Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkusjosh@agliodbs.com Sent: 18/03/06 01:55:04 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.orgpgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update Heck, if you have an idea for a

[HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Cramer
Has anyone built postgresql on this platform ? Does it work ? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Mar 18, 2006, at 22:17 , Dave Cramer wrote: Has anyone built postgresql on this platform ? Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the archives for details. Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important

2006-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Satoshi Nagayasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm *really* *really* interested in making PostgreSQL to be vacuum-less. Can we have a vacuum-less PostgreSQL in the future? How? I don't foresee that ever happening. AFAICS a non-vacuuming MVCC system would have to be implemented just like Oracle

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: -- There are only 13 days left to submit a proposal. Please do so. We'd rather not be forced into a last-minute rush to evaluate all of the stuff in April. Remember this is a family event so you

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Tom, On 3/17/06 9:59 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would buy what exactly? I guess you didn't read the other 80% of the post. In short, faster performance through more aggressive runtime compilation. A JIT for the database kernel. It's not like I'm on shaky ground here - other

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Tom, On 3/17/06 12:18 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One user with ability to enter arbitrary SQL commands can *always* blow your resource planning away. Blaming such things on work_mem is seriously misguided. Agreed - that's why we need to split this discussion into the two

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important

2006-03-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Satoshi, I'm *really* *really* interested in making PostgreSQL to be vacuum-less. Can we have a vacuum-less PostgreSQL in the future? How? I've heard a couple other requests for dealing with vaccuum. I think a Fixing Vacuum Round-Table might be a valuable session if we have someone to lead

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:36 +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the archives for details. Are we prepared to declare that OS/X on Intel is an officially supported platform for the 8.1 release series? If so, we should add that information

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Neil Conway wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:36 +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the archives for details. Are we prepared to declare that OS/X on Intel is an officially supported platform for the 8.1

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Luke Lonergan wrote: Tom, On 3/17/06 9:59 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would buy what exactly? I guess you didn't read the other 80% of the post. In short, faster performance through more aggressive runtime compilation. A JIT for the database kernel. It's not like I'm on

[HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to Check failure

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Page
Seeing failure on 8.1 as well. BTW, I keep forwarding these, but is there any need? Are enough hackers on the status change lists anyway? /D -Original Message- From: PG Build Farm[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18/03/06 02:13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, L, 2006-03-18 kell 12:38, kirjutas Rod Taylor: This will, presumably, be a very PostgreSQL friendly group so a sales pitch isn't really required. How about the opposite? Tom Lanes list of areas that PostgreSQL does a poor job and a detailed explanation as to how that

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Qingqing Zhou wrote: I am really interested in the concurrency control part of the PostgreSQL. I can see the MVCC/lock rules there, and basically I can follow them -- but there are so many if-else in the rules, so the problem always for me is: how can we gaurantee that the rules are complete