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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nMy name is Daniel �kerud, a swedish studen, writing an essay for my exam.\nThe label will be something like: \"Database algorithms\".\nI know it is a complex task, and will ofcourse, as soon as possible,\nspecify more preciesly what it will be about.\n\nI have thoughts about writing ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nI came across an anomaly yesterday which I would like clarified. I am using\n6.5.3 but I don't know whether this is version specific.\n\nI created a new db user with a name that was 14 characters long, I allowed\ncreateuser to also create a dbase of the dame name. So far so good. There\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nMy name is Daniel �kerud, a swedish studen, writing an essay for my exam.\nThe label will be something like: \"Database algorithms\".\nI know it is a complex task, and will ofcourse, as soon as possible,\nspecify more preciesly what it will be about.\n\nI have thoughts about writing ... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed the other day that one of my pg databases was slow, so I ran\nvacuum on it, which brought a question to mind: why the need? I looked\nat my oracle server and we aren't doing anything of the sort (that I can\nfind), so why does pg need it? Any info?\n\nThanks,\n- brandon\n\n\nb... |
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"msg_contents": "For example\n\ncreate table testTable (\nid integer,\nname char(20)\n);\n\nan ASCII file format with field separator \"|\" is\n\n1|Hello|\n2|Again|\n......\n\nThere is a way to do this in Oracle, Sybase, Informix and MySQL.\nBut I want to know how to do this in PostgreSQL.\n\nPlease don't tel... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\t\tWhere can I find documentation on WAL, TOAST and how to configure the \npg_hda.conf file?\n\nSaludos... ;-)\n\n-- \nSystem Administration: It's a dirty job, \nbut someone told I had to do it.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\nMart�n Marqu�s\t\t\t... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been looking into Brian Hirt's complaint that 7.0.3 and 7.1 are\nlots slower than 7.0.2 in planning big joins. The direct cause is that\nsince we now deduce implied equality clauses, the system has more\npotential join paths than it used to --- for example, given \"WHERE\na.x = b.y AND ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI need a little help on the format of the postgres tables.\n\nI've got this wonderfully corrupted database where just about everything is\nfubar. I've tried a number of things to get it back using postgres and\nrelated tools with no success. It looks like most of the data is there, but... |
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"msg_contents": " I need a little help on the format of the postgres tables.\n\n I've got this wonderfully corrupted database where just about everything is\n fubar. I've tried a number of things to get it back using postgres and\n related tools with no success. It looks like most of the data is there, but\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I still don't see how dirty reads can solve the RI problems.\n> If Xact A deletes a PK while Xact B inserts an FK, one of\n> them will either see the new reference or the PK gone. But\n> from a transactional POV it depends on if the opposite Xact\n> finally com... |
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"msg_contents": "I seem to miss the announce of beta testing of 7.1. Could someone\nplease give me a copy of the announcement?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:00:45 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "pg_options.sample coming with 7.0.x does not work because:\n\n1) it exceeds 4096 bytes while read_pg_options() reads only first 4096\n bytes of it.\n\n2) it allows spaces around \"=\" while parese_options() does not.\n\nApparently the sample file was brought in without enough testings when\... |
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"msg_contents": "Althoug this happens on old 6.5.3, I would like to know if this has\nbeen already fixed...\n\nHere is the scenario:\n\n1) before vacuum, table A has 8850 tuples.\n\n2) vacuum on table A makes postgres crashed.\n\n3) it crashes at line 1758:\n\n\tAssert(num_moved == checked_moved);\n\n\tI exam... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI am adressing this email to this mailinglist due to the lack of some\naddress to post euphoric feedback to. Let me tell you my story:\n\nThis february I began working on a web-application using PHP and a\nSQL-Database. My problem was to evaluate the right one:\n\nInterbase was at ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Yes, postgresql requires vacuum quite often otherwise queries and\n> > updates start taking ungodly amounts of time to complete. If you're\n> > having problems because vacuum locks up your tables for too long\n> > you might want to check out:\n> \n> But why? I don't know of other data... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI just have installed Vadim's patch for speeding up vacuum.\nAnd have quite strange problem.\nI have quite small table:\n[root@mx src]# ls -l /home/postgres/data/base/db/users*\n-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4120576 Dec 14 08:48 \n/home/postgres/data/base/db/users\n-rw------- ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to delete all the records or only one record or insert one\nrecord in a table but\ni'm having this message:\nERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'int4' and 'text'\n You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast\n\nWhat's this means ???\n\nThanks\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhen the filesystem fills and the txlog cannot be written, then the postmaster dies.\n\npostgres@s0188000zeu:/usr/postgres> time echo \"copy journaleintrag from '/tmp/j.unl' delimiters '|';\" | psql cusejoua\nFATAL 2: copy: line 64902, write(logfile 0 seg 2 off 6094848) failed: No space le... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> When the filesystem fills and the txlog cannot be written, \n> then the postmaster dies.\n> \n> postgres@s0188000zeu:/usr/postgres> time echo \"copy \n> journaleintrag from '/tmp/j.unl' delimiters '|';\" | psql cusejoua\n> FATAL 2: copy: line 64902, write(logfile 0 seg 2 off \n> 6094848)... |
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"msg_contents": "when doing txlog switches there seems to be a problem with remembering the \ncorrect = active logfile, when the postmaster crashes.\n\nThis is one of the problems I tried to show up previously:\n\tYou cannot rely on writes to other files except the txlog itself !!!\n\nThus the current way of ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > The tendency here seems to be towards an improved smgr.\n> > > But, it is currently extremely cheap to calculate where a new row\n> > > needs to be located physically. This task is *a lot* more expensive\n> > > in an overwrite smgr.\n> \n> I don't agree. If (as I have proposed) the se... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI have obtained the CRC-64 code used in the SWISS-PROT genetic\ndatabase:\n\n ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/swissprot/Swissknife/SPcrc.tar.gz\n\n(Thanks go to Henning Hermjakob <hhe@ebi.ac.uk> of the European\nBioinformatics Institute.) From the README:\n\n The code in this package ha... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n I have written a 'C' function to be called during INSERT trigger on a\ntable.\n\n Are there any restrictions on the functions that can be called?\n\n I know you can call SPI_* functions. But, can I call PQ* functions ?\ne.g PQsetdb.\n\n Is there any document which describes how... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi there,\nI went thru all the mailing list archives and other\ndocumentation and found the way to increase the max\ntuple size clearly as \" change the BLCKSZ to ....\"\nI did that and even created a new data directory and\ncluster by using init_db but the error \npsql:ins.sql:173: ERROR: T... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > because the cache will be emptied by high priority multiple new rows,\n> > thus writing to the end anyways.\n> \n> Yes, but this only happens when you don't have enought spare idle CPU\n> time. If you are in such situation for long periods, there's nothing you\n> can do, you already hav... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > cusejoua=# update journaleintrag set txt_funktion=trim(txt_funktion);\n> > FATAL 2: write(logfile 0 seg 2 off 4612096) failed: No such file or directory\n> > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.\n> > This probably means the backend terminated abnormally\n> >... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA heap page corruption is not very likely in PostgreSQL because of the\nunderlying page design. Not even on flakey hardware/ossoftware.\n(I once read a page design note from pg 4 but don't exactly remember \nwere or when)\n\nThe point is, that the heap page is only modified in places that w... |
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"msg_contents": "Grzegorz Mucha (mucher@tigana.pl) reports a bug with a severity of 2\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\nOuter joins aren't working with views\n\nLong Description\nIt seems outer joins are not working at all(they work as inner joins so far).\nFor example, see be... |
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"msg_contents": "> It seems that Tom has committed his fixups but we're still waiting\n> on Vadim?\n\nSorry guys, I'm busy with WAL issues currently.\nCRC will require initdb, so it's better to implement it\nfirst...\nAlso, is TOAST-table vacuuming fixed now?\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Also, is TOAST-table vacuuming fixed now?\n> \n> Still broken. Hiroshi had muttered something about fixing \n> the internal commit of VACUUM so that it's more like a real\n> commit --- including advancing the transaction ID --- but\n> still doesn't release the exclusive lock held by VACU... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Sorry guys, I'm busy with WAL issues currently.\n> > CRC will require initdb, so it's better to implement it\n> > first...\n> > Also, is TOAST-table vacuuming fixed now?\n> \n> Can someone please remind me? CRC allows us to know of WAL log is\n> corrupt?\n\nCurrently WAL has no means to ... |
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"msg_contents": "Jan pointed out that elog(FATAL) out of ReverifyMyDatabase() leaves\nshared memory in an un-cleaned-up state (buffer refcounts > 0).\nThere might also be other unaccounted-for problems, I suspect.\nI do not like his fix (heap_endscan before the elog(FATAL)) because\nit only plugs this specifi... |
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"msg_contents": "In recent months there has been a great deal of speculation,\nconfusion and concern raised in the open source community over\nthe roles of commercial companies and the PostgreSQL project.\nThere has also been a lot of curiosity and noise around who \nand what PostgreSQL, Inc. (PgSQL) is... \n... |
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"msg_contents": "> We'd still want XID keys for the locks that are used to wait for a\n> particular transaction to complete (eg when waiting to update \n> a tuple). I think that's OK since VACUUM doesn't need to hold any\n> such locks, but it'd probably mean making separate lmgr API entry\n> points for those ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I can work on this if you don't have time to...\n\nI have no -:)\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:45:10 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>",
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"msg_subject": "RE: TOAST-table vacuuming (was Re: Idea for reducing ... |
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"msg_contents": "peter=# select 1 as current;\n old\n-----\n 1\n\nThis is now the inverse of what it used to do, but it's still not what it\n*should* do. I see someone already tried to fix that (keywords.c 1.76 ->\n1.77, TODO list), but he should try again.\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net ... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom, I see from the CVS logs you say:\n\n Subselects in FROM clause, per ISO syntax: FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias.\n (Don't forget that an alias is required.) Views reimplemented as expanding\n to subselect-in-FROM. Grouping, aggregates, DISTINCT in views actually\n work now (he says optimi... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been getting these for about 6 hours now:\n\ncvs server: [18:58:27] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql\n\nCan someone kill off this lock so I can commit?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Is ther any info on using toast as of yet, and if so where is it hidden to?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs ther any info on using toast as of yet, \nand if so where is it hidden \nto?",
"msg_date": "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:20:00 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"mike\" <matrix@quadrent.net>",
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"msg_contents": "Is ther any info on using toast as of yet, and if so where is it hidden to?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs ther any info on using toast as of yet, \nand if so where is it hidden \nto?",
"msg_date": "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:52:44 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"mike\" <mike@neutrinostudios.com>",
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"msg_contents": "\nHow do I change to digest? The instructions on the website are wrong.\n\n=======================================================================\nPatrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ - http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/\n\n Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.\n -- Rom... |
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"msg_contents": "InQuent Technologies (www.inquent.com) has been using Postgresql for quite a while now on various projects. It also has space in several large data centres. After a brief discussion with my manager, it should be feasible to offer a server and bandwidth to accomplish things which are needed ... |
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"msg_contents": "hi, there!\n\ntest=> create table foo(id int primary key);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'foo_pkey'\nfor table 'foo'\nCREATE\ntest=> insert into foo values(1);\nINSERT 88959 1\ntest=> create table bar(id int references foo);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create i... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nI've still got something I can't seem to get. In my test cases with simple\ntables the first uint16 of tuple data after the header contained the length\nof the tuple. In this case I can't seem to figure out what the value F24D\nstands for when I'd expect it's length to be 0800.\n\nThe ... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is the list of features in 7.1.\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylva... |
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"msg_contents": "I have just noticed that oper_select_candidate()'s first try at\nresolving unknown-type inputs (parse_oper.c lines 372-410 in current\nsources) is entirely redundant, because the case it is looking for\nhas already been tried by oper_exact(). I propose removing that\ncode, to make it more li... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok, just a small issue here:\nI'm running:\nselect attname,attlen,attalign from pg_attribute where attnum>0 and attrelid\n= (select oid from pg_class where relname = 'users') order by attnum;\n\nThis is to get the name, length of that attribute and the alignment.\nThe alignment seems to be wr... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been sneaking a peek at the Great Bridge documentation regarding the\npg_dumpaccounts utility. You may recall that I added the pg_dumpall\n--accounts-only option to provide the same functionality. But it occurred\nto me that the name is wrong.\n\nThe way it reads in the GB docs is that... |
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"msg_contents": "We need additions to alter_table.sgml for the new OWNER option mention\nin the features list.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've been running pgsql database since 6.3 with sizes ranging from a few\nmegabytes to a few hundred megabytes. And ever since 6.5 came out I've\nhad almost no crashes. Until now.\n\nWe recently installed a small server for an external party to develop\nwebsites on. This machine, a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\nOn LM 7.2-devel pgsql7.03 needs libc.so.6 GLIB2_2.\nWould anybody reply what packages do I need to download with \nglibc-2.2.21.rpm ?\nThanks\nLucian\n\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:43:23 +0200",
"msg_from": "vs <vsystems@xnet.ro>",
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"msg_contents": "\nA heap page corruption is not very likely in PostgreSQL because of the\nunderlying page design. Not even on flakey hardware/ossoftware.\n(I once read a page design note from pg 4 but don't exactly remember \nwere or when)\n\nThe point is, that the heap page is only modified in places that w... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\n\n Reading the documentation, I see that OIDs are unique through the\nwhole database.\n But since OIDs are int4, does that limit the number of rows I can\nhave in a database to 2^32 = 4 billion ?\n\nBest Regards,\nHowe\n\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "Thanks. Applied.\n\n\n> \n> Ok, sorry but now I use cvs diff instead of difforig (which use -c by \n> default). Here the same with -c.\n> \n> \n> thanks\n> \n> cyril\n> \n> >Sorry, I need a context diff, diff -c. It makes sure that the lines are\n> >added to the proper p... |
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"msg_contents": "> The point is, that the heap page is only modified in places that were\n> previously empty (except header). All previous row data stays exactly \n> in the same place. Thus if a page is only partly written \n> (any order of page segments) only a new row is affected.\n\nException: PageRepairFr... |
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"msg_contents": "(plz cc me on your replies, i'm not on pgsql-hackers for some reason.)\n\nhttp://www.vix.com/~vixie/results-psql.png shows a gnuplot of the wall time\nof 70K executions of \"pgcat\" (shown below) using a CIDR key and TEXT value.\n(this is for storing the MAPS RSS, which we presently have in f... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > The only source of serious problems is thus a bogus write of a page\n> > segment (100 bytes ok 412 bytes chunk actually written to disk),\n> > but this case is imho sufficiently guarded or at least detected\n> > by disk hardware. \n> \n> With full page logging after checkpoint we would ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all, and mainly postresql developpers,\n\nI've been reading old posts about the libpq interface related to multi-process\napplication. The main problem being that after a fork, each process has a DB\nconnexion, actually the same. If one closes it, the other one remains in a\nunknown or not... |
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"msg_contents": "HI all,\n\nI've encountered a database freeze and found it's due\nto the reset of connection after abort.\n \nThe following is a part of postmaster log.\nA new backend(pid=395) started immedaitely after\na backend(pid=394) abort. OTOH postmaster tries\nto kill all backends to cleanup shared m... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIn InitPostgres()(postinit.c) I see the following code.\n\n RelationCacheInitialize(); /* pre-allocated reldescs created here\n*/\n InitializeTransactionSystem(); /* pg_log,etc init/crash recovery\nhere */\n\ninit_irels() is at the end of RelationCacheInitialize() ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am doing some testing and development on Postgres.\n\nIs there, by chance, a good source of data which can be used as a test\ndatabase? I have been using a music database, but it is proprietary, and\nmakes me uncomfortable to post public tests.\n\nWhat do you guys use?\n\nPerhaps we can cre... |
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"msg_contents": "\nGiven this basic SQL statement:\n\nselect * from table where col = function() ;\n\nThere are three basic types of SQL behaviors that should be able to be\nperformed.\n\n(1) \"function()\" returns a single value. Postgres should be able to\nunderstand how to optimize this to be: \"select * f... |
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"msg_contents": "my cgi program is test.cgi:\n#######################\nrequire \"./connectdb.pl\";\n&connectdatabase();\n$query=\"select count(*) from messages\";\n$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);\n$sth->execute();\n$count=$sth->fetchrow_array();\nprint \"Content-type: text/html\\n\\n\";\nprint <<\"TAG\";\n<html>\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello:\n\nwhile compiling in windows 2000 got this error:\n\nYS.o hash/SUBSYS.o init/SUBSYS.o misc/SUBSYS.o mmgr/SUBSYS.o \nsort/SUBSYS.o time/\nSUBSYS.o\nmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/postgresql-7.0.\n3/src/backend/utils'\nmake -C ../utils dllinit.o\nmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > The point is, that the heap page is only modified in \n> > > places that were previously empty (except header).\n> > > All previous row data stays exactly in the same place.\n> > > Thus if a page is only partly written\n> > > (any order of page segments) only a new row is affected.\n> >... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > AFAIR, none of the index access methods except btree \n> > > handle NULLs at all --- they just ignore NULL values\n> > > and don't store them in the index.\n...\n> \n> and what does this error means ?\n> \n> create table rtree_test ( r box );\n> copy rtree_test from stdin;\n> \\N\n> ...... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Reading the documentation, I see that OIDs are unique through\nthe\n> > whole database.\n> > But since OIDs are int4, does that limit the number of rows I\ncan\n> > have in a database to 2^32 = 4 billion ?\n>\n> Yep.\n>\n> Thanks for the answer - although that concerns me ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tI have had the time to test today's (12/19) snapshot on my\nLinux/Alpha and the good news is that only two regression tests are\nfailing. The bad news is that these regression tests do not fail on\nLinux/Intel. :( [1]\n\tSpecifically, the oid and misc regression tests failed. Here are\nth... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs it correct behaviour that unnamed table-level check constraints get the\nnames '$1', '$2', '$3', etc. in Postgres 7.0.3???\n\nEg, using table constraints:\n----------------------------\n\ntest=# create table test (temp char(1) NOT NULL, CHECK (temp IN ('M',\n'F')));\nCREATE\ntest=# ... |
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"msg_contents": "Is this bad, or are there expected to be known problems like this for\nOBSD?\n\n7.1beta1 had roughly the same errors..\n\n\n----------------- BEGIN -----------------------\n\nbpalmer@mizer:~/PG7.1/postgresql-snapshot>uname -a\nOpenBSD mizer 2.8 GENERIC#399 i386\n\n\nbpalmer@mizer:~/PG7.1/pos... |
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"msg_contents": "As part of our development, one of our programmers created a new database\ntype, plus operators and functions to go with it. One of the things he did\nwas this:\n\nCREATE OPERATOR testbit (\n leftarg = bitset,\n rightarg = int4,\n procedure = testbit,\n commutator = testbit\n);\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI think it would be convenient to add a sequence number on each mail\non the list. I have been always annoyed by identifying a mail in the\narchive, \"the mail is from foo around 2000/12/20...\" Rather than\nthat, it would be nice to say \"the mail is 1234567th mail on the\nhackers lis... |
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"msg_contents": "In our test environment, we performed the following set of commands (given\nthat the in/out functions already exist):\n\nCREATE TYPE testtype (\n internallength = 4,\n input = test_in,\n output = test_out\n);\n\nCREATE FUNCTION test_function(testtype, testtype)\n RETURNS bool\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok, after being a little quiet recently things are picking up (well at least\nfor now).\n\nAnyhow, here's whats happening on the JDBC front:\n\n1) ANT vs Make\n\nAs someone (sorry forgotten your name) suggested using ANT instead of Make\nfor building the driver. Well yesterday was pretty quie... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been experimenting with the SSL connection support. Unfortunately I can't\nget the postmaster to start because the instructions in the documentation for\nsetting up a certificate don't work.\n\nThey say:\n=============================================================================\nFor... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Has anyone successfully done this? and if so, how is the \n> documentation\n> > quoted above inforrect?\n> \n> When I did my testing, I just took some cert's that I had generated\n> through Apache's make certificate command - just don't enter \n> a passphrase,\n> then copy the certificate... |
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"msg_contents": "the prior results (http://www.vix.com/~vixie/pgsql-results.png) showed:\n\n\t~70ms usual INSERT time (~1.5sec -> ~1.25sec occasional)\n\t~250ms usual SELECT time (~1.5sec occasional)\n\nchanging the attribute i key by to be PRIMARY KEY improved things a lot;\nthe new results (http://www.vix.c... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed contrib/rserv/ which provides replication capabilities to\nPostgreSQL. The code was developed by Vadim, with some script and\nwrapper support from myself. The current version has been tested under\nLinux only, though I know of no reason why it won't work elsewhere.\nRequires Po... |
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"msg_contents": "I've committed to contrib/mysql/ a utility called mysql2pgsql to help\nwith database conversions from MySQL. It requires perl5 and not much\nelse besides a MySQL schema dump file.\n\nThanks to Tim Perdue for testing and feedback.\n\n - Thomas\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I have this table on postgres-7.0.3\n\nCREATE TABLE ciudad (\n id_ciudad SERIAL,\n ciudad\t VARCHAR(60)\n);\n\nGRANT ALL ON ciudad TO martin;\n\nCREATE INDEX ciudad_idx ON ciudad (ciudad);\n\nAnd I try to insert a value using this query:\n\nINSERT INTO ciudad (ciudad) VA... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning ...\n\n\tJust to let ppl know what I'm using as milestones for beta\nreleases:\n\nbeta2 - vadim finishes WAL stuff he's currently working on\nbeta3 - vadim incorporates LAZY extension to VACUUM\nbeta4 - a week later to clean out any bugs as a result of beta3\nbeta5 - first release c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nAnyone have any clues why such crap can happend?\n\nslygreetings=# vacuum verbose analyze statistic;\nNOTICE: --Relation statistic --\nNOTICE: Pages 498: Changed 1, reaped 490, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 1167: Vac 0, \nKeep/VTL 1110/1110, Crash 0, UnUsed 76888, MinLen 48, MaxLen 48; Re-u... |
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"msg_contents": "\tListAdmin: Ignore the stalled/delayed posts from me earlier.\nAccidently posted with the wrong from address.... :(\n\nOn Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net> writes:\n> > INSERT INTO OID_TBL(f1) VALUES ('-1040');\n> > ERROR: oidin: error reading \"-1... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> select * from table where col = function() ;\n\n> (2) \"function()\" returns a number of values that are independent of the\n> query. Postgres should be able to optimize this to be: \"select * from\n> table where col in (val1, val2, val3, ..valn).\" I guess Postgres can\n> loop until done... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Not sure what to do about this. If you had actually typed 2^64-1040,\n> it would be appropriate for the code to reject it. But I hadn't\n> realized that the extra check would introduce a discrepancy between\n> 32- and 64-bit machines for negative inputs. Maybe it'd be \n> better just\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > VACUUM ANALYZE after the INSERTs made no performance difference at all,\n> > which is good since no other modern database requires anything to be done\n> > to improve performance after a large number of INSERTs. (i can understand\n> > why COPY would need it, but not INSERT.)\n\nI kno... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > IIRC oid uses int4in/int4out and those should definitely be able to parse\n> > -1040 into a 4 byte signed long without platform dependency, no ?\n> \n> Tom Lane changed this recently to have OID use its own i/o routines.\n\nReading the code, I don't understand it. Why would strtoul retu... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nwhile porting our patches for GiST from 7.0.3 to 7.1 we\ngot a problem with equal operator for _int4 - \nsrc/backend/access/gist.c:540\n\n /* did union leave decompressed version of oldud unchanged? */\n FunctionCall3(&giststate->equalFn,\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've very roughly (first time I've tried anything but hello world c) hacked up inline comments.\n\npg_dump -I\n\nExports the comments generated through COMMENT ON in an appropriate manner (line above) the item with a -- in front. More or less a self documenting dump, or atleast an attempt at... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there anything for encoding a PGresult struct into something I\ncan pass between processes? Like turning it into a platform\nindependant stream that I can pass between machines?\n\n-- \n-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]\n\"I have the heart of a child; I keep it... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n-- \nPeter Mount\nEnterprise Support Officer, Maidstone Borough Council\nEmail: petermount@maidstone.gov.uk\nWWW: http://www.maidstone.gov.uk\nAll views expressed within this email are not the views of Maidstone Borough\nCouncil\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Peter Eisentraut ... |
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"msg_contents": "It looks Ok, but it has one unnecessary step. There is no need to do the \"mv\nprivkey.pem cert.pem.pw\" if you just use \"privkey.pem\" in the following\nopenssl command (e.g. openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out cert.pem\".\nBut there is nothing wrong with it as it is now, as far as I can see.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nMerry Christmass and Happy New Year 2001 ;)\n\nR. \"BoBsoN\" Partyka\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:41:59 +0100 (CET)",
"msg_from": "Partyka Robert <bobson@saturn.alpha.pl>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "Merry X-Mass"
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"msg_contents": "L... |
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"msg_contents": "It no longer seems to be possible to refer to a table, which is an\nancestor of any other, in a referential integrity constraint.\n\nIn this example, \"person\" is the ancestor of several other tables:\n\n\nbray=# create table junk (id char(10) constraint junk_id_person references \nperson*(i... |
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"msg_contents": "The lack of a permissions check for creating a child table means that\nin current sources, any user can inject data of his choosing into\nanother user's tables. Example:\n\nUser A:\n\nregression=> create table foo (f1 text);\nCREATE\nregression=> insert into foo values ('good data');\nINSERT... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi !!\nI'm using PostgreSQL 7.0.2 with Linux Mandrake 7.2, and not know as send\ngeneral data type or BLOB's to my win32 ODBC driver (PostODBC) from Visual\nFox Pro.\n\nIf yours have examples or source code of apps that sending/receive big\nbinaries data via ODBC, write me !!..\n\nHelp me fr... |
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"msg_contents": "PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on sparc-sun-solaris2.6, compiled by gcc 2.95.2\n\ndrop table tryam;\ncreate table tryam (x text);\ninsert into tryam values ('22');\ninsert into tryam values ('1');\n\ntest=# select x from tryam union select x from tryam;\n x \n----\n 22\n 1\n(2 rows)\n\ntest=# select x fro... |
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"msg_contents": "> PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on sparc-sun-solaris2.6, compiled by gcc 2.95.2\n...\n> test=# select x from tryam union select x from tryam order by \n> length(x);\n> x \n> ----\n> 1\n> 22\n> 1\n> 22\n> (4 rows)\n\n7.1current:\n\nvac=# select x from tryam union select x from tryam order by length(x... |
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"msg_contents": "What is the status of the genetic algorithm query optimizer? Is this\nsupposed to work well on many-table joins, or has it fallen out of favor\nor in disrepair? [I'm needing to optimize some large, many-table-join\nqueries and wondering time spent configuring/understanding geqo would be\nfr... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I am using the following command to check out the 7.1 branch of\nPostgreSQL.\ncvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot co -r REL7_1 pgsql\n\nThis is the error I am getting.\ncvs [server aborted]: cannot write /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permis... |
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