Re: [HACKERS] Internationalized error messages

2001-03-08 Thread Nathan Myers
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:00:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes: > > Similar approaches have been tried frequently, and even enshrined > > in standards (e.g. POSIX catgets), but have almost always proven too > > cumbersome. The pr

Re: [HACKERS] Internationalized error messages

2001-03-09 Thread Nathan Myers
, by the way, you will see that it could work without a catalog underneath; integrating a catalog would just require changes in a header file (and the programs to generate the catalog, of course). That quality seems to me essential to allow the changeover to be phased in graduall

[HACKERS] doxygen & PG

2001-03-10 Thread Nathan Myers
also a way to automate internal documentation. Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] doxygen & PG

2001-03-10 Thread Nathan Myers
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:29:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes: > > Is this page > > http://members.fortunecity.com/nymia/postgres/dox/backend/html/ > > common knowledge? > > Interesting, but bizarrely incomplete. (Yeah, we ha

Re: [HACKERS] Banner links not working (fwd)

2001-03-12 Thread Nathan Myers
gt; > >Can we slightly enlarge the font? > > Can do. What size do you think is best? > > I've always used size=1 for that line... Absolute font sizes in HTML are always a mistake. size="-1" would do. -- Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end o

Re: [HACKERS] Internationalized dates (was Internationalized error messages)

2001-03-12 Thread Nathan Myers
like "12:47:63". The only unfortunate feature is their standard format for a date/time: "2001-03-22T12:47:63". To me the ISO date format is far better than something involving month names. I'd like to see ISO 8601 as the default data format. -- Nathan Myers [EM

Re: [HACKERS] Uh, this is *not* a 64-bit CRC ...

2001-03-12 Thread Nathan Myers
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:00:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes: > > The CRC-64 code used in the SWISS-PROT genetic database is (now) at: > > ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/swissprot/Swissknife/old/SPcrc.tar.gz > > > From

Re: [HACKERS] WAL & SHM principles

2001-03-12 Thread Nathan Myers
Sorry for taking so long to reply... On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:27:34PM -0800, Mikheev, Vadim wrote: > Nathan wrote: > > It is possible to build a logging system so that you mostly don't care > > when the data blocks get written [after being changed, as long as they get

[HACKERS] Re: RELEASE STOPPER? nonportable int64 constant s in pg_crc.c

2001-03-24 Thread Nathan Myers
Or, better #define FRAG64(bits,shift) (((uint64)(bits)) << (shift)) #define LITERAL64(a,b,c,d) \ FRAG64(a,48) | FRAG64(b,32) | FRAG64(c,16) | FRAG64(d,0) LITERAL64(0xdead,0xbeef,0xfeed,0xface) That might be overkill for just a single literal... Nathan Myers ncm -

Re: [HACKERS] MIPS test-and-set

2001-03-26 Thread Nathan Myers
manual, it's probably much freer than GPL. For the paranoid, the actual instructions, extracted, are just 1: ll %0,%3 bnez %0,2f li %1,1 sc %1,%2 beqz %1,1b 2: Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- /* Machine-dependent p

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan Myers
lumn type) remains unchanged. The O-O principle involved here is Liskov Substitution: if the derived table is used in the context of code that thinks it's looking at the base table, does anything break? Changing the default value of a column should not break anything, because the different defau

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-03-30 Thread Nathan Myers
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:10:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes: > > The O-O principle involved here is Liskov Substitution: if the derived > > table is used in the context of code that thinks it's looking at the > > base table, d

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-03-30 Thread Nathan Myers
se-table code only has to understand the derived table. The derived table need not be able to represent all values possible in the base table. Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Third call for platform testing (linux 2.4.x)

2001-03-31 Thread Nathan Myers
t said: -- All 76 tests passed. -- Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:02:35PM +1200, Franck Martin wrote: > I still don't see an entry for Linux 2.4.x > > Cheers. > > Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > > Unreported or problem platform

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-04-02 Thread Nathan Myers
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:44:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes: > >> This seems pretty random. It would be more reasonable if multiple > >> (default) inheritance weren't allowed unless you explicitly specify a new > >> defau

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-04-02 Thread Nathan Myers
lt value. A bit of O-O doctrine... when you find yourself tempted to do something like the above, it usually means you're trying to do the wrong thing. You may not have a choice, in some cases, but you should know you are on the way to architecture meltdown. "She'll blow, Cap'

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

2001-04-02 Thread Nathan Myers
lt different from the child's, then pg_dump > had better emit the child field explicitly. The rule above appears to work even if inherited-default conflicts are not taken as an error, but just result in a derived-table column with no default. Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [HACKERS] Final call for platform testing

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan Myers
26, Alexander Klimov > Windows/Win32 x86 7.1 2001-03-26, Magnus Hagander (clients only) I saw three separate reports of successful builds on Linux 2.4.2 on x86 (including mine), but it isn't listed here. -- Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Final call for platform testing

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan Myers
oting, besides, the glibc-version tested along with each Linux kernel version. Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Nathan Buchanan
hare his configuration?There is job schedulers for Windows. I have no idea how good or bad theyare. This might help: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308569&sd=tech The windows scheduler is ok. I think Dave is doing it the best way. Nathan Joshua D. Drake>&g

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Nathan Buchanan
A list of simpler TODOs would be great. I might be interested in doing something (probably w/o the summer of code because I have a summer job). We'll see after exams finish. Please post something about where we can find this TODO list when it is available. Thanks, NathanOn 4/5/06, Jim Nasby <[EMA

[HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
a postgres extension to the usual SQL types. It seems to me that having an officially supported type would be better than a user contributed type on the grounds that you could then rely on it being avaiable if postgres was. In particular, installing it as an extension would require the cooperation of t

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
g at run time, just as a requirement that the copyright notice be kept with the source code. That is, an identical requirement to the one that postgres itself uses. -- Nathan Wagner ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
le of hours. As far as i can tell, it works fine. I'm calling it alpha because i'm not doing proper error checking, and i'm not sure how to log or throw an error even if i detect one. Also, I have only compiled it on Mac OS 10.3, I'll want to test it on my linux box. -- N

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
;m mainly posting it for suggestions, comments, and so we have something that isn't vaporware to argue about. :) -- Nathan Wagner ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
in it in contrib. I'm not certain if i have the requisite knowledge to maintain it in the core. While I could acquire the familiarity if need be, for the next year and nine months law school is going to take up the bulk of my free time. And of course I'll still need time to play around w

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
complex measures which > application developers take to create "universal" IDs. Different applications have different goals. Unguessability might be important in some contexts. -- Nathan Wagner ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-06 Thread nathan wagner
he author > would re-license. if that is the *only* objection, it is well worth > asking) Not sure what uuid library you were using, but the one i used is not LGPL. I posted earlier the copyright and license portion of the readme. No relicensing would be necessary. -- Nathan Wagner

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-07 Thread nathan wagner
there should be a core UUID type as well. I'm testing out elog(). I'll post a new version later today. There really won't be any new functionality, it's just code clean up. -- Nathan Wagner ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-07 Thread nathan wagner
lications. Then, to use an example from another domain, initial TCP sequence numbers should be random (i.e. unguessable). A problem with TCP perhaps. It's been a while since i've read over my copy of _Applied Cryptography_, but I seem to recall that unguessable numbers were

Re: [HACKERS] uuid type for postgres

2005-09-07 Thread nathan wagner
n topic, I posted these two so that folks could look at the code i was proposing if they wished. -- Nathan Wagner ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] RSS feeds of CVS revision logs

2005-10-21 Thread Nathan Buchanan
ve no idea how much work that would be. Oh, and by the way, thanks to all for one really nice database! Nathan

[HACKERS] AIX compile ?? libcrypt HELP !!

2000-10-03 Thread Nathan Boeger
_r ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: __setkey_r ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: __encrypt_r collect2: ld returned 8 exit status any help would be great !! thank you nathan

Re: [HACKERS] why is postgres estimating so badly?

2002-07-17 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
The first thing to point out is that the estimated cost is measured in terms of page reads while the actual time is measured in milliseconds. So even if the cost estimate is accurate it is unlikely that those numbers will be the same. -N -- Nathan C. Burnett Research Assistant, Wisconsin

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