Re: [HACKERS] SSI bug?

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 14.02.2011 20:10, Kevin Grittner wrote: Promotion of the lock granularity on the prior tuple is where we have problems. If the two tuple versions are in separate pages then the second UPDATE could miss the conflict. My first thought was to fix that by requiring promotion of a predicate lock o

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2011-01 as of 2011-02-04

2011-02-15 Thread Itagaki Takahiro
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:27, Robert Haas wrote: > However, file_fdw is in pretty serious trouble because (1) the copy > API patch that it depends on still isn't committed and (2) it's going > to be utterly broken if we don't do something about the > client_encoding vs. file_encoding problem; the

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 14.02.2011 21:49, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Thanks to Noah Misch's review of the keylock patch I noticed that pageinspect's heap_page_items(bytea) function returns infomask and infomask2 as smallint (signed). But the fields in the tuple header are 16 bits unsigned, so if the high (16th) bit is se

Re: [HACKERS] pl/python do not delete function arguments

2011-02-15 Thread Jan Urbański
- Original message - > On mån, 2011-02-14 at 22:22 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote: > > The problem is that every *second* call to the function fails, > > regardless of the number. The first execution succeeds, but then > > PLy_delete_args deletes the argument from the globals, and when the > > n

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-15 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > from what I can see upstream libedit actually has utf8 support for a while > now (as well as some other fixes) but the debian libedit version (and also > the one of other distributions) is way too old for that so maybe most of the > is

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2011-01 as of 2011-02-04

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:27, Robert Haas wrote: >> However, file_fdw is in pretty serious trouble because (1) the copy >> API patch that it depends on still isn't committed and (2) it's going >> to be utterly broken if we don't do somet

Re: [HACKERS] multiset patch review

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > array_flatten() no longer exists. I added array_trim() as an alias > to trim_array() because it would be a FAQ. I don't like the alias thing - let's add one name or the other, not both. Similarly, let's NOT add array_union_all as an alia

Re: [HACKERS] Change pg_last_xlog_receive_location not to move backwards

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: > You suggest that the shared variable Stream tracks the WAL write location, > after it's set to the replication starting position? I don't think > that the write > location needs to be tracked in the shmem because other processes than > walrece

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 23:30, Stephen Frost wrote: >> > * In assign_csvlog_fields(), we need to cleanup memory and memory context >> > before return on error. >> Fixed this and a couple of similar issues. > > Not yet fixed. Switched mem

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > I wrote: >>> Patch attached. > > This time with src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample fixed. Committed. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > The payoff > (getting %U) seems quite out of proportion to the potential downsides > of making a change of this type at this late date. I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple addition of %U as an option for log_line_pref

Re: [HACKERS] Fix for Index Advisor related hooks

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 11.02.2011 22:44, Gurjeet Singh wrote: Looks like the function get_actual_variable_range() was written with the knowledge that virtual/hypothetical indexes may exist, but the assumption seems wrong. One one hand get_actual_variable_range() expects that virtual indexes do not have an OID ass

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TYPE 2: skip already-provable no-work rewrites

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
Noah, * Noah Misch (n...@leadboat.com) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > I've attached a new version of the patch that attempts to flesh out the > comments > based on your feedback. Does it improve things? Yes, much better, thanks! > Offhand, I can't thi

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl failover Re: Latches, signals, and waiting

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Fujii Masao (masao.fu...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > >  * You removed trigger_file from the list in > >   doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml and I'm not sure I agree with > >   that.  It's still perfectly valid and could be used by someone > >   i

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Itagaki Takahiro (itagaki.takah...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 23:30, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > * In assign_csvlog_fields(), we need to cleanup memory and memory context > > > before return on error. > > Fixed this and a couple of similar issues. > > Not yet fixed. Switched mem

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Frost (sfr...@snowman.net) wrote: > Ugh, sorry about that, I should have realized that needed to be done. > Updated patch attached. Errr, for real this time. Thanks, Stephen commit 25e94dcb390f56502bc46e683b438c20d2dc74e0 Author: Stephen Frost Date: Tue Feb

Re: [HACKERS] Fix for Index Advisor related hooks

2011-02-15 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas < heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > On 11.02.2011 22:44, Gurjeet Singh wrote: > >> Looks like the function get_actual_variable_range() was written with the >> knowledge that virtual/hypothetical indexes may exist, but the assumption

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade seems a tad broken

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > I tried to do a pg_upgrade from 9.0.x to HEAD today. The pg_upgrade run > > went through without complaint, and I could start the postmaster, but > > every connection attempt fails with > > > psql: FATAL: could not read block 0 in file "base/11964/11683": read onl

Re: [HACKERS] arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

2011-02-15 Thread Alexey Klyukin
On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Alex Hunsaker wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 17:17, Alexey Klyukin wrote: > > Anyway in playing with this patch a bit more I found another bug > return [[]]; would segfault. > > So find attached a v9 that: > - fixes above segfault > > - made plperl_sv_to_literal

[HACKERS] Students enrollment

2011-02-15 Thread Roman Prykhodchenko
Hello guys, I am a lecturer at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and I have a proposal for you. My students have to make their science projects during this half-year. I would like to involve some of them in PostgreSQL to give them an opportunity to work on a real project instea

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade seems a tad broken

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > I tried to do a pg_upgrade from 9.0.x to HEAD today. The pg_upgrade run > > went through without complaint, and I could start the postmaster, but > > every connection attempt fails with > > > psql: FATAL: could not read block 0 in file "base/11964/11683": read onl

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Frost (sfr...@snowman.net) wrote: > I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple > addition of %U as an option for log_line_prefix. Updated patch attached which just adds %U support to log_line_prefix. Will work on adding CSV support for this in 9.2, along with

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Stephen Frost (sfr...@snowman.net) wrote: >> I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple >> addition of %U as an option for log_line_prefix. > > Updated patch attached which just adds %U support to log_line_prefix

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > On the whole, I don't think that sepgsql-regtest.pp should be built or > installed at all during the build phase.  It ought to be generated > during regression test startup, instead. You have to manually install and enable it before you can run t

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: [JDBC] Weird issues when reading UDT from stored function

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Lukas Eder wrote: > I had tried that before. That doesn't seem to change anything. JDBC still > expects 6 OUT parameters, instead of just 1... Oh, hrm. I thought you were trying to fix the return value, rather than the signature. I am not sure how to fix the sig

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost writes: > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> The payoff >> (getting %U) seems quite out of proportion to the potential downsides >> of making a change of this type at this late date. > I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple > addition of %

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas writes: > On 14.02.2011 21:49, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Thanks to Noah Misch's review of the keylock patch I noticed that >> pageinspect's heap_page_items(bytea) function returns infomask and >> infomask2 as smallint (signed). But the fields in the tuple header are >> 16 bits u

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Stephen Frost writes: >> * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> The payoff >>> (getting %U) seems quite out of proportion to the potential downsides >>> of making a change of this type at this late date. > >> I'd be happy to go back to

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas writes: >> On 14.02.2011 21:49, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Thanks to Noah Misch's review of the keylock patch I noticed that >>> pageinspect's heap_page_items(bytea) function returns infomask and >>> infomask2 as smallint (sign

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/15/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote: On the whole, I don't think that sepgsql-regtest.pp should be built or installed at all during the build phase. It ought to be generated during regression test startup, instead. You have to manually

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't see any reason that the old version of the function couldn't be >> dropped in the upgrade script.  It's not likely anything would be >> depending on it, is it? > I don't see much point in taking the risk. What ri

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 02/15/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Tom Lane  wrote: >>> On the whole, I don't think that sepgsql-regtest.pp should be built or >>> installed at all during the build phase.  It ought to be generate

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I don't see any reason that the old version of the function couldn't be >>> dropped in the upgrade script.  It's not likely anything would be >>> depending on it, is i

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > Something along these lines would be OK with me (I haven't yet > validated every detail), but there were previous objections to adding > any new fields to log_line_prefix until we had a flexible CSV format. > I think that's raising the bar a bit too high, personally, but I do

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > Those are good points. My point was just that you can't actually > build that file at the time you RUN the regression tests, because you > have to build it first, then install it, then run the regression > tests. It could be a separate target, like 'make policy', but I don'

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> What risk?  And at least we'd be trying to do it cleanly, in a manner >> that should work for at least 99% of users.  AFAICT, Heikki's proposal >> is "break it for everyone, and damn the torpedoes". > I must be confused.

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> Something along these lines would be OK with me (I haven't yet >> validated every detail), but there were previous objections to adding >> any new fields to log_line_prefix until we had a flexible CSV format. >> I think th

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
Tom, * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Given that this has been like this right along, I don't see why it's > all that urgent to force a half-baked solution into 9.1. I'm also > concerned that if we do do that, you'll lose motivation to work on > cleaning it up for 9.2 ;-) The addition to

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> What risk?  And at least we'd be trying to do it cleanly, in a manner >>> that should work for at least 99% of users.  AFAICT, Heikki's proposal >>> is "break it for e

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> Those are good points.  My point was just that you can't actually >> build that file at the time you RUN the regression tests, because you >> have to build it first, then install it, then run the regression >> tests.  It c

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > Well, I guess the other option is to just add it to the format, full > stop. But as someone pointed out previously, that's not a terribly > scalable solution, but perhaps it could be judged adequate for this > particular case. Think I suggested that

Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect's infomask and infomask2 as smallint

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 15.02.2011 18:03, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas writes: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: What risk? And at least we'd be trying to do it cleanly, in a manner that should work for at least 99% of users. AFAICT, Heikki's proposal is "break it for everyone, and damn the torpe

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> Well, I guess the other option is to just add it to the format, full >> stop.  But as someone pointed out previously, that's not a terribly >> scalable solution, but perhaps it could be judged

Re: [HACKERS] Sync Rep for 2011CF1

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 01:45 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > Here's the latest patch for sync rep. > > > > I was looking at this code and found something in SyncRepWaitOnQueue > we declare a timeout variable that is a long and another that

[HACKERS] extensions and psql

2011-02-15 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, I realize that you didn't keep the \dx behavior I had, that when given an extension name it would list all the objects contained in the extension. Now that's a pretty simple query: select pg_describe_object(classid, objid, 0) from pg_depend d join pg_extension e on d.refclassid =

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Haas writes: >>> Those are good points.  My point was just that you can't actually >>> build that file at the time you RUN the regression tests, because you >>> have to build it first, then install it, then run the

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 14:11 -0800, Daniel Farina wrote: > This is another bit of the syncrep patch split out. > > I will revisit the replication timeout one Real Soon, I promise -- but > I have a couple things to do today that may delay that until the > evening. > > https://github.com/fdr/postgre

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 15.02.2011 18:42, Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 14:11 -0800, Daniel Farina wrote: This is another bit of the syncrep patch split out. I will revisit the replication timeout one Real Soon, I promise -- but I have a couple things to do today that may delay that until the evening. h

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Robert Haas writes: Those are good points.  My point was just that you can't actually build that file at the time you RUN the regression tests, because you

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 15.02.2011 18:42, Simon Riggs wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 14:11 -0800, Daniel Farina wrote: >>> >>> This is another bit of the syncrep patch split out. >>> >>> I will revisit the replication timeout one Real Soon, I promise --

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 15.02.2011 18:52, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: It would be wise to also transmit the epoch in addition to xmin, to avoid confusion if the standby is> 2 billion transactions behind. That case is probably hopelessly broken anyway. I don't

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/15/2011 11:13 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: Well, I guess the other option is to just add it to the format, full stop. But as someone pointed out previously, that's not a terribly scalable solution, but perhaps it could be judged adequate for this

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 18:49 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > It would be wise to also transmit the epoch in addition to xmin, to > avoid confusion if the standby is > 2 billion transactions behind. Yes, good idea, thanks. That has to be the record for the fastest patch review. ;-) -- Simon

Re: [HACKERS] Fix for Index Advisor related hooks

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh writes: > Also attached is the patch expose_IndexSupportInitialize.patch, that makes > the static function IndexSupportInitialize() global so that the Index > Advisor doesn't have to reinvent the wheel to prepare an index structure > with opfamilies and opclasses. We are *not* doing

Re: [HACKERS] Sync Rep for 2011CF1

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Heikki Linnakangas > wrote: >> I committed the patch with those changes, and some minor comment tweaks and >> other kibitzing. > > +            * 'd' means a standby reply wrapped in a COPY BOTH packet. > +  

Re: [HACKERS] Sync Rep for 2011CF1

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Heikki Linnakangas >> wrote: >>> I committed the patch with those changes, and some minor comment tweaks and >>> other kibitzing. > > I have another comme

Re: [HACKERS] Sync Rep for 2011CF1

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Heikki Linnakangas > wrote: >> I added a XLogWalRcvSendReply() call into XLogWalRcvFlush() so that it also >> sends a status update every time the WAL is flushed. If the walreceiver is >> busy receiving and fl

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2011-01 as of 2011-02-04

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/15/2011 06:55 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:27, Robert Haas wrote: However, file_fdw is in pretty serious trouble because (1) the copy API patch that it depends on still isn't committed and (2) it's going to

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > Patch attached, no docs yet, but the patch is clear. > > I'm looking to commit this in next 24 hours barring objections and/or > test failures. Looks pretty good to me, though I haven't tested it. I like some of the safety valves you put in

Re: [HACKERS] extensions and psql

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Do we want to get that back in, and in which psql command?  It could > well be that having \dx list extension and \dx name list extension's > objects wasn't the best design around, and it could be that it's not > useful enough, but I know

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On another disk, I think that those warning messages are a bad idea. > That could fill up someone's disk really quickly. On another disk? What the heck am I talking about? On another point? On another note? Anyway, you get the idea... hop

Re: [HACKERS] extensions and psql

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Dimitri Fontaine writes: > I realize that you didn't keep the \dx behavior I had, that when given > an extension name it would list all the objects contained in the > extension. Sure I did: \dx+ regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@pos

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2011-01 as of 2011-02-04

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Browne
robertmh...@gmail.com (Robert Haas) writes: > It does, but frankly I don't see much reason to change it, since it's > been working pretty well on the whole. Andrew was on point when he > mentioned that it's not obvious what committers get out of working on > other people's patches. Obviously, the

Re: [HACKERS] Replication server timeout patch

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Daniel Farina wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Daniel Farina wrote: >>> Context diff equivalent attached. >> >> Thanks for the patch! >> >> As I said before, the timeout which this patch provides do

Re: [HACKERS] extensions and psql

2011-02-15 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Tom Lane writes: > Sure I did: \dx+ And I believe I did test that. Sorry for the noise, really. (shame) Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes t

Re: [HACKERS] arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Feb 15, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: > After I re-added the closing in plperl.sgml:235 these errors > disappeared, and the > resulting html looks fine too. v10 with just this single change is attached. So is this ready for committer? Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mail

Re: [HACKERS] arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

2011-02-15 Thread Alexey Klyukin
On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:45 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Feb 15, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: > >> After I re-added the closing in plperl.sgml:235 these errors >> disappeared, and the >> resulting html looks fine too. v10 with just this single change is attached. > > So is this re

Re: [HACKERS] psql -l doesn't process psqlrc

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > psql -l doesn't process psqlrc.  Historically, this was probably not > useful, hence no one cared.  But with the linestyle option it's useful. > So I propose the attached tweak. As a violent hater of the new linestyle, +1 from me. -- Ro

Re: [HACKERS] Fix for Index Advisor related hooks

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas < > heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> On 11.02.2011 22:44, Gurjeet Singh wrote: >>> One one hand get_actual_variable_range() expects that virtual indexes do >>> not >>> have an OID assigned, on the other hand

