[BUGS] Periodic freezing of backend processes

2000-07-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
PostgreSQL 7.0.2 Debian 2.3 (woody) Linux Kernel 2.2.15 Hi, I am finding that I periodically have a backend process just 'freeze' on me. It's not like it's doing something that all of a sudden get's wildly inefficient because this can be when I'm repetitively processing in a loop, and where res

[BUGS] INITIALLY DEFERRED / UPDATE in transaction bug

2000-07-09 Thread Robert B. Easter
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Re: [BUGS] Periodic freezing of backend processes

2000-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am finding that I periodically have a backend process just 'freeze' on > me. Needs to be looked at, for sure. > What can I do to tickle the backend processes to get it to tell me where > it is at? What I'd do is attach to it with gdb and poke arou

Re: [BUGS] Unnexpected results using to_number()

2000-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrew Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', ''); > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. In current sources I get a NULL result, which seems to be what the code author intended originally. However this seems a little bit inconsistent --- shouldn

[BUGS] Re: [SQL] MAX() of 0 records.

2000-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Comments anyone? What exactly *should* be the behavior of an UPDATE > that uses an aggregate function and a join to another table? Over what > set of tuples should the aggregate be evaluated? Further note on this: SQL99 specifies: ::= UPDATE

[BUGS] Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] MAX() of 0 records.

2000-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What do people think of my implicit-GROUP-BY-ctid idea? >> That would basically say that the aggregate is computed over all the >> tuples that join to a single target tuple. > Sounds perfect to me... Note that it would not meet your expectation that

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] Unnexpected results using to_number()

2000-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Andrew Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: # SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', ''); pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. >> >> In current sources I get a NULL result, which seems to be what the