Re: [HACKERS] Time to update list of contributors

2007-12-02 Thread FAST PostgreSQL
Josh Berkus wrote: Arul Shaji Sydney, Australia. Rgds, Arul Shaji

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve the manual's discussion of partitioning.

2007-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a fix (1) and two comments (2 and 3) in the documentation. > 1. "IF (logdate)" should be "IF (NEW.logdate)" in the trigger function. > INSERT fails without "NEW." before logdate. How embarrassing ... I tested the other parts of the exampl

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve the manual's discussion of partitioning.

2007-12-02 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: > Log Message: > --- > Improve the manual's discussion of partitioning. Recommend using a > trigger instead of a rule to redirect insertions, use NEW.* notation > where appropriate, some other updates and adjustments. David Fetter > and Tom Lane I hav

[HACKERS] Propose removing contrib/spi/preprocessor/

2007-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
So while poking around contrib/spi and trying to put together an SGML doc file for it, I realized that the preprocessor/ subdirectory seems entirely useless. What it does is generate CREATE TRIGGER commands for use with contrib/spi/refint.c, given SQL input that includes FOREIGN KEY clauses. That

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Stored procedure issue

2007-12-02 Thread Dragan Zubac
Hello Here's the stored procedure itself,as well as the related tables involved in it's calculations. The idea for procedure is to find longest prefix match for destination number,try to find it in table 'billing' for particular users,find the price,and insert message into history and inqueue tabl

Re: [HACKERS] Stored procedure issue

2007-12-02 Thread Dragan Zubac
Hello Please find in attachment stored procedure (proc_uni.txt),as well as description of tables involved in calculations. The idea for procedure is to find longest prefix match for destination number,try to find it in table 'billing' for particular users,find the price,and insert message into his

Re: [HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Recently there was a post on -performance about a particular case where >> Postgres doesn't make very good use of the I/O system. This is when you try >> to >> fetch many records spread throughout a table in ran

Re: [HACKERS] Stored procedure issue

2007-12-02 Thread Usama Dar
On Dec 2, 2007 7:40 AM, Dragan Zubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have a stored procedure which does the billing stuff > in our system,it works ok,but if I put in > production,where there is some 5-10 billing events per > second,the whole database slows down. It won't even > drop some

Re: [HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Jens-Wolfhard Schicke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Recently there was a post on -performance about a particular case where >> Postgres doesn't make very good use of the I/O system. This is when you try >> to >> fetch many records spread th

Re: [HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently there was a post on -performance about a particular case where > Postgres doesn't make very good use of the I/O system. This is when you try to > fetch many records spread throughout a table in random order. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsq

Re: [HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Gregory Stark
"Douglas McNaught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/2/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The two interfaces I'm aware of for this are posix_fadvise() and libaio. I've >> run tests with a synthetic benchmark which generates a large file then reads >> a >> random selection of blo

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3beta3 ERROR: cached plan must not change result type

2007-12-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Wow, this above email took three days to reach to list. > > Received: from maia-2.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) > by zenon.apartia.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id > 2B95E59C5B43C > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; S

Re: [HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Douglas McNaught
On 12/2/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The two interfaces I'm aware of for this are posix_fadvise() and libaio. I've > run tests with a synthetic benchmark which generates a large file then reads a > random selection of blocks from within it using either synchronous reads like > w

[HACKERS] There's random access and then there's random access

2007-12-02 Thread Gregory Stark
Recently there was a post on -performance about a particular case where Postgres doesn't make very good use of the I/O system. This is when you try to fetch many records spread throughout a table in random order. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-12/msg5.php Currently Pos

Re: [HACKERS] String encoding during connection "handshake"

2007-12-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:38 -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote: > PostgreSQL's problem is that it (and AFAICT POSIX) conflates encoding > with locale, when the two are entirely separate concepts. In what way does PostgreSQL conflate encoding with locale? -Neil ---(end of broadc

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #3774: create table like including index doesn't update pg_constraints with primary key

2007-12-02 Thread NikhilS
Hi, > > > The fundamental question though is should we allow primary, unique > > CONSTRAINTS which use the index mechanism just as an implementation to > be > > created using the "INCLUDING INDEXES" mechanism. > > Yeah, this bizarreness was foreseen and agreed to back when we set up > LIKE INCLUDI