Re: [HACKERS] 8.0b4: COMMIT outside of a transaction echoes

2004-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
, but rather rolled back. It's still a misleading message; in those circumstances, how about returning NO ACTION instead? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E

Re: [HACKERS] Inability to cast regclass is too restrictive

2004-10-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 05:35, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to use regclass() in a plpgsql function to derive a tablename from its oid so as to build a command string, but I am unable to use the value returned because it cannot be cast to anything

[HACKERS] Inability to cast regclass is too restrictive

2004-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
work. This seems overly restrictive. Would there be a problem in allowing regclass() to be cast to text? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E

Re: [HACKERS] NEW used in a query that is not in a rule

2004-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
+u2OJqagCg86ut tsa/AXBfKtB12sCPBIwJAYc= =G2DY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] monetary bug

2004-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
amounts of money in different currencies, even if you convert to some base currency first. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664

Re: [HACKERS] monetary bug

2004-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
-- but you couldn't sum mixed currencies. Or else it is limited to the currency of the locale, which doesn't seem particularly useful. I think that it should be removed altogether. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [HACKERS] Does psql use nested transactions?

2004-08-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
for doing it. Oliver Elphick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

[HACKERS] PITR - recovery to a particular transaction

2004-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
that modifies the database? Would that be a small enough change to be allowed into 8.0? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543

Re: [HACKERS] PITR - recovery to a particular transaction

2004-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 19:16, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about adding a logging option to put the transaction id on the log for every statement that modifies the database? Would that be a small enough change to be allowed into 8.0? I think we could get

[HACKERS] Unicode restriction

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
of the Unicode character range is invalid. There is a Debian bug report from someone whose client is trying to store characters in the excluded range. What would be needed to enable support for it? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [HACKERS] Escaping metacharacters

2004-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
at the function PQescapeString() in the libpq library? Using that would seem to be a simpler way of solving this problem. Libraries such as Perl DBI have similar functions built in. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Is trust really a good default?

2004-07-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 05:08, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... The point of this explanation is that as Debian maintainer I would have to disable any procedures that attempt to edit these conffiles, or at least ensure that their operation is under package

Re: [HACKERS] Is trust really a good default?

2004-07-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
is a major part of the package maintainer's job. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: [HACKERS] CVS tip problems

2004-06-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
to correct the problem.) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: [HACKERS] CVS tip problems

2004-05-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 19:55, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. There are regression failures on timestamptz and horology which seem to have come about either on input or output of timestamps with fractional seconds. I believe I've fixed this. All regression

Re: [HACKERS] CVS tip problems

2004-05-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
char* -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA Thou

[HACKERS] CVS tip problems

2004-05-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
5342? 3. There is a compilation warning that a constant will not fit into a long in adt.c. There are two more files where INT64CONST() is required but not supplied. Patch attached. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
together. It wouldn't be an issue on most normal systems, but might be of crucial importance for an ISP running numerous separate clusters. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFIX Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Collaboration Tool Proposal

2004-03-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
? http://alioth.debian.org (It is due to be taken down for a few hours this week while it is moved to a new machine.) Oliver Elphick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] anoncvs problem

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Following instructions on http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html does not currently work: $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/projects/cvsroot login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/projects/cvsroot CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server

Re: [HACKERS] documentation bug?

2004-01-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
why we go back to 4713BC instead of 4712BC. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Announce: Search PostgreSQL related resources

2004-01-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
in foreign languages. For example, I am unable to benefit from pages written in Russian; I would like to exclude them from the search, but I see no means of doing that. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2004-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
7.4.1 in unstable. Unfortunately, this meant that packages didn't get built for other architectures unless someone using those architectures did a build from source, which apparently didn't happen with hppa. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2004-01-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:58, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 03:22, Oliver Elphick wrote: What is needed to provide spinlock support for linux on hppa? Possibly nothing --- can you try CVS tip? Bruce has already committed his patch

[HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2003-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
=1072828455file=logas=raw -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C The LORD

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2003-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 03:22, Oliver Elphick wrote: What is needed to provide spinlock support for linux on hppa? I should add that 7.3.4 built OK. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: [HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re:

2003-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 23:18, Neil Conway wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The use of the word log in the directory name does tend to invite this error, and some have acted on it without asking first. I think initdb should put a README.IMPORTANT file in $PGDATA to say

Re: [HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re:

2003-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
is the best solution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

[HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re: [ADMIN] Size on Disk]

2003-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
difficult for people to find out what they are. I therefore also attach a doc patch to add index entries for those two files. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5

Re: [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
of the beta and rc releases. These have gone into the experimental archive in Debian and are announced on Debian lists. I even posted an announcement to pgsql-general, on 10th October for example. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed structure for coexisting major versions

2003-10-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:05, Neil Conway wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:24, Oliver Elphick wrote: If it were possible to have two separate versions of the PostgreSQL packages installed simultaneously, it would be simple to do database upgrades by dumping from the old version and uploading

[HACKERS] Proposed structure for coexisting major versions

2003-10-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
operate only on running clusters - those for which postmaster is running - for the current EUID -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] Debian bug report about multibyte in 7.3.3

2003-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
mother-in-law from Israel, so this bug never got dealt with at all :-( But I do have problems with these character set bugs, since it took a long time to find a way to see these characters correctly. I can confirm it does not happen in 7.4beta4 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

[HACKERS] Unicode upper() bug still present

2003-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
There is a bug in Unicode upper() which has been present since 7.2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139389 I had thought I had reported it before, but I can't find a record of it. The attached Perl script illustrates the bug (the script needs DBI). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

2003-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
intention of providing data integrity. Having used both SQL and MV, I would not now design in any MV implementation known to me a system whose data I valued. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: [HACKERS] db encoding

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
a single command. Therefore, you don't need to keep pg_encoding for my (the Debian package's) sake. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: [HACKERS] db encoding

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:31, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently use pg_encoding in Debian's automatic upgrade script to extract the existing default encoding from pg_database, thus: $ psql -q -t -d template1 -c select encoding from pg_database where

Re: [HACKERS] minor view creation weirdness

2003-10-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
, timestamp, cidr and so on. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] initdb failure (was Re: [GENERAL] sequence's plpgsql)

2003-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
use the -e option to psql to print the SQL commands + as they are run, so that it is easy to see precisely which commands are + causing errors. /para para -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG interface: 7.4beta3 compile failure; CVS tip

2003-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
using the very same system as Oliver to compile. Perhaps you should enclose your definition in #ifndef __USE_GNU #endif src/include/port/linux.h now forces _GNU_SOURCE on, which in turn defines __USE_GNU. Do you somehow override the definition of _GNU_SOURCE? -- Oliver Elphick

[HACKERS] ECPG interface: 7.4beta3 compile failure; CVS tip compile failure

2003-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
(). However, strndup() is also declared in string.h, which is included by this file. If I rename this function to estrndup() (and also where it is called, further down) the compilation succeeds. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] wish: limit number of connections per database

2003-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Draw near to God and he

Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
version. I use both of them for the Debian packaging, to try to ensure that upgrading goes seamlessly. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A

[HACKERS] Debian packages of 7.4beta2

2003-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C And he said unto his disciples

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
be rewritten to show this, as the backend's ps lines are rewritten? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:06, mlw wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Can non-root write to /var/run? Shouldn't be able too But it should be able to write under /var/run/postgresql, which the distribution will set up with the correct permissions. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:53, Bruce Momjian wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: What your comments strongly suggest to me is that projects like PostgreSQL and pine, along with everything else, should comply with FHS; then there will be no confusion because everyone will be following the smae

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:49, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not entirely sure why SE Linux has a problem, seeing that postgres needs read-write access to all the files in $PGDATA, but assuming the need is verified, I could do this by moving the pid file from

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
(and therefore /etc/opt) are intended for the use of vendors; so commercial packages designed to fit in with FHS should use those. I don't think they are for locally built stuff. No matter; it illustrates the main point, which is that these things should be easily configurable. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
; then there will be no confusion because everyone will be following the smae standards. Messes arise when people ignore standards; we have all seen the dreadful examples of MySQL and the Beast, haven't we? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
about the default here. For distributions it should be /etc/postgresql; for local builds it should be /usr/local/etc/postgresql, assuming you have root access. If you don't, the -c configfile switch suggested elsewhere in this debate would be needed. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
/5432.pid and similarly for other ports. This would also have the benefit of being more FHS compliant What do people think about that? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
that initdb creates symlinks to /etc/postgresql/, as happens now. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
of the configuration file.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:45, Bruce Momjian wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:52, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Seems to me that if FHS allows such a mess, it's reason enough to avoid compliance. Either that or those of you who build for distributions are making an ill

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C The earth is the LORD'S

Re: [HACKERS] pgbash-7.3 released

2003-02-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
? or is there no connection? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Make

Re: [HACKERS] UNIQUE not unique with inheritance (workaround?)

2003-02-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
or something? Give each table in the hierarchy a foreign key reference to another table which holds a unique list of the primary keys and a column that says which table they are in. Use triggers to update this other table and to prevent duplications in the hierarchy. . -- Oliver Elphick

[HACKERS] Cannot break out of createuser

2003-02-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
' 1 2 3 15 should be: trap 'stty echo /dev/null 21; exit 1' 1 2 3 15 or even trap 'stty echo /dev/null 21' EXIT -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Function for adding Money type

2003-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
places on output but I am not sure if that would affect the primary benefit of using it, speed. A money type needs to specify what currency is held. The current one changes the currency with the locale, which makes nonsense of existing data. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
. There were 2 on Postgresql, and only one copy of each. I'd be interested to know what the commercial PostgreSQL companies think about it -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3.1 on linux

2003-01-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
if the plpgsql.so language file is not in the directory specified by `pg_config --pkglibdir'. That directory's path is substituted for '$libdir' by the backend. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading rant.

2003-01-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
the running postmaster and open a new postmaster using a different port, so that normal connection attempts will fail because there is no postmaster running on the normal port. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Password Cracker

2002-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
seconds. That should make brute force cracking unfeasible unless someone gets very lucky or the password is particularly weak. Zero the entry for a username as soon as there is a good connection. Is it worth doing? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [HACKERS] What else needs to be done for 7.3.1?

2002-12-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
with the release announcement? All is ready for when the new tar.gz appears. Once I have downloaded it, it should only take 10 minutes or so to package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
will be replaced by one that looks for libpq.so.3. But I think that, unless the API of libecpg changes, its version should stay the same. If you change it with libpq, you must also change it with all the other libraries it links in, like libkrb5 and libdb3. That is clearly impracticable. -- Oliver

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
the old library around for the benefits of applications that have not yet been recompiled, while newly compiled applications can use the new library So please change it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
chosen by the linker is the one linked to libpq.so. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFIX Limited ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[HACKERS] pg_hba.conf parse error gives wrong line number

2002-12-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
, a bogus line number is going to make debugging very tricky. I tried following this in gdb, but haven't managed to track it through the fork of the new backend. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
, it feels safe. We need to make PostgreSQL familiar. That's why we need marketing. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFIX Limited ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:27, Vince Vielhaber wrote: On 8 Dec 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: If something is familiar, it feels safe. We need to make PostgreSQL familiar. That's why we need marketing. Then why wasn't mysql in the list? It's familiar. To PHBs? MySQL doesn't have anything

[HACKERS] Debian pacakges of 7.3

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
wanting packages for other aarchitectures should build from source and let me know what (if anything) goes wrong. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
datatype, you would also have to edit the table definition to use a pre-created sequence. There is no means of specifying a max_value using SERIAL. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFIX Limited ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
=# select nextval('foo_seq'); nextval - 1 (1 row) junk=# select setval('foo_seq', 99); ERROR: foo_seq.setval: value 99 is out of bounds (1,3000) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFIX Limited

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Bug with sequence

2002-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:35, Robert Treat wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 03:53, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 15:45, Thomas Aichinger wrote: Hi, I recently installed pg 7.2.3 on my linux box and discovered that there are some problems with datatype serial and sequence

[HACKERS] mislaid reference to update script for after 7.3 upgrade

2002-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
it in a mailing list search. Can anyone give me a URL for that, or have I sdreamed it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] PG functions in Java: maybe use gcj?

2002-11-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. -- Oliver Elphick

[HACKERS] 7.3b3 Regression tests passed on i386 Debian

2002-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
--with-pam --with-openssl --with-gnu-ld --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.3 --with-tkconfig=/usr/lib/tk8.3 --with-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.3 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] [GENERAL] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

2002-10-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
than the start of the transaction. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump problems in upgrading

2002-09-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
. It is quite likely that the table was dropped and recreated after the view was created. In fact, the view no longer works: ERROR: Relation sales_forecast with OID 26246751 no longer exists so that must be what happened. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: [HACKERS] generating postgres core files on debian

2002-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
debuild -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Bring ye all

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.3 beta.

2002-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 05:02, Bruce Momjian wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: I'm unhappy because I know that I will get bug reports that I will have to deal with. They will take time and effort and would not be necessary if we had a seamless upgrade path. This last line gave me a chuckle

Re: [HACKERS] strip a character from text

2002-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Does anyone know a function that strips ANY occurence of a given character from a TEXT? It sounds like a job for a PL/Perl function. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.3 beta.

2002-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
, but I would like it to become a goal of the project. It has always been my goal as Debian maintainer, but I don't think I can achieve it for this release. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.3 beta.

2002-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
from any older version to the current one could be done by pg_upgrade. Is this even worth considering? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump problems in upgrading

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 00:52, Philip Warner wrote: At 12:31 PM 9/09/2002 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: 3. A view is being created before one of the tables it refers to. Should not views be created only at the very end? This would be trivial (and we already put several items at the end), but I

Re: [HACKERS] OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
be restored OK into 7.3. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Let

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
to rewrite or cast the expression 3. A view was created before one of the tables to which it referred. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 14:59, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me reiterate. I got these problems dumping 7.2 data with 7.3's pg_dumpall: 1. The language handlers were dumped as opaque; that needs to be changed to language_handler. Okay, we need to do

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 08:20, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2002 07:29 To: Tom Lane Cc: Lamar Owen; Bruce Momjian; Philip Warner; Laurette Cisneros; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS

Re: [HACKERS] - pg_dump issues

2002-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C I am crucified

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
I'll try it tomorrow. Why can't we do the remapping in the SQL grammar and remove the remapping in 7.4? Surely you will have to leave the remapping in for the benefit of anyone who jumps from = 7.2 to = 7.4 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: [HACKERS] Script to compute random page cost

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
for my using a page cost of 1 on the assumption that no disk reads would be needed? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
uses template0 itself. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
that an upgrade will fail and will requre the dump script to be edited. There are some issues in pg_dump / pg_dumpall that need addressing before final release. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:09, Bruce Momjian wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: edited. There are some issues in pg_dump / pg_dumpall that need addressing before final release. OK, can you specifically list them? Message yesterday to pgsql-hackers Subject: [HACKERS] pg_dump problems

[HACKERS] pg_dump problems in upgrading

2002-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
3. A view is being created before one of the tables it refers to. Should not views be created only at the very end? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0

Re: [HACKERS] Script to compute random page cost

2002-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
. --- Five successive runs: random_page_cost = 0.947368 random_page_cost = 0.894737 random_page_cost = 0.947368 random_page_cost = 0.894737 random_page_cost = 0.894737 linux 2.4.18 SMP dual Athlon MP 1900+ 512Mb RAM SCSI -- Oliver

Re: [HACKERS]

2002-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: function plpgsql_call_handler() does not return type language_handler Any ideas? At the moment, you have to edit the dump. Where the language handler function is declared, change RETURNS opaque to RETURNS language_handler. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
complex and more difficult to understand. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

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