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[ { "msg_contents": "Interactively dropping primary key constraints has been annoying me.\n\nI believe this patch fixes that, hopefully for other kinds of\ncataloged constraints as well.\n\nI believe this finishes, at least for a while, my tab-completion related gripes.\n\nCheers,\n\nJeff", "msg_date": "Sun, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nALTER TABLE ADD Constraints PRIMARY KEY on inheritance table not getting\nroute to child table.\n\nBut when we do ALTER TABLE DROP Constraint on the same, it complains about\nconstraint does not\nexists on child table.\n\nConsider the following example\n\npsql=# CREATE TABLE measuremen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch for this feature, which should alleviate some of the \nwoes caused by adding labels not being transactional (and thus not \nallowing for the catching of errors).\n\n(Also available on the add_enum_ine branch at \n<https://bitbucket.org/adunstan/pgdevel>)\n\n\ncheers\n\nandrew"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found that code of gistchoose doesn't follow it's logic. Idea of\ngistchoose is that first column penalty is more important than penalty of\nsecond column. If we meet same penalty values of first column then we\nchoose minimal penalty value of second column among them.\n\nCurrent code doesn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please let me know if this is not the right place to ask this kind of\nqueston.\n\nPostgreSQL Developers FAQ in Japanese:\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ/ja\n\nlooks pretty outdated. It was last updated on 7 November 2010 (English\nFAQ was last updated on 27 September 2011). ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, hackers\r\n I made the final version tablesample patch. It is implementing SYSTEM and BERNOULLI sample method, which is basically \"feature-complete\". The regression test is also included in this patch.\r\n There is an wiki documentation on https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TABLESA...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found this in https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo :\n\n Improve ability to display optimizer analysis using OPTIMIZER_DEBUG \n\nWhat does this actually mean?\n\nAdd GUC switch to enable optimizer debug on/off?\nMore fancy/useful info should be printed?\nIf so, what kind of information is...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was wondering why it seems that the query planner can't \"see\", based\non the histograms, that two join-columns have a very small\nintersection, and adjust its row estimation accordingly. Clearly the\nbelow query returns 1001 rows. It appears as if much or all of the\nnecessary machinery...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI'm seeing lots of confusion from people about why:\n\n REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE foo FROM someuser;\n\ndoesn't stop them connecting. Users seem to struggle to understand that:\n\n- There's a default GRANT to public; and\n- REVOKE removes existing permissions, it doesn't add de...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am thinking about to implement \"multi-master\" option for pgbench.\nSupose we have multiple PostgreSQL running on host1 and host2.\nSomething like \"pgbench -c 10 -h host1,host2...\" will create 5\nconnections to host1 and host2 and send queries to host1 and host2.\nThe point of thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have written one approach to audit tables, available from \nhttps://github.com/akaariai/pgsql_shadow_tables\n\nThe approach is that every table is backed by a similar audit table + \nsome meta information. The tables and triggers to update the audit \ntables are managed by plpgsql procedure...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nOn my Mac 10.6.8 using ActiveState Python 3.2.2, I am getting a crash when\nI try to execute \"CREATE EXTENSION plpython3u\"\nThis is the backtrace:\n\nProgram received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.\n0x00007fff899a40b6 in __kill ()\n(gdb) bt\n#0 0x00007fff899a40b6 in __kill ()\n#1 0x0...
[ { "msg_contents": "... or at least, that's what the schedule says. I don't think we can\nhonestly produce a \"release candidate\" when there are still open issues\nlisted as blockers at\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.2_Open_Items\nWe need to either get something done about those, conclude that t...
[ { "msg_contents": "From: Heikki Linnakangas [mailto:heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com]\nSent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 1:33 AM\nOn 03.08.2012 14:46, Amit kapila wrote:\n\n>> Currently the change is done only for fixed length columns for simple tables and the tuple should not contain >>NULLS.\n>\n>> This is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nThe latest document (doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml) says\n=======================================\n2974 <itemizedlist>\n2975 <listitem>\n2976 <para>\n2977 Constraint exclusion only works when the query's <literal>WHERE</>\n2978 clause contains constants. A parameterize...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am reviewing this one year old change again before backporting it to 9.1.3 for \nproduction use.\n\nATM, I believe the code is correct, but I don't want to miss the change to spot \npossible errors, so please let me dump my brain on some points:\n\n- IIUC, SIGetDataEntries() can retu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been investigating an issue with our PostgreSQL 9.1.1 (Linux x86-64\nCentOS 5.8) database where restartpoints suddenly stop being generated on\nthe slave after working correctly for a week or two. The symptom of the\nproblem is that the pg_xlog directory on the slave doesn't ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been investigating an issue with our PostgreSQL 9.1.1 (Linux x86-64\nCentOS 5.8) database where restartpoints suddenly stop being generated on\nthe streaming-replication slave after working correctly for a week or two.\n The symptom of the problem is that the pg_xlog directory...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found this in the TODO list:\n\n Add API for 64-bit large object access \n\nIf this is a still valid TODO item and nobody is working on this, I\nwould like to work in this.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nSRA OSS, Inc. Japan\nEnglish: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php\nJapanese: http://www.sr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n \n\nI'm trying to reduce the re-computing of window aggregation. Here the\nAVG function for example.\n\n \n\nThe original window aggregation's transition value(transValue) of AVG is\nan ArrayType, that contains two main values(sum, count). \n\n \n\nNow, I'm using a temporary transitio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\nI need to check type of expressions appearing in a Query tree and I am\nusing exprType() for that. But for certain expressions their type is not\ndefined like List, FromExpr, JoinExpr. Such expressions are acceptable in\nthe code, but expressions which have a type need to obey certai...
[ { "msg_contents": "AFAICT, the remote_write setting for synchronous_commit is named exactly\nbackwards, because the point of the setting is that it *doesn't* wait\nfor the remote to write anything.\n\nAs an alternative I suggest \"remote_receive\". Perhaps somebody else\nhas a better idea?\n\n\t\t\tregards, to...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis problem has been reported by a client.\n\nConsider the following very small table test case:\n\n create table bar as select a,b,c,d,e from generate_series(1,2) a,\n generate_series(3,4) b, generate_series( 5,6) c,\n generate_series(7,8) d, generate_series(9,10) e;\n create ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Make a cut at a major-features list for 9.2.\n\nThis is open to debate of course, but it's past time we had *something*\nhere.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b33f611682d0c587bb1496ff529fab1970f0d44c\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ndoc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found following item in the Developer FAQ.\nI don't see why this is related to developers.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n Why aren't there more compression options when dumping tables?\n\npg_dump's built-in compression method i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am looking at postgresql_fdw.c and I am cleaning up the functions inside\nit.\nPlease find attached a patch that removes is_immutable_func as it does\nexactly the same thing as func_volatile in lsyscache.c.\nThere is still one function remaining in postgresql_fdw.c called\npgxc_i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nThe attached patch is just a proof-of-concept of writable foreign table\nfeature; thus, I don't expect it getting merged at the upcoming commit\nfest. The purpose of this patch is to find out the best way to support\n\"write stuff\" in FDW.\n\nBasic idea of this patch is to utilize ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The script analyze_new_cluster.sh output by pg_upgrade contains several\n\"sleep\" calls (see contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c). What is the point of\nthis? If the purpose of this script is to get the database operational\nagain as soon as possible, waiting a few seconds doing nothing surely\nisn...
[ { "msg_contents": "postgres=# select to_timestamp('2012-08-01', 'yyyy-mm-dd');\n to_timestamp\n------------------------\n 2012-08-01 00:00:00+02\n\npostgres=# select to_timestamp('2012-08-00', 'yyyy-mm-dd');\n to_timestamp\n------------------------\n 2012-08-01 00:00:00+02\n\npostgres=# select to_time...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been bitten twice by exec_prog()s API, so here's a patch to try to\nmake it a bit harder to misuse.\n\nThere are two main changes here; one is to put the logfile option as the\nfirst argument; then comes a bool, then the format string. This means\nyou get a warning if you pass th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI've recently noticed two oversights in the docs that I'd like to fix.\n\n\nFirst, in sql-fetch, there's no hint that the cursor name can be the \nquoted value of a refcursor, eg:\n\n FETCH ALL FROM \"<unnamed portal 1>\";\n\nThis *is* shown in an example in plpgsql-cursors, but...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" writes:\n \n>> I'll run through my tests again tonight, against your patch, not\n>> that I expect any problems with it. Unfortunately I can't test\n>> Windows, as I don't have a build environment for that.\n> \n> FWIW, you can approximate Windows clos...
[ { "msg_contents": "Maybe I should post this in Hackers instead, but I figured I'd start \nhere to avoid cluttering up that list.\n\nSo, we know we have a way of doing a loose index scan with CTEs:\n\nhttp://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan\n\nBut that got me wondering. The planner knows from pg_stats th...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/parser/gram.y;hb=master#l4940\n\nThe \"missing_ok\" property should be true. Just something I noticed\nwhen browsing the code. It appears to be a new language feature, so\nit probably hasn't been noticed by the general ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nattached is a patch that adds support for random sampling in pgbench, when\nit's executed with \"-l\" flag. You can do for example this:\n\n $ pgbench -l -T 120 -R 1 db\n\nand then only 1% of transactions will be written into the log file. If you\nomit the tag, all the transactions ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nthis patch adds support for aggregation of info written into the log.\nInstead of info about each transaction, a summary for time intervals (with\ncustom length) is written into the log. All you need to do is add \"-A\nseconds\", e.g.\n\n $ pgbench -T 3600 -A 10 -l db\n\nwhich will pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nattached is a patch that improves performance when dropping multiple\ntables within a transaction. Instead of scanning the shared buffers for\neach table separately, the patch removes this and evicts all the tables\nin a single pass through shared buffers.\n\nOur system creates a lot o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found following in fe-lobj.c:\n\n/*\n * lo_lseek\n *\t change the current read or write location on a large object\n * currently, only L_SET is a legal value for whence\n *\n */\n\nI don't know where \"L_SET\" comes from. Anyway this should be:\n * whence must be one of SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwe have issues with compound words in tsearch2 using the german (ispell) \ndictionary. This has been discussed before but there is no real solution \nusing the recommended german dictionary at \nhttp://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2 (convert old \nopenoffice dict file ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAfter pg_trgm extracts the trigrams as GIN index keys, generate_trgm()\nremoves duplicate index keys, to avoid generating redundant index entries.\nAlso ginExtractEntries() which is the caller of pg_trgm does the same thing.\nWhy do we need to remove GIN index entries twice? I think th...
[ { "msg_contents": "The sixth edition of the Italian PostgreSQL Day (PGDay.IT 2012) will be \nheld on November 23 in Prato, Tuscany.\n\nThe International Call for Papers is now open. Talks and presentations \nin English are accepted.\n\nInformation in English for papers submission is available at: \nhttp://2012....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis year Ecuador's PGDay will be held at Quito city on November 17th.\n\nWe are currently accepting talks/workshops.\nThese could go from basic to advanced. We do not require academic-like papers.\n\nIf you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please send a\nproposal. It's...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nthe EDB one-click installer has a slightly annoying bug in its \npg_env.bat script:\n\n@SET PATH=\"C:\\Program Files\\PostgreSQL\\9.1\\bin\";%PATH%\n\nPATH entries should not be quoted. As it is, every time a program is \nstarted from this path, I get a message along the lines o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI was recently struggling with getting a large crosstab (\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/tablefunc.html) query to work\nand noticed the error messages were not super helpful: \"return and sql\ntuple descriptions are incompatible\".\n\nI had to manually take the quer...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed a couple comments that look wrong to me. Patch attached.\n\nRegards,\n\tJeff Davis", "msg_date": "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:21:38 -0700", "msg_from": "Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Minor comment fixups" }, { "msg_contents": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did some performance testing of building an SP-GiST index, with the \nnew range type SP-GiST opclass. There's some low-hanging fruit there, I \nwas able to reduce the index build time on a simple test case by about \n20% with a few small changes.\n\nI created a test table with:\n\ncreate ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "$ pg_dump -v postgres -Fc -t t > /dev/null\n...\npg_dump: dumping contents of table t\n...\n\nbut in plaintext:\n$ pg_dump -v postgres -Fp -t t > /dev/null\npg_dump: creating TABLE t\npg_dump: restoring data for table \"t\"\npg_dump: dumping contents of table t\npg_dump: setting owner and pri...
[ { "msg_contents": "I find $SUBJECT fairly scary, because systable_beginscan_ordered() is\ndependent on having a working, non-corrupt index. If you are trying\nto run the backend with ignore_system_indexes so that you can rebuild\ncorrupt indexes, uses of systable_beginscan_ordered() represent places\nwhere you...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThere are situations where a \"default deny\" policy is the best fit.\n\nTo that end, I have a modest proposal:\n\n REVOKE PUBLIC FROM role;\n\nThenceforth, the role in question would only have access to things it\nwas specifically granted.\n\nWhat say?\n\nCheers,\nDavid.\n-- \nD...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been looking more closely at add_path() and related functions\nwhile trying to decide exactly how I want to handle cases where all\nthe available paths for a relation are parameterized (because it's got\nunresolved lateral references). It suddenly struck me that I missed\na bet while re...
[ { "msg_contents": "So Andres Freund floated a proposal to create an xlogdump sort of tool,\nin core, and posted a patch.\n\nOne advantage of having xlogdump in core is that we can have buildfarm\ntest that part of the Xlog code, which currently sees no testing at all.\nIn fact we could use it as a testbed for X...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWe are getting crash while using plperl on Win32 as ActiveState perl(Win32)\nuses 32-bit time_t structures. So, We have to compile DB Server's code also\nwith 32-bit time_t structure.\n\nPatch is adding _USE_32BIT_TIME_T in preprocessor definitions in case\nplatform is Windows-32 fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nwhen running VACUUM ANALYZE on my database built on win32-x86 from\nyesterday's git checkout I always get this at some point during VACUUM\nANALYZE:\n\nLOG: server process (PID 5880) was terminated by exception 0xC0000094\nDETAIL: Failed process was running: VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey,\n\nI tried out the new CHECK NO INHERIT feature for inherited tables.\nThere seems to be an opportunity to generate slightly better query\nplans sometimes. E.g. when I do\n\nSELECT * FROM base WHERE partition_id = 3\n\nand there exists only one child table for which partition_id = 3 is\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nis there any way to check if row have already been modified by the current\ntransaction? I tried condition txid_current() = xmin, but there is problem\nwith the savepoints. After every savepoint rows are getting higher xmin\nvalues, but txid_current() remains the same.\n\nRegards,\nMir...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nis there any way to check if row have already been modified by the current\ntransaction? I tried condition txid_current() = xmin, but there is problem\nwith the savepoints. After every savepoint rows are getting higher xmin\nvalues, but txid_current() remains the same.\n\nRegards,\nMir...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nI've been testing Pyrseas against 9.2rc1. A test that does a CREATE\nOPERATOR is giving a small difference. Specifically, the test issues\nthe statement:\n\nCREATE OPERATOR + (PROCEDURE = upper, RIGHTARG = text);\n\nPyrseas then queries the pg_operator catalog to map the p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nIn order to test 9.2rc1, I had to build contrib (because Pyrseas uses\nsome of those modules). The build instructions\n(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/install-procedure.html )\nstate the way to build everything (contrib + docs, etc.) is\n\n gmake world\n\nUnfor...
[ { "msg_contents": "psql has supported older servers for a great while now, so this sort of\nthings seems pretty useless now:\n\npsql (9.2rc1, server 9.1.4)\nWARNING: psql version 9.2, server version 9.1.\nSome psql features might not work\n\nI think it should be reduced to warning when connected to a newer\nser...
[ { "msg_contents": "When a cascading standby launches a new walsender, it fetches the \ncurrent recovery timeline:\n\n\t/*\n\t * Use the recovery target timeline ID during recovery\n\t */\n\tif (am_cascading_walsender)\n\t\tThisTimeLineID = GetRecoveryTargetTLI();\n\nComment in GetRecoveryTargetTLI() does this:\...
[ { "msg_contents": "When initializing a large database, pgbench writes tons of \"%d tuples\ndone\" lines. I propose to change this to a sort of progress counter\nthat stays on the same line, as in the attached patch.", "msg_date": "Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:39 -0400", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e...
[ { "msg_contents": "As implemented in HEAD, LATERAL means to run a nestloop in which the\nlateral-referencing query is run once per row of the referenced table,\nand the resulting rows are joined to just that row of the referenced\ntable. So for example:\n\n# select * from (values (2),(4)) v(x), lateral generat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cross-link to doc build requirements from install requirements.\n\nJeff Janes\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e8d6c98c2f082bead1202b23e9d70e0fbde49129\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ndoc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 ++++++++\n1 fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I change the build-farm.conf file to have the following make line:\n\n make => 'make -j 8', # or gmake if required. can include path if necessary.\n\n2 pass, 4 fail. Is this a build configuration you want to pursue? I can either create a new machine, or change one of my existing machines...
[ { "msg_contents": "---------- Forwarded message ----------\nFrom: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>\nDate: 2012/9/1\nSubject: PATCH: psql boolean display\nTo: Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com>\n\n\nHello\n\nI am looking to your patch:\n\nI have only one note. I don't think so using any text for values\n\"true...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm experiencing the case when bitmap scan is ~ 70 times slower than \nindex scan which seems to be caused by 1) very big table 2) some hash \nsearch logic (hash_search_with_hash_value )\n\nHere is the explain analyze of the query with bitmap scans allowed:\n\nwsdb=> explain analyze se...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following bug has been logged on the website:\n\nBug reference: 7515\nLogged by: James Bellinger\nEmail address: james@illusorystudios.com\nPostgreSQL version: 9.1.5\nOperating system: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Server\nDescription: \n\nIf the table being referenced ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch fixes a bug in sepgsql module.\nCould you apply both v9.2 and master branch?\n\nWhen post_create hook is invoked, sepgsql's handler checks\nwhether the current invocation context needs to have permission\nchecks according to the command-tag saved on ProcessUtility_hook.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch fixes a few portions on which sepgsql didn't follow the latest\ncore API changes.\n\n1) Even though the prototype of ProcessUtility_hook was recently changed,\nsepgsql side didn't follow this update, so it made build failed.\n\n2) sepgsql internally uses GETSTRUCT() and HeapTupleGe...
[ { "msg_contents": "May be someone of you is interested in this\n\nADBIS workshop on GPUs in Databases\n\nhttp://gid2012.cs.put.poznan.pl/\n\n\nRegards\nGaetano Mendola\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:49:17 +0200", "msg_from": "Gaetano Mendola <mendola@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is a proof-of-concept patch for talking to a standalone backend\nusing libpq and a pair of pipes. It works, to the extent that psql and\npg_dump can run without any postmaster present:\n\n$ psql regression\npsql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory\n Is the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been wrestling for a couple of days trying to get pg_upgrade \ntesting working on Windows, with a view to having it tested on the \nbuildfarm. The test script has its own issues, which I'll deal with \nseparately, but there are two issues in pg_upgrade's exec.c that make me \nsuspect t...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is what I had to do to get pg_upgrade's \"make check\" \nto run on Windows under Mingw. Mostly the changes have to do with \ngetting paths right between Windows and MSys, or calling generated .bat \nfiles instead of shell scripts.\n\ncheers\n\nandrew", "msg_date": "Sun,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are trying to introduce a thread that monitors the creation of the\ntrigger_file. As and when the file is created, the process that monitors\npostgres server needs to be notified through the inotify API.\n\nThis is to reduce the 3-4 seconds delay that exists with the current\nimplem...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe are trying to introduce a thread that monitors the creation of the\ntrigger_file. As and when the file is created, the process that monitors\npostgres server needs to be notified through the inotify API.\n\nThis is to reduce the 3-4 seconds delay that exists with the current\nimplem...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://doxygen.postgresql.org/xlog_8c_source.html#l08197\n\nOn line 8197 of xlog.c:\n\n08194 /* Get a local copy of the last safe checkpoint record. */\n08195 SpinLockAcquire(&xlogctl->info_lck);\n08196 lastCheckPointRecPtr = xlogctl->lastCheckPointRecPtr;\n08197 memcpy(&lastC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nUnless I'm missing something, it is not possible in psql to tell\nwhether a view has the security_barrier option. I think that this is\nsomething that ought to be possible from psql, otherwise the new\nfeature is not visible.\n\nThis patch displays any reloptions for a view at the end,...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch is based on below Todo Item:\n\nConsider adding buffers the background writer finds reusable to the free list\n\n\n\nI have tried implementing it and taken the readings for Select when all the data is in either OS buffers\n\nor Shared Buffers.\n\n\n\nThe Patch has simple implementa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I spent the month of August going through 1.7k emails I had saved from\nthe previous year that required my attention. I want to thank everyone\nfor helping me close many open items, and for tolerating my questions.\n\nIdeally I would have dealt with many of these emails earlier, but time\nco...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached very small patch allows pg_upgrade's \"make check\" to \nsucceed on REL9_2_STABLE on my Mingw system.\n\nHowever, I consider the issue I mentioned earlier regarding use of \nforward slashes in the argument to rmdir to be a significant blocker, so \nI'm going to go and fix that an...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just today found that the index-only scan feature has broken SSI. \nI don't think it will take much to fix, and I'm looking at that, but\nthe first thing I wanted was a test to show the breakage. I couldn't\nfind a way to do that without running VACUUM after loading data to\nthe test table...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch against 9.2 sources (it applies with offsets to HEAD \ntoo) to fix the problem that pg_upgrade can write paths in arguments for \nWindows builtin commands (specifically DEL and RMDIR) with the wrong \npath separator style. This should be applied all the way back to 9.0.\n\nche...
[ { "msg_contents": "I went back for another try at building the Fedora packages with 9.2\nbranch tip ... and it still failed at pg_upgrade's \"make check\".\nThe reason for this is that test.sh starts a couple of random\npostmasters, and those postmasters expect to put their sockets in\nthe configured default lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" writes:\n>> I just today found that the index-only scan feature has broken\n>> SSI. I don't think it will take much to fix, and I'm looking at\n>> that, but the first thing I wanted was a test to show the\n>> breakage.\n> \n> Ugh. That sounds like a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "By not visiting the heap page for tuples, index-only scans fail to\nacquire all of the necessary predicate locks for correct behavior at\nthe serializable transaction isolation level. The tag for the\ntuple-level predicate locks includes the xmin, to avoid possible\nproblems with tid re-use....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI found some whitespace characters in utility.c introduced by commit\n3a0e4d3.\nPlease find attached a patch fixing that which can be applied on postgres\nmaster (commit 2f0c7d5).\n\nThanks,\n-- \nMichael Paquier\nhttp://michael.otacoo.com", "msg_date": "Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:57:3...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems like this has reproduced once more. And once again, there\ndoesn't appear to be any funny business in pg_control (but the structs\nare pasted here for your re-check), and there are successful sensical\nupdates to it. The primary is running 9.0.6.\n\nHowever, we do have a new piece ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed the syntax of the \\copy command in the psql reference page is an old\nstyle. ISTM it's better to update the document. Please find attached a patch.\n\nThanks,\n\nBest regards,\nEtsuro Fujita", "msg_date": "Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:30:37 +0900", "msg_from": "\"Etsuro Fujita\" <f...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" writes:\n>>> Tom Lane wrote:\n>>> The grammar changes look wrong: I think you eliminated the\n>>> ability to have zero setup steps, no? Instead, setup_list should\n>>> expand to either empty or \"setup_list setup\".\n> \n>> I tried that first, but had...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> \"Kevin Grittner\" writes:\n>> By not visiting the heap page for tuples, index-only scans fail to\n>> acquire all of the necessary predicate locks for correct behavior\n>> at the serializable transaction isolation level. The tag for the\n>> tuple-level predicate locks inc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. It took me a while to get a version of this that was independent of\nmy data, but here it is. I don't understand what's going wrong but if you\nchange any part of this query (or at least any part I tried), the correct\nresult is returned.\n\nThis script will reproduce it:\n\n=====\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "This doc sentence about pg_upgrade is now inaccurate:\n\n If doing <option>--check</> with a running old server of a pre-9.1 version,\n and the old server is using a Unix-domain socket directory that is\n different from the default built into the new <productname>PostgreSQL</>\n insta...
[ { "msg_contents": "I realized this morning that I might have been a bit cavalier in using \ndos2unix to smooth away differences in the dumpfiles produced by \npg_upgrade. Attached is a dump of the diff if this isn't done, with \nCarriage Returns printed as '*' to make them visible. As can be seen, in \nfunctio...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n>> the attached version works fine for me.\n > \n> Yeah, that should do it. Will apply.\n \nPushed to master and REL9_2_STABLE.\n \n-Kevin\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:55:39 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Gri...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Kevin Grittner\" wrote:\n \n> New version attached. Will apply if no further problems are found.\n \nPushed to master and REL9_2_STABLE.\n \n-Kevin\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:19:32 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Kevin Grittner\" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>", "msg_from_op"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Daniel Bausch wrote:\n> I am going to implement a simple kind of \"encoded bitmap indexes\"\n(EBI).\n\n> I thought, it could be a good idea to base my work on the long\nproposed\n> on-disk bitmap index implementation. Regarding to the wiki, you,\nJonah\n> and Simon, were the last devs that t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nOur customer reported issue with \"format\" function -\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-09/msg00011.php.\n\nThis issue is related to our implementation of variadic functions -\nthere are gap in implemented functionality - parameter cannot be\nmarked as VARIADIC in func...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following bug has been logged on the website:\n\nBug reference: 7521\nLogged by: Boy de Laat\nEmail address: boy@atsc.nl\nPostgreSQL version: 9.1.4\nOperating system: CentOS 6.2 x86_64\nDescription: \n\nI've setup some slave replication and just to be sure i us...
[ { "msg_contents": "Starting with 9.2, when a WAL segment is restored from the archive, it \nis copied over any existing file in pg_xlog with the same name. This is \ndone in two steps: first the file is restored from archive to a \ntemporary file called RECOVERYXLOG, then the old file is deleted and the \ntempo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Error messages when terminating xlog redo leads the user to believe that\nthere are parameters named max_prepared_xacts and max_locks_per_xact, which\nis not true. This patch corrects the parameter names emitted in the logs.\n\nBest regards,\n-- \nGurjeet Singh", "msg_date": "Wed, 5 Sep 2...