Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] One SQL to access two databases.

2002-12-03 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:56:41AM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: Karel Zak wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:11:20PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: As I said, this is all very preliminary; comments, suggestions, requests are all welcome. Only idea/dream: what implement dblink as virtual schema.

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Jan Hartmann
I'm certainly interested! I am working here on Geographical Information Systems with PostgreSQL/PostGIS with the Minnesota MapServer, with a lot of regular database work thrown in. PostgreSQL has great potential for teaching databases and SQL, and when the native Windows port is ready, it

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17 To: psqlodbc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of PostgreSQL for Windows Currently it

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Björklund
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Now convert this query so that it only evaluates the date_part thing ONCE: select t.id, date_part('days',now()-t.stamp) from table_name t where date_part('days',now()-t.stamp) 20; Something like this could work: select * from (select t.id,

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:48:38PM -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: But if there is, then the sum/count(*) is nonsensical anyway. You must to use it in SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation. Karel -- Karel Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread cbbrowne
I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. PostgreSQL isn't licensed under the GPL, so it sounds to me as though you're confused about the

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread mlw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. PostgreSQL isn't licensed under the GPL, so it sounds to me as though

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:20, Dennis Björklund wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Now convert this query so that it only evaluates the date_part thing ONCE: select t.id, date_part('days',now()-t.stamp) from table_name t where date_part('days',now()-t.stamp) 20;

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Björklund
On 3 Dec 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: the standard way of doing it would be SQL99's WITH : Great! I havn't looked too much at sql99 yet so I've missed this. It's exactly what I want. Now I know what I will use in the future (when it's all implemented). -- /Dennis

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] 7.3 - pg_atoi: zero-length string

2002-12-03 Thread Lee Kindness
Was it necessary? No idea, you're welcome to search through the pgsql-hackers archives to determine the reasoning behind the change. I believe the change was made by Bruce Momjian (going by the release notes). I only remember reading the discussion in passing. This is also one of the reasons for

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 12:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread mlw
Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17 To: psqlodbc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of PostgreSQL for Windows

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 12:44 To: Dave Page Cc: psqlodbc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? Dave Page wrote: No problems with pgAdmin, though I do have to wonder

[HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
I'm evaluating tsearch contrib module, and i get a backend crash when i'm about to use a tsearch function. When i issue update things set nidx=txt2txtidx(productname), didx=txt2txtidx(longdescription); The backend dies in a segfault. The system is redhat 7.3 dual athlon w/ 1GB memory. Postgresql

[HACKERS] Planned small change in EXPLAIN behavior

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Lane
I am thinking of tweaking EXPLAIN so that it performs ExecutorStart() and ExecutorEnd() even when you just do plain EXPLAIN (and not EXPLAIN ANALYZE). The immediate reason for this is an internal change (details below) but it would have a couple of user-visible side effects: 1. Permissions

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Naeslund(f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The backend dies in a segfault. Backtrace: #0 0x02d1 in ?? () #1 0x401faf48 in ?? () #2 0x401fb5e6 in ?? () #3 0x080d8f5c in ExecMakeFunctionResult (fcache=0x82d3710, arguments=0x82ce170, econtext=0x82d3580, isNull=0xbfffec8f ,

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Naeslund(f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The backend dies in a segfault. Backtrace: #0 0x02d1 in ?? () #1 0x401faf48 in ?? () #2 0x401fb5e6 in ?? () #3 0x080d8f5c in ExecMakeFunctionResult (fcache=0x82d3710, arguments=0x82ce170,

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Naeslund\(f\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's either that it can't load the lib (shouldn't it complain?) or it's a bad pointer. Be sure to eliminate the possibility that you're loading the wrong version of the .so (ie, loading a 7.2 tsearch.so into 7.3). People get bit by that quite

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
More info, the gdb sharedlibrary loaded some more symbols: (gdb) bt #0 0x02d1 in ?? () #1 0x401faf48 in parsetext (prs=0xbfffea60, buf=0x4277eb3c Can - Live 1971-77, buflen=18) at txtidx.c:366 #2 0x401fb5e6 in txt2txtidx (fcinfo=0xbfffeaf0) at txtidx.c:487 #3 0x080ec45c in

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE schema SCHEMA TO new_schema?

2002-12-03 Thread Fernando Nasser
Rod Taylor wrote: Why just restrict them to moving tables? What if someone wants to move a function or an aggregate to another schema? What if they want to copy it? Copying might be tricky, but I'd be happy to help with moving everything else around. Though I don't think sequences can move

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Does it crashed? # select txt2txtidx('Can - Live 1971-77'); Line txtidx.c:366 : lemm = lemmatize(token, lenlemm, type); lemmatize() is defined in morph.c. Did you use another modules for postgresql? It seems to me that we see a name conflict. Function lemmatize is defined in somewhere also.

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Teodor Sigaev wrote: Does it crashed? # select txt2txtidx('Can - Live 1971-77'); Line txtidx.c:366 : lemm = lemmatize(token, lenlemm, type); lemmatize() is defined in morph.c. Did you use another modules for postgresql? It seems to me that we see a name conflict. Function lemmatize is

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: I'm evaluating tsearch contrib module, and i get a backend crash when i'm about to use a tsearch function. When i issue update things set nidx=txt2txtidx(productname), didx=txt2txtidx(longdescription); The backend dies in a segfault. The

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE schema SCHEMA TO new_schema?

2002-12-03 Thread Rod Taylor
Copy is another story all together. But I'd like a CREATE SCHEMA ... AS COPY schemaname; Wouldn't it be better to use pg_dump/pg_restore for that? Perhaps.. But I'd really like to see some of these types of abilities added to pg_admin. -- Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key:

Re: [HACKERS] How to compile postgres source code in VC++

2002-12-03 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Prasanna Phadke wrote: Can anybody explain me, how to compile postgres source code in VC++. Catch all the cricket action. Download Yahoo! Score tracker Step 1: Get VC++ to run under unix... Just kidding. :-) Right now you can't. pgsql 7.4 should support native

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Some more (useless) info. objdump -x /lib/*.so /usr/lib/*.so /lib/i686/*.so /usr/kerberos/lib/*.so /usr/local/pgsql/bin/* /usr/local/pgsql/lib/*.so | grep lemmatize reviels only one lemmatize symbol. The offending address 0x02d1 is not mapped anywhere in the address space according to

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about experiences for the advocacy Web site. Is this the kind of thing that the Techdocs Guides area

Re: [HACKERS] How to compile postgres source code in VC++

2002-12-03 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:59, scott.marlowe wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Prasanna Phadke wrote: Catch all the cricket action. Download Yahoo! Score tracker Step 1: Get VC++ to run under unix... Virtual Cricket++? I don't exactly see how this applies here. (sorry) -- vbi -- this email is

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, tell us postgresql version. Did you reinstall tsearch after upgrading ? Test-suite (data, sql) demonstrated the problem would be nice. pgsql 7.3, about 700mb text database with product descriptions. I'm working on isolation the behavior, the

[HACKERS] 7.3 tag

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
I don't see any 7.3 tag created when we did the 7.3 release. (I do see the 7.3 branch.) Marc, can a tag be added to match the 7.3 release tree? -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard

Re: [HACKERS] numeric to text (7.3)

2002-12-03 Thread Szima Gábor
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joel Burton wrote: joel@joel=# select round('2.000'::numeric); round --- 2 (1 row) joel@joel=# select round('2.000'::numeric,2); round --- 2.00 (1 row) OK, but: template1=# select round('2.001'::numeric); round --- 2 (1 row)

Re: [HACKERS] numeric to text (7.3)

