Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
- but then so do a bunch of other OSI approved licences. As Tom says though, the effect this has on users is zero. The licence is still the same as its always been, regardless of what we say it is based on or looks like. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PGDay.EU 2009 C

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
. > ISTM we should apply to OSI for approval of our licence, so we can then > refer to it as the PostgreSQL licence. That then avoids any situation > that might allow someone to claim some injunctive relief of part of the > licence because of it being widely misdescribed. Already in

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:13 +0000, Dave Page wrote: > >> > ISTM we should apply to OSI for approval of our licence, so we can then >> > refer to it as the PostgreSQL licence. That then avoids any situation >>

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
s about if PostgreSQL is being > sold just as MySQL was... Changing the licence is *not* going to happen. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PGDay.EU 2009 Conference: http://2009.pgday.eu/start -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make change

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jaime Casanova >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: >>>> >>>> ISTM we sho

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-26 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jaime Casanova >> wrote: >>> to tell someone we no longer label our license as "simplified BSD" but >>> as MIT is, in the eyes and mind of use

Re: [HACKERS] License clarification: BSD vs MIT

2009-10-27 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Chris Browne wrote: > dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) writes: >> As Tom says though, the effect this has on users is zero. The licence >> is still the same as its always been, regardless of what we say it is >> based on or looks like. >

[HACKERS] FTP/GIT/WWW server move

2009-10-29 Thread Dave Page
On Friday 30 November at 1200 GMT, the server that hosts our primary FTP server, GIT server and one of the website mirrors will be moved to a new data center. Downtime is expected to be two to three hours. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http

Re: [HACKERS] FTP/GIT/WWW server move

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Friday 30 November at 1200 GMT, the server that hosts our primary > FTP server, GIT server and one of the website mirrors will be moved to > a new data center. Downtime is expected to be two to three hours. > > Apologies for an

Re: [HACKERS] EOL for 7.4?

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Page
t affects all of the packagers to varying degrees and should not be overlooked. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PGDay.EU 2009 Conference: http://2009.pgday.eu/start -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscript

Re: [HACKERS] Listen / Notify rewrite

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Page
as I'm sure you're already thinking it, yes, I know it doesn't help if the new table is created using psql, but there are lots of shops where pgAdmin is the default tool, and it could help them and just exhibit the current behaviour if someone does break out psql. -- Dave Page Ente

Re: [HACKERS] next CommitFest

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
they required to contribute even more of their time to review as well, just to help their own occasional code contributions get through the process? (yes, I am thinking largely of me, working tens of hours per week on Postgres, but perhaps submiting one relatively small patch per release) --

Re: [HACKERS] next CommitFest

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
everyone chipping in, and I do try to do so myself on appropriate patches (for example, the recent Windows DACL bug fix which I spent a few hours reviewing and testing - and am still waiting for Magnus to commit :-p). I just think that *requiring* people to review will ultimately be counter producti

Re: [HACKERS] Application name patch - v3

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
> What about pg_dump/psql setting fallback_application_name? Per Tom, I'm waiting on the possible new array-based libpq connect API which will make a conversion of those utilities from PQsetdbLogin a lot cleaner than moving to PQconnectdb (and all the ugly connection string building that wo

Re: [HACKERS] next CommitFest

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
f which they have little or no understanding (which may well be an issue at times). -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] Experimental patch: generating BKI revisited

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
s pretty > ubiquitous - in fact, given that we now support Windows, arguably more > so than awk. Building in VC++ on Windows already requires Perl. And if you're building in mingw, you've probably already got it, or can get it pretty easily. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://ww

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch: generating BKI revisited

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > Yep, it's only on UNIX-ish systems where Perl isn't necessarily > required, and realistically I think it is probably present on nearly > all of those, too. Exactly. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprised

Re: [HACKERS] Application name patch - v3

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:07:13 Dave Page wrote: >> Updated patch attached. Per discussion, this: >> >> - Changes the envvar name to PGAPPNAME >> - Removes support for setting application_n

Re: [HACKERS] Application name patch - v3

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Page
en(newval) + 1); repval[0] = 0; for (x=0; x 126) repval[x] = '?'; else repval[x] = newval[x]; } repval[x+1] = 0; return repval; } -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com --

[HACKERS] Application name patch - v4

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Page
Updated application name patch, including a GUC assign hook to clean the application name of any unsafe characters, per discussion. Regards, Dave -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com appname-v4.diff Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Application name patch - v4

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Page
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> Updated application name patch, including a GUC assign hook to clean >> the application name of any unsafe characters, per discussion. > > Applied with assorted editorialization.  There were a cou

Re: [HACKERS] Getting available options

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Page
seems like an excessively ugly solution :) But what about the others? > What would people prefer? I like option 1 the best. Minimally invasive, and probably easier to handle on the client than 2. 3 is just ugly as you say. You should be ashamed of yourself :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Including PL/PgSQL by default

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Page
- namely that too many brain dead hosting providers won't add a contrib module or anything else in a customer's database because they don't understand that just because it's not there by default doesn't mean it's in any way second rate. Including pl/pgsql in template1 wil

Re: [HACKERS] Linking backend in one piece

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Page
usly just for testing. Should we just turn it on by > default and see if anyone complains? I say go for it. We'll soon know if it kills the buildfarm. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Oracle-compatible database company ---

Re: [HACKERS] libpq.rc make rule

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Page
of libpq.dll. The daily build number was the most maintenance-free way of getting a fourth value for the version resource. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Oracle-compatible database company ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] libpq.rc make rule

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: > > It's used on Windows to ensure that installers can do the right thing > > when replacing a copy of libpq.dll. The daily build number was the > > most maintena

Re: [HACKERS] libpq.rc make rule

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: > > Yes, because newer builds may be linked against updated runtime > > versions. We need to be sure the installer will upgrade the file so it > > definitely mat

Re: [HACKERS] OSSP can be used in the windows environment now!

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Page
help to many people's > > Comments from others? Objections? If it's well documented which versions of MSVC++ work with it, and which versions of ossp-uuid, I don't see it as a major problem to include it. It's annoying for sure, but it's not the end of the worl

Re: [HACKERS] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Dave Page
es ;) We are - but the idea doesn't need to be on the list for us to consider it. Just write up a good project outline and plan ready to submit when the doors open. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -

Re: [HACKERS] Noob Hints on testing and debugging?

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Page
ak at a specific point, I sometimes add a loop to the code along the lines of: int x=0; while (!x) Sleep(100); When the backend hits that point, attach the debugger, break execution, and set x to a value in the locals window. Then you can step through the code from that point. -- Dave

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Page
x27;t account for problems discovered post-release. > > It is a best effort with our limited resources. Should we outsource it? It is user-facing :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -- Sent via pgsql-ha

[HACKERS] Move the developers wiki?

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Page
per wiki into a dedicated area on it. Any thoughts on whether thats a good or bad idea? Any objections? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Move the developers wiki?

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Page
't see any reason why what Greg & Josh are suggesting couldn't work - it's roughly what I had in mind anyway, except that we'd have to use a URL rewrite on developer to get it to redirect requests to wiki, as that hostname is used for other things so hijacking DNS doesn'

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.org dns problems

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Page
onical name = distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr. Name: distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr Address: 134.157.176.20 -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.or

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

2008-03-18 Thread Dave Page
o explain the details to someone who does. I was actually thinking of the OS X buildfarm member I setup to exercise this. From your description it sounded like we need to generate the probe header manually if we enable dtrace. I'm sure Magnus would love to hear the details for the MSVC perl sc

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

2008-03-18 Thread Dave Page
in the buildfarm to create the header file? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -- 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] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

2008-03-18 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 schrieb Dave Page: > > > I was actually thinking of the OS X buildfarm member I setup to > > exercise this. From your description it sounded like we need to >

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue permenent URLs

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Page
emails should not rely on > external domains. That way the project is in control, not the other way > around. The company domain is from the message id by the looks of it - it should not be changed under any circumstances. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com Pos

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue -> wiki (was varadic patch)

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Page
gets 5 threads that's not a huge chore). I see no reason to go manually copying all 2k emails to the wiki. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@post

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue -> wiki (was varadic patch)

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Page
g00131.php Patch queue -> Wiki] To link to another wiki page, put the target page title in double square brackets [[Developer and Contributor Resources]] -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] Free Space Map data structure

2008-04-08 Thread Dave Page
not enough space. As I read it, each node takes the value of the largest child, not the sum of the children. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] odd output in restore mode

2008-05-13 Thread Dave Page
he required space for the file it's copying, thus checking the file size to verify that the copy has completed is not a valid test. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] odd output in restore mode

2008-05-13 Thread Dave Page
tried it, and > then wouldn't be surprised if it behaved either way :-) It pre-allocates the space as copy does. And yes, I did test :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To m

Re: [HACKERS] odd output in restore mode

2008-05-18 Thread Dave Page
having it always on. Sounds reasonable to me. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE panic crashes on Windows

2008-05-27 Thread Dave Page
erned about the back > branches where testing isn't as complete. We'll find out in a few hours. My guess is that anyone happy to be running such an old version of gettext is probably running old versions of everything, including PG. Your case is obviously a little different. --

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Page
a structures), not query results. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Page
ink the idea is that WAL records would be shipped (possibly via > socket) and applied as they're generated, rather than on a > file-by-file basis. At least that's what "real-time" implies to me... Yes, we're talking real-time streaming (synchronous) log shipping. -- Da

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Then what is the purpose of shared buffers if nothing is being reused is it >> only used to keep track locks, change

Re: [HACKERS] Overhauling GUCS

2008-06-02 Thread Dave Page
es are valid, as >> someone >> else mentioned elsewhere in this thread. > > pg_ctl -D data check? > > I would +1 that. I would also really like to see that - though I'd also like to see an SQL interface so we can check a config before saving when editing via pgAdmin or simi

[HACKERS] Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?

2008-06-10 Thread Dave Page
tput PKST as a timezone (in a 'timestamp with time zone'), but won't accept it back in. Perhaps we should only output names that we can read back, and revert to a numeric offset in other cases? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hacke

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?

2008-06-10 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It seems like a bug that we happily output PKST as a timezone (in a >> 'timestamp with time zone'), but won't accept it ba

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?

2008-06-10 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> Right, but shouldn't we always output something we know we can read >> back in (unambiguously), assuming a server with no user defined >> abbreviations? > > Tha

Re: [HACKERS] Overhauling GUCS

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > pg_ctl -D data check? >> > >> > I would +1 that. >> >&

Re: [HACKERS] stat() vs cygwin

2008-06-24 Thread Dave Page
ent packages from Cygwin themselves are 8.2.5. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] Please claim review items for commit fest!

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Page
mments, should I register on wiki? And potentially make some > actual reviewers to skip the patch? In that situation, just add your comments to the wiki page using the appropriate template, but don't bother to list yourself as a reviewer (for the very reason you suggest).

Re: [HACKERS] Please claim review items for commit fest!

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/2/08, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't understand one aspect - if I'm unfamiliar

Re: [HACKERS] A Windows x64 port of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Page
patches for people to look over, and don't be afraid to ask if you're not sure about something. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] Working on native Windows x64 version of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Page
atforms to support). I would suggest generating just VC2k5 project files, and then modifying the build scripts to upgrade them first if required. We do something similar with wxWidgets for pgAdmin's use - albeit converting VC++6 files to 2k5 - using the /upgrade option in vcbuild.exe. I assume som

[HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Page
- new patches to the September page! Regards, Dave -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] CommitFest rules

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/3/08, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it concerns me that despite it being day 3 of the July commit fest, >> people are still being advised to add new items to the wiki page. >&

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Page
to a list sometime in the past couple of months) before it starts, otherwise organisation of reviewers and completion of the Fest becomes chaotic for all and a nightmare task for the CommitFest manager. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing lis

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Page
ity for ensuring the patch is listed on time. What we don't want is forgotten patches getting added at the last minute, right as the CommitFest manager is wrapping things up having got 95% of the patches reviewed and the other 5% in progress. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.c

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-06 Thread Dave Page
tly trying to close out". But you are not > helping matters by trying to eliminate the distinction. Agreed - but Robert does have a point - I know both Greg & I have resorted to searching to find the in-progress fest page. I'll see if I can improve the index page a little. -- Da

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-08 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> >> it concerns me that despite it being day 3 of the July commit fest, >> people are still being advised to add new items to the wiki page. >> >> To make the idea

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest rules

2008-07-10 Thread Dave Page
e to submit new > patches" and "the place we are trying to commit patches from". Well we have two separate links now, with hints as to their usage: # Upcoming CommitFest - add new patches here # In-progress CommitFest - patch review underway here -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK:

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-26 Thread Dave Page
ders, we're a FOSS project working for our end users. If we can include an important and popular feature like this at the expense of a few weeks extra wait for the release, it seems to me that we'll be serving our users far better overall than making a fair percentage of them wait ano

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-26 Thread Dave Page
gested a couple of weeks for the outstanding issues he's aware of. If there are fundamental problems which will take 10 - 12 months to resolve to our normal standards, then I do believe 8.5 would be more appropriate. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent vi

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-26 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> This is pretty much exactly how I see it. *Hot standby is not ready*, > >> So can you give us an idea of what parts of the code are in n

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
I don't buy that. Sure, sync-rep would be the icing on the cake, but HS with a small archive_timeout (even of the order of 10 or 15 minutes) would have been extremely useful on a number of systems I used to run. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent

[HACKERS] Patch to add Windows 7 support

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
e this yet (Windows 7 documentation is somewhat thin on the ground at the moment), but the patch avoids theporblem by only setting JOB_OBJECT_UILIMIT_HANDLES on earlier OSs. Tested on CVS head, but should probably be backpatched to 8.3 to avoid more bug reports. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add Windows 7 support

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> >> The attached patch adds support for the Windows 7 beta which we've had >> a few reports of incompatibility with. When we startup using pg_ctl on >> Windows, we create a job object

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add Windows 7 support

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:34:56 Dave Page wrote: >> I'm not entirely sure what has change in the SCM to cause this yet >> (Windows 7 documentation is somewhat thin on the ground at the >> moment), but the

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add Windows 7 support

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:34:56 Dave Page wrote: >>> I'm not entirely sure what has change in the SCM to cause this yet >>> (Windows 7 documentation is somewhat thin on the gr

Re: Commitfest infrastructure (was Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
o meet the requirements of the community without getting bogged down in bike shedding. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
rk and estimates based on email traffic. If we do not, we will rapidly find that no company wants to sponsor features for PostgreSQL in the future for fear that their money will be wasted even if they jump through all the right hoops. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com --

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
iven that we made a point of porting everything to C to avoid using any scripting languages on end-user machines when we ported to Windows, it seems strange to relax that 'policy' now for convenience. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hacker

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera >> wrote: >> >> > I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually. It >> > doesn't sound too o

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add Windows 7 support

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
;t find out (and even then, I wouldn't hold my breath for something like this). -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: > >> We must at least have the solid belief (of a committer that that has >> done a proper review) that a patch cannot be polished in an >> appropriate timeframe, > > I already pointed out some pr

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:10 +0000, Dave Page wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> >> > Updatable views is reverted. I agree that we should reject the rest and >> > prepar

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
The > idea of shipping it with only a minimal amount of testing should scare > the pants off you. It scares me for sure, but I'm reassured because I know and trust the guys at 2ndQuadrant who have been testing extensively, as well as other people such as Merlin and Heikki. Most pa

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:47:52 Dave Page wrote: >> The primary case that I'm objecting to is HS which you've >> been saying will take 10 - 12 months to complete having by your own >> admission not loo

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> Not basing our release schedule on our commitments to shareholders is >> an entirely different thing to treating sponsors of major features >> like crap by arbitrarily bouncing the patches they'v

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Zdenek Kotala wrote: > > Dave Page píše v út 27. 01. 2009 v 14:56 +: >> I'd rather it was written in an appropriate language before feature >> freeze, not in a language that makes it easier for the author but a >> shade harder

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Zdenek Kotala wrote: > > Dave Page píše v út 27. 01. 2009 v 19:36 +: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Zdenek Kotala wrote: >> > >> > Dave Page píše v út 27. 01. 2009 v 14:56 +: >> >> I'd rather it was wr

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
s something you wanted to include though. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] pg_upgrade project status

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:36:01 Dave Page wrote: >> If it's been around for a year, why hasn't it been >> submitted long ago so we could have rewritten and reviewed etc. in >> plenty of time? > >

Re: [HACKERS] PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Page
r our Windows users when people start talking about changing the libpq API (for those that don't know, Windows doesn't have DLL versioning like Unix - so any non-backwards compatible API change really needs a corresponding filename change to avoid pain and suffering). -- Dave

Re: [HACKERS] PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > PQinitSSL(SSL_ONLY) or something, where the constant is carefully > chosen to not be accidentally passed in by older libpq users. Ahh, OK. That would be painless. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com --

Re: [HACKERS] Service not starting: Error 1053

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Page
o save the system details to a text file. You should check the file to make sure there's nothing in there you don't want to be public, and the zip it up and mail it to the list (CC me incase the file is still too big for the list). I think you'll also need to rename it to report.zi_

Re: [HACKERS] Service not starting: Error 1053

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Page
versions worked with PG, but I haven't tried in quite a while. Might be worth trying removing that too. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] MSVC buildfarm members are all unhappy

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Page
nd/foreign/Makefile?rev=1.2 broke Mkvcbuild.pm. The attached patch just comments out the offending code in Mkvcbuild.pm - I assume Peter will be putting the FDW stuff back in 8.5. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com fdw.patch Description: Binary data -- Sent via pgsql-h

Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

2009-02-26 Thread Dave Page
bump it yet (unless Heikki wants to look at the other patches). I agree that this patch alone should not delay the release further though. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to you

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [HACKERS] Kerberos V5 required for PostgreSQL installation on Windows

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Page
the import libraries for Kerberos, so where are the DLLs? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- 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] RE: [HACKERS] Kerberos V5 required for PostgreSQL installation on Windows

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas OSB sIT >> wrote: >>> We should delayload this dll since it is only needed >>> for specific configuration. No need to install when

Re: [HACKERS] Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Page
would be far better spent on new features than uglifying the code in far nastier ways than the current state of the catalogs? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://

Re: [HACKERS] Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Page
adding support for a new version with a different catalog schema. Besides - what percentage of users ever go anywhere near the catalogs? I'd guess a fraction of a percent of users, and maybe 1 - 5% of developers. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-

Re: [HACKERS] Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Page
orth his salt uses system catalogs. Lowering the barrier on > uses these catalogs will lead to better and more useful tools as well. Then psql and pgAdmin aren't doing their jobs properly. Tell us what you need. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hac

Re: [HACKERS] Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Dave Page : > > Don't those folks have to tweak their code with each new release anyway? > Because those tables are constantly changing?  I know we hit problems > with the way triggers are stored in 8.3

Re: [HACKERS] status of remaining patches

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Page
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > > The original patch was submitted by Koichi Suzuki - quite a few other > people have looked at it and provided comments.  Simon Riggs was > assigned as the original reviewer, but for some reason Dave Page > removed his name from

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