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[ { "msg_contents": "Oracle 6, there is NULL into table b:\n\nSQL> select * from a where x in (select * from b);\n\n X\n----------\n 2\n\nSQL> select * from a where x not in (select * from b);\n\nno rows selected\n\nSQL> select * from a where not x in (select * from b);\n\nno rows selected\n\nIs '...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that I have run the regression tests for 6.3 on a NetBSD/i386 v1.3\nbox I am wondering what to do with them. Should they be used as a\nsource for bug fixes before the next release? If so, how should they\nbe used? By me only, or should I post them somewhere for others to\nreview?\n\nCh...
[ { "msg_contents": "Gosh, please leave it in it is superb, great, fantastic ... \nIf somebody defines a different behavior as standard in the future,\nwe will need to tell him that he has a gordian knot in his brains :-)\n\nAndreas \n\n> I understand this. And this is how it works currently:\n> \n> select * from...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry, I take back my gordian knot, I found it in my own brains ;-(\nFor a <=, <, >=, > a lexical ordering would be more intuitive,\nsince that is how a compound index would sort.\n\nso (a, b) <= (c, d) would resolve to:\n(a <= c) or ((a = c) and (b <= c))\n\nWhat happens to !=~ ? Should also...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just checked the changelogs and Debian has integrated lots of upstream\npatches into glibc-2.0.6. So maybe this wasn't fixed before 2.0.6. I'm\ncurrently running 2.0.7pre1 and that one is fine.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@tops...
[ { "msg_contents": "I allready took my statement back, about an hour after I said this.\nBut yes, I agree that the left-right approach would be intuitive (same as\ncompound index).\nIn mathematics it is called lexical order, I only thought this would be hard\nto implement.\nAlso there are a lot of operators (all...
[ { "msg_contents": "The snapshot I downloaded today failed compilation:\ngcc -I../../include -I/usr/include/ncurses -I/usr/include/readline \n-Dlinuxalpha -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall \n-Wmissing-prototypes -I../../interfaces/libpq -c pg_dump.c -o pg_dump.o\nIn file included from .....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI'm getting a SEGV error when testing ecpg using the perftest,or\nany other, example program.\n\nI have tracked this down to a call to PQfinish() in ECPGfinish()\nthat occurs before any connection is established.\n\nbool\nECPGfinish()\n{\n if (simple_connection != NULL)\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n(yes I,m here --- I \"unsubscribed\" only on the list, not on the\nmajorodomo...) \n\nI've found a very ugly bug in V6.1, V6.2 and (without testing) I think\nit's still there in V6.3.\n\nTo reproduce it use following script:\n======================================================...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to get today's snapshot compiled. The trouble I ran into\nis with ecpg which seems to be missing some header files.\n\nAlso, ecpg.c includes getopt.h which doesn't exist on NetBSD systems.\nThe declarations are in unistd.h. See the patch below.\n\nI wasn't sure how to get the co...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know this is too simple to be useful, but it was the first test case I\ntried for a regression test :)\n\nregression=> SELECT 1 AS one WHERE 1 IN (SELECT 1);\nPQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel\nbefore responding.\n This probably means the backend...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n>Does the large object I/O persist across transactions? If so, then storage\nwould\n>need to be outside of the usual context, which is reset after every\ntransaction.\n>Is there a place where the large object context could be freed, but is not\nat\n>the moment?\n>\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was updating some utilities in config/ the other day and noticed that\nwe have apparently lost a capability for function overloading on\nbuilt-in functions:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION abstime_datetime(int4)\n RETURNS datetime AS '-' LANGUAGE 'internal';\n\nused to allow me to overload the built-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Or we should change the declare/open behaviour in that it ignores the\nembedded SQL declare command and just sends the declare command when it\nfinds an open. But then standard may say that the actual way is correct.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemh...
[ { "msg_contents": "[This email didn't show up on the list when I sent it last monday, so\nhere it is again].\n\nHi,\n\nI found the following bug in sunday's snapshot (I am running Linux\n2.1.85 and gcc 2.8.0):\n\nI created a table with one column and inserted one row:\n\njeroenv=> create table test ( a int4 );\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I hope that GROUP BY fixed.\nUnfortunately, I can't get any errors under FreeBSD \nwhen using GROUP BY with aggregates. I only got core\nfor something like this: select y, z from tgrp group by y, z.\nTwo different funcs are used for these two cases and so \nplease test new code on your platfo...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Andrew, could you put a new entry into the Linux FAQ suggesting that\n> \n> CFLAGS+= -m486\n> \n> or (for the new compilers that most people are not yet running)\n> \n> CFLAGS+= -mpentium\n> or\n> CFLAGS+= -mpentiumpro\n> \n> be added to Makefile.custom? Otherwise people are going to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got different results for the second query \n(SELECT * FROM iexit ORDER BY 1, 2;) when using -S 64 (on-disk sorting)\nand -S 8192 (in-memory).\nCould it be caused by this _wrong_ line in pg_operator.h:\n\nDATA(insert OID = 793 ( \"<\" PGUID 0 b t f 602 602 701 ... path_n_lt ...\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I just checked the changelogs and Debian has integrated lots of upstream\n> > patches into glibc-2.0.6. So maybe this wasn't fixed before 2.0.6. I'm\n> > currently running 2.0.7pre1 and that one is fine.\n> \n> Andrew, could you add this to the Linux FAQ? The problem statement is:\n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Here is my current list for porting status for the v6.3 release. I may\n> have missed at least a few reports, e.g hpux, irix??\n> \n> _ irix5\n> _ irix6/MIPS\n\nWell, I reported (and supplied patches for) the problems with the irix5 \nport and will download and install another version onc...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Here is my current list for porting status for the v6.3 release. I may\n> have missed at least a few reports, e.g hpux, irix??\n> \n> _ irix5\n> _ irix6/MIPS\n\nOoops, I just posted saying I hadn't heard if the patch had been applied.\n\nNow that I've read the pg-ports mailing list I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI'm forwarding this message I posted to psql-ports, because I've seen no\nanswer on it, and the D-day approaches...\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:48:49 +0100 (MET)\nFrom: \"Pedro J. Lobo\" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>\nTo: PostgreSQL ports mailing ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the items. Can I remove any of them?\n\nLooking over the list, the only major one I see is that pg_user is not\nworld-readable, and with Todd not responding, I am thinking I may need\nto do some ripout. Right now, \\d does not work for non-super-users. \nCan you imagine the problem...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is what I did:\n\tcreate table a (a int, a1 char(8));\n\tcreate table b (b int);\n\tinsert into a values (1, 'one');\n\tinsert into a values (NULL, 'null');\n\nand this is what I got from Informix:\n> select * from a where a not in (select * from b);\n a a1\n 1 one\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:48:10 -0500 (EST)\nFrom: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>\nTo: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\nCc: PostgreSQL-development <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.3 issues (fwd)\n\nOn Wed, 18 F...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThings were working upto a point when I was playing yesterday.\n\nThe perftest seemed to run OK\nThe test2 example ran but did not display the varchar (name) field.\n\nI'm afraid I've not got very far debugging.\n\nKeith.\n\n\nMichael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>\n> Keith Parks writes:...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n>Large object have been broken for quite some time. I say remove the\n>memory context stuff and see what breaks. Can't be worse than earlier\n>releases, and if there is a problem, it will show up for us and we can\n>issue a patch.\n>\n>--\n\n\nI insured that all memory allocations in be-...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was reading in my \"Unix Internals: New Frontiers\" book by Vahalia\nyesterday, and he was talking about multi-cpu kernels, and he was\ntalking about read/write locks, and he said:\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nWhen the last active read...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:\n\n> > But yes, I agree that the left-right approach would be intuitive (same as\n> > compound index).\n> > In mathematics it is called lexical order, I only thought this would be hard\n> > to implement.\n> > Also there are a lot of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was having a play with subselects and found this, not very clever,\nnested subselect didn't work as I expected.\n\nAny Ideas?\n\nI also noticed that the subselect regression tests include only\nint and float columns in the tests.\n\nKeith.\n\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nIndex Scan on t1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:57:35 -0500 (EST)\n>From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feb. 15 snapshot doesn't compile on alpha / Digital Unix (fwd)\n>\n>OK, where are we with Alpha now? Dec Unix and Alpha Linux users, what\n>is your ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In getting 6.3 working on a NetBSD/i386 box I have made up a few\npatches that correct some areas of the\ncode/documentation/configuration. They follow, each preceded by a\ndescription. I hope they are useful; they allowed me to do a complete\ncompilation using the --with-tcl configuration ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that I have libpgtcl compiled and installed I tried pgaccess-0.76\nand got the following error:\n\n /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol \"_pgresStatus\" in wish8.0:/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpgtcl.so.1.0\n\nPresumably this results from the following line in\ninterfaces/libpgtcl/pgtclCmds....
[ { "msg_contents": "> I am trying to track down the actual text of the SQL92 standard.\n> In a HotBot search I found a page that declared the standard is\n> only available in hardcopy (no Web page) on the page:\n>\n> http://www.naiua.org/std-orgs.html\n>\n> It went on to say that the standard could be ordered...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dates & times:\nI confirm that libc6 2.0.7pre1 cures all the time and date problems\nthat I was having with glibc2. So no patches are needed; just undefine\nHAVE_INT_TIMEZONE for glibc2.\n\nInt2, int4, oidint2, oidint4:\nIn the regression tests, for glibc2 we should expect to see 'Numerical\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do you mean you didn't get any output? Or you got just the numbers? If\nyou didn't get anything that's the old problem and I believe the same\nproblem holds for ODBC (Julie?). The first fetch returns no row, so the\nprogram ends. Unfortunately I haven't changed anything I expect to be\nable t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Exactly the same with the latest Oracle7 version.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Where do I find the pgaccess source?\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ouch! :-)\n\nI thought it was an additional program.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nWhat about:\ngrant select on pg_user to public;\ncreate rule pg_user_hide_pw as on\nselect to pg_user.passwd\ndo instead select '********' as passwd;\n\nThen if I do:\nselect * from pg_user;\nusename |usesysid|usecreatedb|usetrace|usesuper|usecatupd|passwd |valuntil\n--------+----...
[ { "msg_contents": "Okay :-(\n\nBut: I think this is an error in the rewrite system. I think this query\nshould get rewritten !\nCan we fix this ?\n\nAndreas\n> ----------\n> Von: \tJan Wieck[SMTP:jwieck@debis.com]\n> Antwort an: \tJan Wieck\n> Gesendet: \tDonnerstag, 19. Februar 1998 15:53\n> An: \tZeugswett...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want to run pgindent before the final release. Who has outstanding\npatches they are sitting on that would be affected by this? Only places\nwhere we have added non-conforming code would be affected.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09...
[ { "msg_contents": "The command \ncopy pg_user to stdout;\n\nwill also show the cleartext password and I think it is hard to do a rewrite\nhere,\nsince this would also affect the pg_dump ?\n\n* Teardrops keep falling on my head ... * :-(\n\nAndreas\n> ----------\n> Von: \tJan Wieck[SMTP:jwieck@debis.com]\n> Ant...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is my current list of supported platforms. The outstanding issues\nare:\n\naix/3.5 - anyone able to test? Success on aix4.x good enough??\nhpux/9.0.x - anyone testing? there are installation differences with\nhpux10.20. Supported?\nirix5 - is irix6 testing enough? Should we just say irix...
[ { "msg_contents": "Crypt sounds good. I like that Idea. I also use the unix crypt\nfunction to password protect httpd.\n\nRight now this is done with PERL doing the encryption and sticking\nit into the database in a char field. Then, another prog dumps\nthe passwords periodically into the httpd password file...
[ { "msg_contents": "does it matter if people are able to see the passwords? I mean,\nif the passwords are stored in a table (preferable encrypted), and\nthe table is only readable (select, insert, etc...) by the superuser\nor those of equal grant rights), then who cares?\n\nDante\n\n.---------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe problem is just the missing name column.\n\nI've just trashed my last build, which passed the regression tests\nperfectly (SPARC/Linux on an IPX), to do a fresh build from CVS.\n\nOnce this is complete I'll do some more tests.\n\nBasically the output looks something like.\n\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "VAdim,\n\nGreat work.\n\nKeith.\n\ndisks=> select * from tracks t1 where t1.artist = (\ndisks-> select distinct t2.artist from tracks t2 where t2.trackno = (\ndisks-> select max(t3.trackno) from tracks t3\ndisks-> )\ndisks-> );\ndiskid|trackno|artist |song\n------+----...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> >\n> > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> >\n> > > >\n> > > > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > > >\n> > > > > > Just curious, but why don't the copy command fall under the same\n> > > > > > grant/revoke restrictions in the first place?...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > But it is not secure. Why have passwords then?\n> > >\n> > I think is better have the encrypted passwords and the salt in pg_user.\n> > I don't know if this will be bing a security hole :(\n> >\n> \n> If we do this, then what does the frontend pass us?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\tI'm newly into PostgreSQL from a SYBASE world and I haven't had a lot of\ntime to get into the code, so bare with me please.\n\tIs there a query optimizer in PostgreSQL? or if not are there plans for\none? And are there plans for anything like clustered indexes?\n\tI'm curious bec...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've a new problem with ecpg.\n\nThe latest source fails to process test2.pgc.\n\nSeems like it's choking on the new \"whenever\" clauses.\n\n[postgres@sparclinux test]$ make\necpg test2.pgc\nparse error in line 8\nmake: *** [test2.c] Error 1 \n\nKeith.\n \n\n", "msg_date": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just to let people know, pg_attribute.atttypmod is now passed as the\nthird parameter to all in and out functions, so it is ready to go for\npeople who need this functionality.\n\nWe did this by passing it through the backend from TypName and Resdom to\nTupleDesc.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaill...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to\nknow more details about you.\n\nI am 36, and live with my wife of eight years and two boys in a house\njust outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My boys are 5 and 2 1/2. I\nam a consultant who programs custom reports...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Maybe it is used a lot on that chat thing. I can't remember the name\n> > right now. Not Usenet, but that thing where people discuss in real\n> > time.\n> \n> \tIRC? :)\n> \n\nYep, that's it.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:49:06...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSomeone want to tell me why the below CREATE INDEX fails? \n\nI've tried everything I can think of, and can't get that INDEX to be\ncreated :(\n\n-- $Id: groups.psql,v 1.2 1997/08/14 20:05:08 shevett Exp $\n-- postgresql 6.1\n--\n-- Host: localhost Database: pts\n-----------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBackend crashes on this one too...?\n\n\nCREATE TABLE projects (\n pid INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,\n ppid INT,\n grp VARCHAR(10),\n o_date INT,\n o_tech VARCHAR(10),\n sc_date INT,\n c_date INT,\n c_tech VARCHAR(5),\n currtech VARCHAR(10),\n state VARCHAR(1),\n status VARCHAR(1),\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Unfortunately createdb as user postgres doesn't work either, so I have\nto keep debugging without being able to run the binary.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@d...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to\n>know more details about you.\n>\n\n\nI'm 32 married with 3 children. My girl is 4 (Michelle), and my sons\n(Michael-Alan and Daniel), are 3, and 1.\nWe live in the Netherlands.\n\nI sell myself as a consultant usually...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know that postgres originally was able to do recursive queries like\n\nretrieve* into a from a ...\n\nIs this still possible with PostgreSQL? If so, is it just for one statement\nor even as a block?\n\nThis happens to be the area I worked on for several years.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael M...
[ { "msg_contents": "But such a statement is executed only once, isn't it?\n\nPostquel did execute a retrieve* into as long as it was able to generate\nnew data.\n\nMichael\n\nP.S.: Glad I'm not the only one interested in this. :-)\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since the copy statement is behaving differently than the normal select\nstuff,\nI think we should eighter introduce a new permission (name it copy or dump)\nor include the copy into the rewrite system.\n\nI would vote for the first and implement a new command: \n\tunload to <filename> [delim...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've changed the large object memory managment strategy to ensure that\neach large object has it's own memory context.\nThis way I can free all memory for a large object when I lo_close\nis called for it's oid. This seems to work.\n\nI've noticed that the heap_close function used to cl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jan wrote:\n\n The only things not working for copy are rewrite rules. But I\n think we should restrict rules to the view handling in the\n future and move forward by implementing a pure and really\n powerful procedural language.\n\nHm, it looks like you are not really a fa...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to\n> know more details about you.\n> \n> ...\n> \n> Can others tell us about themselves?\n\nGreat idea, Bruce. Best thread in the last two weeks.\n\nI'm 29, single, and live in Bel Air, Maryland (only a touch over an hou...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have been working with many of you for over a year, and would like to\n> know more details about you.\n\nI am currently 27, to be honest 28 tomorrow. I studied Business Informatics\nat the TU Wien,\nafter a technically oriented high school. I work for an IT Company for\nbanks, actually \"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > Two things. First was a separate COPY priviledge, which I vote\n> against.\n> > > I see no real value to it, except to work around the problem that COPY\n> > > doesn't use rules.\n> > \n> > \tOkay, I may be totally out in left fiel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI get the foll. error for a group by query:\nThis is with the snapshot of Feb 20, and I am running on sparc-solaris 2.6\n\ninsert into FTemp1 select item as item1, count(*) as cnt from data group by \nitem;\nERROR: The field being grouped by must appear in the target list\n\nThanks\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey,\n\n the current snapshot dumps core on the 4th time doing\n\n REVOKE ALL ON pg_user FROM public;\n\n It does too in other situations but this is the simplest to\n reproduce. The segmentation fault happens in nocachegetattr()\n due to a destroyed tuple descriptor (nat...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> \n> => > insert into FTemp1 select item as item1, count(*) as cnt from data group by \n> => > item;\n> => > ERROR: The field being grouped by must appear in the target list\n> => > \n> => > Thanks\n> => > --shiby\n> => \n> => Say:\n> => \n> => group by item1.\n> It works.\n> => \n> But...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm just listening in on the list, but I'm hoping I can dive in and\nhelp once I'm up-to-speed on the education part. I'm using MySQL to\ndevelop my Visual Basic 5 programming skills, but once PostgreSQL\ncatches up on ODBC, I'll be moving to PG.\n\nI am a 21-yr-old native Floridian (here in...
[ { "msg_contents": "First step done,\n\n below is the patch to have views to override the permission\n checks for the accessed tables. Now we can do the following:\n\n CREATE VIEW db_user AS SELECT\n usename,\n usesysid,\n usecreatedb,\n usetrace,\n usecatupd,\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 4:06 PM 98.2.19 +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n>Here is my current list of supported platforms. The outstanding issues\n>are:\n\n>mklinux/ppc - still core dumping on regression tests? why??\n\nI finally found the source of the problem. function \"_readConst\" in \nbackend/nodes/readfun...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tI'm using a recent (20Feb98) snapshot and get \n\tERROR: SearchSysCache: Called while cache disabled\n\tI get this when I do any queries.\n\tAny ideas?\nJulie\n\n-- \n[ Julia Anne Case ] [ Ships are safe inside the harbor, ]\n[Programmer at large] [ but is that what ship...
[ { "msg_contents": "\npts=> create table ttest ( id VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL );\nNOTICE: _outNode: don't know how to print type 715\nCREATE\npts=>\n\nIf I remove the 'NOT NULL', its created properly...this is with source\ncode as of 30minutes ago...and having wiped out my pgsql directory and\ndoing a gmake install ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks\n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44\n\n> ----...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was afraid to hear something like that.\n\nI just tried starting posgres manually and enter the statement that\ncaused the seg fault manually but then it works!\n\nI will try to find some more time. \n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Let's say you have a parent relations as (parent, child). Now you want\nto compute all ancestors from this relation that is technically spoken\nyou need a transitive closure.\n\nIn logic this looks like:\n\nancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Y).\nancestor(X,Y) :- ancestor(X,Z), parent(Z,Y).\n\nX is an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFound it:\n\nChange, in backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c:\n\n#define TAPETEMP \"pg_btsortXXXXXX\"\n\nto:\n\n#define TAPETEMP \"pg_btsortXXXXXXX\"\n\nFor some reason, under FreeBSD, it appears that the mktemp() value needs\nthe extra 'X' to improve/ensure uniquen...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nunsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 16:57:30 -0500", "msg_from": "leao@world.std.com (Joao Leao)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "[HACKERS] Unsubscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su> wrote:\n\n> create table a (a int, a1 char(8));\n> create table b (b int);\n> insert into a values (1, 'one');\n> insert into a values (NULL, 'null');\n\n> insert into b values (1);\n> insert into b values (NULL);\n\n> select * from a where...
[ { "msg_contents": "Somebody mentioned they had a Tcl implementation of crypt() the other\nday but I've deleted the message. Could you send me a copy?\n\nThanks,\nPhil\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:26:52 +0000", "msg_from": "Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:10:00 -0500", "msg_from": "Oliver Giller <giller@genius.rider.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Here they are. Please tell me if I can remove any of them. Unfixed\nitems get added to the TODO list after the final 6.3 release.\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nORDER BY NULLs problem?\ntest new view permission code, install new pg_user v...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: zondag 22 februari 1998 17:47\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] How To free resources used by large object Rela...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI'm getting a SIGSEGV with the following subselect:-\n\nselect * from disks where diskid in \n ( select distinct diskid from tracks where artist = 'Led Zeppelin'); \n \nThe source tree is a cvsup from 22nd Feb (AM GMT)\nPlatform is Linux/SPARC\n \nI'm afraid my debugging skills are...
[ { "msg_contents": "With Vadim's change, here it is:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nORDER BY NULLs problem?\ntest new view permission code, install new pg_user view for use with \\d\nmax tuple size patch(Darren)\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet inte...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nYes, it's definitely related to the DISTINCT clause.\n\nIf I drop the distinct, which isn't needed anyway, the query works fine.\n\nKeith.\n\n\nBruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> \n> This is a bug. I can reproduct it here with:\n> \n> \tselect * from pguser where usesysid in...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:17:32 -0500 (EST)\n>From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>Subject: Open 6.3 issues\n>\n>Here they are. Please tell me if I can remove any of them. Unfixed\n>items get added to the TODO list after the final 6.3 release.\n>\n>\n>- -----------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "> In POSTQUEL this is written like this (note I'm not sure about correct\n> POSTQUEL syntax):\n> \n> retrieve into ancestor(p.x,p.y) from p in parent\n> \n> retrieve* into ancestor(a.x,p.y) from a in ancestor, p in parent where\n> a.y=p.x.\n> \n> You see the second line generates new tuples e...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jan, I think you describe the correct picture of what is needed for\nPL/pgSQL.\n\nMy comments:\n> No actual development - just have something in mind how I\n> would implement it. I'll get into details after 6.3 release.\n> PL/pgSQL will have at least the following capabilitie...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> max tuple size patch(Darren)\n> \n\nCan move this to the TODO list. I'd like to get the\nvariable block size stuff done first, then this would\nmake much more sense.\n\ndarrenk\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:08:11 -0500", "msg_from": "darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King)...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:\n> \n> > Brook Milligan writes:\n> > > Actually, the most recent version is\n> > > \n> > > \tftp://ftp.flex.ro/pub/pgaccess/pgaccess-0.76.tar.gz\n> > > \n> > > This, not the old version, really should ship with 6.3.\n> > \n> > Why isn't it in C...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the newest list:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\ntest new view permission code, install new pg_user view for use with \\d\nmax tuple size patch(Darren)\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\nPr...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to\n> know more details about you.\n> \n\nI am 34 and have been working with Postgres since the first release of\nPostgres95. My contributions to the project have been fairly small\n(the Linux and Irix-specific FAQs and a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:53:32 +0700", "msg_from": "\"Vadim B. Mikheev\" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "ExecReScan implemented for Sort & Unique (DISTINCT) nodes (empty)." } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOK, here are my experiences trying to install the latest snapshot (23Feb98)\nunder Irix 5.3.\n\nIn summary, installation is currently BROKEN!!!!!\n\nI shall wait till installation works properly before I try another regression\ntest :-)\n\n\nAndrew\n\n\n\nInstallation of Snapshot 23Feb98 un...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Here is the newest list:\n> \n> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n> \n> Fix isinf.c irix port problem reported by Andrew(Marc)\n\nThis is now fixed, but the latest snapshot has introduced 2 new bugs\ninto installation under Irix and the template/.s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n1. ecpg Makefiles have hard-coded gcc-only options hard coded.\n\n2. ecpg/preproc/Makefile trashes CFLAGS instead of appending to it.\n\n3. ecpg/preproc/preproc.y has duplicate S_SIGNED\n\nPatch appended to fix #1-#3 for Michael's review. Don't appear to\nbreak anything else, but I'm not t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc,\n\nDid you get this message. New version to go into 6.3.\n\nCheers,\nBrook\n\n------- Start of forwarded message -------\nDate: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:18:34 +0200\nFrom: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>\nOrganization: FLEX Consulting Braila\nTo: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@...