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"msg_contents": "\nFYI,\n\n\nCERT Advisory CA-2001-01 Interbase Server Contains\nCompiled-in Back Door\nAccount\n\n Original release date: January 10, 2001\n Last revised: --\n Source: CERT/CC\n\n A complete revision history is at the end of this file.\n\nSystems Affected\n\n * Borland/Inprise Int... |
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"msg_contents": "I just jumped in on this thread so I'm not sure where you're looking for the\nlogging, but postgreSQL has the following option when building (from\n'./configure --help'):\n\n--enable-syslog enable logging to syslog\n\nI saw that you're installing from RPM's so this won't help and I'm ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAfter almost a month since Beta1 was released, and skipping Beta2, the\nPostgreSQL Developers are pleased to announced Beta3 of v7.1.\n\nDue to the large number of changes made since Beta1 was released, we have\nincluded a Changelog file detailing all changes, that is viewable in the\nChang... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi folks,\n\n\n I'm co-developer of Delphi and Borland C++ Builder Zeos library\n(http://www.zeos.dn.ua) by Sergey Seroukhov which includes support for\nPostgreSQL. In fact, I'm dedicated Zeos PostgreSQL developer.\n We've run into a problem that we can't properly free the PPGno... |
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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> > > Hmm. That description i... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > we've almost totally rewrite gist.c because old code and algorithm\n> > > were not suitable for variable size keys. I think it might be\n> > > submitted into 7.1 beta source tree.\n> >\n> > Urgh. Dropping in a total rewrite when we're already past \n> beta3 doesn't\n> > strike me as ... |
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"msg_contents": "Suppose a function using table t1 as its argument:\n\ncreate table t1(...\ncreate fuction f1(t1) returns...\n\nAnd if I drop t1 then do pg_dump, I would got something like:\n\n\tfailed sanity check, type with oid 1905168 was not found\n\nThis is because the type t1 does not exist anynmore. Si... |
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"msg_contents": "Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:\n > Try the attachment with negative values, and tell us whether mktime\n > returns anything other that -1. Do you have an idea how else we\n > could determine daylight savings time ?\n\nmktime always returns -1 for tm's that might expect to return a\nnegative n... |
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"msg_contents": "Is UNDER being stripped out for 7.1? I'm looking at documentation and don't \nwant to write about it if it won't be in there.\n\n-- \n-------- Robert B. Easter reaster@comptechnews.com ---------\n-- CompTechNews Message Board http://www.comptechnews.com/ --\n-- CompTechServ Tech Services ht... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nIm new here. I was wondering if anybody is working on ALTER TABLE to make it\nmore complete.\nMore specifically drop constraints\n\nSincerely\nPer-Olof Pettersson\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:17:21 +0100",
"msg_from": "\"Per-Olof Pettersson\" <pg@peope.net>",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > As I see it, the Linux results are also not 100 % correct \n> in respect to dates\n> > before 1970. (based on assumption that Solaris is correct)\n> > < | Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PST\n> > > | Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PDT\n> > Was 1947 PDT or PST ? In eighter case one resu... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Oh, so AIX and IRIX have just one-line time zone databases? Yuck.\n> \n> How about having some #if BROKEN_TIMEZONE_DATABASE code which uses both\n> mktime() and localtime() to derive the correct time zone? That is, call\n> mktime to get a time_t, then call localtime() to get the time zone... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear All,\nI currently developing a project using SNMP++ and posgresql (7.0.3)\nlibpq++\nSince both SNMP and posgresql define an Oid type\n\ntypedef unsigned int Oid (postgresql)\nstruct Oid (SNMP++)\n\nAt compilation time I get this error :\n\n/deliveries/external/SNMP++/3.4Patched/snmp++... |
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"msg_contents": "> In contrast the current alternatives appear to be either LOCK \n> the entire table (preventing ALL inserts and selects),\n\nSHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE mode doesn't prevent selects...\n\n> or to create a UNIQUE constraint (forcing complete rollbacks\n> and restarts in event of a collision :( ).\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> The RelFileNodeEquals() bug we found on Monday proves that no one had\n> yet done enough stress-testing on 7.1 to discover that multiple\n> databases were broken. Think about that for awhile before \n> you campaign for inserting untested new features at this point.\n> We need to focus on T... |
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"msg_contents": "Can PostgreSQL 7.1 store java classes or objects?\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:04:27 -0500 (EST)",
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"msg_contents": "excalibur@hub.org wrote:\n> \n> Can PostgreSQL 7.1 store... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI read the transcript of the alter table drop column discussion (old\ndiscussion) at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/drop,\nand I have something to add:\n\nPeople mentioned such ideas as a hidden column and a really deleted column,\nand it occurred to me that perhaps \"... |
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"msg_contents": "> This is just one instance of the generic problem that we don't enforce\n> referential integrity across system catalogs. Since this issue has\n\nWouldn't be easy to do for views (rules) anyway - table oids are somewhere\nin the body of rule, they are not just keys in column. Also, triggers ... |
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"msg_contents": "I was just shown the following example:\n\nCREATE TABLE profile (haushaltseinkommen_pm numeric(22,2));\nCREATE VIEW profile_view AS\nSELECT *, haushaltseinkommen_pm*12 AS haushaltseinkommen_pa FROM profile;\n\n7.0.* pg_dump produces the following for the view:\n\nCREATE TABLE \"profile_view\... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just been looking through the options which can and cannot be set in\npostgresql.conf and have a few points to raise.\n\n1. There are some undocumented options which appear to relate to WAL:\n\n Name\t\t\tVariable\t\tDefault\t\tSet by\n\n\tcheckpoint_timeout\tCheckPointTimeout\t3... |
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"msg_contents": "> 1. There are some undocumented options which appear to relate to WAL:\n...\n> Is there any text anywhere to explain what these do? \n> (Point me to that or some commented code, and I'll write\n> a documentation patch.)\n\nI'll send description to you soon, thanks.\n\nVadim\n",
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"msg_contents": "> > erk, can we get this somehow done in such a way that its part of the\n> > *standard* regression tests? so when ppl do 'make test',\n> > the GiST stuff is checked also? My worry, as with others, isn't that\n> > GiST itself is broken by the changes, its that *somehow* there is an\n> > int... |
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"msg_contents": "> >> This is OK for table files, unless someone's broken the \n> >> code that will auto-initialize a zero page when it comes across one.\n> \n> > Hmmm, I don't see anything like auto-initialization in code -:(\n> > Where did you put these changes?\n> \n> I didn't put 'em in, it looked like yo... |
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"msg_contents": "> Um, you do realize that a contrib module that gets used as part of the\n> regress tests may as well be mainstream? At least in terms of the\n> portability requirements it will have to meet?\n> \n> I'm unhappy again. Bad enough we accepted a new feature during beta;\n> now we're going to e... |
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"msg_contents": "At 09:20 AM 11-01-2001 -0800, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:\n>> In contrast the current alternatives appear to be either LOCK \n>> the entire table (preventing ALL inserts and selects),\n>\n>SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE mode doesn't prevent selects...\n\nSorry, I meant all inserts and selects on the locked ta... |
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"msg_contents": "what happens?\n\nvalter.\n\n[i've done vacuum analyze while query are running... vacuum stopped at some \npoint, then i've decided to ctrl-c, then killed postmaster]\n\n-------------------------------------\npostgres@lora:~$ /usr/pg71/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/pg71/data/ stop\n\nSmart Shutdown reque... |
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"msg_contents": "In Linux Weekly News, an Interview with Bruce (from Nov 30):\nhttp://lwn.net/2001/features/Momjian/\n\n:-)\n\nGo get'em, Bruce....\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 Peter 4:11\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:10:21 -0500",
"msg_from": "Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Architecture and regression.diffs:\nvalter.\n\n-------------\nvalter@lora:$ uname -a:\n\nLinux lorax 2.2.17 #3 Mon Oct 2 23:11:04 UTC 2000 i686 unknown\n-------------\n\nvalter@lora:$ less\n./src/test/regress/regression.diffs\n\n\n\n\n*** ./expected/random.out Thu Jan 6 06:40:54 2000\n... |
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"msg_contents": "With Apache Mod Perl, Apache::DBI, stress test with apache bench (ab -n \n100000 -c 4) in apache error_log i've got:\n\n[Pg7.1beta3 with standard conf files.]\n..........\n[Fri Jan 12 07:48:58 2001] [error] DBI->connect(dbname=mydb) failed: The \nData Base System is starting up\n............\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > How about having some #if BROKEN_TIMEZONE_DATABASE code which uses both\n> > > mktime() and localtime() to derive the correct time zone? That is, call\n> > > mktime to get a time_t, then call localtime() to get the time zone info,\n> > > but only on platforms which do not get a comple... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n\n>From: \"Vadim Mikheev\" To: \"Valter Mazzola\" , Subject: Re: [HACKERS] \n>Pg7.1beta3: connect failed: The DB System is starting up. Date: Fri, 12 Jan \n>2001 00:36:55 -0800\n>\n> > With Apache Mod Perl, Apache::DBI, stress test with apache bench (ab -n \n> > 100000 -c 4) in apache err... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> A disk-block CRC would detect partially written blocks (ie, power drops\n> after disk has written M of the N sectors in a block). The disk's own\n> checks will NOT consider this condition a failure.\n\nBut physical log recovery will rewrite every page that was changed\nafter last checkpo... |
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"msg_contents": "Two questions about pgaccess. I use tkl/Tk 8.2, Postgresql 7.1,\nFreeBSD 4.0 .\n\n\n1. I cannot view russian text in russian when I use pgaccess. I set all\nthe fonts in 'Preferences' to\n-cronyx-helvetica-*-*-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-* , but don't see russian\nletters in 'tables' and others win... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:\n> > Thinking about that a bit more, I think that tm_isdst should not be\n> > written into.\n> \n> IIRC, setting isdst to -1 was necessary to get the right \n> behavior across\n> DST boundaries on more-mainstream systems. I do not think i... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Yes, the annoyance is, that localtime works for dates before 1970\n> > but mktime doesn't. Best would probably be to assume no DST before\n> > 1970 on AIX and IRIX.\n> \n> That seems like a reasonable answer to me, especially since we have\n> other platforms that behave that way. How c... |
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"msg_contents": "First I tried to dump out a database like:\n\nfrank@limedes:~ > pg_dump mpi > dump.mpi\ngetTables(): relation 'institute': 6 Triggers were expected, but got 0\n\nThe database mpi does contain a table 'institute' and a few foreign key constraints. Then\nI tried to dump another database, as in:... |
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"msg_contents": "> Postgresql subtracts one minute from any times I enter into a database:\n> mydb=# create table test (timeval time);\n> mydb=# insert into test values ('08:30');\n> mydb=# select * from test;\n> ----------\n> 08:29:00\n...\n> In a later message he says he's running 7.0.2 on \"Trustix Secure... |
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"msg_contents": "bpalmer writes:\n\n> This traffic does not seem necessary for the list, but here are my\n> thoughts.\n\nI think it is.\n\n> I don't begin to disagree with this for a second. I know that there are a\n> lot of RPM users out there that would like the RPM. I'm aware that there\n> would be a le... |
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"msg_contents": "> [ . . . ]\n> > Restarting the server didn't make a difference.\n> \n> I upgraded to beta3 just now and the problem persists. I \n> didn't do an initdb obviously cuz\n> I cannot save the data via pg_dump. Beta3 will read beta2 \n> data OK (I guess this means that\n> an initdb is not required... |
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"msg_contents": "> You should probably write off your databases as toast ... update to\n> beta3 and do an initdb. Sorry about that ...\n\nAnd try to reproduce bug.\nSorry.\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:42:46 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>",
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"msg_contents": "> ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index \n> pg_class_oid_index\n> -------------------------------------- start log \n> --------------------------------------\n> \n> Which makes me pause . . . are OIDs unique per database or \n> per PostgreSQL installation? I think per databa... |
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"msg_contents": "> Evil it was. The haste with which beta3 appeared should've tipped you\n> off that beta2 was badly broken :-(. What's puzzling us, though, is\n> that this bug was in the WAL code from day one, and no one noticed it\n\nJust for accuracy - this bug is not related to WAL anyhow.\nThis bug was... |
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"msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n> Tom wrote:\n> > Bruce wrote:\n> > > ... If the CRC on\n> > > the WAL log checks for errors that are not checked anywhere else,\n> > > then fine, but I thought disk CRC would just duplicate the I/O\n> > > subsystem/disk.\n> >\n> > A disk-block CRC would detect partially written... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to retrieve a big query (bah, not so big, but with a dozen of \njoins) and all I get is this:\n\n010112.17:22:06.050 [5387] DEBUG: Rel trabajos_docentes: Pages: 3 --> 2.\n010112.17:30:48.458 [5412] DEBUG: geqo_params: ga parameter file\n'/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_geqo'\ndoes not e... |
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"msg_contents": "> > But physical log recovery will rewrite every page that was changed\n> > after last checkpoint, thus this is not an issue anymore.\n> \n> No. That assumes that when the drive _says_ the block is written, \n> it is really on the disk. That is not true for IDE drives. It is \n> true for S... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHas anyone ever thought of asking the FreeBSD folks for\ntheir CVS COmmit message generator? They generate ONE message\nwith more info in it for multi-directory commits than we\ndo with ours. \n\nThanks...\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-4... |
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"msg_contents": "I have just finished trudging through a bunch of code and trying to make\nit secure against being interrupted by die() at arbitrary instants.\nHowever, I am under no illusion that I have succeeded in making the\nworld safe for SIGTERM, and you shouldn't be either. There is just way\ntoo much... |
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"msg_contents": "> I think we'd be lots better off to abandon the notion that we can exit\n> directly from the SIGTERM interrupt handler, and instead treat SIGTERM\n> the same way we treat QueryCancel: set a flag that is inspected at\n> specific places where we know we are in a good state.\n> \n> Comments?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "> > You know - this is *core* assumption. If drive lies about this then\n> > *nothing* will help you. Do you remember core rule of WAL?\n> > \"Changes must be logged *before* changed data pages written\".\n> > If this rule will be broken then data files will be inconsistent\n> > after crash r... |
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"msg_contents": "> > It wouldn't help you recover, but you would be able to report that \n> > you cannot recover.\n> \n> How? The scenario Vadim is pointing out is where the disk \n> drive writes a changed data block in advance of the WAL log entry\n> describing the change. Then power drops and the WAL entry ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > How? The scenario Vadim is pointing out is where the disk \n> > drive writes a changed data block in advance of the WAL log\n> > entry describing the change. Then power drops and the WAL\n> > entry never gets made. At restart, how will you realize that\n> > that data block now contains d... |
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"msg_contents": "> > If log record was not really flushed on disk in 3. but \n> > on-disk image of index block was updated in 4. and system\n> > crashed after this then after restart recovery you'll have\n> > unlawful index tuple pointing to where? Who knows!\n> > No guarantee that corresponding heap tuple wa... |
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"msg_date": "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:45:14 -0800",
"msg_from": "\"Vadim Mikheev\" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nsince I have limited bandwidth. Are the diffs between the different versions\navailable to use with patch instead of always downloading the whole package?\n\nKonstantin\n-- \nDipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elwood@agouros.de\nOtkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germa... |
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"msg_contents": "FYI...\n----- Forwarded message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> -----\n\nFrom: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>\nSubject: Re: CVS Commit message generator... \nDate: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:50:33 -0800\nMessage-ID: <18824.979357833@winston.osd.bsdi.com>\nTo: Larry Rosenman... |
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"msg_contents": ">> 1. I cannot view russian text in russian when I use pgaccess. I set all\n>> the fonts in 'Preferences' to\n>> -cronyx-helvetica-*-*-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-* , but don't see russian\n>> letters in 'tables' and others windows. The texts are really in\n>> russian, DBENCODING is KOI8.\n>\n>Hm. ... |
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"msg_contents": "If the year is very large, datetime formatting overflows its limits and\ngives very weird results. Either the formatting needs to be improved\nor there should be an upper bound on the year.\n\n\nbray=# select version();\n version \n---... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nDos any one know any sql sentence to Find primary keys in a table.\n\nI'm using postgresql v.7.0 (Mandrake 7.2)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi.\n \nDos any one know any sql sentence to Find primary \nkeys in a table.\n \nI'm using postgresql v.7.0 (Mandrake \n7.2)",
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"msg_contents": "I have a question about Postgres:\n\nTake this update:\n\tupdate table set field = 'X' ;\n\n\nThis is a very expensive function when the table has millions of rows,\nit takes over an hour. If I dump the database, and process the data with\nperl, then reload the data, it takes minutes. Most of... |
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"msg_contents": "Well, I finally got a good build of 7.1beta3 in the RPM build environment. \nWoohoo.....\n\nMost regression tests pass -- 10 of 76 fail in serial mode. I'll be analyzing\nthe diffs tomorrow afternoon to see what's going on, then will be tidying up\nthe RPMset for release. Tidy or no, a rele... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\ni don't know, whether it is a real bug or what, has been fixed or not, but\ni can't find any info about it:\n\ni try to fill my table from a file using copy from stdin and postgresql\ncorrupt the table. This happen if before the <tab> or end of line there\nis word that has a non-stan... |
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"msg_contents": "Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:\n> Because of Access's brokenness, the parser or some other layer of the\n> code \"fixes\" explicit = NULL (ie, in the actually query string) into\n> IS NULL which is the correct way to check for nulls.\n> Because your original query was ... |
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"msg_contents": "I don't have Office 2000, but I can confirm Access 97 generates such \nqueries. The query-builder doesn't generate the 'key = NULL' query, but the \nuse of the Forms interface does.\n\nMike Mascari\nmascarm@mascari.com\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom:\tTom Lane [SMTP:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]\nS... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIt was suggested that I post this patch here as no notice was taken of it\nwhen posted to interfaces!\n\nThis fixes problems with int8 columns which are reported by the driver as\nSQL_BIGINT rather than SQL_CHAR as per the ODBC v2 spec. Specifically, I\nhave had problems with MS ADO - ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Instead of a partial row CRC, we could just as well use some other bit\n> of identifying information, say the row OID. Given a block CRC on the\n> heap page, we'll be pretty confident already that the heap page is OK,\n> we just need to guard against the possibility that it's older than ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n[Cc:ed to hackers list]\n\nFrom: Maneerat Sappaso <sc404885@bucc3.buu.ac.th>\nSubject: PostgreSQL 7.0.2 with thai locale.\nDate: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:42:44 -0700 (GMT)\nMessage-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10101151616060.20878-100000@bucc3.buu.ac.th>\n\n> \tDear sir,\n> \n> \tI'm a 4 years student in... |
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"msg_contents": "While below is ok:\n\nselect * from table_a a\n where (select data_a from table_a where id = a.id) >\n (select data_b from table_a where id = a.id);\n\nbut this fails:\n\nselect * from table_a a\n where ((select data_a from table_a where id = a.id) >\n (select data_b ... |
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"msg_contents": "Well well well...\nHi everybody...\nI'm new to this Group and i woud like to ask:\nWho can design a secure database for my www project?\nWhat language to use?\nSugestions?\n\n\nthnks ... Greetings from (HOT Summer) Australia\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "I use Postgres 7.1, FreeBSD 4.0\n\nI configure, build and install it with:\n\n./configure --enable-locale --enable-multibyte --with-perl\ngmake\ngmake install\n\ninitdb -E KOI8\n\nThe problem is: when database encoding and client encoding are\ndifferent then 'locale' features, such as 'upper'... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nWhat is the status of the pgsql_perl5? I see the README identify the module in\nthe perl5-directory as 1.8.0. At CPAN i find a newer release 1.9.0 dated\n4 apr 2000. \nIs the newest version the best to use with current sources? \nWill there be future development coordinated with Mr. Mer... |
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"msg_contents": "Why does LockClassinfoForUpdate() insist on doing heap_mark4update?\nAs far as I can see, this accomplishes nothing except to break\nconcurrent index builds. If I do \n\n\tcreate index tenk1_s1 on tenk1(stringu1);\n\tcreate index tenk1_s2 on tenk1(stringu2);\n\nin two psqls at approximately ... |
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"msg_contents": "Uploading now. Should show up on ftp.postgresql.org soon.\n\nLook in /pub/dev/test-rpms.\n\nBETA TEST USE ONLY.\n\nTom, try out a PPC build on this one. I know of one problem that I have\nto fix -- postgresql-perl fails dependencies for libpq.so (I backed out\nthe patch to Makefile.shlib). ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\nDoes PostgreSQL support Dynamic SQL?\nIf so, when can i found documentation?\nThank's\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:22:26 +0200",
"msg_from": "\"Lark\" <litr@beer.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\nI have a big problem with postgres because I need to know how I can see the\nrelations among the table like foreign-key.\nIt' s possible use some commands or graphic tool from wich I can see that\nrelations?\nDo you know some sites where i can found more information about this!\n\nThank ... |
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"msg_contents": "> I install postgresql with locale by\n> ./configure --enable-locale\n> \n> and try to test strcoll() and it work in my OS' locale.\n\nHow did you test strcoll() in your OS? Can you show me the source code\nof your test program?\n\n> I add indirectory /src/back... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\n> Sent: 16 January 2001 16:50\n> To: Dave Page\n> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ODBC Driver int8 Patch\n> \n> \n> As I remember, the problem is that this makes us match the ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Note that elog(ERROR/FATAL) is changed to elog(STOP) if Critical\n> > SectionCount > 0.\n> \n> Not in current sources ;-).\n> \n> Perhaps Vadim will say that I broke his error scheme, but if so it's\n> his own fault for not documenting such delicate code at all. \n\nOk, it's my fault (th... |
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"msg_contents": "> Because I think turning an elog(ERROR) into a system-wide crash is\n> not a good idea ;-). If you are correct that this behavior \n> is necessary for WAL-related critical sections, then indeed we need\n> two kinds of critical sections, one that just holds off cancel/die\n> response and one... |
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"msg_contents": "Dear Tom,\n\tI am writing to you because you are the maintainer of the\nquery optimizer and planner.\n\tI have found a very significant performance degradation\nbetween PostgreSQL 6.5.3 and 7.1beta3, which will severely impact two\nlarge applications that I have developed and maintain for sev... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust trying to summarize some traffic stats, and am either running the\nquery wrong, or you can't do this?\n\nThe query is:\n\n SELECT CASE WHEN to_ip << '216.126.84.0/24' THEN to_ip ELSE from_ip END AS LocalAddr,\n sum(bytes) as TotalBytes, date_trunc('day', runtime) AS Day\n F... |
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"msg_contents": "mv global.bki global.bki.old; mv template1.bki template1.bki.old\ncat global.bki.old | sed s/\" ame\"/\" name\"/ > global.bki\ncat template1.bki.old | sed s/\" ame\"/\" name\"/ > global.bki\n\nSolution is pretty simple actually (did figure this one out). I did find \nother people complaining... |
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"msg_contents": "> Instead of a partial row CRC, we could just as well use some other bit\n> of identifying information, say the row OID. Given a block CRC on the\n> heap page, we'll be pretty confident already that the heap page is OK,\n> we just need to guard against the possibility that it's older than th... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I've tried to move \"dangerous\" ops with non-zero probability of\n> > elog(ERROR) (eg new file block allocation) out of crit sections.\n> > Anyway we need in ERROR-->STOP for safety when changes \n> > aren't logged.\n> \n> Why is that safer than just treating an ERROR as an ERROR? \n> I... |
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"msg_contents": "> I'll take care of fixing what I broke, but does anyone have \n> suggestions for good names for the two concepts? The best I could\n> come up with offhand is BEGIN/END_CRIT_SECTION\n\nHOLD_INTERRUPTS\nRESUME_INTERRUPTS\n\n> and BEGIN/END_SUPER_CRIT_SECTION, but I'm not pleased with that...\n... |
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"msg_contents": "GNU sed version 3.02.80\n\n\n>From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n>To: \"Mike Miller\" <temp6453@hotmail.com>\n>CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n>Subject: Re: Re: INIT DB FAILURE\n>Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:21:31 -0500\n>\n>\"Mike Miller\" <temp6453@hotmail.com>... |
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"msg_contents": "Create three tables and start four transactions, then do:\n\nXACT 1: LOCK TABLE A;\n\nXACT 2: LOCK TABLE B IN ROW SHARE MODE;\n\nXACT 3: LOCK TABLE B IN ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE;\n\nXACT 4: LOCK TABLE C;\n\nXACT 2: LOCK TABLE C;\n\nXACT 3: LOCK TABLE C;\n\nXACT 1: LOCK TABLE B IN SHARE MODE;... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm running into a problem where I have to create an index with a name\nthat doesn't conflict with any existing index. \n\nCurrently, its not possible to do in postgres. \n\nIt'd be nice if either of 3 were implemented:\n1) alter index to rename it\n\n2) alter table would rename index with s... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello All,\n\nThis is my first post (so be gentle with me)...\n\nIs there a searchable archive?\n\nI would like suggestions and examples of adding SQL-92\ndata type BIT compatibility to a PostgreSQL schema.\n\n From the doc's I gather you can \"CREATE TYPE bit\"\nwith storage int or int4... b... |
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"msg_contents": "I see on Slashdot that:\n\n Slashcode 2.0 (\"Bender\") is officially in beta. We now have themes,\n plugins, an abstacted database layer (MySQL support is beta, PostreSQL\n is alpha, so finally the rivalry can be settled ;) \n\nSo, while Sourceforge has moved to PostgreSQL, seems like Slas... |
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"msg_contents": " I am trying to store a binary file with Visual Basic 6.0 and ADO and I\nuse the oid data type. The same code with Oracle and the clob type works\nbut with PostgreSQL I receive an error saying \"Multiple Step Operation\ngenerated errors. Check each status value.\".\n I am using the ODBC driv... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Yes, the annoyance is, that localtime works for dates before 1970\n> > > but mktime doesn't. Best would probably be to assume no DST before\n> > > 1970 on AIX and IRIX.\n> > \n> > That seems like a reasonable answer to me, especially since we have\n> > other platforms that behave that... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > More importantly, PostgreSQL 6.5.3 works very, very well without\n> > VACUUM'ing.\n> \n> 6.5 effectively assumes that \"foo = constant\" will select exactly one\n> row, if it has no statistics to prove otherwise.\n\nI thought we had agreed upon a default that would still use\nthe index ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > Yes, the annoyance is, that localtime works for dates before 1970\n> > > > but mktime doesn't. Best would probably be to assume no DST before\n> > > > 1970 on AIX and IRIX.\n> > > \n> > > That seems like a reasonable answer to me, especially since we have\n> > > other platforms that b... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > > Yes, the annoyance is, that localtime works for dates before 1970\n> > > > > but mktime doesn't. Best would probably be to assume no DST before\n> > > > > 1970 on AIX and IRIX.\n> > > > \n> > > > That seems like a reasonable answer to me, especially since we have\n> > > > other plat... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nafter getting GiST works we're trying to use RD-Tree in\nour fulltext search application. We have universe of lexems\n(words in dictionaries) which is rather large, so\nwe need some compression to effectively use RD-Tree.\nWhen we did index support for int arrays we compressed\nset by ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nGreetings! We have a script updating our database with thousands of\nentries on a daily basis. To speed up processing, we drop a\nconsistency check trigger before the update and recreate it\nafterwards. Occasionally, we get the following, even though the\ndatabase has no other live conne... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > The correct thing to do instead of the #if defined (_AIX) would be to use\n> > > something like #ifdef NO_NEGATIVE_MKTIME and set that with a configure.\n> > ...Andreas, can you suggest a simple configure\n> > test to be used?\n> #include <time.h>\n> int main()\n> {\n> struct tm tt,... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I have been studying DeadLockCheck for most of a day now, \n> > and I doubt that this is the only bug lurking in it.\n> > I think that we really ought to throw it away and start\n> > over, because it doesn't look to me at all like a standard\n> > deadlock-detection algorithm. The standar... |
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"msg_contents": "Cursors are not supported in PL/pgSQL. I don't see a TODO item to fix\nthis.\n\nFixing the syntax to support cursors is easy. The problem then is\nthat PL/pgSQL uses SPI, and SPI does not support cursors. In spi.c\nthere is a bit of code for cursor support, with the comment\n\t/* Don't wor... |
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"msg_contents": "Wow, this looks great, and it worked the first time too. I will commit\nif no one makes objects.\n\n\n> > > > Is there a way to relate this to the names of the databases? Why the\n> > > > change? Or am I missing something key here..\n> > >\n> > > See the thread on the renaming in the archi... |
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