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[ { "msg_contents": "After compilation I got big list of differences about binaries and \n other files. You may see it in patch.\n\n Regards,\n Radek", "msg_date": "Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:34:42 +0200", "msg_from": "=?UTF-8?Q?Rados=C5=82aw_Smogura?= <rsmogura@softperience.eu>", "msg_from_op": true, "m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI was running some pgbench tests and observed this phenomenon. This might be\na known issue, but I thought its nevertheless worth mentioning.\n\nAuto-analyze process grabs a MVCC snapshot. If it runs on a very large\ntable, it may take considerable time and would stop the OldestXmi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis patch enables the syntax \"GROUP BY tablename.*\" in cases where\nearlier you'd get the error \"field must appear in the GROUP BY clause\nor be used in an aggregate function\"\n\nI've often needed to write queries like this:\n SELECT a.x, a.y, a.z, sum(b.w) FROM a JOIN b USING (a...
[ { "msg_contents": "So I've been delaying moving some production boxes over to 9.0.4 from\n9.0.2 because hot standby fails with:\n(this is on the \"hot standby\" machine that connects to the master)\n\n2011-06-08 11:40:48 MDT [6072]: [2-1] user= LOG: entering standby mode\n2011-06-08 11:40:48 MDT [6072]: [3-1] ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Should we consider doing $SUBJECT? Given the plan to branch off 9.1\nafter we make the beta release, I think it's now or never for a second\npgindent run for 9.1.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:29:40 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nAttached patch implements a new erros's fields that describes table,\ncolums related to error. This enhanced info is limited to constraints\nand RI.\n\nexample:\n\n\npostgres=# create table omega(a int unique not null check (a > 10));\nNOTICE: 00000: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will creat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere are some releases that autovacuum was enabled by default and, up to now \nthere is an easy way to estimate the number of autovacuum workers. I tune it \nobserving if the number of slots are saturated for a period of time. I'm \nhaving a hard time trying to do this. I want to add ...
[ { "msg_contents": " From a review of recent emails I've put together a list of what I'm\ngoing to try to do this evening, in order of attack. It's ambitious\nand I may well not get to the end tonight, but I wanted to get the\nissues on record in list form. If someone spots one I'm missing or\nthinks I should ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Dan Ports wrote:\n> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:48:26PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>> (1) Pass snapshot in to some predicate.c functions. The particular\n>> functions have yet to be determined, but certainly any which\n>> acquire predicate locks, and probably all which are guarded by the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did a brief literature search for papers on breaking the\nWAL-serialization bottleneck today and hit upon this:\n\nAether: A Scalable Approach to Logging, Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, et al.\nhttp://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/149436/files/vldb10aether.pdf\n\nSection 5 appears to be the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> A patch is attached which just covers the predicate lock\n> acquisition\n \nThis patch rolls that up with snapshot checking in the conflict\ndetection function called on read. The only other two functions\nwhich use that macro check for conflicts on write, an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following up on the idea we've been exploring for making some extensions \nmore prominent, attached is the first rev that I think may be worth \nconsidering seriously. Main improvement from the last is that I \nreorganized the docs to break out what I decided to tentatively name \n\"Core Ext...
[ { "msg_contents": "Purpose & Goal\n--------------\nAllow planner to create NestLoop with parameterized aggregate subquery\njust like inner IndexScan pattern. This helps to avoid unnecessary\naggregate process that would be filtered at the stage of upper join\nfilter in such case:\n\ncreate table size_m as selec...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am installing postgresql using homebrew on OSX. I am getting strange\ncompilation errors. Googling did not help me in getting any lead to the\nresolution. When I compile it on a standalone basis (without using brew) I\nstill get the same error. Compiling 9.1beta1 source package also gave me...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch adds contrib/sepgsql a cache mechanism for access\ncontrol decision of SELinux. It shall reduce the total number of\nsystem call invocations to improve the performance on its access\ncontrols.\n\nIn the current implementation, the sepgsql always raises a query to\nSELinux i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nA little while ago time ago I posted about how my ... exciting ....\nbackup procedure caused occasional problems starting due to clog not\nbeing big enough.\n(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-04/msg01148.php) I\nrecently had a reproduction and a little bit of l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nAt first I've posted to pgsql-docs but there is no reply at present.\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2011-06/msg00006.php\n\nSo I post revised patch to pgsql-hackers, because the patch is for\ndocuments under development for 9.1 beta2. Please let me know if thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oops, subject was incorrect. It should be [v9.2], not [v9.1]\n\n2011/6/9 Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>:\n> The attached patch adds contrib/sepgsql a cache mechanism for access\n> control decision of SELinux. It shall reduce the total number of\n> system call invocations to improve the pe...
