Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Charset WIN1252

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, good summary. Shame we missed this for 8.0. I am sure we will do better next time.. Wow, you had been working on this since November 2nd. Shame it didn't make it. Sorry again. Also, I was wondering how widely used 1252 encoding is. Actually, would you send me an email privately that I c

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Charset WIN1252

2004-12-04 Thread Roland Volkmann
Hello Bruce, thank you for reply. Please let me put my remark here on top this time, because otherwise complete message might get more confusing. 1. the mail you quoted below is my reply to Alvaro Herrera. on 30.11.04, which was also in your confirmation on 01.12.04. He missed the new files as

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> As far as the patch itself, I don't think I ever claimed it was ready > >>> for prime time --- rather, I followed process and it was applied. > >> > >> Appl

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Roland Volkmann
Hello Magnus, Magnus Hagander schrieb am 04.12.2004 18:08: Hi! I was going to add WIN1252 to the installer, because I was under the impression it was a "server side" encoding. But initdb won't accept it... Looking at include/mb/pg_wchar.h, I notice that: PG_WIN1252,

Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] PL/Python: How do I use result methods?

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:56:00AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > It looks like nrows(), status(), and fetch() aren't available as > result object methods. I don't know what would happen if you > un-#ifdef-ed that block and the two others that are related; > perhaps one of the developers can tell u

Re: [HACKERS] Error: column "nsptablespace" does not exist

2004-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 29 November 2004 23:52, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > don't we normally announce if initdb is required on new beta releases? We > > should. > > It was sloppy that we didn't do that for beta5, and I apologize for it. > > One problem is that we don't have a

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As far as the patch itself, I don't think I ever claimed it was ready for prime time --- rather, I followed process and it was applied. Applying it on the day before we go RC is claiming that it is re

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As far as the patch itself, I don't think I ever claimed it was ready > > for prime time --- rather, I followed process and it was applied. > > Applying it on the day before we go RC is claiming that it is ready for > prime time. As

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as the patch itself, I don't think I ever claimed it was ready > for prime time --- rather, I followed process and it was applied. Applying it on the day before we go RC is claiming that it is ready for prime time. As Jan already told you, the "p

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But further down we have: > > #define PG_ENCODING_BE_LAST PG_WIN1250 > > Scarier than that is grepping the source code for -i win125, and noting > the number of places that cover the existing WIN125[016] encodings but > fail to me

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But further down we have: > #define PG_ENCODING_BE_LAST PG_WIN1250 Scarier than that is grepping the source code for -i win125, and noting the number of places that cover the existing WIN125[016] encodings but fail to mention WIN1252. In particular

Re: [HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But further down we have: > #define PG_ENCODING_BE_LAST PG_WIN1250 I told Bruce this patch was not ready for prime time ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Do

[HACKERS] WIN1252 encoding - backend or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hi! I was going to add WIN1252 to the installer, because I was under the impression it was a "server side" encoding. But initdb won't accept it... Looking at include/mb/pg_wchar.h, I notice that: PG_WIN1252, /* windows-1252 */ is listed *above* the lin

Re: Buildfarm coverage (was Re: [HACKERS] OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6)

2004-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:37:42PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Once RC1 is out and the build farm has picked it up, we should start > filling out our little table with the build farm results and then look > for ways to fill the holes. Does the build farm turn on all the > compiler optio

Re: [HACKERS] somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

2004-12-04 Thread Riccardo G. Facchini
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > schmidtm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > is somebody working on these two issues on the TODO-List? > > > 1) Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups > > I don't know of anyone actively working on it, but if you check the > archives