Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: custom compression methods

2015-12-13 Thread Chapman Flack
On 12/14/15 01:50, Craig Ringer wrote: > pg_upgrade means you can't just redefine the current toast bits so the > compressed bit means "data is compressed, check first byte of varlena data > for algorithm" because existing data won't have that, the first byte will > be the start of the compressed

[HACKERS] a word-choice question

2015-12-05 Thread Chapman Flack
In PL/Java's function annotations, 'type' has been used for the volatility category: @Function(type=IMMUTABLE) public static String hello() { return "Hello, world!"; } It seems a bit infelicitous because you would probably sooner guess that 'type' was telling you something about the function's

Re: [HACKERS] dynloader.h missing in prebuilt package for Windows?

2015-12-04 Thread Chapman Flack
On 12/04/15 12:56, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > OK, good logical reason to install dynloader.h on Windows. Ah! Thanks. I was starting to wonder whether I had said something wrong and been sent to the bit bucket within my first two -hackers posts. :) > What do we need to do to close this item? Wha

Re: [HACKERS] problem with msvc linker - cannot build orafce

2015-11-24 Thread Chapman Flack
On 11/24/2015 05:33 AM, Kisung Kim wrote: > 2015-11-24 8:12 GMT+09:00 Chapman Flack : >> On 11/23/15 15:14, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Lack of PGDLLIMPORT on the extern declaration, no doubt. >> > Actually, we encountered the situation before couple of months. > A client w

Re: [HACKERS] problem with msvc linker - cannot build orafce

2015-11-23 Thread Chapman Flack
On 11/23/15 15:14, Tom Lane wrote: > Pavel Stehule writes: >> I am trying to build Orafce and I have problem due access to exported >> variable session_timezone. >> Any idea what can be broken? > > Lack of PGDLLIMPORT on the extern declaration, no doubt. > > The fact that we've not heard this be

Re: [HACKERS] dynloader.h missing in prebuilt package for Windows?

2015-11-14 Thread Chapman Flack
On 11/14/15 18:18, Tom Lane wrote: > While it may indeed be a packaging bug that that file isn't installed, > the reason why nobody noticed before is that there doesn't seem to be > any good reason for anything except dfmgr.c to include it. What's the > context? One of the most long-standing sour

[HACKERS] dynloader.h missing in prebuilt package for Windows?

2015-11-14 Thread Chapman Flack
e the same code work on Windows as on other platforms when possible. Regards, Chapman Flack -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

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