Re: [HACKERS] Latin vs non-Latin words in text search parsing

2007-10-23 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hword_asciipart hword_part hword_numpart Out of curiosity would the foo in foo-bär or the foo-beta1 be a hword_asciipart or a hword_part/hword_numpart? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-23 Thread Gregory Stark
. Also, not all reviewers are committers. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-23 Thread Gregory Stark
running them together which was blocking you from running benchmarks on them. The problem I ran into was that by the time I had them all wrapped up major new commits to the CVS tree made it uninteresting to benchmark the snapshot I had. Also I think a new version of HOT had been posted. -- Gregory

[HACKERS] FD_SETSIZE limitation in Windows hamstringing pgbench.c

2007-10-22 Thread Gregory Stark
test it conveniently. Plus Postgres currently is bombing out with more than 45 clients anyways due to the handles issue that others are looking into (hence finding this limitation). -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Latin vs non-Latin words in text search parsing

2007-10-22 Thread Gregory Stark
as simply as in latin languages. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Ready for beta2?

2007-10-22 Thread Gregory Stark
of the tsearch api itself should just be left outside of core in a contrib module so they can be fiddled with in subsequent releases. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL performance issues

2007-10-22 Thread Gregory Stark
too. The downsides are that CLUSTER locks the table while it runs and it requires enough space to store a whole second copy of the table and its indexes. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Freeze date for 8.4

2007-10-22 Thread Gregory Stark
on the beta right now. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Debugger

2007-10-19 Thread Gregory Stark
for example? You have to start up your psql or other client run SELECT pg_backend_pid(); and attach to that process in the debugger. It sounds like you've connected to the postmaster which doesn't actually do any of the work, it just forks other backends. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http

Re: [HACKERS] ts_rewrite aggregate API seems mighty ugly

2007-10-18 Thread Gregory Stark
the interfaces can be fully integrated into SQL. So whereas previously you installed a contrib module for the whole tsearch2, now it's all integrated except for a few oddball functions which you can still get by supplementing the core tsearch with the contrib module. -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] ts_rewrite aggregate API seems mighty ugly

2007-10-18 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The two-argument form may not be actively broken but it sounds not very integrated. Passing a string which is then planned as an SQL query is not very SQL-ish. True. I'll bet you don't like ts_stat() either

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Gregory Stark
implementing yourself. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [HACKERS] max_prepared_transactions default ... why 5?

2007-10-18 Thread Gregory Stark
statements. There's another cost associated with prepared transactions. If it's set to 0 then there's no real reason we need to wal log lock operations. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

[HACKERS] Deprecating heap_formtuple/heap_modifytuple/heap_deformtuple

2007-10-17 Thread Gregory Stark
breakage, just potential confusion. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Indiana changes DST (4th Nov)

2007-10-16 Thread Gregory Stark
timezone. Does the database acquire new timezones for these counties with the rule for when they changed? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space

[HACKERS] UTF8 on Debian

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
it is a bit bleeding edge. But as I understand it the utf8 decoding is all our code anyways so I can't quite figure out how it could be glibc's fault. Does anybody else see anything like this? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 on Debian

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something very strange is going on on my machine with UTF8: postgres=# show server_encoding; server_encoding - UTF8 (1 row) Hm. Well this doesn't look right: (gdb) p pg_wchar_table[PG_UTF8] $9 = {mb2wchar_with_len = 0x8364cff

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 on Debian

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
, pg_johab_verifier, 3}, /* 38; PG_JOHAB */ {0, pg_sjis_mblen, pg_sjis_dsplen, pg_sjis_verifier, 2} /* 40; PG_SHIFT_JIS_2004 */ }; -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 on Debian

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something very strange is going on on my machine with UTF8: Argh, I missed rearranging a couple of tables in the recent patch to fix up the encoding IDs. Will fix. Hm, now things work correctly within the server

Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 on Debian

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, now things work correctly within the server if I play with text data generated with convert_from(). But I can't seem to send utf-8 text directly in psql any more: Ah, figured it out, nothing to do with the server. I didn't have the locale set

Re: [HACKERS] Including Snapshot Info with Indexes

2007-10-14 Thread Gregory Stark
, and index accesses. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [HACKERS] Including Snapshot Info with Indexes

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
it worthwhile. I think we are pretty set on having the DSM for vacuuming purposes so you'll also have to argue this approach will cover enough additional cases or be better in some other way compared to using the DSM to be a win. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql partitioning problems suggested solutions

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
these specific solutions. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

[HACKERS] ABIs are hard

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
: symbol lookup error: /home/stark/src/local-HEAD/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql: undefined symbol: pg_valid_server_encoding_id -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Gregory Stark
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007 schrieb Gregory Stark: . when creating a new database from a template the new locale and encoding   must be identical to the template database's encoding and locale. Unless the template is template0 in which case we

Re: [HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Gregory Stark
available and our, possibly slow, wrapper if not. If we ban direct use of strcoll and other lc_collate sensitive functions in Postgres we could also remember the last locale used and not do unnecessary setlocales so existing use cases aren't slowed down at all. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB

[HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Gregory Stark
database would be able to tell you exactly what you're doing wrong and what you have to do to avoid the problem. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Locales and Encodings

2007-10-12 Thread Gregory Stark
don't agree with the system collations? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Plan invalidation vs temp sequences

2007-10-11 Thread Gregory Stark
relid someplace which the plan invalldation code can check for it? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-10-11 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (It might be interesting to make textin produce a packed result when possible, just to see what breaks; but I would be afraid to try to do that for production...) Reassuringly all checks pass with a hack like

Re: [HACKERS] First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

2007-10-11 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, it looks like the race condition Heikki mentioned is the culprit. We need a way to stop future analyzes from starting. Back to the drawing board ... A crazy idea I just had -- what if you roll

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone database changes

2007-10-11 Thread Gregory Stark
that it represents changes due to the rules changing. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone database changes

2007-10-11 Thread Gregory Stark
timezone the birth isn't going to move. The use case for storing a local timestamp with a timezone attached is for things like appointments. If the time zone rules change you would want the appointment to move with them, not to stay at the same moment in time. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

2007-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
multiple versions of Postgres. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [HACKERS] Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

2007-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
and so on. Until the interface is very stable being in contrib makes perfect sense. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Including Snapshot Info with Indexes

2007-10-09 Thread Gregory Stark
functions, i feel it would serve most of the indexing requirements. We already do this. c.f. IMMUTABLE at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/xfunc-volatility.html and http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-createindex.html -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http

Re: [HACKERS] mal advice in FAQ 4.1.

2007-10-09 Thread Gregory Stark
the records being considered. If you want something faster you need a solution which can use an index to scan only the target record. There are ways of doing that but they require some application knowledge. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] type money causes unrestorable dump

2007-10-09 Thread Gregory Stark
as part of its DDL. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [HACKERS] Improving the Performance of Full Table Updates

2007-10-08 Thread Gregory Stark
to be enough. I'm not sure every OS implements them as specified though. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Gregory Stark
? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding and i18n

2007-10-06 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Reading the commit message about the TZ encoding issue I'm curious why this isn't a more widespread problem. How does gettext now what encoding we want messages in? How do we prevent things like to_char(now(),'month') from

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding and i18n

2007-10-06 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark wrote: So does the _() macro automatically recode it to the current server encoding? Well, I'm not sure if it's _(), elog() or what, but it does get recoded. If I have a different client_encoding and get a NOTICE, then both the server

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding and i18n

2007-10-06 Thread Gregory Stark
_(Monday) instead. Except in my tests I don't get any French dates even when the server is started in French mode. I think we just don't have localizations for those strings yet. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Release Notes Overview

2007-10-05 Thread Gregory Stark
such as typical web sites to run more efficiently and with fewer connections might also help clarify the use case it helps. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0

[HACKERS] Encoding and i18n

2007-10-05 Thread Gregory Stark
? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [HACKERS] uh-oh, dugong failing again

2007-10-04 Thread Gregory Stark
other compilers would be a compiler bug since it would be an incompatible ABI change. I find it hard to believe intel's compiler would get the ia64 ABI wrong. And hard to believe nobody's noticed an incompatible ABI from gcc-generated binaries. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http

Re: [HACKERS] First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

2007-10-04 Thread Gregory Stark
on the lock for 1s it wakes up, finds that the holder it's waiting on is an autovacuum process and cancels it instead of finding no deadlock. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can

Re: [HACKERS] First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
? That would solve the problem for the narrow case of pg_restore. In the long run we could think about exposing some kind of command for pg_restore to use which would disable autovacuum from touching a table. (Or take a session-level lock on the table -- shudder) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB

[HACKERS] Build farm failure

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
for details. STATEMENT: CREATE DATABASE contrib_regression TEMPLATE=template0 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [HACKERS] Build farm failure

2007-10-01 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dugong (icc on ia64) has been failing the contrib installcheck consistently since 6 days ago with errors like: ERROR: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/40960/41403: No such file or directory I checked a cvs diff between the two timestamps

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-30 Thread Gregory Stark
the datum pointer into a separate local variable of that type to suppress the optimization. Fascinating. Why do you cast arguments to memcmp to char* ? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-30 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do you cast arguments to memcmp to char* ? Well, *I* haven't done it in a long time, I'm referring to tuptoaster.c:488 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

[HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
the idea of keeping the VARHDRSZ/VARSHDRSZ offset in the varlen header seem pretty silly; hindsight is 20/20 and all that. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
that makes the macro VARSIZE_EXTERNAL_EXHDR_EXHDR() :/ ) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan

Re: [HACKERS] Enforcing database encoding and locale match

2007-09-28 Thread Gregory Stark
a loophole for anyone for whom the test didn't work properly. That sounds like a good combination -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-28 Thread Gregory Stark
is that things like pgadmin can connect properly to either 8.3, 8.2, and even 8.1 using the new libraries regardless of how the server authentication is configured. Do they work correctly if the server tries to do password authentication, ident, kerberos, etc. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http

Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-27 Thread Gregory Stark
they'll break if you swap the shared library out from under them? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http

Re: [HACKERS] Regression test message

2007-09-26 Thread Gregory Stark
be building 7.2.8, an unsupported release over two years and 5 major releases old? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-25 Thread Gregory Stark
not much point in making an exception for something which will only be really useful once further work is done in the same area. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
table? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Reduce the size of memoryallocations by lazy vacuum when

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
32768 11691023 -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
(result), inputText, len); + SET_VARSIZE_SHORT(result, len+VARHDRSZ_SHORT); + PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(result); + } + #endif + result = (text *) palloc(len + VARHDRSZ); SET_VARSIZE(result, len + VARHDRSZ); -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
of 1st digit */ uint16 n_sign_dscale; /* Sign + display scale */ + int16 n_weight; /* Weight of 1st digit */ charn_data[1]; /* Digits (really array of NumericDigit) */ } NumericData; -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3

2007-09-24 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we also should move the NumericData and declaration to numeric.c and make the Numeric type an opaque pointer for the rest of the source tree. I don't agree with that; we

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-23 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, this removes what should be most if not all of the call sites where we're detoasting text or byteas. In particular it gets all the regexp/like functions and all the trim/pad functions. It also gets hashtext

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

2007-09-23 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (It might be interesting to make textin produce a packed result when possible, just to see what breaks; but I would be afraid to try to do that for production...) This all brings up the question of what other files

Re: [HACKERS] like/ilike improvements

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
minutes to do that. I'm surprised it would have such a large effect though. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] like/ilike improvements

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Guillaume Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory, On 9/21/07, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, it does seem I missed like.c when I converted all the text operators to avoid detoasting packed varlenas. I'll send a patch in a few minutes to do that. I'm surprised it would have

Re: [HACKERS] Text - C string

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
)) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Text - C string

2007-09-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/22/07, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The canonical way to do it is with DatumGetCString(DirectFunctionCall1(textout, t)) Ah, I see. Thanks. In that case, would it be helpful if I submitted a patch for the various code fragments

Re: [HACKERS] Open issues for HOT patch

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
copying it to new memory instead of memory which is almost certainly likely in processor caches which would need to be invalidated would actually be faster and avoiding the use of memmove could be faster too. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Timezones change - never ending story

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
to slip this into the upcoming 8.2.5? I haven't been able to find anything which specifies precisely when it'll happen though. Just knowing the week or even day isn't enough. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
(windows,solaris,openbsd and linux). Is this exhaustive? That is, are we sure this never happened before Sept 11th? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [HACKERS] curious regression failures

2007-09-19 Thread Gregory Stark
) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---End Message--- -- Gregory

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-18 Thread Gregory Stark
won't worry. I tend to agree with you. We should only use overloading when the function is essentially the same just tweaked as appropriate for the datatype, not when the meaning is different. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

[HACKERS] Small Release Notes Comment

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
that. No intervention is required for normal expression indexes using those functions or hash indexes which will be rebuilt during a database upgrade anyways. I don't think hash_any itself changed so this wouldn't affect hashtext or any hash function which was already using hash_any. -- Gregory Stark

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
data in a container format or something. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Silence Solaris compiler warnings, per buildfarm.

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
/* exists in Solaris headers */ + #undef V_FALSE + #endif /* * output values for result output parameter of clean_fakeval_intree -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

2007-09-17 Thread Gregory Stark
for their intended purpose of client-server communication if they're not. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Hmmm ... isn't count_nondeletable_pages all wet?

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a corner case, but I say it's a must-fix. Of course Those bug reports have been bothering me for most of a year ... Are there any other outstanding reports like that? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] What is happening on buildfarm member dugong

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Stark
the user to do something? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
for and tried a lot of different approaches to solve this problem. This was the lowest impact solution and the only one that was convincingly correct (imho). -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
for this contraption before we had plan invalidation, but what use is it now? Argh, sorry, rereading your message I see there are a few details which I missed which completely change the meaning of it. Ignore my previous mail :( -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Another HOT thought: why do we need indcreatexid at all?

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICS, the whole indcreatexid and validForTxn business is a waste of code. By the time CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is ready to set indisvalid, surely any transactions that could see the broken HOT chains are gone

Re: [HACKERS] Representation of redirected line pointers in HOT

2007-09-12 Thread Gregory Stark
. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] invalidly encoded strings

2007-09-10 Thread Gregory Stark
of consisting of those three bytes described above? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Are we done with sync-commit-defaults-to-off patch?

2007-09-09 Thread Gregory Stark
than the build farm. Especially when it comes to vacuum and vacuum full and cluster and so on given that autovacuum barely has a chance to start looking at things before the regression tests are done. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Low hanging fruit in lazy-XID-assignment patch?

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
is executed. I'm a bit afraid the plan will stay cached longer than would be ideal. If the plan doesn't use the new index then ideally we would want to invalidate it from the cache at the end of this transaction I suppose. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Just-in-time Background Writer Patch+Test Results

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
the sleep time. So it would always process a full cycle for example but adjust the sleep time based on what percentage of the cycle the backends used up in the last sleep time. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (MaybeOFFTOPIC)

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this apoc9009 guy real ? Please, just don't respond. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch for latestCompletedXid method of computing snapshot xmax

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
with a smaller scale factor? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch for latestCompletedXid method of computing snapshot xmax

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
the percentages on the transactions. I think Stock Level and Order Status are entirely read-only but I would have to check. Stock Level is a very intensive query though so I wouldn't suggest raising the percentage on that. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: [HACKERS] Low hanging fruit in lazy-XID-assignment patch?

2007-09-08 Thread Gregory Stark
any old tuples in broken chains uses the serializable snapshot as a conservative proxy for the oldest snapshot which might be in use. That will work for both serializable and read committed. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup(Maybe OFFTOPIC)

2007-09-06 Thread Gregory Stark
for large I/O bound databases That seems too vague for the TODO. Did you have specific items in mind? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Has anyone tried out the PL/pgSQL debugger?

2007-09-04 Thread Gregory Stark
was discussing PostgreSQL. So presumably he was speaking on behalf of the postgres community. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Updatable cursor doubt

2007-09-04 Thread Gregory Stark
an error if someone opens a file in read-only mode when they actually do have write permission? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made it reject all but latin letters, which is the same restriction that's in place for timezone set filenames. That might be overly strong, but we definitely have to forbid

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers

2007-09-03 Thread Gregory Stark
of Linux and I thought it was false for other modern OSes -- I'm surprised it's not for Solaris even. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

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