[BUGS] Documentation problem in postgresql-7.0.2

2001-05-12 Thread John Summerfield
suggest that every point where commit and rollback are discussed, there should be information about how to "Turn off auto-commit," even if only a link. Besides fixing the documentation for everyone, I'd like some information now about how to "Turn off auto-commit."

[BUGS] Excess disk usage

2001-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
xited with status 512 - abort [root@dugite log]# The actual messages are no surprise. I appreciate that I've not provided a lot of information about what I'm trying to do. However, I don't think that ANYTHING I do should case PG to use so much disk for so little data. --

[BUGS] A problem with WAL

2001-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
ble disk space. The problems I see 1) Documentation 2) Performance - there's no obvious need to use all this space 3) Performance - there's no (or insufficient) removal of old logs. 4) Recovery. I see no means of recovering short of either adding disk or deleting the entire database.

[BUGS] Bug reporting

2001-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
ent on lists; it almost inevitable results in a 24-hour delay. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ---(end of broadcast)-

[BUGS] Building documentation in PostgreSQL 7.2devel

2001-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
The build instructions in the INSTALL documentation does not lead to the documentation (HTML or man pages) being built. Here are all the directories I have having followed the instructions: [pgtest@possum pgtest]$ ls postgresql total 24 drwxrwxr-x6 pgtest pgtest 4096 Sep 3 16:50 .

[BUGS] Problem building JDBC in PostgreSQL 7.2devel

2001-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
After much fun building ant (which, at the very least proved I have a working javac AND that I don't need JAVA_HOME set, I get this failure building PostgreSQL 7.2devel with Java support: configure:1499: checking for executable suffix configure:1509: gcc -o conftest -O2 -g conftest.c 1>&5 con

[BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
erl and python components to install into the location I specified, and to leave me to discuss with Perl and Python the question of how to make sure I get the right versions (or even better, offer a handy hint). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.co

Re: [BUGS] Logging problems in PostgreSQL 7.2devel

2001-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have postmaster configured to use syslog. Despite this, these messages appear on >the terminal from which I start it: > > 2001-09-03 23:44:37 [26371] DEBUG: recycled transaction l

[BUGS] ecpg incompatibility with DB2

2001-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
This is explicity allowed in db2: void f3(int i) { EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; char host_var_3[25]; EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; EXEC SQL SELECT COL2 INTO :host_var_3 FROM TBL2; } void f4(int i) { char host_var_3[25]; EXEC SQL INSERT I

Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
ually the reason it gave for not installing the perl bits is that I didn't have the authority. It would have been completely happy if I'd been root. And I wouldn't have. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail del

[BUGS] SQLCODE==-209

2001-09-13 Thread John Summerfield
I'm using 7.2devel from CVS, and as I've already reported, the documentation doesn't build. Consequently I'm forced to rely on documentation for 7.1.2/3 which does not mention -209, at least in the ecpg documentation I'm looking at, Nore does it appear in the DB2 documentation I'm using as sec

[BUGS] Performance and 72.devel

2001-09-17 Thread John Summerfield
I checked out the latest updates about 14 hours ago. I've also put together a new box, featuring an Athlon running at 1.3 Mhz. I cloned the OS (Red Hat Linux 7.1) - I'd copied it from one disk to another fairly recently, and so the software setup is pretty well precisely what I've been using al

[BUGS] Website, mailing list

2001-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
I've tried unsuccessfully to subscribe to some list. Majordom doesn't understand me. I asked for help. Majordomo doesn't understand that either. Thought I'd recheck the website to see what I really ought to do. I get this: While trying to retrieve the URL: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.

Re: [BUGS] SQLCODE==-209

2001-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
Sorry all. There was a certain amount of nonsence in my previous posting on this topic. The failing sql command is an fact a select into. It fails when trying to retrieve a null value. The insert worked (I can retrieve the record if I don't ask for the null field, so evidently the insert code i

[BUGS] CVS rejected me

2001-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
This worked 2-3 days ago: what's changed? vs -z9 -q update cvs update: authorization failed: server postgresql.org rejected access to /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot for user anoncvs summer@dugite pgsql$ The entry's still in ~/.cvspass ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [BUGS] SQLCODE==-209

2001-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > John Summerfield writes: > > > I'm using 7.2devel from CVS, and as I've already reported, the documentation >doesn't build. > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/index.html I don't

Re: [BUGS] Performance and 72.devel

2001-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > ... > > I think that if it actually reused them instead of deleting old files... > > That is in fact what it does for at least the upcoming 7.2 release. > > It's not what I see now in 7.2devel. Unless the changes are uncommitted (or commited in the

Re: [BUGS] CVS rejected me

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
werbsite's out of date. As I noted, it was working. > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > > > This worked 2-3 days ago: what's changed? > > > > vs -z9 -q update > > cvs update: authorization failed: server postgresql.org rejected access to

[BUGS] CVS still doesn't work as described:

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
The instructions at http://www.ca.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/cvs.html#ANONCVS do not work. pgtest@dugite pgtest$ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server postgresql

Re: [BUGS] Website, mailing list

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Justin Clift wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > > While trying to retrieve the URL: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php > > > > Where did you get that URL from? AFAIK we have never had such a site > > name as "developer.postgresql.org". > > Hi Tom, > > This is the ne

Re: [BUGS] Website, mailing list

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > > > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I get response like this > > > subscribe > > > Illegal command! > > > No valid commands proc

Re: [BUGS] Website, mailing list

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It would seem that that page is out of date. Vince, can you fix it? > > > > > Actually the instructions are correct. > > > > Are they? The last time I sub

Re: [BUGS] Website, mailing list

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I asked for help. Majordomo doesn't understand that either. > > What did you do exactly? The following message brought back a help > response for me: I get response like this

Re: [BUGS] CVS rejected me

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > go to anoncvs.postgresql.org, not postgresql.org .. Fails the same. I used the password postgresql (by cut&paste). > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > > > This worked 2-3 days ago: what's

Re: [BUGS] Performance and 72.devel

2001-09-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or if it is reusing them, it's renaming them too. > > That is what the "recycling..." message is all about... > 1) Why rename them? 2) Does anyone have a better idea

[BUGS] Problem building from CVS

2001-10-06 Thread John Summerfield
This has me foxed. I can build the source on one machine, Numbat. On another, Dugite it fails. I'm using the same script (copied from Numbat to Dugite for the occasion). Both systems are running Red Hat Linux; Dugite was upgraded from RHL 6.2, Numbat was a fresh install. I'm building from a t

Re: [BUGS] Long options for psql in 7.1.3

2001-10-05 Thread John Summerfield
On 4 Oct 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > g9genarc@eddie:~$ psql -h /var/pgsql --help > > > psql was compiled without support for long options. > > > Use --help for help on invocation options. > > > > > > I guess that it was confused by havi

Re: [BUGS] SQLCODE==-209

2001-10-16 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have added documentation for code 209. Looks like there are other > undocumented ones. Should we document them all? If you're asking me, I'm all in favour of documenting them;-) I'm not a fan of "Read the source," though I do it if I'm desperat

[BUGS] psql in 7.2devel loops

2002-02-01 Thread John Summerfield
It used to be the case that psql could be run thus: psql -U summer -h numbat template1 < ZZ which is very convenient in scripting. Now, it writes a password prompt (successfully in my case) and tries to read the password (presumably from the tty) which fails. Here is the entire script that f

[BUGS] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 announcement

2004-12-29 Thread John Summerfield
pls, link to the most important info - the release notes detailing what's changed since a) RC1 abd b) 7.4. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings