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  • Greg SmithGreg Smith
    Nov 2, 2008 at 2:02 am
    Jan 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm
  • Attached is a patch to fix problems 2 and 3: help.c clean application and formatting of the output therein. I also put \z right after \dp and removed the duplicate wording, to make it fit better, per ...
    Greg Sabino MullaneGreg Sabino Mullane
    Nov 8, 2008 at 5:10 pm
    Feb 7, 2009 at 9:38 pm
  • Well, I assume SEPostgreSQL will rely on libraries that only exist on SELinux, so I am afraid there will have to be some type of compile-time flag, though the goal is to have as much of it enabled as ...
    Bruce MomjianBruce Momjian
    Nov 7, 2008 at 6:20 pm
    Jan 16, 2009 at 9:39 am
  • This thread covers part of 3. Quoted from SQL:2008 "If CUME_DIST is specified, then the relative rank of a row R is defined as NP/NR, where NP is defined to be the number of rows preceding or peer ...
    David RowleyDavid Rowley
    Nov 5, 2008 at 12:25 am
    Dec 29, 2008 at 11:32 pm
  • Hi. I am sorry to be a very late reaction... "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito@guitar.ocn.ne.jp writes: next patch is this. Regards, Hiroshi Saito
    Hiroshi SaitoHiroshi Saito
    Nov 2, 2008 at 5:20 am
    Jan 11, 2009 at 9:58 am
  • I hope this is the right place to report a bug/issue in the official documentation... In http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.html there is an example for a ...
    Andreas KretschmerAndreas Kretschmer
    Nov 24, 2008 at 11:02 am
    Nov 27, 2008 at 7:37 pm
  • I think we should avoid the #define's like below which uses a local variable. I guess the same #define is used elsewhere in the code as well. If the code is rearranged or the variable name is ...
    Pavan DeolaseePavan Deolasee
    Nov 21, 2008 at 7:52 am
    Dec 16, 2008 at 6:03 pm
  • Hi! It will clearly also need an update to the comment, but I can take care of that. I assume you have tested this? The comment says that it works because we are handling UTF8 on a special way on ...
    Magnus HaganderMagnus Hagander
    Nov 24, 2008 at 12:28 pm
    Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 am
  • Hi, Attached is the latest version of Synch Rep patch. Sorry for my late posting. I fixed some bugs in v1patch and integrated walreceiver into core. Attached contain some patches: * ...
    Fujii MasaoFujii Masao
    Nov 14, 2008 at 10:15 am
    Dec 1, 2008 at 2:17 am
  • An idea for a possible enhancement to PostgreSQL: allow creation of a temporary table without generating any disk I/O. (Creating and dropping a three-column temporary table within a database ...
    Kevin GrittnerKevin Grittner
    Nov 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm
    Nov 21, 2008 at 11:18 pm
  • When perl function executes first time, it is too slowly, but if execute perl function(not function which executed first time) again it runs in 1000 times faster. Why ? how can i optimize it ? ...
    Oleg SerovOleg Serov
    Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 pm
    Nov 17, 2008 at 6:59 pm
  • Hi! I want to use the fnmatch() function in libpq, to support wildcard certificate matching. This function is part of the standard ...
    Magnus HaganderMagnus Hagander
    Nov 20, 2008 at 12:24 pm
    Nov 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm
  • Well, FNM_CASEFOLD is not POSIX, and Autoconf thinks it's a GNU extension, which has obviously crept into other systems. So you'd need to use AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, but that also requires you to use ...
    Peter EisentrautPeter Eisentraut
    Nov 24, 2008 at 2:40 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 5:28 pm
  • Hello I am testing PostgreSQL on Federa 10. There is Perl 5.10. After successful compilation I got error CREATE LANGUAGE plperl; ERROR: could not oad library "/........plperl.so": ... undefined ...
    Pavel StehulePavel Stehule
    Nov 3, 2008 at 1:16 pm
    Nov 10, 2008 at 4:20 pm
  • Hi, I just noticed that the interface for choosing a different locale at db creation time is createdb --lc-collate=X --lc-ctype=X. Is there a reason for having these two separate switches? It seems ...
    Alvaro HerreraAlvaro Herrera
    Nov 6, 2008 at 5:13 pm
    Feb 13, 2009 at 9:27 am
  • Hello, HEAD is failed to be built on win32 mingw. It requires manual 'mkdir man7' or so. Are there any changes in build process? Or am I missing something required to build? ---- $ make /bin/sh.exe: ...
    ITAGAKI TakahiroITAGAKI Takahiro
    Nov 19, 2008 at 11:51 pm
    Nov 28, 2008 at 11:28 pm
  • Hi, all. I had preliminary conversation with my employer about implementation of SQL5 [1] without "Driven Scene" [2]. He needs concrete budget. So i'm asking you to estimate and say, how much will it ...
    Dmitry TurinDmitry Turin
    Nov 4, 2008 at 2:38 pm
    Nov 13, 2008 at 6:53 pm
  • I think the usual way is to call the function like: (void) function_with_return_value() -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
    Heikki LinnakangasHeikki Linnakangas
    Nov 20, 2008 at 3:08 pm
    Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 pm
  • So based on Graeme Job's T-SQL hack over at thedailywtf.com I adapted the T-SQL code to Postgres and got this. Thought others might find it amusing. WITH RECURSIVE Z(IX, IY, CX, CY, X, Y, I) AS ( ...
    Gregory StarkGregory Stark
    Nov 19, 2008 at 9:53 pm
    Nov 23, 2008 at 8:09 pm
  • for anyone interested.... Solaris 2.5.1 with --enable-thread-safety configure:25848: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels ...
    Andrew ChernowAndrew Chernow
    Nov 18, 2008 at 7:07 pm
    Jan 14, 2009 at 10:39 pm
  • Today I noticed I cannot login to cvs.pgfoundry.org anymore since the IP address has been changed am asked password which seems to be changed. So I cannot use CVS any more. Does anybody why this ...
    Tatsuo IshiiTatsuo Ishii
    Nov 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm
    Nov 26, 2008 at 11:03 pm
  • Hello I am thinking about allowing 2D array from multicolumn subselect (all columns have to share same type, ofcourse). Is there some real limit, why this functionality is disallowed? Regards Pavel ...
    Pavel StehulePavel Stehule
    Nov 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm
    Nov 18, 2008 at 6:59 pm
  • Hi, The suppress_redundant_updates_trigger() works incorrectly on the table defined with "WITH_OIDS" option. ---------- (*) The latest 8.4devel tree without SE-PostgreSQL patch postgres=# CREATE ...
    KaiGai KoheiKaiGai Kohei
    Nov 5, 2008 at 9:33 am
    Nov 7, 2008 at 3:13 am
  • I finally have a working version. Please have a look at the attached files including a changed version of gram.y and and automatically created version of preproc.y. To recreate just run "awk -f ...
    Michael MeskesMichael Meskes
    Nov 1, 2008 at 8:06 pm
    Nov 14, 2008 at 4:59 pm
  • I installed and ran the citext tests both with and without the patch and had failures both times. The patch applied cleanly and the "make;make install" completed without errors. I have attached the ...
    Kenneth MarshallKenneth Marshall
    Nov 5, 2008 at 2:40 pm
    Nov 7, 2008 at 11:51 pm
  • Hot Standby patch, including all major planned features. Allows users to connect to server in archive recovery and run queries. Applies cleanly, passes make check. There's no flaky code, kludges or ...
    Simon RiggsSimon Riggs
    Nov 1, 2008 at 5:57 pm
    Dec 3, 2008 at 7:18 am
  • I have experienced some brittleness in the regression test setup that causes the tests to be run against a different server instance or fail in confusing ways when you have multiple instances ...
    Peter EisentrautPeter Eisentraut
    Nov 14, 2008 at 3:29 pm
    Nov 27, 2008 at 12:23 pm
  • Unofficially, well done to everybody that submitted patches in time for Commit Fest. The queue has grown significantly over last few days and it's clear many people have been working very hard right ...
    Simon RiggsSimon Riggs
    Nov 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm
    Nov 2, 2008 at 11:46 am
  • It was brought to my attention that DISCARD ALL does not release advisory locks: http://pgfoundry.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1010499&group_id=1000258&atid=983 Thus connection managers / ...
    Marko KreenMarko Kreen
    Nov 24, 2008 at 3:07 pm
    Nov 26, 2008 at 8:59 pm
  • While working on the join elimination patch, I was going through the trigger code and found quite a bit of nastiness in regard to naming and variable repurposing related to the addition of ...
    Jonah H. HarrisJonah H. Harris
    Nov 6, 2008 at 5:03 am
    Jan 22, 2009 at 7:17 pm
  • Hi, I wonder how portable designated initializers are. As far as I can tell they were only defined in C99. Can we use them in our source? If not, is there a way to do this in C89? I mean something ...
    Alvaro HerreraAlvaro Herrera
    Nov 22, 2008 at 11:10 pm
    Dec 10, 2008 at 8:50 pm
  • I'm trying to do client only builds on a bunch of legacy platforms and noticed that the include path is messed up...if keywords.o is not already built, it fails to build be because src/backend/parser ...
    Merlin MoncureMerlin Moncure
    Nov 6, 2008 at 3:44 pm
    Feb 4, 2009 at 7:34 pm
  • NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message Looks like inheritance causes a statement-level trigger to fire on the last evaluated table in the inheritance chain. Is this the desired ...
    Greg Sabino MullaneGreg Sabino Mullane
    Nov 28, 2008 at 9:34 pm
    Jan 19, 2009 at 10:56 pm
  • attached is a patch which enables plpython to recognize function with multiple OUT params as returning a record py=# create or replace function addsub( in i1 int, in i2 int, py=# out o1 int, out o2 ...
    Hannu KrosingHannu Krosing
    Nov 1, 2008 at 4:13 am
    Jan 1, 2009 at 9:58 pm
  • Please find enclosed a revised version of pg_readahead and a patch to invoke pg_readahead. Changes from the previous one is as follows: Pg_readahead now does not return any prefetched point. It ...
    Koichi SuzukiKoichi Suzuki
    Nov 27, 2008 at 12:04 pm
    Dec 26, 2008 at 8:05 am
  • Hi. As I wanted to change the order of columns of some tables (I know, I know, my code does not depend on that; but I prefer that \dt gives me a more organized ouput...) I've added an option to ...
    Hernan gonzalezHernan gonzalez
    Nov 14, 2008 at 5:21 pm
    Nov 26, 2008 at 7:33 pm
  • We are now in discussion about toast table upgrading. I try to collect ideas and figure out how it should work and where are problems. Overview: --------- A few weeks ago we made a decision to use ...
    Zdenek KotalaZdenek Kotala
    Nov 19, 2008 at 9:45 pm
    Nov 20, 2008 at 8:17 pm
  • All, This is my first patch review for PostgreSQL. I did submit a patch last commit fest (Boyer-Moore) so I feel I should review one this commit fest. I'm quite new to PostgreSQL so please don't rely ...
    David RowleyDavid Rowley
    Nov 2, 2008 at 12:00 am
    Nov 17, 2008 at 5:29 am
  • I found the following behavior surprising. Is there a reason for it? This is 8.3.5. ...Robert rhaas=# BEGIN WORK; BEGIN rhaas=# CREATE TABLE test_table (id serial, foo integer, bar integer); NOTICE: ...
    Robert HaasRobert Haas
    Nov 14, 2008 at 9:32 pm
    Nov 16, 2008 at 12:26 am
  • The attached version now is able to generate an ecpg parser without a single change in gram.y. Also included is a perl version of the script created by a2p and fixed by me. Unfortunately a2p did not ...
    Michael MeskesMichael Meskes
    Nov 10, 2008 at 2:40 pm
    Nov 11, 2008 at 12:02 pm
  • Hi, Brendan Jurd submitted a patch to add a pg_typeof() builtin function: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-09/msg00029.php I've reviewed the patch and it looks fine. An updated ...
    Kurt HarrimanKurt Harriman
    Nov 3, 2008 at 9:35 am
    Nov 7, 2008 at 11:01 pm
  • Hi, I'm very new to hacking postgresql but am using on a very big site ( http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk). One of the issues that we have is moving data from a live database to a reports one. I've ...
    Rob KirkbrideRob Kirkbride
    Nov 25, 2008 at 8:39 pm
    Nov 27, 2008 at 11:29 am
  • Following test case gives a warning of snapshot not destroyed at commit time. CREATE TABLE test (a int); INSERT INTO test VALUES (1); BEGIN; DECLARE c CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM test FOR update; ...
    Pavan DeolaseePavan Deolasee
    Nov 24, 2008 at 7:35 am
    Nov 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm
  • Hi, In the current Synch Rep patch, the standby cannot catch up with the primary which has a bigger timeline. So, whenever making the standby catch up, a fresh base backup is required. This is ...
    Fujii MasaoFujii Masao
    Nov 20, 2008 at 1:42 pm
    Nov 25, 2008 at 6:54 am
  • Here is a patch to reimplement the xmlconcat functionality as a variadic function instead of a hardcoded special expression type. I haven't found any variadic function in the set of built-in ...
    Peter EisentrautPeter Eisentraut
    Nov 17, 2008 at 11:22 am
    Nov 18, 2008 at 8:44 am
  • Attached patch allows to setup storage parameter for space reservation. I use reloptions capability for it. You can use it: CREATE TABLE test(id int) with (reservedspace=10); The idea is to reduce ...
    Zdenek KotalaZdenek Kotala
    Nov 8, 2008 at 10:59 pm
    Nov 10, 2008 at 1:50 pm
  • Hmph. It's trying to see if the NOT IN condition is self-contradictory, which of course it isn't, but the predicate_refuted_by machinery isn't smart enough to determine that except by running through ...
    Tom LaneTom Lane
    Nov 12, 2008 at 3:47 pm
    Nov 13, 2008 at 12:24 am
  • All, Looking at my old thread I realized I never got an answer on whether people agreed with these two items: 1) Take the "SET search_path=public" out of all contrib SQL scripts so that DBAs can ...
    Josh BerkusJosh Berkus
    Nov 6, 2008 at 9:48 pm
    Nov 7, 2008 at 6:07 pm
  • I am trying to compile libpq on HP-UX 10.20 using gcc 2.95.3, cpu is a 400MHz PA8500. I'm using the 8.3.5 tarball. [full make output is attached] Outside of the failure to build... I am getting a ...
    Andrew ChernowAndrew Chernow
    Nov 15, 2008 at 6:22 pm
    Nov 17, 2008 at 10:03 pm
  • Just noticed that the last libpqtypes release was broken on windows when dynamically linking. The problem is that windows has two addresses for functions, the import library uses a stub "ordinal" ...
    Andrew ChernowAndrew Chernow
    Nov 12, 2008 at 2:40 pm
    Nov 15, 2008 at 3:45 am
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