[HACKERS] Query Hints? No thanks. Data hints?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi -hackers, In another thread about "GUC parameter cursors_tuple_fraction", the debate seems to drift onto query hints. About which the consensus here is pretty clear and strong, no query hints in PostgreSQL, thanks, or we're never gonna have

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for Prevent pg_dump/pg_restore from being affected by statement_timeout

Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Committed with slight editorializing. Statement timeout was only introduced in 7.3, whereas pg_dump can dump from much older versions of Postgres. You forget a ; in this committ [1]. [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committer

Re: [HACKERS] Protection from SQL injection

* Thomas Mueller: > What do you think about it? Do you think it makes sense to implement > this security feature in PostgreSQL as well? Can't this be implemented in the client library, or a wrapper around it? A simple approximation would be to raise an error when you encounter a query string that

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Patch - LDAPS support for servers on port 636 w/o TLS

stephen layland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've written a quick patch against the head branch (8.4DEV, but it also > works with 8.1.3 sources) to fix LDAP authentication support to > work with LDAPS servers that do not need start TLS. I'd be interested > to hear your opinions on this. Not bei

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Text <-> C string

"Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well ... if somebody does want to change the representation of xml > down the road, he's going to have to touch all the sites where the > code converts to and from cstring anyway, right? True. > With that in mind, please find attached my followup patch

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] GUC parameter cursors_tuple_fraction

On Friday 02 May 2008 13:35:27 Simon Riggs wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Simon Riggs wrote: > > >> * We've said here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html that > > >> we "Don't want hints". If that's wh

Re: [HACKERS] Let the commit fest begin!

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > It's May 1st, which means it's time for our second 8.4 commit fest. > > I took a quick look through my inbox and added some pending patches to > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest:May > but it's entirely likely there are still some missi