Re: [HACKERS] ARC patent

2005-01-19 Thread Travis P
On Jan 19, 2005, at 4:54 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD wrote: Another algorithm that was written by university folk (thus probably not patent prone) that looks promising is: http://www.cs.wm.edu/hpcs/WWW/HTML/publications/papers/TR-02-6.pdf

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Travis P
On Dec 14, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Huh, isn't this port testing? Do we not want to fix port bugs at this stage? We are not really fixing anything, because it was never expected to work before. We are adding new functionality. It is,

Re: [HACKERS] Call for port reports

2004-12-12 Thread Travis P
I tested with what dependencies were already available. Unfortunately, even --with-perl couldn't be used because the libraries are apparently non-shared (or so the build process reported). == AIX 5.1, 32-bit, four Power4 processors, # SELECT version();

Re: Buildfarm coverage (was Re: [HACKERS] OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6)

2004-12-03 Thread Travis P
On Dec 3, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: PPC tested pretty often by moi RS6000 isn't this same as PPC? This is the IBM Power4 and now Power5 architecture which is different

Re: [HACKERS] 8.0RC1 tomorrow

2004-12-02 Thread Travis P
On Dec 2, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: We never really issued a call for port reports as has been past practice. I think that Andrew Dunstan's build farm has partially obsoleted that custom, but if you have access to a platform that is not represented in the build farm, please do give it a

Re: [HACKERS] 8.0RC1 tomorrow

2004-12-02 Thread Travis P
On Dec 2, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbuildfarm/ I started work today on a page that lists all the members. Ah, good. I'm not seeing it immediately, but I'll keep my eye out. I've an AIX 5.1 system on which I could try to compile if you don't have

Re: [HACKERS] psql \e broken again

2004-11-15 Thread Travis P
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:14:06PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: John Hansen wrote: 1. Quote only on Windows. 2. Expect user to put quotes in the EDITOR value if it contains a space-containing path. As far I I'm aware, the options on windows are very much like those on unix: path containing spaces

Re: [HACKERS] CVS should die

2004-11-13 Thread Travis P
On Nov 13, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: Question about rename on [EMAIL PROTECTED] news://news.gmane.org:119/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas (Hallgren): Unfortunately, my efforts to get Thunderbird to do something useful with that URL have been unsuccessful and I can't find the thread on

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] CVS should die

2004-11-07 Thread Travis P
Ian Barwick wrote: flat-file based backend ... and the docs mention possible issues with scalability. My impression from being on the Subversion mailing lists: The FSFS backend (flat-file system) scalability issues remain largely theoretical. In practice, it appears to work at least as well