Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql likes Tuesday...

2002-10-01 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:31:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: The middle part of that boils down (as of today) to regression=# select to_date('402002', 'WW'); to_date 2002-10-01 (1 row) and Oct 1 (tomorrow) is Tuesday. As to why it picks that day to represent Week 40

Re: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?)

2002-10-01 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 21:11 To: Dave Page Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?) Dave Page writes: Can someone who knows make

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql likes Tuesday...

2002-10-01 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:37:47PM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote: select to_char( to_date( CAST(extract(week from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) as text) || CAST(extract(year from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) as text) , 'WW') , 'FMDay, D'); to_char Tuesday, 3 (1 row)

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Yury Bokhoncovich
Hello! BTW, is it possible to have just patch against previous version (to reduce traffic and CPU)? I.e. something like 7.2.2-7.2.3.diff.gz? -- WBR, Yury Bokhoncovich, Senior System Administrator, NOC of F1 Group. Phone: +7 (3832) 106228, ext.140, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is like a

Re: AIX compilation problems (was Re: [HACKERS] Proposal ...)

2002-10-01 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Attached is a patch to fix the mb linking problems on AIX. As a nice side effect it reduces the duplicate symbol warnings to linking libpq.so and libecpg.so (all shlibs that are not postmaster loadable modules). Can you explain the method behind your patch? Have you tried -bnogc?

[HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Philip Warner
Is it my imagination, or is there a problem with the way pg_dump uses off_t etc. My understanding is that off_t may be 64 bits on systems with 32 bit ints. But it looks like pg_dump writes them as 4 byte values in all cases. It also reads them as 4 byte values. Does this seem like a problem

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql likes Tuesday...

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Karel Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What think about it our Toms? ... In the Oracle it's same (means WW vs. IW vs. D) If it works the same as Oracle then I'm happy with it; that's what it's supposed to do. The real point here seems to be that EXTRACT(week) corresponds to to_date's IW

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it my imagination, or is there a problem with the way pg_dump uses off_t etc. My understanding is that off_t may be 64 bits on systems with 32 bit ints. But it looks like pg_dump writes them as 4 byte values in all cases. It also reads them as 4

[HACKERS] floor function in 7.3b2

2002-10-01 Thread Mario Weilguni
I noticed that some of my queries don't work anymore because they're using the floor function: e.g.: select type, floor(date_part('epoch', dataend)) as ts from last_modified Why is floor not working anymore? I guess I can use round too, but I don't want to modify semantics. Regards,

Re: [HACKERS] floor function in 7.3b2

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Weilguni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that some of my queries don't work anymore because they're using the floor function: e.g.: select type, floor(date_part('epoch', dataend)) as ts from last_modified Why is floor not working anymore? Mph. Seems we have floor(numeric) but not

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql likes Tuesday...

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Knowles
If it's of any use the following link gives some info on different schemes and details on an ISO week numbering standard. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm#WkNo Best Regards, Tim Knowles ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql/contrib/rserv ApplySnapshot.in CleanLog.

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alexey V. Borzov writes: Agh! I finally read up on module loading http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD and now I seem to understand. You see, the problem with the current Makefile is as follows: it substitutes '$libdir' into both .sql and perl

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Yes, it does --- the implication is that the custom format, at least, can't support dumps 4Gb. What exactly is pg_dump writing off_t's into files for; maybe there's not really a problem? That's kind of what I was wondering, too. Not that it's an excuse, but I think that

[HACKERS] table lock and record lock

2002-10-01 Thread John Liu
what's the default lock in pgsql? if I issued insert(copy)/or update processed on the same table but on different records the same time, how those processes will affect each other? thanks. johnl ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if

Re: [HACKERS] table lock and record lock

2002-10-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:30:38PM -0500, John Liu wrote: what's the default lock in pgsql? if I issued insert(copy)/or update processed on the same table but on different records the same time, how those processes will affect each other? You might want to check out the docs at

[HACKERS] Purpose of rscale/dscale in NUMERIC?

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
What is the reason for maintaining separate rscale and dscale values in numeric variables? I am finding that this arrangement leads to some odd results, for example this: regression=# select (exp(ln(2.0)) - 2.0); ?column? - -0. (1 row) regression=#

Re: [HACKERS] table lock and record lock

2002-10-01 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John Liu wrote: what's the default lock in pgsql? if I issued insert(copy)/or update processed on the same table but on different records the same time, how those processes will affect each other? postgresql does not do locking in the sense of how most database do

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Philip Warner
At 09:59 AM 1/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: If there is a problem, seems like we'd better fix it. Perhaps there needs to be something in the header to tell the reader the sizeof off_t. Yes, and do the peripheral stuff to support old archives etc. We also need to be careful about the places

[HACKERS] some more minor incompatibilties 7.2 - 7.3

2002-10-01 Thread Mario Weilguni
I noticed some other minor differences between 7.2 and 7.3: * 7.2: select now() + '1 minute'::timespan = works * 7.2: select now() + '1 minute'::reltime = works * 7.3: select now() + '1 minute'::timespan = does not work (Type timespan does not exist) * 7.3 select now() + '1 minute'::reltime =

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yury Bokhoncovich wrote: Hello! BTW, is it possible to have just patch against previous version (to reduce traffic and CPU)? I.e. something like 7.2.2-7.2.3.diff.gz? In some releases, it is possible, in others we add/remove files and it isn't possible. I think because it isn't always

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Yury Bokhoncovich
Hello! On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: In some releases, it is possible, in others we add/remove files and it isn't possible. I think because it isn't always possible we normally don't do it. I think it's enough to do diffs for minor release (i.e. 7.2.2-7.2.3, 7.3.0-7.3.1 and so

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it my imagination, or is there a problem with the way pg_dump uses off_t etc. My understanding is that off_t may be 64 bits on systems with 32 bit ints. But it looks like pg_dump writes them as 4 byte values in all cases. It

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: BTW, is it possible to have just patch against previous version (to reduce traffic and CPU)? I.e. something like 7.2.2-7.2.3.diff.gz? In some releases, it is possible, in others we add/remove files and it isn't possible. I think because it isn't always possible we

Re: [HACKERS] psqlODBC *nix Makefile (new 7.3 open item?)

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dave Page writes: majority of you!) knock up a makefile so the driver will build standalone on *nix systems please? There should be no dependencies on any of the rest of the code - certainly there isn't for the Win32 build. I'm working something out. I'll send it to you

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: BTW, is it possible to have just patch against previous version (to reduce traffic and CPU)? I.e. something like 7.2.2-7.2.3.diff.gz? In some releases, it is possible, in others we add/remove files and it isn't possible. I think

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Adding or removing files isn't the problem (see -N option). Binary files are the problem. Do we change any binary files in minor releases, or even major ones? But the source distribution hasn't *got* any binary files.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3 patching done

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Adding or removing files isn't the problem (see -N option). Binary files are the problem. Do we change any binary files in minor releases, or even major ones? But the source distribution hasn't *got*

[HACKERS] New PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

2002-10-01 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Over the last few weeks we've put together a new Advocacy and Marketing website for PostgreSQL: http://advocacy.postgresql.org It's now ready for public release. It has the first few case studies, lists the major advantages to PostgreSQL, and provides a place you can point your CIO,

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

2002-10-01 Thread Philip Warner
At 11:20 AM 1/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: BSD/OS has 64-bit off_t's so it does support large files. Is there something I can test? Not really since it saves only the first 32 bits of the 64 bit positions it will do no worse than a version that supports 32 bits only. It might even do