[HACKERS] OT: SCALE 4x -- Call For Papers

2005-09-03 Thread Ilan Rabinovitch
Hello, The call for papers for SCALE 4x, the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo, is now open. This event will be our fourth annual show. It will be held on Feb 11-12, 2006 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. We are expecting 1,300+ in attendance this year. We are non-profit, community run Linux

Re: Locale implementation questions (was: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch)

2005-09-03 Thread Greg Stark
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > 2. Locale data needs to be combined with a charset and compiled to work > with the library. PostgreSQL supports at least 15 charsets but we don't > want to ship compiled versions of all of these (Debian learnt that the > hard way). So, how do we generate the file

Re: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch

2005-09-03 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I still doesn't get where the hostility towards this functionality comes > > from. > > We're not really willing to say "here is a piece of syntax REQUIRED > BY THE SQL SPEC which we only support on some platforms".

Locale implementation questions (was: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch)

2005-09-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The objection is fundamentally that a platform-specific implementation > cannot be our long-term goal, and so expending effort on creating one > seems like a diversion. If there were a plan put forward showing how > this is just a useful

Re: [HACKERS] core dump with last CVS

2005-09-03 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov writes: > following query cause postmaster to fail. You haven't shown us your own code, but I'd guess that you are doing something you shouldn't with memory contexts. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

[HACKERS] core dump with last CVS

2005-09-03 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Hi there, following query cause postmaster to fail. tp=# select query from rquery('new&york&hotel') as query; server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lo

Re: [HACKERS] Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples

2005-09-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Manfred Koizar wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:41:48 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian > wrote: > >> Once I had a patch based on 7.4 that stored cmin and cmax in > >> backend-local memory. > > >Interesting idea, but how would you record the cmin/xmin values without > >requiring unlimited memory? > > Tha

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a new node to the executor

2005-09-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:43:20AM -0700, Varun Kacholia wrote: > > > But the RangeTblEntry received by my executor node does > > not have the tablesample set, inspite of the fact that I do set it in > > parse_relation.c:addRangeTableEntry(). > > > > I have made the approp

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a new node to the executor

2005-09-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:43:20AM -0700, Varun Kacholia wrote: > But the RangeTblEntry received by my executor node does > not have the tablesample set, inspite of the fact that I do set it in > parse_relation.c:addRangeTableEntry(). > > I have made the appropriate changes to copyfuncs.c, but s

Re: [HACKERS] Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples

2005-09-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:59:31AM +0200, Manfred Koizar wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:41:48 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian > wrote: > >> Once I had a patch based on 7.4 that stored cmin and cmax in > >> backend-local memory. > > >Interesting idea, but how would you record the cmin/xmin values witho

[HACKERS] Adding a new node to the executor

2005-09-03 Thread Varun Kacholia
Hey guys, I am taking my chances of posting a devel doubt on this list (couldn't find any other relevant list). I think I have spent too much time on this and need a fresh pair of eyes to look in it.. So this is my situation: 1. I have added a new field to RangeTblEntry (bool tablesample). 2. I

Re: [HACKERS] Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples

2005-09-03 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:41:48 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Once I had a patch based on 7.4 that stored cmin and cmax in >> backend-local memory. >Interesting idea, but how would you record the cmin/xmin values without >requiring unlimited memory? That's exactly the reason for not sending i