Re: [HACKERS] documentation udpates to pgupgrade.html

2010-09-29 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Colin, > To query for Postgresql services on Windows use: > > sc query type= service | find "postgresql" > sad news is that (at least on my computer) it only finds running services. Harald -- GHUM GmbH Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 Amtsgericht Stuttg

Re: [HACKERS] documentation udpates to pgupgrade.html

2010-09-28 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Bruce, > > > NET STOP postgresql-8.4 > > NET STOP postgresql-9.0 > > > which should be extended by > > > > net stop postgresql-x64-9.0 > > > > for Windows 64 bit. > > > > Interesting. What I have added to HEAD and 9.0 docs is the attached > patch that explains the proper service name should be

[HACKERS] documentation udpates to pgupgrade.html

2010-09-26 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Hello, just doing an upgrade form PostgreSQL 8.4.4 on Windows 2007 64bit to PostgreSQL 9.0 64bit on the same system. I am working along http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html There is written: NET STOP postgresql-8.4 NET STOP postgresql-9.0 or NET STOP pgsql-8.3 (Postg

Re: [HACKERS] patch: Add JSON datatype to PostgreSQL (GSoC, WIP)

2010-07-24 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> I, for one, think it would be great if the JSON datatype were all in > core :-)  However, if and how much JSON code should go into core >is up for > discussion.  Thoughts, anyone? > in my opinion: As soon as possible. Spinning PostgreSQL as the Ajax-enabled-database has many great uses. Harald

Re: [HACKERS] Snapshot Materialized Views - GSoC

2010-05-21 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Pavel, b) create MV syntax? > - CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW mvname AS ..., I think it is quite > obvious to do so, but I had to ask > please do not fortget the: create or replace MATERIALIZED VIEW option. And also the DROP if exists for the drop-command Best wishes Harald -- GHUM Harald

Re: [HACKERS] Confusion over Python drivers

2010-02-08 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Greg, > The point isn't so much "standardizing". Having a low performance Python > driver turns into a PostgreSQL PR issue. I totally agree. >And if you're writing a database driver with performance as a goal, native Python is simply not >an option. yes. Additionally: performance is not the

Re: [HACKERS] Confusion over Python drivers

2010-02-08 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>The pg8000 / bpgsql seem to be toy projects, and anyway you dont >want to use pure-Python drivers in high-performance environments. I agree that there are some performance-challenges with pure-Python drivers. And we should not forget to look for the reasons for the incubation of that many pure-P

Re: [HACKERS] Confusion over Python drivers

2010-02-07 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Marko, > I thought the topic was "Confusion over Python drivers"? > > The only bug there was likely app one, or at least its not widespread > so off-topic. Rest are more like non-essential cool features, > so again off-topic. > Those lack of "non-essential cool features" is right on topic - b

Re: [HACKERS] Confusion over Python drivers

2010-02-05 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Bruce, http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Python > > The first one listed, Psycopg, is noted as "preferred libpq-based > driver", but the license is GPL. Isn't that a problem for many client > applications? > > The licence of psycopg2 is a little more complicated; the "GPL" in that summary ju

Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> Wait for it > > 9.0. Yeah!!! -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 no fx, no carrier pigeon - %s is too gigantic of an industry to bend to the whims of reality -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-ha

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Windows x64 [repost]

2009-12-09 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Tatsuo, > Ok. Your suggestion is very helpfull. In general Tsutomu will wait for > feedbacks come in, probably until Jan 15th. > > BTW, is there anyone who wishes the patches get in 8.5? Apparently > Tstutomu, Magnus and I are counted in the group:-) But I'd like to > know how other people are int

Re: [HACKERS] Block-level CRC checks

2009-12-04 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>> I am in the process of adding a user-space "myhash" column to all my >> applications tables, filled by a trigger on insert / update. It really >> speeds up table comparison across databases; and it is very helpfull >> in debugging replications. > > Have you seen pg_comparator? yes, saw the ligh

Re: [HACKERS] Block-level CRC checks

2009-12-04 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Kevin, > md5sum of each tuple?  As an optional system column (a la oid)? I am mainly an application programmer working with PostgreSQL. And I want to point out an additional usefullness of an md5sum of each tuple: it makes comparing table-contents in replicated / related databases MUCH more feasi

Re: [HACKERS] Application name patch - v2

2009-10-19 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> Sure. Here's a nice example from SQL Server as well as related doc links: > > http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/10/sql-connection-application-name.html > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189770.aspx > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnection.connectionst

Re: [HACKERS] Client application name

2009-10-13 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>I can have libpq look at the environment as it does for >PGCLIENTENCODING, but I'd certainly like to be able to use the >connection string as well, as environment variables are not really the another challenge with the Environment variable: they are (at least on windows) usually set for one logge

Re: [HACKERS] Feature Suggestion: PL/Js

2009-10-07 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> > I think Josh Tolley has some slides on how we built PL/LOLCODE that > could prove useful. > > BTW I've seen requests for PL/Js so I'm sure it'll be welcome. What > license is v8 under? > > the new BSD License http://code.google.com/p/v8/ -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Haral

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha 1 release notes

2009-08-13 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
within source code, build options there is: - Reserve the shared memory region during backend startup on Windows, so that memory allocated by starting third party DLLs doesn't end up conflicting with it. Hopefully this solves the long-time issue with "could not reattach to shared memory" er

Re: [HACKERS] generic options for explain

2009-05-25 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> The impression I have is that (to misquote Churchill) XML is the worst > option available, except for all the others. We need something that can > represent a fairly complex data structure, easily supports addition or > removal of particular fields in the structure (including fields not > forese