Re: [HACKERS] Need NetBSD thread tester

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas T. Thai
thread. NetBSD-current has it though. Thomas T. Thai ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock while doing VACUUM??

2003-03-27 Thread Thomas T. Thai
> Even dropping the table and all of its indexes and recreating it does > nothing to solve this problem, so I don't have any reason to suspect > corruption of the table itself. Corruption elsewhere is a > possibility, I suppose, but I haven't noticed any strangeness > elsewhere. This sounds very

Re: [HACKERS] BUG: Vacuum Analyze - datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0

2003-03-26 Thread Thomas T. Thai
>> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 20:42, Thomas T. Thai wrote: > [...] >>> ERROR: datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0 >> >> Works for me: >> >> [nconway:/home/nconway]% psql -f bug.sql >> CREATE TABLE >> INSERT 287424 1 >> INSERT 28742

Re: [HACKERS] BUG: Vacuum Analyze - datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0

2003-03-26 Thread Thomas T. Thai
Please also note that if you change the data type from text to int, then the test succeeds: CREATE TABLE wow_cfgmap ( ts_id int ); insert into wow_cfgmap values (1); insert into wow_cfgmap values (2); CREATE TABLE wow_cfg ( ts_id int ); insert into wow_cfg values (1); select

Re: [HACKERS] BUG: Vacuum Analyze - datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0

2003-03-26 Thread Thomas T. Thai
I just tested this on 7.4-snapshot-2003-03-24 and the same error occurred. The one regression test (opr_sanity) in 7.4-snapshot that failed also had this error. ERROR: datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0 > System: NetBSD / Alpha 1.6 (64 bit) > Postgresql 7.3.2 > > Bug: after vacuum analyze, I'm una

[HACKERS] 7.4-snapshot regression: ERROR: datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0

2003-03-26 Thread Thomas T. Thai
After experiencing so many problems with 7.3.2, I decided to test 7.4-snapshot. It failed only on one test, instead of 17. NetBSD-1.6 / Alpha (64-bit) Postgresql-7.4-snapshot-2003-03-24 The error I'm getting is: ! ERROR: datumGetSize: Invalid typLen 0 That error caused many problems in 7.3.2

Re: [HACKERS] string || NULL ambiguity

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas T. Thai
>> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:32, Oleg Bartunov wrote: >>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> > stringA||COALESCE(NULL, '') >>> > >>> >>> we don't know in advance if it's NULL or not. >> >> Right, that's the point of COALESCE: the first non-NULL argument is >> returned -- so if the first

Re: [HACKERS] string || NULL ambiguity

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas T. Thai
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:32, Oleg Bartunov wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> > stringA||COALESCE(NULL, '') >> > >> >> we don't know in advance if it's NULL or not. > > Right, that's the point of COALESCE: the first non-NULL argument is > returned -- so if the first argument

Re: [HACKERS] What's up with www.postgresql.org?

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas T. Thai
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, mlw wrote: I couldn't get to it yesterday either. FTP worked fine though. -- Thomas T. Thai ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org