Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the solution is where people need it to be. If not... Don't know about the policy to put things in already-released-version but if

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 07:09:20 +0100 Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 02:09, Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the solution is where people need it to be. If not... Don't know about the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 02:09, Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the solution is where people need it to be. If

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:57, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 02:09, Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:57, Andrew Dunstan wrote: One of pgfoundry's explicit purposes is for backports of features. I can't think of any contrib modules we've added that also required backwards comptible modules to be released on foundry at the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:57, Andrew Dunstan wrote: One of pgfoundry's explicit purposes is for backports of features. I can't think of any contrib modules we've added that also required backwards comptible

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We wouldn't be having this discussion at all if we had not had a horribly long period beween feature freeze and beta. I'm not sure about that. The bottom line to me is that we are doing a favor to the Slony and Skytools projects, who figured out

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-09 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be clear, and I thought we were working (if not actively then at least

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-09 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Did it? I see nothing for txid in relesase.sgml. Right. release.sgml will be updated in batches as we near final release. We don't update for individual commits. Ok. I will explain about txid for local users myself. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-09 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:58 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-09 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Simon Riggs wrote: I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the solution is where people need it to be. If not... Don't know about the policy to put things in already-released-version but if it's not the case, we could at least put the code somewhere in the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:19PM +, Jan Wieck wrote: Log Message: --- Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as discussed on CORE previously. This module offers transaction ID's containing the original XID and the transaction epoch as a bigint value to

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Magnus Hagander wrote: Or I could've missed the discussion on -hackers that actually took place - in that case, just discard this message. but the only one I recall is someone asking for pl/proxy to go in. There was some discussion (subject: Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I share your other concerns. This process certainly seems to have been less than transparent. FWIW, Jan asked -core about a week ago whether it'd be okay to add this code post-beta, and we concluded it would be okay on the grounds that (1) we've always

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Marko Kreen
On 10/8/07, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:19PM +, Jan Wieck wrote: Log Message: --- Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as discussed on CORE previously. To explain the situation, the public discussion about the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marko Kreen wrote: Now as you can read from recent disussion we had, we found out that it would be *really* *really* cool if it would appear in 8.3... Talk about last moment... That discussion didn't happen on any list I read, so to me it just came as a bolt from the blue. Surely

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
Marko Kreen wrote: On 10/8/07, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:19PM +, Jan Wieck wrote: Log Message: --- Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as discussed on CORE previously. To explain the situation, the public

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko Kreen wrote: Because of the bad timing it would have been -core call anyway whether it gets in or not so Jan asked -core directly. That's my explanation about what happened, obviously Jan and Tom have their own opinion. Right. I can see your

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/8/2007 1:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko Kreen wrote: Because of the bad timing it would have been -core call anyway whether it gets in or not so Jan asked -core directly. That's my explanation about what happened, obviously Jan and Tom have their

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Marko Kreen
On 10/8/07, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Kreen wrote: On 10/8/07, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:19PM +, Jan Wieck wrote: Log Message: --- Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as discussed on

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
Jan Wieck wrote: On 10/8/2007 1:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko Kreen wrote: Because of the bad timing it would have been -core call anyway whether it gets in or not so Jan asked -core directly. That's my explanation about what happened, obviously Jan

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko Kreen wrote: Because of the bad timing it would have been -core call anyway whether it gets in or not so Jan asked -core directly. That's my explanation about what happened, obviously Jan and Tom have their own opinion.

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Gregory Stark
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be clear, and I thought we were working (if not actively then at least passively) to retire contrib, moving things either to core or to

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be clear, and I thought we were working (if not actively then at least passively) to retire contrib, moving things either to

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: (1) we've always been laxer about contrib than the core code, While that appears to be true, I think (a) there is no technical reason allowing us to do that, and (b) most people don't seem to like it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:38:48 -0400 Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote: The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be clear, and I thought we were working (if not

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:32:55 +0200 Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko Kreen wrote: Because of the bad timing it would have been -core call anyway whether it gets in or not so Jan asked -core directly. That's my

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right. My thought is still that if it isn't good enough for core, it shouldn't be in contrib. If it *is* good enough, and we want it, we should accept that it came in long after freeze and put it in core anyway. If it *isn't*, then it should be on

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dimarts 09 Octubre 2007, Joshua D. Drake va escriure: Contrib is just a dead zone for the user populous. Most people consider it unsupported *stuff* with no particular purpose (regardless of the real meaning). I think no visible documentation is the reason for this misconception and 8.3

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: So I have no interest in trying to retire contrib. I think there's room for debate about exactly which modules to include, of course. I dont' think there's much call for retiring it. I think there is interest in renaming it, as contrib is a wholly misleading

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:19PM +, Jan Wieck wrote: Log Message: --- Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as discussed on CORE previously. This module offers transaction ID's containing the original XID and the transaction epoch as a bigint

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: More question. Who is in charge of updating HISTORY? I see no commit messages for this. It is a generated file. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
More question. Who is in charge of updating HISTORY? I see no commit messages for this. It is a generated file. I mean release.sgml. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: More question. Who is in charge of updating HISTORY? I see no commit messages for this. It is a generated file. I mean release.sgml. Tom and others made commits to this and we will update it again before final. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: More question. Who is in charge of updating HISTORY? I see no commit messages for this. It is a generated file. I mean release.sgml. Tom and others made commits to this and we will update it again before final. Did it? I see nothing for txid in

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Tatsuo Ishii wrote: More question. Who is in charge of updating HISTORY? I see no commit messages for this. It is a generated file. I mean release.sgml. Tom and others made commits to this and we will update it again before final. Did it? I