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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have problems with backend processes that close the channel because of\npalloc() failures. When an INSERT statement fails, the backend reports an\nerror (e.g. `Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index') and\nallocates a few bytes more memory. The next SQL statement that fai...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSome items completed and removed.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDefault of '' causes crash in some cases\nshift/reduce conflict in grammar, SELECT ... FOR [UPDATE|CURSOR]\ncreate table \"AA\" ( x int4 , y serial ); insert into \"AA\" (x)...
[ { "msg_contents": "Grr, sorry this is so late - I'd changed MUAs and didn't notice that my\nposts where BOUNCING,\nnot propogating.\n\nTome Lane writes:\n> You didn't say which version you are using, but 6.5-current returns a\n> more helpful error message:\n> \n> ERROR: CREATE TABLE/SERIAL implicit sequence na...
[ { "msg_contents": "can anyone help me hack into fairmont MN high schools server???\n\n\nthanx CRS\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 May 1999 16:58:21 -0000", "msg_from": "\"craig\" <tammy@bevcomm.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "help" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": " Planner guru's please!\n\n I wonder what makes the difference between WHERE and HAVING\n that causes HAVING to accept aggregates while WHERE doesn't.\n It would be extremely nice if it's possible to teach WHERE\n how to handle aggregates properly. Having to push them i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's a small patch to cause pg_dump to emit the\nscale and precision for NUMERIC type column defs.\n\nKeith.", "msg_date": "Wed, 12 May 1999 20:27:21 +0100 (BST)", "msg_from": "Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Patch to pg_dump for...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt's me again .... I've compiled up the patch and doing some testing on\nthe side before we install it on our live system, but something has\nhappened in the past few days with our live system which is interesting.\n\nBasically, on Saturday I started up another process which does more\...
[ { "msg_contents": "just subj\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 13 May 1999 11:48:00 +0800", "msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krasnet.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "test" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI am trying to get the latest 6.5 source to test it under Digital Unix,\nusing cvs. It works, but it's sssllloooowwww. Are there any CVS mirrors\n(preferably in Europe)? I've looked at the web page, but didn't find any.\n\nTIA,\n\n\tPedro.\n\n-- \n---------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "WHile testing 6.5 cvs to see what's the progress with capability\nof Postgres to work with big joins I get following error messages:\n\nselect a.a,at1.a as t1,at2.a as t2,at3.a as t3,at4.a as t4,at5.a as t5,a\nt6.a as t6,at7.a as t7,at8.a as t8,at9.a as t9,at10.a as t10 \nfrom t0 a ,t1 at1,t2...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nGPL evil, BSD so-so...\n\n\t\thttp://www.daemonnews.org/199905/gpl.html\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "After dumping (by pg_dump) and restoring views becomes a tables\n\nHere is a simple scenario:\n1. createdb tview\n\n2. create table t1 (a int4, b int4);\n create view v1 as select a from t1;\n\n3. pg_dump -z tview > tview.dump\n4. destroydb tview\n5. psql -e tview < tview.dump\n...............
[ { "msg_contents": "Well I got the patch file from Tatsuo Ishii (thanks!!!) which includes the\nNetBSD/m68k fixes by NAKAJIMA Mutsuki (double thanks!!!). I applied it to\nthe postgres 6.4.2 distribution and it mostly worked.\n\nCaviats:\n\n1) It won't compile with kerberos 4 enabled. Yes, I loaded the secr.tar...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Well I got the patch file from Tatsuo Ishii (thanks!!!) which includes the\n>NetBSD/m68k fixes by NAKAJIMA Mutsuki (double thanks!!!). I applied it to\n>the\n>postgres 6.4.2 distribution and it mostly worked.\n\nSorry, forgot to mention the patch is at\nftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/cmd/postgres/...
[ { "msg_contents": "I believe I've identified the main cause of the peculiar behavior we\nare seeing with INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP/ORDER BY: it's a subtle\nparser bug.\n\nHere is the test case I'm looking at:\n\nCREATE TABLE si_tmpverifyaccountbalances (\n type int4 NOT NULL,\n memberid int4 NOT...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks like the problem is that the default value is getting inserted\nwithout benefit of conversion, ie, whatever the given text is will get\ndropped into the finished tuple without padding/truncation to the\nspecified char(n) length.\n\nLater, when we try to read out the tuple, the tuple ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nChanges:\n\n1. Check for other waiters is moved from LockResolveConflict \n to LockAquire.\n2. Don't take other waiters into account if either lock \n aquired by MyProc don't conflict with locks aquired by\n waiters or MyProc already holds conflicting lock.\n3. ProcSleep uses con...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Fri, 14 May 1999, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:\n> export CVSROOT=\":pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot\"\n> echo \"Password is \\\"postgresql\\\" \"\n> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login\n> \n> This was supposed to have been put on the web page, as...
[ { "msg_contents": "I notice configure from 6.5 cvs doesn't checks anything after --with\noption. First time I run\n./configure --with-port=5433 \nand was very surprised when postmaster doesn't want to start with port=5433\nafter compilation and installation. Configure doesn't complaints !!!\nIt takes some time ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The rules test is the only that fails for me under NetBSD/i386, and this\nseems simply to be due to using a different userid. The expected result\nhas viewowner=pgsql, my result has viewowner=postgres. I suspect that had\nI run \"gmake runtest\" as some other userid with access to the regress...
[ { "msg_contents": "The behavior is valid, if you define NULL as meaning undefined.\nIn other words when you define something as NULL you're saying, \"I don't\nknow what it is. It could be equal or not.\"\n\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tsecret [SMTP:secret@kearneydev.com]\n> Sent:\tFriday, May ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:50:58 -0400\nFrom: Jack How...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have to work with postgres under freeBSD 3.1-RELEASE and as I'm\ncompletely dummy in FreeBSD I'm wondering if there are problems\nwith running postgres (6.5).\n\nI installed 6.5 cvs and after playing with kernel (config. shared memory)\nI ran regression tests.There were much more tes...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:\n> To compile postgres using gcc 2.7.2.1 I had to modify 2 files\n> src/interfaces/libpq++/pgconnection.cc\n> src/interfaces/libpq++/pgenv.h\n> Particularly, \n> #include <iostream> to #include <iostream.h>\n> #include <strstream> to #include <strstre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n I'am trying CVS snapshor of postgres and on web page (new features of\npostgres 6.5) is:\n\n[...]\n New LOCK TABLE IN ... MODE(Vadim)\n[...]\n\n I'am using similar statement on Oracle. But postgres doesn't accept\nkeyword 'IN'. \n\nExample:\n\n=> lock table t row share mode;\nLO...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking into why a reference to a nonexistent table, eg\n\tINSERT INTO nosuchtable VALUES(1);\nleaks a small amount of memory per occurrence. What I find is a\nmemory leak in the indexscan support. Specifically,\nRelationGetIndexScan in backend/access/index/genam.c palloc's both...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all. Was working tonight and ran into the following error. Doing a\nunion between two selects (to get around the lack of outer joins - hint\nhint), I was getting the error:\n\n ERROR: Each UNION clause must have the same number of columns\n\nUpon examining the SQL statement in que...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I have observed a strange behavior with current source tree.\nFor example, \n\n\tselect usename from pg_user order by usename;\n\nis ok. But\n\n\tselect usename as aaa from pg_user order by usename;\n\nwill produce 2 column names: \"aaa\" and \"usename\". Is this normal?\n---\nTatsuo Ishi...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, 16 May 1999, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:31:22 -0400\n> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How good is FreeBSD for postgres ? \n> \n> > I'm new in freeBSD (FreeBSD nature.ru 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-REL...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just changed the call from mdunlink to smgrunlink, but this brings up\na good point.\n\nsmgr is a generic i/o interface layer that allows multiple storage\nmanagers. Currently, we always use DEFAULT_SMGR as a parameter to smgr*\nfunctions, causing calls to the md* routines. Is there any v...
[ { "msg_contents": "I will assume I can remove this item(thanks Tom):\n\n GEQO has trouble with many tables/eats memory - Backend message type 0x44\n\nCurrent list is:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDefault of '' causes crash in some cases\nshift/reduce conflic...
[ { "msg_contents": "postgres, cvs snapshot 19990517 gives me an error:\n\nERROR: Cannot expand tables; null p_rtable (internal error)\n\nThis happens after request to 'select *';\n\ndavid=> select *;\nERROR: Cannot expand tables; null p_rtable (internal error)\n\nThis select statement is useless, but I dont li...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>>>> But it is still true that DROP TABLE leaves a virtual\n>>>> file descriptor open for each index on the dropped table, and that's\n>>>> a bug in my book.\n>>\n>> AFAIC the patch by Ole Gjerde [gjerde@icebox.org] which has already \n>> bee...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just applied some FreeBSD related patches, and regression tests fail on:\n\nfloat8 .. failed\ngeometry .. failed\nrules .. failed\n\nI've included the regression diffs from all three...the float8 one looks\nsuspicious. The second 'diff' in it has some 'out of range' errors that\nthe regressi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> [mailto:owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian\n> Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:40 PM\n> To: Ole Gjerde\n> Cc: PostgreSQL-development\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items\n> \n> \n> \n> L...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n>> But it is still true that DROP TABLE leaves a virtual\n>> file descriptor open for each index on the dropped table, and that's\n>> a bug in my book.\n\n> AFAIC the patch by Ole Gjerde [gjerde@icebox.org] which has already \n> been appiled by Bru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the current TODO list. This list is independent of the Open\nItems list. Items not fixed by 6.5 final are moved to the TODO list.\n\nI would like to know which items have been fixed already from this list.\nItems I know are fixed are marked with a dash. Are there more? Tom,\ncan y...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nAnyone know of a spreadsheet that works with PostgrSQL? Would like it to\nbe free and use\nPython.\nThanks for your time.\nWayne\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 18 May 1999 07:28:54 -0400", "msg_from": "Wayne <infotechsys@pivot.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Off t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't touched anything outside of jdbc this month, and before I\ncommitted last night, I redid everything with a fresh clean copy. Also,\nI was in the jdbc directory, so it only amended stuff below that point.\n\nPeter\n\n--\nPeter T Mount, IT Section\npetermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk\nAnyt...
[ { "msg_contents": "After reading a couple more complaints of hashtable-overflow error\nmessages, I went ahead and rewrote the hash join modules so that they\ndon't use fixed-size hash buckets and a fixed-size overflow area.\nInstead, each bucket is just a linked list of tuples (thus no wasted\nspace for underus...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the list. Folks, if we are going to release in 13 days, we will\nneed to reduce the size of this list. I started moving some of the\nmajor items to the TODO list, but many are easy fixes that really should\nbe done by 6.5.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhile playing with ODBC and MapInfo 5.01, I came across this one:\n\ndrop table \"MAPINFO_MAPCATALOG\";\n\nThis doesn't work as it seems to ignore the quotes, and convert into lower\ncase.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \n Peter T Mount peter@retep.org.uk\n Main Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs I have lately been swamped with work, I must confess note having \nread the mailing-list very constantly so some things may have slipped.\n\nI have some questions about new/missing features in 6.5 that\nI did not find a clear answer to in the changes list:\n\nthe list claims:\n\nNew SELE...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working on this now:\n\n\tDefault of '' causes crash in some cases\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your b...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I still am unclear which of these are valid SQL:\n> \n> \tselect a as b from test order by a\n> \tselect a as b from test order by b\n> \nBoth are valid, and don't forget the third variant:\n\n> select a as b from test order by 1\n> \nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 19 May 1999 13:36:26 +...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a new version of of PyGreSQL (2.4) ready to release. I am only\nwaiting for 6.5 to be released as the README refers to it. Other than\nthat it is fully released and available for download at the following URL.\n\n ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL-2.4.tgz\n\nCan someone upd...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> smgr is a generic i/o interface layer that allows multiple storage\n> managers. Currently, we always use DEFAULT_SMGR as a parameter to smgr*\n> functions, causing calls to the md* routines. Is there any value in\n> just removing the smgr layer completely. It was originally for a CD\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Allow \"col AS name\" to use name in WHERE clause? Is this ANSI? \n> \tWorks in GROUP BY\n> \nNeighter Informix nor Oracle do it, so it is probably not ansi, but it would\n\nbe a very neat feature, especially if you do some arithmetic, \nthe statement gets a lot clearer.\n\nBut it probab...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI think I have found a bug in regexp based selections.\nWatch this :\n\ncreate table regdemo (fld1 varchar(32));\nCREATE\ninsert into regdemo values('410');\nINSERT 726409 1\ninsert into regdemo values('7410');\nINSERT 726410 1\ninsert into regdemo values('source');\nINSERT 726411 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPlease remove rremington@westaff.com from pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org\nand/or pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n\nSean Rouse\nUNIX Systems Administrator\nemail: srouse@westaff.com\nvoice: 925-952-2531\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 19 May 1999 09:49:50 -0700", "msg_from": "Sean Rouse <SRouse@west...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> >\n> > > I still am unclear which of these are valid SQL:\n> > >\n> > > select a as b from test order by a\n> > > select a as b from test order by b\n> > >\n> > Both are valid, and don't forget the third variant:\n> >\n> > select a as b from test order by 1\n> >\n> > Andreas\n> >\n> \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "I created a user-defined type and tried to use it as the primary key\nbut got the following error.\n\nERROR: Can't find a default operator class for type 18594.\n\nSo, how do I create a default operator class?\n\n-- \nD'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves\nh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings\nLooking for how to build a table with a built in unique sequential numeric\nkey (primary optional) and then copy from a flat file to that same field.\nCan not see on the _CREATE TABLE_ nor the _TYPE_ how to do so. Is the OID\nmentioned in the _COPY_ a possible.\n\nI wish to have ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yeah, you're looking for a \"sequence\" IE:\n\nCREATE SEQUENCE seq_Users_NDX;\n\nCREATE TABLE Users (\n User_NDX Integer default nextval('seq_Users_NDX),\n UserName Text\n);\n\nThen you would insert into the table using:\nINSERT into Users (UserName) VALUES ('edwe...
[ { "msg_contents": "I did some more thinking on this. The logic is, that where and group by \naffect the result set of a select, but order by (and col. alias) only affect\n\nresult presentation. This is why order by shoud look at the alias first,\nwhile everything else should look at the real column name first. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Example:\n\n% sql\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.0 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n type \\q to quit\n type \\g or termi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok all here is an question for you.\n\nI am running pgsql on a linux 5.1 box.\n\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n type \\q to quit\n type \\g or terminate with...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt's not free, but Applixware works with postgresql via postodbc. I\nhave some detailed setup information (Thanks Tom!) at:\n\n\thttp://www.radix.net/~cobrien/applix\n\nThere is a query tool (Data) that lets you set up queries\nwithout using sql, and also update tables. Once queries are\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> postgres=> create trigger trg1 after insert on smile for each row\n> postgres-> execute procedure ttt() ;\n> ERROR: CreateTrigger: function ttt () does not exist\n> postgres=> \\q\n> \n> So my question is - why does the create trigger function fail when the\n> function does in\n> fact ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOk, I'm trying to finish cleaning up libpq++ and with v6.4.0 and with \nthe snapshot I grabbed a few minutes ago I get the same thing.\n\nThe library builds and installs fine.\nThe examples build fine.\nThe examples run fine UNTIL they end. After the program ends and the\ndestructor finish...
[ { "msg_contents": "REGARDING Postgres 6.4.2 connection problem\nWe configured an external drive with postgres 6.4.2 such that we could\nrun postgres/connect via psql, etc.\n\nUpon connecting the external drive to a different machine (same OS, Sun\nSolaris 2.5.1 and configuration/architecture), we...
[ { "msg_contents": "While on the subjects of triggers, is this the \nproper behavior?\n\nt=> SELECT version();\nversion \n------------------------------------------------------\nPostgreSQL 6.5.0 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, \ncompiled by gcc 2.7.2.\n(1 row)\n\nt=> CR...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I've just removed the automatic installation of built\n procedural languages from initdb again.\n\n Instead there are two new commands in src/bin.\n\n createlang [options] [langname [dbname]]\n options are: --pglib path\n -a authsys\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": " Reply to: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.4.2 connection problem solved\nFYI,\n\n The machine we tried to run postgres on had the 'localhost' entry in its hosts file spelled incorrectly (i.e., 'localhosts'). After updating the hosts file, postgres ran fine.\n\n I would have thought we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone been able to get 6.5beta to work with Suns compiler in 64bit mode?\nI have been able to hack enough to get it to bulild and install, but when\ntrying to connect with psql over unix domain socket, the server does not know\nthat it is a local connection and says there is no pg_hba.co...
[ { "msg_contents": "To get the latest cvs snapshot (19990520) to be installed, I had to make\nthe following patch to the src/interfaces/Makefile\n\nvlad: diff -w3c ../../pgsql.old/src/interfaces/Makefile\ninterfaces/Makefile\n*** ../../pgsql.old/src/interfaces/Makefile Thu May 13 16:52:12 1999\n\n--- interfa...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have created a new type and by struggling with the instructions at\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/programmer/xindex.htm (I'm preparing some\ncorrections) I di everything that I can to set this up fully. I am able\nto create a table using my type as the primary key and insert data into\nit...
[ { "msg_contents": "I get above message from the backend while trying to update same raw\nfrom different transactions (I guess). Is this normal?\n\nFYI, if I change the transaction isolation level to serializable, no\nerro occurs.\n---\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 21 May 1999 18:58:18 +0900", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallo,\n\nfirst of all, thank you for fixing the ´hash table overflow problem´, I´ve tested it on a join between a 2GB and a 3MB table, it works!\n\nNow, I tried to use the numeric type, and hit the following problem:\n\ncreate table a (val numeric(10,2));\nCREATE\ninsert into a values('123.4...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking for tables related to default ops I came across the following\ntables that are not mentioned in the programmer docs system catalogues\nsection and are (in my database anyway) empty. Perhaps someone who is\ncloser to the catalogues can confirm that these are still used. If so,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just checked the problem with views using current cvs and it's\nstell here.\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tOleg\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)\nInter...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current CVS doesn't compile on Redhat Linux 6.0.\n\nbison 1.27\nflex 2.5.4a\n\nOle Gjerde\n\n--- src/backend/parser/gram.y 1999/05/21 15:47:13 2.81\n+++ src/backend/parser/gram.y 1999/05/21 17:48:46\n@@ -5365,8 +5365,8 @@\n for (pos = 1; n->val.val.str[pos]; pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nrecently I tried to reproduce some benchmark results\nwhen I discovered a very strange behavior. I did\nmy tests with the current snapshot of last week,\nbut other people who have performed the same bench-\nmark with postgresql-6.4-2 reported the same problems.\n\nThe setup is pretty s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>\n> After dumping (by pg_dump) and restoring views becomes a tables\n> \n\nThe problem is that views are dumped with anm extraneous \"WHERE\"\n\n> ............................\n> QUERY: COPY \"t1\" FROM stdin;\n> CREATE RULE \"_RETv1\" AS ON SELECT TO \"v1\" WHE...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am now using ddd to do debugging. Very nice.\n\nHowever, the \"> \" prompt is confusing ddd. Can I change it to something\nelse, so that me and other ddd users will be OK too. This is only the\nprompt you get when you run the postgres backend manually from the\ncommand line. Perhaps I ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed the problem with DEFAULT ''.\n\n\ttest=> create table t1 (str1 char(2) default '',str2 text default\n\t'',str3 text default '' ); \n\tCREATE\n\ttest=> insert into t1 values ('aa', 'string2', 'string3');\n\tINSERT 18830 1\n\ttest=> insert into t1 (str3) values ('string3');\n\t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the proper patch. The previous one was truncated.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed:\n\n\tSELECT 1; SELECT 2 fails when sent not via psql, semicolon problem\n\nOur grammer was way too overly complex in this area, and is much\nclearer, with no shift/reduce conflicts. To test, run postgres from the\ncommand line. psql already breaks up the commands.\n\n-- \n Br...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVS as of right now (18:40 pm Central), I can't make(use) sequences, and\ninitdb puts part of pg_proc in the wrong place.\n\nRedhat Linux 6.0\nLinux 2.2.7\nglibc 2.1\n\n(SQL below directly from a pg_dump -z):\n\\connect - postgres\nCREATE SEQUENCE \"cagedata_id_seq\" start 165437 increment 1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I thought I had already posted this query but now I can't remember. If\nI have please excuse the repeat. But as I can't remember the answer\neither can someone please comment.\n\nIs there likely to be any attempt to allow a table to be keyed. It\nseems that by default a table is created as...
