Re: [HACKERS] On columnar storage

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Nolan
, per database, etc.) -- Mike Nolan. I don't think the number of tuples is the main problem here, it's the number of pages a single relation can have. Looking at the numbers of rows as a direct function of TID size is misleading, because the TID is split into two fixed parts - page number

Re: [HACKERS] On columnar storage

2015-06-12 Thread Michael Nolan
give you 2^64 or 1.8 E19 unique rows over whatever granularity/uniqueness you use (per table, per database, etc.) -- Mike Nolan.

Re: [HACKERS] pg_xlog - pg_xjournal?

2015-06-01 Thread Michael Nolan
Why not take a simpler approach and create a zero length file in directories that should not be fiddled with by non-experts using a file name something like DO.NOT.DELETE.THESE.FILES? No, it won't prevent the incredibly stupid from doing incredibly stupid things, nothing will. -- Mike Nolan

[HACKERS] 9.3 RC1 psql encoding reporting inconsistently?

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Nolan
= 'postgres' USER = 'postgres' PORT = '5432' ENCODING = 'UTF8' postgres=# -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Deprecating RULES

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Nolan
removed them. FWIW, the documentation for 9.2 still mentions OIDs and the 'default_with_oids' parameter, in what release was it announced they would be removed and in what release were they removed? -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] Ability to listen on two unix sockets

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Nolan
to specify both the directory and the port number? -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.

2012-06-02 Thread Michael Nolan
the master and slave clocks are synced. We recommend running NTP. or words to that effect. What if the two servers are in different time zones? -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-11 Thread Michael Nolan
On 5/11/12, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at wrote: Michael Nolan wrote: I see one potential difference between your results and mine. When I rebuild the tablespace, I wind up with the same filename/OID as before, I'm not sure you do. Right. That's strange. Usually OIDs get incremented

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-11 Thread Michael Nolan
On 5/11/12, Michael Nolan htf...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/11/12, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at wrote: Michael Nolan wrote: I see one potential difference between your results and mine. When I rebuild the tablespace, I wind up with the same filename/OID as before, I'm not sure you do

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-11 Thread Michael Nolan
, but it probably isn't something most DBAs would run into very often. Thanks for figuring it out, Tom. -- MIke Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Nolan
code, not a distribution. -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Nolan
I see one potential difference between your results and mine. When I rebuild the tablespace, I wind up with the same filename/OID as before, I'm not sure you do. -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Nolan
to suggest how to repair, because the lost tablespace only had indexes in it. But that's not exactly a -hackers issue, more of a question of better backup protocols. -- Mike Nolan

[HACKERS] problem/bug in drop tablespace?

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Nolan
on this table again, as expected. Now, here's the problem I ran into: The index will be rebuilt in tablespace MYTBLSP, but \d on table MYTABLE will not show the index as being in that tablespace. -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] Temporary tables under hot standby

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Nolan
tables might be needed at the system level (if not already available) in order to prepare more efficient plans for some complex read-only queries. -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] Slow temporary tables when using sync rep

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Nolan
are they replicated at all? BTW, should we have an entry in the index for 'temporary tables? -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] [streaming replication] 9.1.3 streaming replication bug ?

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Nolan
have negative consequences as well. Another question: Does master send WAL to standby before the transaction commit ? That's another question for the core team, I suspect. A related question is what happens if there is a rollback? -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] [streaming replication] 9.1.3 streaming replication bug ?

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Nolan
On 4/11/12, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: Michael Nolan htf...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/11/12, 乔志强 qiaozhiqi...@leadcoretech.com wrote: But when a transaction larger than 1GB... Then you may need WAL space larger than 1GB as well. For replication to work, it seems likely

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] [streaming replication] 9.1.3 streaming replication bug ?

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Nolan
action to take on the master? PANICing it seems to be a bad idea, but having transactions never complete because they never hear back from the synchronous slave (for whatever reason) seems bad too. -- Mike Nolan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [HACKERS] What Would You Like To Do?

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Nolan
totals. (SqlPlus has this, even though it isn't very pretty.) -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] What Would You Like To Do?

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Nolan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.comwrote: On 09/13/2011 10:13 AM, Michael Nolan wrote: The lists all seem to be focusing on the things that the developers would like to add to PostgreSQL, what about some things that users or ISPs might like to have

Re: [HACKERS] What Would You Like To Do?

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Nolan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.comwrote: On 09/13/2011 11:51 AM, Michael Nolan wrote: The ability to restore a table from a backup file to a different table name in the same database and schema. This can be done but agreed

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Creating temp tables inside read only transactions

2011-07-10 Thread Michael Nolan
if that is what schemas are for. The ability to do cross-database (most likely cross-server as well) queries would address a lot of real-world problems. - Mike Nolan no...@tssi.com

Re: [HACKERS] generate_series() Interpretation

2011-06-27 Thread Michael Nolan
it to the output of generate_series(); -- Mike Nolan no...@tssi.com

Re: [HACKERS] New/Revised TODO? Gathering actual read performance data for use by planner

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Nolan
to get up to speed would be appreciated, though I still think it is not just a 'caching' issue. The question I hesitated to ask in Ottawa was: So, what information would you like and what would you do with it? -- Mike Nolan

[HACKERS] New/Revised TODO? Gathering actual read performance data for use by planner

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Nolan
(and thus actual performance), based on what has happened recently, so these statistics would have to be relatively short term and updated frequently, but without becoming computational bottlenecks. The problem is one I'm interested in working on. -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] Coding style question

2006-11-03 Thread Nolan Cafferky
efactoring into smaller functions or doing a bit of object orientation almost always solves that readability problem for me. -- Nolan Cafferky Software Developer IT Department RBS Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Syntax bug? Group by?

2006-10-17 Thread Nolan Cafferky
writer that they did something wrong. -- Nolan Cafferky Software Developer IT Department RBS Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] status of dbf2pg

2003-08-14 Thread nolan
I received the following note from the original author of dbf2pg: Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:43:22 +0400 From: Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: status of dbf2pg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 08/03/2003 06:55:01 AM nolan wrote: What is the status of dbf2pg. There do not appear

[HACKERS] Who is maintaining the dbf2pg contrib utility?

2003-08-04 Thread nolan
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with no response, but maybe that's an old address. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-28 Thread nolan
for a newbie, I guess. :-) -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] make clean fails (more info)

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
Sorry if I didn't mention it before, but this was on FreeBSD. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[HACKERS] make check createdb fails

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
More problems with the latest CVS on FreeBSD: make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nolan/beta/pgsql/contrib/spi' /bin/sh ./pg_regress --temp-install --top-builddir=../../.. --schedule=./paralle l_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII == removing existing temp installation

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
no idea why they are not the default behavior. Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] did you read my mails ?

2003-07-22 Thread nolan
This allows functions to read/write operating system files. Is this of interest to anyone? Is this something that requires untrusted status, as it would if I wrote a function in perl to do the same thing? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] initcap incompatibility issue

2003-07-12 Thread nolan
it that way ;-). Later in beta, only critical bugfixes will be accepted, and this one surely ain't very critical. Now if I can just get CVS working on Redhat 8 and remember how to build a patch, even a one-liner. :-) -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast

[HACKERS] initcap incompatibility issue

2003-07-09 Thread nolan
/utils/adt, but is this a bugfix that can be made during the pre-beta period for 7.4 or does it need to wait? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] initcap incompatibility issue

2003-07-09 Thread nolan
earlier note. As far as I can tell, not capitalizing the first letter after a dash is the only inconsistency with Oracle's implementation of this function. If a patch is in order at this time, I will try to produce it, I need to learn set up CVS and how to do that anyway. :-) -- Mike Nolan

Re: [HACKERS] initcap incompatibility issue

2003-07-09 Thread nolan
, a question which is relevant since we're in the feature freeze for 7.4. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-28 Thread nolan
no idea what is the status of that effort right now. You can search the archives or I hope this kicks a fresh discussion..:-) I'm game, though I'm also not ready to lead such a project, probably not even the discussion on it. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast

Re: Tablespaces (was Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database

2003-06-27 Thread nolan
I thought Tablespaces were already implemented. Are they not? Apparently not. A group has been formed to work on it, though. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Updating psql for features of new FE/BE protocol

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
to 'queryout'. To be complete, would it need to have a command line equivalent, too? BTW, I figured out how to direct the output to a separate file each time, I put the following in .psqlrc: \o |tee `echo psql_${$}.txt` -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
, not tablespace.database.schema.object or database.tablespace.schema.object. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
that database. The former is probably a good thing to require and enforce, the latter is unenforcable but probably still advisable. Is this doable within the time frame for the 7.4 feature freeze? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[HACKERS] A portable code question

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
completion. What's the proper way to do this? And what's a good book on writing portable code? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] A portable code question

2003-06-26 Thread nolan
places where intermingling to stdout is possible, especially if readline is used. Throwing in system('sleep 1'); was the way I resolved the timing question here, but that may not be portable enough for inclusion into the code base. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-25 Thread nolan
place: SYSTEM USER TEMP INDEXES What about the concepts of a 'read-only' tablespace, or taking tablespaces offline? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Updating psql for features of new FE/BE protocol

2003-06-25 Thread nolan
a running record of what I did when, which saves me a LOT of time if I want to view the results of some query I ran last week. I can delete or zip up files if I get short on disk space space -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner

Re: [HACKERS] Updating psql for features of new FE/BE protocol

2003-06-25 Thread nolan
on it yourself if you want it ... I'm trying to, now I really feel like a rookie! :-) -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org