Re: [HACKERS] Beta 3

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Agreed. Anybody up for writing the text though? There was some text > earlier (see > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=commitdiff;h=bd02e36141bb99e9ee4e0b80fd69464e0e6d91b7#patch18 > or the corresponding one in the old pgweb r

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 3

2012-08-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: >> Heya all >> >> It seems like it's a bit trickier to find beta downloads than might be >> ideal. >> >> The beta info page simply reads: >> >> " PostgreSQL 9.2 beta 3 was released on Aug

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 3

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Heya all > > It seems like it's a bit trickier to find beta downloads than might be > ideal. > > The beta info page simply reads: > > " PostgreSQL 9.2 beta 3 was released on August 6, 2012." > > with no information about how to obtain a bu

[HACKERS] Beta 3

2012-08-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Heya all It seems like it's a bit trickier to find beta downloads than might be ideal. The beta info page simply reads: " PostgreSQL 9.2 beta 3 was released on August 6, 2012." with no information about how to obtain a build or the sources, not even a link to the downloads page, despite

Re: [HACKERS] Beta time?

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: >> How are we handling the Monday release with everyone at PGCon? Was that >> resolved? > I have yet to see a confirmed date, guys. If we expect any support from > the packagers and/or the advocacy volunteers, then people need at least > a week's notice, probably more. I ha

Re: [HACKERS] Beta time?

2012-05-04 Thread Josh Berkus
>> Next week, I thought. > > How are we handling the Monday release with everyone at PGCon? Was that > resolved? I have yet to see a confirmed date, guys. If we expect any support from the packagers and/or the advocacy volunteers, then people need at least a week's notice, probably more. --

[HACKERS] Beta time?

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > On ons, 2012-05-02 at 00:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Checking this patch, I noticed that config.guess and config.sub harbor > >> most of the remaining references to those platforms, which reminded me: > >>

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing - pg_upgrade bug fix - double free

2010-05-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > it fixes bug > > pg_upgrade(13359) malloc: *** error for object 0x801600: > non-page-aligned, non-allocated pointer being freed > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > > > arget 03:31 /usr/local/src/postgresql/contrib/pg_upgrade git diff . > diff

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing - pg_upgrade bug fix - double free

2010-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
Pavel Stehule writes: > --- a/contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c > +++ b/contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c > @@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ issue_warnings(migratorContext *ctx, char > *sequence_script_file_name) > ctx->new.bindir, > ctx->new.port, sequence_script_file_name, >

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing - planner bug - ERROR: XX000: failed to build any 2-way joins

2010-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
Pavel Stehule writes: > postgres=# explain SELECT name > FROM person > WHERE name IN ( >SELECT name FROM person p >LEFT JOIN person_data ON p.id = person_data.id); > ERROR: failed to build any 2-way joins Fixed, thanks. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgs

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing - pg_upgrade bug fix - double free

2010-05-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > it fixes bug > > pg_upgrade(13359) malloc: *** error for object 0x801600: > non-page-aligned, non-allocated pointer being freed > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > > > arget 03:31 /usr/local/src/postgresql/contrib/pg_upgr

[HACKERS] beta testing - pg_upgrade bug fix - double free

2010-05-21 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello it fixes bug pg_upgrade(13359) malloc: *** error for object 0x801600: non-page-aligned, non-allocated pointer being freed *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug arget 03:31 /usr/local/src/postgresql/contrib/pg_upgrade git diff . diff --git a/contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c b/contr

[HACKERS] beta testing - planner bug - ERROR: XX000: failed to build any 2-way joins

2010-05-21 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello there are maybe planner bug. test case: CREATE TABLE person ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(64) ) WITHOUT OIDS; CREATE TABLE person_data ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ) WITHOUT OIDS; SELECT name FROM person WHERE name IN (

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 08:12 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > (3) mentoring the GSoC > projects on matviews, json, and merge. Everything else is pretty > amorphous at this point, That's good you volunteered. I'm sorry to say that I'm really surprised to hear anyone thinks MERGE or matviews are suitabl

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-08 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > I've often faced the issue you describe. I think its difficult for > everybody to help at this stage. In many ways it is a serialization and > it's good that Tom holds the gate tighter than normal at this point. > > The main thing I've tried to

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-08 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > IMHO, there is nothing wrong with you (or any other developer) spending time > working on v9.1 features if said person feels that they have satisfied > themselves that v9.0 is ready for release (ie. I think the best test anyone > can run,

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 18:26 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Robert Haas writes: > >> [ argues, in effect, for starting 9.1 development right now ] > > > > I can't stop you from spending your time as you please. My development > > time for at least

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas writes: [ argues, in effect, for starting 9.1 development right now ] I can't stop you from spending your time as you please.  My development time for at least the next month or two is going

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> [ argues, in effect, for starting 9.1 development right now ] > > I can't stop you from spending your time as you please.  My development > time for at least the next month or two is going to be spent on > code-reading the H

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > [ argues, in effect, for starting 9.1 development right now ] I can't stop you from spending your time as you please. My development time for at least the next month or two is going to be spent on code-reading the HS/SR code and fixing bugs as they come in. I don't foresee

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > I would say the expectation for individual developers is "test, and > read code".  It's certainly not time to be starting new feature > development yet. I am humbly of the opinion that the expectation you have enclosed in quotation marks is far t

Re: [HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > I am fuzzier on what happens now. I understand that it depends on > what bug reports we get as a result of beta testing, but what I don't > quite know is what the expectations are for individual developers, how > we're tracking what issues still need to be resolved, or what

[HACKERS] beta to release

2010-05-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > What amazes me is how many people who closely follow our development are >> > mystified by what we do during that pre-beta period. >> >> Hey, I'm still mystified.  Maybe you and Tom could do twice-a-week >> status updates on what you're w

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-23 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > I think it might be time to think about shipping a beta release. I > guess this is a -core decision, but I can't argue for it there, so > I'll argue for it here. It seems like we're about ready, so maybe we > could plan for a beta, say, a week from now? A bit of discussion

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > We're discussing scheduling on -core right now, triggered by your email, and > will put out a notice shortly ... although we did just do a back branch > release, we have a second one that has to be done, so we're trying to > balance sched

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: Well, never mind that then.  How about a beta next week? I'm good for that ... Anyone else want to weigh in for or against this? We're discussing sche

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: >> Well, never mind that then.  How about a beta next week? > > I'm good for that ... Anyone else want to weigh in for or against this? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hac

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-21 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: Well, never mind that then. How about a beta next week? I'm good for that ... Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappySkype: h

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: > >> /me pushes luck >> >> And how about a set of back-branch releases while we're at it? > > We tend to try and avoid overlapping a "release" with a "beta" to avoid > confusion ... but didn't we jus

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Improve behavior of SUSET GUC variables added by loadable modules? >> - Tom's looking at this, too. > > Is this an issue specific to 9.0? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-04/msg00865.php ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Josh Berkus
> - Fix to_char('L') (localization) on Win32 when the operating system > character encoding does not match the database encoding > Seems like we're close to a fix on this, but even if not, I don't see > why this should be considered a blocker for beta. If this isn't an issue specific to 9.0, I ag

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:23 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> >> > /me pushes luck >> > >> > And how about a set of back-branch releases while we're at it? >> >> Yes, please don't push your l

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote: /me pushes luck And how about a set of back-branch releases while we're at it? We tend to try and avoid overlapping a "release" with a "beta" to avoid confusion ... but didn't we just do a fresh back branch release anyway? Marc G. Fournier

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:23 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > > /me pushes luck > > > > And how about a set of back-branch releases while we're at it? > > Yes, please don't push your luck :-p /me gives Dave an "Easy" button. > > > > -- > Dave

Re: [HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > /me pushes luck > > And how about a set of back-branch releases while we're at it? Yes, please don't push your luck :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] BETA

2010-04-20 Thread Robert Haas
I think it might be time to think about shipping a beta release. I guess this is a -core decision, but I can't argue for it there, so I'll argue for it here. It seems like we're about ready, so maybe we could plan for a beta, say, a week from now? Here's a quick run-down of the remaining open it

Re: [HACKERS] Beta, RC Time?

2006-10-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I think we need a beta2 now, and perhaps RC1 in a week. We've done >> enough portability hacking recently that some more beta seems indicated. > OK, what steps do we need to do to get beta2 out? I think all we really gotta do is upda

Re: [HACKERS] Beta, RC Time?

2006-10-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where are we on releasing beta2 or perhaps going right to an RC1 > > release? Seems it is time for one of them. > > I think we need a beta2 now, and perhaps RC1 in a week. We've done > enough portability hacking recently that some m

Re: [HACKERS] Beta, RC Time?

2006-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where are we on releasing beta2 or perhaps going right to an RC1 > release? Seems it is time for one of them. I think we need a beta2 now, and perhaps RC1 in a week. We've done enough portability hacking recently that some more beta seems indicated.

