Re: [HACKERS] allowed user/db variables

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> I was considering adding this and the stuff Andreas requested to 
> pg_settings (but not "SHOW ALL" or "SHOW x" unless people feel it's 
> important to kept them consistent with pg_settings). Were the Red Hat 
> guys going to do this?

pg_settings would be fine for phpPgAdmin.

Chris


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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Well, correct solution is to implement tablespaces on which objects like
> databases, tables and indexes can be put.

I have started working on tablespaces (to the extent that I am capable!),
based not on the rejected patch, but on Jim's eventual syntax proposal that
was never developed.

eg.

CREATE LOCATION blah AS '/exports/indexes'

CREATE DATABASE db WITH LOCATION loc;

CREAT TABLE foo (a PRIMARY KEY LOCATION blah) LOCATION blah;

..etc...

> There was a long discussion on this and there was a tablespaces patch. It
was
> agreed that tablespace as a set of directories would be a good point to
start.

If anyone wants to help me (as I've not had time to code on it for a while
due to phpPgAdmin), then they can email
me!

I'm working from a top-down perspective - eg. adding new catalog and grammar
and support functions before mucking about with low level storage...

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Re: [HACKERS] allowed user/db variables

2003-06-24 Thread Joe Conway
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
See my followup.  Which bits of info would you like to see added that
SHOW doesn't reveal?
Unlike andreas, I'm not interested in the types and ranges of values, what I
need to know is the GUC variables that the user is allowed to set, in
particular what they can ALTER USER / SET ...  so that I can display that
feature...
I was considering adding this and the stuff Andreas requested to 
pg_settings (but not "SHOW ALL" or "SHOW x" unless people feel it's 
important to kept them consistent with pg_settings). Were the Red Hat 
guys going to do this?

Joe

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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 24 Jun 2003 at 14:48, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> I know the current method for specifying alternate drives for PG tables is
> by using symlinks.  I had some ideas for simple ways to do this in PG
> code, but wanted to know if anyone was working on this right now.  I'd
> hate to take the time to start messing with this if others were already on
> it.

Well, correct solution is to implement tablespaces on which objects like 
databases, tables and indexes can be put. 

There was a long discussion on this and there was a tablespaces patch. It was 
agreed that tablespace as a set of directories would be a good point to start.

I have no idea what is the status of that effort right now. You can search the 
archives or I hope this kicks a fresh discussion..:-)

Please correct me if I am wrong. I am quoting from off my head.. not a trusted 
source..

Bye
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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jan Wieck wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> >> > > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
> >> > > one who must fix the issue raised?
> >> > > A strange model indeed.
> >> >
> >> > Its worked for us ...
> >> >
> >> > Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
> >> > but ...
> >> >
> >> > Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
> >>
> >> That seems too vague for TODO.  We might as well add "Make PostgreSQL
> >> faster".  :-)
> >
> > 'K, can you add that one too? :)
>
> Make his life easier:
>
>  Replace the entire TODO with "Make PostgreSQL better"
>
> That pretty much summs it up, no?

Oh, I like that ... definitely leaves it open to the interpretation of the
reader as to what would make it better :)


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Wieck
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
> > one who must fix the issue raised?
> > A strange model indeed.
>
> Its worked for us ...
>
> Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
> but ...
>
> Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
That seems too vague for TODO.  We might as well add "Make PostgreSQL
faster".  :-)
'K, can you add that one too? :)
Make his life easier:

Replace the entire TODO with "Make PostgreSQL better"

That pretty much summs it up, no?

Jan

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[HACKERS] libpgtcl and pgtclsh

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker

I'm looking to move both of these over to GBorg, like we did with the C++
interfaces and ODBC ... the problem is, unlike those, I can't find anyone
that is actually working with it ...

Is anyone using these?  Anyone willing to step up and act as maintainer
for it?

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Wieck
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
one who must fix the issue raised?
A strange model indeed.
Its worked for us ...
Sorry Marc, but that ain't entirely true.

There have been a good number of examples where the one who raised an 
issue isn't just of the format to implement it. So someone else jumped 
in and did it instead. I don't need to pick any particular samples, you 
know that it happened a few times.

And don't get the wrong picture. Yes, Dann is "just talking" here on the 
testing methodology front. But as much as it looks like we two hate each 
other on this thread, we actually start working together on a totally 
different issue. And to say the least, I like his version better than 
Katie's ... 'nuff said.

Jan


Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
but ...
Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list

> Someone has to spearhead it
> ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but
> don't care enough to do anything about it ...
Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they aren't going to
do, are they?


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Re: [HACKERS] PHP/PgSQL *and* libpq ...

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

Added to TODO:

* Allow creation of a libpq-only tarball

---

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> Just a side bar to the whole thread about PHP/MySQL ... I realize that
> libpq is intwined with the backend right now, but if anyone could think of
> a way of at least adding a make target that would create a libpq.tar.gz
> distribution, I believe it would go a long way towards making it easier
> for ppl to add/compile in PgSQL support into PHP ... right now, to do so,
> you have to download an 8Meg file to get libpq ... if it could be reduced
> to a <.5Meg tar.gz file:
> 
> svr1# du -sk libpq
> 532 libpq
> 
> it would be less onerous to download and add the support in ...
> 
> 
> 
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[HACKERS] PHP/PgSQL *and* libpq ...

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker

Just a side bar to the whole thread about PHP/MySQL ... I realize that
libpq is intwined with the backend right now, but if anyone could think of
a way of at least adding a make target that would create a libpq.tar.gz
distribution, I believe it would go a long way towards making it easier
for ppl to add/compile in PgSQL support into PHP ... right now, to do so,
you have to download an 8Meg file to get libpq ... if it could be reduced
to a <.5Meg tar.gz file:

svr1# du -sk libpq
532 libpq

it would be less onerous to download and add the support in ...



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Re: [HACKERS] compile warnings

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote:
> Since we're getting close to a freeze, I thought I'd point out these 
> warnings again:
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib'
> [...]
> i386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include 
> -I../../../../src/include/utils -I../../../../src/include 
> -I/usr/kerberos/include -g  -c -o timestamp.o timestamp.c -MMD
> timestamp.c: In function `dttofmtasc_replace':
> timestamp.c:468: warning: `%g' yields only last 2 digits of year
> timestamp.c:606: warning: `%x' yields only last 2 digits of year in some 
> locales

Micheal Meskes has asked if anyone has an idea on how to fix this.

> -and-
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'
> [...]
> i386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-error -I./../include -I. 
> -I../../../../src/include -I/usr/kerberos/include -DMAJOR_VERSION=3 
> -DMINOR_VERSION=0 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -DINCLUDE_PATH=\"/usr/include\"   -c -o 
> preproc.o preproc.c -MMD
> In file included from preproc.y:6189:
> pgc.c: In function `yylex':
> pgc.c:1386: warning: label `find_rule' defined but not used
> /usr/include/ctype.h: At top level:
> pgc.c:3377: warning: `yy_flex_realloc' defined but not used
> 
> Other than these 4 warnings, I get a clean compile on Red Hat 9 and 8.0 
> systems.

I believe these are coming from bison and it is difficult to fix.

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[HACKERS] compile warnings

2003-06-24 Thread Joe Conway
Since we're getting close to a freeze, I thought I'd point out these 
warnings again:

make[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib'
[...]
i386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Wmissing-declarations -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include 
-I../../../../src/include/utils -I../../../../src/include 
-I/usr/kerberos/include -g  -c -o timestamp.o timestamp.c -MMD
timestamp.c: In function `dttofmtasc_replace':
timestamp.c:468: warning: `%g' yields only last 2 digits of year
timestamp.c:606: warning: `%x' yields only last 2 digits of year in some 
locales

-and-

make[4]: Entering directory `/opt/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'
[...]
i386-redhat-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Wmissing-declarations -Wno-error -I./../include -I. 
-I../../../../src/include -I/usr/kerberos/include -DMAJOR_VERSION=3 
-DMINOR_VERSION=0 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -DINCLUDE_PATH=\"/usr/include\"   -c -o 
preproc.o preproc.c -MMD
In file included from preproc.y:6189:
pgc.c: In function `yylex':
pgc.c:1386: warning: label `find_rule' defined but not used
/usr/include/ctype.h: At top level:
pgc.c:3377: warning: `yy_flex_realloc' defined but not used

Other than these 4 warnings, I get a clean compile on Red Hat 9 and 8.0 
systems.

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> > > Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
> >
> > Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they
> > aren't going to do, are they?
>
> You have had the time to do everything you ever cared about?

No no, that isn't what he is arguing (or I'm miss reading) ... he said
that "not caring about something *and* not doing it aren't the same thing"
... which isnt' the same as caring but not having the time ... is it?

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> >
> > > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
> > > one who must fix the issue raised?
> > > A strange model indeed.
> >
> > Its worked for us ...
> >
> > Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
> > but ...
> >
> > Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
>
> That seems too vague for TODO.  We might as well add "Make PostgreSQL
> faster".  :-)

'K, can you add that one too? :)


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

I think it was a useful discussion.  I find it interesting to compare
our clearly ad-hock testing methods to traditional commercial testing
strategies.  I think our results are very good, but it does look awful
"ad-hock" and it is easy to see how someone would question its
effectiveness.

Of course, the whole open source development model seems ad-hock too,
and on the surface seems inferior to a commercial software development
model, but there again, the proof is in the result.

---

Dann Corbit wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:10 PM
> > To: Dann Corbit
> > Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce 
> > Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> > 
> > > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question 
> > is also the 
> > > one who must fix the issue raised? A strange model indeed.
> > 
> > Its worked for us ...
> > 
> > Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get 
> > anytihng done, but ...
> > 
> > Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
> 
> It is surely a titanic mistake to bring up any issue on this list if you
> do not plan to fix it yourself.
>  
> > > > Someone has to spearhead it
> > > > ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but 
> > don't care 
> > > > enough to do anything about it ...
> > >
> > > Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
> > 
> > Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they 
> > aren't going to do, are they?
> 
> You have had the time to do everything you ever cared about?
> 
> It is really true that I have made a titanic waste of time in an effort
> to get someone else to do something about it or at least get them
> interested in it.  I won't waste my time in that way again.  I deeply
> rue the time I have wasted already.
> 
> 

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message-
> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:10 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce 
> Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> 
> > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question 
> is also the 
> > one who must fix the issue raised? A strange model indeed.
> 
> Its worked for us ...
> 
> Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get 
> anytihng done, but ...
> 
> Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list

It is surely a titanic mistake to bring up any issue on this list if you
do not plan to fix it yourself.
 
> > > Someone has to spearhead it
> > > ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but 
> don't care 
> > > enough to do anything about it ...
> >
> > Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
> 
> Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they 
> aren't going to do, are they?

You have had the time to do everything you ever cared about?

It is really true that I have made a titanic waste of time in an effort
to get someone else to do something about it or at least get them
interested in it.  I won't waste my time in that way again.  I deeply
rue the time I have wasted already.


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> 
> > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
> > one who must fix the issue raised?
> > A strange model indeed.
> 
> Its worked for us ...
> 
> Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
> but ...
> 
> Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
 
That seems too vague for TODO.  We might as well add "Make PostgreSQL
faster".  :-)

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Re: [HACKERS] compile failure on cvs tip --with-krb5

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

Patch applied.  Thanks.

---


Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:48:02PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> > This change (I'm sure this will wrap poorly -- sorry):
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.86
> > 
> > modified SockAddr, but no corresponding change was made here 
> > (fe-auth.c:612):
> > 
> >   case AUTH_REQ_KRB5:
> > #ifdef KRB5
> >   if (pg_krb5_sendauth(PQerrormsg, conn->sock, &conn->laddr.in,
> >&conn->raddr.in,
> >hostname) != STATUS_OK)
> > 
> > It's not obvious to me what the change ought to be though.
> 
> This patch should hopefully fix both kerberos 4 and 5.
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 

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Re: [HACKERS] RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta)

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

Patch applied.  Thanks.

---


Michael A Nachbaur wrote:
> Attached is a patch that provides *VERY* limited support for multiple slave 
> servers.  I haven't tested it very well, so use at your own risk (and I 
> recommend against using it in production).
> 
> Basically, I have a central database server that has 4 summary tables inside 
> it replicated to a remote slave (these database tables are for my mail server 
> authentication, so these are replicated to another server tuned for many 
> connections, and so I don't have postgres connections opened straight to my 
> back-end database server).
> 
> Unfortunately, I also wanted to implement a replication database server for 
> hot-backups.  I realized, too late, that the replication process is pretty 
> greedy and will try to replicate all tables marked as a "MasterAddTable".
> 
> To make a long story, I made a patch to RServ.pm and Replicate that allows you 
> to specify, on the command line, a list of tables that you want to 
> replicate...it'll ignore all others.
> 
> I haven't finished, since this has to be integrated with CleanLog for 
> instance, but this should (and does) suffice for the moment.
> 
> I have yet to test it with two slaves, but at least my mail server replication 
> database now works (it was failing every time it tried to replicate, for a 
> variety of reasons).
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to improve on this?  (or, if someone more 
> familiar with this code wants to take the ball and run with it, you're 
> welcome to).
> 
> -- 
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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
> one who must fix the issue raised?
> A strange model indeed.

Its worked for us ...

Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get anytihng done,
but ...

Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list

> > Someone has to spearhead it
> > ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but
> > don't care enough to do anything about it ...
>
> Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.

Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they aren't going to
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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message-
> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:26 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason 
> Earl; PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:30 PM
> > > To: Dann Corbit
> > > Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; 
> > > PostgreSQL-development
> > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> > [snip]
> > > I personally think you don't actually ever did any 
> software testing 
> > > yourself. You are not really talking from experience, are you? So 
> > > please, show me what you have now, or get one more plus on my 
> > > minus-list.
> >
> > I have already posted enough information to show my qualitications.
> >
> > Whether I am qualified or not is irrelevant to whether the argument 
> > has merit or not.
> >
> > I have raised what I consider to be an important issue.
> 
> You have raised a point that you are not prepared to do 
> anything about though 

I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question is also the
one who must fix the issue raised?
A strange model indeed.

> ... nobody disagrees with you about 
> adding more testing, 

Actually some do, but that's neither here nor there.

> but if you aren't willing to do the 
> work, why should anyone else be? 

Perhaps they have the time and care about the result.

> Someone has to spearhead it 
> ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but 
> don't care enough to do anything about it ...

Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
 

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:36, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
> >
> > > > The target-date-based approach we've taken in the last couple of
> > > > releases seems much more productive.
> > > >
> > >
> > > productive on a small scale; for sure. productive for large scale
> > > features...  well, that's why it's being discussed.
> >
> > 'K, but if we extend the dev cycle in order to get 'foo' in, how is that
> > better then having 'foo' continue to be developed thru the release and
> > committed in the next cycle?
> >
>
> I think it makes it easier to code 'foo' since you're not coding against
> (quite as much of) a moving target.

I *soo* disagree with this one ... the only way that postgresql is
going to stop being a moving target so that someone can code 'foo' is if
everyone else goes to sleep until that happens ...

> It could also help people plan better since they would know that foo is
> coming in the next release.

'K, that helps the end users, but that doesn't do anything for the person
developing 'foo' ...

> i'm sure everyone who doesn't want foo would agree with that position.
> The counter though is those folks who did want foo but now have to wait
> 4-6 months for the next release since foo took a month longer to develop
> than was initially planned.

Ya, but, based on past experience (hell, this release has been a good
example) ... you delay the release because developer of 'foo' figures "oh,
it will be ready in another month", and then something comes up that
causes that "commitment" not to happen, so we delay it "yet another
month"?  And I'm not saying that the second delay was due to
mis-estimating the time needed ... suddenly getting really busy on a
contract, a day job, a death in the family, etc ... you cannot predict
what could cause a delay, or how long such a delay would take ...

> the whole discussion is based on how do we get big projects done when no
> one is motivated to work on 'foo' until there faced with a deadline;
> this idea puts the pressure on 'foo' developers from the get go. i'm not
> saying this a guaranteed way to solve that problem but i think it is a
> possible solution. i'm sure there will be big projects most people don't
> care about (win32) and big projects most people would like (replication)
> so the amount of like or dislike of the idea would be relative in
> practice, the key question is would this actually motivate folks more to
> get big projects finished faster? since there are only a handful of
> folks who fall into that category they can decide for themselves, and if
> it wouldn't motivate them, then the question can be asked again, what
> would?

First, we already seen that such a 'pressure' doesn't matter, especially
if when push comes to shove, they know we'll postpone to accommodate them
...

Second ... I don't believe the problem *is* the release cycles ... I think
the problem that needs a solution is how to "open up" these large projects
so that the deadline(s) don't fall on ones person's shoulders to get done
.. how do we encourage/promote "work groups" for the large projects?


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> > Would it be nice if we had more tests?  Yes.  In fact, one of
> > the items on my
> > personal todo list is to devise a more versatile performance
> > test than
> > pgbench for testing postgresql parameters, builds, and
> > installations.  But
> > it's not getting done by me carping at people on the Hackers
> > list.  It'll get
> > done when I spend a long weekend writing Perl.
> >
> > Put up or shut up time, Dann.
>
> It's shut up, then.  I'm not willing to commit to this effort.

Woo hoo ... now *that* was the longest, useless thread I think we've had
here so far .. we almost need to start a 'hall of shameful threads' ...


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> > -Original Message-
> > From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:30 PM
> > To: Dann Corbit
> > Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl;
> > PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> [snip]
> > I personally think you don't actually ever did any software testing
> > yourself. You are not really talking from experience, are you? So
> > please, show me what you have now, or get one more plus on my
> > minus-list.
>
> I have already posted enough information to show my qualitications.
>
> Whether I am qualified or not is irrelevant to whether the argument has
> merit or not.
>
> I have raised what I consider to be an important issue.

You have raised a point that you are not prepared to do anything about
though ... nobody disagrees with you about adding more testing, but if you
aren't willing to do the work, why should anyone else be?  Someone has to
spearhead it ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but
don't care enough to do anything about it ...

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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread The Hermit Hacker

'K, and do you have any ETA on when you'll have this translated into some
useful tests that we can incorporate?

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> Here is a list of a small sample of the citations available from the ACM
> on software testing:
>
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=581358&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=376180&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=367020&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=308790&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=257668&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=248262&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=227759&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=657
> 0092&CFTOKEN=81653602
>
> These articles are careful, scientific studies that have been
> extensively peer reviewed.
>
> These articles indicate that testing is a good idea.
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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruce Momjian wrote:

I don't think an option to do such justification would be good unless we
can do it consistenly in the code, and there is enough demand.
It's no big additional effort to do this, and going back and forth is 
not a big problem. I wouldn't invent an option for that, just do it. 
Let's see what's happening. At least, there seems agreement on not using 
tabs but spaces.

Still, I'd like to have somebody having a look at my algorithm. It's the 
key component, which should be proven right theoretically.

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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] capturing and storing query statement with

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Rosenman


--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 14:07:23 -0700 Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

(moving to HACKERS)

Mike Mascari wrote:
Joe Conway wrote:
I think this shows how to do what you want:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-05/msg00301.php
Maybe debug_query_string should be mapped into a variable like
CURRENT_USER? Perhaps something like CURRENT_QUERY?
I was thinking something similar. This exact question has come up at
least three times in the last three months. I doubt we'd want a special
keyword like CURRENT_QUERY, but maybe current_query()?
Comments?
I was thinking the same thing.  Currently I use the contrib/dblink supplied
function, but a firstclass, in the default install, version would be nice.


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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Treat wrote:
> the whole discussion is based on how do we get big projects done when no
> one is motivated to work on 'foo' until there faced with a deadline; 
> this idea puts the pressure on 'foo' developers from the get go. i'm not
> saying this a guaranteed way to solve that problem but i think it is a
> possible solution. i'm sure there will be big projects most people don't
> care about (win32) and big projects most people would like (replication)
> so the amount of like or dislike of the idea would be relative in
> practice, the key question is would this actually motivate folks more to
> get big projects finished faster? since there are only a handful of
> folks who fall into that category they can decide for themselves, and if
> it wouldn't motivate them, then the question can be asked again, what
> would?

I can confirm that there are several people working on Win32/PITR right
now, maybe four, that wouldn't if we hadn't set the beta freeze at July
1 --- so such pressure is a real motivator --- though certainly this
isn't the way we want to motivate developers.

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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Rosenman


--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 14:43:24 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

TODO updated:

* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO
  datestyle
I just posted a patch to -patches for this.  (it's a quickie, even).



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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] capturing and storing query statement with rules

2003-06-24 Thread Joe Conway
(moving to HACKERS)

Mike Mascari wrote:
Joe Conway wrote:
I think this shows how to do what you want:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-05/msg00301.php
Maybe debug_query_string should be mapped into a variable like
CURRENT_USER? Perhaps something like CURRENT_QUERY?
I was thinking something similar. This exact question has come up at 
least three times in the last three months. I doubt we'd want a special 
keyword like CURRENT_QUERY, but maybe current_query()?

Comments?

Joe



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Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:36, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
> 
> > > The target-date-based approach we've taken in the last couple of
> > > releases seems much more productive.
> > >
> >
> > productive on a small scale; for sure. productive for large scale
> > features...  well, that's why it's being discussed.
> 
> 'K, but if we extend the dev cycle in order to get 'foo' in, how is that
> better then having 'foo' continue to be developed thru the release and
> committed in the next cycle?
> 

I think it makes it easier to code 'foo' since you're not coding against
(quite as much of) a moving target. I could also help developers stay
focused on particular projects since they are the "hot potato" for a
given release. It could also help people plan better since they would
know that foo is coming in the next release.

