Re: [HACKERS] [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC)

Markus Schiltknecht wrote: >[2]: Terms and Definitions of Database Replication >http://www.postgres-r.org/documentation/terms Markus, the links in the left side menu are broken on the "about" and "documentation" page. They point to instead of

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with ControlFileData structure being ABI dependent

Gregory Stark wrote: >This is because of (at least) two changes in the ABI between the runtimes used >by mingw and VC++. > 1) Enums are apparently 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on mingw They are 4 bytes here on my 32 bit WinXP machine with VS2005SP1. > 2) time_t is 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on m

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with ControlFileData structure being ABI dependent

Gregory Stark wrote: >The looming problem is that you won't be able to use any libraries or 3rd >party tools which use time_t in their interface unless you build with the same >size time_t as they do. I don't know how're expected to find out that a .so >you're handed has a different size time_t.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

"Matthew T. O'Connor" wrote: >Tom Lane wrote: >> >> ROTFL ... so to translate: "If your program crashes, please release >> locks before crashing." > >Obviously that wasn't the intent of the above, but I guess it is the net >effect. Either way, I don't think it's a huge problem, it just means >

Re: [HACKERS] Windows shared_buffers limitations

Greg Smith wrote: >Was working on some documentation today and I realized that I've taken for >granted the lore about not using large values for shared_buffers in >Windows without ever understanding why. Can someone explain what the >underlying mechanism that causes that limitation is? From p

Re: [HACKERS] Execution-time-sensitive timestamp regression tests

Magnus Hagander wrote: >For the record, what we were talking about was snapshotting the time at >backend start and then use QueryPerformanceCounter() to see what >happened and do some calculation. Although this might not be such a big issue for the regression tests: Be aware that the reliability

Re: [HACKERS] Overhauling GUCS

"Pavel Stehule" wrote: >2008/6/4 David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Exactly. The issue is that application developers, who are not DBAs, have no >> idea how to tune PostgreSQL, and postgresql.conf is daunting and confusing. >> So they use a different database that's "faster". > >do you th