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"msg_contents": "> > 2. configure dies (!)\n> > ---------------------\n> > Running configure, dies with the following:\n> > \n> > checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes\n> > checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h\n> > checking for int timezone... yes\n> > c... |
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"msg_contents": "\nDone - phew\n\n>\n> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Jan Wieck wrote:\n>\n> > STOP\n>\n> Damn, a Supreme's song pops into my head *ack*!\n>\n> > I already have my fingers on that :-)\n> >\n> > GRANT/REVOKE works here now for anything except pg_class. But\n> > I know where it is now. ... |
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"msg_contents": "The list is shrinking:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\ntest new view permission code, install new pg_user view for use with \\d\nvariable block size patch(Darren)\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> variable block size patch(Darren)\n>\n\nMove to the TODO list please...thanks.\n",
"msg_date": "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:14:47 -0500",
"msg_from": "darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King)",
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"msg_subject": "Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.3 issues"
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"msg_contents": ">> > > Why does views default to 'select' permission for 'public'?\n>> > > I think most people will never think of the possibility that others\n>> > > will be able to SELECT their data through views.\n>> > > Should not 'create view' at least print a NOTICE about this?\n>> > \n>> > \tConsideri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n the first step on views using aggregate was successful. But\n I don't know enough about GROUP BY, HAVING and all the other\n stuff. So I need someone to assist me in getting the rewrite\n system to handle this kind of views properly.\n\n The patch below is only for ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nOkay...\n\n\tI've modified initdb.sh so that ALL is revoked from pg_user, with\na view being created to look into it for usename and usesysid, which are\nrequired by psql...\n\n\tThis gets it so that psql works for \\d\n\n\tI tried to do a rewrite rule on db_user such that password would\nb... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/initdb\n> In directory hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23999/bin/initdb\n> \n> Modified Files:\n> \tinitdb.sh \n> Log Message:\n> \n> Modify initdb.sh so that it makes pg_user readable through view db_user\n> Modify psql so that it uses db_user instead of... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> > Let me add that I have found GNU sed version 1.* to be often 2-3 times\n> > faster then BSD sed, so it may not be sed itself, but the BSD\n> > implementation.\n> \n> That one's probably my fault. BSD's regex(3) routines, which I think its\n> sed uses, are the ones I did for 4.4BSD...... |
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"msg_contents": "Based on today's snapshot, the symbol _pgresStatus is still undefined\nin interfaces/libpgtcl/libpgtcl.a (actually from pgtclCmds.o). The\noffending statement in pgtclCmds.c is:\n\n\tif (strcmp(opt, \"-status\") == 0)\n\t{\n\t\tTcl_AppendResult(interp, pgresStatus[PQresultStatus(result)], 0)... |
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"msg_contents": "\"Vadim B. Mikheev\" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>\n> \n> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> > \n> > This is a partial fix. In make_unique(), if Query->uniqueAttr is '*',\n> > Unique->uniqueAttr gets null. However, with this fix, I get:\n> > \n> > test=> select usesysid from pg_user where usesy... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is what I get from initdb:\n\nloading pg_description\nNOTICE: Ind pg_class_oid_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (45) IS NOT THE\nSAME AS HEAP' (44)\nNOTICE: Ind pg_class_oid_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (45) IS NOT THE\nSAME AS HEAP' (44)\n\nLooks strange to me.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian ... |
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"msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: dinsdag 24 februari 1998 10:01\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] How To free resources used by large object Rel... |
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"msg_contents": "> I don't know if I like the new name db_user? What do other people\n> think? I thought pg_user_no_pwd would be nice.\n\nSame with me. I think the name should definitely be in the restricted name\nspace starting with\npg_ !! How about pg_user beeing the view and having a restricted\npg_use... |
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"msg_contents": "On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n\n> Actually, it does handle unions of views, but not views of unions. \n> Informix doesn't support it either, and I don't know what the other\n> dbms's do, but I think I am going to find out soon from someone. :-)\n\ncreate view testv as\nselect * ... |
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"msg_contents": ">> the table or even discover that it exists!\n> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n> Not in 6.3, or maybe ever. Too much OO stuff for that, I think.\n\nI vote for not ever. No commercial DBMS has it. It is a standard\nthat is of very restricted practicability. You can always spli... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm sorry, but what exactly is the problem with GPL?\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... |
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"msg_contents": "I'm back to having a working 6.3 installation since saturday night. It\nappears Jan's patches fixed my problem.\n\nAnyway, I've just submitted a patch that fixes all bugs I could reproduce.\nHowever, I cannot reproduce the problem with the varchar entry in a struct\nin test2.pgc. So if this s... |
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"msg_contents": "> End users hate uneccessaries or non sense messages like the following\n> when he/she writes a sentence like this:\n> \n> UPDATE my_table SET my_int=my_small;\n> \n> and PostgreSQL show him/her this message ?\n> ---------------------------------------------------------------------\n>... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nhas somebody tried to replace the -c switch with the -u switch\n(available with GNU diffutils) in the script regess.sh?\n\nWell, I did it and I find the resulting output much easier on the eye\nto compare the current and the expected results. \n\nThis change might be worth a little hin... |
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"msg_contents": "I created simple table (just single int4 attr) with index on it\nand tried to reproduce reported problems with BTP_CHAIN flag\n(without success, unfortunately ?) by inserting data by 3-4 psql-s \nsimultaneously. No problems with 2 clients. But when 3rd psql\nstarts one of psql-s becomes block... |
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"msg_contents": "Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> wrote:\n\n> > Would you recommend we replace our regex stuff with something else?\n>\n> My only real competitor :-) right now appears to be the GNU rx package,\n>\nActually there is a very nice regular expression package (re) inside the\npython 1.5 (http:... |
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"msg_contents": "Are you guys going to make an RPM for Redhat 5.0 when 6.3 is \nreleased? I'd like that very much. \n\nThanks!\n\nDante\n\n.------------------------------------------.-----------------------.\n| _ dlorenso@afai.com - D. Dante Lorenso | Network Administrator |\n| | | ___ _ _ ___ __ _ ... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to\n> know more details about you.\n\nI'm 44 and live with my wife near old city KAMAKURA in Japan.\nI love to take a walk around beach and small mountains.\n(my house is located ... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nI'm getting the following error when running initdb after a fresh compile\nof the 24th Feb development tree. (cvsup'd)\n\nvacuuming template1\nloading pg_description\nNOTICE: Ind pg_class_relname_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (45) IS NOT THE \nSAME AS HEAP' (44)\nNOTICE: Ind pg_... |
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"msg_contents": "I am trying to install the Feb 24 snapshot under Solaris 2.4. I have\nfigured out how to get it to use lex rather than flex (we have the\nwrong version of flex), but I'm still having some problems. Is there\nanyone on this list who is compiling on Solaris? Perhaps we could\nexchange notes.... |
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"msg_contents": "> Is anyone aware that the last 2 or 3 days of snapshots will not\n> compile?\n>\n> The problem is in the ecpq stuff. There is a duplicate def of S_SIGNED.\n> Cab we fix this, so I can test the compile on HPUX?\n\nMy cvs tree from 980223 03:00 UTC (about 24 hou... |
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"msg_contents": "Included are patches for SunOS port based on the Feb 24 snapshot.\nRemaining problems are some minor compiling errors of ecpg and strange\nNOTICE messages from initdb (known bug?). I have tested the patches\non FreeBSD and Solairs2.6 to make sure they do not break other ports.\n\no added Sun... |
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"msg_contents": "This is from AA van Raalte (alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk) and shows that\nwe have some problems when dumping tables with LO:\n> \n> 3/ The following script causes pg_dump to fail with a Segmentation fault. On my \n> system pg_dump tries to generate an index on a large object. The SELECT stateme... |
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"msg_contents": ">> has somebody tried to replace the -c switch with the -u switch\n>> (available with GNU diffutils) in the script regess.sh?\n>> \n>> Well, I did it and I find the resulting output much easier on the eye\n>> to compare the current and the expected results. \n>> \n>> This change might be wort... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n seems that my last post didn't make it through. That's good\n since the diff itself didn't covered the renaming of\n pg_user.h to pg_shadow.h and it's new content.\n\n Here it's again. The complete regression test passwd with\n only some float diffs. c... |
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"msg_contents": "System : RedHat Linux i386 4.2\nHardware : Pentium 200 MMX\nPg 6.3 Snapshot : Dated on February 23\n\nAfter ./configure and gmake all I am getting this error :\n\ngcc -I../../include -I../../backend -I/usr/include/ncurses\n-I/usr/include/readline -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -I.. \n-Wno... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n while playing around with the new view permissions I\n discovered a security hole. It's an old one (checked under\n 6.2.1 and it was already there - so it's not from new code).\n It's a trojan horse.\n\n Now I know why commercial RDBMS execute PL procedure... |
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"msg_contents": "\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: woensdag 25 februari 1998 16:50\nSubject: [HACKERS] Cannot compile postgresql 6.3\n\n\nHi,\nIn my case it was because cpp can not be found.\nI fixed ... |
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"msg_contents": "> > 2. configure dies (!)\n> > ---------------------\n> > Running configure, dies with the following:\n> > \n> > checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes\n> > checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h\n> > checking for int timezone... yes\n> > c... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> First, this list is not right place to ask about 6.3 features :)\n> 2nd, subselects within UPDATE are supported.\n\nThey are? I thought he wanted to do:\n\n\tupdate test set x = (select y from taby)\n\nI didn't think we supported that. Can you confirm that?\n \n> 3rd, there will be se... |
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"msg_contents": ">From what I understand, there are at least two platforms which are\nhaving trouble with the macro inlining in v6.3. The alpha ports have\ntrouble inlining the slock assembler code, and the SCO port has trouble\ninlining the cache lookup code.\n\nSince these macros were inlined only for perfo... |
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"msg_contents": "> \n> At 15:15 +0200 on 25/2/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:\n> \n> \n> > \tYou don't have to be contributing to the effort to be on the\n> > hackers list...it is where implementation details are discussed and\n> > suggested, that is all. It is also where \"under development\" issues are\n> > t... |
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"msg_contents": "Should/Will ecpg be added to the HISTORY, FAQ, etc. files?\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 Rhe... |
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"msg_contents": "\nWith all the recent changes, I just did a clean compile, install and\nregression test for the above port...most impressive.\n\nI'm not sure if it is changing the diff flags, but my 'regression.diffs'\nwent from ~930k down to 37k *head spins*\n\nSolaris/Sparc next...\n\n\n",
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"msg_contents": "First, with Jan's fix, initdb works fine now.\n\nHere are the open issues. IMHO, none of these are show-stoppers.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\nProfiling improv... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok,\n\nI decided to learn more about postgresql.\n\nMy challenge:\nGiven an oid, efficiently determine the most derived class the instance\nbelongs to.\n\nMy intended solution is to add an extra attribute to each tuple\nwhich contains the oid of the most derived class it belongs to.\n\nOn ins... |
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"msg_contents": "Even more up to date:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\nProfiling improvements?\nProblem with tables >2Gb, add elog()?\nDo we want to add timestamps to elog messages... |
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"msg_contents": "Even more up to date:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\nProfiling improvements?\nProblem with tables >2Gb, add elog()?\nDo we want to add timestamps to elog messages... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello\n\nI like the added security of 6.3 however how do you grant access to \nSELECT currval('SEQ') AS id\nI get a permission error on seq.currval?\n\nI figured out how to use CVSUP so I am grabbing the latest version.\n\nIf this is fixed in it then great otherwise any ideas?\n\nMichael\n\... |
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"msg_contents": "We need the help of a postgres GURU. This would probably be a couple\nweeks worth of work. We are in Portland OR, our worst problem is\ncurrently in Indoniesia. The work might be able to be done remotely.\n\nAnybody interested in the work, send me email. We need help today!\n\nBrian Beatt... |
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"msg_contents": "On October 27, 1997 I wrote:\n> \n> Hi,\n> \n> while playing around with PL/Tcl I encountered a general\n> memory allocation problem. Every transaction abort via\n> elog(WARN, ...) leaves some allocated memory laying around.\n> \n> Just do some \"select * from no... |
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"msg_contents": "I have updated the FAQ on the WWW page. Many changes for the new\nrelease. Many limitations removed.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610... |
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"msg_contents": "On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ronald Cole wrote:\n\n> The Hermit Hacker writes:\n> >\tWhat version? Postgres95, as a name, died *months* ago, and\n> >several releases back...\n> \n> And since you've practically removed what made it a postgres database,\n> I would recommend you change the name yet aga... |
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"msg_contents": "I got assertion in my 6.2.1 production data base today.\nPatch for 6.2.1 follows and is on ftp site too.\n\nVadim",
"msg_date": "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 05:55:49 +0700",
"msg_from": "\"Vadim B. Mikheev\" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>",
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"msg_contents": "Is this Ok ?\n\n/home/postgres/lib > ls -l\ntotal 711\n-r--r--r-- 1 postgres users 605 26 ��� 07:57 global1.bki.source\n-r--r--r-- 1 postgres users 0 26 ��� 07:57 global1.description\n-r--r--r-- 1 postgres users 8994 26 ��� 07:57 libecpg.a\nlrwxrwxrwx 1 p... |
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"msg_contents": "\nAre there any plans to implement oid-style functionality for\nsequences, such as returning the nextval in the result tuple somehow?\n\nIs it at all possible to implement? That is one very nice thing about\nusing oid instead, is that it comes back in PQoidStatus. I probably\nwon't stop usi... |
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"msg_contents": "OK, so when I asked earlier about documentation directory structure,\nMarc indicated that we should put things into a separate area, not just\nplop them into the usual src/ tree. I agree, but am not sure _where_ to\nactually put them.\n\nI am thinking of making a directory doc/src/sgml (under... |
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"msg_contents": "\nI'm willing to throw some time towards this -- is there anyone who is\ncurrently investigating this? please drop me an e-mail. also, if I\ncould be informed of progress to date/underlying issues that we know\nabout that would be great.\n\nthanks in advance,\n--brett\n",
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"msg_contents": "\ntransaction needs to be put in that big ol thing with user et al in\nthe grammer for ColId..\n",
"msg_date": "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:07:38 -0800 (PST)",
"msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>",
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"msg_contents": "\nwell, by putting TRANSACTION and ORDER in the ColID grammer, I seem to\nhave introduced some shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts.. will\nthe grammer work? What are your thoughts on using these as column\nidentifiers? If they aren't going to end up usable I certainly won't\nuse them a... |
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"msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: donderdag 26 februari 1998 2:09\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Adding a field to each tuple\n\n\n>> My challenge:\n>> Given ... |
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"msg_contents": "AA van Raalte wrote:\n> \n> >>\n> >> Summary: Indexes are broken\n> >\n> >Could you post me your data to give me way to reproduce bug locally ?\n> >\n> >Vadim\n> \n> OK. There are three scripts attatched, s1 generates the data, s2 creates the\n> indexes, s3 performs a query on the data.\n> If... |
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"msg_contents": "Karl, Doug - could you try new vacuum code (should be in current snapshot\nalready) ?\nDid you use CASSERT in compilation ?\nPlease try re-compile with this if not.\nAlso, Doug, could you post me EXPLAIN output of your UPDATE query (below) ?\n\nTIA,\n\tVadim\n\nKarl Denninger wrote:\n> \n> Th... |
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"msg_contents": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>\nTo: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>\nCc: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>\nDate: donderdag 26 februari 1998 21:36\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] Adding a field to each tuple\n\n\n>\n>Yes, this is a natural... |
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"msg_contents": "Just tried the 26Feb98 Snapshot under Irix 5.3.\n\nIf you request a compiler other than gcc, configure still dies.\n\nAfter looking at Darren's comment: \n> \n> I complained about this one a few months back. There is a test condition\n> that needs to be double-quoted. In my generated confi... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe Makefile in .../src/interfaces/ecpg/lib/ uses a gcc specific flag\n(-Wall) instead of COPTS.\n\nThe following patch is for Makefile.in in that directory\n\n*** Makefile.in.orig Tue Feb 24 08:00:41 1998\n--- Makefile.in Thu Feb 26 16:27:16 1998\n***************\n*** 61,66 ****\n libe... |
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"msg_contents": "> But someone will have to do it. Red Hat 5.0 is too important a\n> distribution and postgresql is too important an application.\n\nI agree. Can someone track down the RH5.0 rpm packager so we can start a dialog?\n\nAlso, is there anyone running RH5.0 who can do some debugging (and who alread... |
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"msg_contents": "\nThe Makefile in .../src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc also has -Wall as a\nCFLAGS option.\n\n\nHere's a patch:\n\n\n*** Makefile.orig Wed Feb 25 08:00:39 1998\n--- Makefile Thu Feb 26 16:51:43 1998\n***************\n*** 5,11 ****\n MINOR_VERSION=0\n PATCHLEVEL=0\n \n! CFLAGS+=-I$(SRCD... |
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"msg_contents": "\n\nJust seen that Darren has supplied more extensive patches which\nalso fix the problems with -Wall in ecpg\n\n\nSo, ignore my versions (though the patch to configure is still\nneeded).\n\n\nAndrew\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\nDr. Andrew C.R... |
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"msg_contents": "Now that we have subselects, I would like to mention that without\nsubselects, SQL is a very limited language.\n\nWith commercial Ingres, you could do aggregates with their own WHERE and\nBY clauses for restriction and correlation, but SQL doesn't allow this. \nSubselects are a major feature,... |
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"msg_contents": "On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dwight Johnson wrote:\n\n> I agree. Can someone track down the RH5.0 rpm packager so we can start a dialog?\n\nHello,\n\nI am the packager for the RH 5.0 postgres RPM. What's wrong with it ?\n\n> PostgreSQL-6.3 will be released in a few days, and it would be nice to resol... |
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"msg_contents": "unsubscribe\n\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:00:33 -0500",
"msg_from": "Joao Leao <leao@world.std.com>",
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"msg_contents": "I am enhancing my PyGreSQL 2.0 package and I wanted to determine the\ntypes of returned fields. I tried using the manifest constans\nINT2OID, INT4OID, FLOAT4OID, etc but these are defined in the\nfile src/include/catalog/pg_type.h which doesn't get installed\ninto the public include director... |
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"msg_contents": "\nselect money_words_out('$50');\n\ndoes not work under the latest snapshot.. also, you can't index an\narray without the table name (and a .) prepended?\n",
"msg_date": "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:18:11 -0800 (PST)",
"msg_from": "Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>",
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"msg_contents": "Tables INS (x int) and SEL (y int) are owned by dbadm, for another\nuser SELECT granted on SEL, INSERT - on INS.\n\nShould another user be able to do\n\ninsert into ins select y from sel where x = y;\n\nor not ? \nCurrently, PG allows this. Backend tries to check \n(in execMain.c:ExecCheckPer... |
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"msg_contents": "Ok,\n\nAs part of my \"learning postgresql project\" I've been hacking yesterday\nand I've found out how to add a system attribute to each tuple in\npostgresql.\n\nI added a system attribute which maintains the relation between the\noid of a heaptuple and the oid of the relation to which the ... |
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"msg_contents": "It seems we need something like that too. I've just run the new perftest\nprogram against PostgreSQL and Oracle. It does:\n\n1) insert 1407 tuples into two tables\n2) select one attribute from one table\n3) select one attribute from the join og both tables\n4) updates one attribute in one tab... |
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"msg_contents": "t-ishii@sra.co.jp writes:\n> >Does it help to add #include <sys/types.h> to pgc.l? I'm not sure which\n> >file I should include to be correct. \n> \n> Yes.\n\nIs already in CVS.\n\n> BTW, line 32 of preproc/main.c has:\n> \n> \tchar\t\tc,\n> \n> 'char c' should be 'int c' I think. Otherwise\n... |
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"msg_contents": "At 11:27 AM 98.2.27 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:\n>> Another problem is SunOS does not have getopt(). Possible solutions\n>> might be:\n>> \n>> a. steal getopt(3) source from FreeBSD\n>> b. rewrite main.c so that it does not use getopt().\n>> \n>> I would prefer (a) since it would be easier:-... |
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"msg_contents": "I wonder if I didn't make a mistake in the money type. As a C library\nfunction it made sense to add the \"$\" to the display because it was\neasy to add one to the return value if it wasn't required. I'm finding\nit to be a bit of a problem with my Python interface. I was just\ngoing to s... |
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"msg_contents": "But this isn't declared in postmaster.c either. ecpg.c does include\nunistd.h if getopt.h does not exist and I think unistd.h is the one that\nputs the getopt stuff into postmaster.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de ... |
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"msg_contents": "> Brett McCormick wrote:\n> > \n> > Can we have all the constants put in pg_type? In the implementation\n> > of my perl PL language, some types I care about aren't defined so I\n> > must define them myself, which seems dangerous (should they ever\n> > change)\n> > \n> > On Fri, 27 February 1... |
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"msg_contents": "Here it is. Any changes? I will have a paragraph or two highlighting\nsome of the major changes.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nCHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE\n--------------------------\n\nDevelopers who have claimed items are:\n---------------... |
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"msg_contents": "> I wonder if I didn't make a mistake in the money type. As a C library\n> function it made sense to add the \"$\" to the display because it was\n> easy to add one to the return value if it wasn't required. I'm finding\n> it to be a bit of a problem with my Python interface. I was just\n> ... |
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"msg_contents": "It does. I had some problems with my database. After re-creating it it\nworked fine.\n\nMichael\n\n--\nDr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH\nmeskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20\nmeskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuer... |
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"msg_contents": "You guys were correct of course. I've added a vacuum (which didn't work\nbecause of that ecpg bug) and now it looks better but still much slower than\nOracle:\n\nI needed 9 seconds and 748620 microseconds for the insert test.\nI needed 5 seconds and 882221 microseconds for the selection&proje... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi Everybody,\n\nToday I got the snapshot (2/27). I took it and put it on my little intel \nLinux box, RH5.0. I compiled the sucker with no problem. I installed it \nwith no problem. The output of initdb --debug is as follows:\n\n(snip)\n<description text>\n \n> CREATED relation pg_descri... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI tried to define a table on my Linux box, PostgreSQL 6.3 as:\n\njava=> CREATE TABLE tabella(campo VARCHAR(30) DEFAULT CURRENT_USER);\nERROR: DEFAULT: type mismatched\n\njava=> CREATE TABLE tabella(campo VARCHAR(30));\nCREATE\njava=> insert into tabella values (CURRENT_USER);\nERROR: ... |
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"msg_contents": "Here is my attempt at a general features/description for 6.3.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThere are some general 6.3 issues that I want to mention. These are\nonly the big items that can not be described in one sentence. A review\nof the... |
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"msg_contents": "I have made all my changes necessary for the 6.3 release.\n\n-- \nBruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue\nmaillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026\n + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w)\n + Christ can be your backup... |
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"msg_contents": "Open items:\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSelf-join optimizer performance problem\nGet interfaces fixed for new protocol\nProfiling improvements?\nProblem with tables >2Gb, add elog()?\nDo we want to add timestamps to elog messages?\nScanKey... |
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"msg_contents": "> oe> Try setting the environment variable LANG before starting the\n> oe> postmaster:\n> oe> $ export LANG=en_US\n> Unfortunately, this doesn't prevent the backend problem; the backend\n> still complains about the money format the and front-end gets a broken\n> pipe. Not sure ... |
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"msg_contents": "We are coasting to the March 1 release date. No show-stoppers, assuming\nThomas finishes the new manuals.\n\nWe have a lot of nice effort go into the release, with many people\ninvolved, and some really heavy coding. Seems we did all the easy\ncoding in previous releases, so this release re... |
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"msg_contents": "> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:\n>\n> > I wonder if I didn't make a mistake in the money type. As a C library\n> > function it made sense to add the \"$\" to the display because it was\n> > easy to add one to the return value if it wasn't required. I'm finding\n> > it to be a... |
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"msg_contents": "> Furthermore, it appaers as if buil;ding indices on varchar fields are \n> *much* slower. Probably because the changes to how they're stored on \n> disk. I suspect text willalso be slower. Didn't get to do much other \n> testing yet (still building indices..), but if I notice other strange \... |
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"msg_contents": "Still getting these errors:\n\ncvs checkout: cannot open\n/usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/test/regress/regression.Solaris-Sparc,v:\nPermission denied\ncvs checkout: cannot open\n/usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/test/regress/regression.Solaris-Sparc,v:\nPermission denied\ncvs checkout: nothing known ... |
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"msg_contents": "I have compiled the perl5 interface and installed it without problem.\n\nA simple script that makes a connection to a database and read a table\nworks , read and print the informtion corectly but it generates the\nfollowing warnings right at the begining of script execution :\n\nwarning: setl... |
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"msg_contents": "Sorry, I forgot to mention the most important details :\n\nO.S. = RedHat Linux i386 4.2 with 2.0.32 kernel\nPostgreSQL 6.3 snapshot from Feb 23\nHardware : Pentium 200MMX 64 Mb RAM\n\n-- \nConstantin Teodorescu\nFLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA\n",
"msg_date": "Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:02:52 +0... |
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"msg_contents": "\nHello\n\nWhat is the best way to deal with ' \" \\ in a char/varchar/text fields?\n\nI have escaped them with \\ which works and pg_dump dumps them correctly \nhowever psql does not accept them. Is there a way to tell psql to pass \nall commands it does not understand?\n\nI need \\\\ \\' \... |
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"msg_contents": "Running \"configure --help\" says that a \"--with-x\" option is available,\nbut makes no mention of \"--with-perl\" or \"--with-tcl\". If someone has\ntime to fix this, they should probably at the same time make a small\nchange to the \"--with-tcl\" handling: I use TK 4.2 and TCL 7.6, and\nt... |
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"msg_contents": "\ndarrenk\n\nSo when I do it as a select statement the plan can grow larger than 8K \nbecause I can run the SQL command itself.\n\nHas the plan generation changed in the last week? I was able to create \nanother view in an earlier beta but cannot now.\n\nIs there a way to find out the size o... |
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"msg_contents": "Hi:\nIs create domain command implemented in 6.3??\nI am trying to use\n create domain employed as char(10)\n check (\nvalue = \"YES\" or\nvalue = \"NO\" or\nvalue = \"RETIRED\" or\nvalue = \"DISABLED\" or\nvalue is NULL\n);\nin SQL scripts but is failing in 6.2.1 postgresql.\n\nI can find ... |
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"msg_contents": "\nSent two patches tonite to fix the tutorial. Couple of people had\nmentioned it being broken on questions, don't know if it was broke for\neveryone of just certain ports.\n\nFixed the Makefile, updated the README, added semicolons after every\nstatement and added to complex.source to delet... |
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"msg_contents": "> darrenk\n>\n\nJust 'Darren' for short. :)\n\n> So when I do it as a select statement the plan can grow larger than 8K \n> because I can run the SQL command itself.\n\nThe plan is the internal plan generated by the parser/optimizer. A very\nshort sql statement could generate a very big plan... |
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