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"msg_contents": "This code:\n\n CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo() returns boolean as $$\n DECLARE\n have_rec record;\n want_rec record;\n BEGIN\n have_rec := row(1, 2);\n want_rec := row(3, 5);\n RETURN have_rec IS DISTINCT FROM want_rec;\n END;\n $$ ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I am currently running PG version 8.3.1. I am working in a test \nenvironment. I have a situation where the WAL file needed at startup no \nlonger exists and I really don't care about it, therefore, I just want \nto reset the logs and go from there. However, after the pg_resetxlog, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I was testing pg_migrator the other day on the regression database,\nand found out that it doesn't work:\n\nRestoring database schema psql:/home/postgres/pg_migrator_dump_db.sql:4545: ERROR: column \"........pg.dropped.1........\" of relation \"dropcolumnchi... |
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"msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> I realize there is the perception that the large patches that were\n> eventually rejected held up the release, but for all the patches I can\n> think of, they were not rejected immediately _because_ we had other\n> valid patches to work on. Once all valid patches were applied... |
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"msg_contents": "Let the breakage begin ...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:44 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThere's been a lot of discussion/argument around how to handle the last \ncommitfest, but there seems to be a total consensus that we want to have \nthe first CF on July 15th.\n\nI'd like Robert Haas to be the CF Manager for that commitfest if he's \navailable. I can help by runnin... |
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"msg_contents": "hello,\n\ni made a small patch which i found useful for my personal tasks.\nit would be nice to see this in 8.5. if not core then maybe contrib.\nit transforms a tsvector to table format which is really nice for text \nprocessing and comparison.\n\ntest=# SELECT * FROM tsvcontent(to_tsvector(... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd like to return to the project I suggested here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/18653.1239741426@sss.pgh.pa.us\nof getting rid of plpgsql's private lexer and having it use the core\nlexer instead. This will require making the core lexer re-entrant,\nwhich is not possible with ... |
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"msg_contents": "... is now the required version to rebuild configure.\n\nOther than that, nothing changes.\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:59:08 +0300",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
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"msg_contents": "I've been wondering whether anyone else would want to use the\nfunctions we wrote to extract text from PDF documents stored in bytea\ncolumns. If so, I would need to sort out the problems I've been\nhaving with builds through the PGXS techniques. Here's the directory,\nafter a successful bu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was having a look at this snippet:\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Google_Translate\nand it turns out that it doesn't work if the result contains non-ASCII\nchars. Does anybody know how to fix it?\n\nalvherre=# select gtranslate('en', 'es', 'he');\nERROR: plpython: function \"gtra... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI guess todo items marked as [D] (Done) should be removed now... right?\n\n-- \nAtentamente,\nJaime Casanova\nSoporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL\nAsesoría y desarrollo de sistemas\nGuayaquil - Ecuador\nCel. +59387171157\n",
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"msg_contents": "Per Dave Page's request of this morning, my CommitFest management\napplication now has a real hostname (see subject line). I have also\nsent Dave an email with details of the install process and location of\nfiles, per his request (let me know if there's somewhere else those\ndetails should ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg00191.php\n\nIn line with Robert's suggestion, I submit the signal multiplexing patch\nas self-contained one.\n\nThis patch provides support for multiplexing SIGUSR1 signal.\nThe upcoming synchronous replication patch needs a sign... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg00191.php\n\nIn line with Robert's suggestion, I submit non-blocking pqcomm patch\nas a self-contained one.\n\nThis patch provides support for non-blocking communication between\na frontend and a backend. The upcoming synchronous ... |
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"msg_contents": "hello,\n\nthis patch has not made it through yesterday, so i am trying to send it \nagain.\ni made a small patch which i found useful for my personal tasks.\nit would be nice to see this in 8.5. if not core then maybe contrib.\nit transforms a tsvector to table format which is really nice for... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI got into a situation I don't know how the get out ..\nFirst, I could not access to my biggest database in postgre anymore \nbecause it suddenly gave the error (after long time working with no \nproblems)\n\n>>>> ERROR: could not open relation 1663/392281/530087: No such file \n... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nWe are very much in need of round-robin reviewers for the next\nCommitFest. If you're wondering whether you are qualified to be a\nround-robin reviewer, the answer is almost certainly yes. In fact,\nthere's a good chance that the answer is yes even if you are pretty\nsure you aren't... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nin a continued effort for better Informix ESQL/C compatibility,\nwe added the \"string\" pseudo-type handling to ECPG.\nThis type in ESQL/C is documented as:\n\n--------------------------------------------------\nThe string Data Type\n\nThe string data type is an ESQL/C data type that ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI can't to find reason of my problem. I have a varlena type. This type\nworks well with plain storage, but this raise some random exception\nwith extended storage. It finish on Assert((data - start) ==\ndata_size)[heaptuple.c]; I checked - when I return varlena from in\nfunction, th... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's a copy of the merge-append patch that I sent months ago merged up to\nhead. I haven't really added any additional functionality since then.\n\nHeikki suggested I separate the Append and MergeAppend nodes into two executor\nnodes. I had that half done in my tree but looking it over it l... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's a copy of the merge-append patch that I sent months ago merged up to\nhead. I haven't really added any additional functionality since then.\n\nHeikki suggested I separate the Append and MergeAppend nodes into two executor\nnodes. I had that half done in my tree but looking it over it l... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am testing some of my queries with 8.4 and find some performance decline.\n\n8.4 always execute functions in this subquery, even if result do not need it.\n8.3 correctly optimize this and do not execute this functions, here is example:\n\ncreate function foo() returns int language sql as ... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a follow up to my old proposal here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00404.php\n\nTop pointed out a few problems here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00427.php\n\nHere are my updated answers:\n\n1. Not a problem with the new desig... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nUsing sync_file_range(2) as wal_sync_method might speed up\nthe XLOG flush. So, I made the patch to introduce the new valid\nvalue (sync_file_range) to wal_sync_method, and performed the\ncomparative performance measurement of fdatasync vs\nsync_file_range using this patch. The patch i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nA new feature \"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT\" is\nsubmitted to the next commetfest:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/603c8f070905041913r667b3f32oa068d758ba5f17e1@mail.gmail.com\n\nbut I have another approach for the plan stability issues. It might conflic... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nHere is the oprofile results of pgbench.\n\nCPU: P4 / Xeon with 2 hyper-threads, speed 2793.55 MHz (estimated)\nCounted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events\nwith a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000\nsamples % app name symbol name\n134521 6.8312 ipmi_si ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis one is still in the TODO (and marked as not done). but i think\nthis is partially done (at least the last entry should be removed),\nright?\n\nImprove ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE\n * Re: idea: storing view source in system catalogs\n * modifying views\n * Re: pat... |
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"msg_contents": "Howdy Hackers,\n\nIs there a published maintenance policy somewhere? Something that says \nfor how long the project supports minor releases of PostgreSQL. For \nexample, does 7.4 still get bug fixes and minor releases? If not, how \ndoes one know when support for a major version has been d... |
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"msg_contents": "I recently had a puzzler, which involved this sort of accidental parser error:\n\nCREATE TABLE foo (a int, b text, PRIMARY KEY (a, b));\n\nCREATE TABLE bar (x int, y text, FOREIGN KEY (q, r) REFERENCES foo (m, n));\nERROR: column \"q\" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist\n\nv... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nwe changed url from www.pgsql.cz to www.postgres.cz. Please, actualise\nlink on http://www.postgresql.org/community/international\n\nthank you\n\nPavel Stehule\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:42:38 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "Isn't it a bad idea that this from pgxs.mk does not return a non-zero status?\n\ncheck:\n @echo \"'make check' is not supported.\"\n @echo \"Do 'make install', then 'make installcheck' instead.\"\n\nOr is something relying on a nonexisting test suite passing successfully?\n",
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"msg_contents": "I think we should try to do something about join_collapse_limit,\nfrom_collapse_limit, and geqo_threshold for 8.5.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/9134.1243289706@sss.pgh.pa.us\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/603c8f070905251800g5b86d2dav26eca7f417d15dbf@mail.gmail.com\... |
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"msg_contents": "Our manual says we can use pgcrypto functions or encrypted filesystems\nfor data encryption.\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/encryption-options.html\n\nHowever, they are not always the best approaches in some cases.\n\nFor pgcrypto functions, user's SQL must contain keyword strings... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n \nI repeated the entire installation process, just to make sure I had followed the right steps.\nHave dowloaded the source and then built it using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP.\n \nThings worked fine, with the expected messages... \nTill, as before, I issued the createdb command\nIt... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a feature I would find useful, and I wanted to learn more\nabout the database internals, so I thought I would give it a go as an\nexercise.\n\nI added 2 new index insert modes to support deferrable. During the\ninitial index insert, if the constraint is deferrable, it does a\n\"partia... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nHere's a patch(WIP) that implements INSERT .. RETURNING inside a CTE. \nShould apply cleanly against CVS head.\n\nThe INSERT query isn't rewritten so rules and default values don't work. \nRecursive CTEs don't work either.\n\nRegards,\nMarko Tiikkaja",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt seems our makefiles fail to install fmgroids.h by \"make install\" in a\nVPATH build.\n\nThe reason is that they do this (src/include/Makefile)\n\n for dir in $(SUBDIRS); do \\\n cp $(srcdir)/$$dir/*.h '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_server)'/$$dir/ || exit; \\\n chmod $(INSTAL... |
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"msg_contents": "Pgbench is a famous tool to measure postgres performance, but nowadays\nit does not work well because it cannot use multiple CPUs. On the other\nhand, postgres server can use CPUs very well, so the bottle-neck of\nworkload is *in pgbench*.\n\nMulti-threading would be a solution. The attached ... |
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"msg_contents": "Having been helping someone out on IRC with what looked initially like\nan index corruption problem, it turns out to be (almost certainly) a\nlocale initialization error.\n\nenvironment: debian packaged 8.4.0\n\nscenario: restoring a dump results in incorrect indexes for some\nspecific tables... |
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"msg_contents": "The recent bug report about CheckMyDatabase() failing to use\npg_perm_setlocale() led me to look for other uses of setlocale() that\nmight be wrong. I found two fishy calls in restore_backend_variables().\nI am thinking though that the correct fix is to delete them and get\nrid of the overhe... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch is the updated-to-current-HEAD version of the hstore stuff\nI did some months back. It is believed to be fully API-compatible with\nthe old hstore, though it has a different storage layout. Dump and\nrestore of an old db should work (the new module provides all the\nfunction names ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Postgres Hackers,\n\nWe have begun testing Postgres 8.4 on windows, beginning with the installer. We have noticed that several additional modules which are usually installed through the Application Stack Wizard are missing from the list of available modules like PostGIS or the developer... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI am very pleased to announce that I have 13 volunteers to be\nRound-Robin Reviewers in addition to myself. Thanks to all who have\nstepped up to the plate. However, we have a lot more than 13 patches\nfor this CommitFest, so more reviewers are still needed. In\nparticular, we co... |
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"msg_contents": "2009/7/7 Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>:\n> We're now about a week away from the start of the July 2009\n> commitfest, and we need to make a decision about whether to start\n> using http://commitfest.postgresql.org to manage it, or punt to the\n> next commitfest and continue to use the wiki... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been poking at the project of using a reentrant flex scanner for\nPG. In order to make this work in a non-klugy way, it turns out that\nwe have to also upgrade our Bison parser to be a \"pure parser\" ---\notherwise Bison doesn't want to pass the additional scanner pointer to\nyylex(). ... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/polygon-0.2.gz\n Patch fixes wrong algorithms of contains and overlap operations over polygons.\n Regression tests contain an examples of such polygons.\n\n-- \nTeodor Sigaev E-mail: teodor@sigaev.ru\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Am I the only one having problems building 8.1 from git? (Am I the only one\nbuilding 8.1 from git?) In a clean repository, I've checked out REL8_1_STABLE,\nconfigured with only one argument, to set --prefix, and make gives me this:\n\nmake[4]: Entering directory\n`/home/josh/devel/pgsrc/pg81... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nGabrielle of PDXPUG volunteered that PUG to hold a \"code sprint\" in \ncoordination with a commitfest sometime soon. For that event, the \nPDXPUG members would take on a dozen or so patches, compile and review \nthem and submit the results.\n\nThe reason I mention this here is that ... |
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"msg_contents": "We just ran into a case where we were performing two concurrent index \nbuilds on two different tables in two different schemas in the same \ndatabase (no relational constraints between them).\n\nOne of the index builds locked on the other.\n\nThe first index build started...\nThe second in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWell, best to write this way:\n\nGoal : query splitted to base elements \t\t\nResult : xml response from server\nClient : select pg_reparse_query(<query>);\nTarget: 8.4 version\n\nHow : modification of ruleutiles.c\nNot done : UNION etc. \nNot done : as builtin function, I don't know h... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthere is fix for bug Re: [BUGS] BUG #4907: stored procedures and changed tables\n\nregards\nPavel Stehule\n\n\n2009/7/10 Sergey Burladyan <eshkinkot@gmail.com>:\n> Sergey Burladyan <eshkinkot@gmail.com> writes:\n>\n>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:\n>>\n>> > Mich... |
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"msg_contents": "On occasion, I would have found it useful if a SIGHUP didn't only log *that* \nit reloaded the configuration files, but also logged *what* had changed \n(postgresql.conf changes in particular, not so much interested in \npg_hba.conf). Especially in light of the common mistake of forgetting t... |
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"msg_contents": "Before I forget, here is a quick brain dump on $SUBJECT.\n\nThe latest release of flex is currently 2.5.35. 2.5.33 is pretty\nwidespread as well, and there's at least one 2.5.34 in the buildfarm.\nThere was no 2.5.32. 2.5.31 and (possibly) earlier versions contain\nan extremely nasty securi... |
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"msg_contents": "Implementing index-only scans requires a few changes:\n\n1. indexam API changes\n\nThere's currently no way to return data from an index scan. You only get\nTID pointers to heap tuples.\n\n2. Make visibility map crash-safe\n\nAfter crash, the visibility map can currently be left in state wher... |
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"msg_contents": "At the moment, amgettuple only returns pointers to heap tuples. There is\nno way to return data from the index tuples. That needs to be changed to\nsupport index-only scans.\n\nI propose that we split index_getnext into two steps: fetching the next\nmatch from the index (index_next()), and fe... |
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"msg_contents": "Is that is the wished behavoir?\n\ntemplate1=# SELECT 1='1';\n ?column?\n----------\n t\n(1 row)\n\n*template1=# SELECT 1 LIKE '1';\nERROR: operator does not exist: integer ~~ unknown at character 10*\nHINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You \nmight need to add ex... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn some cases, we have SQL being submitted that has superfluous\nself-joins. An example would be\n\nselect count(*) \nfrom foo1 a, foo1 b \nwhere a.c1 = b.c1 /* PK join */\nand a.c2 = 5 \nand b.c2 = 10;\n\nWe can recognise that <a> and <b> are the same table because they are\njoined on the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is a preliminary request for comments on obtaining a function call\nstack. I've been trying to dodge the issue by exporting elog.c internal\nstate (errcontext), but that turns out to be unfeasible and it's such a\nhorrid kludge anyway.\n\nSo, the idea is to have a stack maintaine... |
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"msg_contents": "For those of you who weren't involved in the Ottawa developer meeting, I think \nwe should start by explaining that beginning with the 8.5 development cycle, \nwe are planning to make regular alpha releases, to make early testing easier \nfor more users. This will happen at the end of every ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been looking at getting rid of the way we currently ship the \ndocumentation as a tarball within the tarball.\n\nThe first issue I encountered is that when you ship prebuilt files in a \ntarball, you want to make sure the make dependencies are correctly satisfied. \nFor example, we p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi -\nAfter what seemed to be a normal successful pg_migrator migration from 8.3.7\nto 8.4.0, in either link or copy mode, vacuumlo fails on both our production\nand qa databases:\n\nJul 1 11:17:03 db2 postgres[9321]: [14-1] LOG: duration: 175.563 ms\n statement: DELETE FROM vacuum_l WHERE ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nAs previously announced, CommitFest 2009-07 will begin on July 15th.\nFor the sake of clarity, I'd like to propose that the deadline for\npatch submission be fixed at:\n\nWed Jul 15 00:00:00 UTC 2009\n\n...which is just under 26.5 hours from now. Barring objections, at\nthat time, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried the latest pg_migrator\n(http://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/2291/pg_migrator-8.4.tgz) to\nmigrate a database from an 8.3.7 to an 8.4.0 cluster. It finished with\na success message, and the schema and all tables seem to have been\nmigrated correctly.\n\nHowever, all of the sequences... |
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"msg_contents": "I already posted the patch to satisfy quals using data from index\nyesterday\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4A5B5386.3070100@enterprisedb.com),\nbut here's some more thoughts about the patch:\n\n1, The patch adds a flag to IndexScanDesc (needIndexTuple) that you can\nset to reque... |
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"msg_contents": "(submitting review slightly earlier than start of commitfest)\n\nKedar,\n\nThank you very much for the patch. Well done for getting to this stage.\nThere is definitely much support for your work. \n\nMy thoughts after initial review are fairly wide ranging. Overall, the\npatch is not ready/cl... |
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"msg_contents": "I updated Sampling profiler patch to be applied to HEAD cleanly.\n\nBasic concept of the patch is same as DTrace probes:\nCall pgstat_push_condition(condition) before a operation and call\npgstat_pop_condition() at the end of the operation. Those functions\nshould be light-weight because they... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThis patch using VirtualAlloc()/VirtualFree() to avoid failing in\nreattach to shared memory.\n\nCan this be added to CommitFest ?\n\n\nRecent threads in pgsql-bugs are\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-07/msg00036.php\n\nThis fix is almost same as previous patch. de... |
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"msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:\n> > > Tilmann Singer wrote:\n> > >> However, all of the sequences were at the initial values and not\n> > >> bumped up to the last used value as I would have expected. The first\n> > >> nextval call on any sequence... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOn Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Fujii Masao<masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n>> This patch no longer applies cleanly. Can you rebase and resubmit it\n>> for the upcoming CommitFest? It might also be good to go through and\n>> clean up the various places where you have trailing whitespa... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nattached is our patch for CVS HEAD, which adds prefix support for synonym\ndictionary.\n\nQuick example:\n\n\n> cat $SHAREDIR/tsearch_data/synonym_sample.syn\npostgres pgsql\npostgresql pgsql\npostgre pgsql\ngogle googl\nindices index*\n\n=# create text search dicti... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nwe'd like to introduce filtering dictionaries support for text search \nand new contrib module unaccent, which provides useful example of\nfiltering dictionary. It finally solves the known problem of \nincorrect generation of headlines of text with accents.\n\nAlso, this module p... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI was just wondering idly today if we could usefully build a number of \nindexes at the same time in a single pass over the heap, or could it be \nthat we wouldn't gain much? I haven't even got around to thinking about \nany syntax for it.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
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"msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nattached is a simple patch that extends the functionality of dict_xsyn\nextended synonym dictionary (from contrib) by adding the following\nconfiguration option:\n\n- \"mode\" option controls the current dictionary mode of operation. Can be one of: \n\n - in \"simple\" mode it ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFor a very long time I have thought that it would be useful to have some \nsort of navigation menu for the docs similar to what you get with \ndoxygen. I had a brief look at it today but I am lost for a place to \nstart with it. Does anyone sufficiently understand how the docs work to \nbe ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nthis is first public version of our DefaultACLs patch as described on \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/DefaultACL .\nIt allows GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be inherited by objects based on \nschema permissions at create type by use of ALTER SCHEMA foo SET DEFAULT \nPRIVILEGES ON TAB... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nQuery planning via GEQO currently can yield a different plan on every\ninvokation of the planner due to its non-exhaustive nature.\n\nThis often can be inconvenient because at times there may be a very\nbad plan. It also makes it very hard to reproduce a problem with GEQO.\n\n\n[PATCH ... |
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"msg_contents": "The time is now Wed Jul 15 00:18:00 UTC 2009 and CommitFest 2009-07 is\nnow closed. Please submit all new patches at:\n\nhttp://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open\n\nReviewing assignments will be sent to pgsql-rrreviewers in the next\nfew hours. I believe everyone who has... |
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"msg_contents": "For reasons that can only be described as masochistic, I took it upon\nmyself to merge the Hot Standby patch up to CVS HEAD during my\nvacation last week. Here's what I did:\n\n1. Downloaded norecoveryprocs-1.patch from\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/49A64D73.6090302@enterprisedb... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was thinking that could be useful to have a guc to indicate some\ncommand to execute on rotation of logs (ok, i'm not inventing \"warm\nwater\" here, but...).\nit could be useful for:\n- load data from a csvlog to a table\n- execute some magic to analyze logs\n- archive logs (compres... |
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"msg_contents": "I am reviewing the following patch:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/8e2dbb700907071138y4ebe75cw81879aa513cf82a3@mail.gmail.com\n\nIn order to provide useful feedback, I would like to reach a consensus\non a possible index AM API change to make it easier to support\ndeferrable con... |
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"msg_contents": "Before i duplicate work does anyone have a MySQL.whynot or Postgres\nversus MySQL comparison table?\n\n-- \ngreg\nhttp://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:20:35 +0100",
"msg_from": "Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI did some test - median via window function - I found probably some\nbad optimised code. I found two methods - Celko and Itzik Ben-Gan.\nBen-Gan methoud should to be faster - there is one sort less, but in\npractice - it is 2 times slower.\n\ncreate table x(a integer);\ninsert into... |
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"msg_contents": "Today on IRC, someone was wondering what the preferred method of\nexporting data in a specific encoding via COPY was. They reply was\nwrapping the COPY command in \"set client_encoding='foo';\", which made\nme wonder how hard it would be to add an additional WITH parameter to\nthe actual COPY... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nas asked by Michael Meskes, I have split up our ECPG patchset:\n1. dynamic cursorname (DECLARE :cursorname ..., etc)\n2. SQLDA support in Informix compat mode (C structure used for\n descriptor and data query)\n3. DESCRIBE OUTPUT support for named and sqlda descriptors\n4. \"string... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm new to the postgresql codebase, working on a patch to 8.3.7 to\nallow enums to accept variable length values for David Andersen (see\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-07/msg00226.php\nfor more details). The code I wrote compiles, but breaks in a few\nplaces... |
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"msg_contents": "I recently got a complaint from an OpenSuSE user, which had problems using \nPostgreSQL 8.4 installed by a broken RPM from build service. The init \nscript used initdb --auth=\"ident sameuser\" accidentally, to initialize the \ncluster (this seems to be the practice in older versions before, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've spent the past several days working on the project I suggested here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/18653.1239741426@sss.pgh.pa.us\nof getting rid of plpgsql's private lexer and having it use the core\nlexer instead. I've run out of time for that and need to go focus on\ncom... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm reviewing this patch:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/3f0b79eb0907022341m1d36a841x19c3e2a5a6906b5b@mail.gmail.com\n\nThis one applies almost cleanly, except for a minor hunk in elog.c and\npostinit.c\nCompiles and pass regression tests (i tried both steps in a debian\nle... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Robert, Hi all,\n\nThe patch applies cleanly and works as intended - no surprise here. After the \nchanges the documentation is at least as easy to understand as before and the \ncode changes look sensible\nAlso not surprisingly that's not the area I expected problems I guess ;-)\n\nFor pe... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nToday I got bitten a bit, trying to write C function for postgresql, \nthat also includes some of company's internal stuff. Needles to say, \nour stuff defines BOOL, as well as postgresql's c.h include file.\n\nNow, for us, we will probably change it, but is there any reason fo... |
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"msg_contents": "Revision to previous hstore patch to fix (and add tests for) some edge\ncase bugs with nulls or empty arrays.\n\n-- \nAndrew (irc:RhodiumToad)",
"msg_date": "Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:17:30 +0100",
"msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>",
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"msg_contents": "\n\n--On 16. Juli 2009 13:32:03 +0100 Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> \nwrote:\n\n> oh, another thing.\n> stdbool is C99 standard feature. Not gcc extension.\n\nThere might be compiler versions out there which claims to be C99 but do \nnot provide full compliant include headers. SUN... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nWell, after an hour of tinkering with docbook DTDs and openjade I've \ngiven up on building docs for the patch I was reviewing on my Mac.\n\nIf I'm encountering this difficulty building docs, so are many of the \nother new patch reviewers. Which means we're *not* reviewing docs for \... |
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"msg_contents": "On the admin list there was a request for an application name\ncolumn in pg_stat_activity.\n \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2009-07/msg00095.php\n \nThis is available in a lot of other DBMS products, can be useful to\nDBAs, and seems pretty cheap and easy. Could we get that ont... |
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"msg_contents": "I started looking at this patch and it looks pretty good as far as it\ngoes. But I think we can do a lot more. It seems to me the cases where\nforeign key relationships exist are likely to be really big use cases.\n\nI have one big worry though. Currently you're detecting the unique\nproperty... |
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"msg_contents": "Rebased to correct for pg_indent changes.\n \nApplies cleanly.\nCompiles cleanly.\nPasses regression tests.\nComments and format look good.\nNo documentation changes needed.\nNo regression test changes needed.\n \nPerformance tests to follow in a day or two.\n \n-Kevin",
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"msg_contents": "Friendly greetings !\n\nI'd like to have a higher compression ratio on our base.\n\n From pg 8.3 documentation :\nThe TOAST code is triggered only when a row value to be stored in a\ntable is wider than TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD bytes (normally 2 kB).\nThe TOAST code will compress and/or move fie... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\none of our clients wants to port their application suite\nfrom Informix to PostgreSQL, they use constructs like\n\nSELECT * INTO :tablerec FROM table ...\n\nwhere \"tablerec\" mirrors the table fields in a C struct.\n\nCurrently ECPG dumps core on this, more exactly aborts on it\nin ec... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just had a case of the 'could not reattach to shared memory'\nproblem, and I thought I'd pass on my findings in case it helps.\n\nI found that it was trying to access shared memory at 0x1610000\n\nI used Process Explorer to have a look at the DLLs used by existing\ncopies of Postgres to ... |
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