Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I'm talking about the minor number. The only thing that effects is > that executables would pick up the new version if they have the old > one in the path as well, no potential problems. Okay, but, what does that buy you? One overwrites the old lib

Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > IMHO, it should only be changed if there are incompatibilities between > > releases ... we modify the API, mainly ... anything more then that, and > > we're making ppl recompile to pull in libraries that only unlying

Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > We did not bump the shared library versions before the 7.1 release. > > Maybe we should do this before 7.1.2 goes out. > > I thought I did that long ago for 7.1, or I should have anyway. I don't > see the commits either. Seems we can't do it in a min

Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We did not bump the shared library versions before the 7.1 release. >> Maybe we should do this before 7.1.2 goes out. > I thought I did that long ago for 7.1, or I should have anyway. I don't > see the commits either. Seems we can't do it in a minor

Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > We did not bump the shared library versions before the 7.1 release. > Maybe we should do this before 7.1.2 goes out. Ummm ... unless there are any changes that would require someone to recompile their apps between v7.1.1 and v7.1.2, I don't think so

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

2001-05-09 Thread Rod Taylor
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[HACKERS] Re: I still cannot force pg_dump to disable triggers

2001-05-09 Thread Philip Warner
At 17:23 9/05/01 +0200, Kovacs Zoltan wrote: >Well, I stopped trying it in March but I'm in a need of changing to 7.1 (I >should use Tom's patch). I did a 'make distclean' but no difference: there >are no lines switching the triggers on/off. I'm using "PostgreSQL 7.1 on >i686-pc-linux-gnu, compile

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

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > When compared to the earlier ones (including XFS), you'll note that ReiserFS > > performance is rather poor in some of the tests - it takes 37 vs. 13 > > seconds for 8192 inserts, when the inserts are different transactions. > > That is all the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No, I don't think that's very related; that's a simple matter of >> implementing an ALTER FUNCTION command. The other thing will require >> figuring out how to do dependency tracking. > Got it. Let me ask, if they change the column type, would they u

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this relate to allowing functions to be recreated with the same OID > as the original function? I think we need that badly for 7.2. No, I don't think that's very related; that's a simple matter of implementing an ALTER FUNCTION command. The other

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL 7.1 (current release) - frequent errno:55 (buffer space error)

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Bussey
Hello, I am running PostgreSQL on a FreeBSD machine with 1 Gig of ram, and dual P3-733mhz CPUs. This server also runs Apache and is a production/web server. I frequently run into the errno:55 on my site, if I simply click refresh it goes away. Anyone have any ideas what is causing this, or how

Re: [HACKERS] Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Philip Warner wrote: > > Is anybody planning to fix the problem with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT... > in which the constraints are not applied to child tables? > I'm working on the check constraint case (didn't realize that those inherited since unique, primary key and fore

[HACKERS] Coping with huge deferred-trigger lists

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
I had a thought just now about how to deal with the TODO item about coping with deferred trigger lists that are so long as to overrun main memory. This might be a bit harebrained, but I offer it for consideration: What we need to do, at the end of a transaction in which deferred triggers were fi

[HACKERS] I still cannot force pg_dump to disable triggers

2001-05-09 Thread Kovacs Zoltan
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:58:42 +1100 > From: Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I cannot force pg_dump to disable triggers > > At 12:49 16/03/01 +0100, kovacsz wrote: > >I downloaded the current snapshot and realized that you changed the > >dumping behavio

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

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > [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? >

Re: [HACKERS] Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ie. The CHECK constraints inherit only at the time of table creation. I > think this is a bug in ALTER TABLE for CHECK constraints. More like an "unimplemented feature" ;-). After thinking for a moment, I believe the only real gotcha that could arise

Re: [HACKERS] Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anybody planning to fix the problem with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT... > in which the constraints are not applied to child tables? AFAIK no one is looking at it presently (although Stephan Szabo has probably thought about it). If you want to tackle

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Alessio Bragadini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> But it's not really tracking the variable; with Ian's proposed >> implementation, after >> >> create table foo(bar int4); >> >> create function fooey(foo.bar%type) ...; >> >> drop table foo; >> >> create table foo(bar int8); >>

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

2001-05-09 Thread Kovacs Zoltan
> You're welcome ;-) Marvellous, it works! How much time did it take for you to find what have to be changed? Thank you very much. Regards, Zoltan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Philip Warner
At 09:36 9/05/01 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> >> Is anybody planning to fix the problem with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT... >> in which the constraints are not applied to child tables? > >I thought we had not figured out how to inherit those, or at least >certain constraints like UNIQUE. We do

[HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Richard Bullington-McGuire
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > The PAM support patch concerns me --- it looks like yet another chunk > > of code that will tie up the postmaster in a single-threaded > > conversation with a remote daemon that may or may not respond promptly. > > I recommend holding off on this until

Re: [HACKERS] Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Philip Warner
Is anybody planning to fix the problem with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT... in which the constraints are not applied to child tables? Philip Warner| __---_ Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |/ -

[HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: > But it's not really tracking the variable; with Ian's proposed > implementation, after > > create table foo(bar int4); > > create function fooey(foo.bar%type) ...; > > drop table foo; > > create table foo(bar in

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

2001-05-09 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:48:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Can someone remind me what we are going to do with this? > > > This patch add to 7.0.2 code NOCREATETABLE and NOLOCKTABLE feature: It's my old patch, it's usable and some people use it for 7.0.x. But it's really temporary sol

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

2001-05-09 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > Tom's suggestion does not sound reasonable to me. If PostgreSQL is not > > built with MULTIBYTE, then it means there would be no such idea > > "encoding" in PostgreSQL becuase there is no program to handle > > encodings. Thus it would be meaningless to assign an "encoding" to a > > database i

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

2001-05-09 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > The connect group would be granted these System Privileges: If we keep it like others (e.g. Informix) this System Privilege would be called "resource". I like this name better, because it more describes the detailed priviledges. > > > > CREATE AGGREGATE privilege > > CREATE INDEX privileg

AW: [HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
>> We need to discuss whether we like the %TYPE feature proposed by Ian > OK, one idea is to throw a elog(NOTICE) when they use this feature, > stating that it will not track column changes. Another option is to > just forget about the feature entirely. Do we have people > who like this featur