Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
but he could be correct for those that haven't become self-sufficient yet. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Michael -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave Page put up a new survey on the PostgreSQL portal page very recently, " What would attract the most new PostgreSQL users?" and the results in already are interesting (1,529 results as this is being written): [sni

Re: [HACKERS] Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
patch to a superceeded major version. Wrapping it up and putting it out really isn't a big deal. Marc? Hi Marc, Would you be ok with us releasing a 7.2.4? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work an

[HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
Anyway, thought this worth bringing to people's attention, as we may find some value in it. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to get involved in writing the the driver

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:20:45PM +1030, Justin Clift wrote: Have been discussing what it would take to write an "SDBC" driver for connecting StarOffice/OpenOffice to PostgreSQL with Frank Schönheit, a senior member of the Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice DBA t

Re: [HACKERS] Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

2003-01-19 Thread Justin Clift
of how PostgreSQL is applied out in the real world. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.&quo

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

2003-01-18 Thread Justin Clift
not, why don't we just rearrange psql to dynamically load a library of functions, eg: libpsql72.so libpsql73.so etc... And in them you have functions like: printTableDef(); printViewDef(); etc... Is this very different from how it's done at present? :-) Regards and best wishe

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

2003-01-17 Thread Justin Clift
l into it's own sub-project makes good sense from that point of view. So... this stuff is interesting Greg. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200301161656 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: http://www.turnstep.c

[HACKERS] Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Clift
7.2.x series can use safely until they are able to move to 7.3.x or above. What would it take, and apart from patches for the buffer overflows and the WAL recovery bug, should anything else be included to ensure safety and stability? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My gran

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL 7.4 and Microsoft's SMS

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Clift
yment if it is. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

[HACKERS] Translation of the PostgreSQL manuals to Spanish is under way

2003-01-16 Thread Justin Clift
best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone have a fresh Solaris 8 SPARC system to create

2003-01-15 Thread Justin Clift
Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:20, Justin Clift wrote: Sound like a plan? Will also need someone else with a Solaris 8 SPARC system to try the packages out too, just in case there are weird library dependencies happening that might catch us out. I have access to several

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone have a fresh Solaris 8 SPARC system to create

2003-01-15 Thread Justin Clift
g that might catch us out. Also, am wondering if learning how to do "cross compiling" instead might be worthwhile. Don't yet know anything about it, but it gets mentioned in a lot of documents. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards Mark -- "My grandfather on

[HACKERS] Anyone want to get involved in writing the the driver to connectStar/OpenOffice and PostgreSQL?

2003-01-14 Thread Justin Clift
ating PostgreSQL support further into Star/OpenOffice. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less compet

[HACKERS] Anyone have a fresh Solaris 8 SPARC system to create a PG 7.3.1 packageon?

2003-01-14 Thread Justin Clift
x and similar tools installed, as well as be patched with the latest recommended Solaris patches. Might be a huge ask, but am figuring it to be worth at least trying. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Justin Clift
Hi guys, As a curiosity thought, would it be possible to do something like: \ep Where this tells psql to get the query in the history prior to the \e, and edit it interactively? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of p

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Justin Clift
a second up arrow would bring up the command that was worked upon. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Justin Clift
Justin Clift wrote: b) Do we really want to go to the effort of adding a switch to revert to previous behaviour for something like this? It's almost definitely a win to have \e commands appear in the history, and seems a bit to trivial for adding switches for. Bad wording there..

Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Justin Clift
b) Do we really want to go to the effort of adding a switch to revert to previous behaviour for something like this? It's almost definitely a win to have \e commands appear in the history, and seems a bit to trivial for adding switches for. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "

[HACKERS] Is the 7.3.1 geometry regression test supposed to pass perfectlyon Solaris 8 x86?

2003-01-08 Thread Justin Clift
r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin *** Compiled using "./configure --prefix=/opt/pgsql --with-openssl" Is this stuff useful? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the cred

Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?

2003-01-07 Thread Justin Clift
, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was based on the CMU "Hydra" project, Really!? Small world ... I was part of the Hydra team, more years ago than I like to admit in public. Somehow, I'm not sure that PostgreSQL-on-OS/400 is likely to be more t

[HACKERS] Next platform query: Alphaservers under VMS?

2003-01-07 Thread Justin Clift
Hi guys, Also received a through the Advocacy website asking if anyone has ported PostgreSQL to the AlphaServers under VMS. Anyone know if we run on VMS? Last time I touched VMS (about 10 years ago) it wasn't all that Unix-like. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -

[HACKERS] Have people taken a look at pgdiff yet?

2003-01-06 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, Just found out that the "pgdiff" utility (the one for comparing two different PostgreSQL database's) was released and uploaded to SourceForge in November: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgdiff Have people already looked at this? :-) Regards and best wishes

Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?

2003-01-06 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? Oops, should have been clearer. OS/400 is the operating system on the IBM AS/400 series of midrange computers:

[HACKERS] OS/400 support?

2003-01-06 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, We don't support OS/400 yet do we? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-06 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'K, but that won't help the mirrors themselves ... what we need to do is pull the users-lounge over to the new VM next ... Do you have access to 64.49.215.8? .9 works for me, but .8 doesn't. :-( Regards and best wishes

Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-05 Thread Justin Clift
and best wishes, Justin Clift Peter -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-04 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Tom, Sorry about that. Was a combo of two simple problems. It's fixed now. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the portal itself is not mirrored, butif you go to, for instance UsersLounge or Dow

Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

2003-01-04 Thread Justin Clift
lar. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Password Cracker

2003-01-02 Thread Justin Clift
l :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Justin Clift
go through a proper release process, but determine which steps are optional or not needed for smaller releases. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be i

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Justin Clift
order to bring it up to date? I'm having visions of a 16MB WAL file being pushed out to slave systems in order to update them with a few rows of data... :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and thos

Re: [HACKERS] Big 7.4 items

2002-12-13 Thread Justin Clift
eople have to be careful about how they use sequences, as they don't normally roll back? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Darren -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the fi

Re: [HACKERS] http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/ is down

2002-12-11 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Dan, The database for the postgresql.org sites is back up again now. Thanks for pointing it out. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Justin Clift wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for pointing this out. The Admin guys are looking into it now. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. :-/ Re

Re: [HACKERS] http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/ is down

2002-12-11 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Dan, Thanks for pointing this out. The Admin guys are looking into it now. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Dan Langille wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/ is down Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: The Data Base Syste

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Justin Clift
whipped up a page listing these main points here, and everyone has the ability to make suggestions/edits directly onto that page: http://advocacy.postgresql.org/documents/ReleaseProcess Hopefully that's helpful. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-09 Thread Justin Clift
is people new to PostgreSQL that don't. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indir

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-09 Thread Justin Clift
can view it for now at wwwdevel.postgresql.org. The new front page has links to the other main websites, so it should help people find the information they need in a much easier way. :-) Hope that's helpful to know. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tommi -- "My grandf

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Justin Clift
is extremely bad form coming from anyone, let alone you. Please consider the statements you make by a more accurate approach in the future. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Vince. -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Justin Clift
Vince Vielhaber wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Vince Vielhaber wrote: Because of this taken from the above quoted text: "they were under constant assault from their clients to use oracle or db2" Last I looked neither Oracle or DB2 were open source, but they both j

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-08 Thread Justin Clift
entioned. And ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Anything else you don't understand about that? Vince. -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less com

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

2002-12-07 Thread Justin Clift
, there really isn't much choice. That tells me their clients wanted a commercial database, not one that's open source. All the marketing in the world won't change that. Really? Why do you say that? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Vince. -- "My grandfath

Re: [HACKERS] hardware needed ?

2002-12-06 Thread Justin Clift
w what un-cool things people could decide to store in there, but it might be useful for a week or two after Myk's article becomes available for readers. Would you be interested in this? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Original Message Subject: [GENERAL] publicl

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? (postmaster

2002-12-05 Thread Justin Clift
tall scripts I would be glad to post, and I would be very glad to include Igor's console in the install. Yep, he does seem to have created a pretty nifty console. It would make a cool offering. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that ther

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? (postmaster

2002-12-05 Thread Justin Clift
mlw wrote: Once we do that, the we have the hook for more reliable and powerful systems. Yep, I pretty much agree. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me t

Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? (postmaster

2002-12-05 Thread Justin Clift
oject, so people could work on this through CVS. Would you like to register it as a project? Mark, do you feel it would be better to put your installer plus this together into one project on GBorg too? Not sure, it's just a thought. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
;www.postgresql.org" as that's going to change as soon as the new portal is in place. Does this sound like a workable approach for now? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift I liked Greg(?)'s ideas, but I don't see it as being implemented overnight :) -- "My gran

[HACKERS] A thank you from an end user

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, We just received this message through the contact form on the Advocacy site. Thought it would be nice to hear. :-) (btw Ajay, you're probably best to upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.2.3 or 7.3 [just released], as 7.2.1 had a few nasty bugs in it) Regards and best wishes, Justin

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-04 Thread Justin Clift
the last thing I need. Ok then, what do you suggest? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Regards, Dave. -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was le

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: Of course we are, it's just that we're also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. Why don't we just shut down the regular web site. Clearly it's not conside

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
ve guessed that release management is now done by the "advocacy" group? While you're out advocating, don't forget the existing users. Sorry Peter. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and thos

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Actually, there are lines, Justin just occasionally appears to 'blur' them until I get a chance to refresh them ... eh Justin?:) [innocent whistle] + Justin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe comma

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
also trying to direct people to the Advocacy site where there is a lot more info, in a lot more languages. The only reason for the download page not having a list of mirrors is due to not having done it yet. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift :-) Regards, Dave. ---

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Clift
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about experiences for the advocacy Web site. Is this the kind of thing that the

Re: PostgreSQL in Universities (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist)

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Clift
ities or educational institutions? If so we could put something together about experiences for the advocacy Web site. Is this the kind of thing that the Techdocs Guides area would be good for? (http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides) :-) Regards and best wishes, Ju

Re: [HACKERS] Does anyone know what "embedded transactions" are?

2002-12-01 Thread Justin Clift
Joe Conway wrote: > > Has anyone from Compiere ever contacted this list to discuss their issues? It > is an unbelievable shame that the most active open source ERP can't use an > open source database. I think so, but not with zeal. :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

[HACKERS] Does anyone know what "embedded transactions" are?

2002-12-01 Thread Justin Clift
t;embedded transations". http://www.compiere.org/technology/independence.html Does anyone know what they're talking about? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 7.3 announcement on postgresql.org

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Clift
he ftp and website mirrors now irrelevant to you? Not sure what you mean here. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Vince. > -- >http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com > Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio. -- &quo

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 7.3 announcement on postgresql.org

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Clift
ng the Subject line to make things a bit more obvious. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competiti

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Security Expert???

2002-11-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Chris, Just received this from them. Look like he was trying to claim stuff that wasn't true. :-/ Thanks for pointing this out Chris. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift *** Original Message Subject: Re: Demande de renseignements Defi SYSDOOR Date

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Security Expert???

2002-11-25 Thread Justin Clift
et's hope they get back to us. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Chris -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less

[HACKERS] Interesting thought from an article about Sun technologies

2002-11-22 Thread Justin Clift
se it was doing constant indexing. So the GUI has gone, along with the Rebuild button." *** Is "Constant indexing" something that sounds interesting for us to look at? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of p

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Bug with sequence

2002-11-20 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> I created a sequence using SERIAL when I created a table. I used the > >> same sequence for another table by setting a column default to > >> nextval(sequenc

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Bug with sequence

2002-11-20 Thread Justin Clift
Neil Conway wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This sounds like a serious bug in our behaviour, and not something > > we'd like to release. > > It's not ideal, I agree, but I *definately* don't think this is > grounds for ch

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Bug with sequence

2002-11-20 Thread Justin Clift
to people's existing scripts, and also to people who are doing dump/restore of specific tables (it'll kill the sequences that other tables depend on too!) No real issue with the nicety for newbies, but am very concerned about the lack of a dependancy check here. :-/ Regards and best wishes,

[HACKERS] Looking for a "Linux on Playstation 2" person to compile PostgreSQL RPM's

2002-11-18 Thread Justin Clift
ed someone with the Linux for Playstation 2 kit to compile the RPM's so they can be added. Does anyone already have a "Linux for Playstation 2" kit and would be willing to compile them? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are

Re: [HACKERS] Time to move on...

2002-11-14 Thread Justin Clift
six years, but it is > time to take a break and to move on to other projects. Good luck Thomas. Truly hope you're going to have heaps of fun, enjoy yourself, and find the new projects rewarding too. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Thanks to Marc, Bruce, and Vadim for welc

Re: [HACKERS] Propose RC1 for Friday ...

2002-11-14 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > Personally I think this is a low-risk patch and so choice 2 is > > appropriate. If this is the only change, then 2 does seem like the best mix of risk/progress. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Sorry, I was vagu

Re: [HACKERS] Does v7.2.x support AIX 5.1?

2002-11-14 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We received a query through the Advocacy site about whether we support > > AIX 5.1 or not, so am trying to find out. > > It should work. Andreas just submitted a port confirmation on AIX > 4.3.2

[HACKERS] Does v7.2.x support AIX 5.1?

2002-11-13 Thread Justin Clift
Does PostgreSQL 7.2.x (and also 7.3 when it's released) support AIX 5.1? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less co

Re: [HACKERS] RC1?

2002-11-13 Thread Justin Clift
aine to retest 7.3? Have a feeling we might be able to leverage the PlayStation2 brand name here for the Advocacy project. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > regards, tom lane -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those

Re: [HACKERS] 500 tpsQL + WAL log implementation

2002-11-12 Thread Justin Clift
Bravo Curtis, This is all excellent research. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Curtis Faith wrote: > Disk space is much cheaper than CPU and memory so I think that a logging > system that used as much as three or four times the space but is three or > four times faster w

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
reatly enhance the number of users we have. It's important to do this because companies and governments are looking to Open Source software in serious ways *now* so we need to be in place to meet that need as it starts to kick in. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- >

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
ies, and other large institutions around the world for adopting Open Source software in significant ways, we'd be kind of short-sighted to do things in a way that mostly limits people to using M$ products. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Peter Eisentraut [E

[HACKERS] Romanian version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
ly be ready soon. :) That'll make an even 10 languages! Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I > will post patches tha

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL IRC Channel... who's the Admin?

2002-11-04 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Neil, Cool. It's fixed now. We've just recreated the channel and started giving operator access to the right people. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Neil Conway wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > > &g

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL IRC Channel... who's the Admin?

2002-11-04 Thread Justin Clift
in's about. So, does anyone know who the Admin's are, so we can get things fixed up? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the fi

[HACKERS] Spanish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-11-03 Thread Justin Clift
Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi --

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Database replication... - Mission Critical

2002-11-01 Thread Justin Clift
network, you > might get lucky. But it is an extremely dangerous plan. Ok, have just removed the link. Sorry for not getting around to it before Andrew. (Bruce pointed out your email, otherwise I would have missed it again too). :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > A > >

[HACKERS] Swedish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-30 Thread Justin Clift
least). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi --

[HACKERS] Brazilian Portuguese version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-22 Thread Justin Clift
are coming along. Am very, very proud of our community members. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition

[HACKERS] German version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-21 Thread Justin Clift
5 languages done, with Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish nearly ready too. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less comp

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3 Branched ...

2002-10-16 Thread Justin Clift
> Thomas Swan wrote: > > Justin Clift wrote: > > Ok. Wonder if it's worth someone creating a "PostgreSQL Powertools" > > type of package, that includes in one download all of these nifty > > tools (pg_autotune, oid2name, etc) that would be beneficial

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql and multithreading

2002-10-16 Thread Justin Clift
, regardless if they're released separately as add-on patches or not. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -- > Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive,

[HACKERS] French version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-15 Thread Justin Clift
at's 4 completed languages at this point, with more coming along. Let's see how many more can be added... :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to b

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-14 Thread Justin Clift
ld be used to send out Romanian pages? i.e. for English, French, German it's iso-8859-1, for Turkish it's iso-8859-9, Romanian = ? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello ! > > I'd like to translate the advocacy site to R

[HACKERS] Turkish version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-14 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, The Turkish translation of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site, done by Devrim GUNDUZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now complete and ready for public use: http://advocacy.postgresql.org/?lang=tr Pretty cool stuff. Thanks Devrim. :-) Regards and best wishe

Re: [HACKERS] oid2name and relfilenode

2002-10-12 Thread Justin Clift
to relfilenode2name and install by default Should it be renamed to pg_ for namespace consistency? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Actually, to be accurate, I think databases are stored based on their > oid and tables/indexes are stored based on their relfilenode. That is

Re: [HACKERS] Script to compute random page cost

2002-10-12 Thread Justin Clift
= foo $ :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Justin Clift
inguprserv.php That could be the basis for your async replication solution. Hope that helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > It doesn't remove the slow time, but will distribute the slowness across > every transaction rather than all at once (via creation of replicati

[HACKERS] Italian version of the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" site is ready

2002-10-08 Thread Justin Clift
x27;s really going to help. :-) In addition to this, Stefano has also volunteered to be an Italian language contact for the PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing team. With luck we'll gain good PostgreSQL representatives for *all* of the major languages and get some nifty stuff happening. :-) R

Re: [HACKERS] Analysis of ganged WAL writes

2002-10-07 Thread Justin Clift
Greg Copeland wrote: > If so, I assume it would become a configure option (--with-aio)? Or maybe a GUC "use_aio" ? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > Regards

Re: [HACKERS] Threaded Sorting

2002-10-04 Thread Justin Clift
's common to have a bunch of drives and allocate different ones for different tasks appropriately, whether in array sets, individually, mirrored, etc. 100% totally feasible to have a separate 15k SCSI drive or two just purely for doing sorts if it would assist in throughput. :-)

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translationof the

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
e site and emailed it to the volunteers. :) So far community members have volunteered for German, Turkish, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Polish. Cool. :) Want to co-ordinate with the other two German language volunteers? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Regards > T

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Anyone want to assist with the translation of theAdvocacy

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
ult language, English for this site. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Regards > Tino -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there w

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Large databases, performance

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
subscribe pgsql-performance as the message body. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Bye > Shridhar > > -- > Clarke's Conclusion:Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the > right thing. > > ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
orlds" here is basically saying "every world most advanced open source > database" and does not, in any case, connote possession. Ok, updating it now. Thanks heaps Thomas. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -tfo -- "My grandfather once told me that there

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
ge. Um, doesn't "world's" mean "world is" ? That wouldn't make sense then though. ? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > -tfo > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe co

[HACKERS] OT: Looking to Open Source the Flash training material

2002-10-03 Thread Justin Clift
hoping people have good ideas, beneficial directions, etc. If everything is looking good, then we'll look to ensuring this is a workable Open Source license, etc. (www.opensource.org) :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of p

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