Re: [HACKERS] Advice on MyXactMade* flags, MyLastRecPtr, pendingDeletes and lazy XID assignment

2007-08-30 Thread Gregory Stark
someone else created the same file name you'll delete the wrong file? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating

Re: [HACKERS] Why is there a tsquery data type?

2007-08-30 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no question things would be clearer with only one text search data type. The only value I can see to having a tsquery data type is that you can store a tsquery value

Re: [HACKERS] synchronous_commit: Developer's View

2007-08-30 Thread Gregory Stark
didn't specify a tablespace. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's

Re: [HACKERS] Performing antijoin in postgres

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
) postgres=# select * from b; i --- 2 3 (2 rows) postgres=# select * from a full outer join b on (a.i=b.i) where a.i is null or b.i is null; i | i ---+--- 1 | | 3 (2 rows) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] enum types and binary queries

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get

Re: [HACKERS] enum types and binary queries

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark escribió: I think it would be ok only if a pg_dump/pg_restore reliably restored the same oid-enum value mapping. Otherwise a binary dump is useless. But as I understand it that's the case currently, is it? er, lost

Re: [HACKERS] Password requirement in windows installer

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
I wouldn't be confident that all operating systems do so or that they work correctly in all circumstances. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Password requirement in windows installer

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:07:40PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: It shouldn't be easy. Ident uses TCP, which is rather harder to spoof. Say what? It's actually quite easy to spoof TCP. There are even command-line tools to do it available

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Lazy xid assingment V2

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
and then cached for subsequent accesses. So xid_age() would measure relative to a fixed xid, it just wouldn't be *our* xid necessarily. Just a thought. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Apply a band-aid fix for the problem that 8.2 and up completely

2007-08-31 Thread Gregory Stark
in the release announcement as possible compatibility gotchas is what's needed. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose

Re: [HACKERS] Per-function search_path = per-function GUC settings

2007-09-01 Thread Gregory Stark
could be in it by default. But that might depend on how expensive it is at run-time. I wouldn't want trivial SQL functions to no longer be inline-able because one might one day use a regexp for example. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Per-function search_path = per-function GUC settings

2007-09-01 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think security definer functions should automatically inherit their search_path. The whole secure by default thing. This assumes that the search path at creation time has something to do with the path you'd like

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-02 Thread Gregory Stark
, digits, underscore? Or does it need to be weaker than that? What's the problem with .? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made it reject all but latin letters, which is the same restriction that's in place for timezone set filenames. That might be overly strong, but we definitely have to forbid

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
of Linux and I thought it was false for other modern OSes -- I'm surprised it's not for Solaris even. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
. I thought that was a good argument actually. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
the three hashes together which reduces it to the solved problem. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Has anyone tried out the PL/pgSQL debugger?

2007-09-04 Thread Gregory Stark
was discussing PostgreSQL. So presumably he was speaking on behalf of the postgres community. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Updatable cursor doubt

2007-09-04 Thread Gregory Stark
an error if someone opens a file in read-only mode when they actually do have write permission? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup(Maybe OFFTOPIC)

2007-09-06 Thread Gregory Stark
for large I/O bound databases That seems too vague for the TODO. Did you have specific items in mind? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Low hanging fruit in lazy-XID-assignment patch?

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
is executed. I'm a bit afraid the plan will stay cached longer than would be ideal. If the plan doesn't use the new index then ideally we would want to invalidate it from the cache at the end of this transaction I suppose. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Just-in-time Background Writer Patch+Test Results

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
the sleep time. So it would always process a full cycle for example but adjust the sleep time based on what percentage of the cycle the backends used up in the last sleep time. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (MaybeOFFTOPIC)

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this apoc9009 guy real ? Please, just don't respond. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch for latestCompletedXid method of computing snapshot xmax

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
with a smaller scale factor? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch for latestCompletedXid method of computing snapshot xmax

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
the percentages on the transactions. I think Stock Level and Order Status are entirely read-only but I would have to check. Stock Level is a very intensive query though so I wouldn't suggest raising the percentage on that. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Low hanging fruit in lazy-XID-assignment patch?

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
any old tuples in broken chains uses the serializable snapshot as a conservative proxy for the oldest snapshot which might be in use. That will work for both serializable and read committed. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Are we done with sync-commit-defaults-to-off patch?

2007-09-09 Thread Gregory Stark
than the build farm. Especially when it comes to vacuum and vacuum full and cluster and so on given that autovacuum barely has a chance to start looking at things before the regression tests are done. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-10 Thread Gregory Stark
of consisting of those three bytes described above? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Representation of redirected line pointers in HOT

2007-09-12 Thread Gregory Stark
. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
for and tried a lot of different approaches to solve this problem. This was the lowest impact solution and the only one that was convincingly correct (imho). -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
for this contraption before we had plan invalidation, but what use is it now? Argh, sorry, rereading your message I see there are a few details which I missed which completely change the meaning of it. Ignore my previous mail :( -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICS, the whole indcreatexid and validForTxn business is a waste of code. By the time CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is ready to set indisvalid, surely any transactions that could see the broken HOT chains are gone

Re: [HACKERS] Hmmm ... isn't count_nondeletable_pages all wet?

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a corner case, but I say it's a must-fix. Of course Those bug reports have been bothering me for most of a year ... Are there any other outstanding reports like that? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] What is happening on buildfarm member dugong

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Stark
the user to do something? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

[HACKERS] Small Release Notes Comment

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
that. No intervention is required for normal expression indexes using those functions or hash indexes which will be rebuilt during a database upgrade anyways. I don't think hash_any itself changed so this wouldn't affect hashtext or any hash function which was already using hash_any. -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
data in a container format or something. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Silence Solaris compiler warnings, per buildfarm.

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
/* exists in Solaris headers */ + #undef V_FALSE + #endif /* * output values for result output parameter of clean_fakeval_intree -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
for their intended purpose of client-server communication if they're not. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-18 Thread Gregory Stark
won't worry. I tend to agree with you. We should only use overloading when the function is essentially the same just tweaked as appropriate for the datatype, not when the meaning is different. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Open issues for HOT patch

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
copying it to new memory instead of memory which is almost certainly likely in processor caches which would need to be invalidated would actually be faster and avoiding the use of memmove could be faster too. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Timezones change - never ending story

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
to slip this into the upcoming 8.2.5? I haven't been able to find anything which specifies precisely when it'll happen though. Just knowing the week or even day isn't enough. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
(windows,solaris,openbsd and linux). Is this exhaustive? That is, are we sure this never happened before Sept 11th? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---End Message--- -- Gregory

Re: [HACKERS] like/ilike improvements

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
minutes to do that. I'm surprised it would have such a large effect though. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] like/ilike improvements

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Guillaume Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory, On 9/21/07, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, it does seem I missed like.c when I converted all the text operators to avoid detoasting packed varlenas. I'll send a patch in a few minutes to do that. I'm surprised it would have

Re: [HACKERS] Text - C string

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
)) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Text - C string

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/22/07, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The canonical way to do it is with DatumGetCString(DirectFunctionCall1(textout, t)) Ah, I see. Thanks. In that case, would it be helpful if I submitted a patch for the various code fragments

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-23 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, this removes what should be most if not all of the call sites where we're detoasting text or byteas. In particular it gets all the regexp/like functions and all the trim/pad functions. It also gets hashtext

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-23 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (It might be interesting to make textin produce a packed result when possible, just to see what breaks; but I would be afraid to try to do that for production...) This all brings up the question of what other files

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
table? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Reduce the size of memoryallocations by lazy vacuum when

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
32768 11691023 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
(result), inputText, len); + SET_VARSIZE_SHORT(result, len+VARHDRSZ_SHORT); + PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(result); + } + #endif + result = (text *) palloc(len + VARHDRSZ); SET_VARSIZE(result, len + VARHDRSZ); -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
of 1st digit */ uint16 n_sign_dscale; /* Sign + display scale */ + int16 n_weight; /* Weight of 1st digit */ charn_data[1]; /* Digits (really array of NumericDigit) */ } NumericData; -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we also should move the NumericData and declaration to numeric.c and make the Numeric type an opaque pointer for the rest of the source tree. I don't agree with that; we

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-25 Thread Gregory Stark
not much point in making an exception for something which will only be really useful once further work is done in the same area. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [HACKERS] Regression test message

2007-09-26 Thread Gregory Stark
be building 7.2.8, an unsupported release over two years and 5 major releases old? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-27 Thread Gregory Stark
they'll break if you swap the shared library out from under them? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http

Re: [HACKERS] Enforcing database encoding and locale match

2007-09-28 Thread Gregory Stark
a loophole for anyone for whom the test didn't work properly. That sounds like a good combination -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-28 Thread Gregory Stark
is that things like pgadmin can connect properly to either 8.3, 8.2, and even 8.1 using the new libraries regardless of how the server authentication is configured. Do they work correctly if the server tries to do password authentication, ident, kerberos, etc. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http

[HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
the idea of keeping the VARHDRSZ/VARSHDRSZ offset in the varlen header seem pretty silly; hindsight is 20/20 and all that. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
that makes the macro VARSIZE_EXTERNAL_EXHDR_EXHDR() :/ ) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-30 Thread Gregory Stark
the datum pointer into a separate local variable of that type to suppress the optimization. Fascinating. Why do you cast arguments to memcmp to char* ? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-30 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do you cast arguments to memcmp to char* ? Well, *I* haven't done it in a long time, I'm referring to tuptoaster.c:488 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
? That would solve the problem for the narrow case of pg_restore. In the long run we could think about exposing some kind of command for pg_restore to use which would disable autovacuum from touching a table. (Or take a session-level lock on the table -- shudder) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB

[HACKERS] Build farm failure

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
for details. STATEMENT: CREATE DATABASE contrib_regression TEMPLATE=template0 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [HACKERS] Build farm failure

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dugong (icc on ia64) has been failing the contrib installcheck consistently since 6 days ago with errors like: ERROR: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/40960/41403: No such file or directory I checked a cvs diff between the two timestamps

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest patches

2008-03-28 Thread Gregory Stark
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:08 +, Gregory Stark wrote: A more invasive form of this patch would be to assign and pin a buffer when the preread is done. That would men subsequently we would have a pinned buffer ready to go and not need to go back

Re: [HACKERS] Prereading using posix_fadvise

2008-03-28 Thread Gregory Stark
reading) as well. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Prereading using posix_fadvise

2008-03-28 Thread Gregory Stark
want even larger prefetch sizes. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest patches

2008-03-28 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce, you seem to have removed one of my three patches from the queue. I would actually prefer you remove the other two and put back that one. It's the one I most urgently need feedback on to continue. I talked to Greg on IM

Re: [HACKERS] Commit fest status

2008-03-31 Thread Gregory Stark
reviews. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained by Bruce Momjian - ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL training! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Guessing future postgresql features

2008-03-31 Thread Gregory Stark
involved in. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] ANALYZE getting dead tuple count hopelessly wrong

2008-04-01 Thread Gregory Stark
other processes after all... -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained by Bruce Momjian - ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL training! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] Scroll cursor oddity...

2008-04-01 Thread Gregory Stark
*on* rows. I'm not sure the standard entirely adopts that model however. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] COPY Transform support

2008-04-03 Thread Gregory Stark
of text. Then copy it all to another table doing transformations. Not impressed. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

[HACKERS] Locale, Collation, ICU patch

2008-04-03 Thread Gregory Stark
but abysmally on most other libc's. From that point forward we would go about adding support for strcoll_l() and other interfaces to handle case (d) on various platforms. For platforms with no reasonable interface we could add a --enable-ICU users or packagers could choose to use. -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] About numeric division again

2008-04-03 Thread Gregory Stark
assume you're right about there being bigger problems but I don't follow how the division is actually being done in enough detail to judge that for my self. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
, something like: /usr/lib/postgresql/modules;/usr/local/lib/postgresql/modules That way users can compile and install their own modules into /usr/local without interfering with modules which come from OS packages. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue - wiki

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
for the May commitfest. There are only a handful of lines to put in the May commitfest and I think Alvaro's already put them in. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would suggest a guc for the safe place and I would suggest it be a list of places. And I would suggest that for OS packagers they really want two locations on that list, something like: /usr/lib/postgresql

Re: [HACKERS] Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
create this situation we could have an assertion that calls the constructor a second time (with palloc generating garbage data) and compares the results with datumEqual. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained by Bruce Momjian - ask me about

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
indispensable rather than just be doomed to being forgotten and ignored. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The alternative seems to be to forbid uninitialized pad bytes within Datums. That's not very pleasant to contemplate either, since it'll forever be vulnerable to sins of omission

Re: [HACKERS] Separate psql commands from arguments

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
mean that if you try to run a query which doesn't exist you won't accidentally type a real command or get a command not found error. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] Separate psql commands from arguments

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Gregory Stark wrote: Regardless of whether we go ahead with this (and I'm not fond of it primarily because I want \c to work), Okay, but what on earth is \c and what would you expect it to do when it works? I

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
or type make install in some source tree -- but actually log into each customer's database and run an SQL script. That does seem like more work and more risk than a lot of ISPs will be willing to take on. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue - wiki

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
is in. Not coincidentally the lack of that info is also why your list isn't very helpful. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest patches

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
wonder if people wouldn't feel more comfortable taking baby steps at first which will have less impact in cases where it's not being heavily used. I think the way it is now is neat and simple and enough for now. Thanks. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest patches

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Gregory Stark wrote: I described which interfaces worked on Linux and Solaris based on empirical tests. I posted source code for synthetic benchmarks so we could test it on a wide range of hardware. I posted graphs based on empirical

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue - wiki

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The hard part is reading the email and figuring out what status the patch is in. Certainly. What we've got to do is make sure that after someone has made that decision, it doesn't cost them a couple of minutes

[HACKERS] psql slash# command

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Stark
. Better to go our own way with a command that makes sense for psql than to try to turn psql into a traditional command-line shell. [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00214.php -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-05 Thread Gregory Stark
customers have signed up? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] auto-vacuum conflicting with long running analyze

2008-04-05 Thread Gregory Stark
it for any of those reasons. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] machine-dependent hash_any vs the regression tests

2008-04-05 Thread Gregory Stark
faster than a decent crc32 implementation? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] machine-dependent hash_any vs the regression tests

2008-04-06 Thread Gregory Stark
random regression tests. It seems likely the day that happens will be the day that we provide an SQL standard UNNEST anyways though. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Get trained by Bruce Momjian - ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL training! -- Sent

Re: [HACKERS] Database owner installable modules patch

2008-04-06 Thread Gregory Stark
pretty dirty but on the other hand the idea of having modules consist of a bunch of objects rather than arbitrary SQL actually seems cleaner and more robust. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Ordered Append Node

2008-04-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been hacking on the idea of an Append node which maintains the ordering of its subtables merging their records in order. I finally got round to looking at this ... A lot of things to chew on. Thanks very much

Re: [HACKERS] New style of hash join proposal

2008-04-07 Thread Gregory Stark
better off focusing on the patches I've already started rather than starting yet another project though so perhaps I should put this aside until I can construct a good demonstration. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS

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