Re: [HACKERS] spi and other languages

2004-12-10 Thread Doug McNaught
Sibtay Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We can call SQL statements like SPI_Execute(SELECT * FROM sometable) from the spi interface. My question is that can we enter other procedural languages as well, like pgplsql statements. You can call a function written in another procedural langauge by

Re: [HACKERS] apparent problem on linux/s390

2004-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
Nicolai Tufar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hercules is a tested and proved emulator but I have a vague doubt that it's IEEE FPU emulation may be slightly different from the real iron's one. FWIW, I get clean regression test passes on a real z900 at Red Hat, in both s390 and s390x (32- and

[HACKERS] [SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: mysql-3.23.58-9.1 (fwd)

2004-12-10 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heh heh heh :-) - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:33:48 -0500 From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: mysql-3.23.58-9.1 -

[HACKERS] Small fix for 7.2.6/contrib/seg

2004-12-10 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, While trying to build 7.2.6 FC1 RPMs due to a request from Pierlugi today, I saw an error in contrib/seg. This small patch fixed the typo and we can build the RPMs now. Could you please apply it to 7.2?

[HACKERS] old-style handler problem

2004-12-10 Thread Sibtay Abbas
hi everyone i ve added my own pl language in postgresql. i ve followed the process mentioned in the documentation. for the handler function i ve followed the following template PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(myhandler); Datum plsample_call_handler(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { Datum rv;

Re: [HACKERS] apparent problem on linux/s390

2004-12-10 Thread Horak Daniel
Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join the buildfarm that would also be good. I can't put it in the buildfarm ;-) but I have access to real s390 hardware inside Red Hat. I'll try to run a test build and see whether the regression tests pass. I would expect that

Re: [HACKERS] apparent problem on linux/s390

2004-12-10 Thread Horak Daniel
Maybe we should mark the buildfarm member as s390 emulator ? It could be. But we'd rather use the full specification, Hercules 2.37, ESAME S390 architecture, 31 bit mode, running Debian Linux Woody Full support for IEEE float number instructions was added into Hercules during last weeks of

Re: [HACKERS] branch for 8.0?

2004-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm in favor of waiting until the release. Well, if we can hold to the Dec 15 release date, it's only a week's difference ... so I don't care much either way. Are you concerned about having to double-patch the last-minute translation updates?

Re: [HACKERS] Status of server side Large Object support?

2004-12-10 Thread Hannu Krosing
On E, 2004-11-29 at 02:22, David Garamond wrote: Joe Conway wrote: Not if the column is storage type EXTERNAL. See a past discussion here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-07/msg01447.php what is the reasoning behind this syntax? ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table [ * ]

Re: [HACKERS] apparent problem on linux/s390

2004-12-10 Thread Nicolai Tufar
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 13:51:36 -0500, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I get clean regression test passes on a real z900 at Red Hat, in both s390 and s390x (32- and 64-bit) modes. I'm not sure what that means --- it could be that Red Hat Linux doesn't use the hardware floating point, or

Re: [Testperf-general] Re: [HACKERS] 8.0beta5 results w/ dbt2

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Wong
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:52:37PM +, Simon Riggs wrote: Varying bgwriter_maxpages upwards should take performance higher. I have 2 runs now. I for both tests, I have bgwriter_percent=100, checkpoint_segments=8192, checkpoint_timout=600, debug_shared_buffers=10, log_min_messages=debug1

Re: [HACKERS] V8 Beta 5 on AIX

2004-12-10 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD
However, one thing we can do is to try this in Makefile.aix: # AIX needs threads for everything that uses libpq LIBS += $(PTHREAD_LIBS) That is going to enable thread libs for all linking including the backend, but it might work. That is certainly wrong. The correct thing is to

Re: [HACKERS] V8 Beta 5 on AIX

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:07:00PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Yea, we needed this problem report during beta, not RC. For the record, there _was_ such a problem report, for b3: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-10/msg00046.php A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2004-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's now time to fill the holes. Briefly, I'm looking for exit status 0 on ./configure --prefix=SOMEWHERE --enable-thread-safety --with-tcl \ --with-perl --with-python --with-krb5 --with-pam -with-openssl make make install make check with

Re: [Testperf-general] Re: [HACKERS] 8.0beta5 results w/ dbt2

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Wong
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:12:18AM +, Simon Riggs wrote: Not sure, as yet, what is causing effect 2. It's not related to the kernel, but is related to user CPU and I/O waits and effects all tables in proportion to their overall I/O usage. Some evidence that it becomes more pronounced as

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-10 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am 07.12.2004 um 19:24 schrieb Tom Lane: Matthias Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way: Do you have an idea about a small or medium sized task from the TODO-List for a newbee, which gets me up to speed?(!Win32) A lot of the tasks listed under DATA TYPES are fairly self-contained problems

[HACKERS] first pgAdmin 1.3 snapshot

2004-12-10 Thread Andreas Pflug
At this very moment, the first snapshot of pgAdmin III 1.3 is uploading, which includes the pgsql configuration file editor. For pginstaller purposes, the command line pgadmin3 -c pgsql-datadir or pgadmin3 -ch pgsql-dir\pg_hba.conf or pgadmin3 -cm pgsql-dir\postgresql.conf handles the

Re: [HACKERS] How can I recovery old Data from files and

2004-12-10 Thread Premsun Choltanwanich
I already reinstall old version of PostgreSQL. However I still cannot run PostgreSQL service after I reinstall on many time. I think that I cannot use pg_dump or all command without PostgreSQL service running. So What thing I can do now? Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/12/2004 10:18:19 pm

Re: [HACKERS] apparent problem on linux/s390

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Atkins
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:37:36AM +0200, Nicolai Tufar wrote: On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:15:23 -0500, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: problems apparently with NaNs, infinities and negative zeros. Sure smells more like an IEEE issue than a postgresql issue (built for IBM FP rather than

[HACKERS] Test

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Sorry - please ignore. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] 8.0.0beta5 FailedAssertion (Crash) when casting composite types

2004-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: The cause of this failure is that parse_coerce.c thinks that a child table's rowtype is binary-compatible with its parent's rowtype: ... The Really Clean And Correct fix to this, IMHO, would be to invent a new expression node type that represents coercing a rowtype expression to a

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
Matthias Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way: Do you have an idea about a small or medium sized task from the TODO-List for a newbee, which gets me up to speed?(!Win32) A lot of the tasks listed under DATA TYPES are fairly self-contained problems ... but what draws your interest? I

Re: [HACKERS] regression script/makefile exit failure

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Further investigation has shown that the exit/trap idiom used in pg_regress.sh is less than 100% portable. The following shell script has been seen to produce incorrect output on both Cygwin and FreeBSD: #!/bin/sh trap ' st=$? echo status = $st exit $st ' 0 (exit 9); exit I'm not sure how

Re: [HACKERS] branch for 8.0?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was some talk of branching REL8_0_STABLE after 8.0.0rc1 was released. Is that still the plan? I'm up for it, personally --- is everybody else ready? Should we wait another day or three? I'm in favor of waiting until the release.

[HACKERS] errmsg(... because ...)

2004-12-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hackers, There are a bunch of error messages saying something like cannot foo because bar For example, errmsg(cannot assign to field \%s\ of column \%s\ because its type %s is not a composite type) What do you think of changing those to use errdetail in addition to errmsg? So this

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Briefly, I'm looking for exit status 0 on ./configure --prefix=SOMEWHERE --enable-thread-safety --with-tcl \ --with-perl --with-python --with-krb5 --with-pam -with-openssl (I would like the build farm members for Windows and Cygwin to use more feature-enabling

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-10 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am 06.12.2004 um 23:27 schrieb Tom Lane: schmidtm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do I get that right: the only reason to do max(sysid) or a user-supplied ID in CreateUser() (commands/user.c) is that we don't have the ability to get sequences over the *.BKI/initdb mechanism? No, that's not quite the

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: mysql-3.23.58-9.1 (fwd)

2004-12-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:17:58AM +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Heh heh heh :-) - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:33:48 -0500 From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, working for Red Hat has the downside of

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2004-12-10 Thread Patrick B Kelly
./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql/8.0rc1 \ --enable-thread-safety \ --with-tcl \ --with-perl \ --with-python \ --with-krb5 \ --with-pam \ --with-openssl \ --with-includes=/sw/include/ \ --with-libraries=/sw/lib

[HACKERS] regression script/makefile exit failure

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I have seen several cases where either pg_regress appears not to exit with the expected non-zero exit status or make check does not apparently exit with the expected non-zero status. In particular, I've seen it on cygwin, windows, and have at least a suspicion of it happening on FreeBSD. The

[HACKERS] buildfarm build failure: icc7 + --enable-cassert

2004-12-10 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
It looks like --enable-cassert isn't handled properly under icc7 http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12-07%2016:30:44 -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---(end of

[HACKERS] old-style handler error

2004-12-10 Thread Sibtay Abbas
i have added my own pocedural language in postgresql. by using the Create function command i ve also written a procedure in that language. now when invoke that function with SELECT (func_name) i receive the following error message ERROR: language 17254 has old-style handler.