support--postgresql.org@baldauf.org\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.5\nOperating system: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64\nDescription: Expanding the length of a... |
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"msg_contents": "This is my first patch. I hope it's not stupid.\n\nWe ran into a little issue today where permission/ownership on\npg_hba.conf was accidentally changed to something that the postgres user\ncould not read. When a SIGHUP was issued, the postmaster quit. That was\nkind of a bummer.\n\n From the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt looks like the behavior of regclass is not consistent when table \nnames are quoted. The name is returned without the quotes if the name is \nlower case with eventual trailing numbers, otherwise it is returned with \nquotes.\nSee some examples here:\n\ntpch=# CREATE VIEW test AS... |
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"msg_contents": "Way back in this thread[1] one of the arguments against allowing\nsome version of CREATE SYNONYM was that we couldn't create a synonym for\nan object in a remote database. Will the SQL/MED work make this sort of\nthing a possibility? I realize since it's not standard anyway, there's\nstill a ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am interested in doing a near real time transaction processor. If\nthere is a place to find the specification for the log reader, I would\nbe keen to know it.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:17:20 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Dann Corbit\" <DCorbit@connx.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I´m trying to install postgres 8.3.6 at AIX 5.3, and I got a declaration \nerror that I presume its related to this [1] thread.\n\nHere´s some info:\n- Bladecenter IBM JS22 - PowerPC_POWER6 quad 4GHZ 64 bits\n- AIX 5.3.0\n- Postgresql 8.3.6\n- gcc version 4.2.0\n- GNU Make 3.80\n\nFirst I try... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nSomething that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we\nare horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and\n100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want\nto do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come u... |
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"msg_contents": "I've observed the behavior of column-level privileges and\nrequired permissions with a few elog()s injected.\n\nI noticed rte->selectedCols is incorrect when we make a query\non inherited tables.\n\nSee below:\n-------------------------------------------------\npostgres=# CREATE TABLE t1 (a i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis trivial patch allows PostgreSQL to understand the MUST (Mauritius Summer \nTime) time zone that is in used since 2008-11.\n\nBefore the patch :\n# SELECT '2009-03-15 14:54:15 MUST'::timestamp;\nERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: \"2009-03-15 14:54:15 MUST\"\n\nAfter ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI am trying to implement a PL/PgSQL function as following:\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sort_by_d_idx (nids INT[][], tbl_name VARCHAR)\nRETURNS varchar[]\nAS $$\nDECLARE\n result varchar[];\nBEGIN\n\n EXECUTE 'SELECT ARRAY(SELECT t.idx FROM generate_series(array_lower($1,1), array_u... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI did some cleaning on this feature, and I hope so I solve some Tom's objections\n\nfeatures:\n * PostgreSQL's specific syntax for named parameter: value AS name,\n * Doesn't change rules for defaults,\n * Get defaults for named, mixed notation in planner time.\n\nToDo: enhance docum... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe have come across a theoretical problem with a GIS database,\nwhich I think worth discussing.\n\nThe database table is partitioned, it's already larger than 30TB.\nThe table is partitioned over the PostGIS && (overlaps) operator.\nHowever, when SELECTing from that table, it goes thro... |
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"msg_contents": "I've recently run into a problem with a datatype whose operators are\nbased on functions not marked IMMUTABLE. Although there might be good\nreasons to have such a thing, it seems like it might be a valuable\nwarning message if you create an operator based on an non-IMMUTABLE\nfunction. Comme... |
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"msg_contents": "--On Freitag, März 06, 2009 02:26:12 +0100 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum \n<adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote:\n\n> test=# select is_valid('978-3-937514-69-6'::isbn13);\n> ERROR: invalid check digit for ISBN number: \"978-3-937514-69-6\",\n> should be 7 ROW 1: select is_valid('978-3-937514-69-6'::isbn1... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nWe've been carrying this warning in our docs since 7.4:\n\n\"The key word ABSTIME is ignored for historical reasons: In very old \nreleases of PostgreSQL, invalid values of type abstime were emitted as \nInvalid Abstime. This is no longer the case however and this key word \nwill like... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch contains the probes (originally came from Theo \nSchlossnagle) that were removed from the previous submitted patch. \nZdenek had some concerns about the way the probes were implemented \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01168.php. If \nthere are spe... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am trying to write values of different types to relation using following\ncode.\n\n if(typbyval)\n {\n min_ba = (bytea *) palloc(len+1+VARHDRSZ);\n memcpy(VARDATA(min_ba), &min_datum, len);\n SET_VARSIZE(min_ba, len+V... |
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"msg_contents": "I attached fix which modify foreign_data test. It fix problem with Czech\ncollation when numbers are ordered after letters. I retyped affected\ncolumn to name datatype which uses bitwise cmp.\n\n\n\tZdenek",
"msg_date": "Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:09:10 +0100",
"msg_from": "Zdenek Kotala <Zd... |
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"msg_contents": "We have a customer running a very high-velocity database. We have set\nup a PITR replica that's restoring correctly using JD's PITRtools and\npg_standby.\n\nHowever, upon stopping the recovery and starting it for production (for\n\"switchover\") it promptly gets into these problems:\n\n14895... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHere's a little optimization for the parallel restore code, that \ninhibits reopening the archive file unless the worker will actually need \nto read from the file (i.e. a data member). It seems to work OK on both \nLinux and Windows, and I propose to apply it in a day or two.\n\nI've seen ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt seems that if you load libxml into a backend for whatever reason (say\nyou create a table with a column of type xml) and then create a plperlu\nfunction that \"use XML::LibXML\", we get a segmentation fault.\n\nThis sequence reproduces the problem for me in 8.3:\n\ncreate table xmlc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis message\n\n r = (_QuerySecurityContextToken) (sspictx, &token);\n if (r != SEC_E_OK)\n {\n FreeLibrary(secur32);\n pg_SSPI_error(ERROR,\n gettext_noop(\"could not get security token from context\"), r);\n }\n\nlooks poorly worded. What \"co... |
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"msg_contents": "My Best Regards to all on this Mail List...\n\nI'm using table partition on a large database to improve query performance \nand vacuum management.\nI'm read and understand all in item 5.9 in postgresql online manual.\n\nIn my father table, I have all the columns needed and which one is primar... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIt was one of my worst Friday's finding out that this brain dead\nimplementation of out parameters had been part of fuck up again.\nThis time we did notice it two days too late.\nI wish for a way to use out parameters in functions only through some\npredefined prefix like in triggers ne... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAvoid MSVC breakage caused by my previous commit by not using a variable in\nthe src/bin/scripts Makefile.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/bin/scripts:\n Makefile (r1.41 -> r1.42)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/... |
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"msg_contents": "Some of this behaviour (the plpgsql stuff) could be considered a bug,\nbut given the differences between pg's behaviour and the spec, the\nexpected behaviour probably needs to be thrashed out first (which is\nwhy I didn't post this directly to -bugs).\n\nGiven (in 8.3.6):\n\ncreate type ftype... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a little php-script to help me learn foreign languages\nIn my php-code I have the following line:\n$query=\"update wordlist set known=true where dutch='\".$preceding.\"'\";\n\nThis worked fine on a system running postgres 8.1, however in version\n8.3.5 something changed which makes re... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, load_hba() bails on the first parsing error. It would be \nbetter for the typo-prone sysadmin if it reported ALL errors, and THEN \nbailed out.\n\nThis patch implements that behavior. Tested against 8.4 HEAD this morning.\n\nIdea is to do a similar thing for postgresql.conf. That ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm sending this to -hackers because i don't now if it is a bug or a\nexpected behavior.\n\nI have the view bellow (if the selects bellow shows unformated in this\nemail, i put this in http://guedesoft.net/txt/vw_error.txt too. ):\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE VIEW vw_my_test AS\n SELECT \n... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's an attempt on my part to summarize the status of the remaining patches.\n\n* SE-PostgreSQL. Generally positive feedback from Heikki. New\nversion expected Monday 3/9, with changes to walker.c as requested by\nHeikki. Rest of patch reviewable in the meantime.\n\nhttp://archives.postg... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn answering the recent question on -general I reread README.HOT and had a\ncouple thoughts:\n\n> Practically, we prevent certain transactions from using the new index by\n> setting pg_index.indcheckxmin to TRUE. Transactions are allowed to use\n> such an index only after pg_index.xmin is ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWombat has dyed of internal compiler errors twice lately:\n\nhttp://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=wombat&dt=2009-03-08%2004:30:01\ngistget.c: In function 'gistnext':\ngistget.c:358: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault\nPlease submit a full bug report,\nwith pr... |
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"msg_contents": "ParseConfigFile currently exits on the first parsing error. Changed \nguc_file.l to report all parsing errors before exiting:\n* Moved parse_error: block inside while() loop\n* Removed cleanup_exit: and associated 'goto'\n* Added ereport if ParseConfigFile() returns false\n* changed OK to ok ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI think we need two types of profilers: SQL-based and resource-based.\nWe have some SQL-based profilers like slow-query logs\n(log_min_duration_statement) and contrib/pg_stat_statements in 8.4.\nFor resource-based profilers, we have DTrace probes[1] and continue to\nextend them[2], ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nA guy just reported on pgsql-es-ayuda that he's getting \n\nERROR: item pointer (543108,2) already exists \n\nApparently this message only occurs on GIN, in insertItemPointer\n\nReading that routine I cannot help but wonder ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the following comment to summarize the visibility rules.\n\nI also added a URL about the Halloween problem.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life is a hard dri... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a patch to fix the annoying footgun that is pg_dump -d. Myself and\nmany others I know have all at one time or another done this:\n\npsql -h localhost -U greg -d postgres\n\npg_dump -h localhost -U greg -d postgres > dumpfile\n\nThe latter command silently succeeds, but only throu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI have a few general question about PGSQL's internals of memory management\nand I think this list is appropriate for that. I am interested to find out:\n\n(1) how does PostgreSQL internally use physical memory allocated to it?\n(2) what are different type of allocation units?\n(3) ... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch fixes two issues with parallel restore:\n\n * the static buffer problem in dumputils.c::fmtId() on Windows\n (solution: use thread-local storage)\n * ReopenPtr() is called too often\n\n\nThere is one remaining bug I know of that I can reproduce: we can get \ninto... |
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"msg_contents": "Pg_lesslog, a PgFoundry project to reduce a size of archive log, has\nreleased new pg_lesslog 1.2. This fixes a bug of incorrect handling\nof XLOG_BTREE_SPLIT_R WAL record.\n\nProject home is here: http://pglesslog.projects.postgresql.org/\n\nDownload page is here: http://pgfoundry.org/frs/... |
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"msg_contents": "Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:\n> I was trying to make a scratch build in Koji for orafce package, and it\n> failed:\n\n> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1235602&name=build.log\n\n> I consulted #fedora-devel @ Freenode, and the conclusion was ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was wondering why -Os is not used in place of -O2 while compiling the\nPostgres sources with gcc. I prepared 2 install directories by respectively\nusing -Os and -O2 flags and in the former case it seems to reduce the\ninstall footprint by about 1MB or so. Agreed this is not signific... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am searching way to extensible parser (actually not bison, only\ntransformations). I propose parserHook (transformation part). One\nTom's objection is difference between heooked and unhooked parser. It\nserious problem.\n\nI have one idea - only preloadable libraries. These libs ha... |
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"msg_contents": "After all, re-initdb is much easier than re-build the whole package.\n\nAnd there seems nothing diffcult to implement this. Is that true? \n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:12:35 +0800",
"msg_from": "\"Jacky Leng\" <lengjianquan@163.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I notice that we have in md.c\n\n\tTRACE_POSTGRESQL_SMGR_MD_READ_DONE(forknum, blocknum, reln->smgr_rnode.spcNode, reln->smgr_rnode.dbNode, reln->smgr_rnode.relNode, relpath(reln->smgr_rnode, forknum), nbytes, BLCKSZ);\n\n\tTRACE_POSTGRESQL_SMGR_MD_WRITE_DONE(forknum, blocknum, reln->smgr_rno... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nI was just noticing that doing SET ROLE changes the current session's \npriviledges, but not any runtime configuration parameters (like work_mem \nor statement_timeout) associated with the new role.\n\nThis is as documented (although I want to add a line to SET ROLE docs) \nbut is it ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOK, I've worked out why I am seeing deadlocks etc. from parallel restore \non FK items.\n\nIn my original patch, I looked at all the dependencies of a candidate \nitem ansd compared them with the dependencies of the running items to \nsee if there was a potential locking clash. However, Tom... |
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"msg_contents": "* Row-Update/Delete trigger mechanism allows user defined triggers\n to refer the older tuple updated/deleted.\n* The ACL_TRIGGER privilege allows normal users to set up triggers\n on the relation allowed.\n\nIt means someone with ACL_TRIGGER can set up a trigger which write\nout the given ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there any way to inspect current running statements (optionally full \nstack of these statements)? I've found there is error_context_stack \nvariable in each backend, but it seems there is no way to get this \nvariable from another backend. It will be great if Postgres have such \nkind of ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have tried to find this within both the 8.3.6 docs and searches\nwithin the mailing list archives, but I couldn't find anything.\n\nI am new to postgresql, after having followed it from a distance for\nquite a few years. I have used other systems quite a bit over the\nyears and this data w... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI wish to implement a postgreSQL driver for a lisp-like language\n[arclanguage.org] - it should speak the pg v2 text format protocol via\nsockets I guess.\n\nIm reading the v2 protocol spec, but it would be handy to trace the\nexact text sent back and forth during a psql session - to h... |
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"msg_contents": "On the 2009-01-01 win32 release, I noticed I could no longer debug,\nlike when I'd set a breakpoint I'd immediately get the error message:\n\nsyntax error at or near \",\"\nLINE 1: SELECT * FROM pldbg_set_global_breakpoint(, 55208, NULL,\nNUL...\n\n...and the output pane of the debugger would... |
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"msg_contents": "Most of the Solaris buildfarm members are unhappy this morning.\nIt looks like the ones that are busted have --enable-dtrace,\nwhich points the finger at the dtrace probe changes I made yesterday:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-03/msg00079.php\n\nThose changes work on L... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a patch almost done that adds some obvious but currently\nmissing functionality to hstore, specifically the ability to construct\nan hstore from a record, and the ability to construct one from a pair\nof arrays.\n\nIf there's any other features that people find notably missing from\nhs... |
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"msg_contents": "Whilst poking at bug #4702 I noticed that PG CVS HEAD rejects use of\nAD/BC notation, as well as CC (separate century) fields, in combination\nwith ISO-style day numbers. I don't see the point of this. It's\nhistorically inaccurate, no doubt, but so is use of Gregorian counting.\nSo I sugge... |
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"msg_contents": "This is just the fix for hstore's silent truncation, including\ndoc patch and regression test. Actual new functionality will\nfollow later in another patch.\n\n-- \nAndrew.",
"msg_date": "Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:49:52 +0000",
"msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI am using Postgres to build the prototype in a research project. I need\nto create a new system catalog table with an auto-increment column. For\na ordinary table, CREATE SEQUENCE or a serial type can be used to\nimplement the auto-increment column, but it seems Postgres do not\nsup... |
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"msg_contents": "So, I realized that there does not seem to be an easy way for cross\ncompiling plpython. The configure checks for the locally installed python\ninclude locations and eventually the plpython makefile ends up picking all\nthe local includes too.\nDoes anyone have any experiences on cross-compil... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings to All!\n \nI've tried to find solution of my problem on other pg mailing lists but without bigger effect.\n \nI have a table A in PG. There is also table A in Oracle.\n I want to import specific row from oracle to pg, so i create plperlu function\n \nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION impo... |
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"msg_contents": "Thank you for quick answer.\nI understand, but when I print from plperlu function notices with result of `env` they're the same in both cases (from remote and local client).\nSo it looks like that plperlu function is executing from remote and local clients with the same set of environment var... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI and Teodor have several small, but useful patches for text search:\n\n1. Support of filtering dictionaries and unaccent dictionary/function.\n This is often requested feature, which solves, for example,\n problem with correct headlines for text with accents.\n See exam... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am playing with custom typmod. I did simple wrapper over varchar type.\n\nPG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(mvarcharin);\n\nDatum\nmvarcharin(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\n{\nelog(NOTICE, \">>>>>>>>%d\", PG_GETARG_INT32(2));\n return DirectFunctionCall3(varchar,\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "We added the following commit in 8.4:\n\n\t/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c\n tgl\n\t Reject year zero during datetime input, except when it's a 2-digit\n\t year (then it means 2000 AD). Formerly we silently interpreted t... |
