[HACKERS] apparent regression problems on linux/alpha

2004-12-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
see: http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=haredt=2004-12-10%2005:15:05 cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL

[HACKERS] Minor Optimization?

2004-12-11 Thread mweilguni
I had to fix an old, badly written web application, it had some performance problems sometimes. I found out there are some links broken: http://./?id=123456778995934853 in fact the link should be: http://./?id=123456778995934853 where the part 78995934853 was random and should force a

Re: [HACKERS] old-style handler problem

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Sibtay Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for the handler function i ve followed the following template PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(myhandler); ^ Datum plsample_call_handler(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) ^ Try spelling the function name consistently.

[HACKERS] BufferSync and bgwriter

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Riggs
The idea that bgwriter smooths out the response time of transactions is only true if the buffer lists T1 and T2 have *some* clean buffers available for use when performing I/O. The alternative is that transactions unlucky enough to encounter the no-clean-buffers situation have to clean a space for

[HACKERS] Checkpoint bugs?

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 21:21, Mark Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:52:37PM +, Simon Riggs wrote: Varying bgwriter_maxpages upwards should take performance higher. I have 2 runs now. I for both tests, I have bgwriter_percent=100, checkpoint_segments=8192, checkpoint_timout=600,

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been working on the patch and it seems now it works as I originally intended it to: dropping users or tablespaces is disallowed unless they own or contain no object. ACL's are not tracked; I'm still unsure if they should be. If we fail to track

[HACKERS] tuple properties out of TupleTableSlot

2004-12-11 Thread Schoudel, Brian
I'm a beginning developer to postgresql working on a CS Master's project trying to implement a new join operator. My question is how to effectively break down a TupleTableSlot into it's properties. I've been messing around with it for hours now and thought the code below would return the

[HACKERS] port report: Linux amd64/x86_64

2004-12-11 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello, == All 96 tests passed. == $ uname -a Linux pergolesi 2.4.26 #1 SMP Mon May 24 11:59:02 CEST 2004 x86_64 GNU/Linux postgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid. Sadly tcl and pam devel files weren't installed so I could just use (I'm not

[HACKERS] port report: Linux m68k

2004-12-11 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello, == All 96 tests passed. == $ uname -a Linux crest 2.4.26-amiga #1 Thu Apr 22 00:21:18 CEST 2004 m68k GNU/Linux postgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid. -- Nol Kthe noel debian.org Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org signature.asc

[HACKERS] port report: Linux sparc

2004-12-11 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello, == All 96 tests passed. == $ uname -a Linux vore 2.4.26 #1 SMP Tue Apr 20 14:16:21 EDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux postgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid. -- Nol Kthe noel debian.org Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2004-12-11 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Port report for Solaris 8: No errors. uname -a: SunOS sunos58.build 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 gcc -v: Reading specs from /gcc-3.4.0/sunos5/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.0/specs Configured with: /gcc-3.4.0/src/dist/configure --prefix=/usr/site/gcc-3.4.0

Re: [HACKERS] V8 Beta 5 on AIX

2004-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: Kenneth Marshall wrote: Let me ask --- if you change the CC line in Makefile.global to cc_r, does everything build OK? That might be a clean solution because the change could be made in one place. Of course this would mean the backend would also

Re: [HACKERS] tuple properties out of TupleTableSlot

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Schoudel, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a beginning developer to postgresql working on a CS Master's project trying to implement a new join operator. My question is how to effectively break down a TupleTableSlot into it's properties. I've been messing around with it for hours now

Re: [HACKERS] regression script/makefile exit failure

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further investigation has shown that the exit/trap idiom used in pg_regress.sh is less than 100% portable. The following shell script has been seen to produce incorrect output on both Cygwin and FreeBSD: This is distinctly less than credible. If it

[HACKERS] port report: OSX 10.3

2004-12-11 Thread Pucky Loucks
Hello $ uname -a Darwin Computer.local 7.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.5.0: Thu Aug 5 19:26:16 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.21.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc ./configure --with-includes=/sw/include --with-libs=/sw/lib --enable-thread-safety --with-perl --with-python --with-krb5

Re: [HACKERS] regression script/makefile exit failure

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Further investigation has shown that the exit/trap idiom used in pg_regress.sh is less than 100% portable. The following shell script has been seen to produce incorrect output on both Cygwin and FreeBSD: #!/bin/sh trap ' st=$? echo status = $st exit $st '

Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm build failure: icc7 + --enable-cassert

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Darcy Buskermolen wrote: It looks like --enable-cassert isn't handled properly under icc7 http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=herringdt=2004-12- 07%2016:30:44 That is quite a superficial display of the issue. If you want to get to the bottom of this, you need to, uh, dig

Re: [HACKERS] regression script/makefile exit failure

2004-12-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Further investigation has shown that the exit/trap idiom used in pg_regress.sh is less than 100% portable. The following shell script has been seen to produce incorrect output on both Cygwin and FreeBSD: #!/bin/sh trap ' st=$? echo status = $st

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: I had thought that maybe we shouldn't track dependencies on the first superuser, on the assumption that it cannot be dropped. I'm not sure if this is entirely true however. Well, there are certainly nontrivial provisions for recovering installations where it has been

Re: [HACKERS] Failed assertion, CVS head

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Some time ago, Grant Finnemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TRAP: FailedAssertion(!(((ntp)-t_data)-t_infomask 0x0010), File: catcache.c, Line: 1728) I think we finally figured out where this came from: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-12/msg00128.php

Re: [Testperf-general] Re: [HACKERS] 8.0beta5 results w/ dbt2

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I never vacuum during the test. Is it possible that all the updates and inserts would affect this? That's bad; first because it possibly *is* hurting performance, and second because if it isn't, your results could legitimately be attacked as not representing

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] BufferSync and bgwriter

2004-12-11 Thread Neil Conway
I wonder if we even need to retain the bgwriter_percent GUC var. Is there actually a situation in which the combination of bgwriter_maxpages and bgwriter_delay does not give the DBA sufficient flexibility in tuning bgwriter behavior? Simon Riggs wrote: If the bgwriter_percent = 100, then we

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] replacing a view: bug or feature?

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Ed L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CREATE TABLE foo ( key serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, msg character(100)); CREATE TABLE bar ( key serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, msg character(100)); CREATE VIEW baz AS SELECT * FROM foo UNION ALL SELECT * FROM bar; CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW baz AS SELECT * FROM foo;

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:27:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Hi, So if Alvaro's thing works out, the shared-sequence problem becomes moot. Probably that's a good reason not to spend time on it just yet. I'm still alive, and I've been following this thread. Sorry for not giving an update. I

Re: [HACKERS] errmsg(... because ...)

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a bunch of error messages saying something like cannot foo because bar What do you think of changing those to use errdetail in addition to errmsg? I'm dubious that this is really an improvement... In any case we are past string freeze for

[HACKERS] port report: Linux parisc64 / hppa

2004-12-11 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello, == All 96 tests passed. == $ uname -a Linux paer 2.4.26-64-smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 29 04:59:03 UTC 2004 parisc64 GNU/Linux postgresql-8.0.0rc1 build on Debian GNU/Linux sid. -- Nol Kthe noel debian.org Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org signature.asc