Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Jan Wieck's name from

2006-03-09 Thread Peter Bierman
At 9:18 PM -0500 3/9/06, Bruce Momjian wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am not sure, but I think that Alvaro's point is the copyright > > doesn't matter in this instance. It is the license that d

Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Apple Darwin disabled fsync?

2005-02-20 Thread Peter Bierman
At 12:38 AM -0500 2/20/05, Tom Lane wrote: Dominic Giampaolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I believe that what the above comment refers to is the fact that fsync() is not sufficient to guarantee that your data is on stable storage and on MacOS X we provide a fcntl(), called F_FULLFSYNC, to ask th

[HACKERS] Fwd: Apple Darwin disabled fsync?

2005-02-19 Thread Peter Bierman
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:59:21 -0800 From: Dominic Giampaolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: bad fsync? (A.M.) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MySQL makes the following claim at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/news-4-1-9.html "InnoDB: Use the fcntl() file flush method on Mac OS X versions 10.3 and up. A

Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files

2003-02-12 Thread Peter Bierman
At 12:31 AM -0500 2/13/03, mlw wrote: The idea that a, more or less, arbitrary data location determines the database configuration is wrong. It should be obvious to any administrator that a configuration file location which controls the server is the "right" way to do it. Isn't the database d

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3b3 passes on MacOSX 10.2.1

2002-11-01 Thread Peter Bierman
At 4:31 PM -0500 11/1/02, Tom Lane wrote: >Peter Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> At 1:30 AM -0500 11/1/02, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Is it worth carrying two expected files for OS X 10.1 and 10.2? I'm >>> inclined to think not, and am leaning towards upd

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3b3 passes on MacOSX 10.2.1

2002-11-01 Thread Peter Bierman
At 1:30 AM -0500 11/1/02, Tom Lane wrote: >I said: >> Peter Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Perhaps the change from gcc2.x to 3.x changed floats a bit? > >> Could be. We had previous reports of the same diff on OSX 10.2 with >> a G4 processor, s

Re: [HACKERS] 7.3b3 passes on MacOSX 10.2.1

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Bierman
>> *** ./expected/geometry-powerpc-darwin.out Mon Dec 11 08:45:16 2000 >> --- ./results/geometry.out Tue Oct 29 15:40:56 2002 >> *** >> *** 127,133 >> ! | (-10,0)| [(-100,200),(30,-40)] | >(-9.99715942258202,15.3864610140472) >> --- 127,133 >> !

[HACKERS] 7.3b3 passes on MacOSX 10.2.1

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Bierman
At 6:11 PM -0500 10/29/02, Neil Conway wrote: >Peter Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So first off, what's the best way to tell from a cvs snapshot which >> "release" (if any) that snapshot is? > >configure.in, perhaps? Ah, thanks. 7.3b3 it is then.

[HACKERS] CVS TOT fails to build on MacOSX 10.2.1

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Bierman
So first off, what's the best way to tell from a cvs snapshot which "release" (if any) that snapshot is? I just (2pm) grabbed a full clean cvs checkout, and tried to run the regression tests. This is on a Macintosh G4/450 dual CPU with 512MB. 'make runcheck' in src/test/regress/ fails with:

Re: [HACKERS] Mac OS X: system shutdown prevents checkpoint

2002-05-01 Thread Peter Bierman
th active on the darwin-development mailing list. (http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-development) -pmb At 1:52 PM -0700 5/1/02, Jim Magee wrote: >On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 01:34 PM, Peter Bierman wrote: > >> Is fork() disallowed after shutdown starts? > >N

Re: [HACKERS] Suggestion for optimization

2002-04-05 Thread Peter Bierman
At 12:08 PM -0800 4/5/02, Dann Corbit wrote: >I guess that this model can be viewed as "everything is a snapshot". >It seems plain that the repercussions for a data warehouse and for >reporting have not been thought out very well. This is definitely >very, very bad in that arena. I suppose that

Re: [HACKERS] Case sensitive file names

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Bierman
At 10:47 PM +0200 9/19/01, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Peter Bierman writes: > >> While checking out TOT pgsql today onto an HFS+ file system (case-preserving, >case-insensitive), I hit the following CVS conflict: >> >> pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_alt.map

[HACKERS] Case sensitive file names

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Bierman
While checking out TOT pgsql today onto an HFS+ file system (case-preserving, case-insensitive), I hit the following CVS conflict: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_alt.map pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_ALT.map HFS+ can not store two differerent files in a path that diffe

Re: [HACKERS] Regression failed Mac OSX

2001-04-04 Thread Peter Bierman
At 5:47 PM -0500 4/4/01, Neil Tiffin wrote: >Using current cvs version on Mac OS X 10.0 > >test horology ... FAILED I can't reproduce this on a 10.0 (4K78) system. I just ran the regression tests from cvs HEAD downloaded @ 16:10 PDT on a G3/350. It also passed several dozen iteratio

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Bierman
At 7:53 PM -0500 3/26/01, Tom Lane wrote: >Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "PPC750"? What's that? "PPC G3" might be more likely to mean something >>> to onlookers ... > >> Actually "G3" means nothing outside of Apple afaict. The 750 series is a >> follow-on to the 60x series, and

Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license

2000-12-30 Thread Peter Bierman
At 7:15 PM -0500 12/29/00, Tom Lane wrote: >Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Rasmus Lerdorf warned one of you guys that simply linking to GNU >> readline can contaminate code with the GPL. > >> Readline isn't LGPL which permits linking without lincense issues, >> it is GPL which mea

Re: [HACKERS] 7.1 features list

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Bierman
At 9:43 PM -0400 12/17/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote: >On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Peter Bierman wrote: > >> (BTW- tons of stuff at www.postgresql.org is busted. Searching mailing >> list archives for example.) > >Please provide URLs where you are trying to search ... we did exten

Re: [HACKERS] 7.1 features list

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Bierman
At 3:16 PM -0500 12/16/00, Bruce Momjian wrote: >Here is the list of features in 7.1. >New Darwin/Mac OSX port (Bruce Hartzler) Not to be a snob, but I probably did 80% of this. (BTW- tons of stuff at www.postgresql.org is busted. Searching mailing list archives for example.) -pmb -- "Every t

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Bierman
At 5:17 PM -0500 12/3/00, mlw wrote: >I honestly feel that it is wrong to take what others have shared and use >it for the basis of something you will not share, and I can't understand >how anyone could think differently. Yeah, it really sucks when companies that are in buisness to make money by

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-02 Thread Peter Bierman
>And I really havn't seen much in the way of full featured products, complete >with printed docs, 24 hour support, tutorials, wizards, templates, a company >to sue if the code causes damage, GUI install, setup, removal, etc. etc. etc. Mac OS X. ;-) -pmb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "4 out of 5 people