[BUGS] bigint and indexes

2002-10-04 Thread Bill Schneider
Hello, I've also come across the bigint/index bug where an index on table(bigint_col) is ignored for explain select * from table where bigint_col = 83 results in a "Seq Scan" while explain select * from table where bigint_col = '83' and explain select * from table where bigint_col = 83::bigint

[BUGS] 7.3B2 initdb fails

2002-10-04 Thread Nic Ferrier
I built 7.3B2 from CVS and ran initdb: it fails. Here's an example of the console session: demo >>> $ initdb -D /usr/local/pgdata The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "nferrier". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized wi

[BUGS] Passing character data to C function

2002-10-04 Thread Philip Compton
After days of researching this problem all I find is that knowbody has done this successfully and documented it for me to find. I cannot determine if it is a bug or my incorrect development structure to blame. I would like to pass character data from postgreSQL 7.1.3 user function into a C pro

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2002-10-04 Thread Venkatesh Phadnavis
THis is with reference to the earlier email about error during compiling postgresql, I used the following configuration parameters. Additional information Thanks again, -V #!/bin/bash ./configure --enable-recode --enable-multibyte --with-CXX --with-perl --enable-odbc --with-java --with

[BUGS] need help

2002-10-04 Thread muhammad suhail
i have installed cygwin with posgresql 7.2.1-2 on windows 2000 ..with the user name muhammad . after that i have installed pgODBC AND Pgadmin2 .. i have initilaized new data base(testdb1) and then run postmaster it gives me very stange error ..please find the attachment .. yesterday it was working

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2002-10-04 Thread Venkatesh Phadnavis
I had two separate problems while compiling postgresql on my machine, information attached. Once, java refused to recognize the symbol javax.transaction.RolledbackException, and the second time some kind of VM error occurred. I am running a RedHat Linux 7.3 (2.4.8-10), with j2sdk1.4.1. Please l

[BUGS] unable to build on openbsd-sparc

2002-10-04 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello, I have tried for days to get postgresql working on OpenBSD on an old sparc32 box which I use to learn OpenBSD and Postgresql. I'll try to describe the steps I went through as precise as possible. First, I bought a sparc station 2 - an old box in a good condition, I've run debian gnu/l

Re: [BUGS] 7.3B2 initdb fails

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Lane
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DEBUG: inserting column 7 value '0' > DEBUG: Typ != NULL > ERROR: Bad float4 input format -- underflow Hm. This is evidently failing this test: static void CheckFloat4Val(double val) { if (fabs(val) > FLOAT4_MAX) elog(ERROR, "

Re: [BUGS] bigint and indexes

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Bill Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems to be a well-known and documented issue. Are there already plans > to fix this in an upcoming release? Yes. > Is the problem here in the optimizer itself, or in the parser? The problem is that the query is interpreted as "int8col int84e

Re: [BUGS] Bug in Function-Transactions?

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Postgres terminated my back-end connection to the server when it > reached the VACUUM statement. > Next, I reconnected. I was quite surprised to discover that Postgres > had *not* rolled back the changes made by the function before it > crashed. Yeah.

[BUGS] Bug in Function-Transactions?

2002-10-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I just encountered a very interesting bug in ver 7.2.1. As an experiment, I tried running a VACCUUM ANALYZE on a table inside a Function after the function had made a large number of updates to that table. I assumed that this wouldn't work, but I thought I'd give it a try. It did not w

Re: [BUGS] Bug in Function-Transactions?

2002-10-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > I just encountered a very interesting bug in ver 7.2.1. > > As an experiment, I tried running a VACCUUM ANALYZE on a table inside a > Function after the function had made a large number of updates to that > table. I assumed that this wouldn't work, but I thought

Re: [BUGS] Bug #789: Transaction Archival Logging -- Hot Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
We will have point-in-time recovery in 7.4. We are just releaseing 7.3beta now. --- Jon Watte wrote: > > Again, thank you for your reply. I am copying the bugs list in the > hope that some ray of insight will hit. > > I