Re: [HACKERS] pl/pgsql: END verbosity

2005-06-23 Thread Neil Conway
Jan Wieck wrote: But what if they decide to allow LOOP -- ... IF condition THEN EXIT; END LOOP; at some point? There you'd get ambiguity. ISTM this would be ambiguous in any case: IF condition1 THEN foo; IF condition2 THEN bar; END IF; -Neil

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote: both directions (X and Y) for 1-D inquiries. The same problems exist in the contrib/rtree_gist implementation, because it just copied the r-tree logic without inquiring too closely into it :-( you're right, it was the beginning of our GiST experiments. Lat

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, TODO has: * Fix incorrect rtree results due to wrong assumptions about "over" operator semantics [rtree] --- Tom Lane wrote: > Hmmm ... just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... >

Re: [HACKERS] pl/pgsql: END verbosity

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:41, Neil Conway wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > But this doesn't make it easier to use - users don't just include those > > who write it. The antecedent language of these, Ada, from which this > > syntax comes, was explicitly designed to be reader-friendly as opposed

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 23 June 2005 14:21, Josh Berkus wrote: > Denis, all, > > > I got to thinking it¹d be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive > > debugger for pl/pgsql.  If anyone¹s interested in expertly tackling such > > a community project, with some financial sponsorship from EDB, please > > conta

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, I cannot believe these numbers --- the near equality of > fsync off and fsync on means there is something very wrong with the > measurements. What I suspect is that your ATA drives are doing write > caching and thus the "fsyncs" are not really

Re: [HACKERS] COPY FROM performance improvements

2005-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Sounds great! --- Alon Goldshuv wrote: > This is a second iteration of a previous thread that didn't resolve few > weeks ago. I made some more modifications to the code to make it compatible > with the current COPY FROM code

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Rod Taylor
> That might be explained by this 8.0.2/7.4.8 fix: > This does bring up a question for Rod: have you installed a release > including the above fix, and if so have you noticed the > crash-after-SIGTERM problem since then? We skipped 8.0.2 and went to 8.0.3 near the beginning of the month. We we

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I once noticed that there was something weird of Lock in win32 pg8.0.1. If > you have many connections work concurrently intensively(say contrib/pgbench) > and do fast shutdown in the middle, you will see an assertation failure > here: > if (lock->nRe

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] EUC_JP and SJIS conversion improvement

2005-06-23 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> The character-code conversion from EUC_JP to SJIS is executed by > converting two stages. The first stage is conversion from EUC_JP to MIC. > The next stage is conversion from MIC to SJIS. (Conversion from SJIS to > EUC_JP is also similar.) > > It is not so efficient, because it is necessary to

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make REINDEX DATABASE do what one would expect,

2005-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Do we need to adjust /contrib/reindexdb? The README now is inaccurate, and perhaps it should use the new syntax. --- Tom Lane wrote: > Log Message: > --- > Make REINDEX DATABASE do what one would expect, namely rein

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Fix rtree and contrib/rtree_gist search behavior for the 1-D box

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2005-06-24, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Log Message: > --- > Fix rtree and contrib/rtree_gist search behavior for the 1-D box and > polygon operators (<<, &<, >>, &>). Per ideas originally put forward > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] and later rediscovered by moi. This patch just > fix

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > Hmph. No obvious reason why that would be platform-dependent. Is it > completely repeatable for you? (You might try the advice I just gave > Dave Cramer: make distclean and rebuild to ensure you've got fully > consistent bits ...) > I once noticed that

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This won't work - it would miss the validators. Slightly more complex > than I thought. Well, there's always the brute-force solution: regression=# explain analyze select * from pg_proc WHERE NOT proisagg AND (pronamespace != (select oid from pg_name

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> But is it really a problem? I somewhere got the impression that some > >>> drives, on power failure, will be able to keep going for long enough to > >>> write out the cache and park the he

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2005-06-24, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there any reason for us to keep putting the language handler >> functions in the public schema? > > I believe one of the issues there is that pg_dump doesn't dump functions > that are in pg_catalo

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I wrote: Hmm. Could we not just add something this condition: or pg_catalog.format_type(prorettype, NULL) != 'language_handler' in pg_dump.c around line 2191? This won't work - it would miss the validators. Slightly more complex than I thought. cheers andrew ---

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. Could we not just add something this condition: > or pg_catalog.format_type(prorettype, NULL) != 'language_handler' > in pg_dump.c around line 2191? You forgot about the validators, which are not so easily identified. rega

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The reason I question "automatic" is that you really want to test each >> drive being used, if the system has more than one; but Postgres has no >> idea what the actual hardware layout is, and so no good way to know what >> needs to be tested. > Some fol

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there any reason for us to keep putting the language handler functions in the public schema? I believe one of the issues there is that pg_dump doesn't dump functions that are in pg_catalog. You could possibly fix it to m

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Unfortunately, I cannot believe these numbers --- the near equality of > >> fsync off and fsync on means there is something very wrong with the > >> measurements. What I suspect is that your ATA

Re: [HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason for us to keep putting the language handler > functions in the public schema? I believe one of the issues there is that pg_dump doesn't dump functions that are in pg_catalog. You could possibly fix it to make an exception for funct

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Hmmm ... just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... I was only looking closely at the "box" case earlier today, assuming that the polygon code was set up identically. Well, it isn't. In particular it appears that the poly_overleft and poly_overright definitions are different f

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-06-23, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I looked into the r-tree breakage discussed in this thread: >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-03/msg01135.php > See also http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00

[HACKERS] language handlers in public schema?

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Is there any reason for us to keep putting the language handler functions in the public schema? If they were put in, say, pg_catalog (as I see Peter's pl/sh language does for its handler) then the public schema could be dropped by people who want to do that with no ill effect, AFAICS. cheer

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Fixing the existing operators seems relatively straightforward; there will >> need to be some extension to rtstrat.c to represent "NOT this operator" >> as well as "this operator", but that's not

Re: [HACKERS] GiST rtree logic is not right

2005-06-23 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be a lot easier to sell that if it gave the right answers ;-) Of course given that the real rtree index gives the wrong answers perhaps moving rtree_gist into core (after fixing this) is just a bug fix :) -- greg ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Fixing the existing operators seems relatively straightforward; there will > need to be some extension to rtstrat.c to represent "NOT this operator" > as well as "this operator", but that's not hard. I plan to do this, and > make the co

Re: [HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2005-06-23, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked into the r-tree breakage discussed in this thread: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-03/msg01135.php See also http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00328.php in which I made most of the same points. Not

[HACKERS] Fixing r-tree semantics

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
I looked into the r-tree breakage discussed in this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-03/msg01135.php The executive summary: r-tree index opclasses contain four two-dimensional operators, which behave correctly, and four one-dimensional operators which do not. There is a b

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: It's not 100% repeatable, but I have seen it about 60% of the time over 8 or 10 runs. But now I can't reproduce it at all. :-( cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I just got this regression failure on Windows: namespace.c::RelationIsVisible - line 319 Hmph. No obvious reason why that would be platform-dependent. Is it completely repeatable for you? (You might try the

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would testing in the WAL directory be sufficient? Or at least better > than nothing? Of course we could test in the database directories as > well, but you never know if stuff's been symlinked elsewhere... err, we > can test for that, no? > > In any cas

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Denis, all, > I got to thinking it¹d be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive > debugger for pl/pgsql.  If anyone¹s interested in expertly tackling such a > community project, with some financial sponsorship from EDB, please contact > me privately. Just FYI, EMS Hitech has a windows-only PL/p

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I just got this regression failure on Windows: > namespace.c::RelationIsVisible - line 319 Hmph. No obvious reason why that would be platform-dependent. Is it completely repeatable for you? (You might try the advice I just gave Dave Cramer: make d

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Jonah H. Harris
Alvaro, I agree, a protocol seems to generally be the best option. -Jonah Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:40:18PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Denis Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 suppor

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I just got this regression failure on Windows: If it's repeatable, could you get a debugger stack trace from the errfinish call? Or even just add "\set VERBOSITY verbose" to the test script so we can tell which of the many

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:40:18PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > >Denis Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive > >>debugger for pl/pgsql. > > > >That's been kicked around before, although I don'

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: Denis Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive debugger for pl/pgsql. That's been kicked around before, although I don't think anyone wants to tie it to pgAdmin specifically. Check the archives... I d

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Removing Kerberos 4

2005-06-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Has Kerb4 been marked as depricated in the docs at all? If > not it might be best to just do that and then yank it later. Yes, since 7.4. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/auth-methods.html#KERBEROS-AUT H http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/auth-methods.html#KERBEROS-AUT H "Ker

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think pg_dump should add the check constraints in the same manner as > it does triggers. > Bruce, do we have a TODO item for this? No, because that idea has been proposed and rejected before --- it adds overhead (extra table scans) and reduces readability

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

2005-06-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:50:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The reason I question "automatic" is that you really want to test each > drive being used, if the system has more than one; but Postgres has no > idea what the actual hardware layout is, and so no good way to know what > needs to be tested

Re: [HACKERS] pl/pgsql: END verbosity

2005-06-23 Thread Jan Wieck
On 6/22/2005 1:29 AM, Neil Conway wrote: Tom Lane wrote: The long-term point in my mind is that removing syntactical redundancy always reduces the ability to detect errors or report errors acccurately Lexical scoping is unambiguous in a language like PL/PgSQL. Since it is simple to determine

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Removing Kerberos 4

2005-06-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:39:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah. But it has been declared dead by the Kerberos folks > > (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/kerberos-faq/general/section-7.html. And this > > document is from 2000, an dit was declared already

Re: [HACKERS] The contrib hit list

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Euler Taveira de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyone want to get to work on replacing reindexdb or userlock? >> > I'll submit a replacement for reindexdb ASAP. OK. Note I committed the previously discussed REINDEX DATABASE/SYSTEM changes yesterday, so you might be able to use that.

Re: [HACKERS] The contrib hit list

2005-06-23 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Hi Tom, > Anyone want to get to work on replacing reindexdb or userlock? > I'll submit a replacement for reindexdb ASAP. Euler Taveira de Oliveira euler[at]yahoo_com_br ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Jan Wieck
Added pgsql-hackers Added Bruce Momjian On 6/23/2005 12:19 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: The question I have is how exactly you manage to get the trigger fired when restoring the dump. By default, the dump created by pg_dump will create the table, fill in the data and create the trigger(s) only afte

Re: [HACKERS] Strange logic for partial index proving

2005-06-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 16:13:24 +0800, laser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This thread make me to think about the question: > could this "feature" be used in select count(*) type > query that force it to use index? count(*) can already be helped by indexes, but probably not the way you think.

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:08:55AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I just got this regression failure on Windows: Maybe it has to do with being unable to drop the relcache file? > == pgsql.2220/src/test/regress/regression.diffs > === > *** ./expected/prepared_xact

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just got this regression failure on Windows: If it's repeatable, could you get a debugger stack trace from the errfinish call? Or even just add "\set VERBOSITY verbose" to the test script so we can tell which of the many instances of that string this

Re: [HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cramer
That worked, thanks Interestingly enough I specified --with-pgport=5433 and it used 5432 instead ? ./configure --prefix=/Users/davec/projects/postgres/pghead/pgsql -- with-pg-port=5433 --enable-debug This configure line worked on linux Dave On 23-Jun-05, at 10:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Dav

Re: [HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interestingly enough I specified --with-pgport=5433 and it used 5432 > instead ? Maybe you have PGPORT=5432 in your environment? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: i

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive debugger > for pl/pgsql. That's been kicked around before, although I don't think anyone wants to tie it to pgAdmin specifically. Check the archives... regards,

[HACKERS] regression failure

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I just got this regression failure on Windows: == pgsql.2220/src/test/regress/regression.diffs === *** ./expected/prepared_xacts.out Thu Jun 23 10:20:28 2005 --- ./results/prepared_xacts.outThu Jun 23 10:45:06 2005 *** *** 179,189 -- Commi

Re: [HACKERS] Strange logic for partial index proving

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Tom Lane wrote: Richard Huxton writes: laser wrote: Aggregate (cost=19638.60..19638.60 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=1567.317..1567.318 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on partial_idx_t (cost=1.00..18327.88 rows=524288 width=0) (actual time=0.046..906.747 rows=524288 loops=1) To

Re: [HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am getting the following error > initializing pg_depend ... FATAL: plan requires more slots than are > available make distclean ... rebuild ... if it's still there after that, let us know. regards, tom lane --

Re: [HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX, addendum

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cramer
Same code works fine on linux looking at execTuple this error should not occur Dave On 23-Jun-05, at 8:42 AM, Dave Cramer wrote: I am getting the following error initializing pg_depend ... FATAL: plan requires more slots than are available This is a laptop, and may be a result of not ha

Re: [HACKERS] Strange logic for partial index proving

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton writes: > laser wrote: >> Aggregate (cost=13933.39..13933.39 rows=1 width=0) (actual >> time=1901.761..1901.762 rows=1 loops=1) >> -> Index Scan using partial_idx on partial_idx_t (cost=0.00..12622.93 >> rows=524183 width=0) (actual time=0.130..1230.634 rows=524288 loops=1) >> Index

[HACKERS] PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

2005-06-23 Thread Denis Lussier
Title: PL/pgSQL Debugger Support Hi All, Sorry if this isn’t the right forum for this question...  But, I noticed that Alvaro wrote  “... we don't have good debugging support in pl/pgsql ...” I got to thinking it’d be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive debugger for pl/pgsql.  If anyone

Re: [HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX, update

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cramer
Same code works fine on linux Looking at execTuples this error should never happen Dave On 23-Jun-05, at 8:42 AM, Dave Cramer wrote: I am getting the following error initializing pg_depend ... FATAL: plan requires more slots than are available This is a laptop, and may be a result of not

Re: [HACKERS] GiST rtree logic is not right

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
"John Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'll look at problem after GiST concurrency. Fixing >> rtree_gist is bug a fix, not a new feature, so I'm not >> limited by 1 July. > Wont fixing rtree(_gist) require initdb, since the behaviour of the > operators will change? Possibly, but we never

Re: [HACKERS] GiST rtree logic is not right

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov writes: > something is broken in HEAD. I recall it worked in STABLE, here is what I have No, actually it is broken in 8.0 too. The difference is that 8.0 defaults to not using an indexscan for this query. In 8.0 I see: regression=# set enable_seqscan TO 1; SET regression=# explai

[HACKERS] HEAD initdb failing on OSX

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cramer
I am getting the following error initializing pg_depend ... FATAL: plan requires more slots than are available This is a laptop, and may be a result of not having enough shared mem available ? Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe

Re: [HACKERS] HOOKS for Synchronous Replication

2005-06-23 Thread Neil Conway
Alfranio Correia Junior wrote: I think it is ok now. However, I corrected the indentation manually. I could not run some of the tools, namely the "entab". /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/include/varargs.h:4:2: #error "GCC no longer implements ." /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3

Re: [HACKERS] Strange logic for partial index proving

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Huxton
laser wrote: > This thread make me to think about the question: > could this "feature" be used in select count(*) type > query that force it to use index? No. Because of issues with concurrent updates to the table. See archives for discussion. > I make a little test, but found a strange phenoment

Re: [HACKERS] commit_delay, siblings

2005-06-23 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > together with some kind of IPC to waken backends once xlog was flushed > past the point they needed. (Designing that is the hard part.) > I think we could use ProcSendSignal()/ProcWaitForSignal() mechanism to cope with the problem, because they won't l

Re: [HACKERS] Strange logic for partial index proving

2005-06-23 Thread laser
This thread make me to think about the question: could this "feature" be used in select count(*) type query that force it to use index? I make a little test, but found a strange phenoment, created a simple table: create table partial_idx_t(id serial, f1 integer, f2 text); then insert many rows

Re: [HACKERS] GiST rtree logic is not right

2005-06-23 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Hmm, something is broken in HEAD. I recall it worked in STABLE, here is what I have Welcome to psql 8.0.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolo