Re: [HACKERS] LGPL

2005-06-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Tom Lane wrote: What is important is that it is possible, and useful, to build Postgres in a completely non-GPL environment. If that were not so then I think we'd have some license issues. But the fact that building PG in a GPL-ized environment creates a GPL-ized binary is not a problem from m

Re: [HACKERS] Table Spaces

2004-05-21 Thread Peter Galbavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not want to open up the BSD vs GPL debate, but keeping PG as a BSD license does take an amount of accounting. I was using GPL as an example, as it was mentioned earlier in the thread. My comments hold for *any* license, including (at least in the UK; unfair contract

Re: [HACKERS] Table Spaces

2004-05-19 Thread Peter Galbavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL. You cannot retrospectively change the terms of a license unless the licensee agrees to it. If something is released GPL, then t

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL pre-fork speedup

2004-05-05 Thread Peter Galbavy
sdv mailer wrote: > We used to run persistent connection until the DB > servers got maxed out because of too many idle > connections sucking up all the memory. Web servers run > different loads than database servers and persistent > connections are notorious for crashing your DB. And this translat

Re: [HACKERS] Small OS ports & Handheld devices

2004-04-30 Thread Peter Galbavy
Rob Butler wrote: > $369 for 4GB of storage in a compact flash card is not all that bad. > $189 for 2.2GB is very reasonable when you consider the 512MB CF is > going for $149! The current "cheap" workaround to get a Hitachi (ne IBM) 4GB microdrive is to buy a Creative Muvo2 4GB and open it up to

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

2004-04-28 Thread Peter Galbavy
Bruno Wolff III wrote: The context of my suggestion was for recovering up until a transaction which messed things up was committed. I did not want the problem transaction to be committed. If the problem transaction ran for a long time, there might be other transactions that I want to keep, if possi

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

2004-04-27 Thread Peter Galbavy
Bruno Wolff III wrote: For long running transactions where you want to recover as much as possible, one might also want to recover up until just before a specific transaction committed (as opposed to started). If your DB has died and you are recovering it, how do you reestablish a session so that

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2003-10-14 Thread Peter Galbavy
Jan Wieck wrote: > 2PC is not too slow in normal operations when everything is purring > like little kittens and you're just wasting your excess bandwidth on > it. The point is that it behaves horrible and like a dirty backstreet > cat at the time when things go wrong ... basically it's a neat thin

Re: [HACKERS] Reinventing the wheel...

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Galbavy
Sean Chittenden wrote: > To prevent lib naming collisions with machines that have libevent > installed, I plan on renaming all of the functions from event_* to > pgevent_*. libevent also has the appropriate autoconf goo to make > detection of the right library pretty seamless. It even supports th

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER USER

2003-03-17 Thread Peter Galbavy
> 1. the userid isn't deleted or anything like that. > > 2. validuntil is only checked in password authentication methods; if you > are able to connect via a non-password auth method (eg IDENT) then it's > not checked. > > I've never been quite sure whether #2 is a bug or a feature, though. Withou

Re: [HACKERS] openbsd 3.2, postgresql 7.3beta3 and openssl 'e_os.h' include file

2002-11-07 Thread Peter Galbavy
be in time for the 7.3 release ? rgds, -- Peter - Original Message ----- From: "Peter Galbavy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:13 AM Subject: openbsd 3.2, postgresql 7.3beta3 and openssl 'e_os.

[HACKERS] release dates and announcements ?

2001-04-07 Thread Peter Galbavy
moving to release later when we are ready to test final work. Also, would it be possible to announce alpha/beta/RC releases to pgsql-announce ? rgds, -- Peter Galbavy Knowledge Matters Ltd http://www.knowledge.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

[HACKERS] FAQ: Current state of replication ?

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Galbavy
raditional 'net environment. As we are coding various other stuff for this project over the next few months, any help we can be in developing for this part of PostgreSQL, just let me know. While knowing very little about PostgreSQL internals, we learn quick. rgds,