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"msg_contents": "\n> I am working on eliminating the \"relation NNN modified while in use\"\n> misfeature by instead grabbing a lock on each relation at first use\n> in a statement, and holding that lock till end of transaction. \n\nAs anticipated, I object :-) \nIf you do this you will most likely add the co... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> A NOTICE might be useful to users since it would complain about\n> deadlock-prone user-level coding practices too, such as\n> \n> \tbegin;\n> \tselect * from foo;\t-- grabs read lock\n> \tlock table foo;\t\t-- grabs exclusive lock\n\nAlthough this is deadlock prone praxis, there is no men... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI'm just starded using ecpg and I have some problem with cursors.\n\nI wrote this lines\n\nexec sql begin declare section;\n char query[500];\n int CodImpianto;\n int Cod1;\n int Cod2;\n char Descr[100];\nexec sql end declare section;\nstrcpy(query, \"select ............\"... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed changes to parse_oper.c to enable fallback to string type\nwhen argument(s) are of UNKNOWN type. This is the same code (verbatim)\nas I recently added for function resolution.\n\nAn obvious example is for\n\n select '1' = '01';\n\nwhich used to throw an error and which now res... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >> I am working on eliminating the \"relation NNN modified while in use\"\n> >> misfeature by instead grabbing a lock on each relation at first use\n> >> in a statement, and holding that lock till end of transaction. \n> \n> > As anticipated, I object :-) \n> \n> Your objection is founded... |
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"msg_contents": "> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> >> I am working on eliminating the \"relation NNN modified \n> while in use\"\n> >> misfeature by instead grabbing a lock on each relation at first use\n> >> in a statement, and holding that lock till end of transaction. \n> \... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > For a \"select colname from tablename\" we do not currently hold any lock \n> > until end of tx. This is the situation you described, and I am worried about.\n> \n> That's a bug in itself, because the executor's read lock is grabbed by\n> heap_beginscan and released by heap_endscan, wh... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > In the second place, we already grab locks that we do not release till\n> > end of xact for all user-level queries. The problem is that we grab\n> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n> Even for select?\n\nNo. Tom plans to change that, and I still think this is a bad idea.\n\n> > ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nbut, there is eighter an optimizer bug or a code bug in nabstime.c\nleading to regression failure in abstime, tinterval and horology.\nThe rest all passes.\n\nDoes anybody see similar behavior ? It is a little sad, because the \noptimized code really runs a lot faster and those are somehow ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Will we still have readers-dont-block-writers behaviour?\n> \n> Sure. The only thing this really affects is VACUUM and \n> schema-altering\n> commands, which will now have to wait until reader \n> transactions commit.\n> In other words\n> \n> \tSession 1\t\t\tSession 2\n> \n> \tBEGIN;\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just started fooling with some modifications to the backend.\nI'm new at doing this in PG, so I'm blundering I'm sure.\n\nIn any event when I start the backend standalone (i.e. running\nthe 'postgres -D ....' command, it seems I have to be the root\nor postgres root user because of file ... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, it's me again with news on how I'm doing (bad) with the compilation of \nPostgreSQL 7.1 alpha (I think I'll call that way the cvsup download).\nI still can't finish the execution of the configure script (still don't know \nwhy), and I could compile 7.0.2 perfectly on the same SPARC.\nWhat... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Unfortunately, session 3 with just SELECT * FROM foo will also wait\n> > for session 1 & session 2 commit.\n> \n> Session 3 would wait for session 2 in any case, no?\n\nBut now it will wait longer - for the duration of session 1' transaction.\n\n> This is all irrelevant unless someone can... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Will we still have readers-dont-block-writers behaviour?\n> \n> Sure. The only thing this really affects is VACUUM and schema-altering\n> commands, which will now have to wait until reader transactions commit.\n\nAnd \"lock table ...\", which would need some deadlock resolution code,\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> relcache. Not good. Forcing the schema update to be held off in the\n> first place seems the right answer.\n\nAgreed, the only question is, how long. My idea would be until statement end,\nwhich is also how Informix does it btw. (If you wanted a prominent example)\n\nOf course a \"state... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Unfortunately, session 3 with just SELECT * FROM foo will also wait\n> > for session 1 & session 2 commit.\n> \n> Session 3 would wait for session 2 in any case, no?\n> \n> This is all irrelevant unless someone can make a convincing case that\n> it's safe to release read locks early. I... |
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"msg_contents": "Just thought I'd tell you that ZDNet have announced that v7.0.3 is released!\nDidn't think this was true. If it is did I miss the announcement! If its\nnot ready for release then some people may be using software that they don't\nknow is still in beta testing.\n\nNot sure if this is such a g... |
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"msg_contents": "I was able to locate snippets of information regarding the\nimplementation of an enum column type on a European maillist archive,\nbut have been unable to locate any addition information regarding this\neffort. Could someone be so kind as to pass along an update on this\neffort and possibly s... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > New CHECKPOINT command.\n> > > > Auto removing of offline log files and creating new file\n> > > > at checkpoint time.\n> \n> Can you tell me how to use CHECKPOINT please?\n\nYou shouldn't normally use it - postmaster will start backend\neach 3-5 minutes to do this automatically.\n\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi:\n\nHave this curious situation and would like some help from you:\n\nCreate an employee table:\n\nCREATE TABLE employee(\n id_employee SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,\n sex CHAR(1) DEFAULT 'm' CHECK(sex = 'f' OR sex = 'm'),\n start_date DATE NOT NULL,\n charge VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,\n last... |
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"msg_contents": "> Rollback of DROP TABLE now works in non-WAL code, and seems to work in\n> WAL code too. I did not add WAL logging, because I'm not quite sure\n> what to do, so rollforward probably does the wrong thing. Could you\n> deal with that part? smgr.c is the place that keeps the list of what\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nJeff MacDonald,\n\n-----------------------------------------------------\nPostgreSQL Inc\t\t| Hub.Org Networking Services\njeff@pgsql.com\t\t| jeff@hub.org\nwww.pgsql.com\t\t| www.hub.org\n1-902-542-0713\t\t| 1-902-542-3657\n-----------------------------------------------------\nFacsimile... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI found an unreachable block during studing the PostgreSQL 7.0.2 by\nreading its souce code.\n\nStarting from line 1383 in postgres.c\n\n 1383 if (Verbose)\n 1384 {\n 1385 if (Verbose)\n 1386 {\n :\n 1389 ... |
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"msg_contents": "============================================================================\n\nPOSTGRESQL BUG REPORT: MIC to EUC_TW code converting in mb support\n============================================================================\n\nSystem Configuration\n---------------------\n Architecture (exam... |
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"msg_contents": "With current sources I get:\n\nregression=# select 'foo' < 'bar';\nERROR: pg_atoi: error in \"foo\": can't parse \"foo\"\n\nI was expecting the system to resolve this as a text comparison,\nbut it seems to have chosen int4 instead. This is, um, surprising\nbehavior.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom la... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I like that a lot. Solves the whole problem at a stroke, and even\n> adds some extra functionality (alternate templates).\n> \n> Do we need an actual enforcement mechanism for \"don't modify \n> template0\"?\n> I think we could live without that for now. If you're \n> worried about it,\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Just seems like we'd be forcing non-standard syntax on \n> ourselves when/if\n> CREATE DATABASE becomes CREATE SCHEMA;\n\nI do not think this will be the way.\n\n> I would assume that the two\n> statements would become synonymous? \n\nNo, I think we need the schema below the database hier... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >Do we still need the lastsysoid column in pg_database if we do things\n> >this way? Seems like what you really want is to suppress all the\n> >objects that are in template0, so you really only need one lastsysoid\n> >value, namely template0's. The other entries are useless AFAICS.\n\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "At 08:59 9/11/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>\n>> Just seems like we'd be forcing non-standard syntax on \n>> ourselves when/if\n>> CREATE DATABASE becomes CREATE SCHEMA;\n>\n>I do not think this will be the way.\n>\n\nI know there was a lot of discussion of this a while ago, but w... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have my server set up with one production postgres installation, and each\nuser can have their own database for their own use (usually web-related).\nThere are a limited number of trusted users, and I recently allowed one to\ndefine a C-language stored procedure. Unfortunately, I *think* ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> To me, though, the point of independent databases is that they be\n> *independent*, and therefore if we keep them I'd vote for mapping them\n> to the top-level SQL notion (catalog, you said?). Schemas ought to be\n> substructure within a database.\n\nYes, that was also \"sort of\" the bo... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> 3. Schemas are what we call databases. They contain tables, views wtc.\n\nLet us not start this all over again. Our database would correspond to a catalog\nif we put schemas below our database hierarchy.\n\nThe standard requires, that you see all schemas within one catalog in \none user s... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I agree; it's a pain that one DB misbehaving kills an entire installation.\n\nIf that is of concern you need separate postmasters, no way around that,\nand imho not a problem at all.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:16:20 +0100 ",
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"msg_contents": "At 17:10 9/11/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:\n>\n>> 3. Schemas are what we call databases. They contain tables, views wtc.\n>\n>Let us not start this all over again. Our database would correspond to a\ncatalog\n>if we put schemas below our database hierarchy.\n>\n>The standard requir... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm just catching up to the tip of the current tree, and find\nthat I have a reported failure in initdb. It seems to go through\n(most of) the steps, and just reports failure. I can thereafter\nstart a backend using an old RedHat script (which tries to run\ninitdb again but can't because th... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a program that does a:\nDECLARE getsitescursor CURSOR FOR select...\n\nI ^C'd it and it didn't properly shut down the channel to\npostgresql and I got this crash:\n\n#0 0x4828ffc8 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4\n#1 0x482cbbf2 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4\n#2 0x814442f in ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom asked me to bust it some more 8-)\n\nI've attached the query and the gdb backtrace. This is very\nrepeatable, so if there's more info needed, let me know.\n\n\n-- \nKevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:kogorman@pacbell.net\nPermanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'Gorman.64@Alum.Dar... |
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"msg_contents": "I've run some tests with 7.1 + WAL & 7.0.2\nSetup: 5 tables (i int, t text), 100000 records in each table,\nsizeof(t column) is rand(256), indices on i column for all tables.\n-B 16384 -A 0 (+ --wal_buffers=256 in 7.1)\n\nSystem: SUN Ultra 10, 512M RAM, 1 (fast) IDE disk\n\nTest: 5 clients si... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I'm going to commit redo for sequences tomorrow evening and\n> > #define XLOG by default after this (initdb will be required).\n> \n> I suggest bumping the catversion.h number when you #define XLOG,\n> so that people won't be able to accidentally start an old postmaster\n> with new DB or ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I have also mentioned this on two occasions now, and each has met with\n> total silence. I have come to interpret this to mean either (a) the idea is\n> too stupid to rate a comment, or (b) go ahead with the proposal. Since I am\n> not really proposing anything, I assume the correct inter... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Results: 5000 transactions took ~60 sec in 7.1, ~550 sec in \n> 7.0.2 with fsync and ~60 sec without fsync.\n> \n> So, seems that WAL added not just complexity to system -:)\n\nWow, this sounds fantastic :-) \nI see my concerns where not justified.\n\nAndreas\n",
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"msg_contents": "Yes it does look like it's the insert that's at fault. I've tested it on a\ncurrent backend here and it has the same problem.\n\nPeter\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support Officer, Maidstone Borough Council\nEmail: petermount@maidstone.gov.uk\nWWW: http://www.maidstone.gov.uk\nAll views ex... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI'm defining a new aggregate using a C transition function. It is of\ntype TEXT, so the C function gets pointers (*text) to the internal-state1 and\nnext-data-item parameters. \n\nQuestion is if the returning value of type *text must be palloc'ed or\ncan be just taken from the input ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> PS: You might consider applying the patch for (update where > not_found) -> 100\n\nNo, this is not allowed. sqlcode is supposed to be 0 in above case.\nYou need to explicitly check for the number of rows updated in your\nprogram if needed.\n\nAndreas\n",
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"msg_contents": "> > but, there is eighter an optimizer bug or a code bug in nabstime.c\n> > leading to regression failure in abstime, tinterval and horology.\n> > The rest all passes.\n> > Does anybody see similar behavior ?\n> \n> IIRC, the same regression tests fail on Linux/Alpha with 7.0.2, even\n> at -O... |
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"msg_contents": "Philip pointed out awhile back that it does not work to load a 7.0.*\ndump into current sources if the dumped database contains any\nprocedural language definitions. The dumped handler-function\ndefinitions will look like\n\nCREATE FUNCTION \"plpgsql_call_handler\" ( ) RETURNS opaque AS\n'/o... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Results: 5000 transactions took ~60 sec in 7.1, ~550 sec in \n> > 7.0.2 with fsync and ~60 sec without fsync.\n> > \n> > So, seems that WAL added not just complexity to system -:)\n> \n> Wow, this sounds fantastic :-) \n> I see my concerns where not justified.\n\nLet's see first how justi... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > The macro AbsoluteTimeIsReal does not work somehow.\n> \n> Hm. That expands to\n> \n> \t(((int) time) < ((int) 0x7FFFFFFC) && \\\n> \t ((int) time) > ((int) 0x80000001))\n\nThere is a special case in nabstime.h for AIX, which imho\ngot swapped. The normal case for me would be INT_MIN\n... |
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"msg_contents": "It appears that something is messed up with regard to Perl\nsupport on my system. Two things are happening, which may\nor may not be related.\n\n1) There is a complaint during make that \n*****\n* Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.\n* Skipped.\n***** \nI'm running ... |
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"msg_contents": "> There is a special case in nabstime.h for AIX, which imho\n> got swapped. The normal case for me would be INT_MIN\n> and not the 0x80000001.\n> There is a comment that I don't understand at all given the below \n> source code:\n> \n> /*\n> * AIX considers 2147483648 == -2147483648 (since t... |
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"msg_contents": "Did someone read bout this?\n\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/nv/aldev/pgsql/GreatBridge.html\n\nSaludos... :-)\n\n-- \n\"And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me.\" - Melvin Udall\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\nMart�n Marqu�s\t\t\temail: \tmar... |
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"msg_contents": "I suspect this is just a NOT updated out file:\n(UnixWare 7.1.1/UDK FS (7.1.1b) cc/Multibyte/current sources).\n\n*** ./expected/horology-solaris-1947.out\tSun Oct 22 17:15:13 2000\n--- ./results/horology.out\tFri Nov 10 15:39:00 2000\n***************\n*** 109,116 ****\n | epoch ... |
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"msg_contents": "Just a BIG *THANK YOU* to tom for making the inet/cidr stuff\nwork as one would expect. \n\nLarry\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749\n",
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"msg_date": "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:36:35 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'll be in Las Vegas (Comdex) till next week\nWednesday.\nI wasn't able to implement redo for sequences but\nwas going to turn WAL on by default anyway.\nUnfortunately, I've got core in regress:opr_sanity\ntest (in FileSeek code), so WAL still is not \ndefault.\n\nSee you!\n\nVadim\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "FINALLY, the SCO UDK Feature Supplement is released. I know\na couple of other people were waiting for it, so I figured I'd tell\npeople it's out. \n\nPeter,\n The released version is now on lerami. \n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI hope this is the right list to write to.\n\nA danish company just got a patent which we at SSLUG www.sslug.dk do not\nthink is a new invention.\n\nI want to get in contact with somebody who can confirm that this patent is\nnot new and has been in PostgreSQL before the patent was taken... |
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"msg_contents": "* Gary MacDougall <gary@freeportweb.com> [001111 11:28] wrote:\n> I'm trying to compile postgresql on Windows 2000. I've followed the directions accordingly.\n> \n> When I run the \"configure\" script, and I get the following error message:\n> \n> \n> configure: error installation or config... |
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"msg_contents": "I sucessfully compiled 7.0.2 on Win 2000 recently. I had a lot of problems\nwhen I first installed cygwin and I select default text type of DOS. When i\nremoved cygwin, and changed that option during install it all worked (I'm\nnot sure if I swited it from DOS to Unix, or from Unix to DOS)... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear all, \n\nSorry if I post in the wrong list, but I've been tortured by the\nproblem for quite sometime.\n\nI've been tring for several combinations, say\n\nBACKEND \t\t\tFRONTEND\n\nMULE_INTERNAL \t\tEUC_TW\n\t\t\t\tBIG5\n\t\t\t\tEUC_LATIN1\nEUC_TW\t\t\tEUC_TW\n\t\t\t\tBIG5\n\t\t\t\tE... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAfter a couple of pre-release tarballs, the PostgreSQL Developers are\nproud to announce v7.0.3, our most stable release yet. \n\nThere have been *several* fixes in this release, from v7.0.2, but, being a\nminor release, there have been *no* changes that will require a\ndump/restore to happ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAny reason to NOT make the facility used (Currently hardcoded to\nLOG_LOCAL0) settable at runtime? (or at least compile)? \n\nLarry\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs ... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a patch for allowing the syslog facility to be set.\n\n\nIndex: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml\n===================================================================\nRCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v\nretrieving revision 1.33\ndiff -c -r1.33 runtime.sg... |
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"msg_contents": "You have to dump/initdb/reload if you change the block size. Simply\nrecompiling is not going to work.\n\nCheers...\n\n\nMikeA\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Mitch Vincent\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSent: 11-13-00 12:57 AM\nSubject: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem\n\nI just up... |
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"msg_contents": "I just upgraded to 7.0.3 and tried to start the backend like\n\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -B 256 -o '-S 10240 -s' -D\n/usr/local/pgsql/data -i > /usr/local/pgsql/postgres.log 2>&1 &\n\n.. as I've done with 7.0.2, it failed to start and got this in my\npostgresql.log :\n\nDEBUG: Data Ba... |
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"msg_contents": "I attach(create language) language PL/pgSQL in PG and\n create test function (cut it from help ) :\n\n --О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ О©╫ О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫\n CREATE FUNCTION ct1(text, text) RETURNS text AS '\n BEGIN\n RETURN $1 || $2;\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "It wasn't PostgreSQL, it was me of course!\n\nSeeing as it was so long ago, I forgot that the BLCKSZ on the production\nserver wasn't 32k, it was 31k (for whatever reason).. When I set the BLCKSZ\nlower than that and tried to start the backend it told me that the database\nwas initialized wit... |
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"msg_contents": "Thought this may be of interest to some...\n\nhttp://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3\n\nMichael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+\nNetwork Support - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:38:17 -0500 (EST)",
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"msg_contents": "At 11:38 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Michael Fork wrote:\n>Thought this may be of interest to some...\n>\n>http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3\n\nI just submitted it to slashdot, what the heck :)\n\n\n\n- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza@pacifier.com>\n Nature photos, on-line guides, P... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I have to agree with Alfred here: this does not sound like a feature,\n> it sounds like a horrid hack. You're giving up *all* consistency\n> guarantees for a performance gain that is really going to be pretty\n> minimal in the WAL context.\n\nThe \"buffered log\" still guarantees consist... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> I am just suggesting that instead of flushing the log on every\n> transaction end, just do it every X seconds.\n\nOr maybe more practical is, when the log buffer fills. \nAnd of course during checkpoints.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:36:53 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > because as said, it can be any other language besides C and also\n> > the 'AS file' is weird.\n> \n> This is interesting. It allows us to control the default behavour of\n> \"C\". I would vote to default to 7.0-style when no version is used for\n> 7.1, then default to 7.1 style in 7.2 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Or maybe more practical is, when the log buffer fills. \n> > And of course during checkpoints.\n> \n> Log filling is too abritrary. If I commit something, and nothing\n> happens for 2 hours, we should commit that transaction.\n\nCheckpoint, as I said ?\n\nAndreas\n",
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"msg_contents": " Date: Monday, November 13, 2000 @ 10:18:11\nAuthor: momjian\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster\n from hub.org:/home/projects/pgsql/tmp/cvs-serv65584/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster\n\nModified Files:\n\tpostmaster.c \n\n----------------------------- Log... |
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"msg_contents": ">And now it's on www.slashdot.org ...\n>\n>http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/1342208.shtml\n>\n>Poul L. Christiansen\n>\n>Michael Fork wrote:\n>>\n>> Thought this may be of interest to some...\n>>\n>> http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3\n>>\n>> Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A... |
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"msg_contents": "I made it all the way through the article. I'll summarize it for you:\nPostgres - hooray!\nMySQL - boo!\nSince this is an open source database article linked off of slashdot, I\nimagine they're getting pounded.\n\nDavid Boerwinkle\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Robert D. Nelson <RDNELS... |
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"msg_contents": ">I made it all the way through the article. I'll summarize it for you:\n>Postgres - hooray!\n>MySQL - boo!\n\nYeah, and that's about it. No analysis or anything. Disappointing, after \nwaiting so long for the pages to load.\n\n>Since this is an open source database article linked off of slas... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's what I'm planning to do to make the world safe for backup/restore\nof user-added template1 data:\n\n1. pg_database will have two new boolean columns, dbistemplate and\n dballowconn --- if dballowconn is false then no new connections to that\n database will be accepted. (An even be... |
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"msg_contents": "This's great. I have tested Postgres and MySQL with the benchmark\nshipped with mysql and (of course) MySQL out perform Postgres.\n\nI wonder does anyone know where can we download the ANSI SQL benchmark\n(AN3AP) suite? I'd like to run this benchmark test myself, since this\nis the only ben... |
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"msg_contents": "ISTM that\n\n SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS parameter value\n\nis really a more SQL'ish form of the current\n\n SET parameter =/TO value\n\nPerhaps they should be made equivalent, in order to avoid too many subtly\ndifferent subversions of the 'SET' command.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut pe... |
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"msg_contents": " Date: Monday, November 13, 2000 @ 16:31:47\nAuthor: momjian\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq\n from hub.org:/home/projects/pgsql/tmp/cvs-serv56413/pgsql/src/backend/libpq\n\nModified Files:\n\tpqcomm.c \n\n----------------------------- Log Message ----... |
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"msg_contents": "Are the @postgresql.org addresses supposed to work?\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@mail.postgresql.org]\nSent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:13 PM\nTo: ler@lerctr.org\nSubject: Returned mail: see transcript for details\n\n\nThe original me... |
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"msg_contents": "I've got the multiple-template-database feature nearly ready to commit,\nbut I was just noticing that the way we handle default MB encoding\nselection seems wrong for this way of looking at things. Currently,\nif you don't specify \"ENCODING = something\" in CREATE DATABASE, the\ndefault is ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have a question about CleanupProc() and reaper().\nCleanupProc() sends SIGUSR1 signal to all backends\nif the exitStatus parameter is not 0.\nCould we expect that other backends die with non\nzero exit status ? Seems CheckPoint process could\nbe invoked after CleanupProc() is cal... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI fixed a few bugs caused by SearchSysCacheTuple()\nrecently. There seems to remain more similar bugs.\nThey are ill-natured and so we seem to have to \navoid such bugs by some means. The simplest way is\nto call SearchSysCacheTupleCopy() instead of Search\nSysCacheTuple(). I've thought... |
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"msg_contents": "when trying to do \n> get -R RedHat-6.x RedHat-7.0 Mandrake-7.x\n\nI got\n\nget RedHat-7.0: server said: Permission denied on server. (Transfer\nlimits exceeded)\n\naftre all of RedHat-6.x was retrieved\n\nis there any reason for this ?\n\n------------\nHannu\n",
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"msg_contents": "> You can do that in a more stylish and safer manner by using the\n> unix_socket_permissions and unix_socket_group options.\n\nMoving the socket file is also necessary for running in\na chrooted environment. And I'm not sure whether it's relevant,\nbut the 7.0 method of computing the socket ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I was afraid you were planning to run that way. Did you absorb the\n> point about shared memory keys being based (only) on the port number?\n> Unless something's done about that, the above configuration will NOT\n> work, because the different instances will try to use the same\n> shared me... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n Hi,\n i have a problem with REFERENCES (foreign keys). i have this table:\n\ndrop table paragraph;\ncreate table paragraph (\n id int4 PRIMARY KEY,\n label varchar(512),\n paragraph_next int4 CONSTRAINT paragraph_fk_next REFERENCES paragraph DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED,\n paragraph_pr... |
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"msg_contents": "Trying to get my FreeBSD box (lerbsd.lerctr.org, 4.2-BETA) up on \ncurrent sources. Got this error:\nmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/src/backend/parser'\ncc -O2 -m486 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations\n-Wno-error\n-I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/includ... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone care if I build a patch to kill the -m486 type options in the\nfollowing files:\n\n$ grep -i -- 486 *\nbsdi: i?86) CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS -m486\";;\nfreebsd:CFLAGS='-O2 -m486 -pipe'\nunivel:CFLAGS='-v -O -K i486,host,inline,loop_unroll -Dsvr4'\n$ pwd\n/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/src/template\n$... |
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"msg_contents": "After a long day out of the office for my day job, I'm going ahead and\nannouncing the release of the 7.0.3-1 RPMset for PostgreSQL, which were\ncompleted and passed regression testing yesterday.\n\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.0.3/RPMS/*\n\nBinary RPM's are currently available for ... |
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"msg_contents": "I remeber a few developers used to gather on efnet irc,\nthere was a lot of instability recently that seems to have\ncleared up even more recently.\n\nAre you guys planning on coming back? Or have you all\nmoved to a different network?\n\n\n-- \n-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfr... |
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"msg_contents": "At 13:39 14/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n>I've committed the template0/template1 changes we were discussing\n>earlier. Plain pg_dump and pg_dumpall are changed to behave properly,\n>but I didn't touch pg_backup or pg_restore; can you deal with those?\n\nI still think that pg_dump needs to u... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI just installed v7.0.3 release on a FreeBSD 4.x system. (Problem still happened in 7.0.2 too).\n\nThis is the problem I noticed:\n\n# select * from mailredirs;\n username | destination | start | stop | reason\n----------+--------------------+--... |
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"msg_contents": ">perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went \n>significantly above 10/sec?\n\nI think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They are \nusing Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additional \noverhead of making the db connection. ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > We need the 7.0 style for compatibility with other DB's. Postgres was \n> > \"the\" pioneer in this area, but similar functionality is now available in other DB's.\n> \n> Could you explain? PostgreSQL cant be compatible in C level, why\n> the SQL compatibility? (I mean the LANGUAGE 'C... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI posted this message on pgsql-general, but didn't get a lot of feedback. I am\nrunning into problems using PL/Perl on Solaris 2.5.1.\n\nI have PostgreSQL v7.0.2, Perl v 5.005_03 (built as a shared library), and am\nusing gcc v2.7.2.2 to compile all of the source.\n\nI include the p... |
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"msg_contents": "> Earlier, Vadim was talking about arranging to share fsyncs of the WAL\n> log file across transactions (after writing your commit record to the\n> log, sleep a few milliseconds to see if anyone else fsyncs before you\n> do; if not, issue the fsync yourself). That would offer less-than-\n> o... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I am just suggesting that instead of flushing the log on every\n> > transaction end, just do it every X seconds.\n> \n> Or maybe more practical is, when the log buffer fills. \n> And of course during checkpoints.\n\nAlso before backend's going to write dirty buffer from pool\nto system ca... |
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