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"msg_contents": "Hello. I just sent this note to the pgsql-general list, but I thought it\nprobably deserved to land on the hackers list as well. My apologies if I'm\nwrong.\n\nCharlie\n-----------------------------------------\n\nX-Sender: hornberger@tabloid.net (Unverified)\nDate: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:00:1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello. I just sent this note to the pgsql-general list, but I thought it\nprobably deserved to land on the hackers list as well. My apologies if I'm\nwrong.\n\nCharlie\n-----------------------------------------\n\nX-Sender: hornberger@tabloid.net (Unverified)\nDate: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:00:1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello. I just sent this note to the pgsql-general list, but I thought it\nprobably deserved to land on the hackers list as well. My apologies if I'm\nwrong.\n\nCharlie\n-----------------------------------------\n\nX-Sender: hornberger@tabloid.net (Unverified)\nDate: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:00:1... |
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"msg_contents": "Dan Gowin <DGowin@avantec.net> wrote:\n>Subject: Visionary\n>\n>Berkley types,\n>\tDr. Stonebraker developed some code in 1991 called Visionary. That \n>allowed a user to visually datamine a database engine's data. Does the\n>original\n>source to this project still exist? And could Postgres ... |
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"msg_contents": ">Subject: Visionary\n>\n>Berkley types,\n> Dr. Stonebraker developed some code in 1991 called Visionary. That \n>allowed a user to visually datamine a database engine's data. Does the\n>original\n>source to this project still exist? And could Postgres benefit from it as a\n>datamining ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello PostgreSQL Hackers,\n\nI get this error with the attached program. Is this a bug or is it that\nI'm doing something totally stupid?\n\nThe program opens a connection, starts a transaction, creates a large\nobject with mode INV_READ | INV_WRITE, opens it with the same mode, calls\nlo_wri... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear PostgreSQL Hackers,\n\n ERROR: heap_fetch: xinv19073 relation: ReadBuffer(81aeefe) failed\n\nI get the above error with the attached program. Is it a bug?\n\nThe program opens a connection, starts a transaction, creates a large\nobject with mode INV_READ | INV_WRITE, opens it with the s... |
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"msg_contents": "Oops,\n\nI forgot to say that I'm using PostgreSQL 6.4.2 on a Red Hat 5.1\nIntel box with libc.so.6\n\nIan\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:06:44 +0000 (GMT)",
"msg_from": "Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk>",
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"msg_contents": "\nTatsuo suggested...\n\n> Or even better, MaxBackendId can be set at the run time such as\n> postmaster's option. Also, it would be nice if we could monitor number\n> of backends currently running. Maybe we should have a new protocol for\n> this kind of puropose?\n\nOracle does this with pse... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI agree with tom lane that a simple approach to running\nout of semaphores is sufficient.\n\nI've run into problems on systems where several systems (Oracle,\nTuxedo, and (i think) something else) all used semaphores. We got\ninto some wierd situations where as the load built up, the syste... |
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"msg_contents": "[Note to pgsql-hackers: I can't figure out why I have this and Kenneth\ndoesn't. Can someone else figure out why?]\n\nThus spake Kenneth Jacker\n> Thanks for your prompt reply ...\n> \n> |The source is in <PostgreSQL directory>/src/bin/vacuumdb and is simply\n> |the raw file that gets ins... |
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"msg_contents": "I sent in a patch for createuser almost a week ago and I was wondering\nwhat the procedure is. I haven't seen the patch applied but I also\nhaven't seen it rejected. I understand that not every one of my little\ngems is going to make it in but I hope there is some sort of closure\nmethod bu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks...sorry for sending this to this list, but the others\nare not getting me any where. I've run into a problem trying to\nrecover data from a table that has some how been corrupted (I\ndo not know how). Although this is no longer critical (I have\nbeen able to recreate the data from ot... |
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"msg_contents": "Hiroshi Inoue wrote:\n> \n> Recently I thought about UPDATE operations in READ COMMITED\n> mode a little and found it's very difficult.\n> I read Oracle's manual but couldn't find the algorithm.\n> \n> After I read your posting [READ COMMITTED isolevel is implemented ...],\n> I tested the fol... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Hackers,\n\nCan anyone confirm for me that libpq is re-entrant. Ie, it is safe to\nexecute libpq calls from within a signal handler when that signal could've\ninterrupted a libpq function? Of course I don't expect to be able to use\nthe same PGconn or PGresult structures inside the signa... |
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"msg_contents": "> Modified Files:\n> main.html\n> Log Message:\n> Add mention of TEMP tables.\n\nBruce, would this be a good time to start the v6.5 release notes?\nCertainly the temp tables capability would make the short list of\n\"highlighted features\" in the 1-paragraph-per-topic summary above th... |
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"msg_date": "Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:11:44 +0530 (IST)",
"msg_from": "\"Venkatesh. K\" <kvs@blr.vsnl.net.in>",
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"msg_contents": "I am creating a text file to do file dumps into postgres using the copy command. The copy command\nexecutes fine but when I do a count on the table, I get zero records. But when I do a vacuum\ncommand on that table, here is what is says\n\nsdbm=> vacuum verbose D_TERM_APPROACH;\nNOTICE: --... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> \tActually, it's still fairly slow. I've got two things that my\n> view is pulling back now, and it's taking quite a while. I'm going to\n> load up a bunch of data and see if it gets any slower. Is there an actual\n> problem happening here?... |
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"msg_contents": "OK I found it,\nI search in the planner for the '\\xFF' appending.\nFinally I found in MakeIndexable() in gram.y\n\nAttach a patch which removes the \"<=\" test in USE_LOCALE,\nmight make some queries a bit slower for us \"locale-heads\",\nBUT correct result is more important.\n\n\tregards,\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I've just committed two very simple patches to copy.c and\n trigger.c which caused backend to grow until transaction end.\n\n trigger.c didn't expected that trigger function could have\n returned another heap tuple that was built inside of trigger\n with SPI_cop... |
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"msg_contents": "So who's maintaining the website?\nDrop me a line and let's have a chat about some improvements if you're\ninterested.\n\t-DEJ \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> > I don't think multiple queues per se are a problem; the \n> deficiency I see\n> > in our patching procedures is lack of visibili... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been looking at optimizer runtime using Charles Hornberger's\nexample case, and what I find is that the number of tables involved in\nthe query is a very inadequate predictor of the optimizer's runtime.\nThus, it's not surprising that we are getting poor results from using\nnumber of t... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied TEMP tables to the tree, with documenation changes and a\nregression test.\n\nI am sure there are going to be some features that break with temp\ntables.\n\nFirst, there is no pg_type tuple to match the temp table name. There is\none to match the system-generated temp table na... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\ncan somebody see this too?\n\ncreate table t1(i1 int4);\ncreate table t2(i1 int4);\ncreate table t3(i2 int4);\n\ntest=> create rule rm_t1 as on delete to t1 \ntest-> do ( delete from t2 where old.i1 = i1;\ntest-> delete from t3 where old.i1 = i2;);\npqReadData() -- backend closed ... |
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"msg_contents": "And another sync-with-gram.y patch.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux!\nEmail: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net | Use PostgreSQL!",
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"msg_contents": "> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > I have a morbid curiosity, so I decided to find out how \n> this got into\n> > > the source. On November 1, 1998, Magus applied a patch:\n> > > Here is a first patch to cleanup the backend side of libpq.\n> > > Several users have... |
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"msg_contents": "I am writing a Postgres interface for Guile. (I know, I am the other one\nof the two people doing this!)\n\nI sent a message at the weekend, but I used mime encoding of the files\nwhich I understand some people have difficulty decoding, so here is my\nreport again, in the clear this time. \n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nRecently some users started to complain about:\nWarning: PostgresSQL query failed: FATAL 1: btree: lost page in the chain of duplicates\n\nI noticed that VACUUM removes this problem, but no making\nVACUUM I've got:\nNOTICE: BlowawayRelationBuffers(confread, 45): block 154 is ref... |
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"msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nSebesty�n Zolt�n <szoli@netvisor.hu>\tI'm believing that the Holy Spirit is\n\t\t\t\t\tgonna allow the hand, and the foot, and\nMAKE INSTALL NOT WAR\t\t\tthe mouth, just to begin to speak, and\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Why don't you regress test it on the CURRENT tree and if it doesn't\nbreak anything submit it? I thought that's what Beta was for (to get\nthe bugs worked out of the new features), but I'll trust your judgement\non what you think it'll break. \n\t-DEJ \n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm having serious problems with postgresql and TCL as a procedural language.\n\nI did a clean compilantion and install --with-tcl.\nI did an initdb, created the language and a demo function found on the site.\n\nThis is the result:\n\na=> create function pltcl_call_handler() returns... |
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"msg_contents": "Stephen Kogge <stevek@uimage.com> wrote (quite some time ago):\n> \tIn short Sun's libc does not allow 64 bit I/O (*print* functions)\n> and atol does not detect overflow. When the regression tests are run\n> several tests fail due to the 64 bit I/O problems. gcc does the internal \n> operati... |
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"msg_contents": "Wow!\n\nWhat are the odds...\n\nI had just created a C function which would allow\nthe database to determine wether or not a file exists\nsomewhere on the filesystem (readable by user\npostgres, of course) and return 0 if not and\n1 if the file exists. I then used the function in \na VIEW an... |
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"msg_contents": "src/template/alpha_cc seems missing in 6.4.2 but does exist in current.\nWhat about 6.4_REL? I belive that file should exist in any version of\nsource tree.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:02:00 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "And another sync-with-gram.y patch.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux!\nEmail: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net | Use PostgreSQL!",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI update my postgresql 6.3.x to 6.4.2 this day and surprise, the java\nprogram that I use to use Blob don't match. \nWhen I try to create a new blob, the postmaster tell me that's an error\noccur and that I must to reconnect (it kill my psql application )\nSo I dowmgrad my postgresql, is... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI sometimes need to update records without a SET clause, just to fire a trigger\nthat actually changes the tuple.\n\nCurrently I do:\n\nUPDATE relation SET anyfield=anyfield WHERE whereclause;\n\nIt would be nice to be able to do:\n\nUPDATE relation WHERE whereclause;\n\nI don't know... |
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"msg_contents": "Some compilation problem found while compiling\nPostgreSql-6.4.2 on OSF1 V4.0 878 alpha\n\n1. configure (problem because . not in $PATH)\n 743c743\n< . ./conftest.sh\n---\n> . conftest.sh\n\n2. gram.y did not compilei by yacc (on FreeBSD too)\n\n# woland(dms)~/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend/par... |
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"msg_contents": "Could anyone tell me whether the EXEC SQL PREPARE statement is to be\ninterpreted by the preprocessor or during run-time? That is can it be placed\noutside a function? Does it have to stand above the DECLARE or EXECUTE\nstatement that references it or does it have to be executed prior to this... |
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"msg_contents": "Some compilation problem found while compiling\nPostgreSQL-6.4.2 on OSF1 V4.0 878 alpha\n\n1. configure (problem because . not in $PATH)\n 743c743\n < . ./conftest.sh\n ---\n > . conftest.sh\n\n2. gram.y did not compile by yacc (on FreeBSD too)\n\n# woland(dms)~/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend/p... |
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"msg_contents": "> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > > So, I guess my question is: how costly are joins? I've heard that\n> > > > Postgres pretty much \"pukes\" (in terms of speed) when you're trying \n> > > > to do anything more than 6 table joins in one query. This leads\n> > > > me to believe that joins... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to understand the optimizer, and am doing cleanup at the\nsame time.\n\nWho would call a structure HInfo, and calling everything a clause doesn't\nhelp.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied this. D'Arcy feels it is safe, and I think I agree now.\n\nIf anyone has a problem, let us know. He believes it completes\nconstification of the libpq API.\n\n\n> I am sending this patch to hackers because I think it needs some\n> discussion before being added. I'm not 100% ... |
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"msg_contents": "Let's you create a table again.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux!\nEmail: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net | Use PostgreSQL!",
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"msg_contents": "> >Could anyone tell me whether the EXEC SQL PREPARE statement is to be\n> >interpreted by the preprocessor or during run-time?\n> \n> run time\n> \n> >That is can it be placed outside a function?\n> \n> yes ?\n> \n> > Does it have to stand above the DECLARE or EXECUTE\n> > statement that ref... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I'm continuing with the pooled palloc() stuff and am stuck\n with a very strange thing. I've reverted my changes to\n palloc() and am doing all the memory block pool handling now\n in aset.c.\n\n The benefit from this will be that I later can easily make\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Could someone point me to where the operators are defined?\nI'm trying to define a lower for varchar. \"Why?\", you may ask, so that\nI can create a functional index on the lower of a varchar column.\nThanks,\n\t-DEJ\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:06:29 -0600",
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"msg_contents": "I've been seeing the following behavior with the CVS sources for the\nlast several days:\n\n$ psql regression\nregression=> SELECT * INTO TABLE ramp FROM road ;\nSELECT\nregression=> \\d ramp\nCouldn't find table ramp!\nregression=> SELECT * INTO TABLE ramp FROM road ;\nERROR: ramp rel... |
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"msg_contents": "Due to consistently losing email via usa.net I have changed my\nsubscriptions. I try to do all postgresql related stuff as\nMichael_Meskes@topmail.de for now.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.:... |
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"msg_contents": "[ Redirected to hackers, as it's now way off-topic for pgsql-interfaces ]\n\nPeter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> writes:\n> [ trying to test whether Postgres can split a huge database into\n> multiple 2-Gb files ]\n> The problem I have is that it takes 4 hours for a table to reach 2Gb on my\... |
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"msg_contents": "You are correct. I have modified the current sources. Good eye.\n\n\n\n> Hi Bruce,\n> \tI've been looking over the code in .../backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c\n> and there are a number of functions in there like btreesel() that have\n> code\n> like this\n> \n> float64\n> btreesel(...)\n> {\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Create user is requiring an Expiration Date.\n\nWhat is the function at oid 948 named varchar really supposed to be\ndoing? Whatever it is I don't think it's succeeding.\n\nAnd I'll ask about creating a lower/upper function for varchar once\nmore. Everything that I try either produces incor... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found a bug in 6.4.2 which seems to be\nrelated to the char(n) type and shows up\nif one assigns a zero-length default value.\n\nHere is an example:\n\n\ntest=> create table t1 (\ntest-> str1 char(2) default '', <---- note this one\ntest-> str2 text default '',\ntest-> str3 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI saw a message a couple of weeks ago from someone having problems with\nlarger than 2GB tables. I have similar problems.\n\nPostgreSQL: anon-cvs as of today (2/5/1999)\nOS: Redhat Linux 5.2 (running 2.0.35)\n\nI created a database called mcrl, and a table called mcrl3_1.\nI copied in a... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Bryan White\" <bryan@arcamax.com> writes:\n> The documentation for CREATE INDEX implies that functions are allowed in\n> index definitions but when I execute:\n> create unique index idxtest on customer (lower(email));\n> the result is:\n> ERROR: DefineIndex: (null) class not found\n> Shoul... |
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"msg_contents": "\nERROR: RestrictionClauseSelectivity: bad value 163645.593750\n\nThe query is:\n\nSELECT p.first_name, p.last_name, t.title, t.rundate, t.app_version,\np.email \n FROM sw_password p, tools t \n WHERE p.userid = t.userid \n AND t.category = 'tools' \n ORDER by t.title;\n\nSomething wrong ... |
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"msg_contents": "Vadim,\n\nI wrote:\n> New version of AllocSet...() functions is committed. palloc()\n> is a macro now. The memory eating problem of COPY FROM,\n> INSERT ... SELECT and UPDATES on a table that has constraints\n> is fixed (new file nodes/freefuncs.c).\n>\n> The setting... |
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"msg_contents": "For discussion:\n\n I've committed two little changes to CURRENT and REL6_4.\n\n 1. ExecBRDeleteTriggers() now free's the return tuple from\n the trigger procedure if that isn't the tuple given to it\n as OLD. This caused PL/pgSQL triggers BEFORE DELETE to\n l... |
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"msg_contents": "The equal() updates I installed yesterday (to fix the \"don't know\nwhether nodes of type 600 are equal\" problem) have had an unintended\nside effect.\n\nAm I right in thinking that UNION (without ALL) is defined to do a\nDISTINCT on its result, so that duplicates are removed even if the\ndu... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 02:02:20PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n> Great. Bruce and scrappy, whoever applies this will need to add this as\n> a new file in cvs. At the moment the file is named y.tab.c (and\n> y.tab.h), but we might want to consider renaming it as is done in the\n> main pa... |
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"msg_contents": "I seem to recall someone recently was about to start work on libpq++.\n\nIs that correct? If not, I will need to do it, but I don't want to\nduplicate effort.\n\n-- \nOliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk\nIsle of Wight http://ww... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added code to psql so \\p\\g, or other backslash combinations work\non the same line.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + ... |
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"msg_contents": "On my todo list I found two missing commands:\n\nexec sql free\nexec sql alloc\n\nI remember seeing them in an (Informix?) example. But I cannot remember what\nthey should do? They do not seem to be standard either.\n\nDoes anyone one know more about this?\n\nAlso there is the exec sql type s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I have a database, and there are a lot of tables with serial fields.\nCurrently, pg_dump is not generating code to reload value of correposnding\nsequence.\n Is there any chance pg_dump will generate such code?\n\n Well, to overcome this I am trying to create a function do\ni... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm interested by writing a JAVA interface, looking like pgaccess, but I\n\nhave some problems because I don't understand the whole links between\ncomponents in postgres. For example, I don't know how to get list of\ntables in a database with a SQL request. Where is it possible to f... |
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"msg_contents": "\t> Anyhow, I'm about to start the test, using RELSEG_SIZE set to\n243968 which\n\t> works out to be 1.6Gb. That should stay well away from the\noverflow problem.\n\nHow about using 1 Gb. A lot of Unices have the ulimit set to 1 Gb by\ndefault.\nIt would also be nice for the looks, easy to ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n A week ago I reported a problem with VACUUM ANALYZE on linux and memory\nerror. Three good guys saw my database and two of them for VACUUM problem,\nI hope (Tom Lane and Thomas Lockhart).\n Have you reproduced the case?\n\n I ran VACUUM ANALYZE on table basis. Results:\n\n---... |
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"msg_contents": "Could anyone tell me why a term like 'int' is not a keyword?\n\nAlso I need a list of postgresql types so I know which ones should be\naccepted by ecpg.\n\nFinally I wonder whether we should make all ecpg keywords keywords for the\nbackend too. Or else we could end up with queries expressable... |
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"msg_contents": "While update table whithin fetch forward loop \ncause infinite fetching of updated touple?\n\n(code fragment below cause infinite \ndisplayng record with oid 20864)\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPQexec(_conn, \"BEGIN\");\nPQexec(_conn, \"DE... |
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"msg_contents": "D'Arcy wrote\n> \n> Thus spake Tom Lane\n> > I'd suggest setting the limit a good deal less than 2Gb to avoid any\n> > risk of arithmetic overflow. Maybe 200000 8K blocks, instead of 262144.\n> \n> Why not make it substantially lower by default? Makes it easier to split\n> a database across... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI brought this up long ago, and the idea wasn't well received,\nbut now, with both lots of people using PostgreSQL in production\nenvironments AND massive (all good) improvements to the system\ngoing on, is it time to consider split stable/development lines\nof development? The cries for a... |
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"msg_contents": "Jan,\n\tMy company Rakekniven provides professional support\npackages for our business line of PostgreSQL servers. But\nthis is in addition to our servers that we build and test\nby hand. In other words, the servers that we warranty\nhave been thoroughly tested (a generation behind) and are\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nAs all interested in this thread have presumably read the other posts,\nthey will not be repeated here. \n\nSeveral good points both pro and con have been raised.\n\nOne such point is the idea that PostgreSQL is not up to commercial\nstandards, maybe a few versions back this was tru... |
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"msg_contents": "It's time,\n\n as we've seen on the recent question, the time qualification\n code has to be modified again. I think a little extension to\n Vadim's SnapshotData could do the trick. Following is what I\n so far have in mind to support deferred queries later in\n v6.6.\n... |
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"msg_contents": ">Nick Bastin - RBB Systems, Inc.\n>Out hme0, through the Cat5K, Across the ATM backbone, through the\n>firewall, past the provider, hit the router, down the fiber, off another\n>router... Nothing but net.\n>Nick,\n>\n>That's not necessarily true. While it is almost always true for\n>consumer... |
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"msg_contents": "I am fixing p_ordering(now called path_order) to properly display in\noutNode/readNode and friends.\n\nThis structure is never output during debug runs. Without the display,\nit is hard to see if the optimizer is doing what it should.\n\nMy suspicion is that RelOptInfo is retaining many dupl... |
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"msg_contents": "I think I have solved the optimizer problem. It appears in samekeys(). \nCan someone check that function, and see if you come up with the same\nfix I do (without knowing my fix)?\n\nA 9-table join that used to run for minutes and fail now completes in\nseconds! I want to commit this, but wa... |
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"msg_contents": "Just for PgSQL's development group think about....\n\nI made a mistake typing a query that generates a strange result (Very strange). \n\nThe query: select text('12345678'::float8);\n\nIt returns a date in datetime format !!!!!!\n\nIf you use: select ('12345678'::float8)::text; everyth... |
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"msg_contents": "HAVING appears not to recognise alias names for columns.\n\nExamples:\n** Using aggregate in HAVING clause works **\nbray=> select p.brand,avg(s.free) as f from product as p, stock as s where \np.id = s.product group by p.brand having avg(s.free) > 100;\nbrand | f\n------------+----\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Seen with current sources and with 6.4.2:\n\nWhen datestyle = 'Postgres,European', the datetime parser will accept\ndates written in either US or Euro order:\n\nregression=> set datestyle = 'Postgres,European';\nSET VARIABLE\nregression=> select 'Wed 06 Jan 16:10:00 1999 EST'::datetime;\n?col... |
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"msg_contents": "I have found the problem with joining large tables in the optimizer.\n\nThere were too many Path's kept by RelOptInfo, even though many of the\npaths had identical keys. Because the cheapest was always chosen, this\ndid not affect the final Plan, but did cause lots of wasted time during\nopt... |
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"msg_contents": "I have modified samekeys() again. It is now:\n\n for (key1 = keys1, key2 = keys2;\n key1 != NIL && key2 != NIL;\n key1 = lnext(key1), key2 = lnext(key2))\n {\n for (key1a = lfirst(key1), key2a = lfirst(key2);\n key1a != NIL && key2a != NIL;\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\t> On my todo list I found two missing commands:\n\t> \n\t> exec sql free\n\nfree is the opposite to prepare, a statement stays prepared until free is\ncalled.\nThis will release all associated resources. In my Informix manual it sais,\nthat \nit will not affect an already declared cursor ... |
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"msg_contents": "\t> and solving the data distribution as a separate effort.\n\nI also think, that this issue can not be solved with splitting the table\nextents\nto different directories. I would leave that issue to a Tablespace\nimplementation.\nWhat I like though is the idea that all table files have the e... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am new in Pgsql-Hacker mailing list. I didn't have any answer from others \nlists.\n\nI tried to create a table with a timestamp field as part of primary key. \nPgsql doesn't have an \"ops_name\" for timestamp. You will see this when you \nuse create table. DON'T DO THIS WITH YOUR RE... |
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"msg_contents": "So I'm not the only person to see a bug like\nthis?\n\nD.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Ricardo J.C.Coelho [mailto:pulsar@truenet-ce.com.br]\nSent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 8:36 AM\nTo: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\nSubject: [HACKERS] Timestamp fileds into index \n\n\nHi,\n\nI am n... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to drop an index and I get the following error:\n\nsdbm=> drop index dafif_runway_arpt_ident;\nERROR: IndexSupportInitialize: corrupted catalogs\n\nAny idea on how to clean up my database?\nThanks\n---------\nChris Williams\nSterling Software\nRome, New York\nPhone: (315) 336-050... |
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"msg_contents": "> Thank Tom. It worked here.\n> By the way, is there a fix to CHECK clause of CREATE TABLE don't use \n> the whole memory of the computer ?\n\nIf the memory problem is observed when you try reloading a table, I\nbelieve that it was just fixed yesterday (by Jan?). It will certainly be\nfixed f... |
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"msg_contents": "A NEXTSTEP3.3 user reported some porting problems.\n\n1. #if FALSE problem\n\nFor example in src/include/utils/int8.h:\n\n\t#if FALSE\n\textern int64 *int28 (int16 val);\n\textern int16 int82(int64 * val);\n\t\n\t#endif\n\nUnfortunately in NEXTSTEP FALSE has been already defined as:\n\n\t#def... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems that casting varchar and bpchar does not work.\n\nI create two tables.\n\ncreate table main (id char(4), sub_id char(4), caption char(10));\ncreate table sub (sub_id varchar(10), sub_caption varchar(10));\n\nThen do a select.\n\nselect main.id, sub.sub_caption, main.caption from main... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am running 6.4.2 on Sparc/Solaris 2.7. Occasionally (far more\noften than I would like - which is never :), the postmaster refuses\nconnections. Upon investigation, there are 48 postmaster processes\nrunning. If one kills the parent and restarts, all is well for some\ntime. At... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am running 6.4.2 on Sparc/Solaris 2.7. Occasionally (far more\noften than I would like - which is never :), the postmaster refuses\nconnections. Upon investigation, there are 48 postmaster processes\nrunning. If one kills the parent and restarts, all is well for some\ntime. At... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\t> What about using #if 0 or #if PG_FALSE or whatever instead of #if\n\t> FALSE?\n\nI think the consensus was to use:\n\n#ifdef NOT_USED\n\nin these cases\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:07:26 +0100",
"msg_from": "Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom... |
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"msg_contents": "This is not a worthwhile announcement!!\n\nPostgreSQL Software Database wrote:\n> \n> The following entry has been added to the Software Database:\n> \n> Title: Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics of L'Aquila WEB Site\n> Version: N/A\n> Platform: Digital Alp... |
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"msg_contents": "I am using postgres 6.4.2 on BSD/OS 3.1 with a Greek locale that I\nhave developed. I knew that regexes with postgress would not work because\nof something I did but a posting from another follow from Sweden gave me a\nclue that the problem must be with the regex package and not the locale.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n could someone please enlighten me on RECEIPE? What is it and\n why doesn't it call the regular rule rewrite system after\n parsing the statements?\n\n Is it a way to bypass normal production rules (constraint\n deletes etc.)?\n\n\nJan\n\n--\n\n#================... |
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"msg_contents": "I am using postgres 6.4.2 on BSD/OS 3.1 with a Greek locale that I\nhave developed. I knew that regexes with postgress would not work because\nof something I did but a posting from another follow from Sweden gave me a\nclue that the problem must be with the regex package and not the locale.... |
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"msg_contents": "What should be the results of this little test:\n\ndrop table t1;\ndrop table t2;\ncreate table t1 (a int, b int);\ncreate table t2 (a int, c int);\ninsert into t1(a, b) VALUES (1, 1); \ninsert into t1(a, b) VALUES (1, 2); \ninsert into t1(a, b) VALUES (1, 3); \ninsert into t1(a, b) VALUES (1... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhy \"||\" operator is not associative ?\n\nselect 'A' || 'B' || 'C'; results in a parse error at second \"||\".\n\nIf you force the association, it works: select ('A' || 'B') || 'C';\n\nThe same thing happen with mod \"%\".\n\nRicardo Coelho.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 10 Feb 1... |
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