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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I just committed some changes to a couple of files (43).\n They're required for the ability to have HeapTuple and\n HeapTupleHeader in different allocations.\n\n\nJan\n\n--\n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ Note redirection to hackers list ]\n\nPeter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n>> It should actually almost work to write sq.nextval as things stand,\n>> because Postgres has for a long time considered table.function and\n>> function(table) to be interchangeable notations for certain kin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n Is there any feature in postgres which gives a pointer to a row \nin a table ? I was previously using Illustra as my database as I \nneeded the object oriented features. Since there is not much support\nfor Illustra I thought of shifting to Postgresql. But in Illustra\nthere was the...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Yes, you are right, of course, it doesn't mean that it's incorrect.\n> However, assuming that Oracle adheres strictly to the \n> standard (which is a\n> good, but not infallible, assumption), \n\nWhich imho is a bad assumption (take Oracle's outer join syntax e.g.).\n\n> it means that we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "How I would like to go on:\n\n What I've done so far is to prepare the HeapTuple handling so\n it should be possible to reallocate the t_data part from\n inside the heap_insert() and heap_update().\n\n Next would be to define how the runtime configuration is to\n be stor...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nIf I compile current source, gcc (2.95.2) return interesting error for \npgsql/describe.c.\n\ngcc command line:\n\nmake[1]: Leaving directory /home/PG_DEVEL/pgsql.change/src/interfaces/libpq'\ngcc -I../../interfaces/libpq -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -Wall\n-Wmissing-prototy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n Peter Eisentraut changed initdb.sh with a patch, applied by\n Bruce into revision 1.66. CVS log shows\n\n> This is my -- hopefully sufficiently portable -- attempt at cleaning out\n> initdb. No more obscure dependencies on environment variables or paths.\n> It\n> now finds the...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 1999-12-17, Karel Zak - Zakkr mentioned:\n\n> Note: current postgresql \"scripts-system\" is small hell, in all scripts is\n\nHey, I just went through great lengths in writing those ... :)\n\n> simular options..etc, all depend on psql and if psql is changed we must\n\nSimilar options was o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter,\n\n current sources tell\n\ngcc -I../../interfaces/libpq -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -g -c tab-complete.c -o tab-complete.o\ntab-complete.c: In function `initialize_readline':\ntab-complete.c:100: `rl_filename_quoting_function' undeclared (firs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Where are we on psql/sql_help.h? Is it supposed to be in the\ncvs tree, or is it generated as part of the tarball generation?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard dri...
[ { "msg_contents": "wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)\n>\n>Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>\n>> > wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)\n>> > >Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>> > >\n>> > >> > NOTICE: LockRelease: locktable lookup failed, no lock\n>> > >> > (Otherwise the tests all passed.)\n>>\n>> Has anyone used CVS -D date to backtrack to th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Go to http://www.PostgreSQL.ORG/mhonarc/pgsql-sql/ and try searching.\nI got zero hits on \"numeric\", or \"decimal\", or \"postgres\". Something\nis definitely wrong with it.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:18:08 -0500", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss...
[ { "msg_contents": "When you do an EXPLAIN VERBOSE, two different representations of the\nquery plan are produced. The client sees something like this:\n\nregression=> explain verbose select sum(f1) from int4_tbl;\nNOTICE: QUERY DUMP:\n\n{ AGG :cost 1.165 :size 5 :width 4 :state <> :qptargetlist ({ TARGETENTRY...
[ { "msg_contents": "At Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:24 Tom Lane wrote:\n >> About ctags: is no one using Linux and ctags on the Postgres sources? Am I\n >> the first one to find this bug?\n >\n >Apparently you're a little new to the world of portable software.\n >I don't use ctags myself, being an Emacs man rather than a...
[ { "msg_contents": "While updating my local copy to current sources and running initdb I got a \nSIGSEGV at bootstrap.c:465 while adding template1 to pg_database.\n\nThis is because RelationBuildDesc in relcache.c returns a NULL at line 766. \nThe comments above this line say:\n\nfind the tuple in pg_class corre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>\n>> \n>> 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>> >...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nPerhaps I'm a little late in answering your helpfull mail but I've been\nvery busy, therefore, I'll tell the story from today, saturday 17th of\ndecember.\n\nI first removed RedHat 6.1 and installed 6.0 again. Then I performed an\nupdate to RedHat 6.1 and happily for me eve...
[ { "msg_contents": "> [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]\n> > I was looking at this\n> > \n> > * Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison\n> > \n> > but I'm not sure if my solution is really what was wanted, because it\n> > doesn't actually guarantee an all-or-nothing...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>\n\n>> \n>> \"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n>> > It seems that conflicts of the initialization of some backends cause\n>> > above NOTICE messages.\n>> > Those backends would use the same XIDTAGs for the same relations\n>> > in case of LockAcquir...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well, the good news is that I understand this problem, and in fact fixed\nit in current sources several months ago. The bad news is that the fix\nis part of some rather extensive planner revisions, and I don't think\nit's going to be safe/practical to back-patch it into REL6_5.\n\nIt's possi...
[ { "msg_contents": "On 1999-12-18, Bruce Momjian mentioned:\n\n> > * Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison\n\n> It took a few minutes, but I remember the use for this. If you are\n> going to hang waiting to lock tab3, you don't want to lock tab1 and tab2\n> while you are waiting for t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 @ 20:31:26\n> Author: tgl\n> \n> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpgeasy\n> from hub.org:/home/tmp/cvs-serv86291\n> \n> Modified Files:\n> \tlibpgeasy.c \n> \n> ----------------------------- Log Message ---------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Seasons Greetings Bruce,\n> \n> Sorry to bother you but do you know of anyone working on replication \n> with PostgreSQL? I saw in the past, pgsnap (PG Snapshot) but I don't \n> know if anyone's working on replication these days. There was a \n> thread in the past and I sent them messages...
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[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>\n>> > > 'insert ( data data data )' bootstrap commands are containing gaps. On \nthe\n>> > > other hand, this was one of the key things that were supposed to be\n>> > > improved because relying on $USER was not su-safe. Maybe $UID would work,\n>> > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, thanks to Oliver and others, I think I may have a handle on which\nheader files to include in the postgresql-devel RPM for the ability to\ncompile backend modules.\n\nSo, I'm going to put these headers under /usr/include/pgsql/backend.\n\nAny objections or comments?\n\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n>\n>Oh, this is bad news. I see what you are saying. In 6.5.*, we had\n>pg_id, which was used to do this. We still have pg_id, but I assume the\n>attempt was to remove reliance ont that in the new initdb.sh. Right\n>Peter?\n>\n>If so, can you suggest...
[ { "msg_contents": "Well,\n\n AFAIK we had a consensus on making \"try to compress\n attributes before moving off\" a runtime, per column\n configuration option. And that's what I'm after.\n\n This might interfere with the LZTEXT data type as is. Since\n this new data type is...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry, can't resist :-)\n\n Any time I see such a name for a piece of software, I'm\n trying to figure out what the single characters could stand\n for. Thus I'm looking for a good interpretation of TOAST. So\n far I have\n\n Tuple\n Outgrown\n Attrib...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Bruce doesn't want to do that, and I doubt anyone will \n> force the issue\n> > over his veto. But it would be nice to be able to do a \n> pgindent run;\n> > there's a lot of new code in this release.\n> \n> I hope I didn't \"veto\" it. I just wanted to mention my reasons, and\n> look...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> a section to the Developers' FAQ explaining how to set up all \n> the common\n> editors for Postgres. I can contribute a recipe for Emacs, but I have\n> no idea how to do it for vi or anything else...\n\nvi:\n\t:set ts=4\nmore:\n\tmore -x4\nless:\n\tless -x4\n\nI guess that comment is no...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>\n>> >I'm not sure it's possible or not.\n>> >If startup sequence in InitPostgres() is changed,we may hardly\n>> >find the place to start transaction during backend startup.\n>> >\n>> >Seems the unique place we could call StartTransacationCommand()\n>> >duri...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I have additional information on the update_pg_pwd()\n discussion, whether AFTER ROW triggers should return\n HeapTuple or void. The return value of AFTER ROW triggers\n isn't void - definitely.\n\n The trigger manager tries to pfree() the returned...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed changes to pg_ctl.\n\n1) postmaster.opts.default is being copied from\nsrc/bin/pg_ctl/postmaster.opts.default.sample in the installation\nprocedure.\n\n2) postmaster.opts.default is now installed by initdb.\n\n3) The path to postmaster is determined in the runtime rather than...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I thought it would be good to have our WEB-site telling some\n more details about TODO items, that are actually under\n development.\n\n Therefore I created a subdirectory \"projects\", placed an\n initial \"index.html\" and a \"devel-toast.html\" there ...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, I have 3 for 8-space tabs, 2 for 4-space tabs, and 1 for no tabs.\n\nAll want 4-space indenting. One wants braces on if () line.\n\nAnyone want the sources converted to another language. :-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.p...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI had seen the answer for my question before, but hacker's E-mail search\nisn't finding any word.\n\nI'm using PgSQL 6.5.2 with RHLinux 6.0.\n\nHow can I use non-group columns in a select with aggregate functions ? To\nme, the following query makes sense.\n\nteste=> create table pe...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Ricardo Coelho\" <rcoelho@px.com.br>\n>\n>How can I use non-group columns in a select with aggregate functions ? To\n>me, the following query makes sense.\n>\n\n<snip>\n\n>teste=> select pp_name,wp_date,sum(hoursofwork) from people,workpgsql\n>teste-> where pp_id=wp_people\n>teste-> group b...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n\n I try concatenate text via standard '||' oprerator, but result is\ninteresting: \n\nPgSQL 6.5.3/7.0:\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ntest=> select * from x;\na |b\n---+---\nAAA|BBB\nxxx|\n(2 rows)\n\ntest=> select a || b from x;\n?column?\n--------\nAAABBB\n <-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, got a minor problem here in RPM building. It was requested that\nwhen I build locale-enabled RPM's, that I also enable multibyte\nsupport. The suggestion was then made to use --with-mb=SQL_ASCII -- and\nthe README.mb for 6.5.3 supports that.\n\nHOWEVER, --with-mb=SQL_ASCII throws a conf...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone know when support for foreign keys will be implemented?\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:02:35 GMT", "msg_from": "rjb@typeline.com (Robert Badaracco)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Foreign Key support" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "During an delete I'd like to reference a foreign key and cascade the deletion\nacross the referenced table or tables. When will this be supported or is\nthere any work around?\n\nThanks\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:05:29 GMT", "msg_from": "rjb@typeline.com (Robert Badaracco)",...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is libpg a shared library? Can I write a client program say on a FreeBSD\nbox that links to this library and calls a remote Postgres db server running\non a Linux box?\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:08:07 GMT", "msg_from": "rjb@typeline.com (Robert Badaracco)", "msg_from_o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n Something in my pg_proc table got corrupted and when trying to\nvacuum it, vacuum would create thousands of index files in the database\ndirectory. It would just go into an endless loop and all it seems to do\nis create files. Anybody else seen this before? I've tried everything\na...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK I have:\n\t\n\t8-space tabs:\tTom Lane, Peter, Vince, Massimo\n\t4-space tabs: Bruce, Andreas\n\t\n\topen bracket on if () line -\n\tyes:\tMassimo, Peter\n\tno:\tBruce\n\n\nMore votes?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.u...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is quoted mail from Vadim.\n\n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > OK I have:\n> > \n> > 8-space tabs: Tom Lane, Peter, Vince, Massimo\n> > 4-space tabs: Bruce, Andreas\n> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n> + me\n\nYea. I am so glad you were able to vote. I was getti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Announcing PostgreSQL 6.5.3-3 and 6.5.3-3nl RPMs.\n\nThese RPMs are once again primarily bug fix RPMs, with the following additions:\n\n* The header files necessary to build SPI applications are now included in the\n/usr/include/pgsql tree in the appropriate places. To build an SPI program,\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current tally:\n\n 8-space tabs: Tom Lane, Peter, Massimo, Jan\n 4-space tabs: Bruce, Andreas, Vince, Vadim, D'Arcy\n \n open bracket on if () line -\n yes: Massimo, Peter, Vince, Tom Lane\n no: Bruce, Vadim, D'Arcy, Jan\n\nMan, both votes look very cl...
[ { "msg_contents": " I've been thinking of taking a shot at implementing replication between\ndistributed servers. What I'm looking for at this point are gaping holes in\nmy reasoning/plans/etc. I had planned on doing this in Python but if that\nproves to be troublesome (from a performance standpoint) then ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd prefer 8-space tabs, mainly because I have to set emacs to 4-space\nevery time I enter a source file :-)\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaidstone Borough Council\nAny views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes for the open-bracket on if() on line.\n\nAlso, remember that for Java, // marks the begining of an inline\ncomment, terminating at the end-of-line.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nSent: Friday, December 24, 1999 3:59 AM\nTo: PostgreSQL-d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Java's ok with them removed from 1 line statements, but perl requires\nthe brackets.\n\nPeter\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nSent: Friday, December 24, 1999 3:55 AM\nTo: D'Arcy J.M. Cain\nCc: vadim@krs.ru; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\nSubj...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI know that time travel is not supported any more\nbut has anyone written a tool that lets you extract \nold tuples from a table file ?\n\nWe have a customer who demanded the ability to permanently \ndelete records and who now wants them back.\n\nThey have not run vacuum on their table...
[ { "msg_contents": " Hi,\n\n I got this error vacuuming pg_proc:\n\nERROR: _bt_endpoint: leftmost page (20) has not leftmost flag\n\n It's postgresql 6.5.3 (Linux).\n\n []'s\n\nMateus Cordeiro Inssa\n---------------------\nLinux User: 76186 Kernel: 2.3.34\nICQ (Licq): 15243895\n---------------------\nmateu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been toying with the idea of implementing database replication for the last few days.  The system I'm proposing will be a seperate program which can be run on any machine and will most likely be implemented in Python.  What I'm looking for at this point are gaping holes in my thinking/lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "<html>\n\n\n\n<head>\n\n<title></title>\n\n<style>\n\n<!--a{ text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255,255,254) }\n\na:hover{ color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: underline }\n\n-->\n\n</style>\n\n</head>\n\n\n\n<body bgcolor=\"#7CB4DC\" topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\">\n\n<div align=\"center\"><...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm using access to connect to the PostgreSQL server running on a linux thru\npostgresODBC driver.\n\nI can link the table and can read the data in the table but\nI can't update it?! I can not add a record. What am I\ndoing wrong?\n\nThe user login has only the create db privilege and without...
[ { "msg_contents": "The new psql automatically tries to reconnect if the backend disconnects\nunexpectedly. This feature strikes me as ill-conceived; furthermore\nit appears to be buggy.\n\nIt's ill-conceived because:\n(1) under WAL, following a backend crash the postmaster is going to be\nspending a few second...
[ { "msg_contents": ">\n> I too have been thinking about this some over the last year or\n>two, just trying to find a quick and easy way to do it. I am not so\n>interested in replication, as in synchronization, as in between a desktop\n>machine and a laptop, so I can keep the databases on each in sync with\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nI finally got around to schlepping through pg_dump, to finish what I started\nabout three months (or more) ago. Attached is a gzipped diff file to apply\nin the bin/pg_dump directory. This should remove all string length\ndependencies, except one, which I'm working on. It has be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, again,\n\nMerry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it, and if you're reading this\nwithin three days of Christmas, then you're as sorry an excuse for a human\nbeing as I am ;-)\n\nAnyway, the point of this mail is to say that I have altered the explain\ncode slightly, so that it dump...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all,\n\nThis is the patch for the final bit. Sorry that it's separate.\n\nCheers...\n\n\nMikeA", "msg_date": "Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:04:34 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Ansley, Michael\" <Michael.Ansley@intec.co.za>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Unlimited query length - Th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a patch that would enhance the efficiency in that skip strings\nwhich have been already checked. The patch was made by Kazuko\nNakagawa. Michael, can you comment on this?\n\n*** ecpglib.c.orig\tWed Dec 22 13:13:21 1999\n--- ecpglib.c\tWed Dec 22 13:37:32 1999\n***************\n*** 398...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > It turns out that for an index on a single text column, the maximum\n> > safe text length is 2700 bytes. So the correct check for dangerous\n> > procedure definitions in 6.5.* is\n> \n> This is another argument to try and get long tuples into 7.0.\n\nThe limit of 2700 is btree specific...
[ { "msg_contents": "Before anyone starts implementing any database replication, I'd strongly\nsuggest doing some research, first:\n\nhttp://sybooks.sybase.com:80/onlinebooks/group-rs/rsg1150e/rs_admin/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default\n\n(I'd even more strongly suggest implementing database replication in...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have posted another patch for pg_dump to the patches list. There was a\npotential problem with the pqexpbuffer which I have removed as far as\npossible (the bug, not pqexpbuffer).\n\nMikeA\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:12:02 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Ansley, Michael\" <Michael....
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\nDoes pg open its logfile every time it writes or does it open the file and\nhold it open as long as the postmaster is running? Do I have to stop the\npostmaster to rotate the logfile out or can I just move or delete it at any\ntime and pg will create a new logfile the next time...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> >\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>> \n>> While fast routines are nice indeed, isn't it true in practice\n>> that to_char() times will be swamped by the amount of time to\n>> ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> > Anyway, the point of this mail is to say that I have altered the\n>> explain\n>> > code slightly, so that it dumps the results of the explain into a\n>> > table.\n>> \n>> What do you mean by that, exactly? You can't expect to fit long explain\n>> outputs into a single table row, so I su...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIt seems fe-connect.c was changed to call inet_aton() recently.\nI can't make executables linking libpq.so because my environ-\nment(i386-pc-solaris2.5.1, compiled by gcc 2.7.2.3) doesn't have\ninet_aton(). \n\nRegards.\n\nHiroshi Inoue\nInoue@tpf.co.jp\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 28...
[ { "msg_contents": " As discussed, I've removed the LZTEXT datatype again.\n\n No additional news on TOAST yet.\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 - fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Your name : Tomas Cerha\nYour email address : t.cerha@sh.cvut.cz\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nSystem Configuration\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n Architecture (example: Intel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all. Once again I come to you with a puzzle...\n\nI have the following structures (related to this question) in my\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]\ndatabase according to a pg_dump of the schema (reformatted for\nreadability):\n\n---------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": " I created index on cidr field on table with about 1 000 000 rows, made \n'vacuum analyze', but exlain told me that sequental scan is done\n on query like that SELECT * FROM table WHERE ipaddr='212.129.92.1'\n\n I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.1. I need a index scan. Do I miss something ?\nMargari...
[ { "msg_contents": "Why is the install procedure for PL/pgSQL depending on libpq?\nPL/pgSQL is running on backend, and should not use libpq. I see\nfollowings in the Makefile for PL/pgSQL.\n\nCFLAGS+= -I$(LIBPQDIR) -I$(SRCDIR)/include\n\nSHLIB_LINK+= -L$(LIBPQDIR) -lpq\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Wed...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am writing the subquery chapter of the book. Tom, you once mentioned\nyou could get subqueries to use HASH joins, but you didn't because\nsomeone said it may a run out of memory.\n\nI would suggest that if it is that large a subquery, our nested loop\nhandling will take forever, so would...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone direct me as to why the rights that I specify for a given table\ndoesn't take affect? I revoked all rights to the \"Public\" and the postgres\ndefault id \"nobody\" can still do inserts, deletes, updates, etc. I do a \\z\non the table and it shows no rights, but still allows a...
[ { "msg_contents": "How would I get all friends greater than the average age?\n\n\tCREATE TABLE friends (\n\t\t firstname CHAR(15),\n\t\t lastname CHAR(20),\n\t\t age INTEGER)\n\n\tSELECT firstname, lastname\n\tFROM friends\n\tHAVING age >= AVG(age)\n\t\n\tERROR: Attribute friends.firstname must be GROUPed or u...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is this a good example of a required correlated subquery:\n\n\tSELECT f1.firstname, f1.lastname, f1.age\n\tFROM friends f1\n\tWHERE age = (\n\t SELECT MAX(age)\n\t FROM friends f2\n\t WHERE f1.state = f2.state\n\t )\n\tORDER BY firstname, lastnam...
[ { "msg_contents": "Current votes are:\n\n(8) 8-space tabs: Tom Lane, Peter E., Massimo, Jan, Hiroshi, Peter M.,\n Michael, Tatsuo\n(5) 4-space tabs: Bruce, Andreas, Vince, Vadim, D'Arcy\n\n \n open bracket on if () line:\n(7) yes: Massimo, Peter, Vince, Tom ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Word is...\n\nTabs are 8 spaces; not 4, not 2: if your function runs off the end of the\npage (screen), sh*t function...\n\n;-)\n\n\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Theo Kramer [mailto:theo@flame.co.za]\n>> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:47 AM\n>> To: PostgreSQL-development\n>>...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> \tSELECT f1.firstname, f1.lastname, f1.age\n> \tFROM friends f1\n> \tWHERE age = (\n> \t SELECT MAX(age)\n> \t FROM friends f2\n> \t WHERE f1.state = f2.state\n> \t )\n> \tORDER BY firstname, lastname\n> \n> It finds the oldest person in ea...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have updated the RPM distribution on postgresql.org today.\n\nThe last two releases, 6.5.3-2 and -3, in both locale and non-locale\nversions, are available. I'm keeping two releases rotating online in\ncase serious problems are found in the latest release that were not in\nthe next-to-late...
[ { "msg_contents": "As near as I can tell, there are four whole modules of dead code in\nsrc/backend/libpq/: be-dumpdata.c, be-pqexec.c, portal.c, portalbuf.c\n(plus some support code in tcop/dest.c). These provide functions called\nPQexec and PQfn, which apparently were once backend-side equivalents\nto the fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just committed what I hope is the final solution for the problem\nof LIKE index optimization in non-ASCII locales. indxpath.c now\ngenerates both a lower and upper indexqual in all locales. For example,\n\tx LIKE 'foo%t'\nwill create indexqual conditions\n\tx >= 'foo' AND x < 'fop'\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone summarize when subqueries are required. I thought\naggregates often needed them, but I see now that table aliases can do it\nin most cases. I think NOT IN can not be done without subqueries.\n\nIs there a general rule on this? A rule about correlated subqueries?\n\n-- \n Bruce...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> >> It finds the oldest person in each state. HAVING can't do \n> >> that, right?\n> \n> > Having can do that particular case: (e.g. Informix)\n> \n> > SELECT f1.firstname, f1.lastname, f1.age\n> > FROM friends...
[ { "msg_contents": "Long life to PostgreSQL!\n-:)))\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:50:23 +0700", "msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Happy New Year!" }, { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Vadim Mikheev wrote:\n\n> Long life ...
[ { "msg_contents": "1. you buy a knew HDD.(20GB)\n2. Then you do the files on it.\n3. After that you take the HDD out of your computer.\n4. Then you put it on the CD\n5. Finish.\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:17:55 +0100", "msg_from": "\"S���ren Kreimeier\" <soerenkreimeier@t-online.de>", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOn 01-Jan-00 Jan Wieck wrote:\n>> I'm personally hoping for *some* sort of catastrophe...with all the hype,\n>> something interesting has to happen :)\n> \n> You too?\n> \n> Now it's 01/01/2000 04:08 here in Harsefeld, and absolutely\n> nothing happened, not one single power p...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I vacuum the database (PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on SuSE 6.3 Linux, 2.2\nkernel), I get the following error message:\n\nERROR: HEAP_MOVED_IN was not expected.\nvacuumdb: database vacuum failed on ntis\n\nThis error only seems to occur after I have used the trim function to\nclean up one of\nthe r...
[ { "msg_contents": "With pg 6.5.2, I just noticed this timestamped vacuum output in\nmy log file...\n\n1000101.18:14:18.555 [6514] DEBUG: --Relation\nui_option_choice--\n1000101.18:14:18.555 [6514] DEBUG: Pages 1: Changed 0, Reapped\n0, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 5: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0,\nMinLen 6...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have removed the DATEDEBUG code. I can easily re-add it. Is there\nany use to keeping the code? The code looks clearer without it.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Happy new year to you all!!\n\nI've run into this problem 3 days ago:\n\nScript started on Sun Jan 2 14:59:03 2000\n~ 14:59:04: psql\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i586-pc-unixware7...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nWhy do I get an authorisation failure when I try to update? If I cvs login,\nand then enter the password, that goes off fine. Then when I try to cvs\nupdate, it fails with a no such user error. Any ideas?\n\nRH Linux 6.0 (ix86)\ncvs 1.10.5\n\nMikeA\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 3 Ja...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, seems cvs needed upgrading. Got to 1.10.7 and everything seemed to work\nfine. Sorry to trouble everybody...\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Ansley, Michael\nTo: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\nSent: 1/3/00 1:48 AM\nSubject: [HACKERS] CVS problems\n\nHi, all\n\nWhy do I get an auth...
[ { "msg_contents": "Another question... how do people normally edit the docs? Is there an sgml\neditor that I can use, or should I do it in some other format, and have it\nconverted, or what?\n\nMikeA\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 02:20:43 +0200 ", "msg_from": "\"Ansley, Michael\" <Michael.Ansley@in...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's not exactly a Y2K bug, because it started to fail at Dec 30 1999\n23:00:00, your local time. Nonetheless, the abstime regression test\nis now showing a \"failure\". It's not a code bug --- it's that the test\nincludes a query whose results depend on whether current time is before\nor a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks, everybody, I think I have enough info now to start documenting the\nchanges that I've made so far.\n\nMikeA\n\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]\n>> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:20 AM\n>> To: Ed Loehr\n>> Cc: Ansley, Mi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thomas, are you planning on unifying the date/time types for 7.0?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup....