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"msg_contents": "from postgresql.conf.sample:\n\n#replication_timeout = 60s\t# in milliseconds; 0 disables\n\nSeconds or milliseconds? I would suggest we just remove the \"in\nmilliseconds\", and instead say \"timeout for replication connections; 0\ndisables\".\n\n-- \n Magnus Hagander\n Me: http://www.hagand... |
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"msg_contents": "These days we have pause_at_recovery_target, which lets us pause when\nwe reach a PITR target. Is there a particular reason we don't have a\nway to pause at end of recovery if we *didn't* specify a target -\nmeaning we let it run until the end of the archived log? While it's\ntoo late to chan... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've sent a first patch to improve extensions for 9.2, and intend on\nsending a few more which I'll briefly present here. The point of this\nemail is to figure out how to branch the development, as all the patch\nare going to conflict somehow (change the same parts of the code).\n\nEit... |
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"msg_contents": "In a discussion on irc today, someone had a need to confirm that a\nbusiness rule (this table has two rows for every related one row in\nanother table) was true at commit time. I innocently suggested a\ndeferrable (and deferred) trigger. It was pointed out that the\ndocs:\n \nhttp://www.pos... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been trying to implement the holy grail of decoupling\nlogical/physical column sort order representation, i.e., the feature\nthat lets the server have one physical order, for storage compactness,\nand a different \"output\" order that can be tweaked by the user. This\nhas been di... |
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"msg_contents": "A few weeks ago I posted some performance results showing that\nincreasing NUM_CLOG_BUFFERS was improving pgbench performance.\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-12/msg00095.php\n\nI spent some time today looking at this in a bit more detail.\nSomewhat obviously in retrospec... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis patch adds a bytea_agg aggregation.\n\nIt allow fast bytea concatetation.\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:04:16 +0100",
"msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nThis remove a not necessary string to text overhead\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule",
"msg_date": "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:12:33 +0100",
"msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>",
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"msg_subject": "patch: very simply optimalization of string_agg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nBack in June we had a discussion about parsing denormal floating-point\nvalues. A float8->text conversion could result in a number that can't\nbe converted back to float8 anymore for some values. Among other\nthings, this could break backups (though my searches didn't turn up\nany... |
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"msg_contents": "Would it make sense, as suggested by Álvaro in the \"CLOG contention\"\nthread, to have a background process to set hint bits on tuples in\ndirty pages? Processing could be loosely based around the\nbackground writer techniques in terms of sweeping through the cache,\nbut it would only look ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nOne of the things VMware is working on is double writes, per previous\ndiscussions of how, for example, InnoDB does things. I'd initially\nthought that introducing just one of the features in $Subject at a\ntime would help, but I'm starting to see a mutual dependency.\n\nThe issue... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI mean to create a typed hstore, called tstore for now. I'm open to\nname suggestions. It'll only support a subset of core Postgres types\nto begin with. Keys are always text, it's the value that's typed.\n\nUsage is very similar to hstore; this is not a complete reference.\n\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "This may be ambitious, but it'd be neat if PostgreSQL supported\nparameterizable types. For example, suppose a contrib module defines\na \"pair\" type. It could be used as follows:\n\n CREATE TABLE my_table (\n coord pair(float, float)\n );\n\nThe \"pair\" module could define f... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n \n> So overall, I do now think its still possible to add an optional\n> checksum in the 9.2 release and am willing to pursue it unless\n> there are technical objections.\n \nJust to restate Simon's proposal, to make sure I'm understanding it,\nwe would support a new page... |
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"msg_contents": "In bug #6351 it's pointed out that this fails unexpectedly:\n\nCREATE TABLE tab (id SERIAL, a INTEGER, b INTEGER);\nCREATE INDEX tab123 ON tab (a, b, a);\nSELECT a, b FROM tab WHERE a = 0 AND b = 1;\nERROR: btree index keys must be ordered by attribute\n\nI looked into this a bit and find th... |
