Re: [HACKERS] Getting blocked when receinving response from a Parse message...

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Francisco Figueiredo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm implementing the 3.0 protocol version in Npgsql, a .Net Data > provider for postgresql. > I stopped in the first message: Parse :( > I send the parse message but I don't receive the ParseComplete or the > ErrorResponse. My code simply

Re: [HACKERS] Manual fixing of plpgsql_call_handler binary location

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Will I destroy things if I execute >>> update pg_proc set probin = '/usr/lib/pgsql/plpgsql.so' where proname = >>> 'plpgsql_call_handler'; >> >> Nope ... that's what I'd probably do. > Even better change it to '$libdir/plpgsql.so'. Good po

[HACKERS] Getting blocked when receinving response from a Parse message...

2003-06-27 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
Hi all, I'm playing with this for one week with no luck... :( I'm implementing the 3.0 protocol version in Npgsql, a .Net Data provider for postgresql. I could get it working using the simple query and so, I started to work in the extended query. I stopped in the first message: Parse :( I

Re: [HACKERS] When will table partitioning be available..

2003-06-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
A long, long time. Chris On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Shirish Reddy wrote: > Hi, > > One of the issues that is preventing us from migrating > from an Oracle DB to Postgres is that Table > Partitioning is not available in Postgres yet. > Partitioning is still listed as a TO DO. Any ideas > when this will

Re: [HACKERS] Manual fixing of plpgsql_call_handler binary location

2003-06-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > Will I destroy things if I execute > > update pg_proc set probin = '/usr/lib/pgsql/plpgsql.so' where proname = > > 'plpgsql_call_handler'; > > Nope ... that's what I'd probably do. You could alternatively use > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION if you wanted to be pure, but I'd say that > that c

Re: Tablespaces (was Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database

2003-06-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
No, they're not. Chris On 27 Jun 2003, Austin Gonyou wrote: > I thought Tablespaces were already implemented. Are they not? > > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:10, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > ROTFL... the answer is no. Feature freeze is Tuesday, people. In > > > practice, the time to start

Re: [HACKERS] Assembler error

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am seeing this assembler warning using gcc version 2.95.3 20010315: > {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%si' instead of `%esi' due to `w' uffix > {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%ax' instead of `%eax' due to `w' suffix Bizarro. When did yo

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So array[] should produce '{}' of (an array) type determined by the context? OK -- seems easy enough. Is it? I think we'd decided that this could only reasonably be handled by creating a datatype representing array-of-UNKNOWN. I'm afraid to

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So array[] should produce '{}' of (an array) type determined by the > context? OK -- seems easy enough. Is it? I think we'd decided that this could only reasonably be handled by creating a datatype representing array-of-UNKNOWN. I'm afraid to do that bec

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: It's just a matter of staking out what's considered an implemented feature. The ARRAY[] syntax is definitely in, so if it needs a few adjustments around the edges to make it more spec-compliant, no one will blink at doing that during beta. OK, but some of what Peter requested were

Re: [HACKERS] When will table partitioning be available..

2003-06-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:27:23 -0700, Shirish Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > One of the issues that is preventing us from migrating > from an Oracle DB to Postgres is that Table > Partitioning is not available in Postgres yet. > Partitioning is still listed as a TO DO. Any ideas >

Re: [HACKERS] Feature request: set planner flags on views

2003-06-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:32:02 -0700, Ryan Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The query planner does an abysmal job with some of the most important > views in my DB. The execuation time with seq_scan disabled is 25ms versus > 110ms when seq_scan is enabled. Instead of modifying all my code to

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Conway wrote: >> Yeah, but isn't feature freeze July 1? > Yes, but once the "feature" is in, you can adjust it if it isn't > working. > I am just pointing out that beating the system is a popular hacker > passtime during beta. :-) It's just a matte

[HACKERS] Core dump on HP

2003-06-27 Thread Michael Brusser
Hi, folks; We're running Postgres 7.3.2. At the end of some procedure we get a core dump on HP-11. This does not seem reproducible on Solaris or Linux. Working with debugger we get this stack: #0 0xc0185a20 in mallinfo+0x2144 () from /usr/lib/libc.2 (gdb) where #0 0xc0185a20 in mallinfo+0x2144 ()

[HACKERS] When will table partitioning be available..

2003-06-27 Thread Shirish Reddy
Hi, One of the issues that is preventing us from migrating from an Oracle DB to Postgres is that Table Partitioning is not available in Postgres yet. Partitioning is still listed as a TO DO. Any ideas when this will be available in Postgres? Approximate time frame will be good enough for now. Tha

[HACKERS] Feature request: set planner flags on views

2003-06-27 Thread Ryan Mack
The query planner does an abysmal job with some of the most important views in my DB. The execuation time with seq_scan disabled is 25ms versus 110ms when seq_scan is enabled. Instead of modifying all my code to temporarily disable seq_scan around all places this query is made (or making a proced

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Many Pl/PgSQL parameters -> AllocSetAlloc(128)?

2003-06-27 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Wow. I just want to express my appreciation to Tom and the rest of the folks in the PostgreSQL community. You can be sure that this little episode, in which less than 48 hours passed from bug discovery to patch, will make it into my future talks about the wonders of open-source software. I'm ext

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-27 Thread Fernando Schapachnik
En un mensaje anterior, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > Well, correct solution is to implement tablespaces on which objects like > > databases, tables and indexes can be put. > > I've not looked at the SQL standard, but it seems to me like the order > should be: > > Databases >Tablespaces

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:51, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > My solution did not involve tablespaces, but was more of a quick solution > to make it easier for admins to do _some_ sort of physical configuration. > > The idea is that the developer could do something like > > 'create alternate location A

Re: [HACKERS] Manual fixing of plpgsql_call_handler binary location -- good idea?

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Haberlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will I destroy things if I execute > update pg_proc set probin = '/usr/lib/pgsql/plpgsql.so' where proname = > 'plpgsql_call_handler'; Nope ... that's what I'd probably do. You could alternatively use CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION if you wanted to

Re: [HACKERS] Possible mistake in new array syntax

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The documentation says the following is allowed: > INSERT INTO sal_emp > VALUES ('Bill', > ARRAY[1, 1, 1, 1], > ARRAY[['meeting', 'lunch'], ['','']]); > I cannot find justification for this in the standard. According to my

[HACKERS] Assembler error

2003-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am seeing this assembler warning using gcc version 2.95.3 20010315: {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%si' instead of `%esi' due to `w' uffix {standard input}:332: Warning: using `%ax' instead of `%eax' due to `w' suffix This is while compiling commands/trigger.c and it happens in CreateT

Re: Tablespaces (was Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database

2003-06-27 Thread scott.marlowe
No, they're not. There are some folks who have hacked on them in the past, but nothing's been committed. On 27 Jun 2003, Austin Gonyou wrote: > I thought Tablespaces were already implemented. Are they not? > > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:10, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > ROTFL... the an

Re: Tablespaces (was Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database

2003-06-27 Thread nolan
> I thought Tablespaces were already implemented. Are they not? Apparently not. A group has been formed to work on it, though. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Possible mistake in new array syntax

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Conway
Peter Eisentraut wrote: The documentation says the following is allowed: INSERT INTO sal_emp VALUES ('Bill', ARRAY[1, 1, 1, 1], ARRAY[['meeting', 'lunch'], ['','']]); I cannot find justification for this in the standard. According to my reading, it should be INSERT INT

Re: Tablespaces (was Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database

2003-06-27 Thread Austin Gonyou
I thought Tablespaces were already implemented. Are they not? On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:10, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > ROTFL... the answer is no. Feature freeze is Tuesday, people. In > > practice, the time to start coding new stuff is already long past. > > Especially major new stuff. >

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>None of this is very difficult. I'll try to fit it in between now and > >>Monday evening, but if not it's very doable for 7.5. > > > > Joe, you have to get in the swing of things --- beta isn't until July > > 15, and even after that, you can fix bugs,

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: None of this is very difficult. I'll try to fit it in between now and Monday evening, but if not it's very doable for 7.5. Joe, you have to get in the swing of things --- beta isn't until July 15, and even after that, you can fix bugs, so once it is in, you can fiddle with it

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > * Some information schema work (doing that now...) > > > So I take it I need not worry about that? > > > None of this is very difficult. I'll try to fit it in between now and > Monday evening, but if not it's very doable for 7.5. Joe, you have to get in the swing of things --- beta isn't u

Re: [HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Joe Conway
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Some nice advances to SQL standard array support were made, but there are a few things that don't work yet in the sense of feature S091 "Basic array support". Joe, do you want to take on some of these? They should be pretty easy (for you). * Declaration of multidimensional

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Wow, I am impressed by 'gmake check'. Who did all that work? It is great. I modified tools/pgtest to use 'gmake check'. Thanks. --- Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > Amazing you find 688 bytes worth

[HACKERS] Manual fixing of plpgsql_call_handler binary location -- good idea?

2003-06-27 Thread Adam Haberlach
I know that we're all in end-of-release hurry, but I've got a quick question. We've got some machines that had postgres installed in /usr/local/pgsql and we are moving their data directories, wholesale, onto machines with postgres in the standard RedHat locations. This works just

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 to 7.4 upgrade issues

2003-06-27 Thread Rod Taylor
Attached is a 7.2.4 dump (loads without error) and a 7.4 dump (loads with error). Create user "rbt" prior to loading either. Creation of the database was done by: rbttest=# create table tab (col integer); CREATE rbttest=# grant all on tab to public; GRANT On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:59, Peter Ei

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 to 7.4 upgrade issues

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Rod Taylor writes: > psql:22.sql:2324: ERROR: dependent privileges exist (use CASCADE to > revoke them too) > > Line 2324 is: > REVOKE ALL ON TABLE sh2bill_action_action_id_seq FROM rbt; > > This user was the owner of of the sequence on the old database. I'd need to see a complete and standalone

Re: [HACKERS] CREATE TABLE AS ... EXECUTE

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera Munoz writes: > Is there a way to create a table from a prepared statement? CREATE TABLE AS > explicitly says you have to use a SELECT statement, and the SELECT INTO > syntax doesn't seem to allow the use of a prepared statement either. I > don't see a way to use the prepared stat

[HACKERS] Possible mistake in new array syntax

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
The documentation says the following is allowed: INSERT INTO sal_emp VALUES ('Bill', ARRAY[1, 1, 1, 1], ARRAY[['meeting', 'lunch'], ['','']]); I cannot find justification for this in the standard. According to my reading, it should be INSERT INTO sal_emp VALUES (

[HACKERS] Missing array support

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Some nice advances to SQL standard array support were made, but there are a few things that don't work yet in the sense of feature S091 "Basic array support". Joe, do you want to take on some of these? They should be pretty easy (for you). * Declaration of multidimensional arrays (see clause 6.1

[HACKERS] 7.2 to 7.4 upgrade issues

2003-06-27 Thread Rod Taylor
Using the 7.4 pg_dump to dump a 7.2 database, restoration to 7.4 causes: REVOKE GRANT psql:22.sql:2324: ERROR: dependent privileges exist (use CASCADE to revoke them too) Line 2324 is: REVOKE ALL ON TABLE sh2bill_action_action_id_seq FROM rbt; This user was the owner of of the sequence on the o

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Aizaz Ahmed
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 10:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Aizaz, if you look at backend/main/main.c it should be pretty obvious > how to handle this --- it's just like bootstrap mode. main.c kicks off > control to GucInfoMain or whatever we call it, and then that routine > can act pretty much the same as if

Re: [HACKERS] PlPython

2003-06-27 Thread Kevin Jacobs
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Attached is a patch that removes all of the RExec code from plpython from > > the current PostgreSQL CVS. In addition, plpython needs to be changed to an > > untrusted language in createlang. > > I am inclined to

[HACKERS] 2Q implementaion for PostgreSQL buffer replacement.

2003-06-27 Thread Yutaka tanida
Hi. I implement 2Q algorithm to PostgreSQL for buffer management , instead of LRU. It's known as low overhead and high performance than LRU. If you have some interests , see following URL. http://www.vldb.org/conf/1994/P439.PDF In my test (pgbench -S) , it improves 4% cache hit rate and 2% up pe

Re: [HACKERS] again: Bug #943: Server-Encoding from EUC_TW toUTF-8

2003-06-27 Thread Enke, Michael
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > Hello, > > I reported bug #943 (I found in 7.3.2) and you checked in some change against > > integer overflow. > > Now I upgraded to 7.3.3 and I'm not happy with this. > > The exact error as I described is fixed, but I found new errors in conversion > > UTF-8 <-> EUC_TW

Re: [HACKERS] PlPython

2003-06-27 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Tom, > I am inclined to rename plpython to plpythonu, by analogy to pltclu. > The advantage of doing so is that (a) the name change makes it somewhat > more obvious that there's a fundamental behavioral change, and (b) > assuming that the Python folk someday figure out a secure version of > REx

Re: [HACKERS] persistant psql feature suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 03:21, James Pye wrote: > Greets, > > Just a thought for a psql enhancement, afiak, it is not easily possible for > persistent connections to a database in a shell script.. > The ability for psql to remain in the background reading from stdin and > writing to st

Re: [HACKERS] CREATE TABLE AS ... EXECUTE

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to create a table from a prepared statement? CREATE TABLE AS > explicitly says you have to use a SELECT statement, and the SELECT INTO > syntax doesn't seem to allow the use of a prepared statement either. IIRC there is an EXECUTE

[HACKERS] CREATE TABLE AS ... EXECUTE

2003-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera Munoz
Hackers, Is there a way to create a table from a prepared statement? CREATE TABLE AS explicitly says you have to use a SELECT statement, and the SELECT INTO syntax doesn't seem to allow the use of a prepared statement either. I don't see a way to use the prepared statement as a function nor as a

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Aizaz Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:52, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system table? I'd >> be for that > hmmm ... I thought what this meant was that we don't factor the tables > out into guc_vars.h, but leave

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Aizaz Ahmed
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:52, Josh Berkus wrote: > Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system table? I'd > be for that hmmm ... I thought what this meant was that we don't factor the tables out into guc_vars.h, but leave them in guc.c. (adding the descriptions etc. th

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system > table? Aizaz is not doing that, but see Joe Conway's proposed patch to pg_settings. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Aizaz, if you look at backend/main/main.c it should be pretty obvious > how to handle this --- it's just like bootstrap mode. main.c kicks off > control to GucInfoMain or whatever we call it, and then that routine > can act pretty much the same as if it were the actual main() of a > standa

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-27 Thread Thomas Swan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Thomas Swan writes: > > > >>I just am really concerned about the uninstall/clean up phase and how >>that can be done in an orderly fashion. Unless the process can start >>from a clean state again, then it won't be valid. >> >> > >The only clean state is if you remov

Re: [HACKERS] CODE SUBMISSION FOR NEXT RELEASE

2003-06-27 Thread Josh Berkus
Srikanth, > See the developers FAQ on how to get involved. You can send the patch > to the patches list, of course. http://developer.postgresql.org/readtext.php?src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html+Developers-FAQ -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---(end of broadca

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] capturing and storing query statement with

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Conway writes: >> I was thinking something similar. This exact question has come up at >> least three times in the last three months. I doubt we'd want a special >> keyword like CURRENT_QUERY, but maybe current_query()? > The current statement can

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > Amazing you find 688 bytes worth discussing. I know you said "what > happens if everyone adds their scripts", but something that would be a > mess if everyone did it isn't always a proper way to judge if something > is appropriate. I said, if everyone adds their test meth

Re: [HACKERS] CODE SUBMISSION FOR NEXT RELEASE

2003-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Srikanth M wrote: > > Hi > > We have written code for a DATACUBE in PostgreSQL. We would like > to know how and what to submit , and if there is some specific procedure > to submit our work. Please tell us the e-mail ID we have to send the > information to also. See the developers FAQ o

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fernando Nasser writes: >> We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC >> variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend >> version, which are the min and max values and if possible a d

Re: [HACKERS] 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Manfred Koizar writes: > I do this all the time. Works pretty well. The only minor annoyance > is that some files are created in the source tree: This is intentional, because said files are prebuilt in the distribution, so they always have to be in the source directory. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Swan writes: > I just am really concerned about the uninstall/clean up phase and how > that can be done in an orderly fashion. Unless the process can start > from a clean state again, then it won't be valid. The only clean state is if you remove the entire source tree and check it out aga

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > This is something that breaks regularly because few of the key > developers use it :-(. If there were automatic tests that used that > build setup, it would be a good thing 'cause it'd keep us honest. This should be included in 'make distcheck'. I'm quite puzzled right now wh

Re: [HACKERS] 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature freeze)

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do this all the time. Works pretty well. The only minor annoyance > is that some files are created in the source tree: Yeah, that's deliberate: those files are shipped in distribution tarballs (so that tarball users don't have to have bison/flex/per

[HACKERS] CODE SUBMISSION FOR NEXT RELEASE

2003-06-27 Thread Srikanth M
Hi We have written code for a DATACUBE in PostgreSQL. We would like to know how and what to submit , and if there is some specific procedure to submit our work. Please tell us the e-mail ID we have to send the information to also. ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] adsrc and consrc incompatible with rename operations

2003-06-27 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 08:36, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The system catalog columns pg_attrdef.adsrc and pg_constraint.consrc store > "human-readable" versions of pg_attrdef.adbin and pg_constraint.conbin. > During a rename operation, they are not and cannot be updated. We need to > remove them and

Re: [HACKERS] row description for domain in 7.4

2003-06-27 Thread John DeSoi
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 02:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote: We've only had domains for one release cycle, so it seems to me that there's not a lot of track record to justify a "this is how we've always done it" position for domain-related behaviors. Especially when the odds seem good that few people

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Fernando Nasser writes: > We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC > variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend > version, which are the min and max values and if possible a description. In that case I think it's best to pu

Re: [HACKERS] row description for domain in 7.4

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
John DeSoi writes: > To me this seems completely wrong. The whole point of getting the > domain is so that I can know how I should parse the result coming from > the server. If I use a text domain, I can't distinguish the domain > column from any other text column and perform some other kind of >

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] capturing and storing query statement with

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joe Conway writes: > I was thinking something similar. This exact question has come up at > least three times in the last three months. I doubt we'd want a special > keyword like CURRENT_QUERY, but maybe current_query()? The current statement can be examined using the statistics views and functio

[HACKERS] adsrc and consrc incompatible with rename operations

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
The system catalog columns pg_attrdef.adsrc and pg_constraint.consrc store "human-readable" versions of pg_attrdef.adbin and pg_constraint.conbin. During a rename operation, they are not and cannot be updated. We need to remove them and make interested applications get the information about of the

[HACKERS] 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature freeze)

2003-06-27 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:55:45 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've not tried, but if PostgreSQL can do an 'out of tree' compile it >> could make it much easier. > >Yes it can, following the usual procedure for autoconfiscated trees: >just invoke configure from an empty directory, eg >

[HACKERS] persistant psql feature suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread James Pye
Greets, Just a thought for a psql enhancement, afiak, it is not easily possible for persistent connections to a database in a shell script.. The ability for psql to remain in the background reading from stdin and writing to stdout until explicitly killed. More specifically, so a