Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE TODO items

2004-05-06 Thread Robert Treat
can still do it in > one line should you want to? What about rules/views/functions and who knows what else (domains?) might be dependant on the current type definition? It seems like a pretty big can of worms really. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE TODO items

2004-05-05 Thread Robert Treat
... upon further thought, if the above implementation stands up, istm that its machinations could also be used to implement the reordering functionality... ie. rewrite the table and fix up any dependencies as needed. way to back track on myself eh? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-05-04 Thread Robert Treat
tware up to higher standards. I was reading some blogs the other day that applied this to PHP's adoption rate over Java and .net, but your comment made me think this really applies to my$ql and postgresql as well. check out http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1121502&

Re: [HACKERS] Do we prefer software that works or software that looks good?

2004-04-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 24 April 2004 09:21, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >Oh well... let's see if we can find a way to support both... > > You are welcome to join the other leg of this thread, then. That one is > not CCed to advocacy, as it is 100% technical. > I&

Re: [HACKERS] Do we prefer software that works or software that looks good?

2004-04-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 24 April 2004 08:09, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > Anyone who has studied software useability will > >know that uppercase should, in general, be avoided as it hurts > > readability. > > You convinced me! let's change the SQL standar

Re: [HACKERS] Do we prefer software that works or software that looks good?

2004-04-24 Thread Robert Treat
is being petty and/or frivolous? Anyone who has studied software useability will know that uppercase should, in general, be avoided as it hurts readability. It isn't about "looking pretty", it's about being more usable. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apa

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > of course you could just create duplicates of all > >the functions in both upper and lower case, that way whichever way you > >fold it matches :-) > > > > That strikes me as an instant recip

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Treat
amed? Shouldn't all functions be created without any quoting so they fold to whichever way the settings are set? Hmm... I see your angle Andrew.. they are going to be created one way or the other so you'd be hard pressed to do it at any time other than initdb time... of course yo

Re: [HACKERS] contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:02, Rod Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 23:05, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thursday 22 April 2004 13:55, Barry Lind wrote: > > > I think the solution lies in improving www.postgresql.org. At the end > > > of the day it doesn't matt

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Treat
folder lower will now simply be folder upper. the only people who will have a problem are those who quote on one end but not the other, which is bad practice anyways... so i would say if your serious about it, make the patch as GUC "case_folding" for upper or lower and get a ta

Re: [HACKERS] pg_encoding not needed anymore

2004-04-22 Thread Robert Treat
we havent done this is a while hows about initpgdata? dovetails nicely with PGDATA... at least until that gets deprecated ;-) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

2004-04-22 Thread Robert Treat
ev.mysql.com/downloads/ for one implementation), it's just that it's a radical departure from "the way things have always been done" and I'm not confident that there would be enough support to make the changes. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linu

Re: [HACKERS] pgmex, a MATLAB interface for PostgreSQL

2004-04-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:52, Tony Reina wrote: > Last link was wrong. > > Here's the correct one. > http://www.dertech.com/pgmex/pgmex.html > Updated website code in CVS, should appear after the next update/build cycle. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linu

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Analysis/Overview of PostgreSQL and SQL2003

2004-04-14 Thread Robert Treat
is also the possibility of publishing a version in > other more marketing oriented venues. > Any plans to update the docs as well? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: th

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL configuration

2004-04-13 Thread Robert Treat
#x27; environment variables. > I think this is another vote for "store the PGDATA dir value inside a running postgresql" so you can query the running database to find out what datafiles it is using. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL configuration

2004-04-12 Thread Robert Treat
n files you are using inside the db would certainly be a bonus... and this would have also solved the original complaint of not knowing where the $PGDATA path was... connect to the database and query for it... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL configuration

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Treat
RC part of the problem with the initial patch/proposal is that it had implementation issues following a couple of OS guidelines/specs, and there was an issue with the pid. One potential bonus I would see to this type of functionality is that on some servers I have multiple postgresql.confs on a

Re: [HACKERS] pg_hba.conf view from the database?

2004-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
again recently) but that doesn't answer the question of "why isn't the pg_hba.conf viewable from inside the database" ? Seems a valid question since we show postgresql.conf info database side. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---

Re: [HACKERS] Solaris initdb fails: shmmax tweak alternative?

2004-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
Anyone see a benefit of adding command line flags to initdb to force lower shared memory use without require a recompile? Robert Treat On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 08:53, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Greg Sabino Mullane said: > > > > > > Having to recompile initdb.c is probably not

Re: [HACKERS] pg_advisor schema proof of concept

2004-03-25 Thread Robert Treat
NULL" > from a statistical point of view, but it is perfectly legitimate to > have nullable attributes mostly anywhere, so the corresponding advices > is just an "info". > Are you planning on making some type of differentiation on advise that is performance based r

Re: [HACKERS] Log rotation

2004-03-25 Thread Robert Treat
sues :-) > > con: feature is desired > > > > The issues seem to have been thrashed out ad nauseam. Surely we can put > > *something* in contrib for this? After all, nobody has to use it if they > > don't want to. > > Shouldn't all of these just be on

Re: [HACKERS] bug in 7.4 SET WITHOUT OIDs

2004-03-23 Thread Robert Treat
ependent on the column, however we automagically drop indexes on columns when dropping columns without even a notice. Point being that in the original case, I think the index on the oid column should be dropped automagically, to follow similar behavior with normal columns. Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] postgres on windows page update

2004-03-23 Thread Robert Treat
Those pages are wiki based, so anyone can add content to them as they see fit. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:54, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering who's doing the "PostgreSQL on Windows" page > (http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Windo

Re: [HACKERS] Some one deleted pg_database entry how to fix it?

2004-03-16 Thread Robert Treat
Try doing a vacuum full on template1 and restart the database. I've had to do this before after renaming a database via the system catalogs. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 12:05, Dave Cramer wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks, first of all it wasn't my mess, but someone elses.

Re: [HACKERS] Log rotation

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Treat
ssage. But I don't believe we have any data that says it's a problem > even if you avoid that pitfall. > Yep. The other basic thing I recomend is putting syslog/log output on a different disk than where your data goes. Maybe not proactical for everyone, but not a big deal for &qu

Re: [HACKERS] Log rotation

2004-03-13 Thread Robert Treat
recreate a logging facility as feature complete as syslog when we have syslog available. ranks right up there with recreate cron, another feature many people think an enterprise database "has to have". Personally I think in place upgrades are far, far more important than either of thos

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] The Name Game: postgresql.net vs.

2004-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
pgfoundry.org > .pgfoundry.postgresql.org > point to the same place? > I hate to be the fly in this ointment, but wouldn't .projects.postgresql.org be better? especially if you could then point people to projects.postgresql.org as the main place to start loo

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Functional Design v2 for 7.5

2004-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
d like to do all of that after it actually > works! > Just getting caught up on this thread and had similar thoughts as to Richards. If there are no objections, I'd like to put the first part of this email up on techdocs as an explination of our current crash recovery system. Robe

Re: [HACKERS] The Name Game: postgresql.net vs. pgfoundry.org

2004-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
le would prefer us *not* to use a name that > includes gforge, because of the risk of confusion. That's how we came up > with "pgfoundry" in the first place. > maybe pgsqlfoundry is a better compromise? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] The Name Game: postgresql.net vs.

2004-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
or much of anything ... that will just > help drive traffic to that squatter at postgres.net. > > This also brings up the thought that if we do want to use pgfoundry.org, > we'd better register pgfoundry.net and pgfoundry.com before someone > else does. > yug... if we go with postgres

Re: [HACKERS] Default Stats Revisited

2004-03-11 Thread Robert Treat
o is true for example) ? Final thought... I'm a DBA and I think the straight number is simpler, though could be convinced to go with whichever is higher... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] raising the default default_statistics_target

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Treat
o the patch queue, but Tom raised some doubts about it and it was subsequently removed. Robert Treat On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:41, Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > Are you sure you're not thinking of stats for functional indexes? > > Positive.I even remember seeing

Re: [HACKERS] Regression tests on Nintendo Game Cube

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Treat
Very Cool! Can we add this to the list of supported platforms? Also what do folks think of submitting this as a news blurb to slashdot? This seems like some "good feelings" type news that is right up thier alley. Robert Treat On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:46, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrot

Re: [HACKERS] Check Constraints and pg_dump

2004-03-02 Thread Robert Treat
ime check at row insertion, > > the right way to express that behavior is with an ON INSERT trigger. > > That's not an adequate check; it would allow you later to delete the > plan without deleting the contract. > Wouldn't a FK on both tables be the ap

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Schema comparisons

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Treat
else you could toss it up on gborg. Incidentally I think there is already a tool that does this on sourceforge, but it uses tcl and requires a running webserver, so it's a little overbearing for most peoples needs imho. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} Postgre

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Collaboration Tool Proposal

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Treat
ill in favor of this move if the larger community does not want to move the main project to a gforge based system? or vice versa? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7:

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Collaboration Tool Proposal

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Treat
uld require you to use a second database system would it? Besides which we can always use red hats bugzilla port if need be. I know people have a lot of issues with it, but if it works for a project of red hats size, i think it would work for us... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linu

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] [SQL] Materialized View Summary

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 03:19, Jonathan M. Gardner wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm not sure if my original reply made it through. Ignore the last one if > it did. But I liked the last one :-) > > On Tuesday 24 February 2004 1:48 pm,

Re: [HACKERS] bgwriter never dies

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Treat
ensure that > any transactions committed during that period still make it to durable > storage. > Yes, roll back any existing/uncommited transactions and shutdown those connections, but make sure that committed transactions are stored on disk before exiting completly. Robert Treat --

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Materialized View Summary

2004-02-24 Thread Robert Treat
to > from techdocs. Done. :-) > > If you could identify candidate keys on a view, you could conceivably automate > the process even more. That's got to be possible in some cases, but I'm not > sure how difficult it is to do in all cases. > it seems somewhere be

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] NO WAIT ...

2004-02-20 Thread Robert Treat
tch to add NO WAIT to the LOCK > command, so we will see if we can get that into CVS. > Is it premature to add "allow vacuum command to use no wait semantics on locks" to the TODO list? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] [Resend: Domains and function]

2004-02-20 Thread Robert Treat
nction's return type ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "one": can't parse "one" so ISTM that your example is certainly a deficiency if not a bug. hmm..examples above on 7.3, which didnt support check constraints, so this is potentially different on 7.4. Robert Treat On Thursday 0

Re: [HACKERS] Renaming tables to other schemas

2004-02-20 Thread Robert Treat
gt; this point). > > Anyway, this should be supported by all RENAME commands, not just ALTER > TABLE. Rod, can you lay out some psdueo code / logic involved in the process? I'm guessing you lock the entry in pg_class, you up dependent objects, lock them, update them all... is th

Re: [HACKERS] No Timeout in SELECT..FOR UPDATE

2004-02-16 Thread Robert Treat
ifferentiate the two different cases. what is needed i think is a lock_timeout, which times out soley for cases where the lock can not be aquired in a speedy manner. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Security documentation

2004-02-15 Thread Robert Treat
get specific about it. We have the infrastructure on techdocs to publish this, and once started we could use it to determine what should or should not be added to the standard docs. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] MS SQL features for new version

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:40, Rod Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:37, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 13:20, Rod Taylor wrote: > > > > >http://www.microsoft.com/sql/yukon/productinfo/top30features.asp > > > > > > > Notice the S

Re: [HACKERS] MS SQL features for new version

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Treat
fly. That is a pretty slick trick. > I was trying to decide how much better this was than BEGIN; DROP INDEX foo ON bar; CREATE INDEX foo ON bar; COMMIT; Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Preventing duplicate vacuums?

