Re: [HACKERS] Queries using rules show no rows modified?

2002-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Has this been resolved and patched? --- Tom Lane wrote: > "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Michael seems to feel that the tuple count should be nonzero if

[HACKERS] Patches for LOCALTIME and regexp, feature list

2002-06-14 Thread Thomas Lockhart
I've just committed changes to include an SQL99 feature list as an appendix in the User's Guide. While preparing that I noticed a feature or two which would be trivial to implement, so we now have LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP function calls per spec (afaict; the spec is very vague on the behaviors

Re: [HACKERS] FEATURE REQUEST - More dynamic date type?

2002-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 16:39, Chris McCormick wrote: ... > THE BACKGROUND - I am creating a web site where people can study the > humanities. They can upload, discuss, and peer-review information. > They can also create, edit, approve, and delete records in a postgresql > db, using web forms.

Re: [HACKERS] Breakage in crypt.c

2002-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > There are various paths of control in md5_crypt_verify that do > > if (passwd) > pfree(passwd); > if (valuntil) > pfree(valuntil); > > Isn't this now pfree'ing part of the saved pre-parsed pg_pwd data? Oop

Re: [HACKERS] Non-standard feature request

2002-06-14 Thread Rocco Altier
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Mike Mascari wrote: > That is what I want to do, except by extending the grammar. I must admit > to actually being surprised that a TEMP table created inside a > transaction lived after the transaction completed. That's when I looked > at the standard and saw that PostgreSQL'

Re: [HACKERS] Making serial survive pg_dump

2002-06-14 Thread Rod Taylor
> > I think that when SERIAL is used, the sequence should be tied > > inextricably to the table which created it, and it should be hidden from > > use for other purposes (perhaps similar to the way a toast table is). If > > you *want* to use a sequence across several tables, then you don't use > >

Re: [HACKERS] FEATURE REQUEST - More dynamic date type?

2002-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:39:55 -0400, Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for reading. A few disclaimers: > > MY PROBLEM - Because this site deals with, among other things, ancient > art, acheaology, and anthropology, I need a way to handle dates as > specific as a single d

Re: [HACKERS] Big Test Environment Feature

2002-06-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
Matthew Tedder wrote: >Question: > >How feasible would it be to create this functionality in PostgreSQL: > >One creates a test version of a database that initially consists of >read-links to the production version of the same database. Any code he/she >then writes that reads from a table r

Re: [HACKERS] Non-standard feature request

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Mascari
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ... Would it be possible to have either a GUC setting or a grammar > > > change to allow TEMPORARY tables to be dropped at transaction commit? > > > > This seems like a not unreasonable idea; but the lack

[HACKERS] FEATURE REQUEST - More dynamic date type?

2002-06-14 Thread Chris McCormick
Thanks for reading. A few disclaimers: 1. I am a newbie. I program for a living, but my work in pg has so far been at the "devoted hobby level," using pg and PHP. For an example of what I have done with pg, you can visit www.the-athenaeum.org, a site I one day hope to make into a business.

Re: [HACKERS] [JDBC] Shouldn't "aborted transaction" be an ERROR? (was Re:

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Cramer
I have just tested this on the latest code using the following Connection con = JDBC2Tests.openDB(); try { // transaction mode con.setAutoCommit(false); Statement stmt = con.createStatement(); stmt.execute("select 1/0");

Re: [HACKERS] ATTN: Tom Lane

2002-06-14 Thread Thomas Swan
Tom Lane wrote: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom, if you block everyone on cable, dialup, dsl, and adsl, then you're probably blocking a lot of legitimate mail. David, let me explain this in words of one syllable: I am currently rejecting upwards of 2000 spam m

[HACKERS] Big Test Environment Feature

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Tedder
Question: How feasible would it be to create this functionality in PostgreSQL: One creates a test version of a database that initially consists of read-links to the production version of the same database. Any code he/she then writes that reads from a table reads from the production data

[HACKERS] Breakage in crypt.c

2002-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
There are various paths of control in md5_crypt_verify that do if (passwd) pfree(passwd); if (valuntil) pfree(valuntil); Isn't this now pfree'ing part of the saved pre-parsed pg_pwd data? reg

[HACKERS] Indexing for DESC sorts

2002-06-14 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Bruce, Back in 7.1.0, we had a problem where no index could be used on ORDER BY ... DESC statements. Has this been fixed? I'm writing an article on indexing. -Josh Berkus ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [HACKERS] Non-standard feature request

2002-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... Would it be possible to have either a GUC setting or a grammar > > change to allow TEMPORARY tables to be dropped at transaction commit? > > This seems like a not unreasonable idea; but the lack of other responses > suggests that

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99 feature list

2002-06-14 Thread Josh Berkus
Thomas, > So, a question: should I list all features in the same table, with > the > comment field indicating if something is not (yet) supported, or > should > I split the features into two tables for supported and unsupported > features? The former keeps all of the information together if someo

[HACKERS] SQL99 feature list

2002-06-14 Thread Thomas Lockhart
As you probably know, SQL99 has dropped the rather useless categorizations of "basic", "intermediate", and "advanced" SQL compliance and instead lists a large number of labeled features. I've put these into an appendix for the docs (not yet committed to cvs). The list is organized as a (for now)

Re: [HACKERS] Language Comments

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 June 2002 14:49 > To: Dave Page > Cc: PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Language Comments > > > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the preferred method (if there even is one) fo

Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt

2002-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which btw has a curious grant/revoke bug. create foo; grant select on > foo to bar; results in all rights being granted. You must revoke and > grant again in order to get the correct rights set. I see no bug. test72=# select version();

Re: [HACKERS] Language Comments

2002-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the preferred method (if there even is one) for modifying the > comment on a language? There isn't one. Certainly LANCOMPILER was *never* meant as a place to store comments. I suppose a COMMENT ON LANGUAGE facility could be added, but I can't g

Re: [HACKERS] PostGres Doubt

2002-06-14 Thread David Ford
pg_auth=# select version(); version PostgreSQL 7.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 3.0.2 Which btw has a curious grant/revoke bug. create foo; grant select on foo to bar; resu

[HACKERS] Language Comments

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Page
What is the preferred method (if there even is one) for modifying the comment on a language? I vaguely remember it being documented that it was stored in pg_language.lancompiler and specified using the LANCOMPILER option to CREATE LANGUAGE or by updating the record directly. pgAdmin has done it

Re: [HACKERS] Non-standard feature request

2002-06-14 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Mike Mascari wrote: > > CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE > ... > ON COMMIT DROP; > > pseudo-compatible with the SQL-standard of: > > ON COMMIT { DELETE | PRESERVE } ROWS; > > so one day PostgreSQL's grammar would look like: > > ... > ON COMMIT { DROP | { DELETE | PRESERVE } ROWS

Re: [HACKERS] ATTN: Tom Lane

2002-06-14 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 02:10, David Ford wrote: > ... while talking to sss.pgh.pa.us.: > > >> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> > <<< 550 5.7.1 Probable spam from 68.9.71.221 refused - see >http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?68.9.71.221 > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > >