[BUGS] HP-UX 11.23 ia64 7.4.8 regression diff

2005-06-14 Thread Ed L.
PostgreSQL 7.4.8 on ia64-hp-hpux11.23, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 $cat ./regression.diffs*** ./expected/float8.out   Thu Sep 25 02:58:06 2003--- ./results/float8.out    Tue Jun 14 18:55:08 2005** 249,255   SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 * '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f; 

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Bruce Momjian [140605, 14:00]: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Brandon Keepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to > > > duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from > > > source, everything works fine. If I install t

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
Brandon Keepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yup, that was it. If you disable SELinux, everything works. I tried > just commenting out line 732 > in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts and that didn't > work. Anyone know how to correct this? I don't know very much about SELinux,

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> How you intend to do that, exactly? The bug is that it won't let you >> write on /dev/tty, which puts a pretty severe crimp on *any* reporting. > Throw a message to stderr saying something about SELinux. Unless stderr is pointing somewhere else than /d

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change > >> things? > > > Should we check for a buggy SELinux and report a meaningful error > > message on failure? > > How you intend to do that, exactly? The bug is t

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Brandon Keepers
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change > things? Yup, that was it. If you disable SELinux, everything works. I tried just commenting out line 732 in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts and that didn'

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change >> things? > Should we check for a buggy SELinux and report a meaningful error > message on failure? How you intend to do that, exactly? The bug is that it won't let you write on /dev

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Brandon Keepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to > > duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from > > source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump > > silently fails

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
Brandon Keepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to > duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from > source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump > silently fails. Is SELinux in enforceme

[BUGS] pg_dump silently fails

2005-06-14 Thread Brandon Keepers
I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump silently fails. I've attached two straces, one from 8.0.3 RPM that fails, and one from 8.0.

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1718: geqo_selection.c:linear()

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Bug Finder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In geqo_selection.c, function linear() may > return a value equals to pool_size, and cause > geqo_selection() to visit invalid array member. Good catch. I wonder whether roundoff error couldn't lead to trying to call sqrt() with a value slightly less th

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1712: JDBC column precision for bigint is 0

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
I agree on all counts. The only way that I would extend the description of "the number of decimal digits" is that I think it's fairly clear that for floating point numbers it should be "the number of significant digits" since the fractional part is often only an approximation of any decimal repres

[BUGS] BUG #1718: geqo_selection.c:linear()

2005-06-14 Thread Bug Finder
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1718 Logged by: Bug Finder Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0.3 Operating system: Linux Description:geqo_selection.c:linear() Details: In geqo_selection.c, function linear() may return a

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1707: statistics collector starts with stats_start_collector

2005-06-14 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruce Momjian wrote: If we don't have a way to check this, we'll regret it soon enough... now maybe a GUC setting isn't the optimal way, but I think we need *some* way besides ps. ps doesn't work remotely and I think there's no simple equivalent under Windows either. Sure, but the GUC only