[HACKERS] setQuerySnapshot in plpgsql functions in 7.3

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
ever done. Read committed transactions seem broken without this ability. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your messag

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
ase > inconvenienced in an effort to purely gain that market share. I usually > associate increased marketing with decreased quality, and I think the > causality works *both* ways. > Aren't most development efforts made simply to gain market share? After all, I don&

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
cacy as one of those) and the folks maintaining those lists seem to be against letting anyone into their fiefdoms. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:26:13 -0500, Philip Warner wrote: > At 12:12 AM 5/12/2002 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > I am happy with increasing market share so long a development is not > distorted or current users inconvenienced. We have seen the latter with > the misplaced announcements.

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Robert Treat
these companies weren't too happy things were running on linux, and not aix or solaris; are we seeing a pointy haired trend here? Personally I never understood why our sales guys didn't just tell them "ok we'll port the service to oracle/solaris for you, but it's

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:10 pm, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On 5 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 03:28, Dave Page wrote: > > > www is a closed group consisting of a few of us who actually do the > > > work on the sites. > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Robert Treat
ote telling you > not only why I denied it, but which list you were SUPPOSED to join. > fiefdoms!! Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
I do agree that until we get a coordinated and open web development process the advocacy group is going to have a much harder go of it. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] DB Tuning Notes for comment...

2002-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
een 250 and 3500 rows. These tables turn over at least every 15 minutes, so I have decided on a 10 minute vacuum interval. As with Phillip's, since they are small tables, more frequent vacuuming seemed excessive. > > For larger or more complex tables, the output of VACUUM ANALYZE mu

Re: [HACKERS] DB Tuning Notes for comment...

2002-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
hink that'd mostly make > it harder to interpret the config setting rather than offer any real > ease of administration. > Can we not just have vacuum of a database return a total # of pages modified and relations modified, and then report suggested free space map settings? Even this li

Re: [HACKERS] DB Tuning Notes - Where To?

2002-12-11 Thread Robert Treat
tion. I'm not sure where the vacuum/analyze information would go in this scenario though, so a general software tuning section does seem appropriate. Do you see a 3.8 Tuning the Server (Hardware) section as well? Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-13 Thread Robert Treat
a non-inheritance system, I > would vote for forcing a one column table to be dropped. For PG, I think > you are right. > Just out of curiosity, do any of the SQL specs deal with 0 column tables? I can't recall any dbms supporting a create table comma

Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

2002-12-16 Thread Robert Treat
which this case would seem to do) so if it is done lets make sure we add documentation to point out that we aren't compliant on this issue. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an ap

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone over the "list of things to do when we release" to make sure things like the websites getting updated or perhaps getting rpm builds coordinated has been done? Robert Treat On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:18, Marc G

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:51, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: > > > Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone > > over the "list of things to do when we release" to make sure things like > > the w

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
If it's all, perhaps we should reword as: ... has a new major version number for this release and will require recompilation of client code. Robert Treat On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > >A dump/restore is *not* required for

Re: [HACKERS] What else needs to be done for 7.3.1?

2002-12-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:58, Bruce Momjian wrote: > OK, what additional things need to be done for 7.3.1? As far as I know, > we have done everything. > Do we want to coordinate with Lamar or Oliver about having packages ready to coincide with the release announcement? Rob

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Password Cracker

2003-01-03 Thread Robert Treat
n site is stored in. Anonymous access and an email of who to send patches to would be enough if people are worried about me trashing things :-) Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appro

Re: [HACKERS] IPv6 patch

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Treat
data point. What would be our default as > shipped? If there is no downside to allowing both, probably both. If there is a downside then ipv4, since it much more likely to be the default on OS's for the next release or two. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Treat
; > What about those of us who want to use \e repeatedly? Will that be > > in the history buffer? > > The number of times I've cursed things over the years, I would have > thought having the edited query in the history would be more useful than > \e - the latter is only three key presses any how ;-) > Or if the query could be appended after the \e, it would only be a quick "double-up" to get back to the \e. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Treat
) ORDER BY 1,2; in 7.3 if you run the 7.2 sql from a 7.3 psql client against a 7.2 server it will work. One solution might be to create files with the 7.2 queries in them so you could do something like \i relations to get a list of all relations in the database. If someone we're ambitious enough, you probably could modify psql to store which version of the server it is connected and the use some type of class structure to call the appropriate sql for the given \ command. Thats the approach we've taken with phppgadmin 3, and while it complicates things it does have it's benefits. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

2003-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
es in very handy. I'd be interested in helping out with this, though Christopher would probably start throwing things at me if I volunteered :-) Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Treat
asons that this was not feasible in the past was that we needed functions that could return multiple rows and columns easily. Now that we have that in 7.3, it might be worth revisiting. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Treat
t; It's not irrelevant. The original question was a complaint about the ads > and why we have them - this shows the amount of traffic we get for a > small portion of the site which can give some idea how busy other bits > of the sites might get. > Perhaps this means we need to

Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Treat
You have to do it in functions because some of the \ commands use multiple queries and logic inside the C code. Robert Treat On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:42, Greg Copeland wrote: > Views or C-functions, I think the idea is excellent. It's the concept > that I really like. > > Gr

Re: [HACKERS] Generate user/group sysids from a sequence?

2003-01-17 Thread Robert Treat
Have we decided it's really too difficult to remove all references to a given sysid when the user is dropped? It seems like we're creating multiple new problems in an effort to workaround one existing problem. Robert Treat On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:38, Bruce Momjian wrote: > T

Re: [HACKERS] Generate user/group sysids from a sequence?

2003-01-17 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have we decided it's really too difficult to remove all references to a > > given sysid when the user is dropped? > > Getting at objects in other databases is considerabl

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Robert Treat
t your competition is using as FUD, you will gain new users. We'll see what happens in 7.4 if we do have replication, native windows support, and PITR, because everyone will have to come up with some new FUD to sling this way. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc?

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Treat
lanation of problems/solutions of using md5 passwords inside postgresql. this has tripped up a lot of people upgrading to 7.3 * possibly go into server resource issues and the pitfalls in giving free form sql access to just anyone. (Think unconstrained join on all tables in a database) hth, Robert

Re: [HACKERS] Release Scheduales: 7.2.4 & 7.3.2

2003-01-22 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:23, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > If anyone has any 'last minute' issues they would like to see in either, > please speak now or forever hold your peace :) > Can someone post a "changelog" for these releases? Also what tags will be creat

Re: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
I don't know if this is terribly helpful, but the message was around in 7.2.x, look at src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c around line 1808 (or 1823 in the 7.3.x code) That said, I've not seen it before, perhaps you can expand upon what your function is doing? Robert Treat On Mon, 2003-0

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Robert Treat
anch. In the mean time, if some of the unix oriented guys want to devise a suggested test plan that can be used to determine if we are going to call the native windows support "production grade" or merely a vast improvement over the cygwin developers version, well I bet the windows folks

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] v7.2.4 bundled ...

2003-01-31 Thread Robert Treat
I see no reason not to do it and post it to patches or someplace else (gborg?). That way if someone comes along and complains they can't compile it with a new bison, we can always say "Kevin Brown made a patch for that, you can get it at XXX". Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Treat
acceptable inside the 8.0 rpm's. Robert Treat ---(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 cleanly

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Treat
(or a link to the thread). While I'll grant you that the "it's coming" argument is pretty weak after two releases, that fact that it may have been a better solution could still hold up. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
really handy when doing major upgrades). If you really have a strong desire to change this, you can. As I see it, this change would (should?) need to be something that could be changed in the configure script when building postgresql, as well changeable via a command line option, any other pla

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
ections, so we ran with 128 max. I think this is a safe number on most servers these days (running linux as least) though out of the box I might be more inclined to limit it to 64. If you do hit a file descriptor problem, *you are hosed*. Robert Treat ---(end of broadc

Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] postgresql 7.3 versus 7.2

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
ith INSERT output) with the 7.3 pg_dump. Assuming you haven't done anything too wacky, you should be able to drop your 7.2 database, reload the 7.2 schema, then load up the 7.3 data. As always, test this out before doing it on a production system. Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
to find the data directory when someone else > set up the system. > find / -name postgresql.conf -print you now know where all of your configuration files are and where the data for each of those servers is as well. (Not I'm not against the idea...) Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
t. Stick with it, I think most of us here can see the value in the option, but there are valid concerns that it be implemented correctly. Personally I think a postgresql installation is much more like an apache installation, which generally contains all of the files (data and config) under /u

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:22, Adam Haberlach wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:59:17PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:08, mlw wrote: > > > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, mlw wrote: > > Personally I think a

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Treat
the choice. > I agree. Given that we don't have solid explanations on telling people how to tune the different parameters, nor do we have enough mechanisms for actually giving people the information they need to determine the changes they need, a complete auto-tune seems premature. Robert Tr

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:28, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:06, mlw wrote: > > > > > > I will be resubmitting my patch for the 7.3.2 tree. > > > > > > > I'm no core developer, but surely this wont be

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:43, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote: > > > > > > My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been > > > made to the initialization scripts. > &g

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:51, mlw wrote: > > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote: > > > > My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been > > made to the initialization scripts. > > > &

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:06, mlw wrote: > > I will be resubmitting my patch for the 7.3.2 tree. > I'm no core developer, but surely this wont be included in the 7.3.x branch. Any change needs to be made against CVS head. Robert Treat ---(en

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Treat
her fully FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:48 am, mlw wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >Seems like some are saying one of the problems with the current system > >is it doesn't follow FHS or LSB. If those are valid reasons to change > >the system, it seems like a change which does

Re: [HACKERS] Free-space-map management thoughts

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Treat
e best candidates for removal (100% empty). Is this a valid concern, or am I misreading something? Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [HACKERS] Free-space-map management thoughts

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:00, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now that indexes are getting some reporting, my understanding is an > > index would report fewer pages overall than it's associated table, but > > those pages would be comple

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 vs 8.0 WAS Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Treat
I would guess that by the time all of the protocol changes could be completed, we'd have win32 or pitr, so it will hopefully be moot. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] Numbering of the next release: 8.0 vs 7.4

2003-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
sible 10.0 because we've added win32... yuk. That said, I'll take Tom's position on this that we might as well worry about whether it's going to be 7.4 or 8.0 once we hit feature freeze; by then the whole discussion could be irrelevant. Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] A bad behavior under autocommit off mode

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Treat
it sounds like it is actually going away with the fe/be protocol changes. If thats true, it seems to me this makes the GUC method the most limiting. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Regular expressions in PostgreSQL

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Treat
See chapter 6.6.3. "POSIX Regular Expressions" in the Users Guide Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 20:27, Partho Bhowmick wrote: > Is the regular expression used by Postgres POSIX compliant? > > Regards, > Partho ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] What's a good PostgreSQL guide book?

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Treat
many of the books out there. I've not encountered much fluff yet, though it does devote a lot of space to various programming interfaces you might not be interested in; though all are open standard languages, not any specific companies. Hopefully when I'm done I can post a thorough review. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal to Re-Order Postgresql.Conf, part II

2003-06-07 Thread Robert Treat
in the new order of the postgresql.conf Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] No more RH7.3 RPMs?

2003-05-30 Thread Robert Treat
This message on the admin list has directions for recompiling the 7.3.3 SRPM on red hat 7.2 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2003-05/msg00409.php Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 07:26, ow wrote: > RH7.3 is a supported distribution for at least 6 months. Any plans to add > Po

Re: [HACKERS] Use of Intel compiler on Linux

2003-06-02 Thread Robert Treat
If they have a letter to the editor or web forum, it might be worth posting the change there in case others reading the article want to try the compile. Robert Treat On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 11:56, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > A German computer magazine (c't 7/2003) tested the Intel C/C++

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with renaming a column

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
pg_dump. yeah. again Chris tends to hack on pg_dump so he might see it differently than I (and I haven't looked at psql in months). (He's on holiday for the next few days btw which is why I'm chiming in) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} P

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal to Re-Order Postgresql.Conf, part II

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
share somewhat common names (max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages) or else it would really be easy to overlook some settings. Robert Treat On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:33 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I think people thought if you were doing SHOW ALL, you were looking for > a specific v

Re: [HACKERS] security flaw

2003-06-09 Thread Robert Treat
nformation out. I know many of our users would welcome that change. Robert Treat phpPgAdmin Team -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an approp

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Postgresql & AMD x86-64

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Treat
Can you send in a report for the supported platforms list? http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/supported-platforms.html Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:16, Martin D. Weinberg wrote: > Hi folks, > > We recently built a dual K8D-based Opteron box running Linux in 64-b

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL under Windows

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Treat
up_id=9764&release_id=136623 It's not supported by anyone and I can't even say if it will work for you, but it has worked for some in the past and might be a good way to get your feet wet. Once you get up and running be sure to come back and help us beta test! :-) Robert T

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL under Windows

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Treat
Justin, can you add this to the release notes section on the sourceforge site if it's not already there? Robert Treat On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:02 am, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi guys, > > Although the "Proof of Concept" build works, it does have a few drawbacks: >

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-19 Thread Robert Treat
not know it ;-) > > We can't slip this puppy any more --- it's time to wrap her up and > push her out. > Well, I suppose that history has shown that waiting on specific features causes trouble with postgresql development, but I don't see why a release can't be bas

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Treat
27;s been a delay of > a week because of the server problems hasn't there and wasn't the original > delay only acceptable on the basis that that was that and there wasn't going to > be another extension? > There really isn't for this release. Any talk of dela

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Treat
t's old school to actually base versioning on technical criteria instead of buzzwords, but there's no reason we have to follow the corporate mold. Still, I'd rather not get into that debate yet since I don't want to let the win32 guys off the hook yet! win32 for

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 10:42, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 06:59, Justin Clift wrote: > >> The only thing that makes me wince is that we have a protocol change at > >> PostgreSQL 7.4 release instead of 8.0. &g

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Treat
; one. > right, which is why core/hackers will decide both what gets into each releases and when it's released. since i'm not outpacing tom or bruce in my patch submissions i don't expect them to bend to my whims, but as someone who follows and participates in postgresql development

Re: [HACKERS] src/bin/scripts seems a bit of a misnomer now

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Treat
hink something like this was either posted to the list, put on gborg, or maybe hidden in contrib somewhere. I'd like a copy if you don't mind, I currently use reindex regularly on my database but your script sounds a little more informational. Robert Treat -- Bu

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-23 Thread Robert Treat
rather than other non-prioritized tasks, and it also helps to ensure a "killer feature" for those who want such things, Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 23 June 2003 10:43 am, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here's a sure to be wildly unpopular suggestion: > > > > Make the deciding factor for the next release support of "foo" (foo can > > be win32, pitr, rep

Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze

2003-06-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:36, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > > > > The target-date-based approach we've taken in the last couple of > > > releases seems much more productive. > > > > > > > productive on a

Re: [HACKERS] PHP/PgSQL *and* libpq ...

2003-06-25 Thread Robert Treat
Seems like we should also allow for a windows specific distribution of libpq as well. Robert Treat On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:43 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Added to TODO: > > * Allow creation of a libpq-onl

Re: [HACKERS] PHP/PgSQL *and* libpq ...

2003-06-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:59:41 -0300 (ADT), "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > > > Seems like we should also allow for a windows specific distribution of libpq > > as well. > > I thought that the win32 stuff was being included

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 feature freeze is here

2003-07-02 Thread Robert Treat
Once you folks are done going through the remaining list of patches, can we get someone to send a rough list of new features in 7.4 sent over to -advocacy? Please feel free to highlight any items that you think warrant special notice from a technical standpoint. Thanks in advance, Robert Treat

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Treat
erv2 or something and letting both projects stand side by side? as the person doing the legwork, do you see one location or the other as a hindrance to getting the release done? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of b

Re: [HACKERS] Patches List

2003-07-17 Thread Robert Treat
nny because it's not in the archives and I didn't receive the > message to my own inbox. FWIW I have it. Please be aware that archives isn't updating as of now, so it's quite likely that it go flummoxed before this patch was sent. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux

Re: [HACKERS] Patches List

2003-07-17 Thread Robert Treat
one I posted... > Marc had been playing with the configs for amavis(?) that seemed to have created a bit of a black hole for some messages. I noticed one I sent following up Chris K-L's post about a database not starting never made it to the list. I checked with the direct recipients a

Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql strangeness with select into

2003-07-18 Thread Robert Treat
eclared as integer and is not used before this code nor > as a column name anywhere. > > Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong? I use Postgresql 7.3.3 on > FreeBSD 4.5. > try giving it a default of 0 in the declare statement, if that doesn't work, post the whole code f

Re: [HACKERS] Feature request -- Log Database Name

2003-07-23 Thread Robert Treat
g option which logs the > > name of the database generating the message. > > > > Do we need to add this as a TODO? > It would be VERY nice to do that, and maybe even the table? > Should it be a GUC like log_timestamp that can be applied to all log messages? Robert Treat -

Re: [HACKERS] Feature request -- Log Database Name

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Treat
able. of course, I doubt you could make this foolproof (how to log startup errors in this table?) but it could be a start. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Doubt w.r.t vacuum

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Treat
housands of smaller-sized tuples. > Isn't it possible that the reshuffling of tuples before page 1000 could open up enough space to move the overly large tuple? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] is 7.3.4 final?

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
Yes, it is a done deal. I'm in the process of updating the main web site and the sourceforge site, hopefully I'll be done sometime this morning. Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:17, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Is 7.3.4 a done deal now? If so, the front page of the Pg web

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
x27;gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? > There nothing stopping you from submitting improved wording for the FAQ if you think it would be helpful. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--

[HACKERS] Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Weekly News - July 30th 2003

2003-08-01 Thread Robert Treat
Hey Thierry, I'm forwarding this on to the hackers group to see if we can get an authoritative answer, as you don't want to rely on my fuzzy memory. :-) Anyone know the scoop on this? Robert Treat -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Postgre

Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming Release of PostgreSQL, Inc's erserver v1.2

2003-08-01 Thread Robert Treat
ch better to add to the rserv.README information about the rserv gborg project and note that, unless there is substantial development it will most likely be dropped from 7.5, perhaps moved to it's own gborg project. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming Release of PostgreSQL, Inc's erserver v1.2

2003-08-01 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:29, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:46, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > >> Is there anyone actually using rserv who would be adverse to my removing > >> it from the source tar ball? >

Re: [HACKERS] "truncate all"?

2003-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
abase and recreate it from schema. > > Will that do for you? Unfortunately that is not transaction safe and any > clients connected at that time needs to disconnect first. Hopefully you can do > that in the test environment. > Truncate isn't transaction safe either, so that

Re: [HACKERS] "truncate all"?

2003-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
he is all the better I suppose... :-) > > > Proper syntax for his feature would seem like: > > truncate table [cascade|restrict] ? > > Agreed. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] "truncate all"?

2003-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
CATE cannot be used as table exception_notice_map references this one via foreign key constraint $1 21809=# select count(*) from exception_notice_map; count --- 0 (1 row) 21809=# Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] "truncate all"?

2003-08-07 Thread Robert Treat
at they do not > know about them. > IMHO the dropdb/createdb/load schema/load data cycle provides for a better unit test than the truncate data/load data cycle does, so while I see this functionality as handy for development, I wouldn't use it for unit testing. Robert Treat -- Build A

[HACKERS] message at end of install

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
IIRC the message at the end of install used to echo out the startup command (pg_ctl or postmaster), but now it gives some nice information on how to get help. Should the startup message be put back in? Seems like it is the most likely thing someone who just installed would want to know. Robert

Re: [HACKERS] Farewell

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
Newton did: "If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants", Issac Newton thanks Vadim, Robert Treat -- PostgreSQL :: The Enterprise Open Source Database ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/readi

Re: [HACKERS] Windows on SuSE? 7.4

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:44, elein wrote: > Yes, I actually have a libwsock32 because my > system has wine on it. Wine is a windows > emulator. > Wine Is Not an Emulator :-) Robert Treat -- PostgreSQL :: The Enterprise Open Source Database ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] message at end of install

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
Strike that, the how to run message comes at the end of initdb, not install... Maybe we need a message after install telling newbies like myself to run initdb... :-P Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:58, Robert Treat wrote: > IIRC the message at the end of install used to echo out

Re: [HACKERS] "truncate all"?

2003-08-17 Thread Robert Treat
I guess we'll assume that if you use the cascade statement you understand these risks and accept them. Really my previous email was simply to point out to anyone implementing the truncate cascade that truncate currently doesn't care if there is really any data in the dependent tables, jus

Re: [HACKERS] NOTICE vs WARNING

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Treat
thout using "probably"). > I'll second this notion. Things like what is effected by DROP...CASCADE and I believe that changing types from OPAQUE to TRIGGER fall into this category as well. I'm trying to decide on the implicit FROM, iirc we now have a GUC to turn this on/off,

Re: [HACKERS] FE/BE Protocol - Specific version

2003-08-29 Thread Robert Treat
> from altering PG_PROTOCOL_EARLIEST in your build. See > src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h. > Tom, just curious as to what your resistance is to this feature? ISTM that making this admin modifiable doesn't hurt anyone and could be helpful to some people. Robert Treat -- Bu

Re: [HACKERS] psql \h alter scrolls of screen

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:14, Bruce Momjian wrote: > When I do '\h alter' in psql, the content scrolls off my screen. > i think you need a bigger screen > Should we be using the pager for \h output? > in 7.3.4 we do, let me check 7.4...seems to work, though I am on beta

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