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[ { "msg_contents": "\n>> This might lead the large object implementation to confuse\n>> large object relations with other relations.\n>>\n>> According to me this is a bug. I'm I right?\n>\n>Yes, and no. LargeObjects are supposed to run within a transaction (if you\n>don't then some fun things happen), and (someo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nat work I´m using RDB 6.2. I can create triggers with the following\ncommand:\n\nAFTER UPDATE OF\n SIM_ICCV_L,\n SIM_ICCNR_L,\n START_DATUM_D,\n STAT_SEIT_D,\n PREISKLASSE_T\nON ent_TEILNEHMER REFERENCING OLD AS update_old NEW AS update_new\n ( UPDA...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:\n> \n> > > \tThen, using what was left, I did:\n> > > \n> > > psql -e < db.dump \n> > > \n> > > \tAgain. Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy\n> > > to <relname> from stdin;' section:\n> > > \n> > > 344984 johnb xgSldZdYEgIW...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>\nTo: 'Maurice Gittens' <mgittens@gits.nl>; 'pgsql-hackers@hub.org'\n<pgsql-hackers@hub.org>\nDate: maandag 9 maart 1998 18:58\nSubject: AW: [HACKERS] newoid in invapi.c\n\n\n>\n>>> This might lead the large...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce, \n\nCould we not just create a symbolic link from libpq.so -> Current version. \nThen only those who need to use\na different version from the default would have to make any changes.\n\nMatt\n\n\n>\n> At 15:17 -0000 on 5/3/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n>\n>\n> > You should technica...
[ { "msg_contents": "> So maybe we'll get rid of the oid and introduce some other \"thing\" with\n> also gives us identity for instances of classes.\n> But IMO no identity equates to no OO. And currently identity is only\n> provided\n> by oids, so I would vote to keep them in user tables too.\n\nIn relational spe...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I do think it would be a good idea if the pg_dumpall from the new release\n> > looked for these now-reserved column names and warned the user. You could\n> > then at least know where problems will occur. In upgrades from d/b versions\n> > which support ALTER TABLE xxx RENAME COLUMN yyy TO...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRedirected to 'the proper list' - pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n\nOn Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> > \n> > WARNING!\n> > \n> > Postgres 6.3 has MAJOR trouble with btree-indexed text fields.\n> > \n> > Performance levels are *10x* worse than the same indexed fields in \"varchar\...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>\nTo: 'pgsql-hackers@hub.org' <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>\nDate: dinsdag 10 maart 1998 0:36\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] newoid in invapi.c\n\n\n>> So maybe we'll get rid of the oid and introduce some other \"thing\"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following query returns:\n\nexplain update user set inter = person.inter where person.custid = user.custid;\n\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n \n Nested Loop (cost=1095.16 size=1 width=370)\n -> Seq Scan on person (cost=1095.16 size=16035 width=8)\n -> Seq Scan on user (cost=0.00 size=0...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi again folks.\n\nWell, this problem just got a lot bigger.\n\nThe previous update that does a sequential scan where it used to (under\n6.2.1) do an index search on the outside condition just showed up in another\nprocess - and caused it to generate a 426MB core image, at which point it\nb...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi folks,\n\nRemember me? Remember I was bitching about hashed and indexes scans not\nbeing indexed?\n\nGuess what - it magically fixed itself.\n\nIf you want to talk about things that *bother* me, this one tops the pack.\n\nThe same query now returns an index hash query plan, which execut...
[ { "msg_contents": "> trashing postgresql doing a 'select count(*) from artist_fti'\n> \"select count(*) from artist_fti where string ~ '^lling';\"\n> \"select count(*) from artist_fti where string ~ '^tones';\"\n> and the join-statement.\n> \n> I don't have much knowledge of profiling, but it seems to me that i...
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[ { "msg_contents": "In article <35049A76.C0F8B5A@nconnect.net> you wrote:\n: Same same. They've been trying to get me to 'look at' Developer 2000. \n: They do have a SCO, and Solaris product, as well as AIX and HPUX, but no\n: BSD/OS. They also said \"no plans for it.\"\n: \n:> Personally, I use MySQL and it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi folks.\n\nMe again.\n\nCheck this out (an excerpt from a \"pg_dump\"ed table):\n\nCREATE TABLE user (custid int4, class varchar(-5), login varchar(-5)....\n\nUh, varchar(-5) eh? And pray tell, how should I reload that table? :-)\n\nThis is kinda serious.\n\n--\n-- \nKarl Denninger (karl@M...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> <SNIP>\n> > \n> > Gee, I didn't think we were faster than Velocis. Hope you are planning\n> > on moving to PostgreSQL 6.3. It is even better and faster.\n> \n> That's what I'm using! (now) and yes, in my particular application\n> simple selects are about ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nwell, it looks like we're moving postgres to a linux machine, so I\nwon't be doing any more alpha debugging for a while (BTW, adjusting\nsome types on the attribute struct to make it 64-bit aligned had no\neffect) unless someone has some suggestions for me to try (aside from\nthe snapshot t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm not sure if I've reported this or not... selecting from a view\nthat uses count and group by (when data exists) crashes the back end.\n\nnice to see that I can order by the result of count(*) now :)\n\nbrett=> create table a (b text, c text);\nCREATE\nbrett=> create table d (e text,...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI decided to use the timestamp type, but this may have been a mistake!\nThere is no btree index for timestamp, but there is for datetime?!?!\nI suppose I could write one...\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 9 Mar 1998 21:04:33 -0800 (PST)", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>There is simply very much that speaks against the use of oid's a la long.\n>Yes I agree that the way oids are implemented now has problems.\n>However I choose to see these problems as \"implementation details\".\n\nNo, here I disagree, a globally unique identifier like oid is an architectur...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am using the following info to migrate a table from 6.2.1 to 6.3\n\n\\connect template1 \ndrop database magecal;\ncreate database magecal;\n\\connect magecal \n\\connect - julie\nCREATE TABLE dates (id int4, date char(10), news char(1024)) archive = none;\nCOPY dates FROM stdin;\n1\t1998Jan...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRedirected to 'the proper list' - pgsql-hackesr@postgresql.org\n\n\nOn Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Gabriel Akos wrote:\n\n> Hi!\n> \n> If I download the CVS-Tree from the main site, then I'll have the most\n> recent version of PostgreSQL?\n\n\tUsing CVSup? Yes...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 10 Mar...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nDoes anyone know if there is any PostgreSQL mirror that allows cvsup\naccess? I'm in Europe (in Spain), and the overseas connection with\npostgresql.org is sllllloooooowwwwwww...\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\nPedro José Lobo Perea ...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>\nTo: 'pgsql-hackers' <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>\nDate: dinsdag 10 maart 1998 16:26\nSubject: WG: [HACKERS] newoid in invapi.c\n\n\n>>>There is simply very much that speaks against the use of oid's a la long.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi:\n\nLittle bug causes postgres to die:\nsc=> select count(*) from urlcont where (UPPER(url) LIKE '%APOLLO%');\nField| Value\n-- RECORD 0 --\ncount| 1\n(1 row)\n\nsc=> select count(*) from urlcont where (UPPER(content) LIKE '%APOLLO%');\nFATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted\nsc=> sele...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> For each test, I will list 2 numbers here, the first being with the default\n> number of buffers, the second with 256 buffers (ie. 2048K)\n> \n> btw. just to give all possible information: I start postgreSQL with the\n> following arguments:\n> \n> -i -b /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -S ...
[ { "msg_contents": "ocie@paracel.com wrote:\n\n> Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n> >\n> [snip]\n> > a \"#\" to the defaultdate parameter line will give you the usual behavior of\n> > picking up the latest version of the tree.\n> >\n> > - Tom\n> >\n> >\n> > # This file...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I'd like to know what are the table repair tools. I examined a table with\n> > od -c\n> > and boy, that does not look like what I put in. So other than good old\n> > fashioned backups, how do you rebuild a corrupted file ?\n> > Just wonderin'\n> We don't ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think I've tracked down a problem I see using the BETWEEN operator:\n\npostgres=> select 1 where float8(1) between 0.0 and 2.0;\nERROR: transformExpr: does not know how to transform node 105\npostgres=> select 1 where float8(1) >= 0.0 and float8(1) <= 2.0;\n?column?\n--------\n 1\n(1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear all,\n\nDoes anybody know where I can get the latest ODBC Drivers for PostgresQL\n6.1/6.2 ?\nthanks !\n\nregards,\n--\n/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\\n\\ Michael Yeung\n/ Alpha Network Shop\n\\ Tel:(02)94133886\n/ Mobile : 0411-233-597\n\\ Fax...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ran some timing tests to check the performance of varchar() vs char16.\nThe results of the test indicate that there is no difference in\nperformance (within the timing scatter of the tests):\n\nchar16\tvc(16)\n 0.99s\t 1.05s\t1 row (this measures startup time, not types)\n39.29s\t39.28s\t~6...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> Hi,\n> \n> I have done a little more testing, and the performance bottleneck\n> seems definitely be memory related. Note that it does not really seems\n> to be dependend on buffer-settings, but really on disk caches.\n> \n> additional info:\n> \tthe index on this table is around 155 Meg...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> The char2,4,8,16 types seem to have no value-added over the\n> better-supported char(), varchar(), text types; I am considering\n> removing them from the backend, and instead have the parser\n> transparently translate the types into varchar() (or char() - I'm not\n> certain which is a b...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ran some timing tests to check the performance of varchar() vs char16.\nThe results of the test indicate that there is no difference in\nperformance (within the timing scatter of the tests):\n\nchar16\tvc(16)\n 0.99s\t 1.05s\t1 row (this measures startup time, not types)\n39.29s\t39.28s\t~6...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On the other hand, if I do a count(*) on '^ric', his takes consequently\n> around 1:30 mins, no matter how often I run it. This returns 7866.\n> \n> A search on count(*) of '^lling' and '^tones' takes around 2.5 secs after\n> running it several times.\n\nSince postgres will still read the d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us):\n> I assume you are asking of attlen for char() and varchar() have the max\n> length. The answer is now NO. They are varlena structures like text,\n> and so have a attlen of -1. Atttypmod for that pg_attribute row now has\n> the defined le...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> > Will there be a warning about using a \"depreciated type\" in 6.4 or are\n> > we going to have this gunking up the grammer forever? :)\n> \n> Good idea. Then we can pull it out of the grammar sometime later. Now,\n> if these types are in a loadable module, then we can't actually do\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI was just reading new KUBL documentation (www.kubl.com) and I found an\ninteresting feature there.\n\nShortly speaking, it allows for checkpointing and reading without\nlocking at all. I was thinking about something similiar in Postgres.\nWhile there was timetravel it was relativel...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anybody know why getrusage() in backend/port/getrusage.c is\nremoved (surrounded by #if 0)?\n\nSome ports including Solaris 2.4, NEWS OS 6 (I'm trying now) etc. need \ngetrusage().\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:13:54 +0900", "msg_from":...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRedirected to 'the proper list' - pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n\nOn Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Chris Albertson wrote:\n\n> Also, is anyone working on storage mangers? I was thinking that\n> a raw partition manager would be good to have. Could be faster\n> then one that uses the file system. Give...
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[ { "msg_contents": "> From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)\n> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:37:59 -0800 (PST)\n\n...\n> > Good question. I don't see one, but the config stuff is not familiar\n> > ground. There is reference to \"sco\" on line 85 of\n> > \n> > src/include/utils/memutils.h - \"#if ! defined(sco)\"\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Right now: yes, but I would like to see the char() type changed to a fixed length type (which it really is)\n> then it would have the length in attlen. Right now the length for char and varchar is in atttypmod.\n> \n\nAgain, we can do this, but we then have to have atttypmod available in\na...
[ { "msg_contents": "Redirected to 'the proper list' - pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n\nOn Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Chris Albertson wrote:\n\n> Also, is anyone working on storage mangers? I was thinking that\n> a raw partition manager would be good to have. Could be faster\n> then one that uses the file system. Give i...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > \n> > > Will there be a warning about using a \"depreciated type\" in 6.4 or are\n> > > we going to have this gunking up the grammer forever? :)\n> > \n> > Good idea. Then we can pull it out of the grammar sometime later. Now,\n> > if these types are in a loadable module, then we can't ac...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a xpg_user file all my database directories.\n\nSeems initdb is creating it. Any way to prevent it from being created?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > OK, please tell me what macro is a monster, and what define I can check\n> > > to see if I am using the SCO/Microsoft/piece-O-junk :-) compiler, and I\n> > > will take a crack at making a static function out of the macro and send\n> > > you a patch to test.\n> > \n> > src/include/access...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n as I proposed, I'm now starting on the PL/pgSQL loadable\n procedural language. As far as I'm now I have a pl_handler\n with an independent flex/bison parser that can parse a\n rudimentary implementation of the language. The next step is\n to start on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:43:19 +0900", "msg_from": "Kyungsoo Jeong <ksjeong@ilju.co.kr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've noticed recently that after making certain changes to the\ndatabase (adding indices, attributes) they aren't immediately known\nabout. for example, I add an attribute, then try to update that\nattribute it tells me it doesn't exist. if I exist psql and start a\nnew connection all is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Steve Tarkalson wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> thanks for your response to my questions. We are\n> reviewing our backup/vacuum procedures in light of\n> your information.\n> \n> I/O subsys is SCSI, comprised of (8) 4Gb Seagates on\n> (2) DPT controllers in a RAID 5 configura...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHas anyone peeked that this to see if it can help make postgresql more\nstable in the face of a system crash or power loss?\n\nhttp://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/rvm_manual.html\n\n\"RVM provides an unstructured recoverable virtual memory.\nThe recoverable storage is represented by Unix fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhat do you all think about the fact that cast(anytype as varchar)\nresults in a call to a procedure that is not creatable with 'create\nfunction'? Perhaps we should re-think our casting implementation,\nmaybe one that isn't based on just rewriting itself into a function\ncall :) If I want...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Someone gave a hint about global variables existing during a\n> session. What is a session than? One transaction? The\n> backends lifetime? \n\nThat was me. A session is one client connection to the database from\nthe connect to the disconnect (the lifetime of one postgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Please comment/suggest !\n\nI think it would be good, if Oracle PL/SQL could be easily converted to this new language.\nSince this PL/SQL is what binds people to Oracle most. But only thinking about this makes\nme shudder ...\n\nAndreas\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:16:25 +-1...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> As indicated above there is an ELOG statement that can\n>> throw messages into the PostgreSQL elog mechanism.\n>> \n>> ELOG level 'format' [identifiers];\n> ^^^^^^^^^^\n>NO, pls - too postgres-ish! Just let ABORT to have 'format' ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Returning from the function\n>\n> RETURN <expr>;\n>\n> The function terminates and the value of <expr> will be\n> returned to the upper executor. The return value of a\n> function cannot be undefined. If control reaches the end\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > If char2 et al are going completely from 6.4, I think it would be sensible\n> > for pg_dump to filter these types and change them to char(2) et al when\n> > it writes the CREATE statments.\n> > \n> \n> That is an interesting idea, but what about applications that use them? \n> I think we ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently trying to get ecpg more in line with the backends parser.\nDoing so I found ecpg accepts a syntax the backend doesn't. It's 'commit\nwork release' which is accepted for compatibility with Oracle. How about\nallowing this in the backend, too?\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I forgot one more question. What exactly happens inside the backend when\nBEGIN is entered? Right now ecpg doesn't know about this at all. If there is\nsome action I think I should add this to ecpg, i.e. a BEGIN causes a PQexec\ncall with the 2nd parameter = 'begin'.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Mich...
[ { "msg_contents": "Forget about my last question. I found the begin call in ecpglib.c. It doesn\nwhat you expect from a embedded SQL preprocessor, it starts a new\ntransaction as soon as one ends. Nevertheless I thought about accepting\nexplicit begin calls in the new version. But they will always generate a\nw...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think we should depreciate the BEGIN/END keywords in SQL to allow them\nto be used for the new PL/SQL. So definitely leave them out of ecpg now.\nOnly accept BEGIN WORK and BEGIN TRANSACTION. (do a sequence of commit work; begin work) \nBTW.: why is a transaction always open ? A lot of prog...
[ { "msg_contents": "I agree with BEGIN/END being used for PL/pgSQL. But that means I have to\nadd it to ecpg to start a block of PL/pgSQL, e.g. to call a stored\nprocedure in ORACLE I need PL/SQL in C.\n\nAFAIK there is no transaction start command in SQL standard anymore.\nJust issue commit and your transaction...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do you set autocommit off in ORACLE embedded SQL? I only know this\nfrom ODBC.\n\nMichael\n\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuer...
[ { "msg_contents": "jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) wrote:\n\n> But I would like to have some discussion on language itself.\n> So I wrote down what I had in mind. The document is appended\n> below.\n>\n> Please comment/suggest !\n>\n> Someone gave a hint about global variables existing during...
[ { "msg_contents": "> How can I use composite types?\n> If I create two tables like this:\n> create table A ( a int, b int);\n> create table D ( a A, b int);\n> I would expect to be able to\n> insert into D (a.a, a.b, b) values (1,2,3);\n> and\n> select a.a, a.b, b from D;\n> That...
[ { "msg_contents": "How do you add entries to existing groups???\nIt seems that inserts replaces the grolist completly.\n\nI'm using perl to extract the whole grolist, add to it as a perl list\nthen replace it in the db using an insert command. Is there a better\nway, if so what's the systax.\n\nMy intention is ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >I'll have to guess:\n> >You are running glibc2 on Linux, and it is earlier than full 2.0.7.\n> >The solution, if you are running Debian or RH, is to upgrade your\n> >library. The last time I looked a RH rpm was available at\n> >//ftp.redhat.com/home/gafton/glibc/ (or something like that).\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Andreas wrote:\n> >\n> > > Returning from the function\n> > >\n> > > RETURN <expr>;\n> > >\n> > > The function terminates and the value of <expr> will\n> be\n> > > returned to the upper executor. The return value of\n> a\n> > > fun...
[ { "msg_contents": "REGARDING postgre install/perl interface\n\nHello,\n\nI'm having trouble installing the perl interface to postgresql. Postgres\nseems to have installed correctly. The regression tests worked as documented\nafter the install.\n\nOne quirk with psql though is that if I don't sp...
[ { "msg_contents": "> PL/pgSQL\n> A procedural language for the PostgreSQL RDBMS\n> 1st draft\n>\n> Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>\n>\n\nI see the EXCEPTION handling feature is missing from the draft. It is very\nuseful...
[ { "msg_contents": "****************************************************************\nAny idea when postgresql v6.3 will work on Alpha Digital Unix?\n****************************************************************\n-David\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:07:40 -0600", "msg_from": "David Phan <dpha...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Zeugswetter Andreas wrote:\n\n> I think we should depreciate the BEGIN/END keywords in SQL to allow them\n> to be used for the new PL/SQL. So definitely leave them out of ecpg now.\n> Only accept BEGIN WORK and BEGIN TRANSACTION. (do a sequence of commit work; begin work)...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > \n> > I've noticed recently that after making certain changes to the\n> > database (adding indices, attributes) they aren't immediately known\n> > about. for example, I add an attribute, then try to update that\n> > attribute it tells me it doesn't exist. if I exist psql and start a\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Continuing the thread about checkpointing. While I was browsing through\nSQL standard documents I noticed that there are clauses like:\n\nSET TRANSACTION {READ UNCOMMITED|READ COMMITED|READ\nREPEATABLE|SERIALIZABLE}\n\nI was wondering... If we have non-overwriting feature of postgres, we\nwou...
[ { "msg_contents": "test=> create sequence mytest MINVALUE -234234 CYCLE;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"-\"\n\nIs this the current desired behavior? If so the doc's need to be\nchanged.\nRunning\n\tRH5.0\n\tpg6.3 - rpm from 1998-03-01\n\tgcc 2.7.2.3\n\n\t\t-DEJ\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi !\n\nI've been playing PostgreSQL today, and there are still some places\nwhere you can find Postgres95 mentionned. One place I remember is in\nthe pg_hba.conf copied from src/backend/lib/pg_hba.conf.sample (I\nthink - I say this from memory).\n\nI know it's quite unimportant (hence the su...
[ { "msg_contents": "Added to TODO:\n\n\t* recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have not had a chance yet to browse the postgres code, some silliness about\n> my day job keeps interfering, so it may be a few weeks before I get to this.\n> \n> My thought is that comitting transactions can't release locks until the log\n> is written. So, if the log is not flushed excep...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wholeheartly agree. AFAIK it does nothing else, but ORACLE likes it.\nAnd most users have experience in ORACLE.\n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "We, that is ecpg, will need BEGIN and END to include blocks of Pl/pgSQL.\nI think this can be modelled after ORACLE's PL/SQL. in your embedded SQL\ncode you say:\n\n\t...\n\texec sql begin;\n\t\t<some PL/SQL code, for instance the call of a stored\nprocedure>\n\texec sql end;\n\t...\n\nAnd I'...
[ { "msg_contents": "It has input, input/output and output variables.\n\nMichael\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile finding out more about powers of postgresql I encountered the\nfollowing:\n\n<PSQL SESSION>\ncreate table t(f1 int, f2 t);\n</PSQL SESSION>\n\nThis gives an error message:\n\n\"type name lookup of t failed\".\n\nHowever according to the comments for the function \"BuildDescForRe...
[ { "msg_contents": "> 2. I still suggest to implement it in a way that leaves the door open\n> to not have an oid for every table/tuple per default.\n> 3. Tables without oid would simply not have all the OO functionality.\n> tuples without the oid would not exist in the *OO world*\n> 4. I think it is val...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>\nTo: Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>\nCc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>;\nAndreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>;\npgsql-hackers@hub.org <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>\nDate: zondag 15 ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>\nTo: PostgreSQL-development <hackers@postgresql.org>\nCc: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nDate: zondag 15 maart 1998 22:24\nSubject: Re: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] text should be a blob field\n\n\n>> Since t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIf I create a table with a datetime field with a default of 'now', every insert\nthe value is the time of table creation instead of the time of insert, which is how it behaved\nin previous releases (I think this was even documented).\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:46:54 -0800", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Nice to see the MySQL crashme page has updated to its PostgreSQL title\nto PostgreSQL 6.3, but it seems nonee of the items haven't been updated\nfor this release, http://www.tcx.se/crash-me.html.\n\nI see no mention of the new subselects, and it says we don't support\ncomments as --. And I s...
[ { "msg_contents": "How are you finding the speed of the 6.3 release. People are reporting\nmuch better performance with it, and I can see you ran your speed test\non the 6.3 final release.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > \tI'm not quite sure I follow this...in a multi-cpu environment,\n> > > would process_yield() introduce a problem? *raised eyebrow*\n> > \n> > Probably. I would leave the code as-is for multi-cpu systems.\n> \n> \tSo...how would we d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone want to comment on this?\n\n> \n> \n> ============================================================================\n> POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE\n> ============================================================================\n> \n> \n> Your name\t\t: Ad...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\n(I lost a block of mail a while back, so if this is 'old hat,',\nplease let me know)\n\nWell, my eyes are about crossed, but I believe that I've found\nPART of the problem with initdb in 6.3 on the DEC Alpha. (I'm\nrunning Digital Unix 3.2, rather than 4...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Does anyone want to comment on this?\n> \n> > Summary: Grant select to other user removes owner select permission\n> > \n> > Operating System : Linux 2.0.33 Elf Slackware\n> > \n> > PostgreSQL version : 6.3\n> > \n> > If a user creates a table, and then grants select privs to another ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm having trouble testing the pre-6.3 sources. I've tried the Jan, 15 and\nJan, 1 sources, and both give the following error:\n\ngmake[3]: Entering directory\n`/usr/local/pgsql.beta/src/pgsql/src/backend/access\n/common'\ncc -I../../../include -I/usr/local/include -DNOFIXADE -Dalpha -I../.....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThis is going to be slightly painful to do, since it has to be done\nmanually, but I've put up a patch against v6.3 based on reports that have\ncome in since it was released 2 weeks ago.\n\nThe patch is purely a *test*...do not use it production yet, I just want\nto know whether it works fi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n\n\nI have a table called files which is owned by the postgres user. I give\naccess to hostadm\nfor INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE to hostadm. Then hostadm does a copy from stdin\nusing a program\nthat I wrote in C using libpq. Once this copy occurs, the ACL on the table\nfiles is set so that hosta...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > If I create a table with a datetime field with a default of 'now', \n> > every insert the value is the time of table creation instead of the \n> > time of insert, which is how it behaved in previous releases (I\n> think \n> > this was even documented).\n> \n> I can't recall it ever workin...
[ { "msg_contents": "hello all,\n\nyep, i'm new to postgres so please bare with me. if this isn't the\ncorrect place to ask these questions, please point me in the right\ndirection.\n\nfirst and foremost,\n\ni need to have a field (say pin) that is the primary key of a given\nrelation. each time a record gets a...
[ { "msg_contents": "> *NOTE: This is not to be discussed in any other mailing list, period,\n> or\n> you will lose your secret decoder ring, and we'll have to cut\n> off\n> your hands so that you can't do the secret handshake anymore*\n> \nBut I don't have a decoder ring *sniff*. I can wait till S...