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"msg_contents": "> Bruce - \n> Did you see the message about the CVS repository moving? It's changed\n> from /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql to /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql\n> \n> I was just looking for the magic find/sed script I know I've seen\n> somewhere for changing all the CVS/Repository files in a check... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust a heads up, in case anyone is interested ...\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\n... |
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"msg_contents": "If any user-created index is on a system column (eg, OID),\n7.0 pg_dump fails with \"parseNumericArray: bogus number\".\n\nMea culpa, mea maxima culpa --- some well-intentioned error checking\ncode was a bit too tight. (But how'd this get through beta with no\none noticing? It's been broken... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello guys,\n\nAs a personal project, I have written an Excel-compatible\nspreadsheet as a component of a 3D charting and graphing\napplication. It uses a Phong-style renderer with texture mapping,\nbump mapping, Z-buffer shadow mapping, non-refractive\ntransparency and antialiasing to produc... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDoes the PostgreSQL have some features enabling to make contextual search\nin fulltexts (something like Oracle Context Option)?\n\n--\nZhenzheruha Kate\n\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 20 May 2000 11:28:19 +0400 (MSD)",
"msg_from": "Kate <kate@val.sv.uven.ru>",
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"msg_contents": "\n From the create_rule man page this example is offered:\n\n CREATE RULE example_5 AS\n ON INERT TO emp WHERE new.salary > 5000\n DO\n UPDATE NEWSET SET salary = 5000;\n\nBut what is \"NEWSET\"? Is it a keyword?\n\nMy problem is that on an insert with an inval... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone tell me why PL/Pgsql is in the User's Guide and not in the\nProgrammer's Guide? I see that SQL functions are in the Programmer's\nGuide.\n\nNow, in my book, I put SQL and PL/PGSQL functions into one chapter, and\nC functions into another. I am not sure I like that separate eithe... |
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"msg_contents": "Chris Bitmead writes:\n\n[ONLY]\n> For UPDATE and DELETE it is absolutely correct, and useful, not to\n> mention absolutely essential.\n\nCould you explain how and why, preferably with a concrete example? I am\nstill at a loss.\n\n> > the `SELECT **' syntax (bad idea, IMO), \n> \n> Why is it ... |
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"msg_contents": "Okay, here's the ugly and dirty truth. Before you complain, please keep in\nmind that I didn't write the standard, although I tend to give it the\nbenefit of the doubt after ignoring the truly silly stuff. :)\n\n\n* How to create inheritance hierarchies\n\n** CREATE TABLE syntax\n\nIgnoring t... |
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"msg_contents": "Alex Pilosov wrote:\n\n> Corba IS a performance dog compared to everything else in existance.\n> Almost every ORB in existance is dog-slow. There are some opensource ORBs\n> which are getting better, but its still a ways off. \n\nHave you tried ORBit? Supposedly those guys found other ORBs sl... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, I've read SDB code/doc for a few hours...\n\n1. Using RECNO db for heap.\nFor relational DB over-writing smgr means ability to re-use space after\nDELETE/UPDATE operations (without vacuum -:)). RECNO (btree by nature,\nwith record number as key) will not give us this ability. To insert ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > We can't read data from the index. It would be nice if we could, but we\n> > can't. I think we believe that there are very few cases where this\n> > would be win. Usually you need non-indexed data too.\n> \n> I have used other databases where this _is_ possible in the past, and\n> the ... |
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"msg_contents": "The 7.0-2 RPMset fixes the following:\n1.)\tSPI headers are now the 7.0 set, and not the 6.5.3 set;\n2.)\tpg_options default to NOT enable syslog, or extended query logging, as\nsyslogd has some issues with long queries (such as issued by psql's \\d\ncommand!);\n3.)\tAlpha patches have return... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have now desperately tried to use the 'use' keyword within my plperl\nscripts without success.\n\nDoes plperl not load libraries dynamically?\n\nI am trying to import a .pm module from plperl and I get the following error\nmessage:\n\tcreation of function failed : require trapped by ... |
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"msg_contents": "On the road to sanitary lex files I finally found a simple answer for the\nnon-portable <<EOF>>. Patch attached. Any objections/concerns/comments?\n\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net 75262 Uppsala\nhttp://yi.org/peter-e/ ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Tom,\n\nThanks for you help.\n\nI have not got a great deal of experience with C.\n\nCould you be so kind to tell me how I directly link the DynaLoader into\nplperl.so.\n\nOnce I got the DynaLoader in place my task is complete.\n\nYou might wonder what I am doing. I am implementing a funct... |
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"msg_contents": "I attach the current draft of my document explaining the upcoming\nfunction manager interface changes. This has been modified from the\npreviously circulated version on the basis of comments from Jan and\nothers. There is also a preliminary fmgr.h showing actual code for\nthe proposed inter... |
