[GENERAL] native win32 version

2003-08-20 Thread Christian Traber
Hi, sometime ago I heard that there will be a native win32 version of postgresql 7.4. Is this true or will there only be a cygwin version like now? What do you think, how stable and fast is the cygwin version? Best regards, Christian ---(end of

[GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
Marc, I'd be interested in seeing the updated stats for this bought of virus transmission we're going through. Yesterday you had almost 1 for 1 valid email. By then I think I was getting about 3-4 per valid email but since then it's sky rocketed and it looks more like 30+ per 1 valid message.

Re: [GENERAL] That movie

2003-08-20 Thread andrew
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Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread Jules Alberts
Op 19 Aug 2003 (15:35), schreef The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jules Alberts wrote: Hello everyone, This is not a troll and I certainly don't want to start a holy war but wouldn't it be a good idea to move the postgresql lists from the mailing list approach

Re: [GENERAL] Details

2003-08-20 Thread meskes
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Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
So far today: neptune# awk '{print $7}' /var/log/amavisd | sort | uniq -c 137 BAD 1732 BANNED 4435 INFECTED 6029 Passed, On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: Marc, I'd be interested in seeing the updated stats for this bought of virus transmission we're going through. Yesterday

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jules Alberts wrote: Op 19 Aug 2003 (15:35), schreef The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jules Alberts wrote: Hello everyone, This is not a troll and I certainly don't want to start a holy war but wouldn't it be a good idea to move the

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Francois Suter
So far today: neptune# awk '{print $7}' /var/log/amavisd | sort | uniq -c 137 BAD 1732 BANNED 4435 INFECTED 6029 Passed, And still some make it through given some of the messages that are reaching the list today (That movie or My details). :-( --- Francois Home page:

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Francois Suter wrote: So far today: neptune# awk '{print $7}' /var/log/amavisd | sort | uniq -c 137 BAD 1732 BANNED 4435 INFECTED 6029 Passed, And still some make it through given some of the messages that are reaching the list today (That movie or My

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Paul Thomas
On 20/08/2003 08:18 Nigel J. Andrews wrote: Marc, I'd be interested in seeing the updated stats for this bought of virus transmission we're going through. Yesterday you had almost 1 for 1 valid email. By then I think I was getting about 3-4 per valid email but since then it's sky rocketed and it

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Paul Thomas wrote: There's a few come thru the list to me and I had a few more yesterday as part of the daily spam. Like most people from the non-M$ world, this sort of thing just passes me by :) I'm looking into how to add a 'taboo subject' filter onto the mj2 lists

Re: [GENERAL] native win32 version

2003-08-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 02:17, Christian Traber wrote: Hi, sometime ago I heard that there will be a native win32 version of postgresql 7.4. Is this true or will there only be a cygwin version like now? The native win32 port has been pushed back from 7.4 into (hopefully) 7.5, but cygwin

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:11, The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Paul Thomas wrote: There's a few come thru the list to me and I had a few more yesterday as part of the daily spam. Like most people from the non-M$ world, this sort of thing just passes me by :) I'm looking

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 21:51:14 -0400, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not promoting any change in the MVCC. What I'm saying is that it would be really cool if the backend process itself could recognize that a row is no longer referenced by any transactions upon termination of

[GENERAL] uptime problem

2003-08-20 Thread Vasili G. Yanov
I have trouble: when client-program broke connection to Postgre I see in logs: FATAL: This connection has been terminated by the administrator. LOG: shutting down and I must start Postgre again. Postgre starting as: pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgdata -o \-S\ start I have PostgreSQL 7.3.4

Re: [GENERAL] uptime problem

2003-08-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 18:51, Vasili G. Yanov wrote: I have trouble: when client-program broke connection to Postgre I see in logs: FATAL: This connection has been terminated by the administrator. LOG: shutting down and I must start Postgre again. Postgre starting as: pg_ctl

Re: [GENERAL] Thank you!

2003-08-20 Thread ler
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Re: [GENERAL] uptime problem

2003-08-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 19:01, Vasili G. Yanov wrote: I have trouble: when client-program broke connection to Postgre I see in logs: FATAL: This connection has been terminated by the administrator. LOG: shutting down and I must start Postgre again. Postgre starting as:

Re: [GENERAL] Thank you!

2003-08-20 Thread alvherre
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Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Vivek Khera
BW == Bruno Wolff, Bruno writes: to see it incremental. This would result in pretty much near zero internal fragmentation, I think. BW Why do you care about about the details of the implementation (rather than BW the performance)? If it were faster to do it that way, that's how it would BW

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:31:25 -0400, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I care for the performance. And how are you so sure that it was faster the way it is now? Are you sure it was not done this way because of ease of implementation? Seriously, how much slower can it be if the

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: Seriously, how much slower can it be if the backend were to do the checking for external references upon updating/deleting a row? The cost would be distributed across time as opposed to concentrated at once within a vacuum process.

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: BW == Bruno Wolff, Bruno writes: to see it incremental. This would result in pretty much near zero internal fragmentation, I think. BW Why do you care about about the details of the implementation (rather than BW the performance)? If it were

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JW == Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JW remove all the index entries pointing to these ctid's. Your idea is (so JW far) lacking a place where to remember all the single removed rows and I JW assume you're not planning to pay the cost of a full scan

[GENERAL] Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

2003-08-20 Thread Greg Stark
My understanding is that the entire set of localization parameters needs to be decided upon when the initdb is done and can never be changed later. Is that right? I have a multi-lingual web site, I want to be able to sort using collation rules for en_US, en_CA, and fr_CA depending on the current

Re: [GENERAL] Grouping by date range

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 13:44:59 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GROUP BY does implicit sorting, so an ORDER BY on the exact same column(s) as the GROUP BY is redundant. That is an implementation detail, not a promise. With hashed

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True, but the message being responded to was specifically if the backend were to do the checking for external references upon updating/deleting a row. It's clearly impossible for a backend to remove a row immediately upon updating/deleting it, since it

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: Recall also that committed deleted does not mean safe to remove. There may still be live transactions that could see the tuple. The committed deleted bit just exists to allow subsequent visitors to the row to skip one of the more expensive steps in deciding whether they can see

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4b1 vs 7.3.4 performance

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
P.J. \Josh\ Rovero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 7.4b1 is significantly faster (i.e., the higher curve) over this range of clients and transactions. Cool. I wonder though why the 7.4 curve is so much noisier. regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
holy S**T!! The Hermit Hacker wrote: 16:00 ... neptune# awk '{print $7}' /var/log/amavisd | sort | uniq -c 285 BAD 1807 BANNED 12289 INFECTED 11731 Passed, 5 SA 1 turned Here's a normal day: neptune# cat /var/log/amavisd.o | grep Aug 17 | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c 332 BAD 13

Re: [GENERAL] Grouping by date range

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:51, Tom Lane wrote: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 13:44:59 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GROUP BY does implicit sorting, so an ORDER BY on the exact same column(s) as the GROUP BY is redundant. That is an

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aah - there is the first bullet hole in my multi-ctid-index-idea. Now the question becomes how expensive these tests are (if a normal backend can do them at all within reason)? It's not hugely expensive, IIRC, you just need to make some additional checks

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: BW == Bruno Wolff, Bruno writes: BW Also, since at least 7.3, normal vacuums aren't normally going to BW affect the performance of your database server that much. I disagree. Triggering a vacuum on a db that is nearly saturating

Re: [GENERAL] Changed mailing list functionality?

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
we haven't changed any of the list configs in months ... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Up until a few days ago, when I did a Reply to List in my MUA (Evolution 1.4.4), only [EMAIL PROTECTED] would show up in the To: list. Now, Reply to List acts like like Reply to All.

Re: [GENERAL] Changed mailing list functionality?

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:57, The Hermit Hacker wrote: we haven't changed any of the list configs in months ... Ok, thanks. On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Up until a few days ago, when I did a Reply to List in my MUA (Evolution 1.4.4), only [EMAIL PROTECTED] would show

[GENERAL]

2003-08-20 Thread zoop
I upgraded to 7.3.3 from 7.2 something. I guess the insert statment no longer accepts a zero lenght string like '' ERROR: pg_atoi: zero-length string Is there a way to make this work so it will put Null in the place of it? ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread David W Noon
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 15:43 in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I use outlook express to visit news.postgresql.org now. It works well. Thank you for top-posting and full-quoting, just to prove my point. ... :-) -- Regards, Dave [RLU#314465]

Re: [GENERAL] Example Database

2003-08-20 Thread Erwin Brandstetter
OK. I understand that you prefer a different approach. For my part, I like to combine different approaches. I understand also that you consider it impossible to put all the stuff into one database. I think it is possible after all, but that is not the point here. My request remains. I am

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread David W Noon
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 09:06 in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jules Alberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is not a troll and I certainly don't want to start a holy war but wouldn't it be a good idea to move the postgresql lists from the mailing list approach to usenet? I don't know about anybody else,

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Jan Wieck
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: BW == Bruno Wolff, Bruno writes: BW Also, since at least 7.3, normal vacuums aren't normally going to BW affect the performance of your database server that much. I disagree. Triggering a vacuum on a db that is

Re: [GENERAL] Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding is that the entire set of localization parameters needs to be decided upon when the initdb is done and can never be changed later. Is that right? No, not all of them are frozen. Unfortunately, the one you care about (LC_COLLATE) is. The

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-20 Thread Francois Suter
Well, the idea of mailing list is to exchange information and help each other. Obviously if few great things happen on some mailing list and others don't come to know it, defeats the purpose of having a mailing list. I agree. This is one of my worries. If nothing happens on the French list, it

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote: holy S**T!! Particularly the 'Passed' number. Now I'm not subscribed to all of the lists but I am on -general, -hackers and a couple of others like -interfaces and yet I would say that the volume of email I'm seeing from the lists is far lower than

Re: [GENERAL] Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

2003-08-20 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding is that the entire set of localization parameters needs to be decided upon when the initdb is done and can never be changed later. Is that right? No, not all of them are frozen. Unfortunately, the

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree. Triggering a vacuum on a db that is nearly saturating the disk bandwidth has a significant impact. Vivek is right about this. If your system is already very busy, then a vacuum on a largish table is painful. I don't actually think

Re: [GENERAL] Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

2003-08-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
I think it would be nice, and I may write it eventually, to have a function called: COLLATION_VALUE( 'string', 'encoding' ) Which could be used like: SELECT field_a, field_b FROM table_a GROUP BY COLLATION_VALUE( field_a ) ORDER BY COLLATION_VALUE( field_b ); or in other creative ways. Greg

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread David Olbersen
-Original Message- From: David W Noon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet? I agree that many messages are not formatted according to Usenet conventions, but I normally attribute that to

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote: holy S**T!! Particularly the 'Passed' number. Now I'm not subscribed to all of the lists but I am on -general, -hackers and a couple of others like -interfaces and yet I would say that the volume of

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
I prefer NOT to have to scroll down to the bottom of an email anyway. I think discussion list emails like ours need to be like your medical records, the most important, recent stuff is at the top. I'm not exactly sure what full quoting is. David Olbersen wrote: -Original Message-

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
it seems to me what would be more useful is an even lazier vacuum: something that could be told clean up as cycles are available, but make sure you stay out of the way. Of course, that's easy to say glibly, and mighty hard to do, I expect. You mean, like, nice 19 or so ? Karsten -- GPG key

Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:44:28 -0700 David Olbersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the point of bottom posting anymore? I thought it had to do with turn-around time so that you could re-read whatever it is you wrote a long time ago. I highly doubt you would know, but is there an easy way to

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-20 Thread Edmund Dengler
What about the use of priority inheritance to deal with the issue of priority inversion (a standard methodology within the real-time world)? Then we could have priorities, but still have low priority processes bumped up if a high level one is waiting on them. Regards, Ed On Wed, 20 Aug 2003,