Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Fix for large file support (nonsegment mode support)

2008-03-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ackups. By my reading, GNU tar handles larger files and no-one else (not even a POSIX standard tar) can... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > boarding. Thank you

Re: [HACKERS] Commit fest?

2008-03-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
will try again. I wonder if you've fixed it but looking at the source it references an external JS file at http://js-kit.com/comments.js, maybe some security thing? It appears to work by fetch automatically generated JS files from the server to execute. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van

Re: [HACKERS] [NOVICE] encoding problems

2008-03-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
s but in the end we decided it was more important to have the display not messed up than displaying tabs as is. The other alternative is to convert tabs to spaces on output. Can't remember why we didn't do that. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [HACKERS] Lazy constraints / defaults

2008-03-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
this ALTER command will effectively > rewrite the whole table (to add new not null column). ISTM a while back someone adding a patch that made the above almost instantaneous. Probably remembering wrong though. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kle

Re: [HACKERS] Maximum statistics target

2008-03-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
n seconds to calculate the plans using it? I think Tom pointed there are a few places that are O(n^2) the number entries... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > bo

Re: [HACKERS] Producer/Consumer Issues in the COPY across network

2008-02-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
xpect anything from the server during transmission. That's why I was wondering about the rows per packet. Sending bigger packets reduces overall overhead. (The malloc/free per row doesn't seem too efficient.) Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [HACKERS] Varlena Type Creation

2008-02-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a single text object with the two leading characters signifying something? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Two Coverity Scan volunteers needed

2008-02-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
all the ECPG errors so the developers could fix them. Looking at the latest results it has a lot of warnings about dead-code in libstemmer, which is not entirely surprising given that it's generated code. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svan

Re: [HACKERS] Producer/Consumer Issues in the COPY across network

2008-02-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
> underlying buffering between the protocol (which always sends one > message per row) and libpq (which is one call per row)? It seems > possible for us to request a number of rows from the server up to a > preferred total transfer size. AIUI the server merely streams the rows to

Re: [HACKERS] code cleanup of timestamp code

2008-02-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
here are systems that have broken 64-integer support. Or at least, that's the theory. There was a question recently to check if there really are such systems still running... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who

Re: [HACKERS] Including PL/PgSQL by default

2008-02-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
here... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone view

2008-02-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] wishlist for 8.4

2008-02-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
her languages can do it is because they are typed at run-time, not compile time. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Patch review

2008-02-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
omments, and has stable URLs for every email message? Is there > software I can install on my server to do this? debbugs? *duck* Personally I like trac for its simplicity. You can add comments and post patches and track status. Which seems more than enough for what we do. Have a nice day,

Re: [HACKERS] configurability of OOM killer

2008-02-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
akes effect? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] configurability of OOM killer

2008-02-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
nning database. > I think DBA would need to set maximum shared buffers size > along the normal setting. Shared memory segments can't be resized... There's not even a kernel API to do it. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/k

Re: [HACKERS] Merge condition in postgresql

2008-02-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
27;t think it would meet the standard definition then. The statement shouldn't be able to to see the effects of itself... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

Re: [HACKERS] configurability of OOM killer

2008-02-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
t was designed for: banking on the fact that 99% of the time, that space isn't written to. Overcommit is precisely what makes forking as cheap as threads. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolu

Re: [HACKERS] Limit changes query plan

2008-02-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
s actually taking the time. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. It would mostly be a win for comparing strings since you then don't need to lookup the collation tables as often. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revol

Re: [HACKERS] what is suffix _P in gram.y

2008-01-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
nother context it's common to suffix it with a _P (the P stands for something but I forget what. Predicate?). That way you don't run into unexpected surprises when it compiles with other headers... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] Truncate Triggers

2008-01-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
s that got affected, presumably by NEW representing a tuplestore. How that would work for BEFORE STATEMENT triggers I don't know. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will mak

Re: [HACKERS] Thick indexes - a look at count(1) query

2008-01-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
can get the timings without this > overhead? \timing iirc. Inside psql, check the help. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. &g

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] SHA1 on postgres 8.3

2008-01-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
oes seem a bit wierd to support one but not the other. It's also interesting to note that the implementation in the backed is commented with: > I do not expect this file to be used for general purpose MD5'ing of > large amounts of data, only for generating hashed passwords fro

Re: [HACKERS] SSL over Unix-domain sockets

2008-01-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
tead of a socket is OK, sockets are connected to, not opened. Trying to open it normally produces the error: No such device or address. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make vi

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql Materialized views

2008-01-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ing materialised views on postgres already. It is however a completely orthoginal problem. Someone needs to write the code to maintain such a view before you can even think about working on the planner. However, step 1 would be to get them onto the TODO list. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Ooste

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal - libpq Type System beta-0.8a (was PGparam)

2008-01-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
esome idea. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] SSL over Unix-domain sockets

2008-01-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
works by using strace to check the data it's sending. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Table rewrites vs. pending AFTER triggers

2008-01-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ny reason seems wrong. - Temporarily disabling triggers/indexes/constraints, if the system aborts/crashes, the triggers are reinstated automatically. - Just general niceity of being able to test schema changes without immediatly changing the system. There are many more... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van

Re: [HACKERS] Index Page Split logging

2008-01-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ottom up (the split and insert is a single operation), so I don't think you can actually combine the current split algorithm with the logging operation I suggest above. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make p

Re: [HACKERS] Index Page Split logging

2008-01-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ain shouldn't we say b-tree with user-defined op-classes as gist-btree? If > not what is the difference between both? gist-btree is a nice example but IIRC it takes more diskspace and can't handle uniqueness. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [HACKERS] Index Page Split logging

2008-01-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:04:48PM +0530, Gokulakannan Somasundaram wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 3:35 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the goal is to only store the insert, then we need to determine > > during recovery which page the record needs to be

Re: [HACKERS] Index Page Split logging

2008-01-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
y which page the record needs to be added to. To do this you need to go through the index, which can only be done by calling user-defined functions. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossi

Re: [HACKERS] Index Page Split logging

2008-01-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
l the data. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether it's easy to get the relevent inforation to make this efficient. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2007-12-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ls. Very low cost, quick setup solution. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2007-12-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
sabled Set automatic startup behaviour in start.conf (default: 'auto') Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable.

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2007-12-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
y that software distribution time is not the place > for such restrictions. Nothing is being prevented here. Things are being made possible that are otherwise difficult. Have a niec day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peace

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2007-12-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
, since only postmasters owned by "postgres" can create a socket in that directory, any client attempting to connect to a server using that directory knows it's connecting to a server owned by 'postgres'. I can't think of any non-libpq clients which support Unix domain

Re: [HACKERS] binary decode

2007-12-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
and table format as input and creates an ascii dump > (similar to pgdump). Yes, I wrote a program called pgfsck years ago which did this. Not for all data types, but most of the common ones. I'm in the process up upgrading it work with the latest versions. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oo

Re: [HACKERS] Sorting Improvements for 8.4

2007-12-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
s about how to work out optimal thread/memory/datasize ratios. The way around this is a NUMA architecture, but that's a whole other ball of wax. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

Re: [HACKERS] pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

2007-12-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
) the proper way to get a translatable string in like that, or is > there a better way? Hmm, from a translation point of view wouldn't it be better to have the word "violation" inside each of the _(), since not all languages might allow such substitions (gender problems). Have a ni

Re: [HACKERS] ecxt_scantuple has wrong TupleDesc

2007-12-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
uot; it. You don't have to use the ecxt_* fields at all, for example, the ExecAppend node. It's just convenient to reuse fields that are used for a common purpose. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Improve wording.

2007-12-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:32:51AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:48:31PM +, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > Log Message: > > > --- > > > Improve wording. > > I agree that the paren

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM ANALYZE out of memory

2007-12-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ence between 256MB and 1G shared memory, I'd say you're better off using the smaller amount so you can have higher maintainence work mem. VACUUM doesn't benefit much from lots of shared buffers, but it does benefit from maint workmem. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM ANALYZE out of memory

2007-12-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
antly lower (24 MB, I believe). I'll try with 128 MB > before I leave in the evening, though (assuming the other tests I'm > running complete by then). What you want is a reasonable shared mem, maybe 0.5GB and a smaller maintainence workmem since the letter is probably what's

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and BINARY mode COPY

2007-12-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
arn't portable. Just guessing... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Empty arrays with ARRAY[]

2007-11-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
do the conversion straight away, but at least you don't need to guess the type anymore. Hope this helps, Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] String encoding during connection "handshake"

2007-11-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
o select the collation on a per database/table/column level (SQL complaince requires this). This has nothing to do with C by the way. C has many features that allow you to work with different encodings. It just doesn't force you to use any particular one. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van O

Re: [HACKERS] String encoding during connection "handshake"

2007-11-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
doing it this way. Users need to type the password in the same encoding it was added. It not usually a big deal because people set their own passwords... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impo

Re: [HACKERS] pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

2007-11-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
It seems it would be more user-friendly if the message was displayed (just as for unix) rather than the code. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > i

Re: [HACKERS] String encoding during connection "handshake"

2007-11-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ord. The correctly entered password in the wrong encoding is also wrong, because the matching is done at the byte level. So I suppose the answer is: whatever encoding you would like it to be/what the DB admin uses. This is all AIUI, Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock backoff algorithm

2007-11-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
at least there it's not true. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-12/msg01518.html Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. >

Re: [HACKERS] psql -f doesn't complain about directories

2007-11-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:25:23PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > To be honest I think that psql shouldn't be ignoring the > > EISDIR error the kernel is returning. > > We use fopen(), which doesn't appear to pass that on. It&#

Re: [HACKERS] psql -f doesn't complain about directories

2007-11-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
#x27;t ignore other errors, like EIO or EPIPE, Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] psql -f doesn't complain about directories

2007-11-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
f a_pipe?) Sure, why not. To be honest I think that psql shouldn't be ignoring the EISDIR error the kernel is returning. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

Re: [HACKERS] Windows psql -f load of files with tabs changing to escape sequences

2007-11-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
unction > is executed. What kind of problems? The encoding is done by psql, just before display. They're not stored like that in the DB. Can you be more specific as to the problems? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying Text Search

2007-11-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
gt; again... AIUI LIKE is mashed into an operator at parse time, so yes, if you create the operator with the right name it will just work. Or not (I havn't tested it). Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make pea

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying Text Search

2007-11-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
like this? > > SELECT * FROM text_table > WHERE text_search('haystack needle haystack', 'needle'); Can't you do this with an SQL function that gets expanded inline? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/klep

Re: [HACKERS] [hibernate-team] PostgreSQLDialect

2007-11-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
es, if you have a recent enough version, or do you mean something else? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Clarification about HOT

2007-11-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ot sure you're saving anything here. Or am I missing something? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution > inevitable. > -- John F Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Clarification about HOT

2007-11-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
also be cleaned, you have to lock all the pages to make sure the change is atomic... As soon as you have to lock more than one page, deadlocks become a problem. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution

Re: [HACKERS] Clarification about HOT

2007-11-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
down 100 pages? Because then it gets very expensive. Not to mention the locking considerations. Better keep it simple. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolu

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Select ... AS OF Savepoint

2007-11-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
d adds one more feature under the umbrella of postgres. I'm still confused. Why on earth would you want to run a query against an old snapshot? If you want a stable view, I'd think of opening a cursor or using a temporary table. And where does serializable come into this? Have a

Re: [HACKERS] Multiple trees in parsetree_list

2007-10-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ssed to this > function from the parser/gram.c? AIUI, if there are RULEs on a table, you can get multiple queries as the result of a single request. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each acc

Re: [HACKERS] module archive

2007-10-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
e most useful feature IMHO would be if the installed modules could be recognised as a block (using pg_depends) so that: 1. pg_dump can see them and emit only INSTALL 2. Uninstall removes everything that was installed This only covers installtion though, not building or compiling. Have a nice day,

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
n other CPUs. I think relibility becomes the real issue though, you can always produce the wrong answer instantly, the trick is to get the right one... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To e

Re: [HACKERS] PostGreSQL and zlib

2007-10-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:49:57PM +0200, Hubert FONGARNAND wrote: > Another question : does this TOAST code works for all type of data, like > TEXT (in our case) Yes. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each a

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
back (>1 year) can I use this to manage the bitrot? Just doing a CVS update will probably just mark everything conflicted, so I'm wondering is GIT can do it better. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
back to improve it. If we can fix the disparity I think most of the problems will go away... Ofcourse, posting just prior FF doesn't help, but I think that's a chicken/egg problem. People do what works. Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana

Re: [HACKERS] Including Snapshot Info with Indexes

2007-10-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
x27;re actually interested in. Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] debugger

2007-10-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
of an index > to file index.c for example? > Thank, Are you correctly attaching the debugger to the child (and not just the postmaster). Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each

Re: [HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ecall it was *really* slow, not just a little bit. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ly available. Perhaps we should fix that problem, rather than making more workarounds. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] mal advice in FAQ 4.1.

2007-10-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
indexes etc... The standard does have stuff relating to extracting samples from tables, but they're not implemented. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his abili

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone database changes

2007-10-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
unpunctual for their appointments. For both money and timestamps the taggedtypes module provides exactly what you want. It stores the timezone/currency as entered and displays that when output. Sometimes that's what you want, sometimes it's not. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterho

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The original patch for controlling the export list on Linux included > > support for symbol versioning. Eventually a version of the export.list > > control

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
r some reason, don't remember why). In any case, to add it now for linux would be a one-line change. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.

Re: [HACKERS] Change request ...

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
milar workaround for postgres too, but it's a hack, it won't work in the general case. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Change request ...

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
his problem don't come up too often. It's been on the TODO list for at least 5 years... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
text string. Languages like perl distinguish between "encode" which is text->bytea and "decode" which is bytea->text. We've got "convert" for oth and that causes problems. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svan

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
oes show there are other ways to deal with this. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
pposed). Oh, the last discussion on this didn't answer this question. Is there a standard somewhere that maps integers to characters in EUC-JP. If so, how can I find out what character 512 is? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ &g

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
way of dealing with that. It's not just going to happen a lot, it is going to be common, even for unique indexes. Presumably HOT will help with this, but that relies on all index columns not to change. The major benenfits will mostly come from not storing the key at all. I think. Ha

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a cache would make any useful difference. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC)

2007-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
what you are protecting against, then you can get some more useful answers. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
almost unlimited key size yet flexible matching... (combined with other index, or even just the same index). Neat. Have a nice day, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > liti

Re: [HACKERS] text search vs schemas

2007-08-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:42:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm unsure how it works now, but it seems reasonable that when a > > regclass/regtype/regetc is passed to a trigger, pass it in OID form. > >

Re: [HACKERS] text search vs schemas

2007-08-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
cking dependancies. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] has anyone looked at burstsort ?

2007-07-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
cient than the current method is another question entirely. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] ACM Paper relevant to our buffer algorithm

2007-07-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
h. An fsync will make the OS write everything ASAP. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept

2007-07-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
t for the case of changes in built-in > types. Well, it seems to me 99% of cases can be handled easily, we just might have to have a backup method for the cases where the simple cases doesn't work... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept

2007-07-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
e will even work with the new version. Seems like too much work considering REINDEX will simply fix the problem outright. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept

2007-07-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ly if the index is on a datatype that has changed format... I suppose those indexes will just have to be rebuilt (a REINDEX will upgrade every page in the table anyway...). I think it'd still be cheaper than dump/restore. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept

2007-07-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
n the page telling you if it's upgraded or not? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] GiST consistent function, expected arguments; multi-dimensional indexes

2007-07-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
64-bit architecture. However, variable-length values are always byref. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] GiST consistent function, expected arguments; multi-dimensional indexes

2007-07-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
ing the number of bytes, or negative for variable length. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Restartable signals 'n all that

2007-07-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
resolution, and it allows to continue a sleep that has been interrupted by a signal more easily. But I don't know if that would help on your HPUX box though... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each accordi

Re: R: [postgresql-it] [HACKERS] no cascade triggers?

2007-06-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
easier is to write a stored proc that you use like so: SELECT promote_supplier( article, supplier ); No trigger necessary... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] GiST consistent function, expected arguments; multi-dimensional indexes

2007-06-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
index on the result of combining the points. It does mean you need to use the same syntax when doing the queries, but it works with modifying any internal code at all... Given you can use rowtypes more easily these days, it's quite possible you use build an operator class on a row type...

Re: [HACKERS] self defined data type "with limit"?

2007-06-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
er defined typmod" and I don't beleive any released version has it, but it will be in the next release. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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