[HACKERS] Online base backup from the hot-standby

2011-05-27 Thread Jun Ishiduka
Hi I would like to develop function for 'Online base backup from the hot-standby' in PostgreSQL 9.2. Todo : Allow hot file system backups on standby servers (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo) [GOAL] * Make pg_basebackup to execute to the hot-standby server and acquire

Re: [HACKERS] errno not set in case of libm functions (HPUX)

2011-05-27 Thread Ibrar Ahmed
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: On tor, 2011-05-26 at 12:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I tried this on my HP-UX 10.20 box, and it didn't work very nicely: configure decided that the compiler accepted +Olibmerrno, so I

[HACKERS] compatibility issue with DirectFunctionCall1

2011-05-27 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello, I am working on testing Orafce for PostgreSQL 9.1. I found a issue. I cannot directly call a function lower. Is it correct? select dbms_assert.enquote_name('''AAA'); ! enquote_name. ! -- ! 'aaa ! (1 row) !. select dbms_assert.enquote_name('''AAA', false);

Re: [HACKERS] kill -KILL: What happens?

2011-05-27 Thread Florian Pflug
On May7, 2011, at 03:50 , Robert Haas wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: I've realized that POSIX actually *does* provide a way to receive a signal - the SIGIO machinery. I've modified my test case do to that. To simplify things, I've removed support

Re: [HACKERS] switch UNLOGGED to LOGGED

2011-05-27 Thread Noah Misch
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:37:20AM +0100, Leonardo Francalanci wrote: I'll try to sum up what I understood: 1) the standby keeps the lock, so no problem with stray files coming from the unlogged-logged log reply, as the table can't be read during the operation 2) calling

Re: [HACKERS] switch UNLOGGED to LOGGED

2011-05-27 Thread Leonardo Francalanci
From: Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com - the patch is missing the send all table pages to the standby part; is there some code I can use as base? Nothing comes to mind as especially similar. I guess I have to generate some special log type that is only played by standby servers.

Re: [HACKERS] compatibility issue with DirectFunctionCall1

2011-05-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 27.05.2011 12:06, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello, I am working on testing Orafce for PostgreSQL 9.1. I found a issue. I cannot directly call a function lower. See DirectFunctionCall1Coll() -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] compatibility issue with DirectFunctionCall1

2011-05-27 Thread Pavel Stehule
2011/5/27 Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com: On 27.05.2011 12:06, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello, I am working on testing Orafce for PostgreSQL 9.1. I found a issue. I cannot directly call a function lower. See DirectFunctionCall1Coll() ook Thank you Pavel --  

Re: [HACKERS] switch UNLOGGED to LOGGED

2011-05-27 Thread Noah Misch
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:49:13AM +0100, Leonardo Francalanci wrote: From: Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com - the patch is missing the send all table pages to the standby part; is there some code I can use as base? Nothing comes to mind as especially similar. I guess I have to

Re: [HACKERS] Online base backup from the hot-standby

2011-05-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 27.05.2011 09:09, Jun Ishiduka wrote: STEP1: Make startup process to acquire backup-end-position from not only backup-end record but also backup-history-file . * startup process allows to acquire backup-end-position from backup-history-file . *

Re: [HACKERS] kill -KILL: What happens?

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 27 May 2011 10:01, Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org wrote: Anyway, I'm glad to see that Peter Geoghegan has picked this up any turned this into an actual patch. Extremely cool! Thanks Florian. -- Peter Geoghegan       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training

[HACKERS] What is the best and easiest implementation to reliably wait for the completion of startup?

2011-05-27 Thread MauMau
Hello, I've encountered a problem of PostgreSQL startup, and I can think of a simple solution for that. However, I don't yet have much knowledge about PostgreSQL implementation, I'd like to ask you about what is the best and easiest solution. If it is easy for me to work on during my spare

[HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread MauMau
Hello, I posted a patch for bug #6011 to pgsql-hackers several days ago. How can I check the status of bug fixes? I'm worried that the patch might be forgotten, because bug #5842 was missed for two months until Bruce noticed it. Regards MauMau -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 05/27/2011 08:36 AM, MauMau wrote: Hello, I posted a patch for bug #6011 to pgsql-hackers several days ago. How can I check the status of bug fixes? I'm worried that the patch might be forgotten, because bug #5842 was missed for two months until Bruce noticed it. In the immortal

[HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Something odd is happening on buildfarm member wombat, a PPC970MP box running Gentoo. We're getting dblink test failures. On the one I looked at more closely I saw this: [4ddf2c59.7aec:153] LOG: disconnection: session time: 0:00:00.444 user=markwkm database=contrib_regression host=[local]

[HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Pavan Deolasee
I wonder if we have tested the reasoning behind having SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD and the magic number of 32 assigned to it currently. While looking at the code after a long time and doing some tests, I realized that a manual VACUUM would always scan first 31 pages of a relation which has not received

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.com writes: My statistical skills are limited, but wouldn't that mean that for a fairly well distributed write activity across a large table, if there are even 3-4% update/deletes, we would most likely hit a not-all-visible page for every 32 pages scanned ?

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/5/27 Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.com: I wonder if we have tested the reasoning behind having SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD and the magic number of 32 assigned to it currently. While looking at the code after a long time and doing some tests, I realized that a manual VACUUM would always

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 27.05.2011 16:52, Pavan Deolasee wrote: On closer inspection, I realized that we have deliberately put in this hook to ensure that we use visibility maps only when we see at least SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD worth of all-visible sequential pages to take advantage of possible OS seq scan

Re: [HACKERS] What is the best and easiest implementation to reliably wait for the completion of startup?

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
MauMau maumau...@gmail.com writes: The bad thing is that pg_ctl continues to wait until the specified duration passes, even if postgres fails to start. For example, it is naturally desirable for pg_ctl to terminate when postgresql.conf contains a syntax error. Hmm, I thought we'd fixed

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/5/27 Cédric Villemain cedric.villemain.deb...@gmail.com: 2011/5/27 Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.com: I wonder if we have tested the reasoning behind having SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD and the magic number of 32 assigned to it currently. While looking at the code after a long time and

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] pg_class reltuples/relpages not updated by autovacuum/vacuum

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes: When we prune or vacuum a page, I don't suppose we have enough information about that page's previous state to calculate a tuple count delta, do we?  That would allow a far

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.com writes: My statistical skills are limited, but wouldn't that mean that for a fairly well distributed write activity across a large table, if there are even 3-4% update/deletes, we would

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Something odd is happening on buildfarm member wombat, a PPC970MP box running Gentoo. We're getting dblink test failures. On the one I looked at more closely I saw this: [4ddf2c59.7aec:153] LOG:  disconnection:

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Greg Stark
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: Well, as with normal queries, it's usually faster to just seqscan the whole table if you need to access more than a few percent of the pages, because sequential I/O is so much faster than random I/O.

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: On 27.05.2011 16:52, Pavan Deolasee wrote: On closer inspection, I realized that we have deliberately put in this hook to ensure that we use visibility maps only when we see at least

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin Grittner
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Something odd is happening on buildfarm member wombat, a PPC970MP box running Gentoo. We're getting dblink test failures. On the one I looked at more closely I saw this: [4ddf2c59.7aec:153] LOG:

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of vie may 27 08:53:50 -0400 2011: In the immortal words of Robert Haas: Hey, look! An elephant! This is Robert's $1000 tshirt, I think. -- Álvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication,

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 05/27/2011 05:36 AM, MauMau wrote: Hello, I posted a patch for bug #6011 to pgsql-hackers several days ago. How can I check the status of bug fixes? I'm worried that the patch might be forgotten, because bug #5842 was missed for two months until Bruce noticed it. The joke that my

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com writes: You have done what you need to do to check the status. Someone who knows something about the bug should speak up at some point. That patch is waiting for a committer who knows something about Windows to pick it up. regards,

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Around when did it start failing? According to the buildfarm logs the first failure was roughly 1 day 10 hours 40 minutes before this post. See

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: grebe, which is also a PPC64 machine, isn't showing the bug. And I just failed to reproduce the problem on a RHEL6 PPC64 box. About to go try it on RHEL5, which has a gcc version much closer to what wombat says it's using, but I'm not very hopeful about that. Nope, no luck there

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Steve Singer
On 11-05-27 12:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: grebe, which is also a PPC64 machine, isn't showing the bug. And I just failed to reproduce the problem on a RHEL6 PPC64 box. About to go try it on RHEL5, which has a gcc version much closer to what wombat says it's using, but I'm not very hopeful about

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com writes: You have done what you need to do to check the status. Someone who knows something about the bug should speak up at some point. That patch is waiting for a committer who knows

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum, visibility maps and SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Greg Stark gsst...@mit.edu wrote: It would be nice if the VM had a bit for all-frozen but that wouldn't help much except in the case of truly cold data. We could perhaps keep the frozen data per segment or per VM page (which covers a large section of the

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: That patch is waiting for a committer who knows something about Windows to pick it up. It might be useful, in this situation, for the OP to add this patch to the CommitFest

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] pg_class reltuples/relpages not updated by autovacuum/vacuum

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: Still, maybe we don't have a better option. If it were me, I'd add an additional safety valve: use your formula if the percentage of the relation scanned is above some threshold where there's unlikely to be too much skew. But if the percentage

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: That patch is waiting for a committer who knows something about Windows to pick it up. It might be useful, in

Re: [HACKERS] tackling full page writes

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: The replay of the WAL record for A doesn't rely on the content of chunk 1 which B modified. So I don't think that partial page writes has such a

Re: [HACKERS] tackling full page writes

2011-05-27 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:29:05PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 05/24/2011 04:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote: I've been looking into a similar refactoring of the names here, where we bundle all of these speed over safety

[HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi, One of our customers is interested in being able to store original timezone along with a certain timestamp. It is currently possible to store a TZ in a separate column, but this is a bit wasteful and not very convenient anyway. There are all sorts of UI issues that need to be resolved in

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing overhead of frequent table locks

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:53:11AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com wrote: This drops the part about only transferring fast-path entries once when a strong_lock_counts

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing overhead of frequent table locks

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: When a strong lock is taken or released, we have to increment or decrement strong_lock_counts[fasthashpartition]. Here's the question: is that atomic? In other words, suppose that strong_lock_counts[42] starts out at 0, and two backends both do

Re: [HACKERS] Re: starting to review the Extend NOT NULL representation to pg_constraint patch

2011-05-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
I intend to have a look at this patch and hopefully fix the outstanding issues. -- Álvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Right now we rely on the tzdata files on disk for things like pg_timezone_names and other accesses of TZ data; so the files are the authoritative source of TZ info. So we need to ensure that whenever the files are updated, the catalogs are

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 27, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Right now we rely on the tzdata files on disk for things like pg_timezone_names and other accesses of TZ data; so the files are the authoritative source of TZ info. So we need to ensure that whenever the files are updated, the catalogs are

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2011-05-27 at 13:55 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Also, I think it's about time we got ourselves some kind of bug tracker. I have no idea how to make that work without breaking workflow that works now, but a quick survey of my pgsql-bugs email suggests that this is far from the only thing

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin Grittner
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: I like it, but what do you do when a TZ has been renamed or has ceased to exist. Or, worse, existed last week, so last week's dates might still use it, but next week's must not? I think the key thing is that the timestamp portion of it would be

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes: I like it, but what do you do when a TZ has been renamed or has ceased to exist. As far as that goes, I think nothing is a sufficient answer. There's no requirement that an OID in the mapping table correspond to a live TZ. It's just a more compact

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 27, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes: I like it, but what do you do when a TZ has been renamed or has ceased to exist. As far as that goes, I think nothing is a sufficient answer. There's no requirement that an OID in the mapping table

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing overhead of frequent table locks

2011-05-27 Thread Noah Misch
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:55:07PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: When a strong lock is taken or released, we have to increment or decrement strong_lock_counts[fasthashpartition]. Here's the question: is that atomic? In other words, suppose that strong_lock_counts[42] starts out at 0, and two

Re: [HACKERS] minor patch submission: CREATE CAST ... AS EXPLICIT

2011-05-27 Thread Fabien COELHO
From a language definition perspective, it is helpful to have a name for every case instead of an implicit fallback, without any word to describe it. See for instance CREATE USER CREATEDB/NOCREATEDB or CREATE RULE ... DO ALSO/INSTEAD for similar occurences of naming default cases. Oddly

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Andres Freund
On Friday, May 27, 2011 20:39:26 Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: That patch is waiting for a committer who knows something

Re: [HACKERS] errno not set in case of libm functions (HPUX)

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-05-26 at 17:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: We could also do that globally, but that would probably be something for the next release. Hmm. I'm a bit scared of how much might break. I don't think the autoconf tests are generally designed to guarantee no warnings. Yeah, I think

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On fre, 2011-05-27 at 13:55 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Also, I think it's about time we got ourselves some kind of bug tracker.  I have no idea how to make that work without breaking workflow that works now, but a quick

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Greg Stark
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Steve Singer ssin...@ca.afilias.info wrote: As another data point, the dblink regression tests work fine for me on a PPC32 debian (squeeze,gcc 4.4.5) based system. Given that it's dblink my guess is that it's picking up the wrong version of libpq somehow. --

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Greg Stark
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: I think the key thing is that the timestamp portion of it would be identical to our current TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE -- always store it in the value UTC zone. Fwiw our timestamp with time zone stores seconds

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Steve Crawford
On 05/27/2011 01:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hi, One of our customers is interested in being able to store original timezone along with a certain timestamp. I am very interested in the use-case for this (in part as I'm working on a PG related time talk). My experience thus far is that people

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Greg Stark
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com wrote: I am very interested in the use-case for this (in part as I'm working on a PG related time talk). My experience thus far is that people who want this do not fully understand the nature of date-time

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Steve Crawford
On 05/27/2011 04:29 PM, Greg Stark wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com wrote: I am very interested in the use-case for this (in part as I'm working on a PG related time talk). My experience thus far is that people who want this do not fully

Re: [HACKERS] storing TZ along timestamps

2011-05-27 Thread Jim Nasby
On May 27, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Greg Stark wrote: Both of these two cases can be handled differently. The former by storing the raw text inputs and then storing the interpreted value as a derived column separetly, and the latter by storing the local time zone to use for display as an additional

Re: [HACKERS] dblink crash on PPC

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark gsst...@mit.edu writes: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Steve Singer ssin...@ca.afilias.info wrote: As another data point, the dblink regression tests work fine for me on a PPC32 debian (squeeze,gcc 4.4.5) based system. Given that it's dblink my guess is that it's picking up

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.

2011-05-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Cédric Villemain's message of vie may 27 18:37:05 -0400 2011: 2011/4/21 Robert Haas rh...@postgresql.org: Modified Files -- doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml         |   26 +++ src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c          |  277 +++--

Re: [HACKERS] What is the best and easiest implementation to reliably wait for the completion of startup?

2011-05-27 Thread MauMau
From: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us MauMau maumau...@gmail.com writes: The bad thing is that pg_ctl continues to wait until the specified duration passes, even if postgres fails to start. For example, it is naturally desirable for pg_ctl to terminate when postgresql.conf contains a syntax error.

Re: [HACKERS] How can I check the treatment of bug fixes?

2011-05-27 Thread MauMau
From: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net On fre, 2011-05-27 at 13:55 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Also, I think it's about time we got ourselves some kind of bug tracker. I have no idea how to make that work without breaking workflow that works now, but a quick survey of my pgsql-bugs email