Re: [GENERAL] Debian and Postgres

2016-05-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/4/16, rob stone wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 14:51 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: >> I ask because this looks somewhat similar to this thread: >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3xazWDA6asEDDYHcKF_5oSFP4SZj8 >> taVHwSF68wM=vmy7...@mail.gmail.com >> >> where the solution: >> >> http

Re: [GENERAL] request for comment re "contributor-covenant.org"

2016-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi Josh, I simply wrote in first person with the intention to catalyse thought about what could and or should and or should not be in such a "covenant". In no way was the email any statement of authority and I had hoped to make that clear, evidently not. Evidently it was not clear enough despite

[GENERAL] request for comment re "contributor-covenant.org"

2016-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Warning, some people may consider the following analysis to have one or two trigger words and or to be insensitive. DO NOT read it if you are emotionally sensitive or otherwise challenged in regards to robust communications and the rights of amateur humans to create social spaces of their choosing

Re: [GENERAL] advocating LTS release and feature-train release cycles

2015-06-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/2/15, Jan de Visser wrote: > On June 1, 2015 11:11:37 PM Arthur Silva wrote: >> In my opinion a twice a year schedule would be good. >> The LTS would be every 2 or 4 releases. Keeping 2 LTS versions supported >> at >> all moments. >> >> Maybe this should be reposted to the hackers list? > > P

[GENERAL] advocating LTS release and feature-train release cycles

2015-05-31 Thread Zenaan Harkness
My comments advocating a (ubuntu/debian/linux-kernel/firefox) LTS release and feature-train release cycle: https://lwn.net/Articles/646740/ https://lwn.net/Articles/646743/ The parent article "PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly": https://lwn.net/Articles/645020/ My summary (from one of m

Re: [GENERAL] Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?

2014-09-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/15/14, Chris Travers wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:22 PM, cowwoc wrote: >> Out of curiosity, why is Postgresql's Java support so poor? I am >> specifically looking for the ability to write triggers in Java. > > Because it hasn't been a priority of contributors. This is how > non-singl

Re: [GENERAL] Disk Encryption in Production

2014-03-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/26/14, Carlos Espejo wrote: > Anybody running their PostgreSQL server from a ecryptfs container? What are > the common production setups out there? What are the drawbacks that people > have experienced with their solution? I ran a couple web servers off Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installs, a

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding template1 database

2013-04-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/24/13, S H wrote: > I am working on some legacy product. In which template1 vacuuming with > Analyze is executed through cron job every one hour and some times it is > taking lot of time.I want to know if there is any major update/insert in > template1 at some time, so i wanted to monitor the

[GENERAL] cloning postgres-xc

2013-02-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does somone know the object overlap likely between pg and pgxc repositories? I ask because I could just git clone pgxc, or I could add a remote for pgxc to my pg git clone, and make sure the branches are added, and fetch that remote. And in this way, common files/ objects are properly shared in on

Re: [GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-06-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Found key info here: http://wiki.tada.se/index.php?title=The_choice_of_JNI Rgds Zenaan On 6/8/12, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Will someone please point me to a URL re PG's Java backend cost.. been > googling but no joy so far.. > > I'd like find out how often the JVM starts

Re: [GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-06-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Will someone please point me to a URL re PG's Java backend cost.. been googling but no joy so far.. I'd like find out how often the JVM starts up eg based on queries or sessions or connections or what... didn't know it was potentially woeful. In particular re "Because Pg doesn't re-use backends, t

[GENERAL] Lotus Approach like "find" function (ie CTRL-F) in some libre forms client?

2009-08-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I am charged with migrating a Lotus Approach db + forms. Approach (97 I think :) has this function where, when viewing a record or within a form (or in the spreadsheet view for that matter) one can press CTRL-F, for "find records". The form I am on becomes a blank form (all fields cleared, but al

Re: [GENERAL] replacing Access/ Approach etc

2007-09-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:45:21AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On 9/8/07, Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A lack of a sense of control is simply one more barrier to potential > > switchers. Make sense? > > But by starting postgresql under an admin

Re: [GENERAL] replacing Access/ Approach etc

2007-09-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:52:04AM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote on 08.09.2007 07:03: > >Hi, a friend of mine on Windows, is attempting to convert to using > >PostgreSQL (and of course, I'm helping him). > > > >The installation gave an

Re: [GENERAL] replacing Access/ Approach etc

2007-09-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:49:28AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > > From: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] replacing Access/ Approach etc

2007-09-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:26:04AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >Hi, a friend of mine on Windows, is attempting to convert to using > >PostgreSQL (and of course, I'm helping him). > > > >The installation gave an option to run as an

[GENERAL] replacing Access/ Approach etc

2007-09-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi, a friend of mine on Windows, is attempting to convert to using PostgreSQL (and of course, I'm helping him). The installation gave an option to run as an application, rather than as a service. Turns out, my friends login account has Admin privs, and postgres.exe will not run in an account with