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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHas anybody seen this? It seems ecpg tries to link with backend functions.\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -DECPG_COMPILE -L../../../../src/port -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/src/pgsql/current/lib' preproc.o type.o ecpg.o output.o pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "You can see strange error on gothic moth (Solaris Nevada, SunStudio 12, \nSparc):\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gothic_moth&dt=2009-09-08%2019:06:01\n\n================= pgsql.19404/contrib/tsearch2/regression.diffs \n===================\n*** ./expected/tsearch2.out\tTu...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nHello\n\nThe origin of this petition is an error produced today by a user on one\nof our systems. Because of this error many users lost access to their\ndatabases.\n\nProblem:\n- --------\nIf you define in pg_hba.conf a database or a user valu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI thing so there are lot of aggregates based on generating array. We\nhave fast array_agg function, but we cannot be same effective with\ncustom aggregates. So my proposal is creating some new kind of\naggregates, that are based on arrays. The primary goal is getting same\nspeed as a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nI ran into a problem writing a program using libpq, and after postin on\na forum and asking it on the irc channel I was redirected here.\n\nI'll try to keep it simple so you don't have to read to much to start:\n\nThe program is asynchronous using libev, using sockets and n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have received a requirement for the ability to import ragged CSV \nfiles, i.e. files that contain variable numbers of columns per row. The \nrequirement is that extra columns would be ignored and missing columns \nfilled with NULL. The client wanting this has wrestled with some \npreproce...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nElein Mustain mentioned this, and I came up with a short repro. The\nSQL standard does not distinguish between what's available to\naggregates normally and in the windowing context. However...\n\nSELECT count(DISTINCT i) FROM (VALUES (1),(2),(3),(1)) AS s(i);\n count \n-------\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nCommitFest 2009-09 is now only days away! I have been having\ndiscussions with a number of people, and the result of those\ndiscussions is that I have agreed to manage the next CommitFest\ninsofar as patch assignment is concerned. Selena Deckelmann, Stephen\nFrost, and Brendan Jur...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Heikki\nLinnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:\n>\n> Could we\n> have a version of PQconnectdb() with an API more suited for setting the\n> params programmatically? The PQsetdbLogin() approach doesn't scale as\n> parameters are added/removed i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nSQL logging is useful for database audit, but there is serveral problems:\n\n * A large amount of logs degrade performance, especially syslog is used.\n * Text or CSV logs instead of syslog could improve performance,\n but DBAs favor syslog over text logs for integrated monitor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nOn Windows, when a file is deleted and another process still has an open\nfile handle on it, the file goes into \"pending deletion\" state where it\nstill shows up in directory listing, but isn't accessible otherwise. That\nconfuses RemoveOldXLogFiles(), making it t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nFinally the error logging and autopartitioning patches for COPY that I \npresented at PGCon are here!\nError logging is described here: \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Error_logging_in_COPY\nAutopartitioning is described here: \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Auto-partitioning_i...
[ { "msg_contents": "LOG messages have higher priority than ERROR and WARNING\nin log_min_messages (PANIC > FATAL > LOG > ERROR > WARNING) now.\nCan I reorder them to ERROR > WARNING > LOG ? It makes a difference\nto \"per-destination minimum message levels\" feature that I working on.\n\nLOG messages are often ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The current docs for autovacuum_max_workers suggest it should be modifiable\nwith a reload, unless I'm reading in awfully silly ways this morning (which\nisn't entirely out of the question). Anyway, in the 8.3.7 and 8.5devel\ninstances I've tried, autovacuum_max_workers can only be set at ser...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just noticed, somewhat to my chagrin, that while in a plperl \nfunction that returns an array type you can return a perl arrayref, like \nthis:\n\n return [qw(a b c)];\n\nif the function returns a setof an array type you cannot do this:\n\n return_next [qw(a b c)];\n\nNow the plp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, pgsql-committers!\n\nI cannot created more than 32766 databases with freeBSD in one setup,\nnot as the document says, \"as many as you like\".\nI found the problem is that the directory pgsql/data/base cannot hold\nmore than 32766 subdirectories.\nI suggest to make 32766 subdirectories in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd Unicode support in PL/Python\n\nPL/Python now accepts Unicode objects where it previously only accepted string\nobjects (for example, as return value). Unicode objects are converted to the\nPostgreSQL server encoding as necessary.\n\nThis change is also necessa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThere was a fairly good response to my first request for reviewers for\nthe upcoming CommitFest, but we still have only about half as many\nreviewers as we do patches, and I expect a few more patches to come in\nat the last minute, so please volunteer if you haven't already.\n\nPatc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:\n>>> The biggest problem I have with this change is that it's going to\n>>> massively break anyon...
[ { "msg_contents": "Regards to all the list.\nWhere I can find the new feautures that will be implemented on the 8.5 version?\n\nIs there included the posibility on a tablespace restrict to a user to use a certain space inside it?\n\nFor example in Oracle you can do this:\nCREATE TABLESPACE tb_space1\nLOCATION '...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of the main pains in translating PostgreSQL messages is translating\nthe SQL syntax synopses in psql. Things like:\n\nmsgid \"\"\n\"[ WITH [ RECURSIVE ] with_query [, ...] ]\\n\"\n\"SELECT [ ALL | DISTINCT [ ON ( expression [, ...] ) ] ]\\n\"\n\" * | expression [ [ AS ] output_name ] ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch to add a GUC parameter \"syslog_line_prefix\".\nIt adds prefixes to syslog and eventlog. We still have\n\"log_line_prefix\", that will be used only for stderr logs.\n\nWe have a tip that log_line_prefix is not required for syslog\nin the documentation, but we'd better to have ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 5053\nLogged by: Andrew Gierth\nEmail address: andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk\nPostgreSQL version: 8.5devel\nOperating system: FreeBSD\nDescription: domain constraints still leak\nDetails: \n\nDomain NOT NU...
[ { "msg_contents": "test_fsync in tools/fsync pre-creates a 16MB file. If it is given a number\nof iterations greater than 1024 (like one might use if trying to see what\nhappens when NVRAM gets filled, or on a journaling file system), than one of\nthe writes being timed will have to extend the size of the pre-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it possible to convert from a Timestamp to time_t ? I see functions\nmentioned in utils/timestamp.h for converting between TimestampTz and\ntime_t, but nothing for Timestamp.\nWhat is the relationship between Timestamp and TimestampTz?\n\nScott Mohekey\nSystems/Application Specialist – OnT...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is an updated version of reworks for access control\nfacilities, and a short introduction to help reviewing not-obvious part\nof the patch.\n\nList of updates:\n- Rebased to the latest CVS HEAD.\n- bugfix: ac_opfamily_create() was not called on DefineOpClass().\n- bugfix: a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere is the latest version of Streaming Replication (SR) patch.\n\nThere were four major problems in the SR patch which was submitted for\nthe last CommitFest. The latest patch has overcome those problems:\n\n> 1. Change the way synchronization is done when standby connects to\n> prima...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've done a little experiment with bulk inserts.\n\n=> heap_bulk_insert()\n\nBehaves like heap_insert except it takes an array of tuples (HeapTuple \n*tups, int ntups).\n\n- Grabs a page (same as heap_insert)\n\n- While holding exclusive lock, inserts as many tuples as it can on the \npag...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been working on a restructure of some of the syslogger\ninfrastructure with Josh Tolley. Attached is the WIP patch that we\nhave so far.\n\nFirst, the patch removes the logging_collector parameter and basically\nassumes that logging_collector is always on. With that, it's no longer\nnece...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI've just had a feature request from a client that we come up with a way\nto enable JSON input into hstore. This would make hstore much more\nuseful for software developers.\n\nFirst question: would this go in the language driver, libpq, or the\nbackend? Thoughts?\n\n-- \nJosh B...
[ { "msg_contents": "Latest hstore patch with provision for inplace upgrading.\n\n-- \nAndrew (irc:RhodiumToad)", "msg_date": "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:44:18 +0100", "msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "revised hstore patch" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "A trivial little fix for PostgreSQL-8.4.1.\n\nCalling the libpq function PQencryptPassword(password, \"\") doesn't make\na lot of sense (empty string for username). But if you do, it results\nin a 1-byte buffer overflow in pg_md5_encrypt(). (This is in\nbackend/libpq/md5.c, but it's client, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "commitfest.postgresql.org is updated, please submit new patches at\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open\n\nInitial reviewing assignments have been sent to -rrreviewers. If you\ndidn't get one due to an oversight on my part, please drop me a note!\n\nThanks,\n\n...Ro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all..\nI'm using PostgreSQL 8.3..\nHow can I get information about the hardware utilization:\n - CPU usage.\n - Disk space.\n - Memory allocation.\nthank you.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:34:29 -0700 (PDT)", "msg_from": "std pik <stdpik@gmail.com>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was searching info about PgCluster-II yesterday and there is not much information about it.\nDo can give to me any report of this? Because I need to know the progress of the project.\nOn PgFoundry, only it talks about PgCluster-1.9, but not of the 2.x versions.\n\nWho is the PgCluster-II´s ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yeah, the problem here is that CyberCluster is based yet on PostgreSQL 8.1 and is a very old version to use it.\n\nI found the developer of PgCluster-II: Atsushi MITANI - mitani@sraw.co.jp\n\n\n\"The hurry is enemy of the success: for that reason.......Be patient\"\n\nIng. Marcos L. Ortiz Val...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI saw the editor added this line:\n\"Zoltan Boszormenyi sent in a small patch to fix a typo in an earlier\nECPG patch he sent.\"\nThis typo fix is an upstream bugfix.\n\nThanks.\n\n-- \nBible has answers for everything. Proof:\n\"But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Accidentally left the doc patch out of the hstore patch posted\npreviously, so here it is as a separate patch.\n\n-- \nAndrew (irc:RhodiumToad)", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:13:23 +0100", "msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nS1, S2 are concurrent sessions:\n\nS1: create table test_par (v int);\nS1: create table test_ch1 (check (v > 0 and v <= 2)) inherits (test_par);\nS1: create table test_ch2 (check (v > 2 and v <= 4)) inherits (test_par);\nS1: begin;\nS1: drop table test_ch1 cascade;\n\nS2: select * from test...
[ { "msg_contents": "Best Regards,\n\nEd Koch\n\nPrincipal\nAddison Search\n212-378-1634\n1350 Broadway NY,NY suite 810, 10018\n\n\n\n________________________________\nThis message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not di...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, here is the latest version of the Hot Standby patchset. This is\nabout version 30+ by now, but we should regard this as 0.2.1\nPatch against CVS HEAD (now): clean apply, compile, no known bugs.\n\nOVERVIEW\n\nYou can download PDF versions of the fine manual is here\nhttp://wiki.postgresql...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gah. rerolled to fix a missing file. includes the docs too this time.\n\n-- \nAndrew (irc:RhodiumToad)", "msg_date": "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:31:43 +0100", "msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: updated hstore patch" }...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncontrib/dblink doesn't transfar any non-error messages. Is it by design\nor to be a ToDo item? We can use PQsetNoticeReceiver() here.\n\npostgres=# SELECT * FROM dblink_exec('dbname=postgres', 'VACUUM VERBOSE');\n**** No VERBOSE messages here ****\n dblink_exec\n-------------\n VACUUM...
[ { "msg_contents": "Stef Walter wrote:\n> [Looks like my response to this never made it to the mailing list,\n> sending again...]\n\nYour original message did not carry a Message-Id header, and neither\ndoes this one (at least the copy I got). Are you doing something weird\nto the message? This worries me, bec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nHere's the feedback on replacing VACUUM FULL with VACUUM REWRITE:\nhttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/getting-rid-of-vacuum-full-feedback-needed-33959\n\nOf note:\n\na) To date, I have yet to hear a single person bring up an actual\nreal-life use-case where VACUUM FULL was ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust been looking again at the way FSM works. In fsm_search_avail() we\nessentially have just a single way for working out how to search the\ntree.\n\nSeems like it would be good to abstract this so that we can implement a\nnumber of FSM search strategies\n\n* (current) randomize - page sel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following a discussion on the pgsql-admin list <\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2009-09/msg00075.php>, I have\ncreated a patch to (optionally) allow PostgreSQL to do a LDAP search to\ndetermine the user's DN (as is done in Apache, MediaWiki, Bugzilla, et al.)\ninstead of building...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch extends pg_ctl command with init option. \n\npg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgres [-s] init\n\nThis should replace usage of initdb command which has problematic name\nas we already discussed several times. Initdb binary will be still\nthere, but it can be renamed and move into execlib d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCVS NULL Documentation\n\nClearify documentation of CVS's output of NULL values, per suggestion\nfrom Magnus.\n\nBackpatch to 8.4.X.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:\n copy.sgml (r1.87 -> r1.88)\n (http://anoncvs.postgres...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found a strange checks in the native database privilege stuff.\n\nThe EnableDisableRule() calls pg_class_ownercheck() to check\nthe ownership of the relation which has a rule to be turned\non/off.\n\nOnly ATExecEnableDisableRule() calls the EnableDisableRule(),\nand only ATExecCmd() calls t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nEasier to translate psql help\n\nInstead of requiring translators to translate the entire SQL command\nsynopses, change create_help.pl to only require them to translate the\nplaceholders, and paste those into the synopsis using a printf mechanism.\nMake some small u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWith PG84, I have tried something like this which seem incorrect to me.\n\n# SELECT '' AS to_number_2, to_number('-347,58', '99G999');\n to_number_2 | to_number\n-------------+-----------\n | -3458\n(1 row)\n\nAfter browsing the code (numeric_to_number), I have found t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nOn behalf of the entire PostgreSQL team here in Austria I want to wish \nyou a happy birthday.\nWe hope that you fill be a vital part of PostgreSQL for many years to come.\n\n Best regards,\n\n Hans-J�rgen Sch�nig + team\n\n\n-- \nCybertec Schoenig & Schoenig GmbH\nReyerga...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI'm about to launch on a program of organized alpha and beta testing by\nvolunteers from our community.\n\nInitially, tests will be logged either by e-mail parsing on the\npgsql-testers mailing list, or by a web-based Radix interface if I can\nget one up.\n\nPlease comment on the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nHere's what came out for Mozilla, which, I hope you'll pardon my\nsaying so, is a teensy tad more widely used than PostgreSQL has any\nplans to become.\n\nhttp://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3839831/Mozilla+Firefox+Cleared+of+US+Export+Rules.htm\n\nI suggest that we s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 5065\nLogged by: Jesse Morris\nEmail address: jmorris@coverity.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.7, 8.4.1\nOperating system: Windows Server 2003 R2\nDescription: pg_ctl start fails as administrator, with \"co...
[ { "msg_contents": "David Do you can comment this altertatives or choices that we have?\n\nWe can support us in Bruce Schneier[1], Chief Security Technology Officer, BT (schneier@schneier.com)\nwho is one of the person that knows many topics about security in the world. Is a very nice person and allways is to ab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOn Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n> This approach is OK if the stand-alone walreceiver is treated steadily\n> by the startup process like a child process under postmaster:\n>\n> * Handling of some interrupts: SIGHUP, SIGTERM?, SIGINT, SIGQUIT....
[ { "msg_contents": "I realized the truth of $SUBJECT while reading this report:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-09/msg00712.php\n\nIn a standalone backend, postgres.c tries to run StartupXLOG after\nhaving done only BaseInit(), which means that we don't have a PGPROC\n(hence can't take LWLocks...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've looked at implementing writeable CTEs on top of my DML node patch\n(repo here: git://git.postgresql.org/git/writeable_cte.git ) and\nencountered a few conundrums. You can see what I've done in the\n\"actually_write\" branch of that repo.\n\n- Currently we only store the OIDs of t...
[ { "msg_contents": "DML rules don't work during read only transactions. Now that is a real\nshame because it would allow some important capabilities when running in\nHot Standby mode.\n\npostgres=# create or replace function foo () returns void \nlanguage plpgsql as \n$$ begin null; end; $$;\nCREATE FUNCTION\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now. There are some\nthings missing, notably the ability to create a language with an\nanonymous-code-block handler. The only way you can do it is to have\na pg_pltemplate entry, which is certainly not good enough for languages\nnot distribu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nUnicode escapes in E'...' strings\n\nAuthor: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml:\n syntax.sgml (r1.135 -> r1.136)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml?r1=1.13...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hstore patch incorporating changes as previously discussed.\n\nIn addition the requested new features of conversions to and from\narray formats have been added (with docs).\n\n-- \nAndrew (irc:RhodiumToad)", "msg_date": "Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:18:59 +0100", "msg_from": "Andrew Gierth <an...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have observed the following situation a few times now (weeks or months\napart), most recently with 8.3.7. Some postgres child process crashes.\nThe postmaster notices and sends SIGQUIT to all other children. Once\nall other children have exited, it would enter recovery. But for some\nrea...