Re: [HACKERS] libxml incompatibility

2009-03-09 Thread David Lee Lambert
On 6 mar, 22:44, and...@dunslane.net (Andrew Dunstan) wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:32:25 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>> Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. [...] > > Maybe someone can tra

Re: [HACKERS] UUIDs using e2fs library on Linux in 8.4

2009-02-09 Thread David Lee Lambert
On 7 feb, 23:44, da...@fetter.org (David Fetter) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:48PM -0500, David Lee Lambert wrote: > > In the same spirit as the FreeBSD-native UUID generator that was > > discussed here a couple months ago, I was able to link Postgres 8.4 > > again

[HACKERS] UUIDs using e2fs library on Linux in 8.4

2009-02-07 Thread David Lee Lambert
, there isn't a link-conflict issue that requires this; it's just Another Way To Do It. -- David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer, member IEEE, ACM Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 GPG key at http://www.lmert.com/keyring.txt IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or lambe...@cse.msu.edu (MSN) --

Re: [HACKERS] uuids on freebsd

2008-12-24 Thread David Lee Lambert
On Dec 17, 2:30 pm, Andrew Gierth wrote: > Has anyone ever managed to get uuid generation working on FreeBSD? [...] > > ([...] The only solution I could come up with was to knock > off a quick uuid-freebsd module that uses the base system uuid > functions rather than the ossp ones. I could put thi

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizing DISTINCT with LIMIT

2008-12-06 Thread David Lee Lambert
t;feel" for data. That always builds the unrandomized relation and then sorts it. I guess an alternate path for single-table queries would be to randomly choose a block number and then a tuple number; but that would be biased toward long rows (of which fewer can appear in a block). --

Re: [HACKERS] Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

2008-12-05 Thread David Lee Lambert
that ended up not compiling.) I still have not tried this with my own C++ code, but it seems to have less impact on the build process than some might have feared. -- David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 ; alt. email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [HACKERS] Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

2008-12-05 Thread David Lee Lambert
me library. Everything else is routine stuff that an experienced C++ developer would end up catching while trying to get his build-system for a new project running; but it could certainly scare away someone with less experience. Better to deal with this way ahead of time and test it on a few pla