Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-25 Thread AgentM
nally, I would prefer not to have so many options but this listing should help folks so they don't paint themselves into a corner while coding on the tablespaces. All examples courtesy of "Oracle 8: Advanced Tuning and Administration", Aronoff, Eyal, et al. ASIN: 0078822416 (c

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG thread success (kind of) on Linux

2003-06-26 Thread AgentM
, Philip. I can just see the ad for 7.3's pthreads impementation "Fast mutexes: zero to deadlock in 6.9 milliseconds!" ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><&g

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread AgentM
On Aug 8, 2006, at 17:47 , Josh Berkus wrote: What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3 months pass B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives, doesn't find X (because they know it by a different name), comes to -hackers and asks "Is anyone working on X?" B waits for 2 week

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib

2006-08-12 Thread AgentM
On Aug 12, 2006, at 6:01 , Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Saturday 12 August 2006 07:22, Bruce Momjian wrote: I am still waiting for someone to tell us that they would use this capability for a real-world problem. Notice that if you google "full disjunction" that the first link is this project.

Re: [HACKERS] An Idea for planner hints

2006-08-15 Thread AgentM
On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:40 , Jim C. Nasby wrote: Yeah, unless someone comes up with some kind of 'magic', I think trying to handle every cross-column possibility is a non-starter. IIRC, that argument is what's stalled cross-column stats every time in the past. It makes a lot more sense to a

Re: [HACKERS] An Idea for planner hints

2006-08-15 Thread AgentM
On Aug 15, 2006, at 12:26 , Peter Eisentraut wrote: AgentM wrote: I've always found it odd that database didn't determine which statistics are the most interesting from the queries themselves. The overhead of doing that on the fly is probably prohibitive. More explicit profili

Re: [HACKERS] An Idea for planner hints

2006-08-15 Thread AgentM
On Aug 15, 2006, at 13:55 , Peter Eisentraut wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: Meet EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Which does no good for apps that you don't control the code on. Even if you do control the code, you have to find a way to stick EXPLAIN ANALYZE in front of every query, and figure out how to deal

Re: [HACKERS] Replication

2006-08-21 Thread AgentM
On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:30 , Joshua D. Drake wrote: Fujii Masao wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: It is however async replication so you can loose data commited on the master but not yet replicated to the slaves in case you loose the master completely. Yes, here is an insufficient point

Re: [HACKERS] Replication

2006-08-21 Thread AgentM
On Aug 21, 2006, at 15:00 , D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:46:05 -0400 "Gregory Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/21/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the confirmation that needs to come is that the WAL changes have been applied (fsync'ed), so the perfor

Re: [HACKERS] Where is hstore?

2006-08-22 Thread AgentM
On Aug 22, 2006, at 17:01 , Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been set right. Seems hstore was never in contrib. Sorry for the noise. BTW: any reason it isn't? It is very cool... AFAIR the authors have never proposed it for inclusion. According to http://www.sai.msu.su/~meg

Re: [HACKERS] tsvector/tsearch equality and/or portability issue issue ?

2006-08-24 Thread AgentM
On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:58 , Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: We just had a complaint on IRC that: devel=# select 'blah foo bar'::tsvector = 'blah foo bar'::tsvector; ?column? -- f (1 row) This could be an endianess issue? T

Re: [HACKERS] jabber.postgresql.org is up

2006-08-27 Thread AgentM
Sorry, but I don't get it. Why offer a closed forum for an open project? -M On Aug 27, 2006, at 24:48 , Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, The community jabber server is now up. We are using the Wildfire server from Jive Software, backed to a PostgreSQL database (of course). -- The idea

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread AgentM
On Aug 31, 2006, at 8:52 , Csaba Nagy wrote: This of course would need a lot more preparation time than just prepare one plan, but that's why you want to do it upfront and then cache the results. A central plan repository mentioned in other posts would fit nicely here... and you could use p

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread AgentM
On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to understand why prepared statements would be used for long enough for tables to change to a point that a given plan will change from 'optimal' to 'disastrous'. Wouldn't this require that the tables are completely re-written,

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread AgentM
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:04 , Tom Lane wrote: The two major complaints that I've seen are Neither of these problems have anything to do with statistics getting stale. Not stats-- plans. Plan invalidation has been discussed before, no? -M ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizer improvements: to do or not to do?

2006-09-13 Thread AgentM
On Sep 13, 2006, at 14:44 , Gregory Stark wrote: I think we need a serious statistics jock to pipe up with some standard metrics that do what we need. Otherwise we'll never have a solid footing for the predictions we make and will never know how much we can trust them. That said I'm no

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-14 Thread AgentM
On Sep 14, 2006, at 14:04 , D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:33:19 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By the way, I removed the currency symbol from the output. Would removing the commas also make sense? These are the sorts of things that can be added by applica

Re: [HACKERS] advisory locks and permissions

2006-09-22 Thread AgentM
On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:26 , Merlin Moncure wrote: On 9/22/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> An admin who is concerned about this can revoke public access on the >> functions for himself ... but should

Re: [HACKERS] advisory locks and permissions

2006-09-22 Thread AgentM
On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:46 , Merlin Moncure wrote: On 9/22/06, AgentM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would be more worried about accidental collisions between applications. The lock ranges will now need to be in their respective i dont think this argument has merit because the lock is

Re: [HACKERS] advisory locks and permissions

2006-09-22 Thread AgentM
On Sep 22, 2006, at 14:11 , Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:21:57PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 9/22/06, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: the whole point about advisory locks is that the provided lock

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Is the fsync() fake on FreeBSD6.1?

2006-09-22 Thread AgentM
On Sep 22, 2006, at 15:00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:52:02PM -0400, Jim Nasby wrote: I thought folks might be interested in this... note in particular the comment about linux. ... From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 26, 2006 11:34:12 PM EDT To:

Re: [HACKERS] Darwin stuff is getting deprecated

2006-09-28 Thread AgentM
The regular dlfcn family of functions are now properly implemented on Darwin (10.4+). Re: Zeroconf- Avahi is API+ABI compatible with the Apple API, so its use would be preferable on Linux (for cross-platform considerations). http://avahi.org/browser/trunk/avahi-compat-libdns_sd [Warning: Av

Re: [HACKERS] timestamptz alias

2006-10-02 Thread AgentM
On Oct 2, 2006, at 18:15 , Markus Schaber wrote: Hi, I'm happy that the rather verbose "timestamp with time zone" has the much nicer alias "timestamptz", however it seems that this alias is not documented, neither at http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html nor

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch2 error msg

2006-10-03 Thread AgentM
On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:49 , Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote: BTW, try # select plainto_tsquery('foo bar'); plainto_tsquery - 'foo' & 'bar' (1 row) It parses plain text and makes tsquery. Function exists only in 8.2 - some later we add docs ab

Re: [HACKERS] Query Failed, out of memory

2006-10-05 Thread AgentM
On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:56 , Mark Woodward wrote: I am using the netflix database: Table "public.ratings" Column | Type | Modifiers +--+--- item | integer | client | integer | day| smallint | rating | smallint | The query was executed as: psql -p 543

Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading a database dump/restore

2006-10-05 Thread AgentM
On Oct 5, 2006, at 15:46 , Mark Woodward wrote: Not to cause any arguments, but this is sort a standard discussion that gets brought up periodically and I was wondering if there has been any "softening" of the attitudes against an "in place" upgrade, or movement to not having to dump and r

Re: [HACKERS] Escape handling in strings

2005-06-21 Thread AgentM
pe strings, correct? That is, there is no escape mechanism that works correctly for both "old" and "new" servers? |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- ---(end o

Re: Avoiding SIGPIPE (was Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL

2003-11-02 Thread AgentM
On Sunday, Nov 2, 2003, at 18:16 Europe/Berlin, Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: I don't see that this proposal adds any security. It's not about security: The proposal would be more salable if it addressed the security problem too. As is, you are proposi

Re: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch

2005-09-02 Thread AgentM
oment whether Apple publishes all of Darwin under a straight BSD license, but that would surely be a good place to look first. ] regards, tom lane |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROT

Re: R: [HACKERS] Rendezvous/Bonjour broken in 8.1 beta

2005-09-09 Thread AgentM
gres' purpose, we might feel like doing extra work on it; but it's so peripheral that we've already wasted more time on it than it's worth. IMHO anyway. regards, tom lane |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|

Re: R: [HACKERS] feature proposal ...

2005-09-22 Thread AgentM
just allow subqueries in COPY to disambiguate the syntax: COPY (SELECT * FROM table WHERE i=1) TO stdout; |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- ---(end of broadcast)-