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"msg_contents": "Despite of advertized support of Unicode to other charset conversion,\nPostgreSQL-7.1 reports that Conversion of UNICODE to KOI8 is not\nsupported. Same for WIN, ALT and other charsets.\n\nAs I found out, it was simply forgotten to add these charsets to list\nof 8-bit charsets which should be... |
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"msg_contents": "ok for serials, now i can extract from psql (\\d tablename).\n\nBut i'm not able to extract foreign keys from the schema.\n\n\n\n>From: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>\n>To: \"V. M.\" <txian@hotmail.com>\n>CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n>Subject: Re: unanswered: Schema Issue\n>Date: Thu, 26... |
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"msg_contents": "read it,\nbut i can determine only the related tables and not the fields of these \ntables that are related.\n\nvalter\n\n>From: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>\n>To: \"V. M.\" <txian@hotmail.com>\n>CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n>Subject: [HACKERS] Re: unanswered: Schema Issue\n>Date: Thu, ... |
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"msg_contents": "perhaps adding t.tgargs to your view enable me to extract parameters\nthat are the related fields\n---------------------------------------\n\n\nCREATE VIEW dev_ri\n AS\n SELECT ***** t.tgargs **** , t.oid as trigoid,\n c.relname as trig_tbl,\... |
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"msg_contents": "When I create a table\n\ncreate table test (a bit(4));\n\nand insert a value\n\ninsert into test values (b'1000000001');\n\nthe zpbit_in() function gets an atttypmod (arg 2 (of 2)) of -1. Is there\nsomewhere the system needs to be told that \"this type uses the atttypmod\nfield\"?\n\n-- \nPe... |
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"msg_contents": "> Is there any discussion before I submit the patch to -patches?\n\nSince we can, or should be able to, run postgres as a backend to ldap,\nthis seems to give a wonderfully circular system (which probably works\njust fine). Just a comment...\n\n - Thomas\n",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\nThere's a report of startup recovery failure in Japan.\nRedo done but ...\nUnfortunately I have no time today.\n\nregards,\nHiroshi Inoue\n\nKAMI wrote:\n> \n> \n> DEBUG: database system shutdown was interrupted at 2001-04-26 22:15:00 JST\n> DEBUG: CheckPoint record at (1, 3923829232)\... |
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"msg_contents": "How does 7.1 work now with the vacuum and all?\n\nDoes it go for indexes by default, even when i haven't run a vacuum at all?\nDoes vacuum lock up postgres? It says the analyze part shouldn't, but how's\nthat for all of the vacuum?\n\nAn 7.0.3 db we have here we are forced to run vacuum every... |
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"msg_contents": "> If you are familiar with cddb (actually freedb.org) I am taking that data in\n> putting it into postgres. The steps are: (pseudo code)\n> \n> select nextval('cdid_seq');\n> \n> begin;\n> \n> insert into titles (...) values (...);\n> \n> for(i=0; i < tracks; i++)\n> \tinsert into tracks (...... |
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"msg_contents": "As mentioned on -hackers, I added the neccesary code to PostgreSQL to\nallow for authentication through PAM... Attached is the patch.\n\n\n -Dominic\n\n-- \nDominic J. Eidson\n \"Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!\" - Gimli\n----------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry for the delay in the response. It took be a day to get \neverything upgraded to 7.1. To restate the problem - in 7.0 with \nGEQO enabled, a 15-way join took 10 seconds. With GEQO disabled it \ntook 18 seconds. 7.1 out of the box took only 2 seconds! I was amazed \nand shocked at this d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFirstly, the attached patch implements archiving of off-\nline redo logs, via the wal_archive_dir GUC option. It\nbuilds and appears to work (though it looks like guc-file.l\nhas some problems with unquoted strings containing slashes).\n\n\nTODO: handle EXDEV from link/rename, and cop... |
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"msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n\tI'm going to do a broader announcement in a couple of days, but\nOleg and his gang have just finished setting up their Mailing List\nSearching software ...\n\n\tIf you go to fts.postgresql.org, it is like night->day as far as\nthe old searching is concerned ...\n\n\tWe ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > There's a report of startup recovery failure in Japan.\n> >\n> >> DEBUG: redo done at (1, 3923880100)\n> >> FATAL 2: XLogFlush: request is not satisfied\n> >> postmaster: Startup proc 4228 exited with status 512 - abort\n> \n> Is this person using 7.1 release, or a beta/RC version? Tha... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOver the past few months there've been a number of requests for an\ninteractive type documentation setup like the folks at php.net have.\nThe first version of it is now online and ready for testing. You can\nalso search the docs, but the search isn't that exotic - but since\nthere are fewe... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAs Tom's mentioned the other day, we're looking at doing up v7.1.1 on\nTuesday, and starting in on v7.2 ...\n\nDoes anyone have any outstanding fixes for v7.1.x that they want to see in\n*before* we do this release? Any points unresolved that anyone knows\nabout that we need to look at?\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWe have discussed splitting the tree on May 1 to start 7.2 development. \nIf no one objects, we will stay with that schedule.\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 driv... |
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"msg_contents": "> As Tom's mentioned the other day, we're looking at doing up v7.1.1 on\n> Tuesday, and starting in on v7.2 ...\n> \n> Does anyone have any outstanding fixes for v7.1.x that they\n> want to see in *before* we do this release? Any points unresolved\n> that anyone knows about that we need to lo... |
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"msg_contents": "Dominic,\n\nI like your idea. One of the benefits SQLServer 2000 is that I can assign a\nrole in the database to a NT group. At that point, all I have to do is add\na user to the group to be able to access that database. Would you solution\ninclude this scenario? This lets me assign all t... |
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"msg_contents": "> What's the deal with vacuum lazy in 7.1? I was looking\n> forward to it. It was never clear whether or not you guys\n> decided to put it in.\n> \n> If it is in as a feature, how does one use it?\n> If it is a patch, how does one get it?\n> If it is neither a patch nor an existing feature, h... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWAL was a difficult feature to add to 7.1. Currently, it is only used\nas a performance benefit, but I expect it will be used in the future to\nadd new features like:\n\n\tAdvanced Replication\n\tPoint-in-time recovery\n\tRow reuse without vacuum\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "`make depend' is broken in the CVS sources. I've only tested it when\nusing a build directory which is different from the source directory,\nbut frankly it looks broken anyhow.\n\nThis is what I get:\n\nmake -C backend depend\nmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/ian/pgsql-objdir/src/backend'\... |
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"msg_contents": "> WAL was a difficult feature to add to 7.1. Currently, it is only used\n> as a performance benefit, but I expect it will be used in the future to\n\nNot only. Did you forget about btree stability?\nPartial disk writes?\n\n> add new features like:\n> \n> \tAdvanced Replication\n\nI'm for sur... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm trying to use pg_dump to backup my tables one at a time from\nPostgres 7.0.3 (I'll upgrade to 7.1 in a few weeks). I'm getting a\nstrange error that I've never encountered before.\n\nThe backup call is: pg_dump db01 -t cell | gzip > cell.backup.gz\n\nThe error is : failed sanity check... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > \tRow reuse without vacuum\n> >\n> > Yes, it will help to remove uncommitted rows.\n> \n> Same question as I asked Bruce ... how? :) I wasn't trying to be\n> fascisious(sp?) when I asked, I didn't realize the two were\n> connected and am curious as to how :)\n\nAfter implementing UNDO ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Yep, WAL collects all database changes into one file. Easy to see how\n> some other host trying to replication a different host would find the\n> WAL contents valuable.\n\nUnfortunately, slave database(s) should be on the same platform\n(hardware+OS) to be able to use information about *ph... |
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"msg_contents": "1) I login as administrator (local) at our SQL 2000 server.\n2) change password for administrator\n3) reboot server\n4) login in as administrator (local) with new password\n5) receive message \"SQL Agent cannot start\" because \"login failure\"\n6) change password for administrator again back... |
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"msg_contents": "(Haven't seen this mentioned on-list yet)\n\nI saw a report that Informix was selling its database business to IBM\nfor ~US$1B. Which would have IBM owning the remnants of Illustra, which\nwas based on University Postgres. Confirmation of the sale is at\nwww.informix.com :(\n\nOn a possibly r... |
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"msg_contents": "This patch adds support for %TYPE in CREATE FUNCTION argument and\nreturn types.\n\n%TYPE is already supported by PL/pgSQL when declaring variables.\nHowever, that does not help with the argument and return types in\nCREATE FUNCTION.\n\nUsing %TYPE makes it easier to write a function which is... |
