Re: [HACKERS] Selecting a constant question: A summary

2007-06-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:12:37AM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote: > So, where x = '(1,2)' might be legal for comparing to x, but a field of > type varchar(5) might not be, as in where x = y, where y is type > varchar(5) containing '(1,2)'. Normally, just about every type can be converted to or fro

[HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Page
I was just looking at implementing some query tuning/debugging features in pgAdmin, and was looking to use EXPLAIN output to get a list of the base tables involved in the users' query. Unfortunately though it doesn't include the schema name in the output which means I have no way of telling for sur

Re: [HACKERS] Selecting a constant question: A summary

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Chuck McDevitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a curiosity question: Why is the type of a literal '1' "unknown" > instead of varchar(1)? Even if it was assigned a text datatype it would be the unconstrainted "text" not varchar(1). If we used varchar(1) then things like: create table foo

Re: [HACKERS] comparing index columns

2007-06-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane wrote: "Pavan Deolasee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't have much insight into the operator classes and operator families and how they work. Where should I look for the related code ? Primary opclass members are stored right in the Relation data struct for you. Since (I trust) yo

Re: [HACKERS] Selecting a constant question: A summary

2007-06-13 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
> For some Unicode character sets, element_width can be as much as 4 In UTF8 one char can be up to 6 bytes, so 4 is not correct in general. Andreas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

[HACKERS] Load Distributed Checkpoints test results

2007-06-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Here's results from a batch of test runs with LDC. This patch only spreads out the writes, fsyncs work as before. This patch also includes the optimization that we don't write buffers that were dirtied after starting the checkpoint. http://community.enterprisedb.com/ldc/ See tests 276-280. 28

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Dave Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > /* We only show the rel name, not schema name */ > relname = get_rel_name(rte->relid); > > Anyone know why? This seems like a bug to me given the ambiguity of > possible output. I'd assume it's to keep the explain output smaller with the expectation/assump

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Page
Stephen Frost wrote: * Dave Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: /* We only show the rel name, not schema name */ relname = get_rel_name(rte->relid); Anyone know why? This seems like a bug to me given the ambiguity of possible output. I'd assume it's to keep the explain output smaller with the exp

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Dave Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > >In terms of behaviour changes, I think it'd be nice to show the schema > >name when necessary but otherwise don't, ala how '\d ' works. > > In my case that would be awkward as pgAdmin would then need to try to > work out what the ac

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Page
Stephen Frost wrote: Indeed, if you're not constructing the queries that would make things somewhat difficult. Then again, parsing the explain output seems like it's going to be rather difficult itself anyway. Well, we do that anyway - and just grabbing the base table names isn't too hard.

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Stephen Frost wrote: * Dave Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: /* We only show the rel name, not schema name */ relname = get_rel_name(rte->relid); Anyone know why? This seems like a bug to me given the ambiguity of possible output. I'd assume it's to keep the explain output smaller with the exp

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:20:25PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > >>Just adding the schema name seems the most sensible and usable option - > >>not to mention the easiest! > > > >While completely ignoring the current behaviour and likely the reason > >it's done the way it is now... explain output was,

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Magnus Hagander wrote: > Just to open a whole new can of worms ;-) > > I read an article a couple of days ago about the "machine readable showplan > output" in SQL Server 2005 (basically, it's EXPLAIN output but in XML > format). It does make a lot of sense if yourp rimary interface is != > comma

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:47:30AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > Just to open a whole new can of worms ;-) > > > > I read an article a couple of days ago about the "machine readable showplan > > output" in SQL Server 2005 (basically, it's EXPLAIN output but in XML >

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Pavel Stehule
Something worth doing? Not to replace the current explain output, but as a second option (EXPLAIN XML whatever)? //Magnus It's good idea. Similar situation is in stack trace output. Pavel ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our l

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:20:25PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: Just adding the schema name seems the most sensible and usable option - not to mention the easiest! While completely ignoring the current behaviour and likely the reason it's done the way it is now... explain out

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Heikki Linnakangas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Something worth doing? Not to replace the current explain output, but as a > >second option (EXPLAIN XML whatever)? > > I agree it would be nice to have machine readable explain output. Seconded here, I'd much rather see this as a seperate option

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:02:24PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:20:25PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > Just adding the schema name seems the most sensible and usable option - > not to mention the easiest! > >>>While completely ignoring

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:02:24PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: DB2 has the concept of "explain tables". Explain output is written to tables, which tools query and pretty print the output. I like that idea in principle. PostgreSQL is a relational database, so having t

Re: [HACKERS] comparing index columns

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about just doing a memcmp? That would be safe, simple and fast and > covers all interesting use cases. You'd have to use datumIsEqual() or equivalent, and figure out what to do about nulls. I think it'd work though, at least for the purposes t

Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE and autovacuum

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: > If we tries to drop the table on which autovacuum is running, we have to > wait finish of the vacuum. However, the vacuuming effort goes to waste for > the table being dropped or rewritten. Meanwhile, we've already had the > autovacuum killer triggered in CREATE/DROP/RENAM

Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE and autovacuum

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we tries to drop the table on which autovacuum is running, we have to > wait finish of the vacuum. However, the vacuuming effort goes to waste for > the table being dropped or rewritten. Meanwhile, we've already had the > autovacuum killer triggered

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:47:30AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > > Just to open a whole new can of worms ;-) > > > > > > I read an article a couple of days ago about the "machine readable > > > showplan > > > output" in SQL Server 2005 (

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070613 09:58]: > BTW can I bug you to add the Message-Ids in the messages as displayed in > our archives? Yes! Yes! Yes! Pretty please! -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] Tom Lane's presentation on SERIALIZABLE etc?

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi, I remember there used to be somewhere a link to a talk Tom gave (on OSCON 2001 maybe?) on transaction processing, SERIALIZABLE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, etc. I'm pretty sure it was linked to somewhere in the old developers page, but I cannot find it in the new one or elsewhere. I searched the OSCO

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking to fix this, a comment in src/backend/commands/explain.c > indicates that this is intentional: Quite. > Anyone know why? As already noted, it'd usually be clutter in lines that are too long already. Also, conditionally adding a schema name isn't v

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:47:30AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > > > > Just to open a whole new can of worms ;-) > > > > > > > > I read an article a couple of days ago

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/13/07, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:02:24PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> DB2 has the concept of "explain tables". Explain output is written to >> tables, which tools query and pretty print the output. I like that ide

Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's presentation on SERIALIZABLE etc?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I remember there used to be somewhere a link to a talk Tom gave (on > OSCON 2001 maybe?) on transaction processing, SERIALIZABLE, SELECT FOR > UPDATE, etc. I'm pretty sure it was linked to somewhere in the old > developers page, but I cannot find it in

Re: [HACKERS] Truncate Permission

2007-06-13 Thread Nicholas Barr
> * Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> > > Wouldn't it be far more logical to decide that if a user has the >> > > permissions to do a DELETE FROM table; then they have permission to >> do >> > > a TRUNCATE? Why make an additional permission? >> > >> > Truncate doesn't fire

Re: [HACKERS] Load Distributed Checkpoints test results

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The response time graphs show that the patch reduces the max (new-order) > response times during checkpoints from ~40-60 s to ~15-20 s. I think that's the headline number here. The worst-case response time is reduced from about 60s to about 17s

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Page
Magnus Hagander wrote: Something worth doing? Not to replace the current explain output, but as a second option (EXPLAIN XML whatever)? Yeah, thats been mentioned before. I was looking to bring it up for 8.4. /D ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1:

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a different sideline based on the original note of this thread, > much as EXPLAIN doesn't include the schema, \d doesn't include the > schema to describe INHERIT relationships in 8.2.4. If you have two > tables called PARENT, in two different schemas,

Re: [HACKERS] Truncate Permission

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Nicholas Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the moment it seems as if a single 32 bit integer is used for the > permissions, with the top half being the grantable rights. I assume I > would need to extend this into two 32 bit integers, or one 64 bit integer? Two 32-bit please. We are still t

Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's presentation on SERIALIZABLE etc?

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I remember there used to be somewhere a link to a talk Tom gave (on > > OSCON 2001 maybe?) on transaction processing, SERIALIZABLE, SELECT FOR > > UPDATE, etc. I'm pretty sure it was linked to somewhere in the old > > developers page

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming you can actually *represent* the whole plan as tables, that would > of course work fine. But I assume you mean "virtual tables"? Are you saying there are data structures relational databases aren't good at representing? In Oracle you had

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: As already noted, it'd usually be clutter in lines that are too long already. Also, conditionally adding a schema name isn't very good because it makes life even more complicated for programs that are parsing EXPLAIN output (yes, there are some). Well, yes - that's precisely wh

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I agree with the idea of having an option to get EXPLAIN's output in an entirely different, more machine-readable format. Not wedded to XML, but I fear that a pure relational structure might be too strict --- there's a lot of variability in the entries already. XML also could

Re: [HACKERS] Truncate Permission

2007-06-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Nicholas Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At the moment it seems as if a single 32 bit integer is used for the > > permissions, with the top half being the grantable rights. I assume I > > would need to extend this into two 32 bit integers, or one 64 bi

Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's presentation on SERIALIZABLE etc?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since this was publically released in the past, I assume this is OK to > distribute? Sure, no problem. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Tom Lane wrote: I agree with the idea of having an option to get EXPLAIN's output in an entirely different, more machine-readable format. Not wedded to XML, but I fear that a pure relational structure might be too strict --- there's a lot of variability in the entries already. XML also could d

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
> > BTW can I bug you to add the Message-Ids in the messages as displayed in > > our archives? > That said, you can get the message-id if you do a view-source. It's in a > comment at the beginning of the page. I hadn't seen that before... 2 "bookmarklets" I find useful and have in my "Personal

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: I agree with the idea of having an option to get EXPLAIN's output in an entirely different, more machine-readable format. Not wedded to XML, but I fear that a pure relational structure might be too strict --- there's a lot of variability in the entries al

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Looking to fix this, a comment in src/backend/commands/explain.c indicates that this is intentional: Quite. Anyone know why? As already noted, it'd usually be clutter in lines that are too long already. Also, conditionally adding a sch

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Looking to fix this, a comment in src/backend/commands/explain.c >> indicates that this is intentional: > > Quite. > >> Anyone know why? > > As already noted, it'd usually be clutter in lines that are too long > alr

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I agree. XML seems like a fairly natural fit for this. Just as people should >> not try to shoehorn everything into XML, neither should they try to shoehorn >> everything into a relational format either. >> >> Now all we need is an XML schema for it

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > And you stick them in a well-defined XML format (or another > format if you happen to hate XML) where the client-side program can easily > parse out whatever it needs. It's also future-proof - if you add a new > field somewhere, the client pro

[HACKERS] \d omits schema on inherited tables (Was: EXPLAIN omits schema?)

2007-06-13 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/13/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Josh Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a different sideline based on the original note of this thread, > much as EXPLAIN doesn't include the schema, \d doesn't include the > schema to describe INHERIT relationships in 8.2.4. If you have two

Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's presentation on SERIALIZABLE etc?

2007-06-13 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I remember there used to be somewhere a link to a talk Tom gave (on OSCON 2001 maybe?) on transaction processing, SERIALIZABLE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, etc. I'm pretty sure it was linked to somewhere in the old develope

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Autovacuum launcher doesn't notice death of postmaster immediately

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No, I meant a "while (sleep 1(or 10) and counter < longtime) check for > > > exit" instead of "sleep longtime". > > > > Ah; yes, what I was proposing (or thought about proposing, not sure if I > > posted it or not) was

[HACKERS] tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
I've been looking at the tsearch patch a bit, and I think there needs to be more thought given to the permissions required to mess around with tsearch configuration objects. The TSParser objects reference functions declared to take and return INTERNAL arguments. This means that the underlying fun

Re: [HACKERS] \d omits schema on inherited tables (Was: EXPLAIN omits schema?)

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/13/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes it does, because that's actually regclass output. It'll be >> schema-qualified if the table is not visible in your search path. > I figured it was better to start a new thread, since this changes fr

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arguably this is a bug if it's causing pg_admin difficulties in parsing the > output. Even for a user in an environment where, for example, he has several > identical schemas and may be accidentally getting a different table than he's > expecting the curr

Re: [HACKERS] Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:49:24PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >>Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>Thinking about this whole idea a bit more, it occured to me that the > >>>current approach

Re: [HACKERS] Load Distributed Checkpoints test results

2007-06-13 Thread Josh Berkus
Greg, > However TPC-E has even more stringent requirements: I'll see if I can get our TPCE people to test this, but I'd say that the existing patch is already good enough to be worth accepting based on the TPCC results. However, I would like to see some community testing on oddball workloads (

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Autovacuum launcher doesn't notice death of postmaster immediately

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Ah; yes, what I was proposing (or thought about proposing, not sure if I > > posted it or not) was putting a upper limit of 10 seconds in the sleep > > (bgwriter sleeps 10 seconds if configured to not do anything). Though > > 10 seconds may seem like an eternity for syst

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Gregory Stark wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I agree. XML seems like a fairly natural fit for this. Just as people should not try to shoehorn everything into XML, neither should they try to shoehorn everything into a relational format either. Now all we need is an XML sch

[HACKERS] Can autovac try to lock multiple tables at once?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
$subject would be bad because of potential deadlocks against other transactions that might try to exclusive-lock more than one table. We should be OK for actual vacuum operations, but I think that if autovac chooses to just ANALYZE multiple tables, it will do it in one transaction and accumulate l

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Gregory Stark wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I agree. XML seems like a fairly natural fit for this. Just as people should not try to shoehorn everything into XML, neither should they try to shoehorn everything into a relational format either. Now all we need is an XML sche

Re: [HACKERS] Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-13 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thinking about this whole idea a bit more, it occured to me that the current approach to write all, then fsync all is really a historical arti

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues

2007-06-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
You bring up a very good point. There are fifteen new commands being added for full text indexing: alter-fulltext-config.sgml alter-fulltext-owner.sgml create-fulltext-dict.sgml drop-fulltext-dict.sgml alter-fulltext-dict.sgmlalter-fulltext-parser.sgml

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once you have an XML plan what can you do with it? All you can do is parse it > into constituent bits and display it. You cant do any sort of comparison > between plans, aggregate results, search for plans matching constraints, etc. Sure you can, just no

Re: [HACKERS] Controlling Load Distributed Checkpoints

2007-06-13 Thread PFC
>If we extended relations by more than 8k at a time, we would know a lot >more about disk layout, at least on filesystems with a decent amount of >free space. I doubt it makes that much difference. If there was a significant amount of fragmentation, we'd hear more complaints about seq scan perfor

Re: [HACKERS] Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
What is the state of play with this item? I think this is a must-fix bug for 8.3. There was a flurry of messages back in April but since then I don't recall seeing anything. cheers andrew Mark Dilger wrote: Mark Dilger wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Added to TODO: * Fix cases where i

Re: [HACKERS] Can autovac try to lock multiple tables at once?

2007-06-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > $subject would be bad because of potential deadlocks against other > transactions that might try to exclusive-lock more than one table. > > We should be OK for actual vacuum operations, but I think that if > autovac chooses to just ANALYZE multiple tables, it will do it in > one

Re: [HACKERS] little PITR annoyance

2007-06-13 Thread Jim Nasby
How about adding to the general TODO in case someone finds time before Simon? On Jun 10, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 20:48 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My questions was: why don't we start the archiving *BEFORE* postmaster to make room. The archiver is

Re: [HACKERS] Can autovac try to lock multiple tables at once?

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure, it can do that. I think it's easy enough to correct this problem; > see attached patch. Should this be backpatched? Earlier releases also > fall foul of this problem AFAICT. Yeah, because what made me think about it was a gripe from an 8.2 user

Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN omits schema?

2007-06-13 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
On 6/13/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not a fan either so perhaps I'm biased, but this seems like a good example of where it would be an *awful* idea. Once you have an XML plan what can you do with it? All you can do is parse it into constituent bits and display it. "...and