Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:55:50PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: Can we try to do the 2PC patch now instead of waiting for subtransactions ? The last post from Heikki I read said that he discovered some serious problems with his

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
That is the plan ... unless someone knows a reason why they can't be built independently of the core? How about this one: Everything we have moved from the core to gborg so far has been a miserable failure. The code is no longer maintained, or maintained by three different

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
a release, etc ... I'd almost say that time would be better spent on coming up with an effective upgrade method so that upgrading to new releases is easier ... Please note that I'm not against the backporting, but do understand the arguments against it in terms of time and manpower ... I

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate plPHP??? One reason

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:39, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: Greg Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't complete by 1 June. Think worse of me if you choose. ... So in my perfect world I picture 7.5 freezing June 1 and

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Robert Treat wrote: Just like Bruce has often asked the community how they feel about him balancing his time between things like speaking engagements and patch applications, core developers have a limited amount of time they can spend on any given development effort. If I

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:46:38PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: fact that checkpoints, vacuum runs and pg_dumps bog down their machines to the state where simple queries take several seconds care that much for any Win32 port? Do you think it is a good sign for those who have Yes. I am one such

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004, Robert Treat wrote: Just like Bruce has often asked the community how they feel about him balancing his time between things like speaking engagements and patch applications, core developers have a limited amount of time they can spend on any

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Greg Copeland
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:30, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:46:38PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: fact that checkpoints, vacuum runs and pg_dumps bog down their machines to the state where simple queries take several seconds care that much for any Win32 port? Do you think

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004, Robert Treat wrote: Just like Bruce has often asked the community how they feel about him balancing his time between things like speaking engagements and patch applications, core developers have a limited amount of time they can spend

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Except you miss one key point here ... if Bruce/Tom/Jan have that sort of time, why aren't they doing it now? Well I think you might of missed his point. His point was if he could pick their priorities. I would kind of agree with Robert except that there are

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: One reason against including plPHP in the core would be that it would create a circular build dependency between the packages postgresql and php. I think we should rather avoid that. It is no different that the dependency between plPerl and Perl, plPython and Python

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marko Karppinen wrote: I guess the key thing is that pgFoundry shouldn't be a community distinct from the core. The same community standards need to apply on both sides of the fence. Yes, and the best way to achieve that would be to not have anything to pgfoundry and keep everything in the

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
This is very much different, because the PHP distribution contains the PostgreSQL driver, whereas the other languages do not. So you would have PHP build depends on PostgreSQL Ahh I see your point, EXCEPT :) plPHP does not require PostgreSQL support to be built into PHP. Sincerely, Joshua

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
That is irrelevant. A normal binary package of PHP does build the PostgreSQL support (which is surely in our interest), so the build dependency holds. Then I am afraid I don't understand the actual problem. plPHP does not create a circular dependency because it doesn't require PHP to have

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: This is very much different, because the PHP distribution contains the PostgreSQL driver, whereas the other languages do not. So you would have PHP build depends on PostgreSQL Ahh I see your point, EXCEPT :) plPHP does not require PostgreSQL support to be built

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Also PHP does not compile the PostgreSQL support by default. But most binary packages do, and they are the ones I'm talking about. And surely you do not advocate that, in order to build PL/PHP, the packagers instead disable the client side support in PHP?

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Of course not, but I still don't see your point. plPHP doesn't need PHP+PostgreSQL support. Nor does PHP+PostgreSQL conflict with using plPHP... PHP doesn't even need to be installed for plPHP to work... You just need the source tree for building. I don't talk about

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Of course not, but I still don't see your point. plPHP doesn't need PHP+PostgreSQL support. Nor does PHP+PostgreSQL conflict with using plPHP... PHP doesn't even need to be installed for plPHP to work... You just need the source tree for building.

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What can be done? Well, money from Fujitsu and other companies (Afilias/Sloney, Command Prompt/ecpg-plPHP), is allowing us to hit some of these bigger items, so hopefully that will move us forward in these complex areas. I am not sure what

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Seriously though, we all have the roles that we play. I don't think redirecting specific resources to other resources will help beyond slowing up the original resources. And now Neil's on holidays :) Perhaps we need more committers. The deluge of patches is starting to strain the major

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Claudio Natoli
Greg Copeland writes: My primary fear about delivering Win32 with all of these other great features is that, IMO, there is a higher level of risk associated with these advanced features. At the same time, this will be the first trial for many Win32 users. Should there be some problems, in

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 17:33, Joshua D. Drake wrote: But most binary packages do, and they are the ones I'm talking about. And surely you do not advocate that, in order to build PL/PHP, the packagers instead disable the client side support in PHP? Of course not, but I still don't see your

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So you then have to build PHP twice, in an RPM build environment. You mean I can't just have the headers installed to build plPHP? So, follow the No you need to make sure that PHP is available as a shared lib. 1.) Build PostgreSQL 2.) Build PHP (with PostgreSQL client support) 3.) Build plPHP

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:58, Joshua D. Drake wrote: So you then have to build PHP twice, in an RPM build environment. You mean I can't just have the headers installed to build plPHP? So, follow the No you need to make sure that PHP is available as a shared lib. Which requires you to

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I'd like to get the patch committed as soon as the 7.6 release cycle begins, with whatever limitations it has at that time. The nice thing of this is that then you have a development cycle for others to help ... your patch lays down the this is

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Actually plPHP doesn't require the PostgreSQL source tree... you would just have to modify the Make file to point to the right places. So, why tie it into the PostgreSQL source tree? Won't it be popular enough to live on its own, that it has to be

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote: I have some confidence in that I will be able to deliver it maybe the last week of May. I can only hope, however, that it will not be rejected because it's presented too close to feature freeze. There is no such thing as too close to feature

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Actually plPHP doesn't require the PostgreSQL source tree... you would just have to modify the Make file to point to the right places. So, why tie it into the PostgreSQL source tree? Won't it be popular enough to live on its own, that it has

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote: I have some confidence in that I will be able to deliver it maybe the last week of May. I can only hope, however, that it will not be rejected because it's presented too close to feature freeze. There is no such

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So, why tie it into the PostgreSQL source tree? Won't it be popular enough to live on its own, that it has to be distributed as part of the core? Honestly, I don't know if it would be popular enough on its own. Now the plPerlNG that Andrew and us are working, yes but plPHP? It is nifty, it

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: At least in Japan PHP is much more popular than Python. If we have plpython in core, I see no reason we do not have plPHP in core at least from the "popularity" point of view. Well I don't know anywhere that PHP isn't more popular than Python. The question I think

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Agreed, but you are a me too, not a huge percentage of our userbase. How do you know? Have you polled our complete userbase? Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want more than a vacuum patch and

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: All the clients that I deal with on a daily basis generally care about is performance ... that is generally what they upgrade for ... so, my 'educated guess' based on real world users is that Win32, PITR and nested transactions are not important ... tablespaces,

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even without Win32 ... Win32 (or any

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even without Win32 ... Win32 (or any of the other stuff, like PITR/tablespaces) would be icing on the cake ... I think we're

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
It is too late to think about pushing back another month. We had this discussion already. June 1 is it. I thought the outcome of that discussion was June 15 ? Can we try to do the 2PC patch now instead of waiting for subtransactions ? Andreas ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 08:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote: I am still wondering about two things: Somebody has posted a 2PC patch - I haven't seen too many comments He is waiting for nested transactions to be committed so he can merge his work

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 17 May 2004 08:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: I am still wondering about two things: Somebody has posted a 2PC patch - I haven't seen too many comments He is waiting for nested transactions to be committed so he can merge his work in. I was thinking about

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: I am still wondering about two things: Somebody has posted a 2PC patch - I haven't seen too many comments Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ... Do you really need

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Agreed, but you are a me too, not a huge percentage of our userbase. How do you know? Have you polled our complete userbase? Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Most hopefully this is very discouraging! Connection pools are a nice thing and I have used pgpool recently with great success, for pooling connections. But attempting to deliver multimaster replication as a byproduct

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Most hopefully this is very discouraging! Connection pools are a nice thing and I have used pgpool recently with great success, for pooling connections. But attempting to deliver multimaster replication as a byproduct of a connection pool isn't

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mario Weilguni
Interesting. We have made COMPLETELY different experiences. There is one question people ask me daily: When can we have sychronous replication and PITR?. Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in stability and enterprise features such as those I have mentioned

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
Mario Weilguni wrote: Interesting. We have made COMPLETELY different experiences. There is one question people ask me daily: When can we have sychronous replication and PITR?. Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in stability and enterprise features such as those I have

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:10, Bruce Momjian wrote: It is too late to think about pushing back another month. We had this discussion already. June 1 is it. I think I have to reiterate: PITR won't make 1 June. (I will be away travelling soon). This has been said a number of times. This is

