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"msg_contents": "At 2:52 PM 98.2.27 +0100, Meskes, Michael wrote:\n>But this isn't declared in postmaster.c either. ecpg.c does include\n>unistd.h if getopt.h does not exist and I think unistd.h is the one that\n>puts the getopt stuff into postmaster.\n\nI see declarations of optarg and optind in backend/pos... |
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"msg_contents": "The following patches will allow postgreSQL 6.3 to compile and run on a \nUNIXWARE 2.1.2 system with the native C compiler with the following library \nchange:\n\n\tThe alloca function must be copied from the libucb.a archive and added\n\tto the libgen.a archive.\n\nAlso, the GNU flex program... |
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"msg_contents": "When I run configure with the --with-tcl option, it finds tcl.h but not tk.h. \nBoth files exist in the same directory with the same permissions and owner.\n\nThis was with the Feb. 28 snapshot. Any help would be appriciated.\n-- \n____ | Billy G. Allie | Domain....: Bill.Allie@mug... |
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"msg_contents": "Looks like I don't have this fixed, so I have re-added it to the FAQ.\n\ntest=> create table xx (x int, y int) ; \nCREATE\ntest=> insert into xx select usesysid, count(*) from pg_user group by\nusesysid;\nERROR: The field being grouped by must appear in the target list\n\nIn this case, t... |
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"msg_contents": "The attached patch will ensure that pg_atoi will return 0 when passed an empty \nstring regardless of what strtol will do with an empty string. Some \nimplementations of strtol will generate an error if passed an emtpy string.\n\n\n\n____ | Billy G. Allie | Domain....: Bill.Allie@mu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDo the following:\n\n<PSQL SESSION>\ncreate table t (name text);\nCREATE\n\ninsert int t (oid, name) values (13, 'n1');\nINSERT 18409 1;\n\nSelect * from t where oid =13;\nname\n-------\n(0 rows)\n\n</PGSQL SESSION>\n\nIs this correct?\nI would have expected that it wouldn't be allowed... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn building the March 1 snapshot on linux 2.0.31 / glibc 2.0.7-pre1 / \negcs 1.01, after configuring I blindly typed\n\tmake CFLAGS=\"-O9\" >& make.log &\nand the -I declarations from Makefile.global were omitted and\nthe build failed. After reading Makefile.global, I tried\n\tmake CO... |
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"msg_contents": "> > To try it out. It _may_ just be illustrating my lack of understanding of the locale\n> > support code in Unix...\n\nbingo. Read on :(\n\n> And how is a good outut look like ? Because all I am getting is:\n>\n> shefu (gafton):~/src/locale>./locale\n> numeric decimal point '.'\n> cashin- fr... |
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"msg_contents": "The purpose of using 'create domain' is as given \nin the example below. I defined domain name 'EMPLOYED'\nand use in create table - see the field 'EMPLOYED' is\nof data-type EMPLOYED:\nCREATE TABLE EMPLOYER (\n PERSON_ID INTEGER NOT NULL,\n EMPLOYER VARCHAR(60),\n EMPLOY... |
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"msg_contents": "Somehow, I don't think pgsql/doc/postgres.tar.gz should be there. It\nlooks big.\n\nThomas?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Varchar currently (in 6.2.1 and below) takes up the entire length specified\n> > > in the definition, despite the fact the value in it may actually be\n> > > shorter. Text takes only the space taken by the value.\n> >\n> > Thanks for the clarification. In this case, what happens with va... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> > In v6.3, indices are supported with use of ~ and LIKE operators.\n> > An unofficial patch for v6.2 is also available to do this.\n> >\n> > Hopefully, the developers will have remembered to change the documentation\n> > as well.\n>\n> Do you have a suggestion on whe... |
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"msg_contents": "> I had a chance to look at the users and programmers manuals you just\n> installed. Very nice. Lots of new stuff and cleanup, and you\n> integrated much of the separate documentation in one place. I have\n> added a mention of it in my release summary.\n>\n> I can easily send you html of w... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that the regression test performance seems to have decreased\nsometime between 980223 and 980301. I was seeing ~2:30 elapsed time for\nthe last few weeks, and am now seeing ~3:00. Anyone else notice this?\nMight it be due to a bug fix? Inquiring minds want to know. I haven't\nlooked ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n>From the calls to postgres in initdb, correct? Has anyone come up\nwith a decent way of wrapping gdb around postgres in initdb?\n\nHere's what I've got so far -- A file called doit.gdb with the contents:\n\nbreak DefineIndex\nrun -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -d template1\n\nand I'v... |
