Re: [HACKERS] 7.3: Change in cursor behavior?

2002-12-04 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:22:41AM +, Sigurdur Gunnlaugsson wrote: test=# move -10 in test_c; MOVE 4 test=# fetch 1 from test_c; schemaname | tablename | tableowner | hasindexes | hasrules | hastriggers +---+++--+- (0

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 23:34 To: Justin Clift Cc: Dave Page; Marc G. Fournier; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces Justin

[HACKERS] Please, apply patch of tsearch for current CVS 7.3.1

2002-12-04 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Thank you very much, you catch it :). This bug had a long life, because it exists if and only if locale of postmaster was a different from C (or ru_RU.KOI8-R). Please, apply patch for current CVS 7.3.1 Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Ok, I nailed the bug, but i'm not sure what the correct fix is.

[HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
Thanks to Rod Taylor's kind help in donating a system account, I've been able to test libpqxx against postgres 7.3. Unfortunately, I'm running into several problems. One thing that broke libpqxx was a change in cursor behaviour that according to Sigurdur Gunnlaugsson seems to be gone in the 7.4

Broadcast replication (Was Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-04 Thread Al Sutton
- Original Message - From: Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:49 PM Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist Al Sutton wrote: Point to Point and Broadcast replication With point to

Re: [HACKERS] unofficial 7.3 RPMs

2002-12-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 23:59, Joe Conway wrote: I've hacked the spec file from a 7.2.x source RPM to produce a 7.3 source RPM. I've also created a set of i686 binary RPMs. These are *not* official PGDG RPMs, and I'm not an RPM expert by any means (so use at your own risk!), but I've posted

[HACKERS] A thank you from an end user

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, We just received this message through the contact form on the Advocacy site. Thought it would be nice to hear. :-) (btw Ajay, you're probably best to upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.2.3 or 7.3 [just released], as 7.2.1 had a few nasty bugs in it) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
Dave Page wrote: snip Strangely I was just thinking the same thing. If all the info is on advocacy, then what exactly will be left on the main site? Idocs? Good point, and worth thinking about then. I was sort of under the impression that the site reshuffle was happening in a top down manner

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Justin Clift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2002 10:59 To: Dave Page Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Marc G. Fournier; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces I'll

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug* I understood it was intentional so comments

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug* And how should we

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Dave Page wrote: snip I could have sworn we used to have a bunch of ftp mirrors for downloads. Come to think of it I rewrote/stole a load of Vince's PHP code to allow you to select one from the portal recently. Are we not using them anymore? Of

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. Why don't we just shut down the regular web site. Clearly it's not

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: I'll preempt the 'this was all discussed on -advocacy, you should have been there' response with yet another agreement with Vince :-) - I too am getting far too much mail these days and another list is the last thing I need. And I'll pre-empt *that* with

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug*

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: snip So as to not recreate the wheel, or, at least, get the wheel properly rolling, can we get that download page redirected to the one that does list the mirrors? :) Yep. Would the best way to do this be changing the wording to say something like: PostgreSQL can be

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: And I'll pre-empt *that* with the volume of email isn't changing, only the ability to filter that email ... the purpose of the -advocacy list is to focus on how to better market the software ... not through stuff like advertising, but how do we

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL update

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Not that anyone cares, but I notice in the commit logs for MySQL 4.1, it now has subselects. Any idea of which database you have to compile with MySQL to get that functionality? You aren't saying they actually did something for themselves

Re: [HACKERS] Wishlist for 7.4: Plan stability

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really it boils down to one point: there's really no reason to assume a user should be able to execute any new query he feels like. Creating a new query should be privileged operation just like creating a new table or new database. This is an interesting

[HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Hi, I've been trying to ask on general, and tried to search the archives without much result, so I'll try here. I'm using PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on Solaris 8/sparc. In a table, I have a text field, which may contain long ascii strings. However, when trying to put data larger than about 32000 characters

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 4 Dec 2002 at 20:41, Hannu Krosing wrote: hannu=# update seq set max_value = 99; ERROR: You can't change sequence relation seq hannu=# update pg_class set relkind = 'r' where relname = 'seq'; UPDATE 1 hannu=# update seq set max_value = 99; UPDATE 1 hannu=# update pg_class set relkind =

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. Why don't we just shut

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2002 13:56 To: Dave Page Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Justin Clift; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces On Wed,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: I'll preempt the 'this was all discussed on -advocacy, you should have been there' response with yet another agreement with Vince :-) - I too am getting far too much mail these days and another list is the

[HACKERS] interesting difference for queries...

2002-12-04 Thread Mario Weilguni
I noticed an interesting difference in query behaviour: cms=# CREATE TABLE foo(bar int); CREATE cms=# SELECT * from foo where bar=1.7; bar - (0 rows) cms=# SELECT * from foo where bar='1.7'; ERROR: pg_atoi: error in 1.7: can't parse .7 Is this the same problem as index usage with/without

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jeroen T. Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When receiving a trigger notification under 7.3, the structure returned by PQnotifies() appears to be bogus. In a test I ran, its be_pid was consistently zero and its relname pointed into never-neverland. We changed the PQnotifies result structure

Re: [HACKERS] interesting difference for queries...

2002-12-04 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:21, Mario Weilguni wrote: I noticed an interesting difference in query behaviour: cms=# CREATE TABLE foo(bar int); CREATE cms=# SELECT * from foo where bar=1.7; This is a numeric to integer coercion, which rounds rbt=# select 1.7::int; int4 -- 2 (1 row)

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Lee Kindness
Perhaps the .so name should have been updated for PostgreSQL 7.3? For example in 7.2 libpq is: /usr/lib/libpq.so - libpq.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libpq.so.2 - libpq.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.0 - libpq.so.2 /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.2 and PostgreSQL 7.3: /usr/lib/libpq.so - libpq.so.2.2

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps the .so name should have been updated for PostgreSQL 7.3? It should have been. If it wasn't, that was a serious oversight. Not sure if we should change it in 7.3.1 or not, though; it may be too late for that. Any thoughts out there?

[HACKERS] setQuerySnapshot in plpgsql functions in 7.3

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
Forgive me for not digging through the source code myself, but can anyone tell me if setQuerySnapshot behavior within functions was changed in 7.3 so that subsequent select statements can see committed data? I know there was some talk about changing the behavior, but I'm wondering if it was ever

Re: [HACKERS] interesting difference for queries...

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cms=# CREATE TABLE foo(bar int); CREATE cms=# SELECT * from foo where bar=1.7; This is a numeric to integer coercion, which rounds No, it's an integer to numeric promotion (the var is promoted, not the constant). Obviously the '=' can never return true

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since it works in psql, it must be possible for my application to work too, but I just can't figure out why it doesn't. I think it's got to be a bug in your application code. A bug in libpq is the only other

Re: [HACKERS] interesting difference for queries...

2002-12-04 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:22, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cms=# CREATE TABLE foo(bar int); CREATE cms=# SELECT * from foo where bar=1.7; This is a numeric to integer coercion, which rounds No, it's an integer to numeric promotion (the var is promoted, not the

[HACKERS] postgres core dump

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Welche
Just tried a make runcheck with source from Dec 4 15:13 GMT, and: Core was generated by `postgres'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 ExecGetTupType (node=0x8453978) at execProcnode.c:744 744 slot =

[HACKERS] postgres core dump PS

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Welche
(gdb) print *((HashJoin *) node)-hashjoinstate $4 = {jstate = {type = T_HashJoinState, cs_OuterTupleSlot = 0x0, cs_ResultTupleSlot = 0x84527cc, cs_ExprContext = 0x8453e60, cs_ProjInfo = 0x84546e0, cs_TupFromTlist = 0 '\000'}, hj_HashTable = 0x0, hj_CurBucketNo = 0, hj_CurTuple = 0x0,

[HACKERS] postgres core FALSE ALARM

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Welche
I must have had an old object file in the build tree... It's all happy now. Sorry for the noise, Patrick (geometry fails just because of the ordering of the rows in twenty) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
Shridhar Daithankar kirjutas K, 04.12.2002 kell 20:51: On 4 Dec 2002 at 20:41, Hannu Krosing wrote: hannu=# update seq set max_value = 99; ERROR: You can't change sequence relation seq hannu=# update pg_class set relkind = 'r' where relname = 'seq'; UPDATE 1 hannu=# update seq set

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep, there is only one installation of PostgreSQL on the machine. My application is multithreaded, and I have been very careful to open a new connection for each thread. Could it have anything to do with semaphores and shared memory in Solaris? I

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep, there is only one installation of PostgreSQL on the machine. My application is multithreaded, and I have been very careful to open a new connection for each thread. Could it have anything to do with

Re: [HACKERS] setQuerySnapshot in plpgsql functions in 7.3

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forgive me for not digging through the source code myself, but can anyone tell me if setQuerySnapshot behavior within functions was changed in 7.3 so that subsequent select statements can see committed data? AFAIR, we had some preliminary discussions

Re: [HACKERS] postgres core FALSE ALARM

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (geometry fails just because of the ordering of the rows in twenty) Yeah, that one's my fault. I will fix it soon. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, after some semi-random looking through the source code of libpq, I tried to change a value, namely here: fe-misc.c row 510 in pqReadData(): if (conn-inEnd 32768 (conn-inBufSize - conn-inEnd) = 8192)

[HACKERS] 24:00:00 ?

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Welche
transatlantic=# select '23:59:59.72'::time(0) without time zone; time -- 24:00:00 (1 row) So dumping a table with times derived from the timestamp then fails on the reload with: psql:transatlantic.dat:43681: ERROR: copy: line 5818, Bad time external representation '24:00:00'

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:06, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte wrote: Hai friends, I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000. ... now i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq to 999. How to do this change? If i drop and

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll preempt the 'this was all discussed on -advocacy, you should have been there' response with yet another agreement with Vince :-) - I too am getting far too much mail these days and another list is the last thing I need. I'm not subscribed to -advocacy

Re: [HACKERS] nested transactions

2002-12-04 Thread Manfred Koizar
[Sorry for the delay. I'm a bit busy these days.] On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:57:17 -0500 (EST), Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I think this *forces* us to replace the sub xid with the respective main xid in a tuple header, when we set XMIN/MAX_IS_COMMITTED. Otherwise we'd have to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: That wasn't stronger, it was fluffier. It was full of buzzwords that were masking the actual content. Are you trying to hide the accomplishments or promote them? If you're trying to hide them like in this announcement you may want to try using

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: I have a new design for it, now it's just getting the time to implement it. It's easy to add to and looks alot nicer. Cool, I think the only beef I ever had with it was the way the results were presented, but loved teh whole annotated aspects ...

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll preempt the 'this was all discussed on -advocacy, you should have been there' response with yet another agreement with Vince :-) - I too am getting far too much mail these days and another list is the last thing

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: That wasn't stronger, it was fluffier. It was full of buzzwords that were masking the actual content. Are you trying to hide the accomplishments or promote them? If you're trying to hide them like in this announcement

Re: [HACKERS] Please, apply patch of tsearch for current CVS 7.3.1

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours. --- Teodor Sigaev wrote: Thank you very

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Just out of interest, if someone was going to pay you to hack on Postgres for 6 months, what would you like to code for 7.4? Well, on top of the oft-requested replication support and savepoint support, I'd like to see UPDATE, er,

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, after some semi-random looking through the source code of libpq, I tried to change a value, namely here: fe-misc.c row 510 in pqReadData(): if (conn-inEnd 32768

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After it tries again, it always gets error from recv() for some reason that I don't know. I also don't understand why errno is set to ENOTTY at this point, that makes no sense at all. Are you sure it is set? Try setting errno=0 just before recv()

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: That wasn't stronger, it was fluffier. It was full of buzzwords that were masking the actual content. Are you trying to hide the accomplishments or promote them? If you're

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps the .so name should have been updated for PostgreSQL 7.3? It should have been. If it wasn't, that was a serious oversight. Not sure if we should change it in 7.3.1 or not, though; it may be too late for that. Any thoughts out

[HACKERS] v7.3 planner and user-defined functions

2002-12-04 Thread Ben Gunter
I sent this message to pgsql-performance yesterday, but as of now (about 30 hours later) I haven't yet received a response. So I figured I'd see what you guys think. Please help if you can. Thanks! == I am having some problems with user-defined functions in version 7.3. The planner

Re: [HACKERS] nested transactions

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Manfred Koizar wrote: [Sorry for the delay. I'm a bit busy these days.] On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:57:17 -0500 (EST), Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I think this *forces* us to replace the sub xid with the respective main xid in a tuple header, when we set

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread cbbrowne
It isn't, but those working on -advocacy were asked to help come up with a stronger release *announcement* then we've had in the past ... Consider that a failed experiment. PostgreSQL is driven by the development group and, to some extent, by the existing user base. The last thing

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Lamar Owen
[cc: list trimmed] On Wednesday 04 December 2002 22:52, Philip Warner wrote: At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems. What are the consequences of the problem? Actually, lack of easy upgrading is one of PostgreSQL's

Re: [HACKERS] unofficial 7.3 RPMs

2002-12-04 Thread Joe Conway
Hannu Krosing wrote: Except that I had to tweak the startup script - as distributed it defines the version to be 7.3b2 and checks database for version 7.2. It also expects/puts the database in nonstandard place. Oops! That's why it is the unofficial RPM set ;-) FWIW, I produced a new set that

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: That wasn't stronger, it was fluffier. It was full of buzzwords that were masking the actual content. Are you trying to hide the accomplishments or promote them? If you're

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: so clearly 7.2 and 7.3 have the same minor version for all interfaces. Bad! We forgot between 7.0 and 7.1 as well, so it's at least consistent... -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6:

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: It isn't, but those working on -advocacy were asked to help come up with a stronger release *announcement* then we've had in the past ... Consider that a failed experiment. PostgreSQL is driven by the development group and, to some extent, by the existing user base.

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: It isn't, but those working on -advocacy were asked to help come up with a stronger release *announcement* then we've had in the past ... Consider that a failed experiment. PostgreSQL is driven by the development group and, to some

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: so clearly 7.2 and 7.3 have the same minor version for all interfaces. Bad! We forgot between 7.0 and 7.1 as well, so it's at least consistent... Yes, seems we increament on every even-numbered release. ;-) -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-04 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:11, Bruce Momjian wrote: Seems I did forget. I always update the minor for a major release, but when development starts, and I seem to have forgotten for 7.3. Sorry. I will update for 7.4 now. Too late for 7.3 clearly. Wouldn't that suggest that libpq in 7.4 and

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Tom Lane wrote: Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After it tries again, it always gets error from recv() for some reason that I don't know. I also don't understand why errno is set to ENOTTY at this point, that makes no sense at all. Are you sure it is set? Try setting errno=0

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:54:37 -0500, Philip Warner wrote: At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems. What are the consequences of the problem? One consequence that probably hits home for everyone here is it makes it

[HACKERS] about one query.

2002-12-04 Thread Horacio Miranda
if I create a table like this create table test (nuber int4,id_num int4,primary key(id_num)); My question is, ¿ I can do this ? insert into test (number) values (10); insert into test (number) values (22); insert into test (number) values (3); and make a function to insert the correct id_num in

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
It isn't, but those working on -advocacy were asked to help come up with a stronger release *announcement* then we've had in the past ... Consider that a failed experiment. PostgreSQL is driven by the development group and, to some extent, by the existing user base. The last thing we

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Philip Warner
At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems. What are the consequences of the problem? Particularly when you compare against similar efforts from MySQL, Oracle, etc. You could even include Microsoft here - they do a lot

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Treat wrote: On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:54:37 -0500, Philip Warner wrote: At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems. What are the consequences of the problem? One consequence that probably hits home for

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Scott Lamb
Lamar Owen wrote: However, I seriously question the need in the long term for our sites to be as fractured as they are. Good grief! We've got advocacy.postgresql.org, techdocs.postgresql.org, odbc.postgresql.org, gborg.postgresql.org, developer.postgresql.org, jdbc.postgresql.org, etc. Oh,

Re: [HACKERS] dbmirror

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, I get the same failure. with perl 5.005_03. Steven, can you comment on this? --- Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Hi, I have been playing around with contrib/dbmirror with RC2 and faced with following errors: perl

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Brian Knox
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Philip Warner wrote: What are the consequences of the problem? Speaking from the perspective of a long time postgresql user, who currently has several very mission critical applications using postgresql on the back end, at a very large company... I can say the one

[HACKERS] 7.3 RPMS.

2002-12-04 Thread Lamar Owen
I have built and am uploading RPMS for 7.3. Mirror propagation being what it is, it may take a day or two for these packages to make the rounds. You may find them at: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.3/RPMS Source RPM in SRPMS, Red Hat 8 RPMS in redhat-8.0. I will be building Red Hat

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/ltree patches

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dan, is this ready to be applied to CVS? --- Dan Langille wrote: I have been looking at contrib/ltree in the PostgreSQL repository. I've modified the code to allow / as a node delimiter instead of . which is the

Re: [HACKERS] Compiere embedded transactions

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am not sure you are going to be happy with our nested transactions. Your text is: (1) embedded transactions - i.e. the outer transaction can rollback an inner committed transaction - currently the commit of the inner transaction would commit statements of the inner and outer transaction.

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to make Turks happy.

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am not going to apply this patch because I think it will mess up the handling of other locales. --- Nicolai Tufar wrote: Hi, Yet another problem with Turkish encoding. clean_encoding_name() in

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kevin Brown wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Just out of interest, if someone was going to pay you to hack on Postgres for 6 months, what would you like to code for 7.4? Well, on top of the oft-requested replication support and savepoint support, I'd

[HACKERS] Debian pacakges of 7.3

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Debian packages of 7.3 for i386 architecture are available in Debian's unstable archive, as those people tracking unstable will already have noticed. I will get round to producing packages for stable when all the immediate problems are fixed. There are various packaging bugs that I am working

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte wrote: Hai friends, I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000. ... now i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq to 999. How to do this change? If i drop and recreate the raj_seq, then i have to recreate the table and all

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
Oliver Elphick kirjutas K, 04.12.2002 kell 19:06: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte wrote: Hai friends, I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000. ... now i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq to 999. How to do this change? If i drop and

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Sallings
Around 20:41 on Dec 4, 2002, Hannu Krosing said: What's wrong with this: dustin=# create sequence test_seq; CREATE SEQUENCE dustin=# select nextval('test_seq'); nextval - 1 (1 row) dustin=# select setval('test_seq', ); setval (1 row) dustin=#

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Joel Burton
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:33:52AM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote: Around 20:41 on Dec 4, 2002, Hannu Krosing said: What's wrong with this: dustin=# create sequence test_seq; CREATE SEQUENCE dustin=# select nextval('test_seq'); nextval - 1 (1 row) dustin=#

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Sallings
Around 12:44 on Dec 4, 2002, Joel Burton said: # The thread here is about how to raise the *max* value for the sequence, # not how to set the current value higher. The sequence in question was # created with a too-low maximum value (see help on CREATE SEQUENCE for # options); the user now wants

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:33, Dustin Sallings wrote: What's wrong with this: dustin=# create sequence test_seq; CREATE SEQUENCE dustin=# select nextval('test_seq'); nextval - 1 (1 row) dustin=# select setval('test_seq', ); setval (1 row)

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte wrote: Hai friends, I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000. ... now i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq to 999. How to do this change? If i drop and recreate the raj_seq, then i have