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[ { "msg_contents": "\nTom Lane wrote:\n> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:\n> > Uh - not much time to spend if the statistics should at least\n> > be half accurate. And it would become worse in SMP systems.\n> > So that was a nifty idea, but I think it'd cause much more\n> > statistic l...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just compiled and installed postgresql from the cvs (upgraded from 7.1beta5 \nbecuase of some problems I had), followed the steps, and the database server \nworks great, but my startup scripts don't work anymore.\nWhat the script has, works if I try to do it as postgres, but with a \nsu -l ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nwill do an announce later on tonight, to give the mirrors a chance to\nstart syncing ... can others confirm that the packaging once more looks\nclean?\n\nthanks ...\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\nprimary: s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Got it at spin.c:156 with 50 clients doing inserts into\n50 tables (int4, text[1-256 bytes]).\n-B 16384, -wal_buffers=256 (with default others wal params).\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:06:02 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "Not sure if this counts as *major*, but this jdbc1 compile\nproblem is presumably still there:\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-bugs/2001-03/msg00003.html\n\nas the referenced source file hasn't been updated. If I recall\nright, Peter was waiting for a java 1 SDK to be installed.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "> >> Got it at spin.c:156 with 50 clients doing inserts into\n> >> 50 tables (int4, text[1-256 bytes]).\n> >> -B 16384, -wal_buffers=256 (with default others wal params).\n> \n> > SpinAcquire() ... but on which lock?\n> \n> After a little bit of thought I'll bet it's ControlFileLockId.\n\nI s...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > How to synchronize with checkpoint-er if wal_files > 0?\n> \n> I was sort of visualizing assigning the created xlog files \n> dynamically:\n> \n> \tcreate a temp file of a PID-dependent name\n> \tfill it with zeroes and fsync it\n> \tacquire ControlFileLockId\n> \trename temp file into pl...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > And you know - I've run same tests on ~ Mar 9 snapshot\n> > without any problems.\n> >> \n> >> That was before I changed the code to pre-fill the file --- \n> >> now it takes longer to init a log segment. And we're only\n> >> using a plain SpinAcquire, not the flavor with a longer timeou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since pg_upgrade will not work for 7.1, should its installation be\nprevented and the man page be disabled?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:41:48 +0100 (CET)", "msg_from": "Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx....
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a timeout setting I can use to abort transactions that aren't\ndeadlocked, but which have been blocked waiting for locks greater than some\namount of time? I didn't see anything in the docs on this and observed with\n2 instances of psql that a transaction waiting on a lock seems to w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi friends!\n\nI'm working in a trigger and I need to put the result\nof a query into a variable.\n\nThat's very easy- apparently!\n\nThe query has a aggregate function like this:\n\nselect sum(field) into variable ...\n\nand I'm sure that field and variable are int4 type.\n\nSo, when I run t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know that new pg_dump can dump out large objects. But what about\npg_dumpall? Do we have to dump out a whole database cluster by using\npg_dumpall then run pg_dump separetly to dump large objects? That\nseems pain...\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:36:38 +0900", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "pg_restore crushes if dump data includes large objects...\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n[t-ishii@srapc1474 7.1]$ createdb test\nCREATE DATABASE\n[t-ishii@srapc1474 7.1]$ psql -c \"select lo_import('/boot/vmlinuz')\" test\n lo_import \n-----------\n 20736\n(1 row)\n\n[t-ishii@srapc1474 7.1]$ pg_dum...
[ { "msg_contents": "From: Bryan Wu <lfwu@yahoo.com>\nSubject: Urgent Question on Postgresql\nDate: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:39:36 -0800 (PST)\nMessage-ID: <20010318123936.79559.qmail@web10003.mail.yahoo.com>\n\n> Hi tatsuo Ishii,\n> \n> I learn from postgresql mailing list that you are\n> concerning the problem the U...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cyril VELTER <cyril.velter@libertysurf.fr> writes:\n> pg_ctl output when no shm segments left\n\n> pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Trying to start postmaster \n> anyway.\n> pg_ctl: cannot start postmaster <-------- not true !!!\n> Examine the log output.\n> DEBUG: database ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In 7.0.3, is it safe to drop a check constraint by simply deleting it from\nthe pg_relcheck table?\n\nChris\n\n--\nChristopher Kings-Lynne\nFamily Health Network (ACN 089 639 243)\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:53:18 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@fa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello All!\nI have found the PostgreSQL - JDBC driver from the site\nhttp://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/.\nBut, Iam not finding any tutorial for the same.\nCan anybody tell me the name of the site where I can find both the\nPostgreSQL driver and tutorial containing the examples .\nWith regards,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nJust to ask you if someone is planning to release beta 6 RPMs.\nI am running Redhat 7.0 test servers and the compiler is broken.\n\nRegards from Jean-Michel POURE, Paris\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:19:49 +0100", "msg_from": "Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf....
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi,\n \n after long time I see the /contrib tree and I have I small notes.\n\n - (IMHO) is good evidently that all executable programs stored here use \n prefix 'pg_', but with the exception:\n\n vacuumlo\n pgbench\t(instead pg_bench)\n oid2name\n ipc_check\n fti[.pl]\n findo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Been reading\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/replication with\ninterest as we are now approaching a real requirement for it on a project we\nhave finally resurrected for a bit of a dormant state.\n\nWhat is the current state-of-the-art WRT replication of any sort ? If an...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> >> It's great as long as you never block, but it sucks for making things\n> >> wait, because the wait interval will be some multiple of 10 msec rather\n> >> than just the time till the lock comes free.\n> \n> > On the AIX platform usleep (3) is able to really sleep microseconds without \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "For those interested in the topic, this is something that went through\nthe Vorbis-dev mailing list not that long ago which implements the\nabove topic into the vorbis decoder. Might be useful to see what\nsystems it works on, and where it breaks as well as a reference\nimplementation. (patc...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think it is time to start giving people official responsibility for\ncertain areas of the code. \n\nIn the old says, we didn't have many _exports_, and people submitting\npatches often knew more than we did because they had spent time studying\nthe code.\n\nNow, we have much more expertise...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIs there any way to get just the ODBC RPM to install with OUT\ninstalling the whole DB? \n\nI have a strange situation:\n\nStarOffice 5.2 (Linux) Running under FreeBSD Linux Emulation\nPG running NATIVE.\n\nI want the two to talk, using ODBC.\n\nHow do I make this happen?\n\nLER\n\n-- \nLar...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've looked at the elog calls in the source, about 1700 in total (only\nelog(ERROR)). If we mapped these to the SQL error codes then we'd have\nabout two dozen calls with an assigned code and the rest being \"other\".\nThe way I estimate it (I didn't really look at *each* call, of course) is...
[ { "msg_contents": "It has been brought up that elog should be able to automatically fill in\nthe file, line, and perhaps the function name where it's called, to avoid\nhaving to prefix each message with the function name by hand, which is\nquite ugly.\n\nThis is doable, but it requires a C preprocessor that can...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \"Vadim Mikheev\" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com> writes:\n> > Anyway, deadlock in my tests are very correlated with new log file\n> > creation - something probably is still wrong...\n> \n> Well, if you can reproduce it easily, seems like you could \n> get in there and verify or disprove my theor...
[ { "msg_contents": "Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> \n> It has been brought up that elog should be able to automatically fill in\n> the file, line, and perhaps the function name where it's called, to avoid\n> having to prefix each message with the function name by hand, which is\n> quite ugly.\n> \n> This is doable, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Stephen van Egmond (svanegmond@home.com) reports a bug with a severity of 3\nThe lower the number the more severe it is.\n\nShort Description\ncomments on columns aren't displayed by \\dd\n\nLong Description\nComments on columns appear to be broken. CREATE COMMENT ON COLUMN inserts stuff int...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI want to ask question:\n\ncan i write my own concurrency control algorithm and\napply it using postgresql?\n\nThanks in advance\nManal\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nGet email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. \nhttp://personal.mail.yahoo.com...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > Nothing for function that I can find.\n> \n> It is called __func__ in C99 but it is not an object-like macro. The\n> difference is that it behaves as if it were declared thus.\n\nAIX xlc has __FUNCTION__, but unfortunately no __func__ or __PRETTY...\nIt outputs the full demagled funcn...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > So we need some good error numbering scheme. Any ideas?\n> \n> SQL9x specifies some error codes, with no particular numbering scheme\n> other than negative numbers indicate a problem afaicr.\n> \n> Shouldn't we map to those where possible?\n\nYes, it defines at least a few dozen char(5...
[ { "msg_contents": "> #define PGERR_TYPE 1854\n\n#define PGSQLSTATE_TYPE\t\"S0021\" // char(5) SQLSTATE \n\nThe standard calls this error variable SQLSTATE \n(look up in ESQL standard)\n\nfirst 2 chars are class next 3 are subclass\n\n\"00000\" is e.g. Success \n\"02000\" is Data not found\n\"U0xxx\" user d...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was configuring postmaster to allow more buffers to be used (1250 of them) and\nonce that change was made, postmaster would no longer allow connections. I have\nsince removed the option and it still does the same thing. I added -N 33 to it\nto see if she would recover to no avail...\n\nany ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Hmm ... so you think the people who have complained of this are all\n> working with databases that have suffered previous crash corruption?\n> I doubt it. There's too much consistency to the reports: in\n> particular, it's generally triggered by creation of lots of large\n> objects, and it...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \tWe'd like to wrap up an RC1 and get this release happening\n> this year sometime :) Tom mentioned to me that he has no\n> outstandings left on his plate ... does anyone else have any\n> *show stoppers* left that need to be addressed, or can I package\n> things up?\n\nI wonder if anybody ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> And still no LAZY vacuum. *sigh*\n\nPatch will be available in a few days after release.\nSorry, Alfred.\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:02:23 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "RE: Final Ca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Added to TODO:\n\n\t* Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG\n\t* Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]\n\t * Determine optimal commit_delay value\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@cand...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cedar Cox <cedarc@visionforisrael.com> writes:\n> Added note: The trigger is a BEFORE trigger.\n\nAFAIK the \"triggered data change\" message comes out of the AFTER trigger\ncode. You sure you don't have any AFTER triggers on the table? Perhaps\nones added implicitly by a foreign-key const...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n(First of all, is this the right list?)\n\nWhen doing\n pg_dump testdb -u\nI get\n failed sanity check, type with oid 899762 was not found\n\nI searched my backend log for this oid and found something near the\n'tryme' function. As far as I can find I have two functions defined with\ndif...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, thanks to our snowstorm :-0 I have been working on the beta 6 RPM situation\non my _slow_ notebook today (power outages for ten minutes at a time happening\nat hour or so intervals due to 45mph+ winds and a foot of snow....).\n\nWell, I have preliminary RPM's built -- just need to work on...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello;\nI installed postgresql. I compiled it and started the server successfully\nbut when I'm trying to connect to database I get this message:\n Could not load the JDBC driver. org.postgresql.Driver reason: The backend\nhas broken the connection. Possibly the action you have attempted has ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Redhat Linux 7.0 (glibc 2.2-12, gcc 2.96-69)\n\nMikeA\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Peter Eisentraut\nTo: The Hermit Hacker\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSent: 20/03/01 19:11\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Final Call: RC1 about to go out the door ...\n\nThe Hermit Hacker writes:\n\n> \tW...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I'm rerunning to see if it is intermittent. Second run -- no \n> error. Running a third time......no error. Now I'm confused.\n> What would cause such an error, Tom? I'm going to check on my\n\nHmm, concurrent checkpoint? Probably we could simplify dirty test\nin ByfferSync() - ie test b...
[ { "msg_contents": "With RC1 nearing, when should I run pgindent? This is usually the time\nI do it.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue\n + Christ can b...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nPostmaster crashed on me, and on restart, pg_inherits cannot be found.\nI can see it in pg_class (and it shows up w/ \\dS), but any attempt to\nmodify anything fails with \"pg_inherits: No such file or directory\".\n\nI've reindexed the database (w/postgres -P -O). Vacuuming fails (w/error\...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm sorry, I should have included:\n\nPostgreSQL 7.1beta4\nLinux-Mandrake 7.1 (very simiiar RedHat 7)\nIntel hardware\n\n-- \nJoel Burton <jburton@scw.org>\nDirector of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:39:49 -0500 (EST)", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:11:21PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n> \n> We need a supported platform list. Let's hear it.\n\n\tLinux 2.4.2 (Debian, Woody), glibc 2.2.2, gcc 2.95.3 (from CVS).\n\n\t-Roberto\n-- \n+----| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|------+\n Robert...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I think the problem is that BufferSync unconditionally does PinBuffer\n> on each buffer, and holds the pin during intervals where it's released\n> BufMgrLock, even if there's not really anything for it to do on that\n> buffer. If someone else is running FlushRelationBuffers then it's\n> po...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Further note: this bug does not arise in 7.0.* because in that code,\n> BufferSync will only pin buffers that have been dirtied in the current\n> transaction. This cannot affect a concurrent FlushRelationBuffers,\n> which should be holding exclusive lock on the table it's flushing.\n> \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Cced: to PostgreSQL hackers list]\n\nAlexander,\n\nI believe this problem was fixed in the latest JDBC driver, that is\nsupposed to be shipped with 7.1. It asks your database which encoding\nis used for particular database while connecting to the database. So\nyou should be able to see \"sel...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----\n\nHi,\n\nI am trying to access PostGreSQL database running at the default port\n5432\nusing JDBC. But the application is giving error \"Cannot find suitable\ndriver\". I have included JDBC driver JAR file in my CLASSPATH and\nClass.forName(\"org.postgresql.Driver\") is loading driv...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\tint8 is not handled correctly on Alpha. Inserting 2^63-1, 2^63-2 and\n2^61\ninto \n\ncreate table lint (i int8);\n\ngives\n\ntest=# select * from lint;\n i \n----\n -1\n -2\n 0\n(3 rows)\n\nOn linux it gives the correct values:\n\ntest=# select * from lint;\n i \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just committed changes in bufmgr.c\nRegress tests passed but need more specific tests,\nas usually. Descr as in CVS:\n\n> Check bufHdr->cntxDirty and call StartBufferIO in BufferSync()\n> *before* acquiring shlock on buffer context. This way we should be\n> protected against conflicts with Fl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello ! \nMy program is given below and the errors which Iam getting on executing \nthe program is \"ClassNotFoundException:org.postgresql.Driver\n SQLException:No suitable driver\".\nCan you tell me what's wrong in my program?\n\nRegards,\nSourabh\n\n\n\n\n\nimport java.sql.*;\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Time to speak up, I have a HPUX 9.07 system and will test today.\n\nJim\n\n> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:\n> >> HPUX 10.20 (HP-PA architecture)\n> \n> > Time to drop 9.2 from the list?\n> \n> I don't have it running here anymore. Is there anyone on the list\n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Added to TODO:\n\n\t* Add BETWEEN [ASYMMETRIC|SYMMETRIC]\n\nRoss did a patch for this but some wanted it implemented differently so\nI just added it to the TODO list.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have created an FTP file containing all ourstanding patches. It is\nat:\n\n\tftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches.mbox\n\nI will keep this updated so people know their patches are in the queue\nand have not been forgotten. I may also use this to ask people for\npatch review.\n\nC...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I'm been running one backend doing repeated iterations of\n> \n> CREATE TABLE temptest(col int);\n> INSERT INTO temptest VALUES (1);\n> \n> CREATE TEMP TABLE temptest(col int);\n> INSERT INTO temptest VALUES (2);\n> SELECT * FROM temptest;\n> DROP TABLE temptest;\n> \n> SELECT * FROM tempte...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recent changes in pg_crc.c (64 bit CRC) introduced non portable constants of the form:\n\n -c -o pg_crc.o pg_crc.c\n 287 | 0x0000000000000000, 0x42F0E1EBA9EA3693,\n ............................a..................\na - 1506-207 (W) Integer constant 0x42F0E1EBA9EA3693 ou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a reminder that this will begin in 10 minutes:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI am taking part in an on-line Q&A talk tomorrow about PostgreSQL. It\nwill be at:\n\n http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/Online_Events/searchDatabase_Onli...
[ { "msg_contents": "HPUX 9.07 with GCC 2.8.1 fails the regression tests. I will look into \nthis later. I would NOT hold anything up because of this....\n\nJim\n\n> Time to speak up, I have a HPUX 9.07 system and will test today.\n> \n> Jim\n> \n> > Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:\n> > >...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have created a new web page that contains all unapplied patches that\nare either waiting for approval or waiting for new development to begin.\n\nPeople can use this page to know that their patches have not been lost,\nand I may ask people to review this page for patch approval.\n\nThe page...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear experts,\n\nSome advice would be greatly appreciated:\n\n1. I've been running RedHat6.2 and its pgSQL 6.5xx, PHP3.0 counterparts\nfor 10\nmonths, not having time to upgrade and being afraid to upgrade due to\n\"regular problems\" that go along.\n\n2. I am thinking about Debian (my prefer...
[ { "msg_contents": "Helper,\n\nI need to create a temp table for each db connection. So, I add the\ndollowing code into postgres.c\n----------------\n SPI_connect();\n SPI_exec(\"create temp table tbl_tmp (n int);\",0);\n SPI_exec(\"insert into tbl_tmp values (1);\",0);\n SPI_finish();\n----------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Since I am playing with StarOffice, I figured I'd try --with-odbc,\ncurrent sources, except for the big Bruce commit I just saw :-) \n\n\nUX:tsort: INFO: \tpsqlodbc.o\nUX:tsort: INFO: \tdlg_specific.o\nUX:tsort: INFO: \tconvert.o\nUX:tsort: WARNING: Cycle in data\nUX:tsort: INFO: \tpsqlodbc.o...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 22:03 21/03/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:\n>\n>This is going to be a disaster for the coder. Every time you look at an\n>elog you don't know what it does? Is the first arg a %s or a %d? What's\n>the first %s, what the second?\n\nFWIW, I did a quick scan for elog in PG and found:\n\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have finished pgindent. We also had many old comments of the format:\n\n\t/* ------\n * comment\n * ------\n */\n\nThese are now the more concise:\n\n\t/*\n * comment\n */\n\nAlso, comments with dashes are not wrapped nicely by pgindent. Some\ncomme...
[ { "msg_contents": "I know pgindent has risks. Unfortunately, if we don't run pgindent, or\nrun it at a different time, we have other problems. Either the code is\nnot consistent for new developers, or patches supplied against the most\nrecent release do not patch cleanly.\n\nBoth seem worse to me than taking ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n============== shutting down postmaster ==============\n\n======================\n All 76 tests passed.\n======================\n\nrm regress.o\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\nprimary: scrapp...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm currently concerned about these recent reports:\n\n* Joel Burton's report of disappearing files, 3/20. This is real scary,\nbut no one else has reported anything like it.\n\n* Tatsuo's weird failure in XLogFileInit (\"ZeroFill: no such file or\ndirectory\"). I'm hoping this can be expla...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it possible to fix this before RC1?\n\nbray=# \\d price\n Table \"price\"\n Attribute | Type | Modifier \n-------------+-----------------------+----------\n product | character varying(10) | not null\n cost | numeric(12,2) | not null\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nLooks like initdb is just a tad too strict when checking to make sure\nthe data directory is empty. Yesterday I created a new data directory\nas it's own filesystem (linux ext2), it includes a lost+found directory.\nTo initdb this means that the directory is no longer empty and it refuses\...
[ { "msg_contents": "> * Joel Burton's report of disappearing files, 3/20. This is \n> real scary, but no one else has reported anything like it.\n\nCan please you remind that report?\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:51:32 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think there is a prob with regexp, which is comparing one less\ncharacter as it should. Below is an example. Result is that last\ncharacter is omitted !\n\nPh.R.\n\npostgres=# select * from pg_database where datname ~ 'ibd01*';\n datname | datdba | encoding | datpath \n---------+--------+--...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI.....\n\n\n----- Forwarded message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> -----\n\nSender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG\nFrom: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>\nSubject: Revised schedule for 4.3-RELEASE\nDate: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:04:09 -0800\nMessage-Id: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi....
[ { "msg_contents": "We have pgsql-7.0.2 running on a production platform doing nightly dumps. I\ntried to import this dump using psql to a pgsql server running from a cvs\nupdate of 7.1 I did today. \n\nAll the data was imported OK except for the data in one table where I got\nthe following message on import :\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've successfully tested release 7.1beta4 on Irix 6.5.11. I'll run another\ntest on the most recent beta or RC next week.\n\n+----------------------------------+------------------------------------+\n| Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383 |\n| President, Conge...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI am learning and using SPI. In PostgreSQL documentation chapter \"Server\nProgramming Interface,\" there is a small example name \"execq(text,\nint)\".\n\nThis example works as the document says on 7.0.3 and earlier version,\nbut this example DOES NOT work on my 7.1 beta4.\n\nThis ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have a plan to translate 7.1 docs into Japanases and I looked around\ncurrent docs. I noticed that contacts.sgml and ref/current*.sgml are\nnot used anywhere in the result html nor in man pages.\nDoes anybody know the reason? Or am I missing something?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Recent changes in pg_crc.c (64 bit CRC) introduced non \n> portable constants of the form:\n> \n> > -c -o pg_crc.o pg_crc.c\n> > 287 | 0x0000000000000000, 0x42F0E1EBA9EA3693,\n> > ............................a..................\n> > a - 1506-207 (W) Integer cons...
[ { "msg_contents": "Postgre 7.0.3, on RedHat Linux 6.2 stock 2.2.16 kernel. Nothing special I\ncan think of, this server has been up and in use for the last 128 days with\nno problem. Last night while cron was performing the nightly vacuuming of\nall databases on one of our servers, I got this from cron.\n\nVa...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Postgre 7.0.3, on RedHat Linux 6.2 stock 2.2.16 kernel. Nothing special I\n> can think of, this server has been up and in use for the last 128 days\n> with\n> no problem. Last night while cron was performing the nightly vacuuming of\n> all databases on one of our servers, I got this from ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I have since stopped the database server and all my users are \n> dead in the water at the moment. I took postgres down to single\n> user mode and I'm doing a vacuum and was considering doing an\n> iccpclean. Any other suggestions? dump & restore?\n> Any Idea what happened?\n\nDrop indices...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> >> I'm aware that some compilers will produce warnings about these\n> >> constants, but there should not be any that fail completely, since\n> >> (a) we won't be compiling this code unless we've proven that the\n> >> compiler supports a 64-bit-int datatype, and \n> \n> > Unfortunately con...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Matthew <matt@ctlno.com> writes:\n> > [ a tale of woe ]\n> \n> It looks like dropping and rebuilding *all* the indexes on your history\n> table would be a good move (possibly with a vacuum of the table while\n> the indexes are removed). You might want to do a COPY out to try to\n> save the...
[ { "msg_contents": "> The vacuum I tried in single user mode failed (froze on a\n> table, for over 20 minutes) so I killed it.\n\nDid you destroy indices before vacuum?\n\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:13 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Mikheev, Vadim\" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>", "msg_from_op...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > The vacuum I tried in single user mode failed (froze on a\n> > table, for over 20 minutes) so I killed it.\n> \n> Did you destroy indices before vacuum?\n> \n\tNot all of them, it's a large database and I am trying to get it up\nand running asap.\n\n\tFYI now when I try to use psql to con...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Matthew <matt@ctlno.com> writes:\n> > \tFYI now when I try to use psql to connect to the database I get this\n> > error:\n> > \tbash$ psql cms\n> > \tpsql: FATAL 1: cannot find attribute 1 of relation pg_trigger\n> \n> So the indexes on pg_attribute are hosed too. I wonder whether that wa...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > The vacuum I tried in single user mode failed (froze on a\n> > > table, for over 20 minutes) so I killed it.\n> > \n> > Did you destroy indices before vacuum?\n> > \n> Not all of them, it's a large database and I am trying \n> to get it up and running asap.\n\nDid you destroy *all* indi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \tWhat do you mean by the whole database? I have already \n> executed:\n> \n> \treindex database cms force\n> \treindex table cases force\n> \treindex table cases force\n> \treindex table hits force\n> \treindex table history force (and a few more)\n> \n> \tHow do I get it do reindex the s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWell, its been a hard, arduous journey for this one, with several delays\ncaused by the massive amount of changes that have gone into v7.1 ... but,\ntonight I've finally wrapped up Release Candidate 1 ...\n\nI'm going to hold off on a formal announcement to -announce until tomorrow\nevening...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are we ready to start freezing docs? I'll assume that the tutorial\nsections can freeze first, and that the admin sections will freeze last\n(to get the latest platform support info).\n\nAny preference on order, and does anyone have more docs changes in the\npipe? If so, we had better plan on...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI did a cvs pull of the head on 3/24/01 and used Sun's cc\ncompiler 5.0 (with all patches as of 2/1/01) to build.\n\nI ran into a problem building pg_backup_null.c rev 1.5.\nThe following patch lets me build:\n\nIndex: src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_null.c\n======================================...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI recently got sent a survey to fill out that is meant to compare various\nObject databases ... there are ~20 sections to this thing, asking\nquestions ranging from General Architecture to interactions with External\nDBMSs ... and *alot* of questions that I've no experience in, and,\ntheref...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greetings,\n\n I have been following along with the thread and would just like to say a \nfew paragraphs.\n\n Can't the contributors themselves run pgindent on the files which they \nhave changed _just_ before creating the patch which is to be contributed?\n\n Thus, patching a \"pure\" pgind...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nContinuing on my quest to get 7.1 to build on Solaris 8 with\nSun's cc 5.0, I found an alignment problem in\nbackend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c\n\n(/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) where\n=>[1] toast_save_datum(rel = 0x5fb4c8, mainoid = 18714U, attno = 7, value =\n6548664U), line 8...
[ { "msg_contents": "[Cced: to hackers list]\n\nCan you turn off --enable-locale or set locale to C and try again? I\nguess upper() does bad thing in that it thinks the letter is Polish\nbut actually it is unicode(UTF-8).\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\n\n> I have encountered some problems while trying to create a database t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Following up on the recent bug report from Steve Nicolai, I spent a\ntedious hour groveling through all the warnings emitted by gcc with\n-Wcast-align. (We ought to try to reduce the number of them, but that's\na task for another day.)\n\nI found seven places, in addition to the tuptoaster.c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Was just trying to recreate my docs from CVS, using the same tools\nI've been using for months, and got the following:\n\ngmake -C sgml clean\ngmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/doc/src/sgml'\nrm -f catalog\nrm -f HTML.manifest *.html\nrm -rf *.1 *.l man1 manl manpage.refs m...