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[ { "msg_contents": " > As just said, this is a good thing from the point of view of\n > encouraging participation and commercial success. As long as the open\n > source version of postgresql remains a well-designed, solid product it\n > behooves any commercial distributor to aid in its maintenance rathe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ntoday I decided to look at postgres log file ( -d 2).\nWe use postgres as a database backend to apache+modperl server.\nI notice messages like:\npq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection\nWhat does it means ?\n\nStartTransactionCommand\nquery: select a.msg_id, h.status_set_date,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, I'm doing the pg_dump thing at the moment. If nobody has stepped up\nto the plate by the time I'm finished, and if nobody objects to my style too\nmuch (Tom, comments from the psql changes?), I'll have a shot. This was the\nreason that I started on the query string limit in the first ...
[ { "msg_contents": "With current sources,\n\nregression=> create table xx (f1 int, f2 serial, f3 serial);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'xx_f2_seq' for SERIAL column 'xx.f2'\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'xx_f3_seq' for SERIAL column 'xx.f3'\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UN...
[ { "msg_contents": "I apologize if this is the wrong group for this message, but I'm not\nsure where else this would go.\n\nI don't have a specific problem, but I would like to ask some questions\nabout how postgres works.\n\nBut first, some backfground info:\nI have two identical servers each running postgres 6...
[ { "msg_contents": "Request For Comments: Towards an industrial-strength\nlogging facility\n\n1999-10-19, Tim Holloway mtsinc@leading.net\n\nIntroduction.\n\nPostgreSQL is a commercial-quality DBMS. However, one item\ngenerally found in commercial DBMS's that\nPostgreSQL has so far lacked has been a logging fac...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst cleaning up query-length dependencies, I noticed that our\nhandling of maximum file pathname lengths is awfully messy.\n\nDifferent parts of the system rely on no fewer than four different\nsymbols that they import from several different system header\nfiles (any one of which might not...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n Eric Raymond responds to Bill Joy... RMS said its words too:\n http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/richard_brandt?id=380f44bb0\n\nOleg.\n---- \n Oleg Broytmann http://members.xoom.com/phd2/ phd2@earthling.net\n Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB withou...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> \n>> Oops! :)\n>> \n>> Okay, I guess the motivation behind this was the question \"Where is\n>> that damn COPYRIGHT file?\", or maybe I've just been reading the\n>> appendix to the GPL too often.\nThe thing is this: it's not GPL'd ;-)\n\nMikeA\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:09:30...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\tIs there something syslog does not do? multi level is\nbuilt in. Use a cron task to record back to a postgres db if needed/wanted.\nsyslog.conf lets you decide what to log (to some degree).\n\n\tWhy re-invent things? Most admins sort-of understand syslog.\n\n-- \n\tStephen N. Kogge\n\tste...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a followup to a message I wrote in June about reworking the fmgr\ninterface. I've had a couple of good ideas (I think ;-)) since then,\nbut there are some parts of the proposal that still need work before\nimplementation can begin.\n\nI could particularly use some feedback from Jan a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I use the following functions in psql which are found in backend/port.\nThat implies that there is at least one system that doesn't have these so\nit would be a good idea if they were available to the entire code tree.\nCould someone move them to a better place in the tree or would you like m...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following is an updated list of the messages to be channeled by the proposed logging system.\n\nTHESE AND *ONLY* THESE are slated for implementation. If you have items you want\nincluded, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! As it stands, this is a pretty minimal set.\n\nBear in mind that the logger is NOT a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Oct 23, Mike Mascari mentioned:\n\n> The following patch extends the COMMENT ON functionality to the\n> rest of the database objects beyond just tables, columns, and views. The\n> grammer of the COMMENT ON statement now looks like:\n> \n> COMMENT ON [ \n> [ DATABASE | INDEX | RULE | SEQU...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added a new feature that I suggested a few weeks ago (and didn't\nget a lot of feedback about --- if you didn't like the idea, you shoulda\ncomplained then ;-)). To wit, there is now an internal version number\nthat can be bumped anytime anyone makes an initdb-forcing change.\n\nIf we...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:\n...\n> Just to confirm a few things here: Are you keying rule comments on\n> pg_rewrite.oid? Are operator comments keyed on the oid of the underlying\n> function? (Perhaps that could even be changed so you can put a comment\n> on\n> the operator ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have finished another round of work for indefinitely-long queries.\nWe can now do things like SELECT textlen(' ... 200K string here ... ')\n--- and get the right answer :-). Still can't actually *store* that\n200K string in a table though.\n\nHere are the other loose ends I'm aware of:\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed a problem with the PDF file not properly displaying certain\ncharacters. New copy uploaded. \n\nThe book in on our web site now in HTML and PDF formats. It will be\nupdated automatically very night.\n\nGo to:\n\n http://www.postgresql.org/docs\n\nUnder documentation, you...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com> wrote:\n...\n> > I still need to write the SGML and change pg_dump to\n> > generate COMMENT ON statements, and also regression tests,\n> > but the functionality should be complete. Just glancing\n> > over the Win32 ODBC driver, it appears that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com> wrote:\n...\n> > I still need to write the SGML and change pg_dump to\n> > generate COMMENT ON statements, and also regression tests,\n> > but the functionality should be complete. Just glancing\n> > over the Win32 ODBC driver, it appears that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:38:38 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Nguyen, Thuan X\" <thuann@netsol.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Peter,\n\nCould you explain me the use of these 3 functions:\n\nstrcasecmp\nstrtol\nputenv (from nextstep/port.c)\n\n\nRegards,\n______________________________\nSt�phane FILLON\nmailto:fillons@offratel.nc\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 04:11:08 +1100", "msg_from": "=?iso-8...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:\n> > On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Mike Mascari wrote:\n> >> So in the example you gave above, you could put a comment\n> >> on each of the two functions which compose the operator\n> >> and a command on the opera...
[ { "msg_contents": "Would it be objectionable if I altered the format of the pg_options file slightly?\nI feel the need to handle a somewhat more complex syntax for the logging subsystem.\n\nWhat I'm proposing is to wrap the existing stuff in a backwards-compatible manner,\nbut extend it. Like so:\n\n-----------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nA make on a \"cvs update\" from this morning fails with the following\nerror message.\n\nmake -C commands all \nmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/pgsql/src/backend/commands'\nmake[2]: *** No rule to make target `../parse.h', needed by `comment.o'. Stop.\nmake[2]: Leaving dir...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes.\n\nThis is my fault. Sorry. Attached is a patch which fixes the problem.\nI missed adding the rule to make parse.h to the Makefile for \nthe ../backend/commands. It also allows for comments to be dropped\nusing IS NULL as well as IS '';\n\nAgain, sorry.\n\nMike Mascari\n(mascarim@yahoo....
[ { "msg_contents": "will some one tell me how to use telnet and what is it .\nthe-virus\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:17:37 -0700", "msg_from": "saad <ahmed1@sat.net.pk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "what the hell telnet is" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nSorry if it�s the wrong place to post this. Please let me know where is the\ncorrect place.\n\nI'm upgrading from PostgreSQL 6.4 to 6.5.2. I compiled 6.5.2 and installed\nit in an machine (that was not running 6.4) for tests but Postmaster want\nnot run.\n\nOs: Sun sparc solaris 2.5\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alrighty, this is it. I submit this to your scrutiny in the hope that it\nwill prove useful and reliable.\n\nThe source is at <http://www.pathwaynet.com/~peter/psql-final.tar.gz>\n(49k). In a perfect world you could just drop the directory into your\nsource tree and configure and compile agai...
[ { "msg_contents": "\u0018--- Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:\n> > Yes.\n> > \n> > This is my fault. Sorry. Attached is a patch which fixes the problem.\n> > I missed adding the rule to make parse.h to the Makefile for \n> > the ../backend/commands. It also allows for comments to be dropped\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHi,\n\nI try dump (via pg_dump) my database, but if I write dumped data back to DB,\nviews (as select on ingerit table) not work.\n\nThe bug is in routine pg_get_ruledef(pg_rewrite.rulename), which _not_\ndiscern between select on standard table and select on inderit table.\nSelect on inh...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's a missing quote in psqlHelp.h in the latest CVS.\t\n\nHere's a patch:-\n\n*** src/bin/psql/psqlHelp.h.orig Tue Oct 26 09:34:18 1999\n--- src/bin/psql/psqlHelp.h Wed Oct 27 11:54:25 1999\n***************\n*** 60,66 ****\n FUNCTION <func_name> (arg1, arg2, ...)|\\n\\\n OPERATO...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oops, the stuff I posted yesterday contained a few pretty funky bugs. I\nhave put up a new tarball.\n\nAlso, I have written updated DocBook documentation. It's not a great work\nof literature yet but it's for those that want to get started. I will\nupdate it several times during the next few ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm running into what appears to be some hard coded limits of postgres.\nI've got a table with with a text column that I need to insert large \namounts of text into. I quickly found these two things out: \n\nFirst, the MAX_QUERY_SIZE which is BLCKSZ*2 (or 16384 bytes), prevents\nm...
[ { "msg_contents": "It was a good one, the compiler threw out an error for\na line about 100 lines further down the file that made\nno sense whatsoever to me!!\n\nBruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>\n>\n>Applied. Thanks. That was my bug.\n>\n>\n>> There's a missing quote in psqlHelp.h in the latest CV...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhen are we packaging 6.5.3 with the pgaccess addition?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nWe (PostgreSQL users in Japan) have formed a non-profit,\nnon-commercial PostgreSQL user's group, called JPUG (Japan PostgreSQL\nUser's Group) this July. We have over 240 members now. You can visit\nour web page at http://www.jp.postgresql.org/ (all contents are\nwritten in Japanese...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone working on support for BLOB fields and corresponding JDBC:\n\tPreparedStatement.setBinaryStream\n\nI would be willing to contribute in this area.\n\n\t-Troy A. Griffitts", "msg_date": "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:33:59 -0700", "msg_from": "Troy Griffitts <troy@evergreen.com>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is anyone working on support for BLOB fields and corresponding JDBC:\n\tPreparedStatement.setBinaryStream\n\nI would be willing to contribute in this area.\n\n\t-Troy A. Griffitts", "msg_date": "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:34:32 -0700", "msg_from": "Troy Griffitts <troy@evergreen.com>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes. I'm aiming to get BLOB & Array support completed for the next\nrelease (7.0?).\n\nCurrently using standard JDBC, setBytes() and getBytes() handle BLOBS.\nObviously theres the LargeObject and LargeObjectManager classes as well.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone B...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a Debian bug report, which needs upstream attention.\n\n------- Forwarded Message\n\nDate: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:45:18 -0400\nFrom: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org>\nTo: submit@bugs.debian.org\nSubject: Bug#48582: psql spends hours computing results it already knows\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The optimizer is perfectly happy with approximate tuple counts, so it\n> makes do with stats recorded at the last VACUUM.\n> \n> This has been discussed quite recently on pg-hackers; see the archives\n> for more info.\n\nYes, the problem is not the optimizer. The problem is the select count...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I have released pgbash-1.2.1.\n http://www.psn.co.jp/PostgreSQL/pgbash/index-e.html\n\n Main updating content is next. \n\n 1.The improvement of the interactive operational environment. \n 2.The addition of the original COPY (with -y option) function. \n 3.It is not necessary to c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just received a message from someone complaining about SERIAL/sequence. I\nthink there is a problem:\n\t\n\ttest=> create table test (x int, y serial);\n\tNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'test_y_seq' for SERIAL column 'test.y'\n\tNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UNIQUE will create...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks like we're going to give a go at a native interface between\nMATLAB and PostgreSQL. I think if we can just define the enumerated\ntypes for PGresult and PGconnect plus some of the enumerated constants\n(PGRES_TUPLES_OK, PGRES_COMMAND_OK), then we can just write cmex wrapper\nfunction...
[ { "msg_contents": " http://www.PostgreSQL.org/~wieck/\n\n The new developers globe is updated with all photos I got so\n far. Still missing are:\n\n Andrew Martin\n Bruce Momjian\n Byron Nikolaidis\n Constantin Teodorescu\n Edmund Mergl\n Goran Thyni\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Still problems with pgaccess.\n\nWhile the new Makefile I made properly copies pgaccess to the bin\ndirectory, it does not deal with PGACCESS_HOME properly, and I believe\nconfigure should be table to set PATH_TO_WISH.\n\nPlease hold 6.5.3 until someone comes up with a good solution to this.\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nIn pg_dump there is a file called common.c. This file has some string\nhandling routines in it that return a pointer to a fixed-length, static\nstring (char *). I need to remove the fixed-length bit (besides the fact\nfact that this is horrendously un-threadsafe). So, what is th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been doing some profiling this weekend in response to Vadim's\nchallenge to reduce the amount of overhead in a simple INSERT command.\nI've found a number of simple improvements that I hope to check in\nshortly. I came across something in the time code that I thought I'd\nbetter check...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:49:55 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Mario Simeone\" <mario.simeone@tin.it>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > Do we want to copy the entire pgaccess tree to the pgsql install\n> > directory?\n> \n> Why not? Of course, on UNIX systems without DLL's\n\nOK, I have installed it in the current tree and stable tree. I will\nkeep pgaccess up-to-date in both trees in the f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\nI've such problem :\nI table with primary key and in trigger try to insert into this table data\nwich violate constrain (not uniq). When ectually executing SPI_execp I got\na message \"ERROR: cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index\" and\ntrigger executing is aborted. What shou...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have re-done pgaccess again, both trees.\n\nBecause wish is configured via a path search, I moved the WISH= line\ninto Makefile.global, so people can change it easily there, or in\nMakefile.custom. Having in embedded in pgaccess/Makefile was too\ngoofey.\n\nThere is no pgaccess/Makefile.in...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, my 6.5.3 cvs copy works fine for pgaccess.\n\nActually, we never installed pgaccess this cleanly in earlier releases.\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,...
[ { "msg_contents": "www.hack.co.za has been updated today.\n\n[[-Sun 31 October-]]\n Added sendmail-8.9.3.tar.gz by icesk. (0-day!)\n Added sperl4.036.c FreeBSD 2.2.8 exploit by OVX. (old exploit)\n Added tcpdump.c Linux/misc exploit BLADI. (old exploit)\n Fixed up the CGI section, thanks to dv8 for submitti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am seeing the backend crash on a table I am using for a\nsearchengine, and I cannot find any answers with the list archives.\n\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.2 on i686-pc-linux-gn...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this correct?\n\n\ttest=> SET DATESTYLE = 'European';\n\tSET VARIABLE\n\ttest=> SELECT date('2/1/1983'::date);\n\t date\n\t----------\n\t02-01-1983\n\t(1 row)\n\nI have found US, Postgres, European, and NonEuropean as showing the same\ndate output. Is that correct?\n\n-- \n Bruce Mo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see now. The input is reversed in and out, so it looks the same when\nit is different. Never mind.\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 Av...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think it's essential in WAL to have log files(s) on separate disk\ndrives to recover database while a drive which keeps tables on it\ncrashes. How could we do this on 7.0?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 16:23:40 +0900", "msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nI there any way to get an oid of just inserted by (SPI_execp) record without\ndoing SELECT?\n\nThanks in advance,\nAndriy Korud, Lviv, Ukriane\n\n", "msg_date": "1 Nov 1999 09:51:51 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Andrij Korud\" <akorud@polynet.lviv.ua>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey, I just found that if I \"BEGIN\", making a lot of inserts (1000) and on\n1001 insert I get an error (for example \"duplicate key\") ALL prev 1000\ninsertes I LOST.\nGive me please author of this %$%$^&%# idea!!! It's really STUPID.\n\nAndriy Korud, Lviv, Ukraine\nP.S. Sorry for this lett...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems like there is (was) a leak of file descriptors somewhere. The\ndescriptors are being used up like crazy. After a week of work on a small\ndatabase (6 tables, 20 or so indexes) Postgres used up well over 800\ndescriptors. Is this something known/fixed?\n\n[PostgreSQL 6.6.0 on i386-unknow...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\nIs there any way to obtain an OID of record just inserted by SPI_execp?\n\nThanks in advance, \nAndriy Korud, Lviv, Ukraine \n\n", "msg_date": "1 Nov 1999 19:10:56 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Andrij Korud\" <akorud@polynet.lviv.ua>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Get OI...
[ { "msg_contents": "I don't remember who is the author of patch for 6.5.2 which\nallows to use indices in ORDER BY ... DESC\nThe patch was posted to hackers mailing list and I'm using it\nwithout any problem. Today, after cvs'ing 6_5 I had a problem\nwith this patch. If this patch will not go to 6.5.3 \nis't pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "The installed name of perl in needed in interfaces/Makefile. This\nseems to have been changed from perl to perl5 sometime between 6.5 and\n6.5.2. I missed discussion of this, I guess.\n\nWhat was the rationale for making this change?\n\nCheers,\nBrook\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHow can i add a user (root for example) in pg_shadow?\n\nAtte.\n\n=======================================\nCarlos A. Vicente Altamirano\nCentro de Asistencia Tecnica de RedUNAM\nDepto. de Operacion de la Red\nDGSCA-UNAM\nTel. 6228526-28\n=======================================\n\n\n", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"nicks.emails\" <nicks.emails@ic24.net> writes:\n> select l.s # p.ss from LSEG_TBL l, LSEG_TBL1 p;\n\n> when I try to execute this intersection on the tables that are in the\n> regression queries the following message is printed to the screen,\n\nI'm confused --- I don't see any table named ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nThanks to tom and vadim for the ideas so far. Here is my responses to\nthese:\n\nTom wrote:\n> Hmm. That error is coming out of the btree index code. Vadim knows\n> that code better than anyone else, so he might have something to say\n> here, but my past-midnight recollection is that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:\n> > RedHat Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-smp)\n> > Pentium III 500MHz x 2\n> > RAM: 512MB\n> > Disk: Ultra Wide SCSI 9GB x 4 + Hardware RAID (RAID 5).\n> \n> OK, no problem with inadequate hardware anyway ;-). Bru...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have hit an unexpected error in regression testing the REL6_5_PATCHES branch\nin preparing for 6.5.3. For the first time, a test other than float or\ngeometry failed -- with a weird result. Datetime failed. Here is the section\nof regression.diffs for datetime:\n-------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc, 6.5.3 is ready for packaging.\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, Pennsy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry, forgot the attachment", "msg_date": "Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:04:14 +0300", "msg_from": "\"Gene Sokolov\" <hook@aktrad.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Re: [HACKERS] file descriptors leak? " } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\nI have not got any help from SQL and GENERAL groups so I send my problem to\nyou.\n\n\nIn Postgres Users Guide, CREATE TABLE section, the following is stated:\n\n Postgres automatically allows the created table to inherit functions on\ntables above it in the inheritance hierarchy. \n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Have you put an index on the field in question? It shouldn't \n> matter how\n> many records you have if you do. If you don't, no other database will\n> help you any better.\n\nThe main problem is, that PostgreSQL will abort the transaction if it raises\nelog(ERROR...).\nNo other DB does t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have compared current with 6.5 using 1000000 tuple-table (243MB) (I\n> wanted to try 2GB+ table but 6.5 does not work in this case). The\n> result was strange in that current is *faster* than 6.5!\n> \n> RAID5\n> \tcurrent\t2:29\n> \t6.5.2\t3:15\n> \n> non-RAID\n> \tcurrent\t1:50\n> \t6.5...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SEV <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> > This new test case is not big enough to show cache memory \n> contention,\n> > and is thus faster with the new code.\n> \n> Cache memory contention? I don't think so. Take a look at the CPU\n> versus elapsed times in Ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "Good to see I'm not the only one who's been going mad recently :-)\n\nPeter\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From:\tThe Hermit Hacker [SMTP:scrappy@hub.org]\n> Sent:\t02 November 1999 16:37\n> To:\tBruce Momjian\n> Cc:\tPostgreSQL-development\n> Subject:\tRe: [HACKERS] 6.5.3 is ready\n> \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi...\n\nas per the question of linux getting in the way of reads/writes, i forwarded\nbruce's (?) message re: the ext2 code in the linux kernel... this is what i got\nback.. hope this helps....\n\n---------- Forwarded Message ----------\nSubject: Re: fs/etx2/file.c question from postgres d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Bruce,\n\nHere is a core dump file from my Linux laptop in the same situation...\n\nBruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> Core dump. Strange. Can you pull up the core from gdb and do a\n> backtrace?\n> \n> [Charset x-user-defined unsupported, skipping...]\n> \n> --\n> Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDoes Postgres have a cursor function similar to rownum in Oracle. I'm\ntrying to select just a certain number of rows.\n\nthanks\n\nTyson Oswald\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 18:17:42 -0500", "msg_from": "Tyson Oswald <tysono@iserv.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_sub...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, with autocommit on, the statement would fail, and I would expect the\ninsert to then roll back, if the select part failed. No problem, really.\n\nMikeA\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: D'Arcy\" \"J.M.\" Cain\nTo: aaron@gtv.ca\nCc: peter_e@gmx.net; e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE; pgsql-hackers@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, help me here.\n\nWhenever I try to run Postmaster or I start the deamon it gives me the error\nmessage that he PGDATA directory cannot be found. I've set it in my\n.bash_profile file in /etc/skel : /home/user : /root directories.\n\nWhat am I doing wrong?\n\nThanx Sti\n\n\n", "msg_dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:57:43 +0700 (JVT)", "msg_from": "Akmal Hasan <akmal92@student.te.ugm.ac.id>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "unsubcribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "> \"nicks.emails\" wrote:\n\n[back on list -- use 'reply ALL' to keep it on list. This is the second\ntry -- I misspelled pgsql-hackers the first time ;-(]\n\n> tables to find any intersecting points, I read one of the replies\n> about having to recompile the postgres system so as to derefere...
[ { "msg_contents": "On the topic of how to programatically get a just-inserted serial\nvalue, I propose the Sqlflex model for adoption into postgresql.\nIn that model, the return protocol for INSERT is altered to return\nthe serial value of the just-inserted record IFF the input value\nfor the serial column was ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On the topic of how to programatically get a just-inserted serial\nvalue, I propose the Sqlflex model for adoption into postgresql.\nIn that model, the return protocol for INSERT is altered to return\nthe serial value of the just-inserted record IFF the input value\nfor the serial column was ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Okay,\n\nI'm used to a feature that allows combining count and distinct in Sybase. \nI thought it was standard SQL and expected to see it in Postgres. Whatever\nthe case might be, postgres does not seem to support this. I keep running\ninto queries that I cannot write. Here's the skinny:\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCan someone else take a quick peak at the tarball before we release it,\njust to make sure that nothing is missing? Its in the normal place, but\nhaven't announced it yet...\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that's a close to linear as you are going to get. Pretty good I think:\na sort of one billion rows in half an hour.\n\nMikea\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp]\n>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:30 AM\n>> To: Tom Lane\n>> Cc: t-ishii@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why can't this simply be done with a stored proc? Or am I missing the boat?\nStored proc accepts parameters to insert, and returns whatever value you\nwant it to.\n\nMikeA\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Aaron J. Seigo [mailto:aaron@gtv.ca]\n>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 8:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Still pretty good. That's five and a half thousand rows a second.\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp]\n>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 11:10 AM\n>> To: Ansley, Michael\n>> Cc: 't-ishii@sra.co.jp'; Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n>> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\nI have not got any help from SQL and GENERAL groups so I send my problem to\nyou.\n\n\nIn Postgres Users Guide, CREATE TABLE section, the following is stated:\n\n Postgres automatically allows the created table to inherit functions on\ntables above it in the inheritance hierarchy. \n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc, I just made a change for bsd/os 4.1. Can you repackage the\ntarball before making an announcement?\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 Blyth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hmm, it looked distinctly straight-line on my graph. I must have screwed up\nsomething. Sorry...\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane\nTo: t-ishii@sra.co.jp\nCc: Ansley, Michael; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\nSent: 11/4/99 5:50 PM\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] sort on huge table \n\nTats...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > unfortunately '^whatever.*' is what I'm trying to locate (ie: all words\n> > starting with whatever, but with nay trailing text), the problem seems to be in\n> > the termination of the index scan, not in the actual regex match (which actually\n> > seems very good, speed wise..) otherwise ...
[ { "msg_contents": "--- Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:\n> OK, new version of psql installed. Only problem I see is that \\h\n> shows\n> TRUNCATE as the first help item. I assume the directory contents are\n ^^^^^^^^\n\nHey! Alright. Top billing... ;-)\n\n> not being sorted. Peter?\n> \n\nMi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been helping this fellow out -- and he drops this regression diff on me. \nI'm thinking that most, if not all, of the failures are due to locales and\nassociated collating order and money problems. Am I right, or off-base here?\n\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 PEter 4:11\n\n---...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nOn a number of occasions over the past couple of weeks I have encountered\nthe following error during my nightly vacuum process. It repeats\ninfinitely until outside intervention. It seems to identify the fact that\nit is stuck in an infinite recursion but unable to deal with it....
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a fundamental rationale underlying this behavior, or is this \nmerely something no one has bothered to do:\n\n=> select min(xmin) from mytable where xmax = 0;\nERROR: Unable to select an aggregate function min(xid)\n\n=> select max(xmin) from mytable;\nERROR: Unable to select an ag...
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