Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > Basically reading a large table off disk does this: > read some table while not processing > process in cpu while not reading > read some more table while not processing > process some more in cpu while not reading > etc. > resulting in an I/O througput graph that looks like

Re: [HACKERS] Tru64/Alpha problems

2006-04-07 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'd like to know some settings that we can use that will get Tru64 cleanly through the buildfarm set. If noone offers any, I propose that we revert the getaddrinfo() test in configure and use our own on Tru64 until they do. I have

Re: [HACKERS] please actualize FAQ, broken urls

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:10, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > 1.11) How can I learn SQL? > ... > There is also a nice tutorial at > http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm, at > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/graeme_birchall/HTM_COOK.HTM, and > at http://sqlcourse.com. > > fir

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-07 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 4/7/06, Josh Berkus wrote: > So even on a single seq scan, parallel query > execution would make a significant difference > in performance, possibly as > much as +75% on seq scans of large tables. I've been looking at several commercial systems which employ dynamic partitioning for sequential

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Qingquing, > First, I want to second Jonah's enthusiasm. This is very exciting! Me, three! I didn't think this was ever going to come to Postgres absent major corporate funding. > This is really only a gut feeling for me (it can't be otherwise, since > we can't yet test), but I think parallel

[HACKERS] please actualize FAQ, broken urls

2006-04-07 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 1.11) How can I learn SQL? ... There is also a nice tutorial at http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm, at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/graeme_birchall/HTM_COOK.HTM, and at http://sqlcourse.com. first link is broken, second moved Regards Pavel Stehule _

[HACKERS] FW: [GENERAL] stored proc vs sql query string

2006-04-07 Thread Jim Nasby
Can someone drop this puppy? > -Original Message- > From: System Administrator > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Undeliverable:Re: [GENERAL] stored proc vs sql query string > > Your message did not reach some or all of the inten

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On 4/6/06, Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ""Jonah H. Harris"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > Great work! I had looked into this a little bit and came to the same > > ideas/problems you did, but none of them seemed insurmountable at all. > > I'd be interested in working with you o

Re: [HACKERS] WAL Bypass for indexes

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Nicolas Barbier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2006/4/3, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> AFAICS there are no circumstances, ever, in which update-in-place is >> "safe". (No transaction can guarantee that it will commit.) > Updates to row values that did not "escape" the currect transaction > ye

Re: [HACKERS] GIN - Generalized Inverted iNdex.

2006-04-07 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:05:12PM +0400, Teodor Sigaev wrote: We (me and Oleg) are glad to present GIN to PostgreSQL. If community will agree, we will commit it to HEAD branch. http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/gin.gz http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/README

Re: [HACKERS] GIN - Generalized Inverted iNdex.

2006-04-07 Thread Oleg Bartunov
One addition - some results of Gin testing is available: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/GinTest Oleg On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Teodor Sigaev wrote: We (me and Oleg) are glad to present GIN to PostgreSQL. If community will agree, we will commit it to HEAD branch. http://www.sigaev.

Re: [HACKERS] WAL Bypass for indexes

2006-04-07 Thread Nicolas Barbier
2006/4/3, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > we're working on a prototype to reduce WAL I/O and index updates in a > > large percentage of OLTP situations by employing an update-in-place > > under *safe* conditions. > > AFAICS there are no circumstanc

Re: [HACKERS] GIN - Generalized Inverted iNdex.

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:05:12PM +0400, Teodor Sigaev wrote: > We (me and Oleg) are glad to present GIN to PostgreSQL. If community will > agree, we will commit it to HEAD branch. > > http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/gin.gz > http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/README Fantastic! I was thinking about this a while

Re: [HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-07 Thread Mario Weilguni
to_timestamp is only for Oracle compatibility? I always thought it's some sort of sql standard. What's the sql compliant way to do this? Regards, mario weilguni -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Tom Lane Gesendet: Freitag,

[HACKERS] GIN - Generalized Inverted iNdex.

2006-04-07 Thread Teodor Sigaev
We (me and Oleg) are glad to present GIN to PostgreSQL. If community will agree, we will commit it to HEAD branch. http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/gin.gz http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/README Install: % cd pgsql % zcat gin.gz | patch -p0 make and initdb README: Gin for PostgreSQL Gin stands for Generali

Re: [HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-07 Thread Adrian Maier
On 4/7/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think all except the first one should raise a warning, isn't it? > > to_timestamp (and friends) all seem to me to act pretty bizarre when > faced with input that doesn't match the given format string.

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation Error)

2006-04-07 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Magnus Hagander > Sent: 07 April 2006 13:00 > To: Jim C. Nasby > Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] > BUG #2374: Installation Error) >

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation Error)

2006-04-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > Now, it would certainly help if more people could actually help in > > *answering* the bugs/questions that are posted :), but that's a > > different question... > > Well, that's my primary concern. It seems that people aren't > replying to bugs posted -bugs about the windows installer. I >

Re: [HACKERS] pgadmin III's Chinese simplified translations

2006-04-07 Thread Dave Page
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ???Sent: 06 April 2006 10:24To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.orgSubject: [HACKERS] pgadmin III's Chinese simplified translations i have continued  the pgadmin III's Chinese simplified translations,hope this