Re: [HACKERS] corrupt pages detected by enabling checksums

2013-04-07 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Andres Freund > wrote: > >> >> How does the attached version look? I verified that it survives >> recovery, but not more. >> >> Jeff, any chance you can run this for a round with your suite? > > > > I've run it fo

Re: [HACKERS] doc hdparm also support SATA

2013-04-07 Thread Craig Ringer
On 04/07/2013 02:29 PM, Jov wrote: > from the pg doc： > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/wal-reliability.html :On Linux, > IDE drives can be queried using hdparm -I; write caching is enabled if > there is a * next to Write cache. hdparm -W 0 can be used to turn off > write caching. SCSI

[HACKERS] Slightly insane use of USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER in pg_trgm

2013-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
While reviewing the latest incarnation of the regex indexing patch, I noticed that make_trigrams() in contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_op.c is coded so that if USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER is not set, it ignores multibyte character boundaries and just makes trigrams from 3-byte substrings. This seems slightly insane,

Re: [HACKERS] Process title for autovac

2013-04-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jeff Janes escribió: > Is this functionality something we want? If so should it include explicit > vacuum as well as autovac? Yes. No. > Any opinion about where in the code base it > properly belongs (which obviously depends on whether it should cover manual > vacuum as well)? And does the st

Re: [HACKERS] Slightly insane use of USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER in pg_trgm

2013-04-07 Thread Alexander Korotkov
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > While reviewing the latest incarnation of the regex indexing patch, > I noticed that make_trigrams() in contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_op.c is coded > so that if USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER is not set, it ignores multibyte > character boundaries and just makes tri

Re: [HACKERS] Slightly insane use of USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER in pg_trgm

2013-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Korotkov writes: > It's also likely we can change >if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() > 1) > into something like >if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() > 1 && bytelen != charlen) Hm, actually couldn't we just simplify to "if (bytelen != charlen)"? reg

Re: [HACKERS] Slightly insane use of USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER in pg_trgm

2013-04-07 Thread Alexander Korotkov
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alexander Korotkov writes: > > It's also likely we can change > >if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() > 1) > > into something like > >if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() > 1 && bytelen != charlen) > > Hm, actually couldn't we just sim

Re: [HACKERS] Slightly insane use of USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER in pg_trgm

2013-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Korotkov writes: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hm, actually couldn't we just simplify to "if (bytelen != charlen)"? > I think yes, we can :) OK. I pushed this as a separate commit so as to highlight the potential incompatibility in the commit log. I am not su

[HACKERS] Current syslogger filename

2013-04-07 Thread Kerem Kat
Hello, While going through the TODO items on the wiki I have come across the following proposal: Provide a way to query the log collector subprocess to determine the name of the currently active log file Current log files when rotating? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-11/ms

Re: [HACKERS] PROPOSAL: tracking aggregated numbers from pg_stat_database

2013-04-07 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 6.4.2013 21:51, Tomas Vondra wrote: > Hi, > > I'm regularly using pg_stat_database view to analyze various aspects of > behavior of the cluster. The #1 issue I'm constantly running into is > that to get cluster-level view (across all the databases), the table > needs to be aggregated like this:

[HACKERS] how to pass data (tuples) to worker processes?

2013-04-07 Thread Tomas Vondra
Hi, I'm learning how to use the "background worker processes" commited in 9.3. The usage basics are quite nicely illustrated in the worker_spi extension (kudos to those who designed the feature / extension). I'm not quite sure how to pass data between the regular backend and a worker. Implementin

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Range types (DATERANGE, TSTZRANGE) in a foreign key with "inclusion" logic

2013-04-07 Thread Misa Simic
Hi, Far as I am aware - there is not yet described FK feature... But should be possible to ensure that rule via trigger.. 1 after update on container, and one after insert/update on item... Kind Regards, Misa On Saturday, April 6, 2013, Matthias Nagel wrote: > Hello, > this is a re-post from

Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Should array_length() Return NULL)

2013-04-07 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 7 April 2013 01:43, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Brendan Jurd wrote: >> Indeed it does not prohibit nesting arrays inside other arrays, but >> the multidim arrays that Postgres allows you to create are not the >> same thing as nested arrays. >> > Your interpretation matches mine all around. It is

Re: [HACKERS] WIP: index support for regexp search

2013-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Korotkov writes: > [ trgm-regexp-0.15.patch.gz ] I spent the weekend hacking on this, making a number of bug fixes and a whole lot of cosmetic changes. I think there are large parts of this that are in committable shape now, but I still find the actual graph transformation logic to be

Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Should array_length() Return NULL)

2013-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Brendan Jurd writes: > On 7 April 2013 01:43, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> Your interpretation matches mine all around. It is unfortunate >> that we have hijacked the standard's syntax for arrays to add a >> matrix feature. > It really is unfortunate. I wonder if it was done in an attempt to > mim