[HACKERS] FOR$X not work anymore with 7.4beta

2003-09-16 Thread Mendola Gaetano
I discover that the following declaration inside a stored procedure with postgres7.3 was legal: a_variable ALIAS FOR$1; note the missing space after FOR now is not working anymore with 7.4beta I don't know how much people will be affected, may be is good wrote this in the migration note. Regar

Re: [HACKERS] best place for xstrdup

2003-09-16 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if ( !ret_value ) { > > ereport(FATAL, > > (errcode(ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY), > >

[HACKERS] best place for xstrdup

2003-09-16 Thread Mendola Gaetano
As suggested by Bruce Mojiman I'm working on substitute some strdup not checked with xstrdup. I seen that in the backend source tree there is no xstrdup ( there is one in bin/psql tree) , I wrote it and inserted temporarelly in backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c I don't know exactly how work the error

Re: [HACKERS] Notices for redundant operations

2003-09-06 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I found a few notices and warnings that inform you that the command you > > are executing has no effect because the object is already in the state you > > want it. I think these are useless, and there is also

[HACKERS] New file system based on Postgres

2003-09-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1241235&mode=thread&tid=131&tid=137&tid=189&tid=198 Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

2003-09-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't be > >>

Re: [HACKERS] C++ and using C functions

2003-09-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Vince Vielhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > > On 2 Sep 2003 at 15:50, Czuczy Gergely wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > i'm using pgsql 7.3.4. > > > how can I fix it? i think so, i should modify the header files, i've trie

Re: [HACKERS] thread safety

2003-09-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing that slows me down the most --- trips like FOSDEM. I am doing > one every month or every other month. That takes 1/4 of each month. > The threading discussion took 1/1000 of a month, but I do several > hundred of those, so it fills up a mont

Re: [HACKERS] Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

2003-09-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't be > fixed without an on-disk format change. The biggest one is that the > hashm_ntuples field in hash meta pages is only uint32, meaning that > hash index space management will become co

[HACKERS] thread safety

2003-09-01 Thread Mendola Gaetano
I seen on this list a lot of energy ( also little flames involving SCO & Co. ) spent on thread safety; was really necessary spent so much energy in this direction? I was at Fosdem in Bruxelles ( I spoke there about the use of postgres in my project ) and I seen al people there was really exicited

Re: [HACKERS] SetVariable

2003-09-01 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaetano Mendola wrote: > > "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I see other strdup() calls that don't check on a return. Should we deal > > > with those too? > > > > Well strdup obtain the memory for the new string using a malloc > > and nor

Re: [HACKERS] Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?

2003-09-01 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can hardly imagine that the backend started working with 9mb of > > memory. what did you do that PostgreSQL needed so much memory from the > > beginning??? > > On some platforms, "t

Re: [HACKERS] Code review

2003-08-28 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mendola Gaetano wrote: > > >Hi all, > >is not usefull have a mailing list in where people can > >partecipate in a sort of "code revision" about the > >actual code ? > > > Do

[HACKERS] Code revision

2003-08-28 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, is not usefull have a mailing list in where people can partecipate in a sort of "code revision" about the actual code ? Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] SetVariable

2003-08-28 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Just a follow up, is it better to give a patch for this kind of stuff ? Regards Gaetano Mendola ""Mendola Gaetano"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I found this code on the file variables.c and > in the function SetVariable I read: >

[HACKERS] SetVariable

2003-08-28 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, I found this code on the file variables.c and in the function SetVariable I read: if (strcmp(current->name, name) == 0) { free(current->value); current->value = strdup(value); return current->value ? true : false; } this mean that if there is no me

Re: [HACKERS] Date input changed in 7.4 ?

2003-08-26 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I noticed that some date are not anymore accepted: > > test=# select '18/03/71'::date; > > ERROR: invalid input syntax for date: "18/03

Re: [HACKERS] Date input changed in 7.4 ?

2003-08-26 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mendola Gaetano wrote: > > Hi all, > > I noticed that some date are not anymore accepted: > > > > > > Postgres 7.3.3: > > > > test=# select '18/03/71'::date; > >

[HACKERS] Date input changed in 7.4 ?

2003-08-26 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, I noticed that some date are not anymore accepted: Postgres 7.3.3: test=# select '18/03/71'::date; date 1971-03-18 (1 row) Postgres 7.4beta1: test=# select '18/03/71'::date; ERROR: invalid input syntax for date: "18/03/71" is this the indendeed behaviour ? Re

Re: [HACKERS] Qualified tables in error messages

2003-08-19 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ERROR: table "schema"."foo" does not exist > > which is just plain ugly. I think that is better for the moment this ugly message that have lack of information. Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] consistency check on SPI tuple count failed

2003-08-14 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I got the same thing as Gaetano on my just prior to beta1 system. > > Well, we couldn't have fixed it since beta1 --- there's been no changes > anywhere near SPI. I'm thinking it must be platform-dependent. What > are

Re: [HACKERS] PITR in 7.4

2003-08-14 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Yes. - Original Message - From: ""Jinqiang Han"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.hackers Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:26 AM Subject: PITR in 7.4 hi, Tom and Momjian Is PITR also delayed to 7.5?Right? 3x Jinqiang Han [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] consistency check on SPI tuple count failed

2003-08-14 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Gaetano Mendola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the following code was working properly under Postgres 7.3.X > > I'm now running my regression test with Postgres 7.4beta1 and I'm > > having the error in subj. > > I tried this and got > > regression=# sele

Re: [HACKERS] logging stuff

2003-08-09 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From my perspective, we could really use a "delimiter" between the > > "fields" of log output which is unlikely to appear within those fields > > instead of parsing by character count, rather than making dbname a >

Re: [HACKERS] Adjustment of spinlock sleep delays

2003-08-09 Thread Mendola Gaetano
From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To forestall this scenario, I'm thinking of introducing backoff into the > sleep intervals --- that is, after first failure to get the spinlock, > sleep 10 msec; after the second, sleep 20 msec, then 40, etc, with a > maximum sleep time of maybe a second. Th

[HACKERS] postmaster core [ 2 ]

2003-08-04 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, last week ( 27/7/2003 ) I did a post with subj: "postmaster core ( finally I have it )", at that time I was supspecting that the core was caused by a select on a view ( the view is always the same that cause the core ) that was running together with a vacuum; Tom Lane told me that is reall

Re: [HACKERS] postmaster core ( finally I have it ) [ vacuum pg_rewrite ]

2003-07-27 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is once-in-a-while but always at 00 minutes. This select is performed each > > 20 minutes and > > the core happen always at 00 never at 20 and never at 40

Re: [HACKERS] postmaster core ( finally I have it ) [ vacuum pg_rewrite ]

2003-07-27 Thread Mendola Gaetano
From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I suspect some form of > >> data corruption in the pg_rewrite row(s) for this table. Do

Re: [HACKERS] postmaster core ( finally I have it )

2003-07-27 Thread Mendola Gaetano
From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The process killed made always the same select ( with different > > id_package ): > > > SELECT id_publisher, publisher_name, id_package, package_nam

[HACKERS] postmaster core ( finally I have it )

2003-07-26 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, since long time ( in the mean time I did Postgres upgrade four time and now I'm using 7.3.3 ) I'm having, at least once in a week, a signal 11 on a backend, and how you can immagine with the subseguent drop of all connections, finally now I have the core. The process killed made always the

Re: [HACKERS] Index counters of statistics collector does not work on 7.4devel

2003-07-20 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Kenji Sugita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =# explain select * from class1 where id = 1234; > QUERY PLAN > -- > Index Scan using class1_id_index on class1 (cost=0.00..3.01 rows=2 width=4) >Inde

[HACKERS] Hyperthreading or not?

2003-07-15 Thread Mendola Gaetano
Hi all, we are going to move our production postgres box ( on Linux ) in a new machine, I'm wondering if I shall leave the Hyperthreading feature on or disable it. Anyone have experience on this? Thank you in advance Gaetano PS: Is really faster postgresql compiled with Intel compiler ? ---

Re: [HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by > then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by then too. What about the PITR ( point in time recovery )? I mean: the 7.4 will have PITR or not ? Thank you in advance Gaetan

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 7.3.3 and Intel C compiler

2003-07-05 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Hans-Jürgen Schönig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have used Peter's fix which makes it possible to compile PostgreSQL > with Intel's C compiler. PostgreSQL built nicely (just some nasty > warnings). We have tries to run our benchmark (mostly simple statements > and cursor work) on this version

Re: [HACKERS] Dllist public/private part

2003-07-02 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mendola Gaetano wrote: > I certainly would like to see Dllist removed too. > > > This mean that is waste of time work on dllist. > > I seen that exist a TODO list about "features", > > exist a list

Re: [HACKERS] Dllist public/private part

2003-07-01 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm improving the Dllist in these direction: > > AFAIR, catcache.c is the *only* remaining backend customer for Dllist, > and so any improvement for Dll

[HACKERS] Dllist public/private part

2003-06-30 Thread Mendola Gaetano
I'm improving the Dllist in these direction: 1) Avoid "if" statements in insertion/remove phase, for instance now the AddHeader appear like this: void DLAddHead(Dllist *l, Dlelem *e) { Dlelem *where = l->dll_master_node->dle_next; e->dle_next = where; e->dle_prev = where->dle_prev; w

Re: [HACKERS] No more RH7.3 RPMs?

2003-06-11 Thread Mendola Gaetano
>On Thursday 29 May 2003 17:41, Sander Steffann wrote: >> Someone else has already built RPMs for RH73 and Lamar has already uploaded >> them to ftp.postgresql.org. I just completed the RH62 packages. Lamar will >> put them on the FTP server, but until then they can be picked up from >> http://www