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"msg_contents": "At 21:57 4/07/00 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>I think we need a --with-zlib switch for the new pg_dump. Or at least a\n>--without-zlib switch, if you think that it's widespread enough.\n\nAs far as I am aware, te plan is to make 'configure' check for it...the\ncode obeys the HAVE_ZLIB #de... |
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"msg_contents": "I've done a little work on enabling session-specific default behavior\nfor transaction isolation level. I'm thinking about how to extend this\nto default \"database-specific\" behaviors which persist between sessions\n(such as \"DateStyle\", character encoding, etc), perhaps using the ALTER\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been thinking about what changes are necessary to the libpq\ninterface to support returning variable type tuples. This was\ndiscussed a number of months back but an exact interface wasn't nailed\ndown. \n\nLet me then put forward the following suggestion open for comment. The\nsuggestion... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> dbahena@tpv.com.mx writes:\n> > ventasge2000=# create table t1 (c1 char(10),c2 varchar(10));\n> > CREATE\n> > ventasge2000=# insert into t1 values('XXX666','XXX666');\n> > INSERT 182218 1\n> > ventasge2000=# select * from t1 where c1 ~ '666$';\n> > c1 | c2 \n> > ----+----\n> > (0 rows)\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHaving now flirted with recreating BLOBs (and even DBs) with matching OIDs,\nI find myself thinking it may be a waste of effort for the moment. A\nmodified version of the system used by Pavel Janik in pg_dumplo may be\nsubstantially more reliable than my previous proposal:\n\nTo Dump\n-----... |
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"msg_contents": "Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:\n> Having now flirted with recreating BLOBs (and even DBs) with matching OIDs,\n> I find myself thinking it's a waste of effort for the moment. A modified\n> version of the system used by Pavel Janik in pg_dumplo may be substantially\n> more reliable t... |
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"msg_contents": " Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2000 @ 12:17:41\nAuthor: wieck\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands\n from hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv21402/backend/commands\n\nModified Files:\n\tcommand.c vacuum.c \n\n----------------------------- Log Message ---------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "The question is how to determine when a type is an array type (and not\nusing the leading-underscore convention). A comment in pg_type.h says:\n\n/*\n * typelem is 0 if this is not an array type. If this is an array\n * type, typelem is the OID of the type of the elements of the array\n * (i... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that we don't -I...backend anymore, this might break:\n\nsrc/include/c.h:\n\n#ifdef FIXADE\n#if defined(hpux)\n#include \"port/hpux/fixade.h\" /* for unaligned access fixup */\n#endif /* hpux */\n#endif\n\nThe comments surrounding this make it pretty unclear whether this is still\nnec... |
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"msg_contents": "Jan Wieck wrote:\n\n> FYI,\n>\n> For now, \"lztext\" is the only test candidate datatype to\n> invoke the toaster. It can hold up to multi-megabytes now.\n> But be warned, this datatype will disappear as soon as \"text\"\n> is toastable.\n>\n\nI have not been following... |
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"msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> \n> Will you accept modifications to this if submit'd, to make better use of\n> features that PostgreSQL has to improve performance? Just downloaded it\n> and am going to look her through, just wondering if it would be a waste of\n> time for me to suggest changes ... |
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"msg_contents": "Uh oh -\n\n on one side I'm a happy camper. pg_dump already ignored pg_*\n tables and since the TOAST tables are named pg_toast_...,\n nothing to be done. I loaded my test DB with TOAST entries,\n dumped and restored it. Anything is there, works perfectly.\n\n But the... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n Small note about build system;\n\n * The ./configure expect for template listing template in \"template\" dir\nbut it is \"src/template\" (see line 132 in configure.in)\n\n * A question, try anyone compile PG after 'make depend'?\n It show some warning messages. \n \n And a second qu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nDoes anyone know if out parameters are supported in pl/pgsql functions?\n\nWhat I mean is something like this:\n\ncreate function f(out int4) returns text as\n'\n\tselect $1 = 3\n\treturn \"\"\n' language 'plpgsql';\n\ndb ==> declare i int4;\ndb ==> select f(i);\ndb ==> select i;... |
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"msg_contents": "I am having the same problem, but I have 'make clean' and run the whole\ninstallation gambit on the latest pgsql package, every single time I got\nthe same answer Undef'd oidvector.\nIs there anything that may be missing from the package?\n\nRob\nrstodd@cts.com\n\n\nBruce Momjian wrote:\n>\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all- I've recently had to suffer a torturous process of building 7.0.2 on AIX 4.3.2. From my pouring through other newsgroups I've concluded that the problems I've hit exist at least on AIX 4.1.5 and 4.3.3 as well. This note describes the problems I've encountered and how to get around ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi ...\n\nPostgreSQL, 4 years ago, became a Proudly Canadian Open Source Project,\nwith developers around the world (16 out of ~21 contributing developers\nbeing non-US citizens). Over those 4 years, we've had various people pop\nup suggesting \"we should be under a GPL license\", to which... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all- I've recently had to suffer a torturous process of building 7.0.2 on AIX 4.3.2. From my pouring through other newsgroups I've concluded that the problems I've hit exist at least on AIX 4.1.5 and 4.3.3 as well. This note describes the problems I've encountered and how to get around ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'd be honored to! I'll give it a shot- to whom should I submit it?\n\nCould someone (at some point) take a look at the install bugs I (and others)\nhit- i.e. the glitch in postgres.imp and the problem building libpq++ and\nplpsql stuff?\n\nRichard Sand (rsand@vgalleries.com)\nhttp://www.vga... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSome people suggested it might be a good idea to define a new\ninterface, maybe call it libpq2. (Actually this would be a good time\nto abandon pq = postquel in favour of libpg.a ).\n\nI'll therefore put forward the following proposal as a possible\nstarting point. I'm not particularly comm... |
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"msg_contents": " \n> At 11:09 5/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n> >Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:\n> >> Having now flirted with recreating BLOBs (and even DBs) \n> with matching OIDs,\n> >> I find myself thinking it's a waste of effort for the \n> moment. A modified\n> >> version of the system used b... |
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"msg_contents": "At 09:52 6/07/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>> \n>> I'll also have to modify pg_restore to talk to the database \n>> directly (for\n>> lo import). As a result I will probably send the entire \n>> script directly\n>> from withing pg_restore. Do you know if comment parsing \n>> ('--'... |
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"msg_contents": "At 11:09 6/07/00 +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:\n>\n> No. It's all in the current CVS tree. I removed that patch\n> already.\n>\n\nOK, I've updated from CVS and rebuilt & it worked. The, to be sure, I did a\n'make distclean' then a 'make' & 'make install' again, and now postmaster\nwont start ... |
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"msg_contents": "At 18:12 6/07/00 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>Philip Warner writes:\n>\n>> I'll also have to modify pg_restore to talk to the database directly (for\n>> lo import).\n>\n>psql has \\lo_import.\n>\n\nP.S. Another, possibly minor, advantage of using a direct db connection is\nI can allow the... |
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"msg_contents": "Please find attached a patch for the pg_dump directory which addresses:\n\n- The problems Jan reported\n\n- incompatibility with configure (now uses HAVE_LIBZ instead of HAVE_ZLIB)\n\n- a problem in auto-detecting archive file format on piped archives\n\n\n\n\n--------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "I've occasionally griped that I do not like the coding practice of\nwriting\n\tif (strcmp(foo, bar))\nto mean\n\tif (strcmp(foo, bar) != 0)\nor its inverse\n\tif (!strcmp(foo, bar))\nto mean\n\tif (strcmp(foo, bar) == 0)\n\nMy past objection to this has been purely stylistic: it's too easy\nt... |
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"msg_contents": ">> 1) First of all, you can't use IBM's make utility, gotta use GNU make.\n>\n>Quoth the installation instructions:\n>\n>\"Building PostgreSQL requires GNU make. It will not work with other make\n>programs.\"\n\nYes I was just making sure all of the AIX instructions were combined. :)\n\n>> yo... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI wish to perform the following query in a plsql function upon an\nupdate/insert/delete trigger:\n\nUPDATE entry_stats \nSET entry_maxprice=MAX(item_price) \nFROM item \nWHERE item.item_entry_id=NEW.item_entry_id\n AND item.item_live = 't';\n\nHowever there will be situations where... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am working on Linux RH 6.0 platform.\nI want use PostgreSQL as a backend. 'C' language as a front-end.\nI am not able to connect to each other.\nI am using libpq.\nThe program is :-\n\n/*conn2.c*/\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include \"/usr/include/pgsql/libpq-fe.h\"\n main()\n {\n c... |
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"msg_contents": "Before intalling latest version of postgres we changed the namedatalen\nto 64 so that we could accomodate longer object names. After a bit of\ntesting we found out that if an index name is to long the ODBC driver is\nnot able deliver the name of the index to MS Access and therefore ms\naccess... |
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"msg_contents": "I've got patches which:\n\n1) Implement session-specific settings, including isolation level and\ntime zone:\n\nSET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS AS\n TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE,\n TIME ZONE 'PST8PDT';\n\nPer SQL99 spec, the command rejects duplicate or conflicting clauses.\nUnder the... |
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"msg_contents": "Your name\t\t:\tDavid MacKenzie\nYour email address\t:\tdjm@web.us.uu.net\n\n\nSystem Configuration\n---------------------\n Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) \t: Intel x86\n\n Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) \t: BSD/OS 4.0.1\n\n PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.... |
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"msg_contents": "The parser currently maps the type REAL to float8. I contend that it\nshould be float4.\n\nfloat4\t=>\treal\nfloat8\t=>\tdouble precision\n\nCan we make this change?\n\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut Sernanders v�g 10:115\npeter_e@gmx.net 75262 Uppsala\nhttp://yi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm looking at implementing the SQL99 C interface, which looks more or\nless reasonable. There are some annoyances however. The API to describe\nthe return result SQLDescribeCol takes a pointer to a SQLSMALLINT to\nreturn the type of the returned column. There are a whole lot of #define\nva... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nBefor one year ago, I ask if MD5 (free code from Debian) and DES crypt()\nis possible include to PG. \n\n Knows anyone if is possible include it to PG now?\n\nFor example GNU Debian distribute MD5 and crypt() in free software section \nwithout some restriction.\n\nBTW --- If I good keep t... |
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"msg_contents": "The article on MySQL compared with PostgreSQL is up on\nwww.phpbuilder.com for all to read.... Not a bad article, pretty\nbalanced.\n\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 Peter 4:11\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:53:40 -0400",
"msg_from": "Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>",
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"msg_contents": "I found this in my mailbox. Is it any good?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\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 backup. | Drexel Hill,... |
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"msg_contents": "The oidvectortypes function, mostly used by psql \\df, formats types\nseparated by spaces:\n\n\tvarchar float8 timetz int4\n\nwhich would look a little odd when canonical type names are used:\n\n\tcharacter varying double precision time with time zone integer\n\nI suggest that we separate the... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello there,\n\nDoes anyone know of a decent psql-mode for emacs? I am looking at\nsomething like one by Peter D. Pezaris.\n\nThanks.\n\nRichard.\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:19:52 +0000",
"msg_from": "Richard Nfor <rnfor@taku.demon.co.uk>",
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"msg_contents": "============================================================================\n POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n============================================================================\n\n\nYour name : Ryan Rawson\nYour email address : ... |
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"msg_contents": "When using psql's \\dd command, the backend crashes with a segfault.\n\n\n#0 pglz_decompress (source=0x4034aeb0, dest=0x4039e024 \"\") at\npg_lzcompress.c:724\n724 *bp++ = *dp++;\n#1 0x8074526 in heap_tuple_untoast_attr (attr=0x4034aeb0) at\ntuptoaster.c:... |
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"msg_contents": "> hi,\n> \n> threre are a postgresql/mysql comparative.\n> You can get something for the TODO:\n> \n> http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3?page=1\n> \n> regards,\n> \n\nThanks. Yes, I have added to the TODO list:\n\n\t* Add function to return primary key value on INSERT\n\n-- \n... |
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"msg_contents": "First, I appologize if this is not the correct list for this :).\n\nIve had a crash occur in postgres 7.0.2. When the db crashed, there was quite a\nbit going on, so I am not really sure what caused it. As such, I cant really\nreproduce this :(. The only thing that I have that might help yo... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to get the SSL stuff to at least build out of the box. It seems\nthere's a flaw here: Even when you only want to build with SSL support \"to\ntry later\" the postmaster refuses to start unless you set up appropriate\ncertificate and key files. There's no way to disable SSL at run t... |
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"msg_contents": " Hi,\n This is an replay to mail on 18 May 2000. \nSorry, I am always late...\n\nts<decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:\n>B> What function languages do triggers support? C, plpgsql, pltcl, SQL?\n>\n> You can add plruby.\n\n Were you able to add plruby ?\n Can you add plruby to PostgreSQL Document... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nIs this supposed to happen? I discovered this when I was experimenting with\nconverting a string to a number.\n\n# SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', '99G999D9S');\n to_number\n-----------\n -12454.8\n(1 row)\n\n# SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', '');\npqReadData() -- backend closed the channel ... |
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"msg_contents": "zzz=# create table zzz(f1 int4);\nzzz=# create temporary table zzz(f1 int4);\n\n...works\n\nzzz=# create temporary table zzz(f1 int4);\nzzz=# create table zzz(f1 int4);\nERROR: Relation 'zzz' already exists\n\nIs this a problem?\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've got a version of pg_dump that supports BLOB output (currently using\ncustom format only), and would like some feedback. If anybody out there has\na 'real-world' db using blobs, I'd love them to test it...\n\nThanks,\n\nPhilip Warner.\n\n\n-----------------------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIt seems some code disappeared from pg_dump.c between 7.0.2 and current, I\nthink in the following revisions:\n\nrevision 1.148\ndate: 2000/05/28 20:34:52; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +21 -42\nMiscellaneous cleanups of places that needed to account for new\npg_language entries.\n----... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs there an official bug list?\n\nThe reason I ask is that there are a couple of issues that probably need to\nbe filed somewhere (soft peat?), at least for my peace of mind...\n\n1. Temp tables preventing permanent table creation:\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nzzz... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHere are 2 patches against current CVS to fix a couple of\nproblems I found building and testing on Solaris.\n\nFirstly genbki.sh had a couple of call to sed using the syntax\n\"sed <command>\" which results in sed reporting a garbled command.\n\nI have changed this to \"sed -e '<comma... |
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"msg_contents": "AFAICT, the EState field es_BaseId and the CommonState field cs_base_id\nare not used for anything, and so the plan-initialization code that\nsets them is a complete waste of time.\n\nPresumably these were once used for something, but I can't think of\nany good reason not to remove them. Doe... |
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"msg_contents": "There's a benchmark/review comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL on PHP Builder:\n http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3\n\nCiao\n --Louis <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> \n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:29:52 -0400 (EDT)",
"msg_from": "Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.... |
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"msg_contents": "hi\n\nthe list arhive is dead again ...\n\nyours, oliver teuber\n-- \n // Oliver Teuber Softwareentwicklung email ot@teuber.com\n // Schulweg 8, 37534 Badenhausen, Germany phone +49 5522 951066\n // http://www.reitsport.de/ fax +49 5522 951068\n/+=... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA new version of pg_dump (for V7.*) is available for testing at:\n\n ftp://ftp.rhyme.com.au/pub/postgresql/pg_dump/blobs/\n\nThis version supports BLOBS in pg_dump using the --blob qualifier (but only\nin the custon outut format).\n\nAnybody who is willing to build and test this, plase do... |
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"msg_contents": "Now I know that you all believe that postgres only has problems due to\nbad programming, but I'm getting another problem that I can't figure out\nin 6.5.3\n\n[PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n type \\q to quit\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "[postgres@geocrawler postgres]$ pg_dump -s db_geocrawler\ngetTables(): SELECT failed. Explanation from backend: 'ERROR: No such\nattribute or function 'oid'\n'.\n\n\nThat one looks pretty scary to me... No such attribute: oid??\n\nTim\n\n-- \nFounder - PHPBuilder.com / Geocrawler.com\nLead ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSELECT geo_distance(location::point,'(-79.412636,43.720768)'::point)\n FROM location_table;\n\nwhere location is defined as point already?\n\nI'm getting:\n\npqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally\n bef... |
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"msg_contents": "Any idea why 6.5.3 would have created tens of thousands of files like\nthese in the /data/base/db_geocrawler/ directory?\n\nThere may have even been a million of these files there - so many that\nrm -f idx_arch_date_list_year_mo.* didn't work.\n\nTim\n\n\nidx_arch_date_list_year_mo.10548 idx... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, thanks to the www.phpbuilder.com PostgreSQL/MySQL comparison, there\nis another PostgreSQL/MySQL thread on shashdot.org. Looks interesting,\nand of course, we are looking good too.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWell after hacking around on libpq for a few days I'm starting to\nunderstand some of the subtley of what's going on. I'm also\nunderstanding that it's complex enough that I'm not going to be sure\nanymore about what subtleties I might break. It's a pity there isn't\nregression tests for th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIs this a known problem?\n\npjw=# create temporary table tt(f int4);\nCREATE\npjw=# create index tt_ix1 on tt(f);\nCREATE\npjw=# \\q\n\nThe postmaster says:\n\nNOTICE: mdopen: couldn't open pg_temp.31633.1: No such file or directory\npq_flush: send() failed: Bad file descriptor\nNOTICE: R... |
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"msg_contents": "My original idea for using the new \"memory context\" mechanisms for\nrecovering memory in the executor went like this: in each Plan node,\ncreate a \"per tuple\" context that would be reset at the start of each\nExecProcNode call, thereby recovering memory allocated in the previous\ntuple cy... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Maybe you just want to use zlib. Let other guys hammer out \n> the details.\n\nYes, but zlib is slow, and has bad compression. \nI think we want something fast with moderate compression,\nmaybe \"lzo\" if license or author permits.\nThe algorithm is patented for free use, the code is gpl'... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Richard Sand writes:\n> \n> > 1) First of all, you can't use IBM's make utility, gotta \n> use GNU make.\n> \n> Quoth the installation instructions:\n> \n> \"Building PostgreSQL requires GNU make. It will not work with \n> other make\n> programs.\"\n> \n> > you have to use the command:\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> You have recreated what pg_upgrade does. It is for upgrading system\n> tables. If only your system tables were hosed, you are fine now.\n\nOnly if your previous system has been vacuum'ed and no dml afterwards.\nOtherwise you also need to copy your old pg_log.\n\n> \n> \n> > The Hermit H... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAll other points you noted can be fixed.\n\nThe list of lpp's you named is only part of the truth, you\nseemed to have the others already installed. Since I do not \nknow the full list of additional lpp's compared to a default AIX install\nI did not name any in the FAQ. I am pretty sure, th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI inserted some debug into libpq, then I ran psql, and I noticed that\nthere are two 'Z' \"Ready for query\" messages sent after each query. Is\nthere a reason for that? Is it a bug?\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:17:15 +1000",
"msg_from": "Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>",
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"msg_contents": "ISTM that the template mechanism used in configure is, well, flawed. Among\nthe problems:\n\n1) The templates preempt the choice of compiler. A recent report from AIX\nsaid that it automatically picked up the \"aix_41\" template, only to find\nout later on that there is no \"cc\" compiler on ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n> > > > -I created a new db\n> > > > -used the old db schema to create all new blank tables\n> > \n> > vacuum new db\n> > (I would do a tar backup of the whole old db)\n> > vacuum old db, if that is possible\n> \n> Was not possible.\n> \n> > > > -copied the ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > And of course the major problem with *that* is how do you get the\n> > connection request to arrive at a backend that's been prestarted in\n> > the right database? If you don't commit to a database then there's\n> > not a whole lot of prestarting that can be done.\n> > \n> > It occurs ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> > \n> > > Bruce Momjian writes:\n> > > \n> > > > * Add function to return primary key value on INSERT\n> > > \n> > > I don't get the point of this. Don't you know what you \n> inserted? For\n> > > sequences there's curval()\n> > \n> > Mmmhhh... it mean... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n I'm playing with MemoryContextCheck() and I a little confuse now.\n\n How idea is for:\n\n context->initBlockSize\n context->maxBlockSize\n\n Must be a memory block already between this range? For example \nthe AllocSetAlloc() if create a single-chunk-block not check it and... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > > > -currently vacuuming the new db - nothing is barfing yet\n> > \n> > Actually, the vacuum seemed to be running forever making no \n> > progress so\n> > I killed it.\n> > \n> > > > > -now hopefully I can create my indexes and be back in business\n> > \n> > I vacuumed here and it wor... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Thus spake Alessio Bragadini\n> > > > * Add function to return primary key value on INSERT\n> > > \n> > > I don't get the point of this. Don't you know what you \n> inserted? For\n> > > sequences there's curval()\n> > \n> > Mmmhhh... it means that we can assume no update to the \n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "At 15:58 10/07/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>\n>OID access is not indexed by default, only if the dba created a\n>corresponding \n>index. Thus OID access is a seq scan in a default environment.\n>\n\nSticking my head out even further, this seems like a good reason to use\n'insert/... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi;\n\nI have a table that has four fields as float8[]. I have a serial new data\nfor each array. Each time I have new data I have to update more than 6000\nrows for all four field. But using \"update (ta ble)\" to load in the new\ndata is just too slow. Does anybody know a more efficient... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThere is a new version of pg_dump-with-blobs at:\n\n ftp://ftp.rhyme.com.au/pub/postgresql/pg_dump/blobs/\n\nThanks to Pavel Jan�k, there are now two files - one for building against\nCVS, and the other for building against 702.\n\nNote that to build these files you must cd into the ne... |
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"msg_contents": "The following URL is a short article about software quality. He\ncriticizes the sloppy coding practices of some open-source software. I\nagree with most of his points.\n\nMy personal feeling is that if sloppy coding becomes the norm, I will be\nout of a job. I place a high value on quality... |
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"msg_contents": "Tim,\n\nAside: Is your MySQL database running on an ext2 volume or on a ReiserFS volume? I read somewhere that half of SourceForge is now running in Reiser. Is this true?\n\nOn Wed, 05 Jul 2000 10:00:39 -0700, Tim Perdue wrote:\n\n>The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n>> \n>> Will you accept modificatio... |
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"msg_contents": "> Is WAL planned for 7.1? What is the story with WAL?\n\nYes.\n\n> I'm a bit concerned that the current storage manager is going to be\n> thrown in the bit bucket without any thought for its benefits. There's\n> some stuff I want to do with it like resurrecting time travel,\n\nWhy don't use t... |
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"msg_contents": "I am having exactly the same problem, the only thing is, I have a fresh\ncvs copy,\nI did a make clean, and I still have this problem.\n\ncould anybody tell me how I could get around this, or what I should\ncheck out?\n\nThank you very much for your support,\nRobert Stoddard\nrstodd@cts.com\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > some stuff I want to do with it like resurrecting time travel,\n> > \n> > Why don't use triggers for time-travel?\n> > Disadvantages of transaction-commit-time based time travel \n> > was pointed out a days ago.\n> \n> Triggers for time travel is MUCH less efficient. There is no copying... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n>> Compressor | level | heap size | toastrel | toastidx | seconds\n>> | | | size | size |\n>> -----------+-------+-----------+----------+----------+--------\n>> PGLZ | - | 425,984 | ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nIs there SQL-92 SQLSTATE or SQL-96 SQLCODE implemented in\nPostgreSQL (I use version 7.0 on SuSe Linux 6.4) ?\nIf so, how to take the value of it in stored procedures (written in PL/pgSQL\nor C)\nIn documentation I found only a short describtion of sqlca\nIn ecpg.\n\nThanks in advance\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I think most of us here are hot on quality. It's one of the reasons why I\ndon't release code before I'm at least happy with what I've got is clean and\neasily maintainable.\n\nHere (MBC) I see several other analysts writing quick hacks that then become\nmission critical. These hacks then bec... |
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"msg_contents": "Applied. I didn't have a copy of this in my mailbox, so either I lost\nit, or it didn't make it to the list.\n\n[ text/enriched is unsupported, treating like TEXT/PLAIN ]\n\n> \n> \n> This was sent a while ago, perhaps it slipped though unnoticed.\n> \n> \n> >>>>\n> \n> <excerpt>At 21:13 9/0... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> \"Hiroshi Inoue\" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:\n> >>>> I vacuumed here and it worked. I did not use my \"old\" \n> pg_log file - what\n> >>>> did I lose?\n> >> \n> >> Hard to tell. Any tuples that weren't already marked on \n> disk as \"known\n> >> committed\" have probably gone missing, be... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> At 11:27 11/07/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:\n> >\n> >> It was mentioned here that triggers could be used for \n> async replication,\n> >> as well as WAL.\n> >\n> >Same story. Major inefficency. Replication is tough enough without\n> >mucking\n> >around with triggers. Once the trigger ex... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tI am running RedHat 6.1 and have installed PostgreSQL version 7.0.2 after\nuninstalling 6.5.2. I have initialized the database with the following\ncommand at the prompt:\n\n[postgres@cd480405-a bin]$\n/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql\n\nI did not receive any ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Has sufficient research been done to warrant destruction of what is\n> currently there?\n> \n> According to the postgres research papers, the no-overwrite storage\n> manager has the following attributes...\n> \n> * It's always faster than WAL in the presence of stable main memory.\n> (Whe... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > * It's always faster than WAL in the presence of stable main memory.\n> > (Whether the stable caches in modern disk drives is an \n> approximation I\n> > don't know).\n> \n> For writing, yes. But for high updated tables, the scans will\n> soon slow down due to the junk contentio... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> It appears that brtee indices (at least) can keep references\n> to old toast values that survive a VACUUM! Seems these\n> references live in nodes actually not referring to a heap\n> tuple any more, but used during tree traversal in\n> comparisi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Philip Warner wrote:\n> > At 14:02 11/07/00 +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:\n> > > AFAICS, we need to detoast values for index inserts allways\n> > > and have another toaster inside the index access methods at\n> > > some day.\n> >\n> > We might not need it...at least not in the furs... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Basically, time travel was getting in the way of more \n> requested features\n> > \n> > Do you mean way back when it was removed? How was it \n> getting in the way?\n> \n> Yes. Every tuple had this time-thing that had to be tested. Vadim\n> wanted to revove it to clear up the coding... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSince I broke my table on hub and am awaiting assistance I'm shifting\naway from the website temporarily and back to the md5 stuff. In going\nover the previous conversations I've come up with the following:\n\n\nThe client can be sending the password in either plain text or in \nhashed for... |
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"msg_contents": "Just wanted to give a short message, that current snapshot does not \ncompile on AIX due to the fmgr changes.\nI have some patches that unfortunately affect other ports but not a complete\nfix.\nWhy are the pg_dlopen ... declared extern in include/utils/dynamic_loader.h\n?\n\naside: Why is sy... |
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"msg_contents": "> The bottom line is that the original postgres time-travel \n> implementation was totally cost-free. \n\nI disagree. I can't consider additional > 8 bytes per tuple +\npg_time (4 bytes per transaction... please remember that ppl\ncomplain even about pg_log - 2 bits per transaction) as\ntotal... |
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"msg_contents": "> Also, does WAL offer instantaneous crash recovery like no-overwrite?\n\nNo, but it offers < 1 fsync per commit, instead of fsyncing every\nchanged table/index...\n+ rollback changes of aborted transactions.\n\nAnd, btw, WAL can live with non-overwriting smgr without problem -\nwhy do you op... |
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"msg_contents": "> According to the postgres research papers, the no-overwrite storage\n> manager has the following attributes...\n\nBut don't forget about conclusion they made...\n\n> * It's always faster than WAL in the presence of stable main memory.\n> (Whether the stable caches in modern disk drives is a... |
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