Re: [HACKERS] PGBuildfarm member skylark Branch HEAD Failed at Stage Make

2007-09-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
PG Build Farm wrote: The PGBuildfarm member skylark had the following event on branch HEAD: Failed at Stage: Make The snapshot timestamp for the build that triggered this notification is: 2007-09-29 03:00:01 The specs of this machine are: OS: Windows XP / SP2 Arch: x64 Comp: Visual

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Temporarily modify tsearch regression tests to suppress notice

2007-09-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: That's not fixing the problem, unless your proposal includes never issuing any warnings at all, for anything. No warning for * because it is intentional, but warning for actual stop words. No, you're focusing

[HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
A while back in an off-hand comment Tom packed varlenas he mentioned that we might want to have more types of toast pointers. Since then the idea of some alternative column-wise partitioning scheme has come up and another idea I've been tossing around is some kind of compression scheme which

Re: [HACKERS] PG on NFS may be just a bad idea

2007-09-29 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Tom Lane wrote: If this is what's happening I'd claim it is a kernel bug, but seeing that I see it on FC6 and Miya sees it on Solaris 10, it would be a bug widespread enough that we'd not be likely to get it killed off soon. I think my colleague was solving similar issue in JavaDB. IIRC the

Re: [HACKERS] PGBuildfarm member skylark Branch HEAD Failed at Stage Make

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PG Build Farm wrote: For more information, see http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=skylarkbr=HEAD I think this just needs a new object added to the libpgport list in Mkvcbuild.pm at line 46-50. My fault, sorry about that. But I'm

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Temporarily modify tsearch regression tests to suppress notice

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: One possible real solution would be to tweak the dictionary APIs so that the dictionaries can find out whether this is the first load during a session, or a reload, and emit notices only in the first case. Yea, that would work too. Or

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate that a fixed size pointer like a toast

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate that

[HACKERS] CLUSTER doesn't check indisvalid etc

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
It strikes me that CLUSTER has been broken since CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY was put in, because it doesn't check whether the index it's been asked to cluster on is valid. If C.I.C. fails before marking the index indisvalid, a subsequent CLUSTER would happily cluster using only the index entries

Re: [HACKERS] PGBuildfarm member skylark Branch HEAD Failed at Stage Make

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I'm getting less and less satisfied with the way that the MSVC build system is forcing us to duplicate all the knowledge in the Makefiles. I whined about this quite some time ago ... One thing I did in the commit that broke this was to move the list of fixed

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not for this because it would complicate the already-too-complicated inner-loop tests for deciding which form of datum you're looking at. The idea that I recall mentioning was to expend another byte in TOAST

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to lower VARATT_SHORT_MAX to 0x70 to allow for at least a small number of constant values which could indicate some special type of datum. That could be used to indicate that

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The idea that I recall mentioning was to expend another byte in TOAST pointers to make them self-identifying, ie, instead of 0x80 or 0x01 signaling something that *must* be a 17-byte toast pointer, that bit pattern

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 beta timing

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we need another week to get things ready for beta. Why? Other than the lack of release notes, we could wrap on Monday. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have

[HACKERS] 8.3 beta timing

2007-09-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
I think we need another week to get things ready for beta. I will have the release notes done mid-week and hopefully we can close out all open items by the end of the week. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Something's been bugging me

2007-09-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd be inclined to make the second byte be the length and have VARSIZE_1B_E depend on that --- any objection? On one hand it offends me since it's hard coding an assumption that the size of a pointer decides what it contains and vice versa. There's nothing