Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: Postmaster already has code to announce its services via DNS-SD (ZeroConf) by using Apple's Bonjour API. This series of patches implements that capability on top of the Avahi library[1] which is free software, available for a wider

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: The patches were in my initial mail, but now I've also uploaded them to my personal site for convenience: http://taschenorakel.de/files/pgsql-avahi-support/ I have reworked the first three of your patches (mostly formatting and

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 15:45 +0100 schrieb Peter Eisentraut: Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: Postmaster already has code to announce its services via DNS-SD (ZeroConf) by using Apple's Bonjour API. This series of patches implements that capability on top of

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 15:27 +0100 schrieb Peter Eisentraut: Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: I don't know, if the 4th patch adding subtypes describing Postgresql's capabilities is wanted by the Postgresql community. Being a desktop guy, using Postgresql as

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Tom Lane
Mathias Hasselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, that difference is really interesting. I didn't even see it. DNS-SD uses the convention _protoname._type to describe services, and that's the convention Avahi follows. I don't know why the Bonjour API uses that trailing dot, but it seems wrong:

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-25 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 19:12 +0100 schrieb Peter Eisentraut: Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: The patches were in my initial mail, but now I've also uploaded them to my personal site for convenience: http://taschenorakel.de/files/pgsql-avahi-support/ I

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-23 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Hello, Congratulations to the 8.3 release. No, that pre-release stress is over I'd really like to put attention on my Avahi patches again. Avahi/Bonjour/DNS-SD support[1] is very important, for integrating Postgresql with modern desktop environments like OSX, GNOME, KDE: It's very convenient to

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Congratulations to the 8.3 release. No, that pre-release stress is over I'd really like to put attention on my Avahi patches again. I've added your item to the patch list (http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus). It would help if you could

Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

2008-02-23 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Samstag, den 23.02.2008, 21:08 +0100 schrieb Peter Eisentraut: Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Congratulations to the 8.3 release. Now, that pre-release stress is over I'd really like to put attention on my Avahi patches again. I've added your item to the patch list