Re: [HACKERS] Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

2002-05-22 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
andardized sideeffects. > The changes would involve returning -1 from mktime() for dates before > 1970, and using the tm_isdst flag to indicate whether a time zone > translation was not possible. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

2002-05-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
On 21 May 2002, Manuel Sugawara wrote: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, > > not a glibc bug. > > The question is: how this thing didn't show up before? ISTM t

Re: [HACKERS] Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

2002-05-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
program bug, not a glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at it, but glibc is not the component with a problem. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all list

Re: [HACKERS] Making the regression tests locale-proof

2002-05-10 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
practical cases. Not for uppercase vs. lowercase versions of them. With no locale used (straight ASCII), you get A C b, with a locale you'll get A b C. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsub

Re: [HACKERS] a vulnerability in PostgreSQL

2002-05-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ay.) > If the problem is fixed in 7.0 and later, why not just tell people to > upgrade? Postgresql doesn't support upgrades[1], so if we're going to release upgrades[2], we'd need the backported fixes for 6.5, 7.0 and 7.1 [1] Not the first time I mention this, is it? [2] We go

Re: [HACKERS] v7.2.1 re-rolled ...

2002-03-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ic ftp server, upping the number to avoid confusion is always a good idea. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump 2GB limit?

2002-03-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
spect pg_dump. Is this true? > > No, it's your operating sytem. Red Hat Linux 7.x which he seems to be using supports this. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump 2GB limit?

2002-03-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Laurette Cisneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm on Red Hat. Here's the uname info: > Linux visor 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown You should really upgrade (kernel and the rest), but this kernel supports large files. -- Trond

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 RPMs

2001-09-17 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > > There are provisions in the source for figuring this out automatically