[HACKERS] weird regression test issue CVS HEAD

2003-11-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I keep getting this: pg_regress: initdb failed Examine ./log/initdb.log for the reason. rm regress.o gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql/src/test/regress' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql/src/test' -bash-2.05b$ more src/test/regress/log/initdb.log Running in noclean mo

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
D'oh, just clued into the 'java' aspect ... Joshua, will this run as a JSP, remotely, through Jakarta-Tomcat? One of the limitations of pgAdmin, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that you can run it remotely Then use phpPgAdmin... Chris ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking PostgreSQL to work in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
Just build RC1 today on Panther, no problems. On Nov 4, 2003, at 5:06 PM, Jeff Hoffmann wrote: Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After spending a few hours of trying to get Postgresql7.3.4 to build from source (tar.gz) on a Panther (release, not beta) system, Try 7.4RC1 instead. Apple ma

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there is room for lots of GUIs, though, and having a Java admin GUI > would be cool too, as would having a servlet/JSP based admin client deployable > as a web archive. If someone's looking for an interesting GUI project, Applix had a database

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The main problem with this is knowing which files need to be fsync'd. > > > Why could the postmaster not just fsync *every* file? > > You want to find, open, and fsync() ev

[HACKERS] make output

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Overholt
I don't know if this is expected or not, but I've never seen it before so I thought I'd report it. While doing some basic SMP vs. non-SMP kernel testing on a machine with hyperthreading, I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgresql]$ time make all > make.nonsmp mkdir man7 Should the man directory creati

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andreas Pflug wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: JSP, remotely, through Jakarta-Tomcat? One of the limitations of pgAdmin, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that you can run it remotely ... if you could run pgManage under something like Jakarta-Tomcat as a JSP, that would be *really* cool ...

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Pflug
Marc G. Fournier wrote: JSP, remotely, through Jakarta-Tomcat? One of the limitations of pgAdmin, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that you can run it remotely ... if you could run pgManage under something like Jakarta-Tomcat as a JSP, that would be *really* cool ... D'oh, just clued into

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Josh, > Yes it has a Java requirement but hey that is a lot easier than a > GTK requirement to fullfill. > My thought is that it could be included as pgAccess used to be. As we discussed, PostgreSQL is blessed with three ... now 4 ... good GUI interfaces. We don't have the justification

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking PostgreSQL to work in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After spending a few hours of trying to get Postgresql7.3.4 to build from source (tar.gz) on a Panther (release, not beta) system, Try 7.4RC1 instead. Apple made some incompatible changes in their compiler in Panther. I was going to recommend the same t

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
D'oh, just clued into the 'java' aspect ... Joshua, will this run as a JSP, remotely, through Jakarta-Tomcat? One of the limitations of pgAdmin, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that you can run it remotely ... if you could run pgManage under something like Jakarta-Tomcat as a JSP, that would

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking PostgreSQL to work in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther 7B85)

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After spending a few hours of trying to get Postgresql7.3.4 to build > from source (tar.gz) on a Panther (release, not beta) system, Try 7.4RC1 instead. Apple made some incompatible changes in their compiler in Panther. regards, tom lane -

Re: [HACKERS] UPPER()/LOWER() and UTF-8

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Alexey Mahotkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Postgresql 7.3.4 with ru_RU.UTF-8 locale (with UNICODE > database encoding), and all is almost well, except that UPPER() and > LOWER() seem to ignore locale. upper/lower aren't going to work desirably in any multi-byte character set encodin

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Dave Cramer
If it doesn't do jsp now, it would be a good starting point for a web version, as java lends it self well to multiple views. Dave On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:59, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > >On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Joshua D. D

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:35:42PM +0100, Gaetano Mendola wrote: I agree in general with you for these "general" arguments, but here we are talking about to introduce a sleep ( removable by guc ) or not! What about the hash refactoring introduced with 7.4? Are you going to

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
scott.marlowe wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote: The main problem with this is knowing which files need to be fsync'd. Wasn't this a problem that the win32 port had to solve by keeping a list of all files that need fsyncing since Windows doesn't do sync() in the classical sense?

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Dave Cramer
Joshua, I'd love to see it donated to the community as well! Dave On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:01, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joshua D. Drake writes: > >> I thought that we might donate it to the project as a whole. What are > >> people's thoughts on > >> this?

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Jan Wieck wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: I will follow up shortly with an approach that integrates Tom's delay mechanism plus my first READ_BY_VACUUM hack into one combined experiement. Okay, the attached patch contains the 3 already discussed and one additional change. Ooopsy Ooops

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking PostgreSQL to work in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther 7B85)

2003-11-04 Thread kgleason
After spending a few hours of trying to get Postgresql7.3.4 to build from source (tar.gz) on a Panther (release, not beta) system, I find that I am still having the same errors described in the original post to this thread. It is a clean install as of yesterday, with readline installed via fink. #

Re: [HACKERS] pg_clog woes with 7.3.2 - Episode 2

2003-11-04 Thread John Ireland
Just caught up on this thread - I currently have the same problem on a Duron 900 with a Gigabyte 7VAX (or similar) motherboard. We've had a number of problems with this system before, but to date they were all fixed by increasing the available shared memory (echo $BIGNUM > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall)

[HACKERS] minor suggestion about rule syntax

2003-11-04 Thread Fabien COELHO
Hello folks, I would like suggest to add an ALSO keyword to the CREATE RULE syntax, so as to allow : CREATE RULE foo AS ON DELETE TO bla DO ALSO ...; The semantics would not change wrt without this keyword, but it would make it clearer that in this case the initial query is ALSO performed, as t

[HACKERS] UPPER()/LOWER() and UTF-8

2003-11-04 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
Hello, I'm running Postgresql 7.3.4 with ru_RU.UTF-8 locale (with UNICODE database encoding), and all is almost well, except that UPPER() and LOWER() seem to ignore locale. I searched the sources couple of times, but do not understand where is the implementation of UPPER()/LOWER(). Could you pl

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] Annotated release notes

2003-11-04 Thread Carroll, Catherine A.
I'm hoping one of you an answer a question for me. I am accessing Service Center data via an Oracle ODBC driver for reporting and queries. How can I get the resolution field using these methods. Thanks, Catherine Carroll TSG Solutions Center Washington Mutual Bank 565 Lakeview Parkway Sui

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is part of the idea. The whole idea is to issue "physical" writes > at a fairly steady rate without increasing the number of them > substantial or interfering with the drives opinion about their order too > much. I think O_SYNC for random access can b

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen
I don't mind the long delay as long as we have a choice as we clearly do in this case to set vacuum_page_delay=WHATEVER. Of course, if VACUUM can be improved with better code placement for the delays or buffer replacement policies then I'm all for it. Right now, I'm pretty satisfied with the respon

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The main problem with this is knowing which files need to be fsync'd. > Why could the postmaster not just fsync *every* file? You want to find, open, and fsync() every file in the database cluster for every checkpoin

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >> If that is the case that is fine. I just wanted to throw it out there > >>but doesn't that mean that > >>psql would be separate as well? > >> > >>

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joshua D. Drake writes: >> I thought that we might donate it to the project as a whole. What are >> people's thoughts on >> this? > I think the decision has been made that no new client applications will be > included with PostgreSQL. "Donation" does

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What still needs to be addressed is the IO storm cause by checkpoints. I > > see it much relaxed when stretching out the BufferSync() over most of > > the time until the next one should occur. But the kernel sync at

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, If that is the case that is fine. I just wanted to throw it out there but doesn't that mean that psql would be separate as well? "no new client applications" BTW, Joshua, thanks for releasing this - all my cli

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > If that is the case that is fine. I just wanted to throw it out there > but doesn't that mean that > psql would be separate as well? "no new client applications" ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

2003-11-04 Thread Manfred Spraul
Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For multithreaded apps, this is not possible: sigaction is per process. Thus the calling application must handle the SIGPIPE signals for libpq - either by blocking or ignoring them. We are still discussing the exact API. Probably a gl

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:14, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > As Command Prompt is about to release it's Replication product we are > open sourcing our > pgManage. pgManage is similar to pgAdmin but as it is java based it is > truly cross platform > and should easily support most if not all

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, If that is the case that is fine. I just wanted to throw it out there but doesn't that mean that psql would be separate as well? J Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake writes: I thought that we might donate it to the project as a whole. What are people's thoughts on this?

