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"msg_contents": "I just discovered the --patience flag on the git diff command, and\nI'd like to suggest that we encourage people to use it when possible\nfor building patches. I just looked at output with and without it\n(and for good measure, before and after filterdiff --format=context\nfor both), and the... |
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"msg_contents": "Following up on my previous patch [0], here is a fairly complete\nimplementation of this feature. The general description and\nimplementation outline of the previous message still apply. This patch\ncontains documentation and regression tests, which can serve as further\nexplanations.\n\nAs... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nIf you've got a patch you want to have as part of this commitfest and\nit's not already on the page, you have until 2200 PST8PDT to get it on\nthere.\n\nCheers,\nDavid.\n-- \nDavid Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/\nPhone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that RelationCreateStorage() creates the main fork on disk\nbefore writing (let alone flushing) WAL. So if PG gets killed at that\npoint, we end up with an orphaned file on disk. I think that we could\neven extend the relation a few times before WAL gets written, so I\ndon't even t... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nIf it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. In\nthe hallowed tradition of Commitfests, and the Feature Freezes that\npreceded them, the past week has been a flurry of activity: 11\nactions today, 23 yesterday, 42 actions this week, 29 last...all in\nall, it's s... |
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"msg_contents": "I don't know if this is a bug or not, but if not, it looks like a misfeature ...\n\nWhen executing the following in Pg 8.4.4:\n\n CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f () RETURNS TABLE(a1 INTEGER) AS\n $BODY$\n BEGIN\n RETURN QUERY SELECT a0 AS a1 FROM rv;\n RETURN;\n END;\n $BODY$\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nMay be this is notneeded, but I thought I could just introduce myself to the\nlist and why am I here.\n\nMy name is Vaibhav Kaushal, a good leaner and a really bad student. I bunk\nclasses, don't attend exams and love to develop. I just completed my\nengineering course in Inform... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 5661\nLogged by: Mikio\nEmail address: tkbysh2000@yahoo.co.jp\nPostgreSQL version: 9.0 RC1\nOperating system: Windows XP SP3 Japanese\nDescription: The character encoding in logfile is confusing.\nDetail... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> wrote:\n> I looked at the patch and it seems quite reasonable, but two hunks of\n> the changes to src/backend/commands/cluster.c don't apply cleanly.\n\nPlease read the thread. The patch is intended to be applied after\n\"seq... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nI am designing a heartbeat system between replicas to know when a replica\ngoes down so that necessary measures can be taken. As I see, there are two\nways of doing it:\n\n1) Creating a separate heartbeat process on replicas.\n2) Creating a heartbeat message, and sending it... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Heikki Linnakangas\n<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:\n> That said, there's a few small things that can be progressed regardless of\n> the details of synchronous replication. There's the changes to trigger\n> failover with a signal, and it seems tha... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Heikki Linnakangas\n<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:\n> That said, there's a few small things that can be progressed regardless of\n> the details of synchronous replication. There's the changes to trigger\n> failover with a signal, and it seems tha... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> So, the purpose of SerializableXidHash is to provide quick access\n> to the SERIALIZABLEXACT struct of a top-level transaction, when you\n> know its transaction id or any of its subtransaction ids.\n \nRight.\n \n> To implement the \"or any of its subtransacti... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 17/09/10 14:56, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n>>> Why not use SubTransGetTopmostTransaction() ?\n>>\n>> This needs to work when the xid of a transaction is found in the\n>> MVCC data of a tuple for any overlapping serializable transactio... |
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"msg_contents": "We will take another run at converting our CVS repository to Git on\nMonday (the 20th). Hopefully this won't interfere too much with\nthe commitfest, since most work will still be on reviewing rather than\nactual committing at that point.\n\nAs before, there will be a \"quiet time\" to let i... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just noticing that, on this page here:\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/catalogs.html\n\n...all of the catalogs are in alphabetical order, except for\npg_db_role_setting, which is filed in the place in alphabetical order\nwhere it would belong if the name were spelled pg_set... |
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"msg_contents": "I would like to apply the attached patch to README.HOT so clarify when\nsingle-page cleanup happens, e.g. not during INSERT.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + It's impossible for ever... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, I have compiled/installed git 1.7.3.rc2 on my BSD/OS 4.3.1 machine\nwith the attached minor changes.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + It's impossible for everything to be true. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI was noticing that, where we have a function which has two versions,\ntimestamp and timestamptz (for example, date_trunc()), if I use a DATE\ntimestamptz is the default cast. Shouldn't timestamp without time zone\nbe the default? Is this something we can fix without an overhaul o... |
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"msg_contents": "Can anyone explain why VACUUM after INSERT shows steadily decreasing\nfreespace, while DELETE of the same rows does not decrease consistently?\n\nSpecifically, after one row is inserted I see:\n\n\tSELECT pg_freespace('mvcc_demo');\n\t pg_freespace\n\t--------------\n\t (0,8128)\n\t(1 row)\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nwho is psycopg maintainer, please? Can somebody explains to me, why\npsycopg doesn't support twophase commit still, although some\nimplementation was done in summer 2008?\n\nNow two phase commit is part of DB-API, so can be implemented.\n\nThere are some bariers?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel ... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch suffered a lot of bitrot in the last month, mostly due to the\nnoop patch for SSI. It also used the term SERIALIZABLE in many places to\nindicate any transaction-snapshot mode transaction, so I applied changes\nconsistent with the noop patch. I also found a few whitespace and bra... |
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"msg_contents": "[Apologies for not reply-linking this; work email is down so I'm\nsending from gmail.]\n\nBased on feedback from Heikki and Tom I've reworked how I find the\ntop-level transaction. This is in the git repo, and the changes can\nbe viewed at:\n\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn... |
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"msg_contents": "psql's \\dn command hides pg_temp_nn schemas, except for the current\nbackend's own temp schema (if any). However, when we added separate\npg_toast_temp_nn schemas for TOAST tables, \\dn wasn't taught about that,\nleading to such odd-looking output as this:\n\nregression=# \\dn\n List... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 5662\nLogged by: \nEmail address: saera87@hotmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.4\nOperating system: Windows Vista\nDescription: Incomplete view\nDetails: \n\nThe Sequence view in the information schema is ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey Bruce, how is it that this recent commit\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-02/msg00202.php\nreplaced a $PostgreSQL$ CVS keyword with a $Id$ one?\n\nThe commit message mentions an \"existing *.pl conversion script\",\nso I'm suspicious that somewhere there is a script t... |
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"msg_contents": "Where does PGXS makefile get /usr/share/doc/pgsql/contrib directory\nfrom?\n\nWhile building 3rd party RPMs using PGXS, even if I specify docdir in\nMakefile, README.* files are installed to this directory, which breaks\nparallel installation path as of 9.0+\n\nSpeficially, I want to install ... |
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"msg_contents": "The psql \\dd command has a couple of infelicities.\n\n1. It doesn't actually list comments on all of the object types to\nwhich they can be applied using the COMMENT command.\n2. It also doesn't list comments on access methods, which have\ncomments but are not supported by the COMMENT comman... |
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"msg_contents": "May be this is the wrong place to ask the question. Still, answer me if\nsomeone can or please redirect me to some place where it can be answered. My\nquestions are:\n\n1. PostgreSQL can be distributed freely according to the license terms. Can\nit be sold (for a price) without changing anyth... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI'm trying to migrate an application off an existing Full Text Search engine\nand onto PostgreSQL .. one of my main (remaining) headaches are the\nfact that PostgreSQL treats _ as a seperation charachter whereas the existing\nbehaviour is to \"not split\". That means:\n\ntestdb=# selec... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nBack in 2002 these were proposed, what happened to them?\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2002-09/msg00406.php\n\n\nAlso I note:\n\ncolin@ruby:~/workspace/eyedb$ psql\npsql (8.4.4)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\ncolin=> select to_date('731332', 'YYMMDD');\n to_date\n----------... |
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"msg_contents": "On the Serializable Snapshot Isolation thread, Heikki pointed out a\ncollection of objects in an HTAB which didn't really need its key on\nVirtualTransactionId, but there isn't really any other useful key,\neither. One of these objects may live and die, seeing use from\nmultiple processes, w... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nCVS has been frozen, and all commit access locked out.\n\nSince there haven't been any commits in cvs during the day, the test\nconversoin I created after lunch should be identical to a new one I'd\nrun now, so let's use that one :-)\n\nSo I've moved it in place. It's on\nhttp://git.po... |
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"msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n After watching a database import go abysmally slow on a pretty beefy\n box with tons of RAM, I got annoyed and went to hunt down why in the\n world PG wasn't using but a bit of memory. Turns out to be a well\n known and long-standing issue:\n\n http://www.mail-archive.com... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi !\n\nI wonder if the SSI implementation will give some way of detecting the cause\nof a serialization failure.\nSomething like the deadlock detection maybe where you get the sql-statements\ninvolved.\n\nBest Regards\nDan S\n\nHi !I wonder if the SSI implementation will give some way of det... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI want to shut down the server under certain conditions that can be checked\ninside a backend process. For instance, while running symmetric replication,\nif the primary dies, I want the the walreceiver to detect that and shutdown\nthe standby. The reason for shutdown is that I want to... |
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"msg_contents": "... or did we just forget to remove it?\n\n-- \n -- Josh Berkus\n PostgreSQL Experts Inc.\n http://www.pgexperts.com\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:18:57 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "Back here I asked what we were going to do about .gitignore files:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-08/msg01232.php\nThe thread died off when the first git conversion attempt crashed and\nburned; but not before it became apparent that we didn't have much\nconsensus. It seem... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been having a look at this guy, trying to get a handle on how much \ndown time it will save.\n\nAs a quick check, I tried upgrading a cluster with a 1 non default db \ncontaining a scale 100 pgbench schema:\n\n- pg_upgrade : 57 s\n- pgdump/pg_restore : 154 s\n\nSo, a reasonable s... |
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"msg_contents": "git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches.\n\nThis script is intended to substitute for cvs2cl in generating release\nnotes and scrutinizing what got back-patched to which branches.\n\nScript by me. Support for --since by Alex Hunsaker.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I just went to do my usual merge from the git version of HEAD (at\ngit://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git), and it seemed to be\ndoing an awful lot of work to prepare to attempt the merge. That\nleads me to think that the newly converted git, or a copy of it, is\nnow at that location, w... |
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"msg_contents": "Everyone using git diff in color mode will already or soon be aware that\npsql, for what I can only think is an implementation oversight, produces\ntrailing whitespace in the table headers, like this:\n\n two | f1 $\n-----+------------$\n | asdfghjkl;$\n | d34aaasdf$\n(2 rows)... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nThis is a follow up and updated patch on several old discussions:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg01065.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-04/msg00164.php\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-06/msg00831.php\nFirst patch:\nhttp:/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nWhen I using an index scan, can I get the offset of the tuple in the table?\n\nThanks\n--\nPei\n\nHi,When I using an index scan, can I get the offset of the tuple in the table?Thanks--Pei",
"msg_date": "Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:02:53 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "I was thinking of just removing it, but is there anything that ought to\nreplace it?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:09:09 -0400",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>",
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"msg_subject": "Is src/tools/add_cvs_markers stil... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nMy new clone of git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git is 196MB,\nwhereas my old clone (last synced around the beginning of September)\nwas 285MB.\n\nDoes anyone know offhand why the sizes are so different?\n\n-- ams\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:15:22 +0530",
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"msg_contents": "Pei He wrote:\n \n> The offset is the order of a tuple in a Sequential Scan.\n \nThat's not a safe assumption. Try starting a sequential scan against\na large table on one connection; then before it finishes, start the\nsame query on another connection. The second query joins the one\nalre... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, so now that I've actually done a couple of multi-branch commits...\n\nI'm using the multiple-work-directory arrangement suggested on our wiki\npage. The work flow seems to boil down to:\n\n* Prepare patch in master\n* Stage patch with git add\n* git diff --staged >/tmp/patch-head\n* cd... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nIn ctid, there are the block num, and the tuple offset inside the block.\n\nHow can I know the maximum number of tuples in a block?\nThe block size would be BLCKSZ.\n\nI am not quite sure where is the best place to find the size of the tuple in\na table.\n\n\nThanks\n--\nPei\n\nHi,In cti... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHow can I increase the stack depth limit ? Is it only by modifying the\npostgres.conf file, but there I cannot increase the stack depth beyond 4\nMB.\n\nActually, my problem is that, when I set the stack base address of the\nchild thread using the POSIX library function \"pthread_setstackad... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nIt seems that the git move has broken the generation of the automatic \nsnapshot tarballs - has anybody yet looked into what it would take to \nmove those to fetching from git?\n\n\nStefan\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:33:52 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "(starting yet another thread to stay focused)\n\nHaving mulled through all the recent discussions on synchronous \nreplication, ISTM there is pretty wide consensus that having a registry \nof all standbys in the master is a good idea. Even those who don't think \nit's *necessary* for synchron... |
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"msg_contents": "In\n\n http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/tutorial-window.html\n\nit say\n\n\"Although avg will produce the same result no matter what order it\nprocesses the partition's rows in, this is not true of all window\nfunctions. When needed, you can control that order using ORDER BY within\n... |
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"msg_contents": "So, I found (with some helpful hints from Robert who caught the final\nnail in the coffin) a good reason why we really can't run a\ngit-cvsserver globally.\n\nAny user can point their cvs client at the repository. And check out\nan arbitrary branch, tag *or individual commit*. Doing so will c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nWe intend to implement $subject, so instead of\n\nmycursor CURSOR (myparm text) IS SELECT myparm;\nOPEN mycursor('A');\n\nit would be possible to do\n\nOPEN mycursor(myparm := 'A');\n\nThe idea is to\n\n* in pl_exec.exec_stmt_forc, detect if a positional parameter or named \npa... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWhile it's interesting to note, in an historical sense, that a\nplatform most recently updated when 1999 was still in the future, I\nthink it's time we did a little pruning.\n\nWe can start by supporting only platforms git runs on, this being the\nfirst in what I'd picture as a set ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been playing around with measuring the latch implementation in 9.1, \nand here are the results of a ping-pong test with 2 processes signalling \nand waiting on the latch. I did three variations (linux 2.6.18, nehalem \nprocessor).\n\nOne is the current one.\n\nThe second is built ... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nI was just checking on our year-2027 compliance, and happened to notice\nthat time with time zone takes up 12 bytes. This seems peculiar, given\nthat timestamp with time zone is only 8 bytes, and at my count we only\nneed 5 for the time with microsecond precision. What's up with tha... |
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"msg_contents": "It's not hard to tell if we're missing a file that ought to be listed\nin .gitignore --- git status will find that problem soon enough.\nHowever, it seems that git isn't so willing to tell you about gitignore\npatterns that cover too much, i.e. match files that are already in the\nrepository.... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear All,\n\nI have just generate a new patch of MERGE command.\n\nOne main change in this edition is the removal of RASIE ERROR action from\nMEREG, because its semantics is not well defined yet.\n\nI also rewrote the regress test file merge.sql, to make it consistent with\nthe examples I use... |
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"msg_contents": "So my first attempt at using git cherry-pick didn't go so well.\nThe commit in master looks like\n\ncommit ee63981c1fe26299162b9c7f1218d7e3ef802409\nAuthor: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nDate: Thu Sep 23 15:34:56 2010 -0400\n\n Avoid sharing subpath list structure when flattening nested ... |
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"msg_contents": "... other than it just got forgotten?\n\ndolszewski=# create view meh as select * from pg_tables;\nCREATE VIEW\ndolszewski=# copy meh to stdout;\nERROR: cannot copy from view \"meh\"\nHINT: Try the COPY (SELECT ...) TO variant.\ndolszewski=# copy (select * from meh) to stdout;\npg_catalogpg... |
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"msg_contents": "At the moment, to enable logging, a service restart is required. Is\nthere any way to remove this requirement or is there a fundamental\nreason why it must always be like that?\n\n-- \nThom Brown\nTwitter: @darkixion\nIRC (freenode): dark_ixion\nRegistered Linux user: #516935\n",
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"msg_contents": "I have just come across a weird thing. It works for any table and seems \nto be not documented.\n\nSELECT c.name FROM (VALUES(1, 'A', true)) c;\nSELECT c.name FROM pg_class c;\n\nAnd it does not work in these cases:\n\nSELECT name FROM (VALUES(1, 'A', true));\nSELECT name FROM pg_class;\n\nPo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey all,\n\nHere is simple test case of LOB usage, please, note the comments:\n\n#include <libpq-fe.h>\n#include <libpq/libpq-fs.h>\n\nint main(int argc, char* argv[])\n{\n PGconn* c = PQconnectdb(\"password=test\");\n\n PGresult* r = PQexec(c, \"BEGIN\");\n PQclear(r);\n\n const unsigned... |
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"msg_contents": "Some voter in Sweden has an interesting sense of humour....\n\nhttp://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little-bobby-tables-migrate-to-sweden\n\n-- \ngreg\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:17:51 +0100",
"msg_from": "Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>",
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"msg_contents": "Doing \"git log tags/REL8_3_6\" I see two commits after the one labeled\n\"tag for 8.3.6\". \n\nThe other tags I checked all seem to match what I would expect. I'm not\nsuggesting that anything be done, I just wanted to point this out in\ncase something strange happened.\n\nRegards,\n\tJeff D... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Alexander Korotkov\n<aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:\n> Here is the patch which adds levenshtein_less_equal function. I'm going to\n> add it to current commitfest.\n\nThere are some minor stylistic issues with this patch - e.g. lines\nending in whitespace, cuddle... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt looks like your transition to git has been a success. Your very\ncareful conversion from CVS to git and your exacting scrutiny of the\nresults are a great check that cvs2git is not doing anything completely\ncrazy. I will soon release a version 2.4 of cvs2svn that includes the\nma... |
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"msg_contents": "Greg Stark wrote:\n> Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> One place I'm particularly interested in using such a feature is\n>> in pg_dump. Without it we have the choice of using a SERIALIZABLE\n>> transaction, which might fail or cause failures (which doesn't\n>> seem good for a backup program) or ... |
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"msg_contents": "Nicolas Barbier wrote:\n \n> IOW, one could say that the backup is consistent only if it were\n> never compared against the system as it continued running after the\n> dump took place.\n \nPrecisely. I considered making that point in the email I just sent,\nbut figured I had rambled enough.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI have problems defining user-defined types and functions in\nPostgreSQL using a Visual C++ development environment.\n\nIn order to look for the solution I took the complex.c and\ncomplex.source files coming with the PostgreSQL distribution\n(src/tutorial).\n\nWhen I run the examples... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm not subscribed to pgsql-committers, but apparently under the new\ngit-enabled setup, I'm getting a \"Stalled post to pgsql-committers\"\nmessage for every commit. Fix that please.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:43:31 +0300",
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"msg_contents": "Greg Stark wrote:\n \n> So T1 must have happened before TN because it wrote something based\n> on data as it was before TN modified it. But T0 can see TN but not\n> T1 so there's no complete ordering between the three transactions\n> that makes them all make sense.\n \nCorrect.\n \n> The thi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all.\n\nMy name is Jose Arthur and I use PostgreSQL for a while, but never\ncontributed to the main project, until now.\n\nSince nobody else take this patch to review in this commitfest, I'm going to\ntry :-). The main problem can be found here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hacker... |
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"msg_contents": "Greg Stark wrote:\n \n> Just to be clear I wasn't saying it was or wasn't a problem, I was\n> just trying to see if I understand the problem and if I do maybe\n> help bring others up to speed.\n \nThanks for that, and my apologies for misunderstanding you. It does\nsound like you have a fir... |
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"msg_contents": "Still more tweaking of git_changelog.\n\n1. Don't assume there's only one candidate match; check them all and use the\none with the closest timestamp. Avoids funny output when someone makes\nseveral successive commits with the same log message, as certain people\nhave been known to do.\n\n2.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\njust doing an upgrade form PostgreSQL 8.4.4 on Windows 2007 64bit to\nPostgreSQL 9.0 64bit on the same system.\n\nI am working along\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html\n\nThere is written:\n\nNET STOP postgresql-8.4\nNET STOP postgresql-9.0\nor\n\nNET ST... |
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"msg_contents": "I have these types:\nCREATE TYPE p_type AS\n(\n\nx double precision,\ny double precision\n\n);\nCREATE TYPE d_type AS\n(\n\ni p_type,\ne p_type,\nid integer\n\n);\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION d_swap(d_type)\nRETURNS d_type\nAS '/home/user/PostgreSQL/9.0/lib/mylib','d_swap'\nLANGUAGE C STRICT... |
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"msg_contents": "On 26 September 2010 17:49, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:\n> I attach a patch which adds all functions (or at least the ones I\n> found) into the index so that they can be easily located. Previously\n> there were no entries for most of these at all in the index. I also\n> removed the e... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems like it's probably a good idea, but I wanted to double-check\nthat no one has a different thought.\n\n-- \nRobert Haas\nEnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com\nThe Enterprise Postgres Company",
"msg_date": "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:26:23 -0400",
"msg_from": "Robert Haas <robertmha... |
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"msg_contents": "Robert Haas wrote:\n \n> Hmm... it is true that average will produce the same results on any\n> ordering of the same set of input values, though.\n \nNot exactly. For floating point approximations you get a more\naccurate sum (and therefore a more accurate average) if you add the\nvalues in... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it posible? Either by using heap_form_tuple or BuildTupleFromCStrings.\n\nCREATE TYPE p_type AS\n(\n\nx double precision,\ny double precision\n\n);\nCREATE TYPE d_type AS\n(\n\ni p_type,\ne p_type,\nid integer\n\n);\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION demo()\nRETURNS d_type\nAS '/home/user/Postg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed that there's no way to specify the location of recovery.conf\nin postgresql.conf. The pg_hba and pg_ident files can be altered, so\nI'm wondering why this file can't have a specified location. In\nUbuntu, all configuration files are in a different location to the\ncluster b... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is the patch that tries to speedup prep_buildtree script, which is\nused in VPATH builds, from our configure script.\n\nThe idea is to ask `find` to emit directory listing in depth-first order so\nthat the `mkdir -p` will create the deepest directory first and any\nsubsequent `mkdir ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAs far as I can see there is no pre-built pg_filedump binary for the \nPDGD yum repository (8.3.11 for RHEL5). Before I embark on building it \nfrom source I figured I'd ask here if I'm correct that there is no \nbinary hidden somewhere in the packages.\n\nThanks.\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "S... |
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"msg_contents": "All,\n\nWhile working on some database maintenance, I was just tripped up by the \nfact that there is no good way to query reloptions for tables. By \"no \ngood way\" I mean \"no way which does not involve UNNEST and regexps or \nprocedural code\".\n\nThis puts us in the wierd place that whi... |
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"msg_contents": "If I have this sql composite type:\n\nCREATE TYPE d_type AS\n(\n\ni integer,\n\ne integer,\n\nid integer\n\n);\n\nand this table:\n\nCREATE TABLE my_tab\n(\n d_col d_type NOT NULL\n)\n\n\nCREATE INDEX my_tab_d_col_gist ON my_tab USING gist (d_col);\n\n\nI am implementing consistent, union, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a small patch that adds a few comments for the settings that\nrequire restart. Applicable for 9.0+.\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GÜNDÜZ\nPostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer\nPostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org\nCommunity: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, dev... |
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"msg_contents": "As has been previously mentioned a couple of times, it should be\nperfectly possible to use streaming replication to get around the\nlimitations of archive_command/archive_timeout to do log archiving for\nPITR (being that you either keep archive_timeout high and risk data\nloss or you set it ... |
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"msg_contents": "In about a week I propose to have the buildfarm server start to reject \nresults based on snapshots where the newest file is older than the time \nof the git migration a week ago. That means buildfarm owners need to \nupgrade to using git. Many have already: see \n<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/... |
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"msg_contents": "After some back-and-forth among core and -packagers, we've agreed that\nwe're overdue for update releases for the back branches. Accordingly,\nwe'll be wrapping update tarballs of all active branches on Thursday\nfor public announcement Monday Oct 4.\n\nWe'll include a 9.0.1 update in this, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nEnvironement:\n- OS : Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.\n- DB: postgresql 8.4.\n- Connection to postgresql using sslmode = disable\n\nScenario :\n\n1. I use pgadmin to connect/disconnect to the postgresql server on port 5432 or\n\n2. I use a progam using libpq and make PQconnectdb ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking at the bug reported by Kirill Simonov here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-09/msg00265.php\nThis is pretty ugly :-(. What we have is\n\tselect * from A\n\tleft join (select some-expressions from B left join C ...)\nThe expressions are not guaranteed nullabl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm interested in this parallel project, \nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Parallel_Query_Execution\n\nBut I can't find any discussion and current progress in the website, it \nseems to stop for nearly a year?\n\nThanks,\nLi Jie\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:24:37 -0400"... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI looked on some constructs that helps with iteration over array in\nplpgsql. I propose a following syntax:\n\nFOR var IN [array variable | array expression]\nLOOP\n ..\nEND LOOP\n\nvar - declared variable - theoretically we can a detect var type from\narray type, but it needs a ear... |
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"msg_contents": "It would crash if input is of unrecognized format. Probably than\nthere's going to be more problems to be concerned with, but just in\ncase, don't crash in\n\n-- \nGJ",
"msg_date": "Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:31:48 +0100",
"msg_from": "=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryzman@gmail.com>... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWe're almost half way through the commitfest, and so I'll start with:\n\nThe Good:\n\n- Most patches still in play have a reviewer.\n\n- It's possible for one person to post 5 reviews in a day. Robert\n Haas actually did this on his own time yesterday.\n\n- New people have been re... |
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"msg_contents": "I see this in 9.0 Release note:\n- Support locale-specific regular expression processing with UTF-8\n server encoding (Tom Lane)\n Locale-specific regular expression functionality includes\n case-insensitive matching and locale-specific character classes.\n\nBut character classes still... |
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"msg_contents": "So we've got two patches that implement synchronous replication, and\nno agreement on which one, if either, should be committed. We have no\nagreement on how synchronous replication should be configured, and at\nmost a tenuous agreement that it should involve standby registration.\n\nThis is... |
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