[HACKERS] A big thanks to SuSE

2003-11-17 Thread Daniele Orlandi
Yesterday I was a bit worried... I switched to SuSE just 2 weeks ago... my newly installed databse server was waitinI thought that I would have to wait so much to have RPMs for SuSE and today I see v7.4 compiled for many flavors of SuSE, even for X86-64. Wow :) Thanks :) -- Daniele Orlandi

[HACKERS] Client-side merge string sorting

2002-10-11 Thread Daniele Orlandi
whose behaviour would be always consistent, locale-indepentent... (like the very-first C's strcmp). Which do you think should be the correct approach ? Thanks in advance! Best regards! -- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl ---(end of broadcast

[HACKERS] Optimizer boolean syntax

2002-11-21 Thread Daniele Orlandi
rows) template1=# explain select * from a where a=true; QUERY PLAN -- Index Scan using a_a on a (cost=0.00..2.01 rows=1 width=11) Index Cond: (a = true) (2 rows) Bye! -- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizer boolean syntax

2002-11-21 Thread Daniele Orlandi
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Daniele Orlandi wrote: Are those two syntaxes eqivalent ? select * from users where monitored; select * from users where monitored=true; If the answer is yes, the optimimer probably doesn't agree with you :) That depends on the definition

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizer boolean syntax

2002-11-23 Thread Daniele Orlandi
IS TRUE and var IS FALSE (not var IS NOT ...) which already are special syntax cases if I am not wrong. -- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-11-29 Thread Daniele Orlandi
, including aborting open transaction to allow for better connection pooling and reusing, maybe giving the client the ability to switch between users... Bye! -- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists

Re: AW: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-06 Thread Daniele Orlandi
? Anyway... may I suggest adding CRCs to the data ? I just discovered that I had a faulty HD controller and I fear that something could have been written erroneously (this could also help to detect faulty memory, though only in certain cases). Bye! -- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl

Re: AW: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-06 Thread Daniele Orlandi
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[HACKERS] European Datestyle

2000-12-08 Thread Daniele Orlandi
with -e and with "set datestyle" with no change. Context: Postgresql 7.0.3 on RedHat Linux 7.0 - Kernel 2.4.0-test10 - Glibc 2.1.94 and 2.2 Thanks! Bye! -- Daniele Orlandi

Re: [HACKERS] European Datestyle

2000-12-08 Thread Daniele Orlandi
:) Bye! -- Daniele --- Daniele Orlandi - Utility Line Italia - http://www.orlandi.com Via Mezzera 29/A - 20030 - Seveso (MI) - Italy ---

Re: [HACKERS] Why vacuum?

2000-12-13 Thread Daniele Orlandi
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Re: [HACKERS] Why vacuum?

2000-12-14 Thread Daniele Orlandi
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: Not to mention the recent thread here about people recovering data that was accidently deleted, or from damaged db files: the old tuples serve as redundant backup, in a way. Not a real compelling reason to keep a non-overwriting smgr, but still a surprise bonus

Re: [HACKERS] Why vacuum?

2000-12-14 Thread Daniele Orlandi
Alfred Perlstein wrote: If you're talking about vacuum, you really don't want to do this, No, I'm not talking about vacuum as it is intended now, it's only a process that scans tables to find available blocks/tuples. It is virtually optional, if it doesn't run, the database will behave just

Re: [HACKERS] libpq enhancement for multi-process application

2000-12-19 Thread Daniele Orlandi
Sébastien Bonnet wrote: Hi all, and mainly postresql developpers, I've been reading old posts about the libpq interface related to multi-process application. The main problem being that after a fork, each process has a DB connexion, actually the same. If one closes it, the other one

Re: AW: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-08 Thread Daniele Orlandi
need to reveal an error, I would consider it enought. Bye! -- Daniele --- Daniele Orlandi - Utility Line Italia - http://www.orlandi.com Via Mezzera 29/A - 20030 - Seveso (MI) - Italy ---

Re: [HACKERS] PHP and PostgreSQL

2000-12-27 Thread Daniele Orlandi
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Re: [HACKERS] CRCs

2001-01-12 Thread Daniele Orlandi
Nathan Myers wrote: It wouldn't help you recover, but you would be able to report that you cannot recover. While this could help decting hardware problems, you still won't be able to detect some (many) memory errors because the CRC will be calculated on the already corrupted data. Of course