Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Brown
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Today I revisited the implemnetation (replacing sync() with open/_commit) I made several days ago and found a bug with it (thanks to Hiroshi). With the fixed version of it, now my Win32 port has passed your test even right after checkpoint!. I presume that this

[HACKERS] talking to postgresql from C/C++

2003-03-07 Thread terr
---BeginMessage--- I've been trying to get information on a programming interface to the database. Over the last while Dave Page and I have emailed each other. Dave has suggested I join the hacker maillist. Thus I am forwarding the communication I sent to Dave. I hope this is approriated in

Re: [HACKERS] I cant find it or I'm just lazy ?

2003-03-07 Thread Darko Prenosil
On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:08, Bruce Momjian wrote: Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:04:50PM +0100, Christoph Haller wrote: Anyway, you may MOVE until 0 instead of FETCH, or use the COUNT() function on the query to learn about the number of rows to be returned.

Re: [HACKERS] talking to postgresql from C/C++

2003-03-07 Thread Christoph Haller
Have you seen libpq - C Library Functions Associated with the COPY Command This is best way to INSERT large amounts of data. Regards, Christoph ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] Time zone abbreviations and calendars

2003-03-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Considering the time zone abbreviations that are accepted on input, I find a couple of bogosities: WDT +09:00 West Australian Daylight Time AWST+08:00 Australia Western Standard Time WADT+08:00 West Australian Daylight Time WST +08:00 West Australian Standard Time WAST

Re: [HACKERS] talking to postgresql from C/C++

2003-03-07 Thread mlw
I read your post, and I am struck by a few things, I am not sure I will answer all your points, but maybe a discussion is in order. I use PostgreSQL with C++ all the time. I actually have a SQL class that abstracts libpq and ODBC, so I'm pretty much past a lot of the how I want to use it

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Eric D Nielsen
I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable views. I'm trying to track down a copy of the SQL92 standard, I thought that ANSI sold them, but I can only find SQL89 and SQL99 there; am I looking in the wrong place? Eric Nielsen ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Eric D Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable views. I'm trying to track down a copy of the SQL92 standard, I thought that ANSI sold them, but I can only find SQL89 and SQL99 there; am I looking in the wrong place? I'm

Re: [HACKERS] Time zone abbreviations and calendars

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Considering the time zone abbreviations that are accepted on input, I find a couple of bogosities: Presumably we can get some local knowledge on those items from list members. I believe that Thomas created the TZ tables on the basis of including

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER SEQUENCE

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Does it make sense to avoid sequence name collisions if applications have to refer to sequence names directly? I mean, I can imagine a case where a restore would return a sequence name that is different from the one that dumped it. pg_dump may be hacked to fix that (look up the sequence for the

[HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread mlw
I haven't been able to get to it all morning. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas T. Thai
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote: I couldn't get to it yesterday either. FTP worked fine though. -- Thomas T. Thai ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[HACKERS] DBTools' DBManager Information Leak Vulnerability (fwd)

2003-03-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
FYI. Vince. -- Fast, inexpensive internet service 56k and beyond! http://www.pop4.net/ http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
I haven't been able to get to it all morning. I think its time to consider migrating off of mysql on the web server. Merlin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] talking to postgresql from C/C++

2003-03-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use PostgreSQL with C++ all the time. I actually have a SQL class that abstracts libpq and ODBC, so I'm pretty much past a lot of the how I want to use it stuff. What about libpq++? I have not used the thing, but if he absolutely insists on using C++ in

Re: [HACKERS] talking to postgresql from C/C++

2003-03-07 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: What about libpq++? I have not used the thing, but if he absolutely insists on using C++ in his database interface that's at least worth checking out. Same for embedded C. And of course there's libpqxx. I haven't heard from

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Eric D Nielsen
After finding the SQL92 draft spec that Tom quoted from earlier I think I understand the conditions for the spec's version of view updatability. I've made few comments below on the conditions and I'ld appreciate it if anyone would correct any mis-interpretations on my part. 12)A query

Re: [HACKERS] I cant find it or I'm just lazy ?

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
I just tested the MOVE -5 in a simple case, and it worked: test= begin; BEGIN test= declare xx cursor for select * from pg_class; DECLARE CURSOR test= move from xx; MOVE 157 test= move -5 from xx; MOVE 5 test= fetch

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Brown
Bruce Momjian wrote: The idea of using this on Unix is tempting, but Tatsuo is using a threaded backend, so it is a little easier to do. However, it would probably be pretty easy to write a file of modified file names that the checkpoint could read and open/fsync/close. Even that's not

[HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-07 Thread Neil Conway
About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing for me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and misc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly consistently by running make check over and over again until the problem crops up. The platform is

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-07 Thread Doug McNaught
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing for me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and misc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly consistently by running make check over and over again

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Brown
Bruce Momjian wrote: Kevin Brown wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: The idea of using this on Unix is tempting, but Tatsuo is using a threaded backend, so it is a little easier to do. However, it would probably be pretty easy to write a file of modified file names that the checkpoint

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-07 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:05, Doug McNaught wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing for me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and misc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
But even then, we don't actually have to track the *names* of the files that have changed, just their RelFileNodes, since there's a mapping function from the RelFileNode to the filename. Right. I have noticed that too and have made changes to my implementaion. BTW, you need to track the block

[HACKERS] OT: The first GCC Developers Summit

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, Just came across the website for the first GCC Developers Summit, to be held May 25-27, 2003. http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/ Might be of interest to some people here. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Stark
Eric D Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I beleive this should allow queries such as: UPDATE (SELECT bar, baz FROM foo) SET bar=1 WHERE baz=2; as well as the CREATE VIEW foo_view AS SELECT bar, baz FROM foo; UPDATE foo_view SET bar=1 WHERE baz==2; DROP VIEW foo_view; three-query analog.

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Stark
Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even that's not strictly necessary -- we *do* have shared memory we can use for this, and even when hundreds of tables have been written the list will only end up being a few tens of kilobytes in size (plus whatever overhead is required to track and

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing for me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and misc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly consistently by running make check over and over again until

[HACKERS] website charset

2003-03-07 Thread Dennis Björklund
There is no declaration of charset in the main webpage. Something like meta content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type would be nice. What is worse is that there are several charsets used. In the International part I have to set mozilla to use utf-8 for it to be rendered

Re: [HACKERS] I cant find it or I'm just lazy ?

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I think you are seeing are that certain cursors can't go backwards. Lots of the more complex plan node types don't correctly implement backwards fetch. I've looked briefly at fixing that, but it looks like it'd be a major pain in the rear for some

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kevin Brown wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: The idea of using this on Unix is tempting, but Tatsuo is using a threaded backend, so it is a little easier to do. However, it would probably be pretty easy to write a file of modified file names that the checkpoint could read and

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
Merlin Moncure wrote: This is the 'proof of concept' cygwin windows build. Strangely, I have a newer build than the one on the ftp server. Is there a binary version of postgres with Jan's patch available? Uh Oh. When you say newer version, what gives the feeling of it being newer? In the Proof

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: What is this build, exactly? It is Jan's patch brough up to 7.3, or cygwin? It's a simplified installation package of 7.3.1 with cygwin. Put it together so we can get a feel for the packaging issues we'll need to take into account for the proper release of a 7.4 Windows

Re: [HACKERS] Partial index on date column

2003-03-07 Thread Hannu Krosing
Christopher Kings-Lynne kirjutas R, 07.03.2003 kell 07:28: Yeah, it's not really a problem for me, I just put the extra clause in. Is indexing excluding NULLs a common application of partial indexes? For me it is ;) It's basically all I use it for, when a column has like 90-95% NULLS and

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas T. Thai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2003 17:05 To: mlw Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org? On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote: I couldn't get to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] problems with dropped columns

2003-03-07 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
There are (at least) two distinct problems involved here. One is getting plpgsql to deal correctly with rowtypes that include dropped columns. The other is getting it to react when someone alters a table whose rowtype is relied on by already-compiled functions. I'm working on this

Re: [HACKERS] Precompile SQL functions

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we precompile SQL functions yet? As of CVS tip, we can inline SQL functions that are simple SELECT expression cases; and it's always been true that SQL function queries are planned only once per outer query. I don't believe there's any cross-query

Re: [HACKERS] Precompile SQL functions

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Just checking for TODO list. Thanks. --- Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we precompile SQL functions yet? As of CVS tip, we can inline SQL functions that are simple SELECT expression

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER SEQUENCE

2003-03-07 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:27, Bruce Momjian wrote: Does it make sense to avoid sequence name collisions if applications have to refer to sequence names directly? I mean, I can imagine a case Not at all. Hence the thought that we might create syntax to allow applications to refer to the table /

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stanards URL's are in the developers FAQ. --- Tom Lane wrote: Eric D Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable views. I'm trying to track down a copy

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Thomas T. Thai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2003 17:05 To: mlw Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org? On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote: I couldn't get to it yesterday either. FTP worked fine though.

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kevin Brown wrote: Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Today I revisited the implemnetation (replacing sync() with open/_commit) I made several days ago and found a bug with it (thanks to Hiroshi). With the fixed version of it, now my Win32 port has passed your test even right after checkpoint!. I

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, Marc mentioned needing to get some sleep after fixing a RAID controller for perhaps 24 hours. --- Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas T. Thai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
What is this build, exactly? It is Jan's patch brough up to 7.3, or cygwin? --- Justin Clift wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How about putting a README file in that directory as well, giving out the same