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[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd connection messages for streaming replication. log_connections\nwas broken for a replication connection and no messages were\ndisplayed on either standby or primary, at any debug level.\nConnection messages needed to diagnose session drop/reconnect\nevents. Use ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In anticipation of the release of PostgreSQL 9.0, it is once again time\nto update the message translations. We are not very near a string\nfreeze yet, which has traditionally been associated with the first\nrelease candidate, but I feel that things are already stable enough to\nbegin this w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed the 9.0 release notes:\n\n\thttp://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html\n\nI kept the 9.0-alpha release notes in the SGML because people might want\nto compare them with the release notes I did, and because the\nintroductory text will be needed for the ne...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the function \"subquery_is_pushdown_safe\", there is an immediate\n\"false\" returned if the subquery has a windowing function. While that\nseems true in general, are there cases where we can push down a qual\nif it is on the partitioning key? Or do NULLs or some other detail\nget in the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthe test harness used for Postgres-R has been unbundled and is now\navailable separately in a first release version 0.1. With its async,\nevent driven nature it is specifically targetting distributed systems\nand designed to allow easy reuse and rearrangment of test components.\n\nSpec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nCurrent form of function detail isn't too practical (see screenshot 1)\n\nwe can move source code to separate area (maybe we can add rownumbers)\n\nsee screenshot 2 (it is only mockup, real implementation can be more\ninteligent in rows numbering)\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I was looking at the VarBit data structure and found out that instead of\nstoring the number of bits in four bytes, we can save the number of bits\nthat are valid in the last byte. Since we already store the number of bytes\nin Varlena Header, we can calculate the number of valid bits...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Josh Berkus wrote:\n> > On 3/19/10 9:02 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > > I have completed the 9.0 release notes:\n> > > \n> > > \thttp://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html\n> > > \n> > > I kept the 9.0-alpha release notes in the SGML because people might ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I'm Joey Adams, and I'm interested in applying for Google\nSummer of Code to work on PostgreSQL. I'm a former GSoC student (I\nworked on CCAN last year), and a strong C programmer, though I am\nstill new to working with large, established communities. I apologize\nif this is the wron...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I build PG on VS2005, which files should I change to use a external lib in my own contrib, for example, Berkeley DB 4.8.26?\n \n Until now, I have tried the following 2 ways, but both failed.\n\n 1. Add the target include and lib\n 1). src/tools/msvc/config.pl\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAttached is updated Turkish stopword list for Tsearch2, against 8.4 and\nHEAD. \n\nPlease apply.\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GÜNDÜZ\nPostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer\nPostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org\nCommunity: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gund...
[ { "msg_contents": "Exclusion constraints are good. There's a few annoyances around them,\nthat are minor but feel should be addressed for 9.0.\n\n* Exclusion indexes are created with the suffix \"_exclusion\". That's a\nvery long suffix and will overflow most defined reports/screens. It\nwould be much better to...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDeferrable unique constraints seem an interesting feature, though I have\neither some questions or some issues, not sure which.\n\nI don't seem to be able to find any way to do an ALTER TABLE that adds\nthis new capability to an existing table.\n\nThere is no way to add a constraint via a C...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca> wrote:\n> Did you already try replacing your postgis functions with array_agg\n> calls to see if we can push the problem back over the fence to pgsql\n> land?\n\nOn Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mike Leahy <mgleahy@alumn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n With the implementation of deferred unique constraints, we need to go\nback to the index second time to check whether the unique check is valid.\nSay a situation occurs like this\na) the first session doing the unique check finds out that there is a unique\ncheck required second time ...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://sites.google.com/site/aoifsgdf/fxjn5n\n \t\t \t \t\t \n_________________________________________________________________\nTake your contacts everywhere\nhttp://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9712959\n\n\n\n\nhttp://sites.google.com/site/aoifsgdf/fxjn5n Stay in touch. Get Messenger on your...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's a mismatch in HEAD between README and the actual definition in\nreplication/libpqwalreceiver.\n\nIn README,\n\nbool walrcv_receive(int timeout, XLogRecPtr *recptr, char **buffer, int *len)\n\nbut in walreceiver.h,\n\ntypedef bool (*walrcv_receive_type) (int timeout, unsigned char *typ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a reason that recovery.conf uses true/false, while\npostgresql.conf uses on/off?\n\n\t#recovery_target_inclusive = 'true' # 'true' or 'false'\n\nor are these settings more boolean for some reason?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n Ent...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n While i was studying the unique index checks very closely, i realized\nthat what we need is to find out whether the tuple is deleted / not. So say\na tuple is deleted by a transaction, but it is not dead( because of some\nlong running transaction ), still we can mark a hint bit as del...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhy aren't \"installcheck-parallel\", \"world\", \"install-world\" and\n\"installcheck-world\" declared as a PHONY target in Makefile.global.in?\nThe attached patch does that.\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nFujii Masao\nNIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION\nNTT Open Source Software Center",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, I didn't actually think that this patch\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-03/msg00181.php\nwould yield much insight, but lookee what we have here:\nhttp://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=jaguar&dt=2010-03-24%2004:00:07\n\n[4ba99150.5099:483] LOG: sta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello @all,\n\nI know, i can do:\n\nselect * from (select ... row_number() over (...) ...) foo where row_number < N\n\nto limit the rows per group, but the inner select has to retrieve the\nwhole set of records and in the outer select most of them discarded.\n\n\nWhy isn't there an over ( ......
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI am trying to put the SP-Gist package, a general index framework for\nspace partitioning trees , into Postgresql source code.\n\nSP-Gist was developed for postgresql 8.0. However, now it does not\nwork with the new version.\n\nSo, for the submitted patch, what version of postgresql is r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I'm trying to use Berkely DB in C-Language Function in VS2005, following Magnus Hagander's advice, I successfully loaded BDB's library.\n\n But when it goes to the following to statement, it shows an \"int postgres.exe: access violation\" error message box:\n env->set_data_...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nIt looks like pg_dump was never modified to include conditional\ntriggers. If you look in pg_dump.c, there's no provision to dump the\nFOR UPDATE OF part of the trigger declaration.\n\nThis was discovered by Dave Olszewski while testing conditional triggers.\n\n-- \n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was wondering if it might be worth making ROW/ROWS optional for\nOFFSET and FETCH clauses? And can ONLY be optional too?\n\nSo:\n\nOFFSET start { ROW | ROWS }\nFETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ count ] { ROW | ROWS } ONLY\n\nWould become\n\nOFFSET start [ ROW | ROWS ]\nFETCH { FIRST | NEXT }...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nI'm using the intarray contrib module[1] gin indexes on arrays (obviously)\nwith postgres 9 alpha 4. I am querying to see the existence of an element.\n When I do the query normally, it performs as I'd expect (very fast). The\nexplain plan looks like what I'd expect, using the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAt the end of the handshake for replication, a CopyOutResponse\nmessage might not arrive at the standby for a while if there is\nno WAL record to send. Also walreceiver would get stuck until\nthat message has arrived. This is not a big problem, but should\nbe fixed.\n\nThe cause is tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "In reading through the TODO list, I noticed a few things that I think\nare done, may be done, or may be partially done. See below.\nThoughts? ...Robert\n\nAdd missing operators for geometric data types\n- this is at least partly done. not sure if it is entirely done.\n\nAdd OR REPLACE to C...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Linux kernel had a big push to reduce latency, and one of the\ntricks they did was they replaced the usual interrupt points with a\ncall which noted how long it had been since the last interrupt point.\nIt occurs to me we could do the same for CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() by\nconditionally havi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n Since we insert a new entry into the index for every update that's being\nmade into the table, we inevitably make a unique check against the older\nversion of the newly inserted row, even when the values are not updated. Of\ncourse i am talking about non-HOT updates. (We will not go t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't think this should involve much code change. But no-one\ninterested????\n\nOn Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <\ngokul007@gmail.com> wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> Since we insert a new entry into the index for every update that's being\n> made into the table, we inevita...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per thread starting here\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-03/msg00049.php\n\nand ending here\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-03/msg00110.php\n\nand earlier discussions of similar nature, here is a patch that\nseparates the documentation build and installatio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 5394\nLogged by: Vladimir Barzionov\nEmail address: snego.barsik@gmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.3.10\nOperating system: win32\nDescription: invalid __declspec for PG_MODULE_MAGIC\nDetails: \n\nIn fmgr....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n The function outDatum doesn't take care of varlena structures which are\nstored externally. Is it the intention??\n\nThanks,\nGokul.\n\nHi,   The function outDatum doesn't take care of varlena structures which are stored externally. Is it the intention??Thanks,Gokul.", "msg_date":...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found something strange (at least for my limited view).\n\nin pl_exec.c:1549 in the function exec_stmt_case() we have this:\n\n\"\"\"\n /* SQL2003 mandates this error if there was no ELSE clause */\n if (!stmt->have_else)\n ereport(ERROR,\n (errcode(ERRCOD...