On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 01:57 +, Andrew Gierth wrote:
Note that I'm talking here about the names of the C functions, not
the SQL names.
The existing hstore has some very dubious choices of function names
(for non-static functions) in the C code; functions like each(),
delete(),
Simon == Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com writes:
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 01:57 +, Andrew Gierth wrote:
Note that I'm talking here about the names of the C functions, not
the SQL names.
The existing hstore has some very dubious choices of function names
(for non-static functions)
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using
email is completely insane. The only reason that you need to write
the release notes instead of, say, me, is because the only
Tom == Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
Tom I agree that this wasn't an amazingly good choice, but I think
Tom there's no real risk of name collisions because fmgr only
Tom searches for such names within the particular .so.
Oh, if only life were so simple.
Consider two modules mod1
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:05:35PM +, Andrew Gierth wrote:
(Perhaps we should be linking contrib and pgxs modules with -Bsymbolic
on those platforms where it matters?)
Another possibility is to use the visibility attributes such as those
provided in GCC. Maybe the version1 declarion of a
Robert Haas wrote:
Oh, I'm not objecting to email as a way of communicating. I think a
bug tracking system or web forums would increase the amount of effort
required to keep up to date on what is going on, and I can't imagine
what the corresponding advantage would be. What I don't like is
On Saturday 21 March 2009 09:04:12 Robert Haas wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
snip
My concern with the list of outstanding items for 8.4 based on a quick
look is that I think many of those things are not, in fact,
outstanding
The open items list for 8.4 has
* problems with Windows global namespace
I propose we move this over to the TODO list instead. We are no worse
off than we are in previous versions, and we've had *zero* bug reports
related to this issue.
Basically, we have a small window of failed protection
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote:
The open items list for 8.4 has
*) PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf
This should be addressed. Andrew C proposed a few different ways to
do it and supplied patches. Pick one and apply it.
*) Re: [HACKERS] patch to
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes:
The open items list for 8.4 has
* problems with Windows global namespace
I propose we move this over to the TODO list instead.
Agreed. In general, any issue that already exists in released versions
should not be considered a blocker for 8.4.
Andrew Gierth and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk writes:
Tom == Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
Tom I agree that this wasn't an amazingly good choice, but I think
Tom there's no real risk of name collisions because fmgr only
Tom searches for such names within the particular .so.
Oh, if only
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:02 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
On Saturday 21 March 2009 09:04:12 Robert Haas wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
snip
My concern with the list of outstanding items for 8.4 based on a quick
look is
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes:
The open items list for 8.4 has
* problems with Windows global namespace
I propose we move this over to the TODO list instead.
Agreed. In general, any issue that already exists
Hi,
this is a small update to the first paragraph of the WAL configuration
chapter, going into more detail WRT redo vs. checkpoint records, since
the underlying behavior is currently only deducible from the source. I'm
not perfectly sure if I got everything right, so feel free to change as
It seemed that the majority opinion in this thread was to eliminate
the confusion by dropping the short form d switch in pg_dump and
pg_dumpall --- if you want that behavior you'll have to write
--inserts.
For consistency I suggested also dropping the short form switch
D for --column-inserts,
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes:
We've been carrying this warning in our docs since 7.4:
The key word ABSTIME is ignored for historical reasons: In very old
releases of PostgreSQL, invalid values of type abstime were emitted as
Invalid Abstime. This is no longer the case however and
On Saturday 21 March 2009 12:27:27 Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Gierth and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk writes:
Tom == Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
Tom I agree that this wasn't an amazingly good choice, but I think
Tom there's no real risk of name collisions because fmgr only
Tom searches
Robert Treat xzi...@users.sourceforge.net writes:
We've been talking about this magical proper module facility for a few
releases now... are we still opposed to putting contrib modules in thier own
schema?
I'm hesitant to do that when we don't yet have either a design or a
migration plan for
bruce wrote:
Here are some of the emails I consider open for 8.4:
http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgsql/open
FYI, Tom has added a lot of comments to this page. I have also updated
the HTML because some browsers were not showing the existence of
comments.
--
Bruce Momjian
I wrote:
We could possibly use xmlMemGet() to fetch the prior settings and then
restore them after we are done, but making sure that happens after an
error would be a bit tricky.
I experimented with this a bit, and came up with the attached patch.
Basically what it does is revert libxml to its
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Robert Treat xzi...@users.sourceforge.net writes:
We've been talking about this magical proper module facility for a few
releases now... are we still opposed to putting contrib modules in thier own
schema?
I'm hesitant to do
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com
wrote:
Robert, this has been discussed many times before, and most people agree
with
you, but Bruce doesn't. I think the ony way this will change is if someone
takes on the role of release notes manager, subscrbes to
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