Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] after 9.2.4 patch vacuumdb -avz not analyzing all tables

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
Does this behavior only affect the 9.2 branch? Or was it ported to 9.1 or 9.0 or 8.4 as well? On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: However I've got to say that both of those side-effects of exclusive-lock abandonment

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] MIT benchmarks pgsql multicore (up to 48)performance

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Hakan Kocaman hko...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, for whom it may concern: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mosbench/ They tested with 8.3.9, i wonder what results 9.0 would give. Best regards and keep up the good work They mention that these tests were run on the older

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the information I need. As long as you implement your own grep, that sounds about on par with the

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Fwd: psql+krb5

2009-12-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
Except that he posted a month ago and got no answers... On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/30 rahimeh khodadadi rahimeh.khodad...@gmail.com: -- Forwarded message -- From: rahimeh khodadadi rahimeh.khodad...@gmail.com Date:

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Updating column on row update

2009-11-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: But actually I thought we had more or less concluded that CREATE OR REPLACE LANGUAGE would be acceptable (perhaps

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Updating column on row update

2009-11-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: Part of the motivation for allowing inline blocks was to allow for conditional logic. I don't think that argument really applies to this case, because the complaint was about not

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Updating column on row update

2009-11-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: Tom Lane wrote: It'd be a HUGE benefit in deployment and update scripts to have PL/PgSQL  installed and available by default, at least to the superuser and to the DB owner. Are there any known security problems

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] high shared buffer and swap

2009-05-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Laurent Laborde kerdez...@gmail.com wrote: Friendly greetings ! I found something odd (something that i can't explain) this weekend. An octocore server with 32GB of ram, running postgresql 8.3.6 Running only postgresql, slony-I and pgbouncer. Just for testing

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from unknown to text

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh singh.gurj...@gmail.com wrote: I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1 : Is there a good reason you're running against a db version with known bugs instead of 8.3.5? Seriously, it's an easy upgrade and running a version missing

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from unknown to text

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Gurjeet Singh singh.gurj...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh singh.gurj...@gmail.com wrote: I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Is query a reserved word in 8.3 plpgsql?

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 9, 2007 5:14 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw the item in the release notes about the new return query syntax in pl/pgsql, but I didn't see any note about query being reserved now. Perhaps an explicit mention should be added? Yeah,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Is query a reserved word in 8.3 plpgsql?

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 9, 2007 6:07 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 9, 2007 5:14 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ thinks for a bit... ] It might be possible to get rid of the keyword and have RETURN QUERY be recognized by an ad-hoc strcmp test

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online

2007-08-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/29/07, Mario Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/08/2007, Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to keep the master version of the contrib docs as SGML, and generate plaintext READMEs from it during the documentation build. Hello Neil, I think

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online

2007-08-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/29/07, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Marlowe escribió: Could the contrib README files couldn't be generated from the same source as the docs (i.e. sgml) and then put into the appropriate contrib/module/ directory. Sure they can. We already do that for INSTALL

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Big IN() clauses etc : feature proposal

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 12:18, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:31:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:13:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: PFC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fun thing is, the rowcount from a temp table (which

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 06:07, Markus Schaber wrote: Hi, Scott, Scott Marlowe wrote: But it isn't '-2 months, -1 day'. I think what you are saying is what I am saying, that we should make the signs consistent. Pretty much. It just seems wrong to have different signs in what

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:45, Hannu Krosing wrote: Ühel kenal päeval, K, 2006-03-01 kell 14:36, kirjutas Scott Marlowe: But it isn't '-2 months, -1 day'. I think what you are saying is what I am saying, that we should make the signs consistent. Pretty much. It just seems wrong

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephan Szabo wrote: justify_days doesn't currently do anything with this result --- it thinks its charter is only to reduce day components that are = 30 days. However, I think a good case could be made that it should normalize

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:27, Bruce Momjian wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote: Stephan Szabo wrote: justify_days doesn't currently do anything with this result --- it thinks its charter is only to reduce day components that are = 30

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Need pointers to standard pg database(s) for

2006-02-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:51, Ron wrote: I assume we have such? Depends on what you wanna do. For transactional systems, look at some of the stuff OSDL has done. For large geospatial type stuff, the government is a good source, like www.usgs.gov or the fcc transmitter database. There are other

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] mirroring oracle database in pgsql

2005-06-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 14:52, Edward Peschko wrote: hey all, I'm trying to convince some people here to adopt either mysql or postgresql as a relational database here.. However, we can't start from a clean slate; we have a very mature oracle database that applications point to right now,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Issue with adding ORDER BY to EXCEPT.

2005-06-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:16, Jaime Casanova wrote: SELECT encounter.encounter_id, encounter_d.encounter_d_id FROM encounter JOIN encounter_d on encounter_d.encounter_id = encounter.encounter_id EXCEPT SELECT encounter.encounter_id, encounter_d.encounter_d_id FROM encounter JOIN

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] ARC Memory Usage analysis

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:53, Tom Lane wrote: Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another issue is what we do with the effective_cache_size value once we have a number we trust. We can't readily change the size of the ARC lists on the fly. Huh? I

Re: [HACKERS] OT moving from MS SQL to PostgreSQL

2004-10-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 06:33, stig erikson wrote: Hello. i have an slightly off topic question, but i hope that somebody might know. at the moment we have a database on a MS SQL 7 server. This data will be transfered to PostgreSQL 7.4.5 or PostgreSQL 8 (when it is released). so far so good.

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on z/OS

2004-09-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 11:34, David Parker wrote: I am not currently working on z/OS, and don't have access to a z/OS environment, but I did a little work with getting OpenLDAP ported to z/OS at my previous company. I assume you mean Unix System Services (USS) under z/OS, rather than zLinux.

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM DELAY

2004-08-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:19, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Hi all, I have seen the big debat about to have the delay off or on by default. Why not enable it by default and introduce a new parameter to vacuum command itself ? Something like: VACUUM WITH DELAY 100; this will permit to

Re: [HACKERS] Ready for Beta ... ?

2004-08-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 09:58, Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only open issue I see for beta1 is perhaps disabling vacuum delay. Given that Jan is clearly in the minority on that, I suggest we just turn it off for beta1. We can always turn it on later if he

[HACKERS] Windows binary in the beta directory?

2004-08-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
Since this is the first release supporting Windows natively, and Windows people tend to not have any development environment by default, should there be a windows binary version of some sort into the beta directory, or is that something that will come along later with setup.exe type packaging or

Re: [HACKERS] Selecting a specific row

2004-08-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:11, Cason, Kenny wrote: Is there an easy way to select, say, the 15th row in a table? I can't use a sequence number because rows will sometimes be deleted resulting in the 15th row now being a different row. I need to be able to select the 15th row regardless of

Re: [HACKERS] enforcing a join type

2004-08-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:53, Hicham G. Elmongui wrote: Hi, If I want the planner/optimizer to always choose merge join when it needs to join relations. How can I do it ? From my past experience, I'd guess what you're really trying to do is STOP the planner from choosing a nested_loop join, in

Re: [HACKERS] enforcing a join type

2004-08-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
this from a front end. I want to disable nested_loop and hash_join from the backend. I tried to set the variables (enable_nestloop and enable_hashjoin) in costsize.c, but this didn't do it. Thanks, --h -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [HACKERS] shared buffer hash table corrupted

2004-08-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 00:09, Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, On the production server I have PostgreSql 7.4.3 , on Mandrake Linux 9.2. In the message log on 29 july I have received several shared buffer hash table corrupted errors . What could cause this error ? (bad RAM maybe?) Most

Re: [HACKERS] replication modules on postgres

2004-08-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 08:51, chinni wrote: Hi all! Some time back I discussed the inclusion of replication (e.g. postgres-R) into postgres. One of the technical reasons that I understand against such a move is the application dependence of replication. PostgresR requires a large amount of

Re: [HACKERS] connect to 7.5 devel(win32) failed

2004-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
Moving the -admin, please don't reply to -hackers on this. On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 00:04, Coloring Graph wrote: I am has some trouble when connect to 7.5 devel PostgreSQL server, see belows my setup: === os=Windows2000 server version=the non-MSI snapshot at

Re: [HACKERS] storage engine , mysql syntax CREATE TABLE t (i INT)

2004-07-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 22:23, Tom Lane wrote: I don't think it's either practical or interesting to try to introduce an equivalent layering into Postgres. I can possibly see a use for a row locking storage system, i.e. non MVCC for some applications. But I can't see it being worth the amount

Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial

2004-07-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 16:21, David Fetter wrote: Kind people, I am writing a document patch for the tutorials section, and would like to change the section on inheritance to reflect the fact that it is not currently being developed, and has known serious bugs in implementation. I'd call

Re: [HACKERS] check point segments leakage ?

2004-07-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
Bruce said the other day open transactions can't cause this problem. I wonder what all can? On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:32, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, Perhaps you have an open transaction that isn't closing and thus the pg_xlog continues to grow? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 16:01, Josh Berkus wrote: Scott, Uh, I think it can: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-result-error.php Heh. I half-knew that if I pointed this out that someone would correct me with a link to new code. In my defense, I will point out that the

Re: [HACKERS] patch for allowing multiple -t options to pg_dump

2004-07-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 19:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: [ PGP not available, raw data follows ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've prepared a patch(against CVS HEAD of today) to pg_dump.c to make pg_dump understand multiple -t options for

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 15:21, Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, They have no way of reporting a failed query back to the user? How do people program in those environments? Right now any failed query aborts the transaction so it seems it would be pretty easy. Believe it or not, PHP4 doesn't.

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:36, Greg Stark wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not rollback all or commit all? I really really don't like subbegin and subcommit. I get the feeling they'll cause more problems we haven't foreseen yet, but I can't put my finger

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 00:16, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote: We can later implement savepoints, which will have SAVEPOINT foo and ROLLBACK TO foo as interface. (Note that a subtransaction is slightly different from a savepoint, so we can't use ROLLBACK

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 10:25, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:15:14AM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote: begin/end because they are already in an explicit/implicit transaction by default... How is the user/programmer to know when

Re: [HACKERS] Quick question regarding tablespaces

2004-07-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:54, Gavin Sherry wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:43 pm, Gavin Sherry wrote: Hi Mike, In this release, unfortunately not. That't too bad, but it's not that urgent I suppose. I had some idea early on of

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:14, Tom Lane wrote: Mike Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:38 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: If we change the syntax, say by using SUBCOMMIT/SUBABORT for subtransactions, then using a simple ABORT would abort the whole transaction tree.

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 14:13, Jaime Casanova wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? To PostgreSQL, there's no difference between a dual CPU machine with no hyperthreading, and a single CPU machine

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE

2004-06-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 17:15, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Also I think we need to enhance ALTER INDEX to assign new table spaces for indexes. Assigning different tables spaces for tables and indexes are essential to gain more I/O speed IMO. I thought about this. ALTER INDEX doesn't exist yet

Re: [HACKERS] email browser?

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:24, Chris Browne wrote: Santo Quartarone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the safest email browser? less is pretty safe, more or less ;-). You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the choices vary, considerably, between platforms. I'd say pine

Re: [HACKERS] Improving postgresql.conf

2004-06-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:02, Bruce Momjian wrote: Gaetano Mendola wrote: [ PGP not available, raw data follows ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Momjian wrote: | Gaetano Mendola wrote: | |Bruce Momjian wrote: | | I understand your points below.

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-06-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:29, Dann Corbit wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:39 AM To: Tom Lane Cc: Dann Corbit; Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruce Momjian; Greg

Re: [HACKERS] Frequently updated tables

2004-06-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:49:20PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: I love PG, I've been using it since version 6x, and it has gotten fantastic over the years, and in many cases, I would choose it over Oracle, but for systems that

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

2002-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
I'd have to say that personally, given a choice between expending effort to fix current know bugs and add known needed features, and expending effort to port to Windows, I'd pick the former, not the latter. I could personally care less if postgresql ever runs as a native window application,

[HACKERS] Hash and bools

2002-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
During the discussion of bools and hash index and partial indexes and index growth and everything else, I tried to make a partial index on a bool field and got the error that data type bool has no default operator for class hash... So, can I cast something to make this work, or is it possible

Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt

2002-06-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dann Corbit wrote: If you are going to completely replace the data in a table, drop the table, create the table, and use the bulk copy interface. Actually, that's a bad habit to get into. Views disappear, as do triggers or constraints. Better to 'truncate table' or

Re: [HACKERS] Will postgress handle too big tables?

2002-06-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
also, remember that for the cost of a single CPU oracle license you can build a crankin' postgresql server... memory and I/O are way more important than CPU power btw. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to

Re: [HACKERS] Issues tangential to win32 support

2002-05-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Jan Wieck wrote: If postgresql IS going to eventually be multi-threaded, then the whole win32 port should probably be delayed until then, since it would solve many of the issues of fork() versus createprocess(). If multi-threading is the plan, then there is

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL mission statement?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 2 May 2002, Jason Earl wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Terrell wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:24:30PM -0400, mlw wrote: Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement? If so, where could I find

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL mission statement?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Terrell wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:24:30PM -0400, mlw wrote: Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement? If so, where could I find it? If not, does anyone see a need? Provide a really good database and have fun doing it

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL mission statement?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 2 May 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: The Politically Correct mission statement follows: The PostgreSQL community is committed to creating and maintaining a good but not the best, mostly reliable, open-source multi-purpose standards based database, and with it, promote free and open source

Re: [HACKERS] Vote totals for SET in aborted transaction

2002-04-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
around them when they're done. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Scott Marlowe ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] ANALYZE after restore

2002-04-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 3 Apr 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 06:52, Gavin Sherry wrote: On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Hi, Would it be an idea to have pg_dump append an ANALYZE; command to the end of its dumps to assist newbies / inexperienced admins? I