Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-14 Thread Kevin Brown
jor number so there is no confusion about which libraries are really compatible with which. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin Brown
filename is the same as what's requested *and* whose header information provides the same name. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-11 Thread Kevin Brown
the minor version during a new release when there are no changes to the library itself is probably a matter of preference only. It doesn't really hurt anything and may make management of the version number easier. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-11 Thread Kevin Brown
major/minor numbered library, or whether it can link against any library with the same major number. Most people do the latter, and that's as it should be. If the PostgreSQL libraries (for instance) required a match against the minor number, then applications would

Re: [HACKERS] nested transactions

2002-12-09 Thread Kevin Brown
allow cursors within the innermost transactions? If we allow them anywhere else, why retain the requirement that they be used within transactions at all? -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: Disabling triggers (was Re: [HACKERS] pgsql 7.2.3 crash)

2002-12-09 Thread Kevin Brown
s so someone doesn't disable the CEO's login > when we fire him as part of our testing! I think in this scenario it is > better to be able to disable the trigger globally ;-) I think in this scenario it's probably better to not fire the CEO, gratifying as i

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

2002-12-09 Thread Kevin Brown
the client thinks he wants a commercial database: he may well want something else that a commercial database just happens to provide. If you're trying to sell someone on PostgreSQL, it behooves you to figure out what their real needs are first. Their actual needs may be significantly different

Re: [HACKERS] PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

2002-12-08 Thread Kevin Brown
27;t have any idea that the libraries on the 7.3 server have changed that much). All MHO, of course... -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is your .signature virus: < begin 644 .signature (9V]T8VAA(0K0z end > This i

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Brown
handier if they persist between transactions). That's not to say that you don't have better things to work on, though. :-) -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is your .signature virus: < begin 644 .signature (9V

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Brown
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Kevin Brown wrote: > > I'd also like to see (if this is even possible) a transaction > > isolation mode that would make it possible for multiple concurrent > > updates to the same row to happen without blocking each other (I > > imagine one wa

Re: [HACKERS] big text field -> message type 0x44

2002-12-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Tom Lane wrote: > Tomas Berndtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After it tries again, it always gets error from recv() for some reason > > that I don't know. I also don't understand why errno is set to ENOTTY > > at this point, that makes no sense at all. > > Are you sure it is set? Try settin

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just out of interest, if someone was going to pay you to hack on Postgres > for 6 months, what would you like to code for 7.4? Well, on top of the oft-requested replication support and savepoint support, I'd like to see UPDATE, er,

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 Wishlist

2002-12-03 Thread Kevin Brown
PostgreSQL (where only PostgreSQL users can benefit) for this item. The one good reason for making it possible to use raw partitions is to make it possible to use the PostgreSQL engine as a filesystem! :-) > Win32 Port > -------- > I've explained the reasons before

[HACKERS] Re: RE: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/access/transam ( xact.c xlog.c)

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin Brown
database in an inconsistent state. But that seems a bit better than the alternative, which is that I'd have to kill ALL the backend processes, and have the database end up in the same state anyway. Thoughts? Guess it's time for me to subscriber to pgsql-hackers.

[HACKERS] Re: query plan optimizer bug

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin Brown
elect * from a where i = '1' and j = '0'; NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: Index Scan using idx_a on a (cost=0.00..2.02 rows=1 width=6) EXPLAIN This behavior appears to happen for int8 as well. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's really hard to define what "anomalous behavior" means when you're talking about Windows.

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