Re: [GENERAL] TODO list elements

1998-12-14 Thread Vadim Mikheev
Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > > > And note - this will be not row level locking, but > > multi-version concurrency control. > > > > What does it mean ? > LLL in 6.5 doesn't include row level locking ? One systems (Informix, Sybase) use locking for concurrency control, another ones (Oracle, Interbase)

RE: [GENERAL] TODO list elements

1998-12-14 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vadim > Mikheev > Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 5:03 PM > To: Hiroshi Inoue > Cc: The Hermit Hacker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] TODO list elements > > > Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] TODO list elements

1998-12-14 Thread Vadim Mikheev
Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > > My words might be obscure. > > What I meant was > > How writers block other writers in LLL ? > > Certainly readers block no writers(readers) in LLL. > But writers block no writers or the same-row writers or the same-table > writers ? > > Currently writers block the s

[GENERAL] RPMs for 6.4?

1998-12-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
Sorry, I'm sure someone must have asked this before, but searching through my mailing lists revealed nothing. Does anyone know where RPMs of PostgreSQL 6.4 are? -- Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Electrical & Communications Engineering Hong Kong Technical College (Tsing Yi) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMA

[GENERAL] XML Integration

1998-12-14 Thread Clark Evans
Is there anyone working on XML integration? Services include: a) Import/Export to XML (DTD defines schema) b) Access (through stored procedures) to XML (PSAX anyone?) b) Emulated tables (that direct queries to XML queries)? c) Other fun XML items. :) Clark

[GENERAL] Row Level Locking, On-line Recovery

1998-12-14 Thread Clark Evans
Anyone working on Row level locking and on-line recovery? I have some ideas (and questions) in this area. Also, I was wondering if there is a "transaction server" project, i.e., a server that helps provide a consistent client interface to both the database and application servers. Thank you!

Re: [GENERAL] Row Level Locking, On-line Recovery

1998-12-14 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Clark Evans wrote: > Anyone working on Row level locking and > on-line recovery? row level loocking shoudl be in place for v6.5...not sure about on-line recovery, but I *believe* Jan is working on redo-log support... Marc G. Fournier

[GENERAL] Re: RPMs for 6.4?

1998-12-14 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Nick Urbanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Does anyone know where RPMs of PostgreSQL 6.4 are? I've put together RPMs for the forthcoming SuSE Linux 6.0; a pre-release is available at ftp.suse.com -- I don't have the exact URL at hand; but it should be pretty obvious: /pub/*beta*/suse/ap1 (drop

[GENERAL] Newbie question: Does PostgreSQL have stored procedures?

1998-12-14 Thread Andrew Hopper
I saw that you can have functions written in C or SQL, but can you write a precompiled SQL statement (such as SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE ...) that returns a set of rows? I couldn't find anything that addresses this in the documentation (does that mean it can't be done yet?). --