Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-13 Thread James Robinson
butt on the line hosting our client's data. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] user-defined default public acl

2004-04-20 Thread James Robinson
to solve at least the 'stay out of other user's crud by default' issues. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(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] PostgreSQL pre-fork speedup

2004-05-06 Thread James Robinson
code ... James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: 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

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL pre-fork speedup

2004-05-06 Thread James Robinson
() does a lot of little itty bitty writes to the frontend filedescriptor. What do you get if you comment out that block in child.c, around line 372? Either a faster system or a non-working one? James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL pre-fork speedup

2004-05-06 Thread James Robinson
the CompleteCommandResponse handler method ends with a call to pool_write_and_flush(), and you've pretty much gotta get a CompleteCommand message trailing all of those rows. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe

Re: [HACKERS] Weird prepared stmt behavior

2004-05-03 Thread James Robinson
to manipulate temporary tables. Quite spiffy, reducing the amount of surprise encountered by postgres neophytes. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and DB administration

2004-05-26 Thread James Robinson
step in this direction. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump --comment?

2004-05-28 Thread James Robinson
is flawed, then negative kudos to my puny mind. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your

Re: [HACKERS] Why frequently updated tables are an issue

2004-06-10 Thread James Robinson
On Jun 10, 2004, at 10:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to lazy vacuum, this was impossible. Do you know for sure that lazy vacuum and/or autovacuum does not indeed solve / alleviate the symptoms of the general problem of very high rate table updates? Back to lurking! James Robinson

Re: [HACKERS] bug in GUC

2004-06-24 Thread James Robinson
in the backend could be written , say, somewhere in the internals document around the coding conventions chapter: http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/source.html I myself don't have a clue, not being a backend hacker, so I'll just slink back to my cave. James Robinson Socialserve.com

Re: [HACKERS] User Quota Implementation

2004-07-09 Thread James Robinson
implementation? Quotas per user per tablespace, assuming 7.5 gets tablespaces. User quotas would make postgres on a shared university box much more pleasant. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [HACKERS] Statement parsing problem ?

2004-09-15 Thread James Robinson
, t2, t3 cartesian product joined with t4. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[HACKERS] Thank you ...

2004-10-08 Thread James Robinson
LOG: database system is ready We were back online within minutes of the interruption w/o any data loss. So, I raise my glass to you! Thank you! James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres performs a Seq Scan instead of an Index Scan!

2004-10-26 Thread James Robinson
casts the literal int4 to an int8, making the int8 column index useable. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

[HACKERS] Backend 8.0.0B4 crash on SELECT ...

2004-11-05 Thread James Robinson
) unit_zipcode_fkey FOREIGN KEY (zipcode) REFERENCES zipcode(id) James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [HACKERS] Backend 8.0.0B4 crash on SELECT ...

2004-11-05 Thread James Robinson
Patch applied, fixes beta4 for the query with our data. Many thanks again! James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] plpgsql on 8.0b4 bug?

2004-11-18 Thread James Robinson
of transaction block ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block COMMIT Many thanks in advance, James pets.sql Description: Binary data James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql on 8.0b4 bug?

2004-11-18 Thread James Robinson
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Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql on 8.0b4 bug?

2004-11-18 Thread James Robinson
spellings of the keyword. This seems a bit ugly but I can't think of any really good objections. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command

Re: [HACKERS] Encrypt data type LO

2004-11-24 Thread James Robinson
seemed to suit us just fine. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

[HACKERS]

2005-09-07 Thread James Robinson
fails as normal. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
a higher value for work_mem (10240, up from default of 1024). But the hourly crons went great for the subsequent two days. maintenance_work_mem is still at the default of 16384. Many thanks in advance! James James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
: postgres social [local] VACUUM waiting' 28861 -- production servicing backend, now back in idle state. [ not in tx idle by regular idle ]. On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote: James Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Comparing the logs further with when it did complete, it seems that one

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
0x08170de9 in PostmasterMain () #18 0x0813e5e5 in main () (gdb) quit James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
to remote? James Robinson Socialserve.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 do not match

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
that additional buffering a damnable offense? James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: James Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: backtrace of the sshd doesn't look good: Stripped executable :-( ... you won't get much info there. What of the client at the far end of the ssh connection? You should probably assume that the blockage

Re: [HACKERS] Help: 8.0.3 Vacuum of an empty table never completes ...

2005-11-28 Thread James Robinson
-wise? James Robinson Socialserve.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 through to the mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Error handling in plperl and pltcl

2004-12-03 Thread James Robinson
savepoint handling and all. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] Pl/Python -- current maintainer?

2006-02-24 Thread James Robinson
I'm interested in poking though and taking a shot at getting my feet wet with pl/python. I see the file is copyright Andrew Bosma -- is he still around perhance? Is anyone currently the 'owner' ? James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Pl/Python -- current maintainer?

2006-02-24 Thread James Robinson
see that plpython functions cannot be declared to return void. That can't be too tough to remedy. Implementing the DBI 2.0 API interface to SPI can wait another day. On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: James Robinson wrote: I'm interested in poking though and taking a shot

[HACKERS] Webcluster session storage, was vacuum, performance, and MVCC

2006-06-23 Thread James Robinson
it in production for anything. 6 + 7 could possibly be done atop mysql using a 3-tier model. James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe

[HACKERS] ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE TRIGGER vs. AccessExclusiveLock

2010-07-27 Thread James Robinson
-- such as DISABLE TRIGGER foo ON tbar ? Thanks! James Robinson Socialserve.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Bug in 8.2B1 plpgsql ...

2006-10-25 Thread James Robinson
: Binary data James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

[HACKERS] NOTIFY / LISTEN silently parses and discards schema-ish portion of notification name ...

2009-04-15 Thread James Robinson
: social=# listen foo.bar.blat.blam; ERROR: improper qualified name (too many dotted names): foo.bar.blat.blam Thanks! James Robinson Socialserve.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] NOTIFY / LISTEN silently parses and discards schema-ish portion of notification name ...

2009-04-16 Thread James Robinson
production, which goes unparsed. Shame on me for using such an old version [ 8.2 ], but hey, it works. James Robinson Socialserve.com

[HACKERS] Postgres / plpgsql equivalent to python's getattr() ?

2011-08-03 Thread James Robinson
of rows are as dicts). Is there something in the internals which inherently prevent this? Or am I fool and it already exists? Not having to defer to EXECUTE would be attractive. James Robinson Socialserve.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres / plpgsql equivalent to python's getattr() ?

2011-08-04 Thread James Robinson
to their work. But it little bit digging in the mailing list archives should turn them up. Many thanks, Florian, we'll be checking that out. James James Robinson Socialserve.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

[HACKERS] Postgres vs. intel ccNUMA on Linux

2010-09-29 Thread James Robinson
multiple clusters instead of a single cluster, tweaking the processor affinity of each postmaster accordingly, trying to ensure each cluster's shared memory segments and buffer cache pools remain local for the resulting backends? Thanks! James Robinson Socialserve.com -- Sent via