Re: [HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake writes: > I thought that we might donate it to the project as a whole. What are > people's thoughts on > this? I think the decision has been made that no new client applications will be included with PostgreSQL. We will provide a server and let a happy bunch of client applicati

Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For multithreaded apps, this is not possible: sigaction is per process. > Thus the calling application must handle the SIGPIPE signals for libpq - > either by blocking or ignoring them. We are still discussing the exact > API. Probably a global state t

Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

2003-11-04 Thread Manfred Spraul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Nov, Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: signal handlers are a process property, not a thread property - that code is broken for multi-threaded apps. Yeah, that's been mentioned before, but I don't see any way around it. What we

[HACKERS] Open Sourcing pgManage

2003-11-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, As Command Prompt is about to release it's Replication product we are open sourcing our pgManage. pgManage is similar to pgAdmin but as it is java based it is truly cross platform and should easily support most if not all of the community supported platforms. I thought that we might d

Re: [HACKERS] OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

2003-11-04 Thread markw
On 1 Nov, Tom Lane wrote: > Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> signal handlers are a process property, not a thread property - that >> code is broken for multi-threaded apps. > > Yeah, that's been mentioned before, but I don't see any way around it. > What we really want is to turn of

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] equal() perf tweak

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Just a thought - if we are messing with the List definition should we at the same time address the strict aliasing issues arising from Node's multiple personalities (I think it is the main offender). Or is the intention never

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to see us go over to fsync, or some other technique that > gives more certainty about when the write has occurred. There might be > some scope that way to allow stretching out the I/O, too. > > The main problem with this is knowing which files

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: I have never been happy with the fact that we use sync(2) at all. Sure does it do too much. But together with the other layer of indirection, the virtual file descriptor pool, what is the exact guaranteed behaviour of wr

Re: [HACKERS] RC1 on AIX - Some Anti-results

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This _seems_ a cosmetic difference, or am I way wrong? I think you can ignore it. It's odd that your setup seems to support minus zero (else there'd be more diffs) but doesn't get the right answer for this single computation. Still, it's basically

[HACKERS] RC1 on AIX - Some Anti-results

2003-11-04 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Eisentraut) writes: > Christopher Browne writes: > >> bash-2.05a$ uname -a >> AIX ibm-db 1 5 000CD13A4C00 > > We already have a report for AIX. Were you trying to indicate that this > is a different variant thereof? Actually, after some more work, there's an anomaly when

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:35:42PM +0100, Gaetano Mendola wrote: > I agree in general with you for these "general" arguments, but here we > are talking about to introduce a sleep ( removable by guc ) or not! What > about the hash refactoring introduced with 7.4? Are you going to > discourage peo

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > vacuum_page_per_delay = 2 > > vacuum_time_per_delay = 10 > > That's exactly what I did ... look at the combined experiment posted under > subject "Experimental ARC implementation". The two parameters are named > vacuum_page_groupsize and vacuum_page_delay

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What still needs to be addressed is the IO storm cause by checkpoints. I see it much relaxed when stretching out the BufferSync() over most of the time until the next one should occur. But the kernel sync at it's end still pushes the system

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Jan Wieck wrote: Gaetano Mendola wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Is in the last Tom's patch about Vacuum sleep between pages ? that won't be in v7.4, to the best of my knowledge ... Definitely not. It's a ve

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] equal() perf tweak

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a thought - if we are messing with the List definition should we at > the same time address the strict aliasing issues arising from Node's > multiple personalities (I think it is the main offender). > Or is the intention never to do this, or not

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually, once you build it this way, you could make all writes >> synchronous (open the files O_SYNC) so that there is never any need for >> explicit fsync at checkpoint time. >> > Or maybe fdatasync() would be slightly more efficient - do we care abo

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] equal() perf tweak

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: excellent scheme for improving List Just a thought - if we are messing with the List definition should we at the same time address the strict aliasing issues arising from Node's multiple personalities (I think it is the main offender). Or is the intention never to do this,

Re: [HACKERS] bufmgr code question

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the BufferDesc struct, there seem to be two ways to mark a buffer > page as dirty: setting the BM_DIRTY bit mask in the 'flags' field of the > struct, and setting the 'cntxDirty' field to true. What is the > difference between these two indications of a

[HACKERS] minor suggestion about rule syntax

2003-11-04 Thread Fabien COELHO
Hello folks, I would like to suggest to add an ALSO keyword to the CREATE RULE syntax, so as to allow : CREATE RULE foo AS ON DELETE TO bla DO ALSO ...; The semantics would not change wrt without this keyword, but it would make it clearer that in this case the initial query is ALSO performed, a

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Ang Chin Han wrote: Christopher Browne wrote: Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would write: As it turns out. With vacuum_page_delay = 0, VACUUM took 1m20s (80s) to complete, with vacuum_page_delay = 1 and vacuum_page_delay = 10, both VACUUMs completed in 18m

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I have never been happy with the fact that we use sync(2) at all. > Sure does it do too much. But together with the other layer of > indirection, the virtual file descriptor pool, what is the exact > guaranteed behaviour of > write(

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What still needs to be addressed is the IO storm cause by checkpoints. I see it much relaxed when stretching out the BufferSync() over most of the time until the next one should occur. But the kernel sync at it's end still pushes the syst

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What still needs to be addressed is the IO storm cause by checkpoints. I > see it much relaxed when stretching out the BufferSync() over most of > the time until the next one should occur. But the kernel sync at it's > end still pushes the system hard agai

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Gaetano Mendola wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Is in the last Tom's patch about Vacuum sleep between pages ? that won't be in v7.4, to the best of my knowledge ... Definitely not. It's a very experimental pat

Re: [HACKERS] bufmgr code question

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Neil Conway wrote: In the BufferDesc struct, there seem to be two ways to mark a buffer page as dirty: setting the BM_DIRTY bit mask in the 'flags' field of the struct, and setting the 'cntxDirty' field to true. What is the difference between these two indications of a page's dirtiness? I don't see

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental ARC implementation

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Jan Wieck wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: I will follow up shortly with an approach that integrates Tom's delay mechanism plus my first READ_BY_VACUUM hack into one combined experiement. Okay, the attached patch contains the 3 already discussed and one additional change. Ooopsy the B1/B2 queue length

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Pflug
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: Or... It seems to me that we have been observing something on the order of 10x-20x slowdown for vacuuming a table. I think this is WAY overcompensating for the original problems, and would cause it's own problem as mentioned above. Since the granularity of d

Re: [HACKERS] Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

2003-11-04 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> Or... It seems to me that we have been observing something on the order > of 10x-20x slowdown for vacuuming a table. I think this is WAY > overcompensating for the original problems, and would cause it's own > problem as mentioned above. Since the granularity of delay seems to be > the p

Re: [HACKERS] docco on external storage?

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Thanks. We don't really expect DBAs to go hunting through the source code, though, do we? cheers andrew - Original Message - From: "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Postgresql Hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:5

[HACKERS] \xDD in COPY Statement

2003-11-04 Thread Jason Godden
Hi all, On advice from Gavin I'm finally having a look at a few bits and pieces I can do around the pg source and Gavin suggested the hex in copy statement. Researching the lists someone has provided a rudimentary patch for this late last year (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/200

[HACKERS] Uselessly executable files

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
There are a few files in the repository that are executable but need not/should not be. How can this be fixed? Is it OK to go into the repository and change the permissions there? contrib/lo/Makefile doc/FAQ_hungarian src/backend/port/tas/solaris_i386.s src/backend/port/tas/solaris_sparc.s src/b

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Is in the last Tom's patch about Vacuum sleep between pages ? that won't be in v7.4, to the best of my knowledge ... Definitely not. It's a very experimental patch. I not agree, is an e

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I wrote: > For a change, here is one that does not work: > > HP-UX hpunix5 B.11.00 U 9000/803 2002765023 This one is OK now. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unreg

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 tag'd, branched and bundled ...

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: > As for beta, I used 'beta#' throughout this release cycle, and will use > RC# for the release candidate(s) ... Actually, this messes up the lexicographical ordering of the release tarballs in directory listings, upgrade schemes, etc., so please don't do this again. --