[ { "msg_contents": "While reviewing the SLRU code in predicate.c again, I remembered this \nold thread:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-12/msg02374.php\n\nSLRU has a limit of 64k segment files, because the files are named using \nfour hex digits like \"00CE\". Kevin's math shows that that's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dan Ports wrote:\n> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:17:04PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> A patch is attached which just covers the predicate lock\n>> acquisition, where a snapshot is available without too much pain.\n>> There are two functions which acquire predicate locks where a\n>> snap...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> While testing this, I noticed another serious bug in the\n> OldSerXidSLRU handling: we never set the dirty-flag on any page.\n \nArg. I never noticed that there was such a thing, although in\nretrospect I should have suspected it and gone hunting for it.\n \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:\n>> It's awfully late in the release cycle, but how about we add another\n>> digit to the filenames used by SLRU, to up the limit?\n>\n> It's way too late f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe I have found a bug in libpq COPY handling with non-blocking\nSSL connections. The bug manifests itself by dropping the connection\nin PGputCopyData() with \"server closed the connection unexpectedly\"\nmessage. The connection drop only occurs with nonblocking connections -\nblocking...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone explain why pg_stat_activity has a column named procpid and\nnot simply pid? 'pid' is that pg_locks uses, and 'procpid' is redundant\n(proc-process-id). A mistake?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB ht...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\non shdepReassignOwned() we have this message, which is obviously wrong\nwe are not dropping objects just reassigning them...\n\"\"\"\n ereport(ERROR,\n\n(errcode(ERRCODE_DEPENDENT_OBJECTS_STILL_EXIST),\n errmsg(\"cannot drop objec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Use \"transient\" files for blind writes\n\n\"Blind writes\" are a mechanism to push buffers down to disk when\nevicting them; since they may belong to different databases than the one\na backend is connected to, the backend does not necessarily have a\nrelation to link them to, and thus no w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThe nice people at VMware, where I work, have come up with a small\npatch to allow PITR to create a new timeline. This is useful in cases\nwhere you're using filesystem snapshots of $PGDATA which may be old.\n\nPFA a patch implementing and documenting same :)\n\nCheers,\nDavid.\n--...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed while wrapping 9.1beta2 that plpython tries to build a file\nspiexceptions.h to be included in the tarballs, but no such file is\nactually appearing therein. The reason is that src/pl/Makefile doesn't\nrecurse into the plpython subdirectory unless with_python is set.\nWhich it isn'...
[ { "msg_contents": "Postgres 9.0.4 and postgres9.1beta1 give different line of error numbers on\nfunctions that raise runtime errors (it seems).\n\nHow to reproduce, given the next SQL file:\n\n$ cat /tmp/sql\nbegin;\nCREATE FUNCTION pg_temp.commchecksql() returns boolean strict language\nplpgsql as\n$$\nbegin\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the next couple of days it's going to be time to branch off\nREL9_1_STABLE from master, and I realized that I am pretty foggy on\nhow to do that in git. I suppose it's some variant of\n\ngit checkout master\t\t# if not there already\ngit branch REL9_1_STABLE\ngit push origin REL9_1_STABLE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nI was playing around with denormal float values in response to the\nItanium thread and noticed that Postgres' float conversion functions\nbehave inconsistently, at least on Linux with glibc 2.14\n\nIt can successfully convert denormal float values to strings:\nmarti=# select '0.25...
[ { "msg_contents": "Forgive me if there was already some discussion about it (I can't find\nanyone). As documentation describes\n(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html):\n\n\"Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, whereas unquoted\nnames are always folded to lower case. F...
[ { "msg_contents": "It makes wonders to take a couple of months break from looking at a \npiece of code, and then review it in detail again. It's like a whole new \npair of eyes :-).\n\nHere's a bunch of small issues that I spotted:\n\n* The oldserxid code is broken for non-default BLCKSZ.\n o The warning will...
[ { "msg_contents": "I came across a situation today with a pretty bad crash of pg_dump,\ndue to not checking the return code from malloc(). When looking\nthrough the code, it seems there are a *lot* of places in pg_dump that\ndoesn't check the malloc return code.\n\nBut we do have a pg_malloc() function in there...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please remember to double-patch anything that should go into 9.1.\n\nFor the record, the correct formula seems to be\n\n$ git pull\nCurrent branch master is up to date.\n$ git push origin master:refs/heads/REL9_1_STABLE\nTotal 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)\nTo ssh://git@gitmaster.postgresql...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Dan Ports wrote:\n> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:43:58PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n>>> Do checks such as that argue for keeping the volatile flag, or do\n>>> you think we can drop it if we make those changes? (That would\n>>> also allow dropping a number of casts which exist just ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nI'm new to PostgreSQL and git, but having read through the wiki entries such as http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch, I think I have a patch worthy of submission.\n\nIt's a readability improvement in src/backend/commands/comment.c (CreateComments function), which changes...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am using pg_trgm for spelling correction as prescribed in the\ndocumentation. But I see that it does not work for unicode sring. The\ndatabase was initialized with utf8 encoding and the C locale.\n\nHere is the table:\n \\d words\n Table \"public.words\"\n Column | Type | Modifiers \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI've recently wanted to define a check constraint on an array\ncolumn that verifies that all array entries match some regular\nexpression. Unfortunately, t\n\nThe most natural way of expressing such a check would be\n CHECK ('<regexp>' ~ ANY(field)),\nbut that doesn't work, because \"~...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 10.06.2011 18:05, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n>>> o There is no safeguard against actually wrapping around the\n>>> SLRU, just the warning\n>>\n>> Any thoughts on what we should do instead? If someone holds open a\n>> transaction lon...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\nThis is actually a request for documentation guidance. I intend to\ndevelop an extension to postgresql. Basically I'd like to place calls\nto network using ZeroMQ, and I need to have detailed information about\na lot of things, especially threading issues. I need to have some\ngl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a third version of the patch. Aside from some minor rebasing\nand a few typo corrections, the main change is that I've fixed\nGetLockConflicts() to do something sensible.\n\nThus far, locks taken via the fast-path mechanism are not shown in\npg_locks. I've been mulling over what to d...
[ { "msg_contents": "With another round of GSoC submissions approaching, I went looking \naround for some better guidance on the topic of how to follow terse \nsubmission guidelines like \"blend in with the surrounding code\" or \n\"remove spurious whitespace\". And I didn't find any. Many mature \nopen-source ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch that applies over the \"reducing the overhead of\nfrequent table locks\" (fastlock-v3) patch and allows heavyweight VXID\nlocks to spring into existence only when someone wants to wait on\nthem. I believe there is a large benefit to be had from this\noptimization, because the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:\n \n> on that particular 40cores/80 threads box:\n \n> unpatched:\n \n> c40: tps = 107689.945323 (including connections establishing)\n> c80: tps = 101885.549081 (including connections establishing)\n \n> fast locks:\n \n> c40: tps = 215807.263233 (includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote:\n>> Historically this i++ approach has been used in a lot of places that\n>> fill in system catalog tuples. We've fixed some of them over\n>> time, but I doubt this is the only one remaining. If we're going\n>> to try to remove it here, maybe we ought to try to fix them all\n>> rat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDrs. Jeffrey Carver, Rosanna Guadagno, Debra McCallum, and Mr. Amiangshu\nBosu, University of Alabama, and Dr. Lorin Hochstein, University of\nSouthern California, are conducting a survey of open-source software\ndevelopers. This survey seeks to understand how developers on distribute...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nAs a reminder, CommitFest 1 for PostgreSQL 9.2 development starts in\nless than two days.\n\nIf you have a patch for 9.2 which is ready for review, please add it to\nthe commitfest application right now.\n\nThanks!\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL Experts Inc.\nhttp://pgexperts.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "So I finally started actually reading the SSI changes, and I am a tad\ndistressed by this:\n\ndiff --git a/src/include/access/twophase_rmgr.h b/src/include/access/twophase_rmgr.h\nindex a541d0f..1c7d8bb 100644\n--- a/src/include/access/twophase_rmgr.h\n+++ b/src/include/access/twophase_rmgr.h...
[ { "msg_contents": "I needed to talk to the database from an app that builds in Visual Studio 2010 only at the moment.\nThe binary that EnterpriseDB provides for windows was built with VS2005 I think and causes the weird error linking of \"cannot open Files.obj\" (there is no Files.cpp)\n\nI was able to download...
[ { "msg_contents": "Surely we don't need parse.pl and parse2.pl? parse.pl, the one that's\nnot used, it already showing signs of semi-bit-rot:\n\nUse of assignment to $[ is deprecated at ./parse.pl line 21.\n\nI propose that we move parse2.pl to parse.pl and only keep the one.\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 13 J...
[ { "msg_contents": "Apologies - I meant to CC in the list but forgot.\n\nI have gone through and changed all the related functions except ``update_attstats''.\n\nDo you have any advice of how to handle the inner loops, such as those initializing ``stakindN''. The entries before can be handled just like in this p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.\n\nBest,\n\nDavid\n\ndiff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml\nindex 4c9fc5d..0cdb800 100644\n*** a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked into $SUBJECT. There appear to be two distinct issues:\n\n1. On colugos (OS X with LLVM), the plperl link step is spitting up\nbecause Apple's ExtUtils::Embed puts some -arch switches into\nperl_embed_ldflags. We found out about that some time ago, and fixed\nit for 9.0 and up here...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:\n> I'd like to propose cascade replication feature (i.e., allow the\n> standby to accept\n> replication connection from another standby) for 9.2. This feature is useful to\n> reduce the overhead of the master since by...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi people, postgresql goes down on a WindowsXP SP3 machine.\n\nthere a script to reproduce. (on XP with 8.4 works fine)\n\n\n\nCREATE DATABASE teste\n WITH OWNER = postgres\n ENCODING = 'UTF8'\n TABLESPACE = pg_default\n LC_COLLATE = 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'\n LC_CTY...
[ { "msg_contents": "( Quotation from\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-05/msg01396.php )\n\n> STEP1: Make startup process to acquire backup-end-position from \n> not only backup-end record but also backup-history-file .\n> * startup process allows to acquire backup-end-posit...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI would like to propose support for per-column generic option, which is\ndefined in the SQL/MED standard. In 9.0 release, support for foreign\ntables and per-table generic option have been added, but support for\nper-column generic option hasn't.\n\nPlease examine the description belo...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is a preparation to rework implementation of DROP statement\nusing a common code. That intends to apply get_object_address() to resolve name\nof objects to be removed, and eventually minimizes the number of places to put\npermission checks.\n\nIts first step is an enhanceme...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> Ok, I've renumbered the existing RMs back the way they were.\n \nDon't we also need something like the attached?\n \n-Kevin", "msg_date": "Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:14:30 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>", "msg_from_o...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch can be applied on the part-0 patch, and enables to\nconsolidate routines to handle DropStmt into one common function;\n void RemoveObjects(DropStmt *stmt);\n\nThe top-half of object deletion steps are almost consist of the following steps.\n1) Look up object-Id of the su...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have left update_attstat which I'm unsure about, and have attached the updated patch handling the other cases. This will be linked in via the commitfest page.\n\nI picked commands/comment.c randomly and found the i = 0, i++ method of initializing the array made it harder for me to visualize...
[ { "msg_contents": "Stack trace, nothing else. Now that the horse has left the barn, I changed to keep error builds...\n\nProcess: postgres [17457]\nPath: /Volumes/High Usage/usr/local/src/build-farm-4.4/builds/HEAD/pgsql.6849/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/src/build-farm-4.4/bu...
[ { "msg_contents": "ProcGlobalShmemSize() currently includes code to allow space for\nstartupBufferPinWaitBufId. But I think that's redundant, because that\nvariable is stored in PROC_HDR *ProcGlobal, for which this function is\nseparately allocating space.\n\nSo I propose to apply the attached patch, barring o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, the planner and executor are mostly independent of each\nother: the planner doesn't really know when the plan will be executed,\nand the executor doesn't know how recently the plan was made.\n\nWe can work out the various paths through the traffic cop to see when\na plan will be a ...
[ { "msg_contents": " Hello,\n\n Because, I work a little bit on streaming protocol and from time to \n time I have crashes. I want ask if you wont crash reporting (this is one \n of minors products from mmap playing) those what I have there is mmaped \n areas, and call stacks, and some other stuff. This based re...
[ { "msg_contents": "How much do we care about applying perltidy, as described in\nsrc/tools/msvc/README, everywhere? I just ran it across the entire\ntree, using\n\nperltidy -b -bl -nsfs -naws -l=100 -ole=unix **/*.pl **/*.pm\n\nand it generated 6531 lines of (unified) diff, of which 357 are in\nsrc/tools/msvc/...
[ { "msg_contents": "With gcc 4.6, I get this warning:\n\ndblink.c: In function ‘dblink_send_query’:\ndblink.c:620:7: warning: variable ‘freeconn’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]\n\nI don't know much about the internals of dblink, but judging from the\nsurrounding code, I guess that this fix is neces...
[ { "msg_contents": "You might remember we added a postmaster/postgres -b switch to indicate\nbinary upgrade mode. The attached patch prevents any client without an\napplication_name of 'binary-upgrade' from connecting to the cluster\nwhile it is binary upgrade mode. This helps prevent unauthorized users\nfrom ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yesterday on PGXN I just released the first version of planinstr, a\nplugin module to append planner time to EXPLAIN. I post this here\nsince it is mostly for developers.\n\nhttp://www.pgxn.org/dist/planinstr/\n\ndb1=# load '$libdir/planinstr';\nLOAD\ndb1=# explain select * from pg_class;\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Previous version (at7-alt-index-opfamily.patch):\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20110113230124.GA18733@tornado.gateway.2wire.net\nDesign:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20110524104029.GB18831@tornado.gateway.2wire.net\n\nPatches committed in 2011CF1 allow ALTER TABLE ....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nTesting the CHECK NOT VALID patch i found $subject... is this intended?\n\n-- \nJaime Casanova         www.2ndQuadrant.com\nProfessional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:56:29 -0500", "msg_from": "Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI faced a bug on Windows while connecting via SSPI authentication. I was\nable to find the bug and have attached the patch. Details listed below;\n\nPostgres Installer: Version 9.0.4\nOS: Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7\n\nBug Description:\n=============\nIf database Server is run...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Heikki,\n\nprobably I found a bug in patch:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION fx(i integer) RETURNS integer\n LANGUAGE plpgsql\n AS $$begin raise notice '>>%<<', i; return i; end;$$;\n\nCREATE FUNCTION fx1(integer) RETURNS text\n LANGUAGE sql\n AS $_$ select case $1 when 1 then 'A' else 'B...
[ { "msg_contents": "Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been\ntrying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux --\nredhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21. initdb borks on the create\ndatabase step with the error message \"child process exited with error\ncode 139\". A b...
[ { "msg_contents": "STRICT functions return NULL if any of their inputs are NULL according\nto the manual, so that they need not be executed at all.\n\nUnless it is a Set Returning Function, in which case a NULL input is\nnot reduced nor does it to appear to be handled as a special case in\nthe executor function...
[ { "msg_contents": "gcc 4.6 has now arrived as the default compiler on my desktop, and as\npreviously reported, it throws a bunch of warnings, foiling my life-long\nplan of compiling PostgreSQL with -Werror.\n\nSo looking more aggressively into fixing some of these, let's look at\nthis case:\n\ngistutil.c: In fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Another set of new gcc 4.6 warnings:\n\nreadfuncs.c: In function ‘_readCaseWhen’:\nreadfuncs.c:875:567: warning: variable ‘token’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]\nreadfuncs.c: In function ‘_readFromExpr’:\nreadfuncs.c:1159:568: warning: variable ‘token’ set but not used [-Wunused...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch updates README-SSI. In addition to some minor edits,\nchanges include:\n\n - add a section at the beginning that more clearly describes the SSI\n rule and defines \"dangerous structure\" with a diagram. It describes\n the optimizations we use about the relative commit t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nThe first commitfest for PostgreSQL 9.2 has now started.\n\nAs such, if you have a patch for 9.2 which was not yet submitted, you\nshould add it to CommitFest 2011-9\n(https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=11).\n\nCurrently we have 53 open patches. 17 of the...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi (EnterpriseDB) folks\n\nI've been working with someone off list to get some information about a \ncrash they encounter during a batch run. We're generating a crash dump, \nbut I'm having some issues getting matching symbols so I can examine it.\n\nOne thing that would help with this would ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI think about following functionality to add to streaming. In some way earlier \nor later soemone will add possibility for gzip communication. As I try to make \nstreaming, I wonder if it is possible to change TOAST compression to \nGZIP/zLib, currently is LZMA. \n\nI want to make t...
[ { "msg_contents": "2011/6/15 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:\n> Hello\n>\n> I try to apply your patch, but it is finished with some failed hinks.\n>\n> Please, can you refresh your patch\n>\n> Regards\n>\n> Pavel\n>\n> [pavel@nemesis postgresql]$ patch -p1 < pghba.patch\n> patching file src/backend/lib...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n I'm sending following patch which disables optimization when \n --enable-debug is passed. It was nasty (for me, at least) that debug \n build required passing of CFLAGS with -O0 to get nice traceable code.\n\n Regards,\n Radek", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:30:27 +0200", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe have branched somewhat earlier than has been usual for release 9.1. \nBuildfarm animal owners who have not already done so need to add \nREL9_1_STABLE to their rotations.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:36:42 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@du...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n Here I would like to expose changes to pg_type and type infrastructure \n about streaming. Changes are as follows:\n - added new column typstreamin typestremout\n - general contract for those is for streamin same as receive (receive \n use internal), for streamout it is (internal, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "What's the current state of the POSIX shared memory patch? I grabbed the \npatch from \nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/D9EDACF7-53F1-4355-84F8-2E74CD19D22D@themactionfaction.com \nand it doesn't seem to apply cleanly any more. Are you planning to \ncontinue working on it?\n\nIf I u...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is some attempt to make \"streaming\" protocol. Difference is that instead of returning bytes it is intended to take stream, and self-stream.\r\rI posted, one day, some requirements for streaming, I can't reference it now, as I am away from computer.\r\rRegards,\rRadek\n\n-----Original...
[ { "msg_contents": "If you set up a pgbench test case that hits the database with a lot of\nconcurrent selects and non-exclusive-locking ALTER TABLEs, 9.1 soon\nfalls over. For example:\n\n$ cat foo.script\nalter table pgbench_accounts set (fillfactor = 100);\nSELECT abalance FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE aid = 5...
[ { "msg_contents": " Hello,\n\n During review of \n https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=580 I found \n following problems with XPath.\n\n 1.\n SELECT (XPATH('/root/*', '<root xmlns:o=\"http://olacle.com/db\" \n xmlns:p=\"http://postgresql.org/db\"><o:db><a><b></b></a></o:db><p:db></p:db></root...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wanted to see how much faster unlogged tables might be for an\napp I have, so as a quick test I did:\n\ns/CREATE TABLE/CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE/ to get some numbers.\nWhich lead to a crash.\n\nHere is a trimmed down test case:\n$ cat > unlog-test.sql\nCREATE UNLOGGED TABLE leases (\n mac ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nFor easy visibility, I've moved all \"WIP\" patches to their own section\nin the current commitfest, at the bottom of the list of pending patches.\n Hopefully this way there will be less confusion about what needs to be\ncommitted and what doesn't.\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL Expe...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch addresses one of the open non-blockers for beta3.\n \nThese are tuning points which emerged in testing. The first is more\nlikely to be helpful. The second may be very important in a few\ntypes of transaction mixes, but I threw in a lot of weasel words and\nqualifiers bec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Don't use \"cp -i\" in the example WAL archive_command.\n\nThis is a dangerous example to provide because on machines with GNU cp,\nit will silently do the wrong thing and risk archive corruption. Worse,\nduring the 9.0 cycle somebody \"improved\" the discussion by removing the\nwarning that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI tried to optimize repeated assign in plpgsql with elimination\nunnecessary palloc/free calls.\n\nI tested changes on simple bublesort\n\npostgres=# \\sf buble\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.buble(integer[])\n RETURNS integer[]\n LANGUAGE plpgsql\nAS $function$\ndeclare\n unso...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPika failed at the isolationCheck phase, hitting an assertion:\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(!((oldSerXidControl->tailXid) != ((TransactionId) 0)) || TransactionIdFollows(xid, oldSerXidControl->tailXid))\", File: \"predicate.c\", Line: 991)\n\nsee http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers (and specially Pavel Stehule),\n I could really use the grouping set feature for some complex queries I'm\n migrating from other db vendor. If my WEB searching is precise, this\n wiki page [1] and this thread[2] are the last updates on the subject. \n I'm willing to test how these ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Make external_pid_file world readable\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/223d14a984e677823bd4f865ff22e14dd3fe9b76\n\nModified Files\n--------------\nsrc/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 5 +++++\n1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deleti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to implement hugepages for shared memory, to make it transparent I want \nto do in this fashion:\n1. Reserve memory M of size s\n2. Try to allocate hugepage memory of as big size as possible (hs), attach at \nM.\n3. Allocate normal shared memory of size hs - s, and attach it at M+hs.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIt looks like we've failed to reach an agreement on how to\nproceed on the issue with missing commutators for the various\ntext matching operators (\"~\", \"~~\", and their case-insensitive\nvariants). We do seem to have agreed, however, that adding\ncommutators for the non-deprecated o...