Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-05-13 Thread Justin Clift
On 13 May 2016, at 21:42, Josh berkus wrote: > On 05/13/2016 01:04 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> On 05/13/2016 12:03 PM, Josh berkus wrote: >>> On 05/13/2016 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-12 Thread Justin Clift
On 12 Apr 2016, at 17:23, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Justin Clift <jus...@postgresql.org> wrote: >> Moving over a conversation from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list. In it >> Simon (CC'd) raised the issue of potential

Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-12 Thread Justin Clift
On 12 Apr 2016, at 14:12, Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhurav...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > Justin Clift wrote: >> Simon included a short starter list of potentials which might be in >> that category: >> >> * SQL compliant identifiers >> * Remove RULEs >> * Ch

[HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-11 Thread Justin Clift
lly we can get it all done without giving users a reason to consider switching. ;) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was l

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...

2004-11-29 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Should I add a TODO to warn if FSM values are too small? Is that doable? It sounds like it should be, and it would be a valuable pointer to people, so yep. Any idea who'd be interested in claiming it? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Improvements to PostgreSQL

2004-07-26 Thread Justin Clift
to look at, and probably equivalent to something like Oracle's Data Guard. They use the different approach, but the end result is having a master and standby databases. Hope this is helpful. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Thanks, Suresh snip ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Improvements to PostgreSQL

2004-07-26 Thread Justin Clift
. i.e. Concord's eHealth, and probably Tivoli, OpenView, etc Hope that's useful. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Cheers, Patrick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs

[HACKERS] pg_dump - option for just dumping sequences?

2004-07-15 Thread Justin Clift
of? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump - option for just dumping sequences?

2004-07-15 Thread Justin Clift
AUTHORIZATION? Arrrgh, yep. Thanks Chris, I must be in space cadet mode today. :( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Problems logging into CVS server

2004-07-13 Thread Justin Clift
have to be missing something in the config *sigh* Um, that sounds worrying. Was the activity of the hacker anything that would affect PG code, or access to anything sensitive (account passwords, etc)? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Justin Clift
to make the right calls where needed. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] Status report

2004-07-11 Thread Justin Clift
and others out to end users. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[HACKERS] Loadable Oracle Personality: WAS LinuxTag wrapup thread

2004-07-06 Thread Justin Clift
8i rules, load a set of Oracle 9i rules, load a set of DB2 x, rules, etc. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] LinuxTag wrapup

2004-07-05 Thread Justin Clift
a couple of months since I was writing SQL in Oracle. Previous contract. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Regards, Mario Weilguni ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [HACKERS] LinuxTag wrapup

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Clift
, Justin Clift There's certainly no point supporting any weird ddl command, so there's still porting work to be done when migrating. Regards, Andreas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Clift
for people who don't know the internals of the PG catalogs to be able to query the information schema, as in the information schema things are generally explicitly named. Much easier for non-experts, which most people don't want to have to invest the time in becoming. Regards and best wishes, Justin

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Clift
with this? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Clift
it and so on. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure how worthwhile others will find this small patch (to CVS HEAD), but we found it useful. It adds the column comments to the information_schema.columns view. This question has been touched on before, but I guess it's time to face

[HACKERS] Bug with view definitions?

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
^ mydb=# *** I haven't come across this before, and am having the same problem with pgAdmin3 as well, as it supplies the exact same definition of the view. I think I'm doing everything right here, could this be a bug with PG? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] Bug with view definitions?

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
wasn't sure if it was PG or me. :) Um, as I'm not up to the task of fixing it, is this something you or someone else would be interested in? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
but you know what I mean. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] Bug with view definitions?

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
the pg_dump version of the query, or maybe see if the one in backend/catalog/information_schema.sql can be run directly. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-01 Thread Justin Clift
very neat. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing

[HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-06-30 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Not sure how worthwhile others will find this small patch (to CVS HEAD), but we found it useful. It adds the column comments to the information_schema.columns view. Hope it's useful. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift *** information_schema.sql.orig 2004-07-01 11:59:26.0

[HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: Interesting thought....]

2003-07-21 Thread Justin Clift
someone wants to pick up. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: Re: Interesting thought Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:13:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would fix all our inheritance

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-20 Thread Justin Clift
at PostgreSQL 7.4 release instead of 8.0. It kind of doesn't sound right, having a protocol change in the 7 series, when we have an 8 series coming up soon after. Oh well, so it's not perfect... ;-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift snip ---(end of broadcast

[HACKERS] [Fwd: [GENERAL] [CYGWIN] Problems compiling PostgreSQL 7.3.3-1 underWin98]

2003-06-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, Can anyone assist Diogo here? He's not some random user, he's our official Portuguese translator and helps us out a lot. Sounds like he really needs a hand. *please* Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: [GENERAL] [CYGWIN] Problems