2002-12-03 Thread Szima Gábor
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Rod Taylor wrote: double precision | pg_catalog | round | double precision numeric | pg_catalog | round | numeric numeric | pg_catalog | round | numeric, integer Looks like round still exists to me. Rod, you don't

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I'll reinstall tsearch and try again soon. Is it necesary to install OpenFTS contrib aswell, or do i get away with only installing tsearch? Now i do both... Can you give us the compressed text? I can try it on my installation and see if there's the same problem? Chris

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about experiences for the advocacy Web site. Is this

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll reinstall tsearch and try again soon. Is it necesary to install OpenFTS contrib aswell, or do i get away with only installing tsearch? Now i do both... Can you give us the compressed text? I can try it on my installation and see if

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
No i can't, it's not my data to give :( OK But it doesn't matter since if you run gmake installcheck in contrib/tsearch it will explode. A funny thing is that i installed pg7.3 on an linux intel celeron system (rh8.0) w/128 mb memory, and THERE it works! Works on FreeBSD/Alpha for me.

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works on FreeBSD/Alpha for me. Maybe you've got some weirdness with bad RAM chips or something? Chris Could be, but it only shows when i do this, and the server has been up for several months. If everything else failes, i'll run memtest86 on

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Kevin Brown
Al Sutton wrote: Point to Point and Broadcast replication With point to point you specify multiple endpoints, with broadcast you can specify a subnet address and the updates are broadcast over that subnet. The difference being that point to point

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 3 Dec 2002 at 15:08, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Where have you been? The lines of distinction between all of the lists have gotten so blurred it hardly makes a difference. So consider this a wake up call. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Is WITH a TODO item? --- Hannu Krosing wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:20, Dennis Bj?rklund wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Now convert this query so that it only evaluates the date_part thing

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, tell us postgresql version. Did you reinstall tsearch after upgrading ? Test-suite (data, sql) demonstrated the problem would be nice. pgsql 7.3, about 700mb text database with product

Re: [HACKERS] Wishlist for 7.4: Plan stability

2002-12-03 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, someone else posted their data warehousing wishlist, I want to post my single item OLP wishlist: Plan stability. That seems to me to translate to I want the system to fail to react to changes in data statistics

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about experiences for the advocacy Web site. Is this the kind of thing that the

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: snip Actually, there are lines, Justin just occasionally appears to 'blur' them until I get a chance to refresh them ... eh Justin?:) [innocent whistle] + Justin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch [NAILED][HELP!]

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Ok, I nailed the bug, but i'm not sure what the correct fix is. Attached tsearch_morph.diff that remedies this problem by avoiding it. Also there's a debug aid patch if someone would like to know how i finally found it out :) There problem in the lemmatize() function is that GETDICT(...) returned

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] 7.3 - pg_atoi: zero-length string

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
The change was made to tighten up the code to catch errors sooner. There isn't much logic to making '' be 0, and no one could make a case for keeping such a mapping. --- Lee Kindness wrote: Was it necessary? No idea,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] 7.3 - pg_atoi: zero-length string

2002-12-03 Thread Henner Zeller
Hi, | What is the solution of other dbs ( oracle, db2 .. ) to: | insert into table (num) value (''); ? | | I assume they would fail too. The Oracle behaviour is: --- oracle create table foonum (x number(5)); oracle insert into foonum values (''); oracle select * from foonum; + X

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: Is WITH a TODO item? It is disguised as Exotic Features === * Add sql3 recursive unions Which was added at my request in dark times, possibly when PostgreSQL was called postgres95 ;) This should be changed to two items * Add

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] 7.3 - pg_atoi: zero-length string

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
If we had received more complaints about the change during beta, we would have added a mention that the change would be in 7.4. As we got few complaints, the change went into 7.3, and it is mentioned in the porting section of the release notes (last item): * An empty string ('') is no

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
TODO updated. Thanks for the clarification. --- Hannu Krosing wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: Is WITH a TODO item? It is disguised as Exotic Features === * Add sql3

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Teodor Sigaev
As you wish... This is a bt taken from a core file this time (the other ones were from attached processes). The whole thing has been recompiled with no additional compiler flags (i.e. removed -march=athlon -O3), but still with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert. Sorry, I have no any idea.

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Teodor Sigaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I have no any idea. Just only full reinstall (with initdb and rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql) postgresql... Can you give me login on you computer for a several hours? The thing is that when i ran the thing breakpointing on parsetext() at the line

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Wow, this sounds great. Where can I get a copy? Why would anyone use anything else? ;-) Well, if you read the announcement in its entirety, you would have noticed: Source for this release is available at:

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Wow, this sounds great. Where can I get a copy? Why would anyone use anything else? ;-) Well, if you read the announcement in its entirety, you would have noticed: Source for this release is available at:

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Manuel Cabido
Hi: We at the Department of Information Technology of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) in Iligan City, Philippines had been using PostgreSQL since 1998 in teaching courses in Databases, SQL, and as a support tool in teaching Software Engineering and Web

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Brute force, of course! Seriously, I have hidden the cygwin environment and simply called it PostgreSQL. I am managing all he environment variables in my installer, and I am using Windows batch files to start bash which executes the PostgreSQL comands. I am using PGAdmin as the

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 19:12 To: Bruce Momjian Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Wow,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 19:12 To: Bruce Momjian Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces On Thu,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: I could have sworn we used to have a bunch of ftp mirrors for downloads. Come to think of it I rewrote/stole a load of Vince's PHP code to allow you to select one from the portal recently. Are we not using them anymore? Yup, as with doing anything for the

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Haven't you been paying attention? There's this new advocacy and suit marketing thing going on that makes all of that irrelevant. It's just there for show now. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll reinstall tsearch and try again soon. Is it necesary to install OpenFTS contrib aswell, or do i get away with only installing tsearch? Now i do both... Can you give us the compressed

Re: [HACKERS] Backend crash with tsearch

2002-12-03 Thread Magnus Naeslund(f)
Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the problem may be in rh 7.3 ? Might be, i'm debugging it now, and i can see that the dicts[] array in morph.c is beeing overwritten with junk. I can trigger it with this query: select txt2txtidx('Can - Live 1971-77'); Is there any good way of

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote: I could have sworn we used to have a bunch of ftp mirrors for downloads. Come to think of it I rewrote/stole a load of Vince's PHP code to allow you to select one from the portal recently. Are we not using

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joe Conway writes: That is one thing I'd like to take a look at. I think the problem is that certain byte-sequence/multibyte-encoding combinations are illegal, so it's not as simple an issue as it might first appear. The bytea type really shouldn't come even close to having to care about

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL update

2002-12-03 Thread Tommi Maekitalo
Hi, I thought MySQL is marked as obsolete since PostgreSQL 7.3 ;-) Tommi Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2002 03:55 schrieb Christopher Kings-Lynne: Not that anyone cares, but I notice in the commit logs for MySQL 4.1, it now has subselects. Chris ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL update

2002-12-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 4 Dec 2002 at 8:13, Tommi Maekitalo wrote: I thought MySQL is marked as obsolete since PostgreSQL 7.3 ;-) If you ask me, one should never under-estimate the compitition..No matter how big upper hand you have.. If you want to compete in the first place, that is.. Bye Shridhar -- Ogden's

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Dave Page wrote: snip I could have sworn we used to have a bunch of ftp mirrors for downloads. Come to think of it I rewrote/stole a load of Vince's PHP code to allow you to select one from the portal recently. Are we not using them anymore? Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug* And how should we have guessed that release management is now done

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Justin Clift writes: Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. Why don't we just shut down the regular web site. Clearly it's not considered adequate anymore. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug* And how should we have guessed that

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. Why don't we just shut down the regular web site. Clearly it's not considered adequate anymore.