Re: [HACKERS] pg_comparator table diff/sync

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Raven
Erik Aronesty wrote: Is pg_comparator the only project out there that does what it does? http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/dbcomparer http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/dbcomparer http://pgdiff.sourceforge.net/ http://pgdiff.sourceforge.net/

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus this morning). Really it would be

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:16:43AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. [...] As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this:

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita)

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Michael Meskes wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: Unfortunately I do not have access to a Vista system I could use to test and track this one down. I'm happy to run any tests you like. Dave, could you please apply this small patch to pgtypeslib/datetime.c. I

Re: [HACKERS] Seq scans roadmap

2007-05-16 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
32 buffers = 1MB with 32KB blocksize, which spoils the CPU L2 cache effect. I'd say in a scenario where 32k pages are indicated you will also want larger than average L2 caches. How about using 256/blocksize? The reading ahead uses 1/4 ring size. To the best of our knowledge,

Re: [HACKERS] plperl vs. bytea

2007-05-16 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2007-05-07 kell 13:57, kirjutas Andrew Dunstan: Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tino Wildenhain wrote: Andrew Dunstan schrieb: This does not need to be over-engineered, IMNSHO. Well could you explain where

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without reling on

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without reling

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
I'm going to echo Bruce on this; I've mentioned that TSearch was going into Core at conferences and the reaction from existing users has been very enthusiastic, ranging from yippee! to about time!. Our users hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. And with respect to the

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 05:37 schrieb Josh Berkus: In that case, we may need to talk about branching earlier so that developers can work on the new version who are frozen out of the in-process one. Well, we could branch right now, but who is going to commit anything into that new head

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 05:37 schrieb Josh Berkus: I'm going to echo Bruce on this; I've mentioned that TSearch was going into Core at conferences and the reaction from existing users has been very enthusiastic, ranging from yippee! to about time!.  Our users hate the fact that FTS is a

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Haas wrote: Our users hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. Where? Where? Oh, you mean Hear Hear. (sorry - one of my pet peeves) And with respect to the debate about syntax, who cares? I think I prefer introducing real SQL-ish syntax over a bunch of pg_*

[HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread Gregory Stark
I'm looking for corner cases where the concurrent psql patch doesn't handle things properly. I'm wondering about multiple result sets but I can't think of any cases where I can test them. If you submit multiple commands at the psql prompt then psql seems to stop at the first semicolon and send

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: In Debian's bug tracking system, when the bug is created (which is done by sending an email to a certain address) it gets a number, and the email is distributed to certain lists. People can

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: In Debian's bug tracking system, when the bug is created (which is done by sending an email to a certain address) it gets a number, and the email is

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:16:43AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. [...] As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re:

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070515 21:19]: As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each subject line in mail? For example like this: [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3 This way, we could always obtain stable (logical)

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id - Easy to detect messages not delivered,

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:03:47AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There is just one remaining problem: Outlook and derivatives don't set the In-Reply-To: nor References: headers. This breaks the threads (the best the

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: In Debian's bug tracking system, when the bug is created (which is done by sending an email to a certain address) it gets a

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am not sure. We will have to investigate more the capabilities of the bug tracking system we intend to use. In the worst case one could add the URL for the archived message copy; second worst would be bouncing (hopefully not forward) the interesting messages

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for pg_dump

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Dany DeBontridder wrote: I often need in command line to get the code of function, so I make a patch for pg_dump,

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
Here here. Where? Where? Oh, you mean Hear Hear. (sorry - one of my pet peeves) Oops. Of course since it's in written form perhaps I should be writing Read! Read! instead. We do have a responsibility, I think, to keep the grammar fairly clean, so the answer to your question who

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] row-level stats and last analyze time

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Has this been done yet? I don't think so. --- Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2007-26-04 at 18:07 -0400, Neil Conway wrote: (1) I believe the reasoning for Tom's earlier change was not to

Re: [HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:43:36AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: I'm looking for corner cases where the concurrent psql patch doesn't handle things properly. I'm wondering about multiple result sets but I can't think of any cases where I can test them. If you submit multiple commands at the

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:46:50AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am not sure. We will have to investigate more the capabilities of the bug tracking system we intend to use. In the worst case one could add the URL for the archived message copy; second worst would be bouncing

Re: [HACKERS] Integer datetimes

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Are we agreed to wait for 8.4 for this? --- Neil Conway wrote: What is the reasoning behind having two different implementations of the datetime types, with slightly different behavior? Do we intend to keep supporting

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:58:44AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough It's a file system. It simply generates HTML (or in our case) PHP files

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 pending patch queue

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:33:38AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Someone (you, I think) advocated a '3 weeks and then dump the rest of the patches' (not quote as strong of wording, but similar) ... why not split the patches list up: submitted patches, not reviewed reviewed patches,

Re: [HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:43:36AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: I'm looking for corner cases where the concurrent psql patch doesn't handle things properly. I'm wondering about multiple result sets but I can't think of any cases where I can test them. If you submit multiple commands at the

Re: [HACKERS] Integer datetimes

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2007-16-05 at 11:25 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Are we agreed to wait for 8.4 for this? Yes. -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough And here I thought the reason

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Aidan Van Dyk wrote: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id - Easy

Re: [HACKERS] Integer datetimes

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Neil Conway wrote: What is the reasoning behind having two different implementations of the datetime types, with

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 pending patch queue

2007-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:36:42 -0500 Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:33:38AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Someone (you, I think) advocated a '3 weeks and then dump the rest of the patches' (not quote

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aidan Van Dyk) writes: * Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070516 07:23]: Maybe. However I think subject-sequence has some advantages over Message-Id: - Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default setting - More handy than lengthy message Id

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3 pending patch queue

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 16:33:32 -0700 Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the developers were to actually take a step back and say, Hey... instead of working on these dozen different features, I should

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Robert Haas wrote: hate the fact that FTS is a separate module. Here here. And with respect to the debate about syntax, who cares? I think I prefer introducing real SQL-ish syntax over a bunch of pg_* functions, but doing it either way is IMHO better than doing nothing. I care. I want a

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Haas
I care. I want a professional easy to understand and easy to maintain that doesn't cause potential conflict with future and past development syntax. I agree with this. The point of my comment was that ISTM that an arbitrary amount of time can be consumed determining the optimal syntax,

[HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that. Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress on getting patches reviewed and applied. As I stated earlier, we are now looking at

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that. It seems there is a lot of reliance on Tom to get the patches applied, but I don't think that is fair or reasonable. I think we need more

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Guido Barosio
Bruce, where can I take a look at the patch list in order to find out if I can be of some help? Regards, g.- On 5/16/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that.

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
It is all on the developer roadmap page: http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches --- Guido Barosio wrote: Bruce, where can I take a look at the patch list in order to find out if I can be of some help? Regards,

Re: [HACKERS] Seq scans roadmap

2007-05-16 Thread Luke Lonergan
I think the analysis on syncscan needs to take the external I/O cache into account. I believe it is not necessary or desirable to keep the scans in lock step within the PG bufcache. The main benefit of a sync scan will be the ability to start the scan where other scans have already filled the

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: It is all on the developer roadmap page: http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches There is also a slightly more readable one here: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus Joshua D. Drake

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system... coughdatabase?/cough And here I

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that. Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress on getting patches reviewed and applied. As I stated earlier, we

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
Dave Page wrote: I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I imagine, and then import that into a new database. Yeah, if the files

Re: [HACKERS] Invalid magic number in log file?

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe the thing to do here is to disallow running a postmaster when the data dir is using a different WAL magic (forcing you to pg_resetxlog or initdb). Which, curiously enough, is exactly what it does ... I'm not particularly concerned with the

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: It is all on the developer roadmap page: http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches There is also a slightly more readable one here: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus note that http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that. Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress on getting patches reviewed and

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, Oh, yea, I need to do that. Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress on getting patches reviewed and applied.

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Guido Barosio
What about a mentoring schema in order to push up the gap that represents catching up with cases like the one Andrew posted? By the way, being a patch reviewer doesn't represents also to be able to find out potential problems in the code, which may have nothing to do with the patch

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Mayer
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: I think that may be where we're heading. In that case, we may need to talk about branching earlier so that developers can work on the new version who are frozen out of the in-process one. I've argued this in the past. But be aware that it will make

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is even better than our archives due to the problem that the archives don't have links to messages crossing month boundaries. Have you noticed that if you go to the archives, some discussions appear truncated at a point, but

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is even better than our archives due to the problem that the archives don't have links to messages crossing month boundaries. Have you noticed that if you go to the archives, some discussions appear truncated at a point, but

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alvaro Herrera wrote: This is even better than our archives due to the problem that the archives don't have links to messages crossing month boundaries. Have you noticed that if you go to the archives, some discussions appear truncated

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 5/16/07, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I care. I want a professional easy to understand and easy to maintain that doesn't cause potential conflict with future and past development syntax. You've just tempted me to create embedded SQL in assembly :) -- Jonah H. Harris, Software

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Huxton
Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on that... Roger. Same here - I've done

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Page
Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on that... Roger.

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Huxton
Dave Page wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. Let me know when you start on

Re: [HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Stark
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:43:36AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: I seem to recall there was a way to construct scenarios that returned multiple result sets via rules but I don't know how to arrange that. Anyone remember? An ALSO SELECT rule? It

Re: [HACKERS] Seq scans roadmap

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:31 -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote: I think the analysis on syncscan needs to take the external I/O cache into account. I believe it is not necessary or desirable to keep the scans in lock step within the PG bufcache. I partially agree. I don't think we need any huge

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
I think one of the things that is preventing urgency is that everyone knows we have large patches unapplied, so they know that their lack of activity is not holding up the release. Any way around that? --- bruce wrote: In

Re: [HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:43:36AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: I seem to recall there was a way to construct scenarios that returned multiple result sets via rules but I don't know how to arrange that. Anyone

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Full page writes improvement, code update

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews and approves it. ---

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 20:09:44 -0400 Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think one of the things that is preventing urgency is that everyone knows we have large patches unapplied, so they know that their lack of activity is not

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ... I disagree with that approach. Larger more complex patches required much more work and effort

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: Dave Page wrote: I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ... I disagree with that approach. Larger more complex patches

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:32:44PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: Dave Page wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch tracker I proposed so I was

Re: [HACKERS] Stats not updated after rollback -- autovacuum confused.

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Dawid Kuroczko wrote: Hello, I have a system where there are mostly COPYs, which insert data into a table.

Re: [HACKERS] temporal variants of generate_series()

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Jim Nasby wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, what

Re: [HACKERS] BufFileWrite across MAX_PHYSICAL_FILESIZE boundary

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold --- Tom Lane wrote: Kurt Harriman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just noticed buffile.c:292 doesn't look quite right where

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 21:04:27 -0400 Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ... I disagree with that approach. Larger

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I disagree with that approach. Larger more complex patches required much more work and effort than small, simple ones. Not only do I think it's unfair to the authors who spent considerably more time on their work, but I think it also sets a bad precedent for future

Re: [HACKERS] Testing concurrent psql

2007-05-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:43:36AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: I seem to recall there was a way to construct scenarios that returned multiple result sets via rules but I don't

Re: [HACKERS] Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

2007-05-16 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On 5/16/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, that is part of our problem, but even items people have already said they _can_ review have shown little progress. For complex patches, it might help to identify and associate a core/senior community member in the early stages of

Re: [HACKERS] Not ready for 8.3

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote: Speaking of reviewers... should we put some thought into how we can increase the number of people who can review code? It seems that's one of our biggest bottlenecks... Having recently dragged myself from never seeing the code before to being able to

Re: [HACKERS] BufFileWrite across MAX_PHYSICAL_FILESIZE boundary

2007-05-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: This has been saved for the 8.4 release: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold Huh, no, this is a bug and should be fixed right away. --- Tom Lane wrote: Kurt Harriman