Re: [HACKERS] Last gasp

2012-04-10 Thread Will Crawford
On 6 April 2012 01:19, Noah Misch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:34:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> > The FK arrays one I'm kind of queasy about. ?It's a cool-sounding idea >> > but I'm not convinced that all the corner-case details have b

Re: [HACKERS] SPGist "triple parity" concept doesn't work

2013-06-10 Thread Will Crawford
On 7 June 2013 02:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Hm, good point. That reinforces my feeling that the page-number-based > approach isn't workable as a guarantee; though we might want to keep > that layout rule as a heuristic that would help reduce contention. Can the locks just be taken in, say, numeric

Re: [HACKERS] Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM

2012-10-15 Thread Will Crawford
On 14 October 2012 22:17, Daniel Farina wrote: > The problem there is that it's a pain to get signed certs in, say, a > test environment, so "don't check certs" will make its way into the > default configuration, and now you have all pain and no gain. This is precisely the issue that Debian dea

Re: [HACKERS] What are the advantages of not being able to access multiple databases with one connection?

2012-10-30 Thread Will Crawford
On 30 October 2012 12:37, crocket wrote: > MySQL permits a connection to access multiple databases. > But Postgresql restricts a connection to one database. > I think postgresql database connection is somewhat limited. > > Is it an old and decrepit design? or does it deserve some appreciations? A

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] binary heap implementation

2012-11-15 Thread Will Crawford
Assert(!"description of error") is an idiom I've seen more than once, although I'm not sure I understand why it's not written as Robert says with the condition in the brackets (or as a print to STDERR followed by abort() instead). On 15 November 2012 15:11, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14,

Re: [HACKERS] Can we add sample systemd service file to git repo?

2013-11-18 Thread Will Crawford
On 12 November 2013 20:54, Nigel Heron wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: ... >> http://svn.pgrpms.org/browser/rpm/redhat/9.3/postgresql/F-19/postgresql-9.3.service >> is an example of what we use in the RPMs. (if website fails, please just >> reload) >> >> Attached