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"msg_contents": "I have been doing some testing with multi-segment relations.\n(Not having sixty gigabytes laying around, like some folk I've been\ntalking to recently, I rebuilt with a very small RELSEG_SIZE for\ntesting...) I have discovered that performance goes to zero as the\nnumber of segments gets lar... |
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"msg_contents": "Welcome\n\nMay next question.\nSorry :|)\n\nI have PostgreSQL on Linux and few users connetcing to databases from\nWindows 95 where client application is Access 97.\nWhen I shutdown Win by reset or the power broke I see that on my Linux\nproceses which was created by connection from Win stay ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Fellow Developers and Hackers,\n\nAfter installing PostgreSQL 6.5.2 (on my Sparc 7) and configured as\nfollows:\n�--with-mb=UNICODE�\n\nI am getting a truncation of some varchar columns. When accessing a\nPostgreSQL table1. I get this error in my postmaster window:\n\n�ERROR: Co... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have created a small patch that makes possible to compile pgsql on newer\nCygwin snapshots (tested on 990115 which is recommended to use - it fixes\nsome errors in B20.1)\n\nAnd I have another patch for including <sys/ipc.h> before <sys/sem.h> in\nbackend/storage/lmgr/proc.c - it is ... |
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"msg_contents": "... on Slashdot of all places.\n\nSome fellow wants to install a large database on Linux and is considering\nOracle vs. PostgreSQL. (Perhaps the poster with the 60GB astronomical db\nfrom the other day could come forward?) I know you guys always wanted to\nbe on Slashdot, so here's your chanc... |
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"msg_contents": "I'll have to check /.\n\nThe 60Gb Astronomical DB is probably the TASS project (which I'm\nassociated with), but it's not 60Gb yet (about 18 at the moment), but\nit's going to grow by about 200Mb a day when it really starts.\n\nThe best person (who I know is on atleast the interfaces list) is... |
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"msg_contents": "Marc, I added a dead directory called interfaces/pgeasy that I have\nremoved via CVS, but I know the directory still exists in the CVS tree. \n(Now called libpgeasy). In fact, I know there are many directories that\nare empty in the tree.\n\nCan you figure out a way to remove them from the C... |
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"msg_contents": "I also have a slight feeling that 6.5.2 is missing bits of the current\nJDBC source. I'm not certain (won't be able to check until tonight), but\nI think this is the case.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those o... |
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"msg_contents": "rm?\n\nWell it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it\ndoes loose the archived stuff under that directory.\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\n-----O... |
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"msg_contents": "I'll check it tonight, so you should know in about 3 hours.\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\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nSent:... |
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"msg_contents": "And besides, they will be backed up before removal, right?\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]\n>> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 5:09 PM\n>> To: Peter Mount\n>> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL-development\n>> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] De... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a new HISTORY file for 6.5.3.\n\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. | Drexel Hill, Pe... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is my proposal for an outline for a PostgreSQL book. Many of us\nhave been asked by publishers about writing a book. Here is what I\nthink would be a good outline for the book.\n\nI am interested in whether this is a good outline for a PostgreSQL book,\nhow our existing documentation m... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the new PDF version of the outline. The previous version used\nthe Palatino font, which didn't convert to PDF for some reason.\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... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it worth to install cvsweb\n( http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ )\n\nHere is some info:\nhis is a WWW interface to a sample CVS tree to demonstrate the features of this\nimproved cvsweb. You can browse the file hierarchy by picking directories (which\nhave slashes after t... |
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"msg_contents": "As I begin to get a feel for the changes in PostgreSQL 7, I begin to\nthink about the changes I will have to make to the RedHat RPMs. Since\nthe 7 code is nowhere near a packageable condition as yet, I have\nrestricted my thinking to some general issues.\n\nIn the latest RPM's for RedHat fo... |
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"msg_contents": "Just to mention - there is a problem in current CVS:\n\nom:~$ createlang plpgsql template1\nERROR: Unable to locate type oid 0 in catalog\nCannot install language\n\n\tOleg\n\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of Astro... |
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"msg_contents": "it would be good idea to enable \"empty automatic insert\" like this:\n\nmydb => create table pgx_replid ( repltime time DEFAULT current_time );\nmydb => insert into pgx_replid;\n\n====\nthe above should insert the value of current_time into database pgx_replid, however it is impossible yet (... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Marc, let's not get Jan upset. :-)\n> > \n> > Bruce, to upset me Marc needs alot of more efford!\n> > \n> > And why not? If you UPDATE you'll see that we can get rid of\n> > most of the entire body. Remember - a picture says more than\n> > a thousand words :-)\n> \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhile catching up with my email, I noticed this on the general list. Is\nthere any news/updates on when SP will be available.\n\nIf were going for a 7.0 release after 6.5.3, it would be nice (and I'm\nthinking of JDBC here) of having this. It would allow me to remove the\nkludge that's alwa... |
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"msg_contents": "Man, talk about serendipity! Here's the latest on cvsweb, straight from\nthe redhat-announce list!\n\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\nPisgah Forest, North Carolina\n1 Peter 4:11\n--------------------------------------------\n\nPeter Hanecak wrote:\n> \n> hello,\n> \n> i made cvsweb-1.73... |
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"msg_contents": "The copy on cvs looks ok, although should I update it to say 6.5.3, or as\n6.5.3 is simply to include pgaccess, leave it alone?\n\nI'd go for the latter.\n\nPeter\n\n--\n Peter T Mount peter@retep.org.uk\n Main Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk\nPostgreSQL JDBC Faq: http://www.rete... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, new outline, updated to show subsection detail, with suggested\nchanges made.\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... |
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"msg_contents": "Right now any user on the local machine can log on as postgres to the\ntemplate1 database. I don't like that, so I wish to turn on password\nchecking. \n\nOK so I edit pg_hba.conf and put:\n\nlocal all password \nhost all 127.0.0.... |
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"msg_contents": "That looks good. At least this time I'm the correct side of London :-)\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\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: wieck@debis.com [mailto:wieck@d... |
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"msg_contents": "Palatino isn't one of the Base14 fonts, so unless it was included within\nthe PDF, it wouldn't work unless the viewer had the font.\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\n----... |
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"msg_contents": "There's three places, but only two go down to the sub release:\n\n\tsrc/interfaces/jdbc/postgres/jdbc1/DatabaseMetaData.java\n\tsrc/interfaces/jdbc/postgres/jdbc2/DatabaseMetaData.java\n\nThere's a string currently saying \"6.5.2\".\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone ... |
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"msg_contents": ">> New version attached. No PDF version this time. Do people like PDF?\nYes!\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:08:40 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I have the following voting results:\n\n2 for pgcreatedb, pgdropdb, pgcreateuser, pgdropuser (Bruce, me)\n1 for pg_createdb, pg_dropdb, etc. (Sergio K.)\n1/2 for pgadduser, etc., or sth. like that (Marc)\n1/2 for leave as is (Thomas)\n1 for drop altogether (Marc)\n\nWell, since this is ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everyone,\n\nI suffer from an affliction where I can't do anything technical without one of\nthem stone-aged book type things to kick me off. I would really welcome one\nupon PostgreSQL, because although I've been following this mailing list for a\nwhile, and would really love to see Post... |
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"msg_contents": "I came across problems with sorting a huge (2.4GB) table.\n\no it took 46 minutes to complete following query:\n\n\tselect * from test2 order by i desc limit 100;\n\n to get 0 results.\n\n\ti|t\n\t-+-\n\t(0 rows)\n\n I assume this is a failure.\n\n note: this is Pentium III x2 with 512MB R... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have changed a bit the makefiles for the win32 port - the *.def files\n(created when building shared libraries) are now clean from Makefile.shlib.\n\nI have also removed \"-g\" from CFLAGS in the \"cygwin32\" template - it can be\nenabled when running configure.\n\n\t\t\tDan\n\n\n---... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> New version attached. No PDF version this time. Do people like PDF?\n> Yes!\n\nOK, here is the PDF. Three pages in length. Seems I have to use Times\nRoman to get the file size acceptible for the mailing list filter.\n\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.n... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, I have the following voting results:\n\n2 for pgcreatedb, pgdropdb, pgcreateuser, pgdropuser (Bruce, me)\n1 for pg_createdb, pg_dropdb, etc. (Sergio K.)\n1/2 for pgadduser, etc., or sth. like that (Marc)\n1/2 for leave as is (Thomas)\n1 for drop altogether (Marc)\n\nWell, since this is ... |
