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[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI try to use libpq++ (linux: redhat4.2, postgresql-(devel)?-6.2 GNU c)\nAnd i have problem with linking:\n\n[root@3dom neko]# g++ -I/usr/include/postgres/ -lpq++ -o a a.cc \n/tmp/cca032541.o: In function \nain':\n/tmp/cca032541.o(.text+0x22): undefined reference to \u0010gConnection...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:33:17 +0100", "msg_from": "Sergio Brandano <serbr@tin.it>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a new developer's FAQ. I have asked it to be added to our web\npage. I will add it to the distribution under /tools.\n\nComments? I want to add some stuff on Nodes, and palloc, and fopen().\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDevelope...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nSince the \"fix\" for varchars in \"SELECT INTO\" I'm getting a core dump on\ninitdb when initializing the database.\n\nI've tracked this down to the \"REVOKE ALL ON pg_user FROM public\" step.\n\nLooking at the (not compiled with -g) core I see.\n(gdb seems to be broken on S/Linu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi...\n\n\tAs was previously announced, we are currently looking at upgrading\nthe server in all respects... well, totally replacing it is more like it. \nDouble the RAM, PII processor, 4x the disk space, increased bandwidth,\netc.\n\n\tWith this is mind, we are asking the PostgreSQL user ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have implemented LOCK tablename for 6.3. It just does a DELETE table\nWHERE false.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:09:05 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_su...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to change the lock manager so read locks will not be granted\nif there is a write-lock waiting for a lock. The following patch helps,\nbut is incomplete. Can someone figure out the right fix? I tried\nputting this code inside LockResolveConflicts(), but that didn't work\neither...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Joseph Heil wrote:\n> \n> > Quoting The Hermit Hacker (scrappy@hub.org):\n> > > \n> > > \n> > > \tThere are two new pages on our web site that I ask/encourage\n> > > everyone to read through: \n> > > \n> > > \thttp://www.postgresql.org/fund-raising.shtml\n> > > \tht...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > psql .psqlrc file startup(Andrew)\n> > Unfortunately I simply don't have time to implement any of the nicer suggestions\n> > for how this should work. I wish I did...\n> \n> OK, what are we doing the .psqlrc. Can you send the old patch, or are\n> we dropping it for 6.3?\n> \n> -- \n> B...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > \n> > Accepting credit cards would be a good way to get international users\n> > to buy. For a small sum, it really is too much hassle to pay abroad\n> > by any other means...\n> \n> \tI really wish we could accept credit cards :( Up here, at least,\n> it costs something like $10,000 u...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am submitting this patch for people to review.\n\nIt fixes several problems in the lock manager. Let me show you how to\nreproduce them. Try this before applying the patch and you will see the\nold bugs.\n\nFirst, set up three psql sessions. Do a 'begin;' in each one to start a\ntransact...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n Hi again,\n\n It seems unfortunate, but if I can't efficiently (i.e. no copying of\nwhole table, no blocking and using index) browse the table, I might not\nbe able to \"sell\" postgres into the commercial environment. :-( RAIMA\nVelocis might win :-(\n\n Please please help me solve t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have been chasing the grant/revoke problems (on Linux platforms) and\nhave had some success. There were two problems causing SIGSEGV's to\ncrash the backend. \n\nThe first problem was caused by a function trying to pass a string\ndirectly. This was fixed by returning the result of a strdu...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:\n\n> > Please please help me solve this or make workarounds or anything. I\n> > would *really* like to see PosgreSQL to be playing against the Big\n> > (commercial) Boys !\n>\n> I'm curious, but can the \"Big (commercial) Boys\" do this? I...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote :\n\n> The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> > Jan Vicherek wrote:\n> > > Please please help me solve this or make workarounds or anything. I\n> > > would *really* like to see PosgreSQL to be playing against the Big\n> > > (commercial) Boys !\n> >\n> > I'm curious, but can the \"Big ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI read this message on the debian development list. Thought it might be \nof interest to scrappy on the PostODBC thingie...\n\nMaarten\n\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n| Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am still wondering why postmaster fork/exec instead of\njust forking when receiving a new connection.\n\nFork on modern unices (linux and (a think) *BSD) cost\nalmost nothing (in time and memory) thanks to COW (copy-on-write).\nExec in expensive as it breaks COW.\n\nI know this is not the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote a real small function to revoke update on a column. The function\ndoesn't do anything\nfancy like checking user ids.\n\nI copied most of it from the refint.c in the contrib directory.\n\nShould I post this somewhere? It really isn't very big.\n\nThanx\n--\n | Email - ri...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n hi,\n\n I'm tempted to implement an extension to the current postgres' SQL\nlanguage that would allow me to do something like :\n\n CREATE INDEX MyIndex ON MyTable (IndexField);\n BEGIN;\n SELECT LAST(Tid) AS MyFirstTid FROM MyIndex WHERE IndexField = 'what_user_requests';\n SELECT * ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi...\n\n\tI added this to the contrib directory for the server, but am\nwondering if anyone feels that this just might be useful as a \"normal\"\ndatatype, instead of just in the contrib directory...\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprim...
[ { "msg_contents": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:\n\n> Now, with that in mind, should we remove the PostODBC stuff from\n> the interfaces directory an dmove it to the contrib directory? Or remove\n> it all together? Or leave it where it is?\n>\nProbably the safest way would be to put it i...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nhow do you find the elementType for the array? it seems to be passed\nto array_in & array_out what about to user defined functions? how\ndoes this work?\n\n--brett\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 08:56:00 -0800", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@abraxas.scene.com>", "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nokay, it's passed to me too the same way, as the second arg...\ni checked out pg_proc, sorry for the waste of bandwidth!\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 08:57:56 -0800", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@abraxas.scene.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "ignore ar...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsilly me, it turned out the function had two arguments, and the second\nargument just happened to coincide with the type of the array.\n\nWhen writing a c function to be dynamically loaded and called from\npostgres, how do you find out the base element type of an array that\nyou're acceptin...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found this patch in my mailbox. Is there any intestest in this, or is\nit too site-specific?\n\n> \n> Eze Ogwuma writes:\n> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > Can you be specific? Something I can add to the TODO list.\n> > \n> > Database based access for users so t...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI'm stuck as to how to make this a parameter for the backend.\n\nThe postmaster could read a pg_blocksize file and then pass that,\nbut how could _that_ be set differently when calling the same\ncopy of initdb?\n\nI'd like to avoid having to set it in the Makefile in the way\nthat the NAMED...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> >\n> >> \tI think this would be great as a standard tyoe. Many people wn't poke\n> >> \taround n the source tree looking for neat things like this, but would\n> >> \tgain even greater respect for Postgres if they found it in the default\n> >> \tsystem. Remember we know have a lot of peo...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have added cash_words_out() to pg_proc, but when I use it it crashes\nthe backend. Can someone fix it and send in a patch?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:07:04 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSince I'm not doing anything fancy with them, and so that it isn't too\ndifficult for those submitting patches, I have changed the cron entry such\nthat it creates a snapshot every night at 3am (EST)...\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \np...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Joe Hellerstein wrote:\n\n> Did it -- thanks for the heads up.\n\n\tGreat, thanks...\n\n> Let us know if you hear about any cool gist utilization.\n\n\tBest way for feedback...anyone out there using this? :)\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Adm...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, Marc, I too am having problems since the new protocol cleanup went\nin too.\n\nIt seems there is a new local hba_conf type, and I added that, but now\nit core dumps. I am stumped.\n\nI am glad someone has gone through this code and has given it a good\ncleaning, though.\n\nI am sure it ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI have been scanning the thread from Jan Vicherek who is having heavy\nbrowsing activity blocking updates.\n\nBasically there should be no need for read locks in postgresql,\nsince the before images are in the table until the next vacuum.\nTherefore a scheme could be implemented, w...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:\n> \n> > Hi,\n> > \n> > I read this message on the debian development list. Thought it might be \n> > of interest to scrappy on the PostODBC thingie...\n> \n> \tDamn, to say I hate copyrights isn't saying enough :) Okay, I\n> guess the first t...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I found this patch in my mailbox. Is there any intestest in this, or is\n> it too site-specific?\n> \n> > \n> > Eze Ogwuma writes:\n> > > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > > Can you be specific? Something I can add to the TODO list.\n> > > \n> > > Database based acc...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following is Informix behavior:\n\ninformix@zeus:/usr/informix72> dbaccess - -\n> create database nulltest in datadbs;\nDatabase created.\n\n> create table t1 (a int4, b char(2), c char(2));\n 201: A syntax error has occurred.\nError in line 1\nNear character position 20\n\n> create tabl...
[ { "msg_contents": ">> In the second query, the first two rows have been grouped, but\nshouldn't\n>> they not be since b is NULL? I thought that NULL != NULL?\n\nNote that:\nNULL <> NULL\t\tis false\nNULL = NULL\t\tis false\n\n> select * from t1 x, t1 y where x.b <> y.b;\n a b c a b c\nNo ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote:\n>>> In the second query, the first two rows have been grouped, but\nshouldn't\n>>> they not be since b is NULL? I thought that NULL != NULL?\n>\n>Note that:\n>NULL <> NULL\t\tis false\n>NULL = NULL\t\t\tis false\n\nThis was wrong, I digged up some more docu and found:\n<something> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> The following is Informix behavior:\n> \n> informix@zeus:/usr/informix72> dbaccess - -\n> > create database nulltest in datadbs;\n> Database created.\n> \n> > create table t1 (a int, b char(2), c char(2));\n> Table created.\n> \n> > insert into t1 (a,c) values (1,'x');\n> 1 row(s) inser...
[ { "msg_contents": "OK, my deadlock code is ready for me to test, as soon as we can resolve\nthe protocol crashes that started yesterday. I assume the author been\nnotified?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:21:23 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momji...
[ { "msg_contents": "Umm - hate to be annoying - but I haven't seen any comments about this bug\nfor a bit... Any news? :)\n(does varchar still corrupt tables?)\n\nG'day, eh? :)\n\t- Teunis\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:24:42 -0700 (MST)", "msg_from": "teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre....
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhen the postmaster crashes, it leaves the /tmp/.s.pgsql file in /tmp.\nIs there a way to auto-remove it after a postmaster crash?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:28:21 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.ph...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > >For now, ignore the patch I sent. Appears from Andreas demo that the\n> > >current postgres code will follow the Informix style with regard to\n> > >grouping columns with NULL values. Now that I really think about it,\n> > >it does make more sense.\n> > \n> > I think I saw the patch com...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am missing the last digit of the port number on the socket name:\n\n\t/tmp/.s.PGSQL.543\n\nCan someone fix this?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:39:26 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSr:\n \n I have tried to look at the postgreSQL www and contact some people but \ni don't \nhave full internet just e-mail so it's a little hard to search exactly what\ni'm looking for, please help me to find out about this if you can:\n\n\t1) There are primary keys, foreing keys and not n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nWe, at CORE SDI, have developed a protocol named PAO wich enables the\nverification of the authenticity of append only files.\n\nI am informing you of this because i belive you may find it extremelly\nuseful for your postgresql software.\n\nThe protocol is cryptographycally strong...
[ { "msg_contents": "Unprivileged user wrote:\n> \n> Category : runtime: back-end: SQL\n> Severity : critical\n> \n> Summary: Result not \"GROUPED BY\" from SQL: \n> select im,bn,count(adr) FROM logtmp GROUP BY im,bn;\n\nI found from where it comes: nodeGroup.c' funcs assume that slo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following two queries & explains seem very strange. the two\nstatements differ only by the absence of usrexists = 't' in the where\nclause of the second, but it seems far less effecient (rather than\nmore?)\n\nAt first I thought my hash index on usrid should be used for the first\nexam...
[ { "msg_contents": "On linux-elf:\n\n\npqcomm.c: In function `StreamServerPort':\npqcomm.c:605: structure has no member named `sun_len'\npqcomm.c: In function `StreamOpen':\npqcomm.c:760: structure has no member named `sun_len'\n___\n \nSY, Serj\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:49:33 +0300", "msg_fro...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Does the SQL standard say anything about an implied sort when\n> grouping or is it up to the user to include an ORDER BY clause?\n> darrenk\n\nWithout order by the result set is never guaranteed to be ordered in a\nspecific way (standard speak). The order is dependent on the chosen\nquery p...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> > Does the SQL standard say anything about an implied sort when\n> > grouping or is it up to the user to include an ORDER BY clause?\n> > darrenk\n> \n> Without order by the result set is never guaranteed to be ordered in a\n> specific way (standard speak). The order is dependent on the...
[ { "msg_contents": "In snapshot 270198 \"GROUP BY\" bug present too.\n\nTest on linux-elf (\"select a,b,count(*) from c group by a,b\");\n\n-- \nSY, Serj\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:03:41 +0300", "msg_from": "Serj <fenix@am.ring.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Group By bug in ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > I found this patch in my mailbox. Is there any intestest in this, or is\n> > > it too site-specific?\n> > > \n> > > > \n> > > > Eze Ogwuma writes:\n> > > > > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:\n> > > > > > Can you be specific? Something I can add to the TODO list.\n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Thus spake Adam Fenn\n> > > Where can I find some documentation on how to use the money data type in\n> > > pgsql?\n> > \n> > I never did get around to that. The code has some explanations. There\n> > isn't really much. You create a type as money and you can assign values\n> > such as ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > This is what I think is missing or broken right now.\n> > >\n> > > > > select * from t1;\n> > > > a b c\n> > > > 1 x\n> > > > 2 x\n> > > > 3 z\n> > > > 2 x\n> > > >\n> > > > 4 row(s) retrieved.\n> > > > > select b,c,sum(a) from t...
[ { "msg_contents": "My new code now checks for any type of non-escalation deadlock, even if\nthree or more processes have deadlocks where any two of them does not\nrepresent a deadlock.\n\nThe one piece missing is to check for escalation deadlocks, where two\npeople get readlocks on the same table, and both then...
[ { "msg_contents": "Phil, I know I am hitting you with lots of problems, but I want to thank\nyou for overhauling our protocol. Several people have talked about\ndoing it, but you are the one who did it.\n\nThanks.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:57:10 -...
[ { "msg_contents": "Any reason why the whole domain appears to be dead?\nAnything I can do to help?\n\n----------\n\n\nSincerely Yours, \n\nSimon Shapiro\nShimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:00:24 -0800 (PST)", "msg_from": "Simon Shapir...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI notice that all the functions with the same name but different args\nare actually sql statements which SELECT the result of the function\ncall using a different (and unique) name..\n\nWouldn't this cause slowdowns? Shouldn't you be able to have a\ndifferent name for your function in pgsq...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI was just using 30 days because that's what the previous fellow used..\nit works, but some of the time conversion routines are still messed up.\n\nselect date('now'::datetime),date(datetime(date('now'::datetime)));\n date| date\n----------+----------\n01-27-1998|01-26-1998\n(1 ro...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have completed lock escalation detection.\n\nBoth types of locks are described in the new lock manual page, and the\ndeadlock message points them to the manual page now.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:30:53 -0500 (EST)", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "darrenk wrote:\n> postgres should then do an internal sort before grouping. In the\nsecond\n> of your examples, I take the above to mean that either row could be\n> returned first.\n\nyes (standard speak)\n\n> In order to get that result set though, the data needs to be sorted\nbefore\n> get...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Not necessarily true; as I said, I get the same result as above (with the 980112\n> source tree; have things changed since??). Perhaps you are running into the sorting\n> problem which seemed to be present on larger tables only?\n> \n> - T...
[ { "msg_contents": "> postgres=> select b,c,sum(a) from t1 group by b,c;\n> b|c|sum\n> -+-+---\n> |x| 5\n> |z| 3\n> |x| 0\n> (3 rows)\n> \n> postgres=> select * from t1;\n> a|b|c\n> -+-+-\n> 1| |x\n> 2| |x\n> 2| |x\n> 3| |z\n> 0| |x\n> (5 rows)\n> \n> I just inserted a single out-of-order row at the end of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is the long-awaited 6.3 features list. Please send any comments to\nme, or a diff if you want to majorly re-order the items. There are just\ntoo many for me to order meaningfully. I even spellchecked it.\n\nAny items I forgot, please let me know. This is taken from the cvs\nlogs, and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Now that we know the storage manager code that splits tables over 2GB\ninto separate files doesn't work(Irix), can we rip out that code and\njust use the OS code to access >2GB files as normal files. Now, most\nOS's can support 64-bit files and file sizes.\n\nBecause it is isolated in the st...
[ { "msg_contents": " unsubscribe\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:55:45 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Alexandr V. Goncharuk\" <sasha@eurocom.odtel.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "(no subject)" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I think it would be nice to add time stamps to logging information.\n\nIgor Sysoev\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:51:10 +0300", "msg_from": "\"Igor Sysoev\" <igor@nitek.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "time stamps in logging" }, { "msg_contents": "> \n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ocie wrote:\n>> 2. Instead of sorting the tuples before grouping, add a hashing\nsystem to\n>> the group node so that the pre-sorting is not necessary.\n>The hash should work. If the hash key is built on the group-by items,\n>then any row with the same entries in these columns will get hash...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > postgres=> select b,c,sum(a) from t1 group by b,c;\n> > > b|c|sum\n> > > -+-+---\n> > > |x| 5\n> > > |z| 3\n> > > |x| 0\n> > > (3 rows)\n> > >\n> > > postgres=> select * from t1;\n> > > a|b|c\n> > > -+-+-\n> > > 1| |x\n> > > 2| |x\n> > > 2| |x\n> > > 3| |z\n> > > 0| |x\n> > > (5 r...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to\n> \n> \t That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not\n> allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere\n> \n> Maybe both should be under /usr/local/pgsql\nI assume you mean the root of the installati...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > > postgres=> select b,c,sum(a) from t1 group by b,c;\n> > > > b|c|sum\n> > > > -+-+---\n> > > > |x| 5\n> > > > |z| 3\n> > > > |x| 0\n> > > > (3 rows)\n> > > >\n> > > > postgres=> select * from t1;\n> > > > a|b|c\n> > > > -+-+-\n> > > > 1| |x\n> > > > 2| |x\n> > > > 2| |x\n> > > > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:\n> \n> > > > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to\n> > > \n> > > \t That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not\n> > > allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere\n> > > \n> > > Maybe both shoul...
[ { "msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:57:52 +0200", "msg_from": "\"Alexander V. Goncharuk\" <sasha@EuroCom.OdTel.Net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "(no subject)" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "\nCompile of this mornings snapshot fails in parse_node.h.\n\nThe typedef of ParseState is missing the variable name\nfor the first member...only has \"struct ParseState;\".\n\nAny quick fix?\n\ndarrenk\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:38:05 -0500", "msg_from": "darrenk@insightdis...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > > In $PGDATA would seem as good as anywhere (maybe $PGDATA/.run or some such)\n> > > > \n> > > > /usr/local is mounted r/o on my system - $PGDATA lives elsewhere and is\n> > > > writable.\n> > > \n> > > \t$PGDATA is created 700...general users need to be able to read the\n> > > director...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to\n> \n> \t That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not\n> allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere\n> \n> No. Make /var/run writable by some group (e.g., group pidlog) and put\n> postgres (and o...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am working on a patch to inline fastgetattr(), fastgetiattr(), and\ngetsysattr() calls. This will allow full inline access to the raw tuple\ndata without any function call overhead, which some one showed can read\n1 million calls in very trivial queries.\n\nMy previous inlining attempts in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Let me add, I am not inlining all the functions, but only the top part\nof them that deals with cachoffsets and nulls. These are the easy ones,\nand the ones that get used most often.\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:01:41 -0500 (EST)", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > GROUP BY bug of duplicates\t\t\n> > GROUP BY nulls bug\n> > ORDER BY nulls(Vadim?)\n> > many OR's exhaust optimizer memory(Vadim?)\n> > max tuple length settings(Darren & Peter)\n> > pg_user defaults to world-readable until passwords used(Todd)\n> > self-join optimizer bug\n> > subselects...
[ { "msg_contents": "on i386 linux / glibc-2 with hba and locale support, authentication\nfails.\n\nIf I patch backend/libpq/auth.c to default as: (lines ~420-ish)\n\tauth_handler = NULL;\n+\t\tareq = AUTH_REQ_OK\n+\t\tauth_handler = handle_done_auth;\n\n\tswitch (port->auth_method)\n\nThe system works :)\n[reg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Wow, this is really a fantastic list, of fixes and enhancements !\n\nIt sure is nice to see my name on the Bugs Fixed list! But I think,\nas I did not do any coding (yet ? I prblby only gave a hint ?) Bruce\nshould get the credit here:\n\n> Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres)\nshould pr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\ni have just grabbed the 6.3 snapshot and tried to compile it on irix 6.2 -\nwithout success.\n\nThe following errors occurred:\n\n1) configure fails\n\n% ./configure \n[...]\nlinking ./backend/port/tas/i386_solaris.s to backend/port/tas.s\nlinking ./backend/port/dynloader/irix5.c to ba...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n[CC to hackers list].\n\n> \n> Hi!\n> \n> Do you still know me?\n> \n> I'm the one who promised to work on the rest of the ANSI SQL Standard for\n> postgresql.\n\nYep. Funny thing, we are preparing a 6.3 beta release for Feb 1, and I\njust yesterday removed you name from the top of the TOD...
[ { "msg_contents": "The gram.y file in the snapshot file dated 30-JAN-98 causes errors when \nprocessed with yacc on Unixware 2.1.2. The following patch will enable yacc \nto process the file, but I am unsure of the ramifications it will cause.\n\nYour comments please.\n\n--\n\n*** src/backend/parser/gram.y.ori...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am expirencing problems with 'order by' clauses in the 30-JAN-98 snapshot on \na Unixware 2.1.2 i386 base system. Any more than one attribute in the order \nby seems to ignored by the sort. (i.e., select * from testbga order by b \nusing >, a using <; will sort be sorted correctly with at...
[ { "msg_contents": "The following patches will bring the UNIVEL port in line with the new porting \nmodel used in postgreSQL 6.3\n\nNOTE: The src/backend/port/univel directory can be deleted.\n\n\n\n\n____ | Billy G. Allie | Domain....: Bill.Allie@mug.org\n| /| | 7436 Hartwell | Compuserve: 76...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI introduced a problem with the mailing lists on Friday afternoon as a\nresults of upgrading perl for some anti-spam filters...I belive it to be\nfixed now, and this is acting as a test...\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scra...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:18:03 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:20:49 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:22:43 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "ms...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nDue to an upgrade in Perl on the main server affecting an older version of\nMajordomo, the lists have been effectively down for the past 24hrs...the\nproblems have been worked out and everything appears to be okay now...\n\nif you've posted anything since ~noon on Friday, please repost it.....
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone tested the regression tests recently. Many problems, I\nmaybe think the ORDER BY is broken, as a Unixware person reported. \nCan't beta release with this problem. Is it the new psort() NULL\nhandling, or something else?\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1 Feb 1998 06:31:06 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1 Feb 1998 06:37:54 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1 Feb 1998 06:41:49 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ntesting anti-spam filter\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1 Feb 1998 06:45:38 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker <s...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am getting the error...\n\n\tERROR: fmgr_info: function 0: cache lookup failed\n\n\t\t...after creating a database, creating tables - indexes\nand sequences, inserting data (with perl scripts) into 2 tables (570\nrecords in one and 100 records in another), using \"vacuum analyze\" on\nth...
[ { "msg_contents": "\njust testing to make sure\n\n\nMarc G. Fournier \nSystems Administrator @ hub.org \nprimary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org \n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 1 Feb 1998 17:25:48 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "The Hermit Hacker...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Peter T Mount wrote:\n> \n> > \n> > Has anyone seen the jdbc patch I posted earlier today?\n> > \n> > If not, I'll ftp it.\n> \n> \tI haven't seen it...send me a copy directly? The mailing lists\n> have '# of lines' limits to messages, which may have been where it g...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed the regression test problem. The original psort() NULL\nhandling patch is attached. It made the while() into a for() which is\ngood, but he did not remove the increment at the bottom or the for(), so\nnkey was being incremented twice in the loop. Fixed it, and now\nregression ...