[HACKERS] Regression from 7.3 to 7.4

2004-04-04 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
This testcase works in 7.3 but not in 7.4: -- create table t1 (a int); create table t2 (b int); select * from t1, (select b as a from t2 group by a) as foo; -- ERROR: column "t2.b" must appear in the GROUP BY cl

Re: [HACKERS] Solaris initdb fails: shmmax tweak alternative?

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get version 7.4.2 installed on a Solaris box, but > initdb fails because of shmmax being set too low. It does this > even though initdb drops shared buffers as low as it can go (50). > Is there any other way of getting around this l

Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case, SIGINT (query cancel) will not help, because all locks > held by the transaction will still be held. Wrong. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Hav

[HACKERS] Solaris initdb fails: shmmax tweak alternative?

2004-04-04 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to get version 7.4.2 installed on a Solaris box, but initdb fails because of shmmax being set too low. It does this even though initdb drops shared buffers as low as it can go (50). Is there any other way of getting around this limitati

[HACKERS] serial vs parallell regression tests

2004-04-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hi! From what I can see, a "make check" runs the parallell tests and a "make installcheck" runs the serial tests. Is there any special reason for this? And for not providing a way to run the other kind of test depending on the installation? Stumbled across this when doing regress tests on win32,

Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend

2004-04-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
>> Killing backends with runaway queries is a routine administrative >> task. > >Cancelling runaway queries is a routine task. I'm less >convinced that a >remote kill (ie SIGTERM) facility is such a great idea. Consider a scenario like: User A starts transaction. User A issues a LOCK TABLE (or d