Re: [HACKERS] schema support, was Package support for Postgres

2001-10-17 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Bill Studenmund wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Tom Lane wrote: Bill Studenmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the most part, I think packages and schemas are orthogonal. I'm taking a cue from Oracle here. Oracle considers packages to be a schema-specific object.

Re: [HACKERS] PQstatus() detect change in connection...

2001-10-17 Thread Matthew Hagerty
I am trying to re-establish a connection, however, I cannot afford to issue a query to determine if the connection still exists. I'm writing a server that uses the asynchronous query processing functions and speed is an issue. Queries are slow compared to what the server does and it cannot

Re: [HACKERS] Column names - time

2001-10-17 Thread Lee Kindness
Tom Lane writes: There is an up-to-date list of keywords in the documentation: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/sql-keywords-appendix.html Thanks for the info. Would I be right in saying that the status of time (unreserved for PostgreSQL) for 7.2 needs to be

Re: [HACKERS] ecpg - GRANT bug

2001-10-17 Thread Lee Kindness
Bill Studenmund writes: I think this patch is wrong. Wouldn't it be better to make the line number in yylineno be correct? Also, there are users of the line number in pcg.l which you didn't change. Looking at it, I don't see why the line number is off. It is initialized to 1 at the

[HACKERS] compiling libpq++ on Solaris with Sun SPRO6U2

2001-10-17 Thread Denis A Ustimenko
Here is my patches for libpq++ compiling by Sun C++: -- *** ../postgresql-7.1.3.orig//src/Makefile.shlib÷Ó áÐÒ 15 10:25:07 2001 --- .//src/Makefile.shlib óÒ ïËÔ 17 12:23:41 2001 *** *** 179,185

[HACKERS] DBBalancer bugs

2001-10-17 Thread Pramod Reddy
Hello, I am trying to install and run DBBalancer-0.3.0.tar .gz file on RedHat Linux 7.0 . I am using PostgreSQL 7.0 which comes with RedHat Linux 7.0 distribution. As per the INSTALL file I have installed ACE-5.2.tar.gz file sucessfully under /usr/local/src. But when I am issuing the

[HACKERS] compiling libpq++ on Solaris with Sun SPRO6U2 (fixed tested)

2001-10-17 Thread Denis A Ustimenko
Sorry, previous patch was wrong. Denis Ustimenko -- *** orig/postgresql-7.1.3//src/makefiles/Makefile.solaris ÷Ó äÅË 17 00:14:25 2000 --- postgresql-7.1.3//src/makefiles/Makefile.solarisóÒ ïËÔ 17 14:33:11 2001 *** *** 6,12

Re: [HACKERS] Package support for Postgres

2001-10-17 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bill Studenmund writes: session-specific package variables, I think this is assuming a little too much about how a PL might operate. Some PLs already support this in their own language-specific way, with or without packages. Thus, I don't

Re: [HACKERS] Pre-forking backend

2001-10-17 Thread Daniel Varela Santoalla
On Mon 15 Oct 2001 04:32, you wrote: DBBalancer (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dbbalancer/) does something like that. Create a small program that makes a few connections to postgresql, does some initialization, preconnects to various DBs (or maybe limited to one DB specified on

[HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-17 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
I have tons of old files with names like base/db/pg_sorttemp.##. I assume that they are temporary sorting files but somehow they never got cleared out. Is it safe to delete these from a running system. The files are months old. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy@{druid|vex}.net | Democracy is

[HACKERS] Package support diffs

2001-10-17 Thread Bill Studenmund
are on their way to the patches list. Given the mail delay we've been seeing, they'll take a while to get there. Oh, it turns out there _is_ a size limit for patches, so it'll need to get approved. There are still a few warts in the code. 1) One wart is that I needed to make an identifier for

Re: [HACKERS] PQstatus() detect change in connection...

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Pritchard
I presume you are trying to re-establish a connection automatically...if that doesn't apply, ignore the rest of this email :) The way I interpreted the docs was that you can use the return codes from PQexec() to establish whether the command was sent to the backend correctly. PQresultStatus()

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-17 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
My guess is probably yes it's ok - just shut down the server before deleting them! Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D'Arcy J.M. Cain Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp

[HACKERS] autoconf taking forever?

2001-10-17 Thread bpalmer
I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4 has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird. Am I missing something or is this know to take forever? Thanks guys, - Brandon c:

Re: [HACKERS] Column names - time

2001-10-17 Thread Tom Lane
Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane writes: There is an up-to-date list of keywords in the documentation: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/sql-keywords-appendix.html Thanks for the info. Would I be right in saying that the status of time (unreserved

Re: [HACKERS] compiling libpq++ on Solaris with Sun SPRO6U2 (fixed

2001-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Denis A Ustimenko writes: [change -Wl,-R to -R and -Wl,-h to -h] I'm having a difficult time understanding this. Both -R and -h are linker options, not compiler options. So while the compiler driver might be nice enough to recognize them as the former and pass them through, this change just

Re: [HACKERS] Column names - time

2001-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Probably. Peter has a script that generates that table directly from gram.y, and I assume he'll run it sometime before 7.2 release... After beta has started. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Package support for Postgres

2001-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bill Studenmund writes: Yes, I want a namespace below schemas. The difference between packages and schemas is that schemas encapsulate everything. As Tom pointed out, that includes types (and I'd assume operators too). Packages do not encapsulate types and operators. Of course nobody is

Re: [HACKERS] Package support for Postgres

2001-10-17 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bill Studenmund writes: Yes, I want a namespace below schemas. The difference between packages and schemas is that schemas encapsulate everything. As Tom pointed out, that includes types (and I'd assume operators too). Packages do not

Re: [HACKERS] compiling libpq++ on Solaris with Sun SPRO6U2 (fixed

2001-10-17 Thread Dan
whats wrong with kill -9' the postmaster works fine for me hahahaa. Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:34:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denis A Ustimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] compiling libpq++ on Solaris with Sun SPRO6U2

[HACKERS] PQstatus() detect change in connection...

2001-10-17 Thread Matthew Hagerty
Greetings, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, FreeBSD-4.3-RELEASE, gcc 2.95.3 I'm trying to attempt to detect a failed backend connection, but a call to PQstatus() always returns the state of the backend when the call was made. For example, take this test code: PGconn *pgConn; PGresult