Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Montag, September 04, 2006 23:58:35 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updatable views are likewise dead --- we don't have a credible patch or any short-term path to get one. I hope to see both of these items land early in the 8.3 devel cycle, but for 8.2, nyet. Yeah, i don't had

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] BUG #2600: dblink compile with SSL missing libraries

2006-09-06 Thread Albe Laurenz
Chris Browne wrote: I also seem to recall, in past discussions about library matters, that AIX is more sticky about requiring that libraries be named expressly. ecpglib has SHLIB_LINK = -L../pgtypeslib -lpgtypes $(libpq) \ $(filter -lintl -lssl -lcrypto -lkrb5 -lcrypt -lm, $(LIBS))

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
Yes they are using a connection pool. A java based one. Since java has it's own protocol implementation, this is totally unrelated to any libpq error messages. Another important point that we've not been given information on: when pgAdmin/libpq starts failing like this, exactly what is

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Paesold
Magnus Hagander wrote: Another point that at least I don't know - what kind of connection pool is it? Is it an external one (like pgpool) to which the java app connects (using FE/BE protocol, emulating a proper postmaster but pooling access to the database), or is it running inside the app

Re: [HACKERS] @ versus ~, redux

2006-09-06 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD
The existing geometric containment tests seem to be nonstrict, so if we wanted to leave room to add strict ones later, it might be best to settle on x @= yx contains or equals y x =@ yx is contained in or equals y reserving @ and @ for future strict

Re: [HACKERS] @ versus ~, redux

2006-09-06 Thread Matteo Beccati
Tom Lane wrote: The existing geometric containment tests seem to be nonstrict, so if we wanted to leave room to add strict ones later, it might be best to settle on x @= y x contains or equals y x =@ y x is contained in or equals y reserving @ and @

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 05:58 schrieb Tom Lane: A couple of recently discussed FE/BE protocol issues are: not storing a plan at all for unnamed-statement cases, and thus allowing bind parameters to be treated as constants; allowing parameter types to go unresolved rather than throwing

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 03:07 schrieb Bruce Momjian: Here are the open items for 8.2: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems This host seems to be offline. What about using the wiki? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hello, On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 13:04 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems This host seems to be offline. It is suffering from a DNS problem. What about using the wiki? Wiki has the same problem, too. Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company

[HACKERS] wartho failing

2006-09-06 Thread ohp
Hi, Warthog has been failing for the last 12 hours or so on contrib/sslinfo It seems that readline and termcap should not be linked with. What can I do to help? Also, now that beta is approaching, warthog runs his HEAD buikd every 8 hours. Do we need it more often? Regards, -- Olivier

[HACKERS] patching question

2006-09-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Sorry to ask this question here... How do I include newly created files in a patch with difforig or patch Thank you. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG regression failures on OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread chrisnospam
Michael, if you want shell access to guppy, just contact me privately. Warning: guppy too, is somewhat dated (1:10 hours for the make step) :/ Michael, did you receive my private mail yesterday? (just want to make sure it wasn't blocked by an overzealous spam filter) Bye, Chris. -- Chris

Re: [HACKERS] wartho failing

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:32:53PM +0200, ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote: Hi, Warthog has been failing for the last 12 hours or so on contrib/sslinfo It seems that readline and termcap should not be linked with. What can I do to help? Classic putting-non-PIC-code-in-a-shared-library error. You

Re: [HACKERS] patching question

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:37:51PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote: Sorry to ask this question here... How do I include newly created files in a patch with difforig or patch Thank you. The -N option to diff treats non-existant files as empty. So diff -crN should do it. Have you read the

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
Here are the open items for 8.2: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems This host seems to be offline. What about using the wiki? The problem is with the postgresql.org DNS servers. Something weird is afoot around the hub.org nameservers, from what I can tell. Servers

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Dave Cramer
On 6-Sep-06, at 3:27 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: Yes they are using a connection pool. A java based one. Since java has it's own protocol implementation, this is totally unrelated to any libpq error messages. Another important point that we've not been given information on: when

[HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Meskes
It seems ECPG regression tests trigger a bug in OpenBSD libc. Please try the attached test case. I should give ERANGE as error, but on OpenBSD errno is set to 0. I tried this test case on Linux, where it works, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 4.0 (that is HEAD). On both these systems it doesn't. Now the

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus Hagander) wrote: Here are the open items for 8.2: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems This host seems to be offline. What about using the wiki? The problem is with the postgresql.org DNS servers.

Re: [HACKERS] @ versus ~, redux

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, I've never seen anyone spell less than or equal to as =, so I'm not sure where you derive =@ from? Not saying no, but the other seems clearer to me. Yes, but to me too =@ seems more natural since we started with @ and @. Tom, your

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 05:58 schrieb Tom Lane: A couple of recently discussed FE/BE protocol issues are: not storing a plan at all for unnamed-statement cases, and thus allowing bind parameters to be treated as constants; allowing parameter

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 03:07 schrieb Bruce Momjian: Here are the open items for 8.2: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgopenitems This host seems to be offline. What about using the wiki? The host is fine. postgresql.org DNS is broken.

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying standby mode

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 09:14 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: OK, I'll submit a C program called pg_standby so that we have an approved and portable version of the script, allowing it to be documented more easily. I think we are still waiting

Re: [HACKERS] @ versus ~, redux

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote: The existing geometric containment tests seem to be nonstrict, so if we wanted to leave room to add strict ones later, it might be best to settle on x @= y x contains or equals y x =@ y x is contained in or equals y

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Had a bitmap-index patch arrived in my inbox this morning, as had been promised to me for three weekends running, I might have been willing to drop all else and review it. But, no patch. This item is dead for 8.2. Do not even think of suggesting otherwise.

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Second try committing the path changes.

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote: This looks like you're using an old version of the parser. preproc.y was changed to handle empty database names and the the error you report is due to an empty db name. I think the problem is that the latest version of

[HACKERS] DNS fixed

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: Yes, there are DNS issues. They are partly solved, but expect further hiccups for a while. Seems the PostgreSQL master DNS servers became unavailable sometime in the past few hours, and Larry's secondary DNS was not responding because it had stale data. I told Larry to

[HACKERS] Multi-valued user-defined types

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone have examples of real user-defined types that would need two fields? If not it may not be worth spending time on. Guess I'm jumping in a little late on this, but when reading the threads linked to from the TODO items on user-defined

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Michael Meskes wrote: It seems ECPG regression tests trigger a bug in OpenBSD libc. Please try the attached test case. I should give ERANGE as error, but on OpenBSD errno is set to 0. I tried this test case on Linux, where it works, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 4.0 (that is HEAD). On both these

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:42:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: The hard part of this problem is finding a convenient way to capture status data out of the community's conversations. I think when you find a solution to that, you'll notice that email is not the problem. In private groups (like

Re: [HACKERS] @ versus ~, redux

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 10:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: The existing geometric containment tests seem to be nonstrict, so if we wanted to leave room to add strict ones later, it might be best to settle on

Re: [HACKERS] wartho failing

2006-09-06 Thread ohp
Removing #include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/contrib-global.mk in sslinfo Makefile makes the problem go away... Hope it helps On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:49:21 +0200 From: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org To: ohp@pyrenet.fr Cc: pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first time I've found as many as 1 interesting article

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying standby mode

2006-09-06 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 09:14 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: OK, I'll submit a C program called pg_standby so that we have an approved and portable version of the script, allowing it to be documented more easily. I think we are still waiting for this. I am also waiting

Re: [HACKERS] Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:42:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: The hard part of this problem is finding a convenient way to capture status data out of the community's conversations. I think when you find a solution to that, you'll notice that email is not the problem.

[HACKERS] TODO: GUID datatype

2006-09-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
I would like to know if anyone is working on the GUID datatype. If not, I am going to work on it. Please let me know. Regards, Gevik. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Multi-valued user-defined types

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:50:20PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: The information for each attribute is: Number of dimensions Spatial Referencing System (identified by the SRID) Type (ie: Point, Polygon, etc) snip POINT(dims, srid) - eg: POINT(2,4269) geometry(dims,

[HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Naz Gassiep
Any chance for a DB Client accessible list of allowable time zones? I've been told that the only way to get at this list is by looking through the source and lifting the list from zone.tab. While I'm at it, how about an accessible list of country codes? I know that it's not core db

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:07:58AM +1000, Naz Gassiep wrote: Any chance for a DB Client accessible list of allowable time zones? I've been told that the only way to get at this list is by looking through the source and lifting the list from zone.tab. In the CVS version there is a table with

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Naz Gassiep
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: In the CVS version there is a table with this information: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/view-pg-timezonenames.html Great, thanks for that Err, where does postgres use this information? I beleive there is a project on pgfoundary that has

Re: [HACKERS] Open items for 8.2

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Paesold
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 05:58 schrieb Tom Lane: A couple of recently discussed FE/BE protocol issues are: not storing a plan at all for unnamed-statement cases, and thus allowing bind parameters to be treated as constants;

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Err, where does postgres use this information? I beleive there is a project on pgfoundary that has some standard datasets. Currently, it is stored in /src/timezone/data/iso3166.tab and I propose to have it available in a

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: In the CVS version there is a table with this information: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/view-pg-timezonenames.html Actually, what that view gives you is timezone offset abbreviations, not the full zone names that you could use

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Michael Meskes wrote: It seems ECPG regression tests trigger a bug in OpenBSD libc. Please try the attached test case. I should give ERANGE as error, but on OpenBSD errno is set to 0. I tried this test case on Linux, where it works, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 4.0 (that is HEAD). On both these

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Naz Gassiep
Actually, what that view gives you is timezone offset abbreviations, not the full zone names that you could use with SET TIME ZONE. It strikes me that we should have a view for that as well. We could use code similar to scan_available_timezones() to generate the view output. It's somewhat

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about anyone else, but the whole australian_timezones thing seems like an ugly hackaround to me. You really shouldn't be pontificating about this if you haven't been paying attention to recent development work ;-)

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] BUG #2600: dblink compile with SSL missing libraries

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still need the following, on AIX: -SHLIB_LINK = $(libpq) +SHLIB_LINK = $(libpq) $(LIBS) No you don't --- see recent warthog complaint. We have to filter LIBS down to just the minimum. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Gregory Stark
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: O.k. to recap: This message will present itself, if connection attempts are made from the Web Application (Java/JDBC), or locally via PgAdmin. Once the error message is received, all subsequent connection attempts will also result in that same

Re: [HACKERS] FE/BE protocol vs. parameterized queries

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe this could usefully (and transparently to clients) be changed so that Bind on the unnamed statement does _not_ store the plan back in the unnamed statement's context, but instead produces a plan which is only used _for that

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
In the CVS version there is a table with this information: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/view-pg-timezonenames. html Actually, what that view gives you is timezone offset abbreviations, not the full zone names that you could use with SET TIME ZONE. It strikes me

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:29:04AM +1000, Naz Gassiep wrote: I am also rather baffled at the way SAT is changed from being interpreted as a day of the week in one mode, and a timezone in another. Ugh. It'd be an argument if people actually used SAT as a timezone. They don't, it's ACST. Have

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:13:34PM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: that hints that setting ERANGE on an underflow (vs an overflow) is implementation specific though I ws unable to verify that this is indeed the case ... Odd, according to these references:

UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea? (was: Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GUID datatype)

2006-09-06 Thread mark
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:49:09PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote: I would like to know if anyone is working on the GUID datatype. If not, I am going to work on it. Please let me know. Assuming you mean GUID in the same sense as UUID, there are many non-core developers who would like to see it,

[HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
I happened to notice that the recently added code to log Bind-message parameters was printing garbage into my log. On investigation it turned out to be trying to print an already-pfree'd string. That's fixable, but having looked at the code closely, I see a bunch of other stuff I'm not happy

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming we can sneak this in even though it's feature-freeze, want me to look for it? Yeah, please take a look --- seeing the size of the code will probably help us decide if it's too late for 8.2 or not. regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Dave Cramer
On 6-Sep-06, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: I happened to notice that the recently added code to log Bind-message parameters was printing garbage into my log. On investigation it turned out to be trying to print an already-pfree'd string. That's fixable, but having looked at the code

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Odd, according to these references: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/programming/ansic-library.html#stdlib http://cplus.kompf.de/cliblist.html http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/strtod.3C.html returning ERANGE on underflow

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Dave Cramer
On 6-Sep-06, at 6:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6-Sep-06, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: * It doesn't log the values of parameters sent in binary mode, which is something that at least JDBC needs. AFAIK, we don't need binary mode right away, currently we

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: I happened to notice that the recently added code to log Bind-message parameters was printing garbage into my log. On investigation it turned out to be trying to print an already-pfree'd string. That's fixable, Uh, can you show me where? but having looked at the code

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6-Sep-06, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: * It doesn't log the values of parameters sent in binary mode, which is something that at least JDBC needs. AFAIK, we don't need binary mode right away, currently we only send bytea parameters in binary mode I

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Tom Lane wrote: I thought somebody had mentioned that integers were also sent in binary in the latest driver code? Can't find the archive entry right now though. Using the fastpath protocol integers and oids are sent as binary. I don't know if that is related to this

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first time I've

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Sequences were not being shown due to the use of lowercase `s`

2006-09-06 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane asked: Superusers can access anything they want to. What's your point? The spec says accessible ... disclaimer Not trying to lecture you Tom :), just posting my argument here for others. /disclaimer Temp tables are special because the

Re: [HACKERS] New XML section for documentation

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have added a modified version of this to the SGML documentation, under data types. --- bruce wrote: Here is an new XML section for our SGML documentation. It explains the various XML capabilities, if we support them,

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres tracking - the pgtrack project

2006-09-06 Thread Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: Robert Treat wrote: FWIW I have never understood why we don't require patch submitters/committers to update the release notes when they do the patch. I've suggested this more than once in the past -- I think it would be a clear improvement over the status quo. Updating

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:55 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: Do you see an advantage in using LFS for PostgreSQL? Hey guys - I think the original poster only meant to suggest that it was *interesting*... :-) I see, my mistake. From a

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2006-09-06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: In the CVS version there is a table with this information: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/view-pg-timezonenames.html Actually, what that view gives you is timezone offset

Re: [HACKERS] Timezone List

2006-09-06 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Tom Lane wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: In the CVS version there is a table with this information: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/view-pg-timezonenames.html Actually, what that view gives you is timezone offset abbreviations,

Re: [HACKERS] Problems with extended-Query logging code

2006-09-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-09-06 18:01:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is, we'd log a Parse or Bind operation if it individually exceeded the duration threshold, and not otherwise. Ok. If we've got support for logging the statement text and the parameter values at Execute time, isn't logging the

Re: [HACKERS] gBorg status?

2006-09-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Dave Page wrote: My understanding is that Gborg is being recovered from backup as I type. I also understand that the delay was not caused by lack of backups or anything similarly scary, but simply by other priorities. Yes, I have the backup uploaded right now, and doing

[HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before being built. Is there a file somewhere that would carry a

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Gregory Stark wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: O.k. to recap: This message will present itself, if connection attempts are made from the Web Application (Java/JDBC), or locally via PgAdmin. Once the error message is received, all subsequent connection attempts will also result

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 hard crash problem

2006-09-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only known resolution is to reboot Windows. Using the service control panel to shutdown postgresql will fail once the message is received. It is unknown if using the task master to individually kill

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:55 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: Do you see an advantage in using LFS for PostgreSQL? Hey guys - I think the original poster only meant to suggest that it was *interesting*... :-)

Re: [HACKERS] ECPG/OpenBSD buildfarm failures, take I

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Plauger's _The Standard C Library_ (1992) on p 335 is an excerpt from the standard (I think). At the end of a section entitled 7.10.1.4 The strtod function is the following: If the correct value would cause underflow, zero is returned and the value

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix compiler warnings on 64-bit boxes:

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It might seem a minor quibble, but it seems like a more reliable approach might be to cast to a 64 bit type and user a 64 bit int formatter. int64 is a real pain to use in error messages because of the machine-dependence of the format string --- the

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix compiler warnings on 64-bit

2006-09-06 Thread Teodor Sigaev
ereport(...errmsg(trouble at offset UINT64_FORMAT, bigintvar)); One more solution: add format code %D to expand_fmt_string() which should be expanded to usual %d on 32-bit architecture and to UINT64_FORMAT on 64-bit. -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix compiler warnings on 64-bit boxes:

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Teodor Sigaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ereport(...errmsg(trouble at offset UINT64_FORMAT, bigintvar)); One more solution: add format code %D to expand_fmt_string() which should be expanded to usual %d on 32-bit architecture and to UINT64_FORMAT on 64-bit. Not very workable unless you can

Re: [HACKERS] Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...

2006-09-06 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 9/5/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2006-09-05 16:35:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest part of the work needed is to write the documentation --- but we'd have to do that for Abhijit's patch too, since the userlocks docs presumably fall under GPL along with

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before being built. Is there a file

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't PostgreSQL test

Re: [HACKERS] Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...

2006-09-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-09-07 00:16:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Where would the code live, if it were in core? - Shall I hack up the API you suggested in your earlier message? are we still moving forward with this? I would love to see this go in for 8.2. I don't know about its going into 8.2 or

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Josh, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Josh, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: Josh, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to