Re: [HACKERS] who can help me?

2003-03-17 Thread Rod Taylor
)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER USER

2003-03-16 Thread Rod Taylor
to be 'infinity'. NULL implies they will expire, we're just not sure when. Infinity shows that we do not intend to expire the user -- which is more in-line with the actual implementation. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [HACKERS] My project: nested transactions

2003-03-14 Thread Rod Taylor
in time, feel free to ask for a hand.t -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99 ARRAY support proposal

2003-03-13 Thread Rod Taylor
text - join array elements into a string using given string delimiter I'm open to opinions on implode() -- I only picked implode() because that's what it is called in PHP. Any suggestions? I think implode() and explode() go together. split() and join() are a pair. Pick one ;) -- Rod

Re: [HACKERS] Case insensitivity, and option?

2003-03-12 Thread Rod Taylor
for PostgreSQL to have this as a configuration setting? I think we already support this. Create a new character set with upper / lower case specified as being equal and PostgreSQL should behave as expected. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] Case insensitivity, and option?

2003-03-12 Thread Rod Taylor
for a case sensitive comparison. Problem is, they don't (didn't) support functional indexes -- so you simply couldn't make one. End up with: WHERE field = 'var' and strcasecmp(field, 'var') everywhere -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Case insensitivity, and option?

2003-03-12 Thread Rod Taylor
this definitively. Rod Taylor wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --le 12/03/2003 09:03 -0500, mlw écrivait : | I was at a client office reviewing some code. They use MSSQL and I | noticed that: | | select * from table where field = 'blah'; | gave the same results

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Rod Taylor
to do with 2 phase commits -- but were used as a marker to direct replication. We may want to consider leaving some space for a server / server style communication (Cluster ID, etc.) -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Rod Taylor
. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:30, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd be tempted to make a startup packet that will allow libpq to revert back to old protocols easily enough for the future so that we can do=20 incremental changes to the protocol. We already have that: you

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:52, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We already have that: you send a startup packet with a version less than the latest, and the backend speaks that version to you. Yes, but that requires you know the backend is less than the latest

Re: [HACKERS] Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL

2003-03-09 Thread Rod Taylor
that. Enforcing spec seems like the least confusing mode to operate under, especially given it could break simply by changing the plan -- which happens automagically (seemingly random). -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-08 Thread Rod Taylor
be? No. Can anyone offer data on when this started? I see passes on March 2nd, updated and see passes today. Did 5 runs of make check on today source. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure in CVS HEAD

2003-03-07 Thread Rod Taylor
time... It could be an order dependency in a parallel group. The sequential runs don't throw a periodic error do they? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER SEQUENCE

2003-03-07 Thread Rod Taylor
/ column that the sequence (SERIAL) is on. This would hide the internal representation of a SERIAL... -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Row level stats

2003-03-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 01:13, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ optimizing for small frequent queries ] What if the client doesn't come back with another query for awhile? Yup.. Thats why I said you basically lose 1 seconds worth of stats (or rather can't count on when

Re: [HACKERS] Row level stats

2003-03-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:40, Neil Conway wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:16, Rod Taylor wrote: Anyway, the basic proposal would be to change the on / off flags for row block level into a 'stats delay'. A large number would be off, 0 would have the same properties as today. Default

Re: [HACKERS] Row level stats

2003-03-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:49, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not if we expect pg_autovacuum to be able to work. It *needs* this information. Why? The implementation I've had in mind for autovacuum would rely on FSM not the pg_stats daemon. FSM as I understand

Re: [HACKERS] bug in contrib/adddepend

2003-03-06 Thread Rod Taylor
complaints, as unknown is a rather common name for constraints :). -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER SEQUENCE

2003-03-05 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:14, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might get somewhere by making a special domain thats marked as being serial, and using that in the column. I recall some discussion last year about making serial et al. into domains over int4 and int8

[HACKERS] Row level stats

2003-03-05 Thread Rod Taylor
(); if (lasttme currtme) { pgstat_report_tabstat(); lasttme = currtme; } -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Non-colliding auto generated names

2003-03-05 Thread Rod Taylor
-- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Non-colliding auto generated names

2003-03-05 Thread Rod Taylor
should be easily retrievable and more portable in most interfaces (jdbc, odbc, etc.). -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER SEQUENCE

2003-03-04 Thread Rod Taylor
in other ways. Prevention of the domain from being altered would also help, as you can then prevent the default from changing. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER loses nulls (was Re: [ADMIN] Still a bug in the VACUUM)

2003-03-02 Thread Rod Taylor
is false. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql performace question

2003-03-02 Thread Rod Taylor
to vacuum frequently and have a large FSM. It's also preferred you do a gradual archival of data and not in bulk. Archive 10 minutes worth every 10 minutes after 3 days have past rather than an entire days at once. On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:35 pm, Rod Taylor wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 18:52, Mark

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql performace question

2003-03-02 Thread Rod Taylor
a little trickier -- but still easily doable. The most important question is the maintenance window. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key quandries

2003-02-28 Thread Rod Taylor
, 2003-03-01 at 02:03, Rod Taylor wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 00:44, Stephan Szabo wrote: On 1 Mar 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: I'm not sure I understand the question. The case as described simply has to deadlock because your approaching the same values with conflicting tasks from opposite

Re: [HACKERS] Can pessimistic locking be emulated?

2003-02-27 Thread Rod Taylor
is locked or not, but it's not going to be simple. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] analyze after a database restore?

2003-02-27 Thread Rod Taylor
the table when the larger of 30% or 1000 rows has been affected (inserts, or deletes mostly). That is probably a better solution overall. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Can pessimistic locking be emulated?

2003-02-27 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:02, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed -- but they're stored on the row themselves. You might be able to write a function which executes dirty reads on the table and tells you if the row is locked or not, but it's not going to be simple

Re: [HACKERS] ILIKE

2003-02-24 Thread Rod Taylor
operator is (was?) 'a' = 'A' -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[HACKERS] Allow pg_dump to dump sequences using NO_MAXVALUE and NO_MINVALUEb

2003-02-23 Thread Rod Taylor
databases with sequences (Oracle). PostgreSQL supports both syntaxes already. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc Index: src/backend/commands/sequence.c === RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server

Re: [HACKERS] bug in contrib/adddepend

2003-02-23 Thread Rod Taylor
of conversion. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] locking mechanism

2003-02-23 Thread Rod Taylor
those questions. No to the first, yes to the second. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] bug in contrib/adddepend

2003-02-22 Thread Rod Taylor
after it's pulled from the DBI drivers. What version of DBI::Pg are you using? Last time I used it was with DBI::Pg v1.13. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[HACKERS] TODO: DROP COLUMN .. CASCADE

2003-02-22 Thread Rod Taylor
Require DROP COLUMN CASCADE for a column that is part of a multi-column index Do we want the same behaviour for PRIMARY KEY(col1, col2)? CHECK(col1 col2)? etc. as well? I'm thinking probably... -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description

[HACKERS] pg_dump / restore of empty database gives errors

2003-02-22 Thread Rod Taylor
. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc -- -- PostgreSQL database dump -- SET autocommit TO 'on'; \connect - rbt SET autocommit TO 'on'; -- -- TOC entry 2 (OID 2200) -- Name: public; Type: ACL; Schema: -; Owner: rbt -- REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA public FROM PUBLIC

Re: [HACKERS] Todo claim: psql tab completion on schema names

2003-02-15 Thread Rod Taylor
missed. - pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible() works on non-table relations as well, right? I would assume so, but haven't checked. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Todo claim: psql tab completion on schema names

2003-02-15 Thread Rod Taylor
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:49, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:34:34AM +0100, Ian Barwick wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:10, Rod Taylor wrote: I've been debating a mechanism which could build tab completion tables based on the documentation for a while now

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Rod Taylor
of pages used for VM-level disk caching Buf: number of pages used for BIO-level disk caching -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Incremental backup

2003-02-13 Thread Rod Taylor
Wow, I never even thought that was possible. Do other db's support that feature? Isn't that basically what the current replication kits for Postgresql do -- via triggers and log tables? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re:

2003-02-12 Thread Rod Taylor
thousands of phone calls, and have had many conversations which prove that claim false. People But IBM told me computers are self healing, so if there is a performance problem should it just fix itself? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-12 Thread Rod Taylor
) and still be able to change the user applications. I don't mind /usr/X11R6/etc either, but it's not exactly appropriate for PostgreSQL ;) -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-11 Thread Rod Taylor
. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] PGP signing releases

2003-02-04 Thread Rod Taylor
as good as md5. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] PGP signing releases

2003-02-03 Thread Rod Taylor
(3) Sign official releases using the PGDG private key, and provide the signatures on www.postgresql.org along with the packages themselves. Sounds about right. I'd go as far as to sign release announcements and security emails as well. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive Documentation - how do you want it

2003-02-03 Thread Rod Taylor
to moderator' ability into the comments area about a specific comment and that may become a bit easier. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing - results

2003-02-03 Thread Rod Taylor
change of tossing in a periodic VACUUM or would that throw off the results? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive Documentation - how do you want it to

2003-02-02 Thread Rod Taylor
if comments are ordered by rating. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] v7.2.4 bundled ...

2003-01-30 Thread Rod Taylor
. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] On file locking

2003-01-30 Thread Rod Taylor
(fail), then beefing it up where available may be useful -- but otherwise it's just additional code. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Strange Prepare bug

2003-01-29 Thread Rod Taylor
substr($2, 1, 3) as schpat, substr($2, 3, 5) as propat) as t WHERE p.prorettype 'pg_catalog.cstring'::pg_catalog.regtype ) AS tt, (SELECT $1 AS cmd) AS cmd -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [HACKERS] v7.2.4 bundled ...

2003-01-29 Thread Rod Taylor
and cannot compile it. gram.y errors complaining: invalid character: ','. bash-2.05b$ bison --version bison (GNU Bison) 1.75 Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

[HACKERS] Strange Prepare bug

2003-01-28 Thread Rod Taylor
'pg_catalog.cstring'::pg_catalog.regtype ) AS tt, (SELECT $1 AS cmd) AS cmd; ERROR: Parameter '$1' is out of range -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Request for qualified column names

2003-01-27 Thread Rod Taylor
, 7.6 can remove Guc. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] domain check constraint syntax problem for 7.4

2003-01-25 Thread Rod Taylor
archives? http://archives.postgresql.org -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[HACKERS] PSQL and backward compatibility

2003-01-24 Thread Rod Taylor
db gets commands for new db) but translations for column headers, etc. will be wonky as they're still tied to psql. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc ? .deps ? .describe.c.swp ? psql Index: command.c

Re: [HACKERS] New buildin function

2003-01-23 Thread Rod Taylor
those values? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2003-01-22 Thread Rod Taylor
; This is a far more portable method. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

2003-01-22 Thread Rod Taylor
the client -- but I think they can be discovered from the context of the variable use instead (Neil?). Anyway, it's just a thought. psql in 7.4 is free game due to the anticipated protocol change which will make prior versions non-functioning anyway. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http

[HACKERS] Object Locks

2003-01-22 Thread Rod Taylor
as it's guarenteed not be to dropped. If we create an ALTER TYPE command this changes. Do we kill a syscache lookup to prevent the lock -- probably not -- but it makes the above mentioned AccessShareLock count much larger. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc

[HACKERS] Recent initdb error

2003-01-20 Thread Rod Taylor
: micro_version=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/;t LABEL s/.*//;q :LABEL s/.*\(\)$/\1/'` For some reason my sed isn't liking the semicolons. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Rod Taylor
. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
+-- 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.226/24 ! 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.226 ! 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.0/25 + 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.255/24 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.255/25 (6 rows) set enable_seqscan to on; -- Rod

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
* from inet_tbl where i'192.168.1.0/24'::cidr; c|i +-- 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.0/25 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.255/25 192.168.1.0/24 | 192.168.1.226 (3 rows) On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:58, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
With Bruce's patch came a few others -- plus a recompile with all updates. ... and that's the expected result. So why'd you get a different result while running the regression test? Curiouser and curiouser... -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:29, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With Bruce's patch came a few others -- plus a recompile with all updates. Which patch exactly? The regression test was still passing for me as of yesterday's sources plus the large planner commit I just

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:07, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last update was about 5 minutes after Bruce's header fix went into place. Hm. I just finished verifying that CVS tip builds and passes cleanly on both HPUX and Linux (Red Hat 8.0). So either you've got

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:15, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:07, Tom Lane wrote: Hm. I just finished verifying that CVS tip builds and passes cleanly on both HPUX and Linux (Red Hat 8.0). So either you've got a build error (did you do a make

[HACKERS] CVS-TIP

2003-01-14 Thread Rod Taylor
:92: warning: parameter has incomplete type /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:96: warning: parameter has incomplete type -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] copying perms to another user

2003-01-14 Thread Rod Taylor
) rather than strictly a user. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] CVS-TIP

2003-01-14 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:11, Bruce Momjian wrote: Any idea what it needs? What is in inet.h at that line, and where is it defined? I see sys/socket.h included. Does sys/types.h help? --- Rod Taylor wrote

Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?

2003-01-13 Thread Rod Taylor
simply the underlying SQL. It would be a wise idea to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA where possible for these, as that is pretty much guaranteed to be static in format. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [HACKERS] copying perms to another user

2003-01-13 Thread Rod Taylor
(and how many) databases will this command work on? Only the current one? All of them? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] copying perms to another user

2003-01-13 Thread Rod Taylor
(not as attachements) - did you change something? Not that I know of. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Rod Taylor
of the command. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:42, Peter Mount wrote: On 9 Jan 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:12, Justin Clift wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: snip Let's suppose I am writing a query, and then I do \e to edit the query, and I exit the editor and return to psql. Suppose

Re: [HACKERS] SQL_SIZING view

2003-01-06 Thread Rod Taylor
someone can offer an explanation, I am inclined to just supply an empty table and check off this item. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-05 Thread Rod Taylor
in the interium ... another reason not to announce it right away :) -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-05 Thread Rod Taylor
Will advocacy, gborg, archives, techdocs, etc. be updated to include links back to the portal site? Don't they already? If they do, it's not obvious. I don't see anything on archives, advocacy, or gborg. It looks like techdocs goes to the users lounge (PostgreSQL Home). -- Rod Taylor

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in pg_get_constraintdef (for deferrable

2003-01-02 Thread Rod Taylor
the attached. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[HACKERS] Coerce to Domain

2002-12-17 Thread Rod Taylor
. Subsequent tuples will simply use the pre-cooked tree. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Coerce to Domain

2002-12-17 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 18:15, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. On initial pass, CoerceToDomain will have a 'raw' expression tree (simple arg of data to coerce). After passing through ExecCoerceTypeConstraints a 'cooked' expression tree will contain the constraint

Re: [HACKERS] Update on replication

2002-12-17 Thread Rod Taylor
). -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with ALTER DOMAIN patch

2002-12-12 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 19:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: It is an idea if no better one can be found, unless we don't want ALTER DOMAIN at all, which doesn't seem good. I'll make a proposal for 'Object' locks as suggested, and we'll see where we go from there. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with ALTER DOMAIN patch

2002-12-11 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 00:05, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:56, Tom Lane wrote: relation's pg_class row. We have no such locks on types at present, but I think it may be time to invent 'em. I'd be happy to use them once created. I think

Re: [HACKERS] Auto Vacuum Daemon (again...)

2002-12-10 Thread Rod Taylor
what I've seen) isn't an issue. Strictly disk. The big problem with multiple vacuums is determining which tables are in common areas. Perhaps a more appropriate rule would be 1 AVD per tablespace? Since PostgreSQL only has a single tablespace at the moment -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] Auto Vacuum Daemon (again...)

2002-12-10 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:00, Greg Copeland wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:42, Rod Taylor wrote: Not sure what you mean by that, but it sounds like the behaviour of my AVD (having it block until the vacuum command completes) is fine, and perhaps preferrable. I can easily

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with ALTER DOMAIN patch

2002-12-10 Thread Rod Taylor
it should be enforcing at the moment. Thanks for the explanations. I'll see if I can 1) fix my poor knowledge of locking, 2) Add to my notes that I need to test stuff with Rules from now on, and 3) correct the above items. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with ALTER DOMAIN patch

2002-12-10 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:56, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Insufficient locking, guise 2: there's no protection against someone else adding a column or table while you're processing an ALTER DOMAIN, either. This means that constraint checks will be missed

[HACKERS] DBD::Pg module on Windows

2002-12-09 Thread Rod Taylor
Does anybody know where I can find a newer DBD::Pg module for Windows NT? The only pre-compiled one I can find is 0.98, which is based on a PostgreSQL 7.0 library set. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

[HACKERS] Sequence Cleanup

2002-12-09 Thread Rod Taylor
(1 row) a=# rollback; ROLLBACK a=# select nextval('test'); nextval - 52 (1 row) -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] SIGSEGV

2002-12-09 Thread Rod Taylor
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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-07 Thread Rod Taylor
they have someone they can go after, who are they going to go after if PostgreSQL fails them? Marc? Bruce? This is when you start to shout that RedHat offers commercial support, licencing, etc. INCLUDING a free, non-restrictive source licence to the core components of RHDB. -- Rod Taylor

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
. I have read through all the docs/faqs I can find and still have no good idea about this. Take a look at the 'System Catalog' documentation, and in psql the -E option will show you the 'system' queries used to retrieve the information for display in psql. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
for every column in my select. I say that because it contains a join of pg_class and pg_attribute. Something like that I would suspect. But if they're arbitrary selects, how are you going to handle: SELECT CAST(32 AS text); -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:04, Tom Lane wrote: Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a It's that one of the later parts of the SQL 99 spec? Section 9 or thereabouts? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:35, Rod Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:04, Tom Lane wrote: Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a It's that one of the later parts of the SQL 99 spec? Section 9 or thereabouts? Note to self, don't reply to emails and have

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 - TODO : alter table drop foreign key

2002-12-05 Thread Rod Taylor
Thanks. I guess I should rename my thread to 7.4 - TODO : allow constraint names when using the ALTER TABLE table ADD FOREIGN KEY syntax. You can do that now. ALTER TABLE table ADD CONSTRAINT const FOREIGN KEY -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc

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