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[ { "msg_contents": "GIS style, but I don't (yet) use the geometric types. That project's\nbeen on hold for a while.\n\nSaying that though, another project I have - the scheduler I'm working\non for the Tass project (www.tass-survey.org) - will use postgresql for\nkeeping track of areas of the sky observed, but i...
[ { "msg_contents": "A 6.6 release won't bother me, as I've not committed any of the 7.0\nchanges to JDBC yet. If there is a release before 7.0, nothing for JDBC\nwill change.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borou...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Actually, Oracle has been moving away from this...more \n> recent versions\n> of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file systems, since, in\n> most cases, the Operating System does a better job, and its \n> too difficult\n> to have Oracle itself optimize internal for all the di...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Actually, Oracle has been moving away from this...more \n> recent versions\n> > of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file \n> systems, since, in\n\nThis is untrue. They need the raw devices for their big DB's\n(Parallel Server)\n\n> > most cases, the Operating System does a ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > new way for a faster and better database engine. I know (and agree) \n> > that it not is priority for next year(s?). But it is \n> interesting, and\n> > is prabably good remember it during development, and not \n> write (in future)\n> > features which close this good way. \n> \n> I woul...
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[ { "msg_contents": "www.postgresql.org doesn't speak about any port so I imagine nothing\nexist for now on that platform ; however you can release ODBC accesses.\n\nFabian\nhttp://www.geocities.com/lonestar_teklords\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:53:39 +0100 ", "msg_from": "Fabian.Frederick@prov-lie...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\ni am a novice postgresql user (and i like it very much!).\ni found out, that the ref.int. doesn't work via a constraining \ncreate table definition...\n\nnow my question: has anyone writen a 'compiler' that translates\nri-constraints into triggers and PL/pgSQL procedures?\nif so, pl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nIs there any reason for not allowing table aliases in\ndelete statements?\n\nI was trying to delete duplicates from an ascend log\ndatabase when I hit the following \"parse\" error.\n\n(Perhaps I shouldn't be using a correlated subquery!!)\n\nSimplified example follows.....\n\n\nem...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n\n>\n>> emkxp01=> delete from deltest s1 where s1.respdate not in ( select \n>> min(s2.respdate) from deltest s2 where s1.sessionid = s2.sessionid);\n>> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"s1\"\n>> emkxp01=> \n>\n>Don't use s1. Just refer to na...
[ { "msg_contents": "Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>\n>>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>\n>>\n>>> emkxp01=> delete from deltest s1 where s1.respdate not in ( select \n>>> min(s2.respdate) from deltest s2 where s1.sessionid = s2.sessionid);\n>>> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"s1\"\n>>> em...
[ { "msg_contents": "I seem to run into a serious problem. With 6.5.x + FreeBSD 3.2, I get\na core under heavy load (16 or more concurrent users). FreeBSD 2.2.x\nseems more stable but soon or later same thing happens. Examing a\ncore, I found it segfaulted in hash_search(). It was not possible to\nget more info h...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nNever mind. Fixed. I had forgotten to add a line to pg_amproc.h. So\nobvious, hard to imagine how I could have missed it... :-)\n\n\n> > Frank Cusack wrote:\n> > > \n> > > Solaris 2.6/sparc; postgres 6.5.1\n> > > \n> > > dns=> create table test (zone int4, net cidr, unique(zone, net));\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please note that SQLweb is a free public interface to SQL datatbases and\nwill work with postgresql. An E-Commerce Interface, just released, will\nbe valuable to PostgreSQL users who want to clear credit cards on-line.\n\nPlease feel free to add it to your list of 3rd party tools. SQLweb is...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was able to crash postgres 6.5.3 when I did an 'alter user' command. \nAfter I started a debugger I found the problem in the timezone handling of \ndatetime (my Linux box lost its timezone information, that's how the \nproblem occurred).\n\nOnly 7 bytes are reserved for the timezone,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nEver since I began working with Postgres, I have had one little irritating\nproblem with psql. It may be that I am mis-using this program; if so, my\nsuggestion is not helpful, however, if others have encountered this problem,\nperhaps the developers can look at a fix for 7.0?\n\nWhen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nis anyone interested in, or actually working on advanced issues\nwith PostgreSQL, like:\n\n- recursive queries and transitive closure optimization\n\n- more sophisticated representation incomplete information\n (different null values)\n\n- probabilistic relations\n\n- temporal (prefer...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nBrian E Gallew <geek+@cmu.edu>\n>Then <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> spoke up and said:\n>> Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:\n>> > Is there any reason for not allowing table aliases in\n>> > delete statements?\n>> \n>> As Bruce points out in another followup, there's no real need for\n>>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI've a problem and i am looking for help?\n\nI have a table with a field varchar(5), filed with right alligned numbers.\nOrdering was fine, just like we expected compared with nummeric.\n\nStarting from RedHat version 6.1 the ordening seems to remove the leading\nblanco's, what was ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am trying to make an index on three columns (text, int2, date)\non a table with 193 million records. I believe I am finding that\nthe pg_sorttemp files reach 2GB before the index finishes. \nThe backend finishes the index but it's clearly missing tuples.\n\nDoes this make sense to you f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, I just had a brainstorm for those who want to get a pooling-capable\npostmaster up and running.\n\nDo the following:\n\n1.)\tGrab the GPL'd AOLserver 3.0 from aolserver.lcs.mit.edu\n2.)\tStrip out the webserver stuff.\n3.)\tWrite a communications module for AOLserver that implements the\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Hackers: Can anyone comment on my idea on how point 1 below could be\ndone, or not if thats the case? Thanks, Peter]\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Assaf Arkin [mailto:arkin@exoffice.com]\nSent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:41 PM\nTo: Peter Mount\nCc: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org\nSubjec...
[ { "msg_contents": "There's a small connection pool manager class for JDBC in the\nsrc/interfaces/jdbc/example/corba directory. Ok, it doesn't implement\nthe FE-BE protocol, but does hand out already open Connections.\n\nIt's simple, but it works.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borou...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 01:40 PM 12/27/99 +0100, Karel Zak - Zakkr wrote:\n\n>\tnot use cache - hmm.. but I like fast routines (my current\n>\tto_char() implementation is faster (20-50%) than current \n>\tdate_part()).\n\nWhile fast routines are nice indeed, isn't it true in practice\nthat to_char() times will be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Given a table definition like:\n\ncreate table foo (i integer check (i > 0));\n\nI noticed the following works in Oracle but fails in Postgres:\n\ninsert into foo values(null);\n\nI was curious about what the standard might say, and had been\nmeaning to buy Date's book for some time, so broke...
[ { "msg_contents": "I need someone to enlighten me!\n\n Have this setup\n\n create table t1 (a int4 primary key);\n create table t2 (b int4 references t1 match full\n on delete restrict\n on update restrict);\n\n Now I use two sess...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'll donate some (read all freely available) of my spare time to\nimplementing tuple\nchaining. It looks like this feature is most wanted and it would be a\npity to hold this until post 7.0. Personally I don't need it, yet ...\nBut I will definitely find a use for it once available ...
[ { "msg_contents": "http://www.postgresql.org/ shows hub.org's homepage, not postgres's,\nand none of my bookmarked links to other pgsql pages work. I think\nsomeone messed up the virtual-host redirection tables there...\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 23:11:18 -0500", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "There have been some people who have said they want a 6.6 release with\nbeta to start on February 1. They are Tom Lane, Thomas Lockhart, and\nmyself. Jan and Peter Eisentraut have said they will be ready on that\ndate.\n\nSeems foreign key ability would be enough to justify a 6.6.\n\nCommen...
[ { "msg_contents": "The recent QNX patches have broken current sources. I think\nmaybe the patches were incomplete or were not applied fully.\nEvery makefile now has $(LD) $(LDREL) in place of $(LD) -r,\nwhich would be cool if only LDREL were defined as -r someplace.\nBut it ain't defined anywhere. Major lossa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Assaf Arkin [mailto:arkin@exoffice.com]\nSent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 6:43 PM\nTo: Peter Mount\nCc: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org; 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\nSubject: Re: [INTERFACES] Transaction support in 6.5.3/JDBC\n\n[snip]\n\n> 3. isCriticalErro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Assaf Arkin [mailto:arkin@exoffice.com]\nSent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 6:52 PM\nTo: Peter Mount\nSubject: Re: [INTERFACES] Transaction support in 6.5.3/JDBC\n\n\nThe version I have sends requests protocol 1.0, once I changed that to\nprotocol 2.0, I got...
[ { "msg_contents": "It looks like it may be an idea now, as for some reason, some parts of\nthe 6.5.3 JDBC driver isn't in 6.5.3?\n\nWe had a similar problem with 6.5.2, so before 6.5.3 was released, I\nchecked CVS to make sure the changes were there, and they were. It's\njust that I've seen several references r...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm also confused. So far, I've been working on the premise that the\nnext release would be 7.0 because of the probably major additions\nexpected, and that I'm hitting the JDBC driver hard to get as much of\nthe 2.0 spec complete as is possible.\n\nI think, if the other changes are going to b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I thought they were, but it's possible as I don't really know CVS that\nwell.\n\nPeter\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nSent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:11 AM\nTo: Peter Mount\nCc: PostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release \n\n\nPeter...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, if we go for a 6.6, then we will need to make sure the current\nsources for JDBC are included in it (The stuff I have for 7.0 I've kept\nseparate).\n\nI'll keep on plodding along with a \"7.0\" version of the driver, but I\nwon't commit anything until either 6.6 is out, or we decide that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nJust noticed that limit is ignored when using a select to insert\ninto a table.\n\nEg. insert into mytable (f1, f2) select f1, f2 from myothertable limit 10;\n\nselects all records from myothertable.\n\nUsing the select with limit on it's own works fine.\n\nVersion 6.5.2 on RH6\n\n-----...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 09:14 PM 12/27/99 -0500, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n>\n>For those working on INNER/OUTER Joins...any comments? :)\n\nI'm not working on them (or on Postgres at all, other than steadily\nplowing through the code to familiarize myself with it) but I'm\nalways willing to comment...\n\n>\n>> JOI...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to set up a system where every employee can log into an intranet\nserver and enter the time he/she spend on each of the projects. At the end\nof the month I'd like to create a list of time per project from this data.\n\nMy idea was to use PostgreSQL as backend (of course) and a web f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well this is my first post to this list, so be gentle ;-). With it I hope\nwe will be able to do most group amin, without going into psql. It has\nthe following syntax:\n\nusage: pg_group options -- dB group [user ...] \|\| [table ...]\nwhere options is one of:\n -c create group\n -d delete g...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nSent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:07 PM\nTo: The Hermit Hacker\nCc: Vince Vielhaber; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release \n\nYeah, I was thinking that if we were to call this 7.0 a...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm using the postgresql-6.5.3-1 rpm from PostgreSQLs website on\nredhat 6.0\n\nSome time between yesterday and today postgres developed the habit of\nlisting all may table twice when I do \\d or \\dS from psql. Right now\nthis is only annoying, but does this mean there is a system corrupt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well this is my first post to this list, so be gentle ;-). I have\nwritten a small utility I use and wanted to get it out and better\ntested :-)\n\nWith it you should be able to do most group amin, without going into psql.\nIt has the following syntax:\n\nusage: pg_group options -- dB group ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well this is my first post to this list, so be gentle ;-). I have\nwritten a small utility I use and wanted to get it out and better\ntested :-)\n\nWith it you should be able to do most group amin, without going into psql. \nIt has the following syntax:\n\nusage: pg_group options -- dB grou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter,\n\n I just noticed that the new psql doesn't handle semicolon\n inside of unmatched parentheses correct any more. This is a\n requirement for defining multi action rules and was properly\n supported by v6.5.* psql.\n\n The CURRENT version submits the query buffer ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's rude, it's crude, but it's finally here!\n\nThe mods for the logging subsystem have been posted to pgsql-patches\nfor your amusement and edification.\n\nOr whatever.\n\nAt the moment it does nothing but start itself up, channel a message\nevery time a backend starts, and leave some slop ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n I thought about the huge size variable text type a little\n more. And I think I could get the following implementation\n to work reliable for our upcoming release.\n\n For any relation, having one or more LONG data type\n attributes, another relation (nam...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:\n\n> I have a problem with pg_dump (6.5.3) if I use\n> create table foo (\n> a text default foo_function()\n> );\n> where foo_function() is my function.\n> pg_dump dumps create table first and create function\n> later. O...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nit seems to me that it's not quite clear whether pgsql makes\na consistent difference between byte and char, and if so, if \nthere is any way to store a small-sized array of bytes without\ngoing right to a BLOB. If you interface pgsql with Java/JDBC \nthe support of UNICODE (16 bit per...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well,\n\ni am a german boy, and I want to start hacking! But I know nobody who can\nhelp me! Perhaps someone can help me!\n\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:53:19 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Morfeus\" <Bob-Marley@t-online.de>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Help" }...
[ { "msg_contents": "In my venturing into createdb/dropdb I came to that little artifact that\nallows you to create databases at alternate locations using environment\nvariables as part of the path (CREATE DATABASE elsewhere WITH LOCATION =\n'PGDATA2/foo').\n\nThe problem with this is that it doesn't work. It nev...
[ { "msg_contents": "As I mentioned in passing a day or two ago, I've figured out how to\nsupport aggregates whose input is flagged DISTINCT without too much\npain. Basically it can all be done inside nodeAgg.c, once we teach\nthe parser to put the DISTINCT flag bit into Aggref querytree nodes.\n\n(a) If DISTINC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well,\n\n first I want to summarize some details, to see if we all\n agree so far in the discussion.\n\n - The implementation should be generic for all variable size\n types, but can be enabled/disabled per type.\n\n - Large values are moved out of the main tuple until ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n actually the opr_sanity regression test complains about a\n proc update_pg_pwd(). It has a return type of Opaque and is\n declared as void return type in commands/user.c. It seems to\n be nowhere directly called, nor does it appear to be a\n trigger functi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]\nSent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:44 PM\nTo: Peter Mount\nCc: 'Tom Lane'; 'The Hermit Hacker'; Bruce Momjian;\nPostgreSQL-development\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release\n\n\n> > I'm also confused. So ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Warnung!!\n\n Auf dem Markt befindet sich das Buch \"Hackerï¿½s Black Book\". Abbildungen,\n z.B. unter astalavista.com, erwecken den Anschein, daï¿½ es sich um ein\n solides, gebundenes, umfangreicheres Buch, mit fundierten Angaben zum Thema\n handelt. Dies ist nicht der Fall. Fï¿½r 30.-DM w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Warnung!!\n\n Auf dem Markt befindet sich das Buch \"Hackerï¿½s Black Book\". Abbildungen,\n z.B. unter astalavista.com, erwecken den Anschein, daï¿½ es sich um ein\n solides, gebundenes, umfangreicheres Buch, mit fundierten Angaben zum Thema\n handelt. Dies ist nicht der Fall. Fï¿½r 30.-DM w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I somehow remember the MONEY datatype has some problems and might be\nremoved. Now I didnï¿½t follow this topic closely enough, but now I've\nencountered I could use it pretty well. Of course a DECIMAL datatype fits\nthe bill as good since I do not need the currency symbol in psql's output.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was wondering if there's something here I'm not seeing (or am unaware\nof) with respect to the use of LIKE in Microsoft Access over ODBC to\nPostgreSQL 6.5.0 using the 6.40.00.06 ODBC driver. I have the following\nquery:\n\nSELECT workorders.workorder, workorders.workorderno, equi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I am excited about the long data type. This is _the_ way to do long\n> data types. Have any of the commercial databases figured out this way\n> to do it. I can't imagine a better system.\n\nThe commercial db's usually make the dba decide on a per column basis \nwhether the value is sto...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Since lob's are typically large, the large overhead would \n> be especially\n> > painful, so a different relkind with another pagelayout \n> seems adequate.\n> \n> No, I think a single Oid index on a relation, where only\n> usually large tuples are stored is a very small ov...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently working on Create/Alter/Drop Group statements. I have all\nthe framework set up, I can create empty groups and drop them, and create\nall sorts of notices about unimplemented functionality.\n\nFirst, the syntax I had in mind:\n\nCREATE GROUP name [ WITH [ SYSID id ] [ USER name1...