[HACKERS] Beta, RC Time?

2006-10-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Where are we on releasing beta2 or perhaps going right to an RC1 release? Seems it is time for one of them. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDBhttp://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---(end of bro

[HACKERS] Beta timing

2005-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
I know we were planning for beta today or Monday, but few new items have crept up and it will take a few more days to enter beta, so look for beta sometime next week. FYI, I will be off-line for the next 24 hours. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candl

[HACKERS] Beta time approaching

2005-08-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, with the patch queue shrinking, it is time to consider a date for beta. The current plan is to start beta in 7-10 days, so possible dates are August 19 or 22. We will need to have all major patches addressed, the release notes done, and the major documentation usable. -- Bruce Momjian

[HACKERS] Beta time early next week

2004-11-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, I am going to need a few more days to apply patches submitted in the past few days and Magnus needs a few more days to fix the windows signal problems. So, rather than planning a beta for later this week, I think we should focus on early next week. -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL)

2004-10-28 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:35:04 -0700 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL) > On October 27, 2004 05:57 pm, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: > > Hackers, > > > &

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL)

2004-10-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On October 27, 2004 05:57 pm, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: > Hackers, > > just an fyi, Beta 4 passed ALL tests on Debian Sarge for both MIPS (Indy) > and MIPSEL (Cobalt RAQ) > > I can test Debian Sarge Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, PA-RISC and M68K if no one > else has reported on these systems yet. > > Also, wi

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL)

2004-10-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can test Debian Sarge Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, PA-RISC and M68K if no one else has > reported on these systems yet. > Also, with a little work I could test Solaris, Tru64 (or what ever its called these > days) and IRIX You should probably wait till

[HACKERS] Beta 4 on Debian Sarge (MIPS/MIPSEL)

2004-10-27 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
Hackers, just an fyi, Beta 4 passed ALL tests on Debian Sarge for both MIPS (Indy) and MIPSEL (Cobalt RAQ) I can test Debian Sarge Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, PA-RISC and M68K if no one else has reported on these systems yet. Also, with a little work I could test Solaris, Tru64 (or what ever its ca

Re: [HACKERS] beta 2 crash with unique constraints

2004-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Schuchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > duplicate key violates unique constraint "ferber_rust_params_pkey" > FATAL: block 0 of 1663/19335/476756 is still referenced (local 2) > server closed the connection unexpectedly This is already fixed, but thanks for the report!

[HACKERS] beta 2 crash with unique constraints

2004-09-10 Thread Daniel Schuchardt
Hi List, I have another error now here: notice that only one backend is dying, all others are up and working. Error - Message : duplicate key violates unique constraint "ferber_rust_params_pkey" FATAL: block 0 of 1663/19335/476756 is still referenced (local 2) server closed the connection unexpect

Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-31 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:23:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel > "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have confirmed that 7.4.3 works on the cobalt raq mipsel system. I > > have not looked at the s_lock.[c

Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-29 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
ok, will look at it in the morning. -- Original Message --- From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:42:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel >

Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shouldn't this also work on mipsel CPU's? It should work on a real MIPS CPU. The PlayStation 2 has a dumbed-down MIPS chip without the TAS instruction :-(, but now that we've eliminated that point I think you've found a problem. We made several reor

Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-29 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
-- Original Message --- From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:27:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel > "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > trying to test beta 1 on Debian linux mipsel (sarge). What is that, a playstation 2? Last we heard, that chip had no spinlock support. Did you use configure --disable-spinlocks? regards, tom lane ---

[HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

2004-08-29 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
trying to test beta 1 on Debian linux mipsel (sarge). I am getting the following error "PANIC: stuck spinlock (0x2b052030) detected at lwlock.c:246" during initdb. here is the complete initdb run. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "p

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 09 August 2004 13:15, Josh Berkus wrote: > 1) track platform tests, namely which platforms have been tested, what they > reported, and which have not, including soliciting on the lists for more > platform testers; I wonder, would folks be interested in keeping a "supported programs" list

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Page on Developer's site is out of date

2004-08-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Updated ... On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'll be modifying that tonight ... On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote: Maybe this should be brought up-to-date slightly? http://developer.postgresql.org/beta.php Or maybe point elsewhere at least where the more up-to-date info actuall

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Page on Developer's site is out of date

2004-08-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'll be modifying that tonight ... On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote: Maybe this should be brought up-to-date slightly? http://developer.postgresql.org/beta.php Or maybe point elsewhere at least where the more up-to-date info actually is. -- Serguei A. Mokhov| /~\The ASCI

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread elein
This is the kind of thing I can usually help with. However, right now I'm a little swamped with customer work. I can back someone up, though. --elein On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:28:33PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > > Folk

[HACKERS] Beta Page on Developer's site is out of date

2004-08-09 Thread Serguei A. Mokhov
Maybe this should be brought up-to-date slightly? http://developer.postgresql.org/beta.php Or maybe point elsewhere at least where the more up-to-date info actually is. -- Serguei A. Mokhov| /~\The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign Concordia University

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > Per our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could shorten the > > beta process and make it more effective if someone can step forward to be the > > "8.0 Beta Leader." This person would have to:

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Marc, > Is there a reason why Bruce isn't doing it like he has for all previous > releases? As he previously held such a role, shouldn't it be he calling > for someone to take over that role from him? Clearly I was confused about the import of a discussion we had on Core, some 3 months ago or

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, Per our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could shorten the beta process and make it more effective if someone can step forward to be the "8.0 Beta Leader." This person would have to: 1) track platform tests, namely which platforms

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 13:57, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > > Per our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could > > shorten the beta process and make it more effective if someone can > > step forward to be the "8.0 Beta Leader." This person would have > > to: > >

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus wrote: > Per our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could > shorten the beta process and make it more effective if someone can > step forward to be the "8.0 Beta Leader." This person would have > to: > 1) track platform tests, namely which platforms have been tested,

[HACKERS] Beta Leader?

2004-08-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, Per our discussion earlier this year, I really think that we could shorten the beta process and make it more effective if someone can step forward to be the "8.0 Beta Leader." This person would have to: 1) track platform tests, namely which platforms have been tested, what they reporte

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, I fixed the Win32 pgport build problem with Claudio's help. I also fixed pg_dumpall on Win32 at the same time. I might be out most of the day tomorrow. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Joe Conway
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Whitespace where? OK, clarified: Syntax checking of array input processing has been tighened up considerably. Junk that was previously allowed in odd places with odd results now causes an ERROR. Also changed behavior with respect to whitespace surrounding array eleme

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:09:22PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote: > > >Syntax checking of array input processing has been tighened up >considerably. Junk that was previously allowed in odd places with >odd results now causes an ERROR. Also changed behavior with respect >to whitespac

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Minor gripe: this bit of documentation seems out of date now. !For example, elements containing curly braces, commas (or whatever the !delimiter character is), double quotes, backslashes, or leading white !space must be double-quoted. To put a double quote or backslash

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I committed the attached. Minor gripe: this bit of documentation seems out of date now. !For example, elements containing curly braces, commas (or whatever the !delimiter character is), double quotes, backslashes, or leading white !space must b

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>1. '{{"1 2" x},{3}}' > >>2. '{{},{}}' > > > >>My patch would generate an ERROR for either. Tom, you questioned my > >>disallowing of both of these, but didn't seem to have a very strong > >>opinion. > > > > I don

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. '{{"1 2" x},{3}}' 2. '{{},{}}' My patch would generate an ERROR for either. Tom, you questioned my disallowing of both of these, but didn't seem to have a very strong opinion. I don't have any great love for the first item --- I think it

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote: The plan was to wrap beta1 sometime tomorrow ... I'd guess that "sometime" will end up being in the afternoon east coast time, but this largely depends on the libpgport breakage ... That's what I was figuring (re: libpgport) ... hopefully I'm following the rig

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was waiting on feedback on two issues before committing: > 1. '{{"1 2" x},{3}}' > 2. '{{},{}}' > My patch would generate an ERROR for either. Tom, you questioned my > disallowing of both of these, but didn't seem to have a very strong > opinion. I don

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Tom, when you updated the release notes, did you do a CVS log and > >>already get all the new stuff as of Aug 6? > > > > Yes I did. I think the release notes are good to go for beta, > > with the possible except

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom, when you updated the release notes, did you do a CVS log and already get all the new stuff as of Aug 6? Yes I did. I think the release notes are good to go for beta, with the possible exception of mentioning any array-input-parsing hac

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have two things left before beta. I want to make sure the release > >> notes are current against CVS and I want to make sure the win32 > >> tablespace symlink changes I just made work. > > > Tom, when you updated the release notes,

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have two things left before beta. I want to make sure the release >> notes are current against CVS and I want to make sure the win32 >> tablespace symlink changes I just made work. > Tom, when you updated the release notes, did you do a CVS log and >

