[HACKERS] poor performance with Context Switch Storm at TPC-W.

2006-07-11 Thread Katsuhiko Okano
Hi,All. The problem has occurred in my customer. poor performance with Context Switch Storm occurred with the following composition. Usually, CS is about 5000, WIPS=360. when CSStorm occurrence, CS is about 10, WIPS=60 or less. (WIPS = number of web interactions per second) It is under

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I'd like to submit PL/Java into core for 8.2 if possible. Personally, I see the following action items to make it happen: 1. A hackers discussion to resolve any issues with the submission. Provided that #1 has a positive outcome: 2. The PL/Java CVS must be moved from gborg and become part of

Re: [HACKERS] poor performance with Context Switch Storm at TPC-W.

2006-07-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
Katsuhiko Okano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The problem has occurred in my customer. poor performance with Context Switch Storm occurred with the following composition. Usually, CS is about 5000, WIPS=360. when CSStorm occurrence, CS is about 10, WIPS=60 or less. Intel Xeon 3.0GHz*4(2CPU

[HACKERS] Cleanup of include files

2006-07-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am in the process of cleaning up the include files. Each include file should compile on its own, and we should only include files we need. Also, PostgreSQL include files should be in alphabetical order. I do this cleanup every few years. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to submit PL/Java into core for 8.2 if possible. Personally, I see the following action items to make it happen: What about licensing issues? Does PL/Java work with any entirely-open-source JVMs? If not, what is the legal situation for

Re: [HACKERS] Warm-Standby using WAL archiving / Seperate

2006-07-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
Just having a standby mode that survived shutdown/startup would be a nice start... I also do the blocking-restore-command technique, which although workable, has a bit of a house-of-cards feel to it sometimes. On 7/10/06 5:40 PM, Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merlin Moncure

Re: [HACKERS] A couple thoughts about btree fillfactor

2006-07-11 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:36:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Now that the index options infrastructure is in, I am having a couple of second thoughts about the specific behavior that's been implemented, particularly for btree fillfactor. 1. ... I'm thinking we could change the nbtsort.c code

Re: [HACKERS] poor performance with Context Switch Storm at TPC-W.

2006-07-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Katsuhiko Okano wrote: I suspected conflict of BufMappingLock. but, collected results are seen, occurrence of CSStorm and the increase of BufMappingLock counts seem not to correspond. Instead, SubtransControlLock and SubTrans were increasing. I do not understand what in the cause of

[HACKERS] Max size of a btree index entry

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Currently, we restrict btree index tuples to a size that ensures three of them will fit on a page. The motivation for this is the following two considerations: 1. In a non-rightmost page, we need to include a high key, or page boundary key, that isn't one of the useful data keys. 2. In a

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: If this is chosen as the preferred path, we could get the list bot to add Reply-To: pghackers in pgsql-patches postings to help push discussions there. I'd vote for doing the same in pgsql-committers, which also gets its share of non-null discussion content. that is a

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Satoshi Nagayasu
Tom, Tom Lane wrote: IOW pljava is (already) bigger than the other four PLs put together. I'm inclined to think that pljava is best off staying as a separate project. I was very confused some recent PL/Java versions can't be compiled because of PostgreSQL internal changes. If people think

Re: [HACKERS] poor performance with Context Switch Storm at TPC-W.

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Katsuhiko, Have you tried turning HT off? HT is not generally considered (even by Intel) a good idea for database appplications. --Josh ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll need committer rights to the PL/Java part in order to maintain it. Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis? cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] CTIDs invalidations and dropping columns.

2006-07-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:50:40AM +0300, Tzahi Fadida wrote: As i understand rowids, i.e ctids, are supposed to allow for fast access to the tables. I don't see the rational, for example, when casting some attributes, to blank the ctid. So it is not exactly the same, but it still came from

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, What about licensing issues? Does PL/Java work with any entirely-open-source JVMs? If not, what is the legal situation for distributing PG+PL/Java? Actually, Sun has re-licensed the JRE to make it OSS-compatible (it's now available for Debian, for example) They're doing a Java

Re: [HACKERS] Max size of a btree index entry

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Obviously a tree containing many such pages would be awfully inefficient to search, but I think a more common case is that there are a few wide entries in an index of mostly short entries, and so pushing the hard limit up a little would add some flexibility with little performance cost in

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:21:54PM +0900, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote: Tom, Tom Lane wrote: IOW pljava is (already) bigger than the other four PLs put together. I'm inclined to think that pljava is best off staying as a separate project. I was very confused some recent PL/Java versions

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: If this is chosen as the preferred path, we could get the list bot to add Reply-To: pghackers in pgsql-patches postings to help push discussions there. I'd vote for doing the same in pgsql-committers, which also gets its share of non-null

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll need committer rights to the PL/Java part in order to maintain it. Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis? Trust. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Dunstan Sent: 11 July 2006 15:27 To: Thomas Hallgren Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Don't be surprised if there are objections - this is one of those things like emacs vs vi that stirs up religious debate. If we change Reply-To:, does it prevent replies to the original author? If so, that seems like a problem,

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll need committer rights to the PL/Java part in order to maintain it. Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis? Trust. And pgsql-committers

Re: [HACKERS] CTIDs invalidations and dropping columns.

2006-07-11 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:27, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:50:40AM +0300, Tzahi Fadida wrote: As i understand rowids, i.e ctids, are supposed to allow for fast access to the tables. I don't see the rational, for example, when casting some attributes, to blank

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Csaba Nagy
Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis? No, I don't believe you can do this with CVS at all. We'd need something like SVN/WebDAV to be able to grant write access just to specific parts of the tree to different people. It is

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, What about licensing issues? Does PL/Java work with any entirely-open-source JVMs? If not, what is the legal situation for distributing PG+PL/Java? Actually, Sun has re-licensed the JRE to make it OSS-compatible (it's now available for Debian, for example)

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: Don't be surprised if there are objections - this is one of those things like emacs vs vi that stirs up religious debate. If we change Reply-To:, does it prevent replies to the original author? If so, that seems like a problem, particularly if they are not

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: I'm inclined to think that pljava is best off staying as a separate project. I disagree. One of the things I'm asked by every single tech market analyst, after replication clustering, is whether we have support for procedural Java. So it's something large-scale

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 10 July 2006 17:06, Josh Berkus wrote: All, At the request of Dave Page, here's the semi-final list after looking at the code: To be killed: adddepends tips mSQL-interface To be honest I don't know why people are against throwing the code on pgfoundry with a

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Stark
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc G. Fournier wrote: If nobody objects within, say, the next 24 hours ... ? I'll enabled that one both ... Don't be surprised if there are objections - this is one of those things like emacs vs vi that stirs up religious debate. Indeed.

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Singer
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: To be migrated to pgFoundry: dbmirror (need owner) I'll volunteer for this if no one else steps forward. I'm not planning on making any significant chances to dbmirror at this point stage but I can look after for the pgfoundry project.

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Greg Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have the additional complaint that this doesn't actually solve most of my original complaints and might reduce the pressure to find a better solution. The patches announcements themselves would still be basically invisible within the community. I'm

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote: Actually, Sun has re-licensed the JRE to make it OSS-compatible (it's now available for Debian, for example) They're doing a Java licensing session at OSCON if you have any specific questions, or I can ping the Java Licensing Guru directly. But

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, To be honest I don't know why people are against throwing the code on pgfoundry with a hefty readme saying that the code is unmaintained and what it's build status is on various versions ... because we don't want to litter pgFoundry with dead, broken projects which nobody uses and

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, Given the current number of projects that have no code / files / anything associated with them on pgfoundry/gborg right now, this argument rings a little hollow. If you're so keen to add to the problem, you can have my spot as pgfoundry admin. Otherwise, the rule that the

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
David, It's good to integrate things with the core as needed. What plans do we have to integrate PL/J? None, if the PL/J team doesn't speak up. So far I have yet to see a request for PL/J or even a release notice. --Josh ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:55, Josh Berkus wrote: Robert, To be honest I don't know why people are against throwing the code on pgfoundry with a hefty readme saying that the code is unmaintained and what it's build status is on various versions ... because we don't want to litter

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Snowman, Uhh.. Let's not go overboard here on exactly what Debian has done with Sun's JVM. Technically, Sun's JVM is *not* part of Debian. The license is (and even this is hotly debated...) acceptable enough for Debian's ftp-masters to allow the Sun JVM to be distributed off Debian servers

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 7/10/06, Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com wrote: All, userlock (Merlin) Ok, I will update the project description and maintain it. userlock is a great feature, and I tried contacting the original author to get him to relicense the project but could never get a hold of him. To be

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll need committer rights to the PL/Java part in order to maintain it. Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis? No, and yes. However, I don't have a problem with

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message One thing that came up in the discussion here was the idea of a weekly (or other time period) digest of patches posts, stripped of attachments, but with a link to the patches email, which will

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's add the author and the hackers list to the reply-to. I think reply-to is just a single address. It may work in some mailers though. Regardless the issue is that someone may send a personal message and be surprised when it's broadcast. You can

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Stephen, You seemed to use the recent change in status of Sun's JVM (at least in part with regard to Debian...) as justification of your statement that it's OSS-compatible.. Are you going to be at OSCON? Sun's hosting a BOF to discuss exactly this issue. --Josh

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 14:05, Josh Berkus wrote: Robert, Given the current number of projects that have no code / files / anything associated with them on pgfoundry/gborg right now, this argument rings a little hollow. If you're so keen to add to the problem, you can have my spot as

[HACKERS] Implied Functional Index use

2006-07-11 Thread Simon Riggs
Currently, functional indexes can be used by a query that explicitly mentions the exact phrasing of the functional index within the WHERE clause. IMHO it is feasible to extend the range of WHERE clauses for which functional indexes can be used by using implication, much in the same way that we

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, No need to fly off the handle there Josh. I was hoping that you'd take me up on it in a rash moment. No code, or no active code development? No code was the rule we discussed. Other stuff would be a matter for discussion. The idea was that pgfoundry was supposed to be

Re: [HACKERS] Warm-Standby using WAL archiving / Seperate

2006-07-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 19:34 +0200, Florian G. Pflug wrote: This methods seems to work, but it is neither particularly fool-proof nor administrator friendly. It's not possible e.g. to reboot the slave without postgres abortint the recovery, and therefor processing all wals generated since the

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:49, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: ... and before you say it, No. I do not wear a tie. Maybe you need to ... ;-) /me bows before the gods who thoust commit. cheers andrew -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support:

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: ... and before you say it, No. I do not wear a tie. Maybe you need to ... ;-) cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

[HACKERS] newbie patch-attempt: selecting large result sets in psql

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Mair
Hi :) powered by the great talk for newbie hackers by Neil Conway Gavin Sherry [1] at the anniversary summit I sneaked into the Code Sprint and started working a bit on a Todo from Neil's Code Sprint Page: Add a psql option to have it submit SELECT queries via a cursor, to avoid excessive

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote: I think I can tell which side of the debate you were on. The debate was regarding Sun's JVM being distributed by Debian at all... There wasn't any debate regarding it's free vs. non-free status so far as I'm aware. I don't believe there was ever any

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread mark
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:53:26PM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote: All I am saying is that it couldn't hurt to put the information out there... we're not hurting for disk space and none of this stuff appears inherently wrong, just outdated, but it might still prove useful for some people.

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Hi Hannu, Hannu Krosing wrote: Maybe this functionality could be lifted out of PL/Java and made available to all PL-s ? At least at some API level. I think that what could be shared are the ideas and the semantics. The API's that the backend currently expose will give you what's needed to

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 09:59, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Hallgren wrote: 5. I'll need committer rights to the PL/Java part in order to maintain it. Does our CVS setup cater for seggregated rights like this? Or would that be done on a trust basis?

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: If this is chosen as the preferred path, we could get the list bot to add Reply-To: pghackers in pgsql-patches postings to help push discussions there. I'd vote for doing the same in pgsql-committers,

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, I really don't see how this will actually cause you any extra effort, but if you want to plug my name on there after you move it, that's fine with me. I meant maintain it, not just leave it there to age like a bad cheese. If it's going to be dead code, it can do so in the FTP

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: I disagree. One of the things I'm asked by every single tech market analyst, after replication clustering, is whether we have support for procedural Java. So it's something large-scale users want. If PL/Tcl belongs in the back end, then so does

Re: [HACKERS] Implied Functional Index use

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... - add a new boolean to pg_operator to allow us to define which operators offer true equality ... This would be useful for other purposes too, as we keep coming up against what's the equality operator for this datatype problems. However, the

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 16:33, Josh Berkus wrote: Robert, I really don't see how this will actually cause you any extra effort, but if you want to plug my name on there after you move it, that's fine with me. I meant maintain it, not just leave it there to age like a bad cheese. If

Re: [HACKERS] Warm-Standby using WAL archiving / Seperate

2006-07-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-07-11 kell 08:38, kirjutas Andrew Rawnsley: Just having a standby mode that survived shutdown/startup would be a nice start... I think that Simon Riggs did some work on this at the code sprint yesterday. I also do the blocking-restore-command technique, which

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:28:31PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message One thing that came up in the discussion here was the idea of a weekly (or other time period) digest of patches posts,

Re: [HACKERS] GIN index creation extremely slow ?

2006-07-11 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Try again, today's patch solves the problem. Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: on IRC somebody mentioned that it took 34h to greate a GIN index (on a tsvector) on a ~3 Million column table (wikipedia dump) with a reasonable speced box (AMD 3400+). After getting hold of a dump of said table (around

Re: [HACKERS] Max size of a btree index entry

2006-07-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-07-11 kell 10:46, kirjutas Josh Berkus: Tom, Obviously a tree containing many such pages would be awfully inefficient to search, but I think a more common case is that there are a few wide entries in an index of mostly short entries, and so pushing the hard

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-07-11 kell 17:34, kirjutas Thomas Hallgren: Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, IOW pljava is (already) bigger than the other four PLs put together. That is odd. Thomas? It's not that odd really: 1. the mapping is strongly typed, i.e. each scalar type in

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-07-11 kell 14:05, kirjutas Josh Berkus: Robert, Given the current number of projects that have no code / files / anything associated with them on pgfoundry/gborg right now, this argument rings a little hollow. If you're so keen to add to the problem, you

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Given the current number of projects that have no code / files / anything associated with them on pgfoundry/gborg right now, this argument rings a little hollow. I would say that: Given the current number of projects that have no code / files / anything associated with them on

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Greg Stark wrote: I have the additional complaint that this doesn't actually solve most of my original complaints and might reduce the pressure to find a better solution. The patches announcements themselves would still be basically invisible within the community. How

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:53, Josh Berkus wrote: I'll grant that tips doesn't look like much more than an article stub... it should probably be moved to the new techdocs rather than pgfoundry. That was what I started to do. Unfortunately, the README is instrucitons for some SQL and

Re: [HACKERS] lastval exposes information that currval does not

2006-07-11 Thread Jan Wieck
On 7/9/2006 8:32 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:47:33PM -0400, Jim Nasby wrote: On Jul 6, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Phil Frost wrote: I hope the above example is strong enough to elicit a comment from a qualified developer. If it is not, consider that stored procedures

Re: [HACKERS] poor performance with Context Switch Storm at TPC-W.

2006-07-11 Thread Katsuhiko Okano
hello. Do you have bgwriter on and what's the parameters? I read a theory somewhere that bgwriter scan a large portion of memory and cause L1/L2 thrushing, so with HT on, the other backends sharing the physical processor with it also get thrashed ... So try to turn bgwriter off or turn HT

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I've already added adddepends to pgFoundry (as Old PG Upgrade), since people spoke up for it. I will assign one of them as admin of the project (not sure who yet). How is addepends in any way old pg upgrade?? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5:

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
No, I don't believe you can do this with CVS at all. We'd need something like SVN/WebDAV to be able to grant write access just to specific parts of the tree to different people. You just use an on-commit script like cvsacl. ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Again, it's the same question. If *you* want to be the maintainer, I'll put it on pgfoundry. Otherwise, you're asking me to be responsible for the code because you don't want to throw it away. Josh, How about a general call for maintainers? Post it to general, hackers and advocacy (maybe

[HACKERS] pre_load_libraries

2006-07-11 Thread Marc Munro
I am trying to create an initialisation function that is called using the preload_libraries option. The purpose of this is to set up shared memory for Veil, independant of postgres' own shared memory. Simple init functions work fine, but as soon as I place calls to ShemAlloc, or LWLockAssign,

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I'm afraid there's not much in the PL/Java type system that could be generalized and shared. Perhaps if we had other languages with very similar capabilities (like C# for instance) but even then I have some doubts. The good news in my opinion is that if PL/Java would make it to the core it

Re: [HACKERS] row() is [not] null infelicities

2006-07-11 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The SQL spec has some detailed discussion of some strange null behaviours. BTW, Teodor Sigaev pointed out today that we are also doing array comparisons (array_eq, array_cmp) wrong. Seems to me like at least array_eq is correct (from

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] putting CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in qsort_comparetup()

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Stark
Charles Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Their work_mem setting was rather large (100). We determined that when it received SIGINT, the backend was always inside qsort(), so it wouldn't call ProcessInterrupts() again until it finished this large in-memory sort. Upon entering

Re: [HACKERS] passing parameters to CREATE INDEX

2006-07-11 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Teodor Sigaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pluggable parameters for index. I think, we may can add to pg_opclass's definition method/parameter name and create some API (may be, index specific) to propagate parameter's to module's interface functions to index. How abount adding a new option

Re: [HACKERS] newbie patch-attempt: selecting large result sets in

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 21:19 +0200, Chris Mair wrote: One of the problems with this was that a user would expect psql to work as usual (including all format and output option stuff) and to do this properly most of the psql output code would need to be refactored. Even if the refactoring were

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: I disagree. One of the things I'm asked by every single tech market analyst, after replication clustering, is whether we have support for procedural Java. So it's something large-scale users want. If PL/Tcl belongs in