Re: [HACKERS] Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?

2010-12-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
And so does: SELECT 1.23e+01::Integer which I find just as dangerous as SELECT '1.234e+01'::Integer; Add quotes to either of the other two, and then they don't work either. Well, that's stupidly arbitrary. If we're not going to accept '1.234e+01'::Integer, then we shouldn't

Re: [HACKERS] non-ipv6 vs hostnames

2011-08-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
On tis, 2011-08-16 at 16:17 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Well, I got this on a win64 build. It's *supposed* to have ipv6. I wonder if it breaks on windows just because there is no ipv6 address on the machine... It would mean that getaddrinfo() of ::1 failed. That seems weird. A

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
Don't forget that OpenSSL has a FIPS-140 compliant version, and FIPS-140 compliance is essential to many Federal users. GnuTLS doesn't qualify. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
If psql uses libreadline and libgnutls, does that mean psql will be distributed under the GPL in the future? Or Dual-licensed? If I read the readline license right, applications that link to it must be GPL. That's why we (EMC/Greenplum) switch to libedit, even though readline is nicer... We

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
-Original Message- From: gsst...@gmail.com [mailto:gsst...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:03 PM On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, charles.mcdev...@emc.com wrote: The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, other

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
-Original Message- From: gsst...@gmail.com [mailto:gsst...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:14 PM To: McDevitt, Charles Cc: sfr...@snowman.net; alvhe...@commandprompt.com; g...@2ndquadrant.com; mba...@debian.org; t...@sss.pgh.pa.us;

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Charles.McDevitt
charles.mcdev...@emc.com wrote: The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, other than making it GPL. Readline is specifically licensed in a way to try to force this (but many disagree with their ability to force this). The GNU people are perfectly

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and works as expected. Uh, don't