>tcl-extension for postgreSQL.
>I'm currently using 7.0 and always getting a seg fault when I try to
>read from the database connection after issueing a "COPY table TO
>stdout;" (I'm using the connection handle, *not* the result handle).
>Maybe this is fixed in a later release.
>The README file in src/interfaces/libpgtcl tells me, that this should
>work, but unforunately it doesn't.
Yes, it seems broken. It is a bug in libpgtcl. Are you running Tcl >= 8.3.2?
That's when the Tcl team changed the data structure for channel
callbacks. The change itself was designed to be backward compatible, but I
suspect a related change made the code more sensitive to errors in the
structure (NULL pointers where functions are required). Either that, or
nobody has tried to use libpgtcl with COPY in a long time.
First, I have to say I can't think of a good reason to use PostgreSQL's
COPY command from a Tcl application. I think it should only be used with
psql for importing data from another source into PostgreSQL, or for
exporting PostgreSQL data into another database (but why would anyone do
that?) If it was me, I would stick with SELECT and INSERT and be "SQL
Compliant".
OK, editorial is over. Try applying the patch below to fix
src/interfaces/libpgtcl/pgtclId.c
and let us know if it works. I did little testing on it, but my test did
segfault before and ran fine (copy in and copy out) after the patch. This
is for PostgreSQL-7.1.2 - since you are running older 7.0, I don't know if
this will work, but I suspect it will.
PS It's the absence of PgWatchProc which kills it. I didn't upgrade it
to the "V2" channel type structure, so it should be compatible with older
Tcl's. But aside from gets and puts, I doubt any other file operations
would work on the handle during a copy.
ljb
occur unconditionally, even if the rule should otherwise execute
conditionally. This is more useful than giving an error, even though it's
not truly the correct behavior. Per today's pghackers discussion.
for them, and making them just wastes time during backend startup/shutdown.
Also, remove compile-time MAXBACKENDS limit per long-ago proposal.
You can now set MaxBackends as high as your kernel can stand without
any reconfiguration/recompilation.
>
>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:01:17 -0500, you wrote:
>> public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
>> {
>> return !isReadOnly(column);
>> }
Actually, I think this change has a consequence for this method
in the same class:
public boolean isDefinitelyWritable(int column)
throws SQLException
{
return isWritable(column);
}
This is from the JDBC spec
(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSetMetaData.html):
isReadOnly() - Indicates whether the designated column is
definitely not writable.
isWritable() - Indicates whether it is possible for a write on
the designated column to succeed.
isDefinitelyWritable() - Indicates whether a write on the
designated column will definitely succeed.
At this time we don't really implement the fine semantics of
these methods. I would suggest the following defaults:
isReadOnly() false
isWritable() true
isDefinitelyWritable() false
And that would mean that your patch is correct, but
isDefinitelyWritable() would need to be patched accordingly:
public boolean isDefinitelyWritable(int column)
throws SQLException
{
return false;
}
Again, both in jdbc1 and jdbc2.
Regards,
Ren? Pijlman <rene@lab.applinet.nl>
>public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
>{
> if (isReadOnly(column))
> return true;
> else
> return false;
>}
The author probably intended:
public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
{
return !isReadOnly(column);
}
And if he would have coded it this way he wouldn't have made
this mistake :-)
>hence, isWritable() will always return false. this is something
>of a problem :)
Why exactly? In a way, true is just as incorrect as false, and
perhaps it should throw "not implemented". But I guess that
would be too non-backwardly-compatible.
>let me know if i can provide further information.
Will you submit a patch?
Regards,
Ren? Pijlman <rene@lab.applinet.nl>
written a generic framework of rules that the contrib makefiles can
use instead of writing their own each time. You only need to set a few
variables and off you go.
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:24:38 +0200
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:30:40AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > - convert encoding 'name' to 'id'
>
> I thought we decided not to add functions returning "new" names until we
> know exactly what the new names should be, and pending schema
Ok, the patch not to add functions.
> better
>
> ...(): encoding name too long
Fixed.
I found new bug in command/variable.c in parse_client_encoding(), nobody
probably never see this error:
if (pg_set_client_encoding(encoding))
{
elog(ERROR, "Conversion between %s and %s is not supported",
value, GetDatabaseEncodingName());
}
because pg_set_client_encoding() returns -1 for error and 0 as true.
It's fixed too.
IMHO it can be apply.
Karel
PS:
* following files are renamed:
src/utils/mb/Unicode/KOI8_to_utf8.map -->
src/utils/mb/Unicode/koi8r_to_utf8.map
src/utils/mb/Unicode/WIN_to_utf8.map -->
src/utils/mb/Unicode/win1251_to_utf8.map
src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_KOI8.map -->
src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_koi8r.map
src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_WIN.map -->
src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_win1251.map
* new file:
src/utils/mb/encname.c
* removed file:
src/utils/mb/common.c
--
Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http://docs.linux.cz, http://mape.jcu.cz
> pam_strerror() should be used a few more times, rather than just saying
> "Error!". Also, the configure.in snippet seems wrong. You add
> -I$pam_prefix/include/security to $INCLUDES and then you #include
> <security/pam_appl.h>. This whole thing is probably unnecessary, since
> PAM is a system library on the systems where it exists, so the headers
> and libraries are found automatically, unlike OpenSSL and
> Kerberos.
See attached revised patch. (I'm sure the configure.in stuff can be done
right/better, I'm just not enough of a autoconf guru to know what to
change it to.)
Dominic J. Eidson
- new millisecond (ms) and microsecond (us) support
- more robus parsing from string - used is separator checking for
non-exact formats like to_date('2001-9-1', 'YYYY-MM-DD')
- SGML docs are included
Karel Zak
flawed in the following ways:
1. Only returned columns that had a default value defined, rather than all
columns in a table
2. Used 2 * N + 1 queries to find out attributes, comments and typenames
for N columns.
By using some outer join syntax it is possible to retrieve all necessary
information in just one SQL statement. This means this version is only
suitable for PostgreSQL >= 7.1. Don't know whether that's a problem.
I've tested this function with current sources and 7.1.3 and patched both
jdbc1 and jdbc2. I haven't compiled nor tested the jdbc1 version though, as
I have no JDK 1.1 available.
Note the discussion in http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1029626
regarding differences in obtaining comments on database object in 7.1 and
7.2. I was unable to use the following syntax (or similar ones):
select
...,
description
from
...
left outer join col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum) description
order by
c.relname, a.attnum;
(the error was parse error at or near '(') so I had to paste the actual
code for the col_description function into the left outer join. Maybe
someone who is more knowledgable about outer joins might provide me with a
better SQL statement.
Jeroen van Vianen
includes windows.h, which #defines ERROR to 0. PostgreSQL's logging functions
define ERROR to -1. This patch redefines ERROR to -1 to avoid current or
future breakage of the logging functions.
Gerhard H?ring
> > -patches as well.
>
> The -Bdynamic probably ought to disappear.
That was there already, but I have no objections. I was trying to
make minimal changes.
Larry Rosenman
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Jan Wieck
Hiroshi Inoue
Tatsuo Ishii
Peter Eisentraut