Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to get unmanageable. $

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 16:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I agree with Tom. I don't think the current behavior is a major issue > for users for it to be mentioned more than it already is Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't modify config.sgml to note that "autovacuum = off" does not actual

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be > >huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to > >exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to > >get unmanageable. > > $ make mai

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alvaro Herrera wrote: David Fetter wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: David Fetter wrote: cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've checked out as anonymous. I usually

Re: [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
David Fetter wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:06:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Per Neil Conway, here's some doc patches re: the autovacuum > > > daemon's behavior. Should this be back-patched to 8.2x? > > > > This fact is already documented in a

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
David Fetter wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > David Fetter wrote: > > >cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file > > >without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've > > >checked out as anonymous. > > > > > > > I u

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Nasby
On May 13, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:48:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Surely a section should not *begin* with a cross-reference to someplace else. My concern is that folks will see the table right below it, not find

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file > >without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've > >checked out as anonymous. > > > > I usually saved an untouched version of

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: You need write-access to add files, even on anonymouse server. We often get patches with new files as separate attachments because of that. This is the part that cvsutils fakes for you (by hacking the local cvs metadata files) so you don't need write access.

Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented

2007-05-14 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Hi, I think the basic description for the UUID datatype is okay. Perhaps we could add some basic examples to the documentation later. Thank you. Regards, Gevik. On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 23:53 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Gevik Babakhani wrote: > > Sorry for this late reply > > I go work o

Re: [DOCS] [PATCHES] On patching without write access to CVS

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 03:56 schrieb David Fetter: > +For those things which CVS does not do > +by itself, such as letting you create patches without write access, I don't think that is accurate. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(e