[HACKERS] LWLockRelease

2005-02-02 Thread Simon Riggs
A few thoughts on LWLock data structures... In lwlock.c we hold a list of lwlocks held: held_lwlocks[MAX_SIMUL_LWLOCKS] where #define MAX_SIMUL_LWLOCKS 100 The code for LWLockRelease assumes that the last acquired lock will always be the first one to be released, and uses an O(N) loop to s

[HACKERS] LWLock cache line alignment

2005-02-02 Thread Simon Riggs
Following some advice from Intel, http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/technologies/threading /20469.htm?page=2 I'm looking at whether the LWLock data structures may be within the same cache line. Intel uses 128 byte cache lines on its high end processors. slru.c uses BUFFERALIGN wh

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Uh, if we bump up the major library version in 8.0.X, will that > require 8.0.0 user applications to be recompiled? No, they just keep using the old library. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
3. When the default is changed, the dependency is updated to reflect the new sequence. The old sequence is left intact as an independent object. What exactly is the use-case of that (or any other manipulation of a serial column's default)? There is no point that I can see in just rolling one

Re: [HACKERS] fatal: cache id 30 (or alike)

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
G u i d o B a r o s i o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Following belows thread > http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg43381.html > I am experiencing the same problem on a brand new, extremely fresh, solaris > 5.9 and PostgreSQL 7.4.6 box. > As expected, the problem was solv

Re: [HACKERS] Crash when inserting gist records, or creating index on ( int, geom )

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Robin Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed PostGIS, which appeared to work just fine. The I > installed contrib/btree_gist, and since then I've had issues. > PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66 > Would you have any advice for me? Try a more modern Po

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Tom! Tom Lane [2005-02-02 12:01 -0500]: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What would you propose as a solution? > > Do nothing. That's unfortunately not an option. > The problem you are raising isn't very serious since > RPM-style installations don't support concurrent installa

[HACKERS] fatal: cache id 30 (or alike)

2005-02-02 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
Following belows thread http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg43381.html I am experiencing the same problem on a brand new, extremely fresh, solaris 5.9 and PostgreSQL 7.4.6 box. As expected, the problem was solved when passing the -d [1-5] to the postmaster. But... I was

[HACKERS] Crash when inserting gist records, or creating index on ( int, geom )

2005-02-02 Thread Robin Chauhan
I tried asking on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and Mark Cave-Ayland suggested I ask you folks. I installed PostGIS, which appeared to work just fine. The I installed contrib/btree_gist, and since then I've had issues. Some background: My postgres setup is on Red Hat linux, installed from RPMs. It is a s

Re: [HACKERS] unicode upper/lower functions

2005-02-02 Thread John Hansen
uhmm,... Forgot to change the copyright. Please accept this under the same terms as postgresql itself. ... John ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressH

Re: [HACKERS] weird behaviour on DISTINCT ON

2005-02-02 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: | Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |>my warning was due the fact that in the docs is written nowhere this |>drawback. | | | The SELECT reference page already says that the output rows are computed | before applying ORDER BY

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! (sorry for the additional addresses; I'm not subscribed to -hackers, so my mail will last a while until it arrives there). Tom Lane [2005-02-02 11:07 -0500]: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin Pitt has detected that the libpq API has changed incompatibly > > between 7.4

Re: [HACKERS] subselects in the target list

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> The syntax you are showing is designed >> to return a scalar. It will (and should) barf on multiple rows as well >> as multiple columns. > I don't understand; the example I posted is of an SRF that ret

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > This suffers from the same problems that currval does when using > connection pools tho. I still don't see this as much of a real world problem however, more of a "doctor, it hurts when I do this" variety. As the DBD::Pg docs point out, you sho

Re: [HACKERS] subselects in the target list

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > The syntax you are showing is designed > to return a scalar. It will (and should) barf on multiple rows as well > as multiple columns. I don't understand; the example I posted is of an SRF that returns multiple rows of multiple columns, which i

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> ISTM this is a bug, but it's not clear to me what is the solution. >> I can think of two: >> >> 1. Changing the default is forbidden >> 2. When the default is changed, the dependency on the sequence is >> dropped, and the seq

Re: [HACKERS] subselects in the target list

2005-02-02 Thread John Hansen
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > neilc=# select a, (select * from abc) from abc; > > ERROR: subquery must return only one column > > > Is there a reason we can't treat a subselect in the target list as > > returning a composite type?

Re: [HACKERS] subselects in the target list

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > neilc=# select a, (select * from abc) from abc; > ERROR: subquery must return only one column > Is there a reason we can't treat a subselect in the target list as > returning a composite type? Given the 8.0 infrastructure for unnamed record types it migh

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:49:59PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >>It is not pilot error if PostgreSQL allows it. There is > >>nothing "illegal" about the above commands in their execution. > >>The

[HACKERS] subselects in the target list

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Conway
This behavior seems inconsistent: neilc=# create table abc (a int, b int); CREATE TABLE neilc=# create function foo_abc() returns setof abc as 'select * from abc' language sql; CREATE FUNCTION neilc=# insert into abc values (5, 10); INSERT 17234 1 neilc=# insert into abc values (10, 20); INSERT 17

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Stark
Bruce Momjian writes: > In fact by upping the major every time will 7.2 clients automatically use > the 7.3 libpq or will they have to be relinked? If you do not bump the soname then 7.2 clients will automatically immediately start using the new library when it's installed. (actually when ldconf

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Well, if you just want to bump libpq's SO_MAJOR_VERSION, I won't > > > object. > > > > Yes. Unless someone objects, I will do that for 8.0.* and 8.1.*. > > I am thinking we should up the 8.0.* and 8.1.* releases to have the

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... If they don't have > > different sonames, then we declare that they are compatible, so it > > should be OK to have only the latest version installed. That requires > > us to stay honest with the sonames, but it does not requ

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread John Hansen
> Attempts to return the id of the last value to be inserted into a table. > You can either provide a sequence name (preferred) or provide a table > name with optional schema. The $catalog and $field arguments are always > ignored. > The current value of the sequence is returned by a call to the >

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merlin Moncur wrote: > That is a shortcoming of the DBD::pg driver which really should be > returning a key (comprised of columns, some or none of which may be > defaulted by the server). Actually, the spec comes from DBI, not DBD::Pg, and is ins

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: It is not pilot error if PostgreSQL allows it. There is nothing "illegal" about the above commands in their execution. The pg_dump application should recognize that the object has changed and react accordingly

[HACKERS] unicode upper/lower functions

2005-02-02 Thread John Hansen
Hi list, Attached for your perusal, unicode versions of upper/lower, that work independent of locale except for the following languages: Turkish, Azeri, and Lithuanian. There are 15 locale specific cases in total not covered. -- John Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GeekNET collate.tar.gz Descrip

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... If they don't have > different sonames, then we declare that they are compatible, so it > should be OK to have only the latest version installed. That requires > us to stay honest with the sonames, but it does not require us to > increase the

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Well, if you just want to bump libpq's SO_MAJOR_VERSION, I won't > > object. > > Yes. Unless someone objects, I will do that for 8.0.* and 8.1.*. I am thinking we should up the 8.0.* and 8.1.* releases to have the same major number, but not make a ma

Re: [HACKERS] FunctionCallN improvement.

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
a_ogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Based on this I think we ought to go with the "unrolled" approach, > I agree. The unrolled approach is a good result in most environments. I have committed changes along this line in HEAD and 8_0 branches. > First of all, this macro will

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > According to our RELEASE_CHANGES documentation: > > > The major version number should be updated whenever the > source of the > > library changes to make it binary incompatible. Such > changes include, > > but are not limited to: > > > 1. Removing a public functi

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > It is not pilot error if PostgreSQL allows it. There is > nothing "illegal" about the above commands in their execution. > The pg_dump application should recognize that the object has > changed and react accordingly. ISTM this is

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > Well, if you just want to bump libpq's SO_MAJOR_VERSION, I won't > object. Yes. Unless someone objects, I will do that for 8.0.* and 8.1.*. > The Linux conventions for library names, for one, > essentially require us to bump SO_MAJOR_VERSION for every release if > we want to ha

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
create table foo (foo serial not null, bar text); create sequence foo_seq; alter table foo alter column foo set default nextval('foo_seq'); This is flat out pilot error: you do not get to mess with the default expression of a SERIAL column, because it's part of the internal implementation of

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Merlin Moncure
> This "portable" function is so unportable that I see no reason to > accept it as precedent. Hm. Instead of altering the syntax, what slipping in the last inserted/updated tuple into the PQResult object? Maybe is a protocol level option? Now everybody gets to use it with minimal muss. Merlin

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However if you do the following: > create table foo (foo serial not null, bar text); > create sequence foo_seq; > alter table foo alter column foo set default nextval('foo_seq'); This is flat out pilot error: you do not get to mess with the default

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is from the DBI documentation -- that is, the non-driver-specific > abstract interface documentation. >Returns a value 'identifying' the row just inserted, if possible. >Typically this would be a value assigned by the database s

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Jowett
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How is what you're suggesting more portable? Well, the driver would be free to implement $sth->last_insert_id() using whatever proprietary extensions it has available. The non-portableness would at least be

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Merlin Moncure
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> How is what you're suggesting more portable? > For postgres it looks like currently it requires you to pass in the table > and > field might even need a "driver-spe

[HACKERS] pg_dump bug in 7.3.9 with sequences

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Ran into this little gem with a customer today: This works: create table foo (foo int not null, bar text); create sequence foo_seq; alter table foo alter column foo set default nextval('foo_seq'); pg_dump will correctly dump the table: CREATE TABLE foo ( foo integer DEFAULT nextval('foo_s

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How is what you're suggesting more portable? > > > Well, the driver would be free to implement $sth->last_insert_id() using > > whatever proprietary extensions it has avail

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > The only downside I see to bumping the major > number each time is that the major number could get pretty big. Do > the dynamic library systems handle two-digit library version numbers > properly? MySQL's client library is at 12, so I don't see a problem. -- Peter Eisentr

Re: [HACKERS] Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema

2005-02-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Why is that a problem? The complaint seems about analogous to saying > we should not have groups because you can't REVOKE rights from an > individual user if he has them via a group membership. Oh, mostly I'm just bitching because I had seeing a new feature I can't use ;-) -- Josh Berk

Re: [HACKERS] Connect By for 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > I notice the CONNECT BY patch has been updated for 8.0: > > http://gppl.moonbone.ru/ > > Seriously, we really need to get this into 8.1. Convert it to the > standard WITH RECURSIVE syntax if necessary... Yep, we are just waiting for someone to do the work. --

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement suggestion

2005-02-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:50:16AM -0800, Dann Corbit wrote: > Obviously, you cannot create ordering in hash indexes, which is why > nobody else does that either. > > The list of relational database systems that offer asc/desc on btree > index files is quite extensive. How many in that list allow

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > According to our RELEASE_CHANGES documentation: > > > The major version number should be updated whenever the source of the > > library changes to make it binary incompatible. Such changes include, > > but are not limited to: >

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > According to our RELEASE_CHANGES documentation: > The major version number should be updated whenever the source of the > library changes to make it binary incompatible. Such changes include, > but are not limited to: > 1. Removing

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We can rectify the mistake, but then we need to change the SONAME. > > That's what it's for. > > Well, if you just want to bump libpq's SO_MAJOR_VERSION, I won't object. > > This brings up a point that I think has been discussed

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We can rectify the mistake, but then we need to change the SONAME. > That's what it's for. Well, if you just want to bump libpq's SO_MAJOR_VERSION, I won't object. This brings up a point that I think has been discussed before: we operate on the ass

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement suggestion

2005-02-02 Thread Dann Corbit
Obviously, you cannot create ordering in hash indexes, which is why nobody else does that either. The list of relational database systems that offer asc/desc on btree index files is quite extensive. The list of relational database systems that do not offer it is: 1. PostgreSQL 2. ? It will mak

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What would you propose as a solution? > > Do nothing. The problem you are raising isn't very serious since > RPM-style installations don't support concurrent installation of > multiple PG versions anyway. That being the case, it doesn'

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Added to release checklist: > > * Update inet/cidr data types with newest Bind patches > > You should also add "check for zic database updates". Uh, we already have: * Update timezone data to match latest zic database (see src/ti

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement suggestion

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allow ASC/DESC direction modifiers for index columns. We aren't going to do that, because it would be a meaningless concept for indexes that don't impose a linear sort order (which is to say, everything except btrees). The concept that actually fits int

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:56:20AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> His point stands though: if you are accessing Postgres through some kind > >> of connection-pooling software, currval() cannot be trusted across > >> transaction boundaries,

[HACKERS] Enhancement suggestion

2005-02-02 Thread Dann Corbit
Allow ASC/DESC direction modifiers for index columns.   Almost every database has this, and it is a pest to have to write a function for every index column you want descending.   Now, it is not technically difficult (nothing more than –compare(x,y) instead of compare(x,y) to produce the

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Merlin Moncure
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING" isn't something a driver can take advantage > of. > It would require it to modify your statements which it can't do safely. So > your application would have such non-portable SQL code written into it. > Switch > databases and yo

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How is what you're suggesting more portable? > Well, the driver would be free to implement $sth->last_insert_id() using > whatever proprietary extensions it has available. The non-portableness would > at least be hidd

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3.8 under FC3 takes excessive semaphores?

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 31 January 2005 16:35 > > To: Mark Cave-Ayland > > Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.3.8 under FC3 takes excessive semaphores? > > (cut) > > > Judging by t

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i have two suggestions. first, look at the rest of the current source file, > > in case there are other fixes. > > Right, I already grabbed the latest. > > > second, track changes this source file during > > your release engineering pr

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Added to release checklist: > * Update inet/cidr data types with newest Bind patches You should also add "check for zic database updates". regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would you propose as a solution? Do nothing. The problem you are raising isn't very serious since RPM-style installations don't support concurrent installation of multiple PG versions anyway. That being the case, it doesn't really matter whether 8.0

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How is what you're suggesting more portable? Well, the driver would be free to implement $sth->last_insert_id() using whatever proprietary extensions it has available. The non-portableness would at least be hidden in the driver layer. Switch out the driver

Re: [HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Pitt has detected that the libpq API has changed incompatibly > between 7.4 and 8.0. This has the effect, for example, that 7.4's psql > cannot run with 8.0's libpq. [ shrug... ] I don't think we've ever guaranteed that anyway. I will resist

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with initdb 8.0.1

2005-02-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote: Hello I have a problem running initdb 8.0.1. I get this error message when I try to run this command in my system: --- -bash-2.05b$ /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb The program "postgres" is needed by

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with initdb 8.0.1

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Rafael Martinez Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we install the binaries for postgres under /local/opt/postgresql/bin, > initdb in this directory will be a symblink to > "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > uxlibc63=20 > and=20 > /local/opt/

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Cave-Ayland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just off the top of my head, would it not be feasible to add a column to > pg_class called lastinsert that points to the OID of the pg_attribute column > to return after an insert? No. The thing everyone is ignoring here is that the INSERT command

Re: [HACKERS] FunctionCallN improvement.

2005-02-02 Thread a_ogawa
Tom Lane wrote: > Based on this I think we ought to go with the "unrolled" approach, ie, > we'll create a macro to initialize the fixed fields of fcinfo but fill > in the arg and argisnull arrays with code like what's already in > FunctionCall2: I agree. The unrolled approach is a good result in

[HACKERS] Problems with initdb 8.0.1

2005-02-02 Thread Rafael Martinez Guerrero
Hello I have a problem running initdb 8.0.1. I get this error message when I try to run this command in my system: --- -bash-2.05b$ /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the

[HACKERS] libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martin Pitt has detected that the libpq API has changed incompatibly between 7.4 and 8.0. This has the effect, for example, that 7.4's psql cannot run with 8.0's libpq. Example: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/peter/devel/pg80/pg-install/lib /home/peter/devel/pg74/pg-install/bin/psql --help /home/peter

Re: [HACKERS] Our getopt_long() doesn't do abbreviations or NLS

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > I seem to recall that there was some special consideration for files > that would conditionally show up in multiple executables. Or were > you going to fix that by having just one .mo file for all the > clients? The current method is to explicitly register the source file in eac

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Hi Tom and others, > I think the correct solution is not to mess with what's admittedly a legacy aspect of > our client API. Instead we should invent the "INSERT RETURNING" and "UPDATE RETURNING" > commands that have been discussed repeatedly (see the pghackers archives). That would > allow peop