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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> A comment would be in order to explain why we only print the\n> primary message.\n \nDone:\n \nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn/postgres.git;a=commitdiff;h=ddeea22db06ed763b39f716b86db248008a3aa92\n \n-Kevin\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am importing gigabytes of data into PostgreSQL, and I don't want to wait\n10 minutes just to discover an error in the 10th line of my input file.\n\nI tried the command \"\\copy ... from stdio\" in psql and it looks like psql\nhas to read the entire input before returning a potent... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi ,I have just shown my support for India's forests. Please see the mail below and support our forests at http://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/What-We-Do/Stop-Climate-Change/Quit-Coal/support-the-forests/\n Regards,\n\nDear ,\n\n The dangerous fo... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch simplifies pg_upgrade's checking of executables, per\nsuggestion from Robert Haas.\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": "Hello all,\n\nI am sorry for sending an email about elephants to the hackers list. It was\naccidental.\n\nThis mailing list is the only mailing list which I am subscribed to. Most\nothers are on a different email address.\n\nActually I was using some website which said that it was trying to s... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\nOn 02.02.2011 19:36, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> If that part is right, it shouldn't take me very long to finish\n>> the specs and capture the expected results.\n \n> Looks good.\n \nFirst cut on the rest of it pushed. I'll want to go over it again to\nconfirm, b... |
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"msg_contents": "I found a little LIKE/CHAR() surprise --- below is a table and query\nagainst a CHAR(10) field:\n\n\ttest=> CREATE TABLE test (x char(10));\n\tCREATE TABLE\n\n\ttest=> INSERT INTO test values ('hi');\n\tINSERT 0 1\n\n\ttest=> SELECT * FROM test WHERE x = 'hi';\n\t x\n\t------------\n\t hi... |
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"msg_contents": "I am seeing the following compiler warning for the past few days:\n\n\tbasebackup.c:213: warning: variable `ptr' might be clobbered by\n\t`longjmp' or `vfork'\n\nand I see this comment in the file:\n\n\t/*\n\t * Actually do a base backup for the specified tablespaces.\n\t *\n\t * This is spli... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone submitted a comment to the docs (which I'll shortly delete)\nwhich points out a typo on the CREATE USER MAPPING page in the docs.\nA very brief patch is attached.\n\nThey also added: \"Also concerning this paragraph: a little more detail\non how exactly the two sources of encapsuled i... |
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"msg_contents": "Include more status information in walsender results\n\nAdd the current xlog insert location to the response of\nIDENTIFY_SYSTEM, and adds result sets containing start\nand stop location of backups to BASE_BACKUP responses.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the attached patch to cleanup coding of the\nis_absolute_path macro, and added documentation of how 'E:abc' is\nhandled on Win32.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + It's... |
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"msg_contents": "\nRevisiting this, it occurred to me that I could achieve what I need of \nwe extend the proposed API a bit. Currently, it has:\n\n extern CopyState BeginCopyFrom(Relation rel, const char *filename,\n List *attnamelist, List *options);\n\n\nI'd like to be... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I run \"git pull\" from the git master and \"make\", I encountered\nthe following compilation error.\n\ngcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\n-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security\n-fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -I../../src/port -I../../src/in... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 02.02.2011 19:36, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>> I really appreciate you putting this testing framework together.\n>> This is clearly the right way to do it, although we also clearly\n>> don't want this test in the check target at the root directory,\n>> because of... |
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"msg_contents": "We know that the predicate locking introduced by the serializable \nsnapshot isolation patch adds a significant amount of overhead, when \nit's used. It was fixed for sequential scans by acquiring a relation \nlevel lock upfront and skipping the locking after that, but the general \nproblem f... |
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"msg_contents": "With ten days left in the current CommitFest, being the last\nCommitFest for 9.1 development, there are presently 40 patches that\nare marked either Needs Review or Waiting on Author. The 11 patches\nthat are Waiting on Author are the following:\n\nSynchronous Replication, transaction-contro... |
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"msg_contents": "mingw is unhappy with my latest stab at fixing the mess created by the\nerrcodes patch last night. It appears that there are several files in\nsrc/port that include \"postgres.h\" even when FRONTEND is defined. For\nexample, chklocale.c does this, which looks good:\n\n#ifndef FRONTEND\n#inc... |
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"msg_contents": "I have toyed around with KNN a little and I am pretty impressed when it comes to the results we have seen in the GIS world.\nGiven the infrastructure we have at the moment I wonder if KNN can help to speedup queries like that:\n\nSELECT ... WHERE fti_query ORDER BY numeric_col LIMIT x\n\nThe ... |
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"msg_contents": "Switching to a new thread for this summary since there's some much more \ngeneric info here...at this point I've finished exploring the major \nLinux filesystem and tuning options I wanted to, as part of examining \nchanges to the checkpoint code. You can find all the raw data at \nhttp://ww... |
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"msg_contents": "The extensions patch currently records that an object is part of an\nextension by making a pg_depend entry with deptype 'i' (INTERNAL).\nWhile that has the behavior we want, I wonder whether it wouldn't\nbe smarter in the long run to invent a new deptype for this purpose.\nWe do not want peop... |
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"msg_contents": "While poking at the extensions patch I noticed that doDeletion() and\ngetObjectDescription() both seem to be missing cases for\nOCLASS_FOREIGN_TABLE. Surely this is broken.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:44:13 -0500",
"msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pg... |
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"msg_contents": "PL/pgSQL seems tantalizingly close to being useful for developing a\ngeneralized trigger function for notifying the client of changes. I\ndon't know whether I'm missing something or whether we're missing a\npotentially useful feature here. Does anyone see how to fill in\nwhere the commented... |
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"msg_contents": "I see there was significant discussion back in February 2010 as to an\nOpenVMS port of PostgreSQL.\n\nI am interested in seeing PostgreSQL ported to OpenVMS as it will then\nfaciliate other Open Source ports - like OpenBravo.\n\nHP OpenVMS Engineering is encouraging Open Source ports. A set ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nMy build script:\n-------------------------------------------------\n#!/bin/sh\nset -v\nset -e\ncd /media/sda5/postgresql-9.1devel/build\nexport CFLAGS=\"-g3 -gdwarf-2\"\n../../tmp/postgresql-git/postgresql/configure\n'--srcdir=../../tmp/postgresql-git/postgresql' '--enable-cassert' \\... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 02.02.2011 19:36, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n> \n>> Then there's one still lurking outside the new predicate* files,\n>> in heapam.c. It's about 475 lines into the heap_update function\n>> (25 lines from the bottom). In reviewing where we needed to\n>> acquire pr... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> So now that I'm sure we actually do need code there, I'll add it.\n \nIn working on this I noticed the apparent need to move two calls to\nPredicateLockTuple a little bit to keep them inside the buffer lock. \nWithout at least a share lock on the buffer, it se... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI do performance tests against orignal JDBC driver and my version in binary \nand in text mode. I saw strange results when I was reading varchar values.\nHere is some output from simple benchmark\n\nPlain strings speed Execution: 8316582 , local: 2116608 , all: \n104331... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, the extensions patch considers that foreign data wrappers,\nforeign servers, and user mapping objects can all be parts of extensions.\nThis is slightly problematic for pg_dump, where somebody decided to take\na shortcut and not implement user mappings using the full DumpableObject\... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> So now that I'm sure we actually do need code there, I'll add it.\n \nHmmm... First cut at this here:\n \nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn/postgres.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ccedeb451ee74ee78ef70735782f3550b621eeb\n \nIt passes all the usual regress... |
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"msg_contents": "New patch. All known TODO items are closed, although I should do a\ncleanup pass over the code and docs.\n\nFixed in this patch:\n\n * Many documentation improvements\n * Added INT8RANGE\n * Renamed PERIOD[TZ] -> TS[TZ]RANGE\n * Renamed INTRANGE -> INT4RANGE\n * Improved parser's handlin... |
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"msg_contents": "I wrote:\n \n> First cut [of having predicate locks linked to later row versions\n> for conflict detection purposes]\n \n> It passes all the usual regression tests, the new isolation tests,\n> and the example posted earlier in the thread of a test case which\n> was allowing an anomaly. (That ... |
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"msg_contents": "As I work through the extensions patch, the aspect of it that I like the\nleast is the NO USER DATA clause and related functions. I think it's\nbadly designed, badly implemented, and doesn't solve the problem.\nIf we accept it as-is, we'll soon have to rework it, and at that point\nwe'll be ... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> I'm working on it now, and hope to have it all settled down today.\n \nDone and pushed to the git repo. Branch serializable on:\n \ngit://git.postgresql.org/git/users/kgrittn/postgres.git\n \nHeikki: I'm back to not having any outstanding work on the patch.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Jeff Davis wrote:\n> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 14:43 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> In working on this I noticed the apparent need to move two calls\n>> to PredicateLockTuple a little bit to keep them inside the buffer\n>> lock. Without at least a share lock on the buffer, it seems that\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n> Jeff Davis wrote:\n> \n>> What does PredicateLockTuple do that needs a share lock? Does a\n>> pin suffice?\n> \n> If one process is reading a tuple and another is writing it (e.g.,\n> UPDATE or DELETE) the concern is that we need to be able to\n> guarantee that ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm sending small patch for textsend. It reduces unnecessary copies, and \nmemory usage for duplication of varlena data. May you look?\n\nKind regards,\nRadosław Smogura",
"msg_date": "Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:20:41 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "Force strings passed to and from plperl to be in UTF8 encoding.\n\nString are converted to UTF8 on the way into perl and to the\ndatabase encoding on the way back. This avoids a number of\nobserved anomalies, and ensures Perl a consistent view of the\nworld.\n\nSome minor code cleanups are al... |
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"msg_contents": "remove tags.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ad762426333aac5bd8e1ceac753bebe4a6411c28\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ndoc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml | 2 +-\ndoc/src/sgml/array.sgml | 2 +-... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI find that ExecInitExpr creates a ExprState tree (and so say the\ncomments above the function in the source). Also, it seems to decide\nwhich function would get called when the expression is to be evaluated\nwhen ExecQual runs, by setting the function pointer, for example: \n\nbstate-... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nI'm trying to debug an ugly error triggered from a \"DROP SCHEMA xxx CASCADE\"\ncall inside a function.\n\nThe call is the last step of the stored pl/pgsql procedure.\n\nI've verified that removing the \"DROP SCHEMA\" command from _inside_\nthe function body and performing it _outsid... |
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"msg_contents": "Suppose you create several file_fdw foreign tables, query them together, and\nread(2) returns EIO for one of the files:\n\n[local] postgres=# SELECT * FROM ft0, ft1, ft2;\nERROR: could not read from COPY file: Input/output error\n\nThe message does not show which foreign table yielded the er... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I ran pg_basebackup with -x, -P and -v options, I encountered\nthe following odd output.\n\n $ pg_basebackup -D hoge -x -P -v\n xlog start point: 0/2000020\n 33708/17322 kB (100%) 1/1 tablespaces (\n )000002)\n\n\"000002)\" is a part of the previously reported message, i... |
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"msg_contents": "There are some things that the current extensions patch leaves\nindeterminate during a dump and reload cycle, which strikes me\nas a bad thing.\n\nOne is ownership. Since we don't record the identity of the user who\ncreated an extension, there's no way for pg_dump to ensure that it's\nrecre... |
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"msg_contents": "Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@wicourts.gov> wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n>> Jeff Davis wrote:\n>> \n>>> What does PredicateLockTuple do that needs a share lock? Does a\n>>> pin suffice?\n>> \n>> If one process is reading a tuple and another is writing it\n>> (e.g., UPDATE or DELETE) the c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nJust FYI, the CFP for PgEast in NYC closes in three days.\n\nhttps://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types\n\nSincerely,\n\nJD\n-- \nPostgreSQL.org Major Contributor\nCommand Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579\nConsulting, Training, Support, Custom D... |
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"msg_contents": "Implement genuine serializable isolation level.\n\nUntil now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot\nIsolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any\nserialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a\nmethod called Serializable S... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:\n> It sure looks to me like there are going to be a bunch of items that,\n> based on the recognized policies, need to get deferred to 9.2, and the\n> prospects for Sync Rep getting into 9.1 don't look notably good to me.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:\n> Aha,\n>\n> Teodor sent it to the list Dec 28, see\n> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4D1A1677.80300%40sigaev.ru\n>\n> After a month I didn't see any activity on this patch, so I I added it to\n> https://commi... |
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"msg_contents": "One bit of feedback I keep getting from people who archive their WAL \nfiles is that the fairly new pg_archivecleanup utility doesn't handle \nthe case where those archives are compressed. As the sort of users who \nare concerned about compression are also often ones with giant archives \nth... |
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"msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> Ok, committed.\n \nI see that at least three BuildFarm critters don't have UINT64_MAX\ndefined. Not sure why coypu is running out of connections.\n \n-Kevin\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:43:06 -0600",
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"msg_contents": "I needed something to test the FDW API patch with, and didn't want to \nget involved in the COPY API changes, and also wanted to have something \nthat needs real connection management and can push down quals. So I \nupdated the postgresql_fdw patch to work with the latest FDW patch.\n\nHere. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Extend ALTER TABLE to allow Foreign Keys to be added without initial validation.\nFK constraints that are marked NOT VALID may later be VALIDATED, which uses an\nShareUpdateExclusiveLock on constraint table and RowShareLock on referenced\ntable. Significantly reduces lock strength and duratio... |
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"msg_contents": "> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 08.02.2011 10:43, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n> \n>> I see that at least three BuildFarm critters don't have UINT64_MAX\n>> defined.\n> \n> I guess we'll have to just #define it ourselves. Or could we just\n> pick another magic value, do we actually rely on\n> I... |
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"msg_contents": "It just occurred to me that the extensions patch thoroughly breaks\npg_upgrade, because pg_upgrade imagines that it can control the specific\nOIDs assigned to certain SQL objects such as data types. That is of\ncourse not gonna happen for objects within an extension. In fact, since\npart of... |
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"msg_contents": "Basic Recovery Control functions for use in Hot Standby. Pause, Resume,\nStatus check functions only. Also, new recovery.conf parameter to\npause_at_recovery_target, default on.\n\nSimon Riggs, reviewed by Fujii Masao\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gi... |
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"msg_contents": "attached\n \n-Kevin",
"msg_date": "Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:40:57 -0600",
"msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>",
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"msg_subject": "MVCC doc typo fix"
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"msg_contents": "On 08.02.2011 20:40, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n> attached\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nThe PostgreSQL Infrastructure Team will be performing scheduled\nmaintenance on the server that is hosting gitmaster.postgresql.org the\ncoming sunday, Feb 13th. While we expect this to only cause a very\nshort downtime for the service, one can never be entirely sure with\nremote maint... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>From here, I consider myself free and clear to work on Sync Rep as my\nfinal contribution to this Commit Fest. There's still patches I'm\ninterested in, but priority and time means I won't be reviewing anything\nfurther.\n\nI'm mostly unreachable for next few days, but expect to be working... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\nI am a computer student in belgium, for my academic project I am working to\nan extension of postgresql 9 under win xp, by creating h DLL in Visual C++\n2008 - I am new in both environments; To start and understand how does it\nworks, I tried to compile the example complex.c which is ... |
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"msg_contents": "There are two issues I'd like to discuss related to constructing range\ntypes from other values.\n\n1.\n\nThe obvious constructor would be:\n range(1, 10)\n\nBut is that [1, 10), (1, 10], (1, 10), or [1, 10]? We need to support\nall 4, and it's not obvious how to do that easily. The solution... |
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"msg_contents": "After some significant prior discussion:\n\n\nHere is what I've found:\n\nDoing the simple thing is extremely wasteful. Let's take TSRANGE, for\ninstance:\n 4 bytes type oid\n 1 flag byte\n 8 bytes lower bound\n 8 bytes upper bound\n\nBut when constructing the value itself, it starts ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI've changed the format of the URLs in the git commit messages so they\nno longer contain a semicolon, since a number of people reported that\nmade them stop working for users of gmail (which is a fair amount of\nusers..) They'll now go to /pg/commitdiff/<hash> instead which will\nredi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, \nI have create the following tables: \n1. rnc table\nCREATE TABLE act_rnc(rnc_id integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, rnc_data BYTEA);\n2. rncgen table\nCREATE TABLE act_rncgen(rnc_id integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, rncsubObj_Cnt integer, rncgen_data BYTEA);\n3. iuo table which has a foreign key ... |
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"msg_contents": "Remove more SGML tabs.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/70802e0dbef0af4bf73ce25489b8be6e40eca2be\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ndoc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml | 4 ++--\n1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "The lastest clang svn tip (2.9-to-be, I guess) builds PostgreSQL out of\nthe box and most tests pass. Specifically, it no longer chokes on\n-D_GNU_SOURCE on Linux, which was the previously reported blocker.\n\nWarnings:\n\nLots of these:\nclang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:\n> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:\n>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:\n>> > Frankly, I think you should surrender some of those 14 and cajole some other folks... |
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"msg_contents": "We are making some performance measurements, we are trying to determine query execution behavior. Lets say we have 4 tables T1, T2, T3 and T4\n\nand the query has the form:\n\nselect * from T1, T2, T3, T4 where (T1.a = T2.b and T2.c = T3.d\n T3.e = T4.f) \n\nwhere a,b,c,d,e,f are properti... |
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"msg_contents": "I find that pg_upgrade fails in HEAD when asked to do a 9.1-to-9.1\nupgrade of the regression database. It gets to this bit of the\nrestore script:\n\nCREATE TABLE test_tbl2 OF public.test_type2;\n\n-- For binary upgrade, recreate dropped column.\nUPDATE pg_catalog.pg_attribute\nSET attlen =... |
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"msg_contents": "Trivial patch attached.\n \n-Kevin",
"msg_date": "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:30:54 -0600",
"msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>",
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"msg_subject": "another mvcc.sgml typo"
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:30, Kevin G... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,\n\nit seems that PredicateLockTupleRowVersionLink sometimes create\na loop of targets (it founds an existing 'newtarget' whose nextVersionOfRow\nchain points to the 'oldtarget') and it later causes\nCheckTargetForConflictsIn loop forever.\n\nYAMAMOTO Takashi\n",
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"msg_contents": "Currently, tab-completing :variable names in psql does not work at the\nbeginning of the line. Fix this by moving the code block before the\n\"empty buffer\" case.\n\n(I have several \"sql macros\" in my .psqlrc like :relsize that prints\ntable sizes in a nicely formatted way, being able to t... |
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"msg_contents": "In cleaning up the streaming part of pg_basebackup, I came across this\ngem I copied from elsewherE:\n\n/*\n * We have to use postgres.h not postgres_fe.h here, because there's so much\n * backend-only stuff in the XLOG include files we need. But we need a\n * frontend-ish environment otherw... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am an MSc student in the department of Informatics and \nTelecommunications of the University of Athens and as part of my \nthesis I am examining a new path/plan cost model for DB optimizers. I \nhave successfully changed the optimizer of PostgreSQL in order to \nimplement this m... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nPer:\n\nhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109\n\nIt seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the\nonly major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline.\nUnfortunately readline is not compatible with OpenSSL (apparently?)\nl... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nWhich operations invoke the sorting algorithms implemented in the \nsorting module (tuplesort.c) ?\nOf course, one of those operations invoking sorting is the ORDER BY \nclause and the DISTINCT too.\n\nMoreover, the Merge Join should be implemented invoking sorting.\n\nIs there any oth... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWith regard to this (very welcome) commit:\n\n> commit 50d89d422f9c68a52a6964e5468e8eb4f90b1d95\n> Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>\n> Date: Sun Feb 6 17:29:26 2011 -0500\n> \n> Force strings passed to and from plperl to be in UTF8 encoding.\n> \n> String... |
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"msg_contents": "I just checked subj. and wondering what does it means and how many spam \nwe may have on wiki ?\n\nPostgreSQL on OpenSSI enabled Knoppix\n>From OpenSSI\nJump to: navigation, search\nAcai Berry - The Best Protection\n\nFor the economy today that are getting down its very important that you can... |
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"msg_contents": "Do we want empty ranges?\n\nThe philosophy is that they are essentially the \"zero\" value of any\nrange type. Like the number zero, it allows closure over operations that\nwould otherwise return an error.\n\nFor instance, the number zero is useful because you can do things like:\n f(x) = 5x... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nI split this out of the synchronous replication patch for independent\nreview. I'm dashing out the door, so I haven't put it on the CF yet or\nanything, but I just wanted to get it out there...I'll be around in\nNot Too Long to finish any other details.\n\n--\nfdr",
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"msg_contents": "Looks like the function get_actual_variable_range() was written with the\nknowledge that virtual/hypothetical indexes may exist, but the assumption\nseems wrong.\n\nOne one hand get_actual_variable_range() expects that virtual indexes do not\nhave an OID assigned, on the other hand explain_ge... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSince the per-column collation patch went in, pika (NetBSD 5.1/mips) started failing consistently with this diff:\n\n*** /home/pgbuildfarm/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.15101/src/test/regress/expected/polymorphism.out\tSat Feb 12 02:16:07 2011\n--- /home/pgbuildfarm/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.15101/src/t... |
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"msg_contents": "I've run into a small infelicity that was introduced by our recent round\nof redesign of the extensions feature. Specifically, if we have an\ninstallation script that is named like hstore-1.0.sql.in, then what\npgxs.mk will substitute for MODULE_PATHNAME in it is\n\"$libdir/hstore-1.0\" ... ... |
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"msg_contents": "This is another bit of the syncrep patch split out.\n\nI will revisit the replication timeout one Real Soon, I promise -- but\nI have a couple things to do today that may delay that until the\nevening.\n\nhttps://github.com/fdr/postgres/commit/ad3ce9ac62f0e128d7d1fd20d47184f867056af1\n\nConte... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a patch that implements make check support for the PLs and a\nmake check-world target.\n\nI found the lack of this quite annoying while reviewing the load of\nPL/Python patches. There did not appear to be a reason why it wasn't\ndone before.\n\nSupport for make check in contrib would... |
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"msg_contents": "psql -l doesn't process psqlrc. Historically, this was probably not\nuseful, hence no one cared. But with the linestyle option it's useful.\nSo I propose the attached tweak.",
"msg_date": "Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:52:28 +0200",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
"msg_f... |
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"msg_contents": "Appendix F (contrib.sgml and its subsidiary files) is pretty consistent\nabout using \"module\" to refer to a contrib, uh, module.\n\nI considered doing a search-and-replace to change this to \"extension\",\nbut I'm not convinced that's a good idea. I think \"extension\" means a\nspecific ki... |
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"msg_contents": "Buildfarm results remind me that I forgot to think about updating the\nMSVC perl scripts to match the recent changes in pgxs.mk. I think the\nrelevant points are:\n\n1. Install .control files matching the entries in EXTENSION.\n\n2. If EXTENSION is defined, the default value of MODULEDIR sho... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthis is the first time that I post here, so if I wrong please don't kill me ...\nI see that pg_terminate_backend and pg_cancel_backend can be execute\nonly by admin users.\nThis approach seems to be too restrictive in a lots of real situation.\n\nIn dept, I have a situation where it i... |
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"msg_contents": "Why do the extension load files need two dashes, like xml2--1.0.sql?\nWhy isn't one enough?\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:45:35 +0200",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "why two dashes in extension load files"
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I am (ab)using a PostgreSQL database (with PostGIS extension) in a \nlarge data processing job - each day, I load several GB of data, run a \nlot of analyses on it, and then throw everything away again. Loading, \nrunning, and dumping the results takes about 18 hours every day.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's where I think we are with this CommitFest.\n\nWe have committed 45 patches and returned with feedback or rejected\n23. There are 30 remaining patches, every single one of which has\nbeen reviewed. 20 of those are marked Ready for Committer; 5 are\nmarked Waiting on Author; 5 are mark... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks to Noah Misch's review of the keylock patch I noticed that\npageinspect's heap_page_items(bytea) function returns infomask and\ninfomask2 as smallint (signed). But the fields in the tuple header are\n16 bits unsigned, so if the high (16th) bit is set, it returns negative\nvalues which... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nIs it possible to modify the default tsearch parser so that / doesn't get lexed as a \"file\" token? That is, instead of this:\n\ntry=# select * from ts_debug('simple'::regconfig, 'w/d');\n alias │ description │ token │ dictionaries │ dictionary │ lexemes \n───────┼─────────... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried to do a pg_upgrade from 9.0.x to HEAD today. The pg_upgrade run\nwent through without complaint, and I could start the postmaster, but\nevery connection attempt fails with \n\npsql: FATAL: could not read block 0 in file \"base/11964/11683\": read only 0 of 8192 bytes\n\nThe database... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello guys,\n\n\nI am a lecturer at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and I have a proposal for you.\n\nMy students have to make their science projects during this half-year. I would like to involve some of them in PostgreSQL to give them an opportunity to work on a real projec... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI realize that you didn't keep the \\dx behavior I had, that when given\nan extension name it would list all the objects contained in the\nextension. Now that's a pretty simple query:\n\n select pg_describe_object(classid, objid, 0)\n from pg_depend d \n join pg_extension e on ... |
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"msg_contents": "Adjust pg_upgrade error message, array freeing, and add error check.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fe8f15d5d2f42ad1ce6a0114c12fd3da0f14dd4a\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ncontrib/pg_upgrade/check.c | 2 --\ncontrib/pg_upgrad... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI assumed array_cat would behave similarly to array || array, but it\nappears not when it comes to NULLs. Shouldn't these have identical\nfunctionality? The attached patch makes it so, although it would\nbreak existing code.\n\nWould such a change have any knock-on effect, or cau... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been experimenting with dump/reload of 9.0 contrib-using databases\ninto 9.1 and then applying CREATE EXTENSION FROM to update the contrib\nmodules to extension style. There are some cases that fail :-(. Most\nof them are caused by the GIN extractQuery API changes. In particular,\na 9... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE throws an error if there's nothing to\ndo:\n\nregression=# create extension adminpack ;\nCREATE EXTENSION\nregression=# alter extension adminpack update;\nERROR: version to install or update to must be different from old version\n\nOn reflection it seems lik... |
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