Re: [HACKERS] proposal: simple date constructor from numeric values

2013-09-19 Thread Jeevan Chalke
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: Hello thank you, I have no comments Thanks. Assigned it to committer. Regards Pavel -- Jeevan B Chalke

Re: [HACKERS] pg_stat_statements: calls under-estimation propagation

2013-09-19 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:25 PM, samthakur74 samthaku...@gmail.com wrote: I got the segmentation fault when I tested the case where the least-executed query statistics is discarded, i.e., when I executed different queries more than pg_stat_statements.max times. I guess that the patch might have

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com writes: There are examples in the patch and this thread, but rather than reference back to those I'll add a new one.  Without the patch: Thanks much for doing that. The problem, as I see it, is that the view and the concurrently refreshed materialized view

Re: [HACKERS] [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-18 11:02:50 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: On 2013-09-18 11:55:24 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: I think that ship has long since sailed. postgresql.conf has allowed foo.bar style GUCs via custom_variable_classes for a long time, and these days we don't even require that but allow

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

2013-09-19 Thread Sawada Masahiko
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Sawada Masahiko sawada.m...@gmail.com wrote: I attached the patch which I have modified. Thanks for updating the patch! Here are the review comments: Thank you for reviewing! I

Re: [HACKERS] proposal: lob conversion functionality

2013-09-19 Thread Rushabh Lathia
Hi Pavel, I have reviewed you patch. -- Patch got applied cleanly (using patch -p1) -- Make Make install works fine -- make check looks good I done code-walk and it looks good. Also did some manual testing and haven't found any issue with the implementation. Patch introduced two new API

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

2013-09-19 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Sawada Masahiko sawada.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Sawada Masahiko sawada.m...@gmail.com wrote: I attached the patch which I have modified. Thanks for

[HACKERS] FW: REVIEW: Allow formatting in log_line_prefix

2013-09-19 Thread David Rowley
(Forgot to copy list) From: David Rowley [mailto:dgrowle...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 September 2013 22:35 To: Albe Laurenz Subject: Re: REVIEW: Allow formatting in log_line_prefix Hi Laurenz, Thanks for the review. Please see my comments below and the updated patch attached. On Thu, Sep

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Hannu Krosing
On 09/19/2013 10:54 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com writes: There are examples in the patch and this thread, but rather than reference back to those I'll add a new one. Without the patch: Thanks much for doing that. The problem, as I see it, is that the view and

Re: [HACKERS] Freezing without write I/O

2013-09-19 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 18.09.2013 16:22, Andres Freund wrote: On 2013-09-16 16:59:28 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Here's a rebased version of the patch, including the above-mentioned fixes. Nothing else new. * We need some higherlevel description of the algorithm somewhere in the source. I don't think

Re: [HACKERS] proposal: lob conversion functionality

2013-09-19 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/9/19 Rushabh Lathia rushabh.lat...@gmail.com Hi Pavel, I have reviewed you patch. -- Patch got applied cleanly (using patch -p1) -- Make Make install works fine -- make check looks good I done code-walk and it looks good. Also did some manual testing and haven't found any issue

Re: [HACKERS] Assertions in PL/PgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/9/18 Jim Nasby j...@nasby.net On 9/14/13 11:55 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: 2013/9/15 Marko Tiikkaja ma...@joh.to mailto:ma...@joh.to On 2013-09-15 00:09, Pavel Stehule wrote: this is a possibility for introduction a new hook and possibility implement asserions

Re: [HACKERS] Assertions in PL/PgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On 9/18/13 5:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: In this code a assert fail can be lost in app log. Or can be knowingly handled and ignored - what is wrong, and should not be allowed. When I wrote a little bit complex procedures, I had to use a EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS clause - because I would not to lost

Re: [HACKERS] Assertions in PL/PgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On 9/19/13 2:08 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: I think so similar frameworks will be exists (we have some similar Probably You and me have a same opinion so only simple and very primitive assert is not enough: I see as useful feature for assertions: a) possibility to specify a message (two

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com writes: The problem, as I see it, is that the view and the concurrently refreshed materialized view don't yield the same results for the same query.  The rows are equal, but they are not the same. With the patch

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 05:33:22 -0700, Kevin Grittner wrote: Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com writes: The problem, as I see it, is that the view and the concurrently refreshed materialized view don't yield the same results for the same query.  The

Re: [HACKERS] Assertions in PL/PgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/9/19 Marko Tiikkaja ma...@joh.to On 9/19/13 2:08 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: I think so similar frameworks will be exists (we have some similar Probably You and me have a same opinion so only simple and very primitive assert is not enough: I see as useful feature for assertions: a)

Re: [HACKERS] Freezing without write I/O

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2013-09-19 14:42:19 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 18.09.2013 16:22, Andres Freund wrote: * Why can we do a GetOldestXmin(allDbs = false) in BeginXidLSNRangeSwitch()? Looks like a bug. I think I got the arguments backwards, was supposed to be allDbs = true and ignoreVacuum =

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
Hannu Krosing ha...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: the patch solves the general problem of when the table changes, refresh After saying it like this, the problem could also be solved by including xmin(s) for rows from underlying table(s)in the matview. Would this be a better approach ? Now

Re: [HACKERS] FW: REVIEW: Allow formatting in log_line_prefix

2013-09-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Something is weird in your latest patch. The header is: diff -u -r b/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml a/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml --- b/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml 2013-09-09 23:40:52.356371191 +1200 +++ a/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml 2013-09-19

[HACKERS] information schema parameter_default implementation

2013-09-19 Thread Amit Khandekar
On 15 September 2013 01:35, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: Here is an updated patch which fixes the bug you have pointed out. On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 18:59 +0500, Ali Dar wrote: I checked our your patch. There seems to be an issue when we have OUT parameters after the DEFAULT

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Hannu Krosing
On 09/19/2013 02:41 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Hannu Krosing ha...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: the patch solves the general problem of when the table changes, refresh After saying it like this, the problem could also be solved by including xmin(s) for rows from underlying table(s)in the matview.

Re: [HACKERS] Freezing without write I/O

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 14:40:35 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: * I think heap_lock_tuple() needs to unset all-visible, otherwise we won't vacuum that page again which can lead to problems since we don't do full-table vacuums again? It's OK if the page is never vacuumed again, the whole point

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

2013-09-19 Thread Sawada Masahiko
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Sawada Masahiko sawada.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Sawada Masahiko

Re: [HACKERS] logical changeset generation v6

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Rebased patches attached. I spent a bit of time looking at these patches yesterday and today. It seems to me that there's a fair amount of stylistic cleanup that is still needed, and some pretty bad naming choices, and

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Proposal/design feedback needed: WITHIN GROUP (sql standard ordered set aggregate functions)

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Andrew Gierth and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk wrote: Robert == Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: Someone should do the same in WaitForBackgroundWorkerStartup so that building with -Werror works. Robert I don't get a warning there. Can you be more

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Daniel Farina dan...@heroku.com wrote: I'm not sure how many of you have been tracking this but courtesy of lwn.net I have learned that it seems that the OOM killer behavior in Linux 3.12 will be significantly different. And by description, it sounds like an

Re: [HACKERS] logical changeset generation v6

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
Hi Robert, On 2013-09-19 10:02:31 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Rebased patches attached. I spent a bit of time looking at these patches yesterday and today. It seems to me that there's a fair amount of stylistic

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: But, naturally, that will not be a problem since all user-space code diligently checks the return status of every system call and responds with well-tested error-handling code when things go wrong. That just short

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: But, naturally, that will not be a problem since all user-space code diligently checks the return status of every system call and responds with

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 18:23:07 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: I've been told at several instances that this has been made for the JVM and other such programs that want to allocate huge amount of memory even if they don't really intend to use it. That's not really related - what you describe is memory

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: The problem is that it's not just about malloc() (aka brk() and mmap()) and friends. It's about many of the other systemcalls. Like e.g. send() to name one of the more likely ones. *shrug* If you're using for send()

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 11:49:05 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: But, naturally, that will not be a problem since all user-space code diligently checks the

Re: [HACKERS] logical changeset generation v6

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: - Looking specifically at the 0004 patch, I think that the RecentGlobalDataXmin changes are logically separate from the rest of the patch, and that if we're going to commit them at all, it should be separate from the

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com writes: What has changed is how to react to situations where memory has been overcommitted but is now actually needed. Sure. You either have a failure at malloc() or usage, over commit is all about never failing at malloc(), but now you have to deal with OOM

Re: [HACKERS] Performance problem in PLPgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread dlight
We intsall postgresql 9.3.0 server from FreeBSD ports http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/databases/postgresql93-server/ the administrator says that he already contains this patch. -- View this message in context:

Re: [HACKERS] Support for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: 1. We're not in a huge hurry to ensure that sinval notifications are delivered in a timely fashion. We know that sinval resets are bad, so if a backend is getting close to needing a sinval reset, we kick it in an

Re: [HACKERS] Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM

2013-09-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: I laughed, too, but the reality is that at least as far as PG is concerned it's probably a truthful statement, and if it isn't, nobody here is likely to complain about having to fix it. Yeah, there's a lot of other code out there not as well written

Re: [HACKERS] Not In Foreign Key Constraint

2013-09-19 Thread Misa Simic
2013/9/19 David Johnston pol...@yahoo.com Misa Simic wrote I guess that rule can be achieved with triigers on TableA and TableC - but the same is true for FK (and FK constraint is more effective then trigger - that is why I wonder would it be useful/achievable to create that kind of

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Proposal/design feedback needed: WITHIN GROUP (sql standard ordered set aggregate functions)

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrew Gierth and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk wrote: It compiles without error and looks ok... Thanks for checking. Committed. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Proposal/design feedback needed: WITHIN GROUP (sql standard ordered set aggregate functions)

2013-09-19 Thread Andrew Gierth
Robert == Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: bgworker.c: In function 'WaitForBackgroundWorkerStartup': bgworker.c:866: warning: 'pid' may be used uninitialized in this function Robert Does the attached patch fix it for you? It compiles without error and looks ok... -- Andrew

Re: [HACKERS] proposal: lob conversion functionality

2013-09-19 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello here is patch Regards Pavel 2013/9/19 Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.com 2013/9/19 Rushabh Lathia rushabh.lat...@gmail.com Hi Pavel, I have reviewed you patch. -- Patch got applied cleanly (using patch -p1) -- Make Make install works fine -- make check looks good I

Re: [HACKERS] Minor inheritance/check bug: Inconsistent behavior

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
Marking this as Ready for committer. Thanks a ton for reviewing the patch. I rewrote the comments for this patch and fixed the incorrect formatting in parse_relation.c. It used spaces instead of tabs, which is why if you look at the patch file you'll see that the alignment looked off. See

Re: [HACKERS] Not In Foreign Key Constraint

2013-09-19 Thread David Johnston
Misa Simic wrote Hi hackers, I just wonder how hard would be to implement something like Not In FK Constraint or opposite to FK... A more useful couple next sentences would be along the lines of: I have this problemI've approached it by doingbut it seems that an actual database

Re: [HACKERS] Where to load modules from?

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 2013-09-18 08:46:08 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Here's another idea. At initdb time, create an empty directory called called pg_you_can_load_stuff_from_here (pick a better name) inside $PGDATA. Allow it to be

Re: [HACKERS] Dead code or buggy code?

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Greg Stark st...@mit.edu wrote: The following code is in the ProcSleep at proc.c:1138. GetBlockingAutoVacuumPgproc() should presumably always return a vacuum pgproc entry since the deadlock state says it's blocked by autovacuum. But I'm not really familiar

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: I generally think the current logic for triggering VACUUMs via autovacuum doesn't really make all that much sense in the days where we have the visibility map. Right now, whether or not to autovacuum is the rest of a

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:42 PM, MauMau maumau...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that these two points here are the real core of your proposal. The rest is just syntactic sugar. No, those are desirable if possible features. What's important is to declare in the manual that PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Assertions in PL/PgSQL

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Marko Tiikkaja ma...@joh.to wrote: On 2013-09-14 23:55, Pavel Stehule wrote: but introduction a reserved keword for one very special purpose (without extensibility) is not prudent. How about using an existing keyword then? ASSERTION used to be reserved in

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Vik Fearing vik.fear...@dalibo.com wrote: On 09/19/2013 12:55 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: We have, as a community, gone to a fair amount of trouble to make the concept of equality pluggable and allow multiple types of equality per type. To me it seems the

Re: [HACKERS] [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: That's more or less what I figured. One thing I'm uncomfortable with is that, while this is useful for extensions, what do we do when we have a similar requirement for core? The proposed GUC name is of the format

[HACKERS] Range types do not display in pg_stats

2013-09-19 Thread Josh Berkus
create table tstztest( trange tstzrange ); postgres=# insert into tstztest select tstzrange(t, t + interval '1 month') from generate_series('2012-01-01'::timestamptz,'2018-01-01','1 month') as gs(t); INSERT 0 73 postgres=# analyze tstztest; ANALYZE postgres=# select * from pg_stats where

[HACKERS] Dump/Reload broken with relocatable extensions

2013-09-19 Thread Vik Fearing
I don't know if this has been discussed before, a cursory search of the archives didn't turn up anything interesting. I perhaps didn't put in the right keywords. Unfortunately, the easiest way that I've found to reproduce this bug is to apply the attached patch to the unaccent extension. This

Re: [HACKERS] Where to load modules from?

