Re: [HACKERS] src/timezone/pgtz __imp__my_exec_path

2004-11-27 Thread Reini Urban
postgresql-cygwin is working fine. See the testfarm. Just cygwin itself, cygserver - the IPC daemon - has problems. On msgctl(IPC_INFO) the internal msg buffer struct msqid_ds *buf is allocated at a non-writable area, IsBadWritePtr() fails. I suspect it's a new gcc-3.4 feature, but haven't found

[HACKERS] how to enable syslog in windows

2004-11-27 Thread Ganesan S
how can i enable syslog in postgresql8.0.0beta4 on windows if syslog_indent,syslog_facility are commented only postgres service is starting if i remove the comment(#) service is not starting can anyone help me out Regards Ganesan SReini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: postgresql-cygwin is

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL testresults

2004-11-27 Thread Philippe Rigault
Hello, I have not seen any PostgreSQL mailing-list for posting results of compilation/testing on different platforms/configurations (something similar to gcc-testresults for gcc). Are you guys interested in getting results like this ? It could provide developers with lots of interesting

Re: [HACKERS] New member says hello

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: at 09:50 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you're hoping to get this into 8.0, it had better arrive soon and be a very small patch ... It may have to be for 8.0.1 there are a lot of changes to the makefiles to accomodate the if(($portname), ibmos2) stuff

Re: [HACKERS] how to enable syslog in windows

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
Ganesan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i enable syslog in postgresql8.0.0beta4 on windows Has Windows got syslog? I thought not. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet,

Re: [HACKERS] New member says hello

2004-11-27 Thread lsunley
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/27/04 at 01:05 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: at 09:50 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you're hoping to get this into 8.0, it had better arrive soon and be a very small patch ... It may have to be for 8.0.1 there are

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL testresults

2004-11-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Philippe Rigault said: Hello, I have not seen any PostgreSQL mailing-list for posting results of compilation/testing on different platforms/configurations (something similar to gcc-testresults for gcc). Are you guys interested in getting results like this ? It could provide developers

Re: [HACKERS] Bitmap index

2004-11-27 Thread Patrick B Kelly
On Nov 22, 2004, at 2:57 AM, Pawe Niewiadomski wrote: Hello, I saw discussion about bitmap indexes few weeks ago. I wonder if any of you is working on it (in secret)? I will be chosing subject of my master thesis and thougth about implementing bitmap indexes. -- **Pawe Niewiadomski**,

[HACKERS] VACUUM FULL FREEZE is unsafe

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
The point of VACUUM FREEZE is to ensure that there are no tuples present in the database whose commit status depends on normal XIDs. Without this guarantee, cloning template0 might stop working once the relevant part of pg_clog has been pruned. If one combines freezing with moving tuples across

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] pg_autovacuum in 8beta-dev3 small bug

2004-11-27 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian Sent: 27 November 2004 04:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PostgreSQL Win32 port list; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] pg_autovacuum in 8beta-dev3

Re: [HACKERS] how to enable syslog in windows

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Tom Lane wrote: Ganesan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i enable syslog in postgresql8.0.0beta4 on windows Has Windows got syslog? I thought not. No, Windows in itself doesn't. The preferred way on windows is to use the event logger. There are of course a number of freeware syslog

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL FREEZE is unsafe

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
So why not have VACUUM FULL FREEZE just do what you propose: VACUUM FULL then VACUUM FREEZE. -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On Nov 27,

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL FREEZE is unsafe

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas F.O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why not have VACUUM FULL FREEZE just do what you propose: VACUUM FULL then VACUUM FREEZE. The objective is to make it more safe, not less so. Doing that would require rewriting a whole bunch of code, which I am not up for at this stage of the

[HACKERS] Fix for NLS in pgport

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
I saw Peter's commit to allow NLS lookups from libpgport functions. Here is the change to pg_ctl/nls.mk: GETTEXT_FILES := pg_ctl.c GETTEXT_FILES := pg_ctl.c ../../port/exec.c Peter, do you have to know the C file used by pg_ctl to make these adjustments? This

Re: [HACKERS] Problems using pgxs on Win32

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
I assume all the pgxs changes have been applied by Tom. --- Fabien COELHO wrote: Dear Thomas, I'm trying to change the Makefile system for PL/Java so that it uses PGXS instead of compiling using a complete

Re: [HACKERS] Suggestion: additional system views

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.1 release: http:/momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2 --- David Fetter wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:49:47AM +0100, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Neil,

Re: [HACKERS] psql and schemas

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Is there a TODO here? Or a few? --- Neil Conway wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 05:32, Tom Lane wrote: The behaviors you mention were written at different times by different people, and mostly have nothing to do with

[HACKERS] Non-C locale and LIKE

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
I know we can't currently use an index with non-C locales and LIKE except when we create a sepcial type of index for LIKE indexing (text_pattern_ops). However, I am wondering if we should create a character lookup during initdb that has the characters ordered so we can do: col LIKE 'ha%'

Re: [HACKERS] Non-C locale and LIKE

2004-11-27 Thread John Hansen
However, I am wondering if we should create a character lookup during initdb that has the characters ordered so we can do: col LIKE 'ha%' AND col = ha and col = hb Could we do this easily for single-character encodings? We could have: A 1 B 2 C