ISTR this question coming up before, but I couldn't find an answer. Is
there a reason we don't build versions of pg_dump and pg_dumpall that
are statically linked against libpq so they can be run uninstalled as
part of a migration process? I should have thought that this would be
extremely ea
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:17:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think that ICU would be interesting as the base for a much larger
> patch that gets us away from depending on libc's locale support at all
> (in particular, getting rid of the "one locale per database" problem).
> But it seems like a he
[ moving to -hackers for wider discussion ]
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-08/msg00039.php
>> I've been working with Palles ICU patch to make it work on
>> win32, and I believe I have it done. While doing it I noticed
>> that ICU
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, so is RowExclusiveLock not exclusive? (pokes) yeah, I guess it
> isn't ...
I'm not sure where we got our lock mode names from, but there are a
number of things that aren't great about the choices. In particular
"Exclusive" doesn't always mean "ex
Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've written some quick scripts. One just vacuums constantly (999 vacuums
> to 1 vacuum full) while three other scripts three randomly insert
> into, update and delete from 3 tables. There's a mix of small and large
> transactions. The tables have a single
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:23:38AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The "drop" way probably allows slightly more concurrency, but given that
> >> people should seldom be taking exclusionary locks on system catalogs,
> >> I'm not sure this is really an issue.
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> I have committed changes that I believe fix this problem:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-08/msg00213.php
> But it needs more testing. Would you update to CVS tip and see if you
> still see the failure?
I've written some quick scripts
