Re: [HACKERS] TODO list

2003-12-17 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-12-17 22:46 ]: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > case 6 - limit all users' connections regardless of database: > > limit all all n > > That's called max_connections. Don't think we need a redundant > implementation of same ... > > Another li

Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading my BSDI box, again

2003-07-30 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
Something similar to Linux's hdparm ? http://www.google.com/search?q=hdparm%20bsd -*- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-07-30 19:41 ]: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:38:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Guys, I just replied to this email on the BSDi email list

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99 ARRAY support proposal

2003-03-14 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-03-14 17:43 ]: > Do you really think someone looking for a function to break up a string into a > list of strings would ever think of looking up "explode" in an index if he > hadn't already used PHP or (shudder) VBScript? If one had gotten used to Lotus No

Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure

2003-03-14 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-03-14 15:33 ]: > Darko Prenosil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about user messages ? > > If I remember correct, MSSQL had a system catalog table with formated error > > messages, and it was possible to raise error with error number and it's > > param

Re: [HACKERS] SQL parser error

2003-03-07 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Teodor Sigaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-03-07 11:26 ]: > Query > select * from TABLE limit10; > returns all rows, but it seems to me this is a syntax error... > > pgsql 7.3.2 and current CVS has this bug. select*from table limit10; also works in some versions -- Regards, Tolli [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] psql: Prompt change

2003-02-03 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
manual page. > > ------- > > Þórhallur Hálfdánarson wrote: > > Hi > > > > mydatabase=# > > > > What about making this configurable, so that one could for examble change is >prompt to: > > > > me:mydatabase@myhost=# > > > > Would a

[HACKERS] psql: Prompt change

2003-02-03 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
Hi mydatabase=# What about making this configurable, so that one could for examble change is prompt to: me:mydatabase@myhost=# Would a patch be accepted if I ever would get around to it? (I won't have time for the next few weeks, so if anyone else wants to do the implementation: feel free :)

Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL

2002-08-26 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Sir Mordred The Traitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2002-08-26 15:32 ]: > >Hey, if I can connect to postmaster I can DoS it quite easily, but > flooding it > >with connection requests. > > Hm, that's true of course, but now i will do this with a couple of > connections. > Lets say, bot on a own

Re: [HACKERS] @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL

2002-08-26 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
-*- Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2002-08-26 15:19 ]: > TCP/IP access must be enabled as well. TCP/IP accessibility is OFF by > default. > > I for one thought that it was normal operating procedure to only allow access > to trusted machines; maybe I'm odd in that regard. > > Hey, if I can

Re: [HACKERS] Remove implicit unique index creation on SERIAL columns?

2002-08-18 Thread Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
Hi -*- Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2002-08-18 06:36 ]: > Maybe I should restate my comment above: SERIAL should give me a column > that automatically increments -- no more, no less -- and it should not > allow me to override the value that it gives. Hence an implicit NOT > NULL, but also