Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

2008-10-16 Thread Rainer Bauer
Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Tom Lane wrote: ROTFL ... so to translate: If your program crashes, please release locks before crashing. Obviously that wasn't the intent of the above, but I guess it is the net effect. Either way, I don't think it's a huge problem, it just means that PG may

Re: [HACKERS] Overhauling GUCS

2008-06-04 Thread Rainer Bauer
Pavel Stehule wrote: 2008/6/4 David E. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Exactly. The issue is that application developers, who are not DBAs, have no idea how to tune PostgreSQL, and postgresql.conf is daunting and confusing. So they use a different database that's faster. do you thing, so any

Re: [HACKERS] Execution-time-sensitive timestamp regression tests

2008-05-24 Thread Rainer Bauer
Magnus Hagander wrote: For the record, what we were talking about was snapshotting the time at backend start and then use QueryPerformanceCounter() to see what happened and do some calculation. Although this might not be such a big issue for the regression tests: Be aware that the reliability of

Re: [HACKERS] Windows shared_buffers limitations

2008-03-27 Thread Rainer Bauer
Greg Smith wrote: Was working on some documentation today and I realized that I've taken for granted the lore about not using large values for shared_buffers in Windows without ever understanding why. Can someone explain what the underlying mechanism that causes that limitation is? From

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with ControlFileData structure being ABI dependent

2007-12-06 Thread Rainer Bauer
Gregory Stark wrote: This is because of (at least) two changes in the ABI between the runtimes used by mingw and VC++. 1) Enums are apparently 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on mingw They are 4 bytes here on my 32 bit WinXP machine with VS2005SP1. 2) time_t is 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with ControlFileData structure being ABI dependent

2007-12-06 Thread Rainer Bauer
Gregory Stark wrote: The looming problem is that you won't be able to use any libraries or 3rd party tools which use time_t in their interface unless you build with the same size time_t as they do. I don't know how're expected to find out that a .so you're handed has a different size time_t. But

Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC)

2007-09-07 Thread Rainer Bauer
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: [2]: Terms and Definitions of Database Replication http://www.postgres-r.org/documentation/terms Markus, the links in the left side menu are broken on the about and documentation page. They point to http://www.postgres-r.org/overview instead of