Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Qingqing Zhou wrote: > I am really interested in the concurrency control part of the PostgreSQL. I > can see the MVCC/lock rules there, and basically I can follow them -- but > there are so many if-else in the rules, so the problem always for me is: how > can we gaurantee that the rules are comple

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, L, 2006-03-18 kell 12:38, kirjutas Rod Taylor: > This will, presumably, be a very PostgreSQL friendly group so a sales > pitch isn't really required. > > How about the opposite? Tom Lanes list of areas that PostgreSQL does a > poor job and a detailed explanation as to how that

[HACKERS] FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to Check failure

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Page
Seeing failure on 8.1 as well. BTW, I keep forwarding these, but is there any need? Are enough hackers on the status change lists anyway? /D -Original Message- From: "PG Build Farm"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 18/03/06 02:13:19 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Luke Lonergan wrote: Tom, On 3/17/06 9:59 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would buy what exactly? I guess you didn't read the other 80% of the post. In short, faster performance through more aggressive runtime compilation. A JIT for the database kernel. It's not like I'm o

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Neil Conway wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:36 +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the archives for details. Are we prepared to declare that OS/X on Intel is an officially supported platform for the 8.1 r

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:36 +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the > archives for details. Are we prepared to declare that OS/X on Intel is an officially supported platform for the 8.1 release series? If so, we should add that informatio

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important

2006-03-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Satoshi, > I'm *really* *really* interested in making PostgreSQL to be vacuum-less. > Can we have a vacuum-less PostgreSQL in the future? How? I've heard a couple other requests for dealing with vaccuum. I think a "Fixing Vacuum Round-Table" might be a valuable session if we have someone to le

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Tom, On 3/17/06 12:18 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One user with ability to enter arbitrary SQL commands can *always* blow > your resource planning away. Blaming such things on work_mem is > seriously misguided. Agreed - that's why we need to split this discussion into the two ca

Re: [HACKERS] Automatically setting work_mem

2006-03-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Tom, On 3/17/06 9:59 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would buy what exactly? I guess you didn't read the other 80% of the post. In short, faster performance through more aggressive runtime compilation. A JIT for the database kernel. It's not like I'm on shaky ground here - o

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus writes: > > -- There are only 13 days left to submit a proposal. Please do so. We'd > > rather not be forced into a last-minute rush to evaluate all of the stuff > > in April. Remember this is a "family" event so you don't have

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important

2006-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Satoshi Nagayasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm *really* *really* interested in making PostgreSQL to be vacuum-less. > Can we have a vacuum-less PostgreSQL in the future? How? I don't foresee that ever happening. AFAICS a non-vacuuming MVCC system would have to be implemented just like Oracle

Re: [HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Mar 18, 2006, at 22:17 , Dave Cramer wrote: Has anyone built postgresql on this platform ? Yes, there have been reports that it builds. You can check the archives for details. Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of broadcast)---

[HACKERS] OSX intel

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Cramer
Has anyone built postgresql on this platform ? Does it work ? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update

2006-03-18 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: "Josh Berkus" Sent: 18/03/06 01:55:04 To: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Anniversary Proposals -- Important Update > Heck, if you have > an idea for a talk you'd really, really, really like