threads listlengths 1 2.99k |
|---|
[
{
"msg_contents": "> \n> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\n> \n> Unable to create tables...\n> \n> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\n> \n> * From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>\n> * To: Postgres Hackers List <hackers@p... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\"gary.wolfe\" <gary.wolfe@biosourcetechnologies.com> writes:\n> Are there any disadvantages to having KSQO='on' instead\n> of the default value of \"OFF\"\n\nOther than it being a kluge, you mean ;-) ?\n\nBasically it rewrites queries with long strings of ORs into SELECT UNION\nSELECT qu... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Is there a way to use the max aggregate on an oid field? When I try on\n6.5.3, I get the following error message:\n\ntest=> select max(uid) from user_base;\nERROR: Unable to select an aggregate function max(oid)\n\nIf there's any work-around, please let me know.\nMarc\n\n",
"msg_date": "F... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n\nI've checked the format of the postgresql jdbc url I'm using for my\ngetConnection call, it acctually works when used for programs run from\nthe command line. It's only when I run an applet in a browser do I\nget the error \"No suitable driver\". I believe the jar is being loaded\nbecau... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi everyone. Awhile back I reported the elog(FATAL)/elog(ERROR) infinite\nloop and I see it marked in the TODO as done for 7.0. Is there a patch\nfor this problem for 6.5.3?\n\nThanks...\n\n- K\n\nKristofer Munn * KMI * 973-509-9414 * AIM KrMunn * http://www.munn.com/\n\n",
"msg_date": ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I am using a c program to insert the contents of mail messages into\npostgresql. First, I copy the message from stdin into a char pointer which\nI malloc at every line, then I use the following code to insert into a\ntable:\n\nchar query[1024];\nPGresult *res;\n...\nsprint(query, \"insert int... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nIs it possible to get an explain to return a rowset? I've added a PERSIST\noption, and need to return the plan id as a row (if anybody thinks there are\nbetter ways, I'm open to ideas). elogging doesn't help, because with some\nclient interfaces, it's very difficult to get to an ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I have written the attached bit of doco about the new index cost\nestimator procedure definition, but I am not sure where to put it.\nThere isn't (AFAICT) any existing documentation about how to make\na new kind of index, which would be the proper place for it.\nMay I impose on you to find/ma... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "With caveats, it is now possible to drop columns from tables.\n\nThe implementation is based on copying the old table to a new one minus\nthe specified column. This procedure changes the oids of everyone\ninvolved, so I was wondering if\na) this is a good reason to tell people to stop using o... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Does anyone know to what extent we do/should support Not-a-number,\nInfinity, and the like for our floating point types? Are we at the mercy\nof the operating system? If so, how could we ever offer this functionality\nacross the board on the backend level?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I've built current sources on my brand new linux box,\nthought I'd try foreign key constraints since the datamodel for\nthe ArsDigita Community System contains hundreds of them.\nFigured this might provide a bit of a stress test for the\nimplementation.\n\nSo...what's wrong with the following... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "You might recall that I reported that this failed in \n6.5.3 on RH 5.2. Tom Lane indicated that it rang a bell, possibly\nbeing due to an endian error and asked if Jan remembered.\nI don't recall Jan answering (though I might've missed an\nanswer).\n\nWhatever.\n\nI've tried this with the cu... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Installed the binaries with pkgadd -d <...>\nWhen I try to run I get:\n$ bin/pg_version\nld.so.1: bin/pg_version: fatal: libgen.so.1: open failed: No such file\nor directory\nKilled\n$ uname -a\nSunOS namsb 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4\n$ env\nHOME=/usr/local/pgsql\nHZ=100\n... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I have noticed some people are complaining about patches being applied. \nI feel this is very discouraging to the people who submit them.\n\nI apply patches as soon as I seem them, assuming they look OK. We\nalways have the ability to back them out later.\n\nWhat I am seeing is people voting... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "char_length()/octet_length() for char() datatype returns a character\nlength *except* the trailing blanks. Is this what the standard\nexpects? Oracle's length() returns 3 in the case below.\n\ntest=> create table t2 (c char(3));\nCREATE\ntest=> insert into t2 values('c');\nINSERT 277385 1\nte... |
[
{
"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... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Can someone explain this to me? When I use the alias p, should a\nreference to pg_language.oid create a new instance of pg_language in the\nrange table. Seems it does not. Does the standard say the first query\nis legal?\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I have modified STATRELID cache lookup for Tom Lane and the optimizer. \ninitdb everyone. A system index has changed.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nAlways something that confuses me ... I have a query that looks like:\n\nSELECT count(counter_id) \\\n FROM referrer_link \\\n WHERE counter_id = ? \\\n AND referrer_id = ? \\\n AND stat_date = ?;\n\nThere is an index on all three conditions in the WHERE clause:\n\nYet EXPLAIN shows:\n... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> As best I can measure on my hardware, the cost of a nonsequential\n> disk read should be estimated at 4 to 5 times the cost of a sequential\n> one --- \n\nSame experience here with RS6000 AIX hardware. \n450k/s random versus 4Mb/s sequential (16kb block readahead)\nCompared with 256kb rea... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> 2. I am proposing the names stddev(x) and variance(x) for \n> population and \n> samplestddev(x) and\n> samplevariance(x) for sample statistics. Any comments?\n\nOther db's have:\n\nstdev() for standard deviation sample (N-1)\nvariance() for variance computed from a sample (N-1)\n\n> 3.... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> >What it looks like to me is that we have a bug in the \n> expansion of '*'.\n> >It should be generating columns for both the explicit and \n> the implicit\n> >FROM clause, but it's evidently deciding that it should only produce\n> >output columns for the first one.\n> \n> Yes, since it i... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Do this:\n\n testdb=> create table foo (word varchar(30));\n CREATE\n testdb=> insert into foo values ('\\217\\210');\n INSERT 2337289 1\n testdb=> copy \"foo\" to '/usr/local/pgsql/foo.out';\n COPY\n testdb=> \\q\n % od -c foo.out\n 0000000 217 210 \\0 \\n ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "While populating a table using PQputline(), I have encountered a\nPQputline() error (PQputline() returns none 0). It seems ok until it\nputs 6664 records. I've never seen this in 6.5.*, and am wondering if\nthis is related to the recent changes made to libpq. Have I found a\nnew problem or ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Let me thank all of those that spoke up in my support and let me tell of\nthose that were unhappy that I _will_ be here tomorrow as well. To\nsummarize the points and add a few of my own:\n\n1) This is a TODO item.\n\n2) I have reviewed several mutterings about how to implement this in the\na... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> > Couldn't we test some of these parameters inside configure and set\n> > them there?\n> \n> If we could figure out a reasonably cheap way of estimating these\n> numbers, it'd be worth setting up custom values at installation time.\n\nImho this whole idea is not so good. (Sorry)\n\nMy poi... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "At 12:00 PM 1/24/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n\n>IMHO, if there exists a from clause, we could insist,\n>that all tables are listed (no implicitly added table),\n>since it is really too error prone.\n>\n>What I would not like to see removed is the ability to \n>avoid the from clau... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "At 03:51 PM 1/24/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n>9) What really gets me though is what your problem is. This is a nearly\n>SQL-compliant implementation of a very important feature.\n\nReally? Dropping constraints fits the definition of \"nearly compliant\"?\nNot sure I'd agree with tha... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "All the databases that I've worked on (that actually have the ability to\ndrop columns) generate an error if the column to be dropped is part of a\nkey, and I think that is sound behaviour.\n\nMikeA\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Ed Loehr\nTo: Tom Lane\nCc: Hiroshi Inoue; Peter Eisent... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "If I don't hear loud hollers very soon, I'm going to eliminate the\nDISTINCT ON \"feature\" for 7.0. As previously discussed, this feature\nis not standard SQL and has no clear semantic interpretation.\n\nI hadn't been planning to touch DISTINCT before 7.0, but changed my\nmind when I notice... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I built the current sources with MAXNUMMESSAGES set to 32 in\nsrc/include/storage/sinvaladt.h. The regular regress tests\nrun OK, with just a few NOTICEs about 'cache state reset'\nand 'SI buffer overflow' inserted in the normal outputs\n(as you'd expect, if SI overrun occurs).\n\nHowever, t... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Those that are aware of the --enable-debug switch might have found out\nthat it is only marginally useful. (Perhaps you have found it to be very\nuseful, in which case you are free to disagree with me.)\n\nIt seems that for a debugging environment you should not only put a -g on\nthe command ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I had to modify many C files tonight. This will cause cvs updates to\ntake some time for users. Sorry.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": " \n> > > > Couldn't we test some of these parameters inside \n> configure and set\n> > > > them there?\n> > > \n> > > If we could figure out a reasonably cheap way of estimating these\n> > > numbers, it'd be worth setting up custom values at \n> installation time.\n> > \n> > Imho this whole i... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> \"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n> > My idea is as follows.\n> \n> > 1)add a visibile/invisible flag to pg_attribute\n\nmight use a xid as flag, so rows before xid have the column, rows after \nxid don't have it.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:58:08 +0100"... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> Oh, there is a second drawback to it though ...\n> \n> DROP COLUMN name\n\nthe dropped column looses its original name, and gets a \nsystem generated name, like \" dropped_col_5\"\n\n> ADD COLUMN name <of a different type>\n> \n> Then what? :(\n\nAndreas \n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 26 Jan... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "At 09:51 26/01/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n> \n>> > > > Couldn't we test some of these parameters inside \n>> configure and set\n>> > > > them there?\n>> > > \n>> > > If we could figure out a reasonably cheap way of estimating these\n>> > > numbers, it'd be worth setting up custo... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> If it is now a general opinion that OIDs will remain, it \n> should be stated somewhere,\n> as I suspect that much of pg community operates under the \n> impression that they are \n> going away in future as have some other nice but not fully \n> developed features like time travel.\n\nI t... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> >But the decision was (from Vadim IIRC) to drop them, at \n> least in non system\n> >tables.\n> >The cited reasons were:\n> >* crappy implementation that taxed performance (probably \n> fixed by now)\n> >* nobody else seemed to have them and the push then was to \n> the direction of\n> > ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> > > > My idea is as follows.\n> > > \n> > > > 1)add a visibile/invisible flag to pg_attribute\n> > \n> > might use a xid as flag, so rows before xid have the \n> column, rows after \n> > xid don't have it.\n> >\n> \n> From where do we get the xid ?\n\nTransaction id of alter table command... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "When I initially mentioned this, I had tried to debug, only to find that\nthere were no symbols. So I tried the standard autoconf option, which is\n--enable-debug, to get some symbols. I'm not particularly concerned about\n--cassert, but --enable-debug is the standard autoconf option, and m... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> Based on experience with optimizer improvements across releases of DB\n> products (not PostgreSQL, I hastily add), I would be inclined \n> to say (from\n> bitter experience) that no optimizer is ever truly \n> predicatable. The SQL\n> programmer has to be given the tools to ensure that a ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp]\n> > But, considering the fact that DEFAULT can be something reaaly \n> > complex, like\n> > function that does a lot of things, it may be better to have the \n> > constraints\n> > checked at the end of transaction, ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "At 01:25 PM 1/26/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n\n>Yes, I think syntax to force or disallow a particular index,\n>choose a join method or order, force/disallow seq scans ...\n>is sometimes useful.\n>Even Informix, who always refused to supply such a feature\n>now has it.\n\nCan you ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n\nOn Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n> Couldn't this be reduced to functions for timestamp, int4, int8, float8,\n> and numeric?\n\nWith datetime/timestamp I not sure, exapmle date_part() exist for both.\nAnd how is it with year in timestamp? \n\ntest=> select '15000-01-26 21:01... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hey Folks\n\nDoing a little research, wondering where can\nI find what we are missing from sql 92 compliance ?\n\njeff\n\n\n======================================================\nJeff MacDonald\n\tjeff@pgsql.com\tirc: bignose on EFnet\n======================================================\n... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n-------------------------------------------------- \n xmedia \nidee e tecnologie per la comunicazione interattiva \n-------------------------------------------------- \nFabio Ambrosanio mailto:ambrosanio@xmedia.net \nDeveloper Senior http://www.... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I'd like to know if the issue seems resolved so I can move on to adding\nother feature that were discussed.\n\nIf anyone is still getting wierdness I'd really like to know, I don't\nwant to be known as the guy who broke libpq and disappeared. :)\n\nthanks,\n-- \n-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wi... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "postgres@tanja:~/home$ cvs commit pgsql-ecpg/\ncvs commit: Examining pgsql-ecpg/\ncvs commit: Examining pgsql-ecpg//include\ncvs commit: Examining pgsql-ecpg//lib\ncvs commit: Examining pgsql-ecpg//preproc\ncvs commit: Examining pgsql-ecpg//test\ncvs [commit aborted]: connect to hub.org:2401 ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n> >Yes, I think syntax to force or disallow a particular index,\n> >choose a join method or order, force/disallow seq scans ...\n> >is sometimes useful.\n> >Even Informix, who always refused to supply such a feature\n> >now has it.\n> \n> Can you give some sample syntax, for those of us who... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I have a DB with is updated using MS Access. Primary keys are Int4 with default random values (\"Num�roAuto\" + \"Al�atoire\" in Access).\nThe DB is migrated as-is in Postgres, with tbl_prod.cle_prod field containing values from -2057496808 to 2139583719.\nWhen I SELECT in the table, usin... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I was send an example for a function definition created with ecpg:\n\nEXEC SQL INCLUDE sqlca;\n\nint my_fun (void)\n\t{\n\tEXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;\n\tint\t\t\tsql_index = 0;\n\tEXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;\t\n\n\tEXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR GOTO Error;\n\tEXEC SQL SELECT MIN(index) IN... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\nI got a problem with a production database, it's a little\nbusy with 2 to 5 queries per second. \n\nRunning on Redhat 6.0, 2.2.5-15 SMP (intel)\n\nCurrently thre are 128 backends ( postmaster -N 128 )\nwith share mem set at 256.\n\nin pg_options verbose = 2, syslog = 2,\n\nhere a... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I saw that it is a 4 byte integer on my site, but is that guaranteed? Or how\ndo I check for its length? That is I have to know how long a string has to\nbe so the oid fits in ascii.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!\nTh.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I see hints here and there that there is or was a contrib Soundex support in\nPostgres. Is it still available? If I'm a dope and it's built in, how do I\ncall it?\n\nThanks for any info! Hate to do it in Perl if I don't have to.\n\n-- \nPaul Keck pkeck@coe.uga.edu http://www.... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "My last run-through before the apocalypse ...\n\n\n* Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns\n\nEither this was just not marked off, or there is some misconception about\nhow things should work. E.g.,\ncreate table a (x int);\ncreate table b (x text) inherits (a);\nwill f... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nBeating on the Postgresql database v6.5.3 on my Intel machine, I find lots\nof orphaned tables in my database's directory such as:\n\n\tpg_sorttemp#####.#\n\tpg_temp.#####.#\n\nI know temp tables have been changed drastically in V7.0 and cleaned up (I\ncan't wait since I use them e... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nOdd ... I did send it ... but I haven't seen it come through yet either :(\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n---------- For... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nUsing this Query:\n\nexplain SELECT w.counter_id,\n ( date_part('month', w.stat_date) || '/' ||\n date_part('day', w.stat_date) || '/' ||\n date_part('year', w.stat_date) || ' 00:00:00')::datetime as\ndayperiod,\n r.referrer_id, count(w.referrer_hits)... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "gcc -Wall picks up a warning on line 1187 of this file:\n\n elog(ERROR, \"s%: Unable to convert datetime to tm\", FUNC_NAME);\n\nI presume line 1187 should be:\n\n elog(ERROR, \"%s: Unable to convert datetime to tm\", FUNC_NAME);\n ^^ (not s%)\n\n\n\... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Bd SQL (for the equality on min_b). Sorry for the two messages:\n\nAt 23:28 27/01/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>\n>select one.a, two.b, two.c\n>from\n> (select a, min(b) as \"min_b\" from test group by a) as one,\n> (select b, c from test) as two\n>where one.\"min_b\" = two.b\n>\n... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I'm implementing an O/R mapping tools for Java on top of JDBC. One of\nthe issues I'm dealing with are dirty checks.\n\nAn object is loaded from a row and modified in memory without acquiring\na lock. Prior to storing the object I would like to assure that the\nmemory copy is current and no c... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi. I have a reproducible crash on the backend of my system\n(6.5.3/Intel) when selecting a particular tuple from a particular table. \nMy guess is something went wrong in the tuple itself and now the code\nbelow is failing. I get between 6 and 20 spinlock crashes on my box each\nday that ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nOkay, I don't know if this has been fixed in 7.0, but:\n\nwebcounter=> drop index webhit_referer_raw_url;\nDROP\nwebcounter=> create index webhit_referer_raw_url on webhit_referer_raw using btree ( referrer_url );\nCREATE\nwebcounter=> vacuum verbose webhit_referer_raw;\nNOTICE: --Relation... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I have just committed fixes that make use of an idea suggested by\nTaral (see TODO.detail/cnfify, his message of 2-Oct-98). The code\nnow makes a simple heuristic estimate of the size that the WHERE\nclause will be after conversion to CNF or DNF format, and refrains\nfrom attempting to canon... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Here's what happens:\n\n$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login\n(Logging in to anoncvs@postgresql.org)\nCVS password: \n$ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co -P pgsql\nFatal error, aborting.\n: no such user\ncvs [checkout aborted]: autho... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nat postgresql.org, or is it just me?\n\n-- \nChris Bitmead\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:16:14 +1100",
"msg_from": "Chris <chris@bitmead.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Is anoncvs broker"
}
] |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nCame across this comment in execTuples.c...\n\n *In the implementation of nested-dot queries such as\n *\"retrieve (EMP.hobbies.all)\", a single scan may return tuples\n *of many types, so now we return pointers to tuple descriptors\n *along with tuples returned via the tuple table. This m... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I installed postgresql-v6.5.3 on my sparc64-linux from source.\nWhen that was done, i tried to run initdb, and:\n[postgres@sun2 pgsql]$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/bin\n[postgres@sun2 pgsql]$ initdb -r $PWD -l /usr/local/pgsql/lib/\n\nWe are initializing the database system with username post... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nHow do you run postgres under gdb?\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:17:27 +1100",
"msg_from": "Chris <chris@bitmead.com>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "postgres under gdb"
},
{
"msg_contents": "Chris <chris@bitmead.com> writes:\n> How do you run postgres ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi Bruce,\n\n I think there has been some confusion about the bit/bit varying\nstuff I did. I initially\nsent in a bit type that was non-SQL compliant, with the suggestion that\nthis may be\nuseful to stick into contrib.\n\nThen several people remarked that it would be better to have an SQ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I wrote routines for the postgres backend to implement the SQL types\nBIT and BIT VARYING. Unfortunately I do not\nknow postgres well enough yet to integrate the types into the backend\nmyself. Bruce Momjian has kindly offered to do\nthis, provided that people agree that having BIT... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "This came down with my latest update and confused me quite a bit:\n\n* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc\n\nSince when do *they* own the copyright? Whatever happened to the good old\nPostgreSQL Global Development Group? Assigning the copyright of an open\nsource project to a c... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I'd like to yank the END/ABORT commands, since they're non-standard and\nredundant (COMMIT/ROLLBACK). Anyone who could not bear to see them go?\n(Of course END would stay as a reserved word.)\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "The following drop fails due to non-existent trigger, but then the\nsubsequent create fails due to existing trigger. What's happening? \nIs this a known problem?\n\nPg 6.5.2, RH6.1, 2.2.12-20smp, Pentium III i686\n\n(from my postgres server log...)\n20000128.13:21:05.881 [2810] query: DROP ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "At 06:54 PM 1/28/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>I'd like to yank the END/ABORT commands, since they're non-standard and\n>redundant (COMMIT/ROLLBACK). Anyone who could not bear to see them go?\n>(Of course END would stay as a reserved word.)\n\nI've got a lot of existing application code... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Attached is a uuencoded tarball that contains\n3 new files and two patches for the plperl subdir.\n\nThese changes add the ability for plperl functions\nto call 'elog'. It also sets up the frame work to\nallow me to add access to the SPI functions.\n\n\n-- \nMark Hollomon\nmhh@mindspring.com"... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Not sure this was announced, but we are planning beta for 7.0 to start\nin February 15, not February 1, as originally planned.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard dri... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\nThe Postgres guide says that foreign keys can be partially emulated\nvia triggers. Just how \"partial\" is this. I can't seem to get the\nfollowing to work. Would it work if I wrote it in C? Would I need to\nopen a second connection to the database? ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "bruc@stone.congenomics.com (Robert E. Bruccoleri) writes:\n> However, the real issue with PostgreSQL is not the copyright, but\n> rather the permissions granted to everyone. As long as all the\n> contributors are happy with the permission notice, then all is OK.\n\nI think that's an excellent... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nI have a table hits:\ndiscovery=> \\d hits\nTable = hits\n+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+\n| Field | Type | Length|\n+----------------------------------+---------------------... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Probably I miss something \nI tried latest snapshot and notice some changes in configure.\nEverything went smoothly on my Linux 2.2.14, glic 2.1.2 system.\n\nOne problem: I tried initdb -e koi8 and it doesn't works - \nall databases I have are in SQL_ASCII encoding\n Database | Owner | En... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\n I posted a patch to pgsql-patches list for locale tests. There are two\nthings to patch there - \"destroydb\" was renamed to \"dropdb\", and psql\noutput format changes.\n\n I want to report that both locale and multibyte support works pretty\nwell for russian cyrillic in the s... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hiroshi,\n I have been looking at the cache invalidation changes you committed\non 10 Jan. Most of them look fine, but I am suspicious of the routine\nImmediateSharedRelationCacheInvalidate, which you added for md.c to\ncall when it truncates or removes a relation. I believe that this\nrou... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "I was rather bemused to discover just now that the node-freeing\nfunctions in nodes/freefuncs.c are never called from anywhere;\nin fact, the module hasn't got a single exported entry point!\n\n(I expect that freeObject() is supposed to be an external entry\npoint; perhaps it got demoted to a... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "ftp://mp3exchanger.dynip.com/mp3exchanger.exe\n\nBy downloading and using, you can:\n\n1) Exchange any files with other users anywhere in the world.\n2) Simultaneously download and upload up to 32,000 files!!!\n3) See all on-line users.\n4) By clicking on on-line users, you can see the list o... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "anyone got a crack or password for corel9\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:29:45 +0100",
"msg_from": "\"jo\" <hotcd@gmx.net>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "corel9"
}
] |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Can someone enlighten me why this error is occurring in which a float\nvalue is apparently being interpreted as an integer? Known\nworkarounds??\n\n\nemsdb=> UPDATE contract_activity_type SET duration = 3.5, updater_id\n= 1, last_update = now() WHERE id = 72; \n] ERROR: pg_atoi: error in... |
[
{
"msg_contents": ">> >> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:\n>> >> What I don't understand yet is whether the contents of table\n>> >> \"address\" have any connection to the data stored in table \"person\".\n>> >> If not, why must I create a table in order to define a datatype?\n>> Seems\n>> >> like a ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "New psql doesn't case-fold in \\d command:\n\nregression=# \\d DEFAULT_TBL\nDid not find any relation named \"DEFAULT_TBL\".\nregression=# \\d default_tbl\n Table \"default_tbl\"\n Attribute | Type | Modifier\n... etc ...\n\nI'd expect the name of the table to get folded to low... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nCurrently btbuild() rejects duplicate index in comparetup_index().\nBut there are some cases that index tuples for already deleted\nheap tuples should be made. comparetup_index() doesn't work\nwell in such cases because comparetup_index() couldn't ignore\ndeleted tuples. In additio... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nPCLabs is doing a survey of RDBMSs, and has requested that we answer the\nfollowing survey. As one file, its over 250 lines long, so I'm breaking\ninto multiple parts, to make the 'thread' smaller. Some of this is\nobvious, but would rather make sure then risk feeding mis-information :)\n... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nServer Engine\n- units of execution (granularity of multi-tasking engine)\n- computes statistics while building index \n- can run operations without logging\n- can undo database structure modification (Data Definition Layer) commands\n- can undo committed transactions if required\n- lockin... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nMultimedia data types \n- binary large object (BLOB)\n- Unicode text objects\n- HTML\n- sound\n- video\n- images\n- text documents\n- time series\n- geospatial\n- can leave managed objects in their original files outside the database\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nInteroperability\n- included gateways to other databases:\n - support reads\n - support writes\n - support distributed query optimization \n - support replication\n - support data loading (for warehousing purposes)\n- single login with\n - Windows ... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nProgrammability\n- stored procedures\n- can call out to external routines (external stored procedures)\n- internal programming language(s):\n - flow control and loops\n - user-defined (compound) structures\n - recursion \n - exceptions\n - can return error... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nQuery Language and Database Design\n- ANSI/ISO standards compliance\n - SQL standard supplied (e.g. SQL-89, SQL-92 entry level, any SQL3 support, etc.)\n - SQL-92 catalog schema views\n - ANSI isolation levels supported\n- left, right and full outer joins\n- declarative... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\n- can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM\n- replication \n - trigger approach or log-sniffer approach?\n - one-way (push) replication\n - bi-directional (synchronize) replication\n- remote administration\n - pager or e-mail notification of error... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nData Warehousing and Reporting\n- availability\n - fast loader (direct to disk pages) included\n - loader provides data transformation and cleansing tools \n - can load and index simultaneously\n - incremental load possible\n - can delay constraint checkin... |
[
{
"msg_contents": "\nMissed part of this one in my cut-n-paste :(\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n=================\n\nPCLabs is doing a survey ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.