Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: Yea, we probably aren't releasing any more 7.1.X releases though. Perhaps it is worth applying to the 7.1 CVS branch, at least? BTW, I can't really see the harm in putting out 7.1.x and 7.2.x releases to fix compilation issues on modern systems. For example, I believe that 7

Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I can't really see the harm in putting out 7.1.x and 7.2.x > releases to fix compilation issues on modern systems. The "harm" is the developer time spent on doing so. Releasing back versions takes nontrivial effort (witness what it took to get 7.3.6

Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:46 am, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW, I can't really see the harm in putting out 7.1.x and 7.2.x > > releases to fix compilation issues on modern systems. > Also, quite frankly, I don't want to encourage people to keep using > such old

Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Mascari
Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:46 am, Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BTW, I can't really see the harm in putting out 7.1.x and 7.2.x releases to fix compilation issues on modern systems. Also, quite frankly, I don't want to encourage people to keep using s

Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Neil Conway
Tom Lane wrote: The "harm" is the developer time spent on doing so. Releasing back versions takes nontrivial effort (witness what it took to get 7.3.6 out the door :-(). True; that said, much of this overhead is (IMHO) avoidable. There should be little or no manual intervention needed in the rele

[BUGS] not necessarily a bug...

2004-03-09 Thread Theodore Petrosky
recently I was playing around with psql and tried to log onto a postgresql server so I tried... psql -h 10.0.1.233 dbname and to my suprise, i was in and able to issue commands. what is 'bothering' me is that I was not asked for a password. in defence of the system, I was on a mac os x box logged

[BUGS] Returned due to virus; was:Re: Your letter

2004-03-09 Thread pgsql-bugs
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Re: [BUGS] not necessarily a bug...

2004-03-09 Thread Alex J. Avriette
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:33:31PM -0500, Alex J. Avriette wrote: > the postgres distribution. Additionally, this really isn't a question > for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meep, my apologies, this wasn't sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex J. Avriette, Solaris Systems Masseur "I ... remain

Re: [BUGS] not necessarily a bug...

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > recently I was playing around with psql and tried to > log onto a postgresql server so I tried... > psql -h 10.0.1.233 dbname > and to my suprise, i was in and able to issue > commands. what is 'bothering' me is that I was not > asked for a password

Re: [BUGS] buglet in 7.1.4

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The "harm" is the developer time spent on doing so. Releasing back >> versions takes nontrivial effort (witness what it took to get 7.3.6 >> out the door :-(). > True; that said, much of this overhead is (IMHO) avoidable. There > shoul

[BUGS] initdb could use some lower default settings (trivial patch)

2004-03-09 Thread evanm
Installing postgres on a Solaris 8 system for personal use, I discovered that initdb exceeded the shared memory available on my system (Default settings). There's enough to run the database, but initdb doesn't probe to low enough values: for nconns in 100 50 40 30 20 10 for nbuffers in 1000 900 80

Re: [BUGS] initdb could use some lower default settings (trivial patch)

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 10/50 is too large, the largest Solaris can handle without changing the > defaults is 10/46. I think it'd be a good idea if initdb probed at least a > little lower here, say to a buffer size of 25, to let it install on Solaris > with default shmem settings. Actually, I'