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"msg_contents": "> >> Actually, it shouldn't matter whether the server is 6.6-without-SSL\n> >> or pre-6.6. At least in the way I envisioned it, they'd act the same.\n> \n> > The 6.6-without-SSL still knows about the NEGOTIATE_SSL_CODE packet that\nis\n> > sent, and can respond \"No, I can't do SSL\". The pr... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks Tom,\n\nYou were correct, as always. The query was wrong. \nI apologize for wasting your time. I needed to \nencase the chained OR clauses in parens...I'll try \nand purge that Slip.\n\nSorry,\n\nMike Mascari\nmascarim@yahoo.com\n\n--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> Mike Masc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs't possible to use SELECT FOR UPDATE in functions ?\nI have function for 'insert or update' which works ok, but as I have some \nproblem with duplicated records I tried as suggested by Tom Lane to use \nSELECT FOR UPDATE instead of just select. Unfortunately it doesn't works:\n\nERROR: q... |
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"msg_contents": "At 12:29 24/07/99 -0400, you wrote:\n>Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:\n>> I did some benchmarks of my Web site and notice I lost some hits\n>> which I accumulate in postgres (6.5.1) database on Linux 2.0.36 system\n>\n>> CREATE FUNCTION \"acc_hits\" (int4) RETURNS int4 AS '\n>> Declar... |
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"msg_contents": "Note: Sent to NetBSD and PostgreSQL mailing lists as I am not sure\nexactly where the problem lies.\n\nI am running PostgreSQL 6.5 on a NetBSD system running -current. When\nI try to include my user defined type I get the following error.\n\nERROR: Load of file /usr/pgsql/modules/glaccount... |
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"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\n First, please forget my English is very poor. So that, I made a patch\nfor support gettext function of GNU C Library to show other languages by\nsetting locale.\n\n This is the first version that I hack PostgreSQL, and I had made only the\nsome files w... |
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"msg_contents": "I will be in Moscow from 27.07 till 01.08...\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:55:35 +0800",
"msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>",
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"msg_subject": "don't lose me :)"
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Vadim Mikheev wrote:\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Having looked, albeit briefly, at what I think is the relevant code, I have\nnow come up with a plan.\n\n1. Don't introduce modules. For the moment, just introduce features\nconsistent with handling modules later. The reasons for this are: (1) I\ndon't really like them yet and we don't need t... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>> First, please forget my English is very poor. So that, I made a patch\n>> for support gettext function of GNU C Library to show other languages by\n>> setting locale.\n>> \n>> This is the first version that I hack PostgreSQL, and I had... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAny ideas?\n\n--\n Peter T Mount peter@retep.org.uk\n Main Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk\nPostgreSQL JDBC Faq: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres\n Java PDF Generator: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: 24 Jul 99 16:56:28 +0800\nFrom: ... |
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"msg_contents": "Why does anything need to be broken if a different port is used? Same way\nas web browsers use 80 for clear http, and 443 (by default) for SSL. But a\nserver cannot dish up http and https on the same port. Then the whole\ncompatibility issue falls away. Think of it as using 'pgsql' for cl... |
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"msg_contents": "Andreas,\n\nI rewrote my function but got a problem how to know if update fails:\n\nCREATE FUNCTION \"acc_hits\" (int4) RETURNS datetime AS ' \nDeclare\n keyval Alias For $1;\n cnt int4;\n curtime datetime;\nBegin\n curtime := ''now'';\n Update hits set count =... |
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"msg_contents": "Hannu wrote:\n>> Actually you are free to use HTTPS on 80 and HTTP on 443 if you wish.\n>> \nI understand this; the point that I was trying to make was that they run on\ndifferent ports. I don't think that it's possible to run both http and\nhttps on the same port at the same time on the sam... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWell, I got psql to work with arbitrary query string lengths, eventually, by\nimplementing an expandable buffer struct. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the\nstuff to work today, so it'll only be in the patches tomorrow.\nThis means that the query buffer length will not be restricted in ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm a little bit confused with http://www.postgresql.org\n\n1. Netscape 3.04 totally unusable to browse postgres site - \n I see only text of javascript\n2. Lynx works better, but still when select \"Info Central\" I see nothing !\n\nAlso, don't forget ALT=\"\" for inline images (not... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI discovered the following bug which is new in 6.5.1:\n\n template1=> CREATE TABLE user_selektor (user char(16), selektor int4);\n ERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"user\"\n ERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"user\"\n template1=> CREATE TABLE user_selektor (uuser c... |
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"msg_contents": "All it would do is include the -g switch when compiling. At the moment,\nthis doesn't happen, and the --enable-debug is a fairly standard switch in\nthe other packages that I've seen that use autoconf. Is there some other\nway that it is done using the configure script?\n\nBruce Momjian wro... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> (Hmm, now that you mention it, --enable-debug would be a cleaner\n> solution than keeping a locally modified template file, which is\n> what I currently do and most of the other developers probably do\n> also ... another to-do item ...)\n> \nI use Makefile.custom, this will not be messed ... |
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"msg_contents": "I work for Hewlett-Packard and we are using PosgreSQL 6.5 internally to collect \ndata about the servers we manage in the data center.\n\n-Ryan\n\n> Morning all...\n> \n> \tJust had someone inquire as to whether any of the 'Fortune 500'\n> companies are using PostgreSQL ...\n> \n> \tDon't kno... |
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"msg_contents": "Another thing that whoever is implementing BLOBS will have to be aware of\nis making sure that access to individual BLOBS is controlled by the\n'owning' table.\n\nI don't know if an implementation has been settled on, but at one point it\nwas suggested that BLOBs be stored in a single table. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nafter I got DBIlogging work, I run several tests and noticed performance \ndegradation when doing sequential updating of *one* row.\n\nI have 5 processes updated the same row. I use\nLOCK TABLE hits IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE\n\nWhen I run 200 requests I got about 16 req/sec, which ... |
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"msg_contents": "Many thanks to everyone who helped so far especially Todd Vierling for\nthe RTFF. I think I am closer but I still have a problem. Here is the\nrule in my makefile now.\n\n.o.so:\n ld -shared -L${PGDIR}/lib --export-dynamic -rpath ${PGDIR}/lib \\\n -lpq -lc -o $@ $<\n\nldd now ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nI've noticed that some messages are coming through to me very late - like\ntwenty days late. Is this a problem with my incoming server, or is anybody\nelse experiencing the same thing. Right now, I'm receiving mail that was\nsent on the 8th of July.\n\nPlease respond to me, so as... |
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"msg_contents": "I've posted RPMs for v6.5.1 at\n\n ftp://postgresql.org/pub/{RPMS,SRPMS}/*.rpm\n\nPlease report any problems (or successes!) though things should be\npretty smooth since the build was almost identical to that for v6.5.\nNote that a dump/reload is not necessary if you already have v6.5 RPMs\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> This is for table with one row after a lot of updates.\n> Too much. vacuum analyze this table was a good medicine !\n> Is this a design problem ? \n> \nIn PostgreSQL an update always adds a new row to the table.\nThe old rows get eliminated by vacuum that is the whole business of vacuum... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes, I tracked it down to smtp2.a2000.nl. So they are duplicates? I\nthought that they were originals, that I was receiving late. OK, fine, at\nleast I didn't miss the conversation.\n\nThanks, Tom\n\n\nMikeA\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n>>... |
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"msg_contents": "(back on list, since this is a topic of general RH interest imho)\n\n> > I've posted RPMs for v6.5.1 at\n> I'm curious why the rpm installs place postgres files in different\n> directories than does the .tgz source files. When I installed 6.4.2, I had\n> all sorts of problems with the rpm ver... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I have no problems with this...I heard an outcry for a bug-tracking\n> > system, and this was the better known one, so installed it. If ya wanna\n> > trash it, be my guest...I have no attachments to it :)\n> If you're gonna trash it, let me know slightly in advance so I can remove\n> the... |
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"msg_contents": "Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com) suggested the following test for ELFness.\nSeems pretty portable to me.\n\nThus spake Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)\n>On NetBSD, the following will do it. This may even be platform independednt\n>if \"grep -q\" is replaced by \"grep >/dev/null 2>&1\".\n>\n>if echo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOdd...this is a v6.5.1 system...I thought we had fixed this?\n\nhardware=> vacuum;\nNOTICE: Index products_category: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (3360) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (5355)\nNOTICE: Index products_vendor: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (5089) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (5355)\nVACUUM\n\n\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "First, thanks for installing a bug-tracking system.\n\nWriting from an end-user's perspective, I agree and support Tom Lane's\npoints.\n\nTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n> We want read-only access for everyone, I think, but limiting the number\n> of people who can enter and update slips... |
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"msg_contents": "Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:\n>So, I need a cron job to vaccuum database. I'm curious how mysql works\n>so fast and has no problem in Web environment. I know some sites with\n>mysql logging and millions of updates every day.\n\nThe mysql faq explains this in detail. The short answ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nThere is a TODO item\n* Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup\n\nIn Windows-NT,we could see the following error reported by \nyutaka tanida [yutaka@marin.or.jp]. \n\n> version\n> ------------------------------------------------------------\n> Postgre... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> So, the selectivity that a search for the most common value would\n> have is a reasonable estimate for the selectivity of a search for any\n> value. That's a bogus assumption in this case --- but it's hard to\n> justify making any other assumption in general.\n> \nOther db's usually use ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Yes, I think we index nulls. What are partial indexes?\n> \nA create index statement that accepts a where condition. All\nrows that satisfy the where condition are indexed, others not.\nThis needs intelligence in the optimizer.\n\nThis was in postgresql code some time ago, but was remove... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ntesting of DBIlogging to postgres I've got serious problem\nwith performance degradation during updates.\nIn my case I got 15-16 req/sec for the first 1000 updates which drops down\nto 1-2 req. sec after 20000 updates. This is quite unusable even for\nmedium Web site. As Tom Lane notic... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> BTW, this argument proves rigorously that the selectivity of a search\n> for any value other than the MFOV is not more than 0.5, so there is some\n> basis for my intuition that eqsel should not return a value above 0.5.\n> So, in the cases where eqsel does not know the exact value being\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nHas anyone tried tocompile with SYSLOGD facility enabled ?\nI just tried 6.5.1 but couldn't compiled on Linux 2.2.10:\n\ntrace.c: In function \u0014printf':\ntrace.c:119: \fOG_INFO' undeclared (first use in this function)\ntrace.c:119: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only onc... |
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"msg_contents": "I just installed 6.5.1 on my RH 6.0 PII/400 MHz machine. I had\npreviously been running the database on 6.4.2 and had several backups\nmade through pgdump. When I tried to restore the database (i.e. psql -e\ndb01 < db.backup) all of the tables were created, but only some of them\nhad data. Th... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\ndo you have some patch to get vacuum analyze truncate index file ?\nI expect it will be enough to live with current implementation of\nupdate if vacuum analyze will works properly even without row reuse\nin update. \n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n____________________________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there any autoconf guru?\n\nI have lots problems Autoconf + C++ library.\n\nif I make CC=CXX, configure can't find libpq,\n AC_CHECK_LIB(pq, PQexec)\n\nbecause it try link PQexec() - and it is missing \n\nif I keep CC as cc \nAC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdlib.h>\n#include <sys/types.h>\n#in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been mulling over the idea of using stringinfo for psql, but I don't\nthink that it's such a good idea, because it means that I would be linking\nstuff from the backend sub-tree into client tools. Stringinfo is a module\nwhich implements an expandable string buffer which already ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Bruce,\n> \n> \n> \n> Dead sure. It took me some time to locate the offending line. I\n> initially thought it was a shell expansion problem.\n\nYikes. Is this the expected behavour? Does anyone else see this?\n\n> \n> The platform is RedHat linux 6.0 with egcs-2.91.66.\n> [me@linny2 src]... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm a new Linux user, RH6.0. PostgreSQL-6.4.2-3. The package was\ninstalled when I installed the RH cd.\n\nThis is the error message I get on startup: (linuxconf log)\n\nExecuting: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S85postgesql start\n * /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system. Expected\nto... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'm sending individual E-mail because I think this subject should not be\n> discussed in mailing list.\n\nIt is appropriate for the mailing list, so try that next time please.\n\n> I just thought that external representation(output) of datetime should be\n> the same as input.\n> Does anybod... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi. There is interest at work in doing some fairly simple inventory\ncontrol using a database. We've already got Postgres up and running\n(for obvious reasons) and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions\nfor a good approach to app development for brower-based user\ninterfaces.\n\nThere are... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a way that I can supress the column heading and the \"(# rows)\"\nwhich come before and after the following psql command:\n\npsql -e db01 -c \"select tablename from pg_tables where tablename NOT\nLIKE 'pg%'\"\n\n\nThe current output is:\n\ntablename\n=======\ntable1\ntable2\ntable3\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Thank you for your http://www.postgresql.org/doxlist.html\n\nI was hoping to find whether PostgreSQL supports\n\n - transactions\n - stored procedures or triggers\n - PHP3\n\nI was also hoping to find PostgreSQL compared with mySQL,\nwithin the grid.\n\nAgain just 2cents worth\n\n* Todd F. Bo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, \n\nI am receiving the following error quite a bit lately. I am connecting\nvi perl and Pg. What could I do to prevent this error if anything.\n\nError-WARN:WaitOnLock: error on wakeup - Aborting this transaction\n\nThanks.\n-- \nChristopher Hutton\n(847) 265-2028\n\n\"PocketCard, the ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFurther to the Alpha thread, is this something that could safely be put in\nthe -stable tree? \n\nOn Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util\n> In directory hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv38342\n> \n> Modified Files:\n> \tpathnode.c \n> Lo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust curious, but why...?\n\nrevision 1.10\ndate: 1999/07/13 20:00:37; author: momjian; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2\nRedefine cpu's as __cpu__. Only for 6.6 branch.\n\n\nWhy 'Only for 6.6...'? \n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Admi... |
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"msg_contents": "Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:\n>The learning curve is surprising shallow, with any experienced\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n>programmer taking maybe a day or so to get up to speed on AOLserver's\n>dialect of tk-less tcl. I have run this system for over two years, and\n>it works very well... |
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"msg_contents": "> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql\n> from hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv74621\n> Modified Files:\n> HISTORY\n> v6.6's HISTORY file should reflect changes that went into all previous\n> releases, including v6.5.1 ...\n\nThis file is generated from the SGML sources, with a minor\nhand-ed... |
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"msg_contents": "[ Sorry for not getting in on the fun earlier, but I'm not subscribed to\npgsql-ports, so I had no idea this discussion was going on over there. ]\n\nBruce wrote yesterday:\n> My recommendation(hold on to your seats) is to take the current cvs\n> tree, patch it with Uncle George's patches and... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok, they are finally here.... This is an initial release to just\nthe pgsql lists. If no one sees any problems with the below announcement\nor patches, I will then forward them on to the rest of the world (save for\nthe RH pgsql packager, as I do not have his email address). Also, as\nothers ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have PostgreSQL 6.4.2 installed since before and it was pretty easy to\ncompile it except for a few minor things. But but today I planned to\nupgrade to version 6.5.1. So I made a pg_dumpall and backed up the rest and\ndeleted my /usr/local/pgsql to install the new version there.\n\nThe com... |
