AW: [HACKERS] regression failure/UnixWare7.1.1/current sources

2000-10-30 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > Hmm. I wonder why cc and gcc are doing different math. Wierd. > > Not only that, but you get different results with the same compiler > depending on different optimization settings. The joys of > binary floating point... Same on AIX. Andreas

[HACKERS] Data definition for aclitem Datatype

2000-10-30 Thread Luis =?unknown?q?Maga=F1a?=
Hi Sirs. What is the data definition for the aclitem datatype, I'm not able to found it in the sources, I know is there but I was not able to find it. Thank you. -- Luis MagaƱa Gnovus Networks & Software www.gnovus.com Tel. +52 (7) 4422425 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] WAL status update

2000-10-30 Thread The Hermit Hacker
I believe that its just resting on Vadim again to give us the go ahead ... which I believe its always been on his shoulders, no? :) Vadim? On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Vadim Mikheev writes: > > > WAL todo list looks like: > > So what's the latest on going beta? > > -- >

Re: [HACKERS] relation ### modified while in use

2000-10-30 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
Tom Lane wrote: > Alex Pilosov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think this happens after I create/modify tables which reference this > > table. This is spontaneous, and doesn't _always_ happen... > > Um. I was hoping it was something more easily fixable :-(. What's > causing the relcache to dec

Re: [HACKERS] Unicode conversion (Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql(configure.in))

2000-10-30 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > Add new configure option "--enable-uniconv" that enables automatic > > code conversion between Unicode and other encodings. Note that > > this option requires --enable-multibyte also. > > The reason why this is optional is that the feature requires huge > > mapping tables and I don't think eve

Re: [HACKERS] Current CVS broken?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Peter Mount writes: > > Run './config.status --recheck'. > > No still has the problem. I'm currently having to edit it manually to get > round the problem. Oh, you need to run './config.status' as well. './config.status --recheck' figures out the new value of @abs_top_srcdir@, and './config.st

Re: [HACKERS] Current CVS broken?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Mount
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Peter Mount writes: > > > > Run './config.status --recheck'. > > > > No still has the problem. I'm currently having to edit it manually to get > > round the problem. > > Oh, you need to run './config.status' as well. './config.status > --recheck'

Re: [HACKERS] WAL status update

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Vadim Mikheev writes: > WAL todo list looks like: So what's the latest on going beta? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/

Re: [HACKERS] Current CVS broken?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Mount
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Peter Mount writes: > > > I've just tried to checkout a clean copy of the cvs tree, and it seems > > that configure is missing a substitutions in Makefile.global.in, ie: > > > > make: *** No rule to make target > > `@abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.gl

Re: [HACKERS] regression failure/UnixWare7.1.1/current sources

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Larry Rosenman writes: > Hmm. I wonder why cc and gcc are doing different math. Wierd. Not only that, but you get different results with the same compiler depending on different optimization settings. The joys of binary floating point... > I suspect it might have to do with what gcc was comp

[HACKERS] Re: CC not getting -O passed?

2000-10-30 Thread Larry Rosenman
* Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001030 10:53]: > Larry Rosenman writes: > > > BUT, we default C to -O, why not C++? > > Basically because we haven't done it yet. I'm not sure whether we're > going beta anytime soon, if not it'll probably get implemented. My impression was REAL SOON NOW

Re: AW: [HACKERS] LIMIT in DECLARE CURSOR: request for comments

2000-10-30 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote: > > > After thinking some more about yesterday's discussions, I propose that > > we adopt the following planning behavior for cursors: > > > > 1. If DECLARE CURSOR does not contain a LIMIT, continue to plan on the > > basis of 10%-or-so fetch

[HACKERS] CommandCounterIncrement

2000-10-30 Thread Denis Perchine
Hello, Small technical question: what exactly CommandCounterIncrement do? And what exactly it should be used for? I use it to see data which is changed in current transaction. If to be more exact when I write BLOB in transaction each time I write additional piece I do CommandCounterIncrement.

RE: [HACKERS] its too quiet

2000-10-30 Thread Rob S.
received > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: October 29, 2000 2:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [HACKERS] its too quiet > > > > let see that this doesn't generate an error > >

[HACKERS] Unicode conversion (Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql (configure.in))

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
> Add new configure option "--enable-uniconv" that enables automatic > code conversion between Unicode and other encodings. Note that > this option requires --enable-multibyte also. > The reason why this is optional is that the feature requires huge > mapping tables and I don't think every user ne

[HACKERS] Re: CC not getting -O passed?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Larry Rosenman writes: > BUT, we default C to -O, why not C++? Basically because we haven't done it yet. I'm not sure whether we're going beta anytime soon, if not it'll probably get implemented. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/

Re: [HACKERS] Current CVS broken?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Peter Mount writes: > I've just tried to checkout a clean copy of the cvs tree, and it seems > that configure is missing a substitutions in Makefile.global.in, ie: > > make: *** No rule to make target > `@abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.global.in', needed by > `../../../src/Makefile.global'. Stop.

RE: [HACKERS] another try

2000-10-30 Thread Nathan Suderman
yes I have been getting them too, I have tried to change my sub but it seems the address I remember is not taking my requests, and the postgresql.org page that is supose to descibe how to get off is broken a s well. So at this point I am learning way more than I need to. (I just can't help fro

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-30 Thread Lamar Owen
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Lamar Owen writes: > > Getting the installation that 'make install' spits out massaged into > > an FHS compliant setup is the majority of the RPM's spec file. > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc > Off you go... (I'll refrain from commenting further on the FHS

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-30 Thread Lamar Owen
[Since I've rested over the weekend, I hope I don't come across this morning as an angry old snarl, like some of my previous posts on this subject unfortunately have been.] Bruce Momjian wrote: > > * Location-agnostic installation. Documentation (which I'll be happy to > > contribute) on tha

[HACKERS] Transaction costs?

2000-10-30 Thread Philip Warner
Just wondering what the cost of begin/end transaction is. This is for pg_dump which, when restoring BLOBs, inserts multiple rows into a temporary xref table. The sequence of events is: Conn1: Begin Conn1: lo_create/lo_close/lo_write.../lo_close Conn2: Insert into xref table (which does an impli

[HACKERS] Current CVS broken?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Mount
I've just tried to checkout a clean copy of the cvs tree, and it seems that configure is missing a substitutions in Makefile.global.in, ie: make: *** No rule to make target `@abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.global.in', needed by `../../../src/Makefile.global'. Stop. Any ideas? Peter -- Peter T

AW: [HACKERS] LIMIT in DECLARE CURSOR: request for comments

2000-10-30 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> After thinking some more about yesterday's discussions, I propose that > we adopt the following planning behavior for cursors: > > 1. If DECLARE CURSOR does not contain a LIMIT, continue to plan on the > basis of 10%-or-so fetch (I'd consider anywhere from 5% to 25% to be > just as reasonable,

[HACKERS] Re: BIT/BIT VARYING status

2000-10-30 Thread Adriaan Joubert
Tom Lane wrote: > > I have made a first cut at completing integration of Adriaan Joubert's > BIT code into the backend. There are a couple little things left to > do (for example, scalarltsel doesn't know what to do with BIT values) > as well as some not-so-little things: > > 1. SQL92 mentions

[HACKERS] its too quiet

2000-10-30 Thread scrappy
let see that this doesn't generate an error