Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Andrew Dunstan
"PostgreSQL Hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > If we do a short cycle, will we have enough features to justify a > > release?

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > If we do a short cycle, will we have enough features to justify a > release? We could try to get PITR and Win32 done by January 1 and see > if that can happen. It's worth noting that we've thought about doing "quick" major releases in the past,

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("scott.marlowe") writes: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> If I understood correctly, Josh was complaining about VACUUM sucking too >> >much of his disk bandwidth. autovacuum wouldn't help that --- in fact >> >would likely make it worse, since a cron-driven vacuum

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > If I understood correctly, Josh was complaining about VACUUM sucking too > > >much of his disk bandwidth. autovacuum wouldn't help that --- in fact > >would likely make it worse, since a cron-driven vacuum script can at > >least be scheduled for low-

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Jan Wieck wrote: > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > > >> Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > >> >> rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli > >> > >> > In the interests of d

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Jan Wieck
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: >> rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli > In the interests of disclosure, if the case in question for the rule > fails, almost certainly

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > Does anyone have anything ready to put into CVS as soon as we start v7.5, > > or shortly afterwards? > > Check bruce's 7.5 patches list (can't remember the address though :) ) > > I have this COMMENT ON thing ready to go, except for this darn taking in > uns

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > >> rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli > > > In the interests of disclosure, if the case in question for the rule > > fails, almost certainly deferred

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: >> rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli > In the interests of disclosure, if the case in question for the rule > fails, almost certainly deferred fk constraints will as well which I > think make

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since improving the buffer cache policy will not change any "visible" > functionality other than performance ... maybe you want to convince some > people that if we find a substantial improvement for the cache policy > soon to put it into a 7.4.x release.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Jan Wieck
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Sooner or later you have to say "this release is done, let's ship it". It's way too late to go back into invention mode for 7.4. I agree with the argument. It is just that the Vacuum one... well is very tempting. Since improving the buffer cache policy will not change an

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short > > release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could possibly address the > > vacuum issue in that timeframe, if the recent ideas about it prove out. > > But there is no consensus on how to fix the int

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote: >2. More importantly the recent potential discovery by Jan on vacuum. > > I have several high end users that are really beating their heads > against the wall with even lazy vacuum because of how brutal it can > be on the system

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:51:24PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote: > > > > > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to > > > host, but I'd have to get the link on the downloads page someh

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have anything ready to put into CVS as soon as we start v7.5, > or shortly afterwards? That brings up another question, which is when to create the REL7_4_STABLE branch in CVS. Offhand I think it would be good to do it when we make RC1;

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oh, sorry, only read your part --- I have not heard anything about PITR from Patrick. I talked to him about a month ago and he hadn't made much headway. --- Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > I meant related to PITR? :) > >

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I meant related to PITR? :) On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > > > > Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short > > > > release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could pos

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > > Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short > > > release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could possibly address the > > > vacuum issue in that timeframe, if the recent ideas about it

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Does anyone have anything ready to put into CVS as soon as we start v7.5, or shortly afterwards? Check bruce's 7.5 patches list (can't remember the address though :) ) I have this COMMENT ON thing ready to go, except for this darn taking in unsigned ints from the parser business that I haven't h

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Doug McNaught
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote: > > > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to host, but > > I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :) > > Put up a what ... ? Google for "BitTorrent". It's a pretty dar

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short > > release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could possibly address the > > vacuum issue in that timeframe, if the recent ideas about it prove out. > > But there is no consens

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >Sooner or later you have to say "this release is done, let's ship it". > >It's way too late to go back into invention mode for 7.4. > > > > > > > I agree with the argument. It is just that the Vacuum one... well is > very tempting. > On the 7.5 cy

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has > > agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute > > fixes in place. > > > > I currently have the f

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli In the interests of disclosure, if the case in question for the rule fails, almost certainly deferred fk constraints will as well which I think makes this a must fix for 7.4 and is another push to

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has > agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute > fixes in place. > > I currently have the following issues on my radar screen: > > Force GRANT/REV

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The idea of very short release cycle for 7.5 is interesting. What is > the core's decision for point-in-time-recovery? Maybe the decision is > 7.5 does not include point-in-time-recovery? We'd like to have it in 7.5. Whether it will get done in time is i

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short > release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could possibly address the > vacuum issue in that timeframe, if the recent ideas about it prove out. > But there is no consensus on how to fix the integer-index issues, and > I'm

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If I understood correctly, Josh was complaining about VACUUM sucking too much of his disk bandwidth. autovacuum wouldn't help that --- in fact would likely make it worse, since a cron-driven vacuum script can at least be scheduled for low-load times of day. autovacuum is likely to kick in at the

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are these folks for whom the autovacuum daemon provides no relief? If I understood correctly, Josh was complaining about VACUUM sucking too much of his disk bandwidth. autovacuum wouldn't help that --- in fact would likely make it worse, since a cron-

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > >I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would > like to make a suggestion about > the upcoming release. > >What if we delayed until the end of the year? > >The two reasons that I can come up with are: >

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sooner or later you have to say "this release is done, let's ship it". It's way too late to go back into invention mode for 7.4. I agree with the argument. It is just that the Vacuum one... well is very tempting. On the 7.5 cycle though... I thought 7.5 was basically for win32? Sincerely, Jo

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >What if we delayed until the end of the year? Nope, not for those items. There is still some thought of a very short release cycle (a few months) for 7.5, and we could possibly address the vacuum issue in that timeframe, if the recent ideas about

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would like to make a suggestion about the upcoming release. What if we delayed until the end of the year? The two reasons that I can come up with are: 1. The irritating (but work around capable) bigint index issue.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Thursday, October 30, 2003 18:43:25 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute fixes in place. I currently have the following issues on my radar screen: Fo

[HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute fixes in place. I currently have the following issues on my radar screen: Force GRANT/REVOKE by superuser to act as though owner of object? Change libpgtcl to use