Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:38 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'd like to do is add an ERRORTABLE clause to COPY. The main problem is how we detect a duplicate row violation, yet prevent it from aborting the transaction.

[HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at: http://www.postgresql.org/developer/ then this is what I see: http://www.zigo.dhs.org/~dennis/tmp/dev.png (everything is there except the main content that is not). Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad

Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Magnus Hagander
[moved to -www] Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at: http://www.postgresql.org/developer/ then this is what I see: http://www.zigo.dhs.org/~dennis/tmp/dev.png (everything is there except the main content that is not). Yikes. Turns out it's related to the

Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote: Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad server I can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's needed however :-) I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the same as in firefox. Intersting. It works

Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org). Forgot to say in the last mail, but this also works now. Seems like I should have waited some more before sending the mail. I waited 30 minutes but I should have waited 40... -- /Dennis

Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

2005-11-22 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD
With AIX 5, the easiest way to get a shared object is to pass -bexpall to the linker. This results in all symbols being exported. Yes, that is another reason not to use this broken switch. And last time I checked (AIX 4.3.3), -bexpall did not export all needed symbols (e.g. globals) from the

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:00 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Seems similar to the pgloader project on pgfoundry.org. It is similar and good, but I regard that as a workaround rather than the way forward. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Flow of control would be to: locate page of index where value should go lock index block _bt_check_unique, but don't error if violation then insert row into ERRORTABLE

[HACKERS] TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf be controlled via SQL

2005-11-22 Thread gevik
Just out of curiosity. Is there someone involved with ToDo item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL”? Regards, Gevik. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote: PS: I'd prefer if readline was only linked where it is needed, namely in psql. The problem as stated is that people don't want to maintain lists of libraries as needed by each program, so we link all of them. Since it

Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:22:18AM +0100, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at: http://www.postgresql.org/developer/ snip Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad server I can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's needed

Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

2005-11-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org). Forgot to say in the last mail, but this also works now. Seems like I should have waited some more before sending the mail. I waited 30

[HACKERS] SHOW ALL output too wide

2005-11-22 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
I've noticed that in 8.1 the output of SHOW ALL includes a description column. This makes the output very wide which makes it hard to use from psql (I need to make the terminal window 164 characters wide to not get any line wrapping). I wish I would have noticed this before 8.0 was out and then I

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE vs REPLACE

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:20:12AM +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote: It was already said here that oracle and db2 both use MERGE, dunno about mssql. And yes merge CAN be used to do REPLACE (oracle uses their dummy table for this, we can use the fact that FROM clause isn't required in postgres).

[HACKERS] Webiste problems

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Wilkinson
I apologise if this isn't the correct list to post this issue to, I just wanted to give a heads up that the main postgresql.org website doesn't seem to be giving access to any ftp mirrors. Needless to say, when I tried to download what I was after from the main server, I just got a 'too many

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Kevin McArthur
Take the query. select a,b from dupa where b::text in (select b::text from dupa group by b::text having count(b) 2); This is acceptable to create a unique constraint, however, we cannot mark the column unique, without defining btree operators, which clearly are not possible for sorting. Is

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin McArthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is acceptable to create a unique constraint, however, we cannot mark the column unique, without defining btree operators, which clearly are not possible for sorting. Is there any way to base the operators based on the text representation of the

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have committed the sin of omission again. Duplicate row violation is the big challenge, but not the only function planned. Formatting errors occur much more frequently, so yes we'd want to log all of that too. And yes, it would be done in the way you

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
On 2005-11-22, at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote: Kevin McArthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is acceptable to create a unique constraint, however, we cannot mark the column unique, without defining btree operators, which clearly are not possible for sorting. Is there any way to base the

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: The general problem that needs to be solved is trap any error that occurs during attempted insertion of a COPY row, and instead of aborting the copy, record the data and the error message someplace else. Seen in that light,

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: Translation: you do know how to define a sortable order (ie, generate the text version and compare); you're just too lazy to create the operators to do it ... We do have WORKING , , etc operators, and ::text cast already.

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: The general problem that needs to be solved is trap any error that occurs during attempted insertion of a COPY row, and instead of aborting the copy, record the data and the error message

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: Thing is, can I have btree and gist indexes at the same time ? no, we have contrib/btree_gist for this Regards, Oleg _ Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf be controlled via SQL

2005-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:57:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity. Is there someone involved with ToDo item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL”? I don't remember any discussions about this recently, so I doubt it is being actively worked on right now.

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:45:50AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: Actually, there are really only a few errors people want to trap I imagine: You've forgotten bad data, eg foo in an integer field, or an untranslatable multibyte character. The

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
On 2005-11-22, at 16:39, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: Translation: you do know how to define a sortable order (ie, generate the text version and compare); you're just too lazy to create the operators to do it ... We do

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:14:35PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: Ok, I hacked btree for my type, and surely I can have both btree and gist at the same time on the same column. /me is now going to have a look on btree_gist. You don't actually have to have a btree defined on your column

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf be controlled via SQL

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:57:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity. Is there someone involved with ToDo item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL”? pgAdmin with the admin81 functions can handle this... Regards, Andreas

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: The general problem that needs to be solved is trap any error that occurs during attempted insertion of a COPY row, and instead of aborting the

Re: [HACKERS] order by, for custom types

2005-11-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
On 2005-11-22, at 17:17, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:14:35PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: Ok, I hacked btree for my type, and surely I can have both btree and gist at the same time on the same column. /me is now going to have a look on btree_gist. You don't

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf be controlled via

2005-11-22 Thread Gevik
I found this thread on google, http://groups.google.nl/group/pgsql.hackers/browse_thread/thread/1ccb7ade8d7e7475/8b10fb1ca5fdd3ef?lnk=stq=pg_hba.conf+settings+to+be+controlled+via+SQLrnum=3hl=nl#8b10fb1ca5fdd3ef Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:57:19 +0100, [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 8.1.0 catalog corruption

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bob Ippolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 21, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Hm, do the drop/add constraint functions get executed even when clone_table decides not to make a new table? If so, that would probably explain the pattern I'm seeing in the dump of many updates of the

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that's precisely the point here though. There are basically two categories of errors: 1) Data that can be parsed and loaded but generates some sort of constraint violation such as a UNIQUE violation, foreign key violation, or other

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Sorry for this late answer. I tried a lot of things and it still doesn't work. 2005/11/11, Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:53:04PM +0100, Guillaume LELARGE wrote: Hi, I've installed a 8.1.0 PostgreSQL server on a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6. It seemed to

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice to be able to have the former loaded into an actual table where it can be queried and perhaps fixed and reloaded. The latter clearly cannot. Sure it can --- you just have to dump it as raw text (or perhaps bytea, as someone suggested

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Guillaume Lelarge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed a 8.1.0 PostgreSQL server on a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6. Some tests failed.. strangely, it seems int4 and int8 share the same range. This is expected behavior if the platform's C compiler doesn't support any 64-bit integer type. We go

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:16:00PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I think the distinction you are proposing between constraint errors and datatype errors is entirely artificial. Who's to say what is a constraint error and what is a datatype error, especially when you start thinking about cases like

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Sorry for answering this late. 2005/11/16, Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org: Bruce Momjian wrote: The SCO compiler is so buggy (and for so many years) I see no reason to even look at a bug report from someone using it. I **REALLY** wish you would STOP saying that, Bruce. The current

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gavin Sherry wrote: Related question: are there plans afoot to allow specifying an alternate location for pg_xlog (or pg_delete-me-not) to save doing the shutdown-DB, mv directory to other disk, symlink, start-DB dance? People have discussed it but I don't know of anyone working on it.

[HACKERS] Update to FAQ

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have update the first section of the FAQ: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html In particular: o reordered items to be more logical o added clarification of license o added section about bug reporting replies o added section of feature

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE vs REPLACE

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jaime Casanova wrote: And yes merge CAN be used to do REPLACE (oracle uses their dummy table for this, we can use the fact that FROM clause isn't required in postgres). the FROM clause is required by default (starting with 8.1) unless you change a postgresql.conf parameter. and i

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE vs REPLACE

2005-11-22 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 11/22/05, Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote: Jaime Casanova wrote: And yes merge CAN be used to do REPLACE (oracle uses their dummy table for this, we can use the fact that FROM clause isn't required in postgres). the FROM clause is required by default (starting

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in predicate indexes?

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:40:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: You should find out what the problem is before you start writing documentation about it ;-). This has nothing whatever to do with bigint. Damn, there's 5 minutes of my life that I won't get back! ;P snip What the code is trying to do

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE vs REPLACE

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:57:48AM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: excellent research snipped Rather than trying to make MERGE do something it wasn't designed for, we should probably be spending our efforts on triggers for error conditions. Maybe something like: CREATE TRIGGER foo

Re: [HACKERS] someone working to add merge?

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:03:25PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I'd say implement SQL MERGE which doesn't have any really unusual features. And seperately implement some kind of INSERT OR UPDATE which works only for a table with a primary key. Is there any reeason this has to be a PK;

Re: [HACKERS] bind variables, soft vs hard parse

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:14:33PM +0100, Marcus Engene wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: It might be more useful to look at caching only planning and not parsing. I'm not familiar with the output of the parsing stage, but perhaps that could be hashed to use as a lookup into a cache of planned

Re: [HACKERS] Time for pgindent?

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: I see Alvaro and Andrew have landed the patches they were working on last week, so maybe today is a good time to do that re-pgindent we were discussing. Done. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610)

[HACKERS] A few pgindent oddities

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Since we were breaking our usual rule by re-indenting the 8.1 branch, I took the time to eyeball the whole cvs diff for changes that weren't just comment block fixes. I found a few things that need attention. This change is disturbing first because it seems completely unnecessary, and second

Re: [HACKERS] Improving count(*)

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On 11/21/05, Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about Greg Stark's idea of combining Simon's idea of storing per-heap-block xmin/xmax with using that information in an index scan? ISTM that's the best of everything that's been presented: it allows for faster

Re: [HACKERS] Improving count(*)

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:46:42PM +, Richard Huxton wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: One of the major complaints is always Select count(*) is slow. Although there seem to have been plenty of ideas on this they all seem to just provide a solution for the whole table

Re: [HACKERS] Improving count(*)

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:56:52PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: However, some great ideas have been proposed here which would not only help in that case but would otherwise be quite useful. *Inclusion of a 'MVCC inflight' bit in indexes which would allow skipping

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE vs REPLACE

2005-11-22 Thread Petr Jelinek
Jaime Casanova wrote: the FROM clause is required by default (starting with 8.1) unless you change a postgresql.conf parameter. and i don't think that idea will have any fan... Bruce already replied to your first statement so, what idea won't have any fan ? It's not that we would change

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Larry Rosenman
Sorry for the top post. If you can get a UDK license, that will work better. LER On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: Sorry for answering this late. 2005/11/16, Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org: Bruce Momjian wrote: The SCO compiler is so buggy (and for so many years) I

Re: [HACKERS] Improving count(*)

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:11:01PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan has been talking about have a bitmap to track pages that need vacuuming, and I am wondering if the same system could be used to track the heap-dirty bits. Putting one bit on every 8k disk page means we

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:38:34PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Gavin Sherry wrote: Related question: are there plans afoot to allow specifying an alternate location for pg_xlog (or pg_delete-me-not) to save doing the shutdown-DB, mv directory to other disk, symlink, start-DB dance?

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:38:34PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Gavin Sherry wrote: Related question: are there plans afoot to allow specifying an alternate location for pg_xlog (or pg_delete-me-not) to save doing the shutdown-DB, mv

Re: [HACKERS] A few pgindent oddities

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Since we were breaking our usual rule by re-indenting the 8.1 branch, I took the time to eyeball the whole cvs diff for changes that weren't just comment block fixes. I found a few things that need attention. This change is disturbing first because it seems completely

Re: [HACKERS] A few pgindent oddities

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: And what happened here? I saw this one to and was stumped at the cause. We have other 'typedef enum' lines in the code which were not mangled, just this one. Again, needs research. Index: src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h *** *** 35,41

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:38:34PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: * Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb with a symlink back to the /data location I think the only reason it is not done yet is because it is so easy to do for

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to

2005-11-22 Thread Chuck McDevitt
Another vote for libedit support... We at Greenplum definitely want to use it. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Improving count(*)

2005-11-22 Thread mark
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:11:01PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A solution enhancing the above mentioned indexes, to maintain a count for whole index blocks, would allow whole index blocks that satisfy the WHERE clause to be counted, assuming the whole index block is

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Philip Yarra
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:23 am, Gavin Sherry wrote: Along those lines, is there anything else that would benefit from being moved? pg_clog and pg_subtrans come to mind; but maybe pg_multixact and pg_twophase are candidates as well? pgsql_tmp Does anyone have any recommendations about which

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Larry Rosenman wrote: Sorry for the top post. If you can get a UDK license, that will work better. Oh, so one gets a buggy compiler by default and has to pay for a better one? Cool! I'm drooling already, I want one of those SCO things, where do I get it? Pity those GCC guys, having only

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Nov 22, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Larry Rosenman wrote: Sorry for the top post. If you can get a UDK license, that will work better. Oh, so one gets a buggy compiler by default and has to pay for a better one? Cool! I'm drooling already, I want one of those SCO things,

[HACKERS] syntax extension for unsupported JOINs coming from a binary only (unmodifyable) program

2005-11-22 Thread Wolfgang
Here are some little changes to the postgreSQL server backend I found beeing convenient for me while I was attempting to get interoparability with a binary only program. The patch attached is tested and works for 8.0.0beta3. The so called big ones under these DBMS eat the following kind of

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I **REALLY** wish you would STOP saying that, Bruce. The current OpenServer Compiler (UDK), is the same as on UnixWare, and is **MUCH** better than the Old SVR3 compiler. We **REALLY** **SHOULD** look at it. Well actually no, we shouldn't. Regardless of the technical good or bad.. We

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chuck McDevitt wrote: Another vote for libedit support... We at Greenplum definitely want to use it. If we are going to move toward libedit then libedit should be included in core. Otherwise you are creating a dependency on the largest postgresql used OS (linux). The advantage here of

Re: [HACKERS] syntax extension for unsupported JOINs coming from a binary only (unmodifyable) program

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are some little changes to the postgreSQL server backend I found beeing convenient for me You don't seriously expect any of this to get applied, do you? nullstr0 reverts a deliberate change made in PG 7.3. It's way past time to be complaining about

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we are going to move toward libedit then libedit should be included in core. We already do support libedit; support does not mean include, for either readline or libedit. I think it'd be reasonable to provide a configure option to control selection

Re: [HACKERS] tablespaces and non-empty directories

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim C. Nasby wrote: Along those lines, is there anything else that would benefit from being moved? pg_clog and pg_subtrans come to mind; but maybe pg_multixact and pg_twophase are candidates as well? Hmm, I doubt moving any of the SLRU files (clog,

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY statements

2005-11-22 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Seems similar to the pgloader project on pgfoundry.org. It is similar and good, but I regard that as a workaround rather than the way forward. Yes, your way would be rad :) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet,

Re: [HACKERS] Practical error logging for very large COPY

2005-11-22 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Actually, there are really only a few errors people want to trap I imagine: - CHECK constraints (all handled in ExecConstraints) - Duplicate keys - Foreign key violations (all handled by triggers) Rather than worry about all the events we can't safely trap, how about we simply deal with the

Re: [HACKERS] A few pgindent oddities

2005-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Since we were breaking our usual rule by re-indenting the 8.1 branch, I took the time to eyeball the whole cvs diff for changes that weren't just comment block fixes. I found a few things that need attention. This change is disturbing first because

Re: [HACKERS] server closed connection on a select query

2005-11-22 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
2005/11/23, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I **REALLY** wish you would STOP saying that, Bruce. The current OpenServer Compiler (UDK), is the same as on UnixWare, and is **MUCH** better than the Old SVR3 compiler. We **REALLY** **SHOULD** look at it. Well actually no, we