Re: [PATCHES] Small documentation patch

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
+ SELECT 'epoch'::timestamp + '1070430858 seconds'::interval; + Result: 2003-12-03 05:54:18 You could also go: SELECT '1070430858'::abstime; But your way is probably a bit more stable...dunno... Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscri

[PATCHES] Small documentation patch

2003-12-02 Thread David Fetter
Kind people, This patch shows how to change UNIX timestamps into PostgreSQL timestamps, and clarifies how PERFORM works in PL/PgSQL. :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100cell: +1 415 235 3778 Index: func.sgml

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Neil Conway
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure there are other ways to phase out OIDs in dumps. Okay, fair enough -- I'll submit a patch to change this. -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
If I want to develop a portable application or I want to port an application, then I am of course only going to use portable constructs, that is, tables and views, and possibly sequences. I'm not talking theory here -- I've actually done it and made several changes to pg_dump along the way to make

Re: [PATCHES] 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8

2003-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If that really was the error you got, your patch couldn't have > fixed it since it didn't change anything that has something to do > with it. I entirely concur with Kurt's observation. My bet is you got the "no space left on device" failure because you we

Re: [PATCHES] 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8

2003-12-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
creating template1 database in /export/home/tbaden/posttemp/postgresql-7.4/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/b+ase/1... FATAL: could not create semaphores: No space left on device DETAIL: Failed system call was semget(1, 17, 03600). HINT: This error does *not* mean that you have run out of disk

Re: [PATCHES] 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8

2003-12-02 Thread Thomas Baden
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > He seems to have changed this too: > > - typedef uint32 IpcMemoryKey; > > + typedef size_t IpcMemoryKey; > > That really should be a key_t. > > Yeah, I made it key_t in CVS tip. I'm just > wondering what this co

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I think we have to have a SET before every CREATE TABLE. No, only when the value changes from last time. This is not rocket science, it's the way pg_dump handles SETs already. regards, tom lane ---

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Neil Conway writes: > > > I'm really not sure we do: the SQL produced by pg_dump was totally > > non-portable before, > > Significant effort has been invested to make pg_dump output portable, and > I've not had any problems with it last time I tried it. Please explain >

Re: [PATCHES] YA Cygwin DLLIMPORT patch

2003-12-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Applied ot 7.4.1 now. Thanks. --- Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Did you commit to 7.4.1 too Bruce? > > Chris > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Patch applied. Thanks. > > > > -

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > If I want to develop a portable application or I want to port an > application, then I am of course only going to use portable constructs, > that is, tables and views, and possibly sequences. I'm not talking theory > here -- I've actually done it and made several changes

Re: [PATCHES] introduce "default_use_oids"

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: > > Significant effort has been invested to make pg_dump output portable, and > > I've not had any problems with it last time I tried it. Please explain > > why you think it's "totally" non-portable. > > Functions, indexes, operators, types, aggregates, users, grou

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever

2003-12-02 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:32:10 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> comparetup_index() compares two IndexTuples. The structure >> IndexTupleData consists basically of not much more than an ItemPointer, >> and the patch is not much more than adding