[HACKERS] A mailing-list based bug tracker

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I'm just a user, not a contributer, but I've read -hackers long enough to remember the many discussions over the years about bug trackers, and the consensus always seemed to come back to "if it doesn't fit our mailing-list-based workflow, it's going to fail." I happened upon mention of a new bug t

Re: [HACKERS] bind variables, soft vs hard parse

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > Unless you use something like pgpool, in which case a single session > may include multiple requests. Actually, I've found pgpool to be no better when it comes to using real prepared queries---there's no guarantee that any given request is going to connect to the

Re: [HACKERS] What's a good PostgreSQL guide book?

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
"Gary Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking of buying "Practical PostgreSQL" from O'Reilly. > > Has anyone got any comments on this book? As Christopher Browne pointes out, some of the information is outdated. My real criticism, though, would be that *far* too much of a book abou

Re: [HACKERS] Trimming the Fat, Part Deux ...

2002-08-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Artistic License doesn't even qualify as Free Software as far as the > FSF is concerned. Errr, http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html lists it as not only Free Software but GPL-compatible. Mike. ---(end of broadca

Re: [HACKERS] Use of /etc/services?

2002-06-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Since we now have an official entry in /etc/services, shouldn't we be able > > to make use of it, by using getservbyname() if a nonnumeric port number is > > specified? > Is any OS actually shipping us in /etc/services? Debia

Re: [HACKERS] Queries using rules show no rows modified?

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael seems to feel that the tuple count should be nonzero if any > of the replacement operations did anything at all. This does not > make a lot of sense at the command tag level ("UPDATE 4" might not > mean that 4 tuples were updated) but if you look at

Re: [HACKERS] Queries using rules show no rows modified?

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are confusing client behavior (by which I meant application) > with library behavior. In libpq terms, an application that's sent > an INSERT command might expect to be able to retrieve an OID with > PQoidValue(). Whether the library avoids core-dumping

Re: [HACKERS] Again, sorry, caching.

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My impression (I could be wrong) is that LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't get > the press that it deserves. If this model isn't widely used because > of some deficiencies in the LISTEN/NOTIFY implementation, IMHO our > time would be better spent fixing those problems

Re: [HACKERS] insert statements

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are really no other decent CMSs available that support > PostgreSQL. bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/ Mike. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgr

Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there is something functionally wrong with Readline then let's talk > about it, but let's not replace it with something because some PHP dude > said that RMS said something. ncftp used to be for non-commercial use only and had hooks to be linked a