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

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Huxton
Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:27 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: Is that always true? Could the backup not pick up a partially-written page? Assuming it's being written to as the backup is in progress. (We are talking about when disk blocks are smaller than PG blocks her

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

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Huxton
p not pick up a partially-written page? Assuming it's being written to as the backup is in progress. (We are talking about when disk blocks are smaller than PG blocks here, so can't guarantee an atomic write for a PG block?) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Continue transactions after errors in psql

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Huxton
7;t see why non-interactive mode does need such a switch because there is no way to check if there was an error. So just put two queries there and hope one will work? DROP TABLE foo; CREATE TABLE foo... -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [PATCHES] Patch for disaster recovery

2005-02-21 Thread Richard Huxton
in this situation. I feel comfortable in telling them what *not* to do, but nothing more. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to

Re: [PATCHES] There's any version that work on Windows 2000??

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Huxton
2000 machine versus most people's. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [PATCHES] Plan for CSV handling of quotes, NULL

2004-04-15 Thread Richard Huxton
ull to zero-length strings on input? How about FORCEQUOTES and NULLTOBLANK which tells you what they will do? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [PATCHES] contrib mode - pgenv

2003-09-23 Thread Richard Huxton
that a lot of the target audience for this might be sharing an installation of PG, it would need to be something fairly widely installed. Given that they're not necessarily experienced DBAs it needs to be something simple to use and understand. PS - thanks for ccing me on this, I w