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[ { "msg_contents": "I am wondering If I am missing something obvious. If not, I have a suggestion for plpgsql.\n\nStored procedures can accept rows.\nLibpq can receive rows (PQResult).\n\nWouldn't it be a great interface if PQResult was \"bi-directional\"? Create a result set on the client then call the database...
[ { "msg_contents": "Robert Haas wrote:\n> Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> I'm certainly open to suggestions for better wording.\n \n> How about something like this:\n> \n> When the system is forced to combine multiple page-level predicate\n> locks into a single relation-level predicate lock because the\n> predica...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greg Smith wrote:\n \n> I'm not too concerned about the specific case you warned about\n> because I don't see how sequential scan vs. index costing will be\n> any different on a fresh system than it is now.\n \nI think the point is that if, on a fresh system, the first access to\na table is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n\n> * The oldserxid code is broken for non-default BLCKSZ.\n> o The warning will come either too early or too late\n> o There is no safeguard against actually wrapping around the\n> SLRU, just the warning\n> o I'm suspicious of the OldSerXidPagePrecedesLogically() l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis patch significantly reduce a ccache searching. On my test - bubble sort\n\npostgres=# \\sf buble\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.buble(integer[])\n RETURNS integer[]\n LANGUAGE plpgsql\nAS $function$\ndeclare\n unsorted bool := true;\n aux int;\nbegin\n while unsorted\n l...
[ { "msg_contents": "The behaviour of date_part function is opaque for infinity intervals. \nFor example\ndate_part('epoch', 'infinity'::date) and date_part('year', \n'infinity'::date) return zero but is supposed to return 'infinity',\ndate_part('day', 'infinity'::date) returns zero, should it return 'NaN' \ninst...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I'm used to work with PostgreSQL on Windows but now I've moved to OS X\nand I'm having problems to create a service to auto start a new server\n(instance) of PostgreSQL.\nFirstly I used the PostgreSQL installer to create the first server and the\npostgres user, then I used initdb to creat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Fixed string in German translation that causes segfault.\n\nApplied patch by Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> to replace placeholder \"%s\" by\ncorrect string.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bddc35ac664bc16a8953d0d46bf85e80b78bc493\n\nModifi...
[ { "msg_contents": " Hello,\n\n I had some idea with hugepagse, and I read why PostgreSQL doesn't \n support POSIX (need of nattach). During read about POSIX/SysV I found \n this (thread about dynamic chunking shared memory).\n\n http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-08/msg00586.php\n\n When playing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nApologies for any inconvenience and thank you to those who have already\ncompleted the survey. We will keep the survey open for another couple of\nweeks. But, we do hope you will consider responding to the email request\nbelow (sent 2 weeks ago).\n\nThanks,\n\nDr. Jeffrey Carver\nAssis...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI noticed that we have some nice new speed optimizations (more\nproperly, de-pessimizations) for partitioned tables in 9.1.\n\nAnybody care to look over the table partitioning stuff on the wiki and\ncheck it for relevance?\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning\n\nI t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe did a benchmark comparing a Key-Value-Pairs stored as EAV db schema\nversus hstore. The results are promising in favor of hstore but there are some\nquestion which remain.\n\n1. Obviously the '@>' has to be used in order to let use the GiST index.\nWhy is the '->' operator not suppo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n >> 1. Obviously the '@>' has to be used in order to let use the GiST index.\n >> Why is the '->' operator not supported by GiST ('->' is actually\n >> mentioned in all examples of the doc.)?\n\nThere's no way to make the planner recognize something like\n (col->'foo' = 'bar')\nas being an ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice that the SSI code is rather heavily invested in function\ndeclarations like this:\n\nextern bool PageIsPredicateLocked(const Relation relation, const BlockNumber blkno);\n\nI find this to be poor style, and would like to see if there's any\nsupport for getting rid of the \"const\" ke...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not sure what the normal process is for patches, but I put together a\nfew small patches for pg_upgrade after trying to use it earlier today\nand staring a non-helpful error message before I finally figured out\nwhat was going on.\n\n0001 is just a simple typo fix, but didn't want to mix it i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a WIP possible replacement for pgindent. Instead of a shell \nscript invoking a mishmash of awk and sed, some of which is pretty \nimpenetrable, it uses a single engine (perl) to do all the pre and post \nindent processing. Of course, if your regex-fu and perl-fu is not up the \ns...
[ { "msg_contents": "Add notion of a \"transform function\" that can simplify function calls.\n\nInitially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar()\nfunction in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore,\nthe function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation. The most\nsignific...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do we do enough to show which tables are db shared, e.g. pg_database? I\ndon't see any indication from psql \\dS. Are our docs clear enough?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + It's i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Make the visibility map crash-safe.\n\nThis involves two main changes from the previous behavior. First,\nwhen we set a bit in the visibility map, emit a new WAL record of type\nXLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE. Replay sets the page-level PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit and\nthe visibility map bit. Second, when inse...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was looking at ExecSeqScan today and noticed that it invokes\nPredicateLockRelation each time it's called, i.e. for each tuple\nreturned. Any reason we shouldn't skip that call if\nrs_relpredicatelocked is already set, as in the attached patch?\n\nThat would save us a bit of overhead, since...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php\n\nIt seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The \nability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the \nfixing of bad decision decisions during development over time.\n\nThought...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Jun 6 (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00272.php),\nPavel discovered an issue with PQsetvalue that could cause libpq to\nwander off into unallocated memory that was present in 9.0.x. A\nfairly uninteresting fix was quickly produced, but Tom indicated\nduring subseq...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> wrote:\n> On Jun12, 2011, at 23:39 , Robert Haas wrote:\n>> So, the majority (60%) of the excess spinning appears to be due to\n>> SInvalReadLock.  A good chunk are due to ProcArrayLock (25%).\n>\n> Hm, sizeof(LWLock) is 24 on X86-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I'm trying to debug a modification for the query planner. But I found it\nseems the data structure of my planned query is incorrect. I was trying to\nprint out the data structure by use the \"p\" command in gdb which is quite\ninconvenient and takes time. May I know is there any embed...
[ { "msg_contents": "While reviewing Peter Geoghegan's postmaster death patch, I noticed that \nif you turn on silent_mode, the LINUX_OOM_ADJ code in fork_process() \nruns when postmaster forks itself into background. That re-enables the \nOOM killer in postmaster, if you've disabled it in the startup script by \...
[ { "msg_contents": "While taking a look at the existing documentation for pg_locks I came\nacross the following paragraph:\n\n <para>\n When the <structname>pg_locks</structname> view is accessed, the\n internal lock manager data structures are momentarily locked, and\n a copy is made for the view to disp...
[ { "msg_contents": "A couple of months back, Greg Stark reported mixed results on getting\nClang/LLVM to build Postgres. It could be done, but there were some\nbugs, including a bug that caused certain grammar TUs to take way too\nlong to compile. 2 bug reports were filed. He said that the long\ncompile time pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's been a steady flow of messages on pgsql-advocacy since last \nmonth (threads \"Crediting sponsors in release notes?\" and \"Crediting \nreviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes\") talking about who/how \nshould receive credited for their work on PostgreSQL. That discussion \nse...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have seen the discussions about fastlock patch and lazy-vxid performance \ndegradation, so I decided to test it myself.\n\nThe setup:\n- hardware\nSupermicro blade \n6xSAS @15k on LSI RAID:\n 1 disk for system + pg_xlog \n 4 disk RAID 10 for data \n 1 disk for spare \n2 x Xeon E5...
[ { "msg_contents": "When Magnus fixed and applied my SSPI-via-GSS patch in January, we \nforgot to fix to the documentation. Suggested patch attached; should I \nalso put that four-liner into any CFs?\n\n-- \nChristian", "msg_date": "Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:07:04 +0200", "msg_from": "Christian Ullrich <chris...
[ { "msg_contents": "----- Цитат от Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com), на 25.06.2011 в 00:16 -----\n\n> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:31 PM, wrote:\n>> clients beta2 +fastlock +lazyvzid local socket\n>> 8 76064 92430 92198 106734\n>> 16 64254 90788 90698 105097\n>> 32 56629 88189 88269 101202\n>> 64 51124 84354 8...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n> BTW, isn't bitgetpage() in nodeBitmapHeapscan.c missing\n> PredicateLockTuple() and CheckForSerializableConflictOut() calls in\n> the codepath for a lossy bitmap? In the non-lossy case,\n> heap_hot_search_buffer() takes care of it, but not in the lossy\n> case...
[ { "msg_contents": "Different ranges over the same subtype make sense when using different\ntotal orders for the subtype. This is most apparent with text collation,\nbut makes sense (at least mathematically, if not practically) for any\nsubtype.\n\nFor instance:\n [a, Z)\nis a valid range in \"en_US\", but not i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Branch refs/heads/REL9_1_STABLE was removed.", "msg_date": "Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:02:32 +0000", "msg_from": "pgsql@postgresql.org", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "pgsql: Branch refs/heads/REL9_1_STABLE was removed" }, { "msg_contents": "On 26 June 2011 00:02, <pgs...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think this commit was ill-advised:\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a03feb9354bda5084f19cc952bc52ba7be89f372\n\n In a concurrent index build, the index is actually entered into the\n system catalogs in one transaction, then the two table scans occur ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, there is no way to define a generic \"length\" function over\nrange types, which would give you the distance between the boundary\npoints.\n\nIt sounds simple, but the system actually needs quite a lot more\ninformation to accomplish that:\n * a function that subtracts two values o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI am returning back to discuss\nhttp://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/alpsnfEhA5L6HGsV2lNb\n\nRobert introduces a global defined tables there. The talk was about\ngood naming - and I think, so there was agreement so name \"global temp\ntables\" should be used for tables with pe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n>> BTW, isn't bitgetpage() in nodeBitmapHeapscan.c missing\n>> PredicateLockTuple() and CheckForSerializableConflictOut() calls\n>> in the codepath for a lossy bitmap? In the non-lossy case,\n>> heap_hot_search_buffer() takes care of...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n \n>>> BTW, isn't bitgetpage() in nodeBitmapHeapscan.c missing\n>>> PredicateLockTuple() and CheckForSerializableConflictOut() calls\n>>> in the codepath for a lossy bitmap? In the non-lossy case,\n>>> heap...
[ { "msg_contents": "I didn't get a lot of comments on my the previous version of my patch\nto accelerate table locks.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00953.php\n\nHere's a new version anyway. In this version, I have:\n\n1. Made pg_locks show fast-path locks as well as regular locks, w...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a couple of open items outstanding right now, but I'm\nwondering if it's about time we should be thinking about a date for\nbeta3.\n\nWe tagged beta1 on April 27th, and beta2 on June 9th, so about six weeks apart.\n\nBut perhaps we shouldn't wait quite so long before putting out beta3...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI'm curious about behavior such as this:\n\nbric=# select generate_series('2011-05-31'::timestamp , '2012-04-01'::timestamp, '1 month');\n generate_series \n---------------------\n 2011-05-31 00:00:00\n 2011-06-30 00:00:00\n 2011-07-30 00:00:00\n 2011-08-30 00:00:00\n 2011-09-...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nSo we're supposedly 1/3 of the way through CF1. Here's the good news:\n\n- Almost all patches have reviewers assigned.\n- 9 patches have been committed\n- 8 more are ready for a committer\n- 9 have been returned\n\nThis means that 1/4 of the patches have been dealt with and another 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "There are two outstanding patches for SSI which involve questions\nabout modularity. In particular, they involve calls to predicate\nlocking and conflict detection from executor source files rather\nthan AM source files (where most such calls exist).\n \n(1) Dan submitted this patch:\n \nht...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\n I have added the '-n' option to pg_archivecleanup which performs a \ndry-run and outputs the names of the files to be removed to stdout \n(making possible to pass the list via pipe to another process). Please \nfind attached the small patch.\n\nThanks,\nGabriele\n\n-- \n Gabr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ive been holding off because its marked as Waiting on Author, am now\nthinking thats a mistake. =)\n\nIt links to this patch:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20110215135131.GX4116@tamriel.snowman.net\n\nWhich is older than the latest patch in that thread posted by Robert:\nhttp://a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I've been tracing the data structure in the query plan process for a\nwhile. But then I found the data structure manipulation is really so\nconfusing. Could some guy tell me where could I find any guide on how to\nfigure out the process and data structure usage? Is there any good re...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!~\r\n \r\n Now i encounter a function call problem in PostgreSQL's psql module!\r\n \r\n The situation is as follow:\r\n In ./src/bin/psql/common.c, I want to call the function pqCatenateResultError().\r\n Function pqCatenateResultError() is declared in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Leonardo,\n> \n> Your patch:\n> \n> use less space in xl_xact_commit\n> \n> ... has been waiting on an updated version from you for 10 days now. Do\n> you think you're likely to complete it for this CommitFest?\n\n\nI sent an email on the subject:\n\nhttp://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'd like to add a feature to the buildfarm that automatically picks up \nany new branch and automatically stops building any branch we're not \nmaintaining any more. To do the latter, I need some way for the client \nto detect that we are or aren't interested in a branch. What I'd like to \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 27.06.2011 21:23, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n> The bigger question is if those calls are needed at all\n> (\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4E072EA9.3030200@enterprisedb.com\n> ).\n \nAh, I didn't properly grasp your concerns the first time I read th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 28.06.2011 20:47, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n> Hmm, the calls in question are the ones in heapgettup() and\n> heapgettup_pagemode(), which are subroutines of heap_getnext().\n> heap_getnext() is only used in sequential scans, so it seems safe\n> to remove those...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nA tester correctly reported this:\n\n========\n\nBut in the sample file, the \"synchronous_standby_names\" parameter is the\nfirst parameter under the heading \"- Streaming Replication - Server\nSettings\" while in the documentation, that parameter has its own\nsubsection 18.5.5 after...
[ { "msg_contents": "If you invoke any of the SQL/MED CREATE or ALTER commands,\nthe validator function is only called if an option list was given.\n\nThat means that you cannot enforce required options at object creation\ntime, because the validator function is not always called.\nI consider that unexpected an u...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 6083\nLogged by: Steve Haslam\nEmail address: araqnid@googlemail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 9.0.4\nOperating system: Debian GNU/Linux (amd64)\nDescription: psql script line numbers incorrectly count \\copy...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was just reading the docs on default privileges, and they say this:\n\n Depending on the type of object, the initial default privileges\n might include granting some privileges to PUBLIC. The default is no\n public access for tables, columns, schemas, and tablespaces; CONNECT\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Review of patch \nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=580\n\n=== Patch description ===\nSUMMARY: When text() based XPATH expression is invoked output is not XML \nescaped\n\nDESCRIPTION: Submitter invokes following statement:\nSELECT (XPATH('/*/text()', '<root>&lt;</root>')...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is review of patch\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=565\n\"Bugfix for XPATH() if expression returns a scalar value\"\n\nPatch applies cleanly, and compiles cleanly too, I didn't checked tests.\n\n\tForm discussion about patch, and referenced thread in this patch \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm obviously new. But making great progress in PostgreSQL with my new\napplication...\n\nSetup:\n \nI'm running on MAC. \nPostgre 9.0.4 \nVirtual Machine with application dev in Linux. \n\nProblem:\n \nI like many other have come across the inherit issues. \n\nI found the thread here about...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm obviously new. But making great progress in PostgreSQL with my new\napplication...\n\nSetup:\n \nI'm running on MAC. \nPostgre 9.0.4 \nVirtual Machine with application dev in Linux. \n\nProblem:\n \nI like many other have come across the inherit issues. \n\nI found the thread here about...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI don't know if it's possible or not, but could be interesting to add\na column in pg_stat_replication to now if the standby is paused. It\ncould be useful if\nsomebody has several standby servers and use this function for some tasks.\n\nI know that there is an indirect way to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've discovered (the hard way) that if you run `make installcheck`\nwith default_transaction_isolation = 'serializable' and you have a\nserializable read write transaction sitting idle (or prepared) that\nthe \"transactions\" test will block indefinitely waiting for a safe\ntime to run, becau...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to propose to add Japanese translated version of README\nin the source tree(for example against backend/storage/buffer/README).\nBenefits of our community include:\n\n- Increase possibility to hire more Japanese speaking developers by\n helping them to understand source code usi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I signed up to do a review on $subject patch for the commitfest. In\norder to do that, I want to get SELinux and contrib/sepgsql properly set\nup so that I can test. I ran into a problem when trying to do:\n\n cd contrib/sepgsql\n make install (succeeds)\n make ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This simple patch moves two struct declarations (Trigger and\nTriggerDesc) from rel.h into a new file, reltrigger.h. The benefit is\nthat execnodes.h only needs to include the latter. Since execnodes.h is\nvery widely included, this change means there are less files that\nindirectly include...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI use a LISTEN/NOTIFY. Now I have to check, if second application that\ncreates channels is active. It should be simple with system view of\nactive channels.\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:36:01 +0200", "msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Enable CHECK constraints to be declared NOT VALID\n\nThis means that they can initially be added to a large existing table\nwithout checking its initial contents, but new tuples must comply to\nthem; a separate pass invoked by ALTER TABLE / VALIDATE can verify\nexisting data and ensure it com...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello list\n\nI have two a machine cluster with PostgreSQL 9.0.4 and streaming\nreplication. In a normal situation I did a failover -- touched the trigger\nfile in standby to promote it to production mode. I have done this\npreviously without any complications but now the to-be-production-dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "In fdwhandler.sgml, chapter fdwhandler has only one subsection\n(fdw-routines).\n\nIf there is only one subsection, no table of contents is generated in\nthe chapter.\nThat means that people who navigate to the chapter from the main table\nof contents\nwill not see that there is a subsection....
[ { "msg_contents": "In 9.1, if a table is created using an explicit pg_temp qualification,\nthe pg_class.relpersistence is marked 'p', not 't'.\n\npostgres=# CREATE TABLE pg_temp.temptable (i int4);\nCREATE TABLE\n\npostgres=# select relpersistence from pg_class where relname = 'temptable';\n relpersistence\n---...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm testing synchronous replication on 9.2devel - both instances are on a single machine.\n\nThe primary shows synchronous_commit = on\nand synchronous_standby_names = ''.\n\nThe standby receives updates fine.\n\nNow, does the 'synchronous_commit = on' absolutely mean that the session is sync...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nNow that there's a (very minor) crypto fix and a new DST ruleset, when\ncan we get the next set of minor revs out the door?\n\nCheers,\nDavid.\n-- \nDavid Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/\nPhone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter\nSkype: davidfetter ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI'm getting set up to test your VS 2010 support patches. Sorry it's \ntaken me so long - work decided to take this opportunity to become ... \nrather hectic.\n\nI'd appreciate it if you'd post the config.pl you're building with, \nmainly so I can see what libraries and optional features...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks\n\nI've noticed while testing the VC 2010 patches that clean.pl in \nsrc/tools/msvc doesn't remove files generated by flex. I landed up with \na broken configuration while testing my x64 builds that caused the \ncreation of zero-size outputs for bootscanner.c etc. These weren't \nre-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nSentry found this error last night, and it looks serious enough to\nreport. The error was introduced in commit 426cafc. Here's the code\nin question, starting at line 2096:\n\n if (!found)\n {\n con = NULL; /* keep compiler quiet */\n ereport(ERROR,\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This thought reemerged in me during the recent discussion of the regular\nexpression matching operators: A lot of things could be better if\npg_proc and pg_operator were merged together.\n\nMost importantly, operator optimization information could be attached to\nprocedures, so developers and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI noticed that the plpgsql extension gets installed with an extension\ncomment of 'PL/pgSQL procedural language', which comes from\nplpgsql.control. That seems fine and dandy, but take a look at the\nfollowing query (modified from psql's \\dL query):\n\nSELECT l.lanname AS \"Name\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI'm building a new server using 9.1beta2. My build script includes these two line:\n\n make world -j3 || exit $?\n make install-world || exit $?\n\nMuch to my annoyance, `make world` seems to succeed, but the script exits with no error message. So the second line never execu...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, July 3, 2011 8:14 am, Craig Ringer wrote:\n> Hi folks\n>\n> It looks like pgflex.bat and pgbison.bat in the win32 build files would\n> benefit from a tweak to eliminate a complaint from Perl.\n>\n> Perl emits the error:\n>\n> Hash %ENV missing the % in argument 1 of each() at -e li...
[ { "msg_contents": "I would like to request that full support for the UUID data type can added.�\nI think that even though there is a contrib module, since this is a standard\ndatatype that Postgres ought to be the one actually assigning the value.\n\n\nBest Regards\n\n\nMichael Gould\n\n\n--\nMichael Gould, Man...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does this look to be something that will surface around for 9.1\n\nSent from Samsung mobile\n\nDave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:\n\n>On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould\n><mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:\n>&gt; Peter,\n>&gt;\n>&gt; I don't believe that the library that th...
[ { "msg_contents": "It would be nice to be able to set aside a few connections for non-superusers, such as stats-monitoring connections. There's often no reason to grant these users superuser privileges (they're just observers, and security-definer functions can make anything visible that they may need)), but at...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nOn my win64 build machine I've been suffering from hard to track down \nerrors from flex like:\n\n \"flex: fatal internal error, exec failed\"\n\n... even though I have m4 properly installed and whether or not the M4 \nenvironment variable is set to point to my M4 executable. It a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nAFAIU TFM if i set keepalives_* parameters in a conninfo they set the\ninternal counters to these values so if i execute:\n\n\"\"\"\nconn = PQconnectdb(\"host=192.168.204.10 keepalives=1 keepalives_idle=45 keepalives_interval=5 keepalives_count=5\"); \n\"\"\"\n\nthat means that the c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n--On 18. Juni 2011 12:29:38 +0200 Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> wrote:\n\n>> Similar problems occur with a couple other modules I tried (hstore,\n>> intarray).\n>\n> Hmm, works for me. Seems you have messed up your installation in some way\n> (build against current -HEAD but running...
[ { "msg_contents": "Information if backend crashed should go fast to master, to kill others as fast as possible. This what i thought is to use socket urgent data, but this require to span small thread in master (i think oob data may not be processed in secure way).\r\rFrom one hand processing core dump may be go...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am getting the following error when I run the install from stackbuilder.\n\n\nError trying to install file destination ${installdir} resolves to empty\nvalue.\n\n\n�\n\n\nDoes anyone know what might be causing this and how I can fix it.\n\n\n�\n\n\nBest Regards\n\n\nMichael Gould\n\n\n\nI a...
[ { "msg_contents": "About half of our code prints GetLastError() using %d after casting it\nto int (actually, about half of that half uses %i, another thing to sort\nout, perhaps), and the other half uses %lu without casting. I gather\nfrom online documentation that GetLastError() returns DWORD, which\nappears ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI want to ask why is there a requirement for 5.8 version of Perl to compile\nunder windows?\nIn this page of the documentation\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/install-windows-full.html#AEN23848it\nsais: \"Note: version 5.8 is required\".\nI was able to compile PostgreSQL ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Move Trigger and TriggerDesc structs out of rel.h into a new reltrigger.h\n\nThis lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely\nused header.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b93f5a5673b4bb09e14eb80fe28aa21fc20a6271\n\nM...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI've got through a review of the VS 2010 support patches. Between work \nbeing busy and some interesting issues getting my 64-bit build \nenvironment set up it took longer than anticipated. Sorry.\n\nIt looks good so far. I haven't had any reply to my email to Brar, so \nthere are a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nSystem: PostgreSQL v9.0 Windows XP SP3\nSQL: COPY \"tablename\" TO STDOUT WITH (FORMAT binary)\nERROR: syntax error at or near \"binary\"\nLINE 1: ...OPY \"tablename\" TO STDOUT WITH (FORMAT binary)\n ^\n\n********** Error **********...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file\nsomewhere that I can get at it? I tried \"ulimit -c unlimited\" but\ncan't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.\n\n-- \nRobert Haas\nEnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com\nThe Enterprise Postg...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the 9.0 version of exclusion constraints, we added an extra check to\nensure that, when searching for a conflict, a tuple at least found\nitself as a conflict. This extra check is not present in 9.1+.\n\nIt was designed to help diagnose certain types of problems, and is fine\nfor most use ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In reviewing the 2PC changes mentioned in a separate post, both Dan\nand I realized that these were dependent on the assumption that\nSSI's commitSeqNo is assigned in the order in which the transactions\nbecame visible. There is a race condition such that this is not\nnecessarily true. It i...
[ { "msg_contents": "[resending after gzip of test patch]\n \nIn reviewing the recent fix to 2PC coverage in SSI, I found some\ncases which didn't seem to be covered. Dan bit the bullet and came\nup with an additional isolation test to rigorously cover all the\npermutations, to find *all* 2PC statement orderings...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is an updated version of the \"lazy vxid locks\" patch [1], which\napplies over the latest \"reduce the overhead of frequent table\nlocks\"[2] patch.\n\n[1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=585\n[2] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=572\n\n-- \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm using the latest head and I created the file_fdw extension, then\nattempted to change its schema (ALTER EXTENSION file_fdw SET SCHEMA\nnew_schema. No error was returned, but it remained in the same schema\n(according to pg_extension).\n\nI then dropped the extension and created it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sometime later this week, the community git server\n(git.postgresql.org) will be migrated to a new server in the same\ndatacenter. This does *not* affect the master git server for the\nproject, just the anonymous mirror and those that run standalone\nprojects on it, such as pgAdmin.\n\nWhen t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just came across this:\n\nalvherre=# select * from pg_class where oid::regclass in ('foo');\nERROR: invalid input syntax for type oid: \"foo\"\nLÍNEA 1: select * from pg_class where oid::regclass in ('foo');\n ^\nalvherre=# select * fr...