Re: [GENERAL] Issues with german locale on CentOS 5,6,7

2015-10-07 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On 7. Oktober 2015 02:33:59 -0700 Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > At the risk of getting flamed: I think that this is a bug in > PostgreSQL, not CentOS. I've said why I think that is at least once > already [1]. Simply put, there is no justification for the belief that > some people have that colla

[GENERAL] Issues with german locale on CentOS 5,6,7

2015-10-07 Thread Bernd Helmle
The last day we've encountered an issue what i think is somewhat severe if you want to do either OS upgrades with CentOS or even binary upgrades with an existing PostgreSQL instance to a new machine with locale de_DE.UTF-8 and thus i'd like to share here. Here are the details: Originally a Postg

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK

2014-12-30 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On 29. Dezember 2014 12:55:11 -0500 Tom Lane wrote: Given the lack of previous complaints, this probably isn't backpatching material, but it sure seems like a bit of attention to consistency would be warranted here. Now that i read it i remember a client complaining about this some time

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [BUGS] [HACKERS] COPY TO returning empty result with parallel ALTER TABLE

2014-11-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On 4. November 2014 17:18:14 -0500 Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, and I think that it's entirely reasonable for rewriting ALTER TABLEs to update the xmin of the rewritten tuples; after all, the output data could be arbitrarily different from what the previous transactions put into the table. But th

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] COPY TO returning empty result with parallel ALTER TABLE

2014-11-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On 3. November 2014 18:15:04 +0100 Sven Wegener wrote: I've check git master and 9.x and all show the same behaviour. I came up with the patch below, which is against curent git master. The patch modifies the COPY TO code to create a new snapshot, after acquiring the necessary locks on th

Re: [GENERAL] select command doesnot work

2008-07-08 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Dienstag, Juli 08, 2008 15:12:44 +0200 "Leif B. Kristensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this the case on both Windows and Linux? - that psql uses more for paging, as opposed to doing it itself? It uses "less" on Linux. Seems to me that less is the default on cygwin, only. For others

Re: [GENERAL] select command doesnot work

2008-07-08 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Dienstag, Juli 08, 2008 21:46:53 +1000 Long Cui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed Postgresql 8.3.3 in windows XP, try to input some commands in windows command prompt. The create, update and insert command work all right, just select command.got the error message: "more" is not inte

Re: [GENERAL] redundants indexes can be created

2008-07-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Freitag, Juli 04, 2008 11:26:31 +0100 Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You ask for a particular index, it creates the index. Why complicate the code checking for possible duplicate indexes if it's not a problem people tend to encounter? And what would characterize a "duplicate"

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning / rules - strange behavior

2007-02-07 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:28:49 +0100, Tomas Vondra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We're using sequence to generate the sessions(id) value, but that should > not be a problem - with the structure / rules everything works fine (the > current value in sessions_id_seq is about 870 so the values ar

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0

2007-01-31 Thread Bernd Helmle
On 30 Jan 2007 12:15:17 -0800, "Karen Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 11:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Dawid Kuroczko") wrote: > >> * updatable views [ or am I missing something? ] -- it seems to me >> they were close to be completed, but I don't remember if they were >> completed an

Re: [GENERAL] Who is Slony Master/Slave + general questions.

2007-01-24 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:07:57 +0500, "Shoaib Mir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont have the replication setup on my machine right now but I guess as > far > as I remember you can surely check for the master and slave nodes from a > Slony schema table. > I think the notion of "master and slave

Re: [GENERAL] Problems With VIEWS

2007-01-11 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:36:34 -0800 (PST), Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Either way. I like to create sql files with all of the DDL for creating > the view and rules. > Overtime, if I need to change my view or reconfigure the rules, I can edit > my sql file and then > cal

Re: [GENERAL] feature request for Postgresql Rule system.

2006-12-19 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:22:36 -0800 (PST), Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Once you update one side of the join with a >> different join key value, the join row in question no longer exists in >> the view ... so the second update doesn't find a row to update. This >> has noth

Re: [GENERAL] Savepoints in PL/pgSQL

2006-12-19 Thread Bernd Helmle
On 19 Dec 2006 08:37:01 -0800, "BigSmoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] What would solve my problem is if there was a > method to, at the end of >> a begin/end block, I could rollback the changes made in that block >> without having to raise an exception. Is it somehow possible to >> explici

Re: [GENERAL] Savepoints in PL/pgSQL

2006-12-19 Thread Bernd Helmle
On 19 Dec 2006 07:05:10 -0800, "BigSmoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that due to a lack of nested transaction support, it is > not possible to use START TRANSACTION within a PL/PgSQL function. What > I, however, do not understand is why I can't use SAVEPOINT either. I'm > writing

Re: [GENERAL] How to speed up Exclusive Locking

2006-12-05 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:18:21 +, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The first bits of the sync are done without locking the source tables, and > I do these until I find less than some suitable threshold of records > needing > to be updated. Then I lock the source tables and

Re: [GENERAL] Erorr in running create set command

2006-11-30 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:23:03 -0800 (PST), Ashish Karalkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to add a new table to an running > replication system. > Please stop posting Slony-I related questions to this list. slony1-general is the more applicable list for this, see my

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic views

2006-11-29 Thread Bernd Helmle
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:38:22 +0530, "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello friends, >> I have a view defined as:- >> >> CREATE VIEW vivek_testview AS SELECT vivek_test.* , users.username AS > name from users, vivek_test wh

Re: [GENERAL] Free Pascal and Postgresql Functions, Possible?

2005-12-12 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Montag, Dezember 12, 2005 11:16:19 +0100 Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:03:57PM -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: Has there ever been any discussion on using Free Pascal to create functions (C Style)? I know pascal can be used to create user defined functions in other

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: Problem installing Postgresql on MDK10.0

2004-11-16 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Dienstag, November 16, 2004 17:39:12 +0100 "Alejandro D. Burne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, but no reply on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- From: Alejandro D. Burne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:00:58 +0100 Subject: Problem installing Postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] Updateable Views?

2004-08-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Dienstag, August 03, 2004 20:51:45 -0600 Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:05, CSN wrote: Just wondering, is updateable views slated for a future version of Postgresql? In addition to using rules that is. It's on the todo list. Of course, the just means someo

Re: [GENERAL] Search across multiple sources

2004-02-02 Thread Bernd Helmle
Merrall, Graeme wrote: I don't think there's an easy way to do this but I thought I better ask just in case. I'm trying to come up with a way to search across a number of databases without resorting to lots of horrible scripts. In one database I have a lot of news stories from our news provider wh

Re: [GENERAL] Reallife szenario for GEQO

2004-01-13 Thread Bernd Helmle
Tom Lane wrote: Bernd Helmle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But what means "enough tables"? GEQO_THRESHOLD or more. You can set that anywhere you like (I think the default is 11 or 12, which is about where the standard exhaustive-search planner becomes painfully slow). regards,

[GENERAL] Reallife szenario for GEQO

2004-01-13 Thread Bernd Helmle
I am currently searching some resources, why and where the PostgreSQL GEQO-Engine improves large join queries. The theoretical background is clear, but i need some real life szenarios, where the GEQO-Engine beats other solutions. Have anyone made such a comparison, or have experiences which sze

Re: [GENERAL] syntax error in eRServer.pm line 69

2003-09-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
This problem is discussed on erserver-general. There are some patches available, that solves the problem and Andrew Sullivan posted workarounds for those didn't get their tables replicated. If you're not subscribed already, you can read the archive here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/er