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"msg_contents": "\n\n Hi,\n\nI have a question... How PG parser select (build-in) function?\nCheck parser function's arguments datetypes only or check returns value \ndatetype too (for function searching in system cache ..etc)?\n\nI have function to_number(text, text) this function returns numeric \ndatetype.... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems SPI_fnumber can't recognize oid as an attribute for a tuple\ndescription. I performed my tests using contrib/spi/refint.c which uses\nfunction to test the validity of the trigger for check_foreign_key() and\nfor check_primary_key(). I changed refint.c slightly to verify that\nSPI_fnu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, everyone, I like your work very much and hope PostgreSQL can\ngrow into something competitive with Oracle just like Linux vs.\nWindows.\n\nI have background in relational database management system\nresearch and I want to try to be a developer for PostgreSQL.\nRight now I only try to be f... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter E writes (in elog.h):\n\n+ #ifndef __GNUC__\n extern void elog(int lev, const char *fmt, ...);\n+ #else\n+ /* This extension allows gcc to check the format string for consistency with\n+ the supplied arguments. */\n+ extern void elog(int lev, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((fo... |
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"msg_contents": "It looks like the latest psql has a buffer-flush-timing problem.\nError messages are appearing out-of-sync with script echoing,\nfor example:\n\n*** expected/boolean.out\tSat Jan 8 19:31:26 2000\n--- results/boolean.out\tThu Jan 13 20:41:24 2000\n***************\n*** 111,118 ****\n -- This ... |
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"msg_contents": "Can anyone who uses SSL check whether libpq current sources still\nwork for SSL connections?\n\nIt looks to me like it's completely broken --- surely trying to\nnegotiate SSL before doing connect() isn't going to work too well?\n\nBut I don't know anything about SSL, nor have it installed,\ns... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust trying to start up a 'mini-process' of -B 8 -N 4, and it tells me\nthat -N must be >= 16 ... why? \n\ndocumentation doesn't seem to imply/indicate this, should it?\n\n -N n_backends\n n_backends is the maximum number of backend server\n processes that ... |
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"msg_contents": "But it's not quite this simple. In our production system, we have reference\ndata in one tablespace, reference indices in another, working data in a\nthird space, and work indices in a fourth. This is because the amount of\nworking data throughput is extremely high, while the reference data... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes, but what if it's just your data that's a problem, and not so much the\nindex space. Then you are more likely to want to split the table data than\nsplit tables from index data.\n\nMikeA\n\n\n>> -----Original Message-----\n>> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]\n>> Sent: Fri... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nHi,\n\n I look at current PG's regress tests and I'm not sure if before test \nstart anything set LANG/Locale. How is it? \n\nNow it is not interesting (probably), but in future...\n\n(Example to_char() has locale depend output.)\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKarel \n\n-------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "I was under the impression that if you used NATURAL JOIN, then the join\nwould be made on the declared keys.\n\nOr doesn't SQL92 support declared keys?\n\nMikeA\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Thomas Lockhart\nTo: Don Baccus\nCc: Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development\nSent: 00/01/14 05:1... |
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"msg_contents": ">> > So, what's the deal, here...is the goal the Big Time or not?\n>> \n>> If it means adopting one vendors concept of what the world should look\n>> like...not.\n>> \n>> I *hate* the way Oracle sets up tablespaces ... where i have to\n>> pre-guess\n>> the size of my data and allocate space a... |
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"msg_contents": "I tried to send this to pgsql-questions@postgresql.org and it was returned \nre: user unknown. Can you forward to support?\nThanks,\nKeith Harmon\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom:\tKeith Harmon [SMTP:Keith@Claygency.com]\nSent:\tFriday, January 14, 2000 4:17 PM\nTo:\t'pgsql-questions@postgr... |
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"msg_contents": "I know we left this issue open, but I came to the conclusion that it would\nbe wiser to keep it like it used to be in that operator comments should be\nindexed on the underlying functions. The reason is simply that there is a\na one-to-one relationship between operators and their function, so... |
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"msg_contents": "The Windows makefile for psql is still in prehistoric state. Is there\nsomeone who uses Visual C++ or whatever it was that could update it?\nOtherwise psql will no longer be supported on non-cygwin systems!\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net ... |
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"msg_contents": "I resolved the issue psql variables vs array syntax in the manner\nsuggested by various people. If the variable is undefined the string will\nbe untouched. Now something else I'd like to get your comment on is that I\nhandled the cast operator '::' in the same way, namely so that\n\n=> select... |
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"msg_contents": "I committed a few changes to the user creation code which should, in\ntheory, make them more robust (doesn't use pg_exec_query_dest anymore).\nDue to an inherent design conflict the update of the password file cannot\nuse the COPY logic anymore (the copy command wouldn't see the last changed\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI can add days to now(), but not subtract? \n\n=====================================\n\ntemplate1=> select now() + '30 days';\n ?column? \n------------------------------\n Sun Feb 13 22:00:33 2000 AST\n(1 row)\n\ntemplate1=> select now() - '30 days';\nERROR: Unable to i... |
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"msg_contents": "As I promised before, I have added a small tool called \"pgbench\",\nperforming TPC-B like benchmarking, to contrib. See\ncontrib/pgbench/README for more details.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:43:19 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "Maybe this has been discussed before my time, but why exactly is it that\nwe don't distribute lex'ed files, as with yacc'ed files?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net 75262 Uppsala\nhttp://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden\n\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table\n\nNot anymore.\n\n* Interlock to prevent DROP DATABASE on a database with running backends\n\nI think Tom wanted this listed as an achievement, because it's already\ndone.\n\n* Better interface for adding to pg_group\n\nDone.\n\n* ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI grabbed last nights snapshot to come up with a diff for\npg_dump to generate COMMENT ON statements for user-defined\ndescriptions. However, I believe pg_dump is currently in a\nbroken state with respect to the dumping of indexes,\npossibly related to the current work done with\nIN... |
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"msg_date": "Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:25:07 +0000 (GMT)",
"msg_from": "Marc Tardif <admin@wtbwts.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I noticed today that the system drops any \"typmod\" modifier associated\nwith a type name being casted to. For example,\n\nregression=# select '1.23456'::numeric(7,2);\n ?column?\n----------\n 1.23456\t\t\t--- should be 1.23\n(1 row)\n\nregression=# select CAST ('1234567.89' AS numeric(4,1... |
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"msg_contents": "I have repaired the most recently introduced coredump in pg_dump,\nbut it still crashes on the regression test database.\n\nIssue 1:\n\nThe \"most recently introduced coredump\" came from the change to\noidvector/int2vector to suppress trailing zeroes in the output\nroutine. pg_dump was assu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all. Running 6.5.3 on Intel Linux. I think problems related to this\nhave been reported in the past but the mailing list archives are running\nincredibly slowly lately so I'm not *absolutely* sure:\n\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]\n\nmail=> begin t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all - ran into this little parser idiosyncrasy today... Workaround was\nsimple but this should probably go on somebody's list somewhere.\n\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]\n\nmail=> create table tbl1 ( id1 int4 );\nCREATE\n\nmail=> create table tbl2 ( ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom, I went through all the places in pg_dump where a format string was used\nto add a string to the buffer (I believe it's only a problem when using\nsnprintf, which, I think, is only used if you pass a format string), and\neither removed the format string by passing in a single variable at ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have some quistions! Who can tell me what can i do with a Credit-Card?\nWhat is savety to do?\n\nWhere can i get some Informations about writeing Cards with some Programms\nand where can i get the Programms?\n\nAdrian-P@firemail.de\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:36:52 +0100",
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"msg_contents": ">> And a pg_dump that cores trying to dump someone's database is *not*\n>> a \"minor\" problem.\nNo, I didn't mean minor when it happens, I meant minor to fix. Sorry. Of\ncourse it's serious for the user.\n\n>> So I'm leaning towards leaving the pg_dump code as-is and fixing the\n>> limitat... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom, does your inherit pass constraints fix apply to anything on the\nTODO list, like:\n\n* Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table\n INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail\n [inherit]\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear hackers,\n\nI have to port a lot of programs to PostgreSQL and don't want to wait\nfor completing them all before I put the first into production.\n\nSo after some thought I came to an enthrilling vision\n\nIf PostgreSQL had an interface for transparently accessing external\ndata, I coul... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>>>> Tom, any chance we can change the name of setheapoverried to something\n>>>> that makes sense?\n>> \n>> Actually, I thought the plan was to eliminate it entirely in favor of\n>> using CommandCounterIncrement when we need to make tuples visi... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi again...\n\nI've discovered (or perhaps re-discovered) what seems to be a memory leak\ninvolving temp tables. It's so bad that I make a script (which runs as a\ndaemon) close the backend connection and reconnect each time it runs the\noffending command sequences. Without the reset I've se... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hmm, numeric array type was missing too. Added.\n> Of the standard types, only 'timestamp' seems not to have an array \n> type; should it be added, or are we going to remove that type for 7.0 \n> anyway?\n\nWill be removed/replaced.\n\n - Thomas\n\n-- \nThomas Lockhart\t\t... |
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"msg_contents": "I cannot do this pair of table creations directly, because they are mutually\ndependent.\n\n\ncreate table purchased_job\n(\n\tsupplier\tchar(10)\tnot null\n\t\t\t\t references supplier (id) match full,\n\tspecification\ttext,\n\tdel_point\tchar(2)\t\tnot null\n\t\t\t\t referenc... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tHi,\n\n\tI'm sending this to -hackers instead of -users because I think I'm\nasking for a new feature in psql.\n\n\tMy Problem: If I run a sql file with create-table-statements through\npsql, all the column names get automagically lowercased. On the other hand, the\nObject-Relational-Mapp... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nJust created a rule and received \"rule plan string too big\". My rule is around\n1000 characters long. I added a debug statement which printed the following from\nbackend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c\n\n sizeof(FormData_pg_rewrite) = 60, strlen(actionbuf) = 6328, strlen(qualbuf) = 4279, Max... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter, there seem to be problems with the COPY statement when psql is run\nwith redirected stdin.\n\nIf I have a file ${DUMPDIR}/dbdump.product containing:\n\nCOPY product FROM stdin;\n05 \\N 000000 \\N \\N S D9 t f f f POLY BAGS-BLACK . Single f\n...\n\\.\n\n\nand I run ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am defining a table t1 with a NOT NULL field f1 and UNIQUE field f2.\n(it automatically defines t1_f2_key unique index)\n\nI am defining now a new table t2 that inherits t1 table and add some\ncolumns.\n\nThe NOT NULL constraint is preserved for f1 field, the UNIQUE for f2 not\n(the index t... |
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"msg_contents": "In my feeble frenzy to enforce a GNU-compliant user interface throughout\nall client programs I have also been starting to stick a\n\nReport bugs to <bugs@postgresql.org>.\n\ninto the --help output. (RMS would be proud.)\n\nI have seen vague references to this email address being recommended ... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sunday, I downloaded the newest snapshot of pg_dump, with Tom's fixes\napplied (it no longer dumps core when dumping indexes). However, pg_dump\nis incorrectly dumping argument lists for trigger procedures:\n\ntest=# drop trigger mytrigger on mytable;\nDROP\ntest=# create trigger mytrigger... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm trying to implement REINDEX command.\nBecause the command is to repair system indexes,we\ncoundn't rely on system indexes when we call the\ncommand.\n\nI added locally an option of standalone postgres to ignore\nsystem indexes and am add/changing ignore_system_\nindexes stuff.\... |
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"msg_contents": "This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by \"Adam Walczykiewicz\" <adam.walczykiewicz@multiuser.com.pl>\nBe sure to reply to that address.\n\nHi\nIs possible to send a record(more than 8 fields) \nto the function\nin plpgsql then modified it and send back???\nI've tried:... \nCREATE FUNCTIO... |
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"msg_contents": "The multi-byte support in current had been broken for a while due to\nmissing compile flag in Makefile.global.in. I have just committed fix\nfor the problem, and should be ok now.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:04:21 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have added two built-in functions:\n\tpg_char_to_encoding()\t-- convert encoding string to encoding id\n\tpg_encoding_to_char()\t-- convert encoding id to encoding string\n\nMain purpose for this is to allow psql -l to print encoding names\nrather than encoding ids (sample output fro... |
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"msg_contents": "I got the pgsql jdbc drivers and their names were jdbc6.5-1.1.jar and\njdbc6.5-1.2.jar. OK everything I've read refers to postgresql.jar\n\n\nI've tried adding the location of the files to the class path as well\nas renaming them, one by one to postgresql.jar and adding the file\nname to the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm trying to implement REINDEX command.\n\nREINDEX operation itself is available everywhere and\nI've thought about applying it to VACUUM.\n.\nMy plan is as follows.\n\nAdd a new option to force index recreation in vacuum\nand if index recreation is specified.\n\n 1) invalidate a... |
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"msg_contents": "I just tried recompiling the latest source for the first time in weeks, but\nit appears I cannot compile pgsql. My source should be up-to-date since I\nuse cvsup everytime I go online. But during compile I get:\n\ngcc -I../../interfaces/libpq -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -Wall -Wmiss... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just send a patch to gram.y to allow FETCH without FROM/IN to the\npatches list. Since I do not have the complete source checked out I cannot\ncommit it myself.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems I'm not allowed to send to the patches list. Does it make sense to\nhave this list being closed?\n\n----- Forwarded message from owner-pgsql-patches@postgreSQL.org -----\n\nFrom: owner-pgsql-patches@postgreSQL.org\nDate: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:04:35 -0500 (EST)\nTo: owner-pgsql-patches@... |
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"msg_contents": "Since this patch is not big I send it here instead. I do not have the\ncomplete source checked out so I cannot commit it myself.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2431/72651 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Yes, that's about the sum of it. Why not the links? I think \n> that it's an elegant way of designing the whole thing.\n\nThe only problem with symlinks is, that it does not solve the \n\"too many files in one directory to give optimal performance\"\nproblem for those that have tons of ... |
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"msg_contents": "> The Windows makefile for psql is still in prehistoric state. Is there\n> someone who uses Visual C++ or whatever it was that could update it?\n> Otherwise psql will no longer be supported on non-cygwin systems!\n\nOk. I've done this, patch to follow on the patches list within a couple of\nm... |
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"msg_contents": "A while ago I played around with gperf (GNU perfect hash function\ngenerator), abusing the keyword lookup in parser/keyword.c as playground.\nNow before I delete this I was wondering if this would perhaps be of use\nto the general public. I don't know how huge the speed advantage of this\nis,... |
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"msg_contents": "\nCan I ask how our big open items for 7.0 are doing:\n\n\tLong tuples/TOAST(Jan)\n\tForiegn keys/action buffer(Jan)\n\tUnify date/time types(Thomas)\n\tOuter Joins(Thomas)\n\nI am only asking to know if we should continue with the planned Feb 1\nbeta?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "I hope to get H1B visa Feb 4 and leave for\nSan-Francisco on Feb 6...\nI'll be in Krasnoyarsk till Feb 2.\n\nGood luck!\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:57:22 +0700",
"msg_from": "Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>",
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"msg_contents": "I recently installed postgresql-{server,devel,jdbc,odbc,perl}-6.5.3-2\nand thought I see it referred to alot there was not a\n/usr/doc/postgresql-6.5.3/examples directory included anywhere.\n\nI just want a jdbc driver. I got the jdk1.1.8 that I'm running on my\nwin95 machine and I'd like to... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Hi!\n> > \n> > Here is a patch to bring both libpq and psql to a state \n> where it compiles on\n> > win32 (native) again. A lot of things have changed, and I \n> have not been able\n> > to keep up with them all, so it has been broken for quite a while.\n> > After this patch, at least it ... |
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"msg_contents": "The latest source does not compile on Solaris 7 due to\na missing include from a modified file.\n\nHere is a patch to fix it:-\n\nKeith.\n\n*** src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c.orig Sun Jan 16 12:23:42 2000\n--- src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c Sun Jan 16 12:27:01 2000\n***************\n... |
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"msg_contents": "What is the current state of regression testing on the CVS tree? Are\nthe regression tests performed once in a while, or routinely? If\nperformed once in a while, perhaps the following would idea would be of\ninterest:\n\nI am kicking around the idea of using one of my old machines (a P90) ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Yes, that's about the sum of it. Why not the links? I think \n> > > that it's an elegant way of designing the whole thing.\n> > \n> > The only problem with symlinks is, that it does not solve the \n> > \"too many files in one directory to give optimal performance\"\n> > problem for ... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, I'm hoping to have the 7.0 version of JDBC ready before next\nWednesday (26th). Also, I've just agreed with Assaf to add his\nextensions in on Monday as both of us are around (just got to sort out\nthe time zones).\n\nThe only bit that will need sorting out afterwards is handling the\nd... |
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"msg_contents": "I suspect that it would be of value, however, remember that you are\nconstrained to those OSes that run on Intel chips, and at the moment, I\nbelieve, only a subset of those. I know that Linux can host winnt, win2k,\nlinux, Solaris, and possibly one or two others. I'm not sure how well\nthi... |
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"msg_contents": ">> Maybe we could only put the temp files in a different directory.\n>> They are where performance matters.\n>> If a normal table create takes a few seconds that is not a \n>> real problem.\nOnce you have the ability to create tablespaces, you can modify the temp\ntable thingy a little to cre... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm sending this to both the hackers and interfaces lists as this\naffects the 7.0 release and an interface.\n\nOk, up until now the driver has operated under a base package of\npostgresql. This has worked fine so far but technically breaks Sun's\nrules on package naming. The rule is that any... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm planning on using VMWare to allow me to have different version JVM's\nrunning when I start testing JDBC fully next week. It's easier to have\njust one JVM on an installation.\n\nAs for BSD, I thought I saw some screen shots somewhere with it running?\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterpri... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that I've modified the code so that casting to a specific length\nactually works --- ie you can do\n\tx :: char(7)\n\tCAST (y AS numeric(40,6))\nand get the expected results --- I am starting to worry that there\nmay be unwanted side-effects. The reason is that the system by default\nint... |
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"msg_contents": "\n FreeBSD 3.2\n Postgtres 6.5 and 6.5.3\n\n I have 6.5 up and running. I am trying to bring up a second server,\n(6.5.3) on a different port. I have configured it into the compile process\nand also tried it from the command line. As soon as I start the\nsecond postmaster process, the main DB... |
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"msg_contents": "subscribe\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:31:16 +0100",
"msg_from": "Sevo Stille <sevo@ip23.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Trying to load a 6 January pg_dumpall file with today's postgresql gives\nmany\n\ninvalid command \\N\n\nprobably because\nPQexec: you gotta get out of a COPY state yourself.\ndb.out4:11621: invalid command \\.\n\nSomehow psql is out of sync and thinks the \\N isn't within a COPY block.\nThe ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI know that the whole \"id\" thing in initdb is a can of worms.\nWe have pg_id but we don't want to use it, every system has \na different version/variety of whoami/\"who am i\"/id.\n\nWe don't need/want to use the unix ID of the user, but we do\nwhen we can. The whole thing is a m... |
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"msg_contents": "OOps,\n\nJust noticed we no longer have trusty \"pg_id\".....\n\n\nFrom: Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>\n\n>Hi All,\n>\n>I know that the whole \"id\" thing in initdb is a can of worms.\n>We have pg_id but we don't want to use it, every system has \n>a different version/variety of whoa... |
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"msg_contents": "Why do I get different date/time after explicitly setting timezone?\nThis is RH Linux 5.2.\n\ntest=> select '1998-09-23 12:05:10 HST'::datetime;\n ?column? \n------------------------------\n Thu Sep 24 07:05:10 1998 JST\n(1 row)\n\ntest=> show timezone;\nNOTICE: Time zone... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWell, I finally solved the linking problem\nthat kept me from making perl secure.\n\nAttached is uuencoded tarball to add PL/perl\nto postgresql.\n\nThings I know don't work.\n-- triggers\n-- SPI\n\n\nThe README file has a _VERY_ short tutorial.\n\nI would appreciate it if someone would tes... |
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"msg_contents": "Agreed,\n\nEither way, it's broken now and needs fixing.\n\nKeith.\n\n>Actually, I see no reason why the superuser's Postgres ID number\n>shouldn't default to 0. If there's code in there to reject that,\n>isn't it doing the wrong thing?\n>\n>The postmaster and backend can and should refuse t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The postmaster and backend can and should refuse to run with an\n> effective Unix userid of 0 (root), but that doesn't mean that\n> a Postgres ID of 0 is insecure, does it?\n\nThe usual setup has the Postgres ID same as the unix id, thus\n0 would be reserved for root.\n\nI think this setu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just found that when giving permissions on tables to different users,\nthat Update-permission is the same as Delete-permission, is this\nintended behaviour, or is it a bug?\n\nhoping for an answer,\n\nJoost Roeleveld\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:36:27 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "Wouldn't it be fair if a notice was generated if you attempt to create\nand/or reference a name that's longer than NAMEDATALEN. Like\n\n=> create table some_really_much_too_long_name_here ( ... );\nNOTICE: \"some_really_much_too_long_name_here\" will be truncated to\n\"some_really_much_too_l... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I think this setup has the advatage, that we could someday issue\n> > setuid() calls for \"dba and untrusted stored procedures\", \n> which would \n> > imho be a very handy feature.\n> \n> That would require you to set up a Unix user for every Postgres user,\n> which is certainly not ne... |
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"msg_contents": " List of databases\n Database | Owner \n------------+----------\n Newnham | prlw1\n\n% psql Newnham\npsql: connection to database \"newnham\" failed - FATAL 1: Database \"newnham\" does not exist in the system catalog.\n\ntemplate1=> \\c 'Newnham'\nFATAL 1: Database \"newnham\" do... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Hi There,\n> \n> I am not sure if you are the right person to contact to suggest an improvement.\n> \n> But he goes....\n> \n> Can I suggest an improvement to Psql by adding to '/z' which produces the\n> security attributes to the tables etc....\n> \n> If it can be possible could it als... |
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"msg_contents": "I know this is off topic but...\n\nHow do the programmers here get paid?\n\n1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid.\n2. Your day job encourages you to spend some of your time developing the db that your company uses.\n3. There is an organization that accepts money and distributes... |
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"msg_contents": "Wer Hast den Key von WinZip?\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:03:58 +0100",
"msg_from": "\"Hopf\" <markus.hopf@t-online.de>",
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"msg_subject": "Code von WINZIP"
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"msg_contents": "I don't seem to be ableto use pg_dump where a table uses foreign key\nconstraints. I seem to remember there being a message about pg_dump\nproblems but I can't remember whether it was relevant to this.\n\n$ pg_dump bray\ngetTables(): relation 'area': cannot find function with oid 1655 for tr... |
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"msg_contents": "Can anyone recommend a good web-based frontend for a postgres database? \nI want to port some databases to postgres, and I would love to make all \nmy forms html. I am primarily looking for a html UI for the database, \nand a creation/management tool second.\n\n\nthanks\n\n-- \nPray to God,... |
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"msg_contents": "I took a stab at a new install file. It's shrunk to a fifth of its\nformer size and only has 10 steps. Please review it, if you care.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net 75262 Uppsala\nhttp://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "I have taken Peter's new install.sgml and generated a new INSTALL text\nfile to match it. I used sgmltools to convert to HTML and netscape to\ndump the html as text.\n\nFile attached.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n 2. If you are not upgrading an existing system then skip to .\n\nskip to 4.\n\n\n 6. Install the program. Type\n\n $ gmake install\n\nThe installer needs to have write access to the install directory.\n\n\n 8. Create the database installation. To do this you must log in to your\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been spending some time measuring actual runtimes for various\nsequential-scan and index-scan query plans, and have learned that the\ncurrent Postgres optimizer's cost estimation equations are not very\nclose to reality at all.\n\nPresently we estimate the cost of a sequential scan as\... |
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"msg_contents": "Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:\n> This is with source from yesterday, but I seem to remember the same\n> happening to me on 6th January. It used to work before then. I don't\n> know where to look!\n\n> % psql template1\n> template1=> create database test;\n> CREATE DATABASE\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm very glad you bring up this cost estimate issue.\nRecent work in database research have argued a more\ndetailed disk access cost model should be used for\nlarge queries especially joins.\nTraditional cost estimate only considers the number of\ndisk pages accessed. However a more detailed ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I can see why they'd have one for EST since Indiana doesn't observe, but\n> why MST? Perhaps there's a state I'm not thinking of. Found it, it\n> appears Arizona doesn't observe.\n\nAh, good call. I knew about Arizona, but not Indiana.\n\n - Thomas\n\n-- \nThomas Lockhart\... |
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"msg_contents": "I loaded 10,000,000 rows into CREATE TABLE test (x INTEGER); Table is\n400MB and index is 160MB.\n\nWith index on the single in4 column, I got:\n\t 78 seconds for a vacuum\n\t121 seconds for vacuum after deleting a single row\n\t662 seconds for vacuum after deleting the entire table\n\nWith ... |
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"msg_contents": "Please help!\n\nThe PSQLODBC aborts a transaction with a strange error while execute a\nlegal query.\nThe message is:\n\n\"Could not begin a transaction; unexpected protocol character from\nbackend (sen_query) (#1)\"\n\n\nI tried the same query with psql client and it works with no problems.\... |
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"msg_contents": "If anyone cares, here is what I had to do to build the postgresql\ndocumentation on a Debian system.\n\n1. install jade, docbook, and unzip\n\tapt-get install jade\n\tapt-get install docbook\n\tapt-get install unzip\n\n2. grab the DSSSL stuff from http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl\n\t and u... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust curious, but shouldn't something like this be possible? Or is my\nsyntax just off?\n\nupdate dict d, dictionary m \n set d.word = m.word_val \n where d.word = m.word;\n\nI want to go through one table and replace all occurances of every word in\nthe second table with a numeric... |
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"msg_contents": "libpq gives back the internal typenumbers of the attributes. How do I know\nwhich number means which type? I need to find out if the type is an array.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire!\nTel.: (+49) 2... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks for all the responses.\nI really have the heart of doing this all the time but I dont have the will.\nI have 3 kids and a wife and I enjoy boating, hiking etc. I just cant seem to find the extra time. I like the idea of convincing work to let me work on projects like this.\n\nI was sur... |
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"msg_contents": "> I am getting an error: FATAL 1: Memory exausted in allocSetAlloc().\n(taken on-list)\n\n> I get this when I do the attached command. The table definition is the \n> second attachment. When I did the select statement, I only had 200 or so \n> lines in the table. I was doing the select com... |
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