Re: PATCH: To fix the issue where cast function causes freeze (pgAdmin4) - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala
<murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
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>> OK, so the type names are affected by the duplicate column names, and
>> need to be avoided by using indexes and avoiding dicts. That's issue
>> #1409.
>>
>> The second issue is that "SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" gives us "now
>> timestamp with time zone (8)". Is the (8) also part of issue #1409, or
>> some other bug?
>>
> (I though it's by design that we are displaying size with every column)

Definitely not - it's a bug. Only types that take size parameters
should display them.

> But this is not related to RM#1409 or RM#1438.
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>> The third issue is fixed by this patch, so I'll commit that as there's
>> a ticket for the other bit already).
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala
>> <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> > ++ FYI,
>> >
>> > If you provide alias, it'll give you proper result :)
>> >
>> > SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as ts, CAST ( CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS text ) as
>> > ts_as_text;
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Murtuza Zabuawala
>> > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala
>> > <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Dave,
>> >>
>> >> Yes, I am aware of that, but the issue you mentioned is due to psycopg2
>> >> DictCursor issue which I have already mentioned earlier (RM#1409)
>> >> https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/454.
>> >>
>> >> The patch is for different issue (RM#1438).
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Murtuza Zabuawala
>> >> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> >> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala
>> >>> <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > PFA patch to fix the issue where if user use cast function and it
>> >>> > causes
>> >>> > freeze in query tool.
>> >>> > (RM#1438)
>> >>>
>> >>> This fixes the hang, but then displays the wrong data type for the
>> >>> first column - e.g.
>> >>>
>> >>> SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CAST ( CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS text ) ;
>> >>>
>> >>> will show the columns as "now text(8)" and "now text", when it should
>> >>> be "now timestamp with time zone", "now text"
>> >>>
>> >>> Note that SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP also gets this a little wrong - it
>> >>> shows "now timestamp with time zone(8)" (the size shouldn't be
>> >>> included)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Dave Page
>> >>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>> >>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>> >>>
>> >>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> >>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>
>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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