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nWe've got two locations and some individuals signed up for a test-fest\nthis weekend. Would it be possible to do an alpha release this week?\nIt would really help to be testing later code than Alpha4.\n\n-- \n -- Josh Berkus\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I introduced myself in the thread \"Proposal: access control jails (and\nintroduction as aspiring GSoC student)\", and we discussed jails and\nsession-local variables. But, as Robert Haas suggested, implementing\nvariable support in the backend would probably be way too ambitious a\nproject ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per previous discussion, PFA a patch to change the maximum number of\nkeys for a syscache from 4 to 5.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-02/msg01105.php\n\nThis is intended for application to 9.1, and is supporting\ninfrastructure for knngist.\n\n...Robert", "msg_date":...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sir/Ma'am,\n\n I am a Mtech student and want to participate in GSoC. I have a project\nidea and want to discuss its feasibility, usability and chance of selection\nwith you.\n\nMy idea is to add a functionality of Auto tuning and Auto Indexing/\nReindexing in DB languages.\n\nThough I am n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nEnclosed is a patch to add a -C option to initdb to allow you to easily append configuration directives to the generated postgresql.conf file for use in programmatic generation. In my case, I'd been creating multiple db clusters with a script and would have specific overrides tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe have planner method parameters for many important parts of the\nplanner. We don't have any parameter for join removal, AFAIK.\n\nThe first question I get asked is \"can I see the tables it removed?\".\nThis has been asked of me 3 times now this year, always first question.\nSame issue ap...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\ncan we add well structured information about function id and lineno to\nErrorData?\n\nActually we sending some info - but formated as string and only when\nLog_error_verbosity >= PGERROR_VERBOSE.\n\nI hope, so this feature can help to some interactive GUI managers as\npgAdmin, and to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n \nI have been using PostGreSQL as a part of our healthcare product. As an\nimportant part of releasing a stable product it is important to also\ndocument the known issues found in a PostGRE release. I would be\ngrateful if someone could forward me to the Known Issues Page(if any).\nOn t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've asked this question in novice group and another Postgres forum, but\ndidn't get any help.\n\nWhat I want to do is to use HStore data type (namely the HStore keys) in\nTSearch. I don't want use TSVector and the original ts_match_vq function,\nbecause I want to be able to control ex...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI did some more testing on ecpg and found that allowing variables as cursor\nnames seems to produce more problems than I anticipated. But then maybe it's\njust some missing checks to throw out error messages. Anyway, I attach a small\ntest program that, from my understanding, should wo...
[ { "msg_contents": "People have been talking about a parallel version of pg_dump a few\ntimes already. I have been working on some proof-of-concept code for\nthis feature every now and then and I am planning to contribute this\nfor 9.1.\n\nThere are two main issues with a parallel version of pg_dump:\n\nThe firs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis simple patch allow to specify cursor row when some function is\nopened in editor.\n\n\\e aaa.txt\n\\a aaa.txt 3 ... move cursor on 3nd line of text\n\\ef foo\n\\ef foo 3 ... move cursor on 3nd line of function body\n\\sf foo ... show function body\n\\sf+ foo ... show function bo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have some idea of implementing am image database system, which will \nlet you search against the image and fingerprint:\n\nThe idea crudely is the following:\n\nI want to implement a image database system: This will have the \nfollowing quality:\n1> will store image along with the other att...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I have some questions about 9.0 release note.\nI'd like to work for some of them if required. Comments welcome.\n\n* Allow per-tablespace sequential and random page cost variables\n (seq_page_cost/(random_page_cost)) via ALTER TABLESPACE ... SET/RESET\n ^ ...
[ { "msg_contents": "To whom may concern,\n\nMy name is Zhai Boxuan, a student from China.\n\nI am now a Master Student of National University of Singapore. And, before I\ncame to Singapore, I have got another master degree in Wuhan University. In\nthat period, I focus mainly on implementing a novel Object-orient...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe attached patch improves the documents about SR as follows:\n\n* Improve the description about the setup procedure of SR.\n o Add the link to the recovery.conf parameter if needed.\n o Add the example of recovery.conf setting.\n* Document what should be monitored for avoiding the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n>>> HOWEVER, I do believe this is an issue we could live with for 9.0 if\n>>> it's going to lead to a whole lot of additional debugging ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n>>> It's not clear what it should return, a TLI corresponding the filename\n>>> of the WAL segment the record was replayed from, so that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Hiroshi Saito\n><z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp> wrote:\n>> Hi.\n>>\n>> Please this.\n>> http://winpg.jp/~saito/pg_work/OSSP_win32/msvc/\n>\n>Ahh, a makefile - that makes things somewhat clearer :-)\n>\n>Thanks - I've updated the build machine so ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSome recent off-list discussion has suggested that we should keep \nplperl's copy of ppport.h in sync on all branches, just as we do with \ntimezone data files. So when we update it on HEAD we should \nsimultaneously update the back branches. It's a derived file, produced \nby the perl modu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was noticed on little bit strange feature of PostgreSQL 8.4 and 9.0\n\nwe can use a non existing column \"name\". What does mean?\n\n\npostgres=# create table h(a int, b int);\nCREATE TABLE\nTime: 2,604 ms\npostgres=# insert into h values(199,22);\nINSERT 0 1\nTime: 0,970 ms\npost...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc Cousins pointed out here\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-03/msg01123.php\nthat the \"constraint_exclusion = partition\" feature added in 8.4\ndoes not do what you'd expect for the target relation of an UPDATE\nor DELETE. That's because expansion of an inheritance set ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I discovered tonight that if you shut down a server, create\nrecovery.conf with standby_mode = 'on', and start it back up again,\nyou get this:\n\nLOG: database system was shut down at 2010-03-30 22:34:09 EDT\nLOG: entering standby mode\nFATAL: recovery connections cannot start because the...
[ { "msg_contents": "After snapshotting my master using hot backup to create a workable\nslave instance, I created recovery.conf on the slave and tried to get\nit to connect to the master and stream WAL.\n\nThis led to the message \"sorry, too many standbys already\", which did\nnot immediately clue me in as to w...
[ { "msg_contents": "For now Postgres able to create deferrable uniques with following syntax:\n\n...\nand table_constraint is:\n\n[ CONSTRAINT constraint_name ]\n{ UNIQUE ( column_name [, ... ] ) index_parameters |\n PRIMARY KEY ( column_name [, ... ] ) index_parameters |\n CHECK ( expression ) |\n FOREIGN KE...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed while doing work with very large arrays that several\nfunctions such as array_length detoast the entire array instead of\nonly what is required.\n\nI found the solution to be just unpacking the header portion of the\narray and ignoring the rest. Since the header (including the\ndim...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI propose that we create a file containing the list of patterns to \nexclude from pgindent runs. It would look like this:\n\n #list of file patterns to exclude from pg_indent runs\n /s_lock\\.h$\n /ecpg/test/expected/\n /snowball/libstemmer/\n /ecpg/include/(sqlda|sqltypes)\\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI playing with mmap. I have a problem with mremap function. It\ndoesn't allocate correct memory. All others work well.\n\nstatic void *\nmmap_realloc(void *ptr, Size size)\n{\n Size oldsize;\n void *result;\n int i;\n char *x;\n\n ptr = (char *)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis is modification of patch what I sent before. It is based on using mmap.\n\nI had some problems with mremap with shared mmap memory. I found some\nmessages about it and I think so it is issue on Linux still, so I\ndoesn't use mremap function.\n\nPreloading working well without is...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nhttp://www.char10.org/ announced today...\n\nPostgreSQL CHAR(10) Conference is in Oxford, UK on 1-3 July 2010, at\nOriel College, Oxford University.\n\nCHAR(10) stands for Clustering, High Availability, Replication, though\nincludes all forms of Parallel, Distributed and Grid architectures....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey,\n\nAfter dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I \nkept typing a different word instead of rollback. So I created a patch to \naccept this word as an alias for rollback. Obviously it's not part of the sql \nstandard, but could be a nice extension for post...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.\n\nTakahiro Itagaki\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/sgml:\n ddl.sgml (r1.90 -> r1.91)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml?r1=1.90&r2=1.91)\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the\nPostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1\nrelease, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'.\n\nThere is a growing trend towards NoSQL databases, with major sites\nlike Twitter and Facebook utilising them ext...
