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"msg_contents": "Marc (et al),\n\nThere is a new community web site at:\n\nhttp://advogato.org/\n\nA goal is to find common ground between projects.\nThe easy way for many projects has been to\nuse a not-really-a-RDBMS-engine.\nIt would be a good thing for pgsql-core to get \ninvolved to get more support for ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been investigating Oleg's report of backend crashes induced by\ndrop index/vacuum/create index in parallel with table updates. The\nproblem is pretty simple: there's not enough of an interlock between\nDROP INDEX and normal activities on tables. In particular, it's\nentirely possible... |
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"msg_contents": "I have devised a simple manual way of reproducing that peculiar VACUUM\nnotice that Oleg has been complaining about, but didn't have a reliable\nway of triggering on-demand. It looks like it is caused by some sort of\nbug in the transaction commit logic --- or maybe just VACUUM's piece of\ni... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone explain why there are two network_ops in the pg_opclass\ntable? I am trying to make pg_opclass unique. We have a cache on\npg_opclass.opcname, so we clearly have a problem here. \n\nAlso, is it safe to set opcdeftype to a non-zero value so I can make\nthat index unique too?\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "The following TODO items seem to be taken care of in current sources,\nbut aren't marked done in TODO:\n\nPARSER\n\n* INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns problem\n* UNION with LIMIT fails\n* CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails\n* CREATE TABLE test(col ch... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > * Since no one has picked up on my idea to run the tests \n> directly on the\n> > backend, I will keep reiterating this idea until someone shuts me up\n> > :*) The idea would be to have a target \"check\" in the top \n> level makefile\n> > like this (conceptually):\n> \n> Running the ba... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > once inserted, a row keeps its oid. so, when performing complex\n> > selects, i'll often grab the oid too... do some tests on \n> the returned\n> > values, and if an action is appropriate on that row, i \n> reference it by\n> > its oid. the only chance of this failing is if the \n> dat... |
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"msg_contents": "[I've been working with Jef Peeraer on building the RPM's on SuSE Linux,\nand ran across what I think is an autoconf issue. The configure script\ncomplained that it couldn't find the tk config script\n(/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh on most tk installs), which botched the whole\nbuild in an obscure pl... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> testdb=> \\set singlestep on\n> testdb=> \\set sql_interpol '#'\n> testdb=> \\set foo 'pg_class'\n> testdb=> select * from #foo#;\n\nThis is great, but may I object to the syntax ?\nThe standard sql way to use host variables seems to be:\nselect * from :foo where id = :id\n\nThere will al... |
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"msg_contents": "I have made most system indexes unique.\n\nI have added indexes to match all system caches.\n\nI have renamed some cache names to be clearer.\n\nI have re-ordered the cache entries to be alphabetical.\n\nI have renamed the inheritance *rel columns to be *relid.\n\nI have added a large comment... |
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"msg_contents": "Could anyone tell me why the following does not work without a cast?\n\nmm=> select * from test;\n f|i|a\n------+-+---------------------\n404.90|1|{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}\n(1 row)\n\nmm=> select i from test where f=404.90\nmm-> ;\nERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'numeri... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, I diked out the code in vacuum.c that creates/deletes the pg_vlock\nlockfile, and tried it out. Turns out it's not quite such a no-brainer\nas I'd hoped. Several problems emerged:\n\n1. You can run concurrent \"VACUUM\" this way, but concurrent \"VACUUM\nANALYZE\" blows up. The probl... |
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"msg_contents": "Whilst playing around with concurrent VACUUMs (see previous message),\nI looked at some other issues that were on my TODO list. I think\nthese deserve a separate thread:\n\n1. VACUUM does internal start/commit-transaction calls around the\nprocessing of each table it handles. That's good, b... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >> Yes, I use 'em the same way. I think an OID is kind of \n> like a pointer\n> >> in a C program: good for fast, unique access to an object \n> within the\n> >> context of the execution of a particular application (and maybe not\n> >> even that long). You don't write pointers into file... |
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"msg_contents": "I see everybody using the following PostgreSQL statements:\n\n\"begin\" instead of \"begin work\"\n\"end\" instead of \"commit work\"\n\nThis is really bad, because it is not standard, and can easily be taken for\na statement block, which it is definitely not ! It is a transaction block.\n\nI... |
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"msg_contents": "\nForwarded from webmaster.\n\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\n Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:17:14 -0600\n From: Brian D. Woodruff <wood@TuneStreet.com>\n Subject: RE: file name error\n\nooh - sorry to be so vague! It's in a frame set, linked from Administration\nin the Documentation ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > but not yet an access method that actually makes it fast...\n> > \n> > Well that is of course only half the fun :-(\n> > Could it be done like an index access, \n> > where the first part of the work is skipped, or tunneled through ?\n> \n> I would commit the implementation of direct s... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >Bottom line: pointing at the spec is a very weak argument for telling\n> >people how to spell their begin/end statements.\n> \n> Folks who do this should probably at least read the standard first.\n\nOk, as I stated, I dislike the single \"end\" most. You are right that I\nshould have \n... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> I don't see an end transaction in the quick ref, but they do have a:\n> \n> begin \n> statement block\n> end\n\nWhich of course has nothing to do with transactions in Sybase :-)\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:40:49 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "We have a table with ~30 columns, named 'people' and we were going to\ncreate a view for all record with 'relationship' equal to 1. The\ndatabase complains where using the '*' placeholder:\n\nalbourne=> CREATE VIEW employees AS SELECT * FROM people WHERE\nrelationship = 1; \nERROR: DefineQue... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Ok, the fact, that the row changed is known, because we can \n> check the \n> > snapshot. We also know, that the new row must be near the \n> physical end \n> > of the table, so maybe we could do a backward scan ?\n> > Maybe we could also simply bail out, like Oracle with a \n> \"snapsh... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I see everybody using the following PostgreSQL statements:\n> > \n> > \"begin\" instead of \"begin work\"\n> > \"end\" instead of \"commit work\"\n> > \n> > This is really bad, because it is not standard, and can \n> easily be taken for\n> > a statement block, which it is definitely not !... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> They get the location they ask for, or a failure. Hunting around for\n> the new tuple seems like a real waste, and if someone vacuums, it is\n> gone, no?\n\nIt is probably worse, since they might even get the wrong row, \nbut that's the same in Informix and Oracle.\n\nIn Informix:\n\na: ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm reposting it here, since i haven't received any help after posting it\nat the general\nmailing-list, and sending in a bug-report at the bugs mailing-list.\n\nI'm willing to forward the bug-report to any email-adress I'm asked for to\nsent it to,\nbut since it's a long one (contains... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Good point, but (AFAIK) you could only use it for tables that you were\n> > > sure no other client was updating in parallel. Otherwise you might be\n> > > updating a just-obsoleted tuple. Or is there a solution for that?\n> > >\n> > > > Is someone still working on the xid access ?\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": ">> > Which of course has nothing to do with transactions in Sybase :-)\n>>\n>> statement block != transactions I didn't think I even implied that. \n>> What I was pointing out was that Sybase ... why bother explaining.\n>> \n>> Vince.\nVince, I suspect that Andreas knew exactly what you m... |
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"msg_contents": ">From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>I think a reasonable answer to this is to restrict VACUUM on any\n>table to be allowed only to the table owner and Postgres superuser.\n>Does anyone have an objection or better idea?\n\nIn the dim and distant past I produced a patch that put vacuum\ninto ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom, let me know what caches you want on pg_statistics, or if you would\nprefer to do it yourself, instructions are at the top of syscache.c.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your l... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm going to commit changes to make lztextlen() aware of\nmulti-byte. While doing the work, I found that no POSITION() or\nSUBSTRING() for lztext has been implemented in the file.\n\nBTW, does anybody work on making lztext indexable? If no, I will take\ncare of it with above addtions.\n--\nT... |
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"msg_contents": "(from www.linuxdoc.org)\n\nLatest News: \n Latest Document Updates: \nNovember 21, 1999 We are now accepting Docbook. We are NOT abadoning\nLinuxdoc, however with the increased usage of Docbook in DP projects\n(KDE, Postgres, Gnome) we are slowly moving towards Docbook. There is\na prelimin... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt would be nice if postmaster has its own pid file to send signals to\nit. I think the pid file could be placed under $PGDATA. Opinions?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:11:59 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "\n> Sooner or later, however, they'll probably break.\n\nOr at least cause substantial headaches.\n \n> I'd not object if we removed these operators and instead provided\n> functions with the standard names log() and exp() for all the\n> non-integral numeric types. Comments?\n\nSounds very r... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi,\n> \n> you committed a patch from Hiroshi about Tidscan access\n> yesterday. Now the sources miss the Tidscan.h, so I assume\n> it wasn't a unified diff or at least patch left it somewhere\n> else.\n\nMan, I am terrible. Take that keyboard away from me.\n\nFil... |
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"msg_contents": "For some reason I can never properly install a build from the development\nsources. I have always avoided it, but now I must. I don't have the very\nlatest sources, but it seems I am doing something fundamentally wrong here\nbecause all hell usually breaks loose when I try. So perhaps someone... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm getting an error in run_check.sh on Solaris.\n\n\nMULTIBYTE=;export MULTIBYTE; \\\n/bin/sh ./run_check.sh solaris_sparc\nawk: syntax error near line 1\nawk: illegal statement near line 1\nawk: syntax error near line 2\nawk: illegal statement near line 2\n=============== Create ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I'm hacking in the operator functions for the lztext type and\n have a little question.\n\n With the generic per-byte decompressor I added, it would be\n very easy to produce functions like\n\n bool lztext_text_eq(lztext, text)\n bool text_lztext_eq(text, l... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWelcom.\n\nI have that message every time when I do vacuum;\n\nvacuum;\nNOTICE: Index tb_klienci_id_klienci_key: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (8776)\nIS NOT\nTHE SAME AS HEAP' (8774)\nNOTICE: Index tb_klienci_id_klienci_key: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (8776)\nIS NOT\nTHE SAME AS HEAP' (8774)\nVAC... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n> > This patch removes the ';' (logarithm) and ':' (exponentiation) operators,\n> > as was generally agreed upon.\n> \n> This is a tad premature IMHO. In the first place, we haven't got the\n> replacement f... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nin PgAccess's the create table dialog is small bug. If I define a new table\nas interits of other table and I not define any column (as 'field' named this \ndialog) - PgAccess return ERROR message \"Your table has not field!\". But\nPgSQL allow define table as:\n\n\tCREATE TABLE xxx ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI need in the SELECT query extract substring 'cccc' from string \n'aaa.bbbbb.cccc.dd.eee' (extract third field from string if \ndelimiter is '.').\n\nIt is easy if I know where is begin/end of 'cccc' and I can \nuse the substring() function:\n\nselect substring('aaa.bbbbb.cccc.dd.eee... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone out there who could help this guy? Sorry I don't have the time to\ncheck it right now and I don't know it form the top of my headh.\n\nMichael\n\n----- Forwarded message from Abhijit Chatterjee <abhijitc@wipinfo.soft.net> -----\n\nDate: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:49:18 +0530\nFrom: Abhijit Ch... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nEvery now and then I get the following error:\n\n cannot write block 0 of tablename [username] blind\n\nIf this happens, all my database connections get this error when trying\nto access the database and I need to restart postgresql. The problem\ncausing this error needs to be somethi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHere is the first draft for the spec of postmaster starting/stopping\ntool. I have named it as \"pg_ctl.\"\n\no pg_ctl [-w] start\n\nstart up postmaster. If -w is specified, it will wait for the database\nup and running. Options for postmaster should be placed in\n$PGDATA/postmast... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SEV wrote:\n\n> Vadim wrote:\n> > > The developers appear to want to make them\n> > > work (i.e., have the\n> > > ability to rollback a DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN,\n> > > etc.). This, in my\n> > > opinion, goes far above and beyond the call of duty for a\n> > > RD... |
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"msg_contents": "> So, you see that this idea came not to Oracle only...\n> \n> I don't object against DDLs inside BEGIN/END.\n\nYes, I know. All I object against is, that a DDL statement commits \nmy previous update/insert/delete statements.\n\n> I just mean that it's not required by standard.\n> If someone ... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter, is there a way from pgsql to show if an index is unique? It\nwould be nice.\n\n\ttest=# create table x(y int);\n\tCREATE\n\ttest=# create unique index xx on x(y);\n\tCREATE\n\ttest=# \\d xx\n\t Table \"xx\"\n\t Attribute | Type | Info \n\t-----------+------+------\n\t y ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>\n>Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:\n>> This is due to 2 problems.\n>> 1) The awk script is broken over 2 lines.\n>> 2) Solaris's awk does not seem to understand REs in split(). (nawk's OK)\n>\n>I don't think so --- the exact same split() constr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All\nI need now 1 real credit card number, and experiance date! I need your help!\nMaby i help you and in 2 month i get you your money back with post help, ore\nin other method/ Thank you for help!\nI'am sorry for my english!\n\nMail me, if you wohnt to help: wottak@yahoo.com\nBest REGARDS... |
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"msg_contents": "> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n> Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:\n> > Well, I agree that it would be GREAT to be able to rollback DDL\n> > statements. However, at the moment, failures during a transaction\nwhile\n> > DDL statements occur usually require direct interventio... |
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"msg_contents": "> From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>\n> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Mike Mascari wrote:\n> > > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n> \n> > What does ORACLE do here?\n> \n> > > > Since ORACLE has 70% of the RDBMS market, it is the de facto\nstandard\n> > > \n> > > Yes, and Windows is the de fac... |
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"msg_contents": "Just curious, is anyone working on referential integrity (foreign keys),\nor is it dead?\n\nSteve\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:25:39 -0800",
"msg_from": "Stephen Birch <sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com>",
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"msg_contents": "By popular demand, I have built and released a new RPM set. Here's the\nblurb:\n-------------\nAnnouncing the PostgreSQL 6.5.3-2 RPM set.\n\nThis RPM set is primarily a bugfix RPM set that fixes the following\nproblems and adds the following features:\n\n* Insecure permissions on /var/lib/pg... |
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"msg_contents": "Message sent by: Kuppler Graphics, 32 West Main Street, Maple Shade, New Jersey, 08052,\n1-800-810-4330. This list will NOT be sold. All addresses \nare automatically added to our remove list.\n\nHello. My name is Bill from Kuppler Graphics. We do screenprinting on T Shirts, Sweatshirts... |
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"msg_contents": "Is it possible to programmatically retrieve the OID of a just-inserted\nrecord in a PL/PGSQL function? Apparently, it is not currently\npossible in psql, but I'm hoping C programming is not required for\nthis.\n\nIf so, can someone please demonstrate how this is done?\n\nIf not, can someone ... |
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"msg_contents": "In 6.5.3, it seems that UNION is not allowed inside a sub-select:\n\nbray=> select p.id, p.name, a.town from person* as p, address as a\nbray=> where p.id in\nbray-> (select id from customer union select id from supplier);\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"union\"\n\nThe same applies ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis one was sent to webmaster for obvious reasons.\n\nVince.\n-- \n==========================================================================\nVince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null\n # include <std/disclaimers.h> Have you seen http://www.pop4.net... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been experimenting with concurrent VACUUMs and getting occasional\ninstances of\n\nNOTICE: Deadlock detected -- See the lock(l) manual page for a possible cause.\nERROR: WaitOnLock: error on wakeup - Aborting this transaction\n\nIt would be really nice if I could find out the particula... |
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"msg_contents": "> Vadim Mikheev wrote:\n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > > if PostgreSQL could successfully rollback DDL statements sanely (and\nthus\n> > > diverge from ORACLE). I guess I don't expect that to happen\nsuccessfully\n> > > until\n> > > something the equivalent of TABLESPACES is implemented an... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIs there any package/ application that will convert Pro*Cs which are\ncurrently\nrunning on Unix & Oracle (Server) to any Windows-based/Client-Based\napplication like VC++ on Personal Oracle?\n\nPl. reply ASAP.\nBye & Thanks\n\nS. S. Mani\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "I'm not concern very much about speed of Postgres but mostly\nabout its connection schema. Every new connect to database postgres\nforks another children. It's impossible to work with different\ndatabases. On my production site I work with persistent connections\nbetween http (mod_perl) <-> p... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>\n>Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:\n>> In the dim and distant past I produced a patch that put vacuum\n>> into the list of things that you could GRANT on a per-table\n>\n>Thanks for the code, but for now I just threw in a quick pg_ownercheck\n>cal... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>> I have to say that I'm going to change on-disk database/table/index \n>> file names to _OID_! This is required by WAL because of inside of \n>> log records there will be just database/table/index oids, not names, \n>> and after crash recovery... |
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"msg_contents": "Any thoughts on the following\n\n------------------------------ testview.sql\n-------------------------------------\ndrop table testhead; /* If it exists */\ndrop table testline; /* If it exists */\ndrop view testview; /* If it exists */\n\ncreate table testhead (\n part text\n);\n\ncreate t... |
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"msg_contents": "I think this was covered a little while back, but it runs something like\nthis: a view is a relation, with a select rule (which is the view query).\nWhen you insert into the view (which, like I said, is just another relation,\nit actually inserts into the view relation. However, when you se... |
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"msg_contents": "I liked the new tab competion ability in psql. Seems to work well in\nCREATE * but not so great in the others, like doing FROM and WHERE. Can\nyou take a look at backend/parser/keywords.c and see if you can merge\ncompletion for those words in to psql. It may be a nice feature.\n\n-- \n B... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone give me some advice on the best way to send data to postgres\nfrom a tty port that periodically (every 30 secs) spit out asci data using a\nserial/com port? I guess this is more of a Unix question than a postgres\nproblem, but I was hoping that there was a way that postgres coul... |
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"msg_contents": " \n> Yes, that is true. As long as the storage manager relies on \n> the filesystem for\n> table names, this will be a problem, unless filesystem \n> deletions are delayed\n> until COMMIT, and filesystem creates are undone at a ROLLBACK.\n\nI like Bruce's idea of altering the filename from t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I look at this and question the value of allowing such fancy \n> things vs.\n> the ability to look at the directory and know exactly what table is\n> which file. Maybe we can use file names like 23423_mytable \n> where 24323\n> is the table oid and mytable is the table name. That way, w... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I think Jan muttered something about emitting a warning notice for an\n> attempt to store into a table that has an ON SELECT DO \n> INSTEAD rule but\n> no ON INSERT rule --- which would imply that you'll never be able to\n> see the data you're inserting.\n> \n> This mistake has bitten eno... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys, thanks for all your great work on this system. I'm really\nhammering my copy of Postgres and that's probably the only reason I'm\nseeing these errors.\n\nPostgreSQL V6.5.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu\n\nI occasionally (twice a day) receive the error:\n\n\tNOTICE: AbortTransaction and not i... |
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"msg_contents": "After struggling to collaborate using only email during a development\nproject last year, I developed a web software product that facilitates\nthis sort of thing. http://meteorsite.com\n\nMeteorSite is written in C++ for Linux and uses the PostgreSQL\nrelational database engine that is inclu... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199912/pg_sqledit&page=1\n\nTitle:\nAcademics Tool Grows Up: PostgreSQL.\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 16:52:29 -0500",
"msg_from": "Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>",
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"msg_contents": "This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by \"Tim Perdue\" <tim@perdue.net>\nBe sure to reply to that address.\n\nIn the various versions of Postgres that I've\nused, I've just been amazed at how stupid the\nsorting process is.\n\nI'm trying to SELECT DISTINCT on a table that is\n60MB:\n\n-r... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All!\n\nI'd like to create a table with a datetime field that defaults to +60\ndays.\n\nmydate datetime default 'now() +@60 days',\n...\n\nDoesn't seem to work.\n\nWhat am I missing?\n\nThanks\n\nAndy\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:56:52 -0600 (CST)",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have committed changes to postmaster.c. Now it creates a file called\n\"postmaster.pid\" under $PGDATA, which holds postmaster's process\nid. If the file has already existed, postmaster won't start. So we\ncannot start more than on postmaster with same $PGDATA any more. I\nbelieve it... |
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"msg_contents": "> > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Lamar Owen wrote:\n> > \n> > > Where is 'linux.postgres', and how do I subscribe??\n> > \n> > UseNet. It's a newsgroup.\n> \n> That's what I was hoping, but, these days, you never know \n> what's in what\n> heirarchy. HOWEVER, my ISP's nntp server doesn't carry it. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nI working on a project that will handle around 50000 mailboxes at least.\n\nI have no problem with the system or sendmail. But I'm afraid that\npopper (either pop3 or imap) won't be able to authentificate users the\nstandard way (/etc/passwd) does anyone knows if a version of ... |
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"msg_contents": "This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by \"Tim Perdue\" <tim@perdue.net>\nBe sure to reply to that address.\n\n\n> >It uses over 1GB of disk space to do that sort,\n> >and it would have used a lot more if I hadn't\nrun\n> >out.\n> >\n> >Then it won't fail gracefully, instead of just\n> >h... |
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"msg_contents": "> Oh, and the 6.5.3-2 RPMs are ready whenever you want to upload them to\n> ftp.postgresql.org. They're in the usual place on ramifordistat.net.\n\nAh, I should have mentioned: I found a missing file in the 6.5.3-1\nRPMs I was repackaging (and using!) for Mandrake. libpq++.H isn't\ncopied to... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for the (slightly) off-topic question, but it *does* relate to\nbeing able to use emacs for editing Postgres source files:\n\nI'm trying to use emacs for more editing than I have previously (which\nwas restricted to Makefiles, lisp, and sgml). And I've got at least\ntwo projects which h... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'm a geographic information systems (GIS) professional and a (home)\n> Linux user. After reading the documentation for the Geometric data\n> types in PostgreSQL, I'm excited about the possibilities. Are you\n> aware of any projects where the geometric data types in PostgreSQL are\n> bein... |
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"msg_contents": "As I get more involved with this project, and just in general, I was\nthinking that it might be a good idea to have the SQL standards around.\nI understand that the standards organizations are selling those, but a\nquick search showed way too many documents at way too high prices in a way\nto... |
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"msg_contents": "I talked to Marc several months ago about the possibility of setting up\na system for raising money from commercial users of PostgreSQL kind of\nlike the \"Street Performer Protocol\" explained at:\n\nhttp://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.html\n\nIt would basically allow people to view ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was just wondering if there were any dates the major\ndevelopers had in mind as to when current will be released\nas a beta release? For my trivial part, I still have to send\nin a patch to allow pg_dump to dump COMMENT ON commands for\nany descriptions the user might have created... |
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"msg_contents": "Is this fixed in later versions? If not, should I send in a patch?\n\n\t-Michael Robinson\n\n-----------------------------\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i386-unknown-freebsd3.3, co... |
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"msg_contents": "As I already hinted a while ago, I am trying to resolve some of the\nvarious shell scripts' obscure dependencies on various environment\nvariables and paths. My question is whether the use of the program\npostconfig to determine the PGLIB value (or anything else, since there are\nno checks do... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDue to a recent thread started on pgsql-hackers, I'm posting this to the\nlists. Vince is planning on putting in appropriate links for some of\nthis, and, Bruce, can we maybe put it into the FAQ?\n\nI'm not an English major, so this is more techinese then anything\nelse...or, a rambling of... |
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"msg_contents": "As I promised, I have written a small program called \"pg_ctl\" to\nstart/stop/restart postmaster. I have committed into src/bin/pg_ctl.\nPlease remember to pull the latest postmaster.c.\n\no How to use\n\npg_ctl has three modes:\n\n1. startup mode\n\npg_ctl [-w][-D database_dir][-p path_to_p... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nOn Linux now exist project for raw I/O device \n(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/rawio/). Exist any plan (for far future)\nwith raw device for PgSQL? (TODO be quiet for this.)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKarel\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nKarel Zak <zakkr@zf.j... |
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"msg_contents": "> > On Linux now exist project for raw I/O device\n> > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/rawio/). Exist any plan (for \n> far future)\n> > with raw device for PgSQL? (TODO be quiet for this.)\n> \n> Up to now we kept the storage manager overhead in the system.\n> Actually there is no way t... |
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"msg_contents": "> > On Linux now exist project for raw I/O device\n> > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/rawio/). Exist any plan (for \n> far future)\n> > with raw device for PgSQL? (TODO be quiet for this.)\n> \n> Up to now we kept the storage manager overhead in the system.\n> Actually there is no way t... |
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"msg_contents": "This example forwarded from pgsql-sql:\n\ncreate table x (a char(20));\nCREATE\ncreate table y (b varchar(20));\nCREATE\nselect * from x a, y b where a.a = b.b;\nERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'bpchar' and 'varchar'\n You will have to retype this query using an ex... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have this problem with PostgreSQL 6.5.2:\n\ntable timelog199911 has \n\nlogs=> select count(*) from timelog199911;\n count\n------\n208749\n(1 row)\n\n\nlogs=> select distinct confid \nlogs-> from timelog199910\nlogs-> where\nlogs-> confid IS NOT NULL;\npqReadData() -- backend clo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I just committed a patch that turns on FOREIGN KEY. Thus,\n REFERENCES used in CREATE TABLE now automatically creates the\n appropriate constraint triggers. The implementation also\n supports omitting the PK column definition, if the\n corresponding ... |
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"msg_contents": "Well,\n\n ON DELETE/UPDATE SET NULL is also in place.\n\n\nJan\n\n-- \n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #\n# Let's break this rule - forgive me. ... |
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"msg_contents": "Besides, there is a good reason why Oracle introduced this into their\nproduct, and I don't think it was for server-based dbs. I think that Oracle\nintroduced it for embedded systems. This is the only reason that I can\nthink of for moving away from the file system. As we don't really cate... |
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"msg_contents": "This belongs to the chapter \"initdb weirdnesses\", if you will. I have long\nbeen confused about this, but now I think I have the answer. Could someone\nfrom the multibyte camp please confirm this.\n\nWhen I configure --with-mb=FOO, the only place FOO is actually used is in\ninitdb as the de... |
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"msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n> Hi Kyle...\n>\n> Jeff is currently in the process of redoing the web site, and\n> we're going to be working this 'bidding' system into the new site, but its\n> going to take a litlte bit of time, since he would like to get it right\n> and not have to do i... |
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"msg_contents": "> %--\n> %--> Dear sir,\n> %--> \n> %--> Just one remark for your book :\n> %--> in your chapter \"SQL Aggregates\", it is interessant perhaps if you\n> %--> say if COUNT(DISTINCT ...) for example is supported. \n> %--> \n> %--> mb\n> %--> \n> %--\n> %--It isn't supported.\n> %--\n> \n> Sorry... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd be interested in a data also, as it will give me a target for all\nthe JDBC stuff I'm working on for 7.0.\n\nPeter (Still catching up :-( )\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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