Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

2001-10-11 Thread Patrice Hédé
* Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011011 22:49]: > > Can I ask about the status of this? I have sent a patch a few days ago solving the client-side issue (on the pgsql-patches mailing list) for review. I think Tatsuo said it looked OK, however he should confirm/infirm this. There is still th

Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock? idle in transaction

2001-10-11 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: > A customer's machine hangs from time to time. All we could find so far is > that postgres seems to be in state "idle in transaction": > > postgres 19317 0.0 0.3 8168 392 ?SOct05 0:00 >/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/p

Re: [HACKERS] Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think we can remove -o behavior during beta because it will > > affect people using -S in startup scripts. > > That was *not* the proposal under discussion. The proposal was to > warn people in the 7.2 documentation that we plan to remove -

Re: [HACKERS] Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Would someone give me a status on this? --- > Hi all, > > There seem to be a few namespace conflicts for the options of postgres > and postmaster. The one's I could identify from the man pages are : > > -i -N -o -p -S -s

Re: [HACKERS] Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think we can remove -o behavior during beta because it will > affect people using -S in startup scripts. That was *not* the proposal under discussion. The proposal was to warn people in the 7.2 documentation that we plan to remove -o in 7.3. A

Re: [HACKERS] Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would someone give me a status on this? > > I don't think we need any code changes. If we decide to deprecate -o > (or anything else), it's just a documentation change. So we can argue > about it during beta ... > > >> If we notify of the impendi

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER TODO item

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I get a status on this? It's not gonna happen for 7.2, I think ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.post

Re: [HACKERS] optimizer question

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> "Reinoud van Leeuwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a table that contains almost 8 milion rows. The primary key is a > > sequence, so the index should have a good distribution. Why does the > > optimizer refuse to use the index for getting the maximum value? > > The optimizer has no

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER TODO item

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Can I get a status on this? > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > Note: I'm not convinced that relfilenode and pg_class.oid are each > > used in exactly the right spots. Once we have cases where they can > > differ, we may well find some bugs to flush out. But that needs to > > happ

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: new GUC paramter

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is really annoying since: > > o these code fragments actually controls the optimization efforts for > > subqueries and views, not related to GEQO at all. So using GEQO > > parameters for this kind of purpose seems abuse for me. > > But GEQO_

Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Can I ask about the status of this? > Hi all, > > while working on a new project involving PostgreSQL and making some > tests, I have come up with the following output from psql : > > lang | length | length | text| text > --+++---+--- > isl |

Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock? idle in transaction

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A customer's machine hangs from time to time. All we could find so far is > that postgres seems to be in state "idle in transaction": You evidently have some client applications holding open transactions that have locks on some tables. That's not a de

Re: [HACKERS] Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would someone give me a status on this? I don't think we need any code changes. If we decide to deprecate -o (or anything else), it's just a documentation change. So we can argue about it during beta ... >> If we notify of the impending deprecation n

Re: [HACKERS] EXTRACT broken

2001-10-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Lockhart writes: > > peter=# SELECT EXTRACT(DOW FROM TIME '20:38:40'); > > ERROR: Interval units 'dow' not recognized > > The expression is nonsensical, but so is the result. > > Hmm. Why is the result nonsensical? "day of week" does not have meaning > for intervals, so it should not be r

Re: [HACKERS] pg_client_encoding

2001-10-11 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Tatsuo, > > Did you ever commit this new function? I just tried a 'select > pg_client_encoding()' and it told me that there was no such function. > This was on sources that I pulled and built two days ago. > > I was planning on changing the JDBC code to use this function instead of > getda

Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock? idle in transaction

2001-10-11 Thread Rachit Siamwalla
i've had similar problems before. Looks like some thing is in a transaction, blocked on something else. Then vacuum comes in, locks half the tables, and then gets stuck on a table that the transaction has modified. Now most of your other transactions will block forever. Then the connection limit f

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump oid problems

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DEBUG: query: SELECT c.relname FROM pg_index i LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_class c > ON c.oid = i.indexrelid WHERE i.indrelid = 3527162388AND i.indisprimary > ERROR: dtoi4: integer out of range > The 3527162388AND is exactly as shown in the log, with no space betwee

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump oid problems

2001-10-11 Thread steve
Tom, Thanks for the prompt reply. Following is the postgresql log output: DEBUG: ProcessQuery DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand DEBUG: query: SELECT Oid FROM pg_index i WHERE i.indisprimary AND i.indrelid = '3527162388'::oid DEBUG: ProcessQuery DEBUG: CommitTr

Re: [HACKERS] psql and security

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks Tatsuo and Tom. > Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As you can see, psql reconnect as any user if the password is same as > > foo. Of course this is due to the careless password setting, but I > > think it's better to prompt ANY TIME the user tries to switch to

Re: [HACKERS] syslog by default?

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, that makes sense. My only question is how many platforms _don't_ > > have syslog. If it is only NT and QNX, I think we can live with using > > it by default if it exists. > > There seems to be a certain amount of confusion here. The proposal

[HACKERS] Deadlock? idle in transaction

2001-10-11 Thread Michael Meskes
A customer's machine hangs from time to time. All we could find so far is that postgres seems to be in state "idle in transaction": postgres 19317 0.0 0.3 8168 392 ?SOct05 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data postgres 19983 0.0 0.8 8932 1020 ?

Re: [HACKERS] Suitable Driver ?

2001-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Balaji Venkatesan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed latest DBI from www.cpan.org > Now i need to install DBD For PGSQL .Is > this the driver i have to work on for pgsql ?. If you want to use DBI then you should get the DBD::Pg driver from CPAN. (Yes, it is

Re: [HACKERS] pg_result -list

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
> I found a non-existent option "-list" described in the doc of > libpgtcl's pg_result procedure. Shall we remove it from the docs? Yes, removed. Thanks. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life i

[HACKERS] Btree index ignored on SELECT until VACUUM ANALYZE

2001-10-11 Thread Lee Kindness
When adding an index to a (quite large, ~2 million rows) table PostgreSQL continues to do sequential lookups until VACUUM ANALYZE is run. Naturally performance is poor. The CREATE INDEX statement takes considerable time. Seen with 7.1.3 on Intel Linux (RedHat 7.0 & 7.1 and Solaris 2.6. In the e

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ error

2001-10-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > Our FAQ, item 4.16.2 has: > > $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq'); > INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal'); > > Is this correct Perl? No. I always thought it was pseudo code. I think it's fine. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAI

Re: [HACKERS] Suitable Driver ?

2001-10-11 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Balaji Venkatesan wrote: > Now i need to install DBD For PGSQL .Is > this the driver i have to work on for pgsql ?. > Or do I have any other option to connect to pgsql > from perl . Indeed i've found out an other way > to use Pg driver

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ error

2001-10-11 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Bruce Momjian wrote: > $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq'); > INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal'); > > Is this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can > you call SQL server-side functions natively from Perl? Ofcourse not

Re: [HACKERS] iso-8859-15/16 to MULE

2001-10-11 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > Well, the conversion to/from UTF-8 for ISO 8859-10 or later is pretty > > easy and should be supported, I think. Actually I already have > > generated mapping tables for these charsets. I will make patches > > against current and leave it for the core's decision, whether it > > should be inclu

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump -C option

2001-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: * Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information > Jim Buttafuoco writes: > > > will do. > > While you're at it, at least the encoding parameter should be saved as > well. Take a peek at what pg_dumpall saves. > > > > > > > > > > Jim Buttafu