Re: [HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Fred Yankowski writes: What do you see in our plan that implies "vast sections of platform-specific code" "littering the backend"? If such changes are necessary, I want to know before we embark on this work. As far as this being "optional functional[ity]", I contend that PostgreSQL has no

[HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-14 Thread Fred Yankowski
Jason Tishler and I are planning to create a patch to allow PostgreSQL to run directly as an NT service. I've submitted a similar patch which may well be incorporated into the next release of Cygipc, and we've got a plan for doing the same for PostgreSQL: see

Re: [HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Getting to my question: Is it possible to create a CVS branch of the HEAD (tip) of the PostgreSQL CVS for us to use in this work? It seems unlikely that this work is large enough to justify a branch. Why don't you just work together and submit a patch

Re: [HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Fred Yankowski writes: Jason Tishler and I are planning to create a patch to allow PostgreSQL to run directly as an NT service. I've submitted a similar patch which may well be incorporated into the next release of Cygipc, and we've got a plan for doing the same for PostgreSQL: see

Re: [HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-14 Thread Fred Yankowski
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Seems like something that should be done in a separate wrapper program. Littering the backend with vast sections of platform-specific code that provides optional functional is probably not going to fly, if I can assess this

Re: [HACKERS] possible to create CVS branch for proposed patch?

2001-02-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Seems like something that should be done in a separate wrapper program. Littering the backend with vast sections of platform-specific code that provides optional functional is probably not going to fly, if I can assess