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"msg_contents": "\nI packaged up an RC2 over the weekend, and pretty much as soon as I had it\npackaged and in place, before I could announce it, there were several\npatches thrown in ... so, I left it there, let anyone who happened to see\nit pick it up, but didn't announce it ...\n\nEverything has been quie... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n I have a string that is getting encoded using blowfish in postgres \n(using my own function written in C for PG) and storted in the\ndatabase. \nThe problem is, that with some strings after encoding is done, I end up \nwith a special character in the middle of the encoded string t... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wednesday 04 April 2001 22:42, Ciaran Johnston wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> Sorry to bother you's but I am currently doing a database comparison and\n> have been trying to get postgresql installed. I'm running Solaris 2.7. I\n> downloaded pgsql 7.03 and ran ./configure in the src/ directory. This\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> Everything has been quiet, as far as patches are concerned, \n> for the past 24+hrs ... I'd like to roll (and actually announce)\n> an solid RC3 tonight, with announce first thing tomorrow morning,\n> unless anyone has anythign they aer sitting on?\n\nWe still have opened report about losin... |
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"msg_contents": "(cc'd the -hackers mailing list)\n\nThanks for the reports Matthew. There is a single failure in the\nNetBSD/sparc64 test due to a problem in the reltime test (or in starting\nthe reltime test). There is a different failure in your NetBSD/sparc\ntest, but since you are not confident about you... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to build Mac OSX 10.0 from the current cvs.\n\n./configure --with-perl --with-openssl --enable-syslog |& tee configure.logfile\n\n<snip>\n\nmake |& tee Makefile.logfile\n\n<snip>\n\nRunning Mkbootstrap for plperl ()\nchmod 644 plperl.bs\nLD_RUN_PATH=\"\" cc -o blib/arch/auto/plper... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce,\n> \n> Two changes for the TODO list.\n> \n> 1. Under \"RELIABILITY/MISC\", add:\n> \n> Write out a CRC with each data block, and verify it on reading.\n> \n> 2. Under SOURCE CODE, I believe Tom has already implemented:\n> \n> Correct CRC WAL code to be a real CRC64 algorithm... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am writing a C program that accesses a 7.0.3 database using libpq. I would like to\nbe able to do a fprintf through some file pointer or pipe TO the database via a PQexec call of COPY. \nI have been unable to figure out if this is possible. I see where I can do this via stdin,\nbu... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Mikheev, Vadim [mailto:vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM]\n> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:37 AM\n> To: 'Tom Lane'\n> Subject: RE: [BUGS] Loosing files after backend crash \n> \n> \n> 1. Indices could be recreated with REINDEX or pg_class could \n> be queri... |
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"msg_contents": "Using current cvs version on Mac OS X 10.0 built with\n\n./configure\nmake\nmade check\n\ntest horology ... FAILED\n\nfrom the regression.diffs file\n\nIs this a problem or not?\n\nNeil Tiffin\nChicago\n\n\n[localhost:src/test/regress] ntiffin% cat regression.diffs\n*** ./expected... |
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"msg_contents": "> Well, bad news. After a few more tries to crash the backend, the whole\n> postmaster crashed and didn't rise back.\n> It fails to start up reporting \"Apr 4 18:53:05 wale \n> postgres[71618]: [9]\n> FATAL 2: XLogWrite: write request is past end of log\" to syslog.\n\nHmmm, the only XLogWr... |
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"msg_contents": "> Well, bad news. After a few more tries to crash the backend, the whole\n> postmaster crashed and didn't rise back.\n> It fails to start up reporting \"Apr 4 18:53:05 wale \n> postgres[71618]: [9]\n> FATAL 2: XLogWrite: write request is past end of log\" to syslog.\n\nOk, this one is easy ... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Could you please try to just remove the cpp flag? Also I wonder why you are\n> > using \"long long int\" instead of just \"long int\" in your C program. Well\n> > that is the people who complained to you.\n> \n> Yes, dropping the CPP flags solves the problem for us. I assume all\n> plat... |
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"msg_contents": "We are just (as per other queries recently) building a new system\nusing postgresql as the backend database. 7.1 seems like it is going\ngive us a number of essential fixes and useful features that make it\nworth waiting a while.\n\nAs I have not seen announcements of the beta and RC cuts on\... |
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"msg_contents": "I will be on the road for the next two weeks. If something need to be done\nwith ecpg please go ahead and make the changes.\n\nMichael\n-- \nMichael Meskes\nMichael@Fam-Meskes.De\nGo SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!\nUse Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!\n",
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"msg_contents": "\n> > 1. Under \"RELIABILITY/MISC\", add:\n> > \n> > Write out a CRC with each data block, and verify it on reading.\n\n> TODO updated. I know we did number 2, but did we agree on #1 and is it\n> done?\n\nHas anybody done performance and reliability tests with CRC64 ? \nI think it must be ... |
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"msg_contents": "A friend of mine (Matthew Green) mentioned that 7.1RC2 had NetBSD/powerpc\ndown as unttested, and asked me to test it. So here are the results:\n\nOn my NetBSD/macppc system running NetBSD 1.5, gmake check reported that 2\nof 62 tests failed. I've attached regression.diff to this message.\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> If the reason that a block CRC isn't on the TODO list is that Vadim\n> objects, maybe we should hear some reasons why he objects? Maybe \n> the objections could be dealt with, and everyone satisfied.\n\nUnordered disk writes are covered by backing up modified blocks\nin log. It allows not ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > So, for what CRC could be used? To catch disk damages?\n> > Disk has its own CRC for this.\n> \n> OK, this was already discussed, maybe while Vadim was absent. \n> Should I re-post the previous text?\n\nLet's return to this discussion *after* 7.1 release.\nMy main objection was (and is) ... |
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"msg_contents": "Bottom line: 7.1RC1 passes most of the regression tests on \nNetBSD/macppc. It's probably good enough for normal use since the \ndifferences are not extensive, but someone would need to look at the \ndiff's for longer than the 10 seconds or so I've spent so far, and \nsomeone should actuall... |
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"msg_contents": "CREATE TABLE junk (\n col SERIAL PRIMARY KEY\n);\n\nINSERT INTO junk (col) DEFAULT VALUES;\n\nINSERT INTO junk DEFAULT VALUES:\n\n\nSecond insert works, first one fails.\n\nINSERT INTO table [ ( column [, ...] ) ]\n { DEFAULT VALUES | VALUES ( expression [, ...] ) | SELECT query }\n\n\nTh... |
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"msg_contents": "Found the issue. Try out the attached SQL in a fresh database.\n\nI had honestly expected the second delete to work properly as nothing\nhad to be removed that table.\n\nThe rule was added as a temporary measure to protect the data\ncurrently in the table -- without the intent of otherwise i... |
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"msg_contents": "Found the issue. Try out the included SQL.\n\nI had honestly expected the second delete to work properly as nothing\nhad to be removed that table.\n\nThe rule was added as a temporary measure to protect the data\ncurrently in the table -- without the intent of otherwise impeding the\nother i... |
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"msg_contents": "> > Blocks that have recently been written, but failed to make\n> > it down to the disk platter intact, should be restorable from\n> > the WAL log. So we do not need a block-level CRC to guard\n> > against partial writes.\n> \n> If a block is missing some sectors in the middle, how would you... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThomas? Did I miss your patch for the 'WITH TIMEZONE' regression test?\n\nDoes anyone else have anything left outstanding that should hold me off\nfrom doing an RC3 tomorrow?\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy\nSystems Administrator @ hub.org\... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nEinar Karttunen wrote:\n\n>\n> >\n> > integer (float_expression) or int (float_expression) DO work on\n> RedHat6.2/PostgreSQL6.5 and DO NOT work on Mandrake/PostgreSQL7.0.2\n\n> Try using int2()/int4()/int8() instead of integer(). The intn()\nfunctions\n> convert the float to a integer n ... |
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"msg_contents": "My nightly dump of one of my databases started failing Wednesday night and\nI'm not sure what is going on. When I pg_dump this one database (others on\nthis machine are fine) I get this output from pg_dump\n\n-- last builtin oid is 17216 \n-- reading user-defined types \n-- reading user-d... |
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"msg_contents": "> FWIW, I confirm that horology-no-DST-before-1970 is good; it passes on\n> HPUX. Can anyone confirm horology-solaris-1947?\n\nHow to test it? All default tests are Ok on my Solaris.\n\nVadim\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:23:00 -0700 ",
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"msg_contents": "> To be perfectly clear: I have actually seen bug reports trace to\n> problems that I think a block-level CRC might have detected (not\n> corrected, of course, but at least the user might have realized he had\n> flaky hardware a little sooner). So I do not say that the upside to\n> a block C... |
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"msg_contents": "\ndominic=# \\l\n List of databases\n Database | Owner \n---------------+----------\n aleal | aleal\n arivera | arivera\n bbeyer | bbeyer\n brandon | brandon\n brandon | postgres\n dominic | dominic\n ds3 | agould\n keystone | d... |
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"msg_contents": "On Fri, 06 April 2001, Tom Lane wrote:\n\n> \n> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:\n> > Try using int2()/int4()/int8() instead of integer().\n> >> Why is that NOT documented under \"Matematical functions\"?\n> \n> > Because we haven't received any patches to document it? ;)... |
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"msg_contents": "[ BCC to admin]\n\nI have completed my PostgreSQL session monitor utility, pgmonitor. I\nhave recently added the ability to start/stop the postmaster.\n\nI considered adding the ability to set postmaster/postgres command\nflags, but decided they are not changed frequently enough.\n\nIt still... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI've noticed a pg_dump/pg_dumpall problem with timestamp variables, in\ndumping the minute, and second values:\ninstead of dumping\n12:01:00.00 it dumps out 12:60:00.00 which is not accepted when\nrestoring a database...\n\nGyuro Lehel\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "The man page for createlang refers to the --echo option, but in fact\nthat option does not exist.\n\nThis patch implements it and also expands the man page for a couple of\noptions that were not documented.\n\ndiff -ur postgresql-7.1RC3/doc/src/sgml/ref/createlang.sgml postgresql-7.1cRC3/doc/... |
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"msg_contents": "Debian packages of 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to the Debian experimental\ndistribution and are also available at http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresq\nl\n\nThese packages are built for sid (Debian unstable); I am currently\ntrying to build a set for potato (stable).\n\n\n\nIncidentally, wh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nI would like to inform you all that I am currently working on the \nimplementation of PL/pgSQL packages on both server-side (PostgreSQL 7.1) \nand client-side (PgAdmin).\nThe idea is to add an PL/pgSQL Integrated Development Environment to \npgadmin. Help and suggestions needed.... |
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"msg_contents": "I searched for the error and I have found :\n\nwhen I execute psql template0\nthe SIGSEGV is generated when postinit calls RelationPhaseInitializePhase2\nin heap_openr with RelationName = pg_am at the return r I have the error.\n\nwhen I execute psql template1\nthe SIGSEGV is generated when p... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi.\n\nA few weeks (months?) ago I made a patch to the postgres\nbackend to get back the number of realized moves after\na MOVE command. So if I issue a \"MOVE 100 IN cusrorname\",\nbut there was only 66 rows left, I get back not only \"MOVE\",\nbut \"MOVE 66\". If the 100 steps could be real... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI had very funny problems with \"make install\" of the\nCVS version. The clue was a bit strange behavior of bash\n(/bin/sh is only a link in my debian). \n\nThe whole thing is about wildcard expansion: there's an \noption called nocaseglob. I never heard of it before, \nbut this was t... |
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"msg_contents": "Since people suddenly seem to be suffering from bandwidth concerns I have\ndevised a new distribution split to address this issue. I propose the\nfollowing four sub-tarballs:\n\n* postgresql-XXX.base.tar.gz\t3.3 MB\n\nEverything not in one of the ones below.\n\n* postgresql-XXX.opt.tar.gz\t1... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAs the subject says, PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 passes 'make check' when built\nas a 64 bit application on HP-UX 11.00.\n\nYes Vince, I've added it to your results page too:\n\n http://www.postgresql.org/~vev/regress/report.php?50\n\nRegards,\n\nGiles\n",
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"msg_contents": "Uploaded. Please take a look.\n\nftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/test-rpms\n\nThere _are_ changes. I will detail the changes for the RC4 RPMset.\n\nKarl's pl/perl changes will go into the next set. pg_dumplo will have a\nbuilt binary, to be located in /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib.\n--\nLamar Ow... |
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"msg_contents": "Are up. Contrib subpackage includes built binaries.\n\nBinary RPMset built for _Red_Hat_6.2_. I will be building Red Hat 7.0\nRPMS after I get back from a two day vacation -- which will put me back\nonline Wednesday. I might get a set out for RH7 tomorrow, though.\n\nThe split to contrib an... |
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"msg_contents": " Hi--\n This is my first time at using Postgress , and I would like to install it\non a Win 2000 machine .HELP !!!\n Thanks\n Nadim\n\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:34:47 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "Hi--\n This is my first time at using Postgress , and I would like to install it\non a Win 2000 machine .HELP !!!\n Thanks\n Nadim\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:44:26 -0400",
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"msg_contents": "\nLadies and Gentlemen ...\n\nIts been a long, arduous, up hill battle to get to this point, with all of\nthe changes since v7.0 was released, but we're finally there ...\n\n\nThe PostgreSQL Global Development Group is *pleased* to announce the\navailability of PostgreSQL v7.1 Release Candida... |
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"msg_contents": "Regression tests for Yellow Dog Linux (PPC RedHat derivative) failed all \nover the place with 7.0.3. Passed smoothly with 7.1RC3, though. I've \ngot details if anybody's curious.\n\n -nat\n",
"msg_date": "Sun, 08 Apr 2001 18:14:09 -0700",
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nJust thinking about the future directions PostgreSQL is taking, and it\nseems (just a feeling) like most people prefer it to be as self tuning\nas possible.\n\nIn trying to think about how it will/would do that I think PostgreSQL\nwill need to know \"how much\" of the resources of... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr]\n> Sent: 07 April 2001 15:24\n> To: pgAdmin-hackers@greatbridge.org\n> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [pgAdmin-hackers] PL/pgSQL IDE project\n> \n> \n> Hello all,\n> \n> I would like to inf... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> However, 7.1beta6 to 7.1rc4 to 7.1.0 would be an ok \n> progression, as 7.1 < 7.1.0, I think (saying that without having tested it could be\n> dangerous.... :-)).\n\nI like this 7.1.0, it would also help to clarify what exact version is at hand.\nPeople tend to use shorthands like 7.1 to ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni implement additional server functionality. Currently (v7.0.3), executing\nSQL update statement on the same\nrow from inside two different processess results in blocking second process\nto the end of transaction in the first one.\nIn real OLTP application second process can't wait too... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI implement additional server functionality. Currently (v7.0.3), executing\nSQL update statement on the same\nrow from inside two different processess results in blocking second process\nto the end of transaction in\nthe first one. In real OLTP application second process can't wait too... |
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"msg_contents": "\tWhen I downlaod a full tarball I want it all, I'm greedy like that.\n;)\nIf it is to be split up as standard I believe problems will arise with\ndifferent versions being used together (by me most likley...). Also IMHO it\nwill not necessarily be relised the docs have not been down loaded wh... |
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"msg_contents": "I have in my posession a HP9000/433s box. It doesn't have an OS on it\nyet, but will probably have NetBSD 1.5 on it soon. Do we need PG\ntested on it?\n\nThis is a 33Mhz MC68040 with 128Meg RAM...\n\nLER\n\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-... |
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"msg_contents": "DISCLAIMER: don't take this as MySQL flaming (it isn't) or personally, this \nare just my observations on an application, not a benchmark.\n\nToday I tried a quite simple, mostly write database (HTTP logging). \n* Postgres peaked at 709 inserts/sec (committed after 3 seconds or 100 \ninserts,... |
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"msg_contents": "Excessively long values are currently silently truncated when they are\ninserted into char or varchar fields. This makes the entire notion of\nspecifying a length limit for these types kind of useless, IMO. Needless\nto say, it's also not in compliance with SQL.\n\nHow do people feel about ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello there,\n\nI first ran configure with the following options\n\n ./configure --with-perl --with-tcl --enable-odbc --with-java \n--enable-syslog --enable-debug\n\nand then compiled postgresql-7.1rc4 on Redhat 7.0 successfully\nwith the exceptions in JDBC and Perl modules as\nindicated be... |
