Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

2002-06-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
What other development options do we have for soemthing that is GUI and portable to all platforms that postgresql runs on? Java? wxWindows? Qt? Gtk? I would think that Gtk is probably the most portable, and it has bindings to many languages, but we would probalby want to use C. TOra uses

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I wasn't really comparing to MySQL here. I meant, in relationship to MS Access. Start it up and it just works. Yeah, a point-and-drool installation wizard for postgres under windows would be great. I think, from looking at PGAdminII, that we've already got great admin tools; it seems just

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

2002-06-26 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Two points to this discussion. I hate to admit this, but to some people, a Windows version is important. Yesterday I learned that one product developed here will have a MySQL implementation because marketing wants a free implementation. The biggest advantage seems to be that it's working on

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Yeah, a point-and-drool installation wizard for postgres under windows would be great. I think, from looking at PGAdminII, that we've already got great admin tools; it seems just as good as SQL Server Enterprise Manager to me. Once we have a proper Win32 native version, the guy in our

Re: [HACKERS] ODBC Driver 7.02.0001 (Win32) (Unicode mode): CRLF-LF

2002-06-26 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
Julian Mehnle wrote: Yeah, it does *not* exhibit the faulty CRLF-LF conversion behavior. Is this a custom build of the ODBC driver done by you? Will the official driver be fixed soon? I would commit the fix to cvs this week. regards, Hiroshi Inoue http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Cramer
I have started a java admin tool on sourceforge just 2 weeks ago actually, www.sf.net/jpgadmin Dave On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 02:51, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: What other development options do we have for soemthing that is GUI and portable to all platforms that postgresql runs on? Java?

[HACKERS] database access via c++ program...

2002-06-26 Thread Emilio Uy III
Hi, my name is Emil, I am a software engineer at NEC, Japan. This is not in any way related to my work, but I am that interested in cygwin that I installed it on my own PC and right now I am enjoying it. Your work is a good one really, I appreciate what you guys are doing. I am just wondering,

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote: It also occurs to me that discussing this on -hackers, which is a technically focused list, is itself somewhat wrongheaded. The best list we have for it at the moment is -general, but I wonder whether we

[HACKERS] Marketing PostgreSQL

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Radulovich
This mail was sent to pgadmin-hackers list by Mark Radulovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It is quite interesting: * I've been following these mailing lists for over two years, and I guess now is the time to chime in. I

Re: [HACKERS] TPC-C Benchmarks

2002-06-26 Thread Jan Wieck
Jonah H. Harris wrote: Who originally did the TPC-C benchmarks? Is the source available for them? Great Bridge once ran some sort of (what they thought it would be) TPC-C benchmark. They used the proprietary Benchmark Factory software for doing so. While working there I had some time to

Re: [HACKERS] Buffer Management

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Curt Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that your proposal of using mmap to replace sysv shared memory relies on the behaviour I've described too. True, but I was not envisioning mapping an actual file --- at least on HPUX, the only way to generate an arbitrary-sized shared memory region

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Greg Sabino Mullane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 June 2002 20:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list 12. Offer something fun: a naming contest for the elephant (I know, I know), Isn't the elephant called Slonik? I

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2002 01:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rod Taylor Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list Folks, What would be a win is an SQL like interface to editing pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf.

[HACKERS] (A) native Windows port

2002-06-26 Thread Jan Wieck
Hackers, as some of you figured already, Katie Ward and I are working fulltime on PostgreSQL and are actually doing a native Win32 port. This port is not based on CygWIN, Apache or any other compatibility library but uses 100% native Windows functionality only. We already have it far enough to

Re: [HACKERS] database access via c++ program...

2002-06-26 Thread jtv
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:22:54PM +0900, Emilio Uy III wrote: I am just wondering, because I have installed PostgreSQL on my Cygwin (Windows NT) and this is my first time to attempt a dive into the database realm. I am not sure of this, but there should be a way to access a database

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Tom, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip You mean a list like ... oh, I don't know ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]? :) You know, I seemed to remember that we had such a list, but I looked at http://archives.postgresql.org/ and saw no archive for it, so I figured

[HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
I have been reviewing Rod Taylor's pg_depend patch, which among other things adds SQL-compliant DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE syntax and prevents you from dropping things that other things depend on, as in ye olde novice error of dropping a function used by a trigger. As submitted, the patch gives

Re: [HACKERS] Marketing PostgreSQL

2002-06-26 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
I guess the website is really good. The only thing I'd do is to add a section listing the core features of PostgreSQL - I think this could be an important point. In my opinion MySQL is not a competitor and we should not benchmark PostgreSQL and compare it with MySQL. Those features which are

Re: [HACKERS] Buffer Management

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Curt Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that your proposal of using mmap to replace sysv shared memory relies on the behaviour I've described too. True, but I was not envisioning mapping an actual file --- at least on HPUX, the only way to generate an arbitrary-sized

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

2002-06-26 Thread Jeff MacDonald
what is gborg ? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:21 AM To: Dave Cramer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution

Re: [HACKERS] Nextgres?

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Justin Clift wrote: Hi Jonah, Was just looking around your company website, and it mentions a product called Nextgres which looks interesting : http://www.nightstarcorporation.com/?op=products How do you guys implement the PostgreSQL SQL parser as well as the Interbase and Oracle

[HACKERS] Why I like partial solutions

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
I find myself repeatedly arguing for partial solutions, and having to struggle with other developers who feel these solutions are hacks. Let me explain why I like these hacks. When we have a feature that users want, often we can't get it implemented promptly in a clean way. It can take several

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Also, would it be a good idea to make it *recursively* report all the indirect as well as direct dependencies? The output might get a little bulky, but if you really want to know what DROP CASCADE will get you into, seems like that is the only way to know. To work

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Daves, Would you consider java as a platform independant language? I have started a project on sf.net called jpgadmin, but I see the duplication of effort as a waste of time. Java has its drawbacks, but a JPgAdmin tool would significantly encourage Postgres-OpenOffice.org integration. --

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: DROP TYPE widget RESTRICT; -- fail NOTICE: operator % depends on type widget NOTICE: operator % depends on type widget NOTICE: operator =% depends on type widget ERROR: Cannot drop type widget because other objects depend on it Use DROP ... CASCADE to drop the

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, What do you see as the drawbacks with java, and how can they be circumvented? 1. Java is not Open Source. It's an open standard, but not OS. 2. I understand that there are some serious limitations to the current Postgres JDBC drivers. I have not used them, so I'm reporting rumor,

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:18 AM To: Curt Sampson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a Curt, You do point out some good areas in which PostgreSQL needs to

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, 1) There is an open source implementation of java Really? I thought Sun had a patent. 2) The jdbc driver is much better than it was recently we have made lots of improvements, and it won't affect jpgadmin anyway. I actually think writing the admin tool in java will make the driver

[HACKERS] Database comparison ideas

2002-06-26 Thread Dann Corbit
I think that the people on this list tend to make a mistake. They try to pick apart the competition by focusing on their weak points. From a growth standpoint, I think it is a much better idea to focus on their strong points. Look at the things each competitor can do best. Try to think of ways

Re: [HACKERS] (A) native Windows port

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2002 15:45 To: HACKERS Subject: [HACKERS] (A) native Windows port As for project coordination, I am willing to setup and maintain a page similar to the (horribly outdated) ones that I did for

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Sabino Mullane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 June 2002 20:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list 12. Offer something fun: a naming contest for the elephant (I know, I

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Dave Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2002 19:01 To: Dave Page Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rod Taylor Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list Dave, Would you consider java as a platform independant language? I have

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Dann, Totally false: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/compare/benchmarks.asp The microsoft benchmarks aren't worth the screen space they take up. I don't consider these evidence. I'm basing this on real experience of working with real production databases, not some idealized

Re: [HACKERS] Why I like partial solutions

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2002 19:21 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] Why I like partial solutions If we want to grow PostgreSQL, we need to meet users needs, even if that requires stomaching some hack

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99, CREATE CAST, and initdb

2002-06-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: IIRC, a function is only considered to be a cast function if it matches by name *and schema* with the target type. So if you, for example, make a function public.int4(something), it'll never be considered a cast function for pg_catalog.int4. I had some doubts about that

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread cbbrowne
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:35:07 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What do you see as the drawbacks with java, and how can they be circumvented? 1. Java is not Open Source. It's an open standard, but not OS. The problem is not with the language; it

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Well hidden, but so far 86 have found it and subscribed to it *grin* It's on the subscription form. [snip] Vince, we can get -advocacy listed on the web site? There has been no traffic over there until now, but there are ppl subscribed to it

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:50, Josh Berkus wrote: BTW, does anyone on this list know about Command Prompt, Inc.'s tools? There seems to be a lot of duplicte development going on in the commercial space. I know for my PERSONAL stuff, commercial tools ($$) mean I don't even bother. I have

Re: [HACKERS] (A) native Windows port

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: As for project coordination, I am willing to setup and maintain a page similar to the (horribly outdated) ones that I did for Toast and RI. Summarizing project status, pointing to resources, instructions, maybe a roadmap, TODO, you name it. Great. Please see roadmap in

Support (was: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation)

2002-06-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Followup set to -advocacy On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:01:18PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote: Customer support is also a big issue comparing free database systems with commercial ones. I know that there are a couple groups that do this, but that genre of businesses do not have a good track record

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice if the recursive dependency checking function was available as an end user function too, so you could analyze dependencies before even trying to drop something, or even just to understand a database schema you've inherited from someone

Re: [HACKERS] Why I like partial solutions

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, when we review patches, we shouldn't be turning up our noses at imperfect solutions if the solution meets needs of our users. I think our standards have gone up over the years, and properly so. The fact that we put in hacks some years ago doesn't

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:30, Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice if the recursive dependency checking function was available as an end user function too, so you could analyze dependencies before even trying to drop something, or even just to understand a

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Rod Taylor
Vince, we can get -advocacy listed on the web site? There has been no traffic over there until now, but there are ppl subscribed to it ... all done. Any chance of getting a pgsql-patches link on archives.postgresql.org? I know the archives are created (I use them) but there is no

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99, CREATE CAST, and initdb

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps it wouldn't be such a terrible idea after all to store the casting paths separately, such as in a system table pg_cast (from, to, func, implicit). This would implement the SQL99 spec fairly exactly. Well, maybe. One question is how that

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 27 Jun 2002, Rod Taylor wrote: Vince, we can get -advocacy listed on the web site? There has been no traffic over there until now, but there are ppl subscribed to it ... all done. Any chance of getting a pgsql-patches link on archives.postgresql.org? I know the archives are

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Rod Taylor wrote: David Kaplan reminded me that there is another UI issue to be considered: when we *are* doing a DROP CASCADE, should the dropped dependent objects be reported somehow? As it stands, Rod's patch emits elog(NOTICE) messages in this case, but I am wondering whether that

Re: [HACKERS] Database comparison ideas

2002-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Dann, From a growth standpoint, I think it is a much better idea to focus on their strong points. Look at the things each competitor can do best. Try to think of ways to get the same functionality from PostgreSQL. If it is impossible [or currently infeasible] to meet the functionality,

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any chance of getting a pgsql-patches link on archives.postgresql.org? I know the archives are created (I use them) but there is no obvious link. Secondly, could the links that do exist be ordered alphabetically? I'm for that too. Every time I go to

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
will do it tonight :) On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any chance of getting a pgsql-patches link on archives.postgresql.org? I know the archives are created (I use them) but there is no obvious link. Secondly, could the links that do exist be

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-patches added ... I've gotta redo that page, as it was just a 'quick-n-dirty' when I did it ... On 27 Jun 2002, Rod Taylor wrote: Vince, we can get -advocacy listed on the web site? There has been no traffic over there until now, but there are ppl subscribed to it ... all done.

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Josh Berkus wrote: As a professional MS SQL Server 7.0 manager Well, I wouldn't call myself a professional at managing SQL Server, but I did do about two years of work on an application (database design, programming and day-to-day running of the production system) that

Re: [HACKERS] Buffer Management

2002-06-26 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Curt Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that your proposal of using mmap to replace sysv shared memory relies on the behaviour I've described too. True, but I was not envisioning mapping an actual file --- at least on HPUX, the only way to

Re: [HACKERS] Nextgres?

2002-06-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, This is Jonah's explanation of what Nextgres is, as his response didn't make it to the list (some kind of software or network problem). :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Nextgres? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:18:57

Re: [HACKERS] User-friendliness for DROP RESTRICT/CASCADE

2002-06-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
DROP TYPE widget RESTRICT; -- fail NOTICE: operator % depends on type widget NOTICE: operator % depends on type widget NOTICE: operator =% depends on type widget ERROR: Cannot drop type widget because other objects depend on it Use DROP ... CASCADE to drop the dependent objects too

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Dann Corbit wrote: I have worked as an MS SQL Server DBA (also database designer and programmer along with just about anything else that could be done with it) and am aware of the difficulties associated with SQL Server. It's a very good product. Yeah, I agree. Maybe

Re: [HACKERS] Democracy and organisation : let's make a

2002-06-26 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Josh Berkus wrote: Depends on your level of write activity, and the size of the records. Clustered indexes work nicely for some tables. Not for others. Well, I'm sure everyone would agree with that. The point is that SQL Server gives you the option, posgres doesn't. cjs

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
http://archives.postgresql.org/ ... better? On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: will do it tonight :) On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any chance of getting a pgsql-patches link on archives.postgresql.org? I know the archives are

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://archives.postgresql.org/ ... better? Yup, although I'd suggest making the classification line up with the one on the main website --- docs and cygwin are listed as developer lists there. Also, someone suggested listing the by-month indexes

[HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-26 Thread Nishkala
I am a student doing my graduation in India. I want to know what are the other OODBMS features ( other than inheritance ) available in PostGreSQL. It would be great if you can help me out with some information regarding this. Thanks, Nishkala -- Being yourself in the world which is