[HACKERS] Bison 1.50 was released

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, I just learned that bison 1.50 was released on Oct. 5th and it indeed compiles ecpg just nicely on my machine. Could we please install this on our main machine and merge the ecpg.big branch back into main? Michael -- Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian

[HACKERS] help

2002-10-10 Thread
Hello, which global variable is the path of postgresql binary? such as /usr/local/pgsql/bin I only find pg_pathbname stand for postgres full pathname. thank you in advance. Jinqiang Han ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and

[HACKERS] contrib/fixchar (Was: Large databases, performance)

2002-10-10 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:00:03 +0200, I wrote: here is an implementation of a set of user types: char3, char4, char10. New version available. As I don't want to spam the list with various versions until I get it right eventually, you can get it from

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.50 was released

2002-10-10 Thread Greg Copeland
Can we please hold off until bison 1.50 becomes a defacto? It will be a matter of weeks before distros offer this as an upgrade package let alone months before distros offer this as a standard. Seems like these changes are ideal for a release after next (7.5/7.6) as enough time will of gone by

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/fixchar (Was: Large databases, performance)

2002-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 10 Oct 2002 at 15:30, Manfred Koizar wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:00:03 +0200, I wrote: here is an implementation of a set of user types: char3, char4, char10. New version available. As I don't want to spam the list with various versions until I get it right eventually, you can get

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.50 was released

2002-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we please hold off until bison 1.50 becomes a defacto? We don't have a whole lot of choice, unless you prefer releasing a broken or crippled ecpg with 7.3. In practice this only affects people who pull sources from CVS, anyway. If you use a tarball

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.50 was released

2002-10-10 Thread Greg Copeland
Oh, that's right. I had forgotten that it wasn't for general PostgreSQL use. Since it's a ecpg deal only, I guess I remove my objection. Greg On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 09:18, Tom Lane wrote: Greg Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we please hold off until bison 1.50 becomes a defacto?

[HACKERS] Open items

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Here are the open items. There are only a few major ones left. I would like to get those done so we can shoot for a final release perhaps at the end of October. --- P O S T G R E S Q L

Re: [HACKERS] GRANT on functions/languages

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking for consistency so we could have things ready if we tighten up in 7.4. I believe someone volunteered to fix them all so I figured we should do that. Someone did volunteer, but I haven't seen results. My point is

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] inline newNode()

2002-10-10 Thread Gavin Sherry
On 10 Oct 2002, Neil Conway wrote: Well, I'd assume any C library / compiler of half-decent quality on any platform would provide assembly optimized versions of common stdlib functions like memset(). While playing around with memset() on my machine (P4 running Linux, glibc 2.2.5, GCC

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.50 was released

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Copeland wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. Can we please hold off until bison 1.50 becomes a defacto? It will be a matter of weeks before distros offer this as an upgrade package let alone months before distros offer this as a standard. Seems like these changes are ideal for a

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] inline newNode()

2002-10-10 Thread Neil Conway
Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Oct 2002, Neil Conway wrote: Compiled with '-DBUFFER_SIZE=256 -O2', I get the following results in seconds: MemSet(): ~9.6 memset(): ~19.5 __builtin_memset(): ~10.00 I ran the same code. I do not understand the results you go.

Re: [HACKERS] Open items

2002-10-10 Thread Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Schema handling - ready? interfaces? client apps? Drop column handling - ready for all clients, apps? How will delaying 7.3 remedy either of these issues? Get bison upgrade on postgresql.org for ecpg only (Marc) Now that bison 1.50 is out, this should

Re: [HACKERS] Open items

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Schema handling - ready? interfaces? client apps? Drop column handling - ready for all clients, apps? How will delaying 7.3 remedy either of these issues? Get bison upgrade on postgresql.org for ecpg only (Marc) Now that

Re: [HACKERS] Diff for src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c between version 1.195

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Denis A Ustimenko wrote: Hello Bruce! You have patched fe-connect.c and dropeed out one check in line 1078: while (rp == NULL || remains.tv_sec 0 || (remains.tv_sec == 0 remains.tv_usec 0)) --- while (rp == NULL || remains.tv_sec 0 || remains.tv_usec 0) As I understand it is

Re: [HACKERS] Diff for src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c between version

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, I have applied the following patch which should fix the problem by preventing tv_sec from becoming negative. --- Bruce Momjian wrote: Denis A Ustimenko wrote: Hello Bruce! You have patched fe-connect.c and

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: [JDBC] Patch for handling autocommit=false

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Barry Lind wrote: Did anything come of this discussion on whether SET initiates a transaction or not? SET does not start a multi-statement transaction when autocommit is off. In summary what is the right way to deal with setting autocommit in clients? I guess just 'set autocommit to on'