[HACKERS] Re: SPGiST versus hot standby - question about conflict resolution rules

2012-04-18 Thread Noah Misch
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:50:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > There is one more (known) stop-ship problem in SPGiST, which I'd kind of > like to get out of the way now before I let my knowledge of that code > get swapped out again. This is that SPGiST is unsafe for use by hot > standby slaves. I su

Re: [HACKERS] 9.3 Pre-proposal: Range Merge Join

2012-04-18 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 14:24 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I thought Jeff was parenthetically complaining about cases like A LEFT > JOIN (B INNER JOIN C ON b.y = c.y) ON a.x && b.x. That presumably > would require the parameterized-path stuff to have any chance of doing > partial index scans over B.

Re: [HACKERS] Improving our clauseless-join heuristics

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
Amit Kapila writes: > The way I am telling was as below code. > With this extra paths will get generated, but it will as well consider for > joining c and d in query: > select * from a, b, c, d where a.x = b.y and (a.z = c.c or a.z = d.d) I think this would just be dead code as of HEAD. With th

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG] Checkpointer on hot standby runs without looking checkpoint_segments

2012-04-18 Thread Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Hello, this is new version of standby checkpoint_segments patch. - xlog.c: Make StandbyMode shared. - checkpointer.c: Use IsStandbyMode() to check if postmaster is under standby mode. regards, -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center == My e-mail address has been changed sin

[HACKERS] clarification for generate join implied equalities

2012-04-18 Thread Amit Kapila
In function generate_join_implied_equalities_normal(), in which kind of query it can have all three outer_members, inner_members, new_members set? There is handling related to that in the same function down which I wanted to understand.

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG] Checkpointer on hot standby runs without looking checkpoint_segments

2012-04-18 Thread Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
I convinced that current patch has a problem, and will come up with the new patch later. > > I tried that at first. But I suppose the requirement here is 'if > > reading segments comes via replication stream, enable throttling > > by checkpoint_segments.' and WalRcvInProgress() seems fit to >

[HACKERS] Timsort performance, quicksort (was: Re: Memory usage during sorting)

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 17 April 2012 13:19, Greg Stark wrote: > All in all I think it's handier to have a stable ORDER BY sort than an > unstable one though. So I'm not necessarily opposed to it even if it > means we're stuck using a stable sort indefinitely. I think it might be useful to disguard the stability prop

Re: [HACKERS] Parameterized-path cost comparisons need some work

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
So while testing this patch I've found out that there is a pretty nasty bug in HEAD as well as in my current formulation of the patch. Here is an example using the regression database: select count(*) from (tenk1 a join tenk1 b on a.unique1=b.unique2) left join tenk1 c on a.unique2 = b.unique

Re: [HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > However, ignoring that issue for the moment, this patch is making me > uncomfortable.  I have a vague recollection that we deliberately omitted > ALTER EXTENSION OWNER because of security or definitional worries. > (Dimitri, does that ring any bel

Re: [HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: >> Here's a patch for that. > Looks sane on a quick once-over. I do wonder about the comment, > though. If we add ALTER EXTENSION .. OWNER, should that try to change > the ownership of the objects contained inside t

Re: [HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié abr 18 13:05:03 -0300 2012: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Alvaro Herrera >> wrote: >> > Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an >> > extension.  This would be triv

Re: [HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié abr 18 13:05:03 -0300 2012: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an > > extension.  This would be trivial to fix if extensions had support code > > for ALTER EXTENS

Re: [HACKERS] libpq URI and regression testing

2012-04-18 Thread Alex
Andrew Dunstan writes: >>> That's one reason for that, but there are probably others in the way of >>> making this fully portable and automatable. > > This test setup also appears to labor under the illusion that we live > in a Unix-only world. And for no good reason that I can tell. The > shell

Re: [HACKERS] libpq URI and regression testing

2012-04-18 Thread Alex
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> What's the preferred way to make it automatically tested as much as >> possible? I know the buildfarm does not run "installcheck-world", so if >> we want it there, it'd need a bit more code on the client side

[HACKERS] buffer locking fix for lazy_scan_heap

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
I discovered when researching the issue of index-only scans and Hot Standby that there's a bug (for which I'm responsible) in lazy_scan_heap[1]. Actually, the code has been like this for a long time, but I needed to change it when I did the crash-safe visibility map work, and I didn't. The proble

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > The problem I've found with most tools is that they work reasonably > well if you let them control the entire workflow. But when you want to > do things your own way, and it doesn't match up with what they were > originally designed to do,

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/18/2012 01:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: BTW, given our heavy reliance on email, let me put a word in here for RT, which is 100% email-driven. RT has other limitations, but if your goal is to never log into a web interface, it's hard to b

Re: [HACKERS] PgNext: Cancelled (sorry for the offtopic)

2012-04-18 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 04/18/2012 11:56 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> >> >> On 4/18/12 11:53 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> >>> Lastly, there is a Denver PgDay in October. PgDay's are a great way to >>> meet locals and enjoy a smaller community setting but still

Re: [HACKERS] PgNext: Cancelled (sorry for the offtopic)

2012-04-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 04/18/2012 11:56 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: On 4/18/12 11:53 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Lastly, there is a Denver PgDay in October. PgDay's are a great way to meet locals and enjoy a smaller community setting but still maintain top notch content. Date? Hopefully not the same time as pg.EU?

Re: [HACKERS] PgNext: Cancelled (sorry for the offtopic)

2012-04-18 Thread Josh Berkus
On 4/18/12 11:53 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Lastly, there is a Denver PgDay in October. PgDay's are a great way to > meet locals and enjoy a smaller community setting but still maintain top > notch content. Date? Hopefully not the same time as pg.EU? I'd like to go this year. -- Josh Berkus

[HACKERS] PgNext: Cancelled (sorry for the offtopic)

2012-04-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
04/18/2012 PostgreSQL Conference Next 2012, in Denver from Jun 26th - 29th is cancelled. If you are looking for another conference in this time frame we suggest: http://www.pgcon.org/ There are also other conferences coming up in the next 6 months: http://www.postgresopen.org/ http://www.p

Re: [HACKERS] Desperately need mentors for GSOC FDW projects

2012-04-18 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > We have 2 fairly promising projects for FDW work for this Google Summer > of code.  One is for a Firebird FDW, and the more promising one is for a > "document collection" FDW from a previous successful GSOC student. > > The problem is

Re: [HACKERS] urgent help required

2012-04-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Nagaraj, > i am nagaraj, i am newbi in this database world. i required your help. > 2 dyas back i formatted one of my client system. which is having postgresql > 8.2 database & that was having data. but i am not taken backup of the data. > 1) how to take the data from the formatted harddisk. ? > 2

[HACKERS] urgent help required

2012-04-18 Thread Nagaraj Shindagi
Hi team, i am nagaraj, i am newbi in this database world. i required your help. 2 dyas back i formatted one of my client system. which is having postgresql 8.2 database & that was having data. but i am not taken backup of the data. 1) how to take the data from the formatted harddisk. ? 2) how many

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 19:17, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 04/17/2012 11:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> >> On 04/17/2012 04:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Jay Levitt  writes: Greg Smith wrote: > Tracking when and how a bug is backported to older versions is one > hard part >

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 16:08, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:52 -0400, Jay Levitt wrote: >> Maybe I'm confused - Magnus et al, are we talking spammy issues/issue >> comments/etc, or are we talking more about exposed email addresses? > > My github.com account currently has 4264

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 08:12, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: >> I think this cleraly outlines that we need to remember that there are >> *two* different patterns that people are trying tosolve with the >> bugtracker. > > Yeah, remember we drifted to this topic from discussion of manag

Re: [HACKERS] Parameterized-path cost comparisons need some work

2012-04-18 Thread Hakan Kocaman
2012/4/18 Greg Stark > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > I've been hacking away on a patch to do this, and attached is something > > that I think is pretty close to committable. > > [..]Even when some of us don't > comment on some of the longer, more technical emails, we're d

Re: [HACKERS] Parameterized-path cost comparisons need some work

2012-04-18 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I've been hacking away on a patch to do this, and attached is something > that I think is pretty close to committable. I have nothing to add but I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to write up this explanation. Even when some of us

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > BTW, given our heavy reliance on email, let me put a word in here for > RT, which is 100% email-driven.  RT has other limitations, but if your > goal is to never log into a web interface, it's hard to beat. If your goal is to never log into a

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 04/17/2012 11:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 04/17/2012 04:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Jay Levitt writes: >>> Greg Smith wrote: Tracking when and how a bug is backported to older versions is one hard part of the problem here. >>> That's a great point. Both GitHub and git i

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> 3. Otherwise, they drift forever in the bleakness of space. Seems to me that this line, is pretty close to being T-shirt-worthy. > wontfix.  We don't need a system to help us ignore bug reports; our >> existing process handles that with admi

[HACKERS] Desperately need mentors for GSOC FDW projects

2012-04-18 Thread Josh Berkus
All, We have 2 fairly promising projects for FDW work for this Google Summer of code. One is for a Firebird FDW, and the more promising one is for a "document collection" FDW from a previous successful GSOC student. The problem is, we don't have potential mentors for these. If you are able to h

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, Peter, all: >>> IME, bug trackers typically work best when used by a tightly >>> integrated team. >> >> Well, very many loosely distributed open-source projects use bug >> trackers quite successfully. ... most of them, actually. >> Um, isn't half of the commitfest app about workflow? Pa

Re: [HACKERS] [BUG] Checkpointer on hot standby runs without looking checkpoint_segments

2012-04-18 Thread Fujii Masao
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote: > I tried that at first. But I suppose the requirement here is 'if > reading segments comes via replication stream, enable throttling > by checkpoint_segments.' and WalRcvInProgress() seems fit to > check that. If so, what if replication

Re: [HACKERS] [Devel 9.2] Index-only scan in count aggregation

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Emanuel Calvo > wrote: >>> I'm not sure what you're unhappy about.  It seems that the query >>> planner picked the fastest plan (a sequential scan) and then when you >>> disabled that it picked the second-fa

Re: [HACKERS] [Devel 9.2] Index-only scan in count aggregation

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Emanuel Calvo wrote: >> I'm not sure what you're unhappy about.  It seems that the query >> planner picked the fastest plan (a sequential scan) and then when you >> disabled that it picked the second-fastest plan (an index-only scan). >> >> The index-only scan wou

Re: [HACKERS] [Devel 9.2] Index-only scan in count aggregation

2012-04-18 Thread Emanuel Calvo
El día 18 de abril de 2012 18:17, Robert Haas escribió: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Emanuel Calvo > wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm one of the nightly sources of 9.2devel. I was trying some simple >> queries and I realized something: >> >> stuff=# explain (analyze true, costs true, buffers

Re: [HACKERS] [Devel 9.2] Index-only scan in count aggregation

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Emanuel Calvo wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm one of the nightly sources of 9.2devel. I was trying some simple > queries and I realized something: > > stuff=# explain (analyze true, costs true, buffers true, timing true, > verbose true) select count(i) from lot_of_value

[HACKERS] [Devel 9.2] Index-only scan in count aggregation

2012-04-18 Thread Emanuel Calvo
Hi guys, I'm one of the nightly sources of 9.2devel. I was trying some simple queries and I realized something: stuff=# explain (analyze true, costs true, buffers true, timing true, verbose true) select count(i) from lot_of_values; Q

Re: [HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an > extension.  This would be trivial to fix if extensions had support code > for ALTER EXTENSION / OWNER, but they don't.  So the only back-patchable > fix right now seems to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 path to repair_frag()?

2012-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lanyon's message of mié abr 18 12:44:11 -0300 2012: > Hi all, > > To satisfy my own curiosity, I was trying to find where 8.4 kicks into a > backwards scan of the data file during (auto-)vacuuming. > > This appears to be repair_frag() in backend/commands/vacuum.c, but only >

[HACKERS] Postgres install program files folder

2012-04-18 Thread Flavio Vodzinski
Hello, Windows environment, has a problem in installing postgres in the Program Files folder? I have this doubt because Windows works with locking system to this folder.

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/18/2012 11:29 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2012-04-18 at 13:33 +0300, Alex Shulgin wrote: I wonder why do people keep complaining how their bug tracker of choice sucks, instead of doing something about that. Lack of time, and to some degree a lack of clari

[HACKERS] 8.4 path to repair_frag()?

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Lanyon
Hi all, To satisfy my own curiosity, I was trying to find where 8.4 kicks into a backwards scan of the data file during (auto-)vacuuming. This appears to be repair_frag() in backend/commands/vacuum.c, but only appears to be called by a FULL vacuum. Autovacuum, however, appears to explicitly on

[HACKERS] Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

2012-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hackers, Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an extension. This would be trivial to fix if extensions had support code for ALTER EXTENSION / OWNER, but they don't. So the only back-patchable fix right now seems to be to throw an error on REASSIGN OWNED when the user

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2012-04-18 at 13:33 +0300, Alex Shulgin wrote: >> I wonder why do people keep complaining how their bug tracker of >> choice sucks, instead of doing something about that. > > Lack of time, and to some degree a lack of clarity of what they > want out of the thing.

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #6572: The example of SPI_execute is bogus

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think it would be a good idea for UPDATE and DELETE to expose >> a LIMIT option, but I can't really see the virtue in making that >> functionality available only through SPI. > > FWIW, I'm not excited about that.  You can get well-defined beha

Re: [HACKERS] Aggressive memory consumption in {ts,array}_typanalyze

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > The size hint I chose is fairly arbitrary.  Any suggestions for principled > alternatives? Based on your test results, it doesn't seem like it matters very much what you put in there, so I'm inclined to think that num_mcelem is fine. I thought

Re: [HACKERS] nodes/*funcs.c inconsistencies

2012-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié abr 18 11:47:37 -0300 2012: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Noah Misch wrote: > > I'd suggest backpatching the ReassignOwnedStmt() bits; the wrong code could > > produce crashes.  The rest are for master only. > > Done, in the manner you suggest. Pa

Re: [HACKERS] nodes/*funcs.c inconsistencies

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Noah Misch wrote: > I'd suggest backpatching the ReassignOwnedStmt() bits; the wrong code could > produce crashes.  The rest are for master only. Done, in the manner you suggest. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2012-04-18 at 08:28 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> It's very tempting to assume that the problem we're trying to solve >> must already have been well-solved by someone else, and therefore we >> ought to use their thing instead of in

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't override arguments set via options with positional argumen

2012-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/18/2012 10:03 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2012-04-18 at 09:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut writes: My vote is to revert this altogether and leave it be. In the alternative, make it an error. You mean in HEAD too? I don't agree with that, for sure. What this patch

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2012-04-18 at 13:33 +0300, Alex Shulgin wrote: > I wonder why do people keep complaining how their bug tracker of > choice sucks, instead of doing something about that. Lack of time, and to some degree a lack of clarity of what they want out of the thing. (Most people are very clear on wh

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2012-04-18 at 08:28 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > It's very tempting to assume that the problem we're trying to solve > must already have been well-solved by someone else, and therefore we > ought to use their thing instead of inventing our own. But that > presumes that our problem is exactl

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'write'.

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: > Okay, patch attached. Committed. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:52 -0400, Jay Levitt wrote: > Maybe I'm confused - Magnus et al, are we talking spammy issues/issue > comments/etc, or are we talking more about exposed email addresses? My github.com account currently has 4264 notifications in the inbox. Almost all of those are spam, gro

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't override arguments set via options with positional argumen

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2012-04-18 at 09:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > My vote is to revert this altogether and leave it be. In the > > alternative, make it an error. > > You mean in HEAD too? I don't agree with that, for sure. What this > patch is accomplishing is to make sure that

Re: [HACKERS] psql: tab completions for 'WITH'

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2012-04-10 at 17:48 -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > > Hmm, but now you've set it up so that you can complete ALTER ROLE > foo > > WITH WITH. Were you aware of that? > > D'oh, I overlooked that. Attached is v2: the diff is a tad lengthier > now, but that should fix it. Committed. -- S

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't override arguments set via options with positional argumen

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > My vote is to revert this altogether and leave it be. In the > alternative, make it an error. You mean in HEAD too? I don't agree with that, for sure. What this patch is accomplishing is to make sure that the less-commonly-used programs have similar command-line-pars

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> At the same time, I think we'd likely be a lot better off squirting this >> data into bugzilla or another standard tracker, instead of building our >> own infrastructure. > > I'm somewhat doubtful. Me, too. It's very tempting to assume t

Re: [HACKERS] Bug tracker tool we need

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Shulgin
Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> That's probably one reason people aren't jumping on this. Because >> there is no tracker out there that people actually *like*... > > I think this is a point worth serious thought. I wonder why do people keep comp

Re: [HACKERS] Improving our clauseless-join heuristics

2012-04-18 Thread Amit Kapila
>> Um ... wasn't that well enough explained already? Yes, it was well explained and I understood also, but what I wanted to understand the solution with which you have resolved the problem. The way I am telling was as below code. With this extra paths will get generated, but it will as well cons

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't override arguments set via options with positional argumen

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2012-04-17 at 19:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > It was discussed. I think the previous behaviour is a bug. It can't be > sane to be allowed to do: > > initdb -D foo bar It's debatable whether it should be allowed. I don't see anything wrong with it. After all, later arguments usu