Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System

2003-01-26 Thread Al Sutton
Theres a script at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/other/makevcgen which may work, I've not tried it, but someone may want to give it a spin. Combining it with the software at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net could give us a MS build environment which only relies on installation support programs

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Al Sutton
I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers to work on the code. I see the Win32 patch

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Update on replication

2002-12-18 Thread Al Sutton
The reason I favour a GBorg is that VA Linux (who own sourceforge) have yet to turn in a profit and so maylook to trim some of it's assets in order to improve profitability at some point in the future. I think it would be a bad move to shift everything to sourceforge, only to find that a year or

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

2002-12-15 Thread Al Sutton
: Darren Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PostgreSQL-development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

Re: [MLIST] Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

2002-12-15 Thread Al Sutton
in the set could yield a sucessful result, and Unable to commit due to conflict where trying other databases is pointless. Al Example - Original Message - From: David Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Darren Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

2002-12-15 Thread Al Sutton
that there is a single central point which decides that T2 is after T1. Is this true? Al. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Darren Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

2002-12-15 Thread Al Sutton
databases to loose out on response times to higher volume ones, which is again, undesirable. Al. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Darren Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items - Replication

2002-12-14 Thread Al Sutton
it will work, it is probably slower than Postgres-R's method. -- - Al Sutton wrote: For live replication could I propose that we consider the systems A,B, and C connected to each other independantly (i.e. A has links to B

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-10 Thread Al Sutton
Would it be possible to make compression an optional thing, with the default being off? I'm in a position that many others may be in where the link between my app server and my database server isn't the bottleneck, and thus any time spent by the CPU performing compression and decompression tasks

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-10 Thread Al Sutton
to database). The bandwidth cost savings from compressing the replication information would be immensly useful. Al. - Original Message - From: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greg Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen L. [EMAIL

Broadcast replication (Was Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-04 Thread Al Sutton
- Original Message - From: Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:49 PM Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist Al Sutton wrote: Point to Point and Broadcast replication With point

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-11-30 Thread Al Sutton
My list is; Point to Point and Broadcast replication With point to point you specify multiple endpoints, with broadcast you can specify a subnet address and the updates are broadcast over that subnet. The difference being that point to point works well

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-27 Thread Al Sutton
machines my developers currently have. Al. - Original Message - From: Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources On 27 Nov 2002 at 8:21, Al Sutton wrote: The problem I

Re: [spam] Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-27 Thread Al Sutton
as well as making the current DB machines available as the main machine for new staff. The latter makes the most sense in the profit based business environment which I'm in. Al. - Original Message - From: Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: scott.marlowe [EMAIL

Re: [spam] Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-27 Thread Al Sutton
: scott.marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [spam] Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Al Sutton wrote

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-26 Thread Al Sutton
Is there a rough date for when they'll be available? I have a development team at work who currently have an M$-Windows box and a Linux box each in order to allow them to read M$-Office documents sent to us and develop against PostgreSQL (which we use in production). I know I could have a shared

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-26 Thread Al Sutton
failed horribly. Thanks for the ideas, Al. - Original Message - From: Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ulrich Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lee Kindness [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Native Win32 sources

2002-11-26 Thread Al Sutton
needing to buy each new developer two machines, and incur the overhead of them familiarising themselves with a flavour of Unix. Hope this helps you understand where I'm comming from, Al. - Original Message - From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lee

[HACKERS] Fw: Missing file from CVS?

2002-11-20 Thread Al Sutton
+ALL : sql_help.h $(OUTDIR)\psql.exe CLEAN : -@erase $(INTDIR)\command.obj @@ -91,3 +93,7 @@ $(CPP) @ $(CPP_PROJ) $ + +sql_help.h: create_help.pl +$(PERL) create_help.pl $(REFDOCDIR) $@ + - Original Message - From: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Missing file from CVS?

2002-11-17 Thread Al Sutton
'0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VC7\B IN\nmake.exe' : return code '0x2' Stop. C:\Projects\pgsql\src - Original Message - From: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17

[HACKERS] Missing file from CVS?

2002-11-16 Thread Al Sutton
All, I've just tried to build the Win32 components under Visual Studio's C++ compiler from the win32.mak CVS archive at :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/projects/cvsroot and found that the following file was missing; src\bin\psql\sql_help.h I've copied the file from the the source tree of version