[DOCS] Suggestion on reorganizing functions

2004-08-09 Thread Jeff
ctions (ala ref/ files) and automatically make function-TYPE.html files? any thoughts? -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archive

Re: [DOCS] Suggestion on reorganizing functions

2004-08-10 Thread Jeff
ace? Coerce? [scrolls] Ahh! Coalesce!" The trouble seems to be getting that list automatically generated from the existing SGML. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9

[DOCS] SELinux & Redhat

2005-05-06 Thread Jeff -
th selinux. we just disabled the whole thing to make it work. For the record: CentOS 4.0 postgresql-8.0.2-1PGDG.i686.rpm (and associated) rpms from postgresql.org's ftp server -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ --

Re: [DOCS] SELinux & Redhat

2005-05-06 Thread Jeff -
On May 6, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eventually we found it was SELinux was preventing pg_dump from producing output. That's a new one on me. Why was it doing that --- mislabeling on the pg_dump executable, or what? We've got a stock Ce

Re: [DOCS] SELinux & Redhat

2005-05-06 Thread Jeff -
t one point it didn't work. (I could also be smoking crack). Hmm.. piping it into another app worked. I only found out about this when another developer here tried to run it and got nothing. in any case, it might be something useful to jot somewhere. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PRO

[DOCS] Slow Search

2003-12-26 Thread Jeff Davis
e. Would it be helpful to other people if I included it as a separate heading for pl/pgsql in the sgml docs? Regards, Jeff ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if yo

Re: [DOCS] 7.5 release notes

2004-07-25 Thread Jeff Davis
han the previous behavior." Perhaps it could be more clear? I don't know where else I'd go to find more thorough documentation on that subject. Also, I've included a couple typo fixes below. Regards, Jeff Davis --- release.html.old2004-07-25 03:06:28.0 -

Re: [DOCS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove replicaiton FAQ item.

2005-04-24 Thread Jeff Davis
Should the text include a mention of synchronous vs. asynchronous? Or does master-master imply synchronous? Regards, Jeff Davis On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 08:01 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Robert Treat wrote: > > > > &g

[DOCS] broken link on techdocs

2005-08-10 Thread Jeff Davis
re more reliably. Regards, Jeff Davis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Re: [DOCS] vacuum and routine maintenance docs

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff Frost
specific autovacuum settings, or manual vacuum fulls? -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if post

Re: [DOCS] Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Frost
|/" | head -1 which seems to work fairly well. Looks like that thread is here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-10/msg00173.php -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908

Re: [DOCS] Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Frost
-1 yields AA as you suggested it would. The following seems to do the trick if we can rely on alphabetizing to properly decide the winner of a tie: ls -tp | head -2 | sort -r | head -1 So, with my previous example, it would look like: ls -tp /pg_xlog/ | grep -v "backup\|/" | head -2

Re: [DOCS] Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Frost
ange all my scripts to use the following: ls -t /pg_xlog/ | grep '^[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F]$' | head -1 Thanks Tom!

Re: [DOCS] Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Frost
top. Bruce, what does stat x1 x2 look like on your system? Which OS? Maybe we need caveats for various OSes? -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954 ---(

Re: [DOCS] Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Frost
Maybe we are back to using sort to decide the winner of a tie? -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] Database users Passwords

2006-10-17 Thread Jeff Davis
.0 docs. Is this already in the 8.1 docs? Should we add a description of the way postgresql does the md5 hashes in the CREATE ROLE section? Regards, Jeff Davis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore y

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] Database users Passwords

2006-10-17 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 21:35 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Jeff Davis wrote: > > This seems to be lacking in the docs. At least, the only place I > > found this information was a user comment in the 8.0 docs. Is this > > already in the 8.1 docs? Should we add a d

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-10-24 Thread Jeff Frost
e versions for both PostgreSQL and MySQL. One of my customers is trying it out currently. -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954 ---(

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
this in application code or middleware. Bruce, Continuent's uni/cluster middleware product implements this type of clustering/load balancing. Perhaps it warrants a mention? Not sure how far we want to get into listing external products. -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL P

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: Jeff Frost wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: Your description was too detailed, but I took some of your concepts: In clustering, each server can accept write requests, and these write requests are broadcast from the original

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
can accept write requests, and these write requests are broadcast from the original server to all other servers before each transaction commits. I guess it's kind of a fine line how it gets defined? -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.fr

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
semi-automated ways of bringing failed DB servers back up to date and online with the rest of the servers in the cluster. All servers need to be able to accept writes, but do we differentiate on where the writes originated (i.e. middleware or another postgresql server) or on functionality? -- Jeff

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
ch server can accept write requests, and these write requests are broadcast from the original server to all other servers before each transaction commits." Unfortunately, I can't seem to come up with anything more clever. -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Frost
clustering is not necessarily SQL queries. -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you chec

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] FOR SHARE vs FOR UPDATE locks

2006-12-01 Thread Jeff Davis
of events, is it worth adding a note to the "migration" section of the release notes? Regards, Jeff Davis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [DOCS] psql man page error?

2006-12-05 Thread Jeff Frost
different than /bin/echo. That's why all my scripts seem to call the binary and not the built-in. Another possibility is that the original author had the options set in his xpg_echo environment variable and forgot about it...or his distro was setting it in a profile.d file. -- Jeff F

Re: [DOCS] Urgent Postgresql requirement.

2007-01-17 Thread Jeff Frost
Pratik, You should post this to the pgsql-jobs list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) not to the docs list if you want to get reasonable responses. -Jeff On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Pratik wrote: Hi, This is Pratik with APN Software services, we have urgent direct client requirement with one of our direct

Re: [DOCS] Slony for upgrades

2007-10-15 Thread Jeff Frost
e, do you think we should say several minutes of downtime? It's been my experience that the downtime is usually measurable in seconds. I don't think I've ever had a switchover take more than 1 minute. Excellent catch and good work by the way! -- Jeff Frost, Owner <[

[DOCS] Tsearch docs question

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Davis
table (using triggers) and index that. Maybe that could be a tip for using GiST indexes. Regards, Jeff Davis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [DOCS] Tsearch docs question

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Davis
slow; ..." to something like: "Lossiness causes performance degradation due to unnecessary random accesses to table records; ..." The only reason I say this is because, on my first reading, I read that to mean that lossless indexes don't require trips to the hea

[DOCS] lastval() not included in table

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Davis
In the current version of the docs here: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-sequence.html The lastval() function appears to be missing from table 9-38. I don't see any obvious reason that it's left out. Regards, Jeff Davis

[DOCS] Documentation and mutating PGresult objects

2012-01-05 Thread Jeff Davis
ronization as well as connection objects? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

Re: [DOCS] Comment on max_locks_per_transaction

2012-06-15 Thread Jeff Davis
es with many partitions each can require raising this setting. Is "partition" defined somewhere else in the docs? Maybe it should say something like: "Extensive use of table inheritance is the most common reason to increase this value from the default", assuming that's what yo

Re: [DOCS] Comment on max_locks_per_transaction

2012-06-15 Thread Jeff Davis
ng." http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-CONSTRAINT-EXCLUSION Looks like we do define it, so that's fine with me. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] Documentation cross reference from copy to \copy

2012-08-10 Thread Jeff Janes
Where the SQL COPY command warns us not to confuse it with \copy, a link to \copy would be useful. The attached patch implements that, but I'm not sure it does so in the preferred way. Thanks, Jeff copy_crossref_v1.patch Description: Binary data - Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql

Re: [DOCS] Would like to contribute a section to docs for 9.3. Where to start?

2012-08-13 Thread Jeff Davis
tation) recently appeared on -novice: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected] That's exactly the kind of (potential) user we should target with this document. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@post

Re: [DOCS] Confusion over "This page in other versions" links

2012-08-14 Thread Jeff Davis
.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 | devel / 9.2 (beta) | Old versions: 8.2 / 8.1 / ..." I didn't read the original rationale, but it's not clear to me why we have quick links to the documents for unsupported versions. Maybe just have one link "unsupported versions" that goes to http://www.po

Re: [DOCS] Would like to contribute a section to docs for 9.3. Where to start?

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Davis
g to users b. connects with OOP so the users don't feel like it's a bait-and-switch or get confused by starting with the wrong expectation I feel like making #1 compatible with 2(a) requires some creativity; and #1 might be incompatible with 2(b) entirely. Regards,

Re: [DOCS] Would like to contribute a section to docs for 9.3. Where to start?

2012-08-19 Thread Jeff Davis
ritance and composite types are easy enough to understand. Perhaps those could make for a short example on the O-R side while still looking different enough from a traditional relational approach. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To m

Re: [DOCS] [PERFORM] Planner selects different execution plans depending on limit

2012-09-16 Thread Jeff Janes
to look at the index (eg with \d) to see what the name of > the desired column is, since index expressions have system-assigned > column names. Is this documented anywhere? I couldn't find it. If not, which section would be the best one to add it to? Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgs

Re: [DOCS] CONSTRAINT on ARRAY ELEMENTS

2012-11-04 Thread Jeff Davis
#x27;::bpchar, 'Nov'::bpchar, 'Dec'::bpchar])) > ); > > > > How can add a CONSTRAINT on statuscode array elements to accept values > between 0 to 5 You can try: CHECK (statuscode <@ ARRAY[1,2,3,4,5]) Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"

2012-11-23 Thread Jeff Janes
: Bruce Momjian Date: Wed Aug 25 23:55:54 2010 + Remove docs for "Incrementally Updated Backups" because it was of questionable reliability; information moved to a wiki: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups Backpatch to 9.0. Cheers,

Re: [DOCS] 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"

2012-11-24 Thread Jeff Janes
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > We don't assume people are reading docs from very old versions. > Even if that is the version they are using? It is, after all, still under maintenance, Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@post

Re: [DOCS] 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"

2012-11-25 Thread Jeff Janes
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 04:26:48PM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > >> > We don't assume people are reading docs from very old versions. >> > &

Re: [DOCS] 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"

2012-11-27 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 01:56:27PM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 04:26:48PM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 23,

[DOCS] Comments on commit regarding checksums (2266db39)

2013-03-18 Thread Jeff Davis
2PC state files actually are protected by CRC32 (see EndPrepare()), and so is pg_control (which is not mentioned). If we want to be thorough, it might be worth mentioning that we expect filesystem metadata to not be corrupted/lost, either. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs

[DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
ror 1 rm postgres-A4.tex-pdf I found this older thread with a similar error: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected] Help? -- Jeff Frost CTO, PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. Phone: 1-888-PG-EXPRT x506 FAX: 415-762-5122 http://www.pgexperts.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-docs mail

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On 06/26/13 10:31, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jeff Frost wrote: > >> ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than >> \pd >> fstartlink. > Did you see this one? > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3b4139a6e0ceea903dd359b7035d5d4a.

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On 06/26/13 10:34, Jeff Frost wrote: > On 06/26/13 10:31, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Jeff Frost wrote: >> >>> ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than >>> \pd >>> fstartlink. >> Did you see this

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On 06/26/13 11:55, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jeff Frost wrote: >> On 06/26/13 10:34, Jeff Frost wrote: >>> On 06/26/13 10:31, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>>> Jeff Frost wrote: >>>> >>>>> ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nes

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jeff Frost wrote: > >> Yah, it's a different error when it's the wrong openjade version. >> >> It looks like this one that's in the docs: >> >> openjade:./stylesheet.dsl:664:2:E: flow

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On 06/26/13 12:14, Jeff Frost wrote: > > I am receiving this when building postgres-A4.pdf for beta2. postgres-US.pdf > builds fine. > > [243.0.11 > ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than > \pd > fstartlink. > \At

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On 06/26/13 12:40, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jeff Frost wrote: > >> Alvaro, did both the beta2 PDFs build fine on borka? If so, could you get >> them to me so I can build the RPMs while I figure out the issue with my >> tex/jade setup? > I don't think borka builds

Re: [DOCS] having trouble building the postgres-A4.pdf

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Frost
On Jun 26, 2013, at 13:20, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Any idea how to fix it? > > Nope, but maybe try to build the PDF using the XML toolchain? I'm afraid that's a bit out of my depth. I would speculate that since the US PDF builds and the A4 format is smaller, it's a sizing problem, but I've no

[DOCS] FE/BE docs and unsigned integers

2014-01-02 Thread Jeff Davis
rned) it's just an opaque 32 bits? It seems like it's worth a note somewhere at least. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] "Alter system" command documentation

2015-06-15 Thread Jeff Janes
er start." Isn't it unfortunate that the command used for changing the configuration file from within SQL mentions SIGHUP and pg_ctl reload, but not "select pg_reload_conf();", as a way to activate that change? Cheers, Jeff

Re: [DOCS] "Alter system" command documentation

2015-06-15 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:10 PM, David G. Johnston < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Euler Taveira > wrote: > >> On 15-06-2015 13:32, Jeff Janes wrote: >> > From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-altersystem.h

[DOCS]

2015-12-27 Thread Jeff Janes
/perl has accepted "record" as in argument type since 9.1. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] pg_archivecleanup docs

2016-08-05 Thread Jeff Janes
nk we should just strike the first clause. Cheers, Jeff pg_archivecleanup_doc.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] pg_restore -l documentation

2017-08-03 Thread Jeff Janes
say: List the table of contents of the archive. Cheers, Jeff pg_restore_TOC.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs