Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Guillaume Smet wrote: On 4/11/07, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:17 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > looks like the RPMs for libpq.so.4 and libpq.so.3 can't coexist. Ok, I got lots of complaints about this. I will work on this today and announce new sets. It's

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 01:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: well, it makes it VERY hard to install 8.2.3 on a RHEL4/CentOS4 system that also has, say, RH's build of Apache + PHP + PG access, as thats linked to the -3 libraries Uh? So installing only compat-3 and

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Guillaume Smet wrote: But you only need the compat package with libpq.so.3 to install 8.1 and 8.2 on RHEL 4. but, again, I only see the compat -4 here... no -3. http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.3/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-es-4/ the 8.2.1 equiv of that path has a comment thats flat wr

Re: [BUGS] setseed accepts bad seeds

2007-04-11 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote: It's not really possible to use it "incorrectly", AFAICS. Any value you might pass to it will result in a specific new seed value. Nowhere is there any guarantee of what the mapping is, and it's obviously impossible to guarantee that the mapping is one-to

Re: [BUGS] setseed accepts bad seeds

2007-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >> Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its >>> expected range? >> >> Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified >> anyway.

Re: [BUGS] setseed accepts bad seeds

2007-04-11 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its expected range? Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified anyway. Because the user is likely using it incorrectly. I

Re: [BUGS] setseed accepts bad seeds

2007-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its > expected range? Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified anyway. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread Guillaume Smet
On 4/11/07, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think what -I- ran into was that there was no compat-3 in the public repositories, just compat-4... this was about a month ago. devrim indicated he was going to upload compat-3, and showed me where to find it, but I'd already installed compa

[BUGS] setseed accepts bad seeds

2007-04-11 Thread Kris Jurka
Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its expected range? The documentation claims that 0 -> 1 should be used, but shouldn't it actually be -1 -> 1 to get the full range of the seed? If passed a value outside this range you always get the same value which isn't goin

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 01:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > well, it makes it VERY hard to install 8.2.3 on a RHEL4/CentOS4 system > that also has, say, RH's build of Apache + PHP + PG access, as thats > linked to the -3 libraries Uh? So installing only compat-3 and PostgreSQL 8.2.3 doesn't wo

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread Guillaume Smet
On 4/11/07, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:17 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > looks like the RPMs for libpq.so.4 and libpq.so.3 can't coexist. Ok, I got lots of complaints about this. I will work on this today and announce new sets. It's not a real problem IMHO