Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, > A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that > will > download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish > many > many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and > installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Mark Kirkwood said: > > Mark Woodward wrote: > >> There should e a big huge button and/or link > >> to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. > > > > While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that > > m

Re: [HACKERS] GRANT/REVOKE: Allow column-level privileges

2006-01-29 Thread kevin brintnall
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:16:40PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Euler Taveira de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > --- kevin brintnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > >> if user matches an acl for the column > >>.. and priv is granted, then permit > >>.. else priv is not granted, reject

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will > >download, build and install module foo for you. > > CPAN modules, Ruby gems, PgFoundry ingots? :) Tu

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you. CPAN modules, Ruby gems, PgFoundry ingots? :) Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Question about postgresql-8.1.2-1-binaries-no-installer.zip(win32)

2006-01-29 Thread Alexey Gousev
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Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Mark Kirkwood said: > Mark Woodward wrote: > >> There should e a big huge button and/or link >> to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. >> > > While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that > making (particularly) Pgfoundry more prominent would be a good id

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Woodward wrote: There should e a big huge button and/or link to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that making (particularly) Pgfoundry more prominent would be a good idea. Mark, do you want to sugge

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I also think this would make a great pgfoundry project :) > > Yeah ... unless there's some reason that it needs to be tied to PG > server releases, it's better to put it on pgfoundry where you can > have your own release cycle. > I don't need pfoundry,

Re: [HACKERS] GRANT/REVOKE: Allow column-level privileges

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
Euler Taveira de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- kevin brintnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: >> if user matches an acl for the column >> .. and priv is granted, then permit >> .. else priv is not granted, reject >> else fall through to table privileges > Wouldn't it be more

Re: [HACKERS] GRANT/REVOKE: Allow column-level privileges

2006-01-29 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
--- kevin brintnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > if user matches an acl for the column > .. and priv is granted, then permit > .. else priv is not granted, reject > else fall through to table privileges > Wouldn't it be more cheap to test the most-common

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 1/29/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I generally agree as well, but.I think there is always a balance between "out of the box" vs"extensibility." I think integration and extensibility is fantastic foraddaptation of your product, but "oobe" (out of box experience) is important fo

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> > > Mark Woodward wrote: > >>XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually nothing >>about content. Content requires custom parsers. >> >> > > Really? Strange I've been dealing with it all this time without having > to contruct a parser. What you do need is to provide event handl

Re: [HACKERS] GRANT/REVOKE: Allow column-level privileges

2006-01-29 Thread kevin brintnall
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:25:40PM +0800, William ZHANG wrote: > > I think we should pay attention to the sematic of table privs and column > privs. > Here is some examples. > > 1. role1 GRANT table priviledge SELECT on table S to role2. > role1 REVOKE column priviledge SELECT on column S(SNO

Re: [HACKERS] Question about postgresql-8.1.2-1-binaries-no-installer.zip(win32)

2006-01-29 Thread Tony Caduto
Magnus Hagander wrote: It's used for ecpg, IIRC, when compiled in thread-safe mode. //Magnus Thanks Magnus, Here is another question for you. Is it documented anywhere or does someone know what is the bare minimum requirements to run the server on a production box? I want to create the li

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Mark Woodward wrote: XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually nothing about content. Content requires custom parsers. Really? Strange I've been dealing with it all this time without having to contruct a parser. What you do need is to provide event handlers to a str

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also think this would make a great pgfoundry project :) Yeah ... unless there's some reason that it needs to be tied to PG server releases, it's better to put it on pgfoundry where you can have your own release cycle. regards, t

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:04:47PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > > [removing -patches since no patch was attached] This sounds highly > > specialised, and probably more appropriate for a pgfoundry > > project. > > XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually > nothing about conte

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> > [removing -patches since no patch was attached] > This sounds highly specialised, and probably more appropriate for a > pgfoundry project. > > In any case, surely the whole point about XML is that you shouldn't need > to contruct custom parsers. Should we include a specialised parser for > evey

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
[removing -patches since no patch was attached] Mark Woodward wrote: I have a fairly simple extension I want to add to contrib. It is an XML parser that is designed to work with a specific dialect. I have a PHP extension called xmldbx, it allows the PHP system to serialize its web session dat

[HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
I have a fairly simple extension I want to add to contrib. It is an XML parser that is designed to work with a specific dialect. I have a PHP extension called xmldbx, it allows the PHP system to serialize its web session data to an XML stream. (or just serialize variables) PHP's normal serializer

Re: [HACKERS] Question about postgresql-8.1.2-1-binaries-no-installer.zip(win32)

2006-01-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Hi, > I noticed that when I install via the msi setup there is a > extra DLL in the bin directory called pthreadGC2.dll. (Posix > thread library for windows) > > This dll is not in the > postgresql-8.1.2-1-binaries-no-installer.zip file. > > Postgresql seems to run fine without out when I d