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[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hi Bruce!\n> \n> > I have already asked for you to try a change to template/linux_m68k\n> > by changing the optimization -O2 to -O and see if you still need the\n> > postgres.h fmgr_ptr change you did. I assume you are using egcs, right?\n> \n> Can't remember that you asked me... But a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFirst of all, Great job on the release!\n\nOne little detail about the installation though:\n\n The main directory when one unpacks the postgres-6.5.tar.gz tarball is \n incorrectly named 'postgresl-6.5', missing the q. \n\n\n/Daniel\n________________________________________________________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the changes to get a clean regression test run under AIX.\n\nIt appears that only minor changes in precision and messages occur for\nthe int* and geometry classes.\n\nAll the time related tests fail. I can't tell if this is really a bug\nor a problem. I tried two scenarios and both f...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am having trouble with PQclear causing a segmentation fault, and I don't\nreally know where to look. I have 3 identical tables (only 2 come into play)\nall of the form\n\n+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+\n| Field | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAnd over 500 copies downloaded from the main site so far...\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": "Tue, 15 Jun...
[ { "msg_contents": "That's not bad :-)\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]\nSent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:45 PM\nTo: pgsql-ha...
[ { "msg_contents": "It hasn't even been mentioned on Freshmeat, Linux today and so on.\n\nWho will take care of that?\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:19:50 +0200", "msg_from": "Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: [HACKERS] Less then 12hrs since relea...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just tried it and it worked (although it was a little slow).\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Wayne [mailto:infotechsys@pivot.net]\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "It would seem to be appropriate for the Postgres team to assume\nmanagement of the LDP PostgreSQL-HOWTO as a group effort. Does anyone\nknow the particulars of LDP: where they are located, how doc ownership\nis assigned, etc.?\n\n - Thomas\n\n-- \nThomas Lockhart\t\t\t\tlockha...
[ { "msg_contents": ">It hasn't even been mentioned on Freshmeat, Linux today and so on.\n>\n>Who will take care of that?\n\nPost has been made to slashdot.\n\n- Brandon\n\n\n\n------------------------------------------------------\nSmith Computer Lab Administrator,\nCase Western Reserve University\n bap@scl....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI'm trying to take a look at pgaccess by going to the wep site\nwww.flex.ro and seeing the\nscreen layouts. But, I'm still unable to get thru. Dose anyone know of a\nmirror for\nwww.flex.ro?\nTIA.\nWayne\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:57:50 -0400", "msg_from": "Wayne <inf...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe're published...kinda :)\n\n\t\thttp://lwn.net/daily\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": "Tue, 15 Jun 1999...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm attempting to create a custom image object for my database. At this point the \nobject contains only two variable length text fields and two size specifiers. Attatched below \nis my code for the object and the image_in function. Whenever I attempt to insert something \nusing the image_...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]\n> \tHi alls\n> \n> \tI'm working on a port of postgres on BeOS (www.be.com). BeOS is not \n> a real UNIX, but it provide a subset of the posix API. At this stage \n> I've a working version ofit. But since 6.4.2, I've a lot of problems \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Standard (draft) says:\n\n Regardless of the isolation level of the SQL-transaction, phenomena\n P1, P2, and P3 shall not occur during the implied reading of schema\n definitions performed on behalf of executing an SQL-statement, the\n checking of integrity constraints, and the ex...
[ { "msg_contents": "% psql test1\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.0 on i386-unknown-freebsd3.2, compiled by gcc 2.7.2.1]\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n type \\q to quit\n type \\g or terminate...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIn Informix:\n\n> Standard (draft) says:\n> \n> Regardless of the isolation level of the SQL-transaction, phenomena\n> P1, P2, and P3 shall not occur during the implied reading of schema\n> definitions performed on behalf of executing an SQL-statement, the\n> \nan alter table, c...
[ { "msg_contents": "To have them I need to add tuple id (6 bytes) to heap tuple\nheader. Are there objections? Though it's not good to increase \ntuple header size, subj is, imho, very nice feature...\n\nImplementation is , hm, \"easy\":\n\n- heap_insert/heap_delete/heap_replace/heap_mark4update will\n remember...
[ { "msg_contents": "DECIMA/NUMERCI Report bug:\n\nCREATE TABLE Test (num DEC(7,2), flt8 FLOAT(15));\nERROR: Unable to locate type name 'dec' in catalog\n\n The required syntax for DECIMAL is:\n DEC[IMAL] [ ( precision [ ,scale ] ) ]\n\n from SQL/92 draft:\n <exact numeric type> ::=\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "* subqueries containing HAVING return incorrect results\n\nselect istat from comuni where istat in (\nselect istat from comuni group by istat having count(istat) > 1\n);\nERROR: rewrite: aggregate column of view must be at rigth side in qual\n\nselect istat from comuni where istat in (\nsele...
[ { "msg_contents": "What does the spec have to say? It bothers me somewhat that an AVG is\nexpected to return an integer result at all. Isn't the Average of 1 and 2,\n1.5 not 1?\n\njust my $0.02,\n\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tTom Lane [SMTP:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent:\tWednesday, June 16, 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see there's still the command:\n\nSET QUERY_LIMIT (even in the docs)\nbut it doesn't work.\nprova=> select * from test limit 1;\n num|flt8\n----+----\n1.00| 1\n(1 row)\n\nprova=>\nprova=> set query_limit = '1';\nSET VARIABLE\nprova=> select * from test;\n num| flt8\n-----+-----\n 1.00| ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\there is a new version of the bitmask type. It supports hash-indices as\nwell now, and fixes a bug in the definition of the <> operator.\n\nI would appreciate it if somebody more knowledgable than myself would\nlook over the index definitions. They seem to work and are used by\npostgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've seen several posts about this and contacted the developers\nat Yellow Dog Linux. Turns out they have the same problem and the\nonly way they have gotten PostgreSQL to work is by compiling with\na -O0 flag.\n\nMy guess is there is some problem in gcc specific to the PowerPC\nplatform. I c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've already tried to put the exec back. But then I hit a problem with \n\"MyProcPort\" which is not initialised in the backend and make the \nbackend crash. I've also found that \"MyCancelKey\" is set in postmaster. \nAre there any others ? \n\nRegarding the old code (6.3.2), there have been...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been looking at the planner's handling of subplans, and I see\nsomething that I think is wrong, but I'm not quite certain. In\n_make_subplan() in backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c, there is the\ncode\n\n /* make parParam list */\n foreach(lst, plan->extParam)\n {\n Va...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks like you are using SCO UnixWare 2.1.2. PostgreSQL 6.4.X and 6.5.X do\ncompile and run on SCO UnixWare 7, the current version. \n\nI have not been able to compile PostgreSQL 6.5 (or any other version) on \nUnixWare 2. The main problem seems to be that PostgreSQL uses alloca,\nand I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\nI am going to implement large object manager \nfor certain samll education purposed DBMS.\n\nSo I've read the paper\n \" Large Object Suport in POSTGRES\" \n - Michael Stonbraker, Michael Olson\nBut it contains nothing about the detail. \nThat is, how's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Actually, I think a lot of the cases where rollback to savepoint\nwould be done implicitly could be avoided by adding a fourth\nbehavior of elog.\n\nThis elog, let's e.g. call it elog(WARN,...) would actually behave\nlike an elog(NOTICE,..) in the backend, but would return ERROR\nto the clien...
[ { "msg_contents": "Someone posted this link to a Case tool:\nhttp://www.ccas.ru/~gurov/ftp/Editors/CASE/Vinsent/\n\nUnfortunately it's in Russian, which I know nothing about, and it\ndoesn't seem to have been worked upon since 1997.\n\nI don't know the strength of this tool, as I can't understand the\ndescripti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nseems something wrong with rsync mirroring.\nI use \nrsync -avz --delete hub.org::postgresql-www /d4/Web/mirrors/pgsql/\nand it does well but no images from /images directory are copied.\nSo my mirror http://www.sai.msu.su:8000/ looks corrupt\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tOleg\n\n\n____________...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI couldn't create a table which has a primary key on numeric type.\n\ncreate table t (id numeric(7,2) primary key);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index\n't_pkey' for table 't'\nERROR: Can't find a default operator class for type 1700. \n\nHow can I create...
[ { "msg_contents": "it gets build \nI can initdb\nI can createdb, but not destroydb\n\na lot of \"typidTypeRelid\"errors\n\nI'm in a hurry right now, should I tell anyone else? post bug report?\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:33:13 +0200", "msg_from": "gravity <z.nijmeyers@cable.a2000.nl>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Config.h has this. Does this need to be updated because we can't vacuum\nmulti-segment relations? I have changed it to 7F000000:\n\n/*\n * RELSEG_SIZE is the maximum number of blocks allowed in one disk file.\n * Thus, the maximum size of a single file is RELSEG_SIZE * BLCKSZ;\n * relations...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've added a new directory to the src/interfaces tree which has the\nSQL3/SQL98 CLI header file and a couple of examples. It would be\ninteresting to see what it would take to graft the ecpg library onto a\nCLI interface.\n\n - Thomas\n\n-- \nThomas Lockhart\t\t\t\tlockhart@a...
[ { "msg_contents": "In updating my cvs tree on hub.org I noticed mention of\nsrc/interfaces/python/RCS. It is/was an empty directory in the CVS\nrepository which for some reason cvs chose to never extract. I moved\nit out of the way, and verified that cvs was happy on hub.org and that\nCVSup was happy on my remo...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > Config.h has this. Does this need to be updated because we can't vacuum\n> > multi-segment relations? I have changed it to 7F000000:\n> \n> Why? I thought we'd fixed the mdtruncate issue.\n> \n> \t\t\tregards, tom lane\n> \n\nI am to...
[ { "msg_contents": "New item for TODO list:\n\n* SELECT aliname FROM pg_class aliname generates strange error\n\t\n\n\ttest=> SELECT aliname FROM pg_class aliname;\n\tNOTICE: unknown node tag 704 in rangeTableEntry_used()\n\tNOTICE: Node is: { IDENT \"aliname\" }\n\tNOTICE: unknown node tag 704 in fireRIRonSu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nInstalling postgres in 20th time, I become ready to \nsend some wishes.\n\n1. My standard way to install pgsql:\n make\n su\n useradd postgres\n\n****\n mkdir ~postgres\n make install\n chown -R postgres ~postgres \n\nIs it possible to include last three commands into installation pro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > If now we'll add 6 bytes to header then \n> > offsetof(HeapTupleHeaderData, t_bits) will be 32 and for\n> > no-nulls tuples there will be no difference at all\n> > (with/without additional 6 bytes), due to double alignment\n> > of header. So, the choice is: new feature or more compact\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthis might be something new that I didn't see go through, or, at least,\nget implemented...but, under a Linux system, fresh install this morning,\nof v6.5:\n\n19130 p2 S 0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -o -F -o /usr/local/pgsql/er\n19416 p2 S 0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPlease add to chapter \n Shared Memory and SHMMAX\n\n\"\nYou also have to decrease number of maximum backends\nallowed to run simultaneously to half of B value \nusing -N options\n\nFor example:\n postmaster -B 24 -N 12\n\n \"\n\nor something like. \n\nPS: \n Is list of recognized command l...
[ { "msg_contents": "It doesn't seem to hurt anything but when I list sequences with \\ds I\nget a strange behaviour. If I created the sequence as an ordinary\nuser everything seems normal. If I create the sequence as a super\nuser (myself) it lists the sequence name twice. As I said, it doesn't\nseem to hurt ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> (It is true that there are a few extensions to\n> the SQL syntax which are holdovers from the PostQuel language, which\n> explains a few odd features in the parser.)\n> \n> Would you prefer that we do nothing until I have a chance to research\n> this some more, or is someone going to dive i...
[ { "msg_contents": "has something changed with r-tree indexes in 6.5? i had a database in\n6.4.2 that had a box type and would do queries on it with the box\noverlap operator (\"&&\"). the field i'm querying is indexed with an\nr-tree index. all this worked fine in 6.4.2. then i did a dump &\nrestore from 6....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi pgsql-announce@postgresql.org,\n\nI am writing to you in relation to a project that I am working on -\nto build a geographical map of the Internet, and I was wondering if you\nmight help me by entering the name of your nearest city on my web page at:\n http://www.ezymail.com/~s98212752/geo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> Do you want to be making these commits now? We haven't split the tree,\n> so they will appear in 6.5.x.\n\nYeah, I know. I'm in bugfix mode: CASE does not work in any context\ninvolving GROUP BY or aggregates, eg\n\tselect coalesce(f1,0) ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOn April 26, 1999 I saw a posting in the hackers archive where Hiroshi\nInoue had a patch to solve the BTP_CHAIN flag was expected problem. This\nproblem is popping up about once per week for me and I really wanted to\ninstall this patch.\n\nIs this patch safe to install on a productio...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nJust thought I'd drop an email again - I was the one having neverending\ntrouble with 6.4.2 jamming with backends waiting, and other types of\nproblems.\n\nAlthough I'm still using 6.4.2, I hope this will still be helpful for\nthe developers in case it impacts on things in 6.5.\n\nWe i...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]\n> \n> \t* I've progess a bit with MyCancelKey and MyProcPort (postmaster \n> send all that information to the backend with a BeOS kernel port : \n> nothing is visible on the command line except the port number but datas \n> don't stays ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having major problems, cannot get it to build.\n\n2 errors:\n\n-in src/backend/commands/copy.c I get complaints about macro _ALIGN\n-a lot of \" no rule to make target 'buffer/SUBSYS.o'. Stop\"\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:11:28 +0200", "msg_from": "gravity <z.nijmey...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why don't we search in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib for\nlibreadline.a by default, and require the flags to configure?\n\nSeems we should have those directories searched by default in configure.\nMost software does this with configure already.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I posted this to Usenet today in a discussion about GPL vs. BSDL. I\nhope this doesn't start a huge discussion, but I thought the issues were\nsignificant enough to address to this group.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n", "msg_date": "Sun,...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have cleaned up some problems seen in the parser and planner when\na query involves both subselects and grouping (\"grouping\" = GROUP BY,\nHAVING, and/or aggregate functions). I am not sure whether I've\nfixed everything in those modules, though, because all my remaining\ntest cases are f...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs I've been playing with the PL/Perl implementation, it has dawned on me a\nfairly simple, but nice feature could be added.\n\nI would like to add the following command:\n\nLOAD PACKAGE 'package-name';\n\nLike the current 'LOAD' it would treat 'package-name'\nas shared library. But it woul...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can we submit changes for 6.6 yet?\n\n-- \nMark Hollomon\nmhh@mindspring.com\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:40:25 -0400", "msg_from": "Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "6.6 changes?" }, { "msg_contents": "> Can we submit ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, so I'm working on updating the RH Linux rpm of Postgres to our new\nrelease. And so I'll have to figure out how to *really* install all of\nthe Postgres components to make this work. Anyway, I've already asked\nabout the python installation procedure: thanks for the tips and I'll\ntry it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallo,\n\n I think, that I found reproducible bug:\n\n% sql template1\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 slas...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I suppose it wouldn't be overly hard to have pg_dump/pg_dumpall do\n> something similar to what postgres does with segments. I haven't looked\n> at it yet however, so I can't say for sure.\n> \nI would not integrate such functionality into pg_dump, since it is not\nnecessary.\nA good thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I sent this message to pgsql-sql but got no reply and since I'm not\nsure if it's a missing feature, bug or something else I'll try\nsending it here. Briefly, I'm getting the error\n ERROR: ExecAgg: Bad Agg->Target for Agg 0\nwhen layering views to get \"nested\" aggregates.\n\nI tried th...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:15:59 +0200", "msg_from": "Guillaume Lairloup <lairloup@ucad.fr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, can't explain the why's...\n\nBut I have the code to add to cash.c and cash.h to add the conversion \nfunctions, but still have to figure out how to get PostgreSQL to recognize \nit... Guessing... it's in fmgrtab.c right?\n\nDuane\n\n> Can someone explain why our money type in 6.5 req...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was looking thru the postgresql message archive searching for a solution to my problem... which you articulated quit well... if you have max(key) of an empty table, the result set is { } which when added to anything gives you { } \n \ndo you know how make the result of max(key) of a em...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nTALK TO THE WORLDS GREATEST PSYCHICS 1 800 592 7827\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:18:10", "msg_from": "jimsmith@aol.com", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "CERTIFIED GIFTED PSYCHICS" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I've mentioned in the past that the fsynch following\nevery select, even when no data is modified, is a \nkiller for high-volume web sites that make many short,\nread-only hits on the database (for page customization,\nfor example).\n\nI know that fixing this is on the \"to do\" list. I've\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tGreetings,\n\tI'm working for the computer vision group at UMass's CS department and we are looking \nat using Postgres to catalog Images and video for a large data coordination project. I am \nrunning my own experiments, but I wanted to know if anyone has any data on internally stored \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tGreetings.\n\tAllthough we are not working on it immediatelyt, I am looking for a way to connect \nPostgres to Arc/info Intergraph and other GIS systems. Has anyone done any work in this area or \ncan point me to the proper links?\n\t\n\tCollin Lynch.\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone else having any problems with the Perl Interface wrt Large\nObjects under 6.5?\n\nI compiled and installed 6.5 on an Intel/Linux/RedHat 6.0 machine that had\npreviously had 6.4.2 and imported existing data from the old database. \nPerl scripts which were working under the previous ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> For instance, if there are assumptions that all data blocks are\n> written before this fact is recorded in a log file, then\n> \"write data blocks\" \"fsynch\" \"write log\" \"fsynch\" doesn't break\n> that assumption, \n> \nAre we really doing a sync after the pg_log write ? While the sy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n In ecpg, the error occurs in value lists of the INSERT statement,\nwhen 'short' or 'unsigned short' host variables are used.\n\n1. Program sample\n\n exec sql begin declare section;\n short s ;\n unsigned short us;\n exec sql end declare section;\n exec sql create ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have been using PostgreSQL 6.4.2 on Debain GNU/Linux\nfor a few months. I am using the Windows ODBC drivers\nand a C++/MFC client program.\nI fixed a few bugs in the ODBC drivers and now\neverything works perfectly.\n\nNow the downside.\nUnfortunately our current client insists o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I always execute 'regression test' and 'regression bigtest'\nwhen PostgreSQL was enhanced. However,'regression bigtest' needs\nthe very long processing time in PostgreSQL-6.5. In my computer, \nit is taken of about 1 hour. \n\n The reason why the processing time is long is becau...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 10:07 AM 6/24/99 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:\n\n>Are we really doing a sync after the pg_log write ? While the sync\n>after datablock write seems necessary to guarantee consistency,\n>the sync after log write is actually not necessary to guarantee consistency.\n>Would it be a fir...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following message is send to me every day for about one month, I don't know what's happening with\npostmaster.\nIs there any body with the same problem ?\nPlease stop it.\n\npostmaster@guest1.sendit.seguest.sendit.se ha scritto:\n\n> Your message to Tiberiu Craciun <4092483565@guest.sendi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am using the Sun Workshop C 5.0, noticed that I was getting the\nfollowing errors:\n\"pgconnection.h\", line 65: Error: string is not defined.\n\"pgconnection.cc\", line 134: Error: string is not defined.\n\"pgconnection.cc\", line 139: Error: Cannot return char* from a function\nthat shoul...
[ { "msg_contents": "After the discussion about implementing a flag that\nwould selectively disable fsynch on the pg_log file,\nI visited xact.c and tried a little test. \n\nThe code in RecordTransactionCommit looks essentially like\n(ignoring stuff related to leaks)\n\nFlushBufferPool /* flush and fsync the dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "greetings postgres gurus:\n\ni've scoured the mail list logs and found many requests for assistance\nwith this problem:\n\n``i just built the new pgsql release and now psql quits with a\nsegmentation fault every time i run it''\n\nbut can not find any answer - maybe all these people worked it...
[ { "msg_contents": "greetings postgres gurus:\n\ni've scoured the mail list logs and found many requests for assistance\nwith this problem:\n\n``i just built the new pgsql release and now psql quits with a\nsegmentation fault every time i run it''\n\nbut can not find any answer - maybe all these people worked it...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:53:05 -0500\n> From: Jim Rowan <jmr@computing.com> \n> Subject: trouble creating log table with rules\n> \n> I've read the docs in the programmers manual, and can create rules like this:\n> \n> CREATE RULE \"m_log_change\" AS ON UPDATE TO \"machine\"\n> do (\n> I...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tVadim wrote:\n> Right way is just set some flag in WriteBuffer()/WriteNoReleaseBuffer()\n> and don't do \n> \n> FlushBufferPool\n> TransactionIdCommit\n> FlushBufferPool\n> \n> at all when this flag is not setted.\n> \nWhile this is even much better for select only transactions\nit will sti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am from Brazil. I need to obtain information about some topics\ndatabase postgres.\n\n Topics\n- Concorency control (controle de concorr�ncia)\n- Recuperation and atomicity (recupera��o e atomicidade)\n- Log (log)\n- Recuperation based in log (recupera��o baseada em log)\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 10:18 AM 6/25/99 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:\n>\tVadim wrote:\n>> Right way is just set some flag in WriteBuffer()/WriteNoReleaseBuffer()\n>> and don't do \n>> \n>> FlushBufferPool\n>> TransactionIdCommit\n>> FlushBufferPool\n>> \n>> at all when this flag is not setted.\n\n>While...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 11:23 AM 6/25/99 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:\n\n>> So...does it sound like I'm doing the right thing?\n>> \n>> I don't see how this could be, since the first FlushBuffer still does \n>> the sync.\n\nOh-uh, you're right of course. The first select doesn't hit\nthe disk, the next ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> For now, though, I don't mind living with my simple\n> hack if indeed it simply means I risk losing a transaction\n> during a crash. Or, actually, have simply increased that risk\n> (the sequence flush/log id/CRASH is possible, after all).\n> \nNo. This is why Vadim wants the second flus...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > committed\". The problem is when a client is told something, \n> > that is not true after a crash, which can happen if the second\n> > flush is left out.\n> \n> But commercial db's do that. They return 'done' for every query, while\n> they write they log files ever X seconds. We need ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Does postgres contain any kind of support for utf-8\n\nYes. If you build PostgreSQL with --with-mb, you could make a UTF-8\nencoded database.\n\n$ createdb -E UNIOCE\n\n>or does anybody have a C-source/example/description of conversion \n>of cyrillic from utf-8 to koi-8 ? \n>(rfc2044...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\tI have a problem where an action in a PL function depends on a table\nwhich is determined at run-time. So the steps are the following:\n\n1. trigger gets passed a row\n2. table name is looked up in a reference table, depending on a field in\nrow\n3. rows are deleted from the table\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "We are two weeks after the 6.5 release, and the anticipated\nproblems/patches/porting issues never really materialized.\n\nI would suspect that fewer people are using PostgreSQL, but I know that\nis not true. Seems the two months of beta really got out the bugs.\n\nWhat do people want to do ...
