[HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-11 Thread Justin Clift
opefully we can get it all done without giving users a reason to consider switching. ;) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there

Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-12 Thread Justin Clift
On 12 Apr 2016, at 14:12, Yury Zhuravlev wrote: > Justin Clift wrote: >> Simon included a short starter list of potentials which might be in >> that category: >> >> * SQL compliant identifiers >> * Remove RULEs >> * Change recovery.conf >>

Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-04-12 Thread Justin Clift
On 12 Apr 2016, at 17:23, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Justin Clift wrote: >> Moving over a conversation from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list. In it >> Simon (CC'd) raised the issue of potentially creating a >> backwards-compatibility &

Re: [HACKERS] Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

2016-05-13 Thread Justin Clift
On 13 May 2016, at 21:42, Josh berkus wrote: > On 05/13/2016 01:04 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> On 05/13/2016 12:03 PM, Josh berkus wrote: >>> On 05/13/2016 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >>> Anyway, all of this is a moot point

Re: [HACKERS] Places to update when a new version is out

2002-04-16 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Chris, I don't have time at the moment to start making the needed document. :( Does anyone want to throw together the basics of it and put it somewhere useful? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > I remember someone mentioning on th

Re: [HACKERS] Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE

2002-04-17 Thread Justin Clift
Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > If that were exposed, then folks could have additional control over the > optimizer no matter what syntax they prefer to use. And in fact could > alter the behavior without having to completely rewrite their query. > > One could also think about a threshold mechanism

Re: [HACKERS] Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE

2002-04-17 Thread Justin Clift
Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > ... > > I'm of a belief that *eventually* we really can take enough of the > > variables into consideration for planning the best query every time. I > > didn't say it was gunna be soon, nor easy though. > > I agree. But I'd like to eliminate the optimizer variability

Re: [HACKERS] new food for the contrib/ directory

2002-04-17 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Bruce, Haven't looked at the code, but there's no license with it. Andreas, are you cool with having the same License as PostgreSQL for it (BSD license)? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Can someone comment on this?

Re: [HACKERS] new food for the contrib/ directory

2002-04-18 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Bruce, Did we reach an opinion as to whether we'll include GPL'd code? My vote is to not include this code, as it just muddies the water with PostgreSQL being BSD based. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Andreas Scherbaum wrote: > > Justin Clift wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

2002-05-03 Thread Justin Clift
generate mingwin code too. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, mlw wrote: > > > "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > > > > > Morning all ... > > > > > > Just a heads

Re: [HACKERS] Native Windows, Apache Portable Runtime

2002-05-04 Thread Justin Clift
e (i.e. there may already be a way of splitting it off easy, etc), but we'll never know if we don't say hello. (Hey, that rhymes!) :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > It looks like the APR is pretty analogous to SysV with a few changes, so it > sho

Re: [HACKERS] pgAdmin2 to be included in Dev-C++

2002-05-10 Thread Justin Clift
just so PostgreSQL could be included in the "Database Foundry" on the Sourceforge site. :) http://www.sf.net/projects/pgsql And then I started a new contract and haven't had time to do anything with it (oh well). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > "R

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres idea list

2002-06-26 Thread Justin Clift
ussion areas. > Perhaps pgsql-promotion would be a good name that'd avoid the aura of > flamewars. Or maybe that's just my own perception not anyone else's. There is already a pgsql-advocacy list (as was pointed out recently), but it's unused. Borrow a leaf from the Ope

Re: [HACKERS] Nextgres?

2002-06-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, This is Jonah's explanation of what Nextgres is, as his response didn't make it to the list (some kind of software or network problem). :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Nextgres? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 200

Re: [HACKERS] TPC-* Benchmarks

2002-07-29 Thread Justin Clift
nd if you have suggestions regarding the publishing of benchmarks, this is probably the place they will be implemented. Hope this helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Paul Ramsey wrote: > > Have any organizations run TPC benchmarks against PostgreSQL other than > the old and

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible (was: Re:

2002-08-09 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Florian, Is it possible to crash a 7.2.1 backend without having an entry in the pg_hba.conf file? i.e. Is every PostgreSQL 7.2.1 installation around vulnerable to a remote DoS (or worse) from any user anywhere, at this moment in time? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Florian Weimer

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible (was: Re:

2002-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
for weird characters and formatting hacks) on the date given, then use the date as part of a SQL query, and PostgreSQL will die? ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Florian Weimer wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible to crash a

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible (was: Re:

2002-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
malicious types. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Florian Weimer wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - A PostgreSQL 7.2.1 server can be crashed if it gets passed certain > > date values which would be accepted by standard "front end"

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible (was: Re:

2002-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
egards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Chris -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi -

[HACKERS] Interesting message about printf()'s in PostgreSQL

2002-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
and of PostgreSQL needing an audit. Any idea if the things mentioned in this are true? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group;

[HACKERS] Finally, a list of *big* companies using PostgreSQL for *serious* projects. Why use PostgreSQL? Here's why.

2002-08-15 Thread Justin Clift
gabyte, billion-record-plus business information database. I'm pretty sure everyone will appreciate the significance of these companies showing their support. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who wo

[HACKERS] About to update the PostgreSQL Functions in the official PHP Manual

2002-08-18 Thread Justin Clift
e included, etc? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: [GENERAL] About to update the PostgreSQL-Functions in the PHP Manual Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:32:21 +0200 From: "Cornelia Boenigk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi everyone, I am in the

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Vince, Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Surprised it took this long. > > Vince. > -- > == >

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Florian, You guys *definitely* write scarey code. :-( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Florian Weimer wrote: > > Alvar Freude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What about checking the input for backslash, quote, > >> and double quote (\'&q

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to "Sir Mordred" and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Glad he made the advisor

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: > > > > > Vince, > > > > > > Do you reckon it's worth you responding to "Sir Mordred" and pointing > > > out that he overstated the vulnerability?

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From the info still around, this looks to mean that the cash_words() > > problem was fixed, but the cash_out() problem was harder to fix. > > > Tom/Bruce, is that correct? > > The cash_out

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with > > major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially crash > > the backend. > > This particular hole has be

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
example, yet a large number of them probably wouldn't be so comfortable having PostgreSQL available for their clients whilst knowing that these kinds of DOS bugs exists. Mentally, it's not a good thing. Not trying to be a pain here, but instead trying to keep our QA level up. :) Regards

[HACKERS] Multiple vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL

2002-08-20 Thread Justin Clift
vulnerabilities with some decent amount of time in advance so we can create the necessary patches/fixes, etc? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be

[HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL]

2002-08-21 Thread Justin Clift
Hi guys, Sir Mordred seems okay, and is happy to help us out as long as we give him credit where it's due. Can't see where that would be a problem with anyone here, as it's totally in line with how we work, so am going to say yes to him up front. :-) Regards and best wishes

Re: [HACKERS] Multiple vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL

2002-08-21 Thread Justin Clift
e people in our community are the decent up-front kind of folk, and we welcome your assistance and expertise in helping us find the vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL. So, yep, it's all cool with us. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Sir Mordred The Traitor wrote: > > Hi Justi

Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-21 Thread Justin Clift
w more backward incompatibility in regards > to functions/opaque, should we open some discussion on 7.3 really being > 8.0? Depending on how far back we push this, we might be able to get Windows Native support added. That'd be cool and probably contribute to an 8.0. :) Regards and

Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-21 Thread Justin Clift
pe I'm not pushing too strongly for this, as, after all, I can't do the coding needed here. :( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to t

Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-21 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Justin Clift wrote: > > Only two things which have the potential to be worth waiting for, from > > what I'm aware of. There may be others: > > > > - Find out from Sir Mordred if he wants to take a look at the CVS > >version

Re: Release of v7.2.2 (Was: Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs ad...)

2002-08-22 Thread Justin Clift
that will need to be applied to the 7.2.x branch. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > Tom, > > I think it's worth to include patch for query planner which > fixes using indices with predicates for join plans. We found it's > quite use

Re: [HACKERS] Wanted: pgdiff ($$$)

2002-09-03 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Just a link to this from the front page of the techdocs.postgresql.org site. Hope it helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Greg Stark wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ad wolf) writes: > > > We're offering a small reward for a PG hacker that can cod

[HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

2002-09-11 Thread Justin Clift
looking like it might be useful. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Clift
ugh until we add some kind of ability for PostgreSQL to not look at the filesystem for info about where to put the xlog files. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Mike Mascari > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who wor

Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Clift
vironment variable or similar ability (GUC parameter perhaps?), and the other would be for the Native PostgreSQL for Windows port to follow these shortcuts. Not if any of these is all that easy, or maybe there is another solution that would work (apart from ignoring the problem). :-) Regards and best

[HACKERS] Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Clift
f you can. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi --

[HACKERS] An opportunity to prove PostgreSQL and our requirement of Case Study info

2002-09-12 Thread Justin Clift
f is up to the task. Can people please come forward to help them out with info about the reliability and performance of PostgreSQL in Mission Critical situations? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and

Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

2002-09-17 Thread Justin Clift
en about by not being on the list? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Nigel J. Andrews > Director > > --- > Logictree Systems Limited > Computer Consultants > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 5: Ha

[HACKERS] Having no luck with getting pgbench to run multiple times

2002-09-19 Thread Justin Clift
of what I can do, or maybe have a few minutes to look at my code and point out the problem? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first g

[HACKERS] Where to post a new PostgreSQL utility?

2002-09-19 Thread Justin Clift
but for now it just works (albeit time consuming). Where do I post it (here or PATCHES?) because if the code is rugged enough then it might be useful in contrib? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who wo

[HACKERS] Would you be able to update the MySQL manual?

2002-09-20 Thread Justin Clift
world suitable) and it's based on the ANSI AS3AP database testing standard. The main site for the Open Source Database Benchmark is: http://osdb.sf.net :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and th

Re: [HACKERS] Having no luck with getting pgbench to run multipletimes

2002-09-20 Thread Justin Clift
working alright. Am just "fine tuning" this util, and it's looking to be pretty nifty. It automatically tunes local or remote PostgreSQL databases (currently it's limited to the shared_buffers, sort_mem, and vacuum_mem variables). But it's a start. :) Regards and best wis

[HACKERS] New PostgreSQL Tool available : pg_autotune

2002-09-22 Thread Justin Clift
utotune It was created on a FreeBSD system, but should also work on at least Linux, Solaris, and MacOS X. This is a time & load intensive tool, so you'll need to ensure you only run it when you have a couple of hours to wait for the results. Overnight is good. :) Regards and best wishes

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New PostgreSQL Tool available : pg_autotune

2002-09-22 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have been putting together a tool called "pg_autotune" for automatically > > tuning a PostgreSQL database (either local or remote). It does this by > > repetitively benchmarking Postg

Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

2002-09-23 Thread Justin Clift
validity upon startup, so that could solve the data damaging issue. So, this thread has migrated away from a PGXLOG environment variable to discuss PGXLOG in general (good or bad) and also has implementation points too (about which people have been arguing). Regards and best wishes, Justi

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Performance while loading data and indexing

2002-09-26 Thread Justin Clift
time. Am still getting the hang of performance tuning stuff. Have a bunch of Ultra160 hardware for the Intel platform, and am testing against it as time permits. Not as high end as I'd like, but it's a start. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Bye > Shridhar -- "M

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Performance while loading data and indexing

2002-09-26 Thread Justin Clift
s to another drive after creation though. That apparently has the potential to help as well. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Performance while loading data and indexing

2002-09-26 Thread Justin Clift
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2002 at 19:05, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > fsync IIRC only affects the WAL buffers now but it may be quite expensive, > > especially considering it's running on every transaction commit. Oh, your > > WAL files are on a seperate disk from the data? >

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New PostgreSQL Tool available :pg_autotune

2002-09-25 Thread Justin Clift
ns that pg_autotune has been using 5-run averages, and using a large tolerance factor by default. It would be good to improving on that. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Tatsuo Ishii -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work a

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Performance while loading data and indexing

2002-09-26 Thread Justin Clift
all probably be interested to hear this. Added the PostgreSQL "Performance" mailing list to this thread too, Just In Case. (wow that's a lot of cross posting now). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Bye > Shridhar > > -- > Cropp's

[HACKERS] How to REINDEX in high volume environments?

2002-09-27 Thread Justin Clift
REINDEX to work without having this side affect? Pre-creating a bunch of dangling symlinks doesn't work (tried that, it gives a "ERROR: cannot create accounts_pkey: File exists" on FreeBSD 4.6.2 when using the REINDEX). Any suggestions? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Re: [HACKERS] How to REINDEX in high volume environments?

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
hat the default value would be, maybe the PGDATA directory, maybe something as a GUC variable, etc, but that's the concept. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > May be transaction logs, indexes goes in separte directory which can be > symlinked. Linking a directory is much

Re: [HACKERS] How to REINDEX in high volume environments?

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
it could be done better XYZ way", etc. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Putting indexes into a separate subdirectoy and mount/link that directory on a > device that is on a separate SCSI channel is what I can think of as last drop > of performance out of it.. > >

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3 Branched ...

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
noticeable. Not saying it's ready right now, but am hoping that maybe 7.4 would be able to include it. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > So, for those doing commits or anoncvs, remember that the 'stable' branch > requires you to use: > >

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3?

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
already pretty good. :-) Which other fixes would be included? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Are we too close to 7.3 for this to be worthwhile? Certainly there will > be people distributing 7.2.X for some time as 7.3 stabilizes. > > -- > Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2.3?

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
data format automatically, then for it to do the conversion process of the old data format to the new one before going any further? Sounds like a pain to create initially, but nifty in the end. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Alvaro Herrera () > "La fuerza n

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3 Branched ...

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
uot;contrib" is (oid2name is already there I know), but so people don't have to go hunting all over GBorg to find the bits that they'd want. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those

[HACKERS] pg_config : postgresql.conf adjustments?

2002-09-28 Thread Justin Clift
c, but the concept sounds useful. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."

Re: [HACKERS] pg_config : postgresql.conf adjustments?

2002-09-29 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Justin Clift writes: > > > Would it be beneficial for us to extend "pg_config" to update the > > postgresql.conf file? > > That has nothing to do with pg_config's functions. At present, sure. Was thinking a tool f

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-29 Thread Justin Clift
ve branch is likely to be really needed? Stuff still feels a bit too chaotic. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > regards, tom lane > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through

Re: [HACKERS] pg_config : postgresql.conf adjustments?

2002-09-29 Thread Justin Clift
he 'set sort_mem=xxx' option either, but it might work for the next version of pg_autotune (am going to have to re-write it anyway). :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Joe -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: th

Re: [HACKERS] Cause of missing pg_clog files

2002-09-30 Thread Justin Clift
law, then we should definitely have a 7.2.3 to ensure the usability of the 7.2.x series. Some places will still be using 7.2.x for 2 years to come, just because 7.2.x was what their projects started developing against, etc. :-) Regards and best wishes,

Re: 7.2.3 fixes (was Re: [HACKERS] Cause of missing pg_clog files)

2002-09-30 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > Any votes on whether to fix that or leave it alone in 7.2.3? I need > some input in the next few hours ... Including it sounds like a good idea. 'Yes' from me. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift >

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-02 Thread Justin Clift
abase server to be able to adjust the pg_hba.conf file, and a) Would take some decent time and effort to get up and running. A lot longer than cut and pasting into an Excel document then back out again. :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > (concatenate 'string "aa45

[HACKERS] OT: Looking to Open Source the Flash training material

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
hoping people have good ideas, beneficial directions, etc. If everything is looking good, then we'll look to ensuring this is a workable Open Source license, etc. (www.opensource.org) :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of p

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
ge. Um, doesn't "world's" mean "world is" ? That wouldn't make sense then though. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -tfo > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe co

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
orlds" here is basically saying "every world most advanced open source > database" and does not, in any case, connote possession. Ok, updating it now. Thanks heaps Thomas. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -tfo -- "My grandfather once told me that there

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Large databases, performance

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
subscribe pgsql-performance as the message body. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Bye > Shridhar > > -- > Clarke's Conclusion:Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the > right thing. > > ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Anyone want to assist with the translation of theAdvocacy

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
ult language, English for this site. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Regards > Tino -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there w

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translationof the

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
e site and emailed it to the volunteers. :) So far community members have volunteered for German, Turkish, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Polish. Cool. :) Want to co-ordinate with the other two German language volunteers? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Regards > T

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

2002-10-02 Thread Justin Clift
e wrong on this one) it can be updated pronto. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > Justin, > > what does world map with fuzzy points supposed to show ? > > Oleg > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Justin Clift wrote: > > > Hi all, > &

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

2002-10-02 Thread Justin Clift
but didn't want to step on Vince's toes *too much*. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > Vince. > > > > Regards, > Oleg > _ > Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, ho

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-02 Thread Justin Clift
rsion straight into the database backend. Sound workable to you? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Best Regards, > Michael Paesold -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be

Re: [HACKERS] Threaded Sorting

2002-10-04 Thread Justin Clift
's common to have a bunch of drives and allocate different ones for different tasks appropriately, whether in array sets, individually, mirrored, etc. 100% totally feasible to have a separate 15k SCSI drive or two just purely for doing sorts if it would assist in throughput. :-)

[HACKERS] New PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

2002-10-01 Thread Justin Clift
u can point your CIO, CTO, and CEO's at, etc. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competit

[HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy site?

2002-10-02 Thread Justin Clift
ors do it easily can be constructed over the next fortnight or so. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less compet

Re: [HACKERS] Analysis of ganged WAL writes

2002-10-07 Thread Justin Clift
Greg Copeland wrote: > If so, I assume it would become a configure option (--with-aio)? Or maybe a GUC "use_aio" ? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > Regards

[HACKERS] Italian version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-08 Thread Justin Clift
x27;s really going to help. :-) In addition to this, Stefano has also volunteered to be an Italian language contact for the PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing team. With luck we'll gain good PostgreSQL representatives for *all* of the major languages and get some nifty stuff happening. :-) R

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Justin Clift
inguprserv.php That could be the basis for your async replication solution. Hope that helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > It doesn't remove the slow time, but will distribute the slowness across > every transaction rather than all at once (via creation of replicati

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-14 Thread Justin Clift
ld be used to send out Romanian pages? i.e. for English, French, German it's iso-8859-1, for Turkish it's iso-8859-9, Romanian = ? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello ! > > I'd like to translate the advocacy site to R

[HACKERS] Turkish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-14 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, The Turkish translation of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site, done by Devrim GUNDUZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now complete and ready for public use: http://advocacy.postgresql.org/?lang=tr Pretty cool stuff. Thanks Devrim. :-) Regards and best wishe

[HACKERS] French version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-15 Thread Justin Clift
at's 4 completed languages at this point, with more coming along. Let's see how many more can be added... :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to b

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql and multithreading

2002-10-16 Thread Justin Clift
, regardless if they're released separately as add-on patches or not. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive,

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3 Branched ...

2002-10-16 Thread Justin Clift
> Thomas Swan wrote: > > Justin Clift wrote: > > Ok. Wonder if it's worth someone creating a "PostgreSQL Powertools" > > type of package, that includes in one download all of these nifty > > tools (pg_autotune, oid2name, etc) that would be beneficial

Re: [HACKERS] Script to compute random page cost

2002-10-12 Thread Justin Clift
= foo $ :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

Re: [HACKERS] oid2name and relfilenode

2002-10-12 Thread Justin Clift
to relfilenode2name and install by default Should it be renamed to pg_ for namespace consistency? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Actually, to be accurate, I think databases are stored based on their > oid and tables/indexes are stored based on their relfilenode. That is

[HACKERS] Swedish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-30 Thread Justin Clift
least). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi --

[HACKERS] German version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-21 Thread Justin Clift
5 languages done, with Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish nearly ready too. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less comp

[HACKERS] Brazilian Portuguese version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-22 Thread Justin Clift
are coming along. Am very, very proud of our community members. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Database replication... - Mission Critical

2002-11-01 Thread Justin Clift
network, you > might get lucky. But it is an extremely dangerous plan. Ok, have just removed the link. Sorry for not getting around to it before Andrew. (Bruce pointed out your email, otherwise I would have missed it again too). :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > A > >

[HACKERS] Spanish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-11-03 Thread Justin Clift
Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi --

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL IRC Channel... who's the Admin?

2002-11-04 Thread Justin Clift
in's about. So, does anyone know who the Admin's are, so we can get things fixed up? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the fi

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL IRC Channel... who's the Admin?

2002-11-04 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Neil, Cool. It's fixed now. We've just recreated the channel and started giving operator access to the right people. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Neil Conway wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > > &g

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I > will post patches tha

[HACKERS] Romanian version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
ly be ready soon. :) That'll make an even 10 languages! Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition

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