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"msg_contents": "About a year ago, you talked to the PostgreSQL people about some problem with Solaris getopt_long, and they changed the build to use the internal getopt_long instead of the Solaris one?\n\nWhat was the problem with Solaris getopt_long? Does the problem still exist in Solaris 10?\n\nMy users ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nPlease ignore this message.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nThe PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:42:16 -0400",
"msg_from": "Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>",
"msg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\ngnu gettext have support for correct plural form translation\n(http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html),\nbut postgresql does not use it. why not ?\nmaybe it have some problem in some supported OS ? if not, can it implemented ?\nmaybe someone already... |
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"msg_contents": "I've seen a couple of reports that the new SSL error messages on windows\nlook strange with paths the wrong way. For example:\n\nroot certificate file \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\<SNIP>\\Application\nData/postgresql/root.crt\" does not exist.\n\nThe issue being the mix of forward and backwa... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it a bug or by design? I could not find what behaviour is correct for \nthese statements in PL/pgSQL:\n\nThis function just executes a string.\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _EXEC(query VARCHAR)\nRETURNS VOID AS $$\nBEGIN\n EXECUTE query;\nEND;\n$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';\n\n1. Works ok.\nBEGIN ... |
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"msg_contents": "It's still broken:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gothic_moth&dt=2009-03-17%2021:06:01\n\nI remain of the opinion that supporting the regression tests in a locale\nthat works like this is more trouble than it's worth.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 18... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI installed postgresql 8.3.5 with these commands:\n- ./configure --enable-thread-safety (I need this because of dbt2)\n- make\n- make install\n\nI executed initdb. It's ok. I changed \"postgresql.conf\" file:\nlisten_addresses = '*'.\nSo, when I started postgresql, I receive these ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4721\nLogged by: Eric Thompson\nEmail address: eric.thompson@salliemae.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.7\nOperating system: RedHat ES 5.2\nDescription: All sub-tables incorrectly included in search plan for... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am sending samples of possible future modules based on transformationHook\n\nregards\nPavel Stehule",
"msg_date": "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:42:21 +0100",
"msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Pilot Project: transforma... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's an attempt. Let me know what you think. I had thought to\nmaybe just write a script to generate Mediawiki output and then post\nit on the wiki where anyone could edit it. But that's not going to\nwork if you're going to continue adding to this, or at least not\nwithout more thought ... |
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"msg_contents": "Note that I'm talking here about the names of the C functions, not\nthe SQL names.\n\nThe existing hstore has some very dubious choices of function names\n(for non-static functions) in the C code; functions like each(),\ndelete(), fetchval(), defined(), tconvert(), etc. which all look to me\n... |
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"msg_contents": "The open items list for 8.4 has\n\n* problems with Windows global namespace\n\n\nI propose we move this over to the TODO list instead. We are no worse\noff than we are in previous versions, and we've had *zero* bug reports\nrelated to this issue.\n\nBasically, we have a small window of faile... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthis is a small update to the first paragraph of the WAL configuration \nchapter, going into more detail WRT redo vs. checkpoint records, since \nthe underlying behavior is currently only deducible from the source. I'm \nnot perfectly sure if I got everything right, so feel free to cha... |
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