Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [HACKERS] Simple thing to make pg_autovacuum more useful

2008-01-18 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
; ALTER TABLE foo SET autovacuum_naptime to '1min'; (or there about) I suppose we could also have pg_autovacuum become a view, with rules to manage relopts. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. +1.503.667.4564 X 102 http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
to resolution, and not requiring hacking the backend to get there. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. +1.503.667.4564 X 102 http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 ---(end of broadcast

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
I've seen no real announcement of RC1, probabbly because it's been bundled in with security releases for the other branched.. can we maybe do an RC1 announcement, let people actually test the RC before we push a gold ? -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. +1.503.667.4564 X 102 http

Re: [HACKERS] Seems we need a post-beta1 initdb already

2007-10-12 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 12 October 2007 15:41:58 Tom Lane wrote: As Martin Pitt pointed out in this pgsql-bugs thread http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00089.php we have managed to create an ABI break between 8.2 and 8.3 libpq by renumbering encoding IDs in pg_wchar.h. Although perhaps

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-27 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
cleanly -- Darcy Buskermolen The PostgreSQL company, Command Prompt Inc. http://www.commandprompt.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum launcher eating too much CPU

2007-09-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On September 23, 2007 09:12 pm, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On September 14, 2007 06:36 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Darcy, please also apply the following patch and see if it reduces the CPU consumption to a reasonable level. This is looking much better now too, it's

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum launcher eating too much CPU

2007-09-14 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On September 14, 2007 06:36 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007 09:16:52 Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hi, Darcy Buskermolen noticed that when one has many databases, the autovac launcher starts eating too much CPU

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum launcher eating too much CPU

2007-09-13 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 09:16:52 Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hi, Darcy Buskermolen noticed that when one has many databases, the autovac launcher starts eating too much CPU. Don't forget the memory leak as well. after 3 or 4 days of running I end up with a 2GB+ AVL.. I tried it here

Re: [HACKERS] build farm failures

2007-08-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 16 August 2007 04:29:41 Andrew Dunstan wrote: Michael Meskes wrote: Hi, we have two build farm members failing to make since I committed teh ecpg changes: echidna and herring. It looks like they are still using an old preproc.c although they checked out the new

Re: [HACKERS] XID wraparound and busy databases

2007-08-15 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 09:49:52 Tom Lane wrote: Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe we can do something to reduce the xid consumption? For example, reuse xids for read-only queries. Hmm, that's an idea. More simply, just keep the current transaction open (resetting

Re: [HACKERS] Why so many out-of-disk-space failures on buildfarm machines?

2007-07-04 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:35, Tom Lane wrote: It seems like we see a remarkable number of occurrences of $subject. For instance, right now we have these members failing on various branches: echidna No space left on device asp No space left on device herring

Re: [HACKERS] GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent

2007-06-21 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 21 June 2007 08:34, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:24:51PM +0200, Michael Paesold wrote: There are valid reasons against 5m as mega-bytes, because here m does not refer to a unit, it refers to a quantifier (if that is a reasonable English word) of a unit. So

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-19 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:28, Larry Rosenman wrote: I might use that as the base then, since the hardware finishes getting here tomorrow. My question still stands on what OS's we need coverage for. One I see as missing right now is Solaris 10 X86 with gcc building 64bit binaries (we have

Re: [HACKERS] Possible Bug: high CPU usage for stats collector in 8.2

2007-03-02 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:57, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm observing high CPU usage (95%) of a 2.6GHz opteron by the stats collector on an 8.2.3 box investigation has lead me to belive that the stats file is written a lot more often that once every

Re: [HACKERS] Possible Bug: high CPU usage for stats collector in 8.2

2007-03-01 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:31, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: I'm observing high CPU usage (95%) of a 2.6GHz opteron by the stats collector on an 8.2.3 box investigation has lead me to belive that the stats file is written a lot more often

[HACKERS] high CPU usage for stats collector in 8.2

2007-02-27 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
stats_start_collector = on stats_block_level = on stats_row_level = on -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Autovacuum Improvements

2007-01-19 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:47, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:16 -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 06:29, Alvaro Herrera wrote: elein wrote: Have you made any consideration of providing feedback on autovacuum to users? Right now we don't even

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum improvements

2007-01-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 15 January 2007 15:13, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:45, Joshua D. Drake wrote: While we are talking autovacuum improvements, I'd like to also see some better logging, something that is akin to the important information of vacuum verbose being logged

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Autovacuum Improvements

2007-01-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
people's opinions on Darcy Buskermolen proposal to have a log table, on which we'd register what did we run, at what time, how long did it last, how many tuples did it clean, etc. I feel having it on the regular text log is useful but it's not good enough. Keep in mind that in the future we

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum improvements

2007-01-15 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:45, Joshua D. Drake wrote: While we are talking autovacuum improvements, I'd like to also see some better logging, something that is akin to the important information of vacuum verbose being logged to a table or baring that the error_log. I'd like to be able

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum improvements

2007-01-15 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 15 January 2007 15:23, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:45, Joshua D. Drake wrote: While we are talking autovacuum improvements, I'd like to also see some better logging, something that is akin to the important information of vacuum

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum improvements

2007-01-14 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 05:18, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I've been thinnking how to improve autovacuum so that we can convince more people that it can be enabled by default. Here are my thoughts. There are two areas of improvements: 1. scheduling, and 2. process handling, i.e., how to have

Re: [HACKERS] -f output file option for pg_dumpall

2007-01-05 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:40, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Dave Page wrote: In pgAdmin we use pg_dump's -f option to write backup files. The IO streams are redirected to display status and errors etc. in the GUI. In order to enhance the interface to allow backup of entire clusters as well

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Index greater than 8k

2006-10-31 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
build? Can you send exact error message? I am training this week, but Darcy can do it. Can you give them a test case on what we were working on with that customer? Joshua D. Drake -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Index greater than 8k

2006-10-31 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
calculations. And, there are some tips and trics: removing HTML marking,removing punctuation, lowercasing text and so on - it's interesting and complex task. -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

[HACKERS] misbehaving planer?

2006-10-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
=2140 width=4) (actual time=0.003..0.003 rows=0 loops=1) Total runtime: 0.040 ms (2 rows) -- Darcy Buskermolen Command Prompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] misbehaving planer?

2006-10-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 20 October 2006 08:26, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a setup in which a table has been partitioned into 30 partitions on type (1 -30), however no matter what I do i can't make the planner try to use constraint exclusion on it. Do you have

Re: [HACKERS] misbehaving planer?

2006-10-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 20 October 2006 09:27, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes CE is on (you can see it in the session paste). The other child tables have simular CHECK's of type=2, type=3, type=4 and so on.. 1 for each of the 30 tables. [ looks again... ] Oh, here's

[HACKERS] New beginings

2006-08-14 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
Dear Community members, It is with great enthuasim I announce that I have accepted an offer from Joshua D. Drake of Command Prompt Inc, to join his team. As former Vice President of Software Development with Wavefire Technologies Corp, I endeavor to leverage over 10 years of technical

[HACKERS] Bug in sql_fmgr when envoked via copy

2006-08-04 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
() at postmaster.c:2845 #17 0x0819ed59 in PostmasterMain (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfed5c) at postmaster.c:949 #18 0x08162092 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfed5c) at main.c:187 -- Darcy Buskermolen CommandPrompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 http

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-27 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:27, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Darcy Buskermolen CommandPrompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up being Slony is designed to work across a multitude

Re: [HACKERS] Units in postgresql.conf

2006-07-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
the unit conversion and scaling factor is for each parameter (8K, 1K, milliseconds, etc); though, this wouldn't be hard to add at all. Yummy, Yummy, I'd say this would be a big boost in ability to tune for a lot of people. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com

Re: [HACKERS] Progress bar updates

2006-07-19 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
of the desired features can be bolted on top of this down the road regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Darcy Buskermolen

Re: [HACKERS] 8.1.3 and unused files

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
() in the database loaded funcs. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx

Re: [HACKERS] Exposing DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq function?

2006-03-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
other switch, I'm agnostic). for those weird times when some distro changes it, and you then overwrite parts of it, it would be useful for diagnostics. is it not shown by, (if it's not default of /tmp) ? pg_config --configure Comments? LER -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp

Re: [HACKERS] How to put back??

2006-03-22 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
://archives.postgresql.org -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Accessing schema data in information schema

2006-03-22 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
* FROM seqname, but I'll bet there would be some hollering. ? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph

Re: [HACKERS] Seperate command-line histories for seperate databases

2006-03-17 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
management consol. I would find a change of this sort soemewhat frustrating, I'd probably be inclined to symlink all my history files together. The presented way looks perfectly acceptable to me. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx

Re: [HACKERS] qsort, once again

2006-03-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
space map settings -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file,

2006-03-10 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
wonder why we still find more of these, because every time it comes up I agree to removal of it. Perhaps your name reproduces somehow. :-) That pesky replication daemon... ;-) -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to admit to being presinet.com?

2006-02-13 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
. The really amusing thing is that presinet.com claim to be Network Security Experts. Security through effective banning of incoming mail.. At least they don't claim to be email delevery experts ;-) -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx

Re: [HACKERS] HOOKS for Synchronous Replication?

2005-12-08 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key trigger timing bug?

2005-12-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
not yet resolved. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept

2005-11-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
direct cross reference to their CVE number.) We really should write the CVE numbers into the commit messages and the release notes. I also belive that we should have these referenced visably on the website much the same way apache does: http://httpd.apache.org/security_report.html -- Darcy

Re: [HACKERS] Obtaining a source tree from CVS

2005-11-10 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
-- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Work-in-progress referential action trigger

2005-10-13 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
of where this is sitting, and if it's likely to make it's way into 8.1 gold ? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-09-15 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
to host it for Hackers. I'm wondering if this is now available for consumption by the rest of us?? (ie what's the link) -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] pg_config/share_dir

2005-09-08 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
to be the dir we are infact after.. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] pg_config/share_dir

2005-09-08 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 17:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: pg_config doesn't currently seem to have an option to report the share_dir. Should

Re: [HACKERS] pg_config/share_dir

2005-09-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
to use it to find where to put module config/setup scripts. cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp

Re: [HACKERS] Version number in psql banner

2005-09-01 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
the lines of psql client version foo connected to server bar version sfoo -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet

Re: [HACKERS] 8.1 release notes

2005-08-23 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
as as a specific uesr or to a specific database. Setting the limit to zero disables user or database connections. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't

Re: [HACKERS] 8.1 release notes

2005-08-23 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
will work on it more tomorrow. Also I think Allow TRUNCATE to truncate multiple files in a single command (Alvaro) Should read tables or relations not files. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] distributed performance testing

2005-08-22 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
. And there is always http://pgfoundry.org/projects/tpc-w-php/ for a ~= TPC-W workload. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked

Re: [HACKERS] Chocked

2005-07-29 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
source database Isn't it the title for postgresql? It seems weird for both projects to have the same claim (although it's true for postgreql...) Regards -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759

Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm issues

2005-03-04 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Now that we've been running for a while there are a few buildfarm issues that I need to address. First, do we keep the right data about the members? Essentially, we keep: operating_system, os_version, compiler, compiler_version,

Re: [HACKERS] psql: recall previous command?

2005-02-22 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map

Re: [HACKERS] FunctionCallN improvement.

2005-02-01 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
in FunctionCall2: fcinfo.arg[0] = arg1; fcinfo.arg[1] = arg2; fcinfo.argnull[0] = false; fcinfo.argnull[1] = false; If anyone would like to try the results on other platforms, my test program is attached. regards, tom lane -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire

[HACKERS] cvs TIP, tsearch2 and Solaris 8 Sparc

2005-01-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
Hello, It looks like teodor's latest commits to tseach2 has broken building on SPARC solaris 8. See http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=potorooodt=2005-01-26%2008:30:02 for more details. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Disallow LOAD to non-superusers.

2005-01-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
-WI (if I recall right) into there as well? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx

[HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query optimizations, it may be worth a look. http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:13 am, you wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query optimizations, it may be worth a look. http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:32 am, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On January 11, 2005 08:13 am, you wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query optimizations

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:34 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-21 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 16, 2004 04:29 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On December 16, 2004 12:37 pm, Tom Lane wrote: I think you are in need of the local equivalent to GNU ld's -E or --export-dynamic switch, ie, make sure that all global symbols within the backend

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-21 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 21, 2004 09:50 am, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On December 16, 2004 04:29 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Hmm. I see in Makefile.freebsd: ifdef ELF_SYSTEM export_dynamic = -export-dynamic rpath = -R$(rpathdir) shlib_symbolic = -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7 SUCESS

2004-12-21 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 21, 2004 10:58 am, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So it looks like icc dosn't like -export-dynamic Patch applied, let us know how it goes ... Buildfarm member herring now passes all checks and returns a green light. regards

[HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
As per http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12-16%2018:46:18 This combination of OS/compiler does not result in a working copy. Andrew and i have been digging into this for better than a week now, and something just dosent look right. -- Darcy Buskermolen

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 16, 2004 12:37 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As per http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12-16%2 018:46:18 This combination of OS/compiler does not result in a working copy. The failure is ascii_and_mic.so

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 16, 2004 02:28 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On December 16, 2004 12:37 pm, Tom Lane wrote: I think you are in need of the local equivalent to GNU ld's -E or --export-dynamic switch, ie, make sure that all global symbols within the backend

Re: [HACKERS] port report: [FAILURE] FreeBSD 6, Intel icc7

2004-12-16 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 16, 2004 01:49 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: As per http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12-16 %2018:46:18 This combination of OS/compiler does not result in a working copy

[HACKERS] buildfarm build failure: icc7 + --enable-cassert

2004-12-10 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
It looks like --enable-cassert isn't handled properly under icc7 http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12-07%2016:30:44 -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6

2004-12-03 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
should be fixed by http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c?f=h;rev=1.60 and other than that I see noting on the build far that is questionable (other than the win32 regres test notice) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire

Re: [HACKERS] OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6

2004-12-03 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On December 3, 2004 11:14 am, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On December 3, 2004 10:31 am, you wrote: 2. There are critical notices on buildfarm for some more popular platforms such as Solaris 9 and Open BSD. The OpenBSD error should be fixed by http

[HACKERS] --prefix=/Program\ Files and build failures

2004-12-03 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] OpenBSD/Sparc status

2004-11-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On November 23, 2004 06:18 pm, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:47:28PM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: I'm guessing we need to add some more configure logic to detect gcc versions 3.4 on sparc trying to produce 64bit code and disable optimizations, or else bail out and ask

Re: [HACKERS] OpenBSD/Sparc status

2004-11-23 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] OpenBSD/Sparc status

2004-11-23 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On November 23, 2004 11:37 am, Jim Seymour wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On November 19, 2004 10:55 am, you wrote: The answer is: it's a gcc bug. The attached program should print x = 12.3 y = 12.3 but if compiled with -O or -O2

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL)

2004-10-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] -HEAD contrib/dblink regress failure on SPARC/Solaris 8

2004-10-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
in getConnectionByName (name=0xffbee8a8 ) at dblink.c:2032 (gdb) -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives

Re: [HACKERS] -HEAD contrib/dblink regress failure on SPARC/Solaris 8

2004-10-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On October 28, 2004 03:32 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On October 20, 2004 10:26 am, you wrote: The buildfarm has identified yet another failure under SPARC/Solaris 8 as outlined in. Most likely this is fixed by Kris Jurka's just-applied patch. Yes

[HACKERS] -HEAD contrib/dblink regress failure on SPARC/Solaris 8

2004-10-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
The buildfarm has identified yet another failure under SPARC/Solaris 8 as outlined in. http://oicu.homedns.org:81/cgi/show_log.pl?nm=potorooodt=2004-10-20%2002:30:01 dblink causeing PG to die with sig11 -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http

Re: [HACKERS] AIX and V8 beta 3

2004-10-01 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast

[HACKERS] -HEAD build failure on AIX 4.3.3 PPC

2004-09-30 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
float.h to src/port/isinf.c ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com

[HACKERS] VACUUM FULL taking accessivly long.

2004-09-14 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
=0x82bc200) at postmaster.c:2201 #22 0x8145bae in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:1113 #23 0x814570d in PostmasterMain (argc=1, argv=0x82b6030) at postmaster.c:891 #24 0x811a885 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffcac) at main.c:214 Please let me know if you require any other information. -- Darcy

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Win32 release warning

2004-08-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
in) ? -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

[HACKERS] Effective Cache Size

2004-08-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] 8.0 Open Items

2004-08-23 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On August 20, 2004 09:01 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darcy Buskermolen wrote: * remove to_char(interval) if we initdb or mention removal I vote just to mention it's removal at this time, Agreed. Done. I don't see any

Re: [HACKERS] 8.0 Open Items

2004-08-20 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
the real problem. * have plpython reject pseudotype arguments because it crashes * add i386 solaris spinlock code -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server: Clean up generation of default

2004-06-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
.. If someone approves it, i'll work on making it a built-in backend function, and make pg_dump use it. This will also be great for our app, since we would no longer have to have hard-coded sequence names in our code. (For getting last sequence val on oid-less tables) Chris -- Darcy Buskermolen

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and DB administration

2004-05-27 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
should know that. One other huge advantage that tablespaces will bring, it the ability to place data based on cost ie, you can put your 10 most used tables on fast disk (or perhaps solid state devices), and move the seldom used data off onto the slower (lower cost) disks/storage array. -- Darcy

Re: [HACKERS] gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
off the 5.2 test system. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
1070064251 811548 out of order tv_usec: 1070064947 508364, prev 1070064251 811548 Maybe it's a 4.9-PRERELEASE bug? regards, tom lane -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Select distinct question ... complicated

2003-08-06 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
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Re: [HACKERS] DB2's row_number()

2003-07-17 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
returning just one value? Currently my function counts the number of times it has been called per connection. I could write a second function for resetting the counter but this is not too smart ... Regards, Hans -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph

Re: [HACKERS] Proof-of-concept for initdb-time shared_buffers selection

2003-07-04 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
Michael/Tom on this one as well, Lets at least get this framework inplace, we can always experment with what values we settle on. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of broadcast

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