Re: [GENERAL] MediaWiki and Postgresql?

2006-04-07 Thread Ian Barwick
On 4/6/06, Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) If I'm not confusing wiki's (and I'm offline now, so I can't check), Mediawiki is pretty un-interested in supporting PostgreSQL (hard to imagine why, given that some of their folks are paid by MySQL AB), so a fork was created on pgFoundry. I

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:39:44PM -0700, lmyho wrote: Sounds terribly unlikely, PostgreSQLs licence doesn't conflict with any use anywhere. Can you provide a reference? I wish things are not like this too! so I won't have to go through so much trouble! But that's what happened:-(

Re: [GENERAL] MediaWiki and Postgresql?

2006-04-07 Thread Ian Barwick
On 4/4/06, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Given that this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgDBtype says: Use mysql for working code and PostgreSQL for development/broken code. The documentation in the MediaWiki wiki isn't always up to date, I suspect. I'd guess

Re: [GENERAL] Column descriptions - could they be propagated to new

2006-04-07 Thread Clive Page
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote: I seem to recall some astronomer having created some custom types for storing astronomical data in PostgreSQL. Or perhaps he was using PostGIS. I know that other astronomers are using PostgreSQL/PostGIS so if you look around you might be able to save

[GENERAL] how to document database

2006-04-07 Thread Ottavio Campana
I need to document the database I develop so that other people can easily understand how it works. I particularly want to document the stored procedures. By now I've used a javadoc style to document them. I can't use tools like doxygen on them but it is always better than nothing. I'd like to

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: This looks like part of the debate: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/11/msg00254.html I dont know if this applies to openssl though... Oh right, they're claiming that they can't distribute

Re: [GENERAL] how to document database

2006-04-07 Thread Ottavio Campana
Kaloyan Iliev wrote: Hi, I'm using postgresql_autodoc. It is perfect for me. And if you have comments in the database the created document is like real documentation:-) I can't make it work. I'm running Debian etch, and I always get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ postgresql_autodoc -d tost Can't

Re: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1

2006-04-07 Thread User Roman
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-04-06 12:03:18 -0400: On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Chris Browne wrote: Yeah, someone at the office was asking me on the elevator about whether some Post-something was somehow up and coming. In retrospect, I think he was trying to pronounce Postgre, and arrived at

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Library natively available for Mac OSX Intel?

2006-04-07 Thread User Roman
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-03-31 10:05:06 +0200: I would like to know if somebody already has a Mac OSX Intel 10.4.5 pg-Library (for C, C++, Objective C) or knows how to compile it? What problems did you have building libpq? Note: I'm not an OSX user. -- How many Vietnam vets does

Re: %Re: [GENERAL] % tsearch gendict

2006-04-07 Thread Teodor Sigaev
I see there are some changes in tsearch from postgresql 7.4.3 to postgresql 8.1.3 version, you add some new functions i think and change the tsearch.sql template right? I don't remember what exactly, but why do you ask? Different version on Gentroo and Sun? There is a lot tsearch2

Re: [GENERAL] Use functions in Pl/Perl language

2006-04-07 Thread User Roman
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-03-29 17:17:48 -0800: Hello, I would like to create a function that lets me to search in a table rows according differents parameters. I looked in the documentation of postgresql 8.1 about Pl/Perl procedures but I didn't found how to cross each row of a table with

[GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread surabhi.ahuja
hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. thanks, regards Surabhi

Re: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:26:32AM +, User Roman wrote: Looks like a missed opportunity for a April 1st announcement of disambiguating the two by renaming postgres to pregross. :) Not exactly that change, but http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-04/msg00023.php --

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread James Cradock
It's not normal. What's the installation? OS, applications connecting to the server, etc. On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:20 AM, surabhi.ahuja wrote:hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?   all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command.   thanks,

RES: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1

2006-04-07 Thread Renato Cramer
How much bullshit! is there no more nothing to do? -Mensagem original- De: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 7 de abril de 2006 09:22 Para: Jim Nasby; Chris Browne; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1 On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
surabhi.ahuja wrote: hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the infamous Linux out-of-memory handler, could it? Check your

ENC: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1

2006-04-07 Thread Renato Cramer
is there no more nothing to do? -Mensagem original- De: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 7 de abril de 2006 09:22 Para: Jim Nasby; Chris Browne; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1 On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:26:32AM +, User

[GENERAL] help needed (which group do I post these questions to?)

2006-04-07 Thread Bit Byter
I am getting a little desperate as I have not got any replies yet. I am wondering if this is the correct group for my questions. If not, please point me to the appropriate group. My questions revolve around libpq. 1). Does anyone know how to execute a stored procedure (i.e. PL/PGSQL function),

Re: [GENERAL] could not create shared memory segment in Windows XP

2006-04-07 Thread Ben Trewern
Have you got Cygwin installed? I had similar problems due to Cygwin being eariler in my PATH than Pg. Regards, Ben Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm unable to create database cluster in Windows 2000 server. initdb returns error FATAL: could not create

Re: [GENERAL] case insensitive match in unicode

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:12:26PM +0200, SunWuKung wrote: There is also a locale-independant case-mapping module there plus various locale specific ones also. http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/Transform.html http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/caseMappings.html

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com writes: surabhi.ahuja wrote: hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the infamous Linux

Re: RES: [GENERAL] FAQ 1.1

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Renato Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How much bullshit! is there no more nothing to do? Take a close look at the message date. :) -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Douglas McNaught wrote: Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com writes: surabhi.ahuja wrote: hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be

%Re: %Re: [GENERAL] % tsearch gendict

2006-04-07 Thread David Gama Rodrí­guez
Teodor Sigaev wrote: I see there are some changes in tsearch from postgresql 7.4.3 to postgresql 8.1.3 version, you add some new functions i think and change the tsearch.sql template right? I don't remember what exactly, but why do you ask? Different version on Gentroo and Sun? There is a

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: I'm not sure it's that--the OOM killer uses SIGKILL which would take down the server before it could write that log entry. Hmm... (tests it) you're right. What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? The only other thing I've

Re: [GENERAL] case insensitive match in unicode

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On 4/6/06, SunWuKung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kleptog@svana.org says... On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:45:05PM +0200, SunWuKung wrote: This sounds like a very interesting concept. It wouldn't be 'case insensitive' just insensitive. The way I imagine it now

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm when you pass a quota limit? Could be. The actual standard use of

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm when you pass a quota limit?

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could be. The actual standard use of SIGTERM is to kill processes belonging to your terminal process group when you log out. I thought that was SIGHUP? Doh. Not enough caffeine absorbed yet. As penance, here's a

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Yudie Pg
I'm running postgresql 7.4.1. is it can't really be used for trigger function? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plperl-missing.html

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:42, Yudie Pg wrote: I'm running postgresql 7.4.1. is it can't really be used for trigger function? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plperl-missing.html Two points: 1: Upgrade to 7.4.12 (or whatever the latest version is) immediately.

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:42, Yudie Pg wrote: I'm running postgresql 7.4.1. is it can't really be used for trigger function? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plperl-missing.html Quick followup, the latest plPHP does not work on Postgresql versions 8.0. So you'd

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Tony Caduto
Yudie Pg wrote: I'm running postgresql 7.4.1. is it can't really be used for trigger function? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plperl-missing.html That is true, but you can call a plperl function from a plpgsql trigger function. Wouldn't that work? -- Tony

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Yudie Pg
Back to my original question where is it possible to run a command line from a function?

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
On Friday 07 April 2006 01:32 pm, Yudie Pg saith: Back to my original question where is it possible to run a command line from a function? From an earlier post: Note that plpgsql cannot run external programs on purpose. It's a security and safety issue. ---(end of

[GENERAL] User-defined types

2006-04-07 Thread codeWarrior
Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representation of a custom (user-defined) types. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through

Re: [GENERAL] User-defined types

2006-04-07 Thread Daniel Blaisdell
\dT -DanielOn 4/7/06, codeWarrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various typedefinitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representationof a custom (user-defined) types.---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 12:38, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 01:32 pm, Yudie Pg saith: Back to my original question where is it possible to run a command line from a function? From an earlier post: Note that plpgsql cannot run external programs on purpose. It's a

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
Reminds me of an old Star Trek - Next Generation episode. They were stuck in a time loop reliving the same series of events over and over. They had to leave themselves a clue so they could figure it out next time around. Maybe your post is it ;o) On Friday 07 April 2006 02:12 pm, Scott Marlowe

Re: [GENERAL] could not create shared memory segment in Windows XP

2006-04-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 4/5/06, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to create database cluster in Windows 2000 server. initdb returns error FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory any idea how to create cluster in Windows 2000 ? are you trying to initdb from terminal

Re: [GENERAL] User-defined types

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
codeWarrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representation of a custom (user-defined) types. Invoking pg_dump -s is by far the most future-proof approach.

Re: [GENERAL] User-defined types

2006-04-07 Thread codeWarrior
I figured it out BTW: I was thinking more along the lines of: SELECT PT.*, PA.* FROM pg_attribute PA JOIN pg_type PT ON PA.attrelid = PT.typrelid JOIN pg_class PC ON PC.oid = PA.attrelid WHERE PT.typnamespace = 2200 AND PA.attnum 0 AND PC.relkind IN ('r', 'c', 'v'); Perhaps this should

Re: [GENERAL] User-defined types

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
codeWarrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: I was thinking more along the lines of: SELECT PT.*, PA.* FROM pg_attribute PA JOIN pg_type PT ON PA.attrelid = PT.typrelid JOIN pg_class PC ON PC.oid = PA.attrelid WHERE PT.typnamespace = 2200 AND PA.attnum 0 AND PC.relkind IN ('r', 'c', 'v');

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Yudie Pg
Help! Try to install plperl ./createlang plperl mydb createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not access file $libdir/plperl: No such file or directory

Re: [GENERAL] Running Command Line From Trigger?

2006-04-07 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
On Friday 07 April 2006 03:52 pm, Yudie Pg saith: Help! Try to install plperl ./createlang plperl mydb createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not access file $libdir/plperl: No such file or directory Do you have the Perl module on your machine? If not, you can get it

[GENERAL] pgAdmin3 question

2006-04-07 Thread lmyho
Hi All, Have a question on pgAdmin3: We have test database created in the initdb cluster, but on the Add Server page of pgAdmin3, the Maintenance DB dropdown box does not show this database. How can we make it to display this db in the dropdown box too? As the Maintenance DB dropdown box

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
lmyho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh right, they're claiming that they can't distribute freeradius using postgresql because postgresql links to OpenSSL. freeradius is GPL which makes for an incompatabilty. Not something PostgreSQL is responsible for, given Debian could compile without SSL and

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin3 question

2006-04-07 Thread Dave Page
We have test database created in the initdb cluster, but on the Add Server page of pgAdmin3, the Maintenance DB dropdown box does not show this database. How can we make it to display this db in the dropdown box too? You can't without hacking the code. Those databases are just helpful

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin3 question

2006-04-07 Thread lmyho
--- Dave Page dpage@vale-housing.co.uk wrote: We have test database created in the initdb cluster, but on the Add Server page of pgAdmin3, the Maintenance DB dropdown box does not show this database. How can we make it to display this db in the dropdown box too? You can't

[GENERAL] Creating a trigger on n tables?

2006-04-07 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
Is there an easier way to create the same trigger for n tables or do I need to run create trigger n times? Regards, BTJ -- --- Bjørn T Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'm kind of confused about how the legal red tape works here. Debian packages all sorts of GPL code, and both openssl and postgres are released under more liberal licenses. About the only legal issue I could see is the legalities surrounding

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'm kind of confused about how the legal red tape works here. Debian packages all sorts of GPL code, and both openssl and postgres are released under more liberal licenses. About the only legal issue I could

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. I got curious and looked at what's on my Ubuntu system: Courier IMAP is GPL with an additional clause that explicitly allows linking with OpenSSL; Postfix has an Apache-ish license; Exim is GPL and also explicitly allows linking

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:08, Tom Lane wrote: Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. I got curious and looked at what's on my Ubuntu system: Courier IMAP is GPL with an additional clause that explicitly allows linking with OpenSSL; Postfix has an Apache-ish license;

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought from Douglas' message, it appeared BSD packages didn't need such a clause... GPL partisans feel that BSD-with-advertising-clause is not compatible with the GPL. I think the sticking point here is that openssl is using an advertising clause.

Allow linking against OpenSSL? (Was Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module)

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Greetings FreeRadius people, This discussion started on the postgresql's pgsql-general mailing list. The problem here is that the freeradius-postgresql package needs to link against libpgsql, which means that it may be indirectly linked against openssl. There is a conflict between

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:16, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought from Douglas' message, it appeared BSD packages didn't need such a clause... GPL partisans feel that BSD-with-advertising-clause is not compatible with the GPL. I think the sticking point here

Re: Allow linking against OpenSSL? (Was Re: [GENERAL] Debian

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:24, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Greetings FreeRadius people, This discussion started on the postgresql's pgsql-general mailing list. The problem here is that the freeradius-postgresql package needs to link against libpgsql, which means that it may be indirectly

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPL partisans feel that BSD-with-advertising-clause is not compatible with the GPL. I think the sticking point here is that openssl is using an advertising clause. But the way Douglas' message read, it was only GPL packages that should be affected,

[GENERAL] can we remove this guy from the list?

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
Everytime I send an email to the pgsql-general list I get a failure message back saying this guy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is over his local limit. Is it possible to remove him from the mailing list? Is it something I can do? I kinda doubt it, so that's why I'm asking here.

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Travers
Tyler MacDonald wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the way Douglas' message read, it was only GPL packages that should be affected, and we're not GPL. Or did I or Douglas misunderstand the situation? It's freeradius that's GPL. Then we break GPL rules by

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own opinion is this: The Debian crowd are often technical enough they can build whatever they want from source. Debian is a niche distribution and not something we should spend too much time worrying about whether our software can be indirectly

Re: [GENERAL] plgpsql and transactions

2006-04-07 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:48:15PM -0500, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: -- fires a trigger that updates more than one table insert into semething (default); and: begin; -- fires a trigger that updates more than one table insert into somthing (default); commit;

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Saturday 08 April 2006 01:21, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Debian a niche distribution? I'd hardly call the defacto standard GNU Linux distribution a niche... Surely, Debian is niche. Why else should there be a need for distributions like Gentoo? I once tried to run Debian, and asked for help on

Re: [GENERAL] plgpsql and transactions

2006-04-07 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
In the latter, you have expanded the scope of the transaction; which, sometimes you might want to do. Yes, I might. But, I'd like to understand it so I do know when I might or might not want to do it. Understanding is good. You need to read the documentation on transactions:

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'm kind of confused about how the legal red tape works here. Debian packages all sorts of GPL code, and both openssl and postgres are released under more liberal licenses. About the only legal issue I

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or are they selectively enforcing this policy against PG? It's enforced whenever we discover it, really... I am strongly tempted to pull Debian's chain by pointing out that libjpeg has an advertising clause (a much weaker one than openssl's, but

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or are they selectively enforcing this policy against PG? It's enforced whenever we discover it, really... I am strongly tempted to pull Debian's chain by pointing out that libjpeg has an advertising clause

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Leif B. Kristensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 08 April 2006 01:21, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Debian a niche distribution? I'd hardly call the defacto standard GNU Linux distribution a niche... Surely, Debian is niche. Why else should there be a need for distributions like Gentoo? I

Re: [GENERAL] MediaWiki and Postgresql?

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 April 2006 16:45, Jim Nasby wrote: On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 06:36, Markus Wollny wrote: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone put MediaWiki up using the current version of Postgresql? Most of the code I have seen has been

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't feel it's a questionable reading of the GPL at all. In fact, it's pretty clear and I'm about 99% sure the FSF has commented on this as well. It's true that it's unlikely anyone would actually sue Debian over it but that doesn't somehow change

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:31, Douglas McNaught wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't feel it's a questionable reading of the GPL at all. In fact, it's pretty clear and I'm about 99% sure the FSF has commented on this as well. It's true that it's unlikely anyone would

Re: Allow linking against OpenSSL? (Was Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module)

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Alan DeKok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that several other GPL apps have added a special clause to their license that allows them to be linked against OpenSSL. Could this be done for freeradius/freeradius-postgresql as well? I have no objection to that. Debian should

Re: Allow linking against OpenSSL? (Was Re: [GENERAL] Debian package

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Travers
Tyler MacDonald wrote: Greetings FreeRadius people, This discussion started on the postgresql's pgsql-general mailing list. The problem here is that the freeradius-postgresql package needs to link against libpgsql, which means that it may be indirectly linked against openssl. There is

Re: [GENERAL] Debian package for freeradius_postgresql module

2006-04-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't feel it's a questionable reading of the GPL at all. In fact, it's pretty clear and I'm about 99% sure the FSF has commented on this as well. It's true that it's unlikely anyone would actually sue Debian over it but that doesn't somehow