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[ { "msg_contents": "I just installed the latest snapshot. And now I cannot access the DB\nanymore:\n\npsql mm\nWelcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:\n Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL\n\n type \\? for help on slash commands\n type \\q to quit\n type \\g or term...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nSolaris x86 v2.6 is broken...has been for weeks now, but to date, nobody\nseems able to come up with a solution, or a suggestion on further\ndebugging, so once more I bring it up :)\n\nThe first question is, of course, is anyone else seeing this using Solaris\nx86?\n\nIf not...*where* shoul...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I have noticed with delight, that the defined(aix) directives have gone\n> > away (since it is not allways defined),\n> > now there is another one in s_lock.h __AIX with two underscores,\n> > wich also is not defined by gcc.\n> > Please use the singel underscore _AIX since it seems to...
[ { "msg_contents": "The numbers are from 6.3.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\ndon't want to bring up a touchy subject, BUT... does the rule system\nactually work, and if not, what are our plans? It would extend the\nfunctionality of postgresql quite a bit and make it much more\nattractive.. also I'm working on a modified version of pg with perl\nlanguage support. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n hmmm - no access to /pub/incoming on ftp.postgresql.org?\n\n So I put it here.\n\n\nUntil later, Jan\n\n-- \n\n#======================================================================#\n# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #\n# Let's break this r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm running PostgreSQL 6.3 on Linux 2.1.85 with gcc 2.8.0 and libc5. So\nfar no problems, however I noted some cleanups / enhancements which I\nwould like to do. Before I send you a bunch of patches I thought I'll\ntell you what I'm planning to do. Please comment on my list and indicat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I ran my performance tests some more times and it seems the numbers are not\nreally comparable. When I run PostgreSQL without -F I get a sync after every\ninsert. With -F I get no sync at all as all inserts fit well into the\nbuffer. However, Oracle in comparison does sync. Simply hearing the...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:09:50 +0900", "msg_from": "Yu HyungSic <yhc007@star.kyungsung.ac.kr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "(no subject)" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "I wrote a message about 4 months ago asking about an Alpha Linux version\nof PostGreSQL. Last I heard, they were working on it and it would be\nreleased in early January with a 64-bit clean version of the server.\n\nThis is my third request.\n\nIt's now almost the middle of February, and I s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I execute PQexec(simple_connection, copiedquery); with copiedquery being\n\"declare cur cursor for select name , born from meskes \" followed by another\ncall to PQexec with the command \"fetch in cur \". I get an OK status back,\nbut no tuples. However, just using \"select name , born from m...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\nI am going to do my first hack:\n\n\tusing indexes in aggregates (whenever possible)\n\nIf someone claimed it already please let me know.\nTIA\n\n.co.\n\nCostin Oproiu ---------------- http://www2.deuroconsult.ro/~co\nCiprian Porumbescu 10, ap.13 tel/fax: +(40)-68-183528\nBras...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tIn working with testing the ODBC driver with 6.3 I've noticed\nsome odd behavior. I establish a connection and get authenticated.\nThen I send a query. This creates yet another postgres process... Each\nquery does this... And they all seem to hang around... And take up CPU\nand Memory....
[ { "msg_contents": "Brian:\n\n> > I wrote a message about 4 months ago asking about an Alpha Linux version\n> > of PostGreSQL. Last I heard, they were working on it and it would be\n> > released in early January with a 64-bit clean version of the server.\n> > \n> > This is my third request.\n> \n> So, fix it yo...
[ { "msg_contents": "There is an info file describing ecpg. But it seems we do not have any other\ninfo file. Shall I install it regardless?\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org...
[ { "msg_contents": "> PostgreSQL SUMs population column given -1523690296 (overflow)\n> While SOLID and MySQL gives 2771277000.\n>\n> Who are right PostgreSQL or SOLID and MySQL ?\n\nDuh.\n\n> Is it correct to have an overflow with SUM() function ?\n\nDo you know what technique Solid and/or MySQL use to allow an...
[ { "msg_contents": "No, I've just added a small man page. Where do I have to submit what in\nterms of doc? How is documentation handled anyway?\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debia...
[ { "msg_contents": "Oracle doesn't count as they don't have integers etc. They only use a\nselfdesigned number datatype that is able to handle that kind of\nnumbers, too.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Ad...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have updated the TODO on our web page with a new item:\n\n\tHow do I test my changes?\n\nYou will find it on our web site with the other FAQ's.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:03:17 -0500 (EST)", "msg_from": "Bruce Momjian <maill...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs I just said on patches, I've just had a go at installing the latest 6.3\nunder Irix5.3. A couple of patches were required which are described on\nthe patches list (to keep Marc happy :-)\n\nThe regression tests were largely OK. There were the usual error message\nand rounding differences...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAs promised here are expected regression outputs from Irix5 for\nint2, int4, oidint2, oidint4 and geometry:\n\nbegin 644 irix.tgz\nM'XL(`';3X30``^T]:W/;1I+YNOH52%)7$A.`GO?#]FKC)+K=5/FBG.*]NU0J\nME5)LVF:5(BHDG=A7JOOMU_,`,#-XDH9LWX6S:Q$<=O?T]&L:/0-DN5Z^OO?1\nMW;:,(<EY]E&6981C^XD9LY^^H2P33\"+*...
[ { "msg_contents": "I posted this to questions a few days back but got no response. Can anyone\nhere help me with this? I know it should be straightforward, and that I'm\nmissing something obvious, but precisely *what* I'm missing is unknown to\nme.\n\nThanks!\n\n- t.\n\n-----------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > I ran my performance tests some more times and it seems the numbers are not\n> > really comparable. When I run PostgreSQL without -F I get a sync after every\n> > insert. With -F I get no sync at all as all inserts fit well into the\n> > buffer. However, Oracle...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Just to add in here...Oracle:\n> \n> SQL> select sum(population) from nations;\n> \n> SUM(POPULATION)\n> ---------------\n> 2771277000\n> \n> SQL> \n\nHere is Sybase. Note, I declared the population field as int.\n\n1> SELECT * FROM t1\n2> go\n name population \n ----...
[ { "msg_contents": "To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org \n\n Need a re-launch? Launchmaster will re-launch \n your web site to 50 search engines and indexes for $95. \n Satisfaction guaranteed! \n\nMillions of people use search engines to find web sites every day. But if\n your site isn't listed, no o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI have made patches that allow PostgreSQL to handle multi-byte\ncharacters. The patches makes most commands including \"regexp\" and\n\"like\" 8 bit, multi-byte aware. You have a choice of one of followings\nfor coding schema at the compile time:\n\n\t1. single byte 7 bit ASCII/8 bi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nRemember that heap_modifytuple error that I was reporting for\ni386_solaris? Well, I hit it with my server in Toronto today trying to\nget a v6.3 server up for Julie to test ODBC against...which blew my mind,\nsince I hadn't experienced any problems here at home.\n\nAfter investigating fur...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nconfigure on PPC/Linux fails because of an incorrect template\nfile(configure tries to envoke gcc with -m486 option!). Following\npatches should fix the problem.\n\nP.S.\tI have tested on the 2/11 snapshot.\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n--------------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian writes:\n> Strange. No changes since before the weekend.\n\nI'm not sure when I tried the cursor access for the last time. I definitely\ntried it on Sunday, but I believe I never tried it after the last major\nchange that caused me to do a initdb.\n\nMichael\n\n-- \nDr. Michael...
[ { "msg_contents": "IMO this is a rather serious bug:\n\n{\nexec sql begin declare section;\n\tlong i;\nexec sql end declare section;\n\t...\n\t{\n\t\texec sql begin declare section;\n \t\tshort i;\n\t\texec sql end declare section;\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\t...\n\tsome DB access into i;\n\nThe code produced by ec...
[ { "msg_contents": "subscribe\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:30:56 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Bu Dongbo\" <bdb@gatekeeper.ncic.ac.cn>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "subscribe" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAccoding to the HISTORY file it is now possible to set the max-tuple\nsize for a database. (I'm using yesterdays cvs snapshot on Linux).\n\nCould anyone help me find out how to configure this value?\n\nThanks Maurice.\n\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:50:29 +0100", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:\n> \n> > \n> > As promised here are expected regression outputs from Irix5 for\n> > int2, int4, oidint2, oidint4 and geometry:\n> \n> \tWhat does 'uname -s' show for an Irix5 system?\n> \n> \nIrix5.x or 6.x gives: IRIX\nIrix6.x (on a...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Hi,\n> \n> Accoding to the HISTORY file it is now possible to set the max-tuple\n> size for a database. (I'm using yesterdays cvs snapshot on Linux).\n> \n> Could anyone help me find out how to configure this value?\n> \n> Thanks Maurice.\n\nI didn't get this done in time to make the 6.3 be...
[ { "msg_contents": "Fixed with my lates upload, abour half an hour ago.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen\nGo SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nunsubscribe\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:25:07 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Nguyen, Thuan\" <thuann@internic.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "[similar report submitted previously, but this is more complete]\n\nThere is something that looks like shared memory corruption going on,\nwhich I first noticed by accident the other day, in the 1998-02-09\nsnapshot. It's still there today, with the 1998-02-12 one, and looks\nlike the follow...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nA while back we talked about exec/shmem/mmap.\nI am thinking about messing it up and make some test\naround this issues when I get some spare time.\n\nI think I figured out that most memory,\nat least the buffers is allocated in shmem.\n\nWhat are the primary reason for this?\nSpeed? Footpr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nunsubscribe\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:18:58 -0500", "msg_from": "\"Nguyen, Thuan\" <thuann@internic.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "unscribe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nunscribe", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:05:44 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Dr. Huaimin Wang\" <hmwang@csit.edu.cn>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "None" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Kenji T. Hollis wrote:\n\n>> Brian:\n>> \n>> > > I wrote a message about 4 months ago asking about an Alpha Linux version\n>> > > of PostGreSQL. Last I heard, they were working on it and it would be\n>> > > released in early January with a 64-bit clean version of the ser...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just tried 'em, and like 'em :) Great work Vadim!\n\n - Tom\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:57:55 +0000", "msg_from": "\"Thomas G. Lockhart\" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Subsele...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI know this is a bit off topic, but it's concerning something\nthat I believe most ppl find a bit annoying.\n Like most other mailinglists the postgresql ones suffer from\noccational \"unsubscribe\" msges in the list itself. Wouldn't it\nbe possible to write some filter that stop these...
[ { "msg_contents": "ALL_SUBLINK type was returned for x Op (subquery).\nJust fixed, not in today snapshot...\nWork arround: (x) Op (subquery)...\n ^ ^\nVadim\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:32:05 +0700", "msg_from": "\"Vadim B. Mikheev\" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>", "msg_from_op":...
[ { "msg_contents": "It seems it didn't make it into the source tree so far. In fact I'm not even\nsure I really send it out. Since I'd like to do some more work now I can\neasily include yesterday's changes again. But if the patch somehow makes it\ninto the archive we will get 'already applied' errors. \n\nSo pl...
[ { "msg_contents": "I removed my old 6.3 DB and called initdb. After starting postmaster I tried\nto create a user to no avail:\n\ngauss:~> createuser meskes\nPQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel\nbefore responding.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm reposting this, since the first reply didn't make it to the list.\n\nOn Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n>> I created a small program to return the size of values. They are:\n>> \n>> Size of short: 2\n>> Size of char: 1\n>> Size of int: 4\n>> Size of long: 8\n>> \n>> Does th...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI looked in gram.y and scan.l but couldn't figure out how to unreserve\n\"user\" so I can use it as the name of a table. Is there a way to do\nthis?\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:38:23 -0800", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nthis is the latest snapshot under linux 2.0.33\n\nwhen I create a view with an aggregate such as count (with a group by\nclause) I get a core dump. The first three lines of the gdb backtrace\nfollows:\n\n#0 0x80a9982 in ExecEvalAggreg (agg=0x820fa20, econtext=0x8213a48, \n isNull=0xbff...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is the ix86/linux \"confirmed\" port using libc 5 or glibc 2.x (aka \nlibc6)? As most major distributions are going to release all new \nversions with glibc I think it's prudent to test on both \"platforms\" \nindependantly.\n\n-Fred\n\n\n> Bruce, are you planning on keeping a ToDo list for ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n Someone changed the parser to build a TypeName node on CREATE\n FUNCTION in any case. As a side effect, ALL! functions\n created got the proretset attribute to true. Thus for a\n SELECT the parser wrapped an Iter node around the Expr and\n since singlet...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: vrijdag 13 februari 1998 18:36\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Memory leaks?\n\n\n>Maurice Gittens wrote:\n>> \n>> Ok, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI just posted another set of patches. Please test this version a little bit\nbefore we release. I will be on the road for most of next week, but should\nbe back early enough to fix some bugs before the end of the month.\n\necpg should now be able to understand struct definitions as wel...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > Modified Files:\n> > linux-elf\n> > Log Message:\n> >\n> > Remove -m486 option, since it is platform specific...this should technically\n> > be removed everywhere, but so far linux-elf is the only platform that is\n> > being reported a problem with...\n>\n> Hmm. I don't think ther...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is some implementation notes and opened issues...\n\nFirst, implementation uses new type of parameters - PARAM_EXEC - to deal\nwith correlation Vars. When query_planner() is called, it first tries to\nreplace all upper queries Var referenced in current query with Param of \nthis type. So...
[ { "msg_contents": "> From: Gerhard Reithofer <gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at>\n> ...\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Unsubscribe\n> \n> unsubscribe gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at\n> end\n\nAnother aix user leaving the list...\n\ndarrenk\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:00:49 -0500", "msg_from": "darrenk@insightdist.com (Da...
[ { "msg_contents": ">Well, this means that problem lies in large objects...\n>I never used them... I assume that new relation and index\n>is created for each LO. If this is right then we have memory leak\n>in relation cache (heap_close doesn't flush relation from cache).\n>Also, as I see now, LO interface uses i...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm a Linux developer that are making a huge server, and i'm trying out\ndatabases.\nAre the postgres librarys not thread-safe?\nIf not, when will it be?\n\nSincerly Magnus N�slund\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:16:31 +0100", "msg_from": "\"Magnus N���slund\" <Magnus@Graph...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \tSomeone want to send me a patch to fix this? or a list of files\n> that need to be changed?\n\nOnly occurrs in\nsrc/include/storage/s_lock.h:#if defined(__AIX)\nsrc/include/utils/dt.h:#if defined(__AIX)\nsrc/include/utils/nabstime.h:#if defined(__AIX)\n\nSimply delete one underscore, onl...
[ { "msg_contents": "> 5. I need in advice: if subquery introduced with NOT IN doesn't return\n> any tuples then qualification is failed, yes ?\n\nInformix treats the subselect as NULL if no rows are returned.\nTherefore all parent rows that are not null are returned.\n\nselect * from taba where a not in (<a s...
[ { "msg_contents": "> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Darren King wrote:\n> \n> > > From: Gerhard Reithofer <gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at>\n> > > ...\n> > > Subject: [HACKERS] Unsubscribe\n> > > \n> > > unsubscribe gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at\n> > > end\n> > \n> > Another aix user leaving the list...\n> \n> \tWhy?\n> \n\nSeems the ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> \n> > Another aix user leaving the list...\n> \n> Whew. I saw the subject and the sender and thought \"Oh no! Darren's\n> leaving. There goes our AIX support...\".\n\nThere are still a few active aix people on the lists. One's that pop\nto mind right now...Andreas...is Frank Dana still aro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Are you working on an initdb option for passwords, so we don't have\npg_user world-unreadable by default?\n\n> \n> > What, pg_user is not readable by world anymore? This could be a problem.\n> \n> It has to be this way, otherwise it would be possible for user to see other\n> users' passwords...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nOn Thu, 12 Feb 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n\n> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Peter T Mount wrote:\n> \n> > Getting most of the rest of DatabaseMetaData is my main priority after 6.3\n> > is released. However, there are some methods that cannot yet be\n> > implemented because postgresql itself is...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI know I'm not capable of locating or fixing the problem with\nthis so it's a it of a cheek asking but...\n\nIs it time to increase the priority of the TODO item:-\n\n* Allow indexes to be used with OR clauses\n\nThis would seem particularly important with the new subselect\nfuncti...
[ { "msg_contents": "tip1: I find many string functions calls like strcpy, strncpy\n, strcat etc.. in the code.\n\nIs not faster if you use memcpy, memset, sizeof() functions calls? \nEspecially watch those areas inside the for loop and while loop.\n\ntip 2: Inside for loops, where functions are called\nit will b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could somebody apply this little patch for me? (don't have access to CVS)\nThanks!\n\nkeep up the great work!\nCheers,\n-Pailing\n\n--- contrib/spi/refint.c.old\tSat Feb 14 00:04:15 1998\n+++ contrib/spi/refint.c\tSat Feb 14 00:04:42 1998\n@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@\n \t\t\t\tsprintf(sql, \"update %...
[ { "msg_contents": "At 4:08 PM 98.2.13 +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:\n>Bruce, are you planning on keeping a ToDo list for the 6.3 release as\n>you have in (at least) the past few releases? That will make sure that\n>we don't leave something out. As a start:\n\n>Test big-endian/little-endian operation(Tatsuo?...
[ { "msg_contents": "The 'configure' script currently says\n\n\tchecking setting HBA... enabled\n\nwhich is hardly needed any more. I just grepped through the whole\ntree, and there is no occurrence of \"NOHBA\" outside of configure -- as\nthere shouldn't be now that the pg_hba.conf file is used to select the\na...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hope you don't mind my marking something that's for the contrib\ndirectory with *REPOST* like this, but Marc did ask us to, and I\ndid post this back on Februaray 1, so...\n\nI'm including an update to my user defined IP and MAC address type\nimplementation that's in contrib/ip_and_mac/. Thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Probably fixed already, since it's uncompilable, but anyway:\n\nThe file 'backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c' won't compile with the\nFebruary 14th snapshot, because of an inconsistency between the\ndeclaration and implementation of ReadArrayStr(). As far as I can\ntell, the predeclaration is wr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is my current list for porting status for the v6.3 release. I may\nhave missed at least a few reports, e.g hpux, irix??\n\nSince the porting support has changed for v6.3, if a system is not\ntested it should be assumed to be broken. Any regression test done since\nFeb 1 will count as \"c...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have asked Massimo if he is more able to get involved in development.\nHis reply is attached. He has submitted a major patch that we need to\ndiscuss as a group.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n> > > > I am submitting this patch for peopl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a description of the major patch from Massimo. The irony of\nthis is that the mail message is dated January 27th, when application of\nthe patch would have been easier because we were not in beta testing. I\nhave a copy of the patch here on my machine.\n\nWhat do people want to do w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> \n> > > We have a new atttypmod field that holds the length for the column as\n> > > defined at table-creation time for char() and varchar(). Is that the\n> > > number you want?\n> > >\n> > > --\n> > > Bruce Momjian\n> > > maillist@candle.pha.pa.us\n> >\n> >\n> > for ...
[ { "msg_contents": " Do we have a way, at the moment, supported or otherwise, to \"share\"\ntables across multiple databases? For instance, some of the catalogs\nare the same from one database to another, but could I create a new\ntable and share it (and possibly some indexes on it) between more than\none dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just tried this on Debian with glibc 2.0.6 and it works fine. That is\nmy 6.3 postgresql release outputs 4 hours.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Eeek,\n\nI'd almost forgotten about this suggestion.\n\nI'll start looking through my mailbox and see if there are any\ninteresting snippets of SQL that might form a basis for this.\n\nKeith.\n\nThe Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>\n> Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>\n> \n> On Tue, 13 Ja...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nOn the spin lock and multiple CPU's, this should not be\na compile time issue, but a runtime issue. What do you \nthink?\n\nJordan Henderson\n\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:05:09 -0500", "msg_from": "Jordan Henderson <jordanh@ccia.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhy does makefiles/Makefile.linux have this CFLAGS:\n\nCFLAGS = -I$(SRCDIR)/include -I/usr/include/ncurses -\nI/usr/include/readline -Dlinuxalpha -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -\nfomit-frame-pointer\n\nnow every linux box seems to be Alpla?\n--\nTatsuo Ishii\nt-ishii@sra.co.jp\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It appears they didn't make it in. The struct features are not in the cvs\nsource so far. Did they get lost? I still have a copy.\n\nMichael\n-- \nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@...
[ { "msg_contents": "2/15 snapshot did not pass a regression test.\n\nregression=> CREATE TABLE DEFAULT_TBL (i int DEFAULT 100,x text DEFAULT 'vadim', f float8 DEFAULT 123.456);\nCREATE\nregression=> INSERT INTO DEFAULT_TBL (i, f) VALUES (2, 987.654);\nPQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I still cannot connect to the actual snapshot database. initdb works fine,\nbut createuser causes an error:\n\nPQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel\nbefore responding.\n This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or\nwhile processing...
[ { "msg_contents": "Could anyone please enable ecpg compilation in src/interfaces/Makefile again\nas the CVS source now compiles flawlessly.\n\nAnyway, I currently have a list of 5-6 open bugs in ecpg. So if anyone wants\nto help, step forward. :-)\n\nJoking aside, there is one bug or better missing feature that...
[ { "msg_contents": "Yes, and Oracle7 also.\n\nI think with NULL values Andreas is right. The whole statement should be\nNULLed. That to me is the intuitive behaviour.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenau...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Marin D wrote:\n\n> \n> Hi!\n> \n> You can try to typecast to float8\n> \n> I have no idea how MySql is doing SUM() - probably it uses unsigned int\n> for SUM() so this gives u twice bigger upper limit - try it with MySql\n> with sum exceeding 2^32. I suppose the result w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nThis one is only to call the developer's attention to a message I've\nposted to psql-ports regarding 6.3 beta problems on DEC alpha /Digital\nUnix.\n\nI know that the \"medicine men\" :-) also read psql-ports, but... just in\ncase.\n\n\tPedro.\n\n----------------------------------...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all.\n\nI have compiled the Feb. 15 snapshot on a DEC alpha and, besides other\nproblems that I've reported in the psql-ports list, there is a bug in\nconfigure that has been there for quite a while.\n\nI use this command to do the 'configure' thing:\n\n./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgs...
[ { "msg_contents": "Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> wrote:\n\n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> >\n> > >\n> > > Hi all,\n> > >\n> > > I would like to add the following item to the\n> > > wishlist:\n> > >\n> > > currently the libpq-function PQfsize returns the\n> > > size in bytes of the field with the given field-\n> > ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guess what !\n\nIt (Informix 9.12 and DB/2 4.1) says syntax error (at the first comma).\n(Even looked up the Manuals)\nHaha Hihi Hoho. I guess you beat them here Vadim+Bruce+Tom. * hear the cork\npopping ? *\n\nAndreas\n\nPS.: from the logical point of view, I think all rows from x should qua...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hm, new one. Oracle 6:\n\nSQL> select * from a where (x,z) in (select y, l from b);\n\n X Z\n---------- ----------\n 1 2\n\nSQL> select * from a where (x,z) = ANY (select y, l from b);\n\n X Z\n---------- ----------\n 1 2\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just compiled and checked the latest snapshot on AIX 4.1.5 using aix_41\ntemplate.\nAll ok ! except:\n\trounding errors\t\n\tResult too large instead of Math result not representable\n\t> ERROR: exp() result is out of range \t\tin float8,\nthis is correct (error on reference platform...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok, \n\nI think large objects are leaking memory because the large object functions\nin the backend use their own GlobalMemoryContext (called Filesystem), which\n(according to a quick grep) is never freed.\n\nSupposing this is true and I ensure that the large object subsystem always\nuses the...
[ { "msg_contents": "gcc-2.8.0 is know to be buggy. But that shouldn't bring you the glibc\nbug, should it?\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wu...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Did we ever go anywhere on this one? I just got into mp3's here\n> at home...something like this might be cool for that, or for large images\n> libraries?\n\nI just didn't see the extraordinary usefulness of it myself. I figured\na named file would reside in a directory as easily ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI get the same problem on my alpha running Digital Unix 4.0 with the\nlatest snapshot.. I'll start looking into it as well..\n\n--brett\n\n--\nHi All,\n\nI am looking into the problem with initdb running on a linux alpha. For \nsome reason, when the postgres backend is running in -boot mo...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nis the snapshot going to be patched to allow 'user' as a valid table\nname?\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:11:10 -0800", "msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "'user' as reserved word & snapshot" }, { "msg_c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThese are some tests that configure can perform, that look like they might\nhelp somewhat...\n\n\n - Macro: AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE\n If the C compiler supports the `long double' type, define\n `HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE'. Some C compilers that do not define\n `__STDC__' do support the `long d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Michael Hirohama wrote:\n> \n> [...]\n> >SQL> select * from a where (x,z) >= ANY (select y, l from b);\n> >select * from a where (x,z) >= ANY (select y, l from b)\n> > *\n> >ERROR at line 1:\n> >ORA-00920: invalid relational operator\n> >\n> >: only '=' and '<>' are...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMoved to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n\n\nOn Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Sure doesn't, but I think it is the same problem with pg_database. The\n> problem is that there is no permission control over tables finer than\n> insert/delete/update permissions. That is, if you sa...