Re: [HACKERS] dynloader.h missing in prebuilt package for Windows?

2015-12-08 Thread Olson, Ken
11/19/2015 12:19 AM 843 rusagestub.h 11/19/2015 12:19 AM 2,379 windowapi.h 22 File(s)239,127 bytes 27 Dir(s) 26,142,257,152 bytes free Ken -Original Message- From: Chapman Flack [mailto:c...@anastigmatix.net] Sent: Saturday

Re: [HACKERS] Summary of some postgres portability issues

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Camann
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just clarifying for myself: you are mostly listing theoretical problems here, not actual I ran it and got regression failures problems, right? Correct. This is why most of them point out that they are not actually

[HACKERS] Summary of some postgres portability issues

2008-07-08 Thread Ken Camann
very carefully to rediscover all the assumptions behind the code? Unfortunately I would guess yes. This is going to take much longer than I thought. But it's that or use MySQL, which crashes whenever I load the data in. -Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

[HACKERS] Windows 64-bit work in progress patch

2008-07-07 Thread Ken Camann
not submitting it for inclusion yet. I'd like to submit it first so that people can look over it. -Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] A Windows x64 port of MySQL

2008-07-02 Thread Ken Camann
as a native x64 DLL. That didn't matter to me since I'm not using any of them (yet), and I was happy just to see how easily postgres built. -Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] A Windows x64 port of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Ken Camann
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Bernd Helmle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Mittwoch, Juli 02, 2008 07:39:29 -0400 Ken Camann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it would only really matter if you did this to a pointer, and perhaps that is happening somewhere (but I doubt it since postgres

[HACKERS] Working on native Windows x64 version of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Ken Camann
used since I have no other habits. -Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] A Windows x64 port of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Ken Camann
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Camann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh I see. Between this and looking again at the warning list, I see that it will probably take a lot more work than I thought. There are about 450 occurrences of the assumption that sizeof

Re: [HACKERS] A Windows x64 port of PostgreSQL

2008-07-02 Thread Ken Camann
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Camann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EMT64/AMD64 is new compared to the older architectures, I would guess the older ones predate the time when it became a somewhat de facto standard to leave long int at 4 bytes, and make long

[HACKERS] V3 protocol; way to return table aliases?

2007-01-29 Thread Ken Johanson
? Since I've been told V3 is prob. not doable, this question certainly seems to match the 'Hackers' challenge/namesake :) Thanks in advance, ken ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] V4 protocol, extensible?

2007-01-04 Thread Ken Johanson
on this, or if my presumption that metatdata in the current V3 cannot be easily added too, is wrong. Thank you, Ken ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Probably security hole in postgresql-7.4.1

2004-05-13 Thread Ken Ashcraft
Ken Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work at Coverity where we use static analysis to find bugs in software. I ran a security checker over postgresql-7.4.1 and I think I found a security hole. In the code below, fld_size gets copied in from a user specified file. It is passed

[HACKERS] Probably security hole in postgresql-7.4.1

2004-04-20 Thread Ken Ashcraft
feedback, Ken Ashcraft In the code below, fld_size gets copied in from a user specified file. It is passed as the 'needed' parameter to enlargeStringInfo(). If needed is a very large positive value, the addition 'needed += str-len + 1;' could cause an overflow, making needed a negative number

[HACKERS] Reporting a security hole

2004-04-20 Thread ken
. So where can I report a potential security hole? thanks, Ken Ashcraft ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?

2004-03-03 Thread Ken Hirsch
Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Stark wrote: imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a Microsoft Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free to do I have often wondered, in a completely off-topic and unproductive sort of way, if exactly

Re: [HACKERS] Password security question

2002-12-17 Thread Ken Hirsch
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure10102002.asp ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Geometry test on NetBSD (was Re: [HACKERS] RC1?)

2002-11-20 Thread Ken Hirsch
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, can you clarify why -0 is valid. Is it for _small_ near zero values that are indeed negative? Branch Cuts for Complex Elementary Functions, or Much Ado About Nothing's Sign Bit W. Kahan; ch. 7 in _The State of the Art in Numerical Analysis_ ed.

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed LogWriter Scheme, WAS: Potential Large

2002-10-07 Thread Ken Hirsch
I sent this yesterday, but it seems not to have made it to the list... I have a couple of comments orthogonal to the present discussion. 1) It would be fairly easy to write log records over a network to a dedicated process on another system. If the other system has an uninterruptible

Re: [HACKERS] New string functions; initdb required

2002-06-12 Thread Ken Hirsch
Thomas Lockhart wrote: Right. I'm not certain about the regex syntax defined by SQL99; I used the syntax that we already have enabled and it looks like we have a couple of other variants available if we need them. If someone wants to research the *actual* syntax specified by SQL99 that would

Re: [HACKERS] Suggestion for optimization

2002-04-05 Thread Ken Hirsch
In addition, this seems to be the canonical paper on snapshot isolation: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/berenson95critique.html There is an excellent, more recent paper, Generalized Isolation Level Definitions (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/adya00generalized.html).

Re: [HACKERS] When scripting, which is better?

2001-10-01 Thread Ken Hirsch
Justin Clift wrote: if [ x$foo = x ]; then This is the safest way. It prevents problems when $foo begins with with a - I don't know about your first question, though. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [HACKERS] Pre-forking backend

2001-09-30 Thread Ken Hirsch
Doug McNaught wrote: You can pass open file descriptors across Unix domain sockets on most systems, which is a possible way to address the problem, but probably not worth it for the reasons discussed earlier. I think that it does solve the problem. The only drawback is that it's not

Re: [HACKERS] Pre-forking backend

2001-09-29 Thread Ken Hirsch
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How hard would it be to pre-fork an extra backend How are you going to pass the connection socket to an already-forked child process? AFAIK there's no remotely portable way ... No idea but it seemed like a

Re: [HACKERS] Pre-forking backend

2001-09-29 Thread Ken Hirsch
Tom Lane wrote: This approach would only work as far as saving the fork() call itself, not the backend setup time. Not sure it's worth the trouble. I doubt that the fork itself is a huge component of our start time; it's setting up all the catalog caches and so forth that's expensive. On

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] http://www.postgresql.ca.org

2001-09-20 Thread Ken Hirsch
http://anything.ca.org goes to the same IP address. It has nothing to do with postgres - Original Message - From: Serguei Mokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PostgreSQL Hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:57 AM Subject: [HACKERS] [OT] http://www.postgresql.ca.org

Re: [HACKERS] Porting to Native WindowsNT/2000

2001-09-03 Thread Ken Hirsch
Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dwayne Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for one I have no idea what cygwin is, or what it does to your system, or what security vulnerabilities it might add to your system. It comes with alot of stuff that I may or may not need, but

Re: [HACKERS] Re: From TODO, XML?

2001-07-29 Thread Ken Hirsch
mlw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: : So a parser that can scan a DTD and make a usable create table (...) : line would be very helpful. [...] Hmm, but hierarchically structured documents such as XML don't map well to a relational model. The former tend to be

[HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-04 Thread Ken Hirsch
log metadata changes. I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers? Ken Hirsch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-04 Thread Ken Hirsch
Glomsrød [EMAIL PROTECTED] has volunteered to test on XFS. The easier we make it, the more help we'll get. Ken Hirsch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] Learning from other open source databases

2001-04-30 Thread Ken Hirsch
. There's also the Shore data manager. While not a complete SQL database, I've wondered if it could actually be spliced into PostgreSQL, since the licenses appear compatible. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/shore/ Ken Hirsch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Hardcopy docs available

2001-04-20 Thread Ken Hirsch
Okay, you're right. I just updated my Ghostscript to 7.00 (just out) and it produced very nice PDFs. I can upload them somewhere if you give me an FTP address. Ken Hirsch - Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Ken Hirsch" [EMAIL P

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO list

2001-04-05 Thread Ken Hirsch
write the block. Ken Hirsch All your database are belong to us. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

2001-03-16 Thread Ken Hirsch
From: "Bruce Momjian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could anyone consider fork a syncer process to sync data to disk ? build a shared sync queue, when a daemon process want to do sync after write() is called, just put a sync request to the queue. this can release process from blocked on writing

Re: [HACKERS] rtrim giving weird result

2001-03-14 Thread Ken Hirsch
The second parameter to "rtrim" is interpreted as a set of characters and rtrim: "Returns string with final characters removed after the last character not in set" So rtrim("center_out_opto", "_opto") returns "center_ou" because "u" is not in the set {o, p, t, _} but all the characters after

Re: [HACKERS] WAL SHM principles

2001-03-13 Thread Ken Hirsch
mailing list that mlock() was a good way to insure the write-ahead condition. Ken Hirsch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your

Re: [HACKERS] WAL SHM principles

2001-03-13 Thread Ken Hirsch
mailing list that mlock() was a good way to insure the write-ahead condition. Ken Hirsch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])