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  1. Re: [BUGS] Small bug in union

    Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 1998-07-07T15:15:39Z

    > Thomas, we now get:
    >         select usesysid from pg_user  union select null ;
    >         ERROR:  type id lookup of 0 failed
    > which not good either.  Can you address this issue?
    
    I'm almost back on-line (I hope) after massive hacker activity took out
    the alumni pop server at Caltech. From looking through the hackers
    mhonarc archive (hmm, don't much like that name "hackers" anymore; it's
    cost us a _lot_ at work and taken me out of Postgres for more than a
    month :( I see two issues for me to look at: the one above and the one
    from Brett regarding a core dump from a mal-formed query. Will look at
    both.
    
    I have some additional patches in the parser area which continue the
    type matching/coersion work from the last two months.
    
    I've got patches to put 64-bit integers into the backend; they should
    work for Alphas and at least some gcc-compiled 32-bit machines, but
    we'll need beta testers to help get the configuration for our other
    supported platforms. Once we have that for v6.4, we can also use this
    type internally to implement additional types like numeric() and
    decimal().
    
    All mail sent to me from June 12 to now has been lost (I lost access to
    the pop server and procmail went away, and so my .forward file reference
    to procmail was broken and unfixable). It is not yet fixed, but should
    be in a day or so. Talk to you then. In the meantime, I will be looking
    at the mhonarc archives to keep up (great feature scrappy!)...
    
                              - Tom
    
    
  2. Re: [BUGS] Small bug in union

    Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-07-07T18:47:08Z

    > > Thomas, we now get:
    > >         select usesysid from pg_user  union select null ;
    > >         ERROR:  type id lookup of 0 failed
    > > which not good either.  Can you address this issue?
    ` > 
    > I'm almost back on-line (I hope) after massive hacker activity took out
    
    Yea, that is on my list too.  One of us will have it fixed for 6.4.  The
    rest sounds good to me.  I am not particularly happy with 'hackers' name
    either.
    
    
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  3. Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] Small bug in union

    Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org> — 1998-07-07T22:27:43Z

    Aww.  Hackers is a great name.  Devel might be more appropriate, but
    hackers isn't so bad.
    
    On Tue, 7 July 1998, at 14:47:08, Bruce Momjian wrote:
    
    > Yea, that is on my list too.  One of us will have it fixed for 6.4.  The
    > rest sounds good to me.  I am not particularly happy with 'hackers' name
    > either.
    > 
    > 
    > -- 
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    >   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  (610) 853-3000(h)
    >