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[ { "msg_contents": "* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> [001029 14:32]:\n> Larry Rosenman writes:\n> \n> > Would the timezone change last night be causing this? \n> \n> The \"timestamp\" failure, yes. The \"geometry\", no. Geometry simply needs\n> a new expected file, but unfortunately they're not the same fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nis anyone else getting these but me?\n\nOn Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Marc G. Fournier wrote:\n\n> \n> \n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nlet see that this doesn't generate an error \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:25:12 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "scrappy@thelab.hub.org", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "its too quiet" }, { "msg_contents": "received\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: p...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsomething screwed up, possibly in the configs ... subscriptions should all\nbe fine, but have to fix the configurations after getting these reloaded\n...\n\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:21:05 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hack...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nVadim Mikheev wrote:\n\n> Hi, All\n>\n> First, as I've already mentioned in answer to Tom about DROP TABLE, undo\n> logic\n> will not be implemented in 7.1 -:( Doable for tables but for indices we\n> would need\n> either in compensation records or in xmin/cmin in index tuples. So, we'll\n...
[ { "msg_contents": " Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 @ 02:17:31\nAuthor: ishii\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql\n from hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv21342\n\nModified Files:\n\tconfigure.in \n\n----------------------------- Log Message -----------------------------\n\nAdd new configure option \"--ena...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> After thinking some more about yesterday's discussions, I propose that\n> we adopt the following planning behavior for cursors:\n> \n> 1. If DECLARE CURSOR does not contain a LIMIT, continue to plan on the\n> basis of 10%-or-so fetch (I'd consider anywhere from 5% to 25% to be\n> just as ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've just tried to checkout a clean copy of the cvs tree, and it seems\nthat configure is missing a substitutions in Makefile.global.in, ie:\n\nmake: *** No rule to make target\n`@abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.global.in', needed by\n`../../../src/Makefile.global'. Stop.\n\nAny ideas?\n\nPeter...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nJust wondering what the cost of begin/end transaction is.\n\nThis is for pg_dump which, when restoring BLOBs, inserts multiple rows into\na temporary xref table. The sequence of events is:\n\nConn1: Begin\nConn1: lo_create/lo_close/lo_write.../lo_close\nConn2: Insert into xref table (which ...
[ { "msg_contents": "yes I have been getting them too, I have tried to change my sub but it seems the address I remember is not taking my requests, and the postgresql.org page that is supose to descibe how to get off is broken a s well. So at this point I am learning way more than I need to. (I just can't help f...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nSmall technical question: what exactly CommandCounterIncrement do?\nAnd what exactly it should be used for?\n\nI use it to see data which is changed in current transaction.\nIf to be more \nexact when I write BLOB in transaction each time I write additional piece I \ndo CommandCount...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFor users of large PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL builders, this is for you.\n\nI'm having a terrible time deciding now. :(\n\nWe're about to build a \"huge\" website now. I got tied up in signing the\ncontract without really getting enough information about PgSQL since this\nwhat we plan ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Sirs.\n\n\tWhat is the data definition for the aclitem datatype, I'm not able to found it in the sources, I know is there but I was not able to find it. Thank you.\n\n--\nLuis Maga�a\nGnovus Networks & Software\nwww.gnovus.com\nTel. +52 (7) 4422425\njoe666@gnovus.com\n\n\n", "msg_da...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Hmm. I wonder why cc and gcc are doing different math. Wierd. \n> \n> Not only that, but you get different results with the same compiler\n> depending on different optimization settings. The joys of \n> binary floating point...\n\nSame on AIX.\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 31 O...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> >So I think if you want to make optimization decisions based on cursors\n> >being used versus a \"normal\" select, then the only thing you can safely\n> >take into account is the network roundtrip and client processing per\n> >fetch, but that might be as random as anything.\n> \n> Which i...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 14:14 31/10/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>> \n>> Which is why I like the client being able to ask the \n>> optimizer for certain kinds of solutions *explicitly*.\n>\n>Yes, something like:\n>\tset optimization to [first_rows|all_rows]\n>\n\nThat's one way that is usefull for aff...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nthere's really wierd trouble.\nWhen I run 2 vacuum's in parallel they hangs. Both.\nI use PostgreSQL from 7.0.x CVS (almost 7.0.3).\nAny ideas? Tom?\n\n-- \nSincerely Yours,\nDenis Perchine\n\n----------------------------------\nE-Mail: dyp@perchine.com\nHomePage: http://www.perchin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi: \n \nI'm wrinting a graphical interface that would manage users, groups and permissions on a postgresql database, that was the reason for me to ask for this datatype since it \nis in the pg_class table. If it is going to \ndissapear soon then what should I do ?, is there any other form to...
[ { "msg_contents": "After much too long a time, I have updated the RedHat RPMset on\nftp.postgresql.org.\n\nThe version is 7.0.2, release is 21.\n\nPlease see the changelog for more information (rpm -q --changelog\npostgresql for installed packages, rpm -qp --changelog\npostgresql-7.0.2-21.i386.rpm for packages ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nIve had a crash in postgresql 7.0.2. Looking at what happened, I actually\nsuspect that this is a filesystem bug, and not a postgresql bug necessarily,\nbut I wanted to report it here and see if anyone else had any opinions.\n\nThe platform this happened on was linux (redhat 6.2), ker...
[ { "msg_contents": "Please take me off this list! I have received over 50 emails in the last 24\nhours and I have no idea why I am getting them. Please look for email\naddress cjones@rightnotech.com or cjones@rightnow.com and take it out!\nThanks!\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Robert Kernell [mailto...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to add an option or two to restrict the set of users that can\nconnect to the Unix domain socket of the postmaster, as an extra security\noption.\n\nI imagine something like this:\n\nunix_socket_perm = 0660\nunix_socket_group = pgusers\n\nObviously, permissions that don't have 6's in...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm about to launch into an experiment that will do some new things\ninside the PG server. I'm sure to have a lot of problems, and one\nof them I can already tell is going to be difficult is the business\nof contexts: memory contexts, scan contexts and the like.\n\nBefore I go around shootin...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I believe that its just resting on Vadim again to give us the go ahead\n> ... which I believe its always been on his shoulders, no? :)\n> \n> Vadim? \n\nI think that at least 1 & 2 from WAL todo (checkpoints and port to\nmachines without TAS) is required before beta. As well as more testin...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I'd like to add an option or two to restrict the set of users that can\n> connect to the Unix domain socket of the postmaster, as an extra security\n> option.\n> \n> I imagine something like this:\n> \n> unix_socket_perm = 0660\n> unix_socket_group = pgusers\n> \n> Obviously, permissions ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Thanks for the info.\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:26:00 GMT", "msg_from": "mcd@kanjisoft.com (KanjiSoft Systems)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "How to unsuscribe from this list?" }, { "msg_contents": "I never saw much traffic regarding Karel's work ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The first test did not go very well. I did a fresh compile, initdb,\n> started the postmaster, ran 'make installcheck' (sequential regression\n> tests), and sent a kill -QUIT to the postmaster during the \n> numeric test.\n> Then I restarted the postmaster and got a load of lines like\n> \...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The first test did not go very well. I did a fresh compile, initdb,\n> > started the postmaster, ran 'make installcheck' (sequential \n> > regression tests), and sent a kill -QUIT to the postmaster during the \n> > numeric test.\n> > Then I restarted the postmaster and got a load of line...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems postmaster won't restart under WAL. What I have done so far\nwas creating some tables and inserting fairly large amount of tuples\n(100000 tuples) using pgbench.\n\nHere is the test sequence:\n\npg_ctl -w stop\nrm -fr /usr/local/pgsql/data\ninitdb\npg_ctl -w start\ncreatedb test\n./p...
[ { "msg_contents": "I want off this list immediately!!!!!!!!!!! If I am not off by the end of\nthe day, I will go directly to the top! Thanks!\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Oelkers, Phil [mailto:phil.oelkers@experian.com]\nSent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:09 AM\nTo: Hackers List; pgsql-announce@post...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nno hope to use PostgreSQL + Mosix, because PostgreSQL uses shared memory, as \nsuch it's not suitable for migration.\n\nMosix isn't able now to give us a single system image, where a cluster of \nmachine acts as a single transparent machine.\n\nI'm trying DIPC+GFS to do thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "tried the normal ways but your pos list software won't let me off.\nHelp Please.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]\nSent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:21 AM\nTo: Lamar Owen; Hackers List; pgsql-announce@postgresql.org\nSubject: [HACKER...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've posted RPMs built for Mandrake at\n\n ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/Mandrake-7.1/{RPMS,SRPMS}\n\nwhich are exact copies of the RedHat RPMs (with the version changed from\n\"21\" to \"21mdk\") recently posted by Lamar Owens at\n\n ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/RedHat-6.x/{RP...
[ { "msg_contents": "set digest\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:07:29 +0100", "msg_from": "Sion Morris <s.morris@bangor.ac.uk>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Did you turn XLOG_DEBUG off?\nWith XLOG_DEBUG on there should be lines in log like\n\nREDO @ 0/434100; LSN 0/434252: .........\n\nbefore control would reach btree_redo...\n\nOk, anyway btree_xlog_delete is fixed. Thanks, Tatsuo!\nAnd please try again -:)\n\nVadim\n\n> It seems postmaster won'...
[ { "msg_contents": "In Mandrake 7.2 Postgresql 7.0 is included...\n\nCheck it out on www.rpmfind.net\n\nFranck Martin\nDatabase Development Officer\nSOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission\nFiji\nE-mail: franck@sopac.org <mailto:franck@sopac.org> \nWeb site: http://www.sopac.org/ <http://www.sopac.org/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Get me off this list too....\n \nThe F**** interface does not work!\n \nfranck@sopac.org <mailto:franck@sopac.org> \nand franck@sopac.org.fj\n \n\nFranck Martin\nDatabase Development Officer\nSOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission\nFiji\nE-mail: franck@sopac.org <mailto:franck@sopa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are there any status and mode applications for postgres? I mean, an \napplication that will tell me the status of the server at the moment, and an \napp to start and stop postgres.\nDoes postgres have \"administration mode\" like a mode to make backups on, \nwithout threads connected?\n\nTha...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Did you turn XLOG_DEBUG off?\n> > With XLOG_DEBUG on there should be lines in log like\n> > \n> > REDO @ 0/434100; LSN 0/434252: .........\n> > \n> > before control would reach btree_redo...\n> \n> No. I just started up postmaster with -S (logs are forwarded to syslog\n> in my settings).\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have installed plpgsql procedural language ok,\nI could not get any functions to work. \nI tried the most simple function as documented:\nCREATE FUNCTION sptest3 (int4) RETURNS int4 AS\n\t'BEGIN\n\t\tRETURN $1+1;\n\tEND;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';\n\n\nWhen i call the function from sql\nSELECT sp...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsounds great, then hopefully we get v7.0.3 out early next week :) thanks\n...\n\n\nOn Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> I am back, and will resolve the cvs and brand 7.0.3 tomorrow.\n> \n> \n> > \n> > this week, once I hear from bruce that he's ready ... last I heard, he was\n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have received no replies to this question, so I am assuming there is\nno way to do this in CVS. I will dump out the branch logs in date order\nand just grab the post-7.0.2 stuff. I will look at cvs2cl for 7.1.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nHaving some expirience with catching errors with BLOBs, I realised, that it \nis really hard to understand that you forget to enclose BLOB operations in \ntransaction...\n\nI would like to add a check for each BLOB operation which will check whether \nwe are in transaction, and if n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Well I can re-write and resubmit this patch. Add it as a \n> compile time option\n> is not bad idea. Second possibility is distribute it as patch \n> in the contrib\n> tree. And if it until not good tested not dirty with this main tree...\n> \n> Ok, I next week prepare it... \n\nOne thin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nMy previous mail about VACUUM deadlock was silently ignored...\nNow I have much more interesting trouble...\n\nJust a minutes ago I found out that my usual routine which recreate indices \nis hanged... I see the picture like this:\n\n10907 ? SW 0:01 /home/postgres/bin/pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\nI am new here . I have been working alone in my\nunderground lab away from the world shunning any\ncontact with Postgre Community( not intentional) and\ntesting out mine and postgre's limits but I have run\ninto this stumbling block ...... \nEnough kidding..;-)\nYes I am new and I wa...
[ { "msg_contents": " Date: Thursday, November 2, 2000 @ 13:20:12\nAuthor: wieck\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pg_dumpaccounts\n from hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv16823/pg_dumpaccounts\n\nAdded Files:\n\tMakefile README pg_dumpaccounts.sh \n\n----------------------------- Log Message ---...
[ { "msg_contents": "I too got somehow on the list without subscribing. Something is wrong. But I \nlike it and will stay on. :)\n\nBob Kernell\nResearch Scientist\nSurface Validation Group\nAtmospheric Sciences Competency\nAnalytical Services & Materials, Inc.\nemail: kernell@sundog.larc.nasa.gov\ntel: 757-827-4...
[ { "msg_contents": "When I start the postmaster with PGDATA a relative path[*], then I\nreproducably get things like this:\n\nDEBUG: Data Base System is in production state at Thu Nov 2 20:28:26 2000\nNOTICE: Cannot create init file pg-install/var/data/base/1/pg_internal.init.10037: No such file or directory\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I'm looking at some point in time in the future doing a\n> 'postgresql-upgrade' RPM that would include pre-built postmasters and\n> other binaries necessary to dump any previous version PostgreSQL (since\n> about 6.2.1 or so -- 6.2.1 was the first RedHat official PostgreSQL RPM,\n> althou...
[ { "msg_contents": "HI,\nI want to return a record from a FUNCTION in plpgsql procedural language.\nThere are very few examples to go by.\nIt doesn't accept RETURN RECORD.\nI've tried\nmaking a record in the declare section and returning OPAQUE.\n\nTYPE temp IS RECORD\n(id int4,\nname varchar(50),\n);\nIt gives ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've hacked up pg_dump so that it won't dump objects inherited from\ntemplate1. Unfortunately I have realized there are a couple of serious\nproblems:\n\n1. What if the inherited object is a table or a sequence? Its state may\nno longer be the same as it was in template1 (eg, a table may c...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> I too got somehow on the list without subscribing.\n>> Something is wrong. But I \n>> like it and will stay on. :)\n\n> Marc, not sure what you are doing over there with the\n> mailing lists, but\n> keep it up. :-)\n\nHmmm! What happened to the digest mode? I can't reset the thing.\nAnd w...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have marked 7.0.3 release tree. The new 7.0.3 items are listed below.\nI apologize for the delay.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\t\n\tJdbc fixes (Peter)\n\tLarge object fix (Tom)\n\tFix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)\n\tFix backwards-ind...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Oct. 30 and 31 I attended OSDN's rather grandiosely named \"Open Source\nDatabase Summit\" (despite what you might infer from the name, it was just\na small, open-to-the-public conference). Their info about the conference\nis at http://www.osdn.com/conf/osd/conf_index.shtml, though I'm no...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I'd say that normally you're not using cursors because you intend to throw\n> > away 80% or 90% of the result set, but instead you're using it because\n> > it's convenient in your programming environment (e.g., ecpg). There are\n> > other ways of getting only some rows, this is not it....
[ { "msg_contents": "\n>so, what have you tried to do to set it as digest, and what error did you\nget?\n\nI had been getting digests up until about a week or so ago. I assumed\nsomething might have changed with the list server so I submitted a request\nfor a digest, but keep getting individual e-mails.\n\nMy req...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here�s the error:\n\n------------------------- snip -------------------------\nDBD::Pg::db table_info failed: ERROR: Unable to identify an ordering\noperator '<' for type 'unknown'\n Use an explicit ordering operator or modify the query\nCan't call method \"fetchrow_array\" on an un...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > The problem at hand is that\n> > a plan may be invalidated before it is even finished building. Do you\n> > expect the parse-rewrite-plan-execute pipeline to be prepared to back up\n> > and restart if we notice a relation schema change report halfway down the\n> > process? \n\nYes, dur...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Bruce, Hi Michael,\n\nhere is the really short patch for shutting out all postgres definitions\nfrom ecpg\nprograms. (e.g. Datum, Pointer, DEBUG, ERROR).\nSomeone really should take a look into libpq and do the same.\nBut I had to copy a small part of c.h (bool,true,false,TRUE,FALSE) into\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Got this in my inbox today - might be of interest to some in this \ngroup. I don't know anything about them- forwarding it as interesting \ninfo only. Note: It starts in about an hour!\n\n--\n\nJoin us at SearchDatabase.com TODAY, Friday, November 3rd at 11:00 \nEastern (16:00 GMT) for a L...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been working on date/time issues over the last few weeks (at least\none or two from reports on the list, others that I've stumbled across,\nand even one or two planned ones ;)\n\nAnyway, the INTERVAL type output representation has trouble with values\nsuch as\n\n '-1 month +2 hours'\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > There is no way for the backend to know this, thus imho the app needs\n> > to give a hint. \n> \n> Right. So what do you think about a hint that takes the form of a SET\n> variable for the fetch percentage to assume for a DECLARE CURSOR?\n\nSince we don't have other hints that are embe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI start yesterday CVS PostgreSQL server, and saw strange thing:\nfrom user postgres:\n# create database test;\nCREATE\n# \\c test;\n#create user bobson with password '1' nocreatedb nocreateuser;\nCREATE\n#create table a (a int4);\nCREATE\n#revoke all on a from public;\nCHANGE\n\nand no...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was installing the snapshot version last night, whenever I\ninitialized the database with \"initdb -E EUC_TW -D\n/usr/local/pgsql/data\", I got error message that the EUC_TW was not\nthe valid encoding. Is it a bug in the snapshot version?\n\n\nThanks\nDave\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 04 Nov...
[ { "msg_contents": "Forwarded from Mosix mailing-list.\nIs this a crazy stuff?\n\nMosix isn't useful for shared memory processes (like apache and postgresql) \nit simply doesn't migrate such tasks.\nYou can do a simple connect script that , for example , do a\nround-robin connection to the different postgresql s...
[ { "msg_contents": " From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:11:00 -0500 (EST)\n\n\t cvs log -rREL7_0_PATCHES\n\n I want just log entries that are part of the branch. I get all entries.\n\nWhat I see when I try this is that for files which have the\nREL7_0_PATCHES tag (i....
[ { "msg_contents": " From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:35:01 -0500 (EST)\n\n > The natural way to fix this ought to be\n > cvs co -rREL7_0_PATCHES pgsql\n > cvs log .\n > Unfortunately, I tried it, and cvs log, I believe erroneously, seems\n > to pick u...
[ { "msg_contents": "With the new oid file naming, the alternative database location feature\nhas disappeared. Not good.\n\nAlso, is there any merit in keeping the #ifdef OLD_FILE_NAMING code path?\n\nI could probably go through and fix this, but I'm not fully aware about\nthe larger plan of table spaces that's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> With the new oid file naming, the alternative database \n> location feature has disappeared. Not good.\n> \n> Also, is there any merit in keeping the #ifdef \n> OLD_FILE_NAMING code path?\n\nNo one. I've removed some of old code but not all, sorry.\n\n> I could probably go through and fix ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">What's the matter with the website? I can access it\n>just fine. Perhaps you're finding a bad mirror site?\n\n>Vince.\n\n\nAfter sending a request for \"http://www.postgresql.org/\", I got this:\n\"Error 400 - Proxy Error: Host name not recognized or host not found - URL http://www.4046279...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nYeach ... I can revoke from public now ;), but .....\nlook at this:\n#create database a\nCREATE\n\n#\\c a\n#create table ala(a int4);\nCREATE\n\n#\\z\nAccess permissions for database \"a\"\n Relation | Access permissions\n----------+--------------------\n ala |\n(1 row)\n\n#revoke ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've expended a lot of worry and discussion in the past about what\nhappens if the OID generator wraps around. However, there is another\n4-byte counter in the system: the transaction ID (XID) generator.\nWhile OID wraparound is survivable, if XIDs wrap around then we really\ndo have a Ragn...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nServer process (pid 13361) exited with status 26 at Fri Nov 3 17:49:44 2000\nTerminating any active server processes...\nNOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:\n The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to compile the CVS (fresh download) of postgres and I get this \nrunning the configure script:\n\nchecking for tzname... yes\nchecking for union semun... no\nchecking for struct sockaddr_un... yes\nchecking for int timezone... yes\nchecking types of arguments for accept()... config...
[ { "msg_contents": "is anyone working on the port of PostgreSQL for Alpha FreeBSD ?? I have\nbeen waiting for over a year very very patiently !!!\n\nI really love my Alpha FreeBSD box and I want to use PostgreSQL on it...\nbut postgresql does not build.\n\nIf they need a box I am more than willing to give them ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> This comparison will work as long as the range of interesting XIDs\n> never exceeds WRAPLIMIT/2. Essentially, we envision the actual value\n> of XID as being the low-order bits of a logical XID that always\n> increases, and we assume that no extant XID is more than WRAPLIMIT/2\n> transacti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems we call the command create language and drop language, but the\nsyntax requires CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE and DROP PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE.\n\nI am going to change the docs and grammar so PROCEDURAL is optional. Is\nthis OK?\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle....
[ { "msg_contents": "Looks like someone changed an error message, but didn't upgrade the\nexpected file...\n(Current sources/multibyte/UnixWare 7.1.1)\n\n\n*** ./expected/geometry.out\tTue Sep 12 16:07:16 2000\n--- ./results/geometry.out\tSat Nov 4 15:55:05 2000\n***************\n*** 127,133 ****\n | (-...
[ { "msg_contents": "As everyone knows, there was discussion this week about a new utility to\nbe added to 7.0.3. The final decision was that the utility should go\ninto /contrib, and that the utility will not be mentioned in the release\nnotes.\n\nI think we can learn some things from this episode.\n\nCertainly...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIn order that we can get a few days of testing on these, make sure the\npackaging is right and whatnot, we are holding off on a formal release\nuntil early->mid next week ...\n\nI've just put pre-release tar balls into:\n\n\tftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v7.0.3\n\nPlease take a minute...
[ { "msg_contents": " Date: Sunday, November 5, 2000 @ 17:50:19\nAuthor: vadim\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam\n from hub.org:/home/projects/pgsql/tmp/cvs-serv21922/src/backend/access/transam\n\nModified Files:\n\txact.c xlog.c \n\n----------------------------- Lo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm tryin to figure out how to speed up udmsearch when run under\npostgresql, and am being hit by atrocious performance when using a LIKE\nquery ... the query looks like:\n\nSELECT ndict.url_id,ndict.intag \n FROM ndict,url \n WHERE ndict.word_id=1971739852 \n AND url.rec_id=ndict.url_id...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here's what I get doing a commit:\n\nProtocol error: 'Directory' missingE Protocol error: 'Directory' missingE\n...\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:07:24 +0100", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Due to problems with some parts of the world not being able to access the\nhttp://www.retep.org.uk/ site for the JDBC driver archives (ie: the past\nprecompiled drivers, the current pre-beta driver etc), I'm currently moving\nthat site to a new ISP.\n\nBecause of this, there may be a brief br...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've committed patches to do the following:\n\no Support AT TIME ZONE date/time syntax.\n\no Fix INTERVAL mixed-sign output representation. \"ISO format\" has\nchanged a little, and no longer uses the \"AGO\" qualifier but instead\nuses signed numbers.\n\no Allow functions called with untyped...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm seeing a whole bunch of miscompares in the horology test today.\nIs this stuff supposed to have changed behavior?\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n*** ./expected/horology-no-DST-before-1970.out\tFri Sep 15 15:36:24 2000\n--- ./results/horology.out\tMon Nov 6 13:14:35 2000\n***************\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > New CHECKPOINT command.\n> > Auto removing of offline log files and creating new file\n> > at checkpoint time.\n> \n> Is this the same as a SAVEPOINT?\n\nNo. Checkpoints are to speedup after crash recovery and\nto remove/archive log files. With WAL server doesn't write\nany datafiles on c...
[ { "msg_contents": "The long option emulation getopt(argc, argv, \"...xy:-:\") doesn't work on\nFreeBSD (and who knows where else), it throws away options of the form\n'--foo'. That means you cannot specify postmaster options like\n--log-pids, etc. on the command line. Also, the --version option doesn't\nwork,...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > OK, 2^64 isn't mathematically unbounded, but let's see you \n> > buy a disk that will hold it ;-). My point is that if we want\n> > to think about allowing >4G transactions, part of the answer\n> > has to be a way to recycle pg_log space. Otherwise it's still\n> > not really practical.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> AIX 4.3.2, xlc 3.6.6.\n> \n> Same regression test failures as 7.0.2.\n> The nasty failures are triggers, misc, and plgpgsql which\n> consistently give \"pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel\n> unexpectedly.\" at the same point. Also the sanity_check hangs\n> during a VACU...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I have updated horology-no-DST-before-1970.out, but that still leaves\n> us needing updates for horology-1947-PDT.out and\n\nThat one is mine (AIX), I'll do it.\n\nAndreas\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:57:30 +0100 ", "msg_from": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spa...
[ { "msg_contents": "This somehow gets moot. Is there a way to make gcc reject those comments ?\n\nAndreas\n\n*** ./src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c.orig\tWed Nov 1 10:00:22 2000\n--- ./src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c\tTue Nov 7 11:07:28 2000\n***************\n*** 1212,1218 ****\n \t\t\t\tis_match = ((cmp ^ *p) &...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nWhile examining recursive use of catalog cache,I found\na refcnt leak of relations.\nAfter further investigation,I found that the following seems\nto be the cause.\n\n[ in EndAppend() in nodeAppend.c ]\n\nappendstate->as_result_relation_info_list = NIL;\n /*\n * This next step is criti...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do you run the regression tests ?\n\ngmake all\ngmake install\ninitdb\nstart postmaster\n\ncd src/test/regress\ngmake runtest\n\n?????\n\nThe build looks ok, but remember, that all shared libs and postmaster will only \nwork in the configured location. (gmake runcheck will fail, since it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I was unable to get runcheck to pass even when I altered all the\n> LD_LIBRARY_PATH entries in run_check.sh to LIBPATH for the benefit of\n> AIX. If this cannot be fixed there ought to be an entry added to the\n> faq-aix.\n\nThe fix for AIX below 4.3 would be to relink both postmaster and ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Pete Forman <gsez020@kryten.bedford.waii.com> writes:\n> > The only remaining failure is geometry. The results I got \n> were nearly\n> > identical to geometry-powerpc-aix4.out. The only \n> differences were the\n> > order of rows returned by three of the tables. I'll submit the\n> > r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Kevin O'Gorman pointed out to me that this example fails in current\nsources:\n\nselect a from foo union all (select b from foo except select a from foo);\n\nThe problem is that the result of the EXCEPT has a resjunk column (which\nis added by the EXCEPT code so that it can tell lefthand inpu...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working on eliminating the \"relation NNN modified while in use\"\nmisfeature by instead grabbing a lock on each relation at first use\nin a statement, and holding that lock till end of transaction. The\nmain trick here is to make sure that the first lock grabbed is adequate\n--- for ex...