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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason we don't use pg_type.typcategory to detect arrays in\nPostgres 8.4? Right now I see this in pg_dump.c:\n\n if (g_fout->remoteVersion >= 80300)\n {\n\tappendPQExpBuffer(query, \"SELECT tableoid, oid, typname, \"\n\t\t\t \"typnamespace, \"\n\t\t\t \"(%s typowner) AS r... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\"pg_ctl stop -m smart\" will wait for all connections are disconnected and\n\"pg_ctl stop -m fast\" will disconnect all connections forcibly.\nBut \"fast\" after \"smart\" also wait for disconnections.\n\nCan we change the behavior that \"fast\" overwrites \"smart\" mode?\nI'd like to achi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found include/commands/version.h is empty and not included from any files.\nWhat is the purpose of the file?\nhttp://doxygen.postgresql.org/version_8h.html\n\nRegards,\n---\nITAGAKI Takahiro\nNTT Open Source Software Center\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:04:45 +0900",
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHere is a short patch implementing a new feature in pgbench so as to allow\nshell commands to be launched in a transaction file of pgbench.\nthe user has just to add at the beginning of the command line in his\ntransaction file \\shell + the command wanted.\n\nAs an example of tran... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nBased on an idea of Heikki Linnakangas, here is a patch in order to improve\n2PC\nby sending the state files of prepared transactions to shared memory instead\nof disk.\nIt is not possible to avoid the Xlog flush operation but reducing the amout\nof data sent to disk permits to acc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nDescription:\n=========\n\nInconsistency in dependency.c file's object_classes array elements and\ndependency.h file's enum ObjectClass elements. Following elements in\nobject_classes array were missing.\n\nForeignDataWrapperRelationId for OCLASS_FDW\nForeignServerRelation... |
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"msg_contents": "Let us consider the ordering of real numbers in postgres. As you can see\nfrom\nthe results below it has clearly returned the correct results.\n\n select( 1.0000000000000000 = 1.0000000000000002 ); => f\n select( 1.0000000000000000 < 1.0000000000000002 ); => t\n select( 1.0000000000000000 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a good reason for $subject, other than that the code is entangled \nwith other ALTER TABLE code?\n\nThe new SET DISTINCT might be equally affected.\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:58:42 +0300",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
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"msg_contents": "\nI have set up a batch job that pipes a couple hundred of \\copy commands to\npsql. It starts out well enough, sprinkled with a few error messages that I\nintend to circle back and clean up after batching all of the ALTER commands\nthat I need, but then:\n\n\\copy gm1 from export/month1-88/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey folks, \n\nWest is upon us shortly. Get those talks in:\n\nhttp://www.postgresqlconference.org/2009/west\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \nPostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@jabber.postgresql.org\n Consulting, Development, Support, Training\n 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/\n The Postg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI got an error like this:\n\nERROR: xlog flush request 1/C121E998 is not satisfied --- flushed only to 1/BCBCB440\nCONTEXT: writing block 529 of relation 1663/233690/1247\nWARNING: could not write block 529 of 1663/233690/1247\nDETAIL: Multiple failures --- write error might be per... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any reason we didn't move the pg_freespace function from\ncontrib to core?\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/\nThe PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:05:31 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> It's a hack but it's dealing with an extremely real problem, namely\n> the built-in inaccuracy of floating-point arithmetic. You can't just\n> close your eyes to that and hope that everything will be okay.\n> \nIf the above statement was true, then the FP* macros should ... |
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"msg_contents": "As we are now into the last week of this CommitFest (hopefully), I\nhave moved all of the patches that were listed as \"Waiting on Author\"\nto \"Returned with Feedback\". I feel pretty good about doing this\nbecause most of these patches have been waiting on author for a long\ntime, or they... |
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"msg_contents": "This is a spinoff of the current work on compression...\nI've discovered that linux doesn't apply readahead to sparse files.\nSo I added a little readahead in seq scans.\n\nThen I realized this might also be beneficial for the standard Postgres.\nOn my RAID1 it shows some pretty drastic effec... |
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"msg_contents": "While following up a comment from Tom on my blog, I discovered that some \n9 1/2 years ago in a patch bearing the comment:\n\n Fixed psql double quoting of SQL ids\n Fixed libpq printing functions\n \n\nthe documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed \n(psql-ref.sgml v... |
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"msg_contents": "I've now read most of this patch, and I think there are some things that\nneed rework, and perhaps debate about what we want.\n\n1. As I already mentioned, I think the mixed-notation business is a bad\nidea. It's unintuitive, it's not especially useful, and it substantially\nincreases our ri... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nShip documentation without intermediate tarballs\n\nDocumentation files in HTML and man formats are now prepared for\ndistribution using the distprep make target, like everything else. They\nare placed in doc/src/sgml/html and manX and installed from there by\nmake... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis commitfest will soon finish and we can already say, I think, that\nthe support software is doing a pretty good job helping through\nit. Congrats!\n\nNow after some discussion about it on IRC, we have some ideas to improve\nthe situation some more. Specifically, reviews are touchin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have created a set-returning C function and a view that selects all\nthe returned rows. When I use SELECT * FROM theview, the returned rows\nlook fine. But if I use, e.g., SELECT count(*) FROM theview or SELECT\nsum(a) FROM theview, I get a segmentation fault.\n\nLOG: server proc... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was recently running both pl/perl and pl/perlu functions in a single \nsession, coming across the error message about failure to allocate a \nsecond Perl interpreter on my platform. I'm running PostgreSQL 8.3.7 \nbuilt from the sources on Mac OS X 10.5 with perl installed from \n... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRefactor NUM_cache_remove calls in error report path to a PG_TRY block.\n\nThe code in the new block was not reindented; it will be fixed by pgindent\neventually.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:\n formatting.c (r1.160 -> r... |
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"msg_contents": "Resending to correct a copy/paste error. Apologies.\n\n\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote: \n \n> Yeah -- my argument would be that the = operator in NULLIF should be\n> treated the same as if the function-like abbreviation were rewritten\n> to the full CASE predicate. I... |
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"msg_contents": "What is the status of hot standby and synchronous replication? Is there\na design specification? Who are the lead developers? Who is assisting?\nWhat open item do we have for each feature? Where is the most recent\npatch? Can we incrementally start applying patches for these features?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "What is \"hot\" and \"standby\" about the proposed \"hot standby\" feature?\n\nThe way I understand these terms in a replication/cluster scenario are:\n\ncold - If the first node dies, you need to start the replacement node from a \nstanding start.\n\nwarm - If the first node dies, the replac... |
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"msg_contents": "Witting a box@>point function easy. Having a spot of trouble trying to\nfigure out where and how to graft this into the GiST stuff. Could\nsomeone please point me in the general direction?\n\nThanks.\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:43:06 +1000",
"msg_from": "Paul Matthews <pl... |
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"msg_contents": "\nhave the latest docs at \n<http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/index.html> stopped \nbeing built? It sure looks like it somehow.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:37:42 -0400",
"msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Backups always take too long...\nCOPY TO is CPU bound...\n\nA few days of coding later, I think I'm on to something.\n\nFirst the results.\nAll tables are cached in RAM (not in shared_buffers though).\nTimings are best of 4 tries.\n\n- test_one_int is a table with 1 INT column and 10.000.000 ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Group,\n\nI'd like to build an extension to PostgreSQL. It will intercept\nqueries and perform some transformations on the query and on the data\nreturned, given some business rules that the users have specified.\n\nWhat's the best way to do this? It seems like if I model the pgpool-\... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nI've just been tweaking some autovac settings for a large database, and\ncame to wonder: why does vacuum_max_freeze_age default to such a high\nnumber? What's the logic behind that?\n\nAFAIK, you want max_freeze_age to be the largest possible interval of\nXIDs where an existing trans... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere's a longstanding TODO item, in subject. Previous discussion was\nhere:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02341.php\n\nIn looking what it would take to implement it, I find that it is\ntrivial. The only part that looks complex is the UI for it. Is anyon... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, since there was no clear consensus or volunteer for preparing release \nnotes for alpha 1, I have started something. Let me know what you think.\n\n(reStructuredText, if you want to play around)",
"msg_date": "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:27:34 +0300",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWhile trying unsuccessfully to help someone in IRC, they pointed me to\nthis:\n\nhttp://www.flexiguided.de/publications.pgcollkey.en.html\n\nIs anybody working with the kind people of FlexiGuided GmbH to see\nabout integrating this feature more tightly with PostgreSQL?\n\nIf not, ho... |
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"msg_contents": "In the discussion of bug #4919 I wrote:\n> In some sense this is a bootstrap problem: what does it take to get to\n> the point of being able to read pg_database and its indexes? That is\n> necessarily not dependent on the particular database we want to join.\n> Maybe we could solve it by hav... |
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"msg_contents": "The wiki todo has the topic \"Fix priority ordering of read and write\nlight-weight locks\" and\nreferences http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php\n(lwlocks and starvation)\n\nHaving read the referenced discussion, I'm trying to figure out what\nremains to be done. ... |
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"msg_contents": "While looking at this report\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-08/msg00083.php\n\nI spotted another error message which could use improvement:\n\nCREATE TABLE foo(a int PRIMARY KEY DEFERRABLE);\nCREATE TABLE bar(a int REFERENCES foo(a));\n\nERROR: there is no unique constrain... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI wonder if POSIX_FADV_RANDOM and POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL are still innacurate \nfor postgreSQL ?\n\nI find \n«A related problem is that the smgr uses the same FD to access the same \nrelation no matter how many scans are in progress. Think about a complex query \nthat is doing both a... |
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"msg_contents": "While working on some code I ran into a problem where some DELETE \nrequests would get seamingly ignored after a while I managed to boil it \ndown to:\n\nCREATE TABLE foo (a INT PRIMARY KEY, b int);\nCREATE TABLE bar (x int PRIMARY KEY, a int references foo(a) ON DELETE \nSET NULL);\n\nINSERT... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\ncan anybody tell me, is there a roadmap with regards to\nhttp://www.postgres-r.org ?\n\nI would love to see it become production-ready asap.",
"msg_date": "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:04:19 +0200",
"msg_from": "Suno Ano <suno.ano@sunoano.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\na customer of us complained a behavioural difference\nbetween ESQL/C and ECPG. They check sqlca.sqlcode\nalmost everywhere in their application currently under\nporting to PostgreSQL. Somewhere in their code\nhowever there was a place where a statement error\nwas ignored and the error ... |
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"msg_contents": "I think having schemapg.h be autogenerated is a good idea, so I stripped\nthat from Robert Haas' patch. Here's the result. This should be\nrelatively uncontroversial since, well, the controversial stuff has been\nstripped. The one problem is that it introduces more complex code than\nit re... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to add all the \"box op point\" operators. The C routines are\nwritten and working as advertised. The manuals description of the\nRESTRICT and JOIN clauses of CREATE OPERATOR don't seem too clear. Are\nthese samples correct, or am I totally off base here?\n\nCREATE OPERATOR << (\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a proposal to integrate contrib/dblink and SQL/MED (foreign\ndata wrapper).\n\nDblink manages connections and transactions by itself at the moment,\nbut there are some benefits to split database connectors into FDW.\nDblink will uses those multiple connectors. For example, we will be\... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason why the function manager allows calling trigger functions \noutside of triggers and forces the PLs to catch this case themselves? Is \nthere a case where calling trigger functions directly is useful?\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:47:50 +0300",