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"msg_contents": "500 pages isn't that much once you start rambling... I have an internal\ndocument here that's already passed the 100 page mark, and it has hardly\nanything in it - well it's about NT so it's not worth much any how ;-)\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have compiled postgres on a few different Linux boxes (all Red Hat\ni386).\n\nMy question is regarding the psql program, on some of the machines\nup/down cursor lets me scroll back and forth through the history buffer,\non other machines this luxury is gone and an up cursor results i... |
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"msg_contents": "Marc threw this idea at me one day, thougth i'd bring it up.\n\nApparently Oracle has a fold out poster type deal. It shows file\nstructure of teh server, flowcharts etc. It's the kind of thing\nthat geeks put up on their(our) walls. I think it would be a simple\n/good addition to an publicat... |
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"msg_contents": "ORIGINALLY: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Tue 21 Sep 1999 16:48:57 +0200\n\nADDENDUM: The problem seems to remain in PostgreSQL 6.5.2. I have found\nrelated comments here at pgsql-hackers since about a year ago; is there any\ngeneral advice?? \n\n[Chapter 39, Programmer's Guide / PostgreSQL 6.4]\... |
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"msg_contents": "mydb=> create table roid (roid oid, rtext text);\nCREATE\nmydb=> create table rtext ( rtext text );\nCREATE\nmydb=> create rule roidset as on insert to rtext do insert into roid values ( new.oid, new.rtext );\nCREATE\nmydb=> insert into rtext values('text1');\nINSERT 17681 1\nmydb=> insert in... |
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"msg_contents": "First of all, great work. I love it. Just some minor nitpits:\n\nMy mail address while correct in the text is incorrect in the graphic. The\nmail address listed there is no longer valid, so mail may bounce.\n\nAs for the text, I have done next to nothing for multi-byte support. I guess\nthis ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI agree with this point of view : the granularity of the authentication is not small enough to allow a good setup of access security to the PG databases.\nI plan to setup a database backed web servers :\n* the databases are stored on one Linux box,\n* the Apache servers are on anoth... |
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"msg_contents": "I am not that paranoid...\nMaybe the balance between paranoia and \"administrability\" is important too. That's why the security thread is important on this Postgres mailing-lists. And the proposed TODO too.\nSide note : I'll check the security portal...\n\nNH\n\n-----Message d'origine-----\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't tab anymore in psql:\n\n\ttest=> CREATE TABLE friends (\n\ttest-> \n\tDisplay all 161 possibilities? (y or n)\n\nWhat is this. Looks like readline is assuming my tab means 'tab\ncompletion'. I don't have a problem with tab completion, but I like to\nuse tab when typing queries t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello Bruce, \n\nI've just submitted a patch to the patches list which\nimplements Oracle's COMMENT statement. It will \ninsert/update/delete the appropriate OID for the \ntable or column targeted for the comment. It should\napply cleanly against current. If it passes your\nscrutiny, I was wo... |
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"msg_contents": "Why am I writing a book?\n\nWell, when someone close to an open-source project considers a book deal\nwith a publisher, people have a right to ask.\n\nBasically, I am not doing for the money. If I was interested in only\nmoney, I wouldn't have got involved with PostgreSQL years ago.\n\nI am ... |
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"msg_contents": "(on list; interesting topic)\n\n> Tom, I'm looking at an oracle script and seeing something I haven't seen\n> before. Is this something oracle specific? Can Postgres do it?\n> CREATE OR REPLACE procedure inc_char_for_sort_key (old_char IN OUT CHAR,\n> carry_p OUT INTEGER)\n> It goes on, but... |
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"msg_contents": "Psql \\dT shows int8 as > 18 digits. As far as I can tell, int8 is ~700\ndigits in precision, right?\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 Ave... |
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"msg_contents": "Never mind. My use of 'calc' is wrong.\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. | Drexel Hill, Pe... |
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"msg_contents": " Hello,\n\n> Did you add your pg libraries path into /etc/ld.so.conf \n> (/usr/local/postgres/libs is mine) and run ldconfig?\n\nI searched the whole tree from / for ld.so.conf but did not find one.\n\nC.\n \n\n-- \nCarsten Huettl - <http://www.ahorn-Net.de>\npgp-key on request\n",
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"msg_contents": "Adult VCDs ! \ncheck out: http://movieclips.home.dhs.org\n\nOver 20 Titles to download. Come Check it out !\nbupxcqrdittsjmoshcrthbkhydwbmytlgvsuotmhdnbfsmbzndnsedxknsfnndjkbgchnuskfqnkjczyyst\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hello again,\nI thought I should start making some small contibutions before 7.0.\n\nAttached is a patch to the old problem discussed feverly before 6.5.\nWhat is does:\nfor locale-enabled servers: \n\tuse index if last char before '%' is ascii.\nfor non-locale servers: \n\tdo not use locale ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've already posted my question about NOTICE message I'm getting\nfrom vacuum but didn't get any response :-(\n\nToday I decided to do some experiments to reproduce my problem.\n\nI run two independent processes:\n\n1. send parallel requests to apache server in loop. On this request server\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----Message d'origine-----\nDe : St�phane FILLON <fillons@offratel.nc>\n� : pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>\nDate : samedi 16 octobre 1999 17:30\nObjet : Functions documentations\n\n\n>Hi !!\n>\n>I am looking for a complete list of functions we have under PostgreSQL.\n>\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n Hi hackers,\n\n 1) I programming to_char() routine (inspire with oracle, and with good \n advice from Thomas L.) Current version is on \n ftp://ftp2.zf.jcu.cz/users/zakkr/pg/ora_func.tar.gz, \n\n (In future I want implement more (oracle compatible routines (to_date, \n to_num... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm working on psql printing routines here and want to do alignment by\ndatatype. Two questions arose:\n\n1) What is the difference between/merit of \"line\" vs. \"_line\", \"cidr\" vs.\n\"_cidr\", etc.? Do I have to worry about them?\n\n2) Can I assume that the Oids for the datatypes are alw... |
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"msg_contents": "Does anyone have an archive of Marc's request to gather developers for\nPostgres95 development? It would in the May-June, 1996 time period.\n\nI had it for a long time, but accidentally deleted it. Isn't there tar\nfile of all the Postgres95 mailing list messages somewhere? I can find\nit ... |
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"msg_contents": "The intent of the COMMENT ON statement was to \nallow for users to provide comments on user tables, \nviews, and the fields which compose them as in\nORACLE. I'll expand the syntax beyond ORACLE's to \ninclude rules, triggers, and functions. Of course,\nall of these are the non-system OIDs (a... |
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"msg_contents": "Subject says all.\nIn general I want to limit output from\n\nselect ......\n intersect\nselect ......\n\nCurrent implementation of LIMIT doesn't support this.\nAre there any solutions ?\n\n\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov... |
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"msg_contents": "... yeah, me neither.\n\nHi all, I have an interesting one for you today. I'm writing a new \\dd\ncommand (one that actually works), and I have come across the following\nsituation:\n\nSELECT DISTINCT a.aggname as \"Name\" FROM pg_aggregate a\n UNION ALL\nSELECT DISTINCT p.proname as \"Name\... |
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"msg_contents": "what about this:\n( it would be nice to have it working, specially for copying values from files into table with default fields, having the default fields doing their job or initialising tables using reduced set of columns )\n\nmydb=> create sequence MYSEQ;\nCREATE\nmydb=> create table MYTAB ... |
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"msg_contents": "--- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:\n> Anyway, the \\dd command was kind of odd in that it\n> only displayed comments\n> but not what the comments went with.\n> \n> The way I currently have implemented the comments is\n> like this:\n> (Ignoring the actual output format, which is\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\nmy problem is simple but very frustrating,\n\nI wrote some program under Windows 95 (MS VC++ 4.0).\nThis program uses MFC ODBC classes (CRecordset and CDatabase) to\ncooperate with my PostgreSQL 6.3 (installed on RedHat 5.1 linux) via\npsqlodbc driver.\nI can connect to my databse, I... |
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"msg_contents": "+----------------------------------+------------------------------------+\n| Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383 |\n| President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528 |\n| 114 W. Franklin Ave, Suite K1,10 | email: bruc@acm.org ... |
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"msg_contents": "Does this look strange to anyone:\n\ntest=> create table kk1 (born date);\nCREATE\ntest=> select * from kk1;\nborn\n----\n(0 rows)\n\ntest=> insert into kk1 values ('1/1/1990');\nINSERT 18588 1\ntest=> select * from kk1;\n born\n----------\n01-01-1990\n(1 row)\n\nLook how 'born' is right... |
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"msg_contents": "\n------- Forwarded Message\n\nDate: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:45:23 +1300\nFrom: Andrew McMillan <Andrew@cat-it.co.nz>\nTo: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>\nSubject: Postgres problems with 6.4 / 6.5\n\nHi,\n\nI have a couple of problems with Postgres 6.5 and I'm not sure where to\nput ... |
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"msg_date": "Tue, 19 Oct 1999 06:17:15 +0000 (GMT)",
