Re: [HACKERS] CVS compile failure

2004-07-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
friendly anyway... Under FreeBSD: " The strptime() function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in the format argument" Not sure how critical that is for what you are doing, mind you ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email

Re: [HACKERS] Toward better documentation

2004-07-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
some load off people who do coding. :) Depends on who you feel should/would be doing these examples? Note that there are *alot* of ppl out there that are not coders wondering what they can do to contribute ... this is definitely one way. Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: [HACKERS] Toward better documentation

2004-07-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
re: actually writing & checking the examples * Bigger document base to update & maintain * Disk space What do you all think? Agreed, where applicable ... *but* ... there is nothing stopping anyone from submitting patches for such examples, is there? Marc G. Fournier Hub.O

Re: [HACKERS] Release planning

2004-07-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e the press release was made ... these were features that were pretty much plan'd since the development cycle for 7.5 began way back when ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy IC

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
hat the patch hasn't been reviewed for commit yet ... if, once reviewed, it is found to need work, then it should be put off until 7.6 ... I'm in Josh's camp on this one, in that Nested Xacts should probably be pulled since it still needs work :( Marc G. Fournier

Re: [HACKERS] Release planning

2004-07-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
cides when to stop development ... that is what cores role is ... to *steer* the development of the code ... the community didn't decide to extend the dev cycle this time, any more then it has in the past ... core decided to ... period. end of story. ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t is 20-20 ... maybe next time we'll learn from it? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5:

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t works, why upgrade?" is generally the opinion ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
r new functionality. Right, and this made sense when we were dealing with a release every 4 months or so ... now we're talking about one every year, or two ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
7.x as being -STABLE, while work towards 8.x would be considered -CURRENT ... As a community, I don't think we should be 'supporting' anything older then the last STABLE ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
on. I think this would be a bad direction to take ... I can just see us flooded with a bunch of 'the patch didn't apply to my source tree' questions :( It might work, I just have my doubts ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Ema

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Nobody would be required to upgrade to a new minor release either ... nobody is *require* to upgrade to any release, for that matter ... Most people don't have the time to investigate release notes, release policy details

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
bug fixes, the other would be bug fixes+feature backpatch ... would could get interesting trying to figure out release naming conventions :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscr

Re: [HACKERS] Anoncvs down?

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
should be fixed now ... please let me know if it isn't working (or if you notice any other problems) ... upgrade to 1.11.17 of CVS is complete ... On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 02:44, Marc G. Fournier wrote: temporarily while I figure out what I screwed up

Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
do significant amounts of compatibility testing before they roll out a new database version. regards, tom lane Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Assisting developers

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: True, but northern-hemisphere summer is only 6 weeks old, and we have had these issues for many months --- it isn't a new problem. Alvaro didn't get the feedback he needed in Ma

Re: [HACKERS] Assisting developers

2004-07-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t least up in Canada, our summers are so short, we try and squeeze as much out of it as possible, so our time is more split then the rest of the year when we tend to stay indoors alot more ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL P

Re: [HACKERS] Anoncvs down?

2004-07-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
erver anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access to /projects/cvsroot for user anoncvs Chris Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broa

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Problems logging into CVS server

2004-07-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Justin Clift wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Damn ... I'll have to look at it ... we had a hacker get in through the way anoncvs was setup, so I set a passwd on in /etc/passwd (but didn't touch the anoncvs setup itself) ... will play with it tonight and see if I

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Problems logging into CVS server

2004-07-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
=m2Ks -END PGP SIGNATURE- ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: 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 clea

Re: [HACKERS] Status report

2004-07-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
that even after review, they will have to go back to the submitter to be adjusted, and sent back, and reviewed, and ... Get in what you feel comfortable adding over the next week, the rest can wait until 7.6 ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org

Re: [HACKERS] Status report

2004-07-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
, we decided to leave bundling first beta until mid-July ... If six extra weeks hasn't been enough, I have little faith that adding 'yet another 2 weeks' is going to be enough either ... leave them for 7.6 then ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (htt

Re: [HACKERS] User Quota Implementation

2004-07-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
; to "why is it telling me I'm out of space when my hard drive is empty?" ... the fix for the second would eliminate the first :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 -

Re: [HACKERS] User Quota Implementation

2004-07-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
't be too hard to add? 7.5 is already closed for new features I believe... Very much so ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] User Quota Implementation

2004-07-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
y per-tablespace quotas. Perhaps that wouldn't be too hard to add? 7.5 is already closed for new features I believe... Quotas is part of a sane tablespace implementation, right? O;) So its still considered a 'missing feature', not a bug ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Netwo

Re: [HACKERS] LinuxTag wrapup

2004-07-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ndard functions that Oracle users had access to ... is there a reason why that can't be extended? Or are we talking about *really* core changes here? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy

Re: [HACKERS] compile errors in new PL/Pler

2004-07-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
have any desire to make this work on a version of perl that the perl community itself suggests that you should upgrade. Well, backing it out is always an option, since the old version apparently did work *shrug* Personally, rather have the new on in there though ... :) Marc G. Fou

Re: [HACKERS] compile errors in new PL/Pler

2004-07-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
y, but it isn't a solution for older boxes, IMHO ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if

Re: [HACKERS] compile errors in new PL/Pler

2004-07-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
nths that we've even upgraded mail.postgresql.org to it, and only because I wanted to see if it would improve majordomo's performance (which it didn't) ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!:

Re: [HACKERS] bounce messages

2004-06-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore you

Re: [HACKERS] pg_restore recovery from error.

2004-06-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
of it ran into an error, but I've run into an issue here it is not Yes, but that work is only in 7.5. We didn't backpatch that to 7.4.3 Should a 7.5 pg_restore be able to read a 7.4.3 dump? Assuming so, since doing upgrades could eb interesting if not, how far back can it go? -

Re: [HACKERS] #postgresql report

2004-06-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
But pg_dump & restore already does that. Just a thought here ... but, how about some sort of CREATE DATABASE extension that would transparently do the dump/restore, with the restore based on the new encoding? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.o

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4.3 running a bit late ...

2004-06-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, David Fetter wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: got everything built this evening, just giving it a bit of time to propogate out to the mirrors before announcing ... BitTorrent <http://bt.postgresql.org> is up, and thanks for putting t

[HACKERS] 7.4.3 running a bit late ...

2004-06-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
got everything built this evening, just giving it a bit of time to propogate out to the mirrors before announcing ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing 7.4.3 ...

2004-06-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
lynx --version Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d Built on freebsd4.9 Feb 28 2004 22:01:12 Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 761566

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing 7.4.3 ...

2004-06-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Anyone else, please test the tar ball for any bug/nits ... specifically, Peter, can you check that I've built/included the right documentation? Try reading the list of supported platforms at the bottom of the INSTALL file

[HACKERS] New stable snapshot built ...

2004-06-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just for the few changes that went in today docs related ... will build the release on in the morning, but this gives a few hours for ppl to see if anything appears to b emissing .. Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[HACKERS] Releasing 7.4.3 ...

2004-06-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ill be) both .gz and .bz2 files available ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have y

Re: [HACKERS] Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

2004-06-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ee time I won't be able to get around > to it before Friday -- if you or anyone else wants to get it done > before then you're more than welcome to. We're looking at a 7.3 for next Monday, so if you can do it over the weekend, that would be great ... Marc G. Fournier

Re: [HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-06-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: No, I think that was the right time to make a decision. Before that things were in a great state of flux. My suggestion is that there should be some minimum time (I suggested 6 weeks to 2

Re: [HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-06-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
have already mentioned, the June 1st "false start" as you put it, was never a surprise ... *shrug* ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

Re: [HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-06-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: All I have asked for is a) reasonable clarity and b) reasonable notice. I do not see that either of those conflict with being laid-back or anything else above. Something we definitely will work on, in both cases ... Marc G. Fournier

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Slony-I goes BETA

2004-06-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
27;m still sick, and b) we're still having performance (load time) issues with pgFoundry. b) they would be the same on gborg as on pgFoundry, so don't let that stop things ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-06-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just so that everyone is aware, we are going to push the freeze date for 7.5 to July 1st. Although we feel that there are enough improvements and features already in place for 7.5, Tom's felt that if we gave it that extra

[HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-05-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
dline. Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Off the top of my head ... the Installer and Service Manager come to mind ... and Tom's fsync changes ..

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Off the top of my head ... the Installer and Service Manager come to mind ... and Tom's fsync changes ... Right now, I'd say feature freeze is looking more like n

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
o it isn't as if 7.5 will revolve only around Win32 ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
stuff is still outstanding, and they are both backend commits ... Bruce, do you have a full list of what is outstanding on the Win32 side, or is it just those two? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy

Re: [HACKERS] Win32, PITR, nested transactions, tablespaces

2004-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
my head ... the Installer and Service Manager come to mind ... and Tom's fsync changes ... Right now, I'd say feature freeze is looking more like next Friday (June 4th), and we're evaluate it then ... that should hopefully give the above time to flesh out and get into CVS

Re: [HACKERS]

2004-05-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
a production environment. When we have it to the point we consider stable, we remove teh popup? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Downloadable Mailing List Archives

2004-05-21 Thread Marc G. Fournier
the unregister command > > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:40ae452d278361798176055! > > > > > -- > Dave Cramer > 519 939 0336 > ICQ # 14675561 > > > -------(end of b

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e subject. Done Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list arc

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Neil Conway wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Tom appears to be against, everyone else seems to be for ... should we try > > it and see how it works out? > > Sure, although I personally think Andrew's suggestion of creating a > separate (non

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Joe Conway wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>My point is that for any non-trivial patch, you need to see all the > >>files modified in a single view, rather than poke around to see > >>diffe

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
... I just fear the size of the email going out for some of the large patches that are applied ... Tom appears to be against, everyone else seems to be for ... should we try it and see how it works out? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.or

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] attempt at a multi file commit, to seee

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Not sure if I like the URLs, myself ... opinions? > > Can the urls point to the exact diff? Already fixed for that ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMA

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Neil Conway wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > k, hasn't come through yet, but looked in the archives and the message > > looks good ... missed a / for cvsweb, so fixed that ... > > Looks good, but one minor quibble: the URL is to the cvsweb page

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Nope, was wrong ... adding the -V does add teh revision to the end of the URL ... On Thu, 20 May 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >> k, has

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> k, hasn't come through yet, but looked in the archives and the message > >> looks good ... missed a / for cvsweb, so fixed that ... > > >

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] attempt at a multi file commit, to seee how it

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-- > TIP 3: 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 > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Netwo

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
r log message appropriately ... On Thu, 20 May 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Neil Conway wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Agreed, even if the URL is only valid for a week or so. > > > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
we could > auto-generate on the fly via a URL, even better. Actaully, it just points the cvsweb interface ... I jus tconverted over t activitymail two secs ago ... let's see how it looks when it comes through ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.o

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Neil Conway wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I can't see this really being possible ... have you seen this on another > > project? > > Sure, it's quite common. There's a list of scripts that support this > kind of functionali

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ould be included in > the email if it is small enough. I can't see this really being possible ... have you seen this on another project? For the really simple commits, sure ... but for the more complex ones, we'd been talking a load of URLs, for each of the different files being update

Re: [HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One of the comments I saw over the past few days on how to make things on > > pgFoundry more visible was to have the commit messages for its projects > > sent

[HACKERS] commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

2004-05-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
change the subject header to reflect the project, instead of the list, so that one could create filters ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
or 7.4.1 to be released in order to release a new version of the project ... I'm not even say call it a 7.4 branch ... just associate it with it ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > The Win32 project page already has nightly Win32 builds courtesy of > Magnus. Do you want to setup an scp into the main ftp site so that the mirrors catch them as well? Might make it easier for ppl to get ahold of it ... ---- Marc G. Fo

Core vs non-Core (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion)

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
calls configure in the modules directory itself, so that's doable ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
gt; that problem too, and so I don't really see what they add in terms of > > testability. > > The main purpose of mini-releases would be to make testing more accessable to > newbies who find anon-CVS intimidating. what is wrong with the nightly snapshots that are created?

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t;= 200310211) > #define PG_VERSION_74_COMPAT > #else > #define PG_VERSION_75_COMPAT > #endif Why not have seperate branches in CVS for each version? Branch on similar dates to the core distribution itself? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Emai

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
to *not add* something to core (ie. plPHP/plPerlNG) then it is to remove something (see JDBC) ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broa

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > There is no such thing as "too close to feature freeze", nor has there > > ever been in the past ... other then missing it altogether. Unless there > > are some serious flaws in the implementa

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
d is to work out ... What is expected, though, is that you won't disappear after its committed, so that you can fix any bugs reported in a timely manner ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!:

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
hat it has to be distributed as part of the core? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
rying to squeeze things in ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
n't they doing it now? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
at time would be better spent on coming up with an effective upgrade method so that upgrading to new releases is easier ... Please note that I'm not against the backporting, but do understand the arguments against it in terms of time and manpower ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org N

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
anges since 7.5 was branched, no? Or have they been mostly cosmetic/docs? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
erface/extension has to be maintained in order to be in sync ... if done as a seperate project, in parallel with core, it is at least possible to release on their own timelines in order to correct bugs, or add features ... as part of core, new features/bug fixes have to wait for all of core to be re

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
good thing to know ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe command

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ron job reposts this > thread every 6 - 12 months. For those of us that are desirous of > PITR, it's a 6 month reposting that is becoming painful to read... k, let's think this through ... 7.4 was released, what, 6 months ago? And 6 months later, PITR still isn'

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
7;m wrong) the pls only rely on headers and libraries that get installed ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ot in the core distribution ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all list

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e* point of failure ... the pgpool process dies, you've lost all connections to the database ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:53:19 -0300, > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not true ... you just have to fix your definition of what a feature is ... > > a feature is an impr

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > Agreed, but you are a "me too", not a huge percentage of our userbase. > > > > How do you know? Have you polled our complete userbase? > > > > > Basically, after 6-7

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
complete *will* span multiple releases in between if they have to ... just because something doesn't make it into 7.5 doesn't mean that the developer is going to drop all their work and start from scratch hoping to make it into 7.6 ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networ

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but > > > others disagree. > > > > Jan, correct me i

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
appen, since what is considered big by you isn't necessarily what is considered big by someone else ... as Hannu, and I believe, Jan, have so far pointed out to you ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscr

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ny of the other stuff, like PITR/tablespaces) would be icing on the cake ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] add server include files to default installation?

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
file.global, cause then you have to also install the physical template files for the various operating system too, no? What else does Makefile.global rely on? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze approaching

2004-05-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
+ Christ can be your backup.| Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROT

[HACKERS] anoncvs moved

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
w up, its a matter of repointing the DNS back ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare/Threads stuff [repost from March]

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ernel. > > > > What do we have to do to get there? What code do I need to write for > > y'all? > > > > LER > > > >> > >> -- > >> Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 features

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Jan Wieck wrote: > Can we please make "move all replication software out of the release" an > official open item for the 7.5 release? Agreed ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] threads stuff/UnixWare

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
uld work. > > I tried to submit the patch, and it was killed. Please re-submit since I don't recall the patch ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy I

Re: [HACKERS] threads stuff/UnixWare

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ad > wrapper. > > I know, this sucks, but, I don't see any other way, other than linking > *ALL* libpq-using programs (including initdb and friends) with -K pthread. k, a change that 'sucks', vs linking against -Kpthread ... I'm for the -Kpthread route m

Re: [HACKERS] threads stuff/UnixWare

2004-05-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > --On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 15:59:19 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > >> >> > Ummm, shouldn't that be add

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