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"msg_contents": "At 11:55 1999-07-31 -0400, you wrote:\n>Roberth Andersson <roberth@jump-gate.com> writes:\n>> BUT when I wrote \"postmaster -i\" I got a big\n>> problem which I have never got ever before and I don't know why. Here is\n>> the error message from postmaster ->\n>\n>> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget fai... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust curious...why can't he just reboot?\n\nMike Mascari \n(mascarim@yahoo.com)\n\n--- Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:\n> > >I am running BSDI here. Try using\n> pgsql/bin/ipcclean to remove the\n> > >current shared memory stuff. Seems the old\n> version did not clean up ... |
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"msg_contents": "At 11:17 1999-07-31 -0700, you wrote:\n>Just curious...why can't he just reboot?\n>\n>Mike Mascari \n>(mascarim@yahoo.com)\n\nBecuase this is a server with many customers/users, we rather let it stay\nas long as possible online without any reboot, we only reboots if we REALLY\nneeds to do tha... |
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"msg_contents": "I re-enabled pg_upgrade this afternoon, thinking that it would be easier\nto use than dump/initdb/reload for coping with the pg_statistic change\nI'm about to commit. However, testing shows that it doesn't really\nwork. The \"upgraded\" database behaves very strangely --- vacuum tends\nto f... |
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"msg_contents": "I have just committed changes that require a recompile and initdb\nwhen next you pull the current CVS sources. Be warned.\n\nThe changes revise the contents of the pg_statistic system table\nin order to support more accurate selectivity estimation, as per\ndiscussions a few days ago.\n\nI ha... |
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"msg_contents": "[postgresql lists added to Cc in hope of elucidation]\n\nAdam Di Carlo wrote:\n >\n >[Background: PostgreSQL is causing extremely hard crashes on my Sun4u\n >(Ultra5) Debian SPARC system. Anyone should be able to reproduce this\n >by installing the postgresql-test environment, and runnin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n For the first question, I remember hackers had decided not to implement\nit - it is more important to send crypted passwords over the wires, right?\n\nOleg.\n---- \n Oleg Broytmann http://members.xoom.com/phd2/ phd2@earthling.net\n Programmers don't die, they ju... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\n We've discussed the issue and got to conclusion - Postgres needs to\nimplement more granulated rights. Currently user after connecting to DB can\ndo almost anything, at least she can create its own tables and do whatever\nshe wants.\n\n I want to compare the situation to MySQL. In... |
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"msg_contents": "We have been having some trouble with our C programs that access the SQL\ndatabase since upgrading from PostgreSQL 6.4.2 to 6.5.1. It looks as\nthough the header size for the binary cursor has changed from 20 bytes\nto 16 bytes. Can anyone confirm this?\n\n-Tony\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> There is *no* header overhead for binary data as far as libpq or the\n> FE/BE protocol is concerned; what you get from PQgetvalue() is just\n> a pointer to whatever the backend's internal representation of the\n> data type is. It's certainly possible for particular data ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nLinuxDev.Net is currently conducting a poll of \"The Most Popular DBMS\", at\nhttp://linuxdev.net. Currently, PostgreSQL ia in second place, with 21\nout of 84 votes, while MySQL is in first with 33...\n\nEven if you aren't using Linux, take a minute and make your vote...we like\nto see Po... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI am trying to get postgresql to store data from MS-Project via ODBC. So\nfar I have managed to get pretty close, but the save operation fails when\ncreating a table with one column specified as \"fieldname bytea(8)\".\nPostgresql does not like the precision argument and bombs out wit... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI noticed some activities in REL6_5_PATCHES branch. \nDo we need 6.5.2 release ?\n\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\n\t\tOleg\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everybody.\n\nWe've gotten a few requests for a distributed version of postgresql.\nThere's two models that I think could work for this. What I'm looking \nfor is two things:\n\t1. Any opinions on which option to take.\n\t2. Anyone willing to work on the project.\n\nThe features people ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everybody.\n\nAs well, a few have been asking about multi-threading.\n\nMarc has told me about the past discussions on it. \nI'm interested in re-opening some discussion on it, as we may eventually\nhave funding to do help with it.\n\nWould it not be advantageous to use threading in the P... |
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"msg_contents": "This was one of the points I was talking about in the original message.\nThis way, it's still one session per backend, but uses threads to improve\nthroughput...\n\t\"(While one thread is waiting for the disk to respond to \n\t an IO request, another processes the last chunk of data)\"\n\nThi... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy> writes:\n> Another 'mega-commit' of back-patches ... \n> \n> - - integrating the #include file cleanup that Bruce recently did\n> - - got the CPU change to adt/Makefile \n> - - changing DOUBLEALIGN -> MAXALIGN\n\nIs anyone else disturbed by wholesale changes to ... |
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"msg_contents": "A few weeks ago, George Young <gry@ll.mit.edu> complained that the\nfollowing query:\n\n> select os.name,r.run_name,ro.status from opset_steps os,runs r,\n> run_opsets ro where (ro.status=3 or ro.status=1) and\n> ro.opset_id=os.opset_id and ro.run_id=r.run_id and\n> ro.opset_ver=os.opset_ver ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been getting the following error out of the backend (followed by a\ngeneral demise of the system)\n\nERROR: btree scan list trashed; can't find 0x1401e38c0\n\nAnybody know what this means? I've spent a day trying to figure out what\nI'm doing wrong, but this gives me no clues. It seems ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis is idle curiosity, I was looking through some papers I found on deferred \nbalancing of btrees, with the idea of implementing it (for coldstore.)\n\nThe idea is that you only need to lock a couple of pages for update, and you \ncome back later to rebalance the tree.\n\nSomeone sug... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > As well, a few have been asking about multi-threading.\n> > > Any thoughts?\n> > \n> > Threads within a client backend might be interesting. [...]\n> \n> Hmm, what about threads in the frontend? Anyone know if libpq \n> is thread\n> safe, and if not, how hard it might be to make it so?\... |
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"msg_contents": ":\n> > Hmm, what about threads in the frontend? Anyone know if \n> libpq is thread\n> > safe, and if not, how hard it might be to make it so?\n> \n> It is not; the main reason why not is a brain-dead part of \n> the API that\n> exposes modifiable global variables. Check the mail list archive... |
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"msg_contents": "Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:\n\n> Right. As I've been able to make out so far, in Mariposa a query passes\n> through the regular parser and single-site optimizer, then the selected\n> plan tree is handed to a 'fragmenter' to break the work up into chunks,\n> which are then handed around to a 'bro... |
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"msg_contents": "I know that I can't insert a tuple into Postgres > 8192 KBytes long. We\nneed to store data in a variable length float array which can take up a\ntotal length of greater than this amount. To get around the limit, we\nsimply insert a zeroed array (which takes up less character space) and\nthen... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> It is not; the main reason why not is a brain-dead part of \n> >> the API that exposes modifiable global variables.\n> \n> > Hmm. Really?\n> \n> PQconnectdb() is the function that's not thread-safe; if you had\n> multiple threads invoking PQconnectdb() in parallel you would see a\n> prob... |
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"msg_contents": "Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com> writes:\n>> What Postgres version are you using, and on what platform? If it's\n>> anything older than 6.5.1, an upgrade would probably be a good idea.\n\n> Sorry, I should have mentioined that. I'm using 6.5.0 on DEC Alpha\n> (Digital Unix, compiled ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Thomas,\n\nI have been noticing that if I write something like\n\t... WHERE float8column < 33;\nthe system is not very smart about it, whereas\n\t... WHERE float8column < 33.0;\nworks fine. The reason is that what the optimizer gets handed in the\nfirst case is actually\n\t... WHERE float... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSQL92 seems to assume that results of the INTERSECT/EXCEPT contain no\nduplications unless \"ALL\" is specified. However PostgreSQL 6.5.1 does\nnot follow the requirement, I think. Maybe we need to add this to the\nTODO list?\n---\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 05 Aug 1999 1... |
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"msg_contents": "> Thanks for packaging up PG 6.5.1 into RPM's, but I do have one\n> suggestion. Please include the static .a libraries as well as\n> the dynamic .so libraries so I can create statically linked\n> PG client apps.\n\nGood point. We'll do that for the next round.\n\n - Thoma... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust a short note to let everyone know that any email sent to me from\ntomorrow (1800UT) won't be read for a week, as I'm away to see the\nEclipse.\n\nNormally I wouldn't send this sort of email, except that I receive a good\nnumber of emails asking about JDBC problems, so I thought if I se... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone was just complaining over in the sql list about the poor\nperformance of\n\nselect name,description from descriptions \nwhere name in (select name \n\t\tfrom descriptions \n\t\twhere description like '%Bankverbindung%');\n\nSince the inner query is uncorrelated with the outer, there's... |
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"msg_contents": "I've posted a tarball of new man pages at\n\n ftp://postgresql.org/pub/doc/man.tar.gz\n\nI *think* these are ready for prime time, or close to it. They are\ngenerated completely automatically from the sgml sources, using some\npatched perl utilities. I'll try to post the complete set of docs... |
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"msg_contents": "On 4 Aug, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> [ Snip discussion regarding PQconnectdb()s thread-safety ]\n> \n> If you want to work on it, be my guest...\n\nI don't have time to think about this today, so I can't comment on how\nit should work, but I _am_ currently working in this area - I am\nproviding no... |
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"msg_contents": "I thought that all correlated and uncorrelated sub-queries could be\nrewritten as a join, simplifying the query tree. It should be a mechanical\nprocess which can probably be performed in the rewriter.\n\nSomebody put me right.\n\nMikeA\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Bruce Momjia... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis one takes the cake...by default, I guess, when you create the\ncolumn, it is not-case sensitive...you have to create the column as\nsomething like:\n\n\tCOL1 VARCHAR(12) BINARY\n\nto make it case sensitive...\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scr... |
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"msg_contents": "Are we going to release subj in near future?\nIf yes then please wait a few days - seems that I'll\nhave patch for btree to fix problems reported by\nOleg Bartunov - indices growing/update slowdown...\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:59:38 +0800",
"msg_from": "Vadim Mikhe... |
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"msg_contents": "I have received a report that pl/plpgsql requires bison to compile. I\nhave verified this is true, at least on BSD/OS 4.01, and since we enable\nplpgsql compile by default, this requires bison for our standard build.\n\nThe issue appears to be contents of gram.tab.c, which is part of our\ndi... |
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"msg_contents": "Excuse me for asking in this list about other.\n\n\nI�ve send some subscription mails to majordomo@campus.iztacala.unam.mx and\nno reply.\n\nI�ve tried to acces to www.iztacala.unam.mx with no success, the pings don�t\nwork. Some body knows if there is any change in address?.\n\nThanks.... |
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"msg_contents": "Announcing release 2 of the lamar owen (lo) series of testing RPMS\navailable now at http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres.\n\nRPM naming has been changed in this release to hopefully avoid confusion\nwith RPMS built by Thomas on ftp.postgresql.org. \n\nAlpha CPU users should download the sr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWith my system I get it to do a full pg_dump once per hour so that if\nanything goes wrong I can go back to the previous hours information if\nneeded. One thing I did notice is that the whole process of the COPY\ncommand is highly CPU bound, the postgres will use up all available CPU\n... |
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"msg_contents": "The current CVS version of pl/plpgsql/src/gram.y may work for plain\nyacc, but it fails with bison :-(\n\nI think the only real solution will be to stop trying to compile the\nyacc and lex output files as one C compilation, and compile them\nseparately like everyone else does it...\n\nIn the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIn v6.5\n\n Prevent sorting if result is already sorted\n\nwas implemented by Jan Wieck.\nHis work is for ascending order cases.\n\nHere is a patch to prevent sorting also in descending\norder cases.\nBecause I had already changed _bt_first() to position\nbackward correctly b... |
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"msg_contents": "Looks like autoconf has been updated.\n\nJust an FYI.\n\n-Ryan\n\n------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------\n\n> I've descovered a problem with autoconf 2.13 on HP-UX 11.00. Config.sub \nreturns \n> one of the following values which is not recongized by config.sub.\n\n> \thppa2.0n... |
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"msg_contents": "It seem that a drop table while in a transaction keeps the table but not the\ndata. Bug? or undocumented feature?\n\ntestcase=> select * from t;\ni\n-\n(0 rows)\n\ntestcase=> insert into t VALUES(1); \nINSERT 551854 1\ntestcase=> insert into t VALUES(2); \nINSERT 551855 1\ntestcase=> insert ... |
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