Re: [HACKERS] Translation

2003-06-19 Thread Justin Clift
a completely new community to PostgreSQL, if you wouldn't mind doing that. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift P.M wrote: Hi, Ok so if i can't help you in the code, maybe i can help you translating installation comments into several languages ? I know, french, slovak, spanish

Re: [HACKERS] Compiling Win32

2003-06-14 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Jan, Do you have an ETA for this? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Bruce Momjian wrote: I have not tested the Win32 compile in a few weeks, so it is possible it is broken at this point. It will not run because we need exec() handling that Jan is working on, and signal stuff

Re: [HACKERS] Compiling Win32

2003-06-14 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Hi Jan, Do you have an ETA for this? I was going to report the Win32 status this week. As you know, I had to leave Win32 to catch up on email. The two big items left are exec() handlling and signals. If I can get those in by July 1, I can continue

Re: [HACKERS] Compiling Win32

2003-06-14 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Hi Jan, Do you have an ETA for this? I was going to report the Win32 status this week. As you know, I had to leave Win32 to catch up on email. The two big items left are exec() handlling and signals. If I

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL under Windows

2003-06-13 Thread Justin Clift
environments should be ok. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Robert Treat wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:03, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 22:34:04 -0700, P.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking that PostgreSQL could help me to reduce the cost of a such software

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal to Re-Order Postgresql.Conf, part II

2003-06-09 Thread Justin Clift
. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through

Re: [HACKERS] Wrong version of jdbc in 7.3.3 rpms

2003-06-06 Thread Justin Clift
/documents/ReleaseProcess Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift --Barry Original Message Subject: Re: [JDBC] Official JDBC driver release ? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:14:40 +0200 From: Thomas Kellerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3.2 make failed on AIX4.3 using native c compiler

2003-04-01 Thread Justin Clift
Hi John, Marco Pratesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a step-by-step guide for compiling PostgreSQL on AIX a while ago: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/CompilingForAIX Hope that helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift John Liu wrote: I config and make the 7.3.2 on the one works

Re: [HACKERS] Numbering of the next release: 8.0 vs 7.4

2003-03-12 Thread Justin Clift
. Sounds great. I just don't want it to take _ages_ to accomplish. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition

Re: [HACKERS] Numbering of the next release: 8.0 vs 7.4

2003-03-12 Thread Justin Clift
freeze to have this discussion; we'll know better by then exactly what we're talking about. Yep, that sounds like the best idea. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take

[HACKERS] Numbering of the next release: 8.0 vs 7.4

2003-03-11 Thread Justin Clift
are great big features that will take us a long way to the goal of Enterprise suitability. They're worth making some specific marketing/branding efforts about and making a big fuss, that why I'd like to see them in an 8.0 release. Sound feasible? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] Numbering of the next release: 8.0 vs 7.4

2003-03-11 Thread Justin Clift
Paul Ramsey wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Win32 and PITR are great big features that will take us a long way to the goal of Enterprise suitability. They're worth making some specific marketing/branding efforts about and making a big fuss, that why I'd like to see them in an 8.0 release. From

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] division by zero

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
/0 and SELECT 0/0 crash the process. I have reported this to Tatsuo. Reported the issue to the Apple guys earlier on today, but haven't heard anything back from them yet. Guess we'll have to wait a few days to find out where things are at in regards to MacOS X. Regards and best wishes, Justin

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
that bit of work off Bruce's plate? It's just a thought anyway... :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift cheers andrew -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
and news sources). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
there would be at least a few solid volunteers willing to contribute to the Win32/PITR ports if we asked for people to step forwards. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
the database explicitly have info about what each column can do. That's my understanding of it anyway. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The scenario that's appealing to me the most is this for the next release: PostgreSQL 8.0 + Includes PITR and the Win32 port If the folks doing those things can get done in time, great. I'm even willing to push out the release schedule (now

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-09 Thread Justin Clift
Dave Page wrote: It's rumoured that Justin Clift once said: There's more to making PostgreSQL work on Windows than just the pure packaging issues. We still have to figure out how we're going to handle stuff like needed grep, sed, etc just for PostgreSQL to run (they're required by initdb). I

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] division by zero

2003-03-09 Thread Justin Clift
potentially interesting: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html (search in this page for FE_ENABLE_DIVBYZERO) Have asked the member of the Apple MacOS X Server team what he recommends the best way to proceed is. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Eric B.Ridge wrote: On Saturday

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-08 Thread Justin Clift
Merlin Moncure wrote: Justin Clift wrote: snip The timestamp of the file on the ftp server is 1/28/03. The timestamp of file I previously dl'd (which I collected from whatever link you posted on this list) is 2/3/03. However I downloaded the older version and they are the same (same number

[HACKERS] OT: The first GCC Developers Summit

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, Just came across the website for the first GCC Developers Summit, to be held May 25-27, 2003. http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/ Might be of interest to some people here. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
of Concept Windows series, there's only been that first build. It's going to take some time for the next one as well, as the Win2K PC it was developed on had a problem and had to wipe the hard drive. (i.e. all of the packaging scripts, data, etc). :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Clift
version. Getting the next version out the door is taking a bit more time than anticipated though. :( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group

Re: [HACKERS] ETA for PostgreSQL 7.3.3?