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"msg_contents": "Are there any supported platforms that have only on_exit() but not\natexit()?\n\nIt would be good in some cases to rewrite custom arrangements such as\nexit_nicely() or die_horribly() using those exit hooks, but supporting\nboth through ifdefs makes the code more ugly than before. I dug arou... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nmost of the time I use auto_explain, all I need is duration of the query\nand the plan with estimates and actual row counts. And it would be handy\nto be able to catch long running queries with estimates that are\nsignificantly off (say 100x lower or higher compared to actual row n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nafter reading the thread on \"Typed hstore proposal\", I wonder if another\nminded extension of hstore would be benefical:\nadd additional hstore types with numerical data type for the values.\n\ne.g.: hstore_float : text -> float\n\nThis should allow to add some nice aggregation f... |
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"msg_contents": "No sooner had I committed e2c2c2e8b1df7dfdb01e7e6f6191a569ce3c3195 than\nI started having second thoughts about the choice of representation.\nThe requirement is to tell which index column each potential index qual\nis meant to be used with. I used a list-of-sublists representation, in\nwhic... |
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"msg_contents": "After the various recent discussions on list, I present what I believe\nto be a working patch implementing 16-but checksums on all buffer\npages.\n\npage_checksums = on | off (default)\n\nThere are no required block changes; checksums are optional and some\nblocks may have a checksum, others ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Simon Riggs wrote:\n> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Greg Stark wrote:\n \n>> The problem is that there is no WAL indicating the hint bit\n>> change. And if the torn page includes the new checksum but not the\n>> new hint bit or vice versa it will be a checksum mismatch.\n \nWith *just*... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI’m new here so maybe someone else already has this in the works ?\n\nAnyway, proposed change/patch :\n\nAdd a new parameter :\n\nsynchronous_standalone_master = on | off\n\nTo control whether a master configured with synchronous_commit = on is\nallowed to stop waiting for standby ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nApparently we forgot to update the README file in contrib/. I wonder if\nit's necessary to explain that within each directory you find one or\nmore \".control\" file that determines what can be run ... or maybe just\nmention the pg_extensions views?\n\nWhat about this?\n\ndiff --git a/cont... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, pg_dump dumps foreign options in a single line, for example\n\nCREATE SERVER cluster FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER plproxy OPTIONS (p0 'host=host0', p1 'host=host1', p2 'host=host2', p3 'host=host3');\n\nI think it would be nicer if it looked more like this:\n\nCREATE SERVER cluster FOREIGN... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a system (9.0.4 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x86_64) that is \ncurrently in test/dev mode. I'm currently seeing the following messages \noccurring every few seconds:\n\n...\nDec 27 17:43:22 foo postgres[23693]: [6-1] : WARNING: pgstat wait timeout\nDec 27 17:43:27 foo postgres[27324]: [... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,\n\ndoes it make sense to teach the planner (and the executor?) use an ordering op\nto optimize queries like the following?\n\n\tselect * from t where a <-> 1000 < 10\n\nYAMAMOTO Takashi\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:48:02 +0000 (UTC)",
"msg_from": "yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (Y... |
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"msg_contents": "The check_postgres txn_wraparound action[0] runs this query:\n\n SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) AS age FROM pg_database WHERE datallowconn ORDER BY 1, 2\n\nOn a hot standby, this fails with:\n\n ERROR: cannot assign TransactionIds during recovery\n\nSo, a couple of things to wonder ab... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n \n> a configure test only proves whether the build machine can deal\n> with the flag, not whether the machine the executables will\n> ultimately run on knows what the flag means. We cannot assume that\n> the build and execution boxes are the same. (In general,\n> AC_TRY_R... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI checked yesterday HEAD and there is problem with create_index test\n\nRegards\n\nPavel",
"msg_date": "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:27:35 +0100",
"msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>",
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"msg_contents": "> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> On 28.12.2011 01:39, Simon Riggs wrote:\n>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Heikki Linnakangas\n>> wrote:\n>>> On 25.12.2011 15:01, Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>>>>\n>>>> I don't believe that. Double-writing is a technique to avoid\n>>>> torn pages, but it require... |
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"msg_contents": "> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n> Simon Riggs wrote:\n \n>> OK, then we are talking at cross purposes. Double write buffers,\n>> in the way you explain them allow us to remove full page writes.\n>> They clearly don't do anything to check page validity on read.\n>> Torn pages are not the only fa... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI tried to generalize a function that creates partitions\nfor a table and found out it's impossible to do it for grants.\n\nBasically, what I want is a child table that takes it's grants\nfrom parent table. IMHO quite reasonable request. But I don't\nsee a way to do it in pl/pgsql... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a secret reason why\n\nALTER DOMAIN foo DROP CONSTRAINT nonexistent;\n\ndoesn't report any error?\n\nIf not, I think we should add one and also add the usual IF EXISTS\noption.\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:02:34 +0200",
"msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net... |
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"msg_contents": "We document that a polymorphic C-language function may identify the concrete\ndata type of each argument using calls to get_fn_expr_argtype(). That relies\non FmgrInfo.fn_expr, which only the executor sets. Calls of internal origin,\nby way of {Direct,,Oid}FunctionCall*(), don't cons up an ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhen SELECTing from one particular view, I get reproducible SEGFAULTs in\nmy pg 9.1.2 production database. To test for hardware errors, I ran\nmemtest, which succeeded. I then asked for help in #postgres and got\nadvice to create stacktraces, but I couldn't find the problem yet.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nI'm wrong somewhere, but where?:\n\nCREATE INDEX tst1m_name_lu_ix ON tst1m(lower(unaccent(name)));\nERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE\n\nDecomposing it reveals that it is the 'unaccent' part that\nblocks:\n\nCREATE INDEX tst1m_name_lu_ix ON tst1m(unacc... |
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"msg_contents": "I'll try and keep this terse. I've promised to justify the number of\nspecialisations that are in my fast-path sorting patch, and I may yet\nconclude that a reduction is appropriate. Not today though - there are\nquite a few ideas in the patch (even more now), and not all have been\nexhaustiv... |
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"msg_contents": "2011/12/30 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:\n> > The Linux kernel does this (arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h):\n>\n> Yeah, I was looking at that too.\n>\n> > We can't copy-paste code from Linux directly, and I'm not sure I ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Nicolas Barbier wrote:\n> 2011/12/30 Ants Aasma :\n>> Kevin Grittner wrote:\n>>\n>>> positives. To get this right for a checksum in the page header,\n>>> double-write would need to be used for all cases where\n>>> full_page_writes now are used (i.e., the first write of a page\n>>> after a... |
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"msg_contents": "> Simon Riggs wrote:\n> Kevin Grittner wrote:\n \n>> if there is no checksum in the page itself, you can put one in the\n>> double-write metadata.\n \n> However, I don't see that it provides protection across non-crash\n> write problems. We know we have these since many systems have run\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.\nAllows streaming replication users to calculate transfer latency\nand apply delay via internal functions. No external functions yet.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/64233902d22ba42... |
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"msg_contents": "It's not a big thing, but I just found myself in a shared environment \nwanting to be able to set alternative locations for the psql startup \nfile and history. I know there's the HISTFILE variable, but I can't \neasily set that automatically unless I can at least have my own .psqlrc. \nISTM ... |
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"msg_contents": "Building on commit 8f9fe6edce358f7904e0db119416b4d1080a83aa, this adds\nprotransform functions to the length coercions for numeric, varbit, timestamp,\ntimestamptz, time, timetz and interval. This mostly serves to make more ALTER\nTABLE ALTER TYPE operations avoid a rewrite, including numeri... |
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"msg_contents": "I think I would like to have a set of GUC parameters to control the\nlocation of the server-side SSL files. In a setup that has all the\nother configuration files under /etc, the SSL files ought to go there as\nwell. (For comparison, most email and web servers keep them there.)\nHaving them... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, pg_dump sorts operators by name, but operators with the same\nname come out in random order. A few releases ago we adjusted this for\nfunctions, so that they are in increasing number of arguments order.\nI'd like to do this for operators as well, so that they come out in\norder, s... |
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"msg_contents": "Are there any features in SQL:2011 that we should be considering for 9.2?\n\nWe seem quite close on temporal stuff, so maybe just a little syntax work?\n\nNot sure and not planning anything myself, just checking.\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/\n PostgreSQL ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthis is relative simple patch that add possibility to skip noexisting\ntables. It is necessary for silent cleaning when dump is loaded.\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule",
"msg_date": "Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:11:58 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "pg_regress: Replace exit_nicely() with exit() plus atexit() hook\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bd09111f1f52e3739a24b88a4671f7a4b0ed4c1d\n\nModified Files\n--------------\nsrc/interfaces/ecpg/test/pg_regress_ecpg.c | 6 +-\nsrc/test/re... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm using PL/Python, and when getting the result object from a\nplpy.execute(), I can access to the result.status().\n\nE.g.: the result.status() is 4. But to know what 4 corresponds to, I must\nopen the \"spi.h\" file from the sources to see :\n\n#define SPI_OK_CONNECT 1\n#define SPI_OK_FINI... |
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"msg_contents": "From time to time there are complaints because people mistakenly feed a \ntext format dump to pg_restore and get back a somewhat cryptic message \nabout the file not being a valid archive. It's been suggested that we \nshould have pg_restore run the file through psql, but that would involve \... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have a patch that improves the documentation for FreeBSD Kernel Tuning:\n\n- Show a # prompt instead of $ to indicate a root shell is needed\n- Remove the -w flag to sysctl since it is not needed anymore and just silently ignored\n- Encourage the user to set the read-only sysctls in ... |
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"msg_contents": "During the talk \"How To Get Your PostgreSQL Patch Accepted\" during\nPgCon last year, I raised the idea of making a -Werror build option\neasily available. I think it was Robert that pointed out that the\nproblem with that was that there is a warning due to an upstream Flex\nbug that we can'... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm not sure if this is an XFS problem, or Postgres. There's enough\nsuspicious evidence that it's too hard to say.\n\nToday, I get an interesting issue raised whereby a reasonably simple\nquery fails on a system that does take successful pg_dumps regularly.\nTo make a short story shorter, I... |
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"msg_contents": "Is this perhaps by design?\n\nOy, this doesn’t look good:\n\n$ do LANGUAGE plperl $$ elog(NOTICE, $^V) $$;\nERROR: server conn crashed?\nERROR: server conn crashed?\nThe connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded.\n(pgxn@localhost:5900) 06:44:42 [pgxn] \n$ \n\nBest,\n\nD... |
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"msg_contents": "As part of the ongoing effort to reduce wake-ups when idle/power\nconsumption, the attached patch modifies the background writer to\nhibernate in ten second bursts once the bgwriter laps the clock sweep.\nIt's fairly well commented, so a description of how it works here\nwould probably be red... |
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"msg_contents": "Why PostgreSQL needs to write WAL record for Checkpoint when it maintains\nsame information in pg_control file?\n\nThis may be required in case we need information about more than one\ncheckpoint as pg_control can hold information of only recent checkpoint. But\nI could not think of a case wh... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> if we define sum1 and sum2 as uint I don't see how we can get an\n> overflow with 8k byes\n \nI feel the need to amend that opinion.\n \nWhile sum1 only needs to hold a maximum of (BLCKSZ * 255), which\nwould be adequate for a BLCKSZ up to 16 MB, sum2 needs to... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n \n> We can either\n> \n> (1) report all errors on a page, including errors that don't change\n> PostgreSQL data. This involves checksumming long strings of zeroes,\n> which the checksum algorithm can't tell apart from long strings of\n> ones.\n \nWhat do you mean? Each ... |
