We'd like to avoid such unpleasant surprises, but how to get the word
out?
More prominent placement of how to contribute would probably help. The
PGF could help with this as well once it is done. Right now it is ether
on how to contribute unless you know where to look.
Right now on the front
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:02:51PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Right now on the front page when we ask for support we are asking for
people to donate money. We don't need money. We need people. The support
link goes to bandwidth but a great deal of the project is hosted over
many, many
If money's not an issue anymore, can we get a bigger box to host
pgfoundry on then? :)
It's been done and is in the process of being brought up at a new colo
facility. There is also a backup box being built for failover purposes ;)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.
Anyone interested in pooling funds for features should take a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html, which is about a FreeBSD
developer who offered to work full-time on developing some specific
features should enough people donate. Also worthy of mention is
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:21:35PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
If money's not an issue anymore, can we get a bigger box to host
pgfoundry on then? :)
It's been done and is in the process of being brought up at a new colo
facility. There is also a backup box being built for failover
Any ETA? I don't mean to harp, but it looks really bad when someone new
to postgresql comes to investigate something and the site is just
crawling.
Well the backup should come up in a couple of weeks. I know that the new
pgFoundry is being worked on right now. Josh would have a better idea.
Anyone interested in pooling funds for features should take a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html, which is about a FreeBSD
developer who offered to work full-time on developing some specific
features should enough people donate. Also worthy of mention is
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote:
We also use PostgreSQL as our primary db so it would be more than likely
that we would donate money for something similar with postgresql if
either :
a) we can direct the money at one or more specific tasks
or
b) the tasks founded
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
BTW, why not get rid of src/corba?
Good question; I'll remove it from HEAD tomorrow, barring any objections.
-Neil
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TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
http://archives.postgresql.org
I read the hackers list all the time, and have for
years, and my company sponsors PG events every few
months, and I would consider myself fairly plugged
in to PG, and this is the first I have seen/heard of
the PostgreSQL Foundation
http://thepostgresqlfoundation.org/
Perhaps a little more
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite
whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky.
Yeah. Bruce and I were worrying about this on the phone today.
If a company is doing some work with the intent
Kris Jurka wrote:
One thing that definitely would be nice would be to be able to combine
funds from various sponsors for various features. Alone a company can't
spring for it, but by pooling resources it could get done. This is a lot
tougher to coordinate and unless there is a complete
pgman wrote:
Kris Jurka wrote:
One thing that definitely would be nice would be to be able to combine
funds from various sponsors for various features. Alone a company can't
spring for it, but by pooling resources it could get done. This is a lot
tougher to coordinate and unless
On Saturday 30 April 2005 02:02, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
We'd like to avoid such unpleasant surprises, but how to get the word
out?
More prominent placement of how to contribute would probably help. The
PGF could help with this as well once it is done. Right now it is ether
on how to
An example that Elein put up yesterday:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-04/msg01384.php
caused me to realize that type output functions that depend on
additional arguments to determine what they are dealing with are
fundamentally security holes. It is trivial to crash 8.0's
There was some previous discussion in a thread starting at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-01/msg00750.php
about expanding the pg_locks view to provide more useful support
for contrib/userlock locks. Also, the changes Alvaro and I just
finished for sharable row locks mean that
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:17:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
An example that Elein put up yesterday:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-04/msg01384.php
caused me to realize that type output functions that depend on
additional arguments to determine what they are dealing with are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (elein) writes:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:17:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
It is trivial to crash 8.0's record_out
by lying to it about the rowtype of its first argument.
Is it not as trivial to crash it if one passes bad data into it?
Why is the oid arg worse than the data
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:37:06AM +0200, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote:
Anyone interested in pooling funds for features should take a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html, which is about a FreeBSD
developer who offered to work full-time on developing some specific
features should
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 16:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
An example that Elein put up yesterday:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-04/msg01384.php
caused me to realize that type output functions that depend on
additional arguments to determine what they are dealing with are
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:31:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (elein) writes:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:17:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
It is trivial to crash 8.0's record_out
by lying to it about the rowtype of its first argument.
Is it not as trivial to crash it if one
Just finished writing the PG rules to maintain a bunch of materialized
(aggregate) views on a ROLAP cube --- yes, I've seen Jonathan
Gardner's matview for postgres; didnt cover what I needed :-(. PG
happens to be pretty convenient for roll-your-own OLAP, thanks to
RULES and ARRAY datatypes. So
On Saturday 30 April 2005 17:40, David Fetter wrote:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:37:06AM +0200, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote:
I totally agree. In our preference list I would have the following tasks
: 1) IOT (Index Ordered Tables)
Is this different from CLUSTER?
I think what he is looking
Greets, [apologies if an earlier dup gets unswallowed]
Well, I've been solo'ing it for over a year now, and it's definitely
time to make my presence known to the community and invite others to
participate as I can't keep putting it off as I have been. There has
always been something else that I
On Saturday 30 April 2005 06:05, Kris Jurka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote:
We also use PostgreSQL as our primary db so it would be more than likely
that we would donate money for something similar with postgresql if
either :
a) we can direct the money at one or
Just wanted to address a couple of specific items here...
On Saturday 30 April 2005 08:54, Rob Butler wrote:
I read the hackers list all the time, and have for
years, and my company sponsors PG events every few
months, and I would consider myself fairly plugged
in to PG, and this is the first
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