Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 14 Dec 2002 at 18:02, Justin Clift wrote: > For PITR-log-based-replication, how much data would be required to be pushed out to >each slave system in order to bring > it up to date? > > I'm having visions of a 16MB WAL file being pushed out to slave systems in order to >update them with a fe

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joe Conway wrote: Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and adding any missing pieces. Patrick, do you have an ETA on that? As Hannu asked (and related

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Justin Clift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group communication based and requires the group communication system to guarantee total order. The tricky part is, that the local transaction must be on hold until the own commit message comes back without a pri

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 13 December 2002 11:01 pm, you wrote: > Good. This is the discussion we need. Let me quote the TODO list > replication section first: > > * Add replication of distributed databases [replication] > o automatic failover Very good. We need that for HA. > o load balanc

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

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: >> Perhaps 7.3.1 could include a true, 7.2-style libpq.so.2.2 to overwrite >> any 7.3-style version that the original 7.3 may have installed under that >> name? > That's an interesting idea, but then 7.3 binaries would link to

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 20:20, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > This is a good point. I don't want to push Postgres-R as our solution. > > Rather, I have looked at both and like Postgres-R, but others need to > > look at both and decide so we are all in agreement when we move forward. > > I think

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Joe Conway wrote: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Win32 Port: > > > > > > Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32 > > > port for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of > > > December. > > > > I have .Net Studio available to me

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

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:06:47PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > Yes. You will have libpq.so.3.0 in 7.3.1; and you have libpq.so.2.2 > > from 7.3 (and also from 7.2.x, though in fact they are different). If > > you have installed 7.3.1 on top of 7.3, you will

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

2002-12-13 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:06:47PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Yes. You will have libpq.so.3.0 in 7.3.1; and you have libpq.so.2.2 > from 7.3 (and also from 7.2.x, though in fact they are different). If > you have installed 7.3.1 on top of 7.3, you will have libpq.so.3 > (symlinked to libpq

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Darren Johnson
Lets say we have systems A, B and C. Each one has some changes and sends a writeset to the group communication system (GSC). The total order dictates WS(A), WS(B), and WS(C) and the writes sets are recieved in that order at each system. Now C gets WS(A) no conflict, gets WS(B) no conflict, a

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> This is a good point. I don't want to push Postgres-R as our solution. > Rather, I have looked at both and like Postgres-R, but others need to > look at both and decide so we are all in agreement when we move forward. I think in either way, it's clear that they need to be in the main CVS, in or

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

2002-12-13 Thread Iavor Raytchev
Bruce Momjian wrote: Iavor Raytchev wrote: I actually do not understand why is the whole cry - why not somebody who has REALLY the marketing in his/her heart - does not make an open source amazingly beautiful and powerful web site. You do not have to ask Bruce for that. You get BRICOLAGE -

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

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Iavor Raytchev wrote: > I actually do not understand why is the whole cry - why not somebody who > has REALLY the marketing in his/her heart - does not make an open source > amazingly beautiful and powerful web site. You do not have to ask Bruce > for that. You get BRICOLAGE - it is free, and it

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:36, Jan Wieck wrote: > > But you cannot use the result of such a SELECT to update anything. So > > you can only phase out complete read only transaction to the slaves. > > Requires support from the application since the load balancing system > > cannot

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

2002-12-13 Thread Iavor Raytchev
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

Re: [HACKERS] DB Tuning Notes - Where To?

2002-12-13 Thread Philip Warner
At 08:55 PM 13/12/2002 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: The frequency of vacuum and analyze would seem to belong.. ...max_fsm_relations belongs... ...Setting max_fsm_pages also belongs in that list... ...parts that refer to the VACUUM output should be put... near the Routine Vacuuming Not sure I l

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.3 installation on RedHat 8.0 fails

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Murthy Kambhampaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "/home/postgres/postgresql-7.3/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//usr/loc > al/pgsql/bin/pg_encoding: relocation error: > /home/postgres/postgresql-7.3/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//usr/loca > l/pgsql/bin/pg_encoding: undefined symbol: pg_

[HACKERS] Information schema now available

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
A basic version of the SQL information schema is now available in newly initdb'ed database installations. There's still a bunch of work to do to create all the views that the spec defines. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > Should we remove this error check, thereby effectively making > zero-column tables first-class citizens? Yes. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please se

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Re: [PERFORM] Odd Sort/Limit/Max Problem

2002-12-13 Thread Laurette Cisneros
Thank you for a good workaround. Even BETTER would be to fix the aggregates so workarounds wouldn't have to be found. Thanks again, L. On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Odd Sort/Limit/Max Problem > Date: Fri, 13

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:36, Jan Wieck wrote: > But you cannot use the result of such a SELECT to update anything. So > you can only phase out complete read only transaction to the slaves. > Requires support from the application since the load balancing system > cannot know automatically what will

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Jan Wieck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group > > communication based and requires the group communication system to > > guarantee total order. The tricky part is, that the local transaction > > must be on hold until the own commit message comes

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Darren, can you clarify this? Why does it send that message? How does > > it allow commits not to wait for ordered writesets? > > > > There are two channels. One for total order writesets > (changes to the DB). The other is simple order for > aborts, c

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Jan Wieck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Darren, can you clarify this? Why does it send that message? How does > > it allow commits not to wait for ordered writesets? > > > > There are two channels. One for total order writesets > (changes to the DB). The other is simple order for > aborts, com

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread darren
> > > Darren, can you clarify this? Why does it send that message? How does > it allow commits not to wait for ordered writesets? > There are two channels. One for total order writesets (changes to the DB). The other is simple order for aborts, commits, joins (systems joining the replica)

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group > > communication based and requires the group communication system to > > guarantee total order. The tricky part is, that the local transaction > > must be on hold until the own commit message comes bac

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread darren
> > It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group > > Well, Darren's PDF at: > > >ftp://gborg.postgresql.org/pub/pgreplication/stable/PostgreSQLReplication.pdf.gz > > calls Postgres-R "Type: Embedded, Peer-to-Peer, Sync". I don't know > enough about replication so I

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread darren
> It is asynchronous without the need of 2 phase commit. It is group > communication based and requires the group communication system to > guarantee total order. The tricky part is, that the local transaction > must be on hold until the own commit message comes back without a prior No, It holds u

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > OK, the first thing is that there isn't any one replication solution > > that will behave optimally in all situations. > > Right > > > Now, let me describe Postgres-R and then the other replication > > solutions. Postgres-R is multi-master, meaning

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

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > OK, let me see if I understand the ramifications. > > If you install 7.3.1 _on_top_of 7.3, both major versions will exist, and > you your old binaries will continue to work. However, if you delete the > old libraries, then install, anything comp

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Note that while Spread is open source in the sense that "the source is > > > available", it's license is significantly more restrictive than > > > PostgreSQL's: > > > > > > http://www.spread.org/license/ > > > > > > > Interesting. It looks like a modified vers

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src/test/regress resultmap expect ...

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvsroot > Module name: pgsql-server > Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/13 15:35:57 > > Modified files: > src/test/regress: resultmap > Added files: > src/test/regress/expected: geometry_1.out > Removed files: > src/test/regress/expect

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread darren
> > Note that while Spread is open source in the sense that "the source is > > available", it's license is significantly more restrictive than > > PostgreSQL's: > > > > http://www.spread.org/license/ > > > > Interesting. It looks like a modified version of the old BSD license > where you ar

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > OK, the first thing is that there isn't any one replication solution > that will behave optimally in all situations. Right > Now, let me describe Postgres-R and then the other replication > solutions. Postgres-R is multi-master, meaning you can send SELECT and > UPDATE/DE

Re: [HACKERS] DB Tuning Notes - Where To?

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Philip Warner writes: > Just wondering where I should put my modified tuning notes. I was planning > on making them section 3.7 in the Admin guide. Does that sound reasonable? The frequency of vacuum and analyze would seem to belong under Routine Vacuuming in the Maintenance chapter. Setting ma

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

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > > No, the run-time linker only looks at the major version. > > Then what value is there to incrementing the minor number? For those platforms that have an ldconfig program, the ldconfig will update the symlinks to the shared library based on the minor version number. So i

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Mascari
I wrote: > > I guess I'm basically asking: > > 1) Is it necessary to *choose* between support for 2PC and Spread (Postgres-R) or >can't we have both? Spread for Replication, 2PC for non-replicating distributed TX? > > 2) Do major SQL DBMS vendors which support distributed options expose a calla

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

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The point is that we are changing it for 7.3.1, so though 7.3 libpq is > > almost identical to 7.3.1 libpq, we are going to bump the major and > > force recompile. The binary API change was from 7.2 to 7.3, not 7.3 to > > 7.3.1. Do p

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:20, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Let me address the Spread issue and two-phase commit. (Spread is an > > open source piece of software used by Postgres-R.) > > Note that while Spread is open source in the sense that "the source is > available", it's licen

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:20, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Let me address the Spread issue and two-phase commit. (Spread is an > open source piece of software used by Postgres-R.) Note that while Spread is open source in the sense that "the source is available", it's license is significantly more restri

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Mascari
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mike Mascari wrote: > > Okay. But please keep in mind that a 2-phase commit implementation > > is used for more than just replication. > > This is a good point. I don't want to push Postgres-R as our solution. > Rather,

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

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The point is that we are changing it for 7.3.1, so though 7.3 libpq is > almost identical to 7.3.1 libpq, we are going to bump the major and > force recompile. The binary API change was from 7.2 to 7.3, not 7.3 to > 7.3.1. Do people still want a major b

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

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:34, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > OK, so what do we do with 7.3.1. Increment major or minor? > > > > > > Major. I thought you did it already? > > > > I did only minor, which I kne

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

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Lee Kindness wrote: > Making something binary incompatible IS an API change! In the case in > question an externally visible structure definition was changed - > clearly a change of API... My point was that I thought it was a source-level API change that required a major bump. I now see it can be

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Mike Mascari wrote: > Okay. But please keep in mind that a 2-phase commit implementation > is used for more than just replication. Any distributed TX will > require a 2PC protocol. As an example, for the DBLINK implementation > to ultimately be transaction safe (at least amongst multiple > PostgreS

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Win32 Port: > > > > Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32 > > port for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of > > December. > > I have .Net Studio available to me, so if you need help in merging or test

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread snpe
On Friday 13 December 2002 17:51, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > And where are nested transactions? > > I didn't mention nested transactions because it didn't seem to be a > _big_ item like the others. This is big item regards Haris Peco ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Mascari
Okay. But please keep in mind that a 2-phase commit implementation is used for more than just replication. Any distributed TX will require a 2PC protocol. As an example, for the DBLINK implementation to ultimately be transaction safe (at least amongst multiple PostgreSQL installations), the play

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How hard would it be to extend PITR for master-slave (hot backup) > > repliaction, which should then amount to continuously shipping logs to > > slave and doing nonstop PITR there :) > > I have not looked at the PITR patch yet, but it might be possible > to use the

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Mike Mascari wrote: > What about distributed TX support: > > >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021106111554.69ae1dcd.pgsql%40snaga.org&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DNAGAYASU%2BSatoshi%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den OK, yes, that is Satoshi's 2-phase commit i

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hannu Krosing wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:22, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4: > > Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) > > > > J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick > > MacDonald from Red Hat is workin

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > 1) What kind of replication are we looking at? log file > replay/synchronous etc. If it is real time, like usogres( I > hope I am in line with things here), that would be real good. > Choice is always good. Good. This is the discussion we need. Let me quote the TODO

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > And where are nested transactions? I didn't mention nested transactions because it didn't seem to be a _big_ item like the others. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your li

Re: [HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:43:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Actually, if you don't mind grabbing a copy of pg_filedump --- see >> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html > Has this been updated for 7.3? Last time I looked it only did 7.2, and > the

Re: [HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:43:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Actually, if you don't mind grabbing a copy of pg_filedump --- see > http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html Has this been updated for 7.3? Last time I looked it only did 7.2, and the site shows an old date. If it hasn't, are there p

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Joe Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: Win32 Port: Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32 port for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of December. I have .Net Studio available to me, so if you need help in merging or testing or whatever, let me know. Point-In-Time Recov

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just out of curiosity, do any of the SQL specs deal with 0 column > tables? I can't recall any dbms supporting a create table command that > didn't require at least 1 column. Actually, in SQL92 11.17 I find 3) C shall be a column of T and C sha

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:43, Philip Warner wrote: > At 02:56 AM 13/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >if it's not the only column in Amy's table, Beth can drop her type > >and Amy's column along with it. > > I keep forgetting PG's inheritance features. In a non-inheritance system, I > would vote f

Re: [HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Steve King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ctids are different however vaccum is run on this table and the record > is updated. It would be useful to look at xmin,xmax,cmin,cmax of these tuples too. Actually, if you don't mind grabbing a copy of pg_filedump --- see http://sources.redhat.com/rhd

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread darren
> > How hard would it be to extend PITR for master-slave (hot backup) > repliaction, which should then amount to continuously shipping logs to > slave and doing nonstop PITR there :) I have not looked at the PITR patch yet, but it might be possible to use the same PITR format to queue/log writese

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Mascari
Bruce Momjian wrote: I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4: Win32 Port: Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32 port for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of December. Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) J. R. Nield did a PITR p

Re: [HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Steve King
The ctids are different however vaccum is run on this table and the record is updated. The machineid is a SERIAL and so should also never be duplicated. ctid | oid | machineid +-+--- (7,18) | 9646238 |12 (7,10) | 9646238 |12 Any help as usual is g

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

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:34, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK, so what do we do with 7.3.1. Increment major or minor? > > > > Major. I thought you did it already? > > I did only minor, which I knew was safe. Do folks realize this wil

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

2002-12-13 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:34:58AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I did only minor, which I knew was safe. Do folks realize this will > require recompile of applications by 7.3 users moving to 7.3.1? That > seems very drastic, and there have been very few problem reports about > the NOTIFY chan

[HACKERS] Library Versions (was: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?)

2002-12-13 Thread Lee Kindness
Guys, Some further comments on bumbing the major version number which aren't so cut-n-dry... Lee Kindness writes: > The major version number should be updated whenever the source of the > library changes to make it binary incompatible. Such changes include, > but limited to: > > 1. Removing

[HACKERS] Library Versions (was: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?)

2002-12-13 Thread Lee Kindness
Guys, can I take this chance to summarise the thread and when the major and minor versions should be updated, perhaps could be added to the developers FAQ if everyone is in agreement? Major Version = The major version number should be updated whenever the source of the library changes

Re: [HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:27, Steve King wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve King > > Sent: 12 December 2002 11:45 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Duplicate oids! > > > > Forgive me if this is a previous question but I cannot find any > > information on it

[HACKERS] FW: Duplicate oids!

2002-12-13 Thread Steve King
> -Original Message- > From: Steve King > Sent: 12 December 2002 11:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Duplicate oids! > > Forgive me if this is a previous question but I cannot find any > information on it in any of the mailing lists. > > I have a postgres database

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

2002-12-13 Thread Lee Kindness
Making something binary incompatible IS an API change! In the case in question an externally visible structure definition was changed - clearly a change of API... Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So if a recompile fixes it, increment mi

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:22, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4: > Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) > > J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick > MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-13 Thread Philip Warner
At 02:56 AM 13/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if it's not the only column in Amy's table, Beth can drop her type and Amy's column along with it. I keep forgetting PG's inheritance features. In a non-inheritance system, I would vote for forcing a one column table to be dropped. For PG, I think