Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-15 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: Our philosophy has never been to give people configuration options just in case they might be valuable to them. If we did that, we would be like Oracle. We give config options only if we can't decide the best default. For testing, you can have an #ifdef and we can test it

Re: [HACKERS] cvs head? initdb?

2003-11-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Our philosophy has never been to give people configuration options just in case they might be valuable to them. If we did that, we would be like Oracle. We give config options only if we can't decide the best default. For testing, you can

Re: [HACKERS] oh dear ...

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: The pgstat patch has already been checked to my satisfaction, but the datetime patch needs more eyeballs on it; anyone out there have time to look at it? FWIW, it looks good to me, seems to work as intended, and passes all existing

Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] 7.4RC2 regression failur and not running stats

2003-11-15 Thread Derek Morr
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:07:43, Josh Berkus wrote: One thing I've not seen an answer to: does Postgres run acceptably on other people's Solaris boxes? If this bug is preventing running on Solaris at all, I'd say fix it ... Solaris is a major platform. If it only affects users of one

Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] 7.4RC2 regression failur and not running stats

2003-11-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Derek Morr wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:07:43, Josh Berkus wrote: One thing I've not seen an answer to: does Postgres run acceptably on other people's Solaris boxes? If this bug is preventing running on Solaris at all, I'd say fix it ... Solaris is a major platform. If it only

Re: [HACKERS] bufmgr code question

2003-11-15 Thread Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a TODO here? You needn't add one: I hope to tackle this during the 7.5 dev cycle. -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your

[HACKERS] source version?

2003-11-15 Thread bpalmer
No luck on general, so I'll try here: I'm trying to figure out what version of a source code I have. I know it's a 7.2 release, but how can I find out of it's 7.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, etc. FROM THE SOURCE CODE, not from compiling (it doesn't compile, it's testing code). Thanks - Brandon

Re: [HACKERS] oh dear ...

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I made up a more thorough regression test for date input formats, and found that there were still some cases that were rejected :-(. Attached is a more complete patch that handles all month-name cases, and explicitly can not change the behavior when there's not a textual month name.

Re: [HACKERS] source version?

2003-11-15 Thread Neil Conway
bpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to figure out what version of a source code I have. I know it's a 7.2 release, but how can I find out of it's 7.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, etc. FROM THE SOURCE CODE, not from compiling (it doesn't compile, it's testing code). Look in configure.in:

Re: [HACKERS] oh dear ...

2003-11-15 Thread Joe Conway
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: I made up a more thorough regression test for date input formats, and found that there were still some cases that were rejected :-(. Attached is a more complete patch that handles all month-name cases, and explicitly can not change the behavior when there's not a