[HACKERS] time interval behaviour seems odd

2003-12-17 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Hi, while trying to create a query this afternoon dealing with intervals, I noticed the following behaviour and I wondered, if it is intended. (It was non-intuitive to me and if there was a warning in the docs i missed it.) The lines marked <--- make me wonder ... tschwarz=> select version(

Re: [HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re:

2003-12-01 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Greg Stark writes: > Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then it needs to be stated very prominently. But the place to put a > > sign saying "Dangerous cliff edge" is beside the path that leads along > > it.Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, p > > The only way to make this prominent would

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports / test horology FAILED

2003-10-26 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Hi together, keep on the nice work! On SuSE 8.0, > uname -a Linux dell 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown During compile I got the following warning: gcc -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c t

Re: [HACKERS] plpython

2003-09-12 Thread Tilo Schwarz
James Pye writes: > Type conversion > > plpython's current type conversion implementation appears to be dependent > on strings as the common format. This is fine, but not very extensible as > is, unless you don't mind explicitly parsing strings inside each function > that takes an unsupporte

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-11 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Jon Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a reason not to use here documents? > > > > The $$FOO proposal I put forward earlier was consciously modeled on > > here-documents. We cannot use exactly the shell syntax for > > here-documents, thoug

Re: [HACKERS] PlPython

2003-06-30 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Hannu Krosing writes: > Tom Lane kirjutas E, 23.06.2003 kell 01:29: > > Kevin Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Attached is a patch that removes all of the RExec code from plpython > > > from the current PostgreSQL CVS. In addition, plpython needs to be > > > changed to an untrusted languag

Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

2003-02-14 Thread Tilo Schwarz
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, my idea is to add a message at the end of initdb that states people > > > should run the pgtune script before running a production server. > > > > Do people read what initdb has to say? > > > > IIRC, the