Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:47, Philip Yarra wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? There nothing stopping you from submitting improved wording for the FAQ if you think it would be helpful. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Something larger than an FAQ and (one hopes) smaller than a book. The existence of such things is useful in bootstrapping newbies (like me) in Linux kernel stuff, and with it I would feel more confident about dipping my toes in on Pg as well. And, no, I can't write it because I am one who would need it in the first place. I guess those who could write it have plenty on their plates. Keeping it up to date would be a pain too. But still, it would be nice. andrew Robert Treat wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:47, Philip Yarra wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? There nothing stopping you from submitting improved wording for the FAQ if you think it would be helpful. Robert Treat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Have you looked at Bruce's presentations? There are a couple of sets of slides available from http://developer.postgresql.org/. They're probably not up-to-date in detail, but the overview doesn't change very quickly ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
Yes, I agree they are very useful, although not quite as detailed as what I had in mind. andrew Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Have you looked at Bruce's presentations? There are a couple of sets of slides available from http://developer.postgresql.org/. They're probably not up-to-date in detail, but the overview doesn't change very quickly ... ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? It's in the how to use CVS instructions ... So it is. I probably read that before I got CVS working here, and it isn't mentioned (or that section of the docs referenced) in the CVS section in the Developer's FAQ. I found both sections insufficient for me to get CVS working here, and since I am thinking about using it for another project I picked up a copy of 'ESSENTIAL CVS' to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge. Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? As a side note: anyone else noticed that developer.postgresql.org is displaying an apache test page? I assume this might be an indicator of work in progress. Regards, Philip Yarra. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea why they are not the default behavior. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea why they are not the default behavior. Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea why they are not the default behavior. Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? It's in the how to use CVS instructions ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings