[HACKERS] Added the word TODO in comments

2006-12-31 Thread Gurjeet Singh
This just so that somebody looking for TODO items in the source can find this one too. Regards, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | yahoo }.com TODO.patch Description: Binary data ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can

Re: [HACKERS] Doc bug

2006-12-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
Gurjeet Singh wrote: cd pgsql/doc/src/sgml make html See http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/docguide-build.html http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/docguide-build.html This, obviously, isn't working on MinGW for me. I'll try Linux (Ubuntu).

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer and dlls

2006-12-31 Thread Knut P. Lehre
I uninstalled postgresql, removed the 5 files mentioned above from system32. When I installed 8.2.0 again, the installer reported that The installer has detected an incompatible version of OpenSSL installed in your system PATH. PostgreSQL requires OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later. If you remove your

Re: [HACKERS] Windows installer and dlls

2006-12-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
Knut P. Lehre wrote: I uninstalled postgresql, removed the 5 files mentioned above from system32. When I installed 8.2.0 again, the installer reported that The installer has detected an incompatible version of OpenSSL installed in your system PATH. PostgreSQL requires OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, I've just read most of that thread and found it rather disappointing. I'd just like to add my 2 (or 3) cents: a) I like to have the freedom to choose what software (under which licenses) I'm using. Thus I'd like to see GNUTLS supported, as it adds an additional feature to PostgreSQL per

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:25:42PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: b) The other features of Martijn's patch got completely overseen. Can we (can you Martijn?) break up the patch into smaller pieces and discuss single independent features, like querying for parameters of the SSL

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread mark
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:59:29PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Please read the OpenSSL-GPL FAQ. They themselves acknowledge it's a problem, but claim they fall under the operating system exception, which is fine for everyone except the distributor of the operating system.

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It seems your interpretation of the OpenSSL position is as questionable as your interpretation of the GPL, and what the GPL can legally require. :-) Nobody has proven an issue exists. The only way to prove it would be for an actual court case to set the precident. Further, OpenSSL is not

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Please read the OpenSSL-GPL FAQ. They themselves acknowledge it's a problem, but claim they fall under the operating system exception, which is fine for everyone except the distributor of the operating system. http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2

Re: [HACKERS] Recent SIGSEGV failures in buildfarm HEAD

2006-12-31 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't have a core, but here's the CrashReporter output for both of jackal's failed runs: Wow, some actual data, rather than just noodling about how to get it ... thanks! ... 11 postgres 0x0022b2e3

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GNU TLS

2006-12-31 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody has proven an issue exists. The only way to prove it would be for an actual court case to set the precident. That's exactly the mentality that I'm questioning. Why always go to legal boundaries and ask for courts? Joshua D. Drake wrote: Further, OpenSSL

Re: [HACKERS] A possible TODO item

2006-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The comment above TOAST_INDEX_HACK in tuptoaster.h is: /* * This enables de-toasting of index entries. Needed until VACUUM is * smart enough to rebuild indexes from scratch. */ #define TOAST_INDEX_HACK Do we already have a TODO item to remove

Re: [HACKERS] Added the word TODO in comments

2006-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This just so that somebody looking for TODO items in the source can find this one too. If you're looking for TODO items, why wouldn't you be looking in the TODO document? regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Recent SIGSEGV failures in buildfarm HEAD

2006-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fwiw - I can trigger that issue now pretty reliably on a fast Opteron box (running Debian Sarge/AMD64) with make regress in a loop - I seem to be able to trigger it in about 20-25% of the runs. the resulting core however looks totally stack

Re: [HACKERS] Recent SIGSEGV failures in buildfarm HEAD

2006-12-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:43:45PM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Tom Lane wrote: What you seem to have here is infinite recursion during relcache initialization. That's surely not hard to believe, considering I just whacked that code around, and indeed changed some of the tests that

[HACKERS] access method's algorithm authors

2006-12-31 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-11/msg00183.php this one removes the original algorithm name of access method from create_index.sqml. why? was that readded somewhere else? -- regards, Jaime Casanova Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-12-31 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:47:52 -0500 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One bug I see in it is that you'd better make the alignment 'd' if the type is to be int8. Also I much dislike these changes: - int32 i = PG_GETARG_INT32(1); + int64 i = PG_GETARG_INT32(1); I

Re: [HACKERS] access method's algorithm authors

2006-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
Jaime Casanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-11/msg00183.php this one removes the original algorithm name of access method from create_index.sqml. why? It wasn't complete, up-to-date, or particularly helpful in context. was that readded

Re: [HACKERS] A possible TODO item

2006-12-31 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On 12/31/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gurjeet Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The comment above TOAST_INDEX_HACK in tuptoaster.h is: /* * This enables de-toasting of index entries. Needed until VACUUM is * smart enough to rebuild indexes from scratch. */ #define

Re: [HACKERS] Added the word TODO in comments

2006-12-31 Thread Gurjeet Singh
The comment, This should be improved someday sure sounds like a TODO to me. I don't know if it should make it to the TODO doc, as that lists high-level/abstract feature-request-like items. Probably I should stop acting on impulse here. Hey, can someone around here lend me his rock!! ( no