Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I don't believe anyone would work against this, nor could I imagine that anyone would think it was a bad idea, I'm just curious as to how possible it is to do ... For most things probably not that possible. For things like: Simple feature enhancements (preloading of libs) Fixing pl/Language

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
then maybe they would be willing to donate some small amount each ($500 or so) to pay for backporting issues. Since mostly what I'd want on an older version would be bug / security fixes, that $500 should go a long way towards backporting. Sure. I was under the imporession that 7.4

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
months. Yes a commercial company could just pick it up and say ... hey we will support it for x (Mammoth 7.3.4 is supported until 2005 for example) but I was more looking at this from an overall community perspective. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Robert Treat -- Command Prompt, Inc., home

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
not be the case, to wit I responded: Tom, am I on crack? Sincerely, Joshua Drake Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... having to reindex the database (which 7.4 doesn't fix), It's supposed to fix it. What are you expecting not to be fixed? regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Separate mailing list for 7.3 issues, concerns etc... Which would help develop it's own temporary community. Thoughts? Joshua D. Drake Tom Lane wrote: Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and the question as i thought was being discussed (or should be discussed) was what is the level

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle/PostgreSQL incompatibilities

2003-10-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC - S/JDBC

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Yes, please. Please, please do not force all users to accept new features in stable trees. What if the feature does break compatibility with old features? What if it is truly a new feature? One example would be that we are considering reworking pg_dump/restore a bit to support batch uploads

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If we are going to back-patch more aggressively, we _have_ to be sure that those back-patched releases have the same quality as all our other releases. I know that I am probably being semantic here but I in know way want to be more aggressive with back patching. My thoughts for 98% of things

Re: max_connections/shared_buffers (was Re: [HACKERS] Beta4 Tag'd

2003-10-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Anyone see a better way? Switch everything to mmap and pthreads and dump all this antiquated SysV IPC and semaphore junk? *DUCK* You are a brave soult. I salute you. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC - S/JDBC Postgresql support

[HACKERS] CREATE USER bug

2003-10-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, It seems to me that the below should not be able to happen. postgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a'; CREATE USER postgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a'; ERROR: CREATE USER: user name with already exists Sincerley, Joshua D. Drake -- Command

[HACKERS] BigInt woes

2003-10-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I believe that the Int8/BigInt items are known issues but I have a knew programmer that ran into it over the weekend (he didn't call me when he encountered the problem, when he should of) and we have a customer that burned some significant time on it as well. Will this be fixed in 7.4?

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, O.k. so everyone is basically in agreement of no new features to be backported. How do we implement a stable release maintainer for back releases? I assume we set a scope of of what would go in security/bug fixes only? Sincerely, Joshua Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth

Re: [HACKERS] Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

2003-10-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
But the kernel goes through this reliable/unreliable cycle --- they would be better off just making the old kernel more and more reliable and focusing on the new kernel for features. The reliable/unreliable cycle will kill your user base. The popularity of Linux would argue that statement a

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: [Python-Dev] HP Test Drive systems]

2003-10-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I have a solaris machine we could throw up for the community as well if required. Sincerely, Joshua Drake Bruce Momjian wrote: I signed up for an account, and it has already been helpful. I wish I had known about this years ago. I will probably put together a little sourceforge

[HACKERS] Writers Wanted

2003-10-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
writer validity. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com Editor-N-Chief - PostgreSQl.Org - http

Re: [HACKERS] *sigh*

2003-10-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
counts. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com Editor-N-Chief - PostgreSQl.Org - http

Re: [HACKERS] Open items

2003-10-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Based on the current open items... when do we expect release? Sincerely, Joshua Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [HACKERS] Open items

2003-10-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Well the reason I brought it up was the rather interesting discussion that Jan had today about Vacuum. I was wondering if we were going to explore that before the 7.4 release? Sincerely, Joshua Drake Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. If I am totally off my rocker, so be it but if we were to hit the streets with 7.4 and a vacuum that was 70% (ex) less brutal on the machine it would be a pretty significant statement. Yes all the other fixes are great and cool. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Tom Lane wrote: Barring the discovery

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sooner or later you have to say this release is done, let's ship it. It's way too late to go back into invention mode for 7.4. I agree with the argument. It is just that the Vacuum one... well is very tempting. On the 7.5 cycle though... I thought 7.5 was basically for win32? Sincerely,

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If I understood correctly, Josh was complaining about VACUUM sucking too much of his disk bandwidth. autovacuum wouldn't help that --- in fact would likely make it worse, since a cron-driven vacuum script can at least be scheduled for low-load times of day. autovacuum is likely to kick in at

Re: [HACKERS] AGREGATE FUNCTIONS

2006-06-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the code and everything after browser is the CVS source tree so you can look for yourself within your copy of HEAD or 8.1 or whatever. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks ___ Navegue com o Yahoo! Acesso GrĂ¡tis, assista aos jogos

Re: [HACKERS] How to avoid transaction ID wrap

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, checkpoint would take entirely too long. We ended up doing checkpoints every two minutes which with the increase in checkpoint_segments and adjustment of bgwriter settings would level out the load. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] How to avoid transaction ID wrap

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was recently involved in a project where we had to decrease the checkpoint_timeout . The problem was, that the database was performing so many transactions that if we waiting for 5 minutes, checkpoint would take entirely too long

[HACKERS] TODO: Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
libpg_crypto.so.0.0 Is this correct? If so I personally would like to claim this TODO. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, I read this as: 1. Fix makefiles so that contrib modules such as pgcrypto are not pg_crypto err are now 2. Move directories to reflect above 3. Fix source and makefiles within sub project directories to create binaries and libs with correct output.. thus

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Fix makefiles so that contrib modules such as pgcrypto are not pg_crypto 2. Move directories to reflect above 3. Fix source and makefiles within sub project directories to create binaries and libs with correct output.. thus

[HACKERS] TODO: Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options

2006-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Doesn't this exist in: src/tools/fsync? Do we just need to make it more user friendly? Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since

[HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(), pg_get_tabledef(), pg_get_domaindef(), pg_get_functiondef()

2006-06-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. So could I get some further definition? Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So could I get some further definition? There are two fairly strong reasons for NOT trying to push more logic into the backend from pg_dump: 1. It would remove the freedom we currently have to make pg_dump adapt dumps from old servers

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
as you can if they are hardcoded in pg_dump, but we our existing functions seems to work fine. O.k. so now what I am getting from this thread is, the functions exist now in pg_dump but we want to pull them out of pg_dump and push them into the backend? Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: O.k. so now what I am getting from this thread is, the functions exist now in pg_dump but we want to pull them out of pg_dump and push them into the backend? That's exactly what I *don't* want to do. If you can think of a use-case

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
but I would like to get a clear definition of what we are looking for here. Maybe: pg_get_tabledef is the actual SQL and pg_get_tabledesc() is the column, datatype output? I guess I don't see the advantage of putting pg_dump -s -t in the backend. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
user space usable information. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
idea which I agree. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If all you want is column, datatype, why not just use info_schema, or newsysviews? Or even the base catalogs? Where do I look in the info_schema? How do I know exactly what I need? What is newsysviews? Exactly the same arguments can

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Name and datatype was just an example. I am trying to get people to actually provide feedback (thank you). Andrew brought up that also including the constraints would be a good idea which I agree. You also need rules, triggers, inheritance

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
functions in pg_dump? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to get back on point. What is the scope of work for the TODO item? Forget everything else I brought up. What is the goal of the existing TODO? I'm not sure that the TODO item has a reason to live at all, but surely the first

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(),

2006-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
perspective. Anything that is going to put the stability and integrity of pg_dump/pg_restore in *any* way, is a no op. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it the delimiter is a tab. Joshua D. Drake thoughts? cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
No it won't, not if there are tabs in the data. snipping noise Hmmm then would just double quoting the data work? At least in OOCalc (and IIRC Excel) there is the ability to select a text delimiter. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bill Bartlett wrote: Here's me speaking up -- I'd definitely use it! As a quick way to pull data into Excel to do basic reports or analysis, a CSV format would be great. Why not just use ODBC? Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
two if you include the already tab delimited) csv output it would be a large amount of bloat. Perhaps we could pick 1 output, say comma delimted with quoted fields? foo,bar ,baz Joshua D. Drake --- Tom Lane wrote

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it to delimit on tabs and thus you have four columns as far as Excel is concerned. An alternative although I don't know what kind of headaches it would cause is to have a text delimiter as well as a field delimter, e.g; foo bar baz bing Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -Original

Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump

2006-06-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, Joshua D. Drake Cheers, Steve ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [HACKERS] UPDATE crash in HEAD and 8.1

2006-06-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
x86 and PPC. Having said that, this may well expose a bug in the MAX-optimization code that has consequences for more useful queries. I'll take a look later today if no one beats me to it. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm stats

2006-07-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
running it in MySQL ;) Well as the host, I guarantee you that it is NOT running mySQL :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] update/insert,

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is that constantly updating a single row steadily degrades performance, would delete/insery also do the same? Yes. Delete still creates a dead row. There are programatic ways around this but keeping a delete table that can be truncated at intervals. Joshua D. Drake ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] lastval exposes information that currval does not

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that revoking usage on a schema is not sufficient to prevent a user from accessing things within that schema, a property that makes me quite uncomfortable. Then the public schema must drive you nuts :). If you were to create the function as a non-super user you would probably be good. Joshua D

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys

2006-07-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
over pgFoundry is that it will be packaged by the major distributions. Every distribution includes a package of the contrib modules. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql-patches considered harmful

2006-07-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
use patches for patch submission and keep all discussion on hackers. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

Re: [HACKERS] Removing AddDepends; should I bother with a project?

2006-07-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it they can pull the sources from anythin = 8.2 yes? So I vote nuke! Joshua D. Drake The problem is, adddepend is broken when run against 8.1. It breaks on serial, I think. Gavin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:49, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: ... and before you say it, No. I do not wear a tie. Maybe you need to ... ;-) /me bows before the gods who thoust commit. cheers andrew -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that carries much weight here ;)). Having pl/Java helps PostgreSQL in the minds of all those tie wearing decision making freaks... and before you say it, No. I do not wear a tie. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
pointed at adddepends even today... certainly no one will do anything with these projects if you nuke them, but I like giving people options... your call though. They will always be able to pull down the source from a previous release. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] More nuclear options

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
even the front of PgFoundry and or PostgreSQL.Org?) that asks if anyone would like to take over maintainership of the handful? Have a closing date for it, e.g; leave it open for a week and then if no one steps up --- its over and we nuke them with prejudice. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it could make a good reference implementation for other equally advanced language mappings. What is the actual concern with having PL/Java in core, versus say PL/Perl? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Regards, Thomas Hallgren ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and stable. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Dave On 11-Jul-06, at 12:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: David, It's good to integrate things with the core as needed. What plans do we have to integrate PL/J? None, if the PL/J team doesn't speak up. So far I have yet to see a request for PL/J

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and such... Soon. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Regards, Thomas Hallgren ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
under the GPL. See LIBGCJ_LICENSE in the source tree for more details. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Dave, What JVM requirements does PL/J currently have? What license implications are imposed by the components that it depends upon? Regards, Thomas Hallgren -- === The PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
:( Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake but what of people who use some other JVM? It's not like gcj works for everyone yet. What of them? If they decide to use another JVM, well, then let them. I don't see where that becomes a licensing problem from PostgreSQL. Regards, Thomas Hallgren

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
) in a closed source product without issue right? If so... then wouldn't our argument be to strongly suggest that they use the Sun JVM (or IBM if that is relevant?). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Regards, Thomas Hallgren -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Thomas Hallgren wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: What happens when the FSF inevitably removes the license clause and makes it pure GPL? I'm sorry but I don't follow. You're saying that it's inevitable that FSF will remove the 'libgcc' exception from libgcj? Why on earth would they do that? My

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the installer from PgFoundry. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-user to use Sun's JVM with GPL'd Java code. Now I'm completely confused... what GPL code ? Is PL/Java licensed under the GPL ? Or what GPL code do you talk about ? What was a mistake on my part. I was tired when I wrote the part about GPL. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake The PL/Java code is likely

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to me, is including two projects that provide near functionality. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
by exposure. It is a valid reason if it is going to be in core. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to be that? Lukas, that is what www.mammothpostgresql.org is :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake What I mean is I think it makes absolute sense to keep a very stable, very well maintained core PostgreSQL distribution which is that anyone should base their distributions on. However I do think

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is in core. What packagers? Every packager I see (Ubuntu, Fedora, *BSD, even Solaris) contain just about every conceivable package there is for PostgreSQL :) O.k. not every, but all of the really important stuff. Joshua D. Drake cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
In essence the PostgreSQL SDK. If I read what Thomas wrote (late) last night correctly. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
heck... I still think we should introduce new features into back branches as long as it doesn't require an initdb but most (including my own developers) don't agree with me. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
... Yes and my understanding is that PLjava can do the same. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
familiar with commercial-class database systems. Uhmmm that is what CMD and EDB are supposed to be doing. Educating their customers, gaining more customers and educating them. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
:) Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So why put the load on the Core distro? Agreed ... but, maybe on our FTP/download pages, we should add a link for 'Distributions', that would include mammothpostgresql.org and Ubuntu? so that ppl knew about them? We do it for support related stuff ... That is a great idea :) Joshua D

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Aside from obviously the big issue of who maintains all the pgfoundry stuff, I also think that the PostgreSQL family would benefit from a distribution that is more and the kitchen sink style. I do not know exactly if Bizgres

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
don't expect everything just to be right out of the box (o.k. maybe MSSQL does.) Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [HACKERS] monolithic distro

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is more mature. I also currently endorse Slony-I for 8.1 installations but that is only because we don't have a 8.1 release yet (4 weeks W00t!). I on the other hand, do not endorse Perl or anything to do with Perl :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org

Re: [HACKERS] Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey JD, I notice that we don't have a port for plphp either ... if one of your guys wants to create one, I can get it committed ... DarcyB is supposed to be handling that :) Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Were trying man :) I have people building for most major distributions at this point. We should have FreeBSD soon, as well as MacOSX. How is this different (or better) than what is already in FreeBSD ports? There is no functional difference

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I believe it was Lukas who mentioned elsewhere, this is not a vendor nuetral project. I actually am already working on a adding a list of os/package options to the download page based on other feedback, are people comfortable allowing mammothpostgresql to go on that list? (I wouldn't be

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Most people who run FreeBSD have no need for Mammoth, until possibly they want to upgrade via ports to a new version of PostgreSQL but they don't want to upgrade FreeBSD. 'k, up to now, you had me ... but what does

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I believe it was Lukas who mentioned elsewhere, this is not a vendor nuetral project. I actually am already working on a adding a list of os/package options to the download page based on other feedback, are people comfortable allowing mammothpostgresql to go on that list? (I wouldn't be

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

2006-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: For example there is NOT an PostgreSQL 8.1 for Ubuntu Breezy. http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy-backports/misc/ Thanks Peter :), I knew about backports but didn't know what was in there. But what about when 8.2 comes out? Doubtful

Re: [HACKERS] monolithic distro

2006-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Since I appreantly like monologs .. MySQL also has other features that are not available via pgfoundery like being able to determine the default charset on the database, table and column level, as well as COLLATE support to determine the sort order at runtime. SHOW ALL; ? Anyways what I

Re: [HACKERS] contrib promotion?

2006-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
a crypto-free version of postgres for use someplace with benighted laws, they would be screwed. Doesn't our inclusion of md5() pretty much blow that argument away? (Just asking). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564

Re: [HACKERS] Online index builds

2006-07-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
or any of the other i/o operations. Well from a DBA perspective, just knowing that something productive is happening is useful. When using vacuum I almost always use vacuum verbose, just so I have an idea of what is going on. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
they are. Joshua D. Drake Kris Jurka ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

[HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
confident that it does not meat the PostgreSQL style guidelines. Is there enough interest in plRuby to get it where it needs to be for possible inclusion into core? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7

Re: [HACKERS] SPI Elections and mailing list

2006-07-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
(of which I am apart) is using the SPI non-profit status to allow for tax deductible donations to the PostgreSQL project. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -M On Jul 16, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, Hopefully by now a bunch of you have joined as Software in the Public Interest

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 03:18 schrieb Joshua D. Drake: We were going to submit plPHP to core for inclusion but it is not ready yet. Is there enough interest in plRuby to get it where it needs to be for possible inclusion into core? Considering that PL/Java

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
perl and python guys really don't like the other ;)). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PLRuby is written in C. Specifically on the matter of PL/Ruby -- and if you're trying to be such an advocate about it, you should at least spell it right -- I have never seen the author particularly active within this community, so I have my

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
talking about? Actually as I look at this, the only major distribution (that is not commercial) that doesn't support a lot of PostgreSQL packages is Fedora. Ubuntu Debian Gentoo FreeBSD All have a ton of packages (including plruby). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake cheers andrew

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
:). That being said, we may want to check and see if he participates in PostgreSQLFR (he is french). Also note, that if it were included, CMD would dedicate resources to help keeping it stable etc... Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is going to be able to maintain his work? Yes, this was one of my concerns. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing

Re: [HACKERS] plPHP and plRuby

2006-07-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and it would actually fetch the latest plruby sources from the net and build. Ala Ports. This would take some organization of course, but it would be an relatively easy way to increase our core base without bloating core. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales

Re: [HACKERS] contrib promotion?

2006-07-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Joshua D. Drake Full merge into core would fix this also, but indeed there is not many techical reasons for it. (And editing pg_proc.h is PITA - I'd consider it technical reason against it ;) -- marko ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain

Re: [HACKERS] hot standby system

2006-07-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that could be used to architect such a thing. Well it works fine depending on how you set it up :) Please feel free to submit a patch to the docs. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks! - Chris [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup-online.html

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