[HACKERS] Make check uses wrong binary.

2003-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
I've seen this before, and I'm not sure why I get this. When I run make check, in the top dir, I get: == removing existing temp installation== == creating temporary installation== == initializing database system

Re: [HACKERS] Link.shared help/BROKEN UNIXWARE!/Reversion Request.

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Done. --- Larry Rosenman wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. Since I haven't gotten a reply, can someone REVERT the lines in src/Makefile.shlib that adds $(libdir)/$(soname) for port,eq,unixware to $(soname)? I

Re: [HACKERS] sprompt.c move breaks NLS

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sprompt.c file contains translatable strings, which now that is has been moved to the port library, are no longer picked up by the translation system. Please move it back. ?? I don't see anything translatable in that file.

Re: [HACKERS] sprompt.c move breaks NLS

2003-09-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: ?? I don't see anything translatable in that file. Oh, I was mixing up the GETTEXT_FILES and GETTEXT_TRIGGER lines. The argument of simple_prompt is translatable. Never mind. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Make check uses wrong binary.

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the log file it says: The program /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.4beta2, or there may be a configuration problem. Obviously, it's not supposed to take that binary but the one in the source

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
A quick browse through the current doc set suggests that sections 4.1, 38 to 42, and the page on 'create function' at least will need changes. I think calling it 'here-document' quoting is possibly unwise - it is sufficiently different from here documents in shell and perl contexts to make it

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-14 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Jensen) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... INSERT INTO sometable (5, \. a very long string \. ); I'm delighted to hear that here docs are being discussed for postgres. In the world of Perl here docs make life SO MUCH easier by allowing for independent

Re: [HACKERS] Vote: Adding flex/bison derived files in WIN32_DEV

2003-09-14 Thread Relaxin
What is flex/bison ? Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Because MinGW/Msys doesn't come with flex/bison by default, I have added those derived files to the WIN32_DEV branch in CVS. It makes it easier for

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with function permission test in a view

2003-09-14 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone asked me a question about view and function permissions. I assumed all object access done by a view would be based on the permissions on the view, and not the permissions of the

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

2003-09-14 Thread Terry Yapt
Hello all, I have seen this presentation for new Novell Netware 6.5 version released about two weeks or so. http://www.novell.com/products/netware/netware65overview_popup.html If you check 'Open Source' point, PostgreSQL text and PostgreSQL logo are showed on the run. I would be very happy if

[HACKERS] SetQuerySnapshot in 7.4

2003-09-14 Thread Max Jacob
Hallo to everybody. I have found out that statements in a function beheave differently than root statements due to the fact that statements inside a function do not update the db snapshot. I already read the discussions in the archieve before 7.3 release, but i still disagree strongly with

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

2003-09-14 Thread Andreas Pflug
Terry Yapt wrote: Hello all, I have seen this presentation for new Novell Netware 6.5 version released about two weeks or so. http://www.novell.com/products/netware/netware65overview_popup.html If you check 'Open Source' point, PostgreSQL text and PostgreSQL logo are showed on the run. I would

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

2003-09-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:52:58PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote: Terry Yapt wrote: I have seen this presentation for new Novell Netware 6.5 version released about two weeks or so. http://www.novell.com/products/netware/netware65overview_popup.html If you check 'Open Source' point,

[HACKERS] some strange messages

2003-09-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
There are a couple of messages in the backend that are probably misworded: #: utils/misc/guc.c:1553 msgid The Unix-domain socket directory to listen to I think it should be something like Directory where the Unix-domain socket should be created #: utils/adt/acl.c:780 msgid cannot remove the

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago there was a guy from Novell posting on hackers about the porting of PostgreSQL to Netware. He sounded like most of the job was already done, but he wanted to have some patches accepted to be able to build with a toolchain different from

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago there was a guy from Novell posting on hackers about the porting of PostgreSQL to Netware. He sounded like most of the job was already done, but he wanted to have some patches accepted to be able to build with a

Re: [HACKERS] Vote: Adding flex/bison derived files in WIN32_DEV

2003-09-14 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, Relaxin [EMAIL PROTECTED] belched out...: What is flex/bison ? Bison is the GNU Project parser generator, in the style of yacc (Yet Another Compiler Compiler). Flex is the GNU Project fast lexical analyzer generator, in the style of lex. These are used

[HACKERS] FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...

2003-09-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
After hearing that FreeBSD wasn't thread safe, I posted to the FreeBSD lists to find out what is up ... FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be used instead of gethostbyname ... Now,

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be used instead of gethostbyname ... Hm. A quick grep shows that our *only* use of gethostbyname is in

[HACKERS] getaddrinfo() for threading instead of gethostbyname()

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
When FreeBSD didn't have gethostbyname_r(), and gethostbyname() wasn't thread-safe, Marc asked around and found out that the threaded solution for this is to use getaddrinfo(). This makes sense because getaddrinfo() is described as: getaddrinfo () function is defined for

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be used instead of gethostbyname ... Hm. A quick grep shows that our *only* use of

[HACKERS] Heading to Mexico on Monday

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am heading to Mexico on Monday to speak to a Linux conference. I will return on Sunday afternoon, EDT. FYI, it looks like my trips are once every other month for the foreseeable future. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [HACKERS] not reducing same values in IN

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to ask some pg developer how complicated task would be to patch query processing (most likely parser) to allow for the following non-sql change. For a certain scientific application where a bootstrapping of data is needed I would like to select from a

Re: [HACKERS] massive quotes?

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane kirjutas P, 14.09.2003 kell 18:58: Those seem pretty unmemorable and content-free, though. Any other ideas out there? Considering that we use $$ instead of quotes we could call it dollarring instead of quoting ;) ... double-dollar quoting

Re: [HACKERS] some strange messages

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a couple of messages in the backend that are probably misworded: #: utils/misc/guc.c:1553 msgid The Unix-domain socket directory to listen to I think it should be something like Directory where the Unix-domain socket should be created Fair