Re: [HACKERS] Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the null bitmap, if present, always covers all the columns... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: We could get rid of t_hoff, because we should always be able to calculate the header size. Then we're down to 18 bytes

Re: [HACKERS] Block B-Tree concept

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the original proposal. That adds some complexity. but it's doable. This way doesn't change the current index format much. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
of decimal places could be defined per currency... Interesting thought, probably wouldn't take more than an hour to whip up. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] send()/receive() and on-disk storage

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
not-host-dependant representation of the data. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
? Converting to/from text format for when dealing with client applications. Numeric can convert faster than plain integers sometimes. Numeric isn't that slow really... Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:29:57PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote: Martijn, On 9/28/06 12:42 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote: - Only supports one currency (dollars) What are the manifestations of this? test=# select '100'::money; money - $100.00 (1 row

Re: [HACKERS] Numeric overflow problem + patch

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
accurately describes the actual problem. Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
But maybe that introduces too many quoting issues. Ofcourse, being able to provide a complete connect string would be good too... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] CVS HEAD psql won't let you out of a Password: prompt

2006-09-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
, so a ^C would have been a no-op. psql uses simple_prompt which I beleive comes from the port directory. And there is definitly a loop there to retry on no input. That hasn't changed any time recently as far as I can tell. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http

Re: [HACKERS] Faster StrNCpy

2006-09-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
/archives/gtk-devel-list/2000-May/msg00029.html Do you really think it's worth making a macro rather than just a normal function? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i

2006-09-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i as plain i, because

2006-09-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
by a pointer to the actual standard. Well you could always use te HTML4 #305; which most tools should understand. At least browsers have good support for this kind of entity. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i as plain i, because

2006-09-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:54:47AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Well you could always use te HTML4 #305; which most tools should understand. At least browsers have good support for this kind of entity. Please review the recent thread on pgsql-docs before

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i

2006-09-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
version 3, which is quite some time ago now. So to me (a more docbook novice) it seems like it's the stylesheet that's limiting you to latin1, not the docbook parser. Anyway, the problem has been solved, so we can all get back to testing the beta now. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout

Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i

2006-09-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
For dsl file just copy the stylesheet.dsl file in the postgresql source tree. Why it doesn't work in the current docs I don't know, but I think we can rule out limitations of HTML or Docbook. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Fix CREATE CAST on DOMAINs

2006-09-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
get lost in the possibilites. Adding just a single step domain to base type conversion seems pretty safe, but anything more is going to be hard. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] minor feature request: Secure defaults during

2006-09-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
want. I agree that maybe being able to specify it during function creation would be nice, but it's not like it's impossible now. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Fix CREATE CAST on DOMAINs

2006-09-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. That's what makes it expensive. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: Fix CREATE CAST on DOMAINs

2006-09-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
and we should wonder why that cast implicit now anyway. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
? At the end of the day it's the patch that gets reviewed, not the wiki page. Once the patch is in it's just historical interest I guess... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] OID conflicts

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
of committing it should get sorted out. Did you use the scripts to find free numbers? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
their summaries with members of both/all sides of a given discussion and with members of the core group. It would be helpful if people commented on the stuff already there and said if it's good, bad or otherwise. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch for UUID datatype (beta)

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
-platform library to do the job. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] minor feature request: Secure defaults during

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch for UUID datatype (beta)

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] OID conflicts

2006-09-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
yet. Have anice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
being in CVS, which gives it all the access protection it needs. A wiki todo list can stay where it is, just that it's not official. [I've just made a reference to the TODO list in CVS from the wiki, that should help]. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing data type space usage

2006-09-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
and ipv6 *never* fit. Ie, we'll essentially end up with an ipv4inet and an ipv6inet. Sad in a way. Eh? Either will always fit. ipv6 is 128 *bits* and the new varlena header goes to 128 *bytes*. That should fit easily, no? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Really? Where was that? Did it get deleted in the meantime? Who's responsible for that kind of thing? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
it into a generic money type. Win win. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Vacuum error on database postgres

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Especially for the analyse-from-autovacuum case, perhaps an ANALYSE NOLOCK or whatever. For stuff run from autovacuum, would it be reasonable for the automatically run version to just abort if it sees someone doing the same thing? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
for a type that can store a single UTF-8 character is smart. I just can't see enough use to make it worth it. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
indicater, with different letters meaning different things. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] polite request about syntax

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing data type space usage

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the lengths of all the previous datums first. Good summary though, probably worth putting on the wiki so next time we don't have to search the archives. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Optimize ORDER BY ... LIMIT

2006-09-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
scans, executing stored plans, etc. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Fix linking of OpenLDAP libraries

2006-09-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
will have to apply to -lssl, -lcrypto, -lkrb5, -lk5crypto and quite possibly others. Do we really want to go there? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
you're actually saving anything. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] log_duration is redundant, no?

2006-09-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the users are doing, just how many resources they're taking. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
requires recoding, wheres changing collation does not. I think it'd just become a special case of the Relabel node. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:58:59AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I think that if SQL COLLATE gets in we'll get this almost for free. Collation and charset are both properties of strings. Once you've got a mechanism to know the collation of a string, you just

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
should honour that. Moving all this to the client doesn't seem like a good move at all. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
for the buffer cache. If you're RAM limited, that's the last thing you want. Currently, the executor will use the contents of the actual disk page when possible, saving a lot of copying. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Well, that's not true, which part of the docs were you looking at? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:19:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:35:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: what's more, the docs suggest that it doesn't support anything wider than UTF16. Well, that's not true, which part

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the u_strCompareIter() interface, where the two strings are defined as iterators. We setup the iterator to understand whatever charset postgres is currently running. Many of the other function have iterator versions also, so you can avoid UTF-16 entirely if you like. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Fix linking of OpenLDAP libraries

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
That way only people who actually want static linking need be bothered. Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for GUID datatype

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
every other fixed length type. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
to step forward through the string and return the code point at each point. Here's the docs for C++ class, but there's a equivalent C interface. http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4c/classCharacterIterator.html#_details Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http

Re: UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea? (was: Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GUID datatype)

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
/output functions should ignore dashes, to make it straightforward to store UUIDs directly in there. Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
it has to fit in a register. On the whole, the CPU register size is the same as the pointer size, so 2*sizeof(pointer) is unlikely to fit... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: The fundamental property of a Datum is that you can pass it by value to a C function. This generally means it has to fit in a register. On the whole, the CPU register size

Re: [HACKERS] UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea?

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
gives you that, pretty much. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
doesn't help you if you want to do accent-insensetive matching. Sometimes you don't just want to change the order, you also want to change what is equal. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Backend SSL configuration enhancement

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
be in the next release. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] wartho failing

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
can't do that; for some reason it's picked up the static version of termcap. In any case, it shouldn't be using termcap at all. Something in the makefile is including it obviously... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according

Re: [HACKERS] patching question

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the developers FAQ? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Multi-valued user-defined types

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
think in and of itself it is very difficult. As long as you don't want to have the typmod to avoid storing data in the datum (which the raw(64) example is) it should be fairly straightforward... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
in tables seems silly. Err, where does postgres use this information? I beleive there is a project on pgfoundary that has some standard datasets. Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
/programming/ansic-library.html#stdlib http://cplus.kompf.de/cliblist.html http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/strtod.3C.html returning ERANGE on underflow was in the ANSI C standard. Can't find the text itself though, Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: GUID

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
it autogenerated. Provide a generation function (not absolutly necessary) and you're done. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [HACKERS] Question about 8-byte datatypes

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. Yes that'd be nice, but not entirely straightforward. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Dead code?

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
code left over, possibly from the days before the Name data type? attlen -2 is used for cstring (null terminated strings). Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] Dead code?

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:42:57PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: attlen -2 is used for cstring (null terminated strings). Hope this helps, Well that's what the code I quoted indicates. But when do we ever store a cstring in a tuple

Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: GUID

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
then. BTW, I seem to remember something about the stuff in the RFC not being good for some reason, not unique enough or too predictable. Do you know anything about that? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. If the purpose behind all of this is to save disk space, perhaps the root of the problem is that disk representation and memory representation are intimately tied? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each

Re: [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout said: Ok, it looks like pages can be arranged hierarchically. Well, a prefix like Todo: is not the incantation one needs to use to arrange pages in hierarchies. You probably want / to indicate a subpage

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizing prepared statements

2006-09-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Hierarchical Queries--Status

2006-09-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a part of the executor is shared between two executions) that might provide a way to solve some of the trickier multiple evaluation problems with rules. Again, it would just be a tuplestore the stored the results for multiple executions. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
as people hit reply-to-all the whole thread will be archived in the bug. I assume other bug trackers have a similar feature... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
promise, but until the wiki is there we won't know... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
to just a few. Then all some developer has to do is scan the wannabe list and copy the links to the main list. Is this kind of setup ossible? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
beleive the idea was to not make the site editable by the public? Does't that kind of defeat the purpose of getting more people to takeover work? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki

2006-09-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
items (and progress info). With Todo:Contents being a front page? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-09-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
with out. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-09-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
/backend/tcop/postgres.c#rev1.420 That was over two years ago, I'm not sure whether any of the ideas mentioned in there have been implemented since. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-09-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
on first execution, like Oracle does. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] GIN FailedAssertions on Itanium2 with Intel compiler

2006-09-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
is making some assumptions about the code that arn't true, so we tell the compiler not to do that. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-09-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
well, so perhaps the right approach is to get interface writers to appreciate the difference and indicate if named or unnamed prepares are used. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
the same problem? I imagine most interfaces like out-of-band parameters (no escaping issues), why do they not use this? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
preparation is the default ... what else were you thinking of? Perl DBI (DBD::Pg) defaults to prepared plans when connecting to a version 8.0 or higher server. Or at least, that's the way I read the documentation. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
. I see from the source that DBD::Pg does use PQexecParams() sometimes so maybe it does support out-of-line parameters... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
option anyday, but that's just the types of queries I'm doing. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
whether or not you want to plan straightaway or at bind time. Would this be acceptable? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Another VPATH patch for ecpg

2006-08-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
-dec_test.c.diff file). It changed and changed back again, very odd... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence ?

2006-08-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence ?

2006-08-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
thing initdb actually needs is an implementation of find_matching_encoding(ctype), which returns a value of enum pg_enc. check_encodings_match() stays in initdb, and get_encoding_from_locale() becomes internal to libpq. How does that sound? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence ?

2006-08-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade: What is changed?

2006-08-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
to be able to cover some of the stuff done during the upgrade, so it'd be useless after anyway. Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description

Re: [HACKERS] seahorse again failing

2006-08-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
spurious results. At DEBUG lavel maybe? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org http://svana.org/kleptog/ From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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