Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 23:55:06 Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Josh Berkus wrote: > >> That was 6 months ago. I doubt anyone remembers it. Make another > >> announcement, so that when people get the "unsubscribed" announcement, > >> they're not confused. > > > > Done. > > BTW,

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Please clarify what you want done on the majordomo side ... I saw one comment about unsub'ng everyone ... for archive purposes, this makes sense, I just want to make sure before I blow them all away (and I will unsubscribe them without having a blast of emails go out to them) I will als

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> That was 6 months ago. I doubt anyone remembers it. Make another >> announcement, so that when people get the "unsubscribed" announcement, >> they're not confused. > Done. BTW, what was the reason we didn't pull the trigger before, when we ret

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: > On 3/25/09 12:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2008-07/msg2.php > > That was 6 months ago. I doubt anyone remembers it. Make another > announcement, so that when people get the "unsubscribed" announcement, > they're not

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Josh Berkus
On 3/25/09 8:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: It does look like -interfaces is dying: almost no traffic, and what questions it does get are off-topic more often than not. Partly this is because the -jdbc, -odbc, and -php lists suck away all the traffic about

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: > On 3/25/09 8:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> As for actually shutting it down in Majordomo, Marc is the man. >> > > Might want to make an announcement on that list first. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2008-07/msg2.php -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [pgsql-www] shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Josh Berkus
On 3/25/09 12:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: On 3/25/09 8:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: As for actually shutting it down in Majordomo, Marc is the man. Might want to make an announcement on that list first. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2008-07/msg2.p

shut down pgsql-interfaces (was Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters)

2009-03-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> It does look like -interfaces is dying: almost no traffic, and what >> questions it does get are off-topic more often than not. Partly this >> is because the -jdbc, -odbc, and -php lists suck away all the traffic >> about those interfaces, leaving not m

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: It does look like -interfaces is dying: almost no traffic, and what questions it does get are off-topic more often than not. Partly this is because the -jdbc, -odbc, and -php lists suck away all the traffic about those interfaces, leaving not much. So we could kill -interfaces w

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, The other global lists seem to be in good health from what I can see. Can't speak to the regional or user-group lists, I don't follow them. Those have specific reasons to survive regardless of traffic level. --Josh -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) T

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > I'm not sure about -interfaces, but -performance, -sql, -jdbc and others > definitely have specific audiences and themes which they are already > handling a *lot* of traffic for. It does look like -interfaces is dying: almost no traffic, and what questions it does get are

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Josh Berkus
Personally I'm of the opinion we should eliminate most of these duplicative mailing lists like -performance and -interfaces and just use -general. I don't see that having multiple lists for user questions helps either the users or the answerers due to just this type of problem. ... and instead

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Ali Rachid
Thanks ! Now, it works fine. Greg Stark wrote: > Personally I'm of the opinion we should eliminate most of these > duplicative mailing lists like -performance and -interfaces and just > use -general. I don't see that having multiple lists for user > questions helps either the users or th

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > Personally I'm of the opinion we should eliminate most of these > duplicative mailing lists like -performance and -interfaces and just > use -general. I don't see that having multiple lists for user > questions helps either the users or the answ

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Ben Ali Rachid wrote: > Hello, > > I posted my problem (on pgsql-interfaces list) about the INOUT parameters on > PostgreSQL 8.3.6 (Win32), but without success. I re-post my question here, > while hoping to have more success. Personally I'm of the opinion we shoul

Re: [HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Ben Ali Rachid writes: > I posted my problem (on pgsql-interfaces list) about the INOUT parameters on > PostgreSQL 8.3.6 (Win32), but without success. I re-post my question here, > while hoping to have more success. You apparently have no understanding at all of how parameters are passed to and

[HACKERS] Function C and INOUT parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Ali Rachid
Hello, I posted my problem (on pgsql-interfaces list) about the INOUT parameters on PostgreSQL 8.3.6 (Win32), but without success. I re-post my question here, while hoping to have more success. When I use a function with one INOUT (or OUT) parameter like below, everyting is OK. CREATE OR REP