[HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] Re: [PATCH] BUG #13416: Postgres >= 9.3 doesn't use optimized shared memory on Solaris anymore

2017-10-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
GUC as suggested.  What's your take on the attached patch? -sc -- Sean Chittenden se...@joyent.com On Oct 4, 2017, 10:56 AM -0700, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de>, wrote: > Hi, > > On 2017-10-04 10:47:06 -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > Hello.  We identified the same

[HACKERS] Re: [PATCH] BUG #13416: Postgres >= 9.3 doesn't use optimized shared memory on Solaris anymore

2017-10-04 Thread Sean Chittenden
if there are any questions.  -sc -- Sean Chittenden se...@joyent.com

[HACKERS] Re: [PATCH] BUG #13416: Postgres >= 9.3 doesn't use optimized shared memory on Solaris anymore

2017-10-03 Thread Sean Chittenden
if there are any questions.  -sc -- Sean Chittenden se...@joyent.com ism.patch Description: Binary data -- 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] [PATCH] PostgreSQL 9.4 mmap(2) performance regression on FreeBSD...

2014-10-13 Thread Sean Chittenden
:12.307880900 +0300 @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ case $host_cpu in alpha*) CFLAGS=-O;; # alpha has problems with -O2 esac +USE_NAMED_POSIX_SEMAPHORES=1 -sc -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

[HACKERS] [PATCH] PostgreSQL 9.4 mmap(2) performance regression on FreeBSD...

2014-08-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
=mmapapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+10.0-stablearch=defaultformat=html [3] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=madvisesektion=2apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+10.0-stable -- Sean Chittenden diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/dsm_impl.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/dsm_impl.c index 0819641..1c3aa9a

[HACKERS] [PATCH] `pg_dump -Fd` doesn't check write return status...

2014-03-01 Thread Sean Chittenden
). I made a cursory pass over the code and found one other instance where write status wasn’t being checked and also included that. -sc pg_dump_check_write.patch Description: Binary data -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Release schedule for 9.3.3?

2014-02-06 Thread Sean Chittenden
so I thought I’d prod and ask. Thanks in advance. -sc -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- 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] [SPAM] SSL renegotiation

2013-07-10 Thread Sean Chittenden
on /dev/random on some systems and that's the source of unreliability/timeouts. [1] commit 17386ac45345fe38a10caec9d6e63afa3ce31bb9 Author: Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us Date: Wed Jun 11 15:05:50 2003 + patch by Sean Chittenden (in CC), posted as [2] [2] http

Re: [HACKERS] SSL renegotiation

2013-07-10 Thread Sean Chittenden
[1] http://botan.randombit.net/tls.html?highlight=renegotiate -- Sean Chittenden -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Improved error message for CREATE EXTENSION patch...

2013-06-04 Thread Sean Chittenden
was. Attached is an improved error message: ERROR: XX000: no schemas in search_path are available for CREATE EXTENSION -sc src-backend-commands-extension.c.patch Description: Binary data -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Improved error message for CREATE EXTENSION patch...

2013-06-04 Thread Sean Chittenden
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[HACKERS] src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...

2013-02-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
or empty the directory /tmp/pginit-test or run initdb with an argument other than /tmp/pginit-test. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/174020 -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...

2013-02-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
that aren't dot directories so this seems like a relatively futureproof solution, too. lost+found It's been a long time since I've seen that directory. Patch updated. -sc -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org src-port-pgcheckdir.c.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...

2013-02-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
that I'm sure is covered someplace in the handbook. A general warning isn't a bad idea, however. *shrug* Regardless, hopefully some of this is of interest to someone. -sc -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes

[HACKERS] Variable length array element encoding…

2012-11-13 Thread Sean Chittenden
methodology. Using INT8 internally was too convenient at the time. -- Sean Chittenden s...@chittenden.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY enhancement: Portable signal handling?

2004-12-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
storage/lmgr/proc.c for the LISTEN/NOTIFY interface? It looks like SIGALRM has a reserved purpose. I haven't found any global alarm handling interface that can be used to assign different meanings when an SIGALRM is received. Any other thoughts on the best way to proceed? -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY enhancement: Portable signal handling?

2004-12-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
to work and will revisit extending things further once I have this bit done. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY enhancement: Portable signal handling?

2004-12-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
is that this doesn't work in pl/*, which is the problem I was trying to address. *shrug* -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] pgmemcache 1.0rc1...

2004-12-17 Thread Sean Chittenden
too, fwiw. I don't have any 7.X boxen around though, they're all on 8.X now. :) I'm very interested in feedback. Anyway, please let me know if anyone has any questions or problems. I'm holding off on posting to announce@ for another week or so, maybe after the 8.0 release. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] pgmemcache 1.0rc1...

2004-12-17 Thread Sean Chittenden
://people.FreeBSD.org/~seanc/pgmemcache/pgmemcache.pdf Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

[HACKERS] plpgsql lacks generic identifier for record in triggers...

2004-11-24 Thread Sean Chittenden
if you haven't yet. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql lacks generic identifier for record in triggers...

2004-11-24 Thread Sean Chittenden
TRIGGER tbl_inval_trg AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON schma.tbl FOR EACH STATEMENT EXECUTE PROCEDURE schma.tbl_inval(); Very nice. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [HACKERS] Increasing the length of pg_stat_activity.current_query...

2004-11-06 Thread Sean Chittenden
it more. I'm confused... UDP as in the UDP/IP? RPC caps UDP messages at 8K and NFS over UDP often runs at 32K... where is UDP used in the backend? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives

Re: [HACKERS] Increasing the length of pg_stat_activity.current_query...

2004-11-06 Thread Sean Chittenden
thumb. Would you be open to increasing this further after the 8.0 release? I haven't heard of anyone complaining about dropped/fragmented pgstat messages. :) -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [HACKERS] Nearing final release?

2004-10-16 Thread Sean Chittenden
programs and its libs. I'm sure other packagers may wish to see this happen too. *shrug* -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] temp tables broken in CVS HEAD?

2004-05-29 Thread Sean Chittenden
on here and will submit a fix for this sometime tonight. -sc I think Tom applied a patch already for this. :) So I noticed. I went to update my sources before sending off a patch and was greeted with a rather nice conflict. Thanks for getting to that Tom. -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] temp tables broken in CVS HEAD?

2004-05-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
on here and will submit a fix for this sometime tonight. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Information/schema hiding...

2004-04-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
the existence of directories as well as the permissions? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Information/schema hiding...

2004-04-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
SET search_path and have that work without checking. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message

[HACKERS] Information/schema hiding...

2004-04-11 Thread Sean Chittenden
of the olden days when /etc/passwd contained crypt(3)'ed passwords and home directories were created mod 755 or umasks were 0 by default and a mask of 022 was a umask for the overly paranoid. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates

2004-03-29 Thread Sean Chittenden
the database and type df -k sync sleep 30 df -k see space being freed up. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
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Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
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[HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-25 Thread Sean Chittenden
operates on pg_catalog_cluster. Tom, what do you think? What other ideas do you have kicking around in your head? *shrug* Something for the TODO list and/or an inspired hacker. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-25 Thread Sean Chittenden
. Nope, other way round, default behavior for backwards compatibility must be to create cluster-wide users. CREATE LOCAL USER is what to add. Ah, good point. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-25 Thread Sean Chittenden
the password for a local user by the same name. Agreed, but if a cluster is using LOCAL USERs, I doubt highly that CLUSTER/GLOBAL users would be in use much beyond super users. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-25 Thread Sean Chittenden
. And it doesn't handle the case of letting the local database admin create users (without giving them access to the rest of the database), which is what I'm after. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Sean Chittenden
to a majority and just lead to upgrade thrashing which is costly to organizations. Food for thought... nothing conclusive here. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports succes when start fails

2003-10-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
-patches/2003-07/msg00053.php pg_ping is actually the basis for the threaded benchmark program I've got sitting in my tree, but I don't think folks here would look kindly on a -lpthread dependency given how up in the air pg's thread support/testing is at the moment. -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2003-10-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
to hear from the GCC folks. Well, I have no insite into the gcc camp, but, my understanding is that gcc 3.3 for the alpha isn't broken, but for gcc 2.X, it's pretty horked with any level of optimization. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [PORTS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src/template bsdi

2003-10-09 Thread Sean Chittenden
, it's likely that many folks won't notice any appreciable difference (though it does add up). Here's a thread worth reading from the gcc guys: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-10/msg00138.html -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9

[HACKERS] Large block size problems and notes...

2003-10-02 Thread Sean Chittenden
warehouse operations, 32K pages would be the way to go, esp when it comes time to run reports. With 8K pages, I couldn't max out the IO, but with 32K, it's very possible and much easier to do. Beyond that, I don't have much else I want to comment on at the moment. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Chittenden
, or alternative quoting, maybe. Those seem pretty unmemorable and content-free, though. Any other ideas out there? literal text blocks literal quotes literal text sections -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
.{ /* Not sure these func names off the top of my head: */ pg_append_str_to_buf(lit_val, yytext, yyleng); } %% /* Or something similarly flexible */ -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
) operator names in Postgres, so we could not use them for this purpose without removing that meaning, which would be painful. Really? Hrm, guess @'s out. $ works for me. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all

[HACKERS] Examining the output of: ldd `which postgres`

2003-09-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
to be linked with ncurses (288K) and readline (156K)? It's .5M, not the end of the world, but it seems excessive. I know the postmaster has a CLI interface, but does it really require ncurses or readline? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Examining the output of: ldd `which postgres`

2003-09-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
such). It's chump, but a few ms here and there, or a little more IO there eventually add up, especially in the arena of on connection times. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [HACKERS] Examining the output of: ldd `which postgres`

2003-09-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
the comment in backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c is out of date then: * AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores * Attaches to the existing shared resources when exec()'d off * by the postmaster. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 native port

2003-09-03 Thread Sean Chittenden
Does anybody know of a BSD licensed signal implementation that compiles on win32? See how Apache handles this problem (via APR?). -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] [cguttesen@yahoo.dk: Re: Some additional tests run on my performance testing]

2003-08-29 Thread Sean Chittenden
'nother test in support of 16K blocks for FreeBSD, this time it was 25% faster to import. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---BeginMessage--- Hi. I'm implementing postgresql 7.3.4 on FreeBSD 5.1, and decided to place the pgsql-folder on it's own partition so it was easier to test which blocksize to go

Re: [HACKERS] Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

2003-08-29 Thread Sean Chittenden
going to task with comparing 16K and 8K blocks. It's not SCSI, but I don't have any available machines that I can newfs + reinstall PostgreSQL on. I was thinking about running the regression tests 10x ... -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

[HACKERS] Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
be interested in those results to see if it's still 8% faster. In using 16K blocks, I'd imagine this'll make using seq scans cheaper on FreeBSD. Comments? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet

Re: [HACKERS] Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
the port gets built, so there doesn't need to be a configuration option for it for this to work. -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

[HACKERS] [seanc@FreeBSD.org: Re: Performance tests I did with FreeBSD, Linux and PostgreSQL]

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
still 8% faster.. I imagine this'd make seq scans cheaper on FreeBSD. Comments? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---BeginMessage--- Like all benchmarks, I doubt these are perfect (or even close) examples of real-world use. However, in the hopes that they will be useful for improving FreeBSD, I

Re: [HACKERS] Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
of uncovering bugs because this hasn't been widely done like this before, do you have any other concerns, or do you think the possibility of finding bugs very likely? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [HACKERS] compile error on cvs tip

2003-08-17 Thread Sean Chittenden
in the 7.4 release notes and remove support for it for 7.5, giving users one full release cycle to move to krb5. There any plans to include the appropriate verbiage to allow for krb4's future deorbit? -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6

Re: [HACKERS] compile error on cvs tip

2003-08-17 Thread Sean Chittenden
as almost everyone who uses krb uses hiemdal or MIT krb5. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(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] Correlation in cost_index()

2003-08-14 Thread Sean Chittenden
..85.75 rows=514 loops=1) Index Cond: (html_bytes 800::bigint) Total runtime: 97.75 msec (3 rows) *shrug* A low indexCorrelation overly pessimizes the cost of an index, but I'm not sure where to attribute this too. :-/ -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end

Re: Parsing speed (was Re: [HACKERS] pgstats_initstats() cost)

2003-08-14 Thread Sean Chittenden
to the prepared statement. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Correlation in cost_index()

2003-08-11 Thread Sean Chittenden
and I thought was very clever, albeit space intensive. *shrug* -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Correlation in cost_index()

2003-08-09 Thread Sean Chittenden
; And various timestamps back to 2002-09-19 and user_id's IN(1,42). -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] Correlation in cost_index()

2003-08-09 Thread Sean Chittenden
access to if they'd like. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[HACKERS] Reinventing the wheel...

2003-07-20 Thread Sean Chittenden
know you just replaced a bunch of select() calls with poll(). Would you mind if I went through and patched things to use libevent's abstraction layer? Once this is done, then I'll go back and use libevent for the persistent connections goo. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] CVS compile on AIX 4.3.2

2003-07-15 Thread Sean Chittenden
/* LONGLONG */ typedef long long __int64_t; /* LONGLONG */ typedef unsigned long long __uint64_t; #endif -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
be nice for big queries that have lots of smaller queries running around at the same time. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] compile failure on cvs tip --with-krb5

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
documentation about it. Especially the krb_sendauth() function. Does Kerberos 4 support other protocols than ipv4? Not that I'm aware of. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
has an idea of how much data it's going to read in in order to complete the query, seems easier/better to mark the fd O_DIRECT. *shrug* -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
a threaded app and doesn't use non-blocking IO. The backend would block until the call returns, where's the problem? :) If anything O_DIRECT would shake out any bugs in PostgreSQL's caching code, if there are any. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
restriction. I don't see how this'd be an issue as buffers populated via a read(), that are updated, and then written out, would occupy a new chunk of disk to satisfy MVCC. Why would we need to mark a buffer as read only and carry around/check its state? -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
system performance when a query is using O_DIRECT or are you looking for negative/postitve impact of read() not using the FS cache? The latter is much easier to do than the former... recreating a valid load environment that'd let any O_DIRECT benchmark be useful isn't trivial. -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
as is). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2003-March/000261.html -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
in RAM. -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
() writes into that way the HDD could just DMA the data into the mmap()'ed buffer making it a zero-copy read operation though stirring any interest with my mmap() benchmarks from a while back seems to me have been lost in the fray. :) -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
to be in the userland and would require the use of O_DIRECT. Actually, I think of O_DIRECT as platform-dependent. FreeBSD, IRIX, and AIX, implement it, and ... *smiles with pride* looks like Linux does too given the number of security vulnerabilities associated with the call. :-] -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] O_DIRECT in freebsd

2003-06-17 Thread Sean Chittenden
PostgreSQL leaves all of the caching operations and optimization/alignment of pages up to the OS (much to the behest of madvise() which could potentially speed up access of the VM, but I won't get into that... see TODO.mmap). -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
of FreeBSD? -sc -- Sean Chittenden pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
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Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
of detecting this, does the following work? if [ `uname` = FreeBSD ]; then if [ `sysctl -n kern.osreldate` -ge 500110 ]; then echo Has new gdtoa: new float handling else echo Older float routines fi fi -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
fixes the regression tests on my 5.1... I don't have any 4.X machines I can play with at the moment, Rod would have to test that. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command

Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
of float overflow and underflow conditions, which PostgreSQL used to work around Now that 5.1 is fixed with respect to float handling, the regression tests were b0rk3d. The above fixes things so that PostgreSQL works in both the 4.X and 5.X cases even though their handling is different. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
preserving backward compatibility, you could add freebsd2 and freebsd3 to the list too. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] compile error on cvs tip

2003-06-01 Thread Sean Chittenden
, the documentation and release notes need to state that krb4 has been depreciated and that it will be removed before 7.5. I'll add submit a patch for the updated verbiage in a bit. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

[HACKERS] Vastly under-hyped...

2003-05-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
. Historically, PostgresSQL has been consistently ^^ ^^^ ahead of MySQL in enterprise database features with support of transactions and stored procedures. heh, understatement of the year++ for an understated project. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-12 Thread Sean Chittenden
. -sc -- Sean Chittenden pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [HACKERS] XML ouput for psql

2003-03-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
database to do something truly useful with XQuery concepts. Um, why change the backend at all? Why not have libpq do the interference mapping between the front end and backend so that we can leave the backend alone? Seems like a simple application of a good SAX parser to me. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Sean Chittenden
do this in a few weeks if someone doesn't beat me to it. -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] POSIX regex performance bug in 7.3 Vs. 7.2

2003-02-04 Thread Sean Chittenden
, but since it is actively being developed by resources outside of this project, and it has support for 16-bit and 32-bit encodings (UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16) is on the TODO list, it might be nice to keep this in mind and let Ruby maintain it instead of PostgreSQL. -sc -- Sean Chittenden

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] not using index for select min(...)

2003-01-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
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Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] not using index for select min(...)

2003-01-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
having transaction B re-run its queries. Like I said, it ain't perfect, but what would be a better solution? ::shrug:: Even OODB's with stats agents have this problem (though their overhead for doing this kind of work is much much lower). -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Proposal: relaxing link between explicit JOINs and execution order

2003-01-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
auto_collapse_join auto_collapse_num_join auto_join_threshold When I'm thinking about what this variable will do for me as a DBA, I think it will make the plan more intelligent by reordering the joins. My $0.02. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Options for growth

2003-01-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
for it through the nose. -sc -- Sean Chittenden msg27765/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [HACKERS] inet regression test

2003-01-15 Thread Sean Chittenden
do a make distclean. FreeBSD 4.7 I'm still not able to duplicate any problem. Any other FreeBSD folk see inet regression failures in CVS tip? Unable to reproduce this on 5.0 with PostgreSQL HEAD as of 8:10PST. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] why was libpq.so's version number bumped?

2003-01-03 Thread Sean Chittenden
the new standard port people won't be bitten so much by the library version bump. The -devel port has been out for a few months, those that are serious DBAs likely have a staging/test environment to work with. If anyone runs across any serious problems on FreeBSD, let me know ASAP. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-11-04 Thread Sean Chittenden
=geometry-bsd-precision geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd5=geometry-bsd-precision geometry/alpha.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros Sean, would you verify this works for you? It does, thank you. I've just updated the -devel port to 7.3b4, hopefully the mirrors will pick up the bits soon. -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-10-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
),(-0.301775147928994,0.0414201183431953) | (-0.251479289940828,0.103550295857988),(-0.322485207100592,0.0739644970414201) | (-0.301775147928994,0.124260355029586),(-0.301775147928994,0.124260355029586) == -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3 Branched ...

2002-10-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
to move. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(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] New SET/autocommit problem

2002-10-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
not in a transaction, but now that there are some intricate rules with regards to starting transactions, I'd love to provide a DBI interface into a call that returns whether or not we're in a transaction to prevent millions of these: NOTICE: ROLLBACK: no transaction in progress -sc -- Sean

Re: [HACKERS] New SET/autocommit problem

2002-10-22 Thread Sean Chittenden
that in application is getting pretty gnarly. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Web site

2002-09-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
will be employed instead? Anyone thought about using GeoIP and writing a script that'd dump the database into something that could be postgresql usable? Just a thought. -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 items

2002-09-18 Thread Sean Chittenden
. 'nother few weeks before beta2 or is it right around the corner? For those interested in PostgreSQL + FreeBSD, I have a patch pending approval that will let developers toggle between a devel port and the stable release for all ports that depend on PostgreSQL. -sc -- Sean Chittenden

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