Re: [HACKERS] default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand why you call this a hack. Pattern matching and string comparison simply work differently, so the proper solution is to use different operator classes. After all, that's what operator classes exist for. What is left to be desired?

[HACKERS] Use of Intel compiler on Linux

2003-06-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
A German computer magazine (c't 7/2003) tested the Intel C/C++ compiler suite on Linux. Among the open-source projects they tried, PostgreSQL and KDE were the only ones they couldn't get to compile at all. I tried it out and made two simple changes (see below) to be able to compile it. If no

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres config file: autocommit = off

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Rasmus Resen Amossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Therefor: Are there any plans to give the administrator an OPTION to turn the behavior off through a parameter autocommit = boolean in the config file? We have been there, done that, and decided it was a bad idea. I suggest you do a little

Re: [HACKERS] A few notes

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... is it possible the GEQO threshold, as a default, is too low? It's been on the TODO list for awhile to investigate whether the current default is still appropriate. A lot of planner details have changed since we last twiddled it, and you're not the

Re: [HACKERS] default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has the single-byte LIKE penalty been eliminated, so we don't need to consider using C as the default locale for initdb, right? I'm still of the opinion that we should make C the default locale. But I'm not sure where the consensus

[HACKERS] regression in cvs tip

2003-06-01 Thread Joe Conway
I ran across a regression in unmodified cvs tip. On a 7.3.2 installation I can do: create table tse(f1 int, f2 int[], f3 text[]); insert into tse values(1,'{69,42,54}', '{g,d,e}'); # select * from tse where 1 in (select f1); f1 | f2 | f3 ++- 1 | {69,42,54} |

Re: [HACKERS] default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, my understanding is that you would create something such as: CREATE INDEX iix ON tab (LIKE col) and that does LIKE lookups and knows how to do col LIKE 'abc%', but it can't be used for = or ORDER BY, but it can be used for equality tests? Hm.

Re: [HACKERS] regression in cvs tip

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran across a regression in unmodified cvs tip. Looks like I forgot to make markTargetListOrigin handle outer-scope Vars (those with varlevelsup 0) :-(. Will fix, thanks for report! regards, tom lane

[HACKERS] The Register moving to Bricolage + PostgreSQL...

2003-06-01 Thread Dave Page
...which is nice: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/31/30959.html Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, my understanding is that you would create something such as: CREATE INDEX iix ON tab (LIKE col) and that does LIKE lookups and knows how to do col LIKE 'abc%', but it can't be used for = or ORDER BY, but it can be used for

Re: [HACKERS] compile error on cvs tip

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Sean Chittenden wrote: auth.c: In function `pg_krb5_recvauth': auth.c:294: structure has no member named `user' Ooops, my fault --- I didn't build with Kerberos support after changing those field names. Now that I think about it, there might be similar omissions in the PAM or

Re: [HACKERS] Please, apply patch for current CVS

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours. --- Teodor Sigaev wrote: Patch for

Re: [HACKERS] How about an am_superuser GUC parameter (non-settable)?

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little uneasy with puttting too much extra burden on the GUC mechanism, which is after all a system to configure the server, not to retrieve or communicate data. Even the server_version thing recently added doesn't make me

Re: [HACKERS] Adding missing from clause

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: * Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables --- Philip Warner wrote: At 02:36 PM 29/04/2003 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: I'd far rather have a fatal query error

Re: [HACKERS] compile error on cvs tip

2003-06-01 Thread Sean Chittenden
auth.c: In function `pg_krb5_recvauth': auth.c:294: structure has no member named `user' Ooops, my fault --- I didn't build with Kerberos support after changing those field names. Now that I think about it, there might be similar omissions in the PAM or Kerberos4

Re: [HACKERS] Adding missing from clause

2003-06-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
And patch now in queue. :-) --- Bruce Momjian wrote: Added to TODO: * Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG thread-safety

2003-06-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: 2) Native freeBSD threads pthread.h in /usr/include and lc_r Do you know if FreeBSD supports pthread_rwlock with PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED? I'm trying to replace the LWLocks with pthread_rwlocks. What about other Unices? -- Manfred ---(end