Re: [HACKERS] Let the commit fest begin!

2008-05-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: It's May 1st, which means it's time for our second 8.4 commit fest. I took a quick look through my inbox and added some pending patches to http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest:May but it's entirely likely there are still some missing

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] GUC parameter cursors_tuple_fraction

2008-05-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 02 May 2008 13:35:27 Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Riggs wrote: * We've said here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html that we Don't want hints. If that's what we really think,

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Text - C string

2008-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well ... if somebody does want to change the representation of xml down the road, he's going to have to touch all the sites where the code converts to and from cstring anyway, right? True. With that in mind, please find attached my followup patch. It

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Patch - LDAPS support for servers on port 636 w/o TLS

2008-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
stephen layland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've written a quick patch against the head branch (8.4DEV, but it also works with 8.1.3 sources) to fix LDAP authentication support to work with LDAPS servers that do not need start TLS. I'd be interested to hear your opinions on this. Not being an

Re: [HACKERS] Protection from SQL injection

2008-05-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Mueller: What do you think about it? Do you think it makes sense to implement this security feature in PostgreSQL as well? Can't this be implemented in the client library, or a wrapper around it? A simple approximation would be to raise an error when you encounter a query string that

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for Prevent pg_dump/pg_restore from being affected by statement_timeout

2008-05-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Committed with slight editorializing. Statement timeout was only introduced in 7.3, whereas pg_dump can dump from much older versions of Postgres. You forget a ; in this committ [1]. [1]

[HACKERS] Query Hints? No thanks. Data hints?

2008-05-04 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi -hackers, In another thread about GUC parameter cursors_tuple_fraction, the debate seems to drift onto query hints. About which the consensus here is pretty clear and strong, no query hints in PostgreSQL, thanks, or we're never gonna have a