2013-09-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: I think I'd prefer a GUC that allows specifying multiple directories that are searched in order to a single symlinked directory. Why? I ask because I have the opposite preference, based on the precedent of pg_xlog. I understand Andres preference,

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans

2013-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Right now, whether or not to autovacuum is the rest of a two-pronged test.  The first prong is based on number of updates and deletes relative to table size; that triggers a regular autovacuum.  The second prong is based on age(relfrozenxid) and

Re: [HACKERS] Dump/Reload broken with relocatable extensions

2013-09-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Vik Fearing vik.fear...@dalibo.com writes: I don't know if this has been discussed before, a cursory search of the archives didn't turn up anything interesting. I perhaps didn't put in the right keywords. For others not to spend too much time on this: it seems like a problem with the

Re: [HACKERS] Where to load modules from?

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 22:56:52 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: I think I'd prefer a GUC that allows specifying multiple directories that are searched in order to a single symlinked directory. Why? I ask because I have the opposite preference, based on

Re: [HACKERS] Freezing without write I/O

2013-09-19 Thread Ants Aasma
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Heikki Linnakangas hlinnakan...@vmware.com wrote: * switchFinishXmin and nextSwitchXid should probably be either volatile or have a compiler barrier between accessing shared memory and checking them. The compiler very well could optimize them away and

Re: [HACKERS] [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 14:57:53 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: I think that ship has long since sailed. postgresql.conf has allowed foo.bar style GUCs via custom_variable_classes for a long time, and these days we don't even

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] BUG #7873: pg_restore --clean tries to drop tables that don't exist

2013-09-19 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/9/16 Satoshi Nagayasu sn...@uptime.jp (2013/07/06 1:16), Pavel Stehule wrote: I am sending a patch that removes strict requirements for DROP IF EXISTS statements. This behave is similar to our ALTER IF EXISTS behave now. postgres=# DROP CAST IF EXISTS (sss AS public.casttesttype);

Re: [HACKERS] record identical operator - Review

2013-09-19 Thread Steve Singer
On 09/12/2013 06:27 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Attached is a patch for a bit of infrastructure I believe to be necessary for correct behavior of REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY as well as incremental maintenance of matviews. Here is attempt at a review of the v1 patch. There has been a

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

2013-09-19 Thread MauMau
From: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com That may be what's important to you, but it's not what's important to me. National character types support may be important to some potential users of PostgreSQL and the popularity of PostgreSQL, not me. That's why national character support is listed

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans

2013-09-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-09-19 14:39:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: I generally think the current logic for triggering VACUUMs via autovacuum doesn't really make all that much sense in the days where we have the visibility map.

Re: [HACKERS] Dead code or buggy code?

2013-09-19 Thread Greg Stark
So I'm just going to make the code defensive and assume NULL is possible when if maybe it isn't. In case it's not clear, this is one of the thing's Xi Wang's took picked up. There not to many but it turns out they are indeed not all in the adt code so I might wait until after the commit fest to

[HACKERS] Looking for information on our elephant

2013-09-19 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Hi, I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we chose elephant as our mascot. According to: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any

Re: [HACKERS] Looking for information on our elephant

2013-09-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Tatsuo, I have emails even from 1995 ! You can see that historical message here: http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939 Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo. *Author:* yang( at )sjuphil( dot )sju( dot )edu *Date:* 1997-04-03 20:36:33

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, MauMau maumau...@gmail.com wrote: 2. NCHAR/NVARCHAR columns can be used in non-UTF-8 databases and always contain Unicode data. ... 3. Store strings in UTF-16 encoding in NCHAR/NVARCHAR columns. Fixed-width encoding may allow faster string manipulation as

Re: [HACKERS] Looking for information on our elephant

2013-09-19 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Oh great! Thank you Oleg! -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp Tatsuo, I have emails even from 1995 ! You can see that historical message here: http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939 Re: [HACKERS]

Re: [HACKERS] Range types do not display in pg_stats

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: create table tstztest( trange tstzrange ); postgres=# insert into tstztest select tstzrange(t, t + interval '1 month') from generate_series('2012-01-01'::timestamptz,'2018-01-01','1 month') as gs(t); INSERT 0 73

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Valentine Gogichashvili
Hi, That may be what's important to you, but it's not what's important to me. National character types support may be important to some potential users of PostgreSQL and the popularity of PostgreSQL, not me. That's why national character support is listed in the PostgreSQL TODO wiki.

Re: [HACKERS] [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

2013-09-19 Thread Amit Kapila
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Andres Freund and...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 2013-09-18 11:02:50 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: On 2013-09-18 11:55:24 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: I think that ship has long since sailed. postgresql.conf has allowed foo.bar style GUCs via

Re: [HACKERS] proposal: lob conversion functionality

2013-09-19 Thread Rushabh Lathia
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: Hello here is patch Looks good. Marking it as Ready for Committer. Regards Pavel 2013/9/19 Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.com 2013/9/19 Rushabh Lathia rushabh.lat...@gmail.com Hi Pavel, I