"msg_from": "Pe... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking into what it would take to eliminate the flat file for\npg_auth info. The implication of doing that is that authentication has\nto be postponed until inside InitPostgres(), where we can read the\nactual system catalogs instead.\n\nThe easy way to do it would be to postpone ... |
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"msg_contents": "I love using postgresql, and have for a long time. I'm involved with\nalmost a hundred postgresql installs. But this is the first time I've\ngotten into the code.\n\nRenumbering networks happens often, and will happen more frequently as\nIPv4 space runs low. The IP based restrictions in pg_hb... |
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"msg_contents": "The story so far ... The provide polygon@>point routine does not work\ncorrectly when the points are close to the boundary. So we implemented a\ncustom contains(poly,point) function. In order to stop all points being\nchecked against all polygons, a separate bounding box is maintained. So\nth... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, we have the following patches remaining for CommitFest 2009-07...\n\n(1) Named and mixed notation for PL. Tom left this one as Waiting on\nAuthor because he didn't have much else left to work on, just in case\nPavel could rework it in time. I'll move it to Returned with Feedback\nafter ... |
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"msg_contents": "The Wisconsin Benchmark in src/test/bench is broken, probably since 8.2.\n\nAttached is a tested patch that fixes it. However, it might be better\nto just remove src/test/bench. The benchmark is quite useless,\nbecause it is single user test that runs in the stand\nalone mode, and because i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI'd like to inform you about the issue of using psql in a dos batch file \non windows vista.\n\nOn linux all is very simple, you can easily write in your script\n\npsql -d mydb -U myuser -f myqry.sql < passw.txt\n\nOn windows however, psql does not seem to work like this, nor does... |
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"msg_contents": "I observe that the following stuff is still being left behind after\n\"make distclean\" in doc/src/sgml/:\n\n-rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 934349 Aug 14 14:27 HISTORY.html\n-rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 727464 Aug 14 14:27 HISTORY\n-rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 33746176 Aug 14 14:33 postgres-US.tex-pdf\n-rw-rw-r... |
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"msg_contents": "Thinking about window function performance improvement as well as\nconcerning about GROUPING SETS discussed a couple of days before, I\nwonder why we have both of tuplestore and tuplesort. They are very\nsimilar but have different functions such as multiple read pointer\nwith tuplestore where... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nRemove tabs from SGML.\n\nTags:\n----\nREL8_3_STABLE\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:\n psql-ref.sgml (r1.198.2.1 -> r1.198.2.2)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml?r1=1.198.2.... |
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"msg_contents": "hello hackers,\n\ni have problems dropping an existing empty tablespace. here is a \nreduced example:\n\nAscheMobil:~ asche$ cat test2.sql\nCREATE TABLESPACE testspace LOCATION '/opt/postgresql/data2';\nCREATE SCHEMA testschema;\nCREATE TABLE testschema.foobar (id int) TABLESPACE testspace;\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe docs for the function random() currently say:\n\n random value between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive\n\nthis isn't a particularly useful invariant, what the code actually does\n(and is commented as doing) is much more useful. Any chance of changing\nit to something like:\n\n--- doc/src/... |
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"msg_contents": " The fmgroids.h file was incorrectly being generated by shell script \nGen_fmgrtab.sh, so I had to fix\n the makefile so that instead of the shell script generating the .h \nfile, perl generated it:\n\n #fmgroids.h fmgrtab.c: Gen_fmgrtab.sh \n$(top_srcdir)/src/include/catalog/pg_... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy name is Krešimir Jozić. I would like to continue work on \nCroatian translation.\n\n\n\nRegards, \n\n\tKrešimir",
"msg_date": "Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:05:54 +0200",
"msg_from": "=?utf-8?q?Kre=C5=A1imir_Jozi=C4=87?= <kjozic@gmail.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a patch to implement the idea discussed here:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01137.php\n\nIf VACUUM freezes one tuple on a page, it's likely that there are others\non the same page that are close to vacuum_freeze_min_age, but not quite.\nBecause the pag... |
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"msg_contents": "We can choose different encodings from platform-dependent one\nfor database, but postgres writes serverlogs in the database encoding.\nAs the result, serverlogs are filled with broken characters.\n\nThe problem could occur on all platforms, however, there is a solution\nfor win32. Since Windo... |
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"msg_contents": " Uh, it works for everybody else. What platform are you testing on?\n(The kernel version isn't a real helpful answer, since it's unlikely\nthis is a kernel issue.)\n\nWhile I'm not certain how it would lead to this exact failure, one\nthing to check is that your machine's clock is set correc... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a proposal to add buffer usage information to EXPLAIN and\ncontrib/pg_stat_statements. We can retrieve new values 'gets',\n'reads' and 'temp':\n\n - gets : total number of buffer pool access\n - reads : total number of data file access\n - temp : total number of temp file a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Tom Lane, Tao Ma\n\nI saw the post with title \"question about the _SPI_save_plan() and\nplan cache\" discussing about memory free of dropped function.\n\nI am using dynamically created function to imitate dynamic compound\nstatement in DB2.\nI use function_factory(t1 text, t2 text, t3 ... |
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"msg_contents": "following:\n\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-general@postgresql.org/msg135076.html\n\nI recreated the problem using a join between 2 tables:\n\n\nexplain select nome1, dltbfpgpdch\nFROM cell_bsc_60_0610 as cell_bsc\nleft outer join teststscell73_test_0610_1 as data on\ndata.ne_id=cell_bsc.... |
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"msg_contents": "Per http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process:\n\n* Commit fest manager declares commit fest closed: kind of done\n\n* Build farm status green or failures adequately explained: some\nbreakage because of local configuration problems (mostly old flex), no\nserious problems\n\n* Nami... |
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"msg_contents": "Per Peter's request to wrap this up, I have moved the last three\npatches to the next CommitFest. They are:\n\n \tFiltering dictionary support and unaccent dictionary\n \tplpythonu datatype conversion improvements\n \tquery cancel issues in dblink\n\nAll of these seem like they are pretty fa... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings!\nI've encounter repeatable postgres crash.\nI developed set of pl/perlu functions to import data from oracle to postgres.\nthere is one function that initializes session variables ($_SHARED) .\nEverything was very effective and fast but... when Oracle host disconnected plperlu func... |
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"msg_contents": "There was recently another go-round on the postgis-devel list about\nthe same problem Mark Cave-Ayland complained about last year:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00384.php\nBasically, what is happening is a nestloop join where the inner\nindexscan gets a comparison a... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached tiny patch sets the <explain> root element for auto-explain \nXML output, so it looks something like this:\n\n <explain xmlns=\"http://www.postgresql.org/2009/explain\">\n <Plan>\n <Node-Type>Result</Node-Type>\n <Startup-Cost>0.00</Startup-Cost>\n <T... |
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"msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd release notes for 8.5alpha1\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml:\n filelist.sgml (r1.62 -> r1.63)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/filelist.sgml?r1=1.62&r2=1.63)\n release.sgml (r1.633 -> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everyone.\nHaving a weird issue.\n\nI have a value inserted into a bytea column, which is about 137megs in size.\n\nIf I use octet_length() to check the size of the column for this specific\nrow I get this:\nTestDB=# SELECT octet_length(rawdata) FROM LargeData;\n octet_length\n---------... |
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"msg_contents": "PostgreSQL version: 8.4.0\nOperating system: all versions\n\nIf we set FILLFACTOR to a table, autovacuum parameters in postgresql.conf\nwill not affect to the table; default values are always used.\n\nIn 8.4.0, we create StdRdOptions if a relation has some fields in\npg_class.reloption. The... |
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"msg_contents": "One of the problems with Hot Standby is that a long running query on the standby\ncan conflict with VACUUMed rows on the primary, causing queries to be cancelled.\n\n\nI've been looking at this problem for about a year now from various angles. Jeff\nJane's recent thoughts on procarray scalabi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am a master's student in CSE department at IIT Bombay. As an academic\ncourse project, I have developed a tool for index selection in PostgreSQL.\nThe tool takes a workload file as in input and outputs a set of create index\nstatements. The workload file consists queries along wit... |
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"msg_contents": "Sometime since Friday, somebody (probably Peter) \"fixed\" things so that\n\"make install\" at the top level of the tree insists on building the SGML\ndocumentation first. I regard this as utterly unacceptable; if I'm just\ntrying to build a new test installation (which I often do multiple t... |
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"msg_contents": "I believe (but won't be able to prove for another few hours) that the\nreason the MSVC buildfarm members are failing on contrib/unaccent,\nas seen here:\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mastodon&dt=2009-08-18%2013:00:00\nis that they are not running the test in a UTF8-encode... |
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"msg_contents": "There were two different complaints today about the planner's inability\nto make good estimates for WHERE conditions involving bit AND tests,\nsuch as\n\t(field & 8) = 0\n\t(field & 8) <> 0\n\t(field & 127) = field\n\nI'm not particularly eager to try to put in special-case knowledge\nfor thi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\n\"PL/pgSQL functions using RETURNS QUERY or RECORD types no longer\nalways need to be rebuilt after adding or dropping a column for the\nrelated tables.\"\n\nI thing, so this isn't correct. When you dropped column, then you had\nto rebuild table - rebuild related function had no eff... |
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"msg_contents": "When FindConversion() is called, it also checks current user's ACL_EXECUTE\nprivilege on the conproc of the fetched conversion.\n\nWhy this check is applied on FindConversion(), instead of FindDefaultConversion()?\n\nThe FindConversion() returns the OID of conversion for the given name and\nn... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a WIP patch for a foreign data wrapper based dblink.\n\nIt integrates dblink module into core and adds a new functionality,\nautomatic transaction management. The new interface of dblink is\nexported by include/foreign/dblink.h. We can easily write a connector\nmodule for another data... |
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"msg_contents": "Suspect that attaching large amounts of code is a breach of etiquette.\nSo apologies in advance.\n\nNeeded to write a contains(polygon,point) function that gave a level of\naccuracy greater than the current 'poly@>point' operator. The new\nfunction works just fine. While at it, thought it wou... |
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"msg_contents": "Alpha1 has been bundled and is available at\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/alpha/\n\nPlease check that it is sane.\n\nThen, someone please move this to an appropriate place on the FTP server\nand make an announcement.\n\nSee http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process fo... |
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"msg_contents": "> ---------- Forwarded message ----------\n> From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>\n> To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>\n> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:31:41 -0700\n> Subject: Re: REGRESS_OPTS versus MSVC build scripts\n> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 02:15:48PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:\n>>... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 4996\nLogged by: Shivesh Wangrungvichaisri\nEmail address: sbw@appsig.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.7\nOperating system: Windows XP x64 / Windows 7 x64\nDescription: postgres.exe memory consumption keeps ... |
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"msg_contents": "In XLogInsert (src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c), the part that adds back-up\nblocks into the rdata chain is described:\n\n /*\n * Make additional rdata chain entries for the backup blocks, so that we\n * don't need to special-case them in the write loop. Note that we... |
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"msg_contents": "\n... for the simple reason that nobody is maintaining it. Wheeler just\npointed out to me today that the OSX startup script hasn't been updated\nsince 7.4 and contains misinformation and dangerous scripting.\n\nOther startup scripts there are equally dilapidated, and aren't used by\nthe lin... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am getting a repeatable failure on the HEAD regression tests when \nauto_explain's log_verbose is set. If auto_explain.log_verbose is turned \noff the failure disappears. Data below.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n\nconfig settings:\n\ncustom_variable_classes = 'auto_explain'\nauto_explain.log_min... |
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"msg_contents": "When recover a database using a continuous archive backup, i detected some\nduplicated keys. This there isn't in the production database.\nI use postgres-8.3.5.\nanyone know why this happens?\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nYgor Degani\n\nWhen recover a database using a continuous archive backup, i detec... |
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"msg_contents": "There have been a number of planner improvement ideas that have been \nthrown out because of the overhead they would add to the planning \nprocess, specifically for queries that would otherwise be quiet fast. \nOther databases seem to have dealt with this by creating plan caches \n(which ... |
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"msg_contents": "When recover a database using a continuous archive backup, i detected some\nduplicated keys. This there isn't in the production database.\nI use postgres-8.3.5.\nanyone know why this happens?\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nYgor Degani\n\nWhen recover a database using a continuous archive backup, i detec... |
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"msg_contents": "Due to a thread about the neglect of the sample start scripts I took a\nlook at the current Linux file. There's certainly room for several\nimprovements, but some of them might require discussion. Attached are\na couple small changes which seem to me to be pretty tame. Hopefully\na small, ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm writing some code now that uses the inet and cidr types and I find\nmyself wanting a function that takes an argument of type inet and\nreturns an integer, where:\n\n255.255.255.255 => 32\n255.255.255.254 => 31\n255.255.255.252 => 30\n255.255.255.248 => 29\n255.255.255.240 => 28\n...\n128.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been having a look around to see what would it take to implement\nthe syntax in the subject, completing a patch posted by Sussane Ebrecht\ntwo years ago.\n\nAs far as I can tell, the first problem is in the grammar. The SQL spec\nmandates <multiple value expression> as a producti... |
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"msg_contents": "I've made a few further cleanups to the hot standby patch:\n\n- UnobservedTransactionsRemoveXids() had an argument called\nmissing_in_error which was always set to false. So I removed the\nargument and the elog().\n[It's an interesting question whether this should be considered an\nerror, bu... |
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"msg_contents": "Maybe this is one of those things that is obvious when someone points\nit out to you, but right now I am not seeing it. If you look at the\nlast eight lines of this snippet from XLogFlush, you see that if we\nobtain WriteRqstPtr under the WALInsertLock, then we both write and\nflush up to th... |
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"msg_contents": "Trying to solve this problem by using a process of elimination. All\nworks fine until the comment below is removed.\n\nALTER OPERATOR FAMILY box_ops USING GiST ADD\n OPERATOR 1 << (box,point),\n OPERATOR 2 &< (box,point),\n OPERATOR 3 && (box,point),\n OPERATOR 4 &> (box,point),\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is an updated version of my patch to return data from b-tree\nindexes, and use it to satisfy quals.\n\nI added a new column 'amregurgitate' to pg_am, to mark which indexams\ncan return index tuples. Also, the data type of the index column in\npg_attribute must match the type of the heap ... |
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"msg_contents": "I found following core file of PG 8.4.0 on my system (Solaris Nevada\nb119):\n\n fe8ae42d _dowrite (85bf6e8, 3a, 8035e3c, 80350e8) + 8d\n fe8ae743 _ndoprnt (85bf6e8, 8035ec8, 8035e3c, 0) + 2ba\n fe8b322d vsnprintf (85bfaf0, 3ff, 85bf6e8, 8035ec8, 0, 0) + 65\n 082194ea appendStringInfoVA (8035... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear friends,\n\nI have been using PostgreSQL since 6.3 releases and I am a real fan. \nOf course, I never use nor trust MySQL to deliver data.\n\nNow I use Drupal 6.3 with PostgreSQL 8.4. \n\nI loose a lot of time correcting Drupal SQL.\nYou may be interested in my developer feedback.\n\nI g... |
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"msg_contents": "Thought another message might be appropriate as I've made some \nprogress: finished up PEP302 interfaces on PyPgFunction \nobjects(provides linecache support for tracebacks), IST support, DB \nerror handling(pg error -> pyexc -> pg error), and, recently, some \nannoying type interface imp... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, explain.c goes out of its way to not print \"resjunk\" output\ncolumns (those not meant to be seen by the user, such as hidden sort key\ncolumns) in EXPLAIN VERBOSE targetlists. I made 8.4 act that way for\nreasons I don't recall at the moment, but I've found several times now\nth... |
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