Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump additional options for performance

2008-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
u want to change, and then omit it from the restore). Custom format rocks for partial set restores from a whole dump. See the TOC option :) Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump additional options for performance

2008-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Agreed but that is a problem I understand with a solution I don't. I am all eyes on a way to fix that. One thought I had and please, be gentle in response was some sort of async transaction capability. I know that libpq has the ability to

Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump additional options for performance

2008-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 11:03 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: 2. We have no concurrency which means, anyone with any database over 50G has unacceptable restore times. Agreed. Sounds good. Doesn't help with the main element of dump time: one table at a time to one o

Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump additional options for performance

2008-07-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ease of 7.2, pg_dump -A please. Anyway, I leave other peeps to flame me into oblivion. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http:

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Patch for Prevent pg_dump/pg_restore from being affected by statement_timeout

2008-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
isable it. I believe so. This was when not everyone was convinced. Im fairly certain Josh original patch is in the commit fest. So feel free to drop this one. My patch has been committed. Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes t

Re: [PATCHES] SQL: table function support

2008-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
s rather than figure out > the OUT parameter syntax afresh. Regardless of whether anyone thinks they are byzantine (or not) if RETURNS TABLE() is in the standard. We should try and implement it if we can. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postg

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1

2008-05-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i don't think statement_timeout is a good idea at all. it is not deterministic. depending on the load on the server some queries will execute while others fail. a separa

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1

2008-05-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
separate guc variable which limits the maximum number of > levels of recursive iterations. That might be a useful feature for DBAs that > want to limit their users from issuing an infinite query. > statement_timeout :) Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing lis

Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump lock timeout - resend

2008-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
stand an updating to reflect how development currently commences. I will work up a patch next week. Joshua D. Drake -dg -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the effort. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ve burned all the time during commit fest only. Now Alvaro, Tom and I are all having the same discussion all over again but this time with Bruce. It makes no sense. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Con

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to the patch in all this wrangling is realign the \? General options and frankly even that is suspect in my opinion. Can we either throw it away and say, "Nice try JD" or just commit the thing. Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-patche

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: I moved '\g' up into the "General" section rather than make it a single-entry section. "send query buffer to server means nothing to a newbie". You execute queries, you don't send buffers (fr

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ns nothing to a newbie". You execute queries, you don't send buffers (from a user perspective). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
esql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01476.php And most specifically: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01376.php Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-05-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
t frequently-used help commands? Aren't they at the top of \?. The purpose of help is to provide what help options there are available to those who need them. Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches

Re: [PATCHES] configure option for XLOG_BLCKSZ

2008-05-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
rkloads with > PostgreSQL. Let's hope those disks get delivered to Portland soon. :) I have those disks. Joshua D. Drake > > Regards, > Mark > -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconfere

Re: [PATCHES] configure option for XLOG_BLCKSZ

2008-05-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
n thinking about it, this might actually be a foot gun. You have a new pg guy, download source and think to himself..., "Hey I have a 4k block size as formatted on my hard disk". Then all of a sudden they have an incompatible PostgreSQL with everything else. Sincerely, Joshua D.

Re: [PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner v6

2008-04-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:41:20 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Per final discussion here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01607.php Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ Post

[PATCHES] Patch to change psql default banner

2008-04-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
help for help only * if server doesn't match shows server version too * if there is a major version mismatch it throws a warning Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference:

Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width

2008-04-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
was a joke domain name, like Pen Island.com. > Its not and a lot of postgresql users interact there. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association:

Re: [PATCHES] WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation

2008-04-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is bogus. We are an Open Source database, let others worry about obfuscation. It isn't like it can't be done within the facilities that already exist. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postg

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:37:15 +0100 Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May I just say that every person that is currently talking on this thread is offtopic? Move it to -hackers please. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ Post

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
at it didn't offer what I thought it did. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ity that needs to be properly designed. Please see my later email on the thread. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgres

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:26:46 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would agree with this. We would need a history of checkpoints that > > didn't reset

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
orking is valuable but... being able to say, "SELECT * FROM give_me_my_db_info;" is much more useful in this context. In short, I should never have to go to log for this class of information. It should be available in the database. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The Postgr

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:29:18 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why is that useful? > &g

Re: [PATCHES] Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ng how long checkpoints are taking. If they are taking too long you may need to adjust your bgwriter settings, and it is a serious drag to parse postgresql logs for this info. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL

Re: [PATCHES] actualized SQL/PSM patch

2008-04-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:57:11 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The fundamental problem I've got wi

Re: [PATCHES] actualized SQL/PSM patch

2008-04-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ch prefer it be cleaned up into its own space. > > The idea would be a lot easier to swallow if the code were refactored > to avoid the duplication with plpgsql. +1. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Commun

Re: [PATCHES] script binaries renaming

2008-03-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:30:46 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which part of "this is the wrong list" wasn't clear to you guys? I actually didn't even notice. Sorry Tom. Joshua D. Drake - -- The Postgr

Re: [PATCHES] script binaries renaming

2008-03-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ument that has compelled me to actually want to have us enter the Gnome world of binary naming. However, if we *must* go down this route let us please use pgcreatedb *not* pg_createdb. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt

Re: [PATCHES] Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes

2008-02-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
g rpms. Thanks for this - -hackers. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liai

[PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for Null Bitmap Optimization(for TrailingNULLs)

2007-12-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom very seriously. Andrew is absolutely correct here. If you do not agree with Tom, you best prove why. Otherwise your patch will likely be ignored on submission. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564

Re: [PATCHES] DDL in EDB-SPL

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Pavel Stehule wrote: Wrong address :) O.k. now that makes more sense :) Joshua D. Drake Pavel On 12/12/2007, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While looking at the package function precedence problem, I bumped into another unrelated bug: ---(

Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch to disallow password=foo in database name parameter

2007-12-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: As of PG 8.3, libpq allows a conninfo string to be passed in via the dbName parameter of PQsetdbLogin. I didn't even know we could do that. I always use the shell variable option instead. Doe

Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch to disallow password=foo in database name parameter

2007-12-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
nestly using this that isn't smart enough to just figure out it isn't supported. Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCHES] pgbench - startup delay

2007-12-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
says, "Yo... I need to restart postgresql, please stop all productive tasks on your end because I am more important." +1 on enabling client side behavior. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency:

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:29:51 + Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Heh, o.k. that was an ambiguous sentence. In a partitioned > > environment yo

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:08:29 + Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > >> A trigger will probably beat a rule

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rules are extremely slow in comparisons and not anywhere near as flexible. As I said up post yesterday... they work well in the basic partitioning configuration but an

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rules are extremely slow in comparisons and not anywhere near as flexible. As I said up post yesterday... they work well in the basic partitioning configuration but anything else they are extremely deficient.

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
flawlessly for us,... so personally I don't even know the reasons. Rules are extremely slow in comparisons and not anywhere near as flexible. As I said up post yesterday... they work well in the basic partitioning configuration but anything else they are extremely deficient. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
seeing that construct in real > databases. And they could refer back to the older version of the documentation for it. In fact, we should mention that in the patch: If you have an partitioning setup that uses rules please refer to the 8.2 documentation on partitioning Sincer

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
g configuration. However rules are so deficient on anything except the absolute most basic example of partitioning that I think we are doing our new partitioning users a disservice by stating anything about rules except in passing. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Cheers, > David. - --

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ch > reflects this. > > Thanks to Robert Treat for help putting this together :) > > Cheers, > David. +1 Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions sinc

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] fulltext parser strange behave

2007-11-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
g". > > Any other bids? XML tag is fine, imo. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > cheers > > andrew > > ---(end of > broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase > your free space map settings > - --

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options

2007-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:18:23 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:24:54 -0500 > > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options

2007-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
e the configure says exactly that. If not, it isn't that big of a deal. I was just making a suggestion to try and help stop confusion in the future. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emerge

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options

2007-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:24:54 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shouldn't --with-libxml be noted as deprecated? > > Huh? Because in 8.3 it is in co

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options

2007-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
t; > I have modified the configure message to be: > > --with-libxslt build /contrib/xml2 with XSLT support > > Patch attached. Shouldn't --with-libxml be noted as deprecated? Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sale

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Patch to update log levels

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Here is a patch that documents the syslog log levels and their >>> correlation to the PostgreSQL log levels per:

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Patch to update log levels

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Here is a patch that documents the syslog log levels and their >> correlation to the PostgreSQL log levels per: > > This seems like quite the wr

[PATCHES] Patch to update log levels

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Here is a patch that documents the syslog log levels and their correlation to the PostgreSQL log levels per: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-09/msg00982.php Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command

Re: [PATCHES] script binaries renaming

2007-07-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
think about it, it really is clunky and doesn't serve any real purpose. Joshua D. Drake Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresq

Re: [PATCHES] script binaries renaming

2007-07-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
spaced applications out there are in the G/K world of nome and de. Joshua D. Drake Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [PATCHES] psql: add volatility to \df+

2007-06-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
on changes to make? Well here is a question (just because I haven't seen it) is there a list of functions and their volatility in the docs? Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have

Re: [PATCHES] Standard compliant DEFAULT clause

2007-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
rd behaviour on standard syntax? So much for hypocrisy. Antagonism will not help your cause. Joshua D. Drake --- pgsql.orig/src/backend/catalog/heap.c 2007-05-15 09:34:25.0 +0200 +++ pgsql/src/backend/catalog

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Full page writes improvement, code update

2007-04-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
s more appropriate. Is it more efficient in other ways besides negligible tps? Possibly more efficient memory usage? Better restore times for a crashed system? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Regards; > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support:

Re: [PATCHES] autovacuum multiworkers, patch 5

2007-04-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
imited by the DBA; certainly much simpler than the vacuum cost limiting feature. +1 Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [PATCHES] autovacuum multiworkers, patch 5

2007-04-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hi, uhmmm patch? Here is the autovacuum patch I am currently working with. This is basically the same as the previous patch; I have tweaked the database list management so that after a change in databases (say a new database is created or a database is dropped), the

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Mike Rylander wrote: >> A related question, however: Will the XML features being included in >> 8.3 support namespace prefix registration? > > That is certainly the plan. Let me bounce my ostrich (sp?) head up here and say, thanks for your work on

Re: [PATCHES] POSIX shared memory support

2007-03-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/www.nabble.com/POSIX-shared-memory-support-t3298386.html Which happens to be you ;) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Thanks again, > Chris Marcellino > > > > > > > > ---

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> appropriate person. > > Rgds, > Arul Shaji I know that I can speak for the community when I say, Thanks to you and Fujitsu for taking our concerns into consideration. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ailing list signup pages and the welcome pages to the lists. Joshua D. Drake > > > --- > > Tom Lane wrote: >> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Neil Conway wrote: >>>>

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
sclosure, it isn't our fault the recipients didn't listen." Of course the joke here is, that the email went out on a public list and is now mirrored all over the world and harvested by every spammer on the planet ;) However, it may be a good idea to have our (SPI) attorney at least give u

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that checks for signatures with specific legal words and strips said signature automatically, responding to the sender that we did so. Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Neil Conway wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:52 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Gonna have to concur with that. Not that the sig is legally binding >> anyway, we do need to have a disclaimer in the email stating that you >> are assigning to PGDG > > I think it

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES]

2007-02-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
he email stating that you are assigning to PGDG> Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandpro

Re: [PATCHES] WIP patch - INSERT-able log statements

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. COPY would be a good option, but INSERT is probably what I would use as the default. The most use I see for this is something where I am tailing out the log and inserting live into a log db... Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Rgds, > Arul Shaji > > > >>

Re: [PATCHES] New features for pgbench

2007-02-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. To me, it is a clear line. Once we accept for one, we may accept for another. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > -Neil > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [PATCHES] \prompt for psql

2007-02-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>>> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>>>> That also requires a "reasonable shell", which all platforms don't >>>>> have...

Re: [PATCHES] \prompt for psql

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>>> That also requires a "reasonable shell", which all platforms don't >>>> have... >>> I think doing any sort of reasonabl

Re: [PATCHES] \prompt for psql

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
plementing loops and > conditionals in psql. ... Now that you mention it :) psql is a shell. It is the postgresql shell. I don't see any problem with continuing to extend the postgresql shell to a more functional platform that is independent. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake --

Re: [PATCHES] [pgsql-patches] Phantom Command IDs, updated patch

2007-02-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
gt; > MultiCid, like the MultiXacts? Maybe not, they're quite different beasts... > > Alias cid? Mapped cid? Compressed cid? Hero cid? :) > > I'm happy with phantom cid myself. It sounds cool, and they are a bit > phantom-like because the true meaning of a phant

Re: [PATCHES] Re: [pgsql-patches] [GENERAL] Corrupt database? 8.1/FreeBSD6.0

2007-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: > What is the status of this patch? Alvaro is currently out of town. He should be able to provide more info next week. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > --- > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: &g

Re: [pgsql-patches] guid/uuid datatype

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
database? ALTER DATABASE foo SET uuid_salt = :) That would be pretty cool, but I am sure most will shoot that down in flames :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.224

Re: [pgsql-patches] guid/uuid datatype

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ng things in the marketplace and professional communities. It is time we stop fighting features for the sake of fighting features. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing

Re: [pgsql-patches] [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too

2007-01-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Takayuki Tsunakawa wrote: >> From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Yes, you are 100% correct that I had exceptions and errors confused. >> I >>> have backed out the patch that used FormatMessage(), and instead of >>> using a URL, the message is now: >>> >>> child proc

Re: [pgsql-patches] guid/uuid datatype

2007-01-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Per previous discussion, the main problem with a uuid type is the >> new-uuid generator function, which tends to involve a bunch of >> not-so-portable assumptions and code. If we accept a uuid type in >> either core or contrib, all of a sudden

Re: [pgsql-patches] guid/uuid datatype

2007-01-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to use. A generator would be great too of course, but if they really need one they could use one of the pl languages for it. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 1:

Re: [pgsql-patches] [PATCHES] Tablespace for temporary objects and

2007-01-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 21:05 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote: > On 1/11/07, Albert Cervera Areny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, go on with that, I hadn't seen that problem. Indeed, I read Andrew > > answer to your question and I think it's a nice solution. > > > > yes... i'm always trying to ki

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] SGML index build fix

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
would argue that most do not know. It isn't intuitive to the process. You *expect* that an index will be made. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most com

Re: [PATCHES] COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 22:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> cost is having to fsync the whole table afterwards. So it really only > >> makes sense for commands that one can expect are writing pretty much > >

Re: [PATCHES] COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> cost is having to fsync the whole table afterwards. So it really only > makes sense for commands that one can expect are writing pretty much > all of the table. I could easily see it being a net loss for individual > INSERTs. What about multi value inserts? Just curious. Joshua D

Re: [PATCHES] COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ts that it > will be in WAL. The default would be use_wal_in_copy = true. That I don't think makes sense. A copy is an all or nothing option, if a copy fails in the middle the whole thing is rolled back. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > -- === The PostgreSQL Com

Re: [PATCHES] COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
AL logged. No I don't see any problems, I am just trying to understand the boundaries. E.g., is there some weird limitation where if I have any values in the table before the copy (like the example above) that copy will go through WAL. Or in other words, does this patch mean that all COPY executi

Re: [PATCHES] COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

2007-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
; > for COPY in these circumstances: > > > > BEGIN; > > CREATE TABLE foo.. > > COPY foo... > > COMMIT; What if I do this? BEGIN; CREATE TABLE foo... INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('1'); COPY foo... COMMIT; ? E.g., what are the boundari

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] wal_checksum = on (default) | off

2007-01-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Real world dictates differently. Let's not forget that not every company can spend 100k on two identical machines, yet many companies can spend 50k + 5k for a backup machine based on Sata or secondary services. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Comman

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #2846: inconsistent and confusing

2006-12-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> I get 'inf'. I am on BSD and just tested it on Fedora Core 2 and got > 'inf' too. Ubuntu Edgy 64bit on Athlon 64X2 returns inf. Joshua D. Drake > > > A slightly less radical proposal is to reject only the case where > > isinf(result) and neither

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in > the > documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of > dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the > vacuum commands output (n dead tuples cannot be removed

Re: [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 13:59 -0800, Glen Parker wrote: > I'd love to see this back patched into 8.2.1 if possible. Probably not. We typically do not introduce new features into back releases. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Should I resubmit with new names? > > -Glen >

Re: [PATCHES] doc patch for savepoints

2006-11-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I do not see the point of this. Shall we put equivalent disclaimers > >> into every s

Re: [PATCHES] doc patch for savepoints

2006-11-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
de available to the operating system (well dynamic, but statically configured). Joshua D. Drake > There is no > such paragraph under LOCK TABLE, for example. > > regards, tom lane > > ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [PATCHES] adminpack

2006-09-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Here is adminpack... > > Applied with minor corrections (the .sql file is DATA not DATA_built, > as you'd have found out if you'd tried "make clean").

[PATCHES] pgrowlocks(2)

2006-09-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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[PATCHES] pgrowlocks

2006-09-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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[PATCHES] adminpack

2006-09-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib

2006-08-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jonah H. Harris Sent: Sun 8/27/2006 3:24 AM To: Joshua D. Drake Cc: Andrew Dunstan; Bruce Momjian; Tzahi Fadida; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib It&#

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