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-15 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 02/15/2011 12:37 PM, Greg Stark wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: from what I can see upstream libedit actually has utf8 support for a while now (as well as some other fixes) but the debian libedit version (and also the one of other distributions) is way to

Re: [HACKERS] arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: >>> After I re-added the closing in plperl.sgml:235 these errors >>> disappeared, and the >>> resulting html looks fine too. v10 with just this single change is attached. >> >> So is this ready for committer? > > Yes. Awesom, thanks Alexey &

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:20 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > On another disk, I think that those warning messages are a bad idea. > > That could fill up someone's disk really quickly. > > On another disk? What the heck am I talking about? > >

Re: [HACKERS] Add support for logging the current role

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andrew Dunstan (and...@dunslane.net) wrote: > On 02/15/2011 11:13 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > >Think I suggested that at one point. I'm all for doing that on a major > >version change like this one, but I think we already had some concerns > >about that on this thread (Andrew maybe?). > > I coul

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Dimitri Fontaine writes: >> I think you'd be interested into this reworked SQL query. It should be >> providing exactly the script file you need as an upgrade from unpackaged. > This seems overly complicated. I have a version of it that I'll publish > as soon as I've tested it on all

Re: [HACKERS] review: FDW API

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > I'm actually surprised we don't need to distinguish them in more places, but > nevertheless it feels like we should have that info available more > conveniently, and without requiring a catalog lookup like get_rel_relkind() > does. At fi

Re: [HACKERS] review: FDW API

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas writes: > As the patch stands, we have to do get_rel_relkind() in a couple of > places in parse analysis and the planner to distinguish a foreign table > from a regular one. As the patch stands, there's nothing in > RangeTblEntry (which is what we have in transformLockingClau

Re: [HACKERS] pl/python do not delete function arguments

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2011-02-15 at 09:58 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote: > Because the invocation that actually recurses sets up the scene for > failure. That's what we're observing, but I can't figure out why it is. If you can, could you explain it? It actually makes sense to me that the arguments should be dele

Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module

2011-02-15 Thread Kohei Kaigai
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Haas [mailto:robertmh...@gmail.com] > Sent: 15 February 2011 16:52 > To: Tom Lane > Cc: Andrew Dunstan; Kohei Kaigai; Stephen Frost; KaiGai Kohei; PgHacker > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] sepgsql contrib module > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tom Lane w

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-02-14 at 15:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Umm ... we are not requiring version names to be numbers. That's certainly interesting. Why? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsq

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-02-14 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the > double-dash method? It just looks a bit silly and error prone. And other packaging systems have been doing without it for decades. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On mån, 2011-02-14 at 15:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Umm ... we are not requiring version names to be numbers. > That's certainly interesting. Why? There isn't any packaging system anywhere on the planet that requires them to be purely numeric. By the time you get

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread marcin mank
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On mån, 2011-02-14 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the >> double-dash method? > > It just looks a bit silly and error prone.  And other packaging systems > have been doin

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On mån, 2011-02-14 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the >> double-dash method? > It just looks a bit silly and error prone. And other packaging systems > have been doing without it for decades. I can

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Aside from the double-dash method, we kicked around using colons and > pluses as separators (and then forbidding just those characters in > extension and version names). Any of those would be workable, but it's > not clear to me that any of them hav

Re: [HACKERS] review: FDW API

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 15.02.2011 21:13, Tom Lane wrote: Heikki Linnakangas writes: As the patch stands, we have to do get_rel_relkind() in a couple of places in parse analysis and the planner to distinguish a foreign table from a regular one. As the patch stands, there's nothing in RangeTblEntry (which is what we

Re: [HACKERS] review: FDW API

2011-02-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 15.02.2011 21:00, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I'm actually surprised we don't need to distinguish them in more places, but nevertheless it feels like we should have that info available more conveniently, and without requiring a catalog looku

Re: [HACKERS] review: FDW API

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas writes: > On 15.02.2011 21:13, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm. I don't have a problem with adding relkind to the planner's >> RelOptInfo, but it seems to me that if parse analysis needs to know >> this, you have put functionality into parse analysis that does not >> belong there. > Po

Re: [HACKERS] why two dashes in extension load files

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM, marcin mank wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On mån, 2011-02-14 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the >>> double-dash method? >> >> It just looks a bit silly an

Re: [HACKERS] FOR KEY LOCK foreign keys

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Marti Raudsepp's message of lun feb 14 19:39:25 -0300 2011: >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:13, Noah Misch wrote: >> > The patch had a trivial conflict in planner.c, plus plenty of offsets.   >> > I've >> > attached the rebased

Re: [HACKERS] XMin Hot Standby Feedback patch

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:15 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > Looks pretty good to me, though I haven't tested it. I like some of > the safety valves you put in there, but I don't understand this part Reworked logic covering all feedback, plus tests, plus docs. Last comments before commit please. --

Re: [HACKERS] FOR KEY LOCK foreign keys

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> Yeah, that bug is fixed with the attached, though I am rethinking this >> bit. > > I am thinking that the statute of limitations has expired on this > patch, and that we should mark it Returned with Feedback and continue > working on it for 9.2.

Re: [HACKERS] FOR KEY LOCK foreign keys

2011-02-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar feb 15 18:15:38 -0300 2011: > I am thinking that the statute of limitations has expired on this > patch, and that we should mark it Returned with Feedback and continue > working on it for 9.2. I know it's a valuable feature, but I think > we're out of ti

[HACKERS] NULLs in array_cat vs array || array

2011-02-15 Thread Thom Brown
Hi all, I assumed array_cat would behave similarly to array || array, but it appears not when it comes to NULLs. Shouldn't these have identical functionality? The attached patch makes it so, although it would break existing code. Would such a change have any knock-on effect, or cause inconsiste

Re: [HACKERS] NULLs in array_cat vs array || array

2011-02-15 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/15 Thom Brown : > Hi all, > > I assumed array_cat would behave similarly to array || array, but it > appears not when it comes to NULLs.  Shouldn't these have identical > functionality?  The attached patch makes it so, although it would > break existing code. There is bugreport and todo ent

Re: [HACKERS] NULLs in array_cat vs array || array

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Thom Brown writes: > I assumed array_cat would behave similarly to array || array, but it > appears not when it comes to NULLs. Shouldn't these have identical > functionality? The attached patch makes it so, although it would > break existing code. That patch is the hard way: the right change w

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

2011-02-15 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Tom Lane writes: > Just for the archives' sake: the '@extschema@' business did turn out to > be important, at least for tsearch2 where it's necessary to distinguish > the objects it's dealing with from similarly-named objects in > pg_catalog. So this is what I used to generate the "unpackaged" >

Re: [HACKERS] NULLs in array_cat vs array || array

2011-02-15 Thread Thom Brown
On 15 February 2011 21:46, Cédric Villemain wrote: > 2011/2/15 Thom Brown : >> Hi all, >> >> I assumed array_cat would behave similarly to array || array, but it >> appears not when it comes to NULLs.  Shouldn't these have identical >> functionality?  The attached patch makes it so, although it wo

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 02/15/2011 04:49 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Ah well sed makes it simpler to read, but it won't be usable in windows. You can make perl do the same stuff (and perl has psed anyway), and perl is required for MSVC builds. cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-h

Re: [HACKERS] NULLs in array_cat vs array || array

2011-02-15 Thread Thom Brown
On 15 February 2011 21:47, Tom Lane wrote: > Also, so far as I can see array_cat *is* ||, so I'm not sure what > discrepancy in behavior you're on about. You've confused me now. I had a case where I replaced || with , and surrounded it with array_cat, and the result differed, and now I can't rec

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Dimitri Fontaine writes: > Do we want to add such a query in the docs to help pgfoundry authors to > write their own 'from unpackaged' scripts? [ scratches head ... ] Why is your version generating so many unnecessary @extschema@ uses? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgs

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