[HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-07 Thread Joe Conway
> I don't mind contributing the script and schema that I used, but one thing I > failed to mention in my first post is that the first thing the script does > is open connections to 256 databases (all on this same machine), and the > transactions are relatively evenly dispersed among the 256 connec

RE: [HACKERS] Duplicate constraint names in 7.0.3

2001-05-07 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
OK, I have modifed heap.c so that it won't automatically generate duplicate constraint names. I have _not_ compiled this yet, as it's a bit of a pain for me cos I don't have bison, etc. However, it looks good to me, and if someone else wants to test it and then maybe think about if the patch is

Re: [HACKERS] MULTIBYTE and SQL_ASCII (was Re: [JDBC] Re: A bug with pgsql 7.1/jdbc and non-ascii (8-bit) chars?)

2001-05-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> >>> Thus I would be happy if getdatabaseencoding() returned 'UNKNOWN' or > >>> something similar when in fact it doesn't know what the encoding is > >>> (i.e. when not compiled with multibyte). > >> > > > > Is that ok for Java? I thought Java needs to know the encoding > > beforehand so that

Re: [HACKERS] typo in psql's help

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah, I got a note from Peter saying it was fixed in 7.1. Silly me, I > > thought hub was running 7.1, psql must be 7.0.x. > > Looks like there's an older psql in your PATH. You could make sure with > "psql -V

Re: CVS branch management (was Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump)

2001-05-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately "cvs log" isn't all that great about distinguishing > branches from tags --- it calls 'em all "symbolic names". Minor addition to this: you can distinguish branches and tags by using `cvs status -v'. (Historical note: CVS was originally imple

Re: [HACKERS] create database name with location = 'path';

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > template1=# create database fubar with location = '/tmp' ; > ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: could not link '/postgres/data/base/12523613' to > '/tmp/base/12523613': Operation not permitted Try using a filesystem that supports symbolic links ...

Re: [HACKERS] Isn't pg_statistic a security hole?

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds fine, but aren't most people who we ask for stats superusers? Are they? I don't think we should assume that. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get

CVS branch management (was Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump)

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 11:22 7/05/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Do you need a quick lecture on CVS branch management? > That would be sensible. OK, some quick notes for those with commit privileges: If you just do basic "cvs checkout", "cvs update", "cvs commit", then you

Re: [HACKERS] Isn't pg_statistic a security hole?

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It seems to me that only superusers should be allowed to read the >> pg_statistic table. Or am I overreacting? Comments? > You are not overreacting. Imagine a salary column. I can imagine > max/min being quite interesting. A fine example, indeed ;

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Warner
At 11:22 7/05/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >Do you need a quick lecture on CVS branch management? > That would be sensible. Philip Warner| __---_ Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |/ - \ (A.B.N

[HACKERS] Denying user to create new tables

2001-05-07 Thread Tulio Oliveira
Hello, All How I prevent a new user to create new tables in a Data Base ? The Data Base is owned by "postgres" and I need that only the "postgres" user can create new tables ... --- Where are the default messages thats appears when the Referentian Integrity is violated ? I need change thi

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] v7.1.1 Branched, Packaged and Released ...

2001-05-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> takes Vince a day or two to catch up ... yes, we are officially released, > and Tom just dump'd some major stats changes into HEAD ... > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > Does this mean that we have officially released 7.1.1? I could not > > find any statements regarding 7.1.1 o

Re: [HACKERS] NOCREATETABLE patch (was: Re: Please, help!(about Postgres))

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone remind me what we are going to do with this? I'd like to see some effort put into implementing the SQL-standard privilege model, rather than adding yet more ad-hoc user properties. The more of these we make, the more painful it's going to be

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > "Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week > > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers? > > I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run? In

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] v7.1.1 Branched, Packaged and Released ...

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Lieven Van Acker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are the "nested views permission problems" fixed in this release? > If so, a dump IS necessary because of a change rule creation routines. If you're running into that issue, you might want to drop and recreate the affected views/rules. That's a far

Re: [HACKERS] typo in psql's help

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, I got a note from Peter saying it was fixed in 7.1. Silly me, I > thought hub was running 7.1, psql must be 7.0.x. Looks like there's an older psql in your PATH. You could make sure with "psql -V". regards, tom lane -

Re: [HACKERS] Lisp as procedural language

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone explain why we have a lisp.sgml file in our docs? Seems it > descripes a 3rd party Emacs interface. I don't think we should start > distributing docs for software we don't distribute. Can I remove it? Only if you move the pointer to somep

Re: [HACKERS] Re: File system performance and pg_xlog (More info)

2001-05-07 Thread Steve Wampler
Doug McNaught wrote: > > That makes sense to me. On "traditional" Unices, we could use the raw > character device for a partition (eg /dev/rdsk/* on Solaris), and on > Linux we'd use /dev/raw*, which is a mapping to a specific partition > established before PG startup. Small update - newer Linu

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is a major issue for people running performance tests. For > example, XFS may be slow on 2.2 kernels but not 2.4 kernels. XFS is 2.4 only, AFAIK - even the installer modifications SGI did to Red Hat Linux 7 (which is shipped with a 2.2 kernel) in

Re: [HACKERS] typo in psql's help

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > postgresql=> \h create table > > Command: CREATE TABLE > > Description: Creates a new table > > Syntax: > > CREATE [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] TABLE table ( > > column type > > [ NULL | NOT NULL ] [ UNIQUE ] [ DEFAULT value ] > > [column_const

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes: > > If you're using raw devices on Linux and get a win there, it's a win > > for Postgresql on Linux. ... > > It all comes down to if it actually would give a performance boost, > > how muc

[HACKERS] incorrect query result using complex structures (views?)

2001-05-07 Thread Kovacs Zoltan
Hi, I cannot decide if this is a serious bug or not --- some queries from complex views may give strange results. The next few days I will try to find the point where the problem is but now I can only include the data structure and the SELECT statements which don't give the correct result. A lot

Re: [HACKERS] Isn't pg_statistic a security hole?

2001-05-07 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > "Serguei Mokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Being a simple user, I still want to view the stats from the table, > > but it should be limited only to the stuff I own. I don't wanna let > > others see any of my info, however. The SU's, of course, should be > > able to read al

Re: [HACKERS] typo in psql's help

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > postgresql=> \h create table > > Command: CREATE TABLE > > Description: Creates a new table > > Syntax: > > CREATE [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] TABLE table ( > > column type > > [ NULL | NOT NULL ] [ UNIQUE ] [ DEFAULT value ] > > [column_const

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes: > If you're using raw devices on Linux and get a win there, it's a win > for Postgresql on Linux. ... > It all comes down to if it actually would give a performance boost, > how much work it is and if someone wants to do it. No,

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached patch should fix the problem. Assuming it tests out OK, can > this be back-patched, since 7.1.1 is already out? Yes, it should be back-patched into the REL7_1_STABLE branch once you're confident of it. Probably there will be a 7.1.2 by and

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] v7.1.1 Branched, Packaged and Released ...

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 7 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > takes Vince a day or two to catch up ... yes, we are officially released, > and Tom just dump'd some major stats changes into HEAD ... But this time Vince had all the info online in a matter of minutes after receiving Marc's announcement. It does

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:10:33PM -0400, mlw wrote: > > I think it is simpler problem than that. Postgres, with fsync enabled, does a > > lot of work trying to maintain data integrity. It is logical to conclude that a > > file system that does as little

Re: [HACKERS] \c connects as another user instead I want in psql

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
>>> Really? We are removing usesysid? Seems the admin will no longer be >>> able to choose the users id, right? >> >> Not that this was ever useful. > Except for re-adding users. Yes. In theory, the correct answer to that is to add referential integrity checks that prevent you from dropp

AW: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-07 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week > > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers? > > I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run? Looks like we have expert help here :-) One very interesting question would imho be, how do we bes

[HACKERS] Re: XFS File systems and PostgreSQL

2001-05-07 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
I have run a simple PostgreSQL benchmark on my SGI system which uses XFS for its file system on all disks to compare the effect of fsync. The benchmark was the loading of a database from 157 MB of pg_dump data including the construction of 11 Btree indexes covering nearly all of the data. The seco

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Warner
At 23:04 7/05/01 +1000, Philip Warner wrote: > >It's actually a more general problem - it looks like dumping views in 7.0 >does not work with the 7.1.1 pg_dump (it thinks they are tables because the >7.1 check of pg_relkind='v' is not valid). > The attached patch should fix the problem. Assuming

[HACKERS] Wanted Sydney Australia, someone to explain PostgreSQL to a bunch of programmers

2001-05-07 Thread com
PHP users tend to start with MySQL and stick there. PostgreSQL from release 7 is getting rave reviews for being equivalent in performance to MySQL in medium size web sites. Perhaps it is time for PHP programmers to dive straight in to postgreSQL. Wanted: PostgreSQL expert to rave about PostgreSQ

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Warner
At 13:19 7/05/01 +0300, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > >Seems that there is a problem dumping 'INSERT-style' from a 7.0.X >database. > It's actually a more general problem - it looks like dumping views in 7.0 does not work with the 7.1.1 pg_dump (it thinks they are tables because the 7.1 check of pg_

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] v7.1.1 Branched, Packaged and Released ...

2001-05-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
takes Vince a day or two to catch up ... yes, we are officially released, and Tom just dump'd some major stats changes into HEAD ... On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > Does this mean that we have officially released 7.1.1? I could not > find any statements regarding 7.1.1 on the web pag

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] v7.1.1 Branched, Packaged and Released ...

2001-05-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Does this mean that we have officially released 7.1.1? I could not find any statements regarding 7.1.1 on the web pages... -- Tatsuo Ishii > This is just a quick announcement that we have now branched off v7.1.x > from the main development tree, and are starting to dive into development > of v7.

[HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Alessio Bragadini
I've tried the pg_dump bundled in the new 7.1.1 release. I wanted to test its feature of dumping a 7.0.X database. Let's say I have database A running 7.1.1, B running 7.0.2. Both servers have the same database 'test', 'myview' is a view defined on both of them. I want to dump data only, being a

AW: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-07 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > I think it's worth noting that Oracle has been petitioning the > > kernel developers for better raw device support: in other words, > > the ability to write directly to the hard disk and bypassing the > > filesystem all together. > > But there could be other reasons why Oracle would want