Re: Updated macOS start scripts

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Dilger <hornschnor...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The stuff in contrib/start-scripts/osx/ does not, as far as I know, >> work at all on any recent release of macOS, because SystemStarter >>

Re: Fix number skipping in to_number

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Oliver Ford <ojf...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Monday, 13 November 2017, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> I don't follow your concern? If "$" is not the correct currency >>> symbol for the locale, we shouldn't accept it as a match

Re: Further simplification of c.h's #include section

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> How do you feel about "win32_more.h"? >> Seems morally equivalent to what you had before. I think what I would >&g

Re: Updated macOS start scripts

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
east that far back. I don't have access to relevant, > pre-10.4 machines. IIRC, I already did test it on 10.6.8, but no harm in your double checking. regards, tom lane

Re: Further simplification of c.h's #include section

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> 1. Move what's currently in src/include/port/win32.h (a/k/a >>> pg_config_os.h) to a new file, say src/include/port/win32

Re: [HACKERS] SQL procedures

2017-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/14/17 11:14, Tom Lane wrote: >> ... Do we really want the existence of >> a function foo(int) to mean that you can't create a SQL procedure named >> foo and taking one int argument? > Yes, that

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in ExecModifyTable function and trigger issues for foreign tables

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
It wouldn't save a lot, but yeah, doing it in this order seems a bit silly when you put it like that. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in ExecModifyTable function and trigger issues for foreign tables

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
e or after what expand_targetlist() does. I'm doubtful that the potential savings is worth taking risks there. In particular, it seems like a good thing that expand_targetlist() verifies the correct tlist ordering *after* the FDW function has acted. So now my inclination is to leave this alone.

Re: documentation is now XML

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/23/17 15:39, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think we should have a discussion about whether it'd be smart >> to convert the back branches' documentation to XML as well. > My short answer to that is, I don't have

Re: documentation is now XML

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <andrew.duns...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/28/2017 12:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> One thing we'd definitely better do is enable some buildfarm coverage. >> AFAIK, the only buildfarm animal that's building the docs is guaibasaurus, >> and it only see

Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw bug in 9.6

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> We'd definitely need to do things that way in 9.6. I'm not quite sure >>> whether it's too late to adopt the clean solution i

Re: [HACKERS] More stats about skipped vacuums

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
; However, when it comes to the stats system, I'd say that on any busy system > (which would be the ones to care about), the stats structures are still > going to be *written* a lot more than they are read. Uh, what? The stats collector doesn't write those files at all except on-demand. regards, tom lane

Re: simplehash: tb->sizemask = 0

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
the behavior as the limit is approached and reached. regards, tom lane

Re: Updated macOS start scripts

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
need to see how that interacts with using pg_ctl. Some documentation might be needed in any case. regards, tom lane

Re: pgindent run?

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
ad-hoc reindent on some of these files. regards, tom lane

Re: Updated macOS start scripts

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Dilger <hornschnor...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Nov 28, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Hmm. Maybe we should have the plist file set KeepAlive to false not true? >> This would mean you'd need manual action to restart a failed postmast

Re: Skip index cleanup if autovacuum did not do any work

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
much if there are no dead tuples. One thing that I think it does do is update the index's pg_class stats (relpages/reltuples). Maybe it's okay to skip that in this particular scenario, trusting that auto-analyze would fix it, but that seems worthy of debate. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw super user checks

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
RWF. Although maybe switching to owner privileges would be so different as to constitute an unrelated patch. regards, tom lane

Re: pgindent run?

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I think that'd be taking it too far, especially given that the dependency >> on a typedefs list means that the git hook might have a different

Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw: Add support for INSERT OVERRIDING clause

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
tending with back then. (Which I don't recall the details of; you'll need to trawl the archives. Should be somewhere early in 2013, though, since we implemented that change in commit 50c19fc76.) regards, tom lane

Re: pgindent run?

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Dilger <hornschnor...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Nov 28, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I think that'd be taking it too far, especially given that the dependency >> on a typedefs list means that the git hook might have a different idea &

Re: [HACKERS] PATCH: multivariate histograms and MCV lists

2017-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
ormal operation, it should definitely have an ereport (and a non-default errcode). regards, tom lane

Re: [PATCH] Fix crash in int8_avg_combine().

2017-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
, while > this statement (which moves a __int128 from one memory location to another > memory location) expects 16-byte memory alignments. So when either state1 > or state2 is not 16-byte aligned, this crashes. I believe we already dealt with this: Author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Re: [HACKERS] More stats about skipped vacuums

2017-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
e would break peoples' queries, probably subtly. What we need is a way to have a consistent snapshot without implementing it by copying 100,000 tables' worth of data for every query. Hmm, I heard of a technique called MVCC once ... regards, tom lane

Re: Code cleanup patch submission for extended_stats.c

2017-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
lean arrays, too. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] More stats about skipped vacuums

2017-11-25 Thread Tom Lane
probably keep the stats tables in a DSM segment; but how would a backend get a consistent snapshot of them? regards, tom lane

Re: has_sequence_privilege() never got the memo

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
nt with the rest of acl.c, but maybe there's some deeper reason? Peter? regards, tom lane

Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters.

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
nd if so why? regards, tom lane

Re: How is the PostgreSQL debuginfo file generated

2017-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
ackaging system, not by PG proper. You should proceed by making a new SRPM and building RPMs from that. regards, tom lane

Re: using index or check in ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: >> I did not look at the patch yet, but TBH if it uses SPI for sub-operations >> of ALTER TABLE I think that is sufficient reason to reject it out of hand. > You mean like what ALTER TABLE

Re: [HACKERS] static assertions in C++

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2017-11-29 16:39:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >>> FWIW, I think that's a perfectly reasonable choice. Adding complications >>> in making static assertions work for rand

Re: [HACKERS] static assertions in C++

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Lane
just want "we don't support this" to be spelled "#error", rather than dumping off a load of reasoning about what might happen without functioning static asserts --- on a weird compiler, no less --- onto our future selves. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] <> join selectivity estimate question

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Lane
nd a bit till I found such a query, and committed it. regards, tom lane

Re: Protect syscache from bloating with negative cache entries

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The thing that makes me uncomfortable about this is that we used to have a >> catcache size limitation mechanism, and ripped it out because it ha

Isn't partition drop code seriously at risk of deadlock?

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
possibly be deadlock-free to be trying to grab AccessExclusiveLock on a partition's parent table when we already have such a lock on the partition. Which we do, or at least had better, long before we get to heap_drop_with_catalog. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in ExecModifyTable function and trigger issues for foreign tables

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes: > On 27 November 2017 at 16:35, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> On looking closer, the reason it's like that in Fujita-san's patch >> is to minimize the API churn seen by FDW AddForeignUpdateTargets >> functio

Re: [HACKERS] SQL procedures

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
roc is the same as the value of its last command. There's no such thing as a proc that doesn't return a value. regards, tom lane

Re: ASCII Null control character validation

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
iscussions of this issue. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw bug in 9.6

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
Etsuro Fujita <fujita.ets...@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes: > (2017/11/30 7:32), Tom Lane wrote: >> the output of the foreign join cannot change during EPQ, since the remote >> server already locked the rows before returning them. The only thing that >> can change is t

Silly API for do_pg_start_backup()

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
. regards, tom lane

Is it OK to ignore directory open failure in ResetUnloggedRelations?

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
something badly wrong if we can't. Thoughts? regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw bug in 9.6

2017-12-03 Thread Tom Lane
in the not-too-long run. As such, it'd be okay if it were smaller, but it seems bigger and more invasive than I could wish for a band-aid. regards, tom lane

Re: Errands around AllocateDir()

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
it does not change errno. This is because there seemed to be other call sites that were depending on that, not just this one. Anyway, that seemed like a more future-proof fix than relying on callers to deal with it. regards, tom lane

Re: Error handling (or lack of it) in RemovePgTempFilesInDir

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Uh ... I'm confused? That particular change only concerns whether we emit >> a log message, not whether the action is attempted or succeeds.

Re: Errands around AllocateDir()

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
regards, tom lane

Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl vs schemapg.h

2017-12-16 Thread Tom Lane
somebody either copies that coding pattern into some new script or tweaks the way those existing scripts are being used. regards, tom lane

Sun Studio 12 vs. __builtin_constant_p()

2017-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
result in slightly worse code optimization around ereport/elog calls on compilers that don't have this behavior, but that seems fine to me. regards, tom lane

Re: MemoryContextCreate change in PG 11 how should contexts be created

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
is destroyed, seems like what you ought to be using is a memory context reset callback. Look at MemoryContextRegisterResetCallback and its callers (there are just a couple at the moment, though I'm fooling with a patch that will add more). regards, tom lane

Re: pearltidy source code has been removed (pgindent)

2017-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
tend to reindent the Perl code ... regards, tom lane

Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl vs schemapg.h

2017-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Christoph Berg <christoph.b...@credativ.de> writes: > Debian's reproducible builds project has revealed that the full build > path gets embedded into server/catalog/schemapg.h: genbki.pl is hardly our only script that prints its $0 ... regards, tom lane

Re: Bug: Ambiguous Column Reference Allowed When Joining to pg_roles.oid

2017-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
re's a matching user-defined column in the join output then that doesn't happen. It definitely is a bit unfortunate that the pg_roles view exposes a user-defined column named "oid", but we felt we had to do that to avoid breaking user queries that date from when pg_roles was a plain table. regards, tom lane

Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
movement on that benchmark, and it'd be brighter to look for test cases where more contexts are involved. regards, tom lane diff --git a/contrib/amcheck/verify_nbtree.c b/contrib/amcheck/verify_nbtree.c index 868c14e..adbbc44 100644 *** a/con

Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
of the per-context-type functions these would call, though, because nobody calls those functions directly. regards, tom lane

Letting plpgsql in on the fun with the new expression eval stuff

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Comments, better ideas? regards, tom lane

Re: Protect syscache from bloating with negative cache entries

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
int of view I'm not very sure that it's worth distinguishing cases A and C. It's conceivable that we could rewrite all the lookup algorithms so that they didn't require negative cache entries to have good performance ... but I doubt that that's easy to do. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] static assertions in C++

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 12/11/17 17:12, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, well, surely there's more than one way to do that; the sizeof >> is just a convenient way to wrap it in C. Wouldn't a typedef serve >> just as well? > Here

Re: Why does array_position_common bitwise NOT an Oid type?

2017-12-16 Thread Tom Lane
If we take the lookup path then the bogus element_type will be detected and reported; if we don't, it won't be. We could instead add an explicit test for element_type == InvalidOid, but that's just more duplicative code. regards, tom lane

Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
able, so you could imagine that AllocSetDelete shoves it onto a freelist after resetting it, instead of just giving it back to libc. I'm slightly worried about creating allocation islands that way, but that problem is probably surmountable, if it's real at all. However, that seems like a differ

Re: plpgsql test layout

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
ng up for MSVC. How about this? Looks ok to me, though I'm not in a position to actually test the msvc changes. regards, tom lane

Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
rop reltime/abstime without too many complaints. Y2038 is coming.) regards, tom lane

_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
re any good reason not to just define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS unconditionally? Presumably it would have no effect on VS versions too old to know the symbol. I'm a bit inclined to move it to win32_port.h, as well, since that's what includes . regards, tom lane

Re: Fix number skipping in to_number

2017-11-17 Thread Tom Lane
d that patch. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Consistently catch errors from Python _New() functions

2017-11-17 Thread Tom Lane
therwise it looks reasonable. regards, tom lane

Re: FP16 Support?

2017-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
ate to think about whether float16 is a useful solution. I don't deny that we could get there someday, but I think putting in float16 now would be a fine example of having your priorities reversed. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] SQL procedures

2017-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/8/17 09:54, Tom Lane wrote: >> Do procedures of this ilk belong in pg_proc at all? It seems like a large >> fraction of the attributes tracked in pg_proc are senseless for this >> purpose. A ne

Re: [HACKERS] pgbench regression test failure

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
hmetic. We have not gone as far as deciding that Postgres will only run on IEEE hardware, and I don't want to start in pgbench, especially not in seldom-exercised corner cases. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER command progress monitor

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
ot that wrong, maybe horribly so. I think it's a bad idea for progress monitoring to depend on the planner's estimates in any way whatsoever. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] A hook for session start

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
typedef name, to emphasize that what we are classifying is the postmaster and its children. regards, tom lane

Re: [PATCH] Porting small OpenBSD changes.

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
call is even syntactically correct. There should be colons in it. regards, tom lane

Re: Using isatty() on WIN32 platform

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
s definition lives in. regards, tom lane

Re: spgist rangetypes compiler warning (gcc 7.2.0)

2017-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
n to > if (in->traversalValue) Agreed, especially since it's done like that in spgscan.c and geo_spgist.c. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM and ANALYZE disagreeing on what reltuples means

2017-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/02/2017 08:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> However, I'm not sure we're there yet, because there remains a fairly >> nasty discrepancy even once we've gotten everyone onto the same page >> about reltuples counti

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in to_timestamp().

2017-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
th Oracle. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Repetitive code in RI triggers

2017-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
nes of code as well as a lot of cycles. Likewise in the other two functions. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] A hook for session start

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Lane
cal, but regardless of speed it seems like a modularity violation, in that client backends have to be explicitly aware of everything that isn't a "client backend". Maybe it's time to invent something corresponding to AuxProcType for non "aux" processes, or else to fold all types of Postgres processes into the same enum. regards, tom lane

Re: Patch to add dependency between client executes and static libraries

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Lane
gt; then it should be added to that thread rather than starting a new one. But please see the comment I just posted in that thread --- I don't think we want to continue using order-only dependencies for these libraries. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] A hook for session start

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Lane
hoc stuff. I don't think pgstat has any particular pride of place here. It should be one consumer of a common API. The stuff related to AuxProcType is in miscadmin.h, so one possibility is to put the new enum there. But I could see inventing a whole new header for this, "utils/proctype.h" or so. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] A hook for session start

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The stuff related to AuxProcType is in miscadmin.h, so one possibility >> is to put the new enum there. But I could see inventing a whole new

Re: [HACKERS] Consistently catch errors from Python _New() functions

2017-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 11/17/17 12:16, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm confused by the places that change PLy_elog calls to pass NULL: >> >> -PLy_elog(ERROR, "could not create globals"); >> +

Re: View with duplicate GROUP BY entries

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
ntation so that we can tell whether positional notation was used to begin with. regards, tom lane

Re: Does XMLSERIALIZE output xmlattributes in a stable order?

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
is stored as a string) to text. So the interesting question here is where are you getting the XML values from? The stability of the results is going to be whatever the next level down does. regards, tom lane

Re: Inlining functions with "expensive" parameters

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
new expression node type. Also, I'm dubious that it could be made to work at all for standalone expression evaluation; Param-driven re-evaluation is only considered when running a plan tree. regards, tom lane

Re: Inlining functions with "expensive" parameters

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
ion. That would reflect the fact that expression eval handles them completely internally. I'm also wondering about folding CaseTestExpr and CoerceToDomainValue into the same mechanism. It's not very hard to see those cases as being the same as a function-based lambda. regards, tom lane

Re: View with duplicate GROUP BY entries

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Yeah, we probably ought to make more of an effort to regenerate the >> original query wording. I do not think that forcing positional notat

Re: feature request: consume asynchronous notification via a function

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
a volatile function and the messages are just gone once the function has returned them, even if you fail to do anything about them because your transaction fails later? (I'd be against having a function that returns more than one at a time, in any case, as that just complicates matters even more.) regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] pgbench regression test failure

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I dunno, it just looks odd to me that when we've set up a test case in >> which every one of the transactions is guaranteed to exceed the latency &g

Re: Inlining functions with "expensive" parameters

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On November 16, 2017 11:44:52 AM PST, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Yeah, there's no mechanism like that now, but there could be. > Right, but it doesn't sound that hard to introduce. Basically there'd need to &g

Re: _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Knowles <gknow...@ieee.org> writes: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> but evidently it chose the wrong cutoff for when to enable that >> symbol, because woodlouse is (or claims to be) running VS2013. > It's act

Further simplification of c.h's #include section

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
r I'm not qualified to do that. Thoughts, objections? regards, tom lane

Re: Further simplification of c.h's #include section

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> 1. Move what's currently in src/include/port/win32.h (a/k/a >> pg_config_os.h) to a new file, say src/include/port/win32_2.h. > I have no objectio

Re: Rewriting PL/Python's typeio code

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
OK? Hm, my compiler didn't complain about that. Did yours? The variable is not changed inside the PG_TRY, so according to my ideas of how this works, it should be OK. Also, it was like that before, and no one has reported a problem. regards, tom lane

Updated macOS start scripts

2017-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
it into the next commitfest. regards, tom lane diff --git a/contrib/start-scripts/macos/README b/contrib/start-scripts/macos/README index ...c4f2d9a . *** a/contrib/start-scripts/macos/README --- b/contrib/start-scripts/macos/README *** *** 0 --- 1,24 + To make

Re: [HACKERS] pgbench: Skipping the creating primary keys after initialization

2017-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
rong thing with, eg, --foreign-keys before -I. * I changed the "drop" step to just drop all four tables in one command; that way avoids having to make any assumption about what foreign keys exist. (I suppose that constraints leading in different directions aren't all that likely, but if we're trying to cater to not-quite-default configurations, we might as well do this.) * Minor other cosmetic cleanup. regards, tom lane

Re: Migration to PGLister - After

2017-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
entioned, there are no good solutions that would allow us to keep mangling subject headers. This has been debated extensively already. regards, tom lane

Re: Fix number skipping in to_number

2017-11-17 Thread Tom Lane
seems a bit off topic for that, and I think that test file hardly gets run anyway. Note this needs to be applied over the patch I posted at https://postgr.es/m/3626.1510949...@sss.pgh.pa.us I intend to commit that fairly soon, but it's not in right now. regards, tom lane

plpgsql: remove useless distinctions between record and row cases

2017-12-07 Thread Tom Lane
on, I'd like to push this shortly. regards, tom lane diff --git a/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c b/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c index ec480cb..1959d6d 100644 --- a/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c +++ b/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c @@ -272,8 +272,7 @@ static ParamListInfo setup

Re: ScalarArrayOpExpr and multi-dimensional arrays

2017-12-08 Thread Tom Lane
regards, tom lane

Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

2017-12-08 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I'm not sure how we could get away with that. Would it pass muster to do >> that only when isatty(stdin)? Other ideas? > What if we made it so t

Error handling (or lack of it) in RemovePgTempFilesInDir

2017-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
el's proposal in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cab7npqrpocxjiirhmebefhxvtk7v5jvw4bz82p7oimtsm3t...@mail.gmail.com If we don't want to throw a hard error for failure to remove files, it seems like throwing an error for failure to read a temp dir isn't a great choice either. regards, tom lane

Re: Speeding up pg_upgrade

2017-12-07 Thread Tom Lane
right that we can design some transmission procedure that allows stats to be forward-migrated when compatible and dropped when not. regards, tom lane

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