[HACKERS] ALTER USER

2003-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hackers, One can alter a user to set a validity timestamp. However, unless one uses the ugly kludge of setting a date very far into the future, there's no way to set this validity forever. Should I make a patch to correct this? Should be quite trivial. -- Alvaro Herrera () "El dia que dejes d

Re: [HACKERS] Error message style guide

2003-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some people were mentioning an error message style guide. Here's a start > of one that I put together a while ago. Feel free to consider it. Looks like a good start. But you expected quibbles, right? ;-) > The main part of a message should be at

Re: No index maximum? (was Re: [HACKERS] No merge sort?)

2003-03-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 14:19:46 -0600, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same setup, different query: > > test=> explain select max(time) from test where id = '1'; > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: > > Aggregate (cost=5084.67..5084.67 rows=1 width=0) > -> Index Scan using idx on test (cost=0.00..50

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

2003-03-15 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Justin Clift wrote: [ ... ] The problem Dave is suggesting this as a first attempt at a solution for is that with ODBC, a frontend (i.e. OpenOffice) asks the ODBC driver which columns are NULLable, etc. And the ODBC driver is getting the info wrong, then passing back the incorrect info. And t