[ { "msg_contents": "While psql is careful to schema-qualify all references to built-in\nobjects (pg_catalog.*), it completely neglects to do this for built-in\noperators, which can lead to surprising misbehaviors when users have\ncreated custom operators. Here is a patch to address that. It will\nneed a bit of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis version has enhanced AllocSet allocator - it can use a mmap API.\n\nRegards\nPavel Stehule", "msg_date": "Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:23:00 +0200", "msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "patch: preload dictionary new v...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI have some old code for extension functions in Postgres 8.0. And, I\nam trying to make it work with Postgres 8.2.\n\nOne problem is about the Magic Block.\nThe extension functions was developed by C++ mixed with C.\nThe code is like:\n\nextern \"C\" Datum spgistinsert(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\npgstattuple (and pgstatindex) does not contain CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().\nTherefore, we can not stop pgstattuple() by using the signal while a\nlarge table is processed.\n\nHere is the patch to solve it.\n\nBest regards,\n\n-- \nNTT OSS Center\nTatsuhito Kasahara", "msg_date": "Fri, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFew minor things...\n\n1. DROP OWNED BY does not drop databases owned by the role. Should it? I\nwould say not. This causes this strangeness\n\npostgres=# drop owned by fred;\nDROP OWNED\npostgres=# drop user fred;\nERROR: role \"fred\" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why has pgindent decided to screw up all the FD_SET calls in our code?\nSee for example\nhttp://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c.diff?r1=1.188;r2=1.189\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:25 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nEnsure that contrib/pgstattuple functions respond to cancel interrupts\nreasonably promptly, by adding CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the per-page loops.\n\nTatsuhito Kasahara\n\nTags:\n----\nREL7_4_STABLE\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/contrib/pgstattuple:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there a reason why only a table free SQL functions are allowed to be inlined ? I wonder why a simple SQL function containing only a SELECT * FROM table can't be expanded inline ? Is there an interest in expanding the class of SQL functions that can be inlined ? \n\nThanks,\n--\nAl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Most Esteemed Hackers:\n\nDue to popular demand on #postgresql (by which I mean David Fetter), I \nhave been spending a little time making the internal SQL parser \navailable to clients via a C-language SQL function. The function itself \nis extremely simple: just a wrapper around a call to r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nCheck compulsory parameters in recovery.conf in standby_mode, per docs.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:\n xlog.c (r1.387 -> r1.388)\n (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/x...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following messages from the postgres catalog either appear to be\ninternal errors that should be marked differently, or they are in my\nestimation unintelligible to users and should be rephrased.\n\n\n#: commands/async.c:1424\nmsgid \"pg_notify queue is %.0f%% full\"\n\n\n#: storage/ipc/p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any alternative of mysql function COUNT(DISTINCT expr,[expr...]) in\npostgres. We get error if we \n\nwrite count like this count(distinct profile.id, profile.name, profile.age)\nbut it works well in mysql.\n\nReference url is given below \n\nhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following up Tom's complaint about behaviour of pgindent, I have been \nwrestling with it a bit. I noticed several things.\n\nFirst awk on my box spits out fairly useless warnings about regular \nexpressions containing a literal '\\*'. These warnings are silenced by \nreplacing those with '[*...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nBy default, the application_name of pgbench is \"[unknown]\". But I think\nthat pgbench should use fallback_application_name as psql, pg_dump,\netc does. Is it worth creating the patch?\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nFujii Masao\nNIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION\nNTT Open Source Softwar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSeems like \\dd and \\ddp+ gives the same answer...\nThe reason this is misleading is that \\ddp is a command and i was\ntrying to get extra info with \\ddp+ (which doesn't exist)\n\nare we requiring a space between the command and it's first parameter?\n\n-- \nAtentamente,\nJaime Casa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI create some default privileges, now i'm trying to drop those roles\nbut i get this error:\n\"\"\"\nmic=# drop role jcm;\nERROR: role \"jcm\" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it\nDETAIL: owner of default privileges on new relations belonging to\nrole jcm in schema pu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni was running installcheck on a 9.0 installation and get 6 failed\ntests, but when reading the regression.diff i found a lot of this\nmessages:\n\"\"\"\n+ WARNING: could not open statistics file \"pg_stat_tmp/pgstat.stat\":\nStale NFS file handle\n\"\"\"\n\nand when listing the file i...