2003-03-06 Thread Justin Clift
bugs and stuff. I really should fix this rowtype problem for 7.3.3 - here's hoping I find some time... Agreed. I wish time could be purchased in bottles. Reckon we could all get together and put in wholesale orders! :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris -- My grandfather once

[HACKERS] Postgresql.org site outage

2003-03-06 Thread Justin Clift
everyone posted as things progress. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-06 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: Yep, that's the first Proof of Concept build, and it *prominently* has a message at the start of the installation that says to email me with any problems about it. Maybe a so-called Proof of Concept build could be put into an area on the FTP server

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-06 Thread Justin Clift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How about putting a README file in that directory as well, giving out the same warnings and contact information that appears upon install? Thanks Greg, excellent suggestion. Just added it to my personal ToDo list. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

2003-03-05 Thread Justin Clift
open to suggestions for making a more visible way for people to know how to contact us, if needed. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: There are Windows binaries on the PostgreSQL FTP server mirrors, for example, http://ftp.de.postgresql.org

[HACKERS] ETA for PostgreSQL 7.3.3?

2003-03-05 Thread Justin Clift
. Any thoughts/suggestions? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

Re: [HACKERS] Yet another open-source benchmark

2003-03-02 Thread Justin Clift
it to PostgreSQL, *if* they can get people to assist them. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister

Re: [HACKERS] ILIKE

2003-02-24 Thread Justin Clift
be to transparently alias it to something else, say a specific type of regex query or something? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Open Source Development Lab resources

2003-02-20 Thread Justin Clift
the needed bits done. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift *** Original Message Subject: Re: OSDLabs and PostgreSQL Date: 19 Feb 2003 14:18:30 -0800 From: Timothy D. Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Open Source Development Lab, Inc. To: Justin Clift [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] request for sql3 compliance for the update command

2003-02-19 Thread Justin Clift
and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end

Re: FW: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re:

2003-02-18 Thread Justin Clift
. And an obscure reference to the AIX shmget(2) manpage says that there is a non-tunable maximum shared-memory segment size of 256MB: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/780/mcx/workstation.html#aix Hope some of this is useful. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me

Re: [HACKERS] Real-world usage example

2003-02-18 Thread Justin Clift
Ioanni (CC'd, she's becoming our Case Study Expert) to join that mailing list and ask there. Thanks heaps Bruce. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift All the best, Bruce BTW, I wrote the PostgreSQL driver for VisualWorks Smalltalk which is how all StORE + PostgreSQL users access

Re: [HACKERS] Brain dump: btree collapsing

2003-02-12 Thread Justin Clift
the fast pointer for themselves, in a separate atomic action, when they split a one-page level or delete the next-to-last page of a level.) This really sounds like good initial thoughts too. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-11 Thread Justin Clift
, PostgreSQL either runs decently, or they are _aware_ that they're limiting it. That should cut down on the false benchmarks (hopefully). :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-11 Thread Justin Clift
, and it did all the work. Named profiles being one capability, and other tuning measurements (i.e. cpu costings, disk performance profiles, etc) being the others. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-11 Thread Justin Clift
with (choose your OS) + Adaptec 29160 + 512MB RAM + 2 x 9GB Seagate Cheetah 10k rpm drives hanging around. No stress to set that up and let it run any long terms tests you'd like plus send back results. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

2003-02-05 Thread Justin Clift
James Hubbard wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Hmmm... does anyone remember the name of that NFS testing tool the FreeBSD guys were using? Think it came from Apple. They used it to find and isolate bugs in the FreeBSD code a while ago. Sounds like it might be useful here. :-) You can find

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

2003-02-05 Thread Justin Clift
it came from Apple. They used it to find and isolate bugs in the FreeBSD code a while ago. Sounds like it might be useful here. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Justin Clift wrote: + Aside from all this, it might be nice to have a few Win32 specific gui pieces in place at the time that PostgreSQL 7.4 Win32 is released. Am sure they'll develop over time, but was thinking we should at least make a good impression with the first

Re: [HACKERS] Last call for 7.3.2

2003-02-02 Thread Justin Clift
him to submit them _now_ for review if possible. If not, then heck, we tried. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-02-01 Thread Justin Clift
wishes, Justin Clift cjs -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-31 Thread Justin Clift
PostgreSQL is run under the Cygwin emulation. That seems pretty straightforward. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Regards, Jeff Davis -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-31 Thread Justin Clift
and executes as a True native windows application (skipping any unix compatibility calls), and it's just some of the support utils that use cygwin, or if they're trying to say that PostgreSQL has to operate entirely in the cygwin environment, whereas they don't? Regards and best wishes, Justin

Re: [HACKERS] Odd website behavior...

2003-01-31 Thread Justin Clift
it. Are you guys fine with ripping out the Google one and putting the new one in? There is no chance I'm going to have time to do much in the way of assisting at the moment. :( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Regards, Dave. -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Justin Clift
like a good idea, maybe adding the GUC variables random_query_delay (minutes), crash_how_often (seconds), and reboot_plus_corrupt_please (true/false)? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take

[HACKERS] A call for PostreSQL Case Study participants

2003-01-30 Thread Justin Clift
enough PostgreSQL Case Studies to categorise them by industry segment (i.e. finance, agricultural, telecommunications) and also by the size of the enterprises themselves (i.e. small business, medium enterprise, etc). Hoping you can help us out. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-29 Thread Justin Clift
working for them. ;-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

2003-01-29 Thread Justin Clift
. Since the Advocacy and Marketing site isn't very large, it means the case studies added there generally do get looked at. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Chris Kings-Lynne -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-29 Thread Justin Clift
for it at: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/InstallingOnWindows ;-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Katie -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-29 Thread Justin Clift
it, although it's apparently the software that Great Bridge used for all of their testing. Hope this helps. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift James Hubbard -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try

[HACKERS] Has everyone else here seen the new Database Open Test Suite byIBM?

2003-01-28 Thread Justin Clift
to be aware of the need for that. Thought it worth pointing out if case people here haven't yet come across it. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try

Re: [HACKERS] [CYGWIN] Have a PG 7.3.1 Windows (cygwin) easy installer... now

2003-01-27 Thread Justin Clift
, Justin Clift Regards, Dave. -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

2003-01-27 Thread Justin Clift
Ned Lilly wrote: Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database. Hi Ned, Just as information filler, which version of PostgreSQL, and which operating system? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid WARNING: Error occurred

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed there), You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever compiler can also be used

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
to be much easier for people to get a hold of things like Dev-C++ into the future as well. Hope this provides a useful set of thoughts. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He

Re: [HACKERS] [CYGWIN] Have a PG 7.3.1 Windows (cygwin) easy installer... now

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
in it to the websites. Will chuck it up on the techdocs site somewhere in a few minutes as a temporary home until we get the GBorg project up and running. Anyone have a good idea for the name of the project? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Regards, Dave. -- My grandfather once told

[HACKERS] Have a PG 7.3.1 Windows (cygwin) easy installer... now what to dowith it?

2003-01-25 Thread Justin Clift
of some name, upload it, and everyone who is interested can take it from there. Does that sound like the best approach, and does anyone have good suggestions for a project name? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who

Re: [HACKERS] [CYGWIN] Have a PG 7.3.1 Windows (cygwin) easy installer... now

2003-01-25 Thread Justin Clift
a project on GBorg or something for the complete Windows installer as a place to work out of? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group

Re: [HACKERS] Release Scheduales: 7.2.4 7.3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Justin Clift
? Also what tags will be created/used in CVS? REL7_2_4 REL7_3_2 I'll make sure I don't forget to tag them this time :) Have we determined that Tom's patch (the one that Josh wrote up) is indeed necessary? ;-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me

[HACKERS] C++ coding assistance request for a visualisation tool

2003-01-22 Thread Justin Clift
not a C++ coder, and as short of time as anyone, so I was wondering if there is anyone here who'd be interested in helping out here. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me

Re: [HACKERS] C++ coding assistance request for a visualisation tool

2003-01-22 Thread Justin Clift
time to complex medical CT scans. Cool. Just found it... IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer: http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/ Going to check it out now. The screenshot looks *very* nice. ;-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Greg On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:19, Justin Clift wrote

Re: [HACKERS] C++ coding assistance request for a visualisation tool

2003-01-22 Thread Justin Clift
Justin Clift wrote: Greg Copeland wrote: Have you tried IBM's OSS visualization package yet? Sorry, I don't seem to recall the name of the tool off the top of my head (Data Explorer??) but it uses OpenGL (IIRC) and is said to be able to visualize just about anything. Anything is said

Re: [HACKERS] Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
world. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to get involved in writing the the driver

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:20:45PM +1030, Justin Clift wrote: Have been discussing what it would take to write an SDBC driver for connecting StarOffice/OpenOffice to PostgreSQL with Frank Schönheit, a senior member of the Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice DBA team

[HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
to people's attention, as we may find some value in it. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira

Re: [HACKERS] Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
to a superceeded major version. Wrapping it up and putting it out really isn't a big deal. Marc? Hi Marc, Would you be ok with us releasing a 7.2.4? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Michael -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end

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