Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

On Sun, 2007-13-05 at 18:58 -0700, David Fetter wrote: > cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file > without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've > checked out as anonymous. Personally, I usually work against a checkout from a local mirror of the CVS rep

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

On Sun, 2007-13-05 at 22:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we really > need two more? I think we need to at least modify the documentation for the autovacuum GUC parameter, which currently states only that it "controls whether the server shoul

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

David Fetter wrote: cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've checked out as anonymous. I usually saved an untouched version of the tree to compare against, so something like: $ cvs diff -Nacr pgsql.ori

Re: [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:06:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Per Neil Conway, here's some doc patches re: the autovacuum > > daemon's behavior. Should this be back-patched to 8.2x? > > This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we > re

Re: [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Per Neil Conway, here's some doc patches re: the autovacuum daemon's > behavior. Should this be back-patched to 8.2x? This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we really need two more? The proposed addition to postgresql.conf seems pa

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:51:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:04:44PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: > >>> Strange, it works fine for everyone else. > >> > >> Especially if you have cvsutils installed (can be

[DOCS] On patching without write access to CVS

Folks, Thanks to Andrew Dunstan for pointing me toward cvsutils. As not everybody knows about them, here's a small patch which lets people know at least in theory where they are. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:04:44PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Strange, it works fine for everyone else. >> >> Especially if you have cvsutils installed (can be found in many >> places including fedora extras). > I didn't know abo

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] PITR and tar

"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had > issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's > actually BSD tar that has the issue. It seems to be a different issue. The problem with GNU tar is that it

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:04:44PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > >David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I haven't included the customary diffs. This points me to some of > >>the many deficiencies of CVS, namely that I would need write > >>access in order to ha

[DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

Folks, Per Neil Conway, here's some doc patches re: the autovacuum daemon's behavior. Should this be back-patched to 8.2x? Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] PITR and tar

Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Moving to -docs... > > Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had > issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's > actually BSD tar that has the issue. As I remember, Tom was the one who found that GNU tar would return a

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions

"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:48:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Surely a section should not *begin* with a cross-reference to >> someplace else. > My concern is that folks will see the table right below it, not find > what they're looking for there, and

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

Tom Lane wrote: David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I haven't included the customary diffs. This points me to some of the many deficiencies of CVS, namely that I would need write access in order to have it create a diff, Strange, it works fine for everyone else.

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions

monfunc2.patch Description: Binary data On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:48:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: System Information Functions +In addition to the functions listed in this section, there are a number of +functions related to the stati

Re: [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't included the customary diffs. This points me to some of the > many deficiencies of CVS, namely that I would need write access in > order to have it create a diff, Strange, it works fine for everyone else. regards, tom l

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions

Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > System Information Functions > > +In addition to the functions listed in this section, there are a number > of > +functions related to the statistics system that also provide system > +information. See for more > +information. >

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] PITR and tar

Moving to -docs... Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's actually BSD tar that has the issue. On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:19:05AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:40 -0500, Ji

[DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

Folks, The attached tarball should be unpacked in contrib/startup-scripts, and supplants PostgreSQL.darwin and StartupParameters.plist.darwin. Thanks to Mark Cotner of Reflectr fame for this update :) I haven't included the customary diffs. This points m

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions

On May 7, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: Two questions: Why is pg_backend_pid documented with the stats functions (9.19 System Information Functions) seems more logical. Also,