Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql.exe 7.1 for M$ OS
"V. M." wrote: > > Where i can find a wonderful installer for postgres 7.1 on our windows2000 > advanced servers ? > www.cygwin.com -- "Tout penseur avare de ses pensees est un penseur de Radin." -- Pierre Dac ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU > readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a > GNU license. > > Obviously, we could remove readline hooks and ship a BSD line editing > library, but does this make any sense to you? It doesn't make sense to > me, but he was quite certain. > The sole psql program could be GNU-licenced... just my 2p. Fabrice
Re: [HACKERS] Winner Notification - Linux Magazine Editor's Choice Awards(fwd))
Jan Wieck wrote: > > Hey, look at the headline: > > Linux Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards > by The Editors of Linux Magazine > > The Linux market is exploding with all kinds of > great new (and old) products. We decided it was > time to round up our editors and pick our > favorites. Here are the results. > > (From www.linux-mag.com) > > Does that sound like any comparision was done? Not to me. To > me it sounds more that The Editors of Linux Magazine just > told what tools they prefer for themself. To me, the most incredible thing is that they put Oracle after MySQL! the choice they did is tough to us, but it must have brought hell to Oracle evangelists lives!
Re: [HACKERS] off-topic: (sorta) freebsd -> oracle, lightweight
He can use DBD::Proxy over DBI as he can use ODBC through network; but at the end, he still has to have a box where he can install oracle drivers (which are binaries, and requier you to launch oracle java installer, as if you were going to install the whole beast, then to choose to only install a client machine). Well, Jim, you've got plenty of choices: NT, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Sco... maybe a few others. But the only free OS seems to be Linux. Maybe you should take a cheap intel PC and install linux + oracle client library on it. Regards Fabrice Scemama Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > I have absolutely no idea how well it works, but I think Perl/DBI has a > "pass thru" module that can do this sort of thing... > > not sure if that helps much... > > -philip > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: > > > > > i need to query some oracle tables from a freebsd system. > > > > is there a lightweight method to do this, or do i have no choice but to > > put in the Oracle Linux stuff and use their API's? > > > > -- > > [ Jim Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] > > [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] > > [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] > > -- "La veritable et sincere amitie' verbale profondement superficielle est celle sur laquelle on peut absolument compter quand on n'a strictement besoin de rien." -- Pierre Dac
Re: [HACKERS] I want tips for debugging deadlocks
By the way, we finally understood that our main problem, the one that was making our Pg hang forever, comes from a deadlock problem. Same as Hannu's one. There are no deadlock detection, indeed. Good DBAs, or DBAs working with good coders, will never come across the problem :) but we did :( I think a trace log being sent to the DBA would be a great thing when a deadlock is detected, with if possible the query that cannot be executed. Oracle does a good job, there. Fabrice Tom Lane wrote: > > Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm in a situation where I urgently need to debug PostgreSQL 7.0.2 > > for deadlocks that it does not notice/timeout > > The most likely bet is that you are seeing deadlocks that involve a > buffer spinlock (LockBuffer() in bufmgr.c) --- there's no timeout or > deadlock detection check in that code. I have been suspicious for > some time that there are deadlocks possible there, but haven't had > any luck getting a reproducible example to study. (If you can present > a reproducible way to make the problem happen, please post it!) > > > Where can I find info about running several concurrent backends > > under a debugger ? > > Just fire up N backends and attach to each one with N instances of gdb. > It's a little confusing but I've done it ... > > regards, tom lane
