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"msg_contents": "Andrew Martin wrote:\n> Just run the regression tests on 6.1 and as I suspected the array bug\n> is still there. The regression test passes because the expected output\n> has been fixed to the *wrong* output.\n\nOK, I think I understand the current array behavior, which is apparently\ndiffere... |
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"msg_date": "Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:47:02 -0500 (EST)",
"msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy>",
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"msg_subject": "setting up mhonarc one list at a time"
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"msg_contents": "\nI've just created a *very* simple script that creates a snapshot\nbased on the current source tree. Nothing at all fancy, its just\nmeant to give those without CVSup access to something to test and\nwork with.\n\nIt will get regenerated every Friday/Saturday night via cron\n\nMarc G. Fourn... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOn Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Sounds maybe a little too serious. We currently use WARN a lot to\n> indicate errors in the supplied SQL statement. Perhaps we need to make\n> the parser elog's ERROR, and the non-parser WARN's ABORT? Is that good?\n> When can I make the chan... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOn Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> OK, I am CC'ing Peter. I know he suspected a protocol issue, and\n> perhaps this will help him.\n\nPS: Its best to send postgresql stuff to my home addresses, rather than\nthe work one. Also, I'm actually on leave this week, so stuff sent to\nm... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > I believe it is 8k to match the base size for the filesystem block size,\n> > for performance.\n> \n> \tHrmmm...how does one find out what the file system block size is? I know\n> there is an option to newfs for changing this, and at le... |
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"msg_contents": "On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote:\n\n> >\n> >\n> >I've just created a *very* simple script that creates a snapshot\n> >based on the current source tree. Nothing at all fancy, its just\n> >meant to give those without CVSup access to something to test and\n> >work with.\n> >\n> >It will ge... |
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"msg_contents": "\nCan someone comment on this? For an SQL server in Canada, should we be using\nEuropean format? *raised eyebrow* I'm currently using the default (US) format\n\n\n------------------------------------\n\n> \tmmddyy is proper ISO/SQL format for north america...we went through a major\n> discu... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> So, is it lp_len or lp_offset that can be reduced by 2? I want to \n> experiment with this...\n> \n\nNeither...try grep'ing around for uses of lp_flags. I dug into this\nlast Dec/Jan...check the hackers digests from that time for any\nrelevent info. At that time, only two bits in lp_... |
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"msg_contents": "I have added NOT NULL and DEFAULT indications to \\d:\n\ntest=> \\d testz\n\nTable = testz\n+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+\n| Field | Type | Length|\n+----------------------------------+... |
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"msg_contents": "Integration wrote:\n> \n> ps. why not allow for larger tuples in general? Do we take a speed hit?\n\nUsing large blocks is bad for performance: by increasing block size\nyou automatically decrease number of blocks in shared buffer pool -\nthis is bad for index scans and in multi-user environ... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:\n> \n> > Just remember that Informix (and others) use 2K blocks.\n> \n> \tSo we're 4x what the commercial ones are as of right now? \n> \n\nDate: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 17:29:53 -0500\nFrom: aixssd!darrenk (Darren King)\nTo: abs.net!postgreSQL.org!hacke... |
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"msg_contents": "I have changed the WARN messages to ERROR and ABORT messages.\n\nI wanted to differentiate between errors the user caused, and are\nnormal, like mistyped field names, and more serious errors coming from\nthe backend routines.\n\nI have made all the elog's in the parser/ directory as ERRORS. ... |
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"msg_contents": "I was thinking about subselects, and how to attach the two queries.\n\nWhat if the subquery makes a range table entry in the outer query, and\nthe query is set up like the UNION queries where we put the scans in a\nrow, but in the case we put them over/under each other.\n\nAnd we push a temp ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nthe current snapshot reserves 'char' as keyword.\nCan anyone tell me the reason ?\n\nthanks\nEdmund\n-- \nEdmund Mergl mail: E.Mergl@bawue.de\nIm Haldenhau 9 http://www.bawue.de/~mergl\nD 70565 Stuttgart fon: +49 711 747503\nGermany gsm: +49 171 2645325\n",
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"msg_contents": "> > \n> > 2. This is more like a C issue rather than aix-specific. The aix compiler complains\n> > about assigning the (void)NULL to isnull in the heap_getattr macro. Changing the\n> > (void) to (bool) works and seems like it should be (bool) to match the type of isnull,\n> > shouldn't it?\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOn Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> The following was sent to me. Does it fit our needs anywhere? Let's\n> discuss it.\n> > \n> > I wrote an indexed file system some time ago in ANSI C. I've compiled\n> > and used it on several platforms, but have never aspired to do very much... |
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"msg_contents": "Hello all,\n\nWARNING : It's a long mail, but please have patience and read it *all*\n\nI have reached a point in developing PgAccess when I discovered that\nsome functions in libpgtcl are bad implemented and even libpq does not\nhelp me a lot!\n\nWhat's the problem ! Is about working with la... |
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"msg_contents": "Gautam Thaker (609-338-3907) wrote:\n> \n> I did not see contrib/spi because I have just the binary .rpm\n> for linux. I guess I will have to go get the entire src dist.\n> and perhaps even make the system myself.\n\nI see your problem. It seems that spi.h (and trigger.h) should be \ninstalle... |
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"msg_contents": "Your name was selected from a list of consultants found on the search engines. It is a personal invitation mailed separately to your attention, NOT a \"bulk\" E-Mail proposal.. If it is inappropriate, please type \"remove\" under Subject : and reply.\n=======================================... |
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"msg_contents": "> Hi everybody:\n> I have the following information for you.\n> I installed Postgress 6.2.1 in the next platform:\n> Apollo 9000 Serie 800 with PA-RISC running HP-UX 10.20\n> - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.2.1, 6.1.1, beta 970703, etc.).\n> v6.2.1\n> - Your operating system (i.e. RedHat v4.0... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOracle has adjustable disk block sizes, tuneable per instance\n(can you change it after install?? can't remember). In any\ncase the default is 2k or 4k, and things almost always go\nfaster with larger block sizes. On one project we needed to\ngo fast and had disk space to burn, so we upp... |
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"msg_contents": "I believe I found a bug. If a user other than the postgres superuser is\ngiven permission to create databases, then he should be able to destroy\nthe databases he creates. Currently he can't, at least in version 6.2.1\ncomplied for SunOS 5.5. Only the poostgres superuser can delete\ndatabases... |
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"msg_contents": "I would like to stand up as being very much in favor of two related things:\n\n(1) adjustable blocksizes\n(2) a larger MAX TUPLE size\n\nAs far as I can tell (and that ain't far), there would only be relatively \nminor changes that would have to be made to give the option of allowing \nthe us... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWell, I've found the problem that was breaking Large Objects and, although\nI have a fix, I still believe the cause is still there.\n\nIt wasn't a protocol problem after all, but a memory leak that was causing\nthe backend to throw a Segmentation Violation when an argument was being\nfree'd... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> How hard would it be for postgresql to support adjustable block sizes? \n> Just wondering.\n> \n\nI can take a stab at this tonite after work now that the snapshot is there.\nStill have around some of the files/diffs from looking at this a year ago...\n\nI don't think it will be hard, j... |
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"msg_contents": "> I've run the regression tests on today's source tree, and found lots of\n> ordering differences..., and one different result.\n>\n> The different result is in the \"select_distinct_on\" test; the original\n> result had 8 rows and the new result has 40 rows. However, I'm getting\n> myself co... |
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"msg_date": "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 15:53:35 +0000",
"msg_from": "Tony Rios <tonester@ccom.net>",
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"msg_subject": "Re: [HACKERS] database size"
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI created a table with two columns of type int, and loaded about 300 K records\... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded message:\n> > I believe I found a bug. If a user other than the postgres superuser is\n> > given permission to create databases, then he should be able to destroy\n> > the databases he creates. Currently he can't, at least in version 6.2.1\n> > complied for SunOS 5.5. Only the poost... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > > Can someone who has permission to create databases be trusted not to\n> > > > delete others? If we say no, how do we make sure they can change\n> > > > pg_database rows on only databases that they own?\n> > > \n> > > \tdeleting a database is accomplished using 'drop database', no?\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce,\n> \n> Just running the regression tests on the latest CVS on SPARC-Linux!!\n> \n> Appart from several other ordering and precision errors I'm seeing\n> errors in constraints tests due to output/constraints.source not\n> being updated for the new error messages.\n\nI have just fi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe Mailing List Archives are now available through your Web Browser at:\n\n\thttp://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-questions\n\t\t- all archives converted over\n\thttp://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers\n\t\t- Oct to present converted so far\n\nWill most likely be integrating Web... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm seeing similar problems, mainly due to failure to sort correctly\neven though there is an \"order by\" clause.\n\nI did a few tests and found that the sort sort seemed to fail when there\nwere multiple columns in the \"order by\" clause. (Not conclusive)\n\nI don't know when it 1st... |
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"msg_contents": "> I created a table with two columns of type int, and loaded about 300 K records\n> in it. So, the total size of the table is approx. that of 600 K integers,\n> roughly 2.4 MB.\n> But, the file corresponding to the table in pgsql/data/base directory\n> has a size of 19 MB. I was wondering if ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI'm just investigating some regression failures on a SPARC-Linux\nbuild of PostgreSQL from the 7th Jan CVS tree.\n\nAlthough there are many failures I can't explain, the failure\nof the sanity_check VACUUM has attracted my interest.\n\nDoing a VACUUM on the regression database I'm ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAnyone have any ideas about this error in the horology regression test?\n\nThe platform is SPARC-Linux running the latest CVS build.\n\nKeith.\n\n\nQUERY: CREATE TABLE TEMP_DATETIME (f1 datetime);\nQUERY: INSERT INTO TEMP_DATETIME (f1)\n SELECT d1 FROM DATETIME_TBL\n WHERE d1 BETWEEN... |
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"msg_contents": "> I can take a stab at this tonite after work now that the snapshot is there.\n> Still have around some of the files/diffs from looking at this a year ago...\n> \n> I don't think it will be hard, just a few files with BLCKSZ/MAXBLCKSZ\n> references to check for breakage. Appears that only on... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHi...\n\n\tI got ahold of Julie today (maintainer of PostODBC) about including the\nPostODBC stuff as part of the general distribution, so that we pretty much\nhad all the interfaces covered.\n\n\tJulie agreed, and uploaded a zip file of the current sources for me to\nintegrate into the sou... |
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"msg_contents": "Forwarded message:\n> \n> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/src/socket\n> In directory hub.org:/home/staff/scrappy/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/src/socket\n> \n> Removed Files:\n> \tcompat.h connect.h connectp.cpp errclass.cpp errclass.h \n> \tsockio.cpp sockio.h wrapper... |
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"msg_contents": "Do we have code to preserver grants in pg_dump? I maked it in the TODO\nlist as completed, but I am not sure it was done.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n",
"msg_date": "Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:40:44 -0500 (EST)",
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"msg_contents": "\nHi...\n\n\tWell, I decided to use WebGlimpse to provide a search engine in front of\nthe MHonarc archives...its slower then I'd like, but that's what the upgrade\nis for (and many other things)...\n\n\tpgsql-hackers and pgsql-questions are currently searchable\n\n\tAnd, finally, you can acc... |
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"msg_contents": "I have fixed the Node 0 problem with views. It was added as part of my\nreadnode/outnode additions.\n\nAt this point, I think I am done with the readnode/outnode changes. \nShould make rewrite system a little more robust.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n",
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n> emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk\n> > \n> > Hi,\n> > \n> > I'm seeing similar problems, mainly due to failure to sort correctly\n> > even though there is an \"order by\" clause.\n> > \n> > I did a few tests and found that the sort sort seemed to fail when ... |
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"msg_contents": "> \tJulie agreed, and uploaded a zip file of the current sources for me to\n> integrate into the source tree...which I did...and then *very* quickly\n> undid...PostODBC falls under LGPL, and therefore can't be included as part of\n> our source distribution without contaminating our code :(\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "> > 48 bytes + each row header (on my aix box..._your_ mileage may vary)\n> > 8 bytes + two int fields @ 4 bytes each\n> > 4 bytes + pointer on page to tuple\n> > -------- =\n> > 60 bytes per tuple\n> > \n> > ...\n> \n> Nice math exercise.\n> \n> Does anyone want to tell me the row overhead... |
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"msg_contents": "\nIn the next update to s_lock.c, would it be possible to add an\n#else to the #ifdef with nothing more than a ; in it? Like...\n\n#if defined (__alpha__) && defined(linux)\n\n... alpha linux code ...\n\n#else\n;\n#endif\n\nOr perhaps put a #include <stdio.h> outside the ifdef'd block?\n\nTh... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI suspect this is an O/S or platform problem but can anyone offer any\nsuggestions as to how I might locate the cause.\n\nDROP TABLE FLOAT8_TBL;\nDROP\n\nCREATE TABLE FLOAT8_TBL(f1 float8);\nCREATE\n\nINSERT INTO FLOAT8_TBL(f1) VALUES ('1.2345678901234e-200');\nINSERT 277993 1\n\n... |
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"msg_contents": "Does someone want to remind me why we allocate the full size for char()\nand varchar(), when we really can just allocate the size of the given\nstring?\n\nI relize char() has to be padded, but why varchar()?\n\nIn my experience, char() is full size as defined by create, and\nvarchar() is the ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > I created a table with two columns of type int, and loaded about 300 K records\n> > in it. So, the total size of the table is approx. that of 600 K integers,\n> > roughly 2.4 MB.\n> > But, the file corresponding to the table in pgsql/data/base directory\n> > has a size of 19 MB. I was won... |
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"msg_contents": "I have applied the following patch to allow varchar() fields to store\njust the needed bytes, and not the maximum size.\n\nI have made a few more cleanup changes related to this, and it seems to\nwork perfectly.\n\nI think this is one of those \"Why didn't we do this earlier?\" patches.\n\n\t... |
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"msg_contents": "I see a small problem I am working on with the new varchar().\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 7 Jan 1998 17:21:39 -0500 (EST)",
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\n\n> > \n> > Doing a VACUUM on the regression database I'm getting:-\n> > \n> > regression=> vacuum;\n> > ABORT: nodeRead: Bad type 0\n> > regression=>\n> > \n> > \n> > Keith.\n> > \n> > \n> > \n> \n> Try the newest version. I think I fixed it.\n> \... |
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"msg_contents": "I have found that the varchar() change I made requires a new\npg_attribute field, so I am rolling back the change until I get a fully\nworking patch.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:03:22 -0500 (EST)",
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"msg_contents": "Let me go over the issues with the varchar() change.\n\nchar() will continue to store full bytes, while varchar() function like\ntext, but with a limited length.\n\nNow, pg_attribute.attlen is access everywhere, trying to find out how\nlong the data field is. With text, the length is -1, but... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, I now figured out why the initial code was not working. It was not\nconstant null padding, but the fact that the old vcTruetype did not\ninclude VARHDRSZ, and VARSIZE does, to strncmp() was comparing junk\nbytes.\n\nNow, with the proper VARSIZE() - VARHDRSZ, things work fine. No varlena... |
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"msg_contents": "From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro> wrote\n\n> Peter T Mount wrote:\n> >\n> > The only solution I was able to give was for them to use cursors, and\n> > fetch the result in chunks.\n>\n> Got it!!!\n>\n> Seems everyone has 'voted' for using cursors.\n>\nAs I saw it the cursors were sugge... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce wrote:\n> \n> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>> \n>> > In my experience, char() is full size as defined by create, and\n>> > varchar() is the the size of the actual data in the field, like\ntext,\n>> > but with a pre-defined limit.\n>> \n>> \tCan you remind me what the differ... |
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"msg_contents": "I posted a fairly large patch for the jdbc driver a couple of days ago,\nbut I haven't seen it appear on the patches list. Did anyone else see it?\n\nIf not, I'll repackage it into smaller chunks, and resend it.\n\n-- \nPeter T Mount petermount@earthling.net or pmount@maidast.demon.co.uk\nMa... |
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"msg_contents": "I've just fixed a minor bug in the datestyle handling in the jdbc driver\nthat was caused by two spaces being added after NOTICE: in notifications\nbeing sent from the backend.\n\nThis broke how the jdbc driver discovered what datestyle is in use.\n\nHopefully, the changes I've made should ma... |
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"msg_contents": "> I have applied the following patch to allow varchar() fields to store\n> just the needed bytes, and not the maximum size.\n> \n> ...\n> \n> And if I create a varchar(2000), it does not take several 8k blocks to\n> store 10 rows, like it did before.\n\nFixes the following \"problem\" too...\... |
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"msg_contents": "\nA few things that I have noticed will be affected by allowing the\ndisk block size to be other than 8k. (4k, 8k, 16k or 32k)\n\n1. Rules\n\nThe rule system currently stores plans as tuples in pg_rewrite.\nMaking the block size smaller will accordingly reduce the size of\nthe rules you can c... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI seem to be getting a failure in the \"triggers\" regression tests in the\nlatest CVS source.\n\nI can't be 100% sure that this test worked before but now I'm seeing errors\nthat would indicate check_foreign_key() is not working.\n\nAnyone else seeing this?\n\nKeith.\n\n\n--- expected... |
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"msg_contents": "While implementing a method to retrieve the permissions on a table,\nthe statement: \"grant all on test to public;\" kills the backend.\n\n-- \nPeter T Mount petermount@earthling.net or pmount@maidast.demon.co.uk\nMain Homepage: http://www.demon.co.uk/finder\nWork Homepage: http://www.maidst... |
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"msg_contents": "Vadim, I know you are still thinking about subselects, but I have some\nmore clarification that may help.\n\nWe have to add phantom range table entries to correlated subselects so\nthey will pass the parser. We might as well add those fields to the\ntarget list of the subquery at the same ti... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> A related question: Is it possible to store tuples over more than one\n> block? Would it be possible to split a big TEXT into multiple blocks?\n> \n\nPossible, but would cut the access speed to (1 / # blocks), no?\n\nThere is a var in the tuple header, t_chain, 6.2.1 that has since been... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nHave just tried 9. Jan snapshot on AIX 4.1.5,\ncompiles with gcc not with cc (fails in heaptuple.c), aix won't get\ndefined though, did a -Daix\n\nThe as keyword is now obligatory as in:\n\nregression=> select name a, age b from emp;\nERROR: parser: parse error at or near \"a\"\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "> Have just tried 9. Jan snapshot on AIX 4.1.5,\n> compiles with gcc not with cc (fails in heaptuple.c), aix won't get\n> defined though, did a -Daix\n\nIBM compiler doesn't like the (void)NULLs in the heap_getattr and\nStrNCpy macros. Change to (bool)NULL in heap_getattr in include/\naccess... |
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"msg_contents": ">> \n>> While implementing a method to retrieve the permissions on a table,\n>> the statement: \"grant all on test to public;\" kills the backend.\n>\n>Works here.\n\nDon't work here either:\n(dbx) where\nOrderedElemPop(elem = 0x2008b4c8), line 130 in \"oset.c\"\nAllocSetFree(0x2008b1c8, 0x20... |
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"msg_contents": "> > A few things that I have noticed will be affected by allowing the\n> > disk block size to be other than 8k. (4k, 8k, 16k or 32k)\n> > \n> > 1. Rules\n> > \n> > The rule system currently stores plans as tuples in pg_rewrite.\n> > Making the block size smaller will accordingly reduce the si... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have built and installed the latest version of the PostgreSQL RDBMS\non S/Linux but am having problems with the regression tests.\n\nMany of the failures come from floating point exceptions.\n\nI've written a small c prog to demonstrate the problem which seems to\nshow that using exp... |
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"msg_contents": "Tom,\n\nThanks for your testing and feedback.\n\nI got the attached reply from Jakub Jelinek on the \"sparclinux\" list which\nexplains the problem.\n\nI guess that your sparc20 does not need help from the kernel with this math.\n\nIf you get chance to try a snapshot I'd be interested in your... |
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"msg_contents": "While you can do a UNION of views, you can not do a VIEW of UNIONs.\n\nThis is OK:\n\n\tselect * from view1 UNION select * from view2;\n\nThis is not OK:\n\n\tcreate view testv as select * from test1 UNION select * from test2;\n\nDoes the standard allow this? Thomas? I currently print a 'no... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > Could the block size be made into a command line option, like \"-k 8192\"?\n> > \n> > Too scary for me.\n> \n> \tI kinda like this one...if it can be relatively implimented. The main\n> reason I like it is that, like -B and -S, it means t... |
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"msg_contents": "Here's a blast from the past. Shows how I keep those open issues in my\nmailbox.\n\nForwarded message:\n> From scrappy@postgreSQL.org Wed Jan 29 14:49:26 1997\n> X-Authentication-Warning: hub.org: pgsql set sender to owner-pg95-dev@postgreSQL.org using -f\n> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:38:10 -... |
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"msg_contents": "gcc -I../../include -I/usr/include/ncurses -I/usr/local/include/readline -O2 -m486 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -I.. -Wno-error -c scan.c -o scan.o\nlex.yy.c:800: warning: no previous prototype for `yylex'\nscan.l: In function `yylex':\nscan.l:202: `ABORT' undeclared (first use this functio... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nin the current snapshot there is no default for PGHOST \nin src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c. \nIn 6.2 this was 'localhost', which is a reasonable default.\n\nIf there is no real reason for not having a default for\nthe host-option, please provide 'localhost' as default.\n\n\nthan... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to run the latest version (supping source daily) and I get the\nfollowing error when I run psql.\n\nConnection to database 'darcy' failed.\nconnectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?\n\nHave I missed some change that I ... |
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"msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> OK, a few questions:\n> \n> Should we use sortmerge, so we can use our psort as temp tables,\n> or do we use hashunique?\n> \n> How do we pass the query to the optimizer? How do we represent\n> the range table for each, and the links between them i... |
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"msg_contents": "Thus spake The Hermit Hacker\n> > connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?\n> \tNew default startup disabled TCP/IP connections, using Unix Domain Sockets\n> exclusively. If PGHOST/PGPORT are set, then the \"frontends\" try to u... |
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"msg_contents": "Here are some of the fixes in 6.3 if people want to test them.\n\nThe only problem I know of is that:\n\n\tupdate test set x = max(test2.y)\n\nonly updates one row each time it is run. Any ideas on a fix?\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nRELIA... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> \n> > I have added new commands to psql to give a list of types, operators,\n> > and aggregates.\n> \n> [...]\n> \n> > Any suggestions for improvements? \\do is slow, but the use of a\n> > function to do an outer join looking for des... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, we never installed this for 6.2 because we were already in Beta. \nCan we do this for 6.3? Vadim suggested we make this part of libpq, so\nall applications could make use of it.\n\nI have one of the original patches, but not the others. Martin, what do you\nthink? Any other comments on ... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> 1. Permissions on tables was not preserved when moving from\n> 6.1 to 6.2 (using 6.1 postmaster and 6.2 pg_dumpall).\n\nFixed in 6.3.\n\n> \n> 2. \\z in psql does not show permissions for sequences!\n\nAre you sure we want to show them? Let me know.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@ca... |
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"msg_contents": "Applied with #if defined(sco) for 6.3. Beta testing Feb 1.\n\n> \n> You wrote:\n> \n> > > 2.) For the float8, it's required to edit the file\n> > >\n> > > ./src/include/utils/memutils.h\n> > >\n> > > #define DOUBLEALIGN(LEN) INTALIGN(LEN)\n> > > #define MAXALIGN(LEN) INTALIGN(LEN)\n> > >\... |
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"msg_contents": "Again, installed in 6.3.\n> \n> This is a SCO problem report.\n> \n> It seems the alignment macros do not work on SCO because a malloc(8) is\n> aligned on a 4-byte boundary on SCO, and not an 8-byte boundary as\n> assumed by our alignment code.\n> \n> I always thought that memory would be mal... |
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"msg_contents": "Just checking to make sure this properly documented for 6.3 beta. Is\nit?\n\n> \n> > > CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH LOCATION = 'dbpath';\n> > How much work would it be to also be able to specify an alternate\n> > path for a table within a database? I have some multi-Gb tables\n> > and am s... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> > * allow varchar() to only store used bytes, not maximum\n> \n> Hmm. Some file managers might make use of the fact that a column is of\n> fixed storage size, which I would think varchar() should be. Also, it\n> would possibly allow rows to be updated in place with predictable\n> perfor... |
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"msg_contents": "I believe we have addressed many of these issues in 6.3. 6.3 beta\ntesting begins Feb 1. At that time, can you test things for hpux 9 and\nsend us a new patch.\n\nAlso, try to keep in mind we are supporting hpux 10 too, so if you can\nmake the patch changes only affect hpux 9, that would he... |
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"msg_contents": "Fixed in 6.3. Beta is Feb 1.\n\n> sql query \"insert into XXX select * from YYY\" does not working if\n> YYY are view.\n> \n> \n> \n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise reproducible example, if at all possible: \n> ------------------------------... |
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"msg_contents": "Distinct is now disabled for Views in 6.3. It reports an error and fails.\n\n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise reproducible example, if at all possible: \n> ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n> \n> [ic@cms... |
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"msg_contents": "Drop table is not a transaction-able operation. This is expected\nbehavior.\n\n\n> [ic@cms PGconi]$ createdb bugexample\n> [ic@cms PGconi]$ psql bugexample\n> Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n> Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n> \n> ty... |
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"msg_contents": "Can someone figure out why this is happening?\n\n\nForwarded message:\n> ------------------------------------------------\n> Dropping table after aborting a transanction makes PosgresSQL unsable.\n> \n> \n> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a\n> concise repr... |
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"msg_contents": "Is this fixed yet?\n\nForwarded message:\n> I seem to recall that someone here said that because of the way comparisons\n> are done, in an ORDER-BY query, the NULLs will always come up last.\n> \n> It seems to have another effect, too: if I do a SELECT ... ORDER BY\n> col1,col2 - and the col1... |
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"msg_contents": "> > It has to be this way, otherwise it would be possible for user to see\n> > other users' passwords in pg_user. I spoke to you all about this when I\n> > first started. I was going to make a separate relation (pg_password),\n> > but I was convinced not to since there is a one to one corre... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Here's a blast from the past. Shows how I keep those open issues in my\n> mailbox.\n> \n> Forwarded message:\n> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:38:10 -0500\n> > From: aixssd!darrenk@abs.net (Darren King)\n> > To: hackers@postgreSQL.org\n> > Subject: [HACKERS] Max size of data types and tup... |
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"msg_contents": "> Are we sure the new expected/triggers.out is correct?\n\nNo.\n\n> The query..\n>\n> QUERY: insert into fkeys values (70, '5', 1);\n> and\n> QUERY: insert into fkeys values (70, '5', 1);\n>\n> should be triggering...\n>\n> QUERY: create trigger check_fkeys_pkey_exist\n> before insert... |
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"msg_contents": "Vadim wrote:\n> but this will be \"known bug\": this breaks OO-nature of Postgres,\nbecause of\n> operators can be overrided and '=' can mean s o m e t h i n g (not\nequality).\n> Example: box data type. For boxes, = means equality of _areas_ and =~\n> means that boxes are the same ==> =~ AN... |
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"msg_contents": "hello,\n\nis there any way to be able to peer to a database' information (tables and\ntheir fields) similar to reflection in java using libpq? i know one can\nuse the \\d recursively but isn't there a way using libpq? i need the\ninformation to properly modify a particular part in radius.\n... |
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"msg_contents": "> > > select *\n> > > from tabA\n> > > where col1 = (select col2\n> > > from tabB\n> > > where tabA.col3 = tabB.col4\n> > > and exists (select *\n> > > from tabC\n> > > ... |
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"msg_contents": "> My CA/Ingres Admin manual points out that there is a tradeoff between\n> compressing tuples to save disk storage and the extra processing work\n> required to uncompress for use. They suggest that the only case where you\n> would consider compressing on disk is when your system is very I/O b... |
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