[ { "msg_contents": "CURRENT/pgsql/src/test/regress > gmake runtest\nMULTIBYTE=;export MULTIBYTE; \\\n/bin/sh ./regress.sh freebsd 2>&1 | tee regress.out\n=============== Notes... =================\npostmaster must already be running for the regression tests to succeed.\nThe time zone...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nhacking database?!!?!!\n\n???\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 23 May 1999 19:44:44 +0300", "msg_from": "\" eV!L (John)\" <half-life@aland.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Could anyone tell me what tis news-group is about?" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I have removed the parameter at Tom Lane's request.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup. | Dre...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed some fixes that prevent resjunk targets from being\nassigned to output columns in an INSERT/SELECT. This partially fixes\nthe problem Michael Davis reported a few weeks ago. However, there's\nstill a bug with confusion about column names. Given\n\ncreate table foo (a int4,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jan,\n\nHave you any ideas on this?\n\nWe get a rule output by pg_dump like :-\n\nCREATE RULE \"_RETsongs\" AS \n ON SELECT TO \"songs\" \n WHERE DO INSTEAD \n SELECT \"t\".\"artist\", \"t\".\"song\", \"t\".\"trackno\", \"d\".\"cdname\" \n FROM \"disks\" \"d\", \"tracks\" \"t\" \n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the updated list of changes in 6.5. I will roll them into the\nsgml and HISTORY files, and put it up on the web site soon. Note the\nmarker in the list that shows the new items since I last posted this\nlist in March. Please review and suggest changes. Thanks.\n\n-----------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "SELECT * FROM test WHERE test IN (SELECT * FROM test) fails with strange error\nTable with an element of type inet, will show \"0.0.0.0/0\" as \"00/0\"\nWhen creating a table with either type inet or type cidr as a primary,unique\n key, the \"198.68.123.0/24\" and \"198.68.123.0/27\" are co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have contacted Daemon News, and they say they are interested in an\narticle about PostgreSQL development. I sent them the attached. I will\nwork on the article, and have everyone review it before senting it to\nthem. I should finish it in about a week.\n\n--------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm experiencing a strange problem when playing with the\nbench scripts. (No postmaster running).\n\nPlatform SPARC Linux 2.0.36, latest CVS.\n\nIf I do:-\n\n[postgres@sparclinux bench]$ rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql/data/\n[postgres@sparclinux bench]$ initdb\n\nWe are initializing the database sys...
[ { "msg_contents": "Again time for me to run tools/pgindent to make our source code more\nuniform. Is anyone sitting on patches? Running this may make your\npatches hard to apply to the new pgindented source tree.\n\nI may run it tonight, so people can run it for a few days before final\nrelease.\n\n\n-- \n B...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the current 6.5 HISTORY file. I have broken the items up into\nsections. It is much easier to review.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n POSTGRESQL 6.5\n\nThis release marks the development team's final mast...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > Not really. It required changing function calls all over, and probably\n> > > relies on 6.5 changes too. It is in the 6.5 beta right now. Are you\n> > > using that?\n> >\n> >\n> > I did all the tests with the current snapshot of May 18th.\n> >\n> \n> Fix was...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why is this line here, the size-- line? It does not appear in the\ninet_cidr_ntop_ipv4() function. This is maybe the cause of our 00/0.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nstatic char *\ninet_net_ntop_ipv4(const u_char *src, int bits, char *ds...
[ { "msg_contents": "This seems like the reasonable fix for this problem, and I am going to\napply it. Any comments?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIndex: src/backend/utils/adt/inet_net_ntop.c\n==================================================================...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anybody know of a URL to a good (easy comprehended) reference to\nSQL92?\n\nI know \"easy\" may be too much, but there are levels of unreadability...\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 25 May 1999 07:29:09 +0200 (CEST)", "msg_from": "Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk>", "msg_from_op": tru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ntoday I did some tests with current 6.5 from cvs and multiple joins.\nI did unpredictable server crashes, i.e. sometimes query works\nsometimes crashes. After about a hour of my experiments I can't drop table in\nmy test database:\n\n13:55[mira]:~/app/sql>mkjoindata.pl --joins 10 --row...
[ { "msg_contents": "If anyone has gotten a clean compile on AIX 432, send me what you did.\n\nThanks.\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 25 May 1999 05:59:24 -0500", "msg_from": "\"David R. Favor\" <dfavor@austin.ibm.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Compile woes on AIX 432 for v6.5" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm being asked the same question every so often, about the following\nline:\n\n\tClass.forName(postgresql.Driver);\n\nPeople are asking why this isn't working. Obviously there should be quotes\nin there, and I'm thinking that they are missing from the docs.\n\n\tClass.forName(\"postgresql....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi. I'd like to update the ports list in the docs to include\nreferences to v6.5 for the various platforms for which PostgreSQL-6.5b\nhas been tested.\n\nThe list is at:\n\n http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/ports.htm\n\nLet me know what you are running or if you are running on a platform...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe pgsql-hackers\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 25 May 1999 10:16:24 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Wheeler, Alfred\" <Alfred.Wheeler@tpc.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "unsubscribe pgsql-hackers" } ]