Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote: Rather than trying to get something FAQ-perfect right now, can you at least brain-dump what your current process is so that others can learn? I've created a wiki page for this and added Heikki's tips:

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Greg Smith wrote: Heikki's great summary helps (I think the one piece I was screwing up is covered there), and Pavan's comments adds some useful bits. The still missing part is how to make a real branch to work in, which is much easier to work with once you figure out how to do it than

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-19 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Andrew Dunstan wrote: What would making a branch actually do for you? The only advantage I can see is that it will give you a way of checkpointing your files. As I remarked upthread, I occasionally use RCS for that. But mostly I don't actually bother. I don't see how you can do it reasonably

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote: What would making a branch actually do for you? The only advantage I can see is that it will give you a way of checkpointing your files. Exactly. It's not as bad now, but when I was getting started there were lots of times I got something working

Re: Working with PostgreSQL source tree (was Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3)

2007-05-18 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On 5/18/07, Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start working on a subject, I make a new checkout from the local repository to a designated directory under pg_sandbox-directory. For example, when I started working on the mvcc-safe cluster patch: ~/pg_sandbox$ cvs -d

Working with PostgreSQL source tree (was Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3)

2007-05-18 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Greg Smith wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Fetter wrote: Would you be interested in providing this meat? You're uniquely qualified because your shins still smart from all the things you barked them on :) Unfortunately I'm temporarily on the other side of this problem; all the time I have

Re: Working with PostgreSQL source tree (was Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3)

2007-05-18 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Pavan Deolasee wrote: For primitive version control, I make a diff after any significant changes: ~/pg_sandbox/pgsql.cluster$ cvs diff -cN cluster-mvcc-1.patch I usually commit each version and tag the tree. That helps me to get diff between two versions as well. Doesn't that confuse

Re: Working with PostgreSQL source tree (was Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3)

2007-05-18 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On 5/18/07, Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavan Deolasee wrote: For primitive version control, I make a diff after any significant changes: ~/pg_sandbox/pgsql.cluster$ cvs diff -cN cluster-mvcc-1.patch I usually commit each version and tag the tree. That helps me to get

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-18 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:02:31PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Fetter wrote: Would you be interested in providing this meat? You're uniquely qualified because your shins still smart from all the things you barked them on :) Unfortunately I'm temporarily on the

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Dave Page wrote: I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:50:26PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote: Speaking of reviewers... should we put some thought into how we can increase the number of people who can review code? It seems that's one of our biggest bottlenecks... Having recently

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Dave Page
Magnus Hagander wrote: Right. Grabbing the msgid alone from them shouldn't be too hard though. It's included in the meta-headers mhonarc sticks in each file, so it should be a simple regex to find it. Should be easier than that - when we import the existing messages from the mbox files we

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: My main difficulty was figuring out a workable way to build a local mirror of the code (so I could get off-line diffs), keep it in sync with the development tree, while branching out working areas to evaluate patches or do new development in. A good example walkthrough

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 13:02, Robert Haas wrote: I care. I want a professional easy to understand and easy to maintain that doesn't cause potential conflict with future and past development syntax. snip If people have strong opinions about the syntax, why were they not ALL expressed

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 17 May 2007 08:16, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: My main difficulty was figuring out a workable way to build a local mirror of the code (so I could get off-line diffs), keep it in sync with the development tree, while branching out working areas to evaluate patches

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote: For this item at least the work has been done in showing how to set up a local mirror using rsync instead of CVSup...although frankly it would be better to import the information rather than just refer to the buildfarm HOWTO. The information in the

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Robert Treat wrote: And really should probably be written up into FAQ section or a full on guide for how do i get started hacking on postgresql? To be clear here: while there are guides for new hackers out there, they focus on the big picture. I walked from those with

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Greg Smith wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote: For this item at least the work has been done in showing how to set up a local mirror using rsync instead of CVSup...although frankly it would be better to import the information rather than just refer to the buildfarm HOWTO.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is what happens with the Linux kernel. They have hundreds of developers getting their hands dirty during a previous period. Then 2.6.20 is released; the 2.6.21 merge window opens, and all sort of patches are flooded in.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is what happens with the Linux kernel. They have hundreds of developers getting their hands dirty during a previous period. Then 2.6.20 is released; the 2.6.21 merge window opens, and all sort of

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is what happens with the Linux kernel. They have hundreds of developers getting their hands dirty during a previous period. Then 2.6.20 is released; the 2.6.21 merge window

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is what happens with the Linux kernel. They have hundreds of developers getting their hands dirty during a previous period. Then 2.6.20 is released; the 2.6.21 merge window opens, and all sort of

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Fetter wrote: Would you be interested in providing this meat? You're uniquely qualified because your shins still smart from all the things you barked them on :) Unfortunately I'm temporarily on the other side of this problem; all the time I have to spare right now

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:16:43AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. [...] As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this:

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without reling on

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without reling

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
I'm going to echo Bruce on this; I've mentioned that TSearch was going into Core at conferences and the reaction from existing users has been very enthusiastic, ranging from yippee! to about time!. Our users hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. And with respect to the

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 05:37 schrieb Josh Berkus: In that case, we may need to talk about branching earlier so that developers can work on the new version who are frozen out of the in-process one. Well, we could branch right now, but who is going to commit anything into that new head

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 05:37 schrieb Josh Berkus: I'm going to echo Bruce on this; I've mentioned that TSearch was going into Core at conferences and the reaction from existing users has been very enthusiastic, ranging from yippee! to about time!.  Our users hate the fact that FTS is a

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Haas wrote: Our users hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. Where? Where? Oh, you mean Hear Hear. (sorry - one of my pet peeves) And with respect to the debate about syntax, who cares? I think I prefer introducing real SQL-ish syntax over a bunch of pg_*

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:16:43AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. [...] As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re:

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical)

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id - Easy to detect messages not delivered,

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:03:47AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There is just one remaining problem: Outlook and derivatives don't set the In-Reply-To: nor References: headers. This breaks the threads (the best the

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
Here here. Where? Where? Oh, you mean Hear Hear. (sorry - one of my pet peeves) Oops. Of course since it's in written form perhaps I should be writing Read! Read! instead. We do have a responsibility, I think, to keep the grammar fairly clean, so the answer to your question who

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:58:44AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough It's a file system. It simply generates HTML (or in our case) PHP files

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough And here I thought the reason

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Aidan Van Dyk wrote: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id - Easy

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aidan Van Dyk) writes: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Robert Haas wrote: hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. And with respect to the debate about syntax, who cares? I think I prefer introducing real SQL-ish syntax over a bunch of pg_* functions, but doing it either way is IMHO better than doing nothing. I care. I want a

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
I care. I want a professional easy to understand and easy to maintain that doesn't cause potential conflict with future and past development syntax. I agree with this. The point of my comment was that ISTM that an arbitrary amount of time can be consumed determining the optimal syntax,

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough And here I

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
Dave Page wrote: I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I imagine, and then import that into a new database. Yeah, if the files

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Mayer
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: I think that may be where we're heading. In that case, we may need to talk about branching earlier so that developers can work on the new version who are frozen out of the in-process one. I've argued this in the past. But be aware that it will make

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 5/16/07, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I care. I want a professional easy to understand and easy to maintain that doesn't cause potential conflict with future and past development syntax. You've just tempted me to create embedded SQL in assembly :) -- Jonah H. Harris, Software

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Huxton
Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on that... Roger. Same here - I've done

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on that... Roger.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Huxton
Dave Page wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Dave Page wrote: I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:32:44PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: Dave Page wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote: Speaking of reviewers... should we put some thought into how we can increase the number of people who can review code? It seems that's one of our biggest bottlenecks... Having recently dragged myself from never seeing the code before to being able to

[HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete the feature freeze until August/September. I think we need adjust expectations about an 8.3 release date, and decide if we want to radically change our work process. Basically, to make a release anywhere near July, we need

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the only other thing we _could_ do is to re-open normal 8.3 development, so we aren't hampering updates to trivial parts of the code. Many of the patches now in the queue had been developed for months before 8.3 started, so the hope is that we

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete the feature freeze until August/September. I think we need adjust expectations about an 8.3 release date, and decide if we want to radically change our work process. Basically, to make a release

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete the feature freeze until August/September. I think we need adjust expectations about an 8.3 release date, and decide if we want to radically change our work process.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Patch status: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus If... this is actually a problem (I leave to other committers and reviewers to comment) then I suggest we push all patches without a reviewer as of now to 8.4. Leaving only those

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete the feature freeze until August/September. I think we need adjust expectations about an 8.3 release date, and decide if we want to

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Joshua D. Drake wrote: FYI, whoever did that Todo:Patch status, Bravo! That is easily one of the smallest but best improvements to the process I have seen in recent memory. well bruce asked for something like that: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00249.php and I

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, Realistically I just don't see getting everything in the ToDo patch list in; my vote is that we start deferring stuff for 8.4 if it doesn't have a reviewer, except for items which were submitted early in the cycle (and to whom it would be unfair). If that means shortening the 8.4

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
That is not fair to patch submitters, and pushes the problem to 8.4, where it will be no better. If it isn't done, it isn't done. We aren't dropping the patch. The patch has been accepted, just not reviewed. It is just delayed. Sure it is, if we have a short release cycle. There are plenty

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the only other thing we _could_ do is to re-open normal 8.3 development, so we aren't hampering updates to trivial parts of the code. Many of the patches now in the queue had been developed for months before 8.3 started,

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Oleg Bartunov
We have new patch available http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/tsearch_core-0.47.gz to sync with CVS HEAD. Oleg On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Based on our progress during this feature freeze, we will not complete the feature freeze until August/September. I think

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) writes: Bruce, Realistically I just don't see getting everything in the ToDo patch list in; my vote is that we start deferring stuff for 8.4 if it doesn't have a reviewer, except for items which were submitted early in the cycle (and to whom it would be

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been resolved. We'd like to know about these reservations. If I understand you mean there are

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Joshua D. Drake wrote: [...] Concurrent psql, nifty but still trying to decide on actual interface. Full Page Writes Improvement, doesn't actually do anything *yet* (as far as I can tell) it just makes it so something can be done in the future. It is also apparently a small patch. UTF8

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been resolved. We'd like to know about these reservations. If I

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder why we had so much

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable. I use this all the time:

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable. hrm -

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Aidan Van Dyk wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable. I use

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been resolved. We'd like to

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the only other thing we _could_ do is to re-open normal 8.3 development, so we aren't hampering updates to trivial parts of the code. Many of the patches now in the queue had been developed for months before 8.3

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, Realistically I just don't see getting everything in the ToDo patch list in; my vote is that we start deferring stuff for 8.4 if it doesn't have a reviewer, except for items which were submitted early in the cycle (and to whom it would be unfair). It seems

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: That is not fair to patch submitters, and pushes the problem to 8.4, where it will be no better. If it isn't done, it isn't done. We aren't dropping the patch. The patch has been accepted, just not reviewed. It is just delayed. Delayed isn't rejected, but it isn't

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: I think the only other thing we _could_ do is to re-open normal 8.3 development, so we aren't hampering updates to trivial parts of the code. Many of the patches now in the queue had been developed for months before 8.3 started, so the hope is that we wouldn't have

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the only other thing we _could_ do is to re-open normal 8.3 development, so we aren't hampering updates to trivial parts of the code. Many of the patches now in the queue had been developed for

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) writes: Bruce, Realistically I just don't see getting everything in the ToDo patch list in; my vote is that we start deferring stuff for 8.4 if it doesn't have a reviewer, except for items which were submitted early in the cycle (and

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been resolved. We'd like to know about

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations have not been resolved. We'd like to know about these reservations. If I

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder why we had so much of them and all those

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder why we had so much

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: This is a good example of how developers can get frustrated. Pushing a patch to 8.4 that was completed before 8.3 feature freeze is guaranteed to add to that --- and if we lose our developers, we might as well shut down the PostgreSQL project. Let's

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: PL/PSM, link wrong (goes to guc temp_tablespaces). This can certainly be developed outside of core. Don't get me wrong I like the feature but it can take advantage of facilities outside of core. url fixed - I wonder why we

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: This is a good example of how developers can get frustrated. Pushing a patch to 8.4 that was completed before 8.3 feature freeze is guaranteed to add to that --- and if we lose our developers, we might as well shut down

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: One good thing is that we have community discussion this now, so at least we are focusing on it. Agreed, but it certainly is not a critical mass problem either. We are starting to bounce off the wall, and are starting to take a step back to

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:42:28PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Patch status: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus If... this is actually a problem (I leave to other committers and reviewers to comment) then I suggest we push all

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:42:28PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Patch status: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus If... this is actually a problem (I leave to other committers and reviewers to

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:01:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Unless you're really in love with doing that sort of thing it's really good that someone else did it. You're one of a handful of folks that can actually review patches, while there's any number of us that can update a wiki.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:01:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Unless you're really in love with doing that sort of thing it's really good that someone else did it. You're one of a handful of folks that can actually review patches, while there's any number of us that

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-15 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.

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