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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have committed the first implementation of an automatic code\nconversion between UNICODE and other encodings. Currently\nISO8859-[1-5] and EUC_JP are supported. Supports for other encodings\ncoming soon. Testings of ISO8859 are welcome, since I have almost no\nknowledge about Europea... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems that I'm now getting some delayed emails from around the 27th of\nSeptember. It's probably at my end, but if you sent me anything important,\nlike patches etc, please can you resend it to me.\n\nThanks, Peter\n\n-- \nPeter T Mount peter@retep.org.uk http://www.retep.org.uk\nPostgreSQ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > being deleted, then if the system crashes part way through, \n> it should be\n> > possible to continue after the system is brought up, no?\n> \n> If it crashes in the middle, some rows have the column \n> removed, and some\n> do not.\n\nWe would need to know where this separation is, bu... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacation (my 2. daughter was born).\n\n> After looking at the rule rewriter some more, I realized that the only\n> way to push all permissions checks to execution time is not \n> only to keep\n> skipAcl, but to generalize it. The problem is with checks ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Well, that would only be part og what I'm looking for. The thing I like about \n> informix is that I can make a Level 0 backup of all the data (equal to the \n> pg_dumpall), and then leave the logical logs downloading continuosly, so that \n> if in one moment the system breaks, I restore ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I am a long time ordbms proponent (illustra, informix and\n> now postgresql). And I have heard mixed information\n> regarding Oracle's extensibility. Do they use a unified \n> type system? Are cartriges separate processes? Do the \n> separate processes (if they are) share memory with t... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> TODO updated:\n> \n> * Prevent truncate on table with a referential integrity \n> trigger (RESTRICT)\n\nI think this was solved in current with a better approach\n(checks if referenced table is empty).\n\nAndreas\n",
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"msg_contents": "> WAL would provide the framework to do something like that, but I still\n> say it'd be a bad idea. What you're describing is\n> irrevocable-once-it-starts DROP COLUMN; there is no way to \n> roll it back.\n> We're trying to get rid of statements that act that way, not add more.\n\nYes.\n\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "At 16:21 12/10/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>> \n>> Could this be added? I am willing to help with the coding.\n>\n>This is what Version 7.1 WAL is all about. \n>There might be some help wanted in one of the possible backup methods:\n>\t1. a pg_dumpall restore, and a subsequent re... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSparc solaris 2.7 with postgres 7.0.2\n\nIt seems to be reproducable, the server crashes on us at a rate of about\nevery few hours.\n\nAny ideas?\n\nGNU gdb 4.17\nCopyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\nGDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are\nwel... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm just committing the first changes to ECPGs parser so variables are\nallowed wherever possible instead of constants. I'm pretty sure this breaks\nstuff at one point or the other. Also I have not yet fixed all problems I\nknow about. So please bear with me.\n\nI'd like everyone who has embe... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > How far are we from seeing the version 7.1 out?\n> > \n> > beta starts ~Nov 1st, release in January ...\n> \n> Just wondering, WAL is going to be integrated when, and that gives how\n\nHopefully, next week.\n\n> much time to test it before releasing the beta?\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "> > Could this be added? I am willing to help with the coding.\n> \n> This is what Version 7.1 WAL is all about. \n> There might be some help wanted in one of the possible backup methods:\n> \t1. a pg_dumpall restore, and a subsequent restore of logs\n> \t2. a restore of a \"physical backup o... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis time in the client library...\n\n(gdb) bt\n#0 0xff215dd0 in _poll ()\n#1 0xff1ce79c in select ()\n#2 0xff08b164 in select ()\n#3 0xff338ec0 in PQgetResult (conn=0xa89c8) at fe-exec.c:1126\n#4 0xff339168 in PQexec (conn=0xa89c8,\n query=0xfe107b98 \"UPDATE url SET total_os='4963... |
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"msg_contents": "There is an interesting article about the FreeBSD core team setup:\n\n\thttp://www.daemonnews.org/200010/dadvocate.html\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, |... |
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"msg_contents": "I notced that COPY FROM does not invoke the length coercion function\nbefore calling heap_insert(). This leads sometimes bad things such as\nincorrectly truncated mutibyte strings. My idea is finding an\nappropreate function like currently\ncoerce_type_typmod(parser/parse_coerce.c) does, and ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > My conclusion would be that we need both:\n> > 1. a fast system table only solution with physical/logical column id\n> > 2. a tool that does the cleanup (e.g. vacuum) \n> \n> But the peak space usage during cleanup must still be 2X.\n\nThe difference for a cleanup would be, that it does... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > He does ask a legitimate question though. If you are \n> going to have a\n> > > LIMIT feature (which of course is not pure SQL), there \n> seems no reason\n> > > you shouldn't be able to insert the result into a table.\n> > \n> > \n> \n> This is an interesting idea. We don't allow OR... |
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"msg_contents": "> we bite the bullet to the extent of supporting a distinction between\n> physical and logical column numbers, then ISTM there's no strong need\n> to do any of this other stuff at all. I'd expect that an inserted or\n> updated tuple would have a NULL in any physical column position that\n> d... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Hiroshi's patch would make for a good starting point by bringing in the\n> ability to do the DROP COLUMN feature, as I understand, without the\n> rollback capability,\n\nNo Hiroshi's patch is rollback enabled, simply because all it does is change \nsome system tables. It only does not fre... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > The project name on SourceForge is \"Python Interface to PostgreSQL\".\n> > > \n> > > How about PIPgSQL or piPgSQL?\n> > \n> > Perhaps Pi2PgSQL, or PySQL_ba\n> or PyPgSQL?\n> Do we get a reward if you choose our name? ;)\n\nNo...but if this thread doesn't die soon, Marc will have to c... |
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"msg_contents": "\nRunning postgres in -d 2 mode is a little frustrating on a server that \nprocesses as little as 10 queries a second. Can we not add getpid() or\nsomething to that code so that we might track which output belongs to\nwhich server a little easier?\n\nThanks,\n-Dan\n\n-- \nMan is a rational a... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm trying to track down a source of great slowdown on our database, and\nI seem to have become stuck.\n\nIf I issue the command...\n\nc2net=> UPDATE url SET last_hit = 971456105 WHERE memid = 1;\n\nThis is all I see of it in my -d 2 window log.\n\nquery: UPDATE url SET last_hit = 971456105... |
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"msg_contents": "At 04:23 PM 10/12/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n\n>My conclusion would be that we need both:\n>1. a fast system table only solution with physical/logical column id\n>2. a tool that does the cleanup (e.g. vacuum) \n\nOracle provides both styles of \"drop column\" - the \"hide the co... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, hopefully WAL will be ready for alpha testing in a few days.\nUnfortunately\nat the moment I have to step side from main stream to implement new file\nnaming,\nthe biggest todo for integration WAL into system.\n\nI would really appreciate any help in the following issues (testing can\ns... |
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"msg_contents": "\t>> Well, hopefully WAL will be ready for alpha testing in a few\ndays.\n\t>> Unfortunately at the moment I have to step side from main stream\n\t>> to implement new file naming, the biggest todo for integration\nWAL into system.\n\t>>\n\t>> I would really appreciate any help in the followin... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > * Prevent index lookups (or index entries using partial index) on most\n> > > common values; instead use sequential scan \n> > \n> > This behavior already exists for the most common value, and would\n> > exist for any additional values that we had stats for. Don't see\n> > why you th... |
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"msg_contents": "Could you add to the TODO:\n\n support of binary data (eg varbinary type)\n\nI think the above is not trivial, as I think the parser choques on \\00 bytes\nat several levels...\n\nI had a check on the TODO and it seems that TOAST is not planned anymore for\n7.1. Is it true?\n\nFranck Martin\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nNo, the committers list is a sendmail problem, should be fixed\nmomentarily, as I'm going to disable the strict domain checking on that\nlist ... I'll look at the snapshot thing tonight too, its using Peter's\nnew script(s), which appear to work great from the command line, but has a\nprobl... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n\tI'm trying to get the committers mailing list to work, and the\n\"break\" is in sendmail, as far as I can tell. Basically, its taking\n'locally posted messages' and not adding a domain to the back of it, so\nthat majordomo sees them as:\n\n--== Error when connecting: I... |
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"msg_contents": "\n... should be working again. I hard coded the path so that it finds\nbison, which appears to be what was killing it ...\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrap... |
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"msg_contents": " Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 @ 23:34:47\nAuthor: pjw\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref\n from hub.org:/home/users/p/pjw/work/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref\n\nModified Files:\n\tallfiles.sgml \n\n----------------------------- Log Message ----------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "I found bytea doing a \\dT in psql, but I do not find any documentation on\nit.\n\nCould I have some source code implementation of bytea with examples ?\n\nFranck Martin\nDatabase Development Officer\nSOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission\nFiji\nE-mail: franck@sopac.org <mailto:fr... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > As a result do people have any objection to changing pg_restore to\n> > > pg_undump? Or pg_load?\n\nAlso possible would be a name like Oracle\npg_exp and pg_imp for export and import.\n(or pg_export and pg_import)\n\nLoad and unload is often more tied to data only (no dml).\n\nI agree... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> This style of \"DROP COLUMN\" would change the attribute\n> numbers whose positons are after the dropped column.\n> Unfortunately we have no mechanism to invalidate/remove\n> objects(or prepared plans) which uses such attribute numbers.\n> And I've seen no proposal/discussion to solve thi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I've been reading something about implementation of histograms, and,\n> > AFAIK, in practice histograms is just a cool name for no more than:\n> > 1. top ten with frequency for each\n> > 2. the same for top ten worse\n> > 3. average for the rest\n\nConsider, that we only need t... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> > but I see at ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/ that the nightly\n> > snapshot hasn't updated since Monday either.\n> \n> As of this morning, it looks like the tar.gz files all got updated\n> at 4AM EDT last night, but to judge by timestamps, the ass... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I think we do, because it solves more than just the ALTER DROP COLUMN\n> problem: it cleans up other sore spots too. Like ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN\n> in a table with child tables.\n\nYes, could also implement \"add column xx int before someothercolumn\"\nto add a column in the middle.\n\nA... |
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"msg_contents": "What exactly do we do with 7.1 on Nov 1st? Freeze or release? I'm absolutely\nsure I won't finish ecpg until Nov 1st. Yes, I know I had similar problems\nwith 7.0, but real life tends to take away too much time.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fir... |
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"msg_contents": "is implemented. Regression tests are passed.\nmake distclean + initdb are required.\n\nNow all file/dir names are numeric. OIDs are used\nfor databases *and* relations on creation, but\nrelation file names may be changed later if required\n(separate from oid pg_class.relfilenode field is used... |
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"msg_contents": "> > >Bottom line is we're not sure what to do now. Opinions from the \n> > >floor, anyone?\n\nOne thing that comes to my mind is, that you (core members) working full\ntime on PG will produce so much work, that we \"hobby PgSQL'ers\" will\nhave a hard job in keeping up to date.\n\nThus you w... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm wondering how useful it would be if one could enable selective\nfsync. That would mean that although the database was running\nasync mode, the system tables and doing things like create index\nwould cause an fsync to enforce ordering in case of a crash.\n\nThis would prevent more serious... |
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"msg_contents": ">I don't understand why WAL needs to log internal operations of any of\n>the index types. Seems to me that you could treat indexes as black\n>boxes that are updated as side effects of WAL log items for heap tuples:\n>when adding a heap tuple as a result of a WAL item, you just call the\n>usu... |
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"msg_contents": "Excuse me but what is LRU-2?\nI know that in Oracle unused buffers are not in\nsimple LRU list: Oracle tries to postpone writes\nas long as possible -:)\n\nVadim\n\n> ----- О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ -----\n> О©╫О©╫:\t\tTom Lane [SMTP:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> О©╫О©╫О©╫О... |
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"msg_contents": "Great & Thanks! And then we'll have to log all files\nto be removed as part of xaction commit record.\n\nVadim\n\n> ----- О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ -----\n> О©╫О©╫:\t\tTom Lane [SMTP:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫:\t\t16 ieoya?y 2000 a. 8:59\n>... |
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"msg_contents": ">>> I don't understand why WAL needs to log internal operations of any of\n>>> the index types. Seems to me that you could treat indexes as black\n>>> boxes that are updated as side effects of WAL log items for heap tuples:\n>>> when adding a heap tuple as a result of a WAL item, you just ca... |
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"msg_contents": ">> One of the purposes of WAL is immediate removing tuples \n>> inserted by aborted xactions. I want make VACUUM\n>> *optional* in future - space must be available for\n>> reusing without VACUUM. And this is first, very small,\n>> step in this direction.\n>\n>Why would vacuum become optional?... |
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"msg_contents": "> >I like the pg_{import,export} names myself ... *nod*\n> >\n> \n> Sounds fine also; but we have compatibility issues in that we \n> still need pg_dump. Maybe just a symbolic link to pg_export.\n\nYes, we still need in pg_dump, because of pg_dump is thing\nquite different from WAL based back... |
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"msg_contents": "> > It looks like it wouldn't take too much work to replace \n> > shared buffers on the basis of LRU-2 instead of LRU, so\n> > I'm thinking about trying it.\n> > \n> > Has anyone looked into this area? Is there a better method to try?\n> \n> Sounds like a perfect idea. Good luck. :-)\n\nHm... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks.\n\nVadim\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 5:40 PM\n> To: Mikheev, Vadim\n> Cc: 'Bruce Momjian'; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Possible performance improvement: buffer\n> replacemen t... |
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"msg_contents": "... with a blinding flash ...\n\nThe VACUUM funnies I was complaining about before may or may not be real\nbugs, but they are not what's biting Alfred. None of them can lead to\nthe observed crashes AFAICT.\n\nWhat's biting Alfred is the code that moves a tuple update chain, lines\n1541 ff i... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems the length coerce for bpchar is broken since 7.0.\nIn 6.5 when a string is inserted, bpchar() is called to properly clip\nthe string. However in 7.0 (and probably current) bpchar() is not\ncalled anymore. \n\ncoerce_type_typmod() calls exprTypmod(). exprTypmod() returns VARSIZE\nof t... |
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"msg_contents": " Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 @ 23:29:31\nAuthor: momjian\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc\n from hub.org:/home/projects/pgsql/tmp/cvs-serv10656/pgsql/doc\n\nAdded Files:\n\tFAQ_MSWIN \n\nRemoved Files:\n\tINSTALL_MSWIN \n\n----------------------------- Log Message ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have finished reading 5k e-mail messages I accumulated in the last\nweeks of my book. Hopefully I have responded to everyone, and applied\nthe proper patches.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm not sure about this one, but could someone update the PG documentation\nand book to describe bytea type.\n\nCould someone explain also if there is an issue to store binary data in\nbytea and retreive the data if there is a BIGENDINA/SMALLENDIAN setup.\n\nAlso can I create a user type whic... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > > Currently a view may be dropped with either 'DROP VIEW'\n> > > > or 'DROP TABLE'. Should this be changed?\n> > > \n> > > I say let them drop it with either one. \n> > \n> > I kinda like the 'drop index with drop index', 'drop table with drop\n> > table' and 'drop view with drop view... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >So, pg_dump should be preserved asis.\n> >\n> \n> Just to clarify; I have no intention of doing anything nasty to pg_dump.\n> All I plan to do is rename the pg_restore to one of\n> pg_load/pg_import/pg_undump/pmud_gp, to make way for a WAL based restore\n> utility, although as Bruce sugg... |
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"msg_contents": ">> Just to clarify; I have no intention of doing anything nasty to pg_dump.\n\nOh, ok, it wasn't clear, sorry -:)\n\n>>All I plan to do is rename the pg_restore to one of\n>>pg_load/pg_import/pg_undump/pmud_gp, to make way for a WAL based\n>>restore utility, although as Bruce suggests, this m... |
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"msg_contents": "> Just a confirmation.\n> Do you plan overwrite storage manager also in 7.2 ?\n\nYes if I'll get enough time.\n\nVadim\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> >It is not premature. We will need a WAL based restore for 7.1\n> >or we imho don't need to enable WAL for 7.1 at all.\n> \n> I missed your point here - why ?!\n> New backup/restore is not only result of WAL.\n> What about recovery & performance?\n\nOk, recovery is only improved for index... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems some incompatible changes have been made between 7.0 and\ncurrent. In 7.0, if a parameter is NULL OR a null string (\"\"), then\nthe value from an environment variable is applied. However in current\nONLY NULL is considered. Is there any reason for this?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
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"msg_contents": "I don't know if this has been fixed or not, but alter table will not\nadjust RI/FK triggers on the table. \n\nI.E:\n\ncreate table foo (a int4 primary key)\ncreate table bar (b int4 references foo)\nalter table foo rename to foo2\n\nnow, updates to foo will either crash or hang postgres.\n\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "i've started playing with the 7.1 snapshots to try out the toast\nsupport. now it looks like i'm going to have to change a bunch of C\nfunctions that i have that call internal postgres functions, which\ndidn't seem to be a problem (other than some extra typing) but my\nquestion is whether i ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > >It is not premature. We will need a WAL based restore for 7.1\n> > >or we imho don't need to enable WAL for 7.1 at all.\n> > \n> > I missed your point here - why ?!\n> > New backup/restore is not only result of WAL.\n> > What about recovery & performance?\n> \n> Ok, recovery is only impr... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'm still nervous about how we're going to test the WAL code \n> adequately for the lesser-used index types. Any ideas out there?\n\nFirst, seems we'll have to follow to what you've proposed for\ntheir redo/undo: log each *fact* of changing a page to know\nwas update op done entirely or not... |
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"msg_contents": "Gert (Pache) reports a bug with a severity of 3\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nUPPER and LOWER dosen't work correctly on special caracters (umlauts)\n\nLong Description\nThe Upper- and the lower function don't convert the german umlauts (�.�.�.) but leave t... |
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"msg_contents": "In tcop/ulitity.c we have the following code fragment:\n\ncase VIEW:\n{\n\tchar\t *viewName = stmt->name;\n\tchar\t *ruleName;\n\n\truleName = MakeRetrieveViewRuleName(viewName);\n\trelationName = RewriteGetRuleEventRel(ruleName);\n\nThis looks like an expensive no-op to me.\nif viewname ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I think we have found a bug in postgresql 7.0.2. If I'm right then a fix\n> for this should probably be added to 7.0.3 also. Anyway without further\n> adieu:\n> \n> I have attached detail of my session at the end of this email, but the\n> summary is as follows.\n> \n> If I run the followi... |
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"msg_contents": "I just ran into a strangest thing: within transaction, select now() will\nalways return time when transaction started. Same happens with select\n'now'::timestamp.\n\nThis is with 7.0. I have not tested it with CVS.\n\nI am not sure what causes this. I assume that result of now() is cached by\... |
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"msg_contents": "Strangely, the same thing does not happen when I do timenow() instead of\ntime(). This is very counter-intuitive, if this is the way it is supposed\nto work, at least docs should be saying that.\n\nAlso, I checked, and its probably not the fmgr cache, since now() is set\nto be noncacheable..... |
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"msg_contents": "> BTW, avoiding writes is base WAL feature, ie - it'll be\n> implemented in 7.1.\n\nWow, great, I thought first step was only to avoid sync :-)\n\n> > No, but rollforward is currently the main feature, no ?\n> \n> I'm going to rollback changes on abort in 7.1. Seems I've\n> mentioned both red... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > The Upper- and the lower function don't convert the german \n> umlauts (�.�.�.) but leave them in their original condition\n> \n> Gert (or anyone): what should the result be? I'm German-impaired, so\n> you'll need to be more specific. Did you compile with locale \n> turned on?\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI see heap_tuple_toast_attrs() calls in heapam.c.\nWhen they are called from heap_update/delete()\n,a buffer is locked.\nOTOH heap_tuple_toast_attrs() calls heap_open(..,\n.., RowExclusiveLock). Hmm,try to acquire a\nRowExclusiveLock while locking a buffer.\nIs there no problem ?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >We should not call this tx log business \"Incremental backup\"\n> >an incremental backup scans all pages, and backs\n> >them up if they changed in respect to the last higher level backup.\n> >(full backup, level 1 backup, level 2 backup ....)\n> \n> You may be tying implementation too cl... |
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"msg_contents": "At 10:38 18/10/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>\n>We should not call this tx log business \"Incremental backup\"\n>an incremental backup scans all pages, and backs\n>them up if they changed in respect to the last higher level backup.\n>(full backup, level 1 backup, level 2 backup ..... |
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"msg_contents": "The following patch was sent to the patches list:\n\nThis patch forces the use of 'DROP VIEW' to destroy views.\n\nIt also changes the syntax of DROP VIEW to\nDROP VIEW v1, v2, ...\nto match the syntax of DROP TABLE.\n\nSome error messages were changed so this patch also includes changes to t... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just successfully completed an out of the box VPATH build of\nPostgreSQL (i.e., putting the object files in a different directory\nstructure than the source files). It should be ready to go within the\nnext few days.\n\nThis is an opportune time to sort out the use of the make variables... |
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"msg_contents": "> > BTW, avoiding writes is base WAL feature, ie - it'll be\n> > implemented in 7.1.\n> \n> Wow, great, I thought first step was only to avoid sync :-)\n\n? If syncs are not required then why to do write call?\n\n> > > No, but rollforward is currently the main feature, no ?\n> > \n> > I'm goi... |
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"msg_contents": "> Do we have the info when a page was last modified (in respect \n> to a WAL position, not wallclock time) on each page ? This is\n> probably an info we will need.\n\nHow else one could know was a change applied to page or not?\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:42:57 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "I have removed the new --export-dynamic item from the Solaris FAQ. \nLooks like 7.1 has it fixed already.\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 A... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that ProcessUtility() calls SetQuerySnapshot() for FETCH\nand COPY TO statements, and nothing else.\n\nSeems to me this is very broken. Isn't a query snapshot needed for\nany utility command that might do database accesses?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> what happens to sessions is that it does:\n> \n> SELECT session_data, id \n> FROM sessions\n> WHERE id = ?\n> FOR UPDATE\n> \n> .... client does some processing ...\n> \n> UPDATE sesssions set session_data = ? WHERE id = ?;\n> \n> (this is where the error happens)\n> \n> I think part o... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > BTW, avoiding writes is base WAL feature, ie - it'll be\n> > > implemented in 7.1.\n> > \n> > Wow, great, I thought first step was only to avoid sync :-)\n> \n> ? If syncs are not required then why to do write call?\n\nYes, writes are only necessary when \"too many dirty pages\"\nare ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I notice that ProcessUtility() calls SetQuerySnapshot() for FETCH\n> and COPY TO statements, and nothing else.\n>\n> Seems to me this is very broken. Isn't a query snapshot needed for\n> any utility command that might do database accesses?\n\nNot needed. We don't support multi-versioning f... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > Snapshot is made per top-level statement and functions/subqueries\n> > > use the same snapshot as that of top-level statement.\n> >\n> > Not so. SetQuerySnapshot is executed per querytree, not per top-level\n> > statement --- for example, if a rule generates multiple queries from\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": ">From: Tom Lane\n>Fixed in current and back-patched for 7.0.3.\n>\n>\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\nShould I check out the current pre 7.0.3 CVS and test? If so I think you\ngave the CVS information in a few previous emails on the hackers list so I\nwill look there for it.\n\nThanks for the quick... |
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"msg_contents": ">-----Original Message-----\n>From: Tom Lane\n\n>The correct fix is CommandCounterIncrement() in the DROP USER loop,\n>so that later iterations can see the changes made by prior iterations.\n>\n>\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\nSince postgre now suppport referential integrity and cascading deletes,... |
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"msg_contents": "It is already built in. Use pg_dump or pg_dumpall when online. Only problem\nis OIDs and large objects. pg_dump -o to keep OIDs not sure about large\nobjects.\n\nHope this is what you mean by live/hot backup.\n\nBen\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Matthew H. North [mailto:ctsmhn@ct... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n http://www.l-t.ee/marko/pgsql/pgcrypto-0.1.tar.gz (11k)\n\nHere is a implementation of crypto hashes for PostgreSQL.\nIt exports 2 functions to SQL level:\n\n digest(data::text, hash_name::text)\n which returns hexadecimal coded hash over data by\n specified algorithm.... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nThis whole message might be a giant brain fart but I had an \ninteresting idea today.\n\nI was confronted by an obscene query plan. I have a table of logins \nthat shows when webmail accounts were created. So a spammer went and \nset up 20 or so spam accounts. So I got a list by his IP... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Kevin O'Gorman\" <kogorman@pacbell.net> writes:\n> If I define two rules for the same action, each with \n> a single select command, I wind up with two selects as\n> expected, but they are both cross-product selects on the\n> two tables. This is unexpected.\n\nRangetable leakage, sounds lik... |
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"msg_contents": "I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that\nit is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.\n\nI'll argue that:\n 1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y). Diff is\nattached.\n 2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal)\n 3) It makes the parser agree with th... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI, it is 376k lines of C code, not bytes.\n\n[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]\n> What is amazing, is that you can make such complete system on Linux with\n> only 376k of code... \n> \n> I think bloated software is not part of your dictionnary, and that's good...\n> \n> Fran... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been unable to follow the directions\nin the Programmer's Guide\nfor getting to the anonymous CVS server.\n\nI'm running RedHat 6.1, and CVS 1.10 which\ncomes with it. I get as far as entering\nthe 'postgresql' password, but it gets\nrejected every time.\n\nAny hints?\n\n++ kevin\n\n-- ... |
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"msg_contents": "Pete Forman wrote:\n> The basic problem is that <netinet/tcp.h> is a BSD header. The\n> correct header for TCP internals such as TCP_NODELAY on a UNIX system\n> is <xti.h>. By UNIX I mean UNIX95 (aka XPG4v2 or SUSv1) or later.\n> The 2 files which conditionally include <netinet/tcp.h> need ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI try to port my large objects patch to current CVS. All is fine, except it \ndoes not work... :-)))\n\nWhen I try to restore data from archive I get:\n\n---\nCreating table for BLOBS xrefs\n - Restoring BLOB oid 4440844\n - Restoring BLOB oid 4440846\n - Restoring BLOB oid 4440848\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Yes, writes are only necessary when \"too many dirty pages\"\n> > are in the buffer pool. Those writes can be done by a page flusher\n> > on demand or during checkpoint (don't know if we need checkpoint,\n> > but you referred to doing checkpoints).\n> \n> How else to know from where in ... |
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"msg_contents": "In 7.0.2 \n\n select to_char(sum(n),'999') from t1;\n\ncauses backend dump a core if n is a float/numeric ...data type AND if\nsum(n) returns NULL. This seems due to a bad null pointer handling for\naruguments of pass-by-reference data types. I think just a simple\nnull pointer checking at... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm unable to find the complementary function to \n\nALTER TABLE t ADD FOREIGN KEY(id) REFERENCES pkt(pk);\n\nI would try DROP TRIGGER, but I've also been unable to \nfind a way to name the constraint ;(\n\n\nthe built-in help is both inadequate and inconsistent\n----8<---------8<---------8<-... |
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