[HACKERS] Input Function (domain_in) Call

2006-08-19 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I was using OidInputFunctionCall() to cast a basic type into a domain type. But when I saw /* * As above, for I/O functions identified by OID. These are only to be * used in seldom-executed code paths. They are not only slow but leak * memory. */ Datum OidInputFunctionCall(Oid

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump schema breakup

2006-08-19 Thread Naz Gassiep
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the other issue is how many canned breakup schemes we are going to support. If this particular one is of sufficiently general usefulness then I have no objection. But when you can produce it trivially from the

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Gregory Stark
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate about it has been fixed in the current version. Does that include it being basically a web-only interface?

Re: [HACKERS] Going for all green buildfarm results

2006-08-19 Thread Gregory Stark
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: stark wrote: So I hacked psql to issue queries asynchronously and allow multiple database connections. That way you can switch connections while a blocked or slow transaction is still running and issue queries in other transactions. [snip]

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I expect if you set up a web-based interface it won't be a matter of people digging in heels so much as just being indifferent to it. And like most projects the bugs will just accumulate and not get feedback. And which projects would these be? Oddly enough it might surprise you that the

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] selecting large result sets in psql using

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True. They could even put it in .psqlrc if they want. Basically need a way to modify \g. Seems a \set is the way we have always done such modifications in the past. The big question is whether this is somehow different. Personally, I don't think so.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's really not that painful: every

Re: [HACKERS] Input Function (domain_in) Call

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Volkan YAZICI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was using OidInputFunctionCall() to cast a basic type into a domain type. Is this the right way to use domain_in() function? If you're doing it more than about once per SQL command, you should find a place to cache the fmgr lookup info and use

[HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
We have still another complaint here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-08/msg00109.php about pg_dump failing to cope nicely with any slightly-unusual condition related to a SERIAL column. We've had previous discussions about this, most recently this thread:

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:47:39AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: ALTER SEQUENCE foo_bar_seq SERIAL FOR foo.bar; I like it, and I imagine users will love it too. Only one question: will a sequence be limited to belonging to one table at a time, or could you use one sequence for multiple tables and use

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:47:39AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: ALTER SEQUENCE foo_bar_seq SERIAL FOR foo.bar; I like it, and I imagine users will love it too. Only one question: will a sequence be limited to belonging to one table at a time, or

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate about it has been fixed in the current version. Does that include it being

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: Also, after thinking about the existing behavior of ALTER TABLE OWNER (it tries to keep ownership of dependent sequences equal to the table's ownership), we'd have to either abandon that or insist that you can only link a sequence to a table having the same owner. So that's another

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Basically this change would mean that you'd be allowed to DROP the sequence with CASCADE (hence removing all the DEFAULT expressions that use it) without being forced to drop the owning column as such. That seems to square better with the idea that the column owns the

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our two SERIAL TODO items are: * %Disallow changing DEFAULT expression of a SERIAL column? This should be done only if the existing SERIAL problems cannot be fixed. * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our two SERIAL TODO items are: * %Disallow changing DEFAULT expression of a SERIAL column? This should be done only if the existing SERIAL problems cannot be fixed. * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only complaint I can see is that someone who wants pg_dump to dump out SERIAL so it appears just as he created the table, doesn't get that. Could we have pg_dump do that if the sequences all match the creation (weren't modified)? pg_dump's output

[HACKERS] DROP OWNED BY doesn't work

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
So I was fooling with making serial sequences be auto rather than internal dependencies of their columns, and the regression tests blew up on me: *** ./expected/dependency.out Mon Nov 21 07:49:33 2005 --- ./results/dependency.outSat Aug 19 17:46:55 2006 *** *** 109,113 ---

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I wrote: I will check about Greg's complaint about race conditions in updating comments. My initial impression is that this is no longer so, but I will get a definite answer. My impression was correct. Each comment on a bug gets its own row, marked by bug-id, commenter-id and

Re: [HACKERS] DROP OWNED BY doesn't work

2006-08-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: I think a correct solution probably requires making a list of all objects to delete by scanning pg_shdepend and then starting to delete 'em, using the list as oktodelete context similar to the way that dependency.c handles auto/internal objects. Hum. I'll take a look at

Re: [HACKERS] DROP OWNED BY doesn't work

2006-08-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: I think a correct solution probably requires making a list of all objects to delete by scanning pg_shdepend and then starting to delete 'em, using the list as oktodelete context similar to the way that dependency.c handles auto/internal objects. What I'm considering is this:

[HACKERS] OTRS

2006-08-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
OTRS was recommended to me as a bug tracker. Has anyone used that? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail

Re: [HACKERS] OTRS

2006-08-19 Thread andrew
Peter Eisentraut wrote: OTRS was recommended to me as a bug tracker. Has anyone used that? Not me, but I see that they use bugzilla for bug tracking ... see http://bugs.otrs.org/index.cgi cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you

Re: [HACKERS] DROP OWNED BY doesn't work

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm considering is this: scan pg_shdepend looking for objects to delete, and save them into a list; but each time we find one, we also find objects that depend on it. Those dependent objects should be ignored; but we should also remove from the

Re: [HACKERS] OTRS

2006-08-19 Thread Luke Lonergan
Peter, On 8/19/06 5:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTRS was recommended to me as a bug tracker. Has anyone used that? We use OTRS for customer issue tracking, but we use Jira from Atlassian for our internal bug tracking. We also use Confluence and Fisheye from Atlassian,

Re: [HACKERS] OTRS

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Eisentraut wrote: OTRS was recommended to me as a bug tracker. Has anyone used that? Not me, but I see that they use bugzilla for bug tracking ... see http://bugs.otrs.org/index.cgi And according to their front page, the preferred database behind it is mysql.