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a number of buildfarm members that have been failing on HEAD\nconsistently for some time. It looks from here that the following\nactions need to be taken:\n\ntapir, cardinal: need a newer version of \"flex\" installed\n\nwombat, eukaryote, chinchilla: these are all failing with\n\tLO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI just had a discussion on IRC about unicode normalization in \nPostgreSQL. Apparently there is not support for it, currently. Andrew \nGierth points out that it's part of the SQL spec to support it, though:\n\n> RhodiumToad:e.g. NORMALIZE(foo,NFC,len)\n> justatheory:Oh, just a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am using psqlodbc to connect to PostgreSQL8.2.4 server on Linux.\nThe manual says \"BEGIN TRANSACATION\" is equlvalent to \"START\nTRANSACTION\", but it turns out that they throw different error message\nand have different effect to subsequent queries.\n\nI have a table \"CREATE ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a context using normalization, wouldn't you typically want to store a normalized-text type that could perhaps (depending on locale) take advantage of simpler, more-efficient comparison functions? Whether you're doing INSERT/UPDATE, or importing a flat text file, if you canonicalize charact...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear my friends....\n\nI am still new in PostgreSQL. Usually I use MySQL on OpenSuSE.\n\nI just have installed postgres with: \"zypper install\npostgresql-server\". The installation looked OK.\n\nAs post-installation process, I've done:\n\"\nsussy:~ # rcpostgresql status\nChecking for Postgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI recently saw a complaint that a simple PL/PgSQL code is slower than PL/SQL.\nI did some benchmark and confirmed it is. I coded the same function\n(function2) in C just to compare with something. According to OP [1], the\nPL/SQL seems to run more than 15x faster than PL/PgSQL code.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe attached patch addresses the performance issues of the\nauthorization related views from information_schema (BUG #4596). It\nimplements what Tom suggests in\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-12/msg00144.php\n\nIn the cases that I have tested both the new and the old...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm hacking up our build framework to allow us to build installers for\nthe upcoming alpha2 release. When I install the Linux port, I'm seeing\nthe following failure:\n\nWriting dblink_build_sql_insert.1 for refentry(contrib-dblink-build-sql-insert)\nWriting dblink_build_sql_delete.1 for refe...
[ { "msg_contents": " From pg_dump/pg_restore section (9.2 of the Todo page on the\nPostgreSQL Wiki), is the following item\n \"Add comments to output indicating version of pg_dump and of the\ndatabase server\"\n\nsimply asking for a change to the pg_dump header from:\n\n--\n-- PostgreSQL database dump\n--\n\nto...
[ { "msg_contents": "While researching the RelationCacheInitializePhase2 unpleasantness,\nI happened across this long-ago discussion:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-12/msg00128.php\nin which we established the coding rule that formrdesc() must construct\ncompletely-correct TupleDescs for the rela...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a note to say that Hot Standby patch is now on git repository\n git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/simon/postgres\nBranch name: hot_standby \n\nThe complete contents of that repository are BSD licenced contributions\nto the PostgreSQL project.\n\nAny further changes to that will be by ag...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm looking at creating a plperl inline code handler. I'd like to modify \nthe new InlineCodeBlock structure slightly by adding a \"trusted\" flag \nand having the calling code in src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c fill \nit in. This will save every language handler that implements both \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\n \n\n \n\nI really appreciate Mr. Cecchet’s effort to establish the wiki page\n(working_with_eclipse, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-\n10/msg00312.php).\n\n \n\nI set up my PostgreSQL development environment with Eclipse, following the\npage’s instructions...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\r\n\r\nI have been thinking about ways to have PostgreSQL reject\r\nweak passwords.\r\n\r\nI think the standard recommendation is \"use PAM and LDAP\",\r\nbut that requires the user to change the password outside\r\nof PostgreSQL. And who would want to setup and maintain an\r\nL...
[ { "msg_contents": "----- Forwarded message from Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> -----\n\nDate: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:52:35 -0400\nFrom: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>\nTo: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>\nCc: Dan Colish <dan@unencrypted.org>, pgsql-rrreviewers@postgresql.org,\n\tJeff Janes <jeff.jane...
[ { "msg_contents": "(resent to -hackers)\n\nI just applied and tested the new patch. Everything works great.\n\nThe only thing I would change now is some of the comments.\n\n1). On line 289, one of the regression test comments got copied:\n\n+   move forward in c;                --should be at '5'\n\nchange to:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAttached is a small doc patch for README at top level, which updates\nlinks for some projects. It could be backpatched, too.\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE\nCommand Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com \ndevrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr\nhttp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Itagaki-san,\n\nI'm reviewing your patch. Your patch is in good shape. It applies cleanly. All\nof the things are built as intended (including the two contrib modules). It\ndoesn't include docs but I wrote it. Basically, I produced another patch (that\nare attached) correcting some minor g...
[ { "msg_contents": "* KaiGai Kohei (kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com) wrote:\n> Could you post any review comments, even if it is not comprehensive yet?\n\nIn general, you don't need to preface your comments with 'MEMO:'. I\nwould encourage removing that. You might use 'FIXME:' instead, if it is\nsomething which needs to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi ,\n We are using Postgres 8.4 and its been found going into recovery\nmode couple of times. The server process seems to fork another child process\nwhich is another postgres server running under same data directory and after\nsome time it goes away while the old server is still runn...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's now been two weeks since we started this CommitFest, so it seems\nlike a good time to review where we are. Here are my thoughts, for\nwhat that's worth.\n\nOur overall rate of progress is significantly slower than it was last\ntime around. At a similar point in the July CommitFest, 19 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that the samehost/samenet patch is in, I wonder if it wouldn't be\na good idea to replace this part of the default pg_hba.conf file:\n\n# IPv4 local connections:\nhost all all 127.0.0.1/32 @authmethod@\n# IPv6 local connections:\nhost all all ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to propose adding a new GUC to limit the amount of memory a backend\ncan allocate for its own use. The problem this addresses is that sometimes\none needs to set work_mem fairly high to get good query plans for large joins.\nHowever, some complex queries will then use huge amounts of...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking why cometh_month fails and it is problem with last hstore \nputback:\n\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=comet_moth&dt=2009-09-30%2021:06:00\n\nStack trace is following:\n\n ffffffff6f013828 hstore_hash (ffffffff7fffa050, 10000395298, 1, 41, \n7370616365414143, 0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst fooling with the default ACLs patch I noticed that there's a\npre-existing bug in CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION. It will let you\nreplace a function if pg_proc_ownercheck passes, which these days\ndoes *not* mean that you are exactly the role mentioned in\npg_proc.proowner; it only means...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is a revised version based on the previous\ndiscussions at:\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20090929105431.GO17756@tamriel.snowman.net\n http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4AC1EA9E.3080907@kaigai.gr.jp\n http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/2009...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nWe have this para in the CREATE TABLE docs, commented out, as shown. It \nseems to have been like that for a long time (see \n<http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml?annotate=1.48>).\n\nSurely we should either include it or remove it. Having it c...
[ { "msg_contents": "By chance I noticed that the foreign_data regression test fails if run\nin an installation where \"bob\" is a live user. It appears to be\nassuming that half a dozen other fairly common names don't belong to\nreal users, either. Could we make this a little less fragile? Maybe\ncall them no...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just troubleshooting a slow query\n\nSELECT * FROM da_answer a\n WHERE\n a.provider_id IN ( SELECT visibility_bypass_providers( 0, 0 ) ) OR --\nownership\n (\n EXISTS ( -- Visibility grant\n SELECT v.client_answer_id FROM sp_client_answervisibility v\n JOIN ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch removes a useless pushing of an active snapshot on\nPortalStart. Instead of push/get/pop of the active snapshot, without\nany intervening use of the active snapshot, we just pass a local\nsnapshot down to CreateQueryDesc.\n\n-- \nAlvaro Herrera http:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anyone elaborate (or point me to some additional info) on the 8.5\nTODO item in the \"Point-In-Time Recover (PITR) section (1.4)\":\n Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining\ntransaction id for point-in-time recovery\n This is useful for checking PITR recovery.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to propose a change in the way privilege checking is done\nwith inheritance hierarchies. Currently, selecting from a table that\nhas children requires explicit privileges on all the children. This is\ninconsistent with all other commands, which treat children as implicitly\npar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Joseph and pgsql-hackers,\n\nOMNIconnect has been experimenting with your\ncontrib/fuzzystrmatch software\n\nIt is very interesting and powerful. Thanks.\n\nWe have come up with some ideas of our own and want contribute them to the Postgresql contribs tree\n\nOMNIconnects idea is another...
[ { "msg_contents": "Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:\n \n > let's let the default, global default ACL contain the hard-wired\n> privileges, instead of making them hardwired.\n \n+1\n \n-Kevin\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:09:56 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I took a look at 2-pg85-sqlda-10-ctxdiff.patch. Starting from CVS HEAD of\nroughly 2009-10-03 05:00 UTC, prerequisite patches 1a-1h applied cleanly.\n2-pg85-sqlda hit a trivial whitespace reject in ecpg.trailer along with a more\nsubstantive reject at ecpg.addons:407 (FetchStmtMOVEfetch_args...