[HACKERS] Call for pg_dump testing

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
I have committed some fairly wide-ranging revisions to pg_dump to make it dump database objects in a "safe" order according to the dependency information available from pg_depend. While I know that I have fixed a lot of previously-broken cases, it's hardly unlikely that I've broken some things too

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-7.4 make error: tuptoaster.c: In function

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Roderick A. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> tuptoaster.c: In function `toast_delete_datum': >> tuptoaster.c:973: `F_OIDEQ' undeclared (first use in this function) > I ran into the same thing when working with RPMs and the tarball(s). This suggests that the shell script src/backend/uti

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 7.3.5 and count('x')

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin S. Ramirez) writes: > It appears that the count('x') will no longer work without a type > cast. Is this on purpose? > warehouse=# select count('x') ; > ERROR: cannot accept a value of type any Hm, that query seems like it should be legal. (You get the same from "select

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables,

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> Have we decoupled these two variables? > Their values are still the same, but Tom suggested we not couple them > inextricably by giving users access to them as one variable. The only reason they are the same is that pg_proc.proargtyp

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> A bug in the information schema concerning the bit types must be >>> fixed. >> >> Does anyone have a patch for this? > I suppose not, but it's being worked on. What's the bug exactly? Is it worth delaying the release for? Given that Bruce is out

Re: [HACKERS] bytea, index and like operator again and detailed

2003-12-05 Thread Alvar Freude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, - -- Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try the attached patch and let me know how it works for you. It is > against cvs HEAD, but should apply OK to 7.4. so, I checked it with my database. It looks good, all checks I made are OK.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: I suppose not, but it's being worked on. Is that the one that Joe just mentioned workign on? about BYTEA? I don't think so. Joe ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubs

Re: [HACKERS] bytea, index and like operator again and detailed

2003-12-05 Thread Alvar Freude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, 7.4.1 will be bundled up for release on Sunday, so it would be > ideal to get some feedback sooner if possible. this is a good argument ... ;) I'll try to check it ... Ciao Alvar - -- ** Alv

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > A bug in the information schema concerning the bit types must be > > > fixed. > > > > Does anyone have a patch for this? > > I suppose not, but it's being worked on. Is that the one that Joe just mentioned workign on? ab

Re: [HACKERS] bytea, index and like operator again and detailed report

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Alvar Freude wrote: has this about one week time? I travel on monday to Geneva (World Summit on the Information Society) and have a lot to prepare ... :-( I'll make a report when I have some minutes (or hours ;) ) ... Well, 7.4.1 will be bundled up for release on Sunday, so it would be ideal to ge

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > A bug in the information schema concerning the bit types must be > > fixed. > > Does anyone have a patch for this? I suppose not, but it's being worked on. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archi

Re: [HACKERS] bytea, index and like operator again and detailed

2003-12-05 Thread Alvar Freude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joe, - -- Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try the attached patch and let me know how it works for you. It is > against cvs HEAD, but should apply OK to 7.4. has this about one week time? I travel on monday to Geneva (World Summit o

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-7.4 make error: tuptoaster.c: In function

2003-12-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, julius wrote: > im not sure if this is the correct mailing list, please correct me if it is not. > my gcc is version 3.2, configure runs fine i deativated readline-support...but this > error occours: > > gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declar

Re: [HACKERS] bytea, index and like operator again and detailed report

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Alvar Freude wrote: while changing a column from base255 encoded text (all except null byte) to bytea, I found the following bug in Postgresql's LIKE operator with indexes (it follows a more detailed description then my old mails in -bugs and - -general, including the proof of the bug): Please try

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG/PATCH] backend crashes during authentication if

2003-12-05 Thread Michael Wildpaner
Hi, On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > Hm, Solaris' bsearch() fails on empty input? How bizarre. > > I was skeptical but apparently this is a known bug ... > googling turned up a couple of references, eg > http://www.opencm.org/pipermail/opencm-dev/2002-July/001077.html in defense of Solari

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Query Planner TODO items

2003-12-05 Thread Greg Stark
I know Oracle is capable of producing the UNION plan. but I don't know if that's the only option. I'm curious what indexes the rewritten union-based query used. Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SELECT t1.a, t2.b > FROM t1, t2 > WHERE t1.a = t2.a > AND ( > ( t1.c = x > AND

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Query Planner TODO items

2003-12-05 Thread Josh Berkus
John, > > SELECT t1.a, t2.b > > FROM t1, t2 > > WHERE t1.a = t2.a > > AND t1.c = x > > AND t1.f IN (m, n, o) > > AND t2.d = v > > AND t2.e BETWEEN j AND k > > UNION ALL > Shouldn't that be "UNION" instead of "UNION ALL"? You don't want > duplicate rows, if i'm not mistaken.

[HACKERS] [fwd: [GENERAL] Domains and function]

2003-12-05 Thread elein
I did not get any response to this question on general so I am forwarding it to hackers. Thanks, elein - Forwarded message from elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:11:20 -0800 From: elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:

[HACKERS] postgresql-7.4 make error: tuptoaster.c: In function `toast_delete_datum'

2003-12-05 Thread julius
im not sure if this is the correct mailing list, please correct me if it is not. my gcc is version 3.2, configure runs fine i deativated readline-support...but this error occours: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOUR

Re: [HACKERS] Something's not (de)compressing right

2003-12-05 Thread Elliot Lee
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-07/msg00483.php I'm having this same problem with postgresql 7.3.4. Easy to reproduce by running an 'INSERT' query. Here is some of the debugging info if I break near the beginning of the pglz_decompress function: (gdb) p dend $1 = (unsigned cha

Re: [HACKERS] Examining the output of: ldd `which postgres`

2003-12-05 Thread Todd R. Eigenschink
[Up front: yes, I'm following up to a post that's nearly three months old. I can't find any more recent discussion of this issue.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes: > (Of course, if you can show that there's a significant penalty in > backend launch time from having useless shlibs linked in,

Re: [HACKERS] *sigh*

2003-12-05 Thread Randolf Richardson
>> The count(*) information can be revisioned too, am I wrong ? I'm able >> to create a trigger that store the count(*) information in a special >> table, why not implement the same in a way "builded in" ? > > Then every insert or delete would have to lock that count. Nobody else > would be able t

[HACKERS] Postgres 7.3.5 and count('x')

2003-12-05 Thread Edwin S. Ramirez
Hello, It appears that the count('x') will no longer work without a type cast. Is this on purpose? I've already modified my code to use count(*) instead, but I decided to mention it anyway. warehouse=# select count('x') ; ERROR: cannot accept a value of type any warehouse=# select count('x'::t

[HACKERS] Proposed Query Planner TODO items

2003-12-05 Thread Josh Berkus
PG Folks, What follows are a couple of proposed TODO items to make up for some of the places our planner is weak compared to other leading databases. Particularly, I'm personally concerned that as of 7.4.0 we would "fail" the TPC benchmark even if someone sponsored us for it (see Issue #2 bel

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables,

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Josh Berkus wrote: max_function_args - int Shows the maximum number of function arguments max_index_keys - int Shows the maximum number of index keys Have we decoupled these two variables? Last I checked, their values still had to be identical. If they have not been decoupled and won't b

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Marc G. Fournier wrote: To accomodate ppls travel scheduales, we are going to move the 7.4.1 release up to Monday, *unless* there is a report before then about something that needs to be fixed first ... we know of nothing outstanding right now ... This means it will be tag'd/bundled on Sunday ...

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: > To accomodate ppls travel scheduales, we are going to move the 7.4.1 > release up to Monday, *unless* there is a report before then about > something that needs to be fixed first ... we know of nothing outstanding > right now ... A bug in the information schema concerni

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > To accomodate ppls travel scheduales, we are going to move the 7.4.1 > > release up to Monday, *unless* there is a report before then about > > something that needs to be fixed first ... we know of nothing outstanding > >

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables,

2003-12-05 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, Marc, Joe: > > > max_function_args - int > > >Shows the maximum number of function arguments > > > max_index_keys - int > > >Shows the maximum number of index keys Have we decoupled these two variables? Last I checked, their values still had to be identical. If they have not

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Friday, December 05, 2003 12:47:40 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To accomodate ppls travel scheduales, we are going to move the 7.4.1 release up to Monday, *unless* there is a report before then about something that needs to be fixed first ... we know of nothing outst

[HACKERS] 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...

2003-12-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
To accomodate ppls travel scheduales, we are going to move the 7.4.1 release up to Monday, *unless* there is a report before then about something that needs to be fixed first ... we know of nothing outstanding right now ... This means it will be tag'd/bundled on Sunday ... Marc G. Fournie

[HACKERS] 7.4.1 looking good for Wednesday?

2003-12-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
As Tom mentioned previous, we are aiming for 7.4.1 on Wednesday of next week ... is anyone sitting on anything that they feel *just has to* be in it? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy I

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG/PATCH] backend crashes during authentication if data/global/pg_pwd is empty

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
> Hm, Solaris' bsearch() fails on empty input? How bizarre. I was skeptical but apparently this is a known bug ... googling turned up a couple of references, eg http://www.opencm.org/pipermail/opencm-dev/2002-July/001077.html regards, tom lane ---

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG/PATCH] backend crashes during authentication if data/global/pg_pwd is empty

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Wildpaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + /* fail if there is nothing to search in */ > + if ((user_sorted == NULL) || (user_length == 0)) > + return NULL; Hm, Solaris' bsearch() fails on empty input? How bizarre. Easily worked around though --- thanks for the report!

[HACKERS] [BUG/PATCH] backend crashes during authentication if data/global/pg_pwd is empty

2003-12-05 Thread Michael Wildpaner
Hi, on Solaris 9 with PostgreSQL 7.4: when you - 'initdb' a fresh database, - _don't_ set a password for user 'postgres', - convert the 'trust' lines in data/pg_hba.conf to 'md5' or 'password' and then try to connect as user 'postgres', the backend crashes in backend/libpq/hba.c:372:

[HACKERS] why I need col. def. list with setof record?

2003-12-05 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello I know so I need to use column definition list when I have SRF function without def of own type. But I don't understand why. In my SRF function I specify all informations about columns? TupleDescInitEntry (tupdesc, 1, "idn", INT4OID, -1, 0, false); TupleDescInitEntry (tupdesc,

[HACKERS] OpenFTS-perl-0.35 released

2003-12-05 Thread Oleg Bartunov
OpenFTS development team is proud to announce release of OpenFTS 0.35 perl version - open-source full text search engine for PostgreSQL. Download from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30968 Major changes: * use contrib/tsearch2 * ispell dictionary supports compound words