Re: [HACKERS] Thread safe connection-name mapping in ECPG. Is it

2004-03-04 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
- Dispose names of connectiong and replace them with a pointer. You cannot dispose the names, you can only add something to also allow pointers. The names are in the ESQL/C standard. Andreas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all

Re: [HACKERS] Thread safe connection-name mapping in ECPG. Is it

2004-03-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: - Dispose names of connectiong and replace them with a pointer. You cannot dispose the names, you can only add something to also allow pointers. The names are in the ESQL/C standard. Can you point me to the standards text? I am googling for it but nothing

Re: [HACKERS] Regression tests on Nintendo Game Cube

2004-03-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
Today Michael Steil and I have tested PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on Nintendo Game Cubes. All regression test (but stats - stats collector was off instead of on) have passed successfully. What about the XBOX? :-) Merlin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8:

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared queries and portals

2004-03-04 Thread Cyril VELTER
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cyril VELTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so I've modified libpq to handle the case by adding to functions : PQexecPreparedPortal(conn,stmtName,portalName,nParams,paramValues,paramlengt h,paramFormats,resultFormat,maxrows); and

Re: [HACKERS] Regression tests on Nintendo Game Cube

2004-03-04 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Merlin Moncure wrote: Today Michael Steil and I have tested PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on Nintendo Game Cubes. All regression test (but stats - stats collector was off instead of on) have passed successfully. What about the XBOX? :-) Merlin as far as i know the xbox is based on x86 hardware so it

Re: [HACKERS] Thread safe connection-name mapping in ECPG. Is it

2004-03-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: - Dispose names of connectiong and replace them with a pointer. You cannot dispose the names, you can only add something to also allow pointers. The names are in the ESQL/C standard. Can you point me to the standards text?

[HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint and details.

2004-03-04 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Hackers, Motivation -- As a basic user of postgresql, I've been quite disappointed by the lack of help provided by postgresql error messages dealing with syntax and semantical errors, especially in long sql statements: ERROR: syntax error at or near ( at character 326

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

2004-03-04 Thread tswan
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction I think Win2000 or XP would be a reasonable

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

2004-03-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction I think Win2000

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Jan, What I am looking for is a super-comfortable GUI application that makes planning and configuring a master-cascaded-multislave replication system doable by everyone who can identify a clickable button. I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the Slony project.

Re: [HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint

2004-03-04 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Fabien COELHO wrote: (1) Do postgresql Masters think this issue is worth being pursued, or any patch will be rejected as it is considered intrinsicly useless? While I can't speak for others I would anyhow guess that everyone wants better error messages. I know I want

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

2004-03-04 Thread tswan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction I think Win2000

Re: [HACKERS] Regression tests on Nintendo Game Cube

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Treat
Very Cool! Can we add this to the list of supported platforms? Also what do folks think of submitting this as a news blurb to slashdot? This seems like some good feelings type news that is right up thier alley. Robert Treat On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:46, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: Folks,

Re: [HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint and details.

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Fabien COELHO [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) Lexical/syntax error source localisation An extract of the offending source must be shown if possible along syntax error messages. You would do well to go to the archives and read some of the previous discussion of these issues. In particular, we

[HACKERS] Minutes from Pl/Java - next step IRC

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Participants Dave Cramer Thomas Hallgren Laszlo Hornyak Throughout this document, the solutions are called Pl/J (using remote calls and one JVM) and Pl/Java (using one JVM per connection). 1. Common interfaces. Laszlo provided Thomas with an URL so that he could download their solution. We

Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build under MINGW

2004-03-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
(guess) try configuring without readline. cheers andrew Dann Corbit wrote: Message 1. I installed the latest version of Mingw from: http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml 2. I installed the current snapshot of Postgresql. 3. I tried ./configure -- went fine 4. I

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Josh Berkus wrote: I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on a command-line api and catalogs, and allow the existing GUI projects to build a slony-supporting interface. Why a command line api? I believe

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

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

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Okay, I've repackaged it, and temporarily put everything into /pub/source/v7.3.6_1 ... if ppl can confirm that I haven't somehow missed something again (I rm -rf'd the old build tree and re-cvs exported it, so it started clean), I'll move those files over to 7.3.6 ... On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Tom

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
k, trying again and trapping all the configure/make output, but other then putting the files in the _1 directory, the script i the same ... On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, I've repackaged it, and temporarily put everything into

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
don't know what happen with that last one, but this one looks good: svr1# tar tvzpf postgresql-7.3.6.tar.gz | grep postgres.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- pgsql/wheel 954585 Mar 4 21:33 2004 postgresql-7.3.6/doc/postgres.tar.gz svr1# tar tvypf postgresql-7.3.6.tar.bz2 | grep postgres.tar.gz -rw-r--r--

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't know what happen with that last one, but this one looks good: It looks good to me too, at least the main tar.gz seems correct. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, replaced with the good ones ... On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't know what happen with that last one, but this one looks good: It looks good to me too, at least the main tar.gz seems correct. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Comments on patch for date_trunc( 'week', ... );

2004-03-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks. --- Robert Creager wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. Per a brief conversation with Tom, I've created a patch for adding support for 'week' within the date_trunc function. Within the

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 04 March 2004 07:45 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, I've repackaged it, and temporarily put everything into /pub/source/v7.3.6_1 ... if ppl can confirm that I haven't somehow missed something again (I rm -rf'd the old build tree and re-cvs exported it, so it started clean), I'll

Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build under MINGW

2004-03-04 Thread Dann Corbit
I am able to build now, and perform initdb. However, I cannot run the postmaster. I don't know how far along the port is. What is the current state of the port to Win32? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/pgsql/bin $ postmaster -D u:/pgdata LOG: select() failed in postmaster: No such file or

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, don't call it 7.3.6. Streamlining releases is terrible. 7.3.7 or 7.3.6.1 or SOMETHING other than 7.3.6, and just let 7.3.6 be a brown paper bag release (like 6.4.1 was). There were no code-change differences in this rewrap, so I see no real need

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28 pm, Tom Lane wrote: There were no code-change differences in this rewrap, so I see no real need to change the version number. The lesson I'd prefer to see us take away from this is that Marc needs to automate his release wrapping process more. These sorta

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28 pm, Tom Lane wrote: There were no code-change differences in this rewrap, so I see no real need to change the version number. The lesson I'd prefer to see us take away from this is that Marc needs to automate his release wrapping process

Re: [HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28 pm, Tom Lane wrote: There were no code-change differences in this rewrap, so I see no real need to change the version number. The lesson I'd prefer to see us take away from this is that Marc needs to automate his release wrapping process more. These

[HACKERS] Sigh, 7.3.6 rewrap not right

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
It looks to me like there are now *two* copies of the built manpages in the 7.3.6 tarball, as well as some extraneous .md5 files: Only in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: man-7.3.tar.gz Only in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: man.tar.gz Only in postgresql-7.3.6/doc: postgres.tar.gz Only in postgresql-7.3.6:

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

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Swan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS