Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Alessio Bragadini
. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304#c57 IMHO it would be a good idea to help the Bugzilla team to finish the port in time for release 2.18 and join a very active tool. -- Alessio Bragadini [EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services (Overseas) Ltd

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2003-10-29 Thread Alessio Bragadini
V4.0 1530 alpha (the existing port list has only a report for Tru64 5.X) -- Alessio Bragadini [EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services (Overseas) Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [HACKERS] Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...

2003-09-12 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Hi, after Beta1 I'd reported problems in the regression tests under Digital Unix/Tru64. Unfortunately I had no time to report about my tests and to check Beta2 before now. Beta2 builds fine on Digital Unix 4.0G: template1=# SELECT version(); version

Re: [HACKERS] v7.4 Beta 1 fails regression on Digital Unix/Tru64 4.0

2003-08-14 Thread Alessio Bragadini
The first beta fails two regression tests on alphaev67-dec-osf4.0g, compiled by cc -std -std i.e. Compaq/HP Digital Unix/Tru64/name-of-the-day They are join (FAILED) and random (failed ignored). Attached is the regression diff. During configuration a warning stated that our version of Bison was

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-11-05 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:40, Bruce Momjian wrote: Ports list updated: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/supported-platforms.html Please note that you have an entry for Digital Unix and one for Compaq Tru64 while in fact they are the same OS that went through a whirlwind of

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-11-04 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:22:42AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I've committed fixes for the other issues too, so CVS tip should now pass cleanly on your platform. I've built the snapshot from CVS tip and now the regression tests pass with both GCC 2.95.1 and Compaq C V6.4-216 (dtk) on Digital UNIX

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-11-01 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 18:53, Tom Lane wrote: Evidently main.c needs #include errno.h added. I wonder what have changed since Beta2 that compiled fine... Please add that and see if you get any further. Done, and now it builds (I've limited the test to native cc compiler for now). But it

Re: [HACKERS] Request for supported platforms

2002-10-31 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Folks. start sending in those plaform reports, OS name and version number please. DOESN'T WORK on Digital Unix/Tru64 4.0g, with both cc or gcc compiler. Using Compaq C V6.4-216 (dtk) on Digital UNIX V4.0G (Rev. 1530) Compiler Driver V6.4-013 (dtk) cc Driver: make[3]: Entering directory

Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: [HACKERS] MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)

2002-10-14 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 11:37, Gavin Sherry wrote: I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for something which is strictly asthetic. Regardless, I do have collegues/clients who ask when such a

Re: Release of v7.2.2 (Was: Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs ad...)

2002-08-26 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Builds and runs fine under HP/Compaq Tru64 aka Digital Unix aka OSF/1 (this is getting difficult...) version 4.0f/g using standard cc: template1=# SELECT version(); version PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Alessio Bragadini
In my book, schema support is a big thing, leading to rethink a lot of database organization and such. PostgreSQL 8 would stress this importance. -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus

Re: [HACKERS] wierd AND condition evaluation for plpgsql

2002-05-30 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:09, Joel Burton wrote: Actually, at least in some cases, PG does short-circuit logic: joel@joel=# select false and seeme(); joel@joel=# select true and seeme(); If seeme() returns NULL, shouldn't both SELECTs return NULL, and therefore not be short-circuit-able?

Re: [HACKERS] storing binary data

2001-10-26 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: What exactly is the advantage in using VIEWs? I get the impression that the SELECT query it is based on is cached (ie. a cached query plan). I had the same impression but I've been told (with explanations) that the query plan for a view is not cached in any

Re: [HACKERS] How do I get a list of DB's or Tables with a postgres SQL statement?

2001-10-18 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Ron de Jong wrote: I know there is some funtions in psql: \l(show databases) \d(show tables) If you start psql with the -E option, it will show you which queries it makes to the internal tables to retrieve the backslash result. Then copying and customizing your own query is very

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ error

2001-10-11 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Bruce Momjian wrote: $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq'); INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal'); Is this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can you call SQL server-side functions natively from Perl? Ofcourse not.

[HACKERS] Re: bugs - lets call an exterminator!

2001-08-28 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: it does seem like a lot of people like Bugzilla. Might be worth at least a cursory look. We do use Bugzilla and I believe is a very good tool, which should fit nicely with the open development style of PostgreSQL community. New version is due in a few weeks and it's been

[HACKERS] Re: Why is SERIAL a keyword?

2001-08-16 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: The only downside I can see to this is that it's currently possible to use a user-defined type named serial, if you are determined enough: create table foo ( f1 serial, -- it's a serial column f2 serial,-- user-defined type named

[HACKERS] Re: Neutral Soil (OT)

2001-07-23 Thread Alessio Bragadini
August Zajonc wrote: Perhaps Postgresql folks could start thinking of peace talk sites as well? I recommand the tropics. Then all that's left is to find something to fight about to justify a flight down to paradise. You are all welcome here in Cyprus. Monty too, he will find a lot of Swedish

[HACKERS] Re: unique index doesn't accept functions on fields

2001-07-23 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Domingo Alvarez Duarte wrote: I'm trying create a unique index using more than one field and applying a function in one field to achieve case insensitive uniqueness but postgresql doesn't accept. create table a( id int primary key, id2 int not null, name varchar(50),

[HACKERS] Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)

2001-07-20 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: What's wrong with 64-bit oids (except extra 4bytes)? Portability, mostly. Oh, there's one other small problem: breaking the on-the-wire protocol. So 8-byte-OID is for PostgreSQL 8? :-) -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services

[HACKERS] Re: ORDER BY Problem...

2001-06-06 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Severin Olloz wrote: Why does Postgresql order the uppercase letters first? Do you have any LOCALE configuration in place? -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus phone: +357-2-755750 It

[HACKERS] Re: FYI: status of native language support

2001-06-05 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Peter Eisentraut wrote: language supported in the next release, this would be a good time to gather up and volunteer for translation. I can help with Italian translation if no one else is volunteering (or coordinating a team) -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL

[HACKERS] Re: Outstanding patches

2001-05-09 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: But it's not really tracking the variable; with Ian's proposed implementation, after create table foo(bar int4); create function fooey(foo.bar%type) ...; drop table foo; create table foo(bar int8);

[HACKERS] A problem with new pg_dump

2001-05-07 Thread Alessio Bragadini
I've tried the pg_dump bundled in the new 7.1.1 release. I wanted to test its feature of dumping a 7.0.X database. Let's say I have database A running 7.1.1, B running 7.0.2. Both servers have the same database 'test', 'myview' is a view defined on both of them. I want to dump data only, being a

[HACKERS] A problem with pg_dump?

2001-05-03 Thread Alessio Bragadini
I have a table with a FK on itself: in fact a record may depend on another table (pig's ear :-) I may run into a problem dumping/restoring using pg_dump, PostgreSQL 7.1.0. Here's a simplification of the table: provo=# SELECT version(); version

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with pg_dump?

2001-05-03 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: It's not much harder than your given example to construct cases where dumping the rows in OID order would be wrong too (just takes some UPDATEs). Yes, I figured out myself quickly. :-( like you may have some pre-release copy of pg_dump that gets this wrong (the comment

Re: [HACKERS] A problem with pg_dump?

2001-05-03 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Is it possible to use pg_dump 7.1 on a 7.0 database? Tried. Nope. -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus phone: +357-2-755750 It is more complicated than you think -- The

[HACKERS] Comment about PostgreSQL on Epinions.com

2001-04-25 Thread Alessio Bragadini
While searching for some info and using google.com I came across http://www.epinions.com/ensw-review-7F55-42531AD1-3A43D81B-prod3 I am the first to understand that the opinion in such a site is worthless and the guy seems not to understand anything about DBMSs but it's quite harsh anyway. --

[HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for PostgreSQL 7.0.3 to compile on Tru64 UNIX v5.0A

2001-04-17 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Thomas Lockhart wrote: We had at least three reports of successful compilation on Tru64 4.0[dg] I can add up my experience of building on Tru64 4.0f (Compaq DS20E) without problems, using Digital's cc ./configure --with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib

[HACKERS] Re: RedHat/Postgres.pm Error

2001-04-17 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Allan C Huffman wrote: May I please ask you guys a question about Postgres.pm. What is Postgres.pm? Talking about DBD::Pg or something completely different? -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for PostgreSQL 7.0.3 to compile on Tru64 UNIX v5.0A

2001-04-17 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Mmmmhhh... Failed the int8 test Sorry, float8 -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus phone: +357-2-755750 "It is more complicated than you think" -- The Eighth Networking

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for PostgreSQL 7.0.3 to compile on Tru64 UNIX v5.0A

2001-04-17 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: I can add up my experience of building on Tru64 4.0f (Compaq DS20E) without problems, using Digital's cc Would you check whether things still work on your platform if CC becomes "cc -std -ieee" rather than just "cc -std"? (Best way to check is to alter src/template/osf,

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for PostgreSQL 7.0.3 to compile on Tru64 UNIX v5.0A

2001-04-17 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Tom Lane wrote: Sounds good; could you check the regress tests too? Mmmmhhh... Failed the int8 test, but seems more a difference in the text of the error message. The others 75 were successful. diff attached -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services

[HACKERS] Re: age() function documentation

2001-04-12 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Thomas Lockhart wrote: The age() functions *preserve* the qualitative fields year and month. So you see the difference in results: Why take away age()? I usually use it to check against INTERVALs? See: village= select age(date '1999-05-17', date '1957-06-13') '40 years'::interval; ?column?

[HACKERS] Re: AW: Truncation of char, varchar types

2001-04-10 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote: Yes, iirc the only thing you are allowed to do is issue a warning, but the truncation is allowed and must succeed. (checked in Informix and Oracle) ? As much as I remember, Oracle raises an error. But it's been a few years since I last touched it, so maybe I'm

[HACKERS] Re: RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC

2001-04-09 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Oliver Elphick wrote: R = 82 b = 98 This is a very small problem of having capital R and lowercase b that I believe can be taken into account in the development of 7.2. As I suggested in another mail, let us switch to using even minor numbers for releases and odd ones for development:

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Florent Guillaume: /tmp is for *temporary* files. Such a lock is not a temporary file, it should go somewhere in /var, why not in /var/lib/pgsql/data ? /var/run ? -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot and PostgreSQL

2001-01-16 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Hunter Hillegas wrote: I don't think they're moving the actual Slashdot site to PostgreSQL... So do I. I think other sites based on Slashcode wanted to be able to use PostgreSQL though... That's what I will do as soon as possible, and I am trying to be involved as much as possible in the