[ { "msg_contents": "* Environment:\nCentOS 5.2 on VirtualBox 3.0.6 of WindowsXP SP3\n\n$ uname -a\nLinux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16\n12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux\n\n$ gcc -v\nTarget: i386-redhat-linux\nConfigured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have an application project based on a database.\nI am really interested in using PostgreSQL.\n\nI have only one issue, I want to use autonomous transactions to put in place\na debug / logging functionality.\nTo do so, I insert messages in a \"debug\" table.\nThe problem is, if the m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've just released the first version (v.0.1.0) of dbt5, a fair-use\nderivative of the TPC-E. This kit was initially developed by by\nRilson Nascimento as a Google Summer of Code project in 2006. The kit\ncan be downloaded here:\n\nhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/osdldbt/files/\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nHere's a way to trap yourself:\n\n(1) Set up an HS/SR master\n(2) pg_start_backup on the master\n(3) clone the master to 1 or more slaves\n(4) Fast shutdown the master (without pg_stop_backup)\n(5) Restart the master\n(6) Bring up the slaves\n\nResult: the slaves will come up fine...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nNot sure when this happened, but someone added a very informative hint\nfor the case where you ambiguously refer to a base table name when you\nneeded to refer to the alias. Nice work, we should do more of this\nhelpful hinting.\n\n-- \n -- Josh Berku...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am fooling around with deleting pg_default_acl entries when they are\nchanged to match the default value, as per yesterday's discussion:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-04/msg00114.php\n\nI noticed what seemed to be a bug in SetDefaultACL(): the list of \"old\nACL members...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the 9.0devel release notes\n\n http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html\n\nunder\n\n E.1.2.3. String Handling\n\nthree changes are mentioned, and for the first two changes it is said that substring() is \"affected\":\n\n------------8<------------\n1\n Properly tr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhile testing pgindent the other day, I found some infelicities in \ncontrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c. From pgindent's point of view, the \nproblem is that the code contains two characters in case labels with the \nhigh bits set, and this blows pgindent up on my Linux box if the locale \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do we still need VACUUM FULL in initdb? VACUUM FULL in 9.0 rewrites\nall tables, so those operations are a little more expensive than\nprevious releases. Is it worth replacing them into VACUUM?\n\nmake_template0(void)\n Finally vacuum to clean up dead rows in pg_database\n \"VACUUM FULL...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI built pgsql with following regulation (for buildfarm new entry).\n - Windows Server 2008 64bit\n - VC2005\n - 9.0dev (HEAD near alpha5) 64bit\n\nAnd I got a fail at \"vcregress contribcheck\" about only pgcrypto.\nAll CREATE FUNCTION of pgcrypto got ERROR.\n(It passed \"vcregres...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI built pgsql with following regulation (for buildfarm new entry).\n - Windows Server 2008 64bit\n - VC2005\n - 9.0dev (HEAD near alpha5) 64bit\n\nAnd I got a fail at \"vcregress contribcheck\" about only pgcrypto.\nAll CREATE FUNCTION of pgcrypto got ERROR.\n(It passed \"vcregres...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello to all,\n\nI realized index for moving objects in PostgreSQL DB, using GisT and I want\nto write an article in the conference. It will be not a scientific paper,\nbut application track.\nCan anybody tell the conference where I could publish my work ? :)\n\nBest regards,\nSergej Galkin\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Patch attached to show the schema *and* table name when doing \na REINDEX DATABASE.\n\n-- \nGreg Sabino Mullane greg@endpoint.com greg@turnstep.com\nEnd Point Corporation\nPGP Key: 0x14964AC8", "msg_date": "Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:29:49 -0400", "msg_from": "Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnst...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nWheeler has been doing some head-to-head performance testing of\nBricolage performance on 8.4 vs. 9.0. So far, 9.0 has been slower, and\nI've been trying to track down the particular areas where it is.\n\nOne appears to be prepared query parsing. One test of the Bricolage\ntest suit...