Re: [PATCHES] COPY fast parse patch

2005-06-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:53 -0400, Alon Goldshuv wrote: My thoughts were -- see how the responses are, and if people think that this is a better way to go than replace the COPY parsing logic to the new one. If the new approach to parsing can handle all the cases that the old approach can

Re: [PATCHES] COPY fast parse patch

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Luke Lonergan said: Andrew, I will be the first to admit that there are probably some very good possibilities for optimisation of this code. My impression though has been that in almost all cases it's fast enough anyway. I know that on some very modest hardware I have managed to load a 6m

Re: [PATCHES] return_next for plperl (was Re: call for help)

2005-06-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 21:25 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: I have attached the following seven patches to address this problem: Does anyone with the skills to review this (i.e. someone other than me) have any comments on this patch? Otherwise I'll apply it in a day or two. -Neil

Re: [PATCHES] lastval()

2005-06-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:00 +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: Here is a small patch that implements a function lastval() that works just like currval() except that it give the current value of the last sequence used by nextval(). Have you had a chance to respin this patch per my earlier comments

[PATCHES] Simplify Win32 Signaling code

2005-06-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
This patch simplified Win32 signaling code per discussion in hackers. In this implementation, each process will have a named (by its pid) mutex, named shared memory area and named event in global namespace. The process is sending/receiving signals as the following: (*) the process who kill the

Re: [PATCHES] COPY fast parse patch

2005-06-02 Thread Luke Lonergan
Andrew, OK ... that seems fair enough. The next question is where the data being loaded comes from? pg_dump? How does load speed compare with using COPY's binary mode? Oddly, our tests in the past have shown that binary is actually slower. Luke ---(end of

Re: [PATCHES] Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day,

2005-06-02 Thread Neil Conway
Pavel Stehule wrote: http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/add_months.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/last_day.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/next_day.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/months_between.htm Are these functions useful enough

Re: [PATCHES] Simplify Win32 Signaling code

2005-06-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Looking at this patch reminds me of another discussion we had: Signals sent by the postmaster *before the signaling code is running in the child* has to be handled. This is handled in the curernt code by creating the pipe in the postmaster and then

Re: [PATCHES] Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day,

2005-06-02 Thread Pavel Stehule
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Conway wrote: Pavel Stehule wrote: http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/add_months.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/last_day.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/next_day.htm

Re: [PATCHES] Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day,

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Pavel Stehule wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Conway wrote: Pavel Stehule wrote: http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/add_months.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/last_day.htm http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/next_day.htm

Re: [PATCHES] Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day,

2005-06-02 Thread Pavel Stehule
Why not a pgFoundry project called Oracle-Compat or something? There are plenty of functions etc... that can be included in the package as a whole. Once it is large enough, push it to contrib or vie for core support. Is exists. Not in very usefull state, true.

Re: [PATCHES] Simplify Win32 Signaling code

2005-06-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
In thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-11/msg00010.php --- Do we actually need to pass the handle, or could the subprocess reopen the pipe for itself? Nope, we need to pass the handle. Only one process can be the server-side of the pipe, and once the postmaster has