Re: [HACKERS] docs toolchain appears broke?

2001-03-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/doc/src/sgml' > > cd sgml && tar -cf ../programmer.tar --exclude=Makefile > > --exclude='*.sgml' --exclude=ref *.html -C `cd . && pwd`/graphics > > catalogs.gi

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Adriaan Joubert
Two more for the list (not a single regression test failing, which is a first on Alpha!) Tru64 4.0G Alpha cc-v6.3-129 7.1 2001-03-28 Tru64 4.0G Alpha gcc-2.95.1 7.1 2001-03-28 I updated the regression test database as well. Adriaan ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] docs toolchain appears broke?

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/doc/src/sgml' > cd sgml && tar -cf ../programmer.tar --exclude=Makefile > --exclude='*.sgml' --exclude=ref *.html -C `cd . && pwd`/graphics > catalogs.gif connections.gif > tar: can't add file catalogs

Re: [HACKERS] Random make check failures

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Nicolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm seeing random failures in the parallel tests run by > "make check". Sometimes (40% or so) all tests will succeed. > The rest of the time, I will get one or more failures. > The specific failures are connection failures: > ! psql: connectDBStart()

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Vaccuum Failure w/7.1beta4 on Linux/Sparc -- FALSE ALARM

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Ryan Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: >> While testing some existing database applications on 7.1beta4 on >> my Sparc 20 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, I got the following error on >> attempting to do a vacuum of a table: >> >> NOTICE: FlushRe

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > OK, here is my current platform list taken from the -hackers list and > from Vince's web page. I'm sure I've missed at least a few reports, but > please confirm that platforms are actually running and passing > regression tests with recent betas or th

[HACKERS] Random make check failures

2001-03-25 Thread Steve Nicolai
I'm seeing random failures in the parallel tests run by "make check". Sometimes (40% or so) all tests will succeed. The rest of the time, I will get one or more failures. The specific failures are connection failures: ! psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused ! Is

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Knox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 25 Mar 2001, at 15:02, Tom Lane wrote: > > (rounding on the final digit) and this rather troubling output from > > type_sanity. > > Most bizarre --- and definitely indicative of trouble. Would you send > along the output of this query in that database: >

[Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms]

2001-03-25 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Vince asked me to forward this here. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 26

[BUGS] Problems with Multibyte in 7.1 beta?

2001-03-25 Thread Rainer Mager
I'm trying to run the latest CVS code's regression tests and have a problem. They fail at initdb with this: Running with noclean mode on. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. /opt/home/rmager/devel/External/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install// usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_encoding: erro r while lo

[HACKERS] docs toolchain appears broke?

2001-03-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
Was just trying to recreate my docs from CVS, using the same tools I've been using for months, and got the following: gmake -C sgml clean gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/doc/src/sgml' rm -f catalog rm -f HTML.manifest *.html rm -rf *.1 *.l man1 manl manpage.refs manpage.links

[HACKERS] Re: Vaccuum Failure w/7.1beta4 on Linux/Sparc -- FALSE ALARM

2001-03-25 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > While testing some existing database applications on 7.1beta4 on > my Sparc 20 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, I got the following error on > attempting to do a vacuum of a table: > > NOTICE: FlushRelationBuffers(jobs, 1399): block 953 is refer

Re: [HACKERS] More bogus alignment assumptions

2001-03-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Following up on the recent bug report from Steve Nicolai, I spent a > tedious hour groveling through all the warnings emitted by gcc with > -Wcast-align. (We ought to try to reduce the number of them, but that's > a task for another day.) > > I found seven places, in addition to the tuptoaster

[HACKERS] More bogus alignment assumptions

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Following up on the recent bug report from Steve Nicolai, I spent a tedious hour groveling through all the warnings emitted by gcc with -Wcast-align. (We ought to try to reduce the number of them, but that's a task for another day.) I found seven places, in addition to the tuptoaster.c error ori

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Does that database have any user-created relations in it, or is it just a virgin database? It seems that the wrong attlen is being computed for ctid fields during bootstrap, but the regression test output (if it was complete) implies that the value inserted for user-created fields was OK. This d

Re: [HACKERS] Escaping strings

2001-03-25 Thread Giles Lean
> what's the postgresql equivalent of > > mysql_real_escape_string() > > to escape strings that are going to be passed to queries? There doesn't seem to be a function to do this in libpq, which I find slightly odd. DBD::Pg has quote() function as per usual for perl's DBI, but that's not a lo

Re: [HACKERS] Release Candidate 1 ...