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 02:07, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't know if I would agree for sure, but i the second vacuum could see > > that it is being blocked by the current vacuum, exiting out would be a > > bonus, since in most

Re: [HACKERS] Preventing duplicate vacuums?

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Treat
e won't agree with me. > Don't know if I would agree for sure, but i the second vacuum could see that it is being blocked by the current vacuum, exiting out would be a bonus, since in most scenarios you don't need to run that second vacuum so it just ends up wasting resources (

Re: [HACKERS] Recursive queries?

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Treat
o chance of getting in as it is GPL'd code... so step one would be convincing him to relicense it. As a side note, I thought Joe Conway also had an implementation of this... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end o

Re: [HACKERS] LWLock/ShmemIndex startup question

2004-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
o gcc, which seems to fit into your scenario above. Incedentally they do distribute a compiled PostgreSQL with their packages, though it's based on 7.2 according to the author. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Strange COPY from problem (resent)

2004-01-19 Thread Robert Treat
It's not ideal, but can you dump those tables using INSERT commands and load them into your database? Robert Treat On Wednesday 14 January 2004 13:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I resend this mail because I didn't have any answer; I still did'nt find > any

Re: [HACKERS] set search_path and pg_dumpall

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Treat
I can't be the only one forsee frustration from users who typo the set search_path statement and then can't figure out why their tables aren't showing up... can we emit a warning that not all of the schemas in the search path were found? Robert Treat On Fri, 2004-01-16 a

Re: [HACKERS] OLE DB driver

2004-01-12 Thread Robert Treat
Chris, do you have any additional info (email?) on how to contact the original project admin? Is it possible for you to manually set up Shachar as admin on the project? Robert Treat On Monday 12 January 2004 04:30, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >Can you fill us i

Re: [HACKERS] Permissions and PGSQL

2004-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
on table). > > Well, I have about half a patch for column privileges lying around, but > I've never had enough motivation to do the other, more complicated > half... > Is there a TODO and TODO.detail warrented here? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middlew

Re: [HACKERS] OLE DB driver

2004-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
e failed and the code is no longer being maintained, we can contact the gborg maintainer about making you the admin for the project. I don't think there is an official policy on this, but this seems like a reasonable request as long as your willing to either update the old code or leave it as

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
aking) for me to remember because I'm > used to psql's way of doing things, since I mostly use it. > I'd second this point; I've certainly stumbled over the "show" syntax when trying to get anything other than tables in mysql. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighte

Re: [HACKERS] Project status pages

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
ss for updating these pages? Perhaps they should be moved into the wiki framework up on techdocs? Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:37, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have put up a list of projects being worked on and their TODO lists in > hope that people will find it easier to work on

Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: Index pg_toast_8443892_index is not a btree

2003-12-10 Thread Robert Treat
: You might be able to solve this problem by running the REINDEX command. Of course if you do that you'll destroy all evidence of what caused the problem, possibly forcing this problem on other users in the future because you were unwilling to help us to improve the software. But we underst

Re: [HACKERS] pljava revisited

2003-12-10 Thread Robert Treat
commend anyone interested in developing pl's, whether enhancing old ones or creating new ones, to check out the plR code on gborg, it was written recently and is pretty advanced. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL port to pure Java?

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:32, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > PL/Java would be way cool, though, and have > very significant appeal, and is very much worth doing, I believe. (Not > that I have the time to do it.) > http://pljava.sourceforge.net/ Someone did it but it didn't catch fir

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3.5 bundled ...

2003-12-03 Thread Robert Treat
Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match Built fine on the phppgadmin demo

Re: [HACKERS] pg_restore and create FK without verification check

2003-11-26 Thread Robert Treat
eign keys. Theres certainly potential for trouble with this method I suppose but it seems like it accomplish what the original poster requires... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] protocol compatibility between 7.2 and 7.4

2003-11-26 Thread Robert Treat
f them, like phpPgAdmin, are able to function completely across versions. Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:12, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > I know this is an attempt to save myself reading the mailing list, but still > the issue remains: > > the psql from version 7.4 does not talk t

Re: [HACKERS] logical column position

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Treat
uing about these issues on finding a better name, > I'm sure we can think of one ;-) > Seems merging the two would work... attlogpos, the attributes logical position. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] More detail on settings for pgavd?

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Treat
override percentage or the default percentages based on rel_tuples (or rel_pages). This would give autovacuum a place to look for each table as to when it should vacuum, and gives administrators the option to tweak it on a per table basis if they find they need a specific table to vacuum at a differ

Re: [HACKERS] question about fixes in v7.4...

2003-11-20 Thread Robert Treat
function code, so reconnecting will erase that cache. > Would it be worth putting in a partial implementation? I'm thinking specifically about functions that return table types. Could they be hooked up with dependency information and made to complain? Robert Treat -- Build A Bri

Re: [HACKERS] Commercial binary support?

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
led by this outburst :-) Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 17:17, Austin Gonyou wrote: > All, > > I sincerely apologize for possibly starting a flame war, I wasn't aware > this might be a hot-button issue. Hopefully some good will come of it > none-the-less, like others who come

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:47, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> Robert Treat wrote: > > >> While some form of bitmapped indexing would be cool, other ideas might >

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:16, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> allowing indexes for searching nulls, or adding > Robert> concurrency to GIST, or allowing non btree index

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
able to implement ARC over LRU, but there are a host of other strategies that could also be implemented. I think there are other good projects in there, like allowing indexes for searching nulls, or adding concurrency to GIST, or allowing non btree indexes to handle unique's Robert Treat -- B

Re: [HACKERS] Commercial binary support?

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
If by up to date you mean 7.4, your probably going to have to wait, but I believe that Command Prompt, dbExperts, Red Hat, and SRA all have some type of binary based support available. Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:19, Austin Gonyou wrote: > I've been looking all over but I ca

Re: [HACKERS] Build farm

2003-11-18 Thread Robert Treat
owner that it needs to be > >checked would do, I would think ... > > > > If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of stuff is > right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of results, though. A simple > CGI

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Robert Treat
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/hwk0/index.html Are these screenshots of PgAccess on Mac OSX? Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:07, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! > > At UC Berkeley, we have our undergraduate s

Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 14 November 2003 14:23, Neil Conway wrote: > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert Treat wrote: > >> people would always want to have those choices (especially for doing > >> development/testing/benchmarking between the different methods) the

Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 14 November 2003 12:03, Jan Wieck wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:32, Jan Wieck wrote: > >> > >> Or did you mean ARC itself? Since it replaced the old LRU code, it is > >> the only choice you have now. Which sort of raises t

Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-14 Thread Robert Treat
f? Since it replaced the old LRU code, it is > the only choice you have now. Which sort of raises the question if we > would want to have multiple choices, like a config option > > buffer_replacement_strategy = lru|lru2|arc > people would always want to have those choices (especial

Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-13 Thread Robert Treat
always, you can report errors if you want or wait until they sort it out. You should still be able to get an RC2 build with the appropriate tags applied. HTH Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:04, elein wrote: > > What is the status of CVS head? Isn't it in sync > with 7.

Re: [HACKERS] rpm support for 7.4 and beyond

2003-11-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:23, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also (and maybe someone from Red Hat can weigh in here) are there any > > plans from Red Hat to release RHEL rpms for postgresql in the future, > > I can tell you that Red Hat i

[HACKERS] rpm support for 7.4 and beyond

2003-11-12 Thread Robert Treat
r plans to make sure the community rpm builders would have access to those platforms in order to build rpms against them? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:37, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>>On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > >>>>I know most people have talked about using bugz

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
> Last I check it was the whole thing... techdocs runs on its own VM, the other sites all run on a different VM. We need to kill the old VM, but until we move techdocs to it's new home, we can't Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > > > > > > > >>I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone > >>familiar with GNATS? I'm current

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Treat
people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone familiar with GNATS? I'm currently rereading Open Sources and there's a paragraph or two mentioning it's use and the fact that it can be interfaced with completely by email. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux A

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Treat
f we combine www and advocacy (and > maybe even developer?) into one big site... I would like that Idea, I think I will > create a little sample page later to see how it could look like :) > I disagree... the tech and the content are separate issues, let's keep them that way or

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 November 2003 17:18, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > > > we don't need links, we need patches > > > > Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: > > How does one get involved? post proposals to pgsql-www

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:46, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > > The advocacy site does have different requirements than the main site, > > namely its bi-lingualness and the different target audience, but perhaps > >

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Treat
t was originally created the guy doing the main website and the guy doing the advocacy website weren't big on nuzzling together. The advocacy site does have different requirements than the main site, namely its bi-lingualness and the different target audience, but perhaps with adding bi

Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

2003-11-01 Thread Robert Treat
anyone wants to be able to poke around on the > system, we can arrange that too. Feel free to ask any questions. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Compilation of PostgreSQL on Irix

2003-10-28 Thread Robert Treat
der Irix. > > Is it just bison that creates the problem? > bison should only be causing troubles if your building from cvs, not from the beta package... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] Open items

2003-10-28 Thread Robert Treat
gt; That's all I need --- a consensus that is isn't significant enough to be > on this list. > Does this prevent me from recreating databases that might have improper data in the foreign key fields? If i would have been able to upgrade these database in all prior versions but wil

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports -- Failure on Linux

2003-10-24 Thread Robert Treat
worked fine on slackware: == All 93 tests passed. == Linux phppgadmin 2.4.18 #2 Fri May 31 01:21:23 PDT 2002 i586 unknown oh... different kernel, different filesystem Robert Treat On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:37, Rod Taylor wrote: > Linux ns2 2.4

Re: [HACKERS] round() function wrong?

2003-10-24 Thread Robert Treat
6-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96 (1 row) qqq74=# \q [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ uname -a Linux camel 2.4.20-20.7 #1 Mon Aug 18 15:00:59 EDT 2003 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -

Re: [HACKERS] So, are we going to bump catversion for beta5, or not?

2003-10-22 Thread Robert Treat
efault should be to adopt the current search path (at the time of > CREATE FUNCTION) as the function's permanent path. > Well, you certainly need a way to do both, since IMHO the most useful would be to have the search path be equal to the callers search path,

Re: [HACKERS] Second question on schemas and INDEX(es) ...

2003-10-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:20, Robert Treat wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:00, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > Okay, after feeling stupid about the last one (altho I hadn't thought to > > read the CREATE INDEX page, only the CREATE SCHEMA one), I really hate to >

Re: [HACKERS] Second question on schemas and INDEX(es) ...

2003-10-15 Thread Robert Treat
27;m right your having a heck of a bad day, but I believe the problem is you have no ; after each of your sql statements... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] http://www.pgsql.com/register/submit.php

2003-10-13 Thread Robert Treat
ng postgresql, and perhaps point them some place for that. What I'd like to see added to the message is a reminder to run initdb... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

[HACKERS] last beta version to require initdb

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Treat
What's the last beta version that required initdb? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: [Python-Dev] HP Test Drive systems]

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Treat
will have even better hardware access. Those are the only > two OS's missing from the Test Drive site. > I have a project you could join if you want :-) http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/ Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2003-10-09 Thread Robert Treat
lure"? On the likely chance that 50% fall into 1 and the other into 2, can we accept a solution than doesn't address both? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

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