[BUGS] comment on inheritance

2001-10-15 Thread MikeSmialek
I am a new user to PG (graduating from Access) and had some problems with inheritance. I stumbled into the inheritance to-do discussion and would like to put in my two cents. I apologize if this is not the right place to be sending this. It seems PG needs two separate types of inheritance: struc

[BUGS] probably a bug of data-type serial

2001-10-15 Thread Ralf Miller
Hi there, recently I tried the following using my psql-client: select version(); version --- PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.2 (1 row) create tabl

Re: [BUGS] Possible bug in ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN (PostgreSQL

2001-10-15 Thread Dave Page
Great, thanks for letting me know Bruce. Regards, Dave. > -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 October 2001 18:54 > To: Dave Page > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [BUGS] Possible bug in ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN > (PostgreSQL 7.1.3) >

[BUGS] initdb failed: mkdir cannot create directory - No space left on device

2001-10-15 Thread Lou Picciano
Hey all,   I have just been installing v7.1.3 on Linux Sparc - all build and make went well.   However, initdb reports "mkdir: cannot create directoy /usr/local/pgsql/data': No space left on device. initdb failed.   Permissions on /usr/local/pgsql/data, with owner postgres:daemon, allow rwx. 

Re: [BUGS] probably a bug of data-type serial

2001-10-15 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Ralf Miller wrote: > First question: > The example shows that the column number of type serial is incremented > as if the preceding insert-statement was successfull, even if it was > not. > Are the values for the column number of type serial inserted into the > corresponding

[BUGS] Bug #482: psql (7.1.3) doesn't like sysid=0

2001-10-15 Thread pgsql-bugs
Sherwin Daganato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 3 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description psql (7.1.3) doesn't like sysid=0 Long Description I have migrated a production database from 7.0.3 to 7.1.3 successfully. Then I was trying to load this databas

[BUGS] Bug #483: could not copy dump files to postgres directory

2001-10-15 Thread pgsql-bugs
bipin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 3 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description could not copy dump files to postgres directory Long Description i could not copy the dump file of a database into the postgres directory.when i try to login to postgresuse

[BUGS] reclaim database storage

2001-10-15 Thread And. Andruikhanov
Hi. System Configuration - Architecture: Intel Pentium Operating System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE PostgreSQL version: PostgreSQL-7.1.2 Compiler used: gcc 2.95.2 Description of problem -- Some data-tables accumulate infromation from the system

Re: [BUGS] probably a bug of data-type serial

2001-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Ralf Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The example shows that the column number of type serial is incremented > as if the preceding insert-statement was successfull, even if it was > not. This is intentional. Sequence nextval() operations do not roll back. > The SEQUENCE corresponding to a c

[BUGS] Cant get planner to use index (7.1.3-1PGDG)

2001-10-15 Thread Orion
Something strange is going on. Postgres keeps wanting to do a sequential scan of my table when it REALLY should be using it's indexes. I am running postgresql-7.1.3-1PGDG on RedHat 6.2 and on RedHat 7.0. I have 300,000 records in this table and yes, I have vacuum analyzed. Here is my table:

Re: [BUGS] [tim@perdue.net: Re: mysql2pgsql tool]

2001-10-15 Thread Max Fonin
Hi. Are you sure it's for me ? In the bugreport said about mysql2pgsql, however I'm the author of my2pg.pl. Both tools are distributed with Postgres source distribution. Please confirm that's really for me. Thanks. Max Rudensky. On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [BUGS] probably a bug of data-type serial

2001-10-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ralf Miller writes: > The example shows that the column number of type serial is incremented > as if the preceding insert-statement was successfull, even if it was > not. The serial type does not provide consecutive numbers, only unique ones. > The SEQUENCE corresponding to a column of type ser

[BUGS] Index Scans Oddness

2001-10-15 Thread Orion
I posted two things I thought might be bugs about an hour ago with postgresql-7.1.3-1PGDG. I just ran a regression test with postgresql-7.0.3 and one problem vanished and one stayed. (yes I vacuum analyzed) 1) the select * from foo where text_field like 'foo%' will do an index sc