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"msg_contents": "Robert Haas wrote:\n> Jeff Janes wrote:\n \n>> But it doesn't seem safe to me replace a page from the DW buffer\n>> and then apply WAL to that replaced page which preceded the age of\n>> the page in the buffer.\n>\n> That's what LSNs are for.\n \nAgreed.\n \n> If we write the page to the ch... |
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"msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n \n> My focus was on getting something working first, then tuning. If\n> we're agreed that we have everything apart from the tuning then we\n> can proceed with tests to see which works better.\n \nSure. I just think you are there already except for what I got into.\n \nF... |
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"msg_contents": "Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n \n> We don't support BLCKSZ higher than 32k anyway\n \nThanks for pointing that out. Then I think we should declare sum1 to\nbe uint and sum2 to be uint64. We can take out the \"% 255\" out from\nwhere it sits in the v2 patch, and just add something like this after\... |
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"msg_contents": "In http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2012-01/msg00008.php\nit's pointed out that recent versions of pg_restore fall over on\narchives made with -Fc --inserts (or --column-inserts), but only when\nrestoring direct to database; if you ask for text output it's perfectly\nfine. Investig... |
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"msg_contents": "The following bug has been logged on the website:\n\nBug reference: 6379\nLogged by: Paul Ramsey\nEmail address: pramsey@cleverelephant.ca\nPostgreSQL version: 9.1.2\nOperating system: OSX 10.6.8\nDescription: \n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION kill_backend()\nRETURNS ... |
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"msg_contents": "Git master can already avoid rewriting the table for column type changes like\nvarchar(10) -> varchar(20). However, if the column in question is on either\nside of a FK relationship, we always revalidate the foreign key. Concretely,\nI wanted these no-rewrite type changes to also assume FK ... |
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"msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nPlease find attached two patches, each under the PostgreSQL license,\none which implements page checksums vs. REL9_0_STABLE, the other which\ndepends on the first (i.e. requires that it be applied first) and\nimplements double writes. They're vs. REL9_0_STABLE because they're\next... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nI have a question of how to benchmark hardware to determine\nthe appropriate ratio of seq_page_cost vs random_page_cost.\n\nEmails in this mailing lists archive seem to indicate that \n1.0 vs 3.0 - 4.0 are appropriate values on modern hardware.\n\nWhich surprised me a bit as I ... |
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"msg_contents": "My laptop ran out of battery and turned itself off while I was just \nstarting up postmaster. After plugging in the charger and rebooting, I \ngot the following error when I tried to restart PostgreSQL:\n\nFATAL: bogus data in lock file \"postmaster.pid\": \"\"\n\npostmaster.pid file was pre... |
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"msg_contents": "On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n>> Another thought is that it should always be safe to reuse an old\n>> snapshot if no transactions have committed or aborted since it was\n>> taken\n>\n> Yeah, that might work better. And it'd be a win for all MVCC snaps,\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been working on moving an extension that allows to move the ispell\ndictionaries to shared segment. It's almost complete, the last FIXME is\nabout copying regex_t structure (stored in AFFIX).\n\nAccording to regex.h the structure is fairly complex and not exactly easy\nto unde... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a need to send banner messages to a psql client that I can set\non the server and will be displayed on any psql client that connects\nto the database. This would be mostly used as an additional indicator\nto which database you are connecting, but could also be used by people\nto force ... |
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"msg_contents": "Work around perl bug in SvPVutf8().\n\nCertain things like typeglobs or readonly things like $^V cause\nperl's SvPVutf8() to die nastily and crash the backend. To avoid\nthat bug we make a copy of the object, which will subsequently be\ngarbage collected.\n\nBack patched to 9.1 where we first... |
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"msg_contents": "Fix breakage from earlier plperl fix.\n\nApparently the perl garbage collector was a bit too eager, so here\nwe control when the new SV is garbage collected.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bd0e74a9ce98c65c94565fb603dcc7b710cd4227\n\nModi... |
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"msg_contents": "Lately I have noticed buildfarm member jaguar occasionally failing\nregression tests with\nERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824\nduring a VACUUM, as for example at\nhttp://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=jaguar&dt=2012-01-04%2023%3A05%3A02\n\nNaturally I suppos... |
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"msg_contents": "In BufferSync(), we have this:\n\n> \t/*\n> \t * Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint, we write only permanent, dirty\n> \t * buffers. But at shutdown time, we write all dirty buffers.\n> \t */\n> \tif (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN))\n> \t\tflags |= BM_PERMANENT;\n\nThat seems bogus to m... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been asked by someone to support pgshpere.\n\nIt would appear that the two project owners are MIA. If anyone knows\ndifferent can they let me know ?\n\nDoes anyone have any objection to me taking over the project?\n\n\nDave Cramer\n\ndave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca\nhttp://www.credativ.ca... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been asked by someone to support pgshpere.\n\nIt would appear that the two project owners are MIA. If anyone knows\ndifferent can they let me know ?\n\nDoes anyone have any objection to me taking over the project?\n\n\nDave Cramer\n\ndave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca\nhttp://www.credativ.ca... |
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"msg_contents": "It's been a while since I did any testing with LWLOCK_STATS defined,\nso I thought it might be about time to do that again and see how\nthings look. Here's how they looked back in July:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-07/msg01373.php\n\nHere are the results from a test I... |
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"msg_contents": "Another regression test failure that I've been seeing lately is a change\nfrom index-only scan to seqscan in create_index, as for instance here:\nhttp://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=jaguar&dt=2012-01-02%2023%3A05%3A02\nI've managed to duplicate and debug this one too. What... |
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"msg_contents": "There's a corner case in the SSI cleanup code that isn't handled\ncorrectly. It can arise when running workloads that are comprised\nmostly (but not 100%) of READ ONLY transactions, and can corrupt the\nfinished SERIALIZABLEXACT list, potentially causing a segfault. The\nattached patch fixes ... |
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"msg_contents": "In 367bc426a1c22b9f6badb06cd41fc438fd034639, I introduced a\nCheckIndexCompatible() that approves btree and hash indexes having changed to\na different operator class within the same operator family. To make that\nvalid, I also tightened the operator family contracts for those access methods... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nThere is broken link on http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php page\n\nPostgreSQL 9.1 - Fedora 14 -\nhttp://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/fedora/fedora-14-i386/pgdg-fedora-9.1-2.noarch.rpm\n- 404 - Not Found\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:47:12 +0100... |
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"msg_contents": "On an overnight test run, I ran into an unexpected \"out of space\" condition.\n\nThe writer process was holding on to dozens of file descriptors for\nlong-ago deleted files from dropped tables and indexes, preventing\ntheir disk space from being freed for reuse.\n\nI think the checkpoint wri... |
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"msg_contents": "There is a bit of confusion around the return values and return\nprotocols of the sub-main functions in the backend (PostgresMain etc.).\nSome functions are declared to return int but never return. It would be\nuseful to make this consistent by either making them return void or\nmaking some ... |
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"msg_contents": "Recent results from Robert show clog contention is still an issue.\n\nIn various discussions Tom noted that pages prior to RecentXmin are\nreadonly and we might find a way to make use of that fact in providing\ndifferent mechanisms or resources.\n\nI've taken that idea and used it to build a ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen I look into archive recovery deeply as DBA point of view, I found\nthat it's difficult to know (1) when the recovery process switched\nreading WAL segments files from archive directory to pg_xlog directory,\nand (2) whether it succeeded applying the latest WAL segments in the\npg_... |
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"msg_contents": ">> BTW, can you also resubmit the leakproof stuff as a separate patch for\n>> the last CF? Want to make sure we get that into 9.2, if at all\n>> possible.\n>>\n> Yes, it shall be attached on the next message.\n>\nThe attached patch adds LEAKPROOF attribute to pg_proc; that\nenables DBA to se... |
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"msg_contents": "When attempting to connect to a non-existent host with psql, the\nconnection will hang and ^C will not break the attempt. This affects two\nplaces: startup and in interactive mode with \\c. During startup, the new\nbehavior will be to exit psql. In interactive mode, the new behavior\nwill be ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe extension mechanism we added in 9.1 is aimed at allowing a fully\nintegrated contrib management, which was big enough a goal to preclude\ndoing anything else in its first release.\n\nNow we have it and we can think some more about what features we want\ncovered, and a pretty obviou... |
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"msg_contents": "Currently, check constraints are verified whenever a table row is\nupdated at all. It seems to me that we could possibly make this quite a\nbit more efficient if we only ran the check constraint expression when\nthe update changes a column that is referenced by the constraint\nexpression. T... |
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"msg_contents": "psql tab completion currently only supports the form GRANT privilege ON\nsomething TO someone (and the analogous REVOKE), but not the form GRANT\nrole TO someone. Here is a patch that attempts to implement the latter.",
"msg_date": "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:48:12 +0200",
"msg_from": "Pete... |
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"msg_contents": "I've recently had a possible need for telling pg_basebackup how to\nhandle symlinks in the remote data directory, instead of ignoring them,\nwhich is what currently happens. Possible options were recreating the\nsymlink locally (pointing to a file on the local system) or copying the\nfile th... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a patch for the following construct, specified in the SQL\nstandard:\n\n collation for (expr)\n\nreturns the collation of the argument. It's similar to pg_typeof.\n\nThe SQL standard is not clear on the exact format of the return value.\nI went with what ruleutils.c produces, whic... |
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"msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nJust FYI, we're going to have a small reviewfest in San Francisco on the\n12th in order to try to jump-start some of the work for CF4.\n\nWho's in charge of this CommitFest?\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL Experts Inc.\nhttp://pgexperts.com\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was trying pg_basebackup on head, i used this command:\n\"\"\"\npostgres@jaime:/usr/local/pgsql/9.2$ bin/pg_basebackup -D $PWD/data2\n-x stream -P -p 54392\n\"\"\"\n\ni got this error\n\"\"\"\n19093/19093 kB (100%), 1/1 tablespace\npg_basebackup: streaming header too small: 17\npg_ba... |
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"msg_contents": "Attached is a trivial patch to add what I believe to be a missing\n.gitignore file. You won't run into it unless you are getting\nthings set up for running pgindent.\n \n-Kevin",
"msg_date": "Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:24:28 -0600",
"msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.g... |
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"msg_contents": "I found that I needed to adjust the command given in the README file\nfor pgindent. Trivial patch attached.\n \nThe one other issue I ran into in following the latest pgindent\ninstructions was that I had to add #include <stdlib.h> to the\nparse.c file (as included in the pg_bsd_indent-1.1.t... |
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"msg_contents": "Shouldn't it have been closed weeks ago?\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL Experts Inc.\nhttp://pgexperts.com\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:37:25 -0800",
"msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>",
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"msg_subject": "Why is CF 2011-11 still listed as ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nBACKGROUND\nI have a database centric system consisting of thousands of stored\nprocedures,\nwhere each call to any top-level function makes use of a lot of\nsubfunctions in many layers.\n\nI was about to manually produce call graphs covering all important parts of\nthe system.... |
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"msg_contents": "Every so often one or other of my buildfarm animals running on Windows 7 \n(64 bit) gets a regression failure running the ECPG tests. See \n<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_failures.pl?max_days=90&member=chough&member=pitta&stage=ECPG-Check>. \nIt's not always the same test that fails... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThere is a buffer overflow in sample code's test_parser.c that can yield to a segmentation fault. The next byte of the buffer is tested against ' ' before its availability is checked.\n\nYou will find attached a simple patch that fixes the bug.\n\nPaul\n-- \nSemiocast htt... |
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