[HACKERS] Re: Urgent Question on Postgresql

2001-03-18 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
From: Bryan Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Urgent Question on Postgresql Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:39:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi tatsuo Ishii, I learn from postgresql mailing list that you are concerning the problem the UTF8 support in Postgresql. Currently I want to

[HACKERS] Re: problems with startup script on upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Alexander Klimov
Hi all On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Martin A. Marques wrote: ld.so.1: /dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster: fatal: libz.so: open failed: No such file or directory Now, libz.so is in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the postgres user, so why is it that Solaris doesn't load the .profile in the postgres directory.

[HACKERS] pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Cyril VELTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pg_ctl output when no shm segments left pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Trying to start postmaster anyway. pg_ctl: cannot start postmaster not true !!! Examine the log output. DEBUG: database system was interrupted at

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
At a minimum, you should do a test, and if it does not yet exist, do a sleep, then the test again. Cyril VELTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pg_ctl output when no shm segments left pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Trying to start postmaster anyway. pg_ctl: cannot start

[HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: eval '$po_path' '$POSTOPTS' $logopt '' if [ -f $PIDFILE ];then if [ "`sed -n 1p $PIDFILE`" = "$pid" ];then echo "$CMDNAME: cannot start postmaster" 12 echo "Examine the log output." 12 exit 1 fi fi which is

Re: [HACKERS] new version of contrib-intarray

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: I see change of += in CFLAGS (harmless), Not. movement of #include postgres.h, and removal of // comments, which don't appear anymore in the code. I only saw that the Makefile is back to how it looked at rev 1.1 before I did some work on it. AFAICT the Makefile

Re: [HACKERS] Re: problems with startup script on upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alexander Klimov writes: There are many way to solve the problem: the easy -- copy (or link) libz.so to /usr/lib the clean -- avoid using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, use -R for linking instead Our makefiles are set up to use '-R' for linking. Does this not work as designed? -- Peter Eisentraut

[HACKERS] Trigger problem

2001-03-18 Thread jreniz
Hi friends! I'm working in a trigger and I need to put the result of a query into a variable. That's very easy- apparently! The query has a aggregate function like this: select sum(field) into variable ... and I'm sure that field and variable are int4 type. So, when I run this trigger there

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread William K. Volkman
The Hermit Hacker wrote: But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole thread-support library"? My understanding of shared libraries (altho it may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole library, you pulled in the bits that you needed, pretty much as you

[HACKERS] Re: Beta6 for Tomorrow

2001-03-18 Thread Nat Howard
Not sure if this counts as *major*, but this jdbc1 compile problem is presumably still there: http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-bugs/2001-03/msg3.html as the referenced source file hasn't been updated. If I recall right, Peter was waiting for a java 1 SDK to be installed.

Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitor signal handler

2001-03-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:25:24PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: ... Just to get some evidence at hand - could some owners of different platforms compile and run the attached little C source please? ... Seems Tom is (unfortunately) right. The pipe blocks

[HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which is clearly not giving the postmaster enough time to remove or rewrite the pidfile. Shouldn't we put a "sleep 1" in there before the "if"? This is probably the best we can do. Actually, the whole thing should only happen if we found a

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* William K. Volkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010318 11:56] wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole thread-support library"? My understanding of shared libraries (altho it may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Beta6 for Tomorrow

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Nat Howard writes: Not sure if this counts as *major*, but this jdbc1 compile problem is presumably still there: http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-bugs/2001-03/msg3.html as the referenced source file hasn't been updated. If I recall right, Peter was waiting for a java 1 SDK to

Re: [HACKERS] Trigger problem

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
jreniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, when I run this trigger there is a mistake: ''there is no operator '=$' for types 'int4' and 'int4' (My system is 6.5.3) This is an old bug. Update to 7.0.3. It might work to add spaces around the '=' signs in your trigger function, but an update would

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking). Use one thread feature, get the whole set...which may not be that bad. Actually it can be pretty bad. Locked bus cycles needed for mutex

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
* Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010318 14:55]: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking). Use one thread feature, get the whole set...which may not be that bad. Actually it can be

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010318 14:17] wrote: * Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010318 14:55]: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking). Use one thread feature, get the

Re: [HACKERS] new version of contrib-intarray

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I only saw that the Makefile is back to how it looked at rev 1.1 before I did some work on it. AFAICT the Makefile should be reverted back to the previous revision, since the code change does not require any changes to the Makefile. I did this,

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can get the code compiled, but don't have the skills to generate a test case worthy of anything contrib/pgbench would do as a first cut. regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] new version of contrib-intarray

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: I did this, also reinstalled the include-file changes I had made, and then spent several fruitless hours trying to find why the "intbig" index operators fail selftest here (on HP-PA). I suppose it's a portability problem, since presumably they pass for Oleg ... but I don't see it.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Small bug in pg_dump

2001-03-18 Thread Philip Warner
At 19:10 14/03/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: It might even make sense for an ArchiveEntry to store both forms of the name, and then using code could just select the form wanted instead of calling fmtId repeatedly. Not sure. BTW, making the -t switch compare to the unquoted name would probably also

[HACKERS] Dropping CHECK constraints

2001-03-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
In 7.0.3, is it safe to drop a check constraint by simply deleting it from the pg_relcheck table? Chris -- Christopher Kings-Lynne Family Health Network (ACN 089 639 243) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please

RE: [HACKERS] Dropping CHECK constraints

2001-03-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Doh! Not reltriggers - I meant relchecks... Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Kings-Lynne Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:53 AM To: Hackers Subject: [HACKERS] Dropping CHECK constraints In 7.0.3, is it safe to

RE: [HACKERS] Dropping CHECK constraints

2001-03-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
OK, I notice I have to decrement the reltriggers field in the pg_class directory as well, but other than that is there any problem? Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Kings-Lynne Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:53 AM

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Beta6 for Tomorrow

2001-03-18 Thread Nat Howard
Peter, I'll give it a try, and send the stuff to you directly, so you can say something like "that isn't what I meant!". Nat Howard writes: Not sure if this counts as *major*, but this jdbc1 compile problem is presumably still there:

Re: [HACKERS] Dropping CHECK constraints

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In 7.0.3, is it safe to drop a check constraint by simply deleting it from the pg_relcheck table? You'll need to adjust the relchecks count in the table's pg_class entry as well. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitor signal handler

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to get some evidence at hand - could some owners of different platforms compile and run the attached little C source please? (The program tests how much data can be stuffed into a pipe or a Sys-V message queue before the

[HACKERS] query on PostgreSQL-JDBC driver

2001-03-18 Thread sourabh dixit
Hello All! I have found the PostgreSQL - JDBC driver from the site http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/. But, Iam not finding any tutorial for the same. Can anybody tell me the name of the site where I can find both the PostgreSQL driver and tutorial containing the examples . With regards, Sourabh

Re: [HACKERS] new version of contrib-intarray

2001-03-18 Thread Oleg Bartunov
I just returned from vacation and identified the problem. We'll fix it. Regards, Oleg On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote: I wrote: I did this, also reinstalled the include-file changes I had made, and then spent several fruitless hours trying to find why the

[HACKERS] Re: pg_upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Thomas Lockhart
Since pg_upgrade will not work for 7.1, should its installation be prevented and the man page be disabled? Probably. I am not sure it will ever be used again now that we have numeric file names. Perhaps we should leave it for 7.1 because people will complain when they can not find

Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_upgrade

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it doesn't work, and will not be made to work, then let's remove it from the tree. I tend to agree with Peter's slightly less drastic proposal: remove it from the installed fileset and disable its man page, without necessarily 'cvs remove'ing all