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"msg_contents": "What would be nice, and I don't know how it would be done or what the \nsyntax would be, would be a feature that allows PostgreSQL to skip \nnot only the parsing stage, but the planning stage as well. Then, \nwhen the data has changed dramatically enough to warrant it, as you \npoint out, a c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm playing with wal parameters and found that wal_sync_method =\nopen_sync enormously enhance the performance on my machine. Without it\n(using default fsync) I got only 90 tps at the best using pgbench (-s\n2). However if I set wal_sync_method = open_sync, I get ~200 tps. I\nhave che... |
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"msg_contents": "Slashdot just announced that SAP has released the souce for SAP DB under\nGPL. Not sure what this mean, or what people think, but I thought the\nhackers list might want to know.\n\nhttp://slashdot.org/developers/01/04/28/016220.shtml\n\nhttp://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/sapdb/develop/d... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'm rewriting my OLD crypt (Thanks to Henrique) C_fonction to version 0\nforms :\n\nI have this C file compiled OK to a shared library:\n\n/*\n*\n* Henrique Pantarotto (scanner@cepa.com.br)\n* Funcao para encriptar senhas (Function to encrypt passwords)\n* September 1999\n*\n* ... |
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"msg_contents": "Where do get a listing of what PQftype() can return to me?\n(that is what type the field/col has, need a list of Oid's i believe)\n\nMagnus\n\n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\n Programmer/Networker [|] Magnus Naeslund\n PGP Key: http://www.genline.nu/mag_pgp.txt\n-=-=-=-=-... |
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"msg_contents": "Have attempted to install DBI and DBD, but DBD �make test� fails.\nBelow is my complete procedure , starting from:\n\nAccessing PostgreSQL from the command line, (successful)\n creating a database, populating. (successful)\nExpanding DBI and DBD. (successful)\nInstalling DBI (seemi... |
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"msg_date": "Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:28:47 -0700",
"msg_from": "Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>",
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"msg_contents": "On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Don Baccus wrote:\n> I humbly suggest you don't write them off quite so quickly.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm new to postgresql...but so far i love it...after working with companies \nthat have spent millions of dollars on the big \"O\" i must say pgsql is a \nbreath of fresh air...nice work to all who contributed.\n\nI'm looking at building a fault tolerant/failover database [hot standby]... |
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"msg_contents": "I found it myself:\n\nSQL Features\n- SQL 92 entry level with several extensions\n- Oracle 7 compatibility mode\n\nKey benefits\n\n- Referential integrity (to be defined in CREATE TABLE or ALTER Table\n statement)\n- Stored procedures\n- After statement trigger (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) \n- Upda... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi guys (and girls),\n\nFirstly, I must say that everyone has been quite helpful to me while I've\nbeen migrating my database to PostgreSQL 7.1.\n\nOne feature I would like to see would be the ability to set a \"usage\" and\n\"idle\" threshold, so that tables automatically get vacuumed once t... |
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"msg_contents": "I have attached the original message and my reply. The person was\nasking how we could used SAP \"to see what postgres can learn\". My reply\nwas to say that I couldn't figure how how to learn anything from the\ncode. That was my only statement.\n\nI did not trash SAP DB. Seems using thei... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is a general call for people to review other open-source database\nsoftware and report back on things PostgreSQL can learn from them.\n\nI can see Interbase, MySQL, and SAP DB as being three database that\nwould be worth researching. I am willing to assist anyone who wants to\ngive it a... |
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"msg_contents": "First off I just wanted to give a big 'thank you' to all the developers and contributors\nwho have made PostgreSQL what it is today. I haven't come across a single thing\nsince my first experience with it a few years ago that hasn't been corrected, sped\nup, or otherwise postively enhanced!\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOkay, maybe this query isn't quite as simple as I think it is, but does\nthis raise any flags for anyone? How did I get into a COPY? It appears\nre-creatable, as I've done it twice so far ...\n\neceb=# select e.idnumber,e.password from egi e, auth_info a where e.idnumber != a.idnumber;\nB... |
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"msg_contents": "It would be very helpful if the COPY command could be expanded\nin order to provide positional parameters.\n\nI noticed that it didn't a while back and it can really hurt\nsomeone when they happen to try to use pg_dump to move data\nfrom one database to another database and they happened to\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Guys,\n\n while analyzing some stuff I came across something that looks\n like a bug in the ODBC driver to me. I'm by far not the ODBC\n user I should be to fix it, so could someone else please take\n another look?\n\n The symptom is when the driver is in AUTOCOMMIT=OFF, clos... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nNot sure if this is useful, but it might be good to file and reference\nsomewhere.\n\nRegards and best wishes,\n\nJustin Clift\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nSubject: Re: [GENERAL] Unisersal B-Tree\nDate: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:59:49 +0200\nFrom: J�rg Schulz <jschulz@sgbs.de... |
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"msg_contents": "In a very volatile table I have a list of actions which need to be\ncompleted by external systems -- somewhat like a queue. I'd like the\naction row to be locked until it's completed so that multiple\nprocesses chewing away at it won't try to complete the same external\naction (easy enough -... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello to all\nI need help in the following one for the following error\n\n\"PQGETVALUE: ERROR! tuple number 0 is out of range 0.. -1\n Segment violation\"\n\nThis happens when I make a pg_dump namebd > namebd.dump\n\nI work posgresql 7.0.3 with mandrake 7.2\n\nA thousand thank you\n\nAntonio... |
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"msg_contents": "hello \nWould you tell me how many characters we can have as a string field?\nThanks a lot.\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 1 May 2001 15:11:31 -0400",
"msg_from": "\"Rosie Sedghi\" <rosie@macadamian.com>",
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nProbably a fairly simple question:\n\nFor various reasons, I'd like to implement a readonly\nbackend option. I've been poking around the backend\ncode, and am slowly getting a feel for it, but I'm far\nfrom sure of the best way to implement such an option.\n\nThere are basically two p... |
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"msg_contents": "I find it hard to believe this crew's been quiet all day...\n\n-- \nLarry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler\nPhone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org\nUS Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749\n",
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"msg_contents": "Ever need the ability to send mail from within PostgreSQL? Want more\nfunctionality out of your database? Need to increase your customer\noutreach while decreasing your engaged involvement? pgMail is the answer!\n\npgMail is simply a stored function written in TCL which takes 4 arguments\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nIs there a simple way to change database owner without disrupting the\nsystem.\n\nThe problem is that my collegue is leaving the company and he owns one a\nthe custommer databases.\n\nHow can I owe it myself (I'm superuser already).\n\nMany thanks,\n\n-- \nOlivier PRENANT \... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n[ resent, because I didn't see it appear yesterday ]\n\nProbably a fairly simple question:\n\nFor various reasons, I'd like to implement a readonly\nbackend option. I've been poking around the backend\ncode, and am slowly getting a feel for it, but I'm far\nfrom sure of the best way t... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am unable to connect to the cvsup server. Are there problems?\n\n.. Otto\n\nOtto Hirr\nOLAB Inc.\notto.hirr@olabinc.com\n503 / 617-6595\n\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 2 May 2001 07:32:18 -0700",
"msg_from": "\"Otto A. Hirr, Jr.\" <otto.hirr@olabinc.com>",
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"msg_contents": "\nIn the TODO, in the Type section, someone has proposed as 'separate SERIAL\ntype', which I assume is a type distinct from the SERIAL mapping to int\nnextval... that exists now.\n\nCan anyone elaborate on why this would be useful? I'm curious.\n\nI've tried searching the lists, but I find to... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello! I am a Technical Recruiter with MIS Consultants in Toronto Canada and I desperately need to find 2 POSTGRES DBA's for our Toronto client on a 3-4 month renewable contract, open $$$ based on experience.\n\nHow do I go about finding these guys?\n\nAny help is much appreciated, thanks!\n... |
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"msg_contents": "This may be a reported bug. 7.1beta4.\n\nI use user names mostly as numbers. E.g. 1050, 1060, 1092.\nSometimes I got strange result when I try to reconnect:\n\ntir=> \\c - 1022\nYou are now connected as new user 1022.\ntir=> select user;\n current_user\n--------------\n 1022\n(1 row)\n\n(It's... |
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"msg_contents": "I was talking to a Linux user yesterday, and he said that performance\nusing the xfs file system is pretty bad. He believes it has to do with\nthe fact that fsync() on log-based file systems requires more writes.\n\nWith a standard BSD/ext2 file system, WAL writes can stay on the same\ncylin... |
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"msg_contents": "hi...\n i'm configuring a web based e-commerce site called pg_market that uses PHP\nand postgresql and i keep coming up with this error:\n\nWarning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: Relation 'order_cntry' does not exist\nin /home/users/h/haresh/public_html/pgmarket-1.2.0/lib/dblib.inc.php on l... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI am reading an interesting discussion about fsync() and disk flush on\nSlashdot. The discussion starts about log-based file systems, then\nmoves to disk fsync about 20% into the discussion.\n\nLook for:\n\n\tReal issue is HARD DRIVE CACHEs\n\nAll this discussion relates to WAL and our use... |
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"msg_contents": "To avoid getting into states where a btree index is corrupt (or appears\nthat way), it is absolutely critical that the datatype provide a unique,\nconsistent sort order. In particular, the operators = <> < <= > >= had\nbetter all agree with each other and with the 3-way-comparison support\nf... |
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"msg_contents": "I have been using PostgreSQL and XFS file systems on SGI's for many\nyears, and PostgreSQL is fast. Dumping and loading 100GB of table\nfiles takes less than one day elapsed (provided there is no other\nactivity on that database -- large amounts of transactional activity\nwill slow things dow... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere seems to be a minor bug related to permissions. If you create a\ntable and grant permissions on that table to someone else, you lose your\nown permissions (note: do this as a non-dbadmin account):\n\n testdb=> create table tester ( test int4 );\n CREATE \n testdb=> insert in... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nhere is an answer from Bettina Kemme - author of\nPostgres-R - consisent replcation engine based on Postgres 6.4\n(URL of paper - http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/330257.html).\nWhile I don't see much activity on replication topic I think it's\nworth to discuss with Bettina design issue and... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a table with a FK on itself: in fact a record may depend on\nanother table (\"pig's ear\" :-) I may run into a problem\ndumping/restoring using pg_dump, PostgreSQL 7.1.0.\n\nHere's a simplification of the table:\n\nprovo=# SELECT version();\n version\n--------... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOleg:\n I concur with this, and would like to collaborate as possible.\n\n[You may recall my messages from a couple weeks back. I'm looking at\nways of implementing 'concurrent' PostGres on a NUMA machine that has\nboth local memory and (a bit more costly) access to a shared memory].\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> >> Is it possible that 1060 and 1092 have the same usesysid \n> in pg_shadow?\n> \n> > Hmmm. That was the problem. Thanks! By the way, could you \n> please define a\n> > unique constraint on column 'usesysid' in future in PostgreSQL?\n> \n> Yup, there should be one (and one on usename, to... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi !!\n\nI was trying to get a very nice FREE graphical db tool called DbVisualizer \n(http://www.ideit.com/products/dbvis/) to work with Postgresql and I found \nout the following bug: if database has views then getTables() gets the null \npointer exception ('order by relname' makes the list... |
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"msg_contents": "I am starting to package 7.1.1, and I see I did not brand 7.1 properly. \nI forgot the date in the HISTORY file, and didn't update register.txt. \nI will do all those now for 7.1.1.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us ... |
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"msg_contents": " From my point of view, NULL is neither bigger, nor smaller, you can't\ncompare it with a number.\n\nSo it just comes at the end if you sort at all. \n\n(Perhaps you need to take a think about what NULL means in your data. Should\nNULL sort as if it's 0?, +infinity?, -infinity? if so why?)\n... |
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"msg_contents": "I have completed branding 7.1.1. HISTORY file shows changes as:\n\n\tFix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom)\n\tpg_dump fixes (Philip)\n\treadline 4.2 fixes (Peter E)\n\tJOIN fixes (Tom)\n\tAIX, MSWIN, VAX,N32K fixes (Tom)\n\tMultibytes fixes (Tom)\n\tUnicode fixes (Tatsuo)\n\tOptimizer improv... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm starting to throw together a web site relating to postgresql\nreplication, trying to bring together the ideas we have thrown around so\nfar. If anyone has any good docs (on replication not relating to\npostgresq too), please send me the links.\n\nThanks.\n- Brandon\n\n\nb. palmer, bpa... |
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"msg_contents": "I have a table:\n\ncreate table forsamling (\n id SERIAL,\n for_id int4 unique not null,\n kund_flag int8 not null default 1,\n online smallint default 0,\n klar smallint default 0,\n);\n\ncreate index forsamli... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi, I'm using DBD::Pg version 0.98 with Postgres 7.1. I'm noticing\nthat quite often on an error, the $dbh->errstr method doesn't return\nthe full error. For example, if I have a table with a unique key\nconstraint:\n\nCREATE TABLE urls (\n url_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,\n msg_id integer NOT ... |
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"msg_contents": "I am running Postgresql 7.1 on a dedicated Redhat 7.0 box with 512meg ram \nand an IDE hard drive.\n\nAll day long queries that usually seem to execute instantaneously have been \ntaking up to 10 second to run! I generally have about 6 postmasters \nrunning, utilizing anywhere from 1% to 96%... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI've hacked together a metaphone function from an existing metaphone\nimplementation and the example provided by the soundex() function in\ncontrib.\n\nI'd like to send this out to the general list, in the hopes that people\nwill find it useful, but I wanted to wave it in front of the -hack... |
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"msg_contents": "-- \nJoel Burton <jburton@scw.org>\nDirector of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington",
"msg_date": "Thu, 3 May 2001 16:16:49 -0400 (EDT)",
"msg_from": "Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>",
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"msg_contents": "\ncvsup -L 2 postgres.cvsup\nParsing supfile \"postgres.cvsup\"\nConnecting to postgresql.org\nCannot connect to postgresql.org: Connection refused\nWill retry at 22:31:23\n----------------------------------\n# This file represents the standard CVSup distribution file\n# for the PostgreSQL OR... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have noticed that it is possible to create duplicate CHECK (haven't tried\nother) constraints in 7.0.3 by doing something like this:\n\nCREATE TABLE \"test\" (\n \"a\" int4,\n CHECK (a < 400),\n CONSTRAINT \"$1\" CHECK (a > 5)\n);\n\nI was just fiddling around with trying to im... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThanks a lot for your total and complete description of the process. (i\nshould have checked out the sprm first before asking). I empathize with\nwhat you said about packaging not being a simple task, i have been through\nthe agony.\n\nAbout putting your stuff into the postgres tree, i bel... |
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"msg_contents": ">\n> > Just put a note in the installation docs that the place where the \n>database\n> > is initialised to should be on a non-Reiser, non-XFS mount...\n>\n>Sure, we can do that now.\n\nI still think this is not necessarily the right approach either. One\nmajor purpose of using a journaling f... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi,\n\nI have a problem with a case sensitive 'order by'.\nOn my development platform, the 'order by' clauses are insensitive\nBut on my production platform, they are case sensitive.\nI did the same installation on both platforms, from RPMs I downloaded\n(Postgresql 7.1 on Redhat 7.0).\nI ... |
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"msg_contents": "G'day mate,\n\nSure, it's fine to mail me...Actually I haven't found the time to get\ninvolved in the JDBC driver (it now does what I need it to do, and I'm\nbehind schedule with a project of mine ;-) so your involvement is very\nwelcome!\n\nProbably the best thing is to access the CVS but on... |
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"msg_contents": "Where i can find a wonderful installer for postgres 7.1 on our windows2000 \nadvanced servers ?\n\nWe use postgres on linux systems, But...\n\nI'm not able to find on the net a binary for Postgres 7.1.\nI don't want to compile, i want a simple installer. windows machines are 200 \nMillion, if... |
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"msg_contents": "\tMy postmaster is refusing to start. I don't know what's wrong. If\nanyone has pointers/tips/whatever, please tell me. \n\tOne of my backup scripts was wrong so I don't have current backups\n(that's what you get for trusting other people to do your backups). Any\nway to recover my databases?... |
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"msg_contents": "I see by the messages that 7.1.1 is in the final packaging. Anyone know\nwhen it will be released?\n\n-Tony\n\n\n",
"msg_date": "Fri, 04 May 2001 13:53:48 -0700",
"msg_from": "\"G. Anthony Reina\" <reina@nsi.edu>",
"msg_from_op": true,
"msg_subject": "7.1.1"
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"msg_contents": "\n I've been doing some research work using the GiST indexes,\nbut I persistently develop a problem where the system doesn't \nmake use of the indexes during the execution of a query. If\nI use the examples provided here:\n\n http://wit.mcs.anl.gov/~selkovjr/pg_extensions/\n\nFor instan... |
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"msg_contents": "There's a TODO item to make elog(LOG) a separate level. I propose the\nname INFO. It would be identical to DEBUG in effect, only with a\ndifferent label. Additionally, all DEBUG logging should either be\ndisabled unless the debug_level is greater than zero, or alternatively\nsome elog(DEBU... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI see the following \n\nproba=> select * from pg_language;\nlanname |lanispl|lanpltrusted|lanplcallfoid|lancompiler \n--------+-------+------------+-------------+--------------\ninternal|f |f | 0|n/a \nlisp |f |f | 0|... |
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"msg_contents": "\npostgresql=> \\h create table\nCommand: CREATE TABLE\nDescription: Creates a new table\nSyntax:\nCREATE [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] TABLE table (\n column type\n [ NULL | NOT NULL ] [ UNIQUE ] [ DEFAULT value ]\n [column_constraint_clause | PRIMARY KEY } [ ... ] ]\n ... |
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"msg_contents": "A small debate started with bad performance on ReiserFS. I pondered the likely\nadvantages to raw device access. It also occured to me that the FAT file system\nis about as close to a managed raw device as one could get. So I did some\ntests:\nThe hardware:\n\nA PII system running Linux 7.0, ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThis is just a quick announcement that we have now branched off v7.1.x\nfrom the main development tree, and are starting to dive into development\nof v7.2 ...\n\nThere have been several changes since v7.1 was released, including:\n\nFix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom)\npg_dump fixes (Phil... |
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"msg_contents": "PHP users tend to start with MySQL and stick there.\nPostgreSQL from release 7 is getting rave reviews for being equivalent\nin performance to MySQL in medium size web sites.\n\nPerhaps it is time for PHP programmers to dive straight in to\npostgreSQL.\n\nWanted:\nPostgreSQL expert to rave ab... |
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"msg_contents": "Right now anyone can look in pg_statistic and discover the min/max/most\ncommon values of other people's tables. That's not a lot of info, but\nit might still be more than you want them to find out. And the\nstatistical changes that I'm about to commit will allow a couple dozen\nvalues to b... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, forgot to post to the list...\n\n----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\n> \"Serguei Mokhov\" <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:\n> > Being a simple user, I still want to view the stats from the table,\n> > but it should be limited only to the stuff I own.... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I think it's worth noting that Oracle has been petitioning the\n> > kernel developers for better raw device support: in other words,\n> > the ability to write directly to the hard disk and bypassing the\n> > filesystem all together. \n> \n> But there could be other reasons why Oracle ... |
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"msg_contents": "I've tried the pg_dump bundled in the new 7.1.1 release. I wanted to\ntest its feature of dumping a 7.0.X database.\n\nLet's say I have database A running 7.1.1, B running 7.0.2. Both servers\nhave the same database 'test', 'myview' is a view defined on both of\nthem. I want to dump data only... |
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"msg_contents": "\n> > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week\n> > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers?\n> \n> I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run?\n\nLooks like we have expert help here :-) One very interesting question\nwould imho be, h... |
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"msg_contents": "I have run a simple PostgreSQL benchmark on my SGI system which uses\nXFS for its file system on all disks to compare the effect of fsync.\nThe benchmark was the loading of a database from 157 MB of pg_dump data\nincluding the construction of 11 Btree indexes covering nearly all\nof the data.... |
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