2001-03-25 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Gordon A. Runkle wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "The > Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, its been a hard, arduous journey for this one, with several delays > > caused by the massive amount of changes that have gone into v7.1 ... > > but, tonigh

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Linux 2.2.x armv4l 7.0 2000-04-17, Mark Knox > Compiled and tested 7.1beta6 tonight. All the regression tests passed > except two - the usual minor differences in geometry (rounding on the > final digit) and this rather troubling output from type_sanit

Re: [HACKERS] Release Candidate 1 ...

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Gordon A. Runkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will upgrading from Beta6 to RC1 require dumping and restoring > databases? No, just compile and install. If you'd been on beta5 or earlier, you'd need to run contrib/pg_resetxlog to update pg_control format, but still no initdb.

Re: [HACKERS] Prob with regexp

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Philippe Rochat writes: > I think there is a prob with regexp, which is comparing one less > character as it should. Below is an example. Result is that last > character is omitted ! A '*' means "zero or more of the preceeding character". You probably want a '+'. > > Ph.R. > > postgres=# selec

Re: [HACKERS] Prob with regexp

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Philippe Rochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there is a prob with regexp, which is comparing one less > character as it should. Below is an example. Result is that last > character is omitted ! Possibly there is a problem with your understanding of regexp patterns ... but all those match

[HACKERS] Prob with regexp

2001-03-25 Thread Philippe Rochat
I think there is a prob with regexp, which is comparing one less character as it should. Below is an example. Result is that last character is omitted ! Ph.R. postgres=# select * from pg_database where datname ~ 'ibd01*'; datname | datdba | encoding | datpath -++--+

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marko Kreen writes: > OK: Linux 2.4.2 i686 / gcc 2.95.2 / Debian testing/unstable > > no problems. > > OK?: NetBSD 1.5 i586 / egcs 2.91.66 / (netbsd-1-5 from Jan) > > netbsd FAILED the geometry test, diff attached, dunno if its > critical or not. Can you check whether it matches any of the othe

Re: [HACKERS] Release Candidate 1 ...

2001-03-25 Thread Gordon A. Runkle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "The Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, its been a hard, arduous journey for this one, with several delays > caused by the massive amount of changes that have gone into v7.1 ... > but, tonight I've finally wrapped up Release Candidate 1 ... Well, d

[HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Knox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22 Mar 2001, at 14:29, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > Linux 2.2.x armv4l 7.0 2000-04-17, Mark Knox Compiled and tested 7.1beta6 tonight. All the regression tests passed except two - the usual minor differences in geometry (rounding on the final digit) and this

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Karl DeBisschop
The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > > Solaris x867.0 2000-04-12, Marc Fournier > > > > scrappy, do you still have this machine? > > Doing tests on Solaris x86/7 right now, will report as soon as they are > done ... > > > Solaris 2.5.1-2.7 Sparc

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
> Alexander Klimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Suddenly I obtain access to >> ULTRIX black 4.3 1 RISC > Uh ... what kind of processor is that? Offhand I don't see any > indication that any of the entries in s_lock.h are supposed to work > for Ultrix. On closer look I notice that the putativ

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Doug McNaught
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexander Klimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Suddenly I obtain access to > > ULTRIX black 4.3 1 RISC > > Uh ... what kind of processor is that? Offhand I don't see any > indication that any of the entries in s_lock.h are supposed to work > for Ultrix.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Klimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suddenly I obtain access to > ULTRIX black 4.3 1 RISC Uh ... what kind of processor is that? Offhand I don't see any indication that any of the entries in s_lock.h are supposed to work for Ultrix. regards, tom lane ---

[HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-25 Thread Alexander Klimov
Hi all. Suddenly I obtain access to ULTRIX black 4.3 1 RISC I don't shure is it supported, but I see /src/include/port/ultrix4.h file so my guess is `yes, at least was'. I got last version from CVS and try configure && gmake it results in gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations

Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Re: 7.1 docs

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the way the Oracle functions are documented, except for the > fact that they have one huge page for all functions, which is hard on > those on slow connections reading docs online. > They have functions in tables grouped per functiona

Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Re: 7.1 docs

2001-03-25 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:32:02AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > A "page per function" approach is clearly overkill for the vast majority > of our functions. I think that's not unrelated to the fact that no one's > ever bothered to prepare such documentation ;-) Agreed. > On the other ha

[HACKERS] Re: Onject Database Survey ... Help needed ...

2001-03-25 Thread Gunnar R|nning
The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just starting to go through the sections, so right now, none of them > have answers yet ... if ppl could help by reading through and providing > answers so that I can provide as accurate of information as possible, it > should give for a good in