Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2003 22:27 To: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List Guys, Oh, and how about we kill the Image Map of

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2003 23:11 To: Josh Berkus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List Josh Berkus writes: If possible, for the upcoming release we'd like

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: Yeah, you're right,it's confusing we should have two seperate pages, one for What is the PGDG possibly linking to developer., and one page for Contact Us. As it is, they two are munged together. Btw., what process is used to determine which organizations become a

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Paulo Scardine
Emeritus is verbatin from Latin and is really very spread into most Western languages. -- Paulo Scardine I think the Emeritus word might be too hard for non-native English speakers, and even for less educated English speakers. ---(end of

[HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Philip Warner
Just looking at the information schema in 7.4 and noticed something odd/annoying/problematic: create table pk(f1 int primary key); create table fk1(f1 int references pk(f1)); create table fk2(f1 int references pk(f1)); select * from information_schema.referential_constraints; -[ RECORD 1

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 03:21, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2003 23:11 To: Josh Berkus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List Josh Berkus

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: The advocacy site does have different requirements than the main site, namely its bi-lingualness and the different target audience, but perhaps with adding bi-lingual capabilities to the main site these two sites could be brought

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Notice that the two records are identical because the two constraint names are the same. ISTM that we should have a way of usefully examining specific constraints without having to name them. Can we add the constraint OID or No. The schemas of the

Re: [HACKERS] Very poor estimates from planner

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Hash Join (cost=3D1230.79..60581.82 rows=3D158 width=3D54)= (actual time=3D1262.35..151200.29 rows=3D1121988 loops=3D1) Hash Cond: (outer.account_id =3D inner.account_id) - Hash Join (cost=3D1226.78..52863.43 rows=3D1542558 w= idth=3D50) (actual

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: The reason the spec defines these views this way is that it expects constraint names to be unique across a whole schema. We don't enforce that, and I don't think we want to start doing so (that was already proposed and shot down at least once). You are of course free to use

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason the spec defines these views this way is that it expects constraint names to be unique across a whole schema. We don't enforce that, and I don't think we want to start doing so (that was already proposed and shot down at least once). Would

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Would a good halfway house be to ensure that generated names were unique within a schema (e.g. instead of generating $1 generate tablename$1)? No, because that buys into all of the serialization and deadlocking problems that doing it the spec's way entail I don't think

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think we really need a method to guarantee unique names. It would already help a lot if we just added the table name, or something that was until a short time before the action believed to be the table name, or even only the table OID, before

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:42:13AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think we really need a method to guarantee unique names. It would already help a lot if we just added the table name, or something that was until a short time before the action

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, Btw., what process is used to determine which organizations become a recognised contributor? Yeah, that's another ToDo item ... your company needs to go up there. Criteria are major code contributions and/or sponsoring a full-time developer. We've discussed it on -CORE some, but not

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:42:13AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I don't have a problem with switching from $1 to tablename_$1, or some such, for auto-generated constraint names. But if it's not guaranteed unique, does it really satisfy Philip's concern? It

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not unique

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think we really need a method to guarantee unique names. It would already help a lot if we just added the table name, or something that was until a short time before the action believed to be the table name, or even only the

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: And if we're gonna continue this thread, we should move it to -Advocacy. I'm a bit lost here. It was recently said very clearly, The target audience of the advocacy site is PHB's, not technical people. And the content of the site supports that in my mind. Yet, the

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2003 14:47 To: Robert Treat Cc: Dave Page; Peter Eisentraut; Josh Berkus; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List On Thu, Nov 06,

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, I'm a bit lost here. I was discussing specifically the Recognized Corporate Contributors which is, AFAIK, strictly a PHB thing, no? -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: I was discussing specifically the Recognized Corporate Contributors which is, AFAIK, strictly a PHB thing, no? No. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] Very poor estimates from planner]

2003-11-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:35, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Hash Join (cost=3D1230.79..60581.82 rows=3D158 width=3D54)= (actual time=3D1262.35..151200.29 rows=3D1121988 loops=3D1) Hash Cond: (outer.account_id =3D inner.account_id) - Hash Join

Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, I was discussing specifically the Recognized Corporate Contributors which is, AFAIK, strictly a PHB thing, no? No. Please explain. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: Very poor estimates from planner]

2003-11-06 Thread Rod Taylor
Could we see the pg_stats rows for service.account_id and account.account_id? Sorry, ignore previous numbers. My prior tests were done in a transaction (to roll back stats changes) and I forgot to re-analyze. relname | attname | stanullfrac | stawidth | stadistinct | stakind1 | stakind2

[HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
When I start up with -i, I get the following log: LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry. LOG: database system was shut down at 2003-11-06 20:47:54 CET LOG: checkpoint record is at

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I start up with -i, I get the following log: LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use There is no other postmaster running anywhere. I suspect that this has to do with IPv6. This is a SuSE 8.something machine that is relatively

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: I was discussing specifically the Recognized Corporate Contributors which is, AFAIK, strictly a PHB thing, no? No. Please explain. I don't see anything in this project that should be strictly a PHB thing, the exception maybe being the weird whitepaper someone is

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place. We have a list of developers with company names next to them. Let readers make their own recognition evaluation. That works if you think that the only form of corporate support is

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place. We have a list of developers with company names next to them. Let readers make their own recognition evaluation. I'm not sure that's all it's for. Every time we

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, My feeling is that advocacy should be just that: Advocacy. It doesn't matter who the intended audience is in reality. However, it is also important to remember that technical experts typically don't need to be sold on PostgreSQL. PHBs on the other hand probably do and thus much of our

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Is it possible that that kernel considers binding to an IPv6 port to conflict with binding to the same port number as an IPv4 port? I don't understand this business, but if it helps, below is my ifconfig output. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F6:74:BE:71

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place. We have a list of developers with company names next to them. Let readers make their own recognition evaluation. Your assuming that

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand this business, but if it helps, below is my ifconfig output. Hmm, you have a bunch of addresses don't you? It looks like we should have included more information in the report of bind failures, like exactly which address failed.

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I start up with -i, I get the following log: LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use There is no other postmaster running anywhere. I suspect that this has to do with IPv6. This is a SuSE 8.something

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, Right now, the list is nothing more than a marketing tool for the listed companies for attracting existing users to them. Yes? That's exactly the intention -- so that existing users and interested parties can see the companies that give major resources to the project. This has a

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Is it possible that that kernel considers binding to an IPv6 port to conflict with binding to the same port number as an IPv4 port? Actually, I think that that may be expected behavior depending on the vintage of the kernel. Note the following comment in StreamServerPort(): /*

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Sullivan writes: I'm not sure that's all it's for. Every time we talk about using Postgres, people want to know who else uses it. True, but for that you're looking at the wrong list. This is the list of contributors, not of users. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: Yes? That's exactly the intention -- so that existing users and interested parties can see the companies that give major resources to the project. Yes, but existing users and most interested parties don't fall into the PHB category, nor do most PHB's fall into the

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, Hence my original point: the list of supporting companies does not primarily belong in the advocacy realm. But it does! You pointed it out yourself for the hackers OSS tech people, they can just look at the descriptions of the major contributors and figure things out for

[HACKERS] postgresql-7.4RC1 - Memory fault(coredump) on HP-UX

2003-11-06 Thread Verbus Counts
Greetings, PostgreSQL built with: export CC=cc ./configure --without-readline --without-zlib The build and install went OK. {/opt/postgres/postgresql-7.4RC1}$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user postgres. This user must also own

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:46, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: The advocacy site does have different requirements than the main site, namely its bi-lingualness and the different target audience, but perhaps with adding bi-lingual

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: But it does! You pointed it out yourself for the hackers OSS tech people, they can just look at the descriptions of the major contributors and figure things out for themselves. They don't need a list with company logos links. Other people have pointed out that

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Is it possible that that kernel considers binding to an IPv6 port to conflict with binding to the same port number as an IPv4 port? Actually, I think that that may be expected behavior depending on the vintage of the kernel. Note

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Robert Treat writes: rant we don't need links, we need patches /rant Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: How does one get involved? Where is the code? What is the plan? Where is the roadmap? Where can issues be discussed? Who is working on this? How can we help? --

[HACKERS] Deferrable triggers

2003-11-06 Thread Grant McLean
Hi Hackers I have noticed an issue with deferrable triggers not always being deferrable. Eg: alter table subsession add constraint fk_subsession_session foreign key (session_id) references session (session_id) deferrable; alter table subsession2 add constraint

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should we just not give that error message, in case we already binded to AF_INET6 ::? Seems like a cure worse than the disease to me --- it could mask real problems. I suppose we could think about dropping it from LOG to DEBUG1 level, so that it wouldn't

Re: [HACKERS] Deferrable triggers

2003-11-06 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 7 Nov 2003, Grant McLean wrote: So it would seem that if I include the clauses: on delete restrict on update restrict Then the 'deferrable' which follows is only applied to creates and not to updates or deletes. Since 'restrict' is the default, the clauses aren't adding

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: This isn't helping. What Robert was pointing out is that we don't currently have enough people writing HTML and PHP to finish improving the site anytime soon. Robert doesn't need managerial direction. Or did you have

Re: [HACKERS] Bogus bind() warnings

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should we just not give that error message, in case we already binded to AF_INET6 ::? Seems like a cure worse than the disease to me --- it could mask real problems. I suppose we could think about dropping it from LOG to DEBUG1 level,

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-7.4RC1 - Memory fault(coredump) on HP-UX

2003-11-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Verbus Counts wrote: {/opt/postgres/postgresql-7.4RC1}$ ll core -rw--- 1 postgres postgres726684 Nov 6 10:55 core Can you show us the stack trace ? Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the

Re: [HACKERS] pg_stat

2003-11-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Nailah Ogeer wrote: Just wondering how often the stats collector resets it self. Is this a parameter i can change? At my knowledge each time that you do an analyze on your db your statistics are changed ( are not incremental I mean), anyway you can set to reset statistics at the start of postgres.

Re: [HACKERS] Deferrable triggers

2003-11-06 Thread Grant McLean
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:31, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2003, Grant McLean wrote: So it would seem that if I include the clauses: on delete restrict on update restrict Then the 'deferrable' which follows is only applied to creates and not to updates or deletes.

Re: [HACKERS] Deferrable triggers

2003-11-06 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 7 Nov 2003, Grant McLean wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:31, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2003, Grant McLean wrote: So it would seem that if I include the clauses: on delete restrict on update restrict Then the 'deferrable' which follows is only applied

[HACKERS] stats collector causes shared-memory-block leakage

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
While investigating Scott Goodwin's recent report of trouble on Mac OS X, I have realized that we have an unpleasant little misbehavior in our last several releases. After a backend crash, the postmaster will attempt to recycle (delete and recreate) the old shared memory segment. However, if the

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not

2003-11-06 Thread Philip Warner
At 03:37 AM 7/11/2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: It would already help a lot if we just added the table name, or something that was until a short time before the action believed to be the table name, or even only the table OID, before (or after) the $1. Can we allow/bypass the pg_* restriction, and

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Philip Warner wrote: At 03:37 AM 7/11/2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: It would already help a lot if we just added the table name, or something that was until a short time before the action believed to be the table name, or even only the table OID, before (or after) the $1. Can we

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not

2003-11-06 Thread Philip Warner
At 10:54 AM 7/11/2003, Philip Warner wrote: add table OID (or something else) to the information schema Peter may have been alluding to this, and I misunderstood, but one idea might be to present a mangled name in the information schema; since the spec expects them to be unique, perhaps the

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter may have been alluding to this, and I misunderstood, but one idea might be to present a mangled name in the information schema; since the spec expects them to be unique, perhaps the schema should present them as unique. Doesn't seem like this

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter, Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: This isn't helping. What Robert was pointing out is that we don't currently have enough people writing HTML and PHP to finish improving the site anytime soon. Peter appeared to be asking

[HACKERS] OpenServer 5.0.7: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY)?

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
I asked my friends at SCO (who are productizing PG) to test 7.4RC1 on OpenServer 5.0.7, and received this back: A make check fails at createdb with errors in the postmaster logfile: LOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) failed: Protocol not available Plus he needed to add: if test $GCC != yes ; then

Re: [HACKERS] Deferrable triggers

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To -hackers: Is it still safe to send small documentation patches for 7.4 at this point? Of course. Docs patches are fair game up till release (although I think Peter wants us to minimize edits to the reference pages, because regenerating the man pages

Re: [HACKERS] OpenServer 5.0.7: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY)?

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A make check fails at createdb with errors in the postmaster logfile: LOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) failed: Protocol not available This is coming from inton; #ifdefTCP_NODELAY on = 1; if (setsockopt(port-sock,

Re: [HACKERS] Information Schema and constraint names not

2003-11-06 Thread Philip Warner
At 11:38 AM 7/11/2003, Tom Lane wrote: Your argument that we should add the table name to the view does have some merit though. Sounds good to me. It would need to be added to each view that has constraint_name, then we should be able to cross the info schema views and get meaningful data.

Re: [HACKERS] OpenServer 5.0.7: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY)?

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Thursday, November 06, 2003 20:19:05 -0500 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A make check fails at createdb with errors in the postmaster logfile: LOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) failed: Protocol not available [snip] Better ask them what their

Re: [HACKERS] pg_stat

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Just wondering how often the stats collector resets it self. Is this a parameter i can change? At my knowledge each time that you do an analyze on your db your statistics are changed ( are not incremental I mean), anyway you can set to reset statistics at the start of postgres. I think you're

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 November 2003 17:18, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Robert Treat writes: rant we don't need links, we need patches /rant Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: How does one get involved? post proposals to pgsql-www and start coding Where is the code?

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: It also contains the starting work of the discussed background buffer writer. Thus far, the BufferSync() done at a checkpoint only writes out all dirty blocks in their LRU order and over a configurable time (lazy_checkpoint_time in seconds). But that means at least, while

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: If the system is write-bound, the checkpointer will find that many dirty blocks that he has no time to nap and will burst them out as fast as possible anyway. Well, at least that's the theory. PostgreSQL with the non-overwriting storage concept can never have hot-written

[HACKERS] CVS open for development?

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hey - now that we have a branch, is Bruce going to start committed the pgpatches2 list? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you considered having the background writer check the pages it is about to write to see if they can be added to the FSM, thereby reducing the need for vacuum? The 7.4 rewrite of FSM depends on the assumption that all the free space in a given

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you considered having the background writer check the pages it is about to write to see if they can be added to the FSM, thereby reducing the need for vacuum? The 7.4 rewrite of FSM depends on the assumption that all the free

Re: [HACKERS] CVS open for development?

2003-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Hey - now that we have a branch, is Bruce going to start committed the pgpatches2 list? Yes, once my email backlog is cleared --- probably early next week. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-7.4RC1 - Memory fault(coredump) on HP-UX

2003-11-06 Thread Verbus Counts
Verbus Counts wrote: {/opt/postgres/postgresql-7.4RC1}$ ll core -rw--- 1 postgres postgres726684 Nov 6 10:55 core Can you show us the stack trace ? Regards Gaetano Mendola Here is: (gdb) backtrace #0 0xc0198e40 in free+0x130 () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #1 0xc00cca4c in

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you considered having the background writer check the pages it is about to write to see if they can be added to the FSM, thereby reducing the need for vacuum? Seems we would need to add a statistics parameter so pg_autovacuum would know how many

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] PostgreSQL client has problems when libbind is installed

2003-11-06 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Was this problem fixed? Can I request the problem report @ FreeBSD to be closed? Thanks, Palle --On torsdag, juni 12, 2003 18.51.18 -0400 Yves R. Crevecoeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't break BeOS support. A new version of BeOS will be released very soon. http://www.yellowtab.com

[HACKERS] pg_stat

2003-11-06 Thread Nailah Ogeer
Just wondering how often the stats collector resets it self. Is this a parameter i can change? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL