Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[adding webmaster to cc]

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21.20:20 Andres Freund wrote:
  create account, ...
 Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup

Hmm.  Could it be that this web form doesn't have a mail queue and thus 
doesn't retry to send the mail when the first attempt was denied by 
greylisting?  And now it says user already exists...

(At least: I hven't seen a retry for 4h, first mail was rejected at 08:42 
+0100)

cheers
-- vbi

-- 
featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 13:00, Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
 [adding webmaster to cc]

 On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21.20:20 Andres Freund wrote:
  create account, ...
 Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup

 Hmm.  Could it be that this web form doesn't have a mail queue and thus
 doesn't retry to send the mail when the first attempt was denied by
 greylisting?  And now it says user already exists...

It definitely does have this.


I see a graylisted email that's in the queue... I'll give it a kick,
but normally you jsut have to wait...

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
 Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13.05:55 Magnus Hagander wrote:
 I see a graylisted email that's in the queue... I'll give it a kick,
 but normally you jsut have to wait...

Thanks, it arrived.

I'm used to wait when I enable greylisting. 4h delay is rare, though.

greets
-- vbi

-- 
I liken ISPs to sausage factories.  You know what goes in, and you think
that what comes out is tasty, but by Apollo's unwashed speedos you DON'T
want to know what goes on in between.
-- Sid Dabster


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Adrian von Bidder's message of mié mar 09 09:13:04 -0300 2011:
 On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13.05:55 Magnus Hagander wrote:
  I see a graylisted email that's in the queue... I'll give it a kick,
  but normally you jsut have to wait...
 
 Thanks, it arrived.
 
 I'm used to wait when I enable greylisting. 4h delay is rare, though.

Yeah, I think these servers wait for an excessive period if the initial
delivery fails.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


[HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho!

I'm poking around a bit in PostgreSQL's source for curiosity's sake.

Is there a short howto on how to start / debug postgres from within the 
unpacked/compiled tar? Are there scripts that set up linker paths and 
Postgres' environment?

thanks in advance
-- vbi

-- 
This statement is false.


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
 
 Is there a short howto on how to start / debug postgres from
 within the unpacked/compiled tar? Are there scripts that set up
 linker paths and Postgres' environment?
 
You should probably start by reading the developer FAQ page:
 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ
 
If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS.
 
-Kevin

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi,

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 15.39:56 Kevin Grittner wrote:

 http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

thanks

 If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS.

Sorry, forgot.  Linux.

The Basic system testing item is where I'm kinda stuck. You advise to 
perform run time testing via psql. Which is a bit short, since obviously 
psql can't be directly started since there is no installation...

Aagain, my question: are there wrappers/helpers to do this easily from the 
source/compile tree? Like: set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PG_WHATEVER, call 
initdb, ... 

Or do you advise to just make install and test from there?

thanks
-- vbi

-- 
[...] if you have to do the occasional model for Japanese collectors,
which are covered in reticulated ostrich testicle leather, then by all
means continue to do so.
-- Michael Reichmann
   http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/leica-open-letter.shtml


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
 Hi,

 On Tuesday 08 March 2011 15.39:56 Kevin Grittner wrote:

 http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

 thanks

 If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS.

 Sorry, forgot.  Linux.

 The Basic system testing item is where I'm kinda stuck. You advise to
 perform run time testing via psql. Which is a bit short, since obviously
 psql can't be directly started since there is no installation...

 Aagain, my question: are there wrappers/helpers to do this easily from the
 source/compile tree? Like: set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PG_WHATEVER, call
 initdb, ...

sure, linux distos provide packages that do all that stuff. if you are
rolling your own from scratch, you have to do some of that
yourself...create the user, set the path, etc. This is all documented
here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/install-post.html.
 If you are hacking postgres this will become second nature to you
very quickly.

merlin

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
 
 Or do you advise to just make install and test from there?
 
Pretty much.  For development you will want to specify a few options
in the ./configure step.  At a minimum I recommend:
 
--prefix=
--enable-debug
--enable-cassert
--enable-depend

See this page for other options:
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/install-procedure.html
 
Of course, there are those who prefer to use eclipse or some other
IDE.  For setting up eclipse, see this page:
 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Eclipse
 
I see that page is a bit out of date (we've converted from CVS to
git), but perhaps you can extrapolate.
 
-Kevin

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2011-03-08 at 16:17 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
 Aagain, my question: are there wrappers/helpers to do this easily from
 the source/compile tree? Like: set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
 PG_WHATEVER, call initdb, ... 

Many developers have their own wrapper scripts, mainly to handle dealing
with multiple versions or branches.  But just to build and test one
version you don't need to set any environment variables.


-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi,

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 16.58:58 Kevin Grittner wrote:
  
 
 Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
  Or do you advise to just make install and test from there?
 Pretty much.

Thanks for all your answers. I was just a bit confused because when I write 
stuff for myself I usually set up stuff to run directly in the build 
environment, so I was expecting something like that to be available.  But 
make install into ~/pg will do fine as well. (I want to avoid having my 
trashed version version be available systemwide...)

cheers
-- vbi

-- 
I've never been DPL (AFAICT)
-- Pierre Habouzit on debian-vote, 2007-07-31


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch writes:
 Thanks for all your answers. I was just a bit confused because when I write 
 stuff for myself I usually set up stuff to run directly in the build 
 environment, so I was expecting something like that to be available.  But 
 make install into ~/pg will do fine as well. (I want to avoid having my 
 trashed version version be available systemwide...)

No, nobody installs test versions into real locations.  What you want
is to set an install spot with configure --prefix.  For instance, I
usually do
configure --prefix=/home/tgl/testversion --enable-debug --enable-cassert
Be sure to add $PREFIX/bin to your PATH so that you can call the
test-installation programs conveniently.

It's also often a good idea to specify a non-default port number using
--with-pgport so that you can run your test postmaster concurrently with
a regular one.

Lastly, setting PGDATA in your environment to a suitable test database
location will save typing and avoid mistakes.

As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred
working environment of this sort.  I think I've published mine at least
once ... check the archives.

regards, tom lane

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
 
 As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred
 working environment of this sort.  I think I've published mine at
 least once
 
That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might
make it easier to get started:
 
https://github.com/gregs1104/peg/
 
-Kevin

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan



On 03/08/2011 01:04 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:

Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us  wrote:


As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred
working environment of this sort.  I think I've published mine at
least once


That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might
make it easier to get started:

https://github.com/gregs1104/peg/





FWIW, the buildfarm software 
https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code has a couple of developer 
modes. They are particularly useful for testing patches, as the script 
runs through a complete build and test cycle with one command.


cheers

andrew

--
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho again!

Now this kind of stuff is what I was after :-)

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 19.04:53 Kevin Grittner wrote:
 That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might
 make it easier to get started:
  
 https://github.com/gregs1104/peg/

Since you don't allow anonymous editing of the wiki, nor have an obvious 
create account, I leave it to you to add this:

+++
How can I easily test my modified postgres version?

You'll want to install PostgreSQL into a local directory (in your home 
directory, for instance) to avoid conflicting with a system wide 
installation.  Use the --prefix=... option to specify an installation 
location; --with-pgport to specify a non-standard default port may also be 
helpful. To run this instance, you will need to make sure that the correct 
binaries are used; depending on your operating system, environment variables 
like PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (on most Linux/Unix-like systems) need to be 
set. Setting PGDATA will also be useful.

To avoid having to set this environment up manually, you may want to use 
Greg Smith's [href=https://github.com/gregs1104/peg peg] scripts, or the 
[https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code scripts] that are used on the 
buildfarm.
+++

... and you'll never have to answer to this stupid question again ... :-)

thanks  happy hacking
-- vbi

P.S.: those who remember me from many months back may guess that I'm trying 
to implement IMMUTABLE columns.  But I'll come back when I actually have to 
show something, so far I've only managed to break 121 of 124 tests of make 
check. At least initdb miraculously works again.

-- 
this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.


Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Andres Freund
Hi,

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21:12:53 Adrian von Bidder wrote:
 Since you don't allow anonymous editing of the wiki, nor have an obvious
 create account, I leave it to you to add this:
Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup

Andres

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers