Re: [HACKERS] ARC patent

2005-01-18 Thread jearl
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Riggs wrote: > >>So, it also seems clear that 8.0.x should eventually have a straight >>upgrade path to a replacement, assuming the patent is granted. We >>should therefore plan to: 1. improve/replace ARC for 8.1 2. backport >>any replacement dire

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-01 Thread jearl
Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Justin Clift wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: >> >>> >>> This question has been touched on before, but I guess it's time to >>> face it fair and square: is it reasonable for an SQL >>> implementation to add implementation-specific columns to an >>> informatio

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-05-04 Thread jearl
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:12, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> You know, that's kind of the point of all things related to MySQL. >> "It's better than nothing." PostgreSQL doesn't do things because >> "it's better than nothing." (Same as how MySQL guesses th

Re: [HACKERS] contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

2004-04-23 Thread jearl
Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The difference is that a "better" admin tool is very subjective where as >> a buffer strategy is not... or maybe the difference is really that >> everyone thinks they are qualified to pick a "better" admin tool, but >> very few can really argue as to a bet

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-05 Thread jearl
"Thomas Swan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Apparently, I have failed tremendously in addressing a concern. The > question is does PostgreSQL need to rely on symlinks and will that > dependency introduce problems? > > There is an active win32 port underway (see

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-04 Thread jearl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> > "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without >>> symlinks. >>> > >>> >> To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: >>> >>   http://www.s

Re: [HACKERS] Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

2003-09-06 Thread jearl
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Mendola Gaetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that >>> can't be fixed without an on-disk format change. > >> How can we avoid this kind of mess for the fut