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[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, psql --version prints something like\n\npsql (PostgreSQL) 9.2beta1\ncontains support for command-line editing\n\nI think the notice about readline is a leftover from the old days when\npsql was often built without any readline support. Nowadays, this looks\nlike an anomaly, and it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just read a very interesting post about \"schema version management\".\n\nQuote: \"You could set it up so that every developer gets their own\ntest database, sets up the schema there, takes a dump, and checks that\nin. There are going to be problems with that, including that dumps\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRegarding the item:\n\n * Properly handle empty arrays returned by PL/Perl functions (Andrew\n Dunstan) DETAILS?\n\n\nThis was a bug fix, not a feature, and in any case is due to Alex \nHunsaker, not me.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 21 May 2012 11:47:14 -0400", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "At dinner on Friday night at PGCon, the end of the table that included\nTom Lane, Stephen Frost, and myself got to talking about the idea of\nincluding some kind of metapage in every relation, including heap\nrelations. At least some index relations already have something like\nthis (cf _bt_...
[ { "msg_contents": "A while ago I created this table to easily understand which kind of trigger\ngets executed under what setting of session_replication_role. There's\nalready a description in the docs which describes it:\n\n<quote>\nSimply enabled triggers will fire when the replication role is\n\"origin\"(the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nThere's a lot of great information in the postgres logs. While we\neventually want to get more sophisticated about providing users with\nstatus and history information, for 9.3 it would be really nice to just\noffer the current logs in system view format.\n\nCertainly this can be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, hackers (I'm doing another project related to Postgres besides the gSOC, so this one is not for TABLESAMPLE) I have a query as follows :select *from affiliation a, author_aff_history his, author auwhere a.aff_name = his.aff_nameand his.person_id = au.person_id;\nI trace the RelOptInf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, the planner keeps paths that appear to win on the grounds of\neither cheapest startup cost or cheapest total cost. It suddenly struck\nme that in many simple cases (viz, those with no LIMIT, EXISTS, cursor\nfast-start preference, etc) we could know a-priori that cheapest startup\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 21 May 2012 20:40, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:\n\n>> This is important. I like the idea of breaking down the barriers\n>> between databases to allow it to be an option for one backend to\n>> access tables in multiple databases. The current mechanism doesn't\n>> actually preve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nErrorResponse message from backend has some field type codes include:\n\nS\n Severity: the field contents are ERROR, FATAL, or PANIC (in an\n error message), or WARNING, NOTICE, DEBUG, INFO, or LOG (in a\n notice message), or a localized translation of one of\n these. Alway...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that there are index only scans, there is a use case for having a\ncomposite index which has the primary key or a unique key as the\nprefix column(s) but with extra columns after that. Currently you\nwould also need another index with exactly the primary/unique key,\nwhich seems like a w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I described the problem with possibly localized \"S\" filed of\nErrorResponse(and NoticeResponse) in Frontend/Backend protocol.\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-05/msg00912.php\n\nSo I would like to propose a solution for this (for 9.3): add new\nfield to ErrorResponse and N...
[ { "msg_contents": "Let me have a discussion to get preferable interface for row-level security.\n\nMy planned feature will perform to append additional conditions to WHERE\nclause implicitly, to restrict tuples being visible for the current user.\nFor example, when row-level policy \"uname = getpgusername()\" i...
[ { "msg_contents": "A quick survey of our various index AMs reveals that:\n\n1. btree and hash indexes have a metapage that begins with a 32-bit\nmagic number, followed by a 32-bit version number.\n2. spgist has a metapage with a version number, but no magic number.\n3. gin has a metapage with a version number t...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> In any case, I would've expected we'd end up changing all these page\n> formats if we go over to your concept of a metapage for everything.\n> Fixing indexes that already have some kind of metapage will surely be\n> trivi...
[ { "msg_contents": "The postgres -C option was added in 9.2.\n\n$ postgres -D ... -C shared_buffers\n4096\n\nShouldn't that use units? We use them everywhere else in user\ninterfaces.\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 23 May 2012 22:36:19 +0300", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>", "msg_from_op"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe have a production database (postgresql 9.0) with more than 20,000 schemas\nand 40Gb size. In the past we had all that information in just one schema\nand pg_dump used to work just fine (2-3 hours to dump everything). Then we\ndecided to split the database into schemas, whic...
[ { "msg_contents": "If pg_stat_statements is set to store it's data across restarts, it\nstores it in global/pg_stat_statements.stat. This causes some\ninteresting things to happen in combination with a base backup -\nnamely, if you take a base backup *after* you have restarted th\nemaster, the slave will get a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Was there any actual reason why we didn't end up exposing queryid in\nthe pg_stat_statements view?\n\nIt would be highly useful when tracking changes over time. Right now I\nsee people doing md5(query) to do that, which is a lot more ugly (and\nobviously uses more space and is slow, too).\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was going though the minutes of PGCon 2012 DEveloper Meeting [1] and came\nacross this:\n Bruce points out the even simpler case is to build several indexes in\nparallel over the same scan.\n\nI thought I had posted a patch to that effect long back, but upon searching\nmy emails apparent...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would i make sense to have a postgresql.conf parameter that would add\nto LD_LIBRARY_PATH when loading libraries from\nshared_preload_libraries (and other library loads). To make it\npossible to configure it without having to mess around with the\noperating system configuration? Or is that t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been running some tests on pg 9.2beta1 and in particular a set\nof queries like\n\ncreate table _tmp0 as select * from (\n \tselect *, (select healpixid from idt_match as m where\n \t\t\t\t\tm.transitid=o.transitid)\n as x from idt_photoobservation as o offset 0\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following query crashes backend on 9.2:\n\n select substring('asd TO foo' from ' TO (([a-z0-9._]+|\"([^\"]+|\"\")+\")+)');\n\nIt is supposed to load potentially quoted table name from\nCREATE RULE definition. Works fine on 8.3 .. 9.1\n\nBacktrace:\nProgram terminated with signal 11, Segment...
[ { "msg_contents": "clang warns about that newish SvREFCNT_inc(sv) call in plperl_helpers.h\nabout an unused return value, because the macro expansion of\nSvREFCNT_inc(sv) returns sv. The merit of that warning might be\ndebatable, but it seems easy to fix by using SvREFCNT_inc_void(sv)\ninstead.\n\nAnd we could...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yesterday I had a client that experienced a sudden high load on \none of their servers (8.3.5 - yes, I know. Those of you with \nclients will understand). When I checked, almost all connections \nwere in a \"startup\" state, very similar to this thread:\n\nhttp://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm writing a set-returning function which places a file handle into\nPG's FuncCallContext's user_fctx space. My problem is that when the\nfunction is ran with a limit clause (SELECT * FROM foo() LIMIT 10) the\nserver will stop calling the function automatically, not giving me a\nchanc...
[ { "msg_contents": "The text_name function was truncating its input string to the first\nNAMEDATALEN-1 bytes, which is wrong if the string has multi-byte\ncharacters. This patch changes it to use pg_mbcliplen, following\nthe namein function.", "msg_date": "Thu, 24 May 2012 23:56:01 -0700", "msg_from": "K...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nwe don't have a macro language in psql. I did some work few years ago\n- see enhanced psql - http://postgres.cz/wiki/Enhanced-psql but\nimportant part of this experimental patch was not accepted\n(implementation was not in production quality code and was not\nfinalized).\n\nImplemen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are encoutering the following error during normal operation of postgres.\n postgres[10982]: [2-1] PANIC: proclock table corrupted\n\nVersion of Postgres : 9.0.3\nArchitecture : mips\nOS: RedHat Linux\n\nCan you please let me know if 'fix-strong-lock-cleanup.patch' and this\nerror a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is just a small clarity improvement. tuplesort_performsort()\nskips sorting entirely when the result set has 0 or 1 tuples, but\nEXPLAIN still says it's using \"quicksort\". The patch changes that to\n\"skipped\"\n\nFor example:\n\ndb=# explain analyze select * from now() order by...
[ { "msg_contents": "pg_upgrade is a little over-keen about checking for shared libraries \nthat back functions. In particular, it checks for libraries that support \nfunctions created in pg_catalog, even if pg_dump doesn't export the \nfunction.\n\nThe attached patch mimics the filter that pg_dump uses for funct...
[ { "msg_contents": "If I invoke vacuum manually and do so with VacuumCostDelay == 0, I\nhave basically declared my intentions to get this pain over with as\nfast as possible even if it might interfere with other processes.\n\nUnder that condition, shouldn't it use BAS_BULKWRITE rather than\nBAS_VACUUM? The smal...
[ { "msg_contents": "In 9.1:\n\nregression=# select pg_size_pretty(8*1024*1024);\n pg_size_pretty \n----------------\n 8192 kB\n(1 row)\n\nIn HEAD:\n\nregression=# select pg_size_pretty(8*1024*1024);\nERROR: function pg_size_pretty(integer) is not unique\nLINE 1: select pg_size_pretty(8*1024*1024);\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "pg 9.2 git master\nAMD 8120 (8-core) / 6 GB memory / Centos 6.2\n\n\nI have experimented a bit with dropping a table from master, then querying that table from a\nsync-rep slave. It is a little worrying that this, the first test I tried, crashes the slave.\n\nThere are two instance on one ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI proposed new psql's format \"shell\". This format is optimized for\nprocessing returned result in shell:\n\n\npostgres=# select * from foo;\n a | b | c\n--------------+----+------------\n Hello, World | 10 | 2012-05-26\n Ahoj, Svete | 20 | 2012-06-15\n(2 rows)\n\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been poking at Jeff Frost's and Greg Mullane's recent reports of\nhigh load due to many processes getting \"stuck\" in relcache init file\nrebuild operations. I can reproduce a similar behavior here by creating\na database containing a whole lot of many-column views, thereby bloating\np...
[ { "msg_contents": "A gripe today in pgsql-novice made me realize that configure's\n--disable-shared option has been useless since 9.0, because it prevents\nplpgsql.so from being built, which causes initdb to fail now that\nplpgsql is installed \"by default\" --- which actually seems to mean\n\"you don't have an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's what I'm trying to do in testing 9.2Beta1.\n\nThe current configuration is a master and a hot standby at a diverse\nlocation for both hot swap and \"online\" backup. Both are archived\nregularly so if something goes south I can recover (to either as a master.)\n\nI am attempting to va...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nThis bug isn't causing me any immediate problems -- the plan works out\nwell regardless -- but PostgreSQL 8.4.7 is somehow overestimating the\nnumber of rows coming from a nestloop join, when joining 2 large\npartitioned tables. Maybe it's been fixed in more recent versions,\nsadl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good morning, I am doing a study about buffer management to improve the performance of one program that does heavy I/O operations. After looking and reading from different softwares' source codes/texts one friend suggested me to take a look at the PostgreSQL code. I already took a look at the...
[ { "msg_contents": "A minor security issue (CVE-2012-2143) has been found in code that\nPostgres shares with several other projects. After some discussion it\nwas decided that the issue is not of enough severity to justify exactly\ncoordinated security releases, which would be quite difficult anyway\ngiven the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nattached patch implements another approach to indexing of ranges: mapping\nlower and upper bounds as 2d-coordinates and using same indexing approaches\nas for 2d points. Patch provides range_ops2 operator class which implements\nthis approach.\n\nI did some tests on real-life data...
[ { "msg_contents": "In 9.1, the pg_basebackup option --xlog takes no argument. In 9.2, it\ntakes a required argument. I think such compatibility breaks should be\navoided, especially in client-side programs. Now you can't write a\nscript running pg_basebackup that works with 9.1 and 9.2, if you need to\ninclu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm writing my first FDW, and I need to get the list of columns I\nactually need to fetch when planning the query. I do want to fetch only\nthe columns that are actually needed, not all of them.\n\nInitially I've used RelOptInfo->reltargetlist but it seems it does not\ncover cases like...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached very simple patch moves the commit_delay +\ncommit_siblings sleep into XLogFlush, where the leader alone sleeps.\nThis appears to be a much more effective site for a delay.\n\nBenchmark results, with and without a delay of 3000ms (commit_siblings\nis 0 in both cases) are availabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "While poking at the slow-relcache-rebuild issue recently reported by\nJeff Frost and Greg Mullane, I had set up a test case that used a\nsmall function to create and drop enough temp tables to provoke an\nsinval reset. I had also modified sinval.c so that it reported sinval\nreset processing...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am using MingW W64 from SVN, version 3.0 beta-ish.\n\nThere are few issues when compiling Postgres with MingW W64. There was\na patch submitted to this list in July 2011 but it does not address\nthese issues (that I can tell). The following applies to both 32 and 64\nbit builds...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed a little bug in the way the levelStep parameter is \ncalculated when we switch to buffering build:\n\nset client_min_messages='debug2';\n\nThis works:\n\npostgres=# set maintenance_work_mem='1GB';\nSET\npostgres=# create index i_gisttest on gisttest using gist (t collate \n\"C\...
[ { "msg_contents": "How easy would it be to implement a fake async rep target?\n\nPerhaps even as something that a server could allow a connection to \nrequest? (ie a suitably permissioned connection could convert itself to \nreceive n async replication stream, rather than being statically \nconfigured?)\n\nI k...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a patch against src/backend/storage/file/fd.c\ntaken from 9.2beta1.\n\nThis patch is submitted for review and comments, not\nfor application to the code base.  *WIP*\n\n\nThis patch addresses a performance problem stemming\nfrom the use of FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() to\niterat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ran a SELECT-only pgbench test today on the IBM POWER7 box with 64\nconcurrent clients and got roughly 305,000 tps. Then, I created a\nhash index on pgbench_accounts (aid), dropped the primary key, and\nreran the test. I got roughly 104,000 tps. 'perf -g -e cs' suggested\nlock contention ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was running some tests on PG9.2beta where I'm creating and dropping \nlarge number of tables (~ 20000).\n\nAnd I noticed that table dropping was extremely slow -- e.g. like half a \nsecond per table.\n\nI tried to move the table dropping into bigger transactions (100 per one \ntra...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have seen this with git master head:\n\n$ pg_dump test\n:\n:\n:\nCOPY insert_lock (reloid) FROM stdin;\npg_dump: [archiver] internal error -- WriteData cannot be called outside the context of a DataDumper routine\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nSRA OSS, Inc. Japan\nEnglish: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index...
[ { "msg_contents": "SELECT * FROM table1;\n\nIf,for above command,fdw1 is invoked,how do I get the name/Oid of the\ntable(i.e. table1) in fdw1?\n\nAtri\n\n-- \nRegards,\n\nAtri\nl'apprenant\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 30 May 2012 16:19:53 +0530", "msg_from": "Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@gmail.com>", "msg_from_o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nCurrently the walreceiver wakeups NAPTIME_PER_CYCLE=100 miliseconds in idle \nstate. This is rather frequent. I don't really see any reason to do so.\nA nice fix would be to latchify that with WaitLatchOrSocket + a SetLatch in \nthe signal handler for shutdown but that seems to be too ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently the resource owner does not remember what locks it holds.\nWhen a resource owner wants to release its locks or reassign them to\nits parent, it just digs through the backends entire\nLockMethodLocalHash table. When that table is very large, but the\ncurrent owner owns only a small ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We allow non-superuser database owners to execute CREATE LANGUAGE for a\ntrusted language (one marked as tmpldbacreate in pg_pltemplate).\nCurrently, the C-language support functions for the language end up owned\nby that non-superuser. This is on the hairy edge of being a security\nhole, si...
[ { "msg_contents": "As part of a blog, I started looking at how a user could measure the\npressure on shared buffers, e.g. how much are they being used, recycled,\netc.\n\nThey way you normally do it on older operating systems is to see how\nmany buffers on the free list (about to be reused) are reclaimed as\nne...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nBosco Rama recently complained[1] about not seeing a message printed\nby pg_restore for each LO to be restored. The culprit seems to be the\ndifferent level passed to ahlog() for this status message:\n\npg_backup_archiver.c:\tahlog(AH, 2, \"restoring large object with OID %u\\n\", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEsn3ybKcnFno_tGQDJ=AfHiR2xd9KA1FQt5CQxxYu3Wz_hAHQ@mail.gmail.com\t\n\nI was trying to answer that question on -general, and I found it a\nlittle more challenging than I expected.\n\nThere was a previous discussion here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was thinking about what is the earliest time where we could set hint\nbits. This would be just after the commit has been made visible. When\nthe transaction completes and commit confirmation is sent to the\nclient the backend will usually go to sleep waiting on the network\nsocket waiting f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, our datetime input code thinks that any UTC offset of more\nthan 14:59:59 either way from Greenwich must be a mistake. However,\nafter seeing Patric Bechtel's recent bug report, I went trolling in the\nOlson timezone files to see what are the largest offsets used there.\nI found t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I developed the attached patch to avoid taking a heavyweight lock on\nthe metapage of a hash index. Instead, an exclusive buffer content\nlock is viewed as sufficient permission to modify the metapage, and a\nshared buffer content lock is used when such modifications need to be\nprevented. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am trying to call heap_form_tuple to create a tuple from a datum.\n\nMy call to heap_form_tuple looks like:\n\n\nval1=0;\ntupledesc1=BlessTupleDesc(node->ss.ss_currentRelation->rd_att);\ntuple=heap_form_tuple(tupledesc1,p1,&val1);\n\n\np1 is a pointer to a Datum instance which is...
[ { "msg_contents": "chinnaobi wrote:\n \n> You mean when the primary which is going to switch its role to\n> standby might not have sent all the WAL records to the standby and\n> If it is switched to standby it has more WAL records than the\n> standby which is now serves as primary. Is it ??\n \nWhat happens wh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Strangeness:\n\ntemplate1=# create collation \"nb_NO.utf8\" (locale=nb_NO.utf8);\nERROR: could not create locale \"nb_no.utf8\": Success\n\nClearly it's not successful...\n\nOn some runs, I get:\n\ntemplate1=# create collation \"nb_NO.utf8\" (locale=nb_NO.utf8);\nERROR: could not create loc...
[ { "msg_contents": "On startup, psql shows the SSL information:\n\n\t$ psql 'sslmode=require host=localhost'\n\tpsql (9.2beta1)\n\tSSL connection (cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits: 256)\n\nHowever, \\conninfo does not mention SSL:\n\n\tpostgres=> \\conninfo\n\tYou are connected to database \"postgres\" as user \...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having a problem upgrading a cluster from 9.0.7 to 9.1.3. Here's the\nerror:\n\npsql:/srv/pg_upgrade_dump_globals.sql:54: ERROR: duplicate key value\nviolates unique constraint \"pg_authid_oid_index\"\nDETAIL: Key (oid)=(10) already exists.\n\nAny ideas what I'm doing wrong?\n\nHere's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Checkpointer starts before bgwriter to avoid missing fsync requests.\nNoted while testing Hot Standby startup.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a297d64d9223f6bd9c495ff5726a3c99080c2a4a\n\nModified Files\n--------------\nsrc/backend/postmas...
[ { "msg_contents": "Joel Jacobson wrote:\n \n> hm, is it even possible to have function names with slashes?\n \ntest=# create function \"is/\"\"it\"\"\\even\npossible?\"() returns void language plpgsql as $$begin end;$$;\nCREATE FUNCTION\ntest=# select \"is/\"\"it\"\"\\even\npossible?\"();\n is/\"it\"\\even+\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI knew that we create an entry in pg_type for every table we create,\nwhat i didn't know is that we actually create 2 entries.\n\nfor example CREATE TABLE foo (i int); will create types foo and _foo.\nso, any reason to create 2 entries?\nanyway, what really kept my attention is that CR...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Euler Taveira wrote:\n> On 27-05-2012 10:45, Fujii Masao wrote:\n>> OK, let me propose another approach: add pg_size_pretty(int).\n>> If we do this, all usability and performance problems will be\n>> solved.\n>\n> I wouldn't like to add another function but if it solves both\n> problems......
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> Simon Riggs writes:\n>> On 31 May 2012 15:00, Tom Lane wrote:\n>>> If we want to finish the beta cycle in a reasonable time period\n>>> and get back to actual development, we have to refrain from\n>>> adding more possibly-destabilizing development work to 9.2. And\n>>> t...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch makes postgres build with Visual Studio 2012 RC.\n\nAs MS finally decided on the name I don't expect any need for changes \nfor the final RTM.\n\nI didn't bother to update the docs for now as I still have some hope \nthat the developer community succeds in pushig M$ to reve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nRecently I was writing an application to implement automated failover with\nenv: Two 2008 R2 servers, Network area storage, asynchronous replication,\nWAL archive on primary enabled.\n\nIs there any way to avoid starting standby server always from base backup in\nautomated failover...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have a 8.3.18 system (yes, the same one from the previous \nthread, finally upgraded!) that gave us this error yesterday:\n\nERROR: index \"pg_class_oid_index\" is not a btree\n\nIt seems like this happened from just a normal SELECT query, and did \nnot occur again (and this is a very bus...
[ { "msg_contents": "Introduction:\n=================================\nA lot of progress has been made on the checksums issue, with Simon's\nexcellent work beginning to gain consensus:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/CA\n+U5nMKw_GBs6qQ_Y8-RjGL1V7MVW2HWBHartB8LoJhnPfxL8g@mail.gmail.com\n\nFor the purp...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now, pg_receivexlog sets:\n\t\t\treplymsg->write = InvalidXLogRecPtr;\n\t\t\treplymsg->flush = InvalidXLogRecPtr;\n\t\t\treplymsg->apply = InvalidXLogRecPtr;\n\nwhen it sends it's status updates.\n\nI'm thinking it sohuld set replymsg->write = blockpos instad.\n\nWhy? That way you can s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got this last night in a perfectly standard build of HEAD:\n\n*** /home/tgl/pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/sanity_check.out\tThu Jan 12 14:06:14 2012\n--- /home/tgl/pgsql/src/test/regress/results/sanity_check.out\tMon Jun 4 20:28:39 2012\n***************\n*** 1,4 ****\n--- 1,5 ----\n VAC...
[ { "msg_contents": "In reference to:\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html\n\nI would like to see that page changed to list pg_basebackup as the\n\"default\" way of doing base backups, and then list the \"manual way\" as\nan option if you need more flexibility.\n\nThe reason bein...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is everyone ready for me to run pgindent? We are nearing the first\ncommit-fest (June 15) and will have to branch the git tree soon.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com\n\n + It's impossible...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nI have been playing with the URI connection strings in the bleeding\nedge 9.2 and noticed an inconsistency with the old connection string\nbehavior:\n\n$ psql 'host=/var/run/postgresql dbname=postgres arbitrary=property'\npsql: invalid connection option \"arbitrary\"\n\n(psql e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI am playing around with 9.2Beta1 and the smlar extension that was presented\nat pgcon. Looks like a lot of great work has gone into both - so thanks to\neveryone for all the great work. \n\n\nI did run into an issue while creating a GIST index using the _text_sml_ops.\n\nI am gett...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am trying to build and store multiple tuples.The code is:\n\nExecClearTuple(slot);\n\n/The code for fetching the data from which tuple will be formed../\nfor(;x<y;x++){\ntuple = BuildTupleFromCStrings(TupleDescGetAttInMetadata(node->ss.ss_currentRelation->rd_att),\nvalues);\nExec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nbefore I ask the main question, just a little background for one issue \nwe're currently having in Fedora 17:\n\nPrivateTmp is a systemd's feature, which allows to have private /tmp \ndirectory for services, which in turn means that such services aren't \nable to access systems's /tmp ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now, you can't directly create a relation (table, index,\ncomposite type) in the pg_catalog schema, but you can create a\nnon-relation (function, domain, etc.) in the pg_catalog schema.\nFurthermore, you can create a table in some other schema and then move\nit into the pg_catalog schem...
[ { "msg_contents": "In commit 18fb9d8d21a28caddb72c7ffbdd7b96d52ff9724, Simon modified the\nrule for when to skip checkpoints on the grounds that not enough\nactivity has happened since the last one. However, that commit left the\ncomment block about it in a nonsensical state:\n\n * If this isn't a shutdown ...
[ { "msg_contents": "There has been regular griping in this list about our dependence on SysV\nshared memory, but not so much about SysV semaphores, even though the\nlatter cause their fair share of issues; as seen for example in\nbuildfarm member spoonbill's recent string of failures:\n\ncreating template1 datab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know Oleg has been discussing quad trees for years now, so SP-GIST\nsounds like a great feature.\n\nThe docs on SP-GIST simply suggest people read the code, which is way\nbelow our normal standard of documentation.\n\nCREATE INDEX contains no examples involving SP-GIST indexes.\n\nIt seems ...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I worked on the XLogInsert scaling patch, it became apparent that \nsome changes to the WAL format would make it a lot easier. So for 9.3, \nI'd like to do some refactoring:\n\n1. Use a 64-bit integer instead of the two-variable log/seg \nrepresentation, for identifying a WAL segment. Th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\nI have a 4 server postgresql-9.1.3 cluster (one master doing streaming\nreplication to 3 hot standby servers).  All of them are running\nFedora-16-x86_64.\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring\n\nI'm finding that I cannot runpg_basebackup at all, or it slows down all\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am pleased to announce that Kevin Grittner has accepted the core\ncommittee's invitation to become our newest committer. As you all\nknow, Kevin's done a good deal of work on the project over the past\ncouple of years. We judged that he has the requisite skills,\ndedication to the project...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems that in implementing ginbuildempty(), I falsified the first\n\"note\" in the header comment for log_newpage():\n\n * Note: all current callers build pages in private memory and write them\n * directly to smgr, rather than using bufmgr. Therefore there is no need\n * to pass a buffer...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have a problem with promoting from hot-standby that exclusive\ncheckpointing retards completion of promotion.\n\nThis checkpoint is \"shutdown checkpoint\" as a convention in\nrealtion to TLI increment according to the comment shown below. I\nsuppose \"shutdown checkpoint\" means ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch is to provide support for fallback application name for contrib/pgbench, oid2name, and dblink.\nCurrently I have done the implementation for pgbench. The implementation is same as in psql.\nBefore creating a final patch, I wanted to check whether my direction for creating a patch i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed this while testing 9.2, but it seems to go back to at least\n8.3. Tab completion of function arguments doesn't work if the function\nis schema-qualified or double-quoted. So for example,\n\n DROP FUNCTION my_function ( <TAB>\n\ncompletes the functions arguments, but\n\n DRO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Add ERROR msg for GLOBAL/LOCAL TEMP is not yet implemented\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/72335a20156b19be3a53ef686e0b31140c6f38e5\n\nModified Files\n--------------\nsrc/backend/parser/gram.y | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAttached is a small patch to improve the HINT message produced by\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION when the new function definition conflicts\nwith the old definition. With this patch the hint now includes the\nfunction's name and signature as a directly pasteable SQL command. So,\nfor exam...
[ { "msg_contents": "Simon Riggs wrote:\n> On 9 June 2012 16:46, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> Simon Riggs writes:\n>>> Add ERROR msg for GLOBAL/LOCAL TEMP is not yet implemented\n>>\n>> I don't believe there was actual consensus for this change,\n> \n> It was hardly a subject of marked disagreement.\n \nRegarding GLOBA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Searching for Boyer-Moore in the manual, one only finds the following line (in the 8.4 release\nnotes):\n\n\"Improve the performance of text_position() and related functions by using Boyer-Moore-\nHorspool searching (David Rowley)\"\n\nI have two questions:\n\n1. Where in postgres is the Boy...