[HACKERS] Developers page is down

2004-09-03 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi guys i was looking for the http://developer.postgresql.org/todo.php in order to view what things are you posponing for later versions but the entire developer.postgresql.org site is down. By the way, will be a way in postgresql 8 to add a column in a middle of a table. just curious. thanx in a

[HACKERS] Bug in numeric modulo operation remains

2004-09-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
This "bug" was heavily commented on but the behavior was never changed: Welcome to psql 8.0.0beta2, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to exe

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] pgxs default installation + various fixes

2004-09-03 Thread Tom Lane
Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For instance, apache looks for a "bsd" install program at configuration > time... and a slow but compatible shell substitute is used instead if none > is available. We used to do that, and gave up on it because there was too much variability in the avail

Re: [HACKERS] version upgrade

2004-09-03 Thread Rod Taylor
> I'm quite sure that the schema change will not hurt nothing. However I have to > say that add come column, with default value and a check on it is no to > doable with very bigtables. Fortunately with the 8.0 you can do these tasks > in one shot. I've got a few 30GB tables anxiously awaiting th

[HACKERS] www.postgresql.org hacked ?

2004-09-03 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, what is that: myGeek balance authentication page ? Regards Gaetano Mendola -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBOG3A7UpzwH2SGd4RAkfDAJ95/Y/XnOo

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] pgxs default installation + various fixes

2004-09-03 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Tom, dear Peter, > By my count it adds about 2 megabytes to the installed footprint, which > perhaps is not so much now as it was at the time. Ok. I agree. I'm investigating on how to do that, and the choice will be to committers. > A larger problem from my point of view is that the instal

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] pgxs default installation + various fixes

2004-09-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:42:30AM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote: > As I'm into these files, I can say that one of the reason for that is that > the shell scripts in the makefile looks inefficient, with nested for-loops > and one-at-a-time config/install-sh forked-script copies for 350 header > files

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-03 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:12:43PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 13:00 schrieb Eyinagho Newton: > > Part of my final year thesis involves creating a > > database using PostgreSQL. As a way of documentation, > > is it correct to say that PosgreSQL belongs to the >

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] pgxs default installation + various fixes

2004-09-03 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Alvaro, > > As I'm into these files, I can say that one of the reason for that is that > > the shell scripts in the makefile looks inefficient, with nested for-loops > > and one-at-a-time config/install-sh forked-script copies for 350 header > > files, on the 971 files of a standard installa