Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation Error)

2006-04-06 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:55:20PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Now, it would certainly help if more people could actually help in > *answering* the bugs/questions that are posted :), but that's a > different question... Well, that's my primary concern. It seems that people aren't replying to b

Re: [HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think all except the first one should raise a warning, isn't it? to_timestamp (and friends) all seem to me to act pretty bizarre when faced with input that doesn't match the given format string. However, in the end that is an Oracle-compatibility fun

Re: [HACKERS] commit callback, request, SOLVED

2006-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Horv=E1th_S=E1ndor?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the documentation: > "CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER is used within CREATE TABLE/ALTER TABLE and > by pg_dump to create the special triggers for referential integrity. It > is not intended for general use." > What means "it is not i

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Jonah H. Harris"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Great work! I had looked into this a little bit and came to the same > ideas/problems you did, but none of them seemed insurmountable at all. > I'd be interested in working with you on this if you'd like. > Yes, I am happy to work with anyone on

[HACKERS] pgadmin III's Chinese simplified translations

2006-04-06 Thread 孙高勇
i have continued  the pgadmin III's Chinese simplified translations,hope this translate will release with the next version of pgadmin III.thanks. how can i submit this translate-- 我渴望平静,风却给了我涟漪

Re: [HACKERS] commit callback, request, SOLVED

2006-04-06 Thread Horváth Sándor
Hi! I have needed deferrable check, but it is not implemented. I thought, the deferrable trigger is the solution, but it is exists only for referential integrity. I have started to study the postgresql source code for implementing deferrable triggers for any purpose. Now i try the constraint

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Hear hear ;-) Regards, Thomas Hallgren Andrew Dunstan wrote: Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 4/6/06, Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support parall

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-06 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:31:01AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote: > > > > >One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS > > >projects that we'd like to see add PostgreS

Re: [HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-06 Thread William ZHANG
ISTM, and mismatch between the date/time string and the format string will lead to strange results. The source code of to_timestamp() is in src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c: Datum to_timestamp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) Regards, William ZHANG "Mario Weilguni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Am Donnerstag, 6. Ap

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Treat wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:45, Gevik Babakhani wrote: Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands,

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gevik Babakhani") writes: > This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About > the TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via > SQL: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL > commands, assuming the settings are saved in an inte

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
I agree. Security is a good reason to have the pg_bha.conf around. I guess it would make the TODO item a bit harder to develop hence one has to read and write the file to support the future SQL commands too. I also looked at the code for a moment; perhaps using a yacc/lex mechanism would make thing

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:45, Gevik Babakhani wrote: > Hello Folks, > > This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. > About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via > SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, > assuming the s

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 4/6/06, Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support parallel query execution. Great work! I had looked into this a

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Gevik Babakhani schrieb: Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table,

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Svenne Krap
Gevik Babakhani wrote: This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table, what would be th

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation

2006-04-06 Thread Tony Caduto
Magnus Hagander wrote: Now, it would certainly help if more people could actually help in *answering* the bugs/questions that are posted :), but that's a different question... //Magnus I have created a very nice installer using Inno setup and it is about 50 times easier to code for than the

Re: [HACKERS] domain_in performance considerations

2006-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a shot in the dark, but I remember you commenting awhile back > that there was a way to register a callback to be called on memory > context reset or delete. AFAIR there's no such thing associated with memory contexts per se. There is one for ES

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation Error)

2006-04-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
It does, and it's listed on the page. It clearly states use the mailinglists for general stuff, and the trackers for installer specific issues. However, this is the official installer for pg on win32. And I'd expect a lot of new users not to know (or understand) the distinction that the installer

Re: [HACKERS] domain_in performance considerations

2006-04-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Hi, > It would be just a small change to make the code cache the EState across > calls, saving a link to it in the FmgrInfo, but I am worried about that. > If the EState's query context is made to be a child of the memory > context containing the caller's FmgrInfo, then there is n

[HACKERS] Windows installer bugs (was: [BUGS] BUG #2374: Installation Error)

2006-04-06 Thread Jim Nasby
-bugs is getting inundated with windows installer bugs, and people on the list don't seem to be replying to them. Can someone with the installer project add more prominent information about where users should be reporting installer bugs to? (I'm guessing that the installer has a bug tracker

[HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table, what would be the need for

Re: [HACKERS] Explaining Explain

2006-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:43, Nicolas Barbier wrote: > 2006/4/6, Luckys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm looking for some comphrensive article explaining the Optimizer, i.e > > detailed explanation on Hash joins, Nested Joins etc., and why would the > > Optimizer choose that. > > can anybody point m

Re: [HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-06 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 14:57 schrieb Mario Weilguni: > mydb=# select to_timestamp(' 0300','mmdd hh24mi'); >to_timestamp > --- > 0001-01-01 03:00:00+01 BC > (1 row) > > Questionable, but probably valid. > > > > mydb=# select to_timestamp(' 0

[HACKERS] Strange results from to_timestamp

2006-04-06 Thread Mario Weilguni
mydb=# select to_timestamp(' 0300','mmdd hh24mi'); to_timestamp --- 0001-01-01 03:00:00+01 BC (1 row) Questionable, but probably valid. mydb=# select to_timestamp(' 0300','mmdd hh24mi'); to_timestamp 0300-12

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 4/6/06, Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in > PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support > parallel query execution. Great work! I had looked into this a little bit and came to the sa

Re: [HACKERS] Explaining Explain

2006-04-06 Thread Nicolas Barbier
2006/4/6, Luckys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm looking for some comphrensive article explaining the Optimizer, i.e > detailed explanation on Hash joins, Nested Joins etc., and why would the > Optimizer choose that. > can anybody point me to some good tutorials and resources? "A Tour of PostgreSQL In

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-06 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote: > > >One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS > >projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students > >work on those... > > As nice an idea a

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:28:33PM +0800, Qingqing Zhou wrote: > I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in > PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support > parallel query execution. Good work. One question though, temporary tables. Curren

[HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-06 Thread Qingqing Zhou
I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support parallel query execution. What I did is adding a new node PARA and plug it above the node that we want to execute in parallel. In this stage, a PARA no

[HACKERS] Explaining Explain

2006-04-06 Thread Luckys
I'm looking for some comphrensive article explaining the Optimizer, i.e detailed explanation on Hash joins, Nested Joins etc., and why would the Optimizer choose that.  can anybody point me to some good tutorials and resources?   regards, Luckys

Re: [HACKERS] Rigth toolset to compile under mingw?

2006-04-06 Thread Albe Laurenz
> I have tried to compile 8.1.3 with mingw but I am receiving > come errors, I do not know with versions are the correct one. > > Could some body tell me the right versions ? and url's to > download from ? please. I searched the mainling lists but it > is not clear. Magnus Hagander has pointe