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"msg_contents": "Yes!! it is very cool feature in SQL. I used them\nvery often and it saves hell of time!! The reason\nI can do 'Alter domain' to change char(10) to char(30)\nand it is propogated in all the tables automatically\nwhereever domain is used!! Also need to have 'ALTER DOMAIN' very\npowerful featur... |
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"msg_contents": "Someone reported a problem with getting the --with-tcl configure\noption to do anything. The problem crops up with Marc's (I think it\nwas his) patch to enable the configure --help output for this option.\nThe fix is below (remember to run autoconf).\n\nCheers,\nBrook\n\n====================... |
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"msg_contents": "This is what configure says...\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:14:55 +0700",
"msg_from": "\"Vadim B. Mikheev\" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>",
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"msg_contents": "I encountered a problem (bug? feature?) where \"select currval('sequence')\" \nwill generate an error if \"select nextval('sequence')\" is not executed first. \nThe attached patch will change this behaviour by reading the sequence tuple \nand returning the last_value attribute if nextval has... |
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"msg_contents": "I had found undefined symbols in interfaces/libpgtcl/libpgtcl.so when\ntrying to use pgaccess on a NetBSD box. It turns out the problem is\nwith not including symbols from interfaces/libpq/libpq.so, but this\napparently only occurs with BSD ports (my guess; Marc can you verify\nthis under Fr... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust a couple of last minute reminders...\n\n1. Make sure the latest machine-specific FAQs are included in the release\n\n2. Make sure the patch is applied to the configure script to get it to\nwork for non-gcc compilers correctly (Sorry I haven't had time to try\nto fix autoconf itself.).\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\njust played a bit with the febr. 28 snapshot, and it looks like the perl \nmodule does not install in the correct place. I'm not sure if this is a \nproblem with postgresql or my local perl-setup (debian package):\n\nperl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/pgsql\n\nwill install things in /u... |
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"msg_contents": "Seeing as people like the new brightened logo, I made it even better by\nbrightening the word PostgreSQL, so it looks like it is jumping out\nmore.\n\nI am loosing definition of the letter edges, but the old one was so\ndark, you had to have your head in the monitor to see them.\n\n-- \nBruce... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI just finally got a copy of that article in Linux Journal (wow, they even\nspelt my name right!)...I think the first paragraph, in itself, is most\ncomical:\n\n\t\"...it is now developed similarly to Linux\"\n\nNow, those that have been around here for *any* stretch of time know that\nwe a... |
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"msg_contents": "In a reply to Bruce, I suggested that the create_index man page\nmight be updated to mention the possible use of indices with\nthe LIKE, ~, and ~* operators. I thought that the query used\nto generated the table in the man page might be automatically\nupdated and thus done for 6.3, but proba... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\na 'make test' fails on my BSDI 3.0 system. It does the first test, and \nthen aborts complaining postmaster is not running, or not on port 5432 or \nnot on a inet domainsocket at all. ofcourse postmaster *is* running, even \nusing internet sockets (psql -p 5432 -l works).\n\nMaarten\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhat version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file?\n\nIs this what the 'z' flag is for?\n\nUntar'd and installed them manually...look good, Thomas. Nice work.\n\ndarrenk\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:57:25 -0500",
"msg_from": "darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King)",
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"msg_contents": "Congratulations on a job well done, guys!\n\nHere's a little thing for the first round of patches, though: I have\nfigured out why --with-tcl didn't work, even after adding the missing\nsemicolon that was posted about. Here's the patch to configure.in in\nversion 6.3 that will actually fix i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all:\nMore details on what domains are. Domains are global\ncolumn definitions, upon which column definitions\ncan be based. A domain specifies a data type, and a\nset of column attributes and constraints. Subsequent\ntable definitions can use the domain to define columns.\n\nHere is the d... |
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"msg_contents": "> > \n> > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file?\n> > \n> > Is this what the 'z' flag is for?\n> \n> \tgnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same\n> time...\n\nThis sucks. As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least their\nlicense), we require... |
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"msg_contents": "I think I really like today's banner at the top of the web page.\n\nThis afternoon, around 1PM EST, I played with the brightness, and made\nthe words PostgreSQL much brigher without brightening the surrounding\nbackground. This makes the letter stand out much more, and appear to\njump out of... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> I think I really like today's banner at the top of the web page.\n> \n> This afternoon, around 1PM EST, I played with the brightness, and made\n> the words PostgreSQL much brigher without brightening the surrounding\n> background. This makes the letter stand out much more, and appear t... |
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"msg_contents": "how is a notice sent from the backend?\ndoes it send a Nxxxxx\\n or a VNxxxxx\\n ??\n\nWhenever I do a lo_close() I get a NOTICE: tablerelease: no lock found.\nand PQfn() tries to read a VNxxxxx\\n when the backend sends a Nxxxxx\\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:57:54 +1100",
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"msg_contents": "Just got the original posting.\n\nForwarded message:\n> From scrappy@hub.org Mon Mar 2 21:59:40 1998\n> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:09:33 -0500 (EST)\n> From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>\n> Reply-To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>\n> To: pgsql-announce@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Po... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSee the kind of performance improvements *we* throw into our kernel?\n*rofl*\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDat... |
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"msg_contents": "Marc wrote...\n> I just finally got a copy of that article in Linux Journal (wow, they even\n> spelt my name right!)...I think the first paragraph, in itself, is most\n> comical:\n> \n> \t\"...it is now developed similarly to Linux\"\n> \n....collapses on the floor at the thought of Marc even... |
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"msg_contents": "Marc wrote...\n> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n> \n> > \n> > It's OK Marc, us linux'ists weren't offended _too_ much by that quote :))\n> \n> \tI'm such a trouble maker, but I find most Linux'ers such easy easy\n> prey *grin* I have this University full of Linux'ers \nI wond... |
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"msg_contents": "What the procedure now? Is there a need to provide patches for 6.3, or is\nthis only done for serious bug? That is new features go only into 6.4 as\nusual.\n\nMy last minor patch (allowing exec sql vacuum) didn't make it into cvs it\nseems. Should this be updated in 6.3 or should I just resub... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello everyone.\n\nI would like to say you have done a great job on PostgreSQL!\nThank you from a very appreciative user.\n\nMichael\n\n* Michael J. Rogan, Network Administrator, 905-624-3020 *\n* Mark IV Industries, F-P Electronics & I.V.H.S. Divisions *\n* mrogan@fpelectronics.com ... |
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"msg_contents": "Of course a first mail after a release must have the earned praise:\nVery nicely done, I like it all ;-)\n\nReading the TODO, I see 'Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be\nonly 2 bytes, not 4 bytes'\nWhile this is very good for char and varchar, text is not a candidate\nsince it is... |
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"msg_contents": "I had developed a \"cheat\" to help people convert Unix system time stored\nas an integer into a true date/time type. I noticed that it did not work\nprior to the v6.3 release, but have now gone back to v6.2.1 and\nconfirmed that it works there. Can someone test this on their\ninstallation an... |
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"msg_contents": "> Thus spake Andrew Martin\n> > > up just with a comment like \"Linux != Unix\"...which, it isn't, its a\n> > > Unix-like clone...but they can't seem to figure the distinction *rofl*\n> > \n> > Agreed... :-) But BSD isn't Unix either - not officially. [Waits for\n> > Marc to disagree, again.... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file?\n> > > >\n> > > > Is this what the 'z' flag is for?\n> > >\n> > > gnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same\n> > > time...\n> >\n> > This sucks. As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Could we just replace the \"tar zxf\" with \"uncompress ... | tar xf\"? Does\n> anyone else have a strong opinion on (or experience with) makefiles for\nthe\n> postgres distribution who want to help Darren get out from under the gnu\n> usage??\n\nBest is: (believe me, really uncompress will... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhy was ecpg pulled out of the interfaces/Makefile ?\n\nCristian\n--\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nCristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat Software, Inc.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n UNIX... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> > Or simply call text-BLOBs \"textblob\" of something like that.\n> > What does SQL-92 say about BLOBs anyway?\n> \n> Nothing afaik. That is why you get different meanings and usages between\n> database\n> products. I'd like to keep \"text\" as a useful string type. Conventionally,\n> g... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Cristian Gafton wrote:\n> \n> > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> > \n> > > \tWhat he said *scrambles to save this for next time*\n> > \n> > I can not belive this thing... :-) Hey, guys, you had a tough time doing\n> > 6.3, right ?\n> > \n> > Now that you a... |
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"msg_contents": "\ndon't you think there should be some sort of automatic conversion\nhere?\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:43:33 -0800 (PST)",
"msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>",
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"msg_subject": "no operator '=' for types char16 and text"
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAs part of my 'learning postgresql' project I've been hacking the the\nbackend\na bit.\nNow I get the following error message:\n\nERROR: _bt_orderkeys: key(s) for attribute 1 missed\n\nfrom the index_getnext call in the following code:\n\n ScanKeyEntryInitialize(&skey[0], (b... |
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"msg_contents": "> > We've been talking with the RedHat guy on trying to identify a glibc2\n> > problem (and fix it) for the rpms. I'm not certain if he will release\n> > something before we're done or not.\n> >\n> > I'm currently having trouble making a small test case which exhibits\n> > the\n> > rounding p... |
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"msg_contents": "\ndo we have version control backups of each change submiitted to the\nmaster CVS source? I would like to see at what point the bug is\nintroduced.\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:07:34 -0800 (PST)",
"msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>",
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"msg_contents": "> Best is: (believe me, really uncompress will not work nor zcat, I use it\nfor\n> SAP DB backup, it works)\n> \tgzip -cd <somefile>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -\n\nThis is also the most portable solution. zcat is the same as uncompress -c,\nbut it only works\nfor tar.gz files iff gzip is fully instal... |
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"msg_contents": ">> the charX types (char2, 4, 8, 16) are not well supported. They are\n>> likely to disappear in the next release, with the parser mapping them to\n>> char(X) (or varchar(X), whichever is the best match) for backward\n>> compatibility.\n>> \n>> The major string types are char(), varchar(), an... |
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"msg_contents": "Since I wanted to know it, I extended explain to output the used (only the\nfirst)\nindex on IndexScan.\nAn explain with this patch applied says:\n\ntemplate1=> explain select * from pg_class where oid=1;\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\nIndex Scan using pg_class_oid_index on pg_class (cost=2.03 size=... |
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"msg_contents": "I can't seem to duplicate this but it happened once and I thought I\nwould mention it in case anyone else has seen it as well. I have a\ntable for one user and another for myself. Both tables have a table\ncalled _key. After creating the second database (I had to destroy and\ncreate it a f... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n just to let anyone know:\n\n I did some analyzing and searched for areas that could gain\n more speedups for 6.4. First I had something like an\n optimizer cache in mind (planner remembers parsetree and if a\n subsequent parsetree only differs in const values... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Hi!\n> \n> I myself read into the sources of version 6.2.1 all over february.\n> \n> I did not learn it by heart, but I feel ready to start implementing\n> something now.\n> \n> I would like to start with the HAVING-clause and when this works I want\n> to continue with the other missing... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Cristian Gafton wrote:\n> > > \n> > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> > > > \n> > > > > \tWhat he said *scrambles to save this for next time*\n> > > > \n> > > > I can not belive this thing... :-) Hey, guys, you had a tough time doing\n> > > > 6.3, r... |
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"msg_contents": "This is what I was mentioning earlier:\n<p>There are also PostgreSQL binaries available at <a \nhref=\"ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/bindist\">FTP:/pub/bindist-v6.3</a>.</\np>\n\n<p>Patches are available at <a\nshould be:\n<p>There are also PostgreSQL binaries available at <a \nhref=\"ftp://ft... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nSilly bug releated to on-fly recoding patch happened:\nall files (charset.conf, koi-alt.tab, koi-iso.tab, koi-koi.tab, koi-mac.tab,\nkoi-win.tab) in src/data directory was \"doubled\".\n\nWhy I don't know. Even with this bug everything should work, but...\nPackagers, pay attention plea... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Hi there,\n> \n> I've just compiled postgreSQL v6.3 on one of other Alpha boxes running\n> DIGITAL UNIX 4.0B.\n> \n> Unfortunately, running initdb dumps core with the following error message:\n> \n> initdb: using /cec/scratch/cecweb/postgresql/lib/local1_template1.bki.source\n> as\n> in... |
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"msg_date": "Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:50:31 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Ponomarev S.\" <psj@ic-chernobyl.kiev.ua>",
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"msg_contents": "> > Silly bug releated to on-fly recoding patch happened:\n> > all files (charset.conf, koi-alt.tab, koi-iso.tab, koi-koi.tab, koi-mac.tab,\n> > koi-win.tab) in src/data directory was \"doubled\".\n> > \n> > Why I don't know. Even with this bug everything should work, but...\n> > Packagers, p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn postgres, is there a way to get the CPU time and I/O time taken (separately)\nto execute a query? Does the profile info. help in some way to \ncalculate the CPU/IO break up at least approximately.\n\nWhat is the best way to do it? Any kind of help is greatly appreciated.\n\nThanks\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've made a little headway -- it can't find the mkoidname function\nbecause the attributes that it looks up for the argument types have a\natttypid of 0 (see the following example):\n\nalso, other information that should be in there is not, so it makes me\nsuspect something wrong with inser... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom:\n\nIt just occurred to me that, maybe we should ask Cristian which gcc version\nwas used to build the pgsql rpm at redhat. Like I mentioned, with gcc-2.8.0\nand glibc2-2.0.7 rpm, I did get the time problem, but with gcc-2.7.2.3, it\nwent away. Also with the helpful info Tom (Szybist) pro... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> \n> Just tried the same on DEC UNIX 4.0D. I compiled postgres with the standard\n> C compiler instead of gcc (worked for 6.2.1) and get the same error for\n> initdb. \n\nAnother thing to try would be to enable assert checking:\n\n\tconfigure --enable-cassert\n\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> Allowing text to use blobs for values larger than the current block\n> size\n> >> would hit the same problem.\n> > When I told about multi-representation feature I ment that applications\n> > will not be affected by how text field is stored - in tuple or somewhere\n> \n> > else. Is this ... |
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"msg_contents": "> :-? I've looked at both 6.2.1 and 6.3 and have been unable to find a\n> single '0L' in either version. I've looked in all .h files in src/include,\n> not just src/include/catalog.\n> \n> \n> =09Pedro.\n\nDidn't look very hard :-)\n\nA quick:\n find . -name '*.c' -exec grep 0L {} \\;\nfind... |
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"msg_contents": "Works fine for me.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/46... |
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"msg_contents": ">Let me mention on thing that may help the alpha developers trying to fix\n>this.\n>\n>As part of 6.3 changes, I changed some contants in\n>/src/include/catalog/*.h that used 0L to just plain 0. It seemed to be\n>done inconsistently, and I could not figure out how the 0L could be\n>different... |
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"msg_contents": "\nso far this week...\n\n Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of\n Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent\n------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ----------\nSat Feb 28 1998 1 1340... |
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"msg_contents": "To aid those of us that don't want to use sequences, can we add a\nfeature to 6.4 that allows the use of an AUTO_INCREMENT statement \nwhen defining tables? MySQL does this, and I like it. It resembles\nthe Autonumber feature in Access as well.\n\ncreate table tblFirm (\n FirmID int PRIM... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm getting confused between the methods of connectivity with PERL.\nRight now I'm accessing several MySQL tables using DBI/DBD. However,\nI'd like to convert these programs into PostgreSQL apps. So, I'm\nassuming that since I used DBI (a common database connection format)\nthat I'd only hav... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAnnounce: Release of PyGreSQL version 2.1\n===============================================\n\nPyGreSQL v2.1 has been released.\nIt is available at: ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL-2.1.tgz.\n\nPostgreSQL is a database system derived from Postgres4.2. It conforms\nto (most of) ANSI S... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBilly G. Allie wrote:\n> \n> Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:\n> >Billy G. Allie wrote:\n> >>\n> >> I encountered a problem (bug? feature?) where \"select currval('sequence')\"\n> >> will generate an error if \"select nextval('sequence')\" is not executed\n> first.\n> >\n> >This is feature :)\n> >1.... |
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"msg_contents": "> Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:\n> >\n> > Peter T Mount wrote:\n> > >\n> > > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 ocie@paracel.com wrote:\n> > >\n> > > > This may sound like an obvious question, but if a user defines a\n> > > > query, do we save the query plan? This would reduce the\n> > > > communications between ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn the file large_object/inv_api.c there is a statement in the function\ninv_create\nwhich goes:\n\n file_oid=newoid() + 1;\n\nlater on a heap_create_with_catalog call is performed to create a heap\nfor the large object called xinv<file_oid>.\n\nAccording to code (and the comments i... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've dumped a 6.1 database using the pg_dumpall from 6.3 to load into\n6.3.\n\nThe format of the data to be copied into pg_user is wrong - there are\nnot enough columns. I guess this may be a problem from having skipped\nout 6.2, but it would be nice if it worked properly :-)\n\nAlso one of... |
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"msg_contents": "SQL test suite version 6.0 is available here\nhttp://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/sql_form.htm\n\nWe can use this to validate postgresql\n\n\n\n\n_________________________________________________________\nDO YOU YAHOO!?\nGet your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\nwhew.. after some more debugging, it would appear that the problem\nlies somewhere in the page stuff, which I know less than nothing\nabout.\n\nHere's the point where I'm at: heapam.c line 442 a macro call to\nHeapTupleSatisfies graps our data for us (the messed up struct), which\nactually ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nif you look at the schema for pg_attribute, down at the very end there\nare some 12491 that should be 1249l\n\nwould this cause our alignment problem?\nsomehow I doubt it..\n\nin any case, i found this by trying to put a 4 byte field after\nattrelid and before attname to see if that cleared... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a discussion from the Informix group on subselect performance. \nI think it makes us look pretty good.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nPath: readme1.op.net!op.net!cezanne.op.net!op.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk... |
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"msg_contents": "Patrick Scott Pierce wrote:\n> \n> I run this query:\n> \n> select distinct task.*\n> from project, task\n> where task.projid = (select projid from project where custid =\n> (select custid from customer where domain = 'atlantahighrise.com')\n> and title = 'Initial site design')\n> and task.ow... |
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"msg_contents": "Previously I said:\n> From darcy Wed Mar 4 09:52:23 1998\n> I can't seem to duplicate this but it happened once and I thought I\n> would mention it in case anyone else has seen it as well. I have a\n> table for one user and another for myself. Both tables have a table\n> called _key. Afte... |
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"msg_contents": "David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>\n\n> Not to pile on, but, I have a great interest in this subject. We do a\n> lot of work using off-the-shelf ODBC tools. And, we have observed that\n> these tools use PREPARE for two purposes.\n>\n> One is to speed up iterative queries which join data... |
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"msg_contents": "CREATE SEQUENCE is also what ORACLE does.\n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there!\n\nI played around with subselects and union and noticed that issuing strange\nstatements can make the backend crash. The problem is that other clients\nconnected to the same db get disconnected as well.\n\nI issued the following statement by mistake. (x1 is a table consisting only... |
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"msg_contents": "> By the way, I have a sugestion I'd like to do about psql:\n> \n> It would be a good idea, IMHO, that if psql is called alone (without\n> database nor any parameter), instead of try to connect to database 'user'\n> starts interactively without connection. Then, simple calling \"\\c dbna... |
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"msg_contents": "> > It would be a good idea, IMHO, that if psql is called alone (without\n> > database nor any parameter), instead of try to connect to database 'user'\n> > starts interactively without connection. Then, simple calling \"\\c dbname\"\n> > would connect the user to the desired database. Wh... |
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"msg_contents": "At 15:17 -0000 on 5/3/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n\n> \tYou should technically be able to run it on a different port,\n> *but* you might have problems with the shared libraries, where trying to\n> run v6.3 is seeing v6.1's shared libraries, and won't work...\n\nMay I make a suggestion? In... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nMaybe I have overlooked something, but I think there should be a small line\nin migration/6.2.1_to_6.3 file that tells the user he has to recompile and\nrelink each program that uses libpq.so.\n\nWhen I upgraded to 6.3 I thought that the interface routines of libpq\ndidn't change (I kn... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello again, postgres documenters and now developers too,\n\nAs I have received some positive feedback (and only one 'No way!'), I was inspired to work\nsome more on the crocodile idea. Thanks to all supporters.\n\nBTW, if you answer to the list please CC to hannu@trust.ee, as I only get the... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI might have missed somethign with all the dump/reload discussions that \nwent on, but what is:\n\npostgres@zeus> psql -e -f db.dump template1\n\\connect template1\nconnecting to new database: template1\nselect datdba into table tmp_pguser from pg_database where datname =\n'template1'... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\\connect template1\nselect datdba into table tmp_pguser from pg_database where datname =\n'temp\nlate1';\ndelete from pg_user where usesysid <> tmp_pguser.datdba;\ndrop table tmp_pguser;\ncopy pg_user from stdin;\nroot 0 f t f t\nacctng 103 f t ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nBruce...\n\n\tDid I miss something here? I just looked through the migration\nfile for 6.2.1->6.3, and it doesn't seem to say, but how do you dump\nthe data from a v6.2.1 database and then reload it to a v6.3 one?\n\n\tUsing v6.2.1's pg_dump/pg_dumpall, I did:\n\npg_dumpall -o > db.dump\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: PostgreSQL-development <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: maandag 9 maart 1998 3:34\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] newoid in invapi.c\n\n\n>> This might lead the large object impl... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Yikes, we never changed pg_user to pg_shadow in pg_dumpall. Isn't that\n> > the real problem. Need to have that patched, or people will not be able\n> > to upgrade. Applying patch now.\n> > \n> > Do I put this patch in the patches directory?\n> \n[...]\n\n> \tBruce, can you get me a ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > By the way, I have a sugestion I'd like to do about psql:\n> > \n> > It would be a good idea, IMHO, that if psql is called alone (without\n> > database nor any parameter), instead of try to connect to database 'user'\n> > starts interactively without connection. Then, simple calling ... |
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"msg_contents": "> \tThen, using what was left, I did:\n> \n> psql -e < db.dump \n> \n> \tAgain. Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy\n> to <relname> from stdin;' section:\n> \n> 344984 johnb xgSldZdYEgIWo clio.trends.ca n \\N\n\nI got something kind-of similar with ... |
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