> If it takes foo 6 months to develop, I'd rather have the release happen
> after 4 months as per normal (or close to it) and have 'foo' brought in
> part way into dev cycle 2 ... at least then, if 'foo' ends up taking 7
> months, we aren't delaying even further ...
> 

i'm sure everyone who doesn't want foo would agree with that position.
The counter though is those folks who did want foo but now have to wait
4-6 months for the next release since foo took a month longer to develop
than was initially planned.

> Its not like our dev cycles have 'idle periods' where nothing is happening
> and we're waiting for a feature to come along ... there is *alot* of
> changes going on that affect alot of ppl that don't really care about
> feature 'foo' coming along ...
> 

this doesn't really change anything for those folks, since the only
rational is "every 6 months we do a release." ie. there are *alot* of
changes going on that affect alot of ppl that don't really care about
waiting n more months... 

the whole discussion is based on how do we get big projects done when no
one is motivated to work on 'foo' until there faced with a deadline; 
this idea puts the pressure on 'foo' developers from the get go. i'm not
saying this a guaranteed way to solve that problem but i think it is a
possible solution. i'm sure there will be big projects most people don't
care about (win32) and big projects most people would like (replication)
so the amount of like or dislike of the idea would be relative in
practice, the key question is would this actually motivate folks more to
get big projects finished faster? since there are only a handful of
folks who fall into that category they can decide for themselves, and if
it wouldn't motivate them, then the question can be asked again, what
would?

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Re: [HACKERS] ss_family in hba.c

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Tishler
Bruce,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:04:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > All that probably needed to change for cygwin was to no longer
> > use sa_family_t in the getaddrinfo.c.
> 
> But Jason reported he needed that typedef for sa_family_t.  Jason, is
> that accurate.

Yes.

> If you remove the Cygwin typedef in pqcomm.h, does the compile fail?

Yes:

gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations 
-I../../../../src/include  -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o printtup.o printtup.c
In file included from ../../../../src/include/libpq/libpq-be.h:22,
 from ../../../../src/include/libpq/libpq.h:21,
 from printtup.c:20:
../../../../src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h:54: parse error before "sa_family_t"
[snip]

Jason

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Rod Taylor

> SELECT foo
>   FROM bar b
>   LEFT JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
>  WHERE ...
> :-)


Sub-selects are much nicer:

   SELECT foo
, bar
, (SELECT anotherfoo
 FROM tab2
WHERE tab2.col = tab1.col)
 FROM tab
 JOIN yet_another_table AS yat
  ON (yat.c = tab.c)
LEFT JOIN tab1 USING (anothercol)
WHERE stuff IS TRUE
  AND  ( optional IS NULL
  OR optional > 5)
   HAVING count(*) > (SELECT total
FROM total_table)
 ORDER BY foo
 GROUP BY foo
, bar
, 3;

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Re: [HACKERS] ss_family in hba.c

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:49:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > I have applied a patch to CVS to fix the problem.  It is all your patch,
> > except for the part you got from me, which was wrong.  :-(
> > 
> > It took me a while to realize the subtlety of your patch.  First, it
> > removes the use of sa_family_t _except_ for cases that don't have
> > SOCKADDR_STORAGE, where it is required.  Second, it allows for a
> > structure member named ss_family or __ss_family, tested via configure.
> > 
> > This should fix most platforms.  I am not sure how cygwin is going to
> > handle this --- we might have to add a specific sa_family_t typedef for
> > that platform --- MinGW does have sa_family_t, but probably doesn't need
> > it anyway.  Testing for the size of sa_family_t is possible via
> > configure, but if only cygwin needs it, we can just hard-code that
> > platform in the template files.  Cygwin folks, would you test CVS and
> > let me know.
> 
> There are probably other systems that don't have sa_family_t yet,
> but they should be rather old.  Even my Solaris 2.6 already seems
> to have it.
> 
> What I was confused about is, is that cygwin seems to have a
> struct sockaddr_storage in the first place (in winsock2.h).  I'm
> not sure what problem he really had since he only told it how he
> solved it.
> 
> All that probably needed to change for cygwin was to no longer
> use sa_family_t in the getaddrinfo.c.

But Jason reported he needed that typedef for sa_family_t.  Jason, is
that accurate.  If you remove the Cygwin typedef in pqcomm.h, does the
compile fail?

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

I don't think an option to do such justification would be good unless we
can do it consistenly in the code, and there is enough demand.

---

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> 
> >>Oh, one more thing --- right justify isn't as accepted as left-justify
> >>
> >>
> >
> >But it looks so much better...
> >  
> >
> Ye!
> Consider this:
> 
> SELECT foo
>   FROM bar b
>   LEFT JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
>  WHERE ...
> :-)
> 
> versus
> 
> SELECT foo
> FROM   bar b
> LEFT   JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
> WHERE  ...
> The keywords are separated :-(
> 
> SELECT foo
> FROM   bar b
> LEFT JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
> WHERE  ...
> No more lineup :-(
> 
> 
> 
> Admittedly, when you type it yourself, it's a bit annoying, because you 
> can't use just tabs. But if it's generated, it won't do any harm.
> Why not giving PostgreSQL this extra portion of elegance...
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Pflug
Rod Taylor wrote:

Oh, one more thing --- right justify isn't as accepted as left-justify
   

But it looks so much better...
 

Ye!
Consider this:
SELECT foo
 FROM bar b
 LEFT JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
WHERE ...
:-)
versus

SELECT foo
FROM   bar b
LEFT   JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
WHERE  ...
The keywords are separated :-(
SELECT foo
FROM   bar b
LEFT JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
WHERE  ...
No more lineup :-(


Admittedly, when you type it yourself, it's a bit annoying, because you 
can't use just tabs. But if it's generated, it won't do any harm.
Why not giving PostgreSQL this extra portion of elegance...

Regards,
Andreas
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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

TODO updated:

* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO
  datestyle


---

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:44:25 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >> >> >   * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
> >> >> you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.
> >> >>
> >> >> (Per tom's comments).
> >> >
> >> > Can you supply an example/text?
> >> * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds when using
> >> DateStyle ISO
> >
> > I am still confused.  What does such output look like.   Right now I
> > get:
> >
> > test=> SELECT '13 minutes'::interval;
> >  interval
> > --
> >  00:13
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > I assume the idea is to display it as 00:13:00, right?
> Correct, but with Postgres DateStyle or SQL, it does other stuff:
> 
> $ psql
> Welcome to psql 7.3.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> 
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>\h for help with SQL commands
>\? for help on internal slash commands
>\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>\q to quit
> 
> ler=# set datestyle='postgres'
> ler-# ;
> SET
> ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval
> ler-# ;
>  interval
> ---
>  @ 13 mins
> (1 row)
> 
> ler=# set datestyle='sql';
> SET
> ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval;
>  interval
> ---
>  @ 13 mins
> (1 row)
> 
> ler=# set datestyle='iso,us';
> SET
> ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval;
>  interval
> --
>  00:13
> (1 row)
> 
> ler=#
> >
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Re: [HACKERS] TO_CHAR SO SLOW???

2003-06-24 Thread Maksim Likharev
Yes it is TO_CHAR,
look like that OS ( SUN ) related issue, I assume PG uses some of the
lib functions.
Looks like nonsense for me, what is damn difficult in that ( formating
dates ).
going to try date_part, might help me.

Too bad EXPLAIN does not provide statistic of time that spent inside a 
function call, would be much helpful in such case.
In comparison with Microsoft SQL, productivity of using 
profiling/debugging tools sorry to say that, far behind.



-Original Message-
From: Karel Zak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:04 AM
To: Maksim Likharev
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TO_CHAR SO SLOW???


On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:08:19PM -0700, Maksim Likharev wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some SQL function, just regular function selects data by using
4
> joins nothing fancy,
> but one thing pretty noticeable,
> I have to display 3 different columns with same date formatted
> differently,
> here are 3 different snippets:
> 
> 1. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/') 
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ...
> 2. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/'), TO_CHAR(t.dt,
'Mon-')
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ..
> 3. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/'), TO_CHAR(t.dt,
> 'Mon-'), TO_CHAR(t.dt, '')
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ...
> 
> # 1: 15000 rows, I getting data for  130 sec
> # 2: 15000 rows, I getting data for  160 sec
> # 3: 15000 rows, I getting data for  220 sec
> 
> adding different fields into output change query time only marginally
> but adding or removing to_char, 
> just heavily knocks performance.
> 
> is it TO_CHAR so slow??

 I don't think to_char() is so slow. What happen with performance
 if you use t.dt without formatting or if try some other function
 an example extract()?
 
 SELECT t.x, t.y, t.dt FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t;
 
 SELECT t.x, t.y, EXTRACT(year from t.dt) 
 FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t;
 
Karel

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Re: [HACKERS] ss_family in hba.c

2003-06-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:49:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> I have applied a patch to CVS to fix the problem.  It is all your patch,
> except for the part you got from me, which was wrong.  :-(
> 
> It took me a while to realize the subtlety of your patch.  First, it
> removes the use of sa_family_t _except_ for cases that don't have
> SOCKADDR_STORAGE, where it is required.  Second, it allows for a
> structure member named ss_family or __ss_family, tested via configure.
> 
> This should fix most platforms.  I am not sure how cygwin is going to
> handle this --- we might have to add a specific sa_family_t typedef for
> that platform --- MinGW does have sa_family_t, but probably doesn't need
> it anyway.  Testing for the size of sa_family_t is possible via
> configure, but if only cygwin needs it, we can just hard-code that
> platform in the template files.  Cygwin folks, would you test CVS and
> let me know.

There are probably other systems that don't have sa_family_t yet,
but they should be rather old.  Even my Solaris 2.6 already seems
to have it.

What I was confused about is, is that cygwin seems to have a
struct sockaddr_storage in the first place (in winsock2.h).  I'm
not sure what problem he really had since he only told it how he
solved it.

All that probably needed to change for cygwin was to no longer
use sa_family_t in the getaddrinfo.c.


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Re: [HACKERS] lru cache replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Yutaka tanida

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:43:56 +0900
Yutaka tanida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > BTW, when you were running your test case, what shared_buffers did you
> > use?
> 
> I use 16,64,256 and 4096.

I missed.  My shown result(+4% cache hit rate) is shared_buffers=64.

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Re: [HACKERS] lru cache replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Yutaka tanida

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:27:09 -0400
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I tried to implement LRU-2 awhile ago, and got discouraged when I
> couldn't see any performance improvement.  But I was using pgbench as
> the test case, and failed to think about its lack of seqscans.

How about cache hit rate?

> BTW, when you were running your test case, what shared_buffers did you
> use?

I use 16,64,256 and 4096.


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Re: [HACKERS] a problem with index and user define type

2003-06-24 Thread Weiping He
Tom Lane wrote:

Weiping He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

we found the problem:
We used IMMUTABLE modifier in our CREATE FUNCTION definition,
though it's correct for our function to return same value if input the 
same *data*,
but our data are passed by reference, not by value, so, some times we can't
retrive out data. Remove IMMUTABLE fixed the problem.
   

 

So, it seems to make it clear in docs would be a good help to function 
writers, would commit a documentation patch later if necessary.
   

I'm not sure what problem you're really describing, but it would be
entirely wrong for the docs to claim that pass-by-reference datatypes
shouldn't have immutable functions.  float8 is pass-by-ref, for
instance, but they don't come any more immutable than sqrt(x) ...
I'd suggest taking a closer look to understand what the problem really
is.  Trying to index on a non-immutable function makes no sense, which
is why the system forbids it.
			regards, tom lane

 

Sorry for didn't describe my problem clearly. I mean the function implement
the operator, like compare function for equal ('=') etc, not to build an 
index
on an function.

Here is full version:

First we build a user type using CREATE FUNCTION, CREATE TYPE, CREATE 
OPERATOR
and CREATE OPERATOR CLASS command, of course we wrote those C functions
needed for operator, type etc.

Then we try to test if our type (which is named UUID) could be 
indexable,  and found
it didn't use the index, but, we don't know why.

Later, we ask the question here why the index didn't get used, and you 
point out that we
should assign the selective restriction function for our operators, 
espically for '=' operator,
we use 'eqsel' per your suggestion. But found out that though the idnex 
got used, but sometimes
not data row return (and sometimes we could get the data row)!

Then we re-check our definition, and found out may be we shouldn't use 
IMMUTABLE
key word in the function definition used by the '=' operator to 
implement the equation compare,
the wrong definition is:

Datum uuid_eq(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
   struct uuid *uptr1 = (struct uuid *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);
   struct uuid *uptr2 = (struct uuid *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(1);
   PG_RETURN_BOOL(uuidcmp(uptr1, uptr2) == 0);
}
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION uuid_eq(uuid, uuid)
RETURNS boolean
IMMUTABLE
STRICT
AS '$libdir/uuid'
LANGUAGE 'C';
CREATE OPERATOR = (
   LEFTARG = uuid,
   RIGHTARG = uuid,
   COMMUTATOR = =,
   NEGATOR = <>,
   PROCEDURE = uuid_eq,
   RESTRICT = eqsel,
   JOIN = eqjoinsel
);
because the data type (UUID) is a struct,
and the uuid_eq() function accept two pointer to the value of struct uuid,
if make it IMMUTABLE, postgresql would think it should not try to run
the function, but return the cached value instead when it get two same 
pointers input,
but, the pointers may be unchanged, the data pointers point to may have 
changed.
So it will cause the weird symptom we found. And removed IMMUTABLE fix the
problem. So we think may be the doc for CREATE FUNCTION should point out
the difference of passed by ref and passed by value. Thus may avoid this 
kind of
error.

Thanks and Regards

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Rod Taylor

> Oh, one more thing --- right justify isn't as accepted as left-justify

But it looks so much better...

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Re: [HACKERS] lru cache replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Yutaka tanida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> does pgbench test with relatively large sequential scans?
> 
> > Probably no. 
> 
> pgbench tries to avoid any seqscans at all, I believe, so it wouldn't be
> very useful for testing a method that's mainly intended to prevent
> seqscans from blowing out the cache.
> 
> I tried to implement LRU-2 awhile ago, and got discouraged when I
> couldn't see any performance improvement.  But I was using pgbench as
> the test case, and failed to think about its lack of seqscans.
> 
> We could probably resurrect that code for comparison to 2Q, if anyone
> can devise more interesting benchmark cases to test.
> 
> BTW, when you were running your test case, what shared_buffers did you
> use?

