Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2008-01-07 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Greg Smith wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/ ??? Getting that to work required some obtrusive changes to the source code, which they've only done to 8.2.4. Even that doesn't seem to be production-quality and it's not clear how that will

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2008-01-07 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:40:29 -0500 (EST) Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/ ??? Getting that to work required some obtrusive changes to the

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2008-01-07 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Greg Smith wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: they've has the potential to be we... As I recall the individual made a reasonable effort to introduce the work that he was doing to the community. After a bit of hindsight research, I think SE-PostgreSQL suffered from two timing

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Akinde
As suggested, I tested a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE with 128MB shared_buffers and 512 MB reserved for maintenance_work_mem (on a 32 bit machine with 4 GB RAM). That ought to leave more than enough space for other processes in the system. Again, the system fails on the VACUUM with the following error

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 17:56 +, Simon Riggs wrote: Like it? Very cool :-) One additional thought: what about a kind of segment fill factor ? Meaning: each segment has some free space reserved for future updates/inserts of records in the same range of it's partitioning constraint. And when

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: SELECT oid::regclass FROM pg_class WHERE reltoastrelid='pg_toast.pg_toast_49013869'::regclass; oid | pg_temp_24.tmp_isp_blk_chk The hack to get this cleaned up was to connect about 2 dozen times (to get to slot 24) with psql via different sessions and create temp

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi Csaba, Csaba Nagy wrote: One additional thought: what about a kind of segment fill factor ? Meaning: each segment has some free space reserved for future updates/inserts of records in the same range of it's partitioning constraint. And when inserting/updating you put the new record into the

Re: [HACKERS] Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit

2008-01-07 Thread Doug Knight
We are running the binary distribution, version 8.2.5-1, installed on Windows XP Pro 32 bit with SP2. We typically run postgres on linux, but have a need to run it under windows as well. Our typical admin tuning for postgresql.conf doesn't seem to be as applicable for windows. Doug On Sun,

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 13:59 +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: However, for tables which don't fit the use case of SE, people certainly don't want such a fill factor to bloat their tables. Sure, but it could be configurable and should only be enabled if the table is marked as partitioned on

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 14:20 +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Why is that? AFAIUI, Segment Exclusion combines perfectly well with clustering. Or even better, with an upcoming feature to maintain clustered ordering. Where do you see disadvantages such an optimization for sequential scans?

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Csaba Nagy wrote: Sure, but it could be configurable and should only be enabled if the table is marked as partitioned on some condition... As I'm regarding SE as an optimization, I disagree here.. As all optimizations, SE should conceptually be reasonably close to cost-less when

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate

2008-01-07 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Sokolov Yura [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: create or replace function add_group(grp anyarray, ad anyelement, size int4) returns anyarray language plpgsql ... create aggregate build_group(anyelement, int4) ( SFUNC= add_group, STYPE = anyarray ); ERROR: argument declared

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Usama Dar
On Jan 7, 2008 2:40 PM, Michael Akinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As suggested, I tested a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE with 128MB shared_buffers and 512 MB reserved for maintenance_work_mem (on a 32 bit machine with 4 GB RAM). My Apologies if my question seems redundant and something you have already

Re: [HACKERS] OUTER JOIN performance regression remains in 8.3beta4

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Sun, Jan 6, 2008 at 7:20 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a serious performance regression in OUTER JOIN planning going from 8.2.4 to 8.2.5. I know Tom came up with some patches to mitigate the issues

Re: [HACKERS] Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit

2008-01-07 Thread Usama Dar
Doug Knight wrote: We are running the binary distribution, version 8.2.5-1, installed on Windows XP Pro 32 bit with SP2. We typically run postgres on linux, but have a need to run it under windows as well. Our typical admin tuning for postgresql.conf doesn't seem to be as applicable for

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Akinde
Hi, The system we are building is intended to be utilized in a number of different applications, so the testing we are doing is primarily directed at stressing the system by running it through its paces and uncovering any weaknesses. I prefer to find as many problems as possible now, rather

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:02:41PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Well, management of relations is easy enough, known to the DBA and most importantly: it already exists. Having to set up something which is *not* tied to a relation complicates things just because it's an additional

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:40:23AM +0100, Michael Akinde wrote: As suggested, I tested a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE with 128MB shared_buffers and 512 MB reserved for maintenance_work_mem (on a 32 bit machine with 4 GB RAM). That ought to leave more than enough space for other processes in the

Re: [HACKERS] OUTER JOIN performance regression remains in 8.3beta4

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Jan 4, 2008 at 6:46 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8.2 (at least at branch tip, can't say for sure about earlier dot-releases) 8.2.4 and 8.2.5 both behave this way. f2 | f3 | f1 ++ 53 || 53 (1 row) which I claim is

Re: [HACKERS] Index trouble with 8.3b4

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't have any luck reproducing either of these behaviors --- maybe it's data-dependent. Can you extract a test case? I haven't been able to reproduce this either but I produced an entirely different problem:

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:18:24 -0300 Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: SELECT oid::regclass FROM pg_class WHERE reltoastrelid='pg_toast.pg_toast_49013869'::regclass; oid | pg_temp_24.tmp_isp_blk_chk The hack

Re: [HACKERS] Index trouble with 8.3b4

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the other hand we can't just ignore all vacuums because someone could issue a manual vacuum inside a transaction (I think?). Doh, ignore this. sigh. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained by Bruce

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: SELECT oid::regclass FROM pg_class WHERE reltoastrelid='pg_toast.pg_toast_49013869'::regclass; oid | pg_temp_24.tmp_isp_blk_chk The hack to get this cleaned up was to connect about 2 dozen times (to get to slot 24) with psql via different sessions and

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah -- interesting. This is a known issue, but we haven't found a solution yet. Is there bug number? I assume it is this TODO item: o Prevent

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:57:53 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Note that you should almost never use VACUUM FULL unless you've really messed things up. I understand from the thread that you're just testing things out right now. But VACUUM FULL is not something you should _ever_ need in

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:33:53 +0100 Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:57:53 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Note that you should almost never use VACUUM FULL unless you've really messed things up. I understand

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:02:41PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Well, management of relations is easy enough, known to the DBA and most importantly: it already exists. Having to set up something which is *not* tied to a relation complicates things just because

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it is this TODO item: o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid advancement starvation The problem is that

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it is this TODO item: o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid advancement

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 07 January 2008 09:10:24 Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah -- interesting. This is a known issue, but we haven't found a solution yet. Is there bug number? I assume it is this TODO item:

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:37:18 -0800 Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I had to manually vacuum because we had already hid xidStoplimit. 2. Postgres has been restarted multiple times and it made zero difference. E.g; PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Does anything speak against letting the DBA handle partitions as relations? Yes: it doesn't solve the problem I have, which is that I don't want to have to manage a whole bunch of tables. I want one table, and I want to be

[HACKERS] ERROR: translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t

2008-01-07 Thread ilanco
I am using tsearch2 with pgsql 8.2.5 and get the following error when calling to_tsvector : translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t My database is UTF8 encoded and the data sent to to_tsvector comes from a bytea column converted to text with encode(COLUMN, 'escape'). In 8.1 with

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Akinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As suggested, I tested a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE with 128MB shared_buffers and 512 MB reserved for maintenance_work_mem (on a 32 bit machine with 4 GB RAM). That ought to leave more than enough space for other processes in the system. Again, the system

Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t

2008-01-07 Thread ilanco
http://pastebin.ca/845670 This url provides a testcase ... fisrt pass : = UPDATE dbmail_messageblks SET idxFTI=to_tsvector('simple', encode(messageblk, 'escape')) where messageblk_idnr = 12949; ERROR: translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t second pass : = UPDATE dbmail_messageblks

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a fresh start of postgres, there should be no temp tables, so would a work around to this at least be at postmaster start to (for a lack of a better pseudo code ) DROP SCHEMA pg_temp* CASCADE; before coming up in interactive mode? The

Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t

2008-01-07 Thread ilanco
Found something interesting with this testcase. update fails after SELECT query. Can anyone confirm this ??? dbname= UPDATE dbmail_messageblks SET idxFTI=to_tsvector('simple', encode(messageblk, 'escape')) where messageblk_idnr = 12949; UPDATE 1 dbname= UPDATE dbmail_messageblks SET

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Ron Mayer
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: ...the requirements: no single tuple in the segment may be significantly out of the average bounds. Otherwise, the min/max gets pretty useless and the segment can never be excluded. The segment can

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you want me to work on this? I could probably put some time into it this coming weekend. I'll try to get to it before that --- if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the end of the week, so it'd be nice to have this

8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the end of the week, Please give the packagers and other people one more week break between two releases. We all had a busy weekend. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ ,

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2008-01-07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real question that Josh's report brings up to me is why the heck was there an orphaned temp table? Especially if it was only a toast table and not the linked regular temp table? Something happened there that should not have. The regular

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Sorting Refinements

2008-01-07 Thread Decibel!
You'll get better response if you don't hijack threads. :) Also, there's nothing in here that describes what the benefits of this change are. On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Manolo _ wrote: Hi to all. This mail is aimed at asking some suggestion to face PostgreSQL (PG) development to

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Sorting Refinements

2008-01-07 Thread mac_man2005
Well, sorry for hijacking... ummm how did I do that? Anyway I'll thank you for giving a sign of life when I was almost loosing my hopes to get any kind of answer from -hackers. I suppose the lack of answers was due to the way I wrote my mail. At that moment I supposed that at least someone

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Devrim G?ND?Z wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the end of the week, Please give the packagers and other people one more week break between two releases. We all had a busy weekend.

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Does anything speak against letting the DBA handle partitions as relations? Yes: it doesn't solve the problem I have, which is that I don't want to have to manage a whole bunch of tables. I want

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:06:27 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:06 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: We have thousands of people waiting for the 8.3 release. Really? How did you get this statistic? ...and IIRC, our motto is Release when it is ready, not release because thousands ppl are waiting for it. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ ,

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 07 January 2008 16:06:27 Bruce Momjian wrote: Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the end of the week, Please give the packagers and other people one more

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2008-01-07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real question that Josh's report brings up to me is why the heck was there an orphaned temp table? Especially if it was only a toast table and not the linked regular temp table? Something

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:06 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: It seems odd to hold up 8.3 because the packagers are too busy. ... and read my e-mail again. I wrote: Please give the packagers and other people one more week break... I did not say just the packagers. You give almost no time to

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Sorting Refinements

2008-01-07 Thread Guillaume Smet
On Jan 8, 2008 1:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, sorry for hijacking... ummm how did I do that? Anyway I'll thank you for giving a sign of life when I was almost loosing my hopes to get any kind of answer from -hackers. Don't forget that we're just a few days/weeks of 8.3 release so

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: if no serious bugs come up this week, core is thinking of wrapping 8.3.0 at the end of the week, Please give the packagers and other people one more week break between two releases. We all had

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Devrim G?ND?Z wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:06 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: It seems odd to hold up 8.3 because the packagers are too busy. ... and read my e-mail again. I wrote: Please give the packagers and other people one more week break... I

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2008-01-07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real question that Josh's report brings up to me is why the heck was there an orphaned temp table? Especially if it was only a toast table and not the linked regular temp

Re: 8.3.0 release schedule (Was:Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3852: Could not create complex aggregate)

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not saying we are ready to release but if we determine the source code is ready I would like to avoid more delay because the packagers aren't ready. It may be moot anyway. Now that I've caught up on today's email, this thread looks like we have

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Does anything speak against letting the DBA handle partitions as relations? Yes: it doesn't solve the problem I have, which is that I don't want to have to manage a whole bunch of

Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using tsearch2 with pgsql 8.2.5 and get the following error when calling to_tsvector : translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t My database is UTF8 encoded and the data sent to to_tsvector comes from a bytea column converted to text with

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2008-01-07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real question that Josh's report brings up to me is why the heck was there an orphaned temp table? Especially if it was only a toast table and not the

Re: [HACKERS] Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

2008-01-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hmm ... that would be strange. Off-the-cuff idea: we introduced code to advance relfrozenxid in CLUSTER, TRUNCATE and table-rewriting forms of ALTER TABLE. Perhaps the problem is that we're neglecting to update it for the toast table there.

Re: [HACKERS] Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Gregory Stark wrote: I also don't understand how this proposal deals with the more common use case of unloading and loading data. Normally in partitioned tables we build the data in a side table until the data is all correct then load it as a partition. If you treat it as a lower-level object

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Sorting Refinements

2008-01-07 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, sorry for hijacking... ummm how did I do that? You replied to a post instead of creating a new, unrelated e-mail. It is different. Just try to use threaded mode of your e-mail client and you'll get the idea. Regards Tometzky -- ...although