Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key wierdness

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 January 2003 21:28 To: Didier Moens Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key wierdness Didier Moens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just formally tested on PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc?

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Treat
I'm not sure how adequately these topics are covered elsewhere, but you should probably provide at least a pointer if not improved information: * Should have a mention of the pgcrypto code in contrib. * Brain hiccup, but isn't there some type of password datatype * Explanation of

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the patches mailing list. I'm concerned that you are adding all these *.dsp files for build process control. This is going to be a burden to maintain. Everytime someone changes an aspect of how a file is

[HACKERS] Call for objections: put back OIDs in CREATE TABLE AS/SELECT INTO

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
We've gotten a couple of complaints now about the fact that 7.3 doesn't include an OID column in a table created via CREATE TABLE AS or SELECT INTO. Unless I hear objections, I'm going to revert it to including an OID, and back-patch the fix for 7.3.2 as well. See discussion a couple days ago on

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump ordering

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: I remember a while back you were saying you were working on pg_dump object ordering? What happened with that? Did you need some help with it? I don't remember that and I don't have any specific plans relating to that. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] Yaarrgh! CVS remote buffer overflow

2003-01-21 Thread Doug McNaught
It's all over Slashdot: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] Yaarrgh! CVS remote buffer overflow

2003-01-21 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On 21 Jan 2003, Doug McNaught wrote: It's all over Slashdot: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html That bit about 'This does not apply to :pserver: only' (probably slightly paraphrased) is very confusing. I gather from later on in the page that it means that the flaw only

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Bruns
Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally one guy) built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. /tougue in cheek Sorry, couldn't help myself...Seriously, it's a

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... Emmanuel Charpentier [ Back to lurking ... ] Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not,

Re: [HACKERS] Recent initdb error

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Rod Taylor writes: setting privileges on built-in objects... ok creating information schema... sed: 1: s/^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.\([0 ...: undefined label 'L;s/.*//;q;: L;s/.*\(\)$/\1/' ok vacuuming database template1... ok Fixed. Consider filing a bug report with your operating system.

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:04 PM To: Emmanuel Charpentier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ?

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full shell environment. Indeed. I think the goal here is to have a port that

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full shell environment. Indeed. I think the goal here

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Al Sutton
I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers to work on the code. I see the Win32 patch

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Al Sutton wrote: I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers to

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing

Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc?

2003-01-21 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Recommend always running initdb -W and setting all pg_hba entries to md5. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Treat Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:17 PM To: Dan Langille Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS]

Re: [HACKERS] Call for objections: put back OIDs in CREATE TABLE AS/SELECT INTO

2003-01-21 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Why don't you just include them by default, otherwise if WITHOUT OIDS appears in the CREATE TABLE command, then don't include them ? Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally one guy) built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. /tougue in cheek Correct. I wonder why we need

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:54 PM To: Brian Bruns; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Jan Wieck wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dann Corbit wrote: [ ... ] GDB works fine. Some of the other tools don't work right (e.g. sed is broken). Recent fixes exist, but I didn't check all of them. WorksForMe(TM), but my projects are *much* simpler ... Emmanuel Charpentier ---(end of