[ { "msg_contents": "We did discuss this. It seems there is circular dependency about\ndumping functions and tables, where some rely on the other. We\ndiscussed this, and the only fix we can think of is to dump the entries\nin creation order, using the oid as a guide.\n\nNot sure when we can implement this.\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just going through the TODO list, at the risk of starting another\nheart-breaking discussion, did we not agree to _not_ do this:\n\n* rename 'createuser' to 'pg_createuser', and add 'pg_' to other commands\n\nAll the commands that need it (version, dump, id) already have this\nprefix, all the...
[ { "msg_contents": "wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:\n> In some countries (Germany at least) storage of financial\n> booking information is not permitted to use floats. And you\n> aren't allowed to use it for calculation of taxes etc.,\n> instead you must use some datatype with a fixab...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have found a few questionable codings. I'm not sure if it really\nhurts anything. Suggestions are welcome.\n\n1) in storage/lmgr/lock.c: LockShmemSize()\n\nsize += MAXALIGN(maxBackends * sizeof(PROC));\t\t/* each MyProc /\nsize += MAXALIGN(maxBackends sizeof(LOCKMETHODCTL));\t\t/* each\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> First, the syntax I had in mind:\n> \n> CREATE GROUP name [ WITH [ SYSID id ] [ USER name1, name2, ... ] ]\n> ALTER GROUP name WITH SYSID id /* changes sysid */\n> ALTER GROUP name ADD USER name1, name2, ...\n> ALTER GROUP name DROP USER name1, name2, ...\n> DROP GROUP name\n> \n> Pl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Hmm,we have discussed about LONG.\n> Change by LONG is transparent to users and would resolve\n> the big tuple problem mostly.\n> I'm suspicious that tuple chaining is worth the work now.\n\nAll commercial db's I know allow at least 32kb tuples,\nthey all do it with chaining, because they...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> \n> > > CREATE GROUP name [ WITH [ SYSID id ] [ USER name1, name2, ... ] ]\n> > > ALTER GROUP name WITH SYSID id /* changes sysid */\n> > > ALTER GROUP name ADD USER name1, name2, ...\n> > > ALTER GROUP name DROP USER name1, name2, ...\n> > > DROP GROUP name\n> \n> > I think a group ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> All I really wanted to do is fix TODO item\n> * database names with spaces fail\n> but that is already taken care of, they work fine. Please check it off.\n> Meanwhile, database names with single quotes in names don't work very well\n> at all, and because of shell quoting rules this can't b...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust a quick question. Am trying to debug some problems with UdmSearch,\nand the following being pumped out of hte backend (have debug mode's\nturned on) don't look right...\n\nStartTransactionCommand^M\nquery: BEGIN WORK^M\nProcessUtility: BEGIN WORK^M\nCommitTransactionCommand^M\nStartTr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPretty much reproducable each time, and nothing other then that in the\nlogs...I can restart the process, let it run and after awhile, it does it\nagain...\n\nI'm trying to get the UdmSearch program in place to replace ht/Dig, and\nthis is from the program that is creating the databases:\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "As threatened, here's the array inquisition. If have already found out how\narrays work in essence, but the could anybody tell me how I create a new\narray? I mean I could just allocate a chunk of memory and set all the\nflags and sizes myself, but that doesn't seem very clean.\n\n-- \nPeter ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ I'm redirecting this to pg-hackers since it doesn't look like an\ninterfaces problem ... ]\n\nMatthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net> writes:\n> The app is written in PHP3-3.0.12 compiled as an Apache-1.3.6 module. The\n> OS is FreeBSD-3.1-Release with GCC-2.7.2.1 and a PostgreSQL-6.5.1 backen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nI think Tom Lane forwarded this over from [INTERFACES] (thanks Tom!), but I\nthought I should post it since it is my problem and not Tom's.\n\nOriginal post as follows:\n-------------------------\n\nIf anyone could help me figure out what is going on with my PostgreSQL\nbackend ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nThis follows a post I just made with the subject line: [Backend core dump,\nPlease help, Urgent!]\n\nWe just had the same thing occur on a completely different server! It\nhappened on our development server which is different hardware and\ndifferent version of FreeBSD (3.2-Rele...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI got seriuos problem this night with postgres which is running as \ndb backend to apache. I have cron job which vacuuming database\nevery hour and it worked for weeks without problem\n(well, there is problem with concurrent processes under high load,\nbut this night was very quiet)\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can anyone comment on this? I don't know the answer, and I know he is\nwaiting for help. This originally appeared on the patches list.\n\n> \n> These patches to libpq allow a user to toggle the blocking nature of\n> the database connection.\n> \n> They also fix a problem where if the databa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI think I asked this before but don't recall seeing an answer. Do we \nhave a logical AND? partial example:\n\nSELECT (( sum(case dict.word when 'enable' then 1 else 0 end) && sum(case\ndict.word when 'test' then 1 else 0 end))) FROM blahblahblah\n\nNote the && in the first line. I'm gu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just spent some time trying to work out why PG_VERSION contained 6.6 rather\nthan 7.0 in my freshly initdb'd directory. End result: I don't understand\nwhy after doing a make in src/bin/pg_version, doing a make install recompiles\npg_version even though it was just made. This leads to the p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> said: \n\n> > I think I asked this before but don't recall seeing an answer. Do we\n> > have a logical AND?\n> \n> Uh, yes. It's called \"AND\" ;)\n\nThat's what I was afraid of.\n\n ERROR: left-hand side of AND is type 'int4', not bool\n\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX \"ethernet_ip_key\" on \"ethernet\" using btree ( \"ip\" \"network_ops\" );\n\nwas generated by dumpall. \"network_ops\" apparently don't exist (not sure what\nis should be called). Changing to\nusing btree ( \"ip\" )\nwas sufficient to fix, but I don't know what it should...
[ { "msg_contents": "Who's up for a little language-lawyering discussion?\n\nI have just noticed that our parser is probably in error in treating\nGROUP BY and ORDER BY expressions similarly. This came up while\nchecking whether we were doing the right thing in rejecting\n\nSELECT complicated-expression AS foo F...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Next question is, do we want to leave the code as-is, or tighten up\n> the parser to reject AS-names and column numbers in GROUP BY?\n\nThe numbers are also allowed in other DBMS's, so I would leave that as is.\n\n> It seems to me we should change it, because there are cases where the\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 06:37 PM 12/15/99 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>\n>> Next question is, do we want to leave the code as-is, or tighten up\n>> the parser to reject AS-names and column numbers in GROUP BY?\n>\n>The numbers are also allowed in other DBMS's, so I would leave that as is.\n\n>From Oracl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n Hi,\n\nand see:\n\n$ pg_dump --help\n/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_dump: invalid option -- -\n\nhmm ?\n\nPrepare anyone long options for pg_dump, pg_passwd, pg_version ? \nIf not, I make it, current state is disgraceful.\n\n\t\t\t\t\tKarel\n\nPS. If I meet with any mazy M$-Win user I alway...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, Tom,\n\nIt's my understanding that WHERE and GROUP BY will only accept table or view\ncolumns, while ORDER BY and HAVING will accept SELECT columns (aliases) as\nwell. I'll double check this with Oracle (Oracle tends to be pretty SQL\ncompliant), but it makes sense to me.\n\nSo according...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nSorry for all the posts, but I'm trying to put my finger on my backend crash.\n\nAny insight on any of the following would be very helpful:\n\nHow many backend processes is considered a large number? The man pages\nsays the default is 32. Does anyone set their number higher?\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since the new parallel regression tests I've always had a few\nlock NOTICE messages like the following.\n\nIn my latest run (from a CVS update today) I seem to have\na significantly higher level of failures and NOTICE messages.\n\nI'm not sure where to look for the problem.\n\nPlatform Is Sol...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nIf there was corrupt data in a table, how would one go about finding it?\nIs it possible that corrupt data could cause a backend crash?\n\nThank you,\nMatthew\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:40:40 -0500", "msg_from": "Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>", "msg_f...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Which dbms's allow it? Or is there an error in my query (I don't\n> use column numbering, I'm into names myself)?\n\nInformix and DB/2 allow column numbering in the group by clause.\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:30:23 +0100", "msg_from": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB ...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n_____________________________________________\n�׶��--�Ƚ��й��˵��ϼ�԰ http://www.263.net\n�� ʼ��־ ǩ��ʼ� �ʼ�� ʼ�׷��\n�� վ�� Ϸ �� ϹҺ�\n�� ɱ�� г� �� \nŵ��ȫ��e·ƽ��\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:05:...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\nWhat is changed on INSERT/max() in v7.0? (CVS - today).\n\nSee:\n\n--- new version:\n\ntemplate1=> select * from pg_group;\n groname \| grosysid \| grolist\n---------+----------+---------\n _dummy_ \| 0 \| {}\n(1 row)\n\ntemplate1=> INSERT INTO pg_group VALUES ('abg_root', max(grosys...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> > Informix and DB/2 allow column numbering in the group by clause.\n> \n> What do they do with\n> \n> \tSELECT foo AS bar FROM table GROUP BY bar\n> \n> What do they do if bar is the real name of another column in \n> the ta...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tIï¿½m trying to implement a security scheme based on groups, so I tried to\nwrite some little functions in C. Unfortunately, although I managed to read the \ninternal format, I couldnï¿½t create the ArrayType to return to the backend. It shouldnï¿½t\n be very difficult. I mean, itï¿½s only ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tHow can I display the current privileges of a group or\na user in a particular table? I could read relacl from pg_class,\nbut I canï¿½t process the acltype. In acl.c, acltype is an int4!!!\n\tIs there any code to reuse?\n\n\t\t\t\tNicolas Nappe\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:55:03...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> So, according to Oracle's view of the world, HAVING is orrect \n> because it\n> rejects aliases, but GROUP BY is broken because it accepts them.\n\nJust because it is more powerful than the standard does not mean it is\nbroken.\nThe only thing, that is broken is that the alias is taken be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have a problem using \\copy to load data into tables.\n\nI have to load data into a table that contains data type fields with\nNULL values.\nI tried using \\N but it doesn't work.\nWhat can I do to insert a null into a data field?\n\nTo arrive this conclusion I had to try many so...
[ { "msg_contents": "wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)\n>Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>\n>> > Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:\n>> > > Since the new parallel regression tests I've always had a few\n>> > > lock NOTICE messages like the following.\n>> >\n>> > Interesting --- I had not run the parallel test for a w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, you are right, of course, it doesn't mean that it's incorrect.\nHowever, assuming that Oracle adheres strictly to the standard (which is a\ngood, but not infallible, assumption), it means that we don't. Of course,\nwe may just extend the standard, but in this particular area, I'm not su...

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