[HACKERS] Cooperation

2002-06-04 Thread Dann Corbit
I apologize for my English language message. I am unable to speak Japanese. We do have a native Japanese speaker here, who could be called upon if necessary. The PostgreSQL team is planning to do a native Win32 port. Perhaps you would like to help with the effort. In that way, your changes wi

Re: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port

2002-06-04 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:34 PM > To: PostgreSQL-development > Subject: [HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port > > > OK, I think I am now caught up on the Win32/cygwin > discussion, and would > like to make some re

[HACKERS] Roadmap for a Win32 port

2002-06-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, I think I am now caught up on the Win32/cygwin discussion, and would like to make some remarks. First, are we doing enough to support the Win32 platform? I think the answer is clearly "no". There are 3-5 groups/companies working on Win32 ports of PostgreSQL. We always said there would not

Re: [HACKERS] non-standard escapes in string literals

2002-06-04 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
OK, I was wrong. '' can be sufficient. The DB just has to treat everything between single quotes as data except for '' which is treated as a ' in the data. However raw control characters can still cause problems in the various stages from the source to the DB. Cheerio, Link. Lincoln Yeoh wro

Re: [HACKERS] non-standard escapes in string literals

2002-06-04 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 09:58 PM 6/4/02 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Lincoln Yeoh writes: > > > But for the ANSI standard how does one stuff \r\n\t and other control > > characters into the database? > > > > If there's no way other than actually sending the control characters then > > that is a bad idea especially

[HACKERS] [Fwd: Bug#149056: postgresql: should not try in a busy loop whenallocating resources]

2002-06-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
This report was submitted as a Debian bug. -Forwarded Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#149056: postgresql: should not try in a busy loop when allocating resources Date: 04 Jun 2002 23:06:35 +0200 Package: postgresql Version: N/A Severity: normal When

Re: [HACKERS] non-standard escapes in string literals

2002-06-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Lincoln Yeoh writes: > But for the ANSI standard how does one stuff \r\n\t and other control > characters into the database? > > If there's no way other than actually sending the control characters then > that is a bad idea especially from a security viewpoint. Why?? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMA

Re: [HACKERS] www.pgaccess.org - the official story (the way I saw

2002-06-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From a PgSQL Project standpoint, pgaccess has always been included as a > > way of increasing the overall distribution of the package as a valid GUI > > interface ... all that has ever happened in the past is that when a new > >

Re: [HACKERS] pgaccess

2002-06-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > > gborg is another way to organize, and of course www.pgaccess.org is a > > way too. It partly depends on how you see the future of pgaccess. If it > > stays tightly coupled to pgsql, then perhaps it may as way stay > > organized with pgsql. > > I see no reason why pgacc

[HACKERS] looking for optimum select for exported keys

2002-06-04 Thread Dave Cramer
The jdbc driver has a method to return the exported keys from a table, we require essentially what the following select returns, but it is slow, can anyone suggest ways to optimize it? Regards, Dave SELECT c.relname as primary, c2.relname as foreign, t.tgconstrname,

Re: [HACKERS] Cygwin / Debian dpkg / PostgreSQL / KDE2 and 3

2002-06-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 4 Jun 2002, Dave Cramer wrote: > Java is another possibility, since it is already cross platform. ... with certain licensing issues ... Just a remark Andreas. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please

Re: [HACKERS] HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

2002-06-04 Thread mlw
Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:36:51AM -0400, mlw wrote: > > Jason Tishler wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 09:33:57PM -0400, mlw wrote: > > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > mlw wrote: > > > > > > Like I told Marc, I don't care. You spec out what you want and I'll

Re: [HACKERS] HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

2002-06-04 Thread mlw
Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 09:33:57PM -0400, mlw wrote: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > mlw wrote: > > > > Like I told Marc, I don't care. You spec out what you want and I'll write > > > > it for Windows. > > > > > > > > That being said, a SysV IPC interface for native Window

Re: [HACKERS] Cygwin / Debian dpkg / PostgreSQL / KDE2 and 3

2002-06-04 Thread Dave Cramer
Java is another possibility, since it is already cross platform. Dave On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 01:08, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > > - creating a PostgreSQL + Cygwin modern GUI installer. All required .DEB > > packages would be downloaded and installed from Debian mirrors, with