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"msg_contents": "I'm wanting to run pgsql 7.0.3 release and pgsql current cvs on the same \nmachine without them conflicting (if possible). Can someone explain what I \nshould look out for when trying to do this?\n\nI assume I'll have to configure --with-pgport=5433 (something other than \n5432).\n\nHow will... |
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"msg_contents": "Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU\nreadline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a\nGNU license.\n\nObviously, we could remove readline hooks and ship a BSD line editing\nlibrary, but does this make any sense to you? It doesn't ma... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > >\n> > > Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU\n> > > readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a\n> > > GNU license.\n> > >\n> > > Obviously, we could remove readline hooks a... |
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"msg_contents": "for my pgcat utility i now know i have to use \\nnn octal quoting for\nnonprintables in the generated INSERT commands. but in testing, i\nfound the following oddity. this is in 7.1-b1 (cvs-current).\n\n\tvixie=> create table foo ( bar text );\n\tCREATE\n\tvixie=> insert into foo values ( 'a... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey... I'm just learning how to do all this db stuff and I'm kinda\ncrippled because I've never used SQL.\n\nHere is what I'm doing. I've got pgaccess working, it works greate, I\ncreate databases and sql queries with it.\n\nI've got JRun running for my servlet engine, it also works great.\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for intruding, but the following question did not get much \nattention on the \"General\" list. However, I still need the answer ...\n\n</LurkingMode>\n\n<NewbieMode>\n\nCould some kind soul explain this to me ?\n\ntest1=# select distinct \"Cle\" from \"Utilisateurs\";\nCle\n-----\n1\n2... |
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"msg_contents": "I had meant to send this to the list as well.\n\n------- Forwarded Message\n\nDate: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:13:56 +0000\nFrom: \"Oliver Elphick\" <olly@lfix.co.uk>\nTo: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] RI problem with inherited table \n\nTom Lane wrote:\n >Hm. The... |
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"msg_contents": "This line works:\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -N 32 -B 928 -i -S\n-D/home/postgres/pgdev -o \"-F -fs -S 4096\"\n\nWhere as this line:\n\n/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -N 32 -B 1024 -i -S\n-D/home/postgres/pgdev -o \"-F -fs -S 4096\"\n\ndoes not.\n\nAny ideas? \nI have 256M of memory, Re... |
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"msg_contents": "pg_class doesn't seem to have any pointers regarding if the name for an item was automatically generated or was given by the user. If it did store that as a bool, it could be determined whether to use:\n\nCONSTRAINT \"table_pkey\" PRIMARY KEY (\"table\")\n\nor\n\nPRIMARY KEY (\"table\")\n\ni... |
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"msg_contents": " > * mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> [001224 18:06] wrote:\n > > This line works:\n > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -N 32 -B 928 -i -S\n > > -D/home/postgres/pgdev -o \"-F -fs -S 4096\"\n > >\n > > Where as this line:\n > >\n > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -N 32 -B 1024 -i -S\n > > -D/hom... |
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"msg_contents": "Hey there,\n\nI get this error but I think this is supposed to work:\n\nThe table has some duplicates such as Munich I want the number of distinct cities:\n\nabenew=> select * from ct;\nname| age| city\n---- +--- +------\njow | 10| london\ntim | 15| paris\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I've been searching the lists and found a similar question but there have no \nreplies.\n\nWhat I would like to be able to do in Postgres is give users/groups the \nability to execute stored procedures on a per procedure basis.\n\nI am looking into the Rules system, thinking that this is ache... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nI have noticed some errors in the 7.1 Documentation.\nSpecifically, in the sections involving inheritance.\n\nIn Chapter 8. it shows syntax of:\n create table <name> UNDER <name> ( ... )\n\nIn Reference Manual CREATE TABLE shows syntax of:\n create table <name> ( ... ) under <name... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been asked by the major PHP developer Rasmus Lerdorf to see if\nthe PostgreSQL/PHP interface needs any improvements.\n\nIs the current PostgreSQL interface module in PHP adequate? Does it\nsupport all the current libpq features?\n\nIf not, would someone submit some patches to the PHP ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > You can remove the randomness by setting the Seed \n> configuration value,\n> \n> True, but that's not the default setup.\n\nI would set Seed per default. Even worse than a bad query path\nis an unpredictable query path. I see no argument, that a random Seed\nwould buy us anything.\n\nA... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> For 7.1, I propose that we only allow creation of child tables to the\n> owner of the parent table.\n\nOr dba. Sounds reasonable, maybe even sufficient to me.\n\n(Informix has a separate right (called under) to grant inheritability to others\n(just to support your separate right point).)\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThere is something busted in the snapshots, that leads to a wrong\nconfigure file. The file is equal to configure.in (not autoconf'ed).\nFirst noticed shortly before Christmas.\n\nAndreas\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:03:30 +0100",
"msg_from": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB <Zeugsw... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> I would set Seed per default. Even worse than a bad query path\n> is an unpredictable query path. I see no argument, that a random Seed\n> would buy us anything.\n\nThis kindof bugs me -- if you leave it stuck at a preset value, it makes it\npossible to never delve into parts of solutio... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\tI have been asked by the major PHP developer Rasmus Lerdorf to see\nif\n\tthe PostgreSQL/PHP interface needs any improvements.\n\n\tIs the current PostgreSQL interface module in PHP adequate? Does it\n\tsupport all the current libpq features?\n\n\nThe only problem we have run into (and I... |
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"msg_contents": "> Reviewed. No problem :-)\n> Would anyone commit it? Thanks.\n\nIs this something to commit to the source tree, or something to post on\nthe postgresql.org web site? We may as well get it on the web site in\neither case. Vince?\n\n - Thomas\n",
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"msg_contents": "After re-reading my original *idea* about using rules to grant access to \nstored procedures, I think the better way would be not to implement the code \nas stored procedures/functions at all. \n\nLeave that for the more complex low-level add-ons to database functionality .\n\nUsing rules an... |
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"msg_contents": "hi,\n\n This is a revised patch that I sent earlier to allow building\npg-7.1 with gcc as well as DEC's cc. I've had good results with this\napplied. Could some other Alpha users try this out. Even better, could\nan Alpha asm guru look over the asm that I'm using (instead of the\noriginal as... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > There is something busted in the snapshots, that leads to a wrong\n> > configure file. The file is equal to configure.in (not autoconf'ed).\n> > First noticed shortly before Christmas.\n> \n> Last week I tried to do a \"make clean\" in some subdirectory that's\n> not cleaned by a toplev... |
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"msg_contents": "just committed. initdb is required.\n*I didn't do any serious tests yet*, simple regression only.\nI'll run more tests in the next couple of days.\nPleeeease, help with this.\n\nVadim\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 28 Dec 2000 05:51:10 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Vadim Mikheev\" <vmikheev@secto... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nWhile working on the next release of Tangram, I have encountered the\nfollowing problem in version 7.0.2. Given the following tables:\n\nSpringfield=> select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been digging into the observed failure\n\nFATAL: Checkpoint lock is busy while data base is shutting down\n\non some Alpha machines. It apparently doesn't happen on all Alphas,\nbut it's quite reproducible on some of them.\n\nThe bottom line turns out to be that on the Alpha hardware,... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIf I want to connect to a Postgresql server on the internet, how do I do it?\n\nWhat protocol do I use? How do I send commands? etc.\n\n=======================================================================\nPatrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ - http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/\n\n Therefor... |
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"msg_contents": "> The bottom line turns out to be that on the Alpha hardware, it is\n> possible for TAS() to fail even when the lock is initially zero,\n> because that hardware's locking protocol will fail to acquire the\n> lock if the ldq_l/stq_c sequence is interrupted. TAS() *must* be\n> called in a retr... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok.\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\n> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:07 PM\n> To: Mikheev, Vadim\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> Subject: Re: Assuming that TAS() will succeed the first time \n> is verboten\n> \n> \n> \n> \"Mikheev, Vad... |
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"msg_contents": "> > The code is based on some odd assumptions. A select() with 0 delay \n> > returns immediately unless there is an interrupt during its \n> > (very short!) time in kernel space.\n> \n> Yeah, I've wondered whether the 0 entries in s_spincycle[] \n> shouldn't be 1. The code author evidently ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI compiled the 7.1 version of the snapshot dated on the December 18 (on i386 \nLinux Red Hat 6.1). \nUsing the notify in the rule actions I get some errors and I suppose they are \nbugs.\n\nThe first one when the rule is triggered: \n\n[postgres@ postgres]$ createdb test\nCREATE DATABA... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Actually, one slocks are held\n> > longer than anothers - probably we should use different delays...\n> \n> I don't understand the last remark. Are you proposing to mix some \n> random numbers into the delays?\n\nNo, use different s_spincycle-s for different slocks.\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": " Date: Friday, December 29, 2000 @ 15:39:06\nAuthor: tgl\n\nUpdate of /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src\n from hub.org:/home/projects/pgsql/tmp/cvs-serv55162/src\n\nModified Files:\n\tMakefile.global.in \n\n----------------------------- Log Message -----------------------------\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "We backup our postgre 7.0.2 databases nightly via a cron script from a\nremote box that calls pg_dump -f filename dbname or something to that\neffect. About a week ago we started running out of disk space and we didn't\nknow it, and pg_dump doesn't report any errors so the cron script didn't... |
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"msg_contents": "With this afternoon's CVS sources, I got a failure in the 'polygon'\nregression test while running the parallel-mode tests:\n\n --\n CREATE TABLE POLYGON_TBL(f1 polygon);\n+ ERROR: heap_update: (am)invalid tid\n INSERT INTO POLYGON_TBL(f1) VALUES ('(2.0,0.0),(2.0,4.0),(0.0,0.0)');\n\n(plu... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n It turns out the problem causing the oid failures is with our \nsnprintf. specifically we are formatting \"%u\" incorrectly:\n\nusing a enhanced-for-testing version of our snprintf I get.\n\nformatting '-1040' with '%lu'\n snprintf = 18446744073709550576\n sprintf = 18446744073709... |
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"msg_contents": "a couple of bugs in new WAL code.\nThanks to Tom for pointing to one of them.\nInitdb is recommended but you can avoid it\nif shutdown old version properly (format of\none of heap log records was changed).\n\nVadim\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 30 Dec 2000 07:44:06 -0800",
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"msg_contents": "Can anybodt give me a few examples on how to use heap_modifytuple() \nefficiently when I do NOT want to modify an attribute through a postgres \nfunction?\n\nAll the examples given in the source seem to use some return of a postgres \nfunction (like current user etc). I just want to insert st... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nsome months ago I've asked for a suggestion for this bug:\n\ncreate table a (\n id serial primary key,\n something text\n);\n\ncreate table b (\n morething text\n) inherits (a);\n\ncreate table c (\n trouble int references b;\n);\nNOTICE: CREATE TABLE will crea... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed today that pg_dumpall from current CVS does *NOT*\ndump a password assiged to the postgres user. \n\nI consider this BAD, since if one has to restore from\na pg_dumpall, one may forget to reset the password. \n\nLER\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~... |
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"msg_contents": "The planregress.sh tests generate errors. Attached is a tar of the \nplanregress directory...\n\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-674... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a line in a PHP script that looks like this:\n\n\t$set=pg_exec($dbconn, \"SET DATESTYLE TO 'European'\"); //Set date format\n\nSince my ISP updated their server, this appears to be ignored as pgsql\nalways returns dates in ISO format.\n\n1. What is the default format of dates returned ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nKarel Zak wrote:\n\n > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Myron Scott wrote:\n >\n >\n >> spinlocks rewritten to mutex_\n >> locktable uses sema_\n >> some cond_ in bufmgr.c\n >\n >\n > Interesting, have you some comperation between IPC PostgresSQl anf\n > your thread based PostgreSQL.\n >\n > Karel\n\nYe... |
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"msg_contents": "I configured postgres 7.0.2 without tcl (or plperl for that matter).\n\nSo I went back and tried to make them. \n\nplperl made fine. No problems adding it to Postgres either.\n\nBut the tcl build fails and I think it is because configure creates an \nerroneous mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh unless U... |
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"msg_contents": "Would people please check the TODO list in pgsql/doc/TODO or on our web\nsite, and let me know if there are any items that need a dash because\nthey are completed in 7.1? I think I may have missed a few.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candl... |
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"msg_contents": "psql: FATAL 1: cannot open /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_database: No such file or directory\n\nand it's true..\n\n% ls /usr/local/pgsql/data/global\n1260 1261 1262 1264 1269 17127 17130 pg_control\n\nsource from Jan 3 15:59 GMT\n\nconfigure ... |
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"msg_contents": "Posting again as even though I receive mail from hackers I am apparently\nnot a member (registered correctly as prlw1@cam.ac.uk - from will say\nprlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk - setting reply-to to prlw1@cam.ac.uk used to get\naround it..)\n\n====\n\npsql: FATAL 1: cannot open /usr/local/pgsql/data/gl... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone can help with that one?\n\nWarning: PostgresSQL query failed: ERROR: cannot find attribute 10 of\nrelation pg_am in [..]\nWarning: 0 is not a PostgresSQL result index in\n\nThanks in advice\n\nineck\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:07:22 +0100",
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"msg_contents": "\n> Any ideas on why this error would occur after dropping an existing\n> database and than re-creating it (createdb)? The only work around so far\n> is to completely destroy the postgres instance and start over. \n> \n> It appears that the pg_database may be getting currupted.\n> \n> Sandy... |
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"msg_contents": "I just ran across this recent example:\n\nIf you perform the following, you get a truncated input:\n\ntest=# create table example (type char(5) NOT NULL);\nCREATE\ntest=# insert into example VALUES ('VOLUME');\nINSERT 156884 1\ntest=# select * from example;\n type\n-------\n VOLUM\n(1 row)\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "> I think some people feel that we ought to raise an error rather than\n> silently truncating the input. However, given that we do intend to\n> truncate the input, it seems to me that applying CHECK constraints\n> post-truncation is the Right Thing. In general a CHECK ought to be\n> applied... |
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"msg_contents": "I dont know if I do something wrong or it is normal for PG :)\nSo\n\ntemplate1=# select version();\n version\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66\n(1 row)\n\nA... |
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"msg_contents": "Please ignore last 2 messages re\n\npsql: FATAL 1: cannot open /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_database: No such file or directory\n\n- I had another old postmaster running...\n\nCheers,\n\nPatrick\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:23:14 +0000",
"msg_from": "Patrick Welche <prlw1@n... |
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"msg_contents": "I have noticed that AND and TRAILING could be made ColLabel's without\nfurther changes. Currently they are completely reserved. (This is\nespecially odd given that OR is a ColLabel.) Would that be okay to\nchange?\n\n(For the interested, the only other completely reserved tokens are TYPE\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I've attached a bit of c code to do md5 checksums on text. There's\nnothing too original here, this was mostly just ripped from rfc1321,\nwith some driver code added for PostgreSQL. Also a Makefile and a test\nschema.\n\nSorry if this isn't the right place to post such a thing. I had just\... |
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"msg_contents": "I am writing an article of PostgreSQL 7.1 and have some questions.\n\nI can get the millisecond part of a timestamp data using date_part.\n\ntest=# SELECT date_part('millisecond','2001/1/15 12:04:05.1234'::TIMESTAMP);\n date_part \n-----------\n 123.4\n(1 row)\n\nHowever if I apply the fu... |
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"msg_contents": "I posted a note to the hackers list about this very issue last week. It was\nnever responded to. I am prepared to do the work and submit a patch, but I\nwanted some input on how best to do it. We had a problem with a backup\nscript silently failing when the disk was full. I guess I will g... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems we do not have the standard SQL function \"bit_length()\"?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:20:01 +0900",
"msg_from": "Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>",
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"msg_contents": "I just finished running the parallel regress tests with inval.c rigged\nto flush the relcache and syscache at every available opportunity,\nthat is anytime we could recognize a shared-cache-inval message from\nanother backend (see diff below). This setup gives a whole new universe\nof meanin... |
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"msg_contents": "Does the SPI interface support recursion? That is, can a function\nuse SPI to make a query which involves calling another function which\nuses SPI?\n\nThe documentation suggests not, saying that if a function which uses\nSPI calls another function which uses SPI, it won't work, and calling\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> Does the SPI interface support recursion? That is, can a function\n> use SPI to make a query which involves calling another function which\n> uses SPI?\n\n From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/programmer/spi.htm :\n\n\"SPI procedures are always called by some (upper) Executor and the SPI\nm... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAnyone have anything outstanding that prevents me rolling a Beta2 and\nannouncing it this weekend? Tom? Vadim? Peter?\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@... |
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"msg_contents": "> Anyone have anything outstanding that prevents me rolling a Beta2 and\n> announcing it this weekend? Tom? Vadim? Peter?\n\nI'll commit small changes to xlog.c today.\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:49:50 -0800 ",
"msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.C... |
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"msg_contents": "Excuse my ignorance.\nIs there a way to replace the shmem and sem (ipc.c) to use files. In this \nway we can have a sort of a parallel server using GFS.\n1.Starting a postmaster on ONE machine creates the shared structures, 2.then \nstart on other cluster-machines, the variuos machines share ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nHow I can to split tables over many disks without using RAID (by using\nsymlinks? ) ?\n\nCan I use raw devices for store PostgreSQL data ?\n\nThanks.\n\nSergey.\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 06 Jan 2001 15:41:28 +0300",
"msg_from": "\"Sergey E. Volkov\" <sve@raiden.bancorp.ru>",
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"msg_contents": "(approximately in the order in the HISTORY file)\n\nWAL -- update documentation of fsync option (runtime.sgml)\n\nTOAST -- The introductory paragraph in lobj.sgml needs some updating\nregarding the remaining merits of the large object system.\n\nOverhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner) -- backup.sgml... |
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"msg_contents": "backend/commands/command.c has a routine is_view() that tests for\nview-ness by scanning pg_rewrite (all of it) to see if the given\nrelation has any ON SELECT rules.\n\nThis is only used to disallow AlterTableAddConstraint and\nLockTableCommand on views. While I don't care much about the\np... |
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"msg_contents": "When I run 'make check' on the CVS version (today and for the last\nserveral days), I have been getting interesting failures. Some of the\ntests fail, but the interesting part is that not the same tests always\nfail. Example:\n\nbpalmer@mizer:~/APPS/pgsql>diff 1 2\n1c1\n< boolean ... |
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"msg_contents": "The stringToNode routines (backend/nodes/read.c and readfuncs.c) depend\non a static variable that is the next-input pointer for lsptok().\n\nGuess what happens if stringToNode is invoked recursively. (Hint:\nit's not good.)\n\nIt's apparently not easy for this to happen, but I have a reprod... |
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"msg_contents": "regression=# begin;\nBEGIN\nregression=# insert into rtest_t1 values(1,2);\nINSERT 287918 1\nregression=# select * from tenk1, tenk1 t2;\n-- press ^C here\nCancel request sent\nERROR: Query was cancelled.\nERROR: Query was cancelled.\nFATAL 2: elog: error during error recovery, giving up!\... |
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"msg_contents": "\ncan a couple ppl check it over and make sure that nothing was overlooked\nbefore I announce it?\n\nPeter, I got your mk-release changes in for the docs ... the build itself\nlooked great, but I figure a couple of confirmations before announcing it\nwill at least prevent any obvious bug repo... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe problem with pg_dump and renamed primary key attrs can be fixed by\nusing the indkey attribute of pg_index to lookup attrs in pg_class - this\nis what pg_dump does when it dumps indexes. If I am going to make this\nchange, I would also like to split the PK definition out from the table\... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDoes anyone seen this on PostgreSQL 7.0.3?????\n\nFATAL: s_lock(401f7435) at bufmgr.c:2350, stuck spinlock. Aborting.\n \nFATAL: s_lock(401f7435) at bufmgr.c:2350, stuck spinlock. Aborting.\nServer process (pid 1008) exited with status 6 at Sun Jan 7 04:29:07 2001\nTerminating any act... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear list,\n\nAccording to this list's content, the upcoming 7.1 release appears to be\nin good progress. This version will bring a *lot* on necessary features\nfor some database work : unions and subselects in views, and the\nlong-awaited outer joins. In other words, while 7.0 was a large st... |
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"msg_contents": "heap_update() currently ends with\n\n if (newbuf != buffer)\n {\n LockBuffer(newbuf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);\n WriteBuffer(newbuf);\n }\n LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);\n WriteBuffer(buffer);\n\n /* invalidate caches */\n RelationInvalidateHeapTuple(re... |
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"msg_contents": "The way that heap_update() and heap_delete() are currently coded, they\nhold the buffer context lock on the buffer containing the old tuple\nwhile they invoke heap_tuple_toast_attrs(). This strikes me as at least\ninefficient and at worst a source of deadlock. Is it possible to avoid\nholdi... |
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"msg_contents": "The KAME files md5.* and sha1.* have the following changelog\nentry:\n\n----------------------------\nrevision 1.2\ndate: 2000/12/04 01:20:38; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines:\n+18 -18\nEliminate some of the more blatant platform-dependencies ... it\nbuilds here now, anyway ...\n-----------... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems ALL and ANY (SOME) have problems with the parser.\n\ntest=# select * from t1 where i <> all(0,1);\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"0\"\ntest=# select * from t1 where i = any (0,1);\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"0\"\ntest=# select version();\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ntry the following command (Queries/New) in pgaccess from 7.0.3:\n\nSELECT * from cols LIMIT 1;\n\nIt will return the same set of records as:\n\nSELECT * from cols;\n\npsql works correctly.\n-- \nPavel Jan�k ml.\nPavel@Janik.cz\nhttp://www.janik.cz\n",
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"msg_contents": "After configuring with\n./configure\n --enable-multibyte\n --enable-unicode-conversion\n --enable-odbc\n --prefix=/usr\n --sysconfdir=/etc\n --localstatedir=/var\n\nmake\n\nmake install\n\nWhen trying to run initdb I get the following error:\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Compaq has released an open-source database benchmark at:\n\n\thttp://opensource.compaq.com/sourceforge/project/?group_id=19\n\nI must say, Compaq has been more involved with PostgreSQL than any of\nthe other computer vendors. They have contributed equipment, and now\nbenchmark source code.\... |
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"msg_contents": "Has anyone tried 7.1Beta on Tru64? \n\nI've got an app that will be moving to this platform, and would like\nto not have any surprises (It's the first production app with PG in\nthe dallas office, and would like to not make trouble).\n\nThanks!\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman ... |
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"msg_contents": "I think doc/REAME.mb is now deprecated and I would like to remove it.\nAlso I would like to place the Chinese (Big5) version of README.mb\nrecently posted by Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw> as\ndoc/README.mb.big5.\n\nComments? Objections?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n",
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"msg_contents": "> Killing an individual backend with SIGTERM is bad luck. The backend\n> will assume that it's being killed by the postmaster, and will exit\n> without a whole lot of concern for cleaning up shared memory --- the\n\nWhat code will be returned to postmaster in this case?\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "> >> Killing an individual backend with SIGTERM is bad luck. \n> >> The backend will assume that it's being killed by the postmaster,\n> >> and will exit without a whole lot of concern for cleaning up shared \n> >> memory --- the\n\nSIGTERM --> die() --> elog(FATAL)\n\nIs it true that elog(F... |
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"msg_contents": "On AIX timestamp and horology regression fails in current, because \ntimestamp - interval for result timestamps that are before 1970 (epoch ?) \nare off by one hour. I think this is not an issue for an adapted expected file, \nbut a new (in 7.1beta) bug. But I am at no means an expert at what... |
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"msg_contents": "I wonder why http://www.postgresql.org is not updated with news. The\nlatest \"Latest News\" is from Nov 16. I have to go to\nhttp://www.pgsql.com to find some interesting news later than that:\n2000-12-22 PostgreSQL, Inc. Releases Open Source Replication & Database\nand ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > On AIX timestamp and horology regression fails in current, because\n> > timestamp - interval for result timestamps that are before \n> 1970 (epoch ?)\n> > are off by one hour. I think this is not an issue for an \n> adapted expected file,\n> > but a new (in 7.1beta) bug. But I am at no ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Is it true that elog(FATAL) doesn't clean up shmem etc?\n> > This would be very bad...\n> \n> It tries, but I don't think it's possible to make a complete guarantee\n> without an unreasonable amount of overhead. The case at hand was a\n> stuck spinlock because die() --> elog(FATAL) had n... |
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"msg_contents": "> > START_/END_CRIT_SECTION is mostly CritSectionCount++/--.\n> > Recording could be made as \n> > LockedSpinLocks[LockedSpinCounter++] = &spinlock\n> > in pre-allocated array.\n> \n> Yeah, I suppose. We already do record locking of all the fixed\n> spinlocks (BufMgrLock etc), it's just the ... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm working with PHP and Postgres, and if I try to do an EXPLAIN query, with \nPHP, to the postgres backend the output goes to the error_log file of apache \nand I don't know how to redirect that output to the browser.\nDoes anyone know how I can do this?\n\nSaludos... ;-)\n\n-- \nSystem Admi... |
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"msg_contents": "> Yup. I had just come to the realization that we'd be best \n> off to treat the *entire* period from SpinAcquire to SpinRelease\n> as a critical section for the purposes of die(). That is, response\n> to SIGTERM will be held off until we have released the spinlock.\n> Most of the places whe... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is current cvs:\n\nSELECT 2 BETWEEN 1 AND 3;\n ?column?\n----------\n t\n(1 row)\n \nsubselects=# SELECT 2 BETWEEN 3 AND 1;\n ?column?\n----------\n f\n(1 row) \n\n\nAny chance of BETWEEN [SYMMETRIC | ASYMMETRIC] being implemented?\n\nSELECT 2 BETWEEN SYMMETRIC 3 AND 1;\n ?column?\n-----... |
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"msg_contents": "Anyone read the [NOT] SIMILAR TO syntax for regular expressions? Looks like \nit might be close to an SQL standard synonym for [!]~. I don't know if it \ncan match the case insensitive ops though.\n\n-- \n-------- Robert B. Easter reaster@comptechnews.com ---------\n-- CompTechNews Message... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> The time zone is now evaluated in the time zone of the result, rather\n> than the input, using system support routines from libc. \n\nOk, I have the answer.\n\nOn AIX mktime(3) leaves tm_isdst at -1 if it does not have timezone \ninfo for that particular year and returns -1.\n>From man pa... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\tRegards,\n\t\tOleg\n_____________________________________________________________\nOleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,\nSternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)\nInternet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/\nphone: +007(095)939-16-83, ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI attached archive with contrib-intarray. Please submit it into\n7.1 beta source tree.\n\nHere is README\n--------------------------------------------------------------\nThis is an implementation of RD-tree data structure using GiST interface\nof PostgreSQL. It has built-in lossy compr... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > On AIX mktime(3) leaves tm_isdst at -1 if it does not have timezone\n> > info for that particular year and returns -1.\n> > The following code then makes savings time out of the -1.\n> > tz = (tm->tm_isdst ? (timezone - 3600) : timezone);\n> \n> Hmm. That description is consistant wit... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI just recompiled 7.1 beta from current CVS today.\n\nI pg_dump'ed my 7.02 db's and reloaded it on 7.1 with no probs apart that\npsql -l shows 2 template0 and template1...\n\nTemplate0 and template1 belong to user postgres and to an other who has no\npriviledges and no db!!!\n\nWhat m... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for the insistence, but after looking and looking again, I can't find \nout why the postgres logs are empty. The postgres database is up and working \ngreat, but nothing is getting logged.\nI'm on a RedHat Linux (6.0 with lot of upgrades)\npostgres 7.0.3 from rpm (downoaded from the pos... |
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