[HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure

2006-02-14 Thread Dave Page
And the fun continues :-) -Original Message- From: PG Build Farm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 February 2006 02:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure The PGBuildfarm member snake had

Re: [HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed

2006-02-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dave Page wrote: And the fun continues :-) -Original Message- From: PG Build Farm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 February 2006 02:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure The PGBuildfarm

Re: [HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure

2006-02-14 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 February 2006 10:17 To: Dave Page Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure Oh dear - looks

Re: [HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from Make failure to Contrib failure

2006-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page dpage@vale-housing.co.uk writes: And the fun continues :-) Info: resolving _MaxFSMPages by linking to __imp__MaxFSMPages (auto-import) Fixed. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to

Re: [HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed

2006-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh dear - looks like my pg_freespacemap patch is getting its Windows testing :-( Dave - are you able to try out the attached patch? Already committed an equivalent patch before seeing your message ... regards, tom lane

[HACKERS] optimizer questions

2006-02-14 Thread hector Corrada Bravo
Hello everyone, I am working with the Postgres optimizer for the first time, so bear with me... I want to extend the optimizer to deal with aggregate queries a bit better. The idea is from an old paper by Chaudhuri and Shim in VLDB 94. The gist of it is that when computing aggregates over the

Re: [HACKERS] optimizer questions

2006-02-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:35:12AM -0600, hector Corrada Bravo wrote: Hello everyone, I am working with the Postgres optimizer for the first time, so bear with me... I want to extend the optimizer to deal with aggregate queries a bit better. The idea is from an old paper by Chaudhuri and

[HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Simon Riggs
Many patch submitters discover that they fall foul of various you should have dones at a late stage of the patch review process. These include the usual: - major feature change not discussed on -hackers or elsewhere first - patch in wrong format - performance patch, yet no performance test results

Re: [HACKERS] optimizer questions

2006-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
hector Corrada Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Regardless of the optimization problem, is the executor able to execute aggregate nodes within join trees (that is, not as the result of subqueries)? Sure. 3) For debugging purposes: Has anyone figured out a way to feed hand-crafted plans to

Re: [HACKERS] Copy From Insert UNLESS

2006-02-14 Thread James William Pye
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 05:08:38PM -0500, Alon Goldshuv wrote: The proposal is neat, however, I am not too excited about handling errors in such high granularity, as far as the user is concerned. I am more on the same line with Tom Lane's statement in Simon's thread (Practical error logging

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Note: People following this should probably read this post on -patches in the archive: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00207.php On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:20:55PM +, Simon Riggs wrote: Many patch submitters discover that they fall foul of various you should have

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Finally, several of the patches committed the last few days have been fixing minor bugs or platform specific issues with various patches. One thing that would be really nice is a real patch queue and have the buildfarm machines occasionally apply one of the patches

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:17 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If I had enough time there are all sorts of things like this I'd love to set up. A fetchable url that says try these experimental CVS branches or something like that would be great. How much time would you need? I think having every

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:54:12PM +, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:17 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If I had enough time there are all sorts of things like this I'd love to set up. A fetchable url that says try these experimental CVS branches or something like that

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How much time would you need? I think having every patch built before anyone even looks at the code would sort out most of the issues I mentioned. If I ran a buildfarm machine, I'd turn it off immediately if anyone proposed setting up a system that would

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 17:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: IMHO the thing we are really seriously short of is patch reviewers. Neil and Bruce and I seem to be the only ones doing that much at all, and the main burden is falling on Bruce. More eyeballs would help much more than throwing machines at

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane said: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How much time would you need? I think having every patch built before anyone even looks at the code would sort out most of the issues I mentioned. If I ran a buildfarm machine, I'd turn it off immediately if anyone proposed setting up a

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:00, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I would like to suggest that we increase substantially the FAQ entries relating to patch submission. By we, I actually mean please could the committers sit down and agree some clarified written guidelines? As I remember,

Re: [HACKERS] Patch Submission Guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:54 +, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 17:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: IMHO the thing we are really seriously short of is patch reviewers. [...] Well that was the basis of my original suggestion. Publish some guidelines and everybody becomes a patch reviewer.