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[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. Hopefully, this is the right mailing list to send\nthis type of question too.\n\nSystem:\nI am running the newest 7.03 build on a dual 866 Pentium III\nwith a 128M raid card.\n\nI have found an error that is quite odd.\nI have a table that is supposed to keep a map between\nurls and id...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm logging traffic to a database, so that I can do analysis on usage and\nwhatnot, and I need something bigger then int8 :(\n\n/tmp/psql.edit.70.79087: 6 lines, 222 characters.\n ip | maxbytes | port | runtime\n---------------+-------------+------+---------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane wrote:\n> \n> Your last commit seems to have broken timestamp, interval, reltime,\n> and horology regress tests on HPUX. Minus signs are showing up in\n> a lot of unexpected-looking places...\n> Is this now the intended behavior?\n\nUh, no. Believe it or not, I had just noticed this...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone know if this feature exists? If so, what version or where \ncan a patch be obtained?\n\nThanks\n\n------- Forwarded message follows -------\nDate sent: \tMon, 15 Jan 2001 08:44:46 +0100\nFrom: \t\"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)\" <jdassen@cistron-office.nl>\nTo: \...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > I do not have the original thread where Andreas describes \n> the behavior\n> > > of mktime() on his machine. Andreas, can you suggest a \n> simple configure\n> > > test to be used?\n> >\n> > #include <time.h>\n> > int main()\n> > {\n> > struct tm tt, *tm=&tt;\n> > int i = -50...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nDoes any one know if getCrossReference (jdbc method) works with postgresql 7.0 ?\n\nI`m using jdbc V 7.0-1.2\n\nany example ?\n\nThanks.\n\nFelipe Diaz Cardona\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi.\n \nDoes any one know if getCrossReference (jdbc \nmethod) works with postgresql 7.0 ?\n \nI`m using jd...
[ { "msg_contents": "Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.\n \nType: \\copyright for distribution terms\n \\h for help with SQL commands\n \\? for help on internal slash commands\n \\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query\n \\q to quit\n \nstage=# alter table darti...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm compiling beta 1 of 7.1 and I have a par of questions.\n\nFirst I see things like this in the compilation output:\n\ngcc -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-error \n-I/usr/local/ssl//include -I../../../src/include -c analyze.c -o analyze.o\nanalyze.c: In function `t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Could anyone please tell me what changed in some of the include files. I\n> just noticed that ecpg won't compile anymore.\n\nI haven't been able to update my cvs sources for a few days, but on my\nmachine preproc.y produces 321 shift/reduce errors. Does it still, or is\nthat patched up?\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Is it possible to go from text->inet in v7.0.3? if not, is it in v7.1?\n\nSeems to not be in 7.1 either.\n\n - Thomas\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:03:25 +0000", "msg_from": "Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think I know what the problem is:\n\nI have a couple indexes created with a \"lower\" function to index on\nlowercase.\n\nTo return a lowercase text object, I use the \"lower\" function, as copied\nfrom the postgres source (Oddly enough varchar does not work):\n\ntext * lower(text *string)\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm trying to compile postgres on a Solaris 7 SPARC machine and I get this \nerror:\n\nmake[4]: Leaving directory \n`/space/pruebas/postgresql-7.1beta1/src/interfaces/libpq'\ngcc -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fPIC \n-I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/lib...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I'm trying to compile postgres on a Solaris 7 SPARC machine \n> and I get this error:\n\n> gcc -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fPIC \n> -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c pgtcl.c -o pgtcl.o\n> In file included from pgtcl.c:19:\n> libpgtcl.h:1...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am working on a project that will integrate data from an Oracle database\nwith data from a Postgresql database. Is there a gateway to Oracle from\nPostgresql? I know that in Oracle there are gateways to other database such\nas DB2.\n\nThanks for the help.\n\nWenjin Zheng\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just tried it for the first time:\n% cd src/test/locale\n% gmake all \ngmake: Circular test-pgsql-locale <- all dependency dropped.\ncd: can't cd to pgsql-locale\ngmake: *** [test-pgsql-locale] Error 2\n\nI think the next stage is gmake test-koi8..\n\nCheers,\n\nPatrick\n", "msg_date"...
[ { "msg_contents": ">From http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/admin/charset.htm\n\n Once you have chosen a set of localization rules this way you must\n keep them fixed for any particular database cluster. That means that\n the locales that were active when you ran initdb must be kept the same\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Fixed in current sources. (I think there is still one unused-var\n> complaint left in the XLOG code; I've been waiting on Vadim to do\n> something about it, because it looks like there is code still to be\n> written there.)\n\nJust commented out for now.\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Thu, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Doesn't appear that you can use OLD.oid in triggers (actually does more, =\nbut thats good enough):\n\nCREATE FUNCTION history_update_delete() RETURNS OPAQUE AS '\nDECLARE\n v_tablename varchar(40);\n v_history_tablename varchar(48);\n v_operation varchar(6);\nBEGIN\n v_operation ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have attached a simple change to src/pl/plperl/plperl.c to\nenable the :bash_math opcodes. Currently plperl.c only \nenables the :default opcodes. This leave out about five of six\nmath functions including sqrt().\n\nIt might be worth considering allowing the user's to enable\nother packa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\"Stefan Waidele jun.\" wrote:\n >At 13:37 18.01.2001 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:\n >>\"Stefan Waidele jun.\" <St.Waidele.jun@Krone-Neuenburg.de> writes:\n >> > How can I tell Postgres to return an interval value in an format like \n >> hhh:mm?\n >>\n >>See to_char(),\n >>http://www.postgre...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've completed a paper design for the reimplementation of DeadLockCheck.\nNotes attached, in case anyone wants to kibitz. (This will appear in\nstorage/lmgr/README when I commit the code.)\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems for me your test program do same thing as PostgreSQL backend\ndoes. So I would say if the program worked well, why not PostgreSQL\nworks?\n\nWhat do you think Oleg?\n\nFrom: Maneerat Sappaso <sc404885@bucc3.buu.ac.th>\nSubject: Program test strcoll().\nDate: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:52:39...
[ { "msg_contents": "In looking at the VAX ASM problem, I realized that the ASM in s_lock.h\nis all formatted differently, making it even more confusing. I have\napplied the following patch to s_lock.h to try and clean it up.\n\nThe new standard format is:\n\n\t/*\n\t * Standard __asm__ format:\n\t *\n\t * __as...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Patrick Dunford [mailto:pdunford.webs@clear.net.nz] \n> Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 15:19\n> To: pgsql-hacker@postgresql.org\n> Subject: User management\n> \n> \n> What commands in SQL enable administrators to view user / group \n> information?\n> A...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here are the URL's for the SQL standards. Where should these go? Are\nthey legal?\n\n\nhttp://www.ansi.org\nhttp://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt\nftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/standards/sql\nftp://jerry.ece.umassd.edu/isowg3/x3h2/Standards/\n\nANSI PDF $20\nISO PDF $310...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > You don't need to put this check into configure, you can just\n> > > do the check after mktime() is used.\n> >\n> > No, we need that info for the output functions that only use localtime.\n> > The intent is, to not use DST before 1970 on platforms that don't have\n> > mktime for dates...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nif this is already known, I'm sorry. My search in the Mailing list archives\nvia the web interface yielded nothing.\n\nIn my setup, which is RedHat 7.0, libc-2.2, glibc 2.96 (yes, the bad one)\nand perl 5.6.0 with DBI-1.14 and DBD-Pg-0.95 libpq.so.2.1 segfaults due to\na null point...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, \n\nI've done some tests with large objects and it works just fine under\nLinux, but when I try the same code under Windows (I use the libpq\nfrontend) it fails for some reason with lo_read() always returning 0.\n\nThe test program I'm using is basically a modified version of the one\nlis...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFrom: Maneerat Sappaso <sc404885@bucc3.buu.ac.th>\nSubject: install locale.\nDate: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:40:56 -0700 (GMT)\nMessage-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10101191734190.3829-100000@bucc3.buu.ac.th>\n\n> \t\n> \tDeer sir,\n> \t\n> \tI found something wrong when I test program in\n> \t/usr/src/tes...
[ { "msg_contents": "I`mtrying to make a select which envolves two tables with in a\nfunction....if the query is written this way: (this is just an example,\nnot my query)\n\na := (select count(*) from xx);\n\nit works fine, but if I type the query like this\n\nselect count(*) from xx;\n\nit throws a message that...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I agree that configure is the way to go. What if someone has\n> > installed a third party library to provide a better mktime() and\n> > localtime()?\n> \n> Exactly. What if someone has a binary PostgreSQL package installed, then\n> updates his time library to something supposedly bina...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > We do not need any execution time checks for this at all. The objective is\n> > to determine whether mktime works for any results that would be negative.\n> > On AIX and IRIX all calls to mktime for dates before 1970 lead to a result of\n> > -1, and the configure test is supposed to giv...
[ { "msg_contents": "Due to a number of interrelated factors, the 7.1beta3-2 source rpm will\nlikely not build properly on any build machine in its present state. It\nwil build just fine on mine -- but mine isn't exactly 'clean' in the\nsense that it has PostgreSQL 7.1beta3 RPMS _installed_ already. \n\nI will b...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Tom, did we ever test this? I think we did and found that \n> > it was the same or worse, right?\n> \n> I tried it and didn't see any noticeable improvement on the particular\n> test case I was using, so I got discouraged and didn't pursue the idea\n> further. I'd like to come back to i...
[ { "msg_contents": "> So, we probably should put new free dirty buffer just before first\n> undirty one in LRU.\n\nOps - new free UNdirty buffer before first DIRTY one in LRU,\nsorry -:)\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:13:54 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>"...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had to re-compile and re-install postgresql-7.1-beta1.\nI changed the directory where it was installed from /usr/local/pgsql to \n/dbs/postgres/. After re-installing I copied the data/ directory that was \nunder the old instalation to where I have the new instalation.\nAfter a bit of work I...
[ { "msg_contents": "> pga_forms | table | postgres\n> pga_queries | table | postgres\n> pga_reports | table | postgres\n> pga_schema | table | postgres\n> pga_scripts | table | postgres\n>(8 rows)\n>\n>\n>Any ideas why those pg* tables are there?\n>\n\nYou have apparently used pg_access at...
[ { "msg_contents": "Vadim,\n\nI have committed changes to separate the notions of critical sections\nand sections that just want to hold off cancel/die interrupts, as we\ndiscussed. While I was doing that, I noticed a couple of places that\nI think you should take a second look at:\n\n1. src/backend/access/nbtr...
[ { "msg_contents": "> 1. src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c, line 867: shouldn't this\n> END_CRIT_SECTION be moved up to before the _bt_wrtbuf call? It seems\n> to me that an elog during the wrtbuf is not a critical failure. If\n> this code is correct, then all the other crit sections are wrong,\n> because ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am a Comp. Sci. student at Ryerson Polytechnic University in toronto. I am in the midst of a software engineering project that involves the development of a (possibly) relational database on a RedHat 6.2 development environment, we are coding in C. now my question is, how closely related ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Can someone comment on this? I believe we were waiting for a comment\nfrom Jan.\n\n> I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that\n> it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.\n> \n> I'll argue that:\n> 1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y). Diff is\n> atta...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see now that this has been applied. Thanks for pointing it out.\n\t\n\tRuleActionStmt:\tSelectStmt\n\t\t\t| InsertStmt\n\t\t\t| UpdateStmt\n\t\t\t| DeleteStmt\n\t\t\t| NotifyStmt\n\t\t\t;\n\n> I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that\n> it is legal to have a list of SELECT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It is reported that building C++ interface on FreeBSD 4.2 fails.\nCan someone comment on this?\n\nc++ -pipe -O3 -mpentiumpro -Wall -fpic -DPIC -I/usr/local/ssl/include\n-I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgconnec\ntion.o pgconnection.cc\nIn file included from ../../...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nHere is a patch to make the current snapshot compile on Win32 (native, libpq\nand psql) again. Changes are:\n1) psql requires the includes of \"io.h\" and \"fcntl.h\" in command.c in order\nto make a call to open() work (io.h for _open(), fcntl.h for the O_xxx)\n2) PG_VERSION is no ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly try to document the\ncrash before I lose track of what exactly went into it and what I did: Basically I deleted\na table and then ran vacuum verbose, with the net result that I cannot connect to this\ndatabase anymore with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly try to document the\ncrash before I lose track of what exactly went into it and what I did: Basically I deleted\na table and then ran vacuum verbose, with the net result that I cannot connect to this\ndatabase anymore with ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I didn't know pgsql-sources close,\nso I wrote this code just as example of idea.\nCan somebody review and make patch for pgsql?\n(if this idea is good, of cource).\n\nlike-optimization is working only with ASCII, but it is simple to fix.\nThis programm makes greater string(I tested wi...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ]\n> On Saturday 20 January 2001 10:05, you wrote:\n> > I just wanted to confirm that this patch was applied.\n> \n> Yes, it is. But the following patch is not applied. But I sure that it is \n> neccessary, otherwise we will get really strange error...
[ { "msg_contents": "Helo all,\n\n Please try this script, it will crash the current connection.\n I'm using the 01/18/2001 PostgreSQL v7.1 beta3 snapshot.\n\n-- Script begin -------------------------------------\ncreate table blah(\n var_field varchar(8),\n n1 integer default 23,\n n2 integer,\n arr_st...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi,\nI'm using ODBC/MS Access and every time my client shuts down\nI get the log message:\n\npq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection\n\nIs there something I'm doing wrong here? I haven't been too bothered by\nthis but I do wonder...\n\nMany thanks for any tips!\n\n-Cedar\n\n(yes I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm experiencing some strange behaviour with postgresql 7.0.3 on Red Hat \nLinux 7. I'm sending lots of insert statements to the postgresql server \nfrom another machine via JDBC. During that process postgresql continues to \ntake up more and more memory and seemingly never returns...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFinally found a log analyzer that could parse/handle the logs for\nhttp://www.postgresql.org ... the following is the results. It doesn't\ninclude the mirrors, which I'd be curious as to how much they get on top\nof this, but 1,548,354 Requests in last 7 days ...\n\n\thttp://www.postgresql...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI would like to do a interface change in pgcrypto. (Good\ntiming, I know :)) At the moment the digest() function returns\nhexadecimal coded hash, but I want it to return pure binary. I\nhave also included functions encode() and decode() which support \n'base64' and 'hex' encodings, so if...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems this one got lost along the way somewhere. At least, I didn't get it\nback... Trying a resend.\n\n//Magnus\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: \tMagnus Hagander \n> Sent:\tden 20 januari 2001 14:29\n> To:\t'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'\n> Subject:\tPostgresql on win32\n> \n> Hel...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> The other category is run-time behaviour, which is the present case of\n> testing whether mktime() behaves a certain way when given certain\n> arguments. Another item that has been thrown around over the years is\n> whether the system supports Unix domain sockets (essentially a run-time\...
[ { "msg_contents": "rfb=# insert into person (id,surname) values (2274,'Unknown!');\nERROR: Relation 'subject' does not exist\n\nCorrect - where does subject come from?!\n\nrfb=# \\d person\n Table \"person\"\n Attribute | Type | Modifier \n-----------+---------------+----------\n id ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I made a reproduceable example of things going wrong with a \"en_US\"\n> > locale which is the widely-used (single-byte) ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 charset.\n> \n> en_US uses multi-pass collation rules. It's those collation rules, not\n> the charset per se, that causes the problem.\n\nJust to ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > The problem is that there are strings being allocated from \n> > libpq.dll using PQExpBuffers (for example, initPQExpBuffer() \n> > on line 92 of input.c). These are being allocated using the \n> > malloc function used by libpq.dll. This function *may* be \n> > different from the malloc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nImho the behavior of timestamp code is somewhat awkward \nfor dates that do not fit into a time_t (>2038 or < 1901).\n\nTimes in the time_t range are displayed in local time including DST.\nTimes outside that range are displayed in UTC. I would have expected\nUTC plus local offset not takin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello !\n\nI'm using postgres quiet succsessfully on RedHat 6.2\n\nI tried to install PostgresQL on the distribution Gentoo\n(aviable for free from www.gentoo.org) because I\nwas curious how PostgresQL would perform on a\n2.4.0 based linux system with ReiserFs as file system.\n(I tested also ...
[ { "msg_contents": "By comparing backups, I found\n\nCREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER \"<unnamed>\" AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON \"person\" NOT DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE \"RI_FKey_check_ins\" ('<unnamed>', 'person', 'subject', 'UNSPECIFIED', 'subjectid', 'id');\n\nDon't know where that...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it\nsomething that everyone else has except us?\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{free...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:\n> > It is possible to make the above work (at least on MSVC).\n> > The switch is /MD that needs to be used for both the psql.exe and \n> > libpq.dll. This forces the use of Multithreaded DLL runtime \n> libraries.\n> \n> I like...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:\n> >> 2) PG_VERSION is no longer defined in version.h[.in], but in \n> >> configure.in. Since we don't do configure on native win32, we \n> >> need to put it in config.h.win32 :-(\n> \n> Putting\n> \n> > ! #define PG_VERSION 7.1\n> > ! #define PG...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Is anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it\n> something that everyone else has except us?\n\nWe should not only support access to all db's under one postmaster,\nbut also remote access to other postmaster's databases.\nAll biggie db's allow this in one way or a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all!\n\nI'm using the PostgreSQL 7.03 and PHP 4.x to create a DB driven site, which\nis intended to work under RedHat.\n\nAnd I often get very strange errors like\n\"Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: pqReadData() -- read() failed:\nerrno=32 Broken pipe in /usr/local/home/httpd/htdocs/zy...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Is anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it\n> > something that everyone else has except us?\n> \n> It's not required by SQL, that's for sure. I think in 7.2 we'll tackle\n> schema support, which will accomplish the same thing.\n\nIt does not (e.g. remote acc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey guys, I am just getting back into the swing of things (after a nice\nvacation and a not-so-nice move across country).. I just installed 7.1 Beta\n3 and am playing with it (I'm impressed with the speed increase I've seen\nwith virtually no tweaking BTW).. I see a lot of this when I'm impor...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I see a lot of this when I'm importing data :\n> \n> DEBUG: copy: line 2865, XLogWrite: new log file created - \n> try to increase WAL_FILES\n> \n> Is that anything to be concerned about?\n\nNo, WAL_FILES affects performance only.\n\n> Do I need to increase WAL_FILES? If so, how?\n\nYou ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any easy method for getting a hold of the OID and XID for a\ngiven row within a plpgsql (or another type) of function?\n\nStatements like NEW.oid appear to fail, and xid isn't to be found.\nI'd like to use these to create the history of an application which\ncan be rolled back (by th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> sounds like something that should be handled at the application level\n> though ... at least the concept of 'access to other db \n> manufacturers' ...\n> no?\n\nWell I know of Informix for one, that allows transparent access to flat files\nor other dbs. And this is a feature that often sh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi Tom,\n \n I again a little look at aset code and I probably found small performance \nreserve in small chunks (chunk <= ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT) reallocation.\n \n Current code for *all* small chunks call AllocSetAlloc() for new larger\nchunk, memcpy() for data copy, AllocSetFree() for old c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have begun perusing the source, eventually hoping to\ncontribute to the development effort. I have noticed that\nlong ago the include files for a \"component\" were in the\ncomponent directory, eg src/backend/catalog/Attic/catalog.h,v\n(here I'm assuming that Attic means a storage place ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> My current version of PostgreSQL (v6.5.3) does not support Chinese\n> characters (what I intented to store in the database != what I retrieved\n> from it). I wonder where I can get the patch, which allow it to support\n> Chinese. Thx in advance.\n> \n> Peter Cheung\n> http://www.borderfree....
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> There were only a few to fix, so I fixed them.\n> \n> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n> > > Which one of these should we use?\n> > > int4 is a data type, int32 isn't. c.h has DatumGetInt8, but no\n> > > DatumGetInt64; it also has DatumGetInt32 but no \n> DatumGetInt4. fmgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am faced with the task of installing, configuring, and tuning my\ndatabase, which is currently running under Linux, under Solaris 7 on a\nbrand-new and shiny Sun UltraSPARC (3 CPUs, 768 MB RAM), because the sysadmin at the site\nhasn't used or installed PostgreSQL and would rather have me d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\njust small question.\nI just realized that it seems that Oracle stores indexed values in the index \nitself. This mean that it is not necessary to access table when you need to \nget only indexed values.\n\niso table has an index for vin field. Here is an output for different querie...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is documentation for WAL, as text for immediate review and as SGML\nsource, generated from Vadim's original text with my editing.\n\nPlease review for correctness.\n\n=========================== WAL chapter ==========================\n\nWrite-Ahead Logging (WAL) in Postgres\n\n Author...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The reason you have to visit the main table is that tuple validity\n> > status is only stored in the main table, not in each index. \n> > See prior discussions in the archives.\n> \n> But how Oracle handles this?\n\nOracle doesn't have non-overwriting storage manager but uses\nrollback se...
[ { "msg_contents": "Alfred,\n\n Is there a tarbar with the updated files for the vacuum patch? Or,\nis there some way to use the 'v.diff' file without the need to modify\nthe files by hand? I started changing the files by hand, but realized\nthat there is so much information that I'm bound to make a mistake i...
[ { "msg_contents": "While I'm at it and before I forget the 76 places one needs to edit to\nadd/remove a system catalog column, what are people's feelings about the\nusecatupd column?\n\nThe use of this field is that, if false, it disallows any direct\nmodification of system catalogs, even for superusers. In th...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I had thought that the pre-commit information could be stored in an\n> auxiliary table by the middleware program ; we would then have\n> to re-implement some sort of higher-level WAL (I thought of the list\n> of the commands performed in the current transaction, with a sequence\n> number ...
[ { "msg_contents": "A patch to gram.y in src/backend/parser\n\nProvides for the SQL99 expected behavior of\n select * from foo where fo_num between 1 and 5\nyields the same result as\n select * from foo where fo_num between 5 and 1\n\nGranted this is brute force and not very elegant, however it d...
[ { "msg_contents": "This snippet in pg_dumpall\n\n$PSQL -d template1 -At -F ' ' \\\n -c \"SELECT datname, usename, pg_encoding_to_char(d.encoding),\ndatistemplate, datpath FROM pg_database d LEFT JOIN pg_shadow u ON (datdba\n= usesysid) WHERE datallowconn;\" | \\\nwhile read DATABASE DBOWNER ENCODING ISTEMPLATE...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > But how Oracle handles this?\n> >\n> > Oracle doesn't have non-overwriting storage manager but uses\n> > rollback segments to maintain MVCC. Rollback segments are used\n> > to restore valid version of entire index/table page.\n> \n> Are there any plans to have something like this? I mea...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWe'd like to employ a Postgres hacker to speed development of enterprise\nfeatures in Postgres. All code would be immediately contributed back to\nthe community. We are not interested in proprietary extensions.\n\nWe're a fun company located in Mountain View, CA, with all the usual\nbenef...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > What I will probably do is make a wrapper around it so it I can do:\n> >\n> > \tls | oidmapper\n> >\n> > and see the files as table names.\n> \n> Hmmm.... I think I can add that to the code..\n> \n> will try..\n> \n\nIt has to be pretty smart. Consider this:\n\n\t$ pwd\n\t/u/pg/data/base...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that MySQL has transaction support through Berkeley DB lib, and it's\nalways had way more data types, what are the main advantages postgresql has\nover it? I don't think mysql has subselects and such, but they did add a\nmaster-slave replication feature as well as online reorganization (...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThere has been alot of fixing/patches going into the tree ... woudl like\nto wrap up a beta4 before the weekend, unless there are any objections?\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\nprimary: scrappy@hub.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have about 20 open 7.1 items that I need to get resolved before I can\nstart getting the doc TODO list started. The issues relate to JDBC,\nODBC, and lots of other stuff that need to be settled before we can\nfinalize 7.1.\n\nThey can not be easily summarized in one line. You really have ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> 1. For 1st phase we'll place into log \"prepared-to-commit\" record\n> and this phase will be accomplished after record is \n> flushed on disk.\n> At this point transaction may be committed at any time because of\n> all its modifications are logged. But it still may be rolled bac...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nFolks, I need help on this. It would be nice to support unixODBC, but I\ndon't understand the ramifications of these changes.\n\n> pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote:\n> \n> > Nick, sorry this was never resolved. Do have any recollection of the\n> > issues involved?\n> \n> Hi Bruce,\n> \n> Yes ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]\n> ----- Original Message ----- \n> From: \"Bruce Momjian\" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> To: \"Karel Zak\" <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>\n> Cc: \"pgsql-hackers\" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>; <teo@flex.ro>\n> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:41 PM\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've the following function:\n\n CREATE FUNCTION book_info(pricing)\n RETURNS catalog_general AS '\n select *\n from catalog_general\n where star_isbn = $1.vista_isbn\n ' LANGUAGE 'sql';\n\ncalling it as:\n \n SELECT p.*, p.book_info.title FROM pricing p WHERE vista_ans='...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Thanks. Applied.\n> \n> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]\n> > Hello!\n> > \n> > Here is a patch to make the current snapshot compile on \n> Win32 (native, libpq\n> > and psql) again. Changes are:\n\nI thought the consensus was to do something other than that patch.\nAs i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Needs fixing - no. The current version *works*.\nThe fix would remove one unnecessary step from it, but it still *works* in\nit's current state.\n\nSorry about this - I've missed looking at it.\n\n//Magnus\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]\...
[ { "msg_contents": "That would probably be good, yes :-)\n\nYou shuold then change:\nmv privkey.pem cert.pem.pw\nopenssl rsa -in cert.pem.pw -out cert.pem\n\nto\nopenssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out cert.pem\n\n(Sorry, don't have access to the SGML source now, so I can't give you a\npatch)\n\n//Magnus\n\n> -----Orig...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:\n> > We're losing this battle anyway. Look into \n> src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.\n> \n> Ugh. Magnus, is there any reasonable way to generate that \n> thing on the fly on Win32?\nIt's the same thing as with version.h - e.g. not really :-( It can...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know it is a pain to have to deal with all these items, but we have to\ndo this for every release. It helps to make our releases more complete\nbecause all open issues are resolved.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > 1. For 1st phase we'll place into log \"prepared-to-commit\" record\n> > and this phase will be accomplished after record is \n> > flushed on disk.\n> > At this point transaction may be committed at any time because of\n> > all its modifications are logged. But it still may be...