Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-14 Thread Koichi Suzuki
Pg_readahead uses posix_fadvise, which is included in Greg's patch and I've already posted pg_readahead patch integrated into the core. Integration with snc.rep. will be a separate patch which will be posted in a couple of days. 2009/1/14 Bruce Momjian : > Koichi Suzuki wrote: >> Pg_readahead is

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Koichi Suzuki wrote: > Pg_readahead is a tool to prefetch data pages before redoing, based on > the contents of archive/active WAL segment. For 8.3 and 8.4 without > sync.rep, this works together with restore_command. Pg_readahead > analyze WAL segment, schedule and issue posix_fadvise() to pre

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-13 Thread Koichi Suzuki
Pg_readahead is a tool to prefetch data pages before redoing, based on the contents of archive/active WAL segment. For 8.3 and 8.4 without sync.rep, this works together with restore_command. Pg_readahead analyze WAL segment, schedule and issue posix_fadvise() to prefetch data pages quickly befo

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Koichi Suzuki wrote: > Hi, > > I have no intention to make pglesslog to conflict to PostgreSQL > license. Any advice is welcome to make pglesslog available without > any license concern. I certainly have no concerns. > I've a question and ideas. > > Bruce's modification directly points to my

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-13 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:21 +0900, Koichi Suzuki wrote: > I have no intention to make pglesslog to conflict to PostgreSQL > license. Any advice is welcome to make pglesslog available without > any license concern. I understand, no part of my comments were against you or your work. > I've a qu

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-12 Thread Koichi Suzuki
Hi, I have no intention to make pglesslog to conflict to PostgreSQL license. Any advice is welcome to make pglesslog available without any license concern. I've a question and ideas. Bruce's modification directly points to my pgfoundry page. I'm not sure what it means. Does it mean that I h

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > In thinking about how to communicate to users about reducing continuous > archiving storage requirements, I realized we don't mention pglesslog in > our official documentation. > > The attached patch documents how to use pglesslog and gzip/gunzip to > reduce storage requirem

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Haas
> In general, IMHO, I don't think it's a good direction to go in to > include links to works of other copyright holders. I think it's a great idea. IMHO, one of the major selling points of PostgreSQL is its awesome documentation. However, one of its weaknesses is that contrib module, pgfoundry p

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 09:47 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 23:38 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > It is BSD licensed. I don't see any copyright issues: > > > > > A licence and copyright are different things. Why do we insist on > > changing

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 23:38 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > It is BSD licensed. I don't see any copyright issues: > > > > http://pglesslog.projects.postgresql.org/ > > A licence and copyright are different things. Why do we insist on > changing copyright on our cod

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 03:12 +, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 21:09 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Comments? > > If this is for backpatching, it makes sense. We should at least wait > until sync rep is accepted or rejected and docs written. Why? Even if sync rep is accepted, p

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 23:38 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > It is BSD licensed. I don't see any copyright issues: > > http://pglesslog.projects.postgresql.org/ A licence and copyright are different things. Why do we insist on changing copyright on our code if it is unimportant? -- Simon

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 21:09 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Comments? > > If this is for backpatching, it makes sense. We should at least wait > until sync rep is accepted or rejected and docs written. No, it is not for backpatching. > In general I don't think we shoul

Re: [HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 21:09 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Comments? If this is for backpatching, it makes sense. We should at least wait until sync rep is accepted or rejected and docs written. In general I don't think we should refer/link to other companies' copyrighted materials in our docume

[HACKERS] Documenting pglesslog

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
In thinking about how to communicate to users about reducing continuous archiving storage requirements, I realized we don't mention pglesslog in our official documentation. The attached patch documents how to use pglesslog and gzip/gunzip to reduce storage requirements. Comments? Also, I assume