Re: [HACKERS] non-ipv6 vs hostnames

2011-08-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> On tis, 2011-08-16 at 16:17 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Well, I got this on a win64 build. It's *supposed* to have ipv6. I > > wonder if it breaks on windows just because there is no ipv6 address > > on the machine... > > It would mean that getaddrinfo() of "::1" failed. That seems weird.

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> > >> On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know > of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and > works a

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-12 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> charles.mcdev...@emc.com wrote: > > The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, > > other > than making it GPL. > > Readline is specifically licensed in a way to try to force this (but many > > disagree > with their ability to force this). > > > > The "GNU people" a

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> -Original Message- > From: gsst...@gmail.com [mailto:gsst...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:14 PM > To: McDevitt, Charles > Cc: sfr...@snowman.net; alvhe...@commandprompt.com; > g...@2ndquadrant.com; mba...@debian.org; t...@sss.pgh.pa.us; > and...@d

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
-Original Message- > From: gsst...@gmail.com [mailto:gsst...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:03 PM > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, wrote: > > The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, > > other > than making it GPL

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> * charles.mcdev...@emc.com (charles.mcdev...@emc.com) wrote: > > Don't forget that OpenSSL has a FIPS-140 compliant version, and FIPS-140 > compliance is essential to many Federal users. > > Essential? That's a bit much. Yes, it shows up on a FISMA review as an > open action item, but it's a r

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
If psql uses libreadline and libgnutls, does that mean psql will be distributed under the GPL in the future? Or Dual-licensed? If I read the readline license right, applications that link to it must be GPL. That's why we (EMC/Greenplum) switch to libedit, even though readline is nicer... We di

Re: [HACKERS] Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011-02-11 Thread Charles.McDevitt
Don't forget that OpenSSL has a FIPS-140 compliant version, and FIPS-140 compliance is essential to many Federal users. GnuTLS doesn't qualify. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-

Re: [HACKERS] Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?

2010-12-17 Thread Charles.McDevitt
> > And so does: > > SELECT 1.23e+01::Integer > > > > > >> > which I find just as dangerous as > >> > SELECT '1.234e+01'::Integer; > > > > Add quotes to either of the other two, and then they don't work either. > > Well, that's stupidly arbitrary. If we're not going to accept > '1.234e+01'::Integ