[GENERAL] testing...(ignore)

2000-09-14 Thread Hernan
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[GENERAL] pg_migrator segfault

2010-11-02 Thread hernan gonzalez
I am stuck with a segmentation fault while running pg_upgrade, from 8.4.3 to 9.0.1 $ ./pg_upgrade -d /var/pgsql-8_4_3/data/ -D /var/pgsql-9_0_1/data/ -b /var/pgsql-8_4_3/bin/ -B /var/pgsql-9_0_1/bin/ --check -P 5433 -v -g -G debug Running in verbose mode Running in debug mode PerForming Consistenc

Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator segfault

2010-11-02 Thread hernan gonzalez
2010/11/2 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz > try gdb --args ./pg_upgrade -d /var/pgsql-8_4_3/data/ -D > /var/pgsql-9_0_1/data/ -b /var/pgsql-8_4_3/bin/ -B > /var/pgsql-9_0_1/bin/ --check -P 5433 -v -g -G debug > and when it fails, type in 'bt' and paste it here please. > > -- > GJ > Well, this is strange. I

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade segfault (was: pg_migrator segfault)

2010-11-02 Thread hernan gonzalez
2010/11/2 hernan gonzalez > 2010/11/2 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz > > try gdb --args ./pg_upgrade -d /var/pgsql-8_4_3/data/ -D >> /var/pgsql-9_0_1/data/ -b /var/pgsql-8_4_3/bin/ -B >> /var/pgsql-9_0_1/bin/ --check -P 5433 -v -g -G debug >> and when it fails, type in &#

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade segfault (was: pg_migrator segfault)

2010-11-02 Thread hernan gonzalez
In pg_upgrade/controldata.c , putenv2 function : char *envstr = (char *) pg_malloc(ctx, strlen(var) + strlen(val) + 1); sprintf(envstr, "%s=%s", var, val); Shouldn't it be "+ 2 " instead of "+ 1" ? (one for the '=', plus one for the null terminating char) ? I think that

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade segfault (was: pg_migrator segfault)

2010-11-02 Thread hernan gonzalez
Replacing that 1 for 2 it's enough for making it work, for me, it seems. But it's not enough to get valgrind happy (It still reports 4 "definitely lost" blocks, all from that putenv2 function). Perhaps that's related to the comment: /* * Do not free envstr because it becomes pa

[GENERAL] small suggested change for examples in array docs

2011-01-13 Thread hernan gonzalez
Most examples in the array documentation uses ARRAY[1,2,3] and similar. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/functions-array.html I think (actually I have experienced it, both in myself and others) that this can be misleading in some cases. For example: array_upper(ARRAY[1,2,3,4], 1)

[GENERAL] text and bytea

2008-02-21 Thread hernan gonzalez
(After dealing a while with this, and learning a little, I though of post this as comment in the docs, but perhaps someone who knows better can correct or clarify) = The issues of charset encodings

Re: [GENERAL] text and bytea

2008-02-24 Thread hernan gonzalez
> It seems to me that postgres is trying to do as you suggest: text is > characters and bytea is bytes, like in Java. But the big difference is that, for text type, postgresql knows "this is a text" but doesnt know the encoding, as my example showed. This goes against the concept of "text vs byt

Re: [GENERAL] text and bytea

2008-02-25 Thread hernan gonzalez
> Umm, I think all you showed was that the to_ascii() function was > broken. Postgres knows exactly what encoding the string is in, the > backend encoding: in your case UTF-8. That would be fine, if it were true; then, one could assume that every postgresql function that returns a text gets ALW

Re: [GENERAL] text and bytea

2008-02-25 Thread hernan gonzalez
> IMHO, the semantics of encode() and decode() are correct (the bridge > between bytea and text ... in the backend encoding; they should be the > only bridge), convert() is also ok (deals with bytes), but > convert_to() and convert_from() are dubious if not broken: they imply > texts in arbitrary e

Re: [GENERAL] text and bytea

2008-02-25 Thread hernan gonzalez
Another example (Psotgresql 8.3.0, UTF-8 server/client encoding) test=# create table chartest ( c text); test=# insert into chartest (c) values ('¡Hasta mañana!'); test=# create view vchartest as select encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape') as c1 from chartest; test=# select c,octet_length(c

[GENERAL] Some clarification about TIMESTAMP

2011-05-31 Thread hernan gonzalez
I'm doing some tests with date-time related fields to design my web application. I was already dissatisfied with Postgresql handling of timezones concepts (issue already discussed here - not entirely PG's fault, rather a SQL thing) and I vehemently reject the idea of a global server-side timezone

Re: [GENERAL] Some clarification about TIMESTAMP

2011-05-31 Thread hernan gonzalez
> There are any number of > server-side settings that can affect the interpretation (and display) > of your data.  Datestyle for example already renders this position > untenable. What makes me a little uncomfortable in this assertion -and in many parts of PG docs- is that emphasis put on what "is

[GENERAL] Domains as typedefs: Performance and automatic casting

2011-06-16 Thread hernan gonzalez
I plan to define two domains with no contraints, sort of typedefs, to work with date-times inside my application: CREATE DOMAIN instant AS timestamp(3) with time zone; CREATE DOMAIN localdatetime AS timestamp(3) without time zone; Two questions: 1. I guess that there is no performance penalty

[GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-23 Thread hernan gonzalez
to_timestamp() returns a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE Perhaps an alternative that returns a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE (which, BTW, is the default TIMESTAMP) should be provided. Elsewhere, there is no direct-robust way of parsing a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE (which represesents a "local date-time"

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-23 Thread hernan gonzalez
There is some related discussion here http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/to-timestamp-returns-the-incorrect-result-for-the-DST-fall-over-time-td3327393.html But it amounts to the same thing: TO_TIMESTAMP() is not apt for dealing with plain TIMESTAMP (without time zones). Hence, there is no f

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-23 Thread hernan gonzalez
> Rather than being not viable, I'd argue that is is not correct. Rather, a > simple direct cast will suffice: > '2011-12-30 00:30:00'::timestamp without time zone > That works only for that particular format. The point is that, for example, if I have some local date time stored as a string in ot

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-23 Thread hernan gonzalez
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 06/23/2011 11:40 AM, hernan gonzalez wrote: > >>Rather than being not viable, I'd argue that is is not correct. >>Rather, a simple direct cast will suffice: >>'2011-12-30 00:30:00'::ti

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-23 Thread hernan gonzalez
> > > Every example here starts, at its core, with to_timestamp. That function > returns a timestamp *with* time zone so of-course the current timezone > setting will influence it. Stop using it - it doesn't do what you want. > > If you cast directly to a timestamp *without* time zone you can take

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-24 Thread hernan gonzalez
nyway, from the point of view of the app developer, it sounds strange sometimes. BTW, I was curious to see how the JDBC client code dealt wit this, if he was confortable and if all was clear and foolproof with these TIMESTAMP types at that level. Well, not very - it seems. See http://goo.gl/L2Pzi , search for "compromise". Probably JDBC is also to blame here, but anyway... Regards Hernan J Gonzalez

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-26 Thread hernan gonzalez
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:56 AM, David Johnston wrote: > First: I would suggest your use of “Local Time” is incorrect and that you > would be better off thinking of it as “Abstract Time”. My responses below > go into more detail but in short you obtain a “Local” time by “Localizing” > and “Abstr

Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and timestamp without time zone

2011-06-26 Thread hernan gonzalez
> > > You might want to review the Theories of Relativity, which pretty much blew > away > the notion of an absolute time and introduced the notion of frame of > reference > for time. > > Well, I give up. -- Hernán J. González http://hjg.com.ar/

[GENERAL] savepoints with the same name

2010-04-30 Thread hernan gonzalez
I was thinking thinking about the issue asked here, about an error in a query causing the whole transaction to abort, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2741919/can-i-ask-postgresql-to-ignore-errors-within-a-transaction/2745677 which has already bothered so many postgresql users and has been discus

[GENERAL] psql weird behaviour with charset encodings

2010-05-07 Thread hernan gonzalez
(Disclaimer: I've been using Postgresql for quite a long time, I usually deal with non-ascii LATIN-9 characters , but that has never been a problem, until now) My issue summarized: when psql is invoked from a user who has a locale different from that of the database, the tabular output is wrong fo

Re: [GENERAL] psql weird behaviour with charset encodings

2010-05-07 Thread hernan gonzalez
It's surely not a xterm problem, I see the characters ok with just the \x formatting. I can check also the output redirecting to a file. My original client_encoding seems to be LATIN9 in both cases, accorging to the \set ouput. If I change it (for the root user) to UTF8 with " SET CLIENT_ENCODING

Re: [GENERAL] psql weird behaviour with charset encodings

2010-05-07 Thread hernan gonzalez
Mmm no: \x displays correctly for me because it sends the raw text (in LATIN9) and I have set my terminal in LATIN9 (or ISO-8859-15) And it's not that "xterm is misdisplaying" the text, it just that psql is ouputting an EMPTY (zero lenght) string for that field. (I can even send the output to a

Re: [GENERAL] psql weird behaviour with charset encodings

2010-05-07 Thread hernan gonzalez
Sorry about a error in my previous example (mixed width and precision). But the conclusion is the same - it works on bytes: #include main () { char s[] = "ni\xc3\xb1o"; /* 5 bytes , 4 utf8 chars */ printf("|%*s|\n",6,s); /* this should pad a black */ printf("|%.*s|\n",4,s);

Re: [GENERAL] psql weird behaviour with charset encodings

2010-05-08 Thread hernan gonzalez
Wow, you are right, this is bizarre... And it's not that glibc intends to compute the length in unicode chars, it actually counts bytes (c plain chars) -as it should- for computing field widths... But, for some strange reason, when there is some width calculation involved it tries so parse the cha

[GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-18 Thread Hernan Danielan
e()); statement.setString(4, cont.getNombre()); statement.setInt(5, oid); statement.execute(); statement.close(); mDbConnector.commit(); Thanks in advance, Hernan

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-19 Thread Hernan Danielan
ead a person who had this problem and he fixed changing th cache size but I wasn't successful. Any ideas? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Joshua Tolley wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Hernan Danielan > wrote: > > Hello! I am using postgress 8.4. I am trying to

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-20 Thread Hernan Danielan
fails most of the time. Does the JDBC has a timeOut or something? does anybody knows another connector that i could use in order to test it? I am really desperate because i have been with this problem for several days now. Thank in advance, Hernan On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Scott Marlowe

[GENERAL] puzzled by the docs

2000-06-27 Thread Hernan Gonzalez
d, speaks of the 'pg_option' file, and doesn't mention those settings... Help! Am I missing something stupid? Hernan Gonzalez Buenos Aires, Argentina