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"msg_contents": "> Empty pages get appended to a free list, and will be reused \n> on next page allocation. Empty space on pages (from deleted\n> tuples) where the rest of the page isn't empty will get reused\n> the next time the page is visited.\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\nIf visited for update... ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > And, while we are on heap subject - using index (RECNO) for heap\n> > means that all our secondary-index scans will performe TWO\n> > index scans - first, to find recno in secondary-index, and\n> > second, to find heap tuple using recno (now indices give us\n> > TID, which is physical add... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Yes, that was one of my questions. Why use recno at all? \n> > We already have heap access which is very fast. Why switch\n> > to SDB which gives us a recno ordering of heap that doesn't\n> > do us any real good, except to allow tuple update without\n> > changing indexes.\n> \n> But if ... |
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"msg_contents": "In MySQL you can't update on a join. It's a real pain in a well-factored\ndatabase.\n\n\t-Michael Robinson\n\nP.S. When it comes to ROLAP, though, MySQL kicks PostgreSQL's butt. For that\napplication only, I use MySQL.\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 22 May 2000 14:39:46 +0800 (+0800)",
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"msg_contents": "Just a reminder that there is some CORBA stuff under\nsrc/interfaces/jdbc/example/corba\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 Lockhar... |
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"msg_contents": "Relational online analytical processing. A variant of OLAP systems,\nwhich have their roots in decision support systems (DSSs) and executive\ninformation systems (EISs).\n\nWhy the original poster will use MySQL over PostgreSQL for this is maybe\nbest he explains. Maybe because of the suppose... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have statically linked the DynaLoader with plperl.so and modified plperl.c\nso that plperl functions executed do not execute within the 'safe\ncompartment'.\n\nplperl.c have been changed as follows:\n\n\textern void boot_Opcode _((CV * cv));\n\textern void boot_SPI _((CV * cv));\n\te... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> \n> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:\n> \n> > > Now a question in particular. I understand that this syntax might\n> > > give me some rows (a, b, c) and others (a, b, c, d, e) and perhaps others\n> > > (a, b, c, f, g, h). Now what would be the syntax for ge... |
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"msg_contents": "\nFor those interested I've extended the patch to support the SQL3 UNDER\nsyntax...\n\nftp://ftp.tech.com.au/pub/diff.x\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 22 May 2000 23:17:20 +1000",
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"msg_contents": "Robert B. Easter wrote:\n\n>On Sun, 21 May 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:\n>> It is from\n>> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/standards/sql\n>> and dated 1994. Is there something more recent?\n>\n>I believe so! 1994 is an old draft. From what I understand, SQL3 is\nan\n>official ISO standard as of ... |
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"msg_contents": "JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck) writes:\n> I'm not totally sure what you mean with the ugly, non-\n> reentrant kluge. I assume it's this annoying\n> setjmp()/longjmp() juggling - isn't it?\n\nNo, I was unhappy with the global variables like fmgr_pl_info an... |
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"msg_contents": "root <tim.brookes@mcmail.com> writes:\n> What do I need to change to stop the leak on the postmaster?\n\nGet rid of the getprotobyname call (essentially the same change\nas in fe-connect.c) in src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c.\n\nYou could just grab last night's snapshot tarball; it should\nhave th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI managed to compile (and sort of run) postgres 7.0 to SGI running IRIX\n6.5.7. I compiled to 64bit libraries. The problems I had were both due\nerrors in the configure script as well as postgres configuration files.\n\nconfigure problems:\n-------------------\n1- the program that configure... |
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"msg_contents": "Some of you may remember some mumblings about some work on access\nprivileges, so this is the idea. Comments welcome.\n\n\n* Goals\n\nThe goal of the first stage is to provide a fully SQL92 compliant\nsolution. That comprises particularly column level granularity, the\nREFERENCES[*] privilege... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOk, I know the mailing list web page states: YOU MUST TRY ELSEWHERE FIRST! and\nthis should, technically speaking, be reported as a bug however given that the\nsecurity implications are potentially severe I thought here would be best in\nthe first instance.\n\nI have only briefly looke... |
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"msg_contents": "Since logging with syslog is a documented feature, we need to fix it\nanyway, IMHO. Here is a proposed fix for \"too long message\" problem of\nsyslog.\n\nIncluded patches do followings:\n\no modifies write_syslog in utils/misc/trace.c\n\no if the message is too long (currently longer than 12... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Ross J. Reedstrom\" <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu> writes:\n>On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:46:39PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:\n>> MySQL is extremely well suited for it: the data is essentially \"read-only\"\n>> so transactions, locking, etc., are not an issue, \n>\n>People keep claiming t... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI created a sort list of header files, whos refered by other installed .h-s but\nnot preset in src/backend/Makefile.\nThis list based on output of gcc -E ${installed}.h\nCan Somebody add them to install-headers target?\n\nI have a little idea, to solve the problem of missing headers... |
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:\n> The assumption that the old password can be reused between\n> password connections seems pretty unwise.\n\nI think it's OK, and a useful convenience, if you are reconnecting with\nthe same username as before. What I had in mind was to discard ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust upgraded Majordomo2 to the latest version, to fix a problem that some\nhave been noticing where USERID@domain != userid@domain ... just want to\nmake sure mail is going through properly now ..\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Ad... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn an effort to help ppl follow more specific topics, I'm trying to split\na few threads into seperate lists and archives ... I *think* that I'm\nsplitting it relatively large segments, based on current threads, but if\nppl can think of something better, please feel free ...\n\nI've created... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I've created three lists:\n> > \n> > \tpgsql-hackers-fmgr: function manager related issues\n> > \tpgsql-hackers-smgr: storage manager related issues\n> > \tpgsql-hackers-oo: OO related issues\n> > \n> > The split only works if ppl make use of them ... \n> \n> The fact that many people don... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems BSD/OS 4.01 has setproctitle() in libutil.o, even though there is\nno include file nor manual page.\n\nI checked the library source, and it is a very light-weight function. \nIt grabs an argv global from crt0.o, and changes the ps args. Very fast.\n\nI now see that systems that use set... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nhttp://www.mysql.com/download_3.23.html\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",
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"msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> \n> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:\n> \n> > As far as I'm concerned, current postgres INHERIT, is exactly the same\n> > semantics as UNDER (apart from multiple inheritance).\n> \n> Agreed, but note that according to the final SQL99 standard the UNDER\n> c... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the new setproctitle() code, already committed for 7.0.1.\n\nWorks under BSDI, and I assume FreeBSD too.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n#define PS_INIT_STATUS(argc, argv, execname, username, hostname, dbname) \\\n do { \\\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a reason to keep SQL functions now that we have PL/PgSQL,\nexcept for backward compatibility? What do SQL functions do that can\nnot be done in PLpgSQL? Are they faster?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "---------- Forwarded Message ----------\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] SQL3 UNDER\nDate: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:53:24 -0400\nFrom: Robert B. Easter <reaster@comptechnews.com>\n\n\n\nOn Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:\n> \"Robert B. Easter\" wrote:\n> > \n> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Bitmead ... |
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"msg_contents": "while doing a pg_dump of a table after postgresql made a mess of itself:\n\ndumpRules(): SELECT failed for table website. Explanation from backend: 'ERROR: cache lookup of attribute 1 in relation 9892634 failed\n'.\n\nGuys, there has to be a simple command to fix a corrupted database.\n\nI'... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I have encountered a really strange problem with PostgreSQL 7.0 on\nSolaris 2.6/Sparc. The problem is that createdb command or create\ndatabase SQL always fails. Inspecting the output of truss shows that\nsystem() call in createdb() (commands/dbcomand.c) fails because\nwaitid() system cal... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nYour name\t\t: Nishad Prakash\nYour email address\t: prakashn@uci.edu\n\n\nSystem Configuration\n---------------------\n Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) \t: Sun Sparc\n\n Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) \t: Solaris 2.6\n\n PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDo people interpret this syntax to mean that you can only have an UNDER\nclause when using the OF <user-defined type> clause as well?\n\n\n <table definition> ::=\n CREATE [ <table scope> ] TABLE <table name>\n <table contents source>\n [ O... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've tried to compile interfaces/perl5 with perl-5.6.0.\n\nIt fails because the perl symbols sv-undef and na have been renamed to\nPL_sv_undef and PL_na;\n\nThe obvious trick was to patch Pg.xs.\n\nSurely, Makefile.PL can take care of that and name those two symbols\naccording to t... |
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"msg_contents": "\nCan someone give be a bit of help with gram.y to get this UNDER syntax\nright? I did what I though was the obvious syntax, but it no longer\naccepts a plain create table after this change...\n\nOptUnder: UNDER relation_name_list \t{ $$ = $2; }\n | /*EMPTY*/ { $$ = NIL; } \n\t;... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> One more time for the <general> mailing list...\n> \n> Hands up if you have objections to the patch I recently submitted for\n> postgresql. It fixes the long standing bit-rot / bug that DELETE and\n> UPDATE don't work on inheritance hierarchies, and it adds the ONLY\n> syntax as mentione... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> How about:\n> \n> 1. alter_rename_table = no\n> \n> The syntax in PostgreSQL is ALTER TABLE x RENAME TO y;\n\nOther db's seem to use \"rename {table|index|view|database} a to b\"\n\n> \n> 2. atomic_updates = no\n> \n> Huh? Besides being paranoid about fsync()'ing transactions how is\n> a ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The whole thing works perfectly after a VACUUM ANALYZE on the\n> table.\n> \n> IMHO this is somewhat non-optimal. In the absence of information\n> to the contrary, PostgreSQL should default to using an index if\n> it might be appropriate, not ignore it.\n\nThere was lots of discussion abo... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > 3. automatic_rowid = no\n> > > \n> > > The description simply says Automatic rowid. Does this apply to\n> > > query result sets or to the underlying relation? If the latter,\n> > > PostgreSQL has, of course, an OID for every tuple in the\n> > > database.\n> > > \n> > I'll have them fi... |
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"msg_contents": "That is quite interesting. Let me CC this over to the hackers/docs\nlists to see if we want to do this for our main docs.\n\nAs for my book, I want those messages sent to me so I can fix them or\nadd information to the book. I think maybe we want the same thing for\nthe manuals. We want to... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > IMHO this is somewhat non-optimal. In the absence of information\n> > to the contrary, PostgreSQL should default to using an index if\n> > it might be appropriate, not ignore it.\n> \n> This is an interesting idea. So you are saying that if a \n> column has no\n> vacuum analyze statist... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi friends,\n\nI want to get the system timestamp from postgresql database.\nBut I dont have a dual table from where ,I can select it.\nGive me a solution, from which table(system) I can get it.\n\nRegards,\ngomathi\n\n____________________________________________________________________\nGet ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am learning to programm triggers in C by using the examples and the\nprogrammer's manual but it's a steep learning curve for a mere perl\nprogrammer ;-)\n\nWhat I am trying to do for instance is:\n- read a ::text colum with SPI_getbinval(),\n- convert it to a char*,\n- modify it,\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt seems like backward thinking to me. If you have to use UNDER with OF,\nthat means you're defining a type which includes the attributes of the\nUNDER class as well as that of the OF class, and adding your own\nattributes too. A brain dead form of multiple inheritance? I don't know\nwhat t... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.linux.com/news/articles.phtml?sid=93&aid=8672\n\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 Peter 4:11\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 24 May 2000 23:49:56 -0400",
"msg_from": "Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>",
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"msg_subject": "Good article on linux.com about... |
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"msg_contents": "Will there be a 7.0.1 release? If so I take it most recent changes to gram.y\nwon't make it into this release, will they?\n\nAs far as ecpg is concerned I won't be able to change much in the near\nfuture so all changes in CVS right now are supposed to make it into 7.0.1.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMich... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> We could ensure that the planner still picks an indexscan as the known\n> table size grows by reducing the default selectivity estimate a little\n> bit (I experimented and determined that 0.005 would do the trick, for\n> the current cost model parameters). That's pretty ad-hoc, but then\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The cost estimation code is under active development, and if you check\n> the pgsql list archives you will find lively discussions about its\n> deficiencies ;-). But I'm having a hard time mustering much concern\n> about whether it behaves optimally in the vacuum-but-no-vacuum-analyze\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> > typedef struct\n> > {\n> > FmgrInfo *flinfo; /* ptr to lookup info used for this call\n*/\n> > Node *context; /* pass info about context of call */\n> > Node *resultinfo; /* pass or return extra info about\nresult */\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n> \n> > For multiple\n> > inheritance, why not just suggest the use of INHERITS, which is\n> > already a Postgres language extension for multiple\n> > inheritance. UNDER covers\n> > the tree/hierarchy situation, so make it only to SQL3 standards.\n> > INHERIT f... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n> \n> > > When calling functions with a class argument they do pass\n> > all attributes\n> > > of subclasses to it. They use late function binding, so you\n> > can define\n> > > different functions for different subclasses having the same name.\n> > > They only ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Benefits:\n> > > *) SQL3 says it.\n> > \n> > Imho this alone more than justifies the patch.\n> > We should also change our keyword \"inherits\" to \"under\".\n> > \n> \n> I don't agree. UNDER only provides for single inheritance \n> according to spec. \n> Making it multiple inherit w... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n> \n> > Frankly, based on my experience with Berkeley DB, I'd bet on mine.\n> > I can do 2300 tuple fetches per CPU per second, with linear scale-\n> > up to at least four processors (that's what we had on the box we\n> > used). That's 9200 fetches a second. P... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTom, can you see anything wrong with this y.output file that would cause\nit not to parse a plain create table statement?\n\nftp://ftp.tech.com.au/pub/y.output.gz\nftp://ftp.tech.com.au/pub/gram.y.gz\n\nfoo=# create table aa (bb text);\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"text\"\nERROR... |
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"msg_contents": "> Here I must slightly disagree, if the impact of vacuum \n> without analyze is so bad, then analyze should be the\n> default for vacuum.\n\n*Must not* - it takes long time. Imho, there should be\nANALYZE command, with ACCESS SHARE lock...\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "At 12:59 PM 5/25/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n\n> Wow, that sounds darn slow. Speed of a seq scan on one CPU, \n> one disk should give you more like 19000 rows/s with a small record size.\n> Of course you are probably talking about random fetch order here,\n> but we need fast seq ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHere are a few apparent discrepencies between pg7.0beta3 and the timezone\ndocumentation at \n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datetime-appendix.htm#DATETIME-APPENDIX-TITLE\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datatype1134.htm\n\non my system (Linux 2.2.12-20smp #1, i686, runni... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's what I thought to be an odd result from the 7.0beta3 parser...\n\ncreate table foo (id serial, h_count integer);\ninsert into foo (h_count) values (10);\ncreate table temp_foo as select * from foo; \ndrop table foo;\ndrop sequence foo_id_seq;\ncreate table foo (id serial, h_count in... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The select:\n> 0.75 MySQL-MyISAM\n> 0.77 MySQL-BDB\n> 2.43 PostgreSQL\n> \n> I'll do a \"real\" test once the BDB support in MySQL is stable \n> enough to run the MySQL benchmark suite.\n\nIt is the sequential scan timings that we would be very interested in.\n\ncreate table foo (a int... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> ... that being said (and I took a quick test with 10000 \n> randomly-inserted\n> records and fetched them in index order) if the data's in the \n> cache, the\n> speed difference is insignificant. \n\nAs long as everything fits into the system cache and is \nalready in there, this test is ... |
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"msg_contents": " \n> > Here I must slightly disagree, if the impact of vacuum \n> > without analyze is so bad, then analyze should be the\n> > default for vacuum.\n> \n> *Must not* - it takes long time. Imho, there should be\n> ANALYZE command, with ACCESS SHARE lock...\n\nYes, I agree that reducing the defa... |
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"msg_contents": "I know this topic has been rehashed a million times, but I just wanted to\nadd one datapoint. I have a database (150 tables, less than 20K tuples \nin any one table) which I 'vacuum analyze'\u001b*HOURLY*, blocking all access,\nand I still see frequent situations where my query times bloat b... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Wow, that sounds darn slow. Speed of a seq scan on one CPU, \n> > one disk should give you more like 19000 rows/s with a \n> small record size.\n> > Of course you are probably talking about random fetch order here,\n> > but we need fast seq scans too.\n> \n> The test was random reads on... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I am not talking about select * I am talking about\n> > \"select somefunc(supertable) from supertable\"\n> > \n> > create table supertable (a int);\n> > create table taba (b int) under supertable;\n> > \n> > create function somefunc (tup supertable) returning int\n> > as 'select 1' ...... |
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"msg_contents": "> Times for the insert loop:\n> 14 MySQL-MyISAM\n> 23 PostgreSQL (no fsync)\n> 53 MySQL-BDB (with fsync -- don't know how to turn it off yet)\n\nPostgreSQL 6.5.3; -B 16384; SUN Ultra10 with some IDE disk.\n\n1. with fsync, all inserts in single transaction: 73 sec\n2. with fsync, us... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI want to connect MS Access to Postgresql on Linux. I have downloaded an\nODBC driver for Windows. How do I get MS Access to talk to postgres ? Is\nthere any HOWTOs on this ? I Know Linux very well, MS Access a little, SQL\nnot really but learning...hopyfully :-)\nThanks\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "What happens if people issue create user or create database outside\ntemplate1. Do we need to prevent it? Seems they work, but am not sure\nit is OK. Do we need to add a check?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@Wien.Spardat.at> writes:\n> > But, it probably shows a problem with the chosen metric for\n> > selectivity itself. Imho the chances are better, that an =\n> > restriction will return an equal amount of rows while the \n> table grows\n> > than that it ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > ... that being said (and I took a quick test with 10000 \n> > randomly-inserted\n> > records and fetched them in index order) if the data's in the \n> > cache, the\n> > speed difference is insignificant. \n> \n> As long as everything fits into the system cache and is \n> already in there,... |
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"msg_contents": "Seems a typical file system backup is fine on an idle database, right?\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 Avenue\n + Christ can be your ba... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI finished making the PostgreSQL binary for WinNT yesterday.\nWould I upload it at the PostgreSQL ftp site ? If not, I will\nput it at my site.\n\n- Kevin\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 26 May 2000 09:21:40 +0800",
"msg_from": "Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw>",
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"msg_contents": "These two queries are exactly alike. The first one uses aliases except\nfor the order by. The second uses aliases also for the order by. The\nthird uses whole names. The third has the behavior I want.\n\nSomeone please tell me what I am doing wrong. I don't want to have to\nuse whole names f... |
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"msg_contents": "> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Hiroshi Inoue\n> > -----Original Message-----\n> > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> > \n> > Anyway, it sounds like we agree that this is the approach to pursue.\n> > Do you have time to chase down the details?\n> \n> OK,I will examine a little... |
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"msg_contents": "RedHat RPMs for PostgreSQL 7.0, release 3 are available immediately on\nftp.postgresql.org in /pub/binary/v7.0/redhat-RPM\n\nThey have also been uploaded to incoming.redhat.com for inclusion on\ncontrib.redhat.com. They will also soon be available on www.ramifordistat.net.\n\nThere is one ad... |
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"msg_contents": "Isn't template1 just that, a template?\n\nIf a user has the ability to create a user or database, then they should\nbe able to do it from anywhere.\n\nPersonally, I think normal users shouldn't have access to template1,\nsimply because they could create objects in there that can be copied\nin... |
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"msg_contents": "> \"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n> > As far as I see,PostgreSQL doesn't call LockBuffer() before\n> > calling smgrwrite(). This seems to mean that smgrwrite()\n> > could write buffers to disk which are being changed by\n> > another backend. If the(another) backend was aborted by... |
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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: Gunnar R|nning [mailto:gunnar@candleweb.no]\nSent: ... |
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"msg_contents": "Rather than going on and on about the subject in little emails, I've put\ntogether some information about UNDER and INHERITS, as I see them, on a\nwebpage at:\n\nhttp://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/pgoo.html\n\nPeople might consider what it says in deciding the fate of INHERITS and of how\nt... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm afraid this might sound rather dumb. I'm hoping I can just get a\nlittle clarification about file locations.\n\nI've just started playing w/ SPI. As a first stab, I thought I'd\ncompile a couple of the test applications in /contrib.\n\nI pointed gcc to include files from /usr/local/pgsq... |
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"msg_contents": "Is \\h select in psql supposed to show SELECT and SELECT INTO? If\nscrolls off the screen.\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 Avenue\n + ... |
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"msg_contents": "I added the following test to psql/help.c:\n\n /* if we have an exact match, exit, fixes \\h SELECT */\n if (strcasecmp(topic, QL_HELP[i].cmd) == 0)\n break;\n\nThis will exit the help loop if an exact match has already been found. \nThis preve... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n I work on query cache support in SPI and for better inspiration I see\nhow use SPI good programmer in RI triggers :-)\n\n And I a little surprised, in one part of RI Jan use SPI_prepare/saveplan\nbefore SPI_connect(). I don't know if this part is used, but if I see to SPI\nI must say \"i... |
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"msg_contents": "> We might have part of the story in the recently noticed fact that\n> each insert/update query begins by doing a seqscan of pg_index.\n> \n> I have done profiles of INSERT in the past and not found any really\n> spectacular bottlenecks (but I was looking at a test table with no\n> indexes, s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm trying to create a type password; the goal is to have a table like:\n\nCREATE TABLE test (\nusername varchar,\npass passwd);\n\ninsert into test values ('me','secret');\n\nand have \"secret\" being automagicly crypted.\n\nWhat I want is to mimic the PASSWORD function of mysql b... |
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