[ { "msg_contents": "grant/revoke does not work in NetBSD/m68k. This is due to the wrong\nassumption that sizeof(AclItem) is equal to 8 in all platforms. I am\ngoing to fix this by replacing all occurrence of sizeof(AclItem) to\nACLITEM_SIZE (newly defined as 8 in catalog/pg_type.h). See included\npatches. If the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm leaving tomorrow morning and won't be back before July 16th. So if there\nis a problem with ecpg you either have to fix it yourself or wait for my\nreturn. :-)\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nNot sure if this is the right place to request this, but here are some\nthings I, as a satisfied user of PostgreSQL, would like to see done (and\nI'd be glad to help where I can). All of these are just suggestions\ngeared to the care and feeding of the PostgreSQL user community.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would a PostgreSQL / PHP solution be practical for the Feature/Bug tracking?\n(I'm thinking specifically of the mirrors here.)\n\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tBruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent:\tTuesday, June 29, 1999 1:31 PM\n> To:\tFred Wilson Horch\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > On 29-Jun-99 Jackson, DeJuan wrote:\n> > > Would a PostgreSQL / PHP solution be practical for the Feature/Bug\n> tracking?\n> > > (I'm thinking specifically of the mirrors here.)\n> > > -DEJ\n> > \n> > How 'bout JitterBug? http://samba.anu.edu.au/jitterbug/\n> > or GNATS: http://w...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust curious, but how do ppl handle running two different versions on the\nsame machine? I want to start up a v6.5 server where v6.4.2 server\nalready exists...\n\nI'm wondering if it might make sense to up the libpq on a release, so that\nthis can work?\n\nMarc G. Fournier ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Mike.\n\nGet that job in Ottawa?\n\nAnyway, version 6.5 apparently supports hot backups by using MVCC\nto give a view of a consistent version of the database during a\npg_dump (http://postgresql.nextpath.com/doxlist.html search for 'backup')\n\nWhat you explain below is basically version-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Normally I just set up a specially designated user and set all of his\nenvironment variable accordingly.\nI don't use the Perl interface or any interface that requires compiling as\nroot.\nI can see those being a real problem without libpq versioning.\n\t-DEJ\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI don't know what SQL standards say about this, but in:\n\ntacacs=> SELECT * FROM users,counters WHERE users.username=counters.username AND\nusername='foobar';\nERROR: Column 'username' is ambiguous\n\n...username is NOT ambiguous...\n\nBye!\n\n-- \n Daniele\n\n----------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:\n>> > We certainly should think about a general speedup of NUMERIC.\n>>\n>> How would we do that? I assumed it was already pretty optimized.\n>\n> The speedup (I expect) results from the fact that the inner\n> loops of add, subtract and mult...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was looking for a function to return the number of tuples an update\nreturned, but couldn't find anything for libpq++. Any ideas?\n\nI also noticed a bug in the docs worth mentioning...\nhttp://postgresql.nextpath.com/doxlist.html\n\n PgDatabase data;\n data.exec(\"create tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmmm, leaving out the truncate would remove some of the hassle of what\nto do with segmented tables. As long as a new tuple goes into the\nbegining of the last dead area, this should work.\n\nSaying this, we would need some form of truncate, but perhaps this could\nbe done if vacuum is run ma...