Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:07:02PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote: On Wed, 2005-28-09 at 18:35 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem isn't whether or not they should be changed, the problem is that they were changed *during* beta AND *against* the direction that discussion on these changes

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-30 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, 2005-30-09 at 17:47 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: What's wrong with adding pg_cancel_backend(...) RETURNS int as an alias for the one that returns boolean, and document that it's deprecated and will be removed in the future. You can't overload functions based on their return type alone.

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:07:02PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote: On Wed, 2005-28-09 at 18:35 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem isn't whether or not they should be changed, the problem is that they were changed *during* beta AND *against* the direction that

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:58:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: We don't have the ability to have to functions that take the same parameters and return different results because there is no facility to decide which function to call based on what return value is expected, because a simple query

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: 28 September 2005 00:50 To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development; Neil Conway Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1 IMHO, changes like

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2005-28-09 at 18:35 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem isn't whether or not they should be changed, the problem is that they were changed *during* beta AND *against* the direction that discussion on these changes went I'm not sure what you mean: what is the direction that

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb (to add new

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: It was done quickly to complete it for beta2. Neil talked to Tom and me about it before he made the change. Obviously we all guessed wrong on this one. Personally I had forgotten that pg_cancel_backend was in the previous release and so there was a

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: Changes --- Win32 signal handling patch (Magnus) Unless someone else steps up to doing this one, please remove it from the list. I will not have time to dig into this patch before 8.1. OK, what should the TODO item be? -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
Changes --- Win32 signal handling patch (Magnus) Unless someone else steps up to doing this one, please remove it from the list. I will not have time to dig into this patch before 8.1. OK, what should the TODO item be? A link to the mail should be there, I guess (it's

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: Changes --- Win32 signal handling patch (Magnus) Unless someone else steps up to doing this one, please remove it from the list. I will not have time to dig into this patch before 8.1. OK, what should the TODO item be? A link to the mail

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
The open items list has been reduced nicely: PostgreSQL 8.1 Open Items = Current version at http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgopenitems or from http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta. Changes --- fix

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: bump major library version number? Were there any incompatible interface changes? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: bump major library version number? Were there any incompatible interface changes? No, I don't _think_ so, but we have been bitten by this before, not because of API change but because of use of libpgport functions called by libpq in one release

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that we may as well also fix the 32/64bit risk mentioned here:

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that we may as well also

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that we may as well also fix the 32/64bit

[HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Here are the open items for 8.1: PostgreSQL 8.1 Open Items = Current version at http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgopenitems or from http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta. Changes --- Win32 signal

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/contrib move to pgfoundry Is this actually happening? -- Your PostgreSQL solutions company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Programming, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG -

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: /contrib move to pgfoundry Is this actually happening? Josh has talked about it, but not sure where he is. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: /contrib move to pgfoundry Is this actually happening? Josh has talked about it, but not sure where he is. Well pgFoundry isn't ready to have a load of code that is that actively maintained put on it. It still needs to be moved to its new

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: /contrib move to pgfoundry Is this actually happening? Josh has talked about it, but not sure where he is. Well pgFoundry isn't ready to have a load of code that is that actively maintained put on it. It still

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /contrib move to pgfoundry Well pgFoundry isn't ready to have a load of code that is that actively maintained put on it. It still needs to be moved to its new servers. The modules proposed to be moved out aren't actively maintained now; if they were

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /contrib move to pgfoundry Well pgFoundry isn't ready to have a load of code that is that actively maintained put on it. It still needs to be moved to its new servers. The modules proposed to be moved out

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: The modules proposed to be moved out aren't actively maintained now; if they were we'd probably be keeping them in core. Speaking as a pgFoundry admin, I would say if they aren't actively maintained we don't want them either.

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Magnus Hagander
Changes --- Win32 signal handling patch (Magnus) Unless someone else steps up to doing this one, please remove it from the list. I will not have time to dig into this patch before 8.1. //Magnus ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions

Re: [HACKERS] Open items list for 8.1

2005-09-26 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Speaking as a pgFoundry admin, I would say if they aren't actively maintained we don't want them either. pgFoundry is not a dumping ground for modules that are dying. I didn't say they were dying --- the ones we thought were dead, we already dropped. I was responding