Re: [BUGS] PostgreSQL 7.0beta1 Snapshot 03/09/2000

2000-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Brian Budnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432010, size=144, > permission=700 > This type of error is usually caused by an improper > shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration. It looks like you don't have shared-memory support

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Jerome ALET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now suppose you define a rule to act differently on delete or update > > Hmm, that's the first good argument I've seen in this thread. An ON > DELETE rule could possibly invoke processing quite different from an > ON UPDATE rule, and in that case it

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Jerome ALET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now suppose you define a rule to act differently on delete or update Hmm, that's the first good argument I've seen in this thread. An ON DELETE rule could possibly invoke processing quite different from an ON UPDATE rule, and in that case it could make s

[BUGS] PostgreSQL 7.0beta1 Snapshot 03/09/2000

2000-03-09 Thread Brian Budnick
Dear PostgreSQL, I recently just downloaded the PostgreSQL 7.0beta1 tar.gz file from your server and was unable to get it to work. I then downloaded the 7.0beta snapshot for 3/09/2000 and I everything seemed to work just fine as far as doing the gmake, gmake install, initdb. When I tried to run

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
> In a near future, I suppose you will allow acls to work on fields too. > If you do it, you will notice that delete and update are really different in > this case too. > > If you disagree with me, then document your "feature" and please stop wasting > my time. > We are weighing the severity o

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:28:38PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > That is the issue? That UPDATE grants DELETE? I can UPDATE all fields > > to NULL, and that is pretty much the same as DELETE. We can easily add > > documentation on that "feature". > > Sure, do it, however you're still wrong

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Jerome ALET
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:28:38PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > That is the issue? That UPDATE grants DELETE? I can UPDATE all fields > to NULL, and that is pretty much the same as DELETE. We can easily add > documentation on that "feature". Sure, do it, however you're still wrong. For the s

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm fairly sure that lots and lots of people use postgresql, and very few >> of them run 7.x, how many of them know that a grant update also grants >> delete and vice-versa ? > That is the issue? That UPDATE grants DELETE? I can UPDATE all fields >

Re: [BUGS] pg_dumpall

2000-03-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Kardos, Dr. Andreas writes: > I have tested the pg_dumpall (with PATHNAME stuff) which Peter E. has mailed > to this list. > > It works fine on QNX4 but definitly not on Digital Unix. > > The version in CVS works in general, but not on QNX4. On QNX4 I have to > remove the escape backslashes. O

Re: [BUGS] grant/revoke bug with delete/update

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
> It seems we can't agree on this, because you postgresql hackers doesn't > seem to understand what the problem is. I personnally can't understand why > correcting a security problem would be a bad idea. > > As a developper myself, I perfecly understand your point of view on non > doing major cha

Re: [BUGS] pg_dumpall

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > > > 3. QNX4 only: The double quotes in > > > > > > > > POSTGRES_USER="`echo \" \ > > > > > > > > etc. must not be escaped with a backslash. > > > > > > Technically, it should just work without them (the back

[BUGS] bug in psql

2000-03-09 Thread Pinaud Bruno
Your name : Pinaud Bruno Your email address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Configuration - Architecture : Pentium 3 Operating System : RedHat Linux 6.1 PostgreSQL version : PostgreSQL-7.0 Beta1 Compile

Re: [BUGS] pg_dumpall

2000-03-09 Thread Kardos, Dr. Andreas
I have tested the pg_dumpall (with PATHNAME stuff) which Peter E. has mailed to this list. It works fine on QNX4 but definitly not on Digital Unix. The version in CVS works in general, but not on QNX4. On QNX4 I have to remove the escape backslashes. Andreas Kardos -Ursprüngliche Nachricht

libpq++ not compilable

2000-03-09 Thread Kardos, Dr. Andreas
libpq++ is not compilable on Digital Unix since the line using namespace std; has been included into interfaces/libpq++/pgconnection.h probably because of Irix. Andreas Kardos