Re: [HACKERS] ON COMMIT DROP

2004-04-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Where exactly would you propose to stick it in the syntax? Good question, I don't know. Can you do it without introducing more fully-reserved words than we have already? No idea. Is there any spec or other-product precedent for it? (Offhand I can't even find CREATE TABLE AS in SQL99...) Weeell.

Re: [HACKERS] ON COMMIT DROP

2004-04-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 02:16, Tom Lane wrote: > (Offhand I can't even find CREATE TABLE AS in SQL99...) This is semi-OT, but CREATE TABLE AS is (new) in SQL2003. At few glance, the spec's notion of the command is about the same as ours, except for a few minor syntactic differences (e.g. the [ WITH

Re: [HACKERS] ON COMMIT DROP

2004-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason why the 'ON COMMIT' behaviour feature is not > available if you use CREATE TABLE AS ...? Where exactly would you propose to stick it in the syntax? Can you do it without introducing more fully-reserved words than we have a

[HACKERS] xlog flush request is not satisfied error

2004-04-18 Thread George Cristian Birzan
Hello I've did pg_dumpall of a number of databases on 7.4.2 install of PostgreSQL then imported that into another 7.4.2 install. This is on Debian Sid, every 5 hours, there's a script /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance which runs on the database, VACUUMing it and such. The next time that scrip

[HACKERS] ON COMMIT DROP

2004-04-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Is there any reason why the 'ON COMMIT' behaviour feature is not available if you use CREATE TABLE AS ...? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Regression from 7.3 to 7.4

2004-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This testcase works in 7.3 but not in 7.4: >> create table t1 (a int); >> create table t2 (b int); >> select * from t1, (select b as a from t2 group by a) as foo; > Another tweak we could make is to cause findTargetlistEntry() to look > o

Re: [HACKERS] executing prepared select, missing RowDescription info

2004-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When executing a prepared select statement, the returned RowDescription > protocol message does not have any information for the table oid or column > position. Running the equivalent select without prepare provides this > information, so I don't see why th

Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne said: But you would have to assign the copyright to them If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company. Well, then for the same reas

Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Tom Lane wrote: These tools are a not insignificant part of our Plan for World Domination ;-) so it would be good if somebody stepped up to the plate and volunteered to take care of 'em. Anybody? Which brings me to another question I have a bunch of perl scripts, as

[HACKERS] executing prepared select, missing RowDescription info

2004-04-18 Thread Kris Jurka
When executing a prepared select statement, the returned RowDescription protocol message does not have any information for the table oid or column position. Running the equivalent select without prepare provides this information, so I don't see why the act of preparing and executing the statement

Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tom Lane wrote: These tools are a not insignificant part of our Plan for World Domination ;-) so it would be good if somebody stepped up to the plate and volunteered to take care of 'em. Anybody? Which brings me to another question I have a bunch of perl scripts, as well as one user-defined t

Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Kings-Lynne said: >> But you would have to assign the copyright to them >> >> If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, >> or at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one >> company. > > Well, then for the same reason we should writ