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ... I didn't find it on pgFoundry, others place to look at it ? Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Most hopefully this is very discouraging! Connection pools are a nice thing and I have used pgpool recently with great success, for pooling connections. But attempting to deliver multimaster replication as

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Simon Riggs wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:10, Bruce Momjian wrote: It is too late to think about pushing back another month. We had this discussion already. June 1 is it. Just to throw in my .02, plPerlNG won't be ready for testing until mid, later June either. Then there is also plPHP

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Personally, Win32, subtransactions and PITR are what we are after. Second would be inclusion of plPHP and plPerlNG which are arguably the most widely used languages to connect to PostgreSQL. plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mario Weilguni wrote: Interesting. We have made COMPLETELY different experiences. There is one question people ask me daily: When can we have sychronous replication and PITR?. Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in stability and enterprise features such as those I have

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution ... Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate plPHP???

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Mario Weilguni wrote: Interesting. We have made COMPLETELY different experiences. There is one question people ask me daily: When can we have sychronous replication and PITR?. Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in stability and enterprise features such as those I have

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Greg Stark
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't complete by 1 June. Think worse of me if you choose. I'll mention another perspective as a user. I'm actually happier seeing a relatively minor release come out just before the big changes hit. If 7.5 has Windows, PITR, nested transactions, etc.

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
Greg Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't complete by 1 June. Think worse of me if you choose. ... So in my perfect world I picture 7.5 freezing June 1 and releasing in July or so, giving a nice reliable simple upgrade for people who just want a safe 7.x series to upgrade to

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution ... Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as long as the code was

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Greg Stark
Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't complete by 1 June. Think worse of me if you choose. ... So in my perfect world I picture 7.5 freezing June 1 and releasing in July or so, giving a nice reliable simple upgrade for

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: Greg Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't complete by 1 June. Think worse of me if you choose. ... So in my perfect world I picture 7.5 freezing June 1 and releasing in July or so, giving a nice reliable simple upgrade

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Personally, Win32, subtransactions and PITR are what we are after. Second would be inclusion of plPHP and plPerlNG which are arguably the most widely used languages to connect to PostgreSQL. plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Most hopefully this is very discouraging! Connection pools are a nice thing and I have used pgpool recently with great success, for pooling connections. But attempting to deliver multimaster

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution ... Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as long

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
The much I am for pulling stuff that does not belong into core, doing it just for the fun of cleaning up or trimming doesn't do. One of the major functions of CVS is that one can tag collections of revisions that together build a release, a known to be working snapshot of file revisions. If

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Just to throw in my .02, plPerlNG won't be ready for testing until mid, later June either. Then there is also plPHP which although we haven't had any bug reports still needs some more peer review. Also we would like to submit our ECPG which includes SET DESCRIPTOR

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
He is waiting for nested transactions to be committed so he can merge his work in. Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ... I think it should be on gborg. You mean pgFoundry :) Chris

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution ... Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I assume your ecpg will be a patch to the existing ecpg rather than a new verion, right? Yes it is a patch against 7.4.2 J -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting.

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Server-side languages are tied into the backend even closer than the user data types. They are best in the core distribution. We didn't put plR in core because it had a conflicting license. So, they can live on their own, which is a good thing to

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jan Wieck wrote: They are not as independant as one might think. The core support for set returning functions is required before a PL can do it. Same was with cursors and same will be with subtransactions being the base for exception handling. People have been struggling

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Mascari
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: A quick google of 7.4 Win32 release will reveal that the above was precisely what was said about 7.4: it would be released to not hold up important features like the IN optimization and a quick 7.5 would have Win32 and PITR. It's

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I assume your ecpg will be a patch to the existing ecpg rather than a new verion, right? Yes it is a patch against 7.4.2 Will you have one against -HEAD? I believe there have been changes since 7.5 was branched, no? Or have they been

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Why is it our responsibility to ensure that though? Shouldn't the developer (or group of developers) responsible for the PL/interface/extension be responsible for that? Let's use plPHP as an example here ... I'm going to guess that it supports PHP4, which is the 'standard' right now ... what

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I assume your ecpg will be a patch to the existing ecpg rather than a new verion, right? Yes it is a patch against 7.4.2 Will you have one against -HEAD? I believe there have been changes since 7.5 was

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian said: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution ... Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: A quick google of 7.4 Win32 release will reveal that the above was precisely what was said about 7.4: it would be released to not hold up important features like the IN optimization and a quick 7.5 would have Win32 and PITR. It's almost as if a cron job reposts this

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 17:06:18 -0400, Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll mention another perspective as a user. I'm actually happier seeing a relatively minor release come out just before the big changes hit. If 7.5 has Windows, PITR, nested transactions, etc. especially if I see

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So, yea, I am frustrated. I know these features are hard and complex, but I want them for PostgreSQL, and I want them as soon as possible. I guess what really bugs me is that we are so close to having these few remaining big features, and because they are so complex, they are taking a lot

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: So, yea, I am frustrated. I know these features are hard and complex, but I want them for PostgreSQL, and I want them as soon as possible. I guess what really bugs me is that we are so close to having these few remaining big features, and because

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera Munoz
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:55:50PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: It is too late to think about pushing back another month. We had this discussion already. June 1 is it. I thought the outcome of that discussion was June 15 ? I think there was no outcome. There was no official

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote: Personally I've been focused on getting subtransactions done and now I think I'm very close to an acceptable patch, but what has slowed me down the last time has been lack of feedback from core developers. It was feedback I needed to figure out the best ways to do

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Not being the author, I don't know. And in the case of PITR, the pre-7.4 author is different than the post-7.4 author. However, if I was personally responsible for holding up the release of a project due to a feature that I had vowed to complete, I would feel morally compelled to get it done.

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Monday 17 May 2004 22:42 schrieb Jan Wieck: I doubt that. Having deployed several 7.4 databases, the first customers ask (of course not in technical speech, but in the meaning) when the problem with checkpoint hogging system down is solved. This is a really serious issue, especially

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Mario Weilguni
Well that seems to be part of the problem. ext3 does not scale well at all under load. You should probably upgrade to a better FS (like XFS). I am not saying that your point isn't valid (it is) but upgrading to a better FS will help you. Thanks for the info, but I've already noticed

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-17 Thread Greg Copeland
From the FAQ (http://www.drbd.org/316.html): Q: Can XFS be used with DRBD? A: XFS uses dynamic block size, thus DRBD 0.7 or later is needed. Hope we're talking about the same project. ;) Cheers! On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 00:16, Mario Weilguni wrote: Well that seems to be part of the

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote: In the first place it's unfair to other developers to make schedule slips at the last moment, and especially to *plan* to do so. Isn't it equally unfair to slip the scheduale

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: We have ARC, the background writer and vacuum delay, and people even ask me for backports of that (I have one for vacuum delay, but refuse to make one for the others). How long do you want to delay that being ready for production? Do you really think people that are

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Hannu Krosing
Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 16.05.2004 kell 22:45: Jan Wieck wrote: We have ARC, the background writer and vacuum delay, and people even ask me for backports of that (I have one for vacuum delay, but refuse to make one for the others). How long do you want to delay that being ready for

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hannu Krosing wrote: Sure, you can work around the lack of a Win32 port with Cygwin, and maybe use replication in place of PITR, but the big question is are you hitting a large precentage of users with an enhancement. I'm not sure that the initial version of PITR will be a good

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even without Win32 ... Win32 (or any of the other stuff,

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even without Win32 ... Win32 (or any of the other stuff, like PITR/tablespaces) would be icing on the cake ... I think we're close enough on win32 to wait for it. It would look bad for us

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Rod Taylor
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 23:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to warrant a beta on June 1st, even without Win32 ...

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Hannu Krosing wrote: Sure, you can work around the lack of a Win32 port with Cygwin, and maybe use replication in place of PITR, but the big question is are you hitting a large precentage of users with an enhancement. I'm not sure that the

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that we have enough already to

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: I personally don't think Win32 is enough of a new feature either, but others disagree. Jan, correct me if I'm wrong ... Jan's point is that

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Agreed, but you are a me too, not a huge percentage of our userbase. How do you know? Have you polled our complete userbase? Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want more than a vacuum patch and a new cache replacement policy. I want something big, in

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:53:19 -0300, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true ... you just have to fix your definition of what a feature is ... a feature is an improvement to the system, whether it be new functionality, or improved performance ... I consider the work Tom did on

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: See my recent email. You are stating that all features are of equal significance. Basically, the important missing features are also the ones the require the most work to complete. Agreed ... and the ones that require the most work to complete

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Agreed, but you are a me too, not a huge percentage of our userbase. How do you know? Have you polled our complete userbase? Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want more than a vacuum patch and a new

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:53:19 -0300, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true ... you just have to fix your definition of what a feature is ... a feature is an improvement to the system, whether it be new functionality, or

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