Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dann Corbit wrote: [ ... ] GDB works fine. Some of the other tools don't work right (e.g. sed is broken). Recent fixes exist, but I didn't check all of them. WorksForMe(TM), but my projects are *much* simpler ... Emmanuel Charpentier ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Jan Wieck wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:54 PM > To: Brian Bruns; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > > > Brian Bruns wrote: > > >Problem is, nobody builds packages o

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy") built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. Correct. I wonder why we need a Windows port

Re: [HACKERS] Call for objections: put back OIDs in CREATE TABLE AS/SELECT INTO

2003-01-21 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Why don't you just include them by default, otherwise if WITHOUT OIDS appears in the CREATE TABLE command, then don't include them ? Chris > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Lane > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 4:12 AM > To: [EMA

Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc?

2003-01-21 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Recommend always running "initdb -W" and setting all pg_hba entries to md5. Chris > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Treat > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:17 PM > To: Dan Langille > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACK

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:04 PM > To: Emmanuel Charpentier > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted > > > Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > > Mingw and mingw-porte

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like > envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost > tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not,

Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... Emmanuel Charpentier [ Back to lurking ... ] Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Bruns
Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy") built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. Sorry, couldn't help myself...Seriously, it's a cultural thing, I w

Re: [HACKERS] Yaarrgh! CVS remote buffer overflow

2003-01-21 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On 21 Jan 2003, Doug McNaught wrote: > It's all over Slashdot: > > http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html > That bit about 'This does not apply to :pserver: only' (probably slightly paraphrased) is very confusing. I gather from later on in the page that it means that the flaw only

[HACKERS] Yaarrgh! CVS remote buffer overflow

2003-01-21 Thread Doug McNaught
It's all over Slashdot: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > "Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > > e

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

[HACKERS] Call for objections: put back OIDs in CREATE TABLE AS/SELECT INTO

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
We've gotten a couple of complaints now about the fact that 7.3 doesn't include an OID column in a table created via CREATE TABLE AS or SELECT INTO. Unless I hear objections, I'm going to revert it to including an OID, and back-patch the fix for 7.3.2 as well. See discussion a couple days ago on

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Al Sutton wrote: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Al Sutton
I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers to work on the code. I see the Win32 patch as

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see a strong reason not > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > > shell environment. > > Indeed. I think t

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't see a strong reason not > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > shell environment. Indeed. I think the goal here is to have a port th

Re: [HACKERS] Recent initdb error

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Rod Taylor writes: > setting privileges on built-in objects... ok > creating information schema... sed: 1: "s/^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.\([0 ...": > undefined label 'L;s/.*//;q;: L;s/.*\(\)$/\1/' > ok > vacuuming database template1... ok Fixed. Consider filing a bug report with your operating sys

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump ordering

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: > I remember a while back you were saying you were working on pg_dump object > ordering? What happened with that? Did you need some help with it? I don't remember that and I don't have any specific plans relating to that. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the > patches mailing list. I'm concerned that you are adding all these *.dsp files for build process control. This is going to be a burden to maintain. Everytime someone changes an aspect of how a file is b

Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc?

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Treat
I'm not sure how adequately these topics are covered elsewhere, but you should probably provide at least a pointer if not improved information: * Should have a mention of the pgcrypto code in contrib. * Brain hiccup, but isn't there some type of "password" datatype * Explanation of problems/solu

Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key wierdness

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 January 2003 21:28 > To: Didier Moens > Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key wierdness > > > Didier Moens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just formally tested o