Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Brown
Bruce Momjian wrote: Kevin Brown wrote: I'd also like to see (if this is even possible) a transaction isolation mode that would make it possible for multiple concurrent updates to the same row to happen without blocking each other (I imagine one way to make this possible would be for the

[HACKERS] Postmaster windows shell

2002-12-06 Thread Igor Georgiev
- Original Message - From: mlw To: Igor Georgiev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? (postmaster windows shell) Hey this is a cool project. I have been thinking

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Brown
Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Naeslund(f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mysql is planning on making this work: SELECT id, @a:=COUNT(*), SUM(sum_col)/@a FROM table_name GROUP BY id. We're supposed to spend our time emulating nonstandard features that don't even exist yet? I think I have better

Re: [HACKERS] big text field - message type 0x44

2002-12-06 Thread Lee Kindness
Tom Lane writes: Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane writes: Okay, so it seems -D_REENTRANT is the appropriate fix. However, _REENTRANT is not a Solarisism... On all (recent) UNIX systems it toggles on correct handling for thread specific instances of historically

[HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Reggie Burnett
I'm working on a new interface to PostgreSQL and having a difficult time. Perhaps someone here can shed some light on the subject. 1.  Am I correct in thinking that the OID that I receive with the RowDescription is the column type?  I have several of those defined from the 7.3 source code.  Have

Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster windows shell

2002-12-06 Thread Igor Georgiev
- Original Message - From: Igor Georgiev To: mlw Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Postmaster windows shell - Original Message - From: "mlw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Igor Georgiev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:55, Reggie Burnett wrote: I'm working on a new interface to PostgreSQL and having a difficult time. Perhaps someone here can shed some light on the subject. 1. Am I correct in thinking that the OID that I receive with the RowDescription is the column type? I have

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Reggie Burnett
-Original Message- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:19 AM To: Reggie Burnett Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] new interface On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:55, Reggie Burnett wrote: I'm working on a new interface to

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Reggie Burnett
Let me see if I can add more information here. PSQL appears to only retrieve table metadata when \d is given. For my interface, I will need the ability to present every column as a proper system object (int, byte array, currency, etc) depending on the db type. I will not be able to wait for the

Re: [HACKERS] new interface

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Reggie Burnett wrote: Let me see if I can add more information here. PSQL appears to only retrieve table metadata when \d is given. For my interface, I will need the ability to present every column as a proper system object (int, byte array, currency, etc)

[HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a description of it the other day. You might think it's got some medical connotation, but actually the acronym is Management of External Data, and what it is is a standard spec for shipping chunks of SQL queries to remote servers.

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:04, Tom Lane wrote: Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a It's that one of the later parts of the SQL 99 spec? Section 9 or thereabouts? -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description:

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:35, Rod Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:04, Tom Lane wrote: Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a It's that one of the later parts of the SQL 99 spec? Section 9 or thereabouts? Note to self, don't reply to emails and have a

[HACKERS] possible libpq++ prob

2002-12-06 Thread Patrick Welche
I have a program which worked merrily under 1.3b1, but with 1.4devel I get the first query working (so connection OK), and the second query, which may well be wrong, getting me: DEBUG: reaping dead processes DEBUG: child process (pid 13025) was terminated by signal 11 LOG: server process (pid

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe, have you heard of a standard called SQL/MED? I came across a description of it the other day. You might think it's got some medical connotation, but actually the acronym is Management of External Data, and what it is is a standard spec for shipping chunks of SQL queries to

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Found SQL/MED, Section 21 of ISO 9075-9. That's the old version, though. The new draft is at (digs out article) http://sqlstandards.org/SC32/WG3/Progression_Documents/FCD/4FCD1-14-XML-2002-03.pdf according to this article, but I'm not having any luck

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you think a proposal based on the SQL/MED spec would be entertained for 7.4, or would the release after be a safer bet? The impression I get from this article is that SQL/MED is nontrivial. If you think you can get something useful going for 7.4, step

Re: [HACKERS] Q: unknown expression type 108 ?

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ERROR: ExecEvalExpr: unknown expression type 108 This is fixed as of yesterday --- see thread on (I think) pgsql-general for the patch. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:52:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Found SQL/MED, Section 21 of ISO 9075-9. That's the old version, though. The new draft is at (digs out article) http://sqlstandards.org/SC32/WG3/Progression_Documents/FCD/4FCD1-14-XML-2002-03.pdf

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:52:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Found SQL/MED, Section 21 of ISO 9075-9. That's the old version, though. The new draft is at (digs out article) http://sqlstandards.org/SC32/WG3/Progression_Documents/FCD/4FCD1-14-XML-2002-03.pdf

[HACKERS] hardware needed ?

2002-12-06 Thread Eric Gentilini
Hi all, I didn't find any other list compatible with this post, I hope it is the right place. I got a sparccenter 2000 (sun4d) few weeks ago and I wondered if the postgresql team was interested in testing postgres on it. It has only 2 CPUs at this time but I may get more cpu and system boards in

Re: [HACKERS] possible libpq++ prob

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WARNING: Message from PostgreSQL backend: The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. Should I be able to cause this with a duff query? No. That's a backend bug, not a

Re: [HACKERS] SQL/MED spec for cross-database linkages

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ross J. Reedstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having pulled that one, I discover it's actually the XML related spec. The MED one is at: ftp://sqlstandards.org/SC32/WG3/Progression_Documents/FCD/4FCD1-09-MED-2002-01.pdf Ah-hah, so the URL in the SIGMOD Record article is just wrong :-(

Re: [HACKERS] Quick Help

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Messing about with ADD COLUMN... I'm not certain how to re-evaluate the default expression for each row? Basically you'll want to apply ExecEvalExpr (or perhaps ExecEvalExprSwitchContext) to the cooked expression tree. Look at the execution of

Re: [HACKERS] Q: unknown expression type 108 ?

2002-12-06 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 06 December 2002 20:50, Tom Lane wrote: (B Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (B ERROR: ExecEvalExpr: unknown expression type 108 (B (B This is fixed as of yesterday --- see thread on (I think) pgsql-general (B for the patch. (B (BMany thanks. Applied and appears to work :-)

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kevin Brown wrote: How useful would it be? Beats me. Like I said, you could perform some what if games with a database this way that you currently can't, but I don't know how useful that would be. On thinking about it a bit, it seems option 1 would be the most useful and perhaps the most

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Patch to make Turks happy.

2002-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Nicolai Tufar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I figured from the source code this function only deals with cleaning up locale names and nothing else. Since all the locale names are in plain ASCII I think it will be safe to use ASCII-only lower-case conversion. Does PostgreSQL run on the

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-06 Thread Thomas O'Connell
As someone who exists mainly as an active user (and part-time advocate/documentation tweaker), I have found the release of PostgreSQL 7.3 to be disappointing. The ensuing pseudo-flamewar on the various lists has been similarly disappointing. I was surprised, for instance, to receive a non-list

[HACKERS] pg_conversion

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hi, What do the columns conforencoding and contoencoding refer to in pg_conversion? How would I convert those numbers to a string encoding name, just using SQL? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, BTW, we do coordinate with the Website development group When did that happen then? I think I must have blinked :-) Marc and Justin are periodically keeping the Advocacy group informed of progress on wwwdevel, and we were asked to test it before. Vince asked us for suggestions,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-06 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2002 17:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Dave, BTW, we do coordinate with the Website development group When did that

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] GEQO Triggers Server Crash

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ GEQO doesn't work anymore in CVS tip ] Ugh. The proximate cause of this is the code I added recently to cache repeated calculations of the best inner indexscan for a given inner relation with potential outer relations. Since geqo_eval() releases all

Re: [HACKERS] hardware needed ?

2002-12-06 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Eric, We've already done a fair amount of testing of PostgreSQL on Sparc hardware and Solaris, so it's probably not all that interesting... :-/ However, about an hour after you sent through your message, we received this one from Myk Melez. He's asking us if there is a publically

[HACKERS] about store Large file.

2002-12-06 Thread Horacio Miranda
I ask me, the store of large file like 2M in one field take to postgres a big work, you do that ? any of you do that before ? the sistem work fine or not ? Thanks for all -- Saludos Horacio Miranda. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Rod, can you comment on these warnings Joe Conway's compiler is showing? I don't see the warnings with gcc, but clearly they look like problems. I can just assign a NULL on definition, but I thought you should take a look.

Re: [HACKERS] IPv6 patch rejected

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
I now have the INETv6 patch working using IPv4 on my machine, and I don't have IPv6 enabled in my kernel. Tomorrow, I will review the entire patch for portability issues, then post it so others can test it. I am pretty sure it is going to fail if your machine isn't INET6 aware, which may be

Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings

2002-12-06 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:58 PM To: Joe Conway Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings Rod, can you comment on these warnings Joe Conway's compiler is

Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dann Corbit wrote: Instead of just assigning a value, it means it is conceivable that a path allows undefined behavior. Example: ... int y; if (x 5) y = 3; if (x 5) y = 1; What happens if x == 5? Then y is indeterminate. Sometimes, the flow analysis just gets confused

Re: [HACKERS] more compile warnings

2002-12-06 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:16:30PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I use: -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align Some other useful ones are -pedantic -W -Wfloat-equal -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wsign-compare -Wsign-promo. You