Re: [HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have two things left before beta. I want to make sure the release > notes are current against CVS and I want to make sure the win32 > tablespace symlink changes I just made work. > Tom, when you updated the release notes, did you do a CVS log and already get all the new s

[HACKERS] beta time

2004-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have two things left before beta. I want to make sure the release notes are current against CVS and I want to make sure the win32 tablespace symlink changes I just made work. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001

Re: [HACKERS] Beta status

2004-08-01 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> OK, we scheduled beta for August 1, and we are close, but we should get > a few more patches in before bundling beta. I have applied all I could > from the patch queue. Tom needs to review the rest. Of my three patches, they are all "bug fixes", however the USING INDEX TABLESPACE one should pr

Re: [HACKERS] Beta status

2004-08-01 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> OK, we scheduled beta for August 1, and we are close, but we should get > a few more patches in before bundling beta. I have applied all I could > from the patch queue. Tom needs to review the rest. Oh, and perhaps once the owner/acl fix patch is in, then whoever commits Fabien's patch to fix

[HACKERS] Beta status

2004-08-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, we scheduled beta for August 1, and we are close, but we should get a few more patches in before bundling beta. I have applied all I could from the patch queue. Tom needs to review the rest. Plus we have a nested transaction patch to apply and a little PITR work left to do. We should be abl

Re: [HACKERS] Beta date

2004-07-12 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 18:49, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Our current release schedule is: > > o apply most oustanding patches this week > o take two weeks to finalize open issues > o beta August 1 I will work to support this timeline. I'm still hacking at the stop-at-point-in-tim

[HACKERS] Beta date

2004-07-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Our current release schedule is: o apply most oustanding patches this week o take two weeks to finalize open issues o beta August 1 -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your lif

[HACKERS] Beta date on Monday?

2003-07-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, we are currently scheduled for beta on Monday. Tom and I are both still cleaning up things. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be y

Re: [HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by > > then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by then too. > > What about the PITR ( point in time recovery )? > I mean: the 7.4 will have PITR or not ? Nope. Chris -

Re: [HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by > then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by then too. What about the PITR ( point in time recovery )? I mean: the 7.4 will have PITR or not ? Thank you in advance Gaetan

Re: [HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK. Roger. --- The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by > > then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by th

Re: [HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by > then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by then too. Let's make it July 21st then ... I'm with family next week in the middle of nowhere in a tent ... not even sure if I'

[HACKERS] Beta start date

2003-07-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Let's start beta July 18 or that weekend. I can catch up with email by then, and Tom will have the elog() changes done by then too. --- Bruce Momjian wrote: > You might have noticed I am behind on email. > > I had a big fa

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 5 build report

2002-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On FreeBSD/Alpha, all 89 tests pass. > I get this build warning though: > gcc -pipe -O -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I. -I../../. > ./src/include -c -o gram.o gram.c > In file included from gram.y:7725: > scan.l: In fun

[HACKERS] Beta 5 build report

2002-11-10 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
On FreeBSD/Alpha, all 89 tests pass. I get this build warning though: gcc -pipe -O -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I. -I../../. ./src/include -c -o gram.o gram.c In file included from gram.y:7725: scan.l: In function `yyerror': scan.l:583: warning: int format, different type

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4

2002-11-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Michael Furgal writes: > We know that the readline support is missing from the psql client. > It was missing with the cygwin port as well. You must be using a different cygwin port. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4

2002-11-08 Thread Michael Furgal
Steve: We know that the readline support is missing from the psql client. It was missing with the cygwin port as well. We made little to no effort to work on the client, our focus was on the server. We have no plans to add the readline support to the client and hope that the hacker community wi

Re: [HACKERS] Beta Wednesday

2001-10-09 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Are we ready for beta on Wednesday? I don't know anything holding us up > at this point. Seems like major work has stopped and everyone is ready > to start testing. Well, if that build problem I reported doesn't bother you;-) I think it's likely to

[HACKERS] Beta Wednesday

2001-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Are we ready for beta on Wednesday? I don't know anything holding us up at this point. Seems like major work has stopped and everyone is ready to start testing. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your

Re: [HACKERS] Beta time

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Lockhart
... > OK, can I get another vote for that date. What was wrong with the 10th? I'm going to be tied up for most of the time between now and Monday. - Thomas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Beta time

2001-10-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Can we set a date for beta? If we are at least a week away, we should > >> say that so people know they can keep working. > > I do not think we should slip it yet again, and especially not tell > people "hey, send in more features", because that

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