[HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
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Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
Hi Peter, Dimitri, thank you for your comments. On 03/12/13 22:27, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: On 12/1/13, 2:24 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: IMHO, defining a new syntax for the postgreql.conf file format, that is suitable

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-04 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/12/13 16:51, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 12/4/13, 1:42 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: IMHO, a data structure like the above would be completely self-contained and allow any autoconfiguring tool or GUI tool to be easily created, if the syntax is programmable. It would certainly

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-04 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/12/13 19:49, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 12/4/13, 11:22 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Would it be well-received a new file format that keeps it simple for both hand editing and generation of the configuration, and at the same time offers the features I have mentioned? I don't see

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-04 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/12/13 20:44, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 12/4/13, 2:02 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: So optional fields are either purely optional (i.e., only for tools that want to use them; everyone else may ignore, but preserve, them) and some other are just NULLABLEs, depending

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/12/13 04:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 00:51 +0100, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: The tradeoff seems quite positive to me. I see no strong reasons why not do it... am I missing something? I don't buy your argument. You say, if we make this change

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/12/2013 22:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 12/6/13, 12:29 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: What I've been trying to do is summarize what has already been discussed here and propose a solution. You say that you can already do those thisngs, but that's not what I have read here

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/12/2013 19:11, David Johnston wrote: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote Note that you are not required to maintain your configuration data in a postgresql.conf-formatted file. You can keep it anywhere you like, GUI around in it, and convert it back to the required format. Most

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 09/12/13 18:26, Greg Stark wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es wrote: Right now, writing such a tool in a generic way gets so bogged down just in parsing/manipulating the postgresql.conf file that it's hard to focus on actually doing the tuning

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 09/12/13 18:00, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es wrote: I think both could be used a lot, editing directly a rich configuration file or using a GUI tool. I'm trying to suggest supporting both. I don't really understand how

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

2013-12-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 13/12/13 04:11, Greg Stark wrote: On 12 Dec 2013 04:20, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es wrote: Thanks, Greg. I've been going through those threads, they are quite interesting. I didn't find an answer, though, about my question: why parsing

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 14:27, Joel Jacobson wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Andres - it is not a good for plpgsql and for plpgsql users. The benefit must be significant for 90% of users. ... Official implementation of plpgsql2 can be very

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 20:42, Tom Lane wrote: =?UTF-8?B?w4FsdmFybyBIZXJuw6FuZGV6IFRvcnRvc2E=?= a...@nosys.es writes: What I can add is that, if Postgres is to devote resources to a new language, I would plan it with a broader scope. What would attract most users? Would it bring non postgres users

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 21:08, Pavel Stehule wrote: 2014-09-01 20:58 GMT+02:00 Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es: On 01/09/14 20:42, Tom Lane wrote: =?UTF-8?B?w4FsdmFybyBIZXJuw6FuZGV6IFRvcnRvc2E=?= a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es writes

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 21:52, Joel Jacobson wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es wrote: What I can add is that, if Postgres is to devote resources to a new language, I would plan it with a broader scope. What would attract most users? Would it bring non

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 23:31, Marko Tiikkaja wrote: On 2014-09-01 11:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: No, really: if there is a new version of a language, which modifies the current syntax of plpgsql; if plpgsql is already very similar to PL/SQL: why not rather than coming up with a new

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 01/09/14 23:46, David G Johnston wrote: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote On 01/09/14 21:52, Joel Jacobson wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa lt; aht@ gt; wrote: What I can add is that, if Postgres is to devote resources to a new language, I would plan

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 05:24, Craig Ringer wrote: I couldn't disagree more. If we were to implement anything, it'd be PL/PSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM). I'm sure it's as bizarre and quirky as anything else the SQL committee has brought forth, but it's at least a standard(ish) language. So

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 06:40, Tom Lane wrote: Craig Ringer cr...@2ndquadrant.com writes: If someone came up with a convincing PL/SQL compatibility layer then it'd be worth considering adopting - when it was ready. But of course, anyone who does the work for that is quite likely to want to sell it to

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 11:34, Mark Kirkwood wrote: On 02/09/14 21:25, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 02/09/14 05:24, Craig Ringer wrote: I couldn't disagree more. If we were to implement anything, it'd be PL/PSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM). I'm sure it's as bizarre and quirky

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 11:31, Pavel Stehule wrote: 2014-09-02 11:25 GMT+02:00 Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es: On 02/09/14 05:24, Craig Ringer wrote: I couldn't disagree more. If we were to implement anything, it'd be PL/PSM (http

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 11:44, Pavel Stehule wrote: For 9.4, we have the media already saying Postgres has NoSQL capabilities (which is only partially true). For x.y we could have the media saying Postgres adds Oracle compatibility (which would be only partially true). But that

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 11:56, Pavel Stehule wrote: 2014-09-02 11:50 GMT+02:00 Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es: On 02/09/14 11:31, Pavel Stehule wrote: 2014-09-02 11:25 GMT+02:00 Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es mailto:a...@nosys.es: On 02

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 12:46, Marko Tiikkaja wrote: On 9/2/14 11:40 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: If we are to have another plpgsql-like language (like plpgsql2) and we could design it so it would attract many many users (let's not forget that Oracle may have around two orders of magnitude

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 17:03, Hannu Krosing wrote: On 09/02/2014 11:52 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 02/09/14 11:44, Pavel Stehule wrote: For 9.4, we have the media already saying Postgres has NoSQL capabilities (which is only partially true). For x.y we could have

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 18:20, Joel Jacobson wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com wrote: Joel Jacobson j...@trustly.com wrote: Sorry for being unclear, I didn't mean to suggest the main concern is updating *all* rows. The main concern is when you have a rather complex

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 18:33, Hannu Krosing wrote: On 09/02/2014 06:27 PM, Joel Jacobson wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es wrote: We are definitely worse. This is the problem, we only look to our own belly bottom (if this expression exists in English

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 23:11, David Johnston wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com mailto:j...@commandprompt.comwrote: On 09/02/2014 09:48 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: As a case in point, EDB have spent quite a few man-years on their

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 23:34, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On 09/02/2014 02:11 PM, David Johnston wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com mailto:j...@commandprompt.comwrote: On 09/02/2014 09:48 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: As a case in point, EDB have spent

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/09/14 00:41, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On 09/02/2014 02:47 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Yeah, we differ there. I think having an Oracle compatibility layer in PostgreSQL would be the-next-big-thing we could have. Oracle is has orders of magnitude bigger user base than postgres

Re: [HACKERS] Tips/advice for implementing integrated RESTful HTTP API

2014-09-02 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 02/09/14 04:47, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: Same idea as PgBouncer or PgPool. The advantage over hacking PgBouncer/PgPool for the job is that Tomcat can already do a lot of what you want using built-in, pre-existing functionality. Connection pool management, low level

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/09/14 15:24, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On 09/02/2014 04:01 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: It's not copying. It's easying a path for others to migrate and come to Postgres. I'm interested why you are more interested in MSSQL. My reasons for being interested in Oracle

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-16 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/09/14 18:02, Craig Ringer wrote: On 09/04/2014 06:48 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On 09/03/2014 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote: Anyway, to get back around to the topic of PL/SQL compatibility specifically, if you care about that issue, pick one thing that exists in PL/SQL but not in

Re: [HACKERS] PL/pgSQL 2

2014-09-16 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/09/14 20:48, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@nosys.es wrote: Yeah, we differ there. I think having an Oracle compatibility layer in PostgreSQL would be the-next-big-thing we could have. Oracle is has orders of magnitude bigger user

[HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
select, I'd have expected to have no rows. If a SELECT 1 is issued after BEGIN, there are no rows found. -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
in the concurrency control chapter of the manual. Sure, there are, that was the link I pointed out, but I found no explicit mention to the fact that I'm raising here. Regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-04 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/11/14 09:07, Craig Ringer wrote: On 11/04/2014 07:31 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Thank you for your comment, Tom. However I think this behavior, as seen from a user perspective, it's not the expected one. That may be the case, but I think it's the SQL-standard behaviour, so

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-05 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 05/11/14 17:46, Jim Nasby wrote: On 11/4/14, 6:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Should we improve then the docs stating this more clearly? Any objection to do this? If we go that route we should also mention that now() will no longer be doing what you probably hope it would

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-05 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/11/14 00:42, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@8kdata.com wrote: Given a transaction started with BEGIN (REPEATABLE READ | SERIALIZABLE), if a concurrent session commits some data before *any* query within the first transaction

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/11/14 02:06, Jim Nasby wrote: On 11/5/14, 6:04 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 05/11/14 17:46, Jim Nasby wrote: On 11/4/14, 6:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Should we improve then the docs stating this more clearly? Any objection to do this? If we go that route

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-08 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 06/11/14 15:00, Kevin Grittner wrote: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa a...@8kdata.com wrote: There has been two comments which seem to state that changing this may introduce some performance problems and some limitations when you need to take out some locks. I still believe, however

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2014-11-08 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 07/11/14 22:02, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Kevin Grittner wrote: I think most people have always assumed that BEGIN starts the transaction and that is the point at which the snapshot is obtained. But there is so much evidence to the

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest problems

2014-12-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
to raise, globally, some millions per year to stably, and permanently, fund this community-guided development and have our best developers devoted 100% to PostgreSQL. Regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: [GENERAL] 4B row limit for CLOB tables

2015-02-01 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
. In the graphs you can't even realize there were more tables been created. At around 8K tables from the theoretical limit of 4B oids consumed, the process basically stopped (doing more insertions). Hope that this information helps. Best regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa

Re: [HACKERS] reducing our reliance on MD5

2015-02-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/02/15 02:30, Tom Lane wrote: [...] I think it would be wise to take two steps back and think about what the threat model is here, and what we actually need to improve. Offhand I can remember two distinct things we might wish to have more protection against: * scraping of passwords off

Re: [HACKERS] Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

2015-03-24 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 24/03/15 20:56, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 09:53:18PM +0100, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 07/11/14 22:02, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: I think most people have always assumed

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: [GENERAL] 4B row limit for CLOB tables

2015-04-26 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 25/04/15 06:39, Jim Nasby wrote: On 4/24/15 7:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 24/04/15 05:24, Tom Lane wrote: ... TBH, I've got very little enthusiasm for fixing this given the number of reports of trouble from the field, which so far as I recall is zero. Álvaro's case came up

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: [GENERAL] 4B row limit for CLOB tables

2015-04-24 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 24/04/15 05:24, Tom Lane wrote: Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net writes: * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 03:54:03PM +0100, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: The problem here is that performance degrades exponentially, or worse. Speaking here from experience

Re: [HACKERS] bugs and bug tracking

2015-10-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
e wrapping) Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] bugs and bug tracking

2015-10-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 13/10/15 16:24, Andres Freund wrote: On 2015-10-13 16:21:54 +0200, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 13/10/15 04:40, Tom Lane wrote: I'm with Robert on the idea that commit log entries need to be limited-width. I personally format them to 75 characters, so that git_changelog's output

Re: [HACKERS] bugs and bug tracking

2015-10-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
so I have nothing else to add :) Best, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Protocol buffer support for Postgres

2016-06-24 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
ort is on the same boat. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-02-22 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
format. Apart from the chosen format, others may be provided as an alternative using different data formats. Or alternatives (like compressed text json). Of course, this may be better suited for a next GSoC project, of course. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Se

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-02-22 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
t under the GSoC student's control. Agreed :) Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-02-22 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 21/02/16 21:15, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 19/02/16 10:10, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Oleg and I discussed recently that a really good addition to a GSoC item would be to study whether it's convenient to have a binary serialization format for jsonb over the wire. Some argue

Re: [HACKERS] The plan for FDW-based sharding

2016-02-27 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
approaches are sometimes "very academical", but studying them doesn't hurt either :) Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL extension API? Documentation?

2016-02-27 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
ords: what is the API surface exposed by PostgreSQL to extension developers? The assumption is that no PostgreSQL code should be modified, just adding your own and calling existing funcitons. Thanks, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing l

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL extension API? Documentation?

2016-02-27 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 27/02/16 15:01, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com <mailto:a...@8kdata.com>> wrote: > > > Hi. > > I have a newbie question for extension development. Extensions provide an entry

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL extension API? Documentation?

2016-02-27 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 27/02/16 15:10, Chapman Flack wrote: On 02/27/16 08:37, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: In other words: what is the API surface exposed by PostgreSQL to extension developers? The assumption is that no PostgreSQL code should be modified, just adding your own and calling existing

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL extension API? Documentation?

2016-02-27 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
parts of the API. If anyone could help me here, please let me know. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata On 17/02/16 08:40, Amit Langote wrote: Hi Shubham, On 2016/02/17 16:27, Shubham Barai wrote: Hello everyone, I am currently pursuing my bachelor of engineering in computer science at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune ,India. I

Re: [HACKERS] Soliciting Feedback on Improving Server-Side Programming Documentation

2016-03-15 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
point of an "API". Regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata On 15/03/16 13:02, Corey Huinker wrote: Over the past few months, I've been familiarizing myself with postgres server side programming in C. My attempts to educate myself were slow a

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-03-22 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 23/03/16 01:56, Amit Langote wrote: On 2016/03/23 9:19, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: - Regarding GSoC: it looks to me that we failed to submit in time. Is this what happened, or we weren't selected? If the former (and no criticism here, just realizing a fact) what can we do next year

Re: [HACKERS] about google summer of code 2016

2016-03-22 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 22/02/16 23:23, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 22/02/16 05:10, Tom Lane wrote: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> writes: On 19/02/16 10:10, Ã�lvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Oleg and I discussed recently that a really good addition to a GSoC item would be to study whethe

Re: [HACKERS] How can we expand PostgreSQL ecosystem?

2016-03-07 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
are explained here: https://aphyr.com/posts/327-jepsen-mariadb-galera-cluster Regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] New competition from Microsoft?

2016-03-07 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
ry welcome! Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] 10.0

2016-05-14 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
.0 will come with amazing features, because version is bumped from 9.6". So +1 to call 10.0 the next version and 11.0 the one after that. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make chan

Re: [HACKERS] 10.0

2016-05-15 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 15/05/16 14:42, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com <mailto:a...@8kdata.com>> wrote: On 14/05/16 20:02, Petr Jelinek wrote: +1 for going with 10.0 after 9.6 and 11.0 afterwards, etc. It wi

Re: [HACKERS] 10.0

2016-05-15 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
worse: I've been told that a company was using "PostgreSQL 8.5" ^_^ Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
expensive, or dropping data). What would it take to support it? Isn't the varlena header propagated everywhere, which could help infer the real length of the string? Any pointers or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
, than even implementing a new datatype based on bytea but that would use the text IO functions to show up as text (not send/recv) would neither work, right? Thanks for the input, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- 8Kdata -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-h

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/08/16 17:47, Kevin Grittner wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: What would it take to support it? Would it be of any value to support "Modified UTF-8"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/08/16 18:35, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 3 August 2016 at 15:54, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: Given that 0x00 is a perfectly legal UTF-8 character, I conclude we're strictly non-compliant. It's perhaps worth mentioning that 0x00 is valid ASCII too, and Post

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/08/16 20:14, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 03/08/16 17:47, Kevin Grittner wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: What would it take to support it? Would it be of any value to support "Modified UTF

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/08/16 21:31, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 3 August 2016 at 20:13, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: Yet they are accepted by Postgres (like if Postgres would support Modified UTF-8 intentionally). The caracter in psql does not render as a nul but as this symb

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

2016-08-03 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 03/08/16 21:42, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 3 August 2016 at 20:36, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: Isn't the correct syntax something like: select E'\uc080', U&'\c080'; ? It is a single character, 16 bit unicode sequence (see https://www.postgresq

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-10 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 10/04/17 14:57, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/07/2017 01:13 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: I don't see it. The message AuthenticationSASL.String could contain a CSV of the SCRAM protocols sup

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-10 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 10/04/17 21:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/10/2017 09:33 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Thanks for posting the patched HTML. In my opinion, all looks good except that: - I will add an extra String (a CSV) to AuthenticationSASL message for channel binding names, so

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-10 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 10/04/17 13:02, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/10/2017 12:39 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: - I think channel binding support should be added. SCRAM brings security improvements over md5 and other simpler digest algorithms. But where it really shines is together with channel binding

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
? Doesn't sound terribly friendly. A report of a certificate mismatch is far more likely to lead people to realize there's a MITM. So given what I said before, that won't happen. Indeed, SCRAM RFC contains a specific error code for this: "channel-bindings-dont-match". Álv

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 12/04/17 18:38, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: LOL. Do you really want a half-baked Java programmer writing a patch in C for PostgreSQL? I once tried that and Magnus said my code was Java code that ha

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
. I'm working myself on Java's (pgjdbc) implementation, and I will hopefully have a prototype by next week to try it. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your su

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-06 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
equest packet) a list of auth protocols it thinks it is able to handle. Per the SCRAM RFC, it is the server who advertises and the client who picks. Regards, Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (p

Re: [HACKERS] SCRAM authentication, take three

2017-04-07 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
's no way to negotiate, the client picks. It could still be three-valued: on, off, only-channel-binding (or however you want to call them). That will only change what mechanisms the server will be advertising to clients. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data

[HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-10 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
rlier (to conform with the RFC). Thoughts? Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-10 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
rlier (to conform with the RFC). Thoughts? Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/04/17 08:50, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/10/2017 11:03 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: Channel binding needs to specify actually three things: - The mechanism, which is indeed suffixed "-PLUS". - The channel binding name, which is described here: https://tools.iet

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 10/04/17 20:32, Andres Freund wrote: On 2017-04-10 20:28:27 +0200, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 10/04/17 13:02, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/10/2017 12:39 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: - I think channel binding support should be added. SCRAM brings security improvements

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/04/17 13:21, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/11/2017 01:39 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: The fact that you null terminate them (fine with me) doesn't change my reasoning. How do you separate multiple channel binding methods? And do you realize that you will be repeating

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/04/17 12:23, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/11/2017 11:55 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: On 11/04/17 08:50, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Oh, I see. According to the SCRAM RFC, "tls-unique" is used by default. I don't see us implementing anything else any time soon.

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/04/17 15:03, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com <mailto:a...@8kdata.com>> wrote: On 10/04/17 20:32, Andres Freund wrote: On 2017-04-10 20:28:27 +0200, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation

2017-04-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/04/17 15:18, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/11/2017 04:09 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: But I will conserve my remaining courage (thanks Michael!) credits for future threads ;) I have stated my opinion clearly, I will now go back to the client library. Once you're done

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-12 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 12/04/17 19:34, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/11/2017 02:32 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: So I still see your proposal more awkward and less clear, mixing things that are separate. But again, your choice :) So, here's my more full-fledged proposal. The first patch

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 13/04/17 13:24, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 04/13/2017 05:54 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: By looking at the them, and unless I'm missing something, I don't see how the extra information for the

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 13/04/17 04:54, Michael Paquier wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: By looking at the them, and unless I'm missing something, I don't see how the extra information for the future implementation of channel binding would be

Re: [HACKERS] Letting the client choose the protocol to use during a SASL exchange

2017-04-13 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 04/13/2017 02:35 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote: > >> On 13/04/17 13:24, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> >>> Right, when we get channel binding, the server will list >>> "SCRAM-SHA-256" and "SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS" as the list of mechanisms

Re: [HACKERS] SCRAM protocol documentation

2017-08-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
name. If there's a clear meaning about ignoring the user here, why not settle on something like the "*"? It's not going to change the world sending a few bytes less on initialization, but I guess it doesn't hurt either... Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa -

Re: [HACKERS] SCRAM protocol documentation

2017-08-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/08/17 15:00, Michael Paquier wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: On 11/08/17 13:18, Michael Paquier wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: Relatedly, the SCRAM s

Re: [HACKERS] SCRAM protocol documentation

2017-08-11 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
On 11/08/17 13:18, Michael Paquier wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <a...@8kdata.com> wrote: On 11/08/17 03:57, Peter Eisentraut wrote: The SCRAM protocol documentation (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sasl-authentication.html) states &qu

Re: [HACKERS] Authentification method on client side checking

2017-07-09 Thread Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
answer should also be coordinated among the drivers. Álvaro -- Álvaro Hernández Tortosa --- <8K>data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

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