Re: [HACKERS] Fuzzy cost comparison to eliminate redundant planning

2004-03-28 Thread Mike Mascari
rom eleven to twelve. With your new fuzzy comparison patch is twelve still the appropriate number? Or does the fuzzy comparison scale all planning time down and therefore the default threshold should remain where it is? Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend

2004-04-03 Thread Mike Mascari
way queries on Oracle is only a necessity if the DBA hasn't made use of resource limits - PROFILEs. ;-) Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] SPI and bytea columns

2004-05-11 Thread Mike Mascari
nctions to read the image file from disk? PostgreSQL really needs a maintained type library as a single project where people can contribute types, functions, operators, and aggregates, such as the recently discussed email type. Mike Mascari Just be sure not to actually compress/decompress t

Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.

2004-05-04 Thread Mike Mascari
ped 20% of the bits in the postgres binary you'd not find it to be more buggy than the Postgres95/early 6.x series... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

2004-04-29 Thread Mike Mascari
ciated with the comment. Example: COMMIT WORK COMMENT 'A complex distributed Tx'; Perhaps there is some common ground between the 2PC implementation and PITR? Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once wi

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
it does become data. Has the advocacy group performed any polling in this area that might shed some light as to what users and potential users might want? Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensiv

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
eased to not hold up important features like the IN optimization and a quick 7.5 would have Win32 and PITR. It's almost as if a cron job reposts this thread every 6 - 12 months. For those of us that are desirous of PITR, it's a 6 month reposting that is becoming p

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: A quick google of "7.4 Win32 release" will reveal that the above was precisely what was said about 7.4: it would be released to not hold up important features like the IN optimization and a quick 7.5 would have Win32 and

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Mike Mascari
nerability: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-147A.html For what it's worth, Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] I just got it: PostgreSQL Application Server -- a new

2004-06-12 Thread Mike Mascari
ly. I think it's Bill Gates leading a secret life... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] placeholder syntax

2004-06-21 Thread Mike Mascari
L Later versions of one of the Access components (jet, mdac, access.exe - who knows where) changed its behavior and never performed similarly... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] warning missing

2004-06-25 Thread Mike Mascari
Inheritance: No I think it'd be a fair statement that Date & Darwen would have the relvar inheritance ripped out of PostgreSQL as an experiment gone bad... Mike Mascari P.S.: D is the language of the future: http://www.digitalmars.com/d Ha! ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-02 Thread Mike Mascari
WORK ] [ AND[ NO ] CHAIN ] [ ] ::= TO SAVEPOINT Mike Mascari ---(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 th

Re: [HACKERS] LinuxTag wrapup

2004-07-03 Thread Mike Mascari
he possibility as a solution in the enterprise if they think they'll look like a fool pronouncing the name aloud. I remember back in '94 being "corrected" when talking about Linux in the enterprise - and I was corrected in the wrong direction. Someone needs to poke the propaga

Re: [HACKERS] Recovery Features

2004-07-05 Thread Mike Mascari
IMHO, Mike Mascari ---(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 cleanly

Re: [HACKERS] Recovery Features

2004-07-05 Thread Mike Mascari
Simon Riggs wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 23:40, Mike Mascari wrote: hmmm...not sure I know what you mean. It is very-very-close-to-impossible to edit the transaction logs manually, unless some form of special-format editor were written for the purpose. Is it clear that the PITR features are

Re: [HACKERS] Anoncvs down?

2004-07-12 Thread Mike Mascari
&ie=UTF-8&selm=40B74B73.6080702%40mascari.com Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] ffunc called multiple for same value

2004-07-23 Thread Mike Mascari
aggregate functions, I agree with your analysis, so long as the fact that an ffunc may be invoked more than once is well documented, (i.e. an SGML section might be nice.) Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to inc

Re: [HACKERS] Preliminary PITR documentation available

2004-08-03 Thread Mike Mascari
ates some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time travel and parallel universes." Is it science-fiction, or just relativity? Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unr

Re: [HACKERS] Tom in Doom3?

2004-08-05 Thread Mike Mascari
which determined the major contributors to open source software and it read something like: 1. UC Berkeley 2. MIT 3. Tom Lane 4. Carnegie Mellon 5. IBM I wish I had the link... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase

Re: [HACKERS] monetary bug

2004-08-22 Thread Mike Mascari
Tom Lane wrote: Mahmoud Taghizadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: a dirty method to fix this bug is to replace following Are you aware that the monetary type is deprecated and is going to be dropped entirely pretty soon? What's taking so long? ;-) Mike Mascari ---

Re: [HACKERS] monetary bug

2004-08-23 Thread Mike Mascari
7;8.13 inches' And of course, the various types would be constrained appropriately. One couldn't have a negative LENGTH or a TEMPERATURE under absolute zero, as examples. I think it would be neat to have an external library supporting a large set of types like these.

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Mascari
abase or a BEA Tuxedo TPM acting as the coordinator. So PostgreSQL won't have an opportunity to modify the protocol in any meaningful way if it wishes to interoperate with XA-based transaction managers. If it is being used only amongst other PostgreSQL backends for replication, then why

Re: [HACKERS] Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Mascari
inheritance, which of course, are in PostgreSQL. It's a very provocative read. At a minimum, one can learn what to avoid with SQL. The language looks neat on paper. Perhaps one day someone will provide an open source implementation. One could envision a "D" project along

Re: [HACKERS] Index/Function organized table layout

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Mascari
y), and how > one should treat them as such, especially for large data volumes. Too bad PostgreSQL is misspelled ("Postgress") and MySQL dominates the open source discussion. And the MySQL questions are coming from: "David Patterson, who holds the Pardee Chair of Computer Science

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2003-10-09 Thread Mike Mascari
PostgreSQL? 1) XA-compatibility/interoperability or 2) Robustness in the face of network failure The implementation choosen depends upon the answer, does it not? Is there an implementation (e.g. 3PC) that can simulate 2PC behavior for interoperability purposes and satisfy both requirem

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about i/o priorities and throttling vacuum

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Mascari
al traffic. er, yeah, that's the ticket. Except who ever > heard of having express lanes for local traffic. Hm. All I know is that Jan Wieck would have each car filled to the brim with spikes Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Mascari
; internals. > > Darren I've learned that a feed into the postgresql-hackers mailing list from comp.databases.postgresql.hackers can be easily spotted by its astonishing lack of civility and intelligent discourse... :-( Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(en

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

2003-11-17 Thread Mike Mascari
viewed as window dressing... Could be wrong, though... Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Mascari
ww.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/0309/4.JHdbcourseS03.pdf How about extra credit for PITR? Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Mascari
of the disk, you will get 500 times more bandwidth—you can read or write the disk in a day. So programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device." Isn't a TID-List-Fetch implementation a crucial first step in the right direction?

Re: [HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re: [ADMIN]

2003-12-01 Thread Mike Mascari
eads along >>>it. >> >>How about changing the names of those directories? > > > I thought about that, but what would we call them? We could change xlog > to wal, I guess. That might actually be clearer. xlog could become > xstatus or xactstatus or just x

Re: [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Mascari
://www.ecommercetax.com/official_docs/SSTP%20-%20Rounding.pdf Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Preventing stack-overflow crashes (improving on max_expr_depth)

2003-12-30 Thread Mike Mascari
rsing? Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Lane wrote: It occurred to me today that it would not be difficult to implement a direct check on the physical size of the execution stack. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] CTTAS w/ DISTINCT ON crashes backend

2004-01-21 Thread Mike Mascari
problem is in adding OIDs to rows that initially did not have 'em when returned from the SELECT DISTINCT plan. Okay. So your best immediate workaround is to create the first temp table with oids, or create the second one without. Thanks! Mike Mascari --

Re: [HACKERS] returning PGresult as xml

2004-01-25 Thread Mike Mascari
last time this subject was dicussed, I believe it was Mike Mascari who proposed and implemented another solution which is more client-side oriented. I humbly confess it wasn't me. We use CORBA.... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] lock related issues...

2004-01-28 Thread Mike Mascari
er installing PostgreSQL, a message should be output to read it: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2002/lane_tom.tar.gz Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Summary of Changes since last release (7.4.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Mascari
Simon Riggs wrote: - All operations on TEMP relations are no longer logged in WAL, nor are they involved in checkpoints, thus improving performance. (Tom) That is great news! Looking forward to 7.5 already, Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Summary of Changes since last release (7.4.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Mascari
pgsql-server/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c?rev=1.58&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Summary of Changes since last release (7.4.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Mascari
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c?rev=1.58&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Actually, that was an Aug 6, 2002 commit, not 2003 which would make it 7.3, right? So Simon, my I humbly ask from where you culled this change in CVS tip? Mik

Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Mascari
x27;t assuming 32-bit quantities that will break once ~4.2 billion is reached and I get index scans without quoting or casting free. But IIRC there's a change in the development tree to jettison the requirement for quoting/casting... Mike Mascari ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Is indexing broken for bigint columns?

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Mascari
ql This is SQL*Server syntax: == ... select * from foo where bar = 1 ... This is Oracle syntax: == SQL> select * from foo where bar = 1; ... mysql> select * from foo where bar = 1; Mike Mascari -

Re: [HACKERS] COMMENT ON [GROUP/USER]

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Mascari
TED] select count(*) from pg_description; count --- 1542 (1 row) [EMAIL PROTECTED] select count(*) from pg_description; count --- 1541 (1 row) Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list arc

Re: [HACKERS] COMMENT ON [GROUP/USER]

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Mascari
't know if Rod has plans to change attempts to COMMENT ON non-local databases to an ERROR in 7.5 or not. It was my fault from the beginning - but once I'd implemented COMMENT ON for tables and columns I just couldn't stop... :-) Mike Mascari Mike Mascari wrote: .. The comments are s

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Mascari
er vendors' database products due to their parallel feature set (make -j 9 is nice too), but behaves like the boat-anchor it is w.r.t. PostgreSQL. Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Core Committee Welcomes New Member

2004-09-15 Thread Mike Mascari
ackers Emeritus section? Eh? Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] making pdf of docs

2004-10-26 Thread Mike Mascari
image onto the next page, discover it is too large to fit on the next page, generate a page break, and the process continues ad infinitum. Maybe a recent large image was added to the docs? FWIW, Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don'

Re: [HACKERS] 8.0RC1 tomorrow

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Mascari
data is composed entirely of NULL in 8.0? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-11/msg00363.php Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] psql 8.0 final not working on NT 4.0sp6

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Mascari
BEN-US%3BQ241733 My code expects to find an shfolder.dll on < Windows 2000 systems and a shell32.dll on >= Windows 2000 systems. As I said, I *believe* you can guarantee success by just shipping shfolder.dll with the application. Hope that helps, Mike Mascari ---(end

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