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"msg_contents": "Charlie Derr wrote:\n\n > This sounds like the problem with the version of gcc\n > that is included with rh7.0\n >\n > If you don't want to upgrade gcc to a newer version,\n > I think you can fix the problem by \"mv\"ing gcc to brokengcc\n > and then creating creating a new symlink gcc to kgc... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:08:48AM -0400, Peter T Mount wrote:\n> Quoting Kyle VanderBeek <kylev@yaga.com>:\n> \n> \n> > Please consider applying my patch to the 7.0 codebase as a stop-gap \n> > measure until such time as the optimizer can be improved to notice \n> > indecies on INT8 columns ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've tried to write a plpgsql function, and noticed the following\nproblem : (7.1RC2 rpm from postgresql.org)\n\nWhen issuing a comand like:\nDECLARE\n rowvar tablaname%ROWTYPE\nBEGIN\n FOR rowvar IN SELECT FROM tablename t WHERE t.xxx=yyy AND t.zzz=qqq\n LOOP\n .....\n END LOOP;\n\nor j... |
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"msg_contents": "dear all,\nI currently using postgresql v7.0.3\nwhen i import text file to table with command \"copy tablename from\n'/tmp/a.txt';\nand it shows\n\"copy: line 20, Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index testpri_pk\"\n,then it exits with doing nothing.\n\nI want to ignore this errors a... |
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"msg_contents": "I can understand why there might be some resistance to the idea of\nadding performance tuning flags into the server rather than documenting\nexisting settings better, but I think a compromise would be possible.\n\nCould we develop a helper application that takes the --tuning\nsuperserver arg... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have the following table, containing about 570000 Rows, but some\nindexes are not used, on 7.1RC4, freshly vacuumed (analyse). It was the\nsame at least in 7.1RC1\n\n\n --- SNIP ---\n\n CREATE TABLE access_log(\n site_id int2 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,\n acce... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> Excessively long values are currently silently truncated when they are\n> inserted into char or varchar fields. This makes the entire notion of\n> specifying a length limit for these types kind of useless, IMO. Needless\n> to say, it's also not in compliance with SQL.\n\nTo quote Tom \"... |
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"msg_contents": "This is what I get in Oracle 8:\n\nSQL> CREATE TABLE test (value VARCHAR (10));\n\nTable created.\n\nSQL> INSERT INTO test VALUES ('Mike Mascari');\nINSERT INTO test VALUES ('Mike Mascari')\n *\nERROR at line 1:\nORA-01401: inserted value too large for column\n\n\nSQL> quit\n\nOf c... |
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"msg_contents": "\nTheoretically, should one be able to do:\n\npg_dumpall > db.out\nremove 7.0.3 bin, lib, data, etc\ninstall 7.1 bin, lib, etc\ninitdb 7.1\npsql template1 < db.out\n\nBasically, has anyone actually tried *that* yet and can report on whether\nor not it works?\n\nI'm just about to try it here, ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nv7.0.3 database:\n\ntrends_acctng=# \\d\n List of relations\n Name | Type | Owner\n-------------+-------+-------\n accounts | table | pgsql\n admin | table | pgsql\n calls | table | pgsql\n comments | table | pgsql\n cookies | table | pgsql\n credit_card |... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > > Excessively long values are currently silently truncated when they are\n> > > inserted into char or varchar fields. This makes the entire notion of\n> > > specifying a length limit for these types kind of useless, IMO. Needless\n> > > to say, it's also not in compliance with SQL.\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "hello everybody,\nCan you help me?\n\nI have POSTGRESQL 7.0.3,\nI try to create simple view by typing.\n\ncreate view \"xx\" as select \"aa.yy\", \"bb.yy\" from \"yy\" order by \"bb.yy\"\n\nthe problem is that parameter order is not implemented with create view.\nso how can I create such simp... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello, everybody\n\nI have a new question to you. ;-)))\n1. I wrote a database in access an I put there some Polish words like ����.\n2. Migrate the base using PGADMIN to Postgresql.0.3 on Solaris 8.\n3. What can I do to see that Polish words.\n\n Maybe set a codepage or any standard.\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "debian unstable, i386.\nupgrade libreadline 4.2\npostgres doesn't compile.\n\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -c -o tab-complete.o tab-complete.c\ntab-complete.c: In function `initialize_readline':\ntab-complet... |
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"msg_contents": "I notice that the docs have commented-out all mention of the age()\nfunctions, with the note that \"These two functions don't seem to do what\nit says here, or anything reasonable at all for that matter.\"\n\n??\n\nHow did we conclude that, and how could these be confusing? I do not\nrecall a... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\nJust 2 questions.\n\n1. Does kerberos work with PGSql 7.1rc4? I tried it today without success...\nAnyone got it working? With MIT? With win2k ADS?\n\n2. When will 7.1 be released. (apporx :-) )\n\nThanks\n-jec\n\n_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ \nJean-Eric Cuendet\... |
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"msg_contents": "Roberto Mello suggested I post my problem here. He suggested Tom Lane\nmight take a look...\n\nI dumped an 7.0.3 database and restored that to rc2, which went fine after\na bit of reordering help (It was an OpenACS table set).\n\nNow when I dump the same database with rc2 (or 4) I get a\ndiff... |
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"msg_contents": ">> Lamar Owen writes:\n>>\n>> > One quick note -- since 'R' < 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to\n>> > install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version\n>> > numbers -- 7.1RC3 < 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with\n>> > --oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already ... |
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"msg_contents": "I will be doing an OS upgrade, tomorrow, Thursday, so will be\nunavailable for a while. TODO.detail and my web site will be down at\nthat time as well.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000\n + If... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI was trying to make a minor change today to the gram.y file to make\nPostgreSQL recognize \"DOUBLE\" as a data type the way DB2 does. I ran into\nreduce / reduce conflicts using both of the methods I tried. \n\nHaving fought extensively with Bison before on a SQL oriented language\ntran... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > Thank you. Is an \"exception condition\" necessarily an error, or\n> > is a warning also an exception condition ?\n> \n> A warning/notice is called a \"completion condition\".\n> \n> > Because other db's only raise a warning. Of course we don't want to\n> > copy that behavior if they ar... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\n---------- Forwarded Message ----------\nSubject: Re: Yacc / Bison difficulties\nDate: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:01:40 +0200\nFrom: Robert Schrem <robert.schrem@wiredminds.de>\nTo: Mark Butler <butlerm@middle.net>\n\n\nOn Thursday 12 April 2001 03:38, you wrote:\n> I was trying to make a mino... |
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"msg_contents": "Is there a Web site or some info somewhere that tells you how to\nestimate the size of your database.\n\nI know what my schema is and how many records will be in each table (but\nnon have been inserted yet). How can I project how much disk space I\nwill need for the database?\n\nThanks!\nMit... |
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"msg_contents": "Thanks!\n\nOne follow up question. In the example given, it says there are 36\nbytes for each row header and 4 bytes for each pointer to a tuple. I'm\nnot sure where these numbers (36 and 4) are coming from. Are they\nstandard for *every* table? If my table has more than just two\ninteger... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI was looking at how hard it would be to support altering column types and it\nseems to me that it would be trivial to support changing nullability,\nincreasing the maximum length of the VARCHAR data type and increasing the\nprecision or scale of the DECIMAL / NUMERIC data type. \n\nOracle ... |
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"msg_contents": "I noticed the storage format for the numeric type is rather inefficient: \n\ntypedef struct NumericData\n{\n int32 varlen; /* Variable size */\n int16 n_weight; /* Weight of 1st digit */\n uint16 n_rscale; /* Result scale */\n u... |
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"msg_contents": "=> create view testview as select relname, 'Constant'::text from pg_class;\n\n=> \\d testview\n View \"testview\"\n Attribute | Type | Modifier\n-----------+------+----------\n relname | name |\n ?column? | text |\nView definition: SELECT DISTINCT pg_class.relname, 'Constant'::text F... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI've read pg_dump threads with great interest as I plan to upgrade from\n703 to 71 on next monday if 71 final is out.\n\nAlthough I did'nt have any of the ploblems listed in threads durin my\ntests from 7.0.3 to 7.1betas and 7.1RCs.\n\nI have noticed that pg_dump \tand pg_dumpall c... |
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"msg_contents": "I see the problem. Your 7.0.3 dump contains several instances of this\npattern:\n\nCREATE TABLE \"users_alertable\" (\n\t\"user_id\" int4,\n\t\"email\" character varying(100),\n\t\"first_names\" character varying(100),\n\t\"last_name\" character varying(100),\n\t\"password\" character varyin... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWell folks, I just fixed the CVS tags (renamed REL7_1 to REL7_1_BETA and\nmoved REL7_1 to today) and packaged up the release ... this is it, any new\nfixes go into v7.1.1 ... :)\n\nI'm preparing a formal PR/Announce, and will send that out later on this\nevening, but want to give some of th... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHere is what we've always sent to to date ... anyone have any good ones\nto add?\n\n\nAddresses : freebsd-announce@freebsd.org,\n freebsd-database@freebsd.org,\n lweditors@linuxworld.com,\n lwn@lwn.net,\n malda@slashdot.org,\n pgsql-ann... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Lamar. What are the plans for RPMs? Do we have an \"integrated RPM\"\nwhich will work with Mandrake, or should I keep carrying along my\npatches to make the spec file work for now?\n\nHow are you planning on packaging the hardcopy docs? They are not yet\navailable, but will be Real Soon No... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI've been experimenting with 7.1rc4 for a couple of hours. I was messing with\nblobs, and the new toast setup worked quite nicely. One thing I especially\nliked was the fact that by having pg_dump create a dumpfile in the custom or\ntar format, I could also backup all blobs in one go.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok, the 7.1-1 RPMset for Red Hat 6.2 has been uploaded. The Source RPM is up,\nin RPM 3 format. Red Hat 7.0 RPMs are on their way. (whew). 28.8K is slow\nwhen uploading 8MB worth of binary RPMset -- as it was when downloading the\nsource RPM from my 6.2 build machine, located at work and h... |
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"msg_contents": "We've gotten several different reports lately of peculiar compilation\nerrors and warnings involving readline in 7.1. They look like configure\nis actively doing the wrong thing --- for example, how could we see\nreports like this:\n\ntab-complete.c:734: `filename_completion_function' undecl... |
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"msg_contents": "Using the head branch, when I execute the following in psql on Redhat 6.2\ni386, the postmaster process dies gives an error message about corrupted\nshared memory:\n\n--begin---\ncreate function bug1(integer) returns numeric as '\nbegin\n return $1;\nend;'\nlanguage 'plpgsql';\n\n\nselect bu... |
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"msg_contents": "\nJust as an FYI for those considering the shift ... I just upgraded all of\nmy databases over to v7.1 from v7.0.3 and it was smooth as silk. The only\nproblems were having to compile and load a few modules from contrib that\nsome of my clients were using ...\n\nTook about an hour and a half... |
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"msg_contents": "At 17:34 13/04/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n>\n>A possible kluge answer is to make pg_dump's OID-ordering of views\n>depend on the OID of the view rule rather than the view relation.\n>I am not sure if that would break any cases that work now, however.\n>\n\nFixed in CVS.\n\n-------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "\n77 databases in data/base directory ... all number'd ...\n\nselect * from pg_database;\n\ndoesn't give me the reference to which directory is which database ... so\nwhat table do we need to join on to get this information?\n\nthanks ...\n\nMarc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWhere are the 7.1 rpms downloadable from? (even the RC based ones....)?\n\n Chris Bowlby,\n -----------------------------------------------------\n Web Developer @ Hub.org.\n excalibur@hub.org\n www.hub.org\n 1-902-542-3657\n -----------------------------------------------------\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "first, congratulations to all for the 7.1 release, good work.\n\nsecond, I've found (some years ago to be honest) that pgsql can ALTER\nTABLE while the table is widely available for all users...\n\nthis strike me as pretty bad/dangerous/confusing/messy (even from the\nPOV of implementation)\n... |
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"msg_contents": "http://www.crn.com/Sections/Fast_Forward/fast_forward.asp?ArticleID=25670\n\nMarc will be pleased to note that the PostgreSQL project came out of the\nFreeBSD project, and is Great Bridge's database. Gotta love\njournalistic license.\n--\nLamar Owen\nWGCR Internet Radio\n1 Peter 4:11\n",
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"msg_contents": "\nI've been messing around with a 7.0 compatible dump for 7.1, and it looks\ngood so far (at least I can dump & restore my local DBs and, to some\nextent, the regression DB, including BLOBs).\n\nIt is a mixture of 7.1 and 7.0 features, in the sense that it is basically\nthe 7.1 pg_dump but wi... |
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