James Rogers kirjutas N, 02.10.2003 kell 23:44:
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:09, Hannu Krosing wrote:
So what you really need is the CLUSTER command to leave pages half-empty
and the tuple placement logic on inserts/updates to place new tuples
near the place where they would be placed by
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
Hi guys,
If someone could help me with this, it would be cool. How do I query
the catalogs to find the underlying index for a constraint? (Assuming
the constraint is primary or unique)
For a primary key you can do:
SELECT cls.relname
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:41:48PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
Today's cvs doesn't compile. I think it is due to
cvs diff -r1.7 -r1.8 src/interfaces/ecpg/include/datetime.h
I have dtime_t defined in my sys/types.h. The old version of datetime.h used
I tried too hide these type definitions
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, I tried it again and it still seems buggy to me...
I wonder if it's something to do with the tsearch trigger on food_foods?
I tried a table with a simple BEFORE trigger and it didn't fail.
But when I added a GIST index, it did:
[ install
I'm afraid I'm confused about something very simple... but anyway
I need to run a query on a varchar field containing a backslash.
My first attempt looked like this:
SELECT smth. FROM tbl WHERE situation LIKE '%\\%';
This did not returned any rows.
I looked up for a reference, confirmed that
I get the error message below when trying to 'make' current cvs:
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic
-I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I../../../../src/include/utils
-I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -c timestamp.c -o timestamp.o
In file included
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd almost argue that we should change this message to an error
I agree.
Except that it would totally break backwards-compatibility?
Well, that's a possible problem. How many such views do you think are
out there, given the existence of the
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If someone could help me with this, it would be cool. How do I query
the catalogs to find the underlying index for a constraint? (Assuming
the constraint is primary or unique)
A first approximation is that the constraint and the index have
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:59:19PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:41:48PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
Today's cvs doesn't compile. I think it is due to
cvs diff -r1.7 -r1.8 src/interfaces/ecpg/include/datetime.h
I have dtime_t defined in my sys/types.h. The old
Ladies and Gentemen,
in a database project I ported an Oracle database definition to
PostgreSQL 7.3.2 as an aside. During this process I found a
couple of incompatibilities in the SQL dialects of both DBMS.
I compiled the following list for whatever it might be good for -
for example to
Hallo,
I wonder if there is a way to call functions in plpgsql having their oid.
As an example: suppose i have a table that contains oids to functions
and i have some statements that select some rows and must call the
corresponding functions. Of course i can do it using dynamic sql
(building
Hello,
I'd like to know if its possible to coopt the postgres storage subsystem to
rely entirely on ram based structures, rather than disk. Any documentation
or ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
It might be better to split into two different trees. One just gets bug fixes,
the other gets bug fixes plus enhancements that won't require an initdb.
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all users to accept new
features in
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, I tried it again and it still seems buggy to me...
I wonder if it's something to do with the tsearch trigger on food_foods?
I tried a table with a simple BEFORE trigger and it didn't fail.
But when
Michael Brusser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But when I doubled the number of backslashes:
SELECT smth. FROM tbl WHERE situation LIKE '%%';
- it actually worked fine.
Backslash is special to both the string-literal parser and the LIKE code.
So when you write the above, the pattern value
+ CREATE SCHEMA: Sometimes a schema created in PostgreSQL
disappears if there is nothing in it.
If true, this would be a bug. Do you have a reproducible test case?
+ CREATE INDEX: PostgreSQL should allow specifying a namespace
for the index, even if the namespace is required
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Steve Yalovitser wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to know if its possible to coopt the postgres storage subsystem to
rely entirely on ram based structures, rather than disk. Any documentation
or ideas would be appreciated.
Sure, create a ram disk. Set $PGDATA to it with proper
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:10, Steve Yalovitser wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to know if its possible to coopt the postgres storage subsystem to
rely entirely on ram based structures, rather than disk. Any documentation
or ideas would be appreciated.
Just so you know, this isn't going to make the
Rainer Klute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ some good comments, but a few things I want to respond to ]
+ CREATE SCHEMA: Sometimes a schema created in PostgreSQL
disappears if there is nothing in it.
This is more than a bit hard to believe. Can you give an example?
+ CREATE
+ CREATE SCHEMA: Sometimes a schema created in PostgreSQL
disappears if there is nothing in it.
This is more than a bit hard to believe. Can you give an example?
We use schema's ALOT in our applications. I have yet to see this happen.
+ PostgreSQL does not support the NUMBER
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all users to accept new
features in stable trees.
What if the feature does break compatibility with old features?
What if it is truly a new feature?
One example would be that we are considering reworking
pg_dump/restore a bit to support batch uploads
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all users to accept new
features in stable trees.
What if the feature does break compatibility with old features?
What if it is truly a new feature?
One example would be that we are considering reworking
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all users to accept new
features in stable trees.
What if the feature does break compatibility with old features?
What if it is truly a new feature?
One example would be that we are considering
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 00:50, Greg Stark wrote:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd almost argue that we should change this message to an error
I agree.
Motion proposed and seconded; any objections out there?
Uhm, doesn't the spec have anything to say about this?
I mean,
I am back and reading email now.
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Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uhm, doesn't the spec have anything to say about this?
I mean, the view sure looks like standard SQL on its face.
Well, you might read the spec as requiring the view column to have
datatype CHAR(n) where n is the length of the unknown literal.
I see in
I now have a C implementation of initdb, which successfully runs with
make check on my several linux machines, and compiles on Windows/MinGW
too (can't run make check on Windows because we haven't got a native
postgres yet - I'm going to create a small dummy Windows postgres that
will let me
While reviewing someone else's translation of pg_dump I noted that the
phrase ACL list is used in a couple of places. However ACL stands for
Access Control List, so the term ACL list seems redundant.
Maybe it should be replaced with plain ACL?
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Alvaro Herrera (alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl)
I
Harald Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
test=# create temp sequence ts;
CREATE SEQUENCE
test=# create table tt1 (id int not null default nextval ('ts'), str varchar(255)
not null);
CREATE TABLE
Although what PostgreSQL (7.3.4) does is perfectly reasonable, I find
it somewhat unclean.
Joshua, et. al.
Sorry for weighing in on this discussion so late; I've gotten behind on the
Hackers digests, since there are some 90 messages a day.
I don't see anything wrong with the idea of maintaining a 7.3 tree for bug
fixes and testing if /contrib modules can be backported. Heck, I'm
Tom Lane wrote:
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think what Tom is concerned about is that this hasn't been tested
enough with big datasets. Also there a little loss of index pages but
it's much less (orders of magnitude, I think) than what was before.
This is because the index
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
It might be better to split into two different trees. One just gets bug fixes,
the other gets bug fixes plus enhancements that won't require an initdb.
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Seun Osewa) belched
out...:
This is for relational database theory experts on one hand and
imlementers of real-world alications on the other hand. If there was
a chance to start again and design SQL afresh, for best
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
It might be better to split into two different trees. One just gets bug fixes,
the other gets bug fixes plus enhancements that won't require an initdb.
Yes, please. Please, please
If we are going to back-patch more aggressively, we _have_ to be sure
that those back-patched releases have the same quality as all our other
releases.
I know that I am probably being semantic here but I in know way want to
be more aggressive with back patching. My
thoughts for 98% of things
Alvaro Herrera writes:
While reviewing someone else's translation of pg_dump I noted that the
phrase ACL list is used in a couple of places. However ACL stands for
Access Control List, so the term ACL list seems redundant.
These kinds of redundancies are pretty common for the sake of clarity
I believe we have agreed to call a string freeze as of beta 4.
That means that any string changes for the sake of prettiness are now to
be avoided. (Here, strings means any strings that compose messages seen
by the user.) This also includes adding new strings. String changes
because of bug
Bruce Momjian writes:
Allow SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to update the psql %n user display
This already works.
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Jan Wieck wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Jan Wieck wrote:
Just committed a small fix for PL/Tcl.
I don't find it on the TODO, but you might want to add it to the release
notes.
* Fixed PL/Tcl's spi_prepare to accept full qualified type names in
the parameter type list.
OK, item remvoed.
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Bruce Momjian writes:
Allow SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to update the psql %n user display
This already works.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks. INSTALL file updated. Peter will do the final one, but at
least we have a more current one in there now.
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Bruce Momjian writes:
I would rebuild it right now but the cross-links I
I think he means that you can do this in oracle :
CREATE TABLE test (id NUMBER);
Oracle treats NUMBER as NUMBER(40) I think.
This seems to be an example of Oracle making up standards as they go
along - do we want to copy this sort of thing ?
I usually just run a substitution of NUMBER(..) -
Christopher Browne wrote:
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Seun Osewa) belched
out...:
This is for relational database theory experts on one hand and
imlementers of real-world alications on the other hand. If there was
a chance to start again and design SQL
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Though the new code will put empty index pages into the free-space map,
will it also shrink the index file to remove those pages?
If there are free pages at the end, yes --- but it won't move pages
around. This is about the same story as for plain VACUUM
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Though the new code will put empty index pages into the free-space map,
will it also shrink the index file to remove those pages?
If there are free pages at the end, yes --- but it won't move pages
around. This is about the same
Dave Page wrote:
/* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 1.875. */
Given that this file appears to be produced *by* Bison, and given this
exception:
/* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a
Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When HeapTuple is populated by
SPI_exec(select * from foobar when id=667);
tuple = SPI_tuptable-tvals[0] (id is PK and row with 667 exists)
then tuple-t_tableOid is always 0.
The result of a SELECT is never a raw table tuple, not even when it's a
straight select *
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
are there gonna be changes in SPI or internal structs in 7.4?
No more than usual ;-). You will need to recompile shared libraries,
but (in theory) source code changes shouldn't be needed. You might want
to think about upgrading elog() calls to ereport() though.
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