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"msg_contents": "\n-- \n Richard Huxton\n Archonet Ltd\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:01:42 +0100",
"msg_from": "Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>",
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"msg_subject": "OT: Testing - please ignore"
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"msg_contents": " \nI use postgres 8.1.X.\n \nIs there a way to add code completion when entering:\n \nset search_path = xyz\n \nI love the code completion for SQL. It would be really nice to have \nit for the \"set search_path\".\n\nThanks,\n\nLance Campbell\nProject Manager/Software Architect/DBA\nWeb Serv... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI haven't paid much attention to the new commitfest app until now. \nGenerally, it looks good, but I'm wondering if we should have a \n\"committer\" field.\n\nI'm thinking of picking up at least the following items if/when they are \nready, but such a thing might help us to make sure we don... |
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"msg_contents": "Teodor, et al,\n\nThis is a review of the Polygons patch:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4A5761A2.8070602@sigaev.ru\n\nThere hasn't been any discussion, at least that I've been able to find.\n\nContents & Purpose\n==================\nThis small patch primarily fixes a couple polyg... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA256\n\nForgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but...\nI am signed up to review, for example:\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=107\n\nIf I click on the link for patch, I go to here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/messag... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking into Frank van Vugt's report here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-07/msg00222.php\n\nThe cause of the problem is that while printing the value of the\nROW(NEW.*) expression, we acquire a tupledesc refcount on the\ntable's rowtype descriptor, and this refcoun... |
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"msg_contents": "During the review of the patch about improved PL/Python data type support, I \nfigured this could be somewhat simplified if PL/Python used the errcontext() \nmechanisms instead of passing the function name around everywhere in order to \nuse it in error messages.\n\nI have produced the attach... |
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"msg_contents": "Consider the following schema:\n\n create table foo_archive (a int, b timestamp);\n create index foo_archive_idx on foo_archive(b);\n CREATE TABLE foo_archive_2007_01_01 (CONSTRAINT\nfoo_archive_2007_01_01_b_check CHECK (((b >= '2007-01-01'::date) AND (b <\n'2007-01-02'::date)))) INH... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nattached you can find a very small patch for the help in psql (\\?). It's \npossible to use \\du also as \\du+ . The [+] was missing in help.\n\nI was asking about this at the general list and Peter E. was asking me \nto provide a patch. I sent the patch there but realized now, that th... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI was just looking over the commitfest, and wanted to be able to sort\ntables. Fortunately, Somebody Else(TM) has already written and tested\nthe code.\n\nPlease find enclosed a patch to do same.\n\nIt's untested because I couldn't quite figure out what to install and\nconfigure in... |
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"msg_contents": "I took the 8.4.0 release tarball and tried to build it on one of our\nproduction servers which is currently running 8.3.7. We routinely\nbuild multiple versions of PostgreSQL on a machine, using --prefix to\nplace them. Something seems broken for 8.4.0. Not sure how best to\nproceed.\n \nI... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jaime\nCasanova<jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:\n>>\n>> i wasn't able to repeat this on a new instalation and of\n>> course i can't swear this is your patch fault...\n>>\n> this is not your patch fault but an existing bug, i repeat that\n> behaviour in an... |
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"msg_contents": "I spent a bit of time looking into why GEQO behaves so miserably on the\ntest case Andres Freund presented here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/200907091700.43411.andres@anarazel.de\n\nThe difficulty seems to be that the problem query is full of join order\nrestrictions; in partic... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nAt this point, SE-PostgreSQL has taken up a *lot* of community\nresources, not to mention an enormous and doubtless frustrating amount\nof Kohei-san's time and effort, thus far without a single committed\npatch, or even a consensus as to what it should (or could) do.\n\nRather than ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n My research project is based on PostgreSQL. I want to get the\nPost-Schema-Validation-Infoset (PSVI)\nof an XML document being stored. However, the current libxml2 library does\nnot support PSVI at all. So\nI have to use the Xerces C++ library in PostgreSQL. But I wonder if it is... |
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"msg_contents": "I thought we wanted psql to be able to connect to older databases and\nreport \\d values properly. I see 8.4 psql \\d is not working for\nsequences in 8.3 databases:\n\n\t$ psql regression\n\tpsql (8.4.0, server 8.3.7)\n\tWARNING: psql version 8.4, server version 8.3.\n\t Some psql f... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRewrite GEQO's gimme_tree function so that it always finds a legal join\nsequence, even when the input \"tour\" doesn't lead directly to such a sequence.\nThe stack logic that was added in 2004 only supported cases where relations\nthat had to be joined to each othe... |
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"msg_contents": "Normally I'd try a small lookup table (1-byte index to 1-byte value) in this case. But if the bitscan instruction were even close in performance, it'd be preferable, due to its more-reliable caching behavior; it should be possible to capture this at code-configuration time (aligned so as to p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile trying to build a custom error reporting function for one of our \nclients we came across the fact that PL/Perl doesn't set errcontext \nthat we relied on to get the traceback of running functions. Exactly \nthe same problem with PL/Python was fixed recently by Peter Eisentrau... |
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"msg_contents": "Given:\n\nselect * from test1 full join test2 using (a,b) where b=1;\n\n8.3.1 and CVS HEAD produce a plan in which the b=1 condition is pushed\ndown into each side of the join, but 8.3.6 and 8.3.7 do not.\n\nIs this intentional? I wasn't able to identify anything applicable in\nthe release no... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nactually I discovered that using \\du and \\dg in psql is providing the \nsame result:\n\nbook=# \\du\n********* QUERY **********\nSELECT r.rolname, r.rolsuper, r.rolinherit,\n r.rolcreaterole, r.rolcreatedb, r.rolcanlogin,\n r.rolconnlimit,\n ARRAY(SELECT b.rolname\n FRO... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nTweak TOAST code so that columns marked with MAIN storage strategy are\nnot forced out-of-line unless that is necessary to make the row fit on a\npage. Previously, they were forced out-of-line if needed to get the row\ndown to the default target size (1/4th page).\... |
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"msg_contents": "A brief update on our progress so far. We started with 71 patches of\nwhich 12 have been committed, 9 returned with feedback, 2 rejected,\nand 1 bumped to the next CommitFest. In other words, we've closed out\njust over a third of the total number of patches in the first week,\nwhich is gre... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe same mail as before in a new thread, per Robert comment. Including \nthe body rather than an archive link for various reasons, including \nmaking it easy to comment here rather than there.\n\nLe 22 juil. 09 � 02:56, Robert Haas a �crit :\n> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Tom La... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhere are the SRPMs to go with the binary RPMs on our download sites (or \nfor that matter on yum.pgsqlrpms.org). ISTM we should not be publishing \nbinary RPMs without simultaneously publishing the corresponding SRPMs.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:06:22 -040... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:\n> A decent module infrastructure is probably not going to fix this\n> problem unless it links with -ldwiw. There are really only two\n> options here:\n>\n> - Keep the old version around for compatibility and add a ne... |
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"msg_contents": "I looked into Chris Spotts' recent report of massive memory leakage in\n8.4, in a case involving array_agg() executed in a GROUP BY query:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-07/msg00858.php\nThe reason for that turns out to be that we deliberately lobotomized\narray_agg that w... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMy Cygwin buildfarm member started failing (hanging, in fact) recently. \nIt seems to hang consistently in join.sql and the only way I can get it \nto complete is to kill the backend fairly violently. See \n<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=brown_bat&dt=2009-07-22%2023:10:2... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am a master's student in computer science at IIT Bombay. As part of my\nproject, I need to get a decorrelated version of a SQL query. Please could\nanyone let me know if we have query decorrelation feature implemented in\npostgres ?\n\nThanks,\nMahendra Chavan\n\nHello,I am a mas... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have some issues to compile uuid contrib of 8.4 version.\n\nTouching something i see that the gmake don't find uuid.h.\n(pfexec gmake -d)\nTouching more, i add uuid.h into the uuid directory and i had a\nerror message: missing separator.\n\nSo i google a little and i find somethi... |
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"msg_contents": "How can a record be neither NULL or NOT NULL?\n\n try=# select ROW(1, NULL) IS NULL;\n ?column?\n ----------\n f\n (1 row)\n\n try=# select ROW(1, NULL) IS NOT NULL;\n ?column?\n ----------\n f\n (1 row)\n\nThis makes it rather hard to tell, in PL/p... |
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"msg_contents": "http://github.com/jwp/postgresql-plpython3/tree/plpython3 [branch \nname: plpython3]\n[src/pl/plpython3] (Yeah, I'm going to try to move it to \ngit.postgresql.org soon-ish)\n\nIn a recent thread[1], Peter said:\n\n That also means that maintaining a separate, parallel code base\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n \nWhile trying out query executions using the geqo, I could not understand the following output.\n \nThe geqo paramaters are set to default values. (pool_size=0).\n \nWhen the pool_size and the worth of the plans was displayed, the following values were obtained, irrespective of the num... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the initial draft of SE-PostgreSQL specifications:\n\n http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SEPostgreSQL_Draft\n\nI've described it from the scratch again with paying attention\nfor the people knowing nothing about SELinux.\nIn some points, it uses comparison between the database privileg... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4941\nLogged by: \nEmail address: alr.nospamforme@gmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.4.0\nOperating system: windows 2008,2003\nDescription: pg_stat_statements \tcrash\nDetails: \n\ni was testing for issues... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI have a simple one-line patch to enable the use of multiple CPUs or\ncores when building with MSVC. It is only inside the C compiler\nitself, but it makes about a 30-35% reduction in compile time on a\nfairly CPU-limited dual-CPU VM. It would probably do a lot more on for\nexample a q... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nReserve the shared memory region during backend startup on Windows, so\nthat memory allocated by starting third party DLLs doesn't end up\nconflicting with it.\n\nHopefully this solves the long-time issue with \"could not reattach\nto shared memory\" errors on Win32... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDidn't we just clean up a mess in our XML handling to do with memory \nhandlers? It looks like contrib/xml2 might have similar problems. Here's \nthe relevant part of a back trace from a core dump:\n\nProgram terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.\n#0 0x000000000069300a in pfree ()... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is my patch to enable SSPI on cygwin.\n\n-- \nReini Urban\nhttp://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/",
"msg_date": "Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:47:03 +0200",
"msg_from": "Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>",
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"msg_subject": "Enable SSPI on cygwin"
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI have one idea, that should simplify string to char array\ntransformation. The base is idea: between every char is empty string,\nso empty string is regular separator for string_to_array function.\nThis behave is inversion of array_to_string function behave:\n\npostgres=# select arr... |
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"msg_contents": "When you run a file with psql -1/--single-transaction, and a command fails, \nyou get bombarded with\n\nERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of \ntransaction block\n\nfor the rest of the file.\n\nShouldn't -1 imply ON_ERROR_STOP or some variant by default?\n",
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"msg_contents": "--On Samstag, Juli 25, 2009 16:00:18 +0300 Peter Eisentraut \n<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:\n\n> When you run a file with psql -1/--single-transaction, and a command\n> fails, you get bombarded with\n>\n> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of\n> transaction block\n... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nA few hours ago I assigned a reviewer to the last patch for this\nCommitFest which still lacked one, with the exception of Heikki's\nindex-only quals patch, which I'm not sure can be reviewed at this\npoint because it depends on the indexam API changes patch, which is\nstill up in the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI try to write GiST support for one custom type and I am not sure\nabout compress function. I don't understand where I can specify size\nof returned compressed key. 8.1 and older had 6. parameter for size,\nbut this parameter is missing in new versions.\n\nCan somebody explain, wher... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe've developed some code to implement fixed-length datatypes for well\nknown digest function output (MD5, SHA1 and the various SHA2 types).\nThese types have minimal overhead and are quite complete, including\nbtree and hash opclasses.\n\nWe're wondering about proposing them for inclu... |
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"msg_contents": "As per the following link,\nhttp://blog.hagander.net/archives/149-Help-us-test-a-patch-for-the-Win32\n-shared-memory-issue.html\n<http://blog.hagander.net/archives/149-Help-us-test-a-patch-for-the-Win3\n2-shared-memory-issue.html> ...I'd ran the patched 8.4 version and\nPostgreSQL ran succes... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\n \n\n \n\nPlease, subscribe me.\n\n \n\nAhmed DERBAH\n\nSystem Analyst \n\nCBS XEROX\n\nAlgiers - Algeria\n\nTel : +213 (0)21 38 38 00 à 05\n\nFax : +213 (0)21 38 38 28\n\nPortable : +213 (0)770 619 192\n\nE-mail : ahmed.derbah@c... |
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"msg_contents": "While creating a function, I kept getting a large variance in runtime between the raw query vs. using the function/prepared statement. After talking with folks on #postgresql, specifically David Fetter, he thought I should mention it here.\n\nVERSION: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, co... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n It seems postgres cache the plan under CacheMemoryContext during the \nplpgsql executing.\nIf there is a function with lots of variables and every one of them got a \ndefault value,\npostgres will allocate lots of memory for caching the default value plan(we \nhave to run\nthe functi... |
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"msg_contents": "You sent this message to the list. What you want to do is go and\nsubscribe yourself here:\n\nhttp://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org?func=lists-long-full&extra=pgsql-hackers\n\n...Robert\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:09:10 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nVersion 8.4 has brought a very useful function : pg_terminate_backend()\n\nThere have been many reports since years about idle processes remaining on the \nserver while clients are no longer connected. While this may be due to poor \napplication code not closing connections correctl... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nBuilding 8.4 on a client's system, I get a regression failure apparently \ndue to some difference between the system's timezone DB and what out \nregression tests expect, as shown below.\n\nI'm wondering if we should not disable the timestamptz regression test \nwhen we configure with the... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry to bring this up, I know you've been fighting about XML for a while.\n\nCurrently, I am using XML2 functionality and have tried to get the newer\nXPath function to work similarly, but can't quite seem to do it.\n\nI think the current xpath function is too limited. (The docs said to post... |
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"msg_contents": "[sigh, forgot to cc hackers the first time ]\n\nForeign key behavior is only sane if the referenced column(s) are\nunique. With the proposed patch, it is possible that the uniqueness\ncheck on the referenced columns is deferred, which means it might not\noccur till after an FK check does. D... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI would to solve some points from ToDo. I began with TYPE [] support.\nI thing, so this should be relative simple, but there are one issue.\n\nThere are syntax for declare array from scalar type -\n\ncreate or replace function x(a int)\nreturns ... as $$\ndeclare f a%type[] <--\nbegi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI revised the patch according to the suggestion.\n\nOn Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Fujii Masao<masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n>> I think you're making things more complicated when they should be\n>> getting simpl... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI think we broke date_part for extracting seconds from time arguments. It\nappears we leave out the milliseconds whereas we don't for timestamp\narguments. This was not the case in 8.3 where we included the milliseconds for\nboth data types.\n\nUnless this is intentional? I know we wacked a... |
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"msg_contents": "On Win2k3 Std SP2, the service won't start once I've applied the\npatch. In the log, I get:\n\n%t LOG: CreateProcess call failed: A blocking operation was\ninterrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall.\n\n\t (error code 2)\n%t LOG: could not fork autovacuum worker process: A blocking\nop... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason we force plpgsql IN parameters to constant? The \nreason I ask is because having them mutable would go a long way in \neasing a port from Informix's SPL. For better or worse, we have a fair \namount of code in SPL that does something like:\n\n -- pObjectId is an IN par... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, here's the updated version of my machine-readable explain output\npatch. This needed heavy updating as a result of the changes that Tom\nasked me to make to the explain options patch, and the further changes\nhe made himself. In addition to any regressions I may have introduced\nduring ... |
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"msg_contents": "Compilation fails with the following errors. \n\n \n C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\include\\sys/types.h(23): fatal error C1189: #error : ERROR: Only Win32 target supported!\n\nThis seems something very trivial but I have'nt been able to figure it out yet\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Since I didn't get completely shot out of the water and a couple \npeople seemed to think it was helpful, I'm submitting this patch for \nconsideration in the next commitfest.\n\nThis patch changes plpgsql IN parameters so they are mutable. \nPreviously, they were being forced constant. Th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThere was a thread some time ago about sorting... it kind of died...\nI did some tests on a desktop (Postgres 8.3.7, kubuntu, Core 2 dual core, \n4GB RAM, RAID1 of 2 SATA disks)\n\nQuick conclusions :\n\n- grabbing the stuff to sort can be IO bound of course (not here)\n- for short strings... |
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"msg_contents": "I've noticed that every so often eukaryote reports a regression failure\nwith just this one diff:\n\n*** /data/markwkm/local/pgfarmbuild-cell/HEAD/pgsql.4654/src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out\tFri Jul 31 04:00:51 2009\n--- /data/markwkm/local/pgfarmbuild-cell/HEAD/pgsql.4654/src/test/regr... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n This is primairly a question for core, I imagine. Just curious if\n there are any plans for 8.4.1? I'm primairly thinking of the memory\n issue with array_agg(), but I also worry about the JOIN fixes. Not\n sure if they'd affect me or not, but we're just looking at doing... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA256\n\nIn response to:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/1238394513-21474-1-git-send-email-ams@oryx.com\n\nReview complete. Somewhat modified patch attached. I wasn't happy with\ncreation of verify_sequence_oid() when it more-or-less dupli... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI though, so simple SQL functions should be inlined everywhere. When I\ntested sample for recent discussion, I found so immutable flag breaks\ninlining.\n\nIs it bug?\n\npostgres=# create or replace function foo(a int) returns int as $$\nselect $1+1$$ language sql STRICT IMMUTABLE;\n... |
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"msg_contents": "A little while ago, I saw a compiler warning creep in:\n\nIn file included from gram.y:11202:\nscan.c: In function ‘yy_try_NUL_trans’:\nscan.c:15765: warning: unused variable ‘yyg’\n\nI know there were some changes to minimum versions, but I think I have\nthose versions (listed below). I don'... |
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"msg_contents": "We now have less than two weeks remaining in this CommitFest (assuming\nwe stick with the usual time table of one month), and I would say\nwe're in fairly good shape. There are less than a dozen patches left\nthat are waiting on people other than the committers, or that are\nstill under disc... |
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"msg_contents": "As we are approaching the first alpha release, let's think about how to tag \nand label it and how to schedule those two operations with respect to one \nanother.\n\nThe typical process for, say, a beta release is\n\n- apply version number change to source tree\n- commit\n- tag\n(repeat for n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4961\nLogged by: \nEmail address: wader2@jcom.home.ne.jp\nPostgreSQL version: 8.4.0\nOperating system: Windows XP/2000\nDescription: pg_standby.exe crashes with no args\nDetails: \n\nalso clashes when ru... |
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"msg_contents": "I got following with CVS Head parser. I'm using bison 2.1 and flex\n2.5.35. Am I missing something?\n\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/pgsql/current/pgsql/src/backend/parser'\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -I. -I../../../src... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter,\n\nThere's another question for alpha releases: are we going to build docs? \n Either for www.postgresql.org, or for PGDATA/docs?\n\nI think we need some kind of docs up, otherwise we'll get little actual \ntesting. As previously discussed, building the docs yourself from pure \nsour... |
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"msg_contents": "Please suggest how best to propose that the following feature be added to PostgreSQL's roadmap?\n\nAbility to \"Alter column position\" as described in the section \"Adding alter column syntax into postgres\" of http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position (and the two links in that ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Fortunately, there's already a specification discussed for this. We'd \n> like to have the ability for each column to have both a logical position \n> and a physical position which are separate. This would also allow us to \n> dynamically re-arrange the columns at CREATE time for best s... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA256\n\nIn reference to:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/6534f7ae0811181547v1dc1f096g6222e8273b461606@mail.gmail.com\n\nHad to fix a lot of bit rot, but otherwise looks good. My updated patch\nattached. Will commit in a day or so if no ob... |
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"msg_contents": "pg_proc.probin is currently declared as being type bytea. Perhaps that\nhad some real utility once upon a time, but no currently defined\nprocedural language stores binary data there. In fact, the only\nthing that gets stored there is the shared-library file name for\nC functions. To make ... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCause pg_proc.probin to be declared as text, not bytea. Everything was\nalready treating it as text anyway, to the point that I couldn't find anything\nto change except the datatype markings in catalog/*.h. The only effect that\nthe bytea declaration had was to ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt seems there's no way to do %-expansion in plpgsql when one is using\nRAISE USING:\n\nalvherre=# create or replace function f () returns void language plpgsql as $$\nbegin\n raise using message = 'hello %' || 'world';\n return;\nend;\n$$;\nCREATE FUNCTION\nalvherre=# select f();\nE... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI think the case for machine-readable error fields is well made and\ndoesn't need any further push.\n\nSo, what do we need to make it happen? Here's my proposal.\n\nFirst we need several new error message fields: table name, function\nname, constraint name, and so on. One possible wa... |
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"msg_contents": "I mentioned in\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/21837.1248215656@sss.pgh.pa.us\nthat pg_dump has a bug in its handling of large objects, which is\ndirectly related to the fact that it's still using the deprecated\nfunction PQescapeBytea. The reason PQescapeBytea is deprecated is\nt... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nDoes someone has some material which explain how the executor works?\n\nI'm looking for the internal processing of a query in the _executor_.\n\nThanks for help\n\nEdson Ramiro\n\nHi all,\n\nDoes someone has some material which explain how the executor works?\n\nI'm looking for the... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems that last contrib crypto changes broke buildfarm. You can see\nproblem e.g. here:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=emperor_moth&dt=2009-08-04%2020:06:01\n\nI don't have time to look on it now. But it should be reproducible\neverywhere.\n\n\n\tZdenek\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUse DocBook XSL stylesheets for man page building\n\nThis switches the man page building process to use the DocBook XSL stylesheet \ntoolchain. The previous targets for Docbook2X are removed. configure has been \nupdated to look for the new tools. The Documentatio... |
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"msg_contents": "\tI am currently trying to convert an insertstmt back into a const\n\tchar *queryString, but I can't find an existing function to do this\n\tfor the life of me. I will write one if none exits, but I figured I\n\task here first. Unfortunately, nodeToString is not quite right for\n\twhat I'm ... |
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"msg_contents": "There's an interesting thread over here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2009-08/msg00013.php\nin which someone mistook a filesystem-level permissions problem\nfor a database permissions problem. It wasn't exactly his fault,\nI think, since the message he was presented with was\n\nE... |
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"msg_contents": "So the next step to documentation bliss is to get rid of the man.tar.gz and \npostgres.tar.gz tarballs that are shipped inside the tarball. These are \nhistorical artifacts from the era when building the documentation for release \nrequired manual interference, and that era ended yesterday a... |
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"msg_contents": "Since Alvaro is talking about error messages in another thread, I\nfigured I should post this idea now as well.\n\nSomething that keeps annoying me a lot when trying to look through\nwhat comes out of PostgreSQL logs is that errors generated by the user\n(syntax errors in queries, warnings du... |
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"msg_contents": "Michael,\n\nI confess I haven't been following the ECPG threads real closely, but\nI'm confused as to the status of the following two patches. Have you\nreviewed these? If so, what was the outcome? If not, do you plan to?\n When?\n\nECPG dynamic cursor, SQLDA support\nECPG support for stri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm trying to develop a contrib module in order to parse sqlf queries, I'm\nusing lemon as a LALR parser generator (because I think it's easier than\nbison) and re2c (because I think it's easier than flex) but when I try to\nsplit the string into words postgres add some weird character... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWe now have just 10 days left in this CommitFest and I think it is\ntime to start thinking about closing up shop. My tentative plan,\nabsent strong objections, is to wait until Friday night and then move\nmost or all of the patches that are still \"Waiting on Author\" to\n\"Returne... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've noticed that on 8.4.0, commits can take a long time when a temp table is repeatedly\nfilled and truncated within a loop. A very contrived example is\n\nbegin;\ncreate or replace function commit_test_with_truncations()\n\treturns void\n\tlanguage 'plpgsql'\nas $_func_$\ndeclare\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn warm standby system when we have a filled log segment forwarded to\narchiving, there is an inconsistency on standby next value sequences\nobtained by a call to nextval() function. e.g.:\n\n* Primary server\n- Create sequence seq_a;\n- Select nextval ( 'seq_a'); # value 1;\n- Log shi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI received the following pg_migrator bug report today and was able to\nreproduce the reported failure when using composite types:\n\n\ttest=> SELECT * FROM breakmigrator;\n\tERROR: cache lookup failed for type 27604\n\n\ttest=> ANALYZE VERBOSE public.breakmigrator;\n\tINFO: analyzing \"pu... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\t\nWith the talk about adding compression to pg_dump lately, I've been \nwondering if tables and indexes could be compressed too.\nSo I've implemented a quick on-the-fly compression patch for postgres\n\nSorry for the long email, but I hope you find this interesting.\n\nWhy compress ?\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nLast night I needed to move a bunch of data from an OLTP database to an \narchive database, and used dblink with a bunch of insert statements. \nSince I was moving about 4m records this was distressingly but not \nsurprisingly slow. It set me wondering why we don't build more support \nfor ... |
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"msg_contents": "Today we got a report in the spanish list about the message in $subject.\nThe server is 8.4 running on Windows.\n\nAny ideas? I'm wondering what kind of diagnostics we can run to debug\nthe problem. xlogdump perhaps?\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPr... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm reviewing the plpython data type handling patch from the commit fest. I \nhave not dealt much with the plpython code before, and I'm a bit puzzled by \nits elaborately silly handling of null values. A representative example (for \nthe current code):\n\n\t\t\tif (tupdesc->attrs[atti]->at... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\tI've been looking through the current state of docuemtation,\n\tincluding comments, with respect to the executor code and I would\n\tlike to improve upon their condition. If anyone has notes,\n\tpseudocode, thoughts on how it all really works, or anything that\n\tcan help me out, I'd... |
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"msg_contents": "When I try compile postgresql with --libeditpreferred option,\ncompilation fails when readline is also installed on the system. You can\nsee error report on:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dot_moth&dt=2009-08-06%2012:46:04\n\nThe main problem is in src/bin/psql/input.h w... |
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