Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-04-26 Thread Rob
Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Rob wrote: But I think there is room to go further, I don't see any reason why that default install can't include example DBs, One reason is that a useful example database would likely have a download footprint of 10 MB or more. Having

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-04-26 Thread Rob
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 16:36:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ease of use is VERY important, but few suggestions that address this are ever really accepted. Yes, focusing on the functionality is the primary concern, but how you set it up and deploy it is VERY important.

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?

2004-01-22 Thread Rob Butler
it immediately screams WE DON'T CARE ABOUT DOING THINGS RIGHT!. my 2cents Later Rob ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Pl/Java - next step?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Butler
of similar C code in Postgres. Something I think the PostgreSQL hackers would much prefer. Later Rob ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL (7.3) on SMB/CIFS Shares on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-04-26 Thread Rob Oakley
[Previously posted to General list] I have an embedded system running FreeBSD (5.1) that does not have any local (rotating) storage (i.e. disk drives). PostgreSQL (7.3.2.1) also runs on this box and (at this point) has two tables. It is an extremely simple PostgreSQL configuration with the

Re: [HACKERS] Small OS ports Handheld devices

2004-04-29 Thread Rob Butler
is very reasonable when you consider the 512MB CF is going for $149! These are basically IDE drives in a compact flash form factor, as such they should have lifetimes approaching a regular IDE drive, right? Just don't bounce them around too much. Later Rob ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] (Fwd) Re: Any Oracle 9 users? A test please...

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Fullerton
://download-east.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/server.901/a90125/queries2.htm#2054162http://download-east.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/server.901/a90125/queries2.htm#2054162 rob 'Oracle 9 tester' :P On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: OK, I just received this answer from an Oracle 9

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 release warning

2004-08-26 Thread Rob Butler
That makes it sound as if you didn't do the same level of testing on *this* release, like it didn't go through all the tests or something. How about it does not have the extensive testing history that other supported platforms in this release have. Later Rob OK, new wording

[HACKERS] OT: Free Postgresql event

2005-03-30 Thread Rob Butler
/registration.jsp I am only signed up for the -hackers mailing list, so please let people on the other lists know. Later Rob __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with PITR recovery

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Butler
to have some smarts to it, so it doesn't create a bunch of completely empty WAL's everytime the timer runs out. It should only write and close the WAL if there is actually some new data in it. Later Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has

Re: [HACKERS] DO INSTEAD and conditional rules

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Butler
happening? later Rob --- David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Well, they handle simple situations OK, but we keep seeing people get burnt as soon as they venture into interesting territory. For instance, if the view is a join, you can't

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1

2005-04-28 Thread Rob Butler
As a user, I would definetly prefer to see 8.1 released sooner with the feature set listed below, than wait another 6+ months for a few other features. Additionally, the beta may go smoother/faster if you don't have too many huge features going in at once. Just my opinion. Later Rob --- Bruce

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-30 Thread Rob Butler
be pooled to go towards development, and less risk of companies developing features without contacting PG first. Later Rob --- Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote: We also use PostgreSQL as our primary db so it would be more than likely

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1

2005-05-02 Thread Rob Butler
One way to handle this is to have an option, set by the client, that causes the server to send some ignorable message after a given period of time idle while waiting for the client. If the idleness was due to network partitioning or similar failure, then this ensures that the connection

[HACKERS] pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

2005-05-04 Thread Rob Butler
, etc. Later Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose

RE: [HACKERS] Another remove request

2000-11-02 Thread Rob S.
Me as well!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - r -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jade Rubick Sent: November 2, 2000 9:27 AM To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] Another remove request I too have tried to remove myself from this

RE: [HACKERS] OSDN Database conference report (long)

2000-11-02 Thread Rob S.
Hi all, I'm one of the accidentally-subscribed readers to the Hackers list. I mainly wanted to thank Tom for typing this up. I had a great time reading it and learned a lot. I also wanted to try and help with some personal experience since God knows I wouldn't be able to code in C or whatever

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Butler
progress on 2PC with Postgres though. Later Rob The next step is going to be writing 2PC support to the JDBC driver using the new backend commands. XA interface would be very nice too, but I'm personally not that interested in that. Any volunteers? Please comment! I'd like to know what you guys

[HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Kirkbride
with it (I'm a bit rusty at C!), do I post the patch here? Thanks Rob

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Kirkbride
Dave, Ok thanks. Yes, we've got over 1/2 billion rows in one of our tables which is interesting! Will post back soon. Rob 2008/11/25 Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Rob Kirkbride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm very new to hacking postgresql but am using

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Kirkbride
and therefore can continue. I've introduced a --delete-not-drop option which simply does a DELETE FROM % rather than 'DROP and then CREATE'. I hope this sounds sensible and I haven't missed something - I'm still learning! Rob 2008/11/25 Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Kirkbride [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Kirkbride
I must admit I've not read up on the various locks that are set so that's a good point. Is there a good reference for me to read and understand these? I'm guessing though that a delete from and then an insert never requires an exclusive lock, what about adding/deleting constraints? Rob 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Kirkbride
we'll consider. Rob Richard Huxton wrote: Rob Kirkbride wrote: I've introduced a --delete-not-drop option which simply does a DELETE FROM % rather than 'DROP and then CREATE'. Beware foreign-keys slowing you - TRUNCATE all relevant tables should be the fastest method if possible

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancement to pg_dump

2008-11-27 Thread Rob Kirkbride
for that - it's very useful. As you say I believe the documentation is pretty good, it's just that we're not dealing in simple issues here. I definitely think I should do a delete rather than a truncate (or drop) in my case. Regards Rob -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL-ism help patch for psql

2010-01-19 Thread Rob Wultsch
); + } + else if (MYSQL_HELP_CHECK(desc)) + { + MYSQL_HELP_OUTPUT(\\d tablename); + } -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] Patch rev 2: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Wultsch
capacity are a very good idea. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] [GENERAL] libecpg versions and libecpg_compat

2010-02-15 Thread Rob Newton
. Is there some way of building with Pg v8.0 ECPG lib and running on a system with Pg v8.4 ECPG lib? or vice versa? and is libecpg_compat intended for that purpose? Thanks, Rob -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] libecpg versions and libecpg_compat

2010-02-17 Thread Rob Newton
Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: Rob Newton rta: Is there some way of building with Pg v8.0 ECPG lib and running on a system with Pg v8.4 ECPG lib? or vice versa? and is libecpg_compat intended for that purpose? You can build the src/interfaces/libpq and src/interfaces

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] libecpg versions and libecpg_compat

2010-02-17 Thread Rob Newton
Michael Meskes wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:44:26AM +1000, Rob Newton wrote: Is there some way of building with Pg v8.0 ECPG lib and running on a system with Pg v8.4 ECPG lib? or vice versa? and is libecpg_compat intended for that purpose? You can link the static library in so you're

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-06 Thread Rob Wultsch
much a slave is lagging in clock time. /mysql dba troll -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] List traffic

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Wultsch
Linux has *as many if not more* ... MySQL, if memory servers, has a half dozen or more ... etc ... MySQL has a bunch of lists, none of which get much traffic. Honestly, they should probably be combined. -- Rob Wultsch -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

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

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: Oracle, and all other MVCC databases I've read about outside of PostgreSQL, use an update in place with a rollback log technique. Have you looked at PBXT (which is explicitly NOT SERIALIZABLE)? -- Rob Wultsch

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

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote:  Anything in particular you wanted me to notice about it besides that? Nope. It was just a counter point to your previous comment. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] List traffic

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote: Linux has *as many if not more* ... MySQL, if memory servers, has a half dozen or more ... etc ... MySQL has a bunch of lists, none of which get much traffic. Honestly, they should probably be combined. -- Rob Wultsch

Re: [HACKERS] PG-MQ?

2007-06-20 Thread Rob Butler
Do you guys need something PG specific or built into PG? ActiveMQ is very nice, speaks multiple languages, protocols and supports a ton of features. Could you simply use that? http://activemq.apache.org/ Rob

[HACKERS] SET syntax in INSERT

2009-08-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15) VALUES ('val1','val2','val3','val4','val5','val6','val7','val8','val9','val10','val11','val12','val13','val14','val15') Probably a pipe dream... -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] SET syntax in INSERT

2009-08-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Pavel Stehulepavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/25 Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com: Given the recent discussion of DELETE syntax on JOINS  I thought it might be interesting to bring a bit MySQL syntax that is in somewhat widespread use, generally create

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again

2009-08-27 Thread Rob Wultsch
, no that everything from MySQL is bad but i would be scary if we start supporting every single piece of code MySQL accepts And that behavior has changed to be sane in 5.0+, iirc. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Disable and enable of table and column constraints

2009-09-09 Thread Rob Wultsch
Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. The mysql'ism foreign_key_checks would seem to do similar things...? (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-session-variables.html#sysvar_foreign_key_checks ) -- Rob Wultsch wult

Re: [HACKERS] Functional dependencies and GROUP BY

2010-06-08 Thread Rob Wultsch
to have made Postgres compatible. That said, I imagine if this feature could make it into the Postgres tree it would be very useful. Would I be correct in assuming that while this feature would make query planning more expensive, it would also often decrease the cost of execution? Best, Rob

Re: [HACKERS] SHOW TABLES

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Wultsch
objections that followed caused that idea to scrapped. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] SHOW TABLES

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: On 16/07/10 20:11, Rob Wultsch wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com  wrote: For committers. Perhaps this discussions should be moved to the General list

Re: [HACKERS] SHOW TABLES

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Wultsch
all this? Andres Do you have an alternative suggestion for emulating SHOW SCHEMAS SHOW TABLES DESC object? Make a user friendly interface is not easy, but it sure as heck is important. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?

2010-08-22 Thread Rob Wultsch
. -- Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.ushttp://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] Page Checksums + Double Writes

2011-12-21 Thread Rob Wultsch
the number of writes is potentially halving the life of the flash. Something to think about... -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-18 Thread Rob Wultsch
several companies use comparisons of dissimilar data types as part of their stump the prospective DBA test and they stump lots of folks. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] swapcache-style cache?

2012-02-27 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, james ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com wrote: Has anyone considered managing a system like the DragonFLY swapcache for a DBMS like PostgreSQL? https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=388112370932 -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] swapcache-style cache?

2012-02-29 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Andrea Suisani sick...@opinioni.net wrote: On 02/28/2012 04:52 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, jamesja...@mansionfamily.plus.com  wrote: Has anyone considered managing a system like the DragonFLY swapcache for a DBMS like PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY ... NOT ENFORCED

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Wultsch
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company MySQL does in fact have this feature and it is used by mysqldump. This feature is very useful. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] unlogged tables

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Wultsch
MyISAM /troll -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY ... NOT ENFORCED

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Wultsch
are implemented by the trigger system somehow seems surprising. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] unlogged tables

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Cédric Villemain cedric.villemain.deb...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/8 Kineticode Billing da...@kineticode.com: On Dec

Re: [HACKERS] Can postgres create a file with physically continuous blocks.

2010-12-21 Thread Rob Wultsch
=194501560932 Also, InnoDB has an option for how much data should be allocated at the end of a tablespace when it needs to grow: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_data_file_path -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Can postgres create a file with physically continuous blocks.

2010-12-21 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: On 22.12.2010 03:45, Rob Wultsch wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com  wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jim Nasbyj...@nasby.net  wrote: On Dec 19, 2010

Re: [HACKERS] making an unlogged table logged

2011-01-04 Thread Rob Wultsch
BLACKHOLE because they held data that was not vital, but the server was out of IO. Going logged - unlogged has a significant placed, I think. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] making an unlogged table logged

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:48 AM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:04:08AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Could the making a table logged be a non-exclusive lock if the ALTER is allowed to take

Re: [HACKERS] Streaming-only Remastering

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Wultsch
master could deliver the last bit of the old masters logs that would be very nice. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] Covering Indexes

2012-06-28 Thread Rob Wultsch
indexed columns. And I wonder if it would work well with expressions, too? David IRC MS SQL also allow unindexed columns in the index. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] update on global temporary and unlogged tables

2010-09-13 Thread Rob Wultsch
reduce the table to a very small number (or zero) number of pages? Is there a case to be made for instead somehow marking all pages as available for reuse? Deallocating and reallocating space can be expensive. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com

Re: [HACKERS] configure gaps

2010-10-02 Thread Rob Wultsch
of the things I really like about drizzle is if there a missing dependency it will explicitly tell you what you are missing and where to go find it for popular platforms. Not being able to easily build is a barrier to entry. Does pg want those? /trolling -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent

Re: [HACKERS] Issues with Quorum Commit

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Wultsch
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] max_wal_senders must die

2010-10-19 Thread Rob Wultsch
for wal_level.                        regards, tom lane If the variable is altered such that it is dynamic, could it not be updated by the postmaster when a connection attempts to begin replicating? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] How can we tell how far behind the standby is?

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
-status.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/show-slave-status.html Also of interest http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/show-binary-logs.html -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] crash-safe visibility map, take three

2010-11-30 Thread Rob Wultsch
and if this feature should be optional. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)

2010-11-30 Thread Rob Wultsch
a lot of DELETE with LIMIT in my (mysql) environment for this reason. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)

2010-12-01 Thread Rob Wultsch
statements that probably need to examine more than 1,000,000 row combinations. I have actually suggested that a certain subset of my users only connect to the database if they are willing to use the --i-am-a-dummy flag. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] profiling connection overhead

2010-12-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
-friendly user system, because when you connect to MySQL you basically always connect as the superuser and on connection it switches you to your chosen login role.  This, per Rob Wulsch, is one of the things at the heart of allowing MySQL to support 100,000 low frequency users per cheap hosting

Re: [HACKERS] profiling connection overhead

2010-12-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote: One thing I would suggest that the PG community keeps in mind while talking about built in connection process caching, is that it is very nice feature for memory leaks caused by a connection to not exist for and continue

Re: [HACKERS] Spread checkpoint sync

2010-12-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
thing? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] profiling connection overhead

2010-12-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote: I think you have read a bit more into what I have said than is correct.  MySQL can deal with thousands of users and separate schemas on commodity

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump.c

2011-09-11 Thread Rob Wultsch
to generate SQL in the server can be very nice. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- 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] crash-safe visibility map, take five

2011-05-09 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Comments? At my day job there is saying: Silence is consent. I am surprised there has not been more discussion of this change, considering the magnitude of the possibilities it unlocks. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com

[HACKERS] alter table alter column ... (larger type) ... when there are dependent views

2016-05-10 Thread Rob Bygrave
ave seen that there are people motivated enough to update pg_attribute directly (update pg_attribute a set a.atttypmod = 20 + 4 ...). What are the thoughts on support these 3 specific cases? Thanks, Rob.

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL 10 parenthesized single-column updates can produce errors

2017-11-01 Thread Rob McColl
ress this. Compiled and tested on Ubuntu 17.04 Linux 4.10.0-33-generic x86_64. Regression test added under the update test to cover the parenthesized single-column case. I see no reason this would affect performance. Thanks, -rob -- Rob McColl @robmccoll r...@robmccoll.com 205.422.0909 <(205)%20422-0909>

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 10 parenthesized single-column updates can produce errors

2017-10-31 Thread Rob McColl
Attaching patch... :-/ On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Rob McColl <r...@robmccoll.com> wrote: > Between 9.6.5 and 10, the handling of parenthesized single-column UPDATE > statements changed. In 9.6.5, they were treated identically to > unparenthesized single-column

[HACKERS] Re: 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error

2001-01-18 Thread Rob van Nieuwkerk
Hi Mark, I just checked: the "demo.dump" file does not contain any characters above 0x7F; it's just plain ASCII. So that can't be the reason. greetings, Rob van Nieuwkerk Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: Ehm .., *you* wrote this ! :-) I tried to reproduce this bu

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error

2001-01-18 Thread Rob van Nieuwkerk
problems ? Please tell if you want me to do any other tests ! greetings, Rob van Nieuwkerk

Re: [HACKERS] like and optimization

2001-01-20 Thread Rob van Nieuwkerk
ings going wrong with a "en_US" locale which is the widely-used (single-byte) ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 charset. Please excuse me if this has nothing to do with what you are talking about. I'm just very eager to get rid of this (for our application) extremely nasty bug ! friendly greeti

[HACKERS] pg_dump consistent on live database with 7.0.3 ?

2001-03-11 Thread Rob van Nieuwkerk
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