It's very easy to test sequencial scans using pgbench: just drop the
index from account table. I am using this technique to generate heavy
loads.
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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Many Pl/PgSQL parameters -> AllocSetAlloc(128)?

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, adding a "pfree(oneres);" to the end of that for loop plugs 
> the memory leak and allows me to see the error message:

On second look, you can't pfree oneres at the bottom of
gen_cross_product() because it's part of the returned data structure
--- note the assignment
*iter++ = oneres;

I think the bug here is that gen_cross_product should be ignoring
argument positions that have nsupers == 0; those should always be
assigned the same type as the input, since the regular type resolution
algorithm is responsible for dealing with 'em.

It might work to get rid of the "wild card" case (line 1115), which'd
reduce the number of outputs to product(nsupers+1).  I doubt we really
want any wild cards in there anymore.

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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Rosenman


--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:44:25 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >   * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
>> you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.
>>
>> (Per tom's comments).
>
> Can you supply an example/text?
* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds when using
DateStyle ISO
I am still confused.  What does such output look like.   Right now I
get:
test=> SELECT '13 minutes'::interval;
 interval
--
 00:13
(1 row)

I assume the idea is to display it as 00:13:00, right?
Correct, but with Postgres DateStyle or SQL, it does other stuff:

$ psql
Welcome to psql 7.3.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
  \h for help with SQL commands
  \? for help on internal slash commands
  \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
  \q to quit
ler=# set datestyle='postgres'
ler-# ;
SET
ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval
ler-# ;
interval
---
@ 13 mins
(1 row)
ler=# set datestyle='sql';
SET
ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval;
interval
---
@ 13 mins
(1 row)
ler=# set datestyle='iso,us';
SET
ler=# select '13 minutes'::interval;
interval
--
00:13
(1 row)
ler=#
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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >> >  * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
> >> you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.
> >>
> >> (Per tom's comments).
> >
> > Can you supply an example/text?
> * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds when using 
> DateStyle ISO

I am still confused.  What does such output look like.   Right now I
get:

test=> SELECT '13 minutes'::interval;
 interval
--
 00:13
(1 row)

I assume the idea is to display it as 00:13:00, right?

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Re: [HACKERS] lru cache replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Yutaka tanida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> does pgbench test with relatively large sequential scans?

> Probably no. 

pgbench tries to avoid any seqscans at all, I believe, so it wouldn't be
very useful for testing a method that's mainly intended to prevent
seqscans from blowing out the cache.

I tried to implement LRU-2 awhile ago, and got discouraged when I
couldn't see any performance improvement.  But I was using pgbench as
the test case, and failed to think about its lack of seqscans.

We could probably resurrect that code for comparison to 2Q, if anyone
can devise more interesting benchmark cases to test.

BTW, when you were running your test case, what shared_buffers did you
use?

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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Rosenman


--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 09:46:33 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> Add to TODO:
>
>* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.
(Per tom's comments).
Can you supply an example/text?
* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds when using 
DateStyle ISO


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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Many Pl/PgSQL parameters -> AllocSetAlloc(128)?

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, adding a "pfree(oneres);" to the end of that for loop plugs 
> the memory leak and allows me to see the error message:

Good catch.

> Takes a while to check all 16777216 possibilities though, so I'm still 
> not sure more isn't needed here.

I wonder why it's doing anything at all --- the check for supertypes
ought to trigger only for complex type (rowtype) arguments, and there
are none here.

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Re: [HACKERS] a problem with index and user define type

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Weiping He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> we found the problem:
> We used IMMUTABLE modifier in our CREATE FUNCTION definition,
> though it's correct for our function to return same value if input the 
> same *data*,
> but our data are passed by reference, not by value, so, some times we can't
> retrive out data. Remove IMMUTABLE fixed the problem.

> So, it seems to make it clear in docs would be a good help to function 
> writers, would commit a documentation patch later if necessary.

I'm not sure what problem you're really describing, but it would be
entirely wrong for the docs to claim that pass-by-reference datatypes
shouldn't have immutable functions.  float8 is pass-by-ref, for
instance, but they don't come any more immutable than sqrt(x) ...

I'd suggest taking a closer look to understand what the problem really
is.  Trying to index on a non-immutable function makes no sense, which
is why the system forbids it.

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Re: [HACKERS] dblink_ora - a first shot on Oracle ...

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah. But we'd need to detect whether or not the Oracle client libs are 
> available. I'm not sure how to do that with the contrib build system. 
> And we'd need a fair amount of integration/reorganizing the existing 
> code. Also, I've got the same issues with integrating jdbclink.

> I don't think I'll be able to get that done between now and July 1st.

Seems reasonable to put integrating both of 'em as a TODO for 7.5.

I think you're clearly the guy who has to review those patches, so
if you don't have time right now, it's not gonna happen for 7.4.

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Re: [HACKERS] 2Q implementaion for PostgreSQL buffer replacement.

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

Patch removed at author's request.

---

Yutaka tanida wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I implement 2Q algorithm to PostgreSQL for buffer management , instead
> of LRU.
> It's known as low overhead and high performance than LRU. If you have
> some interests , see following URL.
> 
> http://www.vldb.org/conf/1994/P439.PDF
> 
> In my test (pgbench -S) , it improves 4% cache hit rate and 2% up
> performance comparing from LRU.
> 
> Do you have any interest about this patch?
> 
> -- 
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Re: [HACKERS] 2Q implementaion for PostgreSQL buffer replacement.

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

OK, thanks. I will remove it from the queue, and someone suggested a
different algorithm today:

> I was researching on cache replacement strategy as well. 2Q has one
> disadvantage see this exellent paper:
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/#ARC see the paper
> "ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache" for theory and "One
> Up on LRU" for implementation details. ARC requires no tuning and can
> switch fast between chaging patterns. Best of all is it is resistant to a
> "sequential scan" pattern. and i think it's even easier to implement then
> 2q :)


---

Yutaka tanida wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Looks good to me --- we will include it in 7.4.
> 
> Thanks.But please note it is not completed yet. I must implement more ,
> and move configurable parameter to postgresql.conf file.
> 
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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >
> > Add to TODO:
> >
> > * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
> you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.
> 
> (Per tom's comments).

Can you supply an example/text?

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Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Core Welcomes New Member

2003-06-24 Thread Dave Page
It's rumoured that Vince Vielhaber once said:
> Whut?  Please drop www.us as a postgresql mirror.

Just stop rsyncing and your mirror will be dropped automatically.

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andreas Pflug wrote:
> I also could implement line break and indentation formatting. I 
> implemented a keyword-based algorithm in pgAdmin3, and having the 
> original tree the job is obviously easier. Do we need any flexibility 
> about indent char (tab or space) and indentation size (2 chars)? The 
> pgAdmin3 algorithm uses 4 spaces, and tries to align keywords so they 
> line up nicely, and I'd prefer doing it this way again.
> 
>  SELECT foo
>FROM bar b
>JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
>   WHERE ...

Oh, one more thing --- right justify isn't as accepted as left-justify
--- sorry.

>  SELECT foo
>  FROM   bar b
>  JOIN   chair c USING (thekeycol)
>  WHERE ...

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Bruce Momjian

Great.  I recommend using spaces rather than tabs for indenting in psql
and pg_dump.

---

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >OK, added to TODO:
> >
> > Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> > and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> >
> >Andreas, can you work on this?  I like the idea of removing extra
> >parens, and merging it into the existing code rather than into contrib
> >makes sense.
> >
> 
> Yes, I can. At the moment, I have a runnable contrib module, which 
> replaces all pg_get_xxxdef by pg_get_xxxdef2 functions. It's no problem 
> to apply that code back to the original ruleutils.c when the 
> isSimpleNode algorithm is reviewed independently and proved being correct.
> 
> For safety reasons, I can make this dependent on a bool pretty-print 
> parameter.
> 
> I also could implement line break and indentation formatting. I 
> implemented a keyword-based algorithm in pgAdmin3, and having the 
> original tree the job is obviously easier. Do we need any flexibility 
> about indent char (tab or space) and indentation size (2 chars)? The 
> pgAdmin3 algorithm uses 4 spaces, and tries to align keywords so they 
> line up nicely, and I'd prefer doing it this way again.
> 
>  SELECT foo
>FROM bar b
>JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
>   WHERE ...
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> /***
>  * check if given node is simple.
>  *  false  : not simple
>  *  true   : simple in the context of parent node's type
>  ***/
> 
> static bool isSimpleNode(Node *node, NodeTag parentNodeType)
> {
> if (!node)
>   return true;
> 
> switch (nodeTag(node))
> {
>   // single words: always simple
>   case T_Var:
>   case T_Const:
>   case T_Param:
> 
>   // function-like: name(..) or name[..]
>   case T_ArrayRef:
>   case T_FuncExpr:
>   case T_ArrayExpr:
>   case T_CoalesceExpr:
>   case T_NullIfExpr:
>   case T_Aggref:
> 
> // CASE keywords act as parentheses
>   case T_CaseExpr:
>   return true;
> 
> // appears simple since . has top precedence, unless parent is T_FieldSelect 
> itself!
>   case T_FieldSelect:
>   return (parentNodeType == T_FieldSelect ? false : true);
> 
> 
> // maybe simple, check args
>   case T_CoerceToDomain:
>   return isSimpleNode((Node*) ((CoerceToDomain*)node)->arg, 
> T_CoerceToDomain);
>   case T_RelabelType:
>   return isSimpleNode((Node*) ((RelabelType*)node)->arg, T_RelabelType);
> 
> 
>   // depends on parent node type; needs further checking
>   case T_SubLink:
>   case T_NullTest:
>   case T_BooleanTest:
>   case T_OpExpr:
>   case T_DistinctExpr:
>   if (parentNodeType == T_BoolExpr)
>   return true;
> // else check the same as for T_BoolExpr; no break here!
>   case T_BoolExpr:
>   switch (parentNodeType)
>   {
>   case T_ArrayRef:
>   case T_FuncExpr:
>   case T_ArrayExpr:
>   case T_CoalesceExpr:
>   case T_NullIfExpr:
>   case T_Aggref:
>   case T_CaseExpr:
>   return true;
>   default:
>   break;
>   }
>   return false;
> 
> // these are not completely implemented; so far, they're simple
>   case T_SubPlan:
>   case T_CoerceToDomainValue:
>   return true;
> 
>   default:
>   break;
> }
> // those we don't know: in dubio complexo
> return false;
> }
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[HACKERS] How to use pset command in my program!!

2003-06-24 Thread Srikanth M
Hi!

I want to use 'pset'command in my program

it's like this.

I want to do the execute the following in my program.

\pset null 'ALL'

how can this be done

bye
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Re: [HACKERS] lru cache replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Yutaka tanida
xoror,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:13:51 +0200 (MEST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I was researching on cache replacement strategy as well. 2Q has one
> disadvantage see this exellent paper:
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/#ARC see the paper
> "ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache" for theory and "One
> Up on LRU" for implementation details. ARC requires no tuning and can
> switch fast between chaging patterns. Best of all is it is resistant to a
> "sequential scan" pattern. and i think it's even easier to implement then
> 2q :) 

Thanks for your information. I check the paper and implement it by Java for
testing.

> does pgbench test with relatively large sequential scans?

Probably no. 

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Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] ss_family in hba.c

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Tishler
Bruce,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:49:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> This should fix most platforms.  I am not sure how cygwin is going to
> handle this --- we might have to add a specific sa_family_t typedef
> for that platform --- MinGW does have sa_family_t, but probably
> doesn't need it anyway.  Testing for the size of sa_family_t is
> possible via configure, but if only cygwin needs it, we can just
> hard-code that platform in the template files.  Cygwin folks, would
> you test CVS and let me know.

The above seems to be OK for Cygwin too.

Jason

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Re: [HACKERS] 2Q implementaion for PostgreSQL buffer replacement.

2003-06-24 Thread Yutaka tanida

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Looks good to me --- we will include it in 7.4.

Thanks.But please note it is not completed yet. I must implement more ,
and move configurable parameter to postgresql.conf file.

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Re: [HACKERS] sa_family_t in cygwin compile of cvs + regression failure

2003-06-24 Thread Jason Tishler
Bruce,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:50:49PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, patch applied to typedef sa_family_t for cygwin.  If other
> platforms need it, I will have to do something more generic.

I'm happy to report that the above patch solves one of Cygwin's current
build problems.  However, Cygwin still needs the following patch:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-06/msg00186.php

Thanks,
Jason

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dump

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Pflug


Bruce Momjian wrote:

OK, added to TODO:

Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
Andreas, can you work on this?  I like the idea of removing extra
parens, and merging it into the existing code rather than into contrib
makes sense.
Yes, I can. At the moment, I have a runnable contrib module, which 
replaces all pg_get_xxxdef by pg_get_xxxdef2 functions. It's no problem 
to apply that code back to the original ruleutils.c when the 
isSimpleNode algorithm is reviewed independently and proved being correct.

For safety reasons, I can make this dependent on a bool pretty-print 
parameter.

I also could implement line break and indentation formatting. I 
implemented a keyword-based algorithm in pgAdmin3, and having the 
original tree the job is obviously easier. Do we need any flexibility 
about indent char (tab or space) and indentation size (2 chars)? The 
pgAdmin3 algorithm uses 4 spaces, and tries to align keywords so they 
line up nicely, and I'd prefer doing it this way again.

SELECT foo
  FROM bar b
  JOIN chair c USING (thekeycol)
 WHERE ...
   

Regards,

Andreas

/***
* check if given node is simple.
*  false  : not simple
*  true   : simple in the context of parent node's type
***/
static bool isSimpleNode(Node *node, NodeTag parentNodeType)
{
   if (!node)
return true;
   switch (nodeTag(node))
   {
// single words: always simple
case T_Var:
case T_Const:
case T_Param:
// function-like: name(..) or name[..]
case T_ArrayRef:
case T_FuncExpr:
case T_ArrayExpr:
case T_CoalesceExpr:
case T_NullIfExpr:
case T_Aggref:
   // CASE keywords act as parentheses
case T_CaseExpr:
return true;
   // appears simple since . has top precedence, unless parent is T_FieldSelect 
itself!
case T_FieldSelect:
return (parentNodeType == T_FieldSelect ? false : true);
   // maybe simple, check args
case T_CoerceToDomain:
return isSimpleNode((Node*) ((CoerceToDomain*)node)->arg, 
T_CoerceToDomain);
case T_RelabelType:
return isSimpleNode((Node*) ((RelabelType*)node)->arg, T_RelabelType);
// depends on parent node type; needs further checking
case T_SubLink:
case T_NullTest:
case T_BooleanTest:
case T_OpExpr:
case T_DistinctExpr:
if (parentNodeType == T_BoolExpr)
return true;
   // else check the same as for T_BoolExpr; no break here!
case T_BoolExpr:
switch (parentNodeType)
{
case T_ArrayRef:
case T_FuncExpr:
case T_ArrayExpr:
case T_CoalesceExpr:
case T_NullIfExpr:
case T_Aggref:
case T_CaseExpr:
return true;
default:
break;
}
return false;
   // these are not completely implemented; so far, they're simple
case T_SubPlan:
case T_CoerceToDomainValue:
return true;
default:
break;
   }
   // those we don't know: in dubio complexo
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Re: [HACKERS] ftp mirror

2003-06-24 Thread Dave Page


> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 24 June 2003 02:55
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-hackers list
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ftp mirror
> 
> 
> > Is it me or is there a problem with ftp mirrors?
> > The latest shapshots I have here are from June 2; seems rather old..
> 
> Also, what happened to www.au.postgresql.org???

My fault, sorry. I've asked Marc to fix the DNS.

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Re: [HACKERS] TO_CHAR SO SLOW???

2003-06-24 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:08:19PM -0700, Maksim Likharev wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some SQL function, just regular function selects data by using 4
> joins nothing fancy,
> but one thing pretty noticeable,
> I have to display 3 different columns with same date formatted
> differently,
> here are 3 different snippets:
> 
> 1. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/') 
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ...
> 2. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/'), TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'Mon-')
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ..
> 3. SELECT t.x,t.y,TO_CHAR(t.dt, 'DD/MM/'), TO_CHAR(t.dt,
> 'Mon-'), TO_CHAR(t.dt, '')
>   FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t
>   ...
> 
> # 1: 15000 rows, I getting data for  130 sec
> # 2: 15000 rows, I getting data for  160 sec
> # 3: 15000 rows, I getting data for  220 sec
> 
> adding different fields into output change query time only marginally
> but adding or removing to_char, 
> just heavily knocks performance.
> 
> is it TO_CHAR so slow??

 I don't think to_char() is so slow. What happen with performance
 if you use t.dt without formatting or if try some other function
 an example extract()?
 
 SELECT t.x, t.y, t.dt FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t;
 
 SELECT t.x, t.y, EXTRACT(year from t.dt) 
 FROM ( SELECT x, y, dt FROM  ) AS t;
 
Karel

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Re: [HACKERS] again: Bug #943: Server-Encoding from EUC_TW toUTF-8

2003-06-24 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > > I reported bug #943 (I found in 7.3.2) and you checked in some change against 
> > > integer overflow.
> > > Now I upgraded to 7.3.3 and I'm not happy with this.
> > > The exact error as I described is fixed, but I found new errors in conversion 
> > > UTF-8 <-> EUC_TW and BIG5:
> > >
> > > Copy to table (DB has UTF-8 encoding) from file:
> > > for PGCLIENTENCODING=BIG5:
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 1, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0xf9d6) BIG5 to UTF-8. 
> > > Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 2, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0xf9d7) BIG5 to UTF-8. 
> > > Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 3, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0xf9d8) BIG5 to UTF-8. 
> > > Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 4, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0xf9db) BIG5 to UTF-8. 
> > > Ignored
> > 
> > I see no problem here. The only standard conversion map I could found
> > on-line form so far (see below URL) does not include entries 0xf9d6 or
> > above.
> > 
> > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.txt
> 
> 
> I found in this file:
> U+F9D7 in line 604519
> U+F9D8 in line 219540
> U+F9D6...U+F9DB in lines 730707...730766.

No. U+F9D6 means *Unicode* code point, not BIG5 code point.

> 
> > > for EUC_TW
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 1, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0x8ea3c3b7) EUC_TW to 
> > > UTF-8. Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 2, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0x8ea3cfd0) EUC_TW to 
> > > UTF-8. Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 3, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0x8ea3c4ce) EUC_TW to 
> > > UTF-8. Ignored
> > > WARNING:  copy: line 4, LocalToUtf: could not convert (0x8ea3bdfe) EUC_TW to 
> > > UTF-8. Ignored
> > 
> > Hum. These seem to be CNS 11643-1993, plane 3. Currently PostgreSQL
> > supports only:
> > 
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 0
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 1
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 2
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 15
> > 
> > Would you like to have support for rest of CNS 11643-1993 planes:
> > 
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 3
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 4
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 5
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 6
> > CNS 11643-1993, plane 7
> > 
> > support for upcoming 7.4?
> > 
> > > Copy out to file from table (UTF-8 data):
> > > to BIG5
> > > WARNING:  UtfToLocal: could not convert UTF-8 (0xe7a281). Ignored
> > > WARNING:  UtfToLocal: could not convert UTF-8 (0xe98ab9). Ignored
> > > WARNING:  UtfToLocal: could not convert UTF-8 (0xe8a38f). Ignored
> > > WARNING:  UtfToLocal: could not convert UTF-8 (0xe7b2a7). Ignored
> > >
> > > to EUC_TW is ok!
> > 
> > BIG5 and EUC_TW have different code points. So this is not very strange.
> 
> 
> But it is very strange that I can (for EUC_TW) copy to file without error but I can 
> not copy from file without error.
> 
> Michael
> 

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Re: [HACKERS] interval's and printing...

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Rosenman


--On Monday, June 23, 2003 23:41:29 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Add to TODO:

	* Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
you might want to clarify the TODO to include in ISO DateStyle.

(Per tom's comments).

LER



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Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Many Pl/PgSQL parameters -> AllocSetAlloc(128)?

2003-06-24 Thread Joe Conway
Joe Conway wrote:
I get nanswers = 16777216, so right off the bat 67MB or so is allocated. 
Then there's this:


/* compute the cross product from right to left */
for (;;)
{
oneres = (Oid *) palloc0(FUNC_MAX_ARGS * sizeof(Oid));

I'm guessing this gets executed nanswers times. I saw memory usage grow 
to 880 MB and then killed the process.

I'm not sure of the best way to fix this yet, but I found that when 
calling the function with argument types matching the prototype 
perfectly, this code never gets executed.
Actually, adding a "pfree(oneres);" to the end of that for loop plugs 
the memory leak and allows me to see the error message:

ERROR:  Function add_news__test(integer, character varying, timestamp 
with time zone, character varying, character varying, character varying, 
character varying, integer, timestamp with time zone, integer, timestamp 
with time zone, character varying, character varying, character varying, 
integer, boolean, character varying, character varying, character 
varying, timestamp with time zone, integer, character varying, character 
varying, integer) does not exist
Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument 
types
You may need to add explicit typecasts

Takes a while to check all 16777216 possibilities though, so I'm still 
not sure more isn't needed here.

Joe

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