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[ { "msg_contents": "Add PGDLLIMPORT to ScanKeywords and NumScanKeywords.\n\nPer buildfarm, this is now needed by contrib/pg_stat_statements.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5e83854d71bb05403768a97a415a129b0081564b\n\nModified Files\n--------------\nsrc/inclu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that the build logs for buildfarm member narwhal (a mingw\ncritter) contain an awful lot of occurrences of\n\n../../src/include/utils/elog.h:159: warning: `gnu_printf' is an unrecognized format function type\n\nEvidently, the following hunk in pg_config_manual.h failed to consider\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hoping to demonstrate the wonders of our new group commit code, I ran\nsome benchmarks on the IBM POWER7 machine with synchronous_commit =\non. But, it didn't come out much better than 9.1. pgbench, scale\nfactor 300, median of 3 30-minute test runs, # clients = #threads,\nshared_buffers = ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, only regular backends set the stack base pointer, for the \ncheck_stack_depth() mechanism, in PostgresMain. We don't have stack \noverrun protection in auxiliary processes. However, autovacuum workers \nat least can run arbitrary user code, and if that overruns the stack, \nyou get...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Mac installation docs currently recommend the EDB one-click installer as \nthe first choice. While this does install pgadmin and some other \nrefinements, it also is fairly confusing to troubleshoot:\n\n- By default, it installs to /Library/PostgreSQL, which is also (I think) \nwhere the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Some of my PostgreSQL Experts colleagues have been complaining to me \nthat servers under load with very large queries cause CSV log files that \nare corrupted, because lines are apparently multiplexed. The log \nchunking protocol between the errlog routines and the syslogger is \nsupposed to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Anyone else want event scheduling / cron / temporal triggers in\npostgresql? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/events-overview.html\nshows how it works in mysql.\n\nCan we throw money at someone to get this in postgres? Is there work\nalready being done on this?\n\nBeing able to regularl...
[ { "msg_contents": "<a href=\"http://mojicacnc.com/wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options/02efpk.html\"> http://mojicacnc.com/wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options/02efpk.html</a>\n http://mojicacnc.com/wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options/02efpk.html", "msg_date": "Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:43:33...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: RIPEMD160\n\n\nI'm getting HEAD errors on my build farm animal fennec. \nI've narrowed it down to this test case:\n\ngreg=# CREATE TEMP TABLE boom AS SELECT 'ABC'::bytea;\ngreg=# SELECT table_to_xml('boom',false,false,'');\nserver closed the connect...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Robert Haas wrote:\n> Kevin Grittner wrote:\n> \n>> I can't help thinking that the \"background hinter\" I had ideas\n>> about writing would prevent many of the reads of old CLOG pages,\n>> taking a lot of pressure off of this area. It just occurred to me\n>> that the difference between ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't finished reviewing this yet - but there are some things that \nneed to be fixed.\n\nFirst, either the creation of the destination directory needs to be \ndelayed until all the sanity checks have passed and we're sure we're \nactually going to write something there, or it needs to be...
[ { "msg_contents": "If you use ALTER ROLE/DATABASE SET to configure an invalid\nsearch_path, PostgreSQL 9.1 issues a complaint about the invalid\nsetting on each new connection. This is a behavior change relatively\nto previous releases, which did not. git bisect blames this commit:\n\n2594cf0e8c04406ffff19b16...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Postgresql hackers,\n\nWe are organizing a micro-conference on scaling both upwards (many\ncores) and downwards (low footprint, energy efficiency) that targets\nall layers of the software stack. Our intent is to bring together\napplication, libraries and kernel developers to discuss the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following bug has been logged on the website:\n\nBug reference: 6572\nLogged by: Hitoshi Harada\nEmail address: umi.tanuki@gmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 9.1.3\nOperating system: Any\nDescription: \n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/spi-spi-execute.ht...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI noticed psql's tab-completion for 'WITH' is a bit overeager. If you\ntry to tab-complete commands like:\n ALTER ROLE jsmith WITH [TAB]\n COPY tbl FROM 'filename' WITH [TAB]\n\nyou'll get 'RECURSIVE' unhelpfully filled in. I think 'RECURSIVE'\nshould only be suggested if 'WITH' ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Using a cursor argument name equal to another plpgsql variable results \nin the error:\ncursor .. has no argument named \"\"\n\nThe attached patch fixes that.\n\nInstead of solving the issue like is done in the patch, another way \nwould be to expose internal_yylex() so that could be used ins...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nattached is a patch to implement a framework to simplify and\ncorrectly nest multiplexing more than two timeout sources\ninto the same SIGALRM signal handler.\n\nThe framework is using a new internal API for timeouts:\n\nbool enable_timeout(TimeoutName tn, int delayms);\nbool disable_t...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:\n> This particular example shows the above chunk of code taking >13s to\n> execute.  Within 3s, every other backend piles up behind that, leading\n> to the database getting no work at all done for a good ten seconds.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile looking into SSL code in secure_read() of be-secure.c and\npqsecure_read() of fe-secure.c, I noticed subtle difference between\nthem. \n\nIn secure_read:\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\t\t\tcase SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ:\n\t\t\tcase SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE:...
[ { "msg_contents": "... would be really nice to have. Especially pgbench and pg_upgrade for\nme, but it would be useful to have man pages for everything.\n\nUnfortunately, we can't just replace the sect1's in in Appendix F [0]\nwith refentry's, because the content model of DocBook doesn't allow\nthat. (You can...
[ { "msg_contents": "Every so often I find myself trying to write\n\npostgres -D ... --ssl\n\nor\n\npostgres -D ... --debug-print-plan\n\nwhich fails, because you need to write --ssl=on or\n--debug-print-plan=true etc.\n\nHave others had the same experience? Would it be worth supporting the\ncase without value t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've written a pg_upgrade wrapper for upgrading our users (heroku) to\npostgres 9.1. In the process I encountered a specific issue that could\neasily be improved. We've had this process work consistently for many users\nboth internal and external, with the exception of just a few f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am wondering how the catchup mode of a hot synchron slave server works on 9.1.3 if there is no WAL archive.\n\nCan the slave only request WALs that are still in the xlog directory of the master server? Or does the master regenerate some kind of fake log for the catchup mode? E.g. in case of...
[ { "msg_contents": "These patches aren't marked with a committer\n\nFK arrays\nECPG fetch\nforeign stats\ncommand triggers\ncheck function\nparallel pg_dump\n\nDoes that mean myself or others should be claiming them for commit/reject?\n\n-- \n Simon Riggs                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/\n PostgreSQ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI attach a patch to correct various system catalog/view definitions in the docs.\n\nRegards\n\nThom", "msg_date": "Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:22:10 +0100", "msg_from": "Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "System catalog typos" }, { "msg_co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've tried out pg_receivexlog and have noticed that when restarting\nthe cluster, pg_receivexlog gets cut off... it doesn't keep waiting.\nThis is surprising as the DBA would have to remember to start\npg_receivexlog up again.\n\n-- \nThom\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 6 Apr 2012 01:07:03 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhy was this code:\n\n #ifdef WIN32\n if (parallel_init_done && GetCurrentThreadId() != mainThreadId)\n ExitThread(code);\n #endif\n\n\nremoved from dumputils.c by commit \n5e86c61a7eec0fdc6961493a150159fa8fc63b1c? The commit message doesn't \nrefer to it at all.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "postgres=# select '{}'::integer[] = array[[]]::integer[][];\r\n ?column?\r\n----------\r\n t\r\n\r\npostgres=# select '{}'::integer[] = array[[[]]]::integer[][][];\r\n ?column?\r\n----------\r\n t\r\n\r\nFrom this point of view, seems N dimensions of empty array all are equivalent.\r\n\r\nBut...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI can't explain why I'm seeing a range type installcheck failure as I\ndon't see the same problem on the buildfarm, but out of all the tests\nrun, the range types test is the only one to fail.\n\nI've attached the diff and the rangetypes.out file. It appears that\nwhile the rows outpu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\n \n\nI submitted a GSoc application yesterday. Please review it and let me know\nif anyone needs any clarifications.\n\n \n\nAtri\n\n\nHi All, I submitted a GSoc application yesterday. Please review it and let me know if anyone needs any clarifications. Atri", "msg_date": "Sat,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI recently wrote a plpgsql plugin. I wanted to enable the use of pgxs,\nto make it easier to compile the plugin, but I eventually found that I\ncan't do that because the plpgsql.h file is not available in the include\ndirectory.\n\nI'm wondering if we shouldn't put the header files of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\n I would like to debug PG because I have a problem when I run initdb, and\nI have question about the configure file.\n\nwhen I used the command below to config PG, it was only built with\ndebugging symbols (-g) and O2 compiler optimization which would lead to\nexecute order not match th...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> wrote:\n>> Indeed, the unpatched GIT version crashes if you enter\n>>  =#lock TABLE pgbench_accounts ;\n>> the second time in session 2 after the first one failed. Also,\n>> manually spelling it out:\n>>\n>> Session 1:\n>>\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,Please find the patch regarding trivial changes against To Do item list for \"psql : Allow processing of multiple -f (file) options \".Looking for valuable feedback.Thanks,Vikash=====-----=====-----=====\nNotice: The information contained in this e-mail\nmessage and/or attachments to it m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nCOPY_POINTER_FIELD is defined as -\n 61 #define COPY_POINTER_FIELD(fldname, sz) \\\n 62 do { \\\n 63 Size _size = (sz); \\\n 64 newnode->fldname = palloc(_size); \\\n 65 memcpy(newnode->fldname, from->fldname, _size); \\\n 66 } while (0)\n\nSince ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n I'm debugging initdb using gdb.\n I found that I could not step in the function getopt_long in line 2572 in\ninitdb.c.\n I also found that the value of VAR optind never be changed. VAR optind is\nalways equal to 1 but how could optind be larger than the value of argc(the\nvalue of ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI submitted a proposal for GSoc 2012.Please review it and let me know\nyour comments.\n\nThe link is:\n\nhttps://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/atrisharma/1001\n\nAtri\n\n-- \nRegards,\n\nAtri\nl'apprenant\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:08:...
[ { "msg_contents": "A long time ago, we had this bug report:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-02/msg00069.php\nin consequence of which, I changed timestamp_part() so that it would\nrotate a timestamp-without-timezone from the local timezone to GMT\nbefore extracting the epoch offset (commit\n191ef...
[ { "msg_contents": "Encoding names are currently sometimes quoted (encoding \\\"%s\\\"),\nsometimes not (encoding %s). Which one should we settle on?\n\nIn favor of quoting is that we do this for everything else. But since\nthe possible encoding names are known in advance, we know we don't have\nto do the quot...
[ { "msg_contents": "The To Do wiki says not to add things to the page with discussing here.\n\nSo here are some things to discuss. Assuming the discussion is a\nbrief yup or nope, it seems to make sense to lump them into one email:\n\nVacuuming a table with a large GIN index is painfully slow, because\nthe inde...
[ { "msg_contents": "Don't know if anybody noticed bug #6559\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-03/msg00180.php\n\nI've confirmed that the given test case works in 9.0 but fails in\n9.1 and HEAD. It's not terribly sensitive to the details of the\nSQL: any non-null value for the composite column fail...
[ { "msg_contents": "Looking over the remaining patches that still aren't closed in the\nJanuary CommitFest:\n\nForeign keys with arrays - Tom wants to commit this at the beginning\nof a release cycle rather than the end, but there's no actual known\nproblem with it. Therefore I suggest moving it to the first 9....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHey,\n\nJust a reminder that the CFP for PgNext in Denver is still open. Let's \nget those talks in folks!\n\nhttps://www.postgresqlconference.org/\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n\n-- \nCommand Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/\nPostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Ser...
[ { "msg_contents": "The new pg_tablespace_location() function added in PG 9.2 to remove the\ndirector location from pg_tablespace returns an odd error for '0', which\nis InvalidOID:\n\n\ttest=> select pg_tablespace_location(0);\n\tERROR: could not read symbolic link \"pg_tblspc/0\": No such file or\n\tdirectory...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a little patch to fix a typo in contrib/file_fdw.\n\n \n\nBest regards,\n\nEtsuro Fujita", "msg_date": "Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:40:05 +0900", "msg_from": "\"Etsuro Fujita\" <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "[Patch] Fix little typo in a co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all (re-posting from pgsql-general),\n\nI'm looking into Postgres' internals, and had two quick questions that\nrelate to each other.\n\n(1) What's the difference between advancing the command counter and\nupdating an active snapshot? For example, I see that DefineRelation()\nincrements th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since we are wacking around pg_stat_activity for 9.2, what do people\nthink about these column names?\n\n\t backend_start | timestamp with time zone |\n\t xact_start | timestamp with time zone |\n\t query_start | timestamp with time zone |\n\nArguably:\n\n\tbackend_start -> sess...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've looked into this:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-04/msg00058.php\nand concluded that it's not very practical to fix it properly\nright now. A real fix will involve rearranging things so that\nconstruction of the filter-condition list happens at Path creation\ntime, not ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The SELECT manpage has:\n\nand with_query is:\n\n with_query_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ] AS ( select | insert |\nupdate | delete )\n\n\nShould that list that you can use values as well? Or is it something\nwe generally consider \"wherever select works you can use values\"?\n\n(I ran i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I updated the patch added to CF 2012-Next [1]. Attached is the updated\nversion of the patch.\n\nFor the discussion in [2], I've introduced a new generic option, validate\nfor file_fdw foreign tables, which specifies if file_fdw verifies that\ntuples meet NOT NULL constraints. The default v...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a little patch to fix a typo in file-fdw.sgml\n\nBest regards,\nEtsuro Fujita", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:27:45 +0900", "msg_from": "\"Etsuro Fujita\" <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "typo fix" }, { "msg_contents": "On...
[ { "msg_contents": "diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml\nnew file mode 100644\nindex ed34dac..c5f3ff9\n*** a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml\n--- b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml\n*************** primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 po\n*** 1022,1028 *...
[ { "msg_contents": "I looked into the behavior complained of here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2012-04/msg00093.php\n\nThe problem query can be abstracted to\n\n\tselect * from a, b, c, d\n\twhere a.x = b.y and (a.z = c.c or a.z = d.d)\n\nTable a is much larger than the others (in fact, in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just talked to Tom about the 9.2 release notes. Do people want me to\nwrite the 9.2 release notes? When do you think we will be ready for 9.2\nbeta?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, we have a problem with index-only scans in Hot Standby\nmode: the xmin horizon on the standby might lag the master, and thus\nan index-only scan might mistakenly conclude that no heap fetch is\nneeded when in fact it is. I suggested that we handle this by\nsuppressing generation o...
[ { "msg_contents": "The commands PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED, and ROLLBACK PREPARED\nare the only ones that do not have a Compatibility section on their\nreference page. Does anyone remember whether they were our invention or\ncopied from or inspired by some other implementation?\n\n\n", "msg_date"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe column name of pg_stat_replication.backend_start is confusing because\nit's not the time when *backend* was started at all. We should rename it to\n\"walsender_start\" or \"replication_start\"?\n\nRegards,\n\n-- \nFujii Masao\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:00:10 +0900", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nIt turns out that in a PL/PgSQL function, you can DECLARE a variable\nusing the same name as one of the function parameters. This has the\neffect of clobbering the parameter, for example:\n\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION declare_clobber(foo int)\nRETURNS int LANGUAGE plpgsql A...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nis somewhere documented sense of foo--unpackaged--version.sql files?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:47:12 +0200", "msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "documentation bug - missing info abo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I hope this is not an inappropriate time for 9.3 discussions. The flip\nside of asking for submissions in the first couple commitfests means\nthat I need to submit proposals now.\n\nWhat is a Range Join?\n\nSee attached SQL for example. The key difference is that the join\ncondition is not eq...
[ { "msg_contents": "I observed these inconsistencies in node support functions:\n\n- _copyReassignOwnedStmt() uses COPY_SCALAR_FIELD() on the string field\n \"newrole\", and _equalReassignOwnedStmt() uses COMPARE_NODE_FIELD().\n\n- _outCreateForeignTableStmt() calls _outCreateStmt() directly. This produces\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, this is bug report and a patch for it.\n\nThe first patch in the attachments is for 9.2dev and next one is\nfor 9.1.3.\n\nOn the current 9.2dev, IsCheckpointOnSchedule@checkpointer.c does\nnot check against WAL segments written. This makes checkpointer\nalways run at the speed accordin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I found a duplicate words in the comment of\nStartupXLOG@xlog.c and the attached patch fixes it.\n\n\nEssentially the fix is in one line as follows,\n\n- * We're in recovery, so unlogged relations relations may be trashed\n+ * We're in recovery, so unlogged relations may be trashed\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Both $SUBJECT functions pass to hash_create() an expected hash table size of\n10000 * attstattarget. Based on header comments, this represents a near-worst\ncase. These typanalyze functions scan the hash tables sequentially, thereby\nvisiting the entire allocation. Per the recommendation i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've noticed that when using synchronous replication (on 9.2devel at\nleast), temporary tables become really slow:\n\nthom@test=# create temporary table temp_test (a text, b text);\nCREATE TABLE\nTime: 16.812 ms\nthom@test=# SET synchronous_commit = 'local';\nSET\nTime: 2.739 ms\nthom@...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nWhen I committed Alex Shulgin's patch to add URI support to libpq, I\nincluded the test harness as well. However, due to it being in a\nseparate subdirectory that did not previously had tests, it's not being\nrun by buildfarm. \n\nIt's not considered in \"make installcheck-world\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following patch truncates trailing null attributes from heap rows to reduce the size of the row bitmap. \n\n\nApplications often have wide rows in which many of the trailing column values are null. On an insert/update, all of the trailing null columns are tracked in the row bitmap. This c...
[ { "msg_contents": "What is the best way for an extension to allocate shared memory and to\naccess it from every backend? Or, if there is no support existing for\nthat, what advice do people have if I want to make that happen? I don't\nneed a lot (probably 1KB would do).\n \nIf this just \"can't be done\" I gu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.\n\nA number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters\nthat can be set via both an option argument and a positional\nargument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal\nOf Least Astonishment. Thes...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHackers,\n\nPer bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an\nextension. This would be trivial to fix if extensions had support code\nfor ALTER EXTENSION / OWNER, but they don't. So the only back-patchable\nfix right now seems to be to throw an error on REASSIGN OWNED wh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nTo satisfy my own curiosity, I was trying to find where 8.4 kicks into a backwards scan of the data file during (auto-)vacuuming.\n\nThis appears to be repair_frag() in backend/commands/vacuum.c, but only appears to be called by a FULL vacuum. Autovacuum, however, appears to expli...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nWindows environment, has a problem in installing postgres in the Program\nFiles folder? I have this doubt because Windows works with locking system to\nthis folder.\n\nHello,Windows environment, has a problem in installing postgres in the Program Files folder? I have this doubt becaus...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI'm one of the nightly sources of 9.2devel. I was trying some simple\nqueries and I realized something:\n\nstuff=# explain (analyze true, costs true, buffers true, timing true,\nverbose true) select count(i) from lot_of_values;\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nWe have 2 fairly promising projects for FDW work for this Google Summer\nof code. One is for a Firebird FDW, and the more promising one is for a\n\"document collection\" FDW from a previous successful GSOC student.\n\nThe problem is, we don't have potential mentors for these. If you...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi team,\n\ni am nagaraj, i am newbi in this database world. i required your help.\n2 dyas back i formatted one of my client system. which is having postgresql\n8.2 database & that was having data. but i am not taken backup of the data.\n1) how to take the data from the formatted harddisk. ?\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n04/18/2012\n\nPostgreSQL Conference Next 2012, in Denver from Jun 26th - 29th is \ncancelled. If you are looking for another conference in this time frame \nwe suggest:\n\nhttp://www.pgcon.org/\n\nThere are also other conferences coming up in the next 6 months:\n\nhttp://www.postgresopen.or...
[ { "msg_contents": "I discovered when researching the issue of index-only scans and Hot\nStandby that there's a bug (for which I'm responsible) in\nlazy_scan_heap[1]. Actually, the code has been like this for a long\ntime, but I needed to change it when I did the crash-safe visibility\nmap work, and I didn't. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 17 April 2012 13:19, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:\n> All in all I think it's handier to have a stable ORDER BY sort than an\n> unstable one though. So I'm not necessarily opposed to it even if it\n> means we're stuck using a stable sort indefinitely.\n\nI think it might be useful to d...
[ { "msg_contents": "In function generate_join_implied_equalities_normal(), in which kind of\nquery it can have all three outer_members, inner_members, new_members set?\n\nThere is handling related to that in the same function down which I wanted\nto understand.\n\n\nIn function generate_join_implied_equalities_n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I admit to not having followed the discussion around the new mode for\nsynchronous_commit very closely, so my apologies if this has been\ndiscussed and dismiseed - I blame failing to find it int he archives\n;)\n\nMy understanding from looking at the docs is that\nsynchronous_commit=remote_wr...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:17:25 -0700, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:\n\n> 1. We probably don't want the SQL syntax to be added to the\n> grammar. This should be written as an extension, using custom\n> functions as the API, instead of extra SQL syntax.\n\nI can't find the discussion about this...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ncurrently an EXTENSION can mark some of its tables as \"configuration\ntables\" using pg_catalog.pg_extension_config_dump(), so that pg_dump\n\"does the right thing\".\n\nI think it would be useful to mark sequences too, but unfortunately it\nis not possible; hence, each time a dump is...
[ { "msg_contents": "So after committing the latest round of parameterized-plan hacking,\nI was dismayed to see the buildfarm breaking out in pink, thanks to\nsome of the members producing a different plan than expected for one\ntest query. I eventually managed to reproduce that (on the fourth\nmachine I tried l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm working on adding support of range types in pgAdmin and I have a\nreally hard time understanding the subtype parameter of a range type.\nHow can I find all the types associated with a specific operator class?\nI'm pretty sure it's a really dumb question, but I'm completely lost\nhe...
[ { "msg_contents": "While playing around with ANALYZE on foreign tables, I noticed\nthat the row count estimate for foreign scans is still\ninitialized to 1000 even if there are statistics for the\nforeign table. I think that this should be improved.\n\nThe attached patch illustrates my suggestion.\n\nBTW, ist ...
[ { "msg_contents": "For the sake of concurrency, our B-tree implementation has a phased process\nfor reusing empty pages. Excerpting from nbtree/README:\n\n\tA deleted page cannot be reclaimed immediately, since there may be other\n\tprocesses waiting to reference it (ie, search processes that just left the\n\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "A lot of discussion took place regarding corruption detection, and I am\nattempting to summarize it in a useful way. Please excuse the lack of\nreferences; I'm hoping to agree on the basic problem space and the\nnature of the solutions offered, and then turn it into a wiki where we\ncan get i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nattached patch adds conversion from pg_wchar string to multibyte string.\nThis functionality is needed for my patch on index support for regular\nexpression search\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-11/msg01297.php .\nAnalyzing conversion from multibyte to pg_wchar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nSorry for re-posting - I initially posted this in pgsql.sql - probably\nthis group is more appropriate.\n\nI have a bizzare problem that started to manifest itself after\naddition of field being the array of compound UDTs to the table\ndeclared in multiple schemas.\nIt is clearly rela...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been enjoying \"\\x auto\" in .psqlrc, but I noticed the row count footer\nmissing when it chooses ordinary output:\n\n[local] test=# \\x off\nExpanded display is off.\n[local] test=# select 1;\n ?column?\n----------\n 1\n(1 row)\n\n[local] test=# \\x auto\nExpanded display is use...
[ { "msg_contents": "PlannerInfo->planner_ctx is assigned with either MessageContext or\nPortalHeapMemory depending on the flow from which planner is invoked.\n\nMy doubt is that during whole planning process till the Plan is stored in\nPlannedStmt, all the memory is from CurrentMemoryContext which is same as\nPl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe have found a way to make pl/pgsql throw an error for\na legitimate use case that works in plain SQL.\n\nMinimal test case:\n\ncreate table x1 (id serial primary key, d timestamptz);\ncreate table x2 (id serial primary key, d timestamptz);\ninsert into x2 (d) values ('now');\ncreate ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWe've chosen the 5 GSOC projects for this year:\n\n* JDBC Foreign Data Wrapper, by Atri, mentored by Merlin Moncure\n* Document Collection Foreign Data Wrapper, by Zheng Yang (a returning\nstudent), mentored by Satoshi Nagayasu\n* Implementing TABLESAMPLE, by Qi, mentored by Steph...
[ { "msg_contents": "I propose that we remove support for the following OS ports from our\nsource tree. They are totally dead, definitely don't work, and/or\nprobably no one remembers what they even were. The code just bit rots\nand is in the way of future improvements.\n\n* Dead/remove:\n\ndgux\nnextstep\nsuno...
[ { "msg_contents": "A key barrier to migrations from trigger-based replication to WAL-based\nreplication is the lack of temporary tables under hot standby. I'd like to\nclose that gap; the changes needed will also reduce the master-side cost of\ntemporary table usage. Here is a high-level design for your advic...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks for the hackers' support. The discussion on the mailing is quite encouraging. Expecting to enjoy the 3 months' fun with Postgres. I'm still under the final period of my university, will participate more after the exams finish.\nThanks!\n\nSent from my Windows Phone\n___________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "2012/3/10 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>:\n> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:\n>>\n>>\n>> On 03/09/2012 01:40 PM, Robert Haas wrote:\n>>>\n>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David E. Wheeler<david@justatheory.com>\n>>>  wrote:\n>>>>\n>>>> On M...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nwhat do you think about enhancing encode, decode functions for support\nof mentioned code?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:54:20 +0200", "msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "propos...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am again requesting the addition of options to tools/git_changelog so\nI can more easily produce the release notes. I asked for this during\n9.1 development and it was rejected. I am currently using my own\ncustom version of the tool, but have to merge community improvements\ninto the too...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote a little extension to store a few small strings in shared\nmemory. It seems to be working fine, and now I would like to write\nsome regression tests; but it's not immediately obvious to me how I\ncan do that. The approach used by, for example, citext doesn't\nwork, because I don't s...