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"msg_contents": "Jan, I like it.\n\nThere's an oldish pic of me on http://www.retep.org.uk/contact/ - it's\nabout 6 months old, so I could do a new one if you want.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Coun... |
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"msg_contents": "Use the one that's currently online.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: wieck@debis.com [mailto:wieck@debis.com]\nSent: 19 October 1999 12:42\nTo: petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk\nCc: wieck@debis.com; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: New developer globe\n\n\nPeter Mou... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is something I read as part of the Alladin Ghostscript 6.0 beta\nrelease. I must admit I don't understand the logic of the issue. It\nseems the issue is that you can link non-GPL to GPL libraries, but you\ncan't distribute the result. Maybe it doesn't apply to us because we\ndon't co... |
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"msg_contents": "And, of course, in the next release (or in current),\nyou'll be able to do a:\n\nTRUNCATE TABLE frequentlyusedtable;\nINSERT INTO frequentlyusedtable SELECT...;\n\nand not have to worry about ever-growing indexes,\ngrants, etc.\n\n;-)\n\nMike Mascari\n(mascarim@yahoo.com)\n\n--- Tom Lane <tgl... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, yesterday I signed contracts from Addison, Wesley, Longman for a\nbook on PostgreSQL. I got approval from Marc, Thomas, Vadim, and Tom\nLane. I also sent them a resume which was approved by the core group.\n\nI have redesigned the outline because some of the chapters were too\nlong, and... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, I have the needed text, and it is ready to go in both PDF and HTML.\n\nWhere do people want it?\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 Avenu... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp]\n> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:45 PM\n> To: Tom Lane\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] mdnblocks is an amazing time sink in huge\n> relations \n> \n> \n> > \n> > \"Hiroshi Inoue\" <I... |
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"msg_contents": "\nNow I thought this was discussed recently and this:\n\ncreate table foo(\nx int,\ny datetime default current_time);\n\nwould put the current date and time into y whenever a new record was\ninserted. It appears to give the date and time the stupid table was\ncreated. Is it me o... |
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"msg_contents": "Since no one replied in pg-general, I am reposting to hackers.\n\nQ1:\nLet's say I want to create a '+' operator for <my own type> + int4. Do I\nreally have to\ndefine two '+' operators, one\n\n<my own type> + int\n\nand the other\n\nint + <my own type>\n\nQ2:\n\nCan I create an operator '::'... |
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"msg_contents": "> application. Indeed, this book project is considerably more likely\n> to return tangible benefit to the Postgres group (in the form of new\n> users/contributors attracted to the project) than most other ways\n> people might be using Postgres to make money.\n\nExactly! No need to apologize ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom wrote:\n\n[snip]\n\n> I've noticed that Jan and a couple of other people have put copyright\n> notices in their own names on files that they've created from scratch,\n> but I feel uncomfortable with that practice. The Ghostscript/readline\n> fiasco illustrates the potential problems yo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBruce wrote:\n\n[snip]\n\n> > Although I haven't been paying close attention to the Ghostscript\n> > situation, I suspect that the real story is either that the readline\n> > interface code that someone contributed to Ghostscript was\ncontributed\n> > with GPL terms already attached to it, ... |
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"msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:36:55 +0200 (CEST)",
"msg_from": "Gerd Thielemann AEK <gerd@fru19.hub.de>",
"msg_from_op": true,
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"msg_contents": "What's the status of patch which enables using indices in \nORDER BY .../ desc ? I use it with 6.5.2 without any problem.\nWill it come to upcoming 6.5.3 ? \nIt seems that it's already applied to current.\n\n\n\tRegards,\n\n\t\tOleg\n___________________________________________________________... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there anyone knows how to hack 'Chris Jones' Encryption algorithmn or,\nwhether there are softwares for hacking the key/algorithmn of 'Chris Jones\nEncryption'?\n\nThanks.\n\nPeter\n\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:27:43 +0800",
"msg_from": "\"HSBC\" <@hkstar.com>",
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"msg_contents": "> I have downloaded and installed your packaged RPM for the Pg.pm module for\n> PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on RedHat 6.0 i386 linux and cannot be found by perl.\n> Is my problem unique? When I run a perl script with 'use Pg;' in it I get:\n> Can't locate Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.0... |
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"msg_contents": "AFAICT, the last remaining textual length limits in the backend are a\ncouple of fixed-size buffers in rewriteDefine.c and array support.\nIn the next few days (probably this weekend) I intend to fix that code\nand then remove all #define constants that have anything to do with\nstring length... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, the book in on our web site now in HTML and PDF formats. It will be\nupdated automatically very night.\n\nGo to:\n\n\thttp://www.postgresql.org/docs\n\nUnder documentation, you will see the entry \"Published Book\".\n\n>From our main web site, it is under Info Central/Documentation.\n\nC... |
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"msg_contents": "Should we be checking it for any semantic errors?\nIf we find one, do we win a prize? ;-) On node24, \n\"Creating Tables\" you have:\n\nThe words CREATE TABLE have special meaning to the \ndatabase server. They indicate that the next request \nfrom the user is to create a database.\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI was looking at the translate function and I think that it does not\nbehave quite right. I modified the translate function in\noracle_compat.c (included below) to make work more like its Oracle\ncounterpart. It seems to work but it returns the following message:\n\tNOTICE: Po... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs this the way distinct is supposed to work? My intent is to give\nonly one for each different value of x - like it does in the first\ndistinct example. But when order by is added for the date/time sort\nI get what you see in the second distinct example.\n\npop4=> select * from foo;\nx|y... |
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"msg_contents": "psql now shows new text on startup. The old one just looked bad.\nHope the psql upgrader can merge these changes in. I know we weren't\nsupposed to touch psql, but I suspect he is not touching the banner.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOLD:\... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just found this on the cygwin list - may be of interest with this\nthread.\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: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earn... |
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"msg_contents": "After sending this, I noticed that here they are not mentioning the LGPL\n(used be called the Library GPL, now the Lesser GPL), which covers\nlinking GPL'ed libraries into non-GPL'ed binaries.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my... |
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"msg_contents": "Afternoon, all\n\nI just tried this on Oracle, and it wouldn't accept the query. It seems\nthat once you mention DISTINCT, it won't expand the target list. The actual\nmessage was:\n\n--------------------------------------------------------\nSQL> select distinct x from mikea_test order by y... |
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"msg_contents": "> select distinct f1 from t1 order by f2;\n> \n> Returned the following message under Oracle8 on NT:\n> ORA-01791: not a SELECTed expression\n\nInformix: 309: ORDER BY column (f2) must be in SELECT list. \n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:48:38 +0200",
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"msg_contents": "\nThis was posted on the cygwin list (and cc'd to me) about the GPL and\nCygWin:\n\n<quote>\nIf you use cygwin1.dll in your application then your\napplication must be made available as open source. The way to avoid\nthis is to compile your program using the -mno-cygwin option.\n\nIf you are ... |
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"msg_contents": "Most of it, as I've downloaded the source. I think there are some parts\nthey don't release, but I'm not sure.\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-----Original Message-----\nF... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Damond Walker\" <dwalker@black-oak.com> writes:\n> Returned the following message under MS SQL Server 7.0:\n> ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is\n> specified.\n\nSure looks like that is the consensus answer to the semantics problem...\nguess we should do... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\n\t(This is a repost from a mail to -general, as nobody could \nanswer me, and acording to the Mailing Lists home page, I'm sending it \nhere.)\n\tMaybe somebody could give some clue about what is happening:\n\n\tI have 6.5.0 running over Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC. I have a \ndatabase with 5... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\n\t(This is a repost from a mail to -general, as nobody could \nanswer me, and acording to the Mailing Lists home page, I'm sending it \nhere.)\n\tMaybe somebody could give some clue about what is happening:\n\n\tI have 6.5.0 running over Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC. I have a \ndatabase with 5... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis discussion really scares me in two ways:\n1. U of C licences aren't to be removed or extended (they are still a \ncopyrighted part themselves)\n2. GNU readline is a optional (though convenient) part of postgreSQL\n(If someone wants to make money with postgreSQL he simply must not link ... |
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