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"msg_contents": "\nTrying to work through the hang problem that I've been experiencing with\nv7.0, and keep adding new tools. Tom suggested lsof, and running it\nagainst the postmaster shows the above 'error' .. once it happens, it\ndoesn't appear to go away. Last hang, had two of those errors ... don't\nkn... |
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"msg_contents": "\nhas anyone played with/tested this in v7.0? I'm investigating the hanging\nproblem, and it just happened ... when I do an lsof on the process, it\nshows these two:\n\npostgres 4969 pgsql 5u IPv4 0xd4631500 0t0 TCP pgsql.tht.net:5432->smaug.vex.net:61189 (ESTABLISHED)\npostgres ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've cleaned up the FTP site, removing the RC5 files, as well as\nseveral old, obsolete directories and files.\n\nI moved some files around too, but only to fit in with the current\nscheme of having releases in their own directories.\n\nLet me know if I moved too much or not enough...\n\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "These are exerpts from a message from Tatsuo Ishii dated January 26, on\nthe subject of fragile code in the multibyte routines:\n\n---- begin ----\nDefensive programming saves the system but does not user. Once\ncorrupted data is stored in the system, it's totally useless for the\nuser anyway... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:\n\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bingo. All your cores show the thing waiting inside the ident code:\n> >\n> > [...]\n> >\n> > Looking at the code, there doesn't seem to be any defense against a\n> > broken ident server --- there is no timeout or anything being... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:\n> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:\n>> dnl Check tr flags to convert from lower to upper case\n\n>> Does anyone recall why this test is in there to begin with?\n\n> I don't see the results of this test being used anywhere at all, so I'd\n> say... |
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"msg_contents": "On the Postgres website main page, the current version is listed as 7.0.\nHowever, when you go to the download page, it says 6.5.3 and I think the\nlink is pointing to 6.5.3. I can see the 7.0 tar distribution on the FTP\nsite, but was wondering if the HTML pages just hadn't been updated.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "This reminds me of a problem I once had.\n\nI was trying to \"make\" the documentation, but zcat kept failing because the\nSolaris version does not work the same as the GNU version. So I installed\nthe GNU zcat, ran configure again, but still make was failing because of\nzcat...\n\nI found t... |
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"msg_contents": "=# select count(*) from ref_old;\n count \n-------\n 10595\n(1 row)\n\n=# select count(*) from ref_new;\n count \n-------\n 22997\n(1 row)\n\n=# select ref_id from ref_old except select ref_id from ref_new;\n\nTakes over 10 minutes, probably closer to half an hour.\n\nI've also tried using 'N... |
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"msg_contents": "I did a distclean on 7.0, and ran 'wc' on all the *.[chly] files, and\ngot a much larger number than what we got from Berkeley.\n\n\t376175\n\nSeems someone has been busy. :-)\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "Did anyone see this patch? I sure didn't. I see it in the patches\narchive, but did not receive the e-mail.\n\nIs the patches list working? Marc?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 10 May 2000 23:27:42 -0400 (EDT)",
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"msg_contents": "I found that plpgsql did not have the proper mapping of\ndatetime->timestamp and timespan->interval. It had the old 6.5.*\nreverse mappings. Fix in CVS and will appear in 7.0.1.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone comment on this patch? It appears it should be applied.\n\n\n> As postgresql 7.0 grew more imminent, I decided to try compiling the\n> latest release candidate 7.0RC4. The following diff against the 7.0RC4\n> tree accomplishes the following things:\n> \n> \t1) pl/tcl no longer b... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n The FETCH help seems to be odd in PostgreSQL-7.0.\n\nprompt> psql\npostgres=# \\h fetch\nCommand: FETCH\nDescription: Gets rows using a cursor\nSyntax:\nFETCH [ selector ] [ count ] { IN | FROM } cursor\nFETCH [ RELATIVE ] [ { [ # | ALL | NEXT | PRIOR ] } ] FROM ] cursor\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhat causes this in the output of the postmaster?\n\npq_recvbuf: recv() failed, errno 19\n\nAccording to errno.h it means the operation's not supported by the device.\nWhat kind of unsupported operation is it trying to perform?\n\nVince.\n-- \n===============================================... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n When the next COPY command is specified, psql seems to stop \nproceeding. Nothing can be operated.\n\nprompt> psql\npostgres=# \\h copy\nCommand: COPY\nDescription: Copies data between files and tables\nSyntax:\n..(snip)..\nCOPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]\n TO { 'filename'... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, 11 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > Oh. Can you look at the setproctitle code on your platform and see\n> > how it implements it?\n> \n> In the end I believe we'll make the world a better place if we're using\n> setproctitle wh... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOkay, not sure if this is a bug in v6.5.3 or v7.0, but the same query\nrunning on the *same* data, but v6.5.3 vs 7.0 ...\n\nSELECT pl.code,p.description,p.price\n FROM po pu,products p, po_list pl\n WHERE pl.po_num = 118\n AND pl.code = p.code\nORDER BY p.description;\n\n\nproduces 2 rec... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Okay, not sure if this is a bug in v6.5.3 or v7.0, but the same query\n> running on the *same* data, but v6.5.3 vs 7.0 ...\n> \n> SELECT pl.code,p.description,p.price\n> FROM po pu,products p, po_list pl\n> WHERE pl.po_num = 118\n> AND pl.code = p.code\n> ORDER BY p.description;\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "I checked the changelog for 7.0 and it doesn't look like this is fixed\nyet.\n\nIn 6.4.x and 6.5.x if you delete a large number of rows (say 100,000 -\n1,000,000) then hit vacuum, the vacuum will run literally forever.\n\nIf you drop the indexes on the table, vacuuming takes only minutes, but... |
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"msg_contents": "> > What I'm thinking now to fix the problem you found is that doing data\n> > validataion in the text/var/char input functions, rather than tweaking\n> > the mb functions.\n> \n> Could you explain why? I'd sure like it better if the mb code checked for\n> mb things.\n\nIt's simple: \n\nDo no... |
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"msg_contents": "[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]\n> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > It is a nifty BSD one. If you assign argv[0] in the program to a\n> > string, it shows in ps.\n> > \n> > \targv[0] = \"new ps string\";\n> > \n> > The Linux method is:\n> \n> Maybe I... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:\n\n> Yesterday's upgrade to 7.0 went almost completely smoothly except\n> somehow some date types weren't being parsed by the plpgsql\n> interpreter.\n> \n> Bruce saved my behind by quickly offering a patch. (Thanks!)\n> \n> This was really great, ... |
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"msg_contents": "on 5/11/00 1:32 PM, Vince Vielhaber at vev@michvhf.com wrote:\n\n> \n> I've begun work on the User's Lounge and Developer's Corner. EVERYONE\n> have a look and let me know if there's things to be added - I already\n> know some links don't work, in come cases it's intentional. The URLs\n> ar... |
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"msg_contents": "Argh! I can't reproduce this:\n\nNOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:\n The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.\n I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your database system c... |
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"msg_contents": "We're finding that Postgresql is definetly cool, however our current\nproject requires improvements and additional functionality in the\ncore Postgresql engine, it also requires that I learn more about\nthe Postgresql core.\n\nWe need things like optimizing EXCEPT and a fastpath for\nINSERT-i... |
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"msg_contents": "> > OK, this is making me rethink my suggestion in the book of using type()\n> > to do typecasts. Seems I should recommend CAST (val AS type), as wordy\n> > as it is, or maybe val::type?\n> \n> CAST(val AS type) is defined in SQL92. istm that the others are\n> available at the whim of our cu... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> I think the topmost numeric-type needs to be numeric, since it is the \n> only type with arbitrary scale and precision.\n> Thus I think we would need:\n> int2,int4,int8,float4,float8,numeric\n\nNo, this is wrong because it contr... |
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"msg_contents": "I think we should...\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-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\nSent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:29 PM\nTo: Pos... |
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"msg_contents": "> Here is a proposal for fixing these problems.\n\nSounds good. We would be looking up this info in a table, right? So we\ncan integrate this type hierarchy fully into our type extensibility\nsystem.\n\nAnother 7.1 project is to work on alternate languages and character\nsets, to decouple mul... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > We've talked about examples like this before. I'm inclined to think\n> > > that when we are unable to resolve an operator involving unknown-type\n> > > inputs, we should try again assuming that the unknowns are of type\n> > > 'text'. Comments?\n> > Yes please. SQL and the rest of the ... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:\n> I think your plan looks good for the numerical land. (I'll ponder the oid\n> issues in a second.) For other type categories, perhaps not. Should a line\n> be promoted to a polygon so you can check if it contains a point? Or a\n> polygon to a bo... |
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"msg_contents": "on 5/15/00 2:15 AM, Michael A. Olson at mao@sleepycat.com wrote:\n\n> Berkeley DB is Open Source. It's free for use in other Open Source\n> projects, like PostgreSQL. If a developer wants to use it in a\n> proprietary application, then the developer needs to pay Sleepycat\n> a licensing fee... |
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"msg_contents": "Tatsuo Ishii wrote:\n\n> >This is interesting, but I wonder how do you handle \"alignment issue\"?\n> In different architectures members in a structure might be aligned\n> differently. For some complex data types we need to solve the issue\n> to use the cross architecture binary cursors.\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just uploaded to my site the current JDBC driver.\n\nFor JDBC2 (ie JDK1.2.x and JDK1.3.x):\n\thttp://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar\n\nFor JDBC2 (ie JDK1.1.x, 1.1.7 or later advised):\n\thttp://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/jdbc7.0-1.1.jar\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\n... |
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"msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> \n> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> \n> > On Mon, 15 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> >\n> > > Hrmmm, some sort of --with-berkeley-db configure switch, so by default, it\n> > > uses ours, but if someone wants to do the db code, it could plug-n-... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, 15 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n\n> On Mon, 15 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> \n> > Everythingn up to here sounds great ... but this part here totally throws\n> > me off ... this would mean that, unlike now where we rely on *zero*\n> > external code,\n> \n> ... where `zer... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI just tried to download the latest snap. However as I do not recall the\nexact location I need to see the directory index. \n\nBut it is not visible. I tried ncftp/solaris and Netscape from Linux. The\nresult is the same. It can't find any files.\n\nls -l\ndir \n\nboth has no effect wh... |
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"msg_contents": "\nmost of the first set of documents are not found.\n\nNot Found\n\nThe requested URL /docs/user/index.html was not found on this server.\n\nAdditionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the\nrequest. \n\nApache/1.3.9 Ben-SSL/1.37 Server at... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane writes:\n\n> I expect what you are after is the ability to produce an 0-or-1\n> numeric value from a bool field, so that you could do things like\n> sum(boolfield::int) to count the number of true values in a column. \n> I agree that we need such an operator (and I'm surprised no on... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane writes:\n\n> I've noticed in other cases that it's willing to do implicit\n> conversion to text from practically anything. That strikes me as a\n> bug, or at least pretty darn unintuitive. Is this behavior\n> intentional, and if so what's the rationale?\n\nWell, I'm sure you know m... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I've read this paper ~2 years ago. My plans so far were:\n> > \n> > 1. WAL in 7.1\n> > 2. New (overwriting) storage manager in 7.2\n> > \n> > Comments?\n> \n> Vadim,\n> \n> Perhaps best solution will be to keep both (or three) storage \n> managers - and specify which one to use at d... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I've read this paper ~2 years ago. My plans so far were:\n> > \n> > 1. WAL in 7.1\n> > 2. New (overwriting) storage manager in 7.2\n> > \n> \n> Oh, so Vadim has overwriting storage manager concept for 7.2.\n> Vadim, how will you keep old rows around for MVCC?\n\nJust like you told about i... |
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"msg_contents": "> Perhaps what you are talking about is at so low a level that it\n> has no influence on these features...but if not then it might be \n> that the writer of a WAL will want to write an implementation of\n> the storage manager that is well integrated with the WAL.\n\nYes, I would like to do th... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I've read this paper ~2 years ago. My plans so far were:\n> > \n> > 1. WAL in 7.1\n> > 2. New (overwriting) storage manager in 7.2\n> \n> Will we still have MVCC ?\n\nI'm personally surely not one who would like to remove it -:)\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "> Another option is to keep our heap table structure intact, and just\n> Sleepycat DB for our indexes. That may be a big win, with little\n> downside. Certainly something to think about. It may work \n> better with MVCC, and allow fast sequential scans and fast heap\n> access from the inde... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm just upgrading a database to v7.0, but I am rather unlucky in that in\neach of 2 large (ca. 20000 rows) tables, 1 row is too big eg:\n\nERROR: copy: line 57552, Tuple is too big: size 8152, max size 8140\n\nNow, it would help me if I could actually get a clue as to which row this\nis. Th... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nUnder current non-overwrite storage manager,PostgreSQL always has\nto insert index tuples corresponding to a new updated heap tuple even\nwhen the key values are invariant. This is a big pain for frequently\nupdated tables. Can we omit the insertion when the key values are\ninvari... |
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"msg_contents": "Announcing RedHat RPMs for PostgreSQL 7.0\n\nNEW LOCATION!\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.0/redhat-RPM\n\nPlease read the README in that directory before downloading. That same\nfile is installed as part of the postgresql-7.0-1.i386.rpm as\n/usr/doc/postgresql-7.0/README.rpm.\n\nOr,... |
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"msg_contents": "hackers:\n\nI got following mail:\n\n> \tI was just looking over the PostgreSQL 7.0 docs and noticed that there\n> doesn't seem to be any new features for Unicode support. I wanted to verify\n> if this is true?\n> \n> \tRight now we have a database that must support many different languages.\... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:53:34AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:\n> > > Everythingn up to here sounds great ... but this part here totally throws\n> > > me off ... this would mean that, unlike now where we rely on *zero*\n> > > external code, we ... |
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"msg_contents": "> \tMy understanding of the problem is UTF8 is this. Functionally, it is\n> equivalent to UCS-2, that is you can encode any Unicode character in UTF-8\n> that you could encode in UCS-2.\n> \tThe problem we've run into is only related to Postgres. For example we had\n> a field that was fixed a... |
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"msg_contents": "> \tThis sounds good. I agree that char(x) should mean x letters, not x bytes.\n> \n> \tIf this could be done in 7.1 that would be great! That means about 2 weeks,\n> right?! ;-)\n\nNo no:-) you must be talking about 7.0.1. I think that fix would\nintroduce some data format imcompatibility t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI originally posted this problem to the interfaces list but have not had any\nresponses. I would like to resolve this as pgAdmin cannot manage users or\ndatabases whilst this problem exists:\n\nI have a problem with the use of CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER/DATABASE via ODBC\nwhich was not the... |
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"msg_contents": "> Regarding the \"postmaster processes not going away\" problem...\n> \n> We're developing a Java application that connects to a PostgreSQL db. During\n> our development process we debug the code and sometimes kill the program in\n> the middle of the run. Sometimes this means that an open Con... |
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"msg_contents": "As usual when replying from here, replies prefixed with PM:\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-----\nFrom: Lamar Owen [mailto:lamar.owen@wgcr.org]\nSent: Tues... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@hub.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@hub.org]On\n> Behalf Of Tom Lane\n\n[snip]\n\n> \n> regression=# vacuum foo;\n> NOTICE: FlushRelationBuffers(foo, 0): block 0 is dirty (private \n> 1, global 1)\n> VACUUM\n> \n> This is being caused... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, 12 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n> well, that answers my question ... and most cool on the 'summa cuade\n> laude' ... how does your name get written now:\n> \n> Ryan Kirkpatrick, B.CS, B.EE, SCL?\n\n\tTechnically it is only one degree with two majors, the electrical\nengineeri... |
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"msg_contents": "Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure I'm just\noverlooking something, but what?\n\n======================\n\nmoran:/acct$ id\nuid=1007(postgres) gid=1003(postgres) groups=1003(postgres)\nmoran:/acct$ export P=/acct/pindybook\nmoran:/acct$ initlocation P\nThe location wi... |
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"msg_contents": "> Rather than replacing just the storage manager, you'd be replacing\n> the access methods, buffer manager, transaction manager, and some\n> of the shared memory plumbing with our stuff. I wasn't sufficiently\n> clear in my earlier message, and talked about \"no-overwrite\" as if\n> it were ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Well, so, before replacing anything we would have to add \n> > MVCC to BDB. I still didn't look at your sources, 'll do\n> > in a few days...\n> \n> Vadim, I thought you said you were going to be doing a new storage\n> manager for 7.2, including an over-write storage manager that \n> keep... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane writes:\n\n> I have just been scanning some of the original Postgres papers\n> (in an unsuccessful search to find out how one uses \"set\" attributes;\n> anyone know?)\n\nI've been playing around with that a while ago in the hope that this would\nexplain this table-as-datatype thing ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane writes:\n\n> If there are multiple possibilities, we choose the one which is the\n> \"least promoted\" by some yet-to-be-determined metric.\n\nA \"metric\" is often one step away from \"unpredictable behaviour\", at least\nfor users.\n\nBut if you look in practice then there are not ... |
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"msg_contents": "> You stated that the new storage manager will do over-writing, and that\n> the MVCC-needed tuples will be kept somewhere else and removed when not\n> needed. \n> \n> It is possible to use SDB, and keep the MVCC-needed tuples somewhere\n> else, also in SDB, so we don't have to add MVCC into ... |
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"msg_contents": " From the CREATE TRIGGER, it seems to say that only C functions are\nsupported by triggers. I see in the plpgsql manuals that it supports\ntriggers too.\n\nWhat function languages do triggers support? C, plpgsql, pltcl, SQL?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.ne... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI've installed the v7.0 postgresql RPMS from ftp.postgresql.org. I configured\nmy syslog to catch the local0 facility and log it to /var/log/pgsql with this\nentry in /etc/syslog.conf:\n\nlocal0.* /var/log/pgsql\n\n\nThis catches just abo... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't wait to apply this...\n\n> \n> I'm resubmitting this patch from a while ago, now that 7.0 is out. If\n> you cast your minds back, this patch allows update and delete to work on\n> inheritance hierarchies just like it now works on select. It also uses\n> the Informix/Illustra model for... |
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"msg_contents": "Just been playing with SQL Server 7's DTS (Data Transform Service) and\nthought, \"Could SQL load data into Postgres?\".\n\nThe main idea (ok excuse as I didn't fancy doing much work this\nafternoon), was publishing data on our Intranet (which uses Postgres).\n\nAnyhow, loaded the ODBC driver... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWow, I thought the last guy that brought this up might be just unlucky\n(slower hardware then I've been running, etc) ... but, so far, my vacuum\nhas been running for ~2.5hrs and *looks* stuck as far as 'vacuum verbose'\nshows, but files keep getting updated ...\n\n... I don't know if this ... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that I know that triggers can call non-C functions, I would like to\nknow how non-C functions access information about the triggered row.\n\nI see plpgsql has an interface to the trigger information. Do SQL\nfunctions us OLD/NEW to reference that information, like they do in\nrules?\n\nT... |
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"msg_contents": "> 1. MVCC semantics. If we can't keep MVCC then the deal's dead in the\n> water, no question. Vadim's by far the best man to look at \n> this issue; Vadim, do you have time to think about it soon?\n\nI'll comment just after weekends...\nBut Mike Mascari raised up very interest issue about a... |
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"msg_contents": "I believe there is a bug, or at least a not very nice feature in initdb.\n\nIf initdb does not succeed, it attempts to \"exit_nicely\". By default\nthis involved deleting the $PGDATA directory!! So if you have put other\nthings in you $PGDATA directory or (as in my case) you attempt to cre... |
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"msg_contents": "i know tom lane is probably sick of me, but i'm trying to figure out how\nthe cost estimators work for an index scan. i'm logging a lot of the\ncalculations that go into the cost estimate for some sample queries to\nsee what factors are most important in a cost estimate. it seems to me\ntha... |
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"msg_contents": "\ni used to have a database on freebsd using 6.5.3.\n\ni had several concurrent processes which would do inserts via COPY and\nqueries.\n\non that system, i don't recall the COPY processes as being blocked by the \nquery processes.\n\nnow i'm running that app on solaris 7 with pgsql 7.0.\n\ni... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hmm. In 7.0, COPY IN acquires an exclusive lock on the target table,\n> which is something I put in in a fit of paranoia. It may not really\n> be necessary --- probably a regular write lock would be good enough.\n> (6.5's COPY code neglected to acquire any lock at all, which is surely\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": ">>>>> \"B\" == Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n\nB> What function languages do triggers support? C, plpgsql, pltcl, SQL?\n\n You can add plruby.\n\n Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy\nobject-oriented programming. It has many features to process tex... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> It seemed to me that the critical ratios are #tuples fetched vs #pages\n> in table and table size vs. cache size. I could be wrong though...\n\nAnother metric that would be interesing is a number that represents \nthe divergence of the heap order from the index sort order.\n\nIf heap dat... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]\n> Sent: 17 May 2000 17:18\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ODBC & v7.0(Rel) Errors with Users and \n> Databases\n> \n> \n> Dave Page writes:\n> \n> > ERROR: DR... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: 17 May 2000 16:45\n> To: Peter Mount\n> Cc: PostgreSQL Developers List (E-mail)\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] MSSQL7 & PostgreSQL 7.0\n> \n> \n> Yes, major issue.\n> \n> > Just been playing with SQL S... |
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"msg_contents": "I don't think it's a shameless plug at all.\n\nHowever, I think it's sometimes useful to know alternative methods of\ndoing things, especially when you have to work for people who think\nMicrosoft are the best thing since sliced bread ;-)\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support\nMaid... |
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"msg_contents": "This is how to get MS-SQL7 to copy data (either whole tables, or from\nqueries) into PostgreSQL. There are other ways of doing this (like\npgaccess), but this describes how to get the SQL server itself to do the\njob.\n\nThe key to this is Microsoft's DTS (Data Transformation Services). This\... |
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"msg_contents": "As usual when replying from here, replies prefixed with PM:\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> > (as well as ascii text files) to PostgreSQL. I'm open to \n> suggestions if\n> > an... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Joe Shevland [mailto:shevlandj@kpi.com.au]\n> Sent: 18 May 2000 09:51\n> To: Peter Mount\n> Cc: 'Dave Page'; 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] MSSQL7 & PostgreSQL 7.0\n>\n> > (as well as ascii text files) to PostgreSQL. I'm open t... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes, as that's why I posted it ;-)\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-----\nFrom: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]\nSent: Thursda... |
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"msg_contents": "\nis anyone working on or have working a fail-over implentation for the\npostgresql stuff. i'd be interested in seeing if and how any might be\ndealing with just general issues as well as the database syncing issues.\n\nwe are looking to do this with heartbeat and lvs in mind. also if anyone\... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n>\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> > Another metric that would be interesing is a number that represents\n> > the divergence of the heap order from the index sort order.\n>\n> Oh, absolutely! Got any ideas about how to get that number in a\... |
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"msg_contents": "Info on the new slashdot.org setup\n\n<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/18/1427203&mode=nocomment>\n\ninteresting because of the plans (meaning $$$) they have to improve\nMySql, and because they are the flagship MySql site/application. \n\nIn the comment page, replying to the usual \"... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom reminded me tonight that after moving everything else over to a\ndedicated drive, I forgot all about our cvs repository ... that is now\nmoved. Instead of the old /usr/local/cvsroot directory, you now need to\nset your CVSROOT to use /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot instead ...\n\nI just t... |
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"msg_contents": "Chris Bitmead writes:\n\n> > That also goes for the various ALTER TABLE [ONLY]\n> > syntax additions. If I add a row to A only then B is no longer a subtable\n> > of A. \n> \n> I agree that the alter table only is crazy, but the functionality was\n> there before and I didn't want to be the on... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>\n> Chris Bitmead writes:\n>\n> > > That also goes for the various ALTER TABLE [ONLY]\n> > > syntax additions. If I add a row to A only then B is no longer a subtable\n> > > of A.\n> >\n> > I agree that the alter table only is crazy, but the functionality was\n> > th... |
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"msg_contents": "[Forgive me if you got this already. I don't _think_ it got out last\ntime]..\n\nCasting your minds back again to the discussion a few months ago. I was\ntalking about making changes to the fe/be protocol to accomodate the OO\nextensions I was talking about. At the time I mentioned interest i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi *,\n\nI am trying to find out why the MySQL benchmarks result in such _lousy_\nperformance for postgreSQL.\n\nTracing a simple update loop, I see the postmaster hogging 95% CPU,\ndoing this:\n\n$ strace -c -p 10174\n[ wait a few seconds ] ^C\n% time seconds usecs/call calls err... |
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"msg_contents": "It's on my ever growing list of things to do, to do the same for\nStarOffice, getting it to work with PostgreSQL (using JDBC).\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-----Ori... |
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"msg_contents": "Good Morning.\n>From user (somebody like me) point of view it is important that\ndocumentation reflects relaity. I mentioned about the following discrepancy\na couple of months ago. The remark was thorougly ignored.\n\nIt is great that it will be corrected in the best possible way, it means\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nIt's ancient problem for me, in postgres 6.x. And now there is in 7.0 too\nIf i try to include spi.h, i can't compile my program. Why? Some files,\nincluded from __packaged__ headers, are missing.\nTake a look:\n--------------- snip ---------------\nIn file included from /usr/local/pgs... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> I'm still confused, this doesn't seem to be in Postgresql yet?\n> \n> bright=# PREPARE wwmine AS select * from d;\n> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"prepare\"\n> \n> (using 7.0)\n> \n> What am I doing wrong?\n\n\n Oh sorry. The query cache is planned for some future release 7.2... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n Hi,\n\n I'm total confuse. I continue in query cache implementation and I want use\nDllist routines, but what I see --- it hardly use malloc/free. Why? With\nthis is a Dllist usage _very_ limited... (the catcache works with malloc? \n--- hmm interesting)\n\n For my current situation I re... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi Tatsuo,\n> \n> Sorry to bother you but I noticed in the HISTORY file of Postgres-7.0\n> this entry relating to 6.5.2:\n> \n> Fix for large object write-in-middle, no extra block, memory consumption(Tatsuo)\n> \n> I am using 6.5.2 (7.0 proved too buggy) \n\nWh... |
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"msg_contents": "I've worked with various versions of Oracle for several years and can share\nsome of my experiences with their \"system catalog\" implementation.\n\nThey use a fairly simple design in which a database instance consists of 1\n.. n tablespaces (that can contain any type of database object) whic... |
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"msg_contents": "I can not CVS commit:\n\n\ncvs [commit aborted]: authorization failed: server hub.org rejected access\nrm: CVS: is a directory\ncvs add: cannot add special file `CVS'; skipping\ncvs [add aborted]: authorization failed: server hub.org rejected access\ncvs [commit aborted]: authorization failed... |
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