Re: [HACKERS] Update on true serializable techniques in MVCC

2009-12-17 Thread Florian Pflug
through the thesis for an hour or so. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Update on true serializable techniques in MVCC

2009-12-18 Thread Florian Pflug
On 18.12.09 16:42 , Florian Weimer wrote: * Florian Pflug: On 16.12.09 16:40 , Kevin Grittner wrote: Nicolas Barbiernicolas.barb...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure whether the serialization failures that it may cause are dependent on the plan used. They are. But so are failures due

Re: [HACKERS] Update on true serializable techniques in MVCC

2009-12-18 Thread Florian Pflug
of the SIREAD-lock approach has nothing to do with the SIREAD locks per se. They are introduced by the approximate way in which circles contained in the transaction's dependency graph are detected (the inConflict, outConflict business). best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication?

2009-12-18 Thread Florian Pflug
a configurable shell script in that case, for example. You could then use that to rsync the data directory from the server (after a pg_start_backup() of course). best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] alpha3 release schedule?

2009-12-22 Thread Florian Pflug
. Anway, once the slave is down, it won't come up until you manage to get the master up and running again. And this limitation is pretty surprising, since one would assume that if the slave survives a *crash* of the master, it'd certainly survive a simple *shutdown*. best regards, Florian Pflug

Re: [HACKERS] alpha3 release schedule?

2009-12-22 Thread Florian Pflug
On 22.12.09 13:21 , Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:32 +0100, Florian Pflug wrote: Image a reporting database where all transactions but a few daily bulk imports are read-only. To spread the load, you do your bulk loads on the master, but run the reporting queries against a read

Re: [HACKERS] alpha3 release schedule?

2009-12-22 Thread Florian Pflug
On 22.12.09 16:45 , Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 16:32 +0100, Florian Pflug wrote: But you are of course free to work on whatever you feel like, and probably need to satisfy your client's needs first. Alluding to me as whimsical or mercenary isn't likely to change my mind. Simon

Re: [HACKERS] Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql

2010-03-16 Thread Florian Pflug
zero responses though... best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Pflug
machinery might make it possible to invalidate those plans should the CAST definitions change, but I haven't really looked into that yet. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] testing HS/SR - 1 vs 2 performance

2010-04-21 Thread Florian Pflug
no need to actually execute 2^31 transactions to trigger this bug (if it actually exists), it'd be sufficient to increment the xid counter by more than one each time a xid is assigned, no? Or would that trip snapshot creation on the standby? best regards, Florian Pflug smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: [HACKERS] master in standby mode croaks)

2010-04-23 Thread Florian Pflug
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Re: [HACKERS] Differential backup

2010-04-27 Thread Florian Pflug
. This, together with the backup label of the last backup should be enough to compute the list of changed files I think. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

Re: [HACKERS] Differential backup

2010-04-27 Thread Florian Pflug
own solution is the ability to use LSNs instead of timestamps I'd say. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Partitioning/inherited tables vs FKs

2010-05-06 Thread Florian Pflug
in place the rest amounts to the removal of ONLY from the constraint check queries plus some code to propagate constraint triggers to child tables. best regards, Florian Pflug smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-06 Thread Florian Pflug
backends as needed, no? That would allow people to experiment with different cancellation policies, and maybe shed some light on what the useful policies are in practice. best regards, Florian Pflug smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-06 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 6, 2010, at 12:48 , Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 11:36 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: If there was an additional SQL-callable function that returned the backends the recovery process is currently waiting for, plus one that reported that last timestamp seen in the WAL, than

Re: [HACKERS] Partitioning/inherited tables vs FKs

2010-05-06 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 6, 2010, at 16:38 , Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: What lies at the heart of this problem is the lack of multi-table indices and hence multi-table unique constraints in postgres. AFAIK with those in place the rest amounts to the removal of ONLY from the constraint

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Pflug
The only remaining option is to continue applying WAL until you reach a point where no locks are held, then pause. But from a user's POV that is nearly indistinguishable from simply setting hot_standby_conflict_winner to in the first place I think. best regards, Florian Pflug smime.p7s

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 9, 2010, at 21:04 , Simon Riggs wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:10 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: Adding pause/resume seems to introduce some non-trivial locking problems, though. How would you handle a pause request if the recovery process currently held a lock? (We are only talking

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 9, 2010, at 22:01 , Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: The only remaining option is to continue applying WAL until you reach a point where no locks are held, then pause. But from

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-10 Thread Florian Pflug
be correct. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-10 Thread Florian Pflug
that the system reacts in a sane way. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] SHARE locks vs. DELETE in SERIALIZABLE mode (Was: Partitioning/inherited tables vs FKs)

2010-05-11 Thread Florian Pflug
an example that proves it necessary? best regards, Florian Pflug Here are the table definitions and trigger functions I used: CREATE TABLE parent (parent_id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY); CREATE TABLE child (child_id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, parent_id INTEGER NOT NULL); CREATE FUNCTION

Re: [HACKERS] SHARE locks vs. DELETE in SERIALIZABLE mode (Was: Partitioning/inherited tables vs FKs)

2010-05-11 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 11, 2010, at 17:04 , Robert Haas wrote: 2010/5/11 Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org: C1: BEGIN C1: INSERT INTO child (parent_id) VALUES (0) C2: BEGIN C2: SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE C2: SELECT TRUE -- Take snapshot *before* C1 commits C1: COMMIT C2: DELETE FROM parent

Re: [HACKERS] SHARE locks vs. DELETE in SERIALIZABLE mode (Was: Partitioning/inherited tables vs FKs)

2010-05-11 Thread Florian Pflug
behave that way would be a good idea. But if my assertion is in fact true it would allow for robust user-level referential constraints by either modifying SHARE-lock behavior or adding a new row-lock type. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
. For beta1, however, no branch seems to exist, and hence there is no trace of it on the GIT mirror. Why is there a branch plus a tag for alphas, but only a tag for betas? I'd have assumed that both would just be tags, but obviously I'm missing something there... best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
git.postgresql.org? I might give it a shot. I can't promise anything, though - my ruby-fu is OK, but my cvs-fu is badly lacking... best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
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Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
On 12.05.2010, at 22:22, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: Yeah, but CVS has tags for the alphas and betas. Those are missing from the GIT mirror as the CVS-to-GIT converter apparently ignores tags completely :-(. Since there are no branches

[HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Pflug
in. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 13, 2010, at 23:39 , Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: All in all, I believe that SHARE and UPDATE row-level locks should be changed to cause concurrent UPDATEs to fail with a serialization error. I don't see an argument for doing that for FOR SHARE locks

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 13, 2010, at 23:51 , Kevin Grittner wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: All in all, I believe that SHARE and UPDATE row-level locks should be changed to cause concurrent UPDATEs to fail with a serialization error. I can come up with a patch that does that, but I wanted to get

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-14 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 14, 2010, at 2:37 , Greg Stark wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: C1: BEGIN C1: SELECT * FROM t WHERE id = 1 FOR UPDATE C2: BEGIN C2: SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE C2: SELECT * FROM t -- Take snapshot before C1 commits C1

Re: [HACKERS] nvarchar notation accepted?

2010-05-14 Thread Florian Pflug
versions (everything = 7.0 I think) that use UTF16 on-wire, where those characters can be transmitted just fine. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-14 Thread Florian Pflug
that useful with serializable transactions... best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-14 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 14, 2010, at 15:54 , Kevin Grittner wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 12:56 , Kevin Grittner wrote: unless your patch completely removes support for snapshot isolation (what is current called SERIALIZABLE) Both SERIALIZABLE and REPEATABLE READ currently

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-16 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 14, 2010, at 22:54 , Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: All in all, I believe that SHARE and UPDATE row-level locks should be changed to cause concurrent UPDATEs to fail with a serialization error

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-16 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 14, 2010, at 16:32 , Kevin Grittner wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: I must admit that I wasn't able to find an explicit reference to Oracle's behavior in their docs, so I had to resort to experiments. They do have examples showing how to do FK-like constraints

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-18 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 17, 2010, at 3:30 , Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 22:54 , Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: All in all, I believe

Re: [HACKERS] BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta

2010-05-19 Thread Florian Pflug
advantage either. So +1 for flipping both with the release of 9.1, and warning people well ahead of time. Maybe there could even be a warning in the 9.0 release notes about the scheduled change? best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-20 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 19, 2010, at 2:15 , Florian Pflug wrote: On May 17, 2010, at 3:30 , Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 22:54 , Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Florian Pflug f

Re: [HACKERS] Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-05-21 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 21, 2010, at 4:20 , Florian Pflug wrote: On May 19, 2010, at 2:15 , Florian Pflug wrote: On May 17, 2010, at 3:30 , Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 22:54 , Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tom

Re: [HACKERS] Snapshot Materialized Views - GSoC

2010-05-21 Thread Florian Pflug
with ON SELECT rules from views seem rather AI-complete. The same holds for materialized views vs. tables and materialized views vs. views. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Specification for Trusted PLs?

2010-05-21 Thread Florian Pflug
for the *absence* of features, which seems hard... I suggest the following definition of trusted PL. While potentially preventing excruciating pain, saving tons of sweat and allowing code reuse, actually adds nothing in terms of features over pl/pgsql. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Idea for getting rid of VACUUM FREEZE on cold pages

2010-05-21 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 21, 2010, at 23:57 , Josh Berkus wrote: From a discussion at dinner at pgcon, I wanted to send this to the list for people to poke holes in it: Problem: currently, if your database has a large amount of cold data, such as 350GB of 3-year-old sales transactions, in 8.4 vacuum no

Re: [HACKERS] RESET command seems pretty disjointed now

2007-04-17 Thread Florian Pflug
be renamed to RESET ALL STATE. greetings, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through

Re: [HACKERS] Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

2007-06-26 Thread Florian Pflug
be impossible to archive without some really bad hacks. So maybe just finding a way to disable ident auth for connections made via dblink is sufficient. greetings, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner

Re: [HACKERS] Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

2007-06-27 Thread Florian Pflug
Stephen Frost wrote: * Florian Pflug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: All that really has to happen is that dblink should by default not be callable by any user other than Postgres. DBAs should be required to manually run GRANT EXECUTE ON dblink_connect(text) TO public

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Florian Pflug
' on the shell, you see my/test in the Finder. Thats another argument for staying away from : in filenames. greetings, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

2008-04-09 Thread Florian Pflug
to use the binary format, despite it's benefits for moving around large amounts of data. regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] idea: storing view source in system catalogs

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Pflug
for wanting to store the original statement in the first place, no? I have no idea how hard I'd be to carry that information from the lexer into the parser, and then into whatever representation we use for storing a view, though... regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] idea: storing view source in system catalogs

2008-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
to do currently. Still, storing the original SQL is not the right thing to do IMHO - the only viable option I can see is trying to store plain-text nodes with the parse tree which get reinserted when the parse tree is converted back into a query. regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Planner creating ineffective plans on LEFT OUTER joins

2008-06-27 Thread Florian Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It's my understanding that the philosophy of the PGDG in the past has been to avoid putting any kind of hints into the system, focusing rather an improving the planning of queries.

Re: [HACKERS] plan invalidation vs stored procedures

2008-08-06 Thread Florian Pflug
shows that we ought to support ALTER TYPE for composite types ;-) Is there anything fundamental standing in the way of that, or is it just that nobody yet cared enough about this? regrads, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [HACKERS] Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

2007-10-10 Thread Florian Pflug
could keep the snapshot around for txid, but still update our published xmin - which seems to be the main reason we care about getting rid of old snapshots at all. greetings, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support

Re: [HACKERS] Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

2007-10-10 Thread Florian Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I think txid_current_snapshot should read ActiveSnapshot. If the user wants to get a beginning-of-xact rather than beginning-of-statement snapshot from it, he should be required to call it in a serializable transaction

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-24 Thread Florian Pflug
exec diff ... fails, because diff seems to exit with a nonzero exitcode if the files differ, and git diff aborts in that case... regards, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

2008-02-08 Thread Florian Pflug
-lastmerged git tag -f pgsql-upstream-git-lastmerged pgsql-upstream-git/master \ || exit 1 -- regards, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

2008-02-08 Thread Florian Pflug
to find changesets on the GIT mirror which are not in my local tree. Is there any chance that these mirrors can be updated in a way that doesn't change the past? regards, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] CREATE TABLE, load and freezing

2008-02-28 Thread Florian Pflug
to the freeze_age? regards, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

2010-05-24 Thread Florian Pflug
regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
accessible to ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT and RELEASE SAVEPOINT implies that you *will* walk backwards through all the savepoints named a if you repeatedly issue ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT a, no? If that is not how it actually works, then this whole paragraph is wrong, I'd say. best regards, Florian Pflug

Re: [HACKERS] ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 25, 2010, at 12:18 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Florian Pflug wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 6:08 , Sam Vilain wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-savepoint.html Lead us to believe that if you roll back to the same savepoint name twice in a row

Re: [HACKERS] Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 25, 2010, at 3:21 , Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: The subtle point here is whether you consider the view from the outside (in the sense of what a read-only transaction started at an arbitrary time can or cannot observe), or from the inside (what updating

Re: [HACKERS] Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
that conflicts are always between a reader and a writer or between two writers. So how can a read-only transaction have incoming and outgoing edges? best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 25, 2010, at 20:48 , Dan Ports wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:35:44PM +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: Hm, so in fact SSI sometimes allows the database to be inconsistent, but only as long as nobody tries to observe it? Yes. Note that even while it's in an inconsistent state, you can

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronization levels in SR

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Pflug
to be effective than so will this probably, so maybe my fear is unjustified. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [spf:guess] Re: [HACKERS] ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT

2010-05-26 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 27, 2010, at 0:58 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 26/05/10 02:00, Sam Vilain wrote: Florian Pflug wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 12:18 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Releasing the newer savepoint will cause the older one to again become accessible, as the doc says, but rolling back

Re: [HACKERS] functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature

2010-05-31 Thread Florian Pflug
of migration... For text = text and text[] = text[] I'd propose '||' as an alternative, since they both combine their arguments, kind of a like a concatenation. For hstore = text[] I'd suggest '' since the result's set of keys is the intersection of both argument's key-sets. best regards, Florian

Re: [HACKERS] [RFC] A tackle to the leaky VIEWs for RLS

2010-06-01 Thread Florian Pflug
with larger nestlevel shall be invoked earlier than others. Wouldn't the information leak go away if you stuck OFFSET 0 at the end of the view? IIRC, that is the semi-offical way to create barriers for subquery flattening and such. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] recovery getting interrupted is not so unusual as it used to be

2010-06-02 Thread Florian Pflug
recovery target for the PITR case. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] recovery getting interrupted is not so unusual as it used to be

2010-06-02 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jun 3, 2010, at 3:31 , Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: On Jun 3, 2010, at 0:58 , Robert Haas wrote: But maybe the message isn't right the first time either. After all the point of having a write-ahead log in the first place is that we

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Recovery Question

2010-06-03 Thread Florian Pflug
either need to teach your restore_command to fetch them from there. Note that you cannot recover in reverse. To recover up to a certain point in time you always need to start from a base backup taken *before* that time. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?

2010-06-03 Thread Florian Pflug
is that that hint is pretty alarming. Maybe we should just get rid of the hint. FYI, Robert Haas suggested the same in the thread that lead to this patch being applied. The arguments against doing that is that a real crash during recovery *is* something to be quite alarmed about. best regards, Florian

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Recovery Question

2010-06-04 Thread Florian Pflug
work. You might want to re-ead the section on the recovery process in the PTITR documentation, at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY If you have further questions, please take this discussion to pgsql-general. best regards, Florian Pflug

Re: [HACKERS] recovery getting interrupted is not so unusual as it used to be

2010-06-04 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jun 3, 2010, at 5:25 , Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: Oh. Well, if that's the case, then I guess I lean toward applying the patch as-is. Then there's no need for the caveat and without manual intervention. That still leaves

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [RFC][PATCH]: CRC32 is limiting at COPY/CTAS/INSERT ... SELECT + speeding it up

2010-06-07 Thread Florian Pflug
. pg_upgrade for example shouldn't care. RFC3385 compares different checksumming methods for use in iSCSI, and CRC32c (which uses the same polynomial as the SSE4.2 instruction) wins. Here's a link: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3385.html best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] LLVM / clang

2010-06-09 Thread Florian Pflug
, not the (much slower) generic implementation based on semaphores. BTW, last time I tried compiling with clang basically worked on OSX, despite triggering a helluva lot of warnings. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

2010-06-11 Thread Florian Pflug
: walsender does *not* wait for an fsync to occur. Hm, but then Robert's failure case is real, and streaming replication might break due to an OS-level crash of the master. Or am I missing something? best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

2010-06-12 Thread Florian Pflug
to retrieve it to be on disk by the time the system call returns. If that is true, I believe we should default to open_sync, not fdatasync if open_datasync isn't available, at least on linux. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] hstore == and deprecate =

2010-06-12 Thread Florian Pflug
if set of keys subset of array) I suggest hstore text[] as a replacement. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-06-12 Thread Florian Pflug
finds to the Command struct, elapsed and cnt, which accumulate the total time spent on each statement and the number of times it was executed. printResults essentially prings elapsed/cnt for each statement, followed by the statement itself. Patch is attached. best regards, Florian Pflug

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

2010-06-15 Thread Florian Pflug
to the latest LSN found on any one of the nodes. Option (b) requires some additional thought, though. Controlled removal of slave nodes and concurrent crashes of more than one node are the most difficult areas to handle gracefully, it seems. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Server crash while trying to read expression using pg_get_expr()

2010-06-15 Thread Florian Pflug
() with zero as the second argument. The internal representation wouldn't change, it's just the type's OID in the catalog that'd be different. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] Add a new backend process

2010-06-16 Thread Florian Pflug
. Pick the best-matching candidate and start by copying what it does. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-06-16 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:22 , Greg Smith wrote: Florian Pflug wrote: To be able to asses the performance characteristics of the different wal-related options, I patched pgbench to show the average latency of each individual statement. The idea is to be able to compare the latency

Re: [HACKERS] DB crash SOS

2010-06-17 Thread Florian Pflug
. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] hstore == and deprecate =

2010-06-17 Thread Florian Pflug
an operation on hstores. How about turning it into a function hstore hstore(hstore, text[]) instead? Could also be hstore_restrict if people think naming it just hstore is ambiguous. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 the open items list

2010-06-19 Thread Florian Pflug
by the receiving end, the TCP stack can (and does) detect a broken connection. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 the open items list

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jun 20, 2010, at 7:18 , Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: On Jun 19, 2010, at 21:13 , Tom Lane wrote: This is nonsense --- the slave's kernel *will* eventually notice that the TCP connection is dead, and tell walreceiver so. I don't doubt that the standard TCP timeout

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 the open items list

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Pflug
connections. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 the open items list

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Pflug
always require manual intervention and cause all sorts of performance and disk-space issues, while the latter won't even be an issue for well-written clients who just reconnect and retry. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] TCP keepalive support for libpq

2010-06-22 Thread Florian Pflug
are. Since we've trusted keepalives to prevent the former for 10 years now, I think we can risk trusting keepalives to prevent the latter too. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add TCP keepalive support to libpq.

2010-06-24 Thread Florian Pflug
to tcp_client_keepalives, tcp_client_keepalives_idle, tcp_client_keepalives_count and tcp_client_keepalives_interval? Or do we expect people who fiddle with those parameters to understand the subtle difference? best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] proof concept: do statement parametrization

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Pflug
, like in the following shell snippet. COMMANDS=DO (arg int) $$ ... $$ (for a in arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4; do echo $COMMANDS USING $a; done) | psql best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] proof concept: do statement parametrization

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jul4, 2010, at 11:59 , Pavel Stehule wrote: 2010/7/4 Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org: On Jul4, 2010, at 08:41 , Pavel Stehule wrote: I enhanced DO statement syntax to allowing a parameters. Syntax is relative simple: do ([varname] vartype := value, ...) $$ ... $$ I think it'd be more

Re: [HACKERS] proof concept: do statement parametrization

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Pflug
try to avoid that by encoding value=$VALUE in double quotes, but I doubt that it's 100% safe even then. The point is that interpolating the value into the command is always risky, independent from whether it's a shell command or an sql command. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Review: Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-07-17 Thread Florian Pflug
not within the next few days though, since I'm unfortunately quite busy at the moment, trying to finally complete my master's thesis. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-07-28 Thread Florian Pflug
skipping logic, which my patch moves to process_command. Updated patch is attached. Thanks for your extensive review best regards, Florian Pflug pgbench_statementlatency.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Review: Row-level Locks SERIALIZABLE transactions, postgres vs. Oracle

2010-08-02 Thread Florian Pflug
on git://github.com/fgp/postgres.git and also attached a patch. best regards, Florian Pflug serializable_row_locks.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

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