Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump roles support

2008-10-10 Thread Benedek László
Hello All, in my last mail http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg114835.html I have sent you a patch of pg_dump and pg_dumpall --role option support. Nobody replied or commented jet so now I send it again. The attached patch is the same as the last one, except it is agai

Re: [HACKERS] patch: array_ndims

2008-10-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello we talked about these features, but these functionality is solved with UNNEST operator http://farrago.sourceforge.net/design/CollectionTypes.html - so if you like this functionality (I believe, so want it), please implement UNNEST operator. Regards Pavel Stehule http://www.ibm.com/develope

Re: [HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:09:51PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> intagg: ... Has not been updated since 2001. [...] > I also like intagg, because it's kinda like a "hello world" for > writing one kind of C extensions. I'm not say

Re: [HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread Ron Mayer
Josh Berkus wrote: intagg: ... Has not been updated since 2001. Really? Just a couple years ago (2005) bugs we reported were still getting fixed in it: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-03/msg00202.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-04/msg00165.php Here's one use

Re: [HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:28:29 -0700 Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > It's that time again! Purging antiquated contrib modules. > > chkpass: this module is incomplete and does not implement all > functions it describes. It's not really even useful as an Example > since it uses

Re: [HACKERS] \ef should probably append semicolons

2008-10-10 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Oct 10, 2008, at 20:27, Joshua Tolley wrote: Now, if you want to fix psql so that even with a semicolon there it will redisplay the command buffer and wait for a return, then I'd agree that that's an improvement. I couldn't figure out how to get readline to cooperate with that ... but I

Re: [HACKERS] \ef should probably append semicolons

2008-10-10 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The new \ef psql command creates nicely usable "CREATE OR REPLACE >> FUNCTION ..." text based on the function I tell it to edit, but the >> text it creates *doesn't* include a final

[HACKERS] patch: array_ndims

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
After reading Josh Berkus's email suggesting that the intagg module be dropped, I was wondering what would be required to create a array enumerator (variously called unnest, unroll, array_enum, and, as contemplated by the TODO list, array_to_set). Pavel Stehule's generate_subscripts function provi

Re: [HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> intagg: the aggregation function has been obsolete since 7.4 because > standard array functionality supports the same. intagg has a nice > equivalent for UNROLL, but it only works for arrays of INT, and only > one-dimensional arrays. Has not been updated since 2001. I think this one can be dro

Re: [HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any objections to dropping both of these? You should ask on -general, not here, if you are trying to find out whether the modules have any users. I tend to agree that chkpass is of doubtful value, but I'm not so sure about intagg. As you said yourself, w

Re: [HACKERS] \ef should probably append semicolons

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The new \ef psql command creates nicely usable "CREATE OR REPLACE > FUNCTION ..." text based on the function I tell it to edit, but the > text it creates *doesn't* include a final semicolon, so when I exit my > editor-of-choice after messing with my fun

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Nikolas Everett
> > In any case your experience doesn't match mine. On a machine with a sizable > raid controller setting random_page_cost higher does generate, as expected, > plans with more bitmap heap scans which are in fact faster. > We're running postgres backed by a NetApp 3020 via fiber and have had a lot

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum and TOAST tables

2008-10-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Yeah, that seems like the best answer. > > > Seems like this patch fixes it. > > Um, not for tables that don't have toast tables ... Right, this seems better. Note that it needs to open the toast table and grab AccessShare to get

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib, schema, and load_module

2008-10-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: > But Tom hasn't done anything since April? That's what I'm asking. What's the surprise? I gathered that Tom is itinerant. If he's not here and we want to job to be done, somebody else must do it. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.co

Re: [HACKERS] libpq ssl -> clear fallback looses error messages

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe the answer is to not throw away the first error message? But >> presenting both messages could be confusing too. > Do we have the infrastructure to report more than one error? I thought > we didn't... I was thinking of mergin

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib, schema, and load_module

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that the real way forward is to improve on that patch. Yeah. If the schema-per-module answer were really a good answer, we'd have done it before now. But you need more infrastructure than just a schema to get good things to happen. Aside fro

Re: [HACKERS] libpq ssl -> clear fallback looses error messages

2008-10-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I noticed while working on general fixes for the certificate handling >> that if we have a connection being attempted with sslmode=prefer (which >> happens to be our default), we will loose error messages. > > Yeah, this came up awhi

[HACKERS] The Axe list

2008-10-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, It's that time again! Purging antiquated contrib modules. chkpass: this module is incomplete and does not implement all functions it describes. It's not really even useful as an Example since it uses crypt() and not any modern encryption. And Darcy hasn't touched it in 6 years. in

Re: [HACKERS] libpq ssl -> clear fallback looses error messages

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed while working on general fixes for the certificate handling > that if we have a connection being attempted with sslmode=prefer (which > happens to be our default), we will loose error messages. Yeah, this came up awhile ago. I don't see any

[HACKERS] \ef should probably append semicolons

2008-10-10 Thread Joshua Tolley
The new \ef psql command creates nicely usable "CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ..." text based on the function I tell it to edit, but the text it creates *doesn't* include a final semicolon, so when I exit my editor-of-choice after messing with my function, it doesn't run the code I've given it until I

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib, schema, and load_module

2008-10-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: 3) what work was actually done on load_module() by Tom Dunstan, which might make this unnecessary? http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This link appears on Todo: Improve the module installation experience (/contrib, etc)

[HACKERS] libpq ssl -> clear fallback looses error messages

2008-10-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
I noticed while working on general fixes for the certificate handling that if we have a connection being attempted with sslmode=prefer (which happens to be our default), we will loose error messages. Basically, if we fail the SSL connection, we will throw away the error message and try a cleartext

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Tom Lane wrote: In particular, if the OS lays out successive file pages in a way that provides zero latency between logically adjacent blocks, I'd bet a good bit that a Postgres seqscan would miss the read timing every time, and degrade to handling about one block per disk r

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib, schema, and load_module

2008-10-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: > 3) what work was actually done on load_module() by Tom Dunstan, which > might make this unnecessary? http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This link appears on Todo: Improve the module installation experience (/contrib, etc) * modules

[HACKERS] Contrib, schema, and load_module

2008-10-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, Magnus and I decided to take on the annual /contrib cleanup for the code sprint here at pgWest. One of the areas we realized needs cleanup is the use of schema with the modules -- Magnus, Bruce and I all think that contrib modules really need to create and use their own private schema.

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't think random_page_cost actually corresponds with any real number >> anymore. I just treat it as an uncalibrated knob you can turn and benchmark >> the results at. > > And, frankly, not a useful knob. You get much more useful results out of > eff

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Josh Berkus
I don't think random_page_cost actually corresponds with any real number anymore. I just treat it as an uncalibrated knob you can turn and benchmark the results at. And, frankly, not a useful knob. You get much more useful results out of effective_cache_size and cpu_* costs than you get ou

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: In particular, if the OS lays out successive file pages in a way that provides zero latency between logically adjacent blocks, I'd bet a good bit that a Postgres seqscan would miss the read timing every time, and degrade to handling about one block per disk rotation. Unless the

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... So the true random/sequential ratio > reaches crazy numbers. Bear in mind that seq_page_cost and random_page_cost are intended to represent the time to read *and process* a page, so there's some CPU component involved there, and this limits the ratio

Re: [HACKERS] latestCompletedXid

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ISTM that we need not move latestCompletedXid as a result of an abort. I see no value in this; it just makes things less consistent without buying any noticeable performance gain. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers maili

Re: [HACKERS] Building Postgres in Eclipse

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Emmanuel Cecchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave, >> >> Perhaps a 'Working with Eclipse' page under >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information > > I have added a link at the bottom of the page. > All the info on how to use Eclipse with Postgres

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> I dislike all own creatures - because nobody will understand so do > some wrong thing - using non standard formats is bad thing. So it's is > necessary, then who need it then he found it on pgfoundry. But why > smudge core? I'm opposed to smudging core, but I'm in favor of this patch. :-) Of c

Re: [HACKERS] Building Postgres in Eclipse

2008-10-10 Thread Emmanuel Cecchet
Hi Dave, Perhaps a 'Working with Eclipse' page under http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information I have added a link at the bottom of the page. All the info on how to use Eclipse with Postgres can be found at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Eclipse All suggestions an

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2008/10/10 Robert Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Is it problem do for non standard UUID formats pgfoundry project? > > I'm not volunteering set up a pgfoundry project to maintain something > that can be accomplished with a patch that adds 19 lines of new code > (and removes 9). This functionality is

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it will be as expensive to app to convert UUID to standard format, > as it would be too postgrsql. > But if psql does it - everyone would expect it to do it right. You can't > possibly detect all forms of scre

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> Is it problem do for non standard UUID formats pgfoundry project? I'm not volunteering set up a pgfoundry project to maintain something that can be accomplished with a patch that adds 19 lines of new code (and removes 9). This functionality is useful in core because it will Just Work. If you h

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
I think it will be as expensive to app to convert UUID to standard format, as it would be too postgrsql. But if psql does it - everyone would expect it to do it right. You can't possibly detect all forms of screwed up design, and expect application to pick it up. All I say, is I think it wo

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> that only depends on definition of 'common variant'. Will it be just code > that will accept letters and digits, and trying to make that into UUID ? You are attacking a straw man. No one is proposing that. > I think those who designed their code to produce or accept non standard > UUID, should

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2008/10/10 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mark Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions, >> and I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support >> thin and rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the dat

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think random_page_cost actually corresponds with any real number > anymore. I just treat it as an uncalibrated knob you can turn and > benchmark the results at. Same here. We have always found best performance in our production environmen

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
On 2008-10-10, at 16:01, Tom Lane wrote: Well, this discussion started with the conventional wisdom about "be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept". I'd still resist emitting any UUID format other than the RFC-approved one, but I don't see anything very wrong in being a

Re: [HACKERS] Transactions and temp tables

2008-10-10 Thread Emmanuel Cecchet
Hi all, Here is the latest patch and the regression tests for the temp tables and 2PC issue. Is there a way to stop and restart postmaster between 2 tests? Thanks for your feedback, Emmanuel -- Emmanuel Cecchet FTO @ Frog Thinker Open Source Development & Consulting -- Web: http://www.frogt

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Gregory Stark wrote: They don't quote sustained bandwidth for consumer drives but 50-60MB/s are the numbers I remembered -- admittedly from more than a couple years ago. I didn't realize 7200 RPM drives had reached such speeds yet. The cheap ($42!) 7200RPM SATA disks I bou

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Michael Renner
Gregory Stark schrieb: But with your numbers things look even weirder. With a 90MB/s sequential speed (91us) and 9ms seek latency that would be a random_page_cost of nearly 100! Looks good :). If you actually want to base something on Real World numbers I'd suggest that we collect them before

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: adding VERBOSE option to CLUSTER [with patch]

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Cox
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Heikki Linnakangas < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: > >> "Jim Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if present an INFO message is generated which displays >>> the schema.tblname just before actual clustering is kicked off (see >>> >> exampl

Re: [HACKERS] LWLockAcquire with priority

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This will prevent commits being stalled when we occasionally switch clog > and multixact pages, plus it also stops commits from being stalled when > there are heavy writers in progress. Exactly how would a priority mechanism prevent stalling? If the lock

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4devel out of memory

2008-10-10 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached patch cures the leak for me I see that the patch was applied. A CVS checkout from this morning fixes the leak for me, too; the vmstat output stayed rock steady during the run. Thanks! -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgs

[HACKERS] LWLockAcquire with priority

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Riggs
Thinking about how to reduce the effects of certain race conditions makes me think about whether it is possible to make a function called LWLockAcquireWithPriority(). We already allow "queue jumping" when lock mode != LW_EXCLUSIVE, so queue jumping based upon an assigned priority rather than arriv

[HACKERS] latestCompletedXid

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Riggs
Currently, we advance latestCompletedXid during ProcArrayEndTransaction() for both commits and aborts. If a transaction aborts, its effects are invisible to us just the same as if the transaction is still running. ISTM that we need not move latestCompletedXid as a result of an abort. Only a comm

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions, > and I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support > thin and rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the database. > It's not necessarily valuable for

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions, and > I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support thin and > rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the database. It's not > necessarily valuable for PostgreSQL to support every UUID version or

Re: [HACKERS] head's linking problem

2008-10-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: > head compiles ok now, panic's over ;) Tom fixed it yesterday :-) -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hacker

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Mark Mielke
Robert Haas wrote: 1) Reduced error checking. 2) The '-' is not the only character that people have used. ClearCase uses '.' and ':' as punctuation. 3) People already have the option of translating the UUID from their application to a standard format. 4) As you find below, and is probably

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: adding VERBOSE option to CLUSTER [with patch]

2008-10-10 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Kevin Grittner wrote: "Jim Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if present an INFO message is generated which displays the schema.tblname just before actual clustering is kicked off (see example below). postgres=# CLUSTER VERBOSE ; INFO: clustering "public.my_b" INFO: clustering "public.my_c"

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: adding VERBOSE option to CLUSTER [with patch]

2008-10-10 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> "Jim Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if present an INFO message is generated which displays > the schema.tblname just before actual clustering is kicked off (see example > below). > postgres=# CLUSTER VERBOSE ; > INFO: clustering "public.my_b" > INFO: clustering "public.my_c" > INFO: cl

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER, REINDEX, VACUUM in "read only" transaction?

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Kenneth Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:41:39AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> But I can't see that CLUSTER is a read-only operation even under the >> weakest definitions, and I'm not seeing the rationale for REINDEX or >> VACUUM here either. > CLUSTER, REINDEX, and VA

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER, REINDEX, VACUUM in "read only" transaction?

2008-10-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:41:39AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > So I was looking for other omissions in utility.c, and I noticed that > check_xact_readonly() doesn't reject CLUSTER, REINDEX, or VACUUM. > Now the notion of "read only" that we're trying to enforce is pretty > weak (I think it's effective

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For "Server Drives" 3-4ms are more realistic ([2], [3]) for average seeks and >> the 110-170MB/sec are highly exaggerated. > > In that case both of those numbers come straight from Seagate's data sheet for > their top-of-the-line data centre drives: >

[HACKERS] CLUSTER, REINDEX, VACUUM in "read only" transaction?

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
So I was looking for other omissions in utility.c, and I noticed that check_xact_readonly() doesn't reject CLUSTER, REINDEX, or VACUUM. Now the notion of "read only" that we're trying to enforce is pretty weak (I think it's effectively "no writes to non-temp tables"). But I can't see that CLUSTER i

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think your numbers are a bit off: > > For "Consumer drives" (7.200 RPM SATA 3.5"), seek times are much worse, in the > area of 8-9ms (see [1]), but sustained sequential read numbers are noticeable > higher, around 80-90MB/sec. I took the seek latenc

Re: [HACKERS] CREATE DATABASE vs delayed table unlink

2008-10-10 Thread Matthew Wakeling
The error on createdb happened again this morning. However, this time an abandoned directory was not created. The full error message was: $ createdb -E SQL_ASCII -U flyminebuild -h brian.flymine.org -T production-flyminebuild production-flyminebuild:uniprot createdb: database creation failed:

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Michael Renner
Gregory Stark schrieb: Te reason I'm wondering about this is it seems out of line with raw i/o numbers. Typical values for consumer drives are about a sustained throughput of 60MB/s ( Ie .2ms per 8k) and seek latency of 4ms. That gives a ratio of 20. Server-class drives have even a ratio since

Re: [HACKERS] Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches

2008-10-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:44:49PM +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> I want to focus on this description, because you appear to be limiting >> the problem scope tremendously here. We've moved from "general >> security policy for database system" to "security policy for databas

Re: [HACKERS] Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches

2008-10-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:09:48PM +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote: >> 4. Metadata-level access controls. None of the proposals so far seem >> to provide a complete set of access controls for the system details -- >> schemas, databases, &c. Such controls are often requested, so I >> wonder about that

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: adding VERBOSE option to CLUSTER [with patch]

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Cox
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jim Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone working the "CLUSTER: Add VERBOSE option..." TODO item listed > on the PostgreSQL Wiki? If not, would it be wise for me to use > VERBOSE handling in an existing command (e.g. VACUUM) > as a guide while adding VERBOSE to

Re: [HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm kind of curious where the value of 4 for random_page_cost came from. > IIRC, Tom, you mentioned it came from tests you ran -- were those raw i/o > tests or Postgres cost estimates compared to execution times? It was based on actual query execution t

Re: [HACKERS] Block nested loop join

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So the use case of a real block nested loop would be doing a cartesian join >> of >> two large tables where neither fits in RAM. That does seem like it might be >> kind of narrow given how large the output would b

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
>> 3) People already have the option of translating the UUID from their >> application to a standard format. > > Regexp, the swiss-army knife of data manipulation. ;) > > While possible, it really is not that easy and efficient. At least we should > accept dashless UUIDs, so instead of tediously

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Robert Haas
> 1) Reduced error checking. > 2) The '-' is not the only character that people have used. ClearCase uses > '.' and ':' as punctuation. > 3) People already have the option of translating the UUID from their > application to a standard format. > 4) As you find below, and is probably possible

Re: [HACKERS] Block nested loop join

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the use case of a real block nested loop would be doing a cartesian join of > two large tables where neither fits in RAM. That does seem like it might be > kind of narrow given how large the output would be. Yeah. If you have a hashable join conditio

[HACKERS] How is random_page_cost=4 ok?

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
I'm kind of curious where the value of 4 for random_page_cost came from. IIRC, Tom, you mentioned it came from tests you ran -- were those raw i/o tests or Postgres cost estimates compared to execution times? Te reason I'm wondering about this is it seems out of line with raw i/o numbers. Typica

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008-10-10 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Mark Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> While we could perhaps accept only those variant formats which we >> specifically know someone to be using, it seems likely that people >> will keep moving those pesky dashes around, and we'll likely end

Re: [HACKERS] Block nested loop join

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
"Bramandia Ramadhana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the clarifications. > > Just for curiosity, is there any reason of not having block nested-loop join > implementation? Is it rarely useful? Oh, actually it occurs to me that we do implement something analogous to a degenerate block ne

Re: [HACKERS] head's linking problem

2008-10-10 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
head compiles ok now, panic's over ;) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Block nested loop join

2008-10-10 Thread Bramandia Ramadhana
Thanks for the clarifications. Just for curiosity, is there any reason of not having block nested-loop join implementation? Is it rarely useful? As far as I am aware of, in the case of cross product of two tables, block nested-loop join is the most efficient algorithm. Regards, Bramandia R. On

Re: [HACKERS] Block nested loop join

2008-10-10 Thread Gregory Stark
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does postgresql support block nested loop join? > > Nope. We do support Hash Join though so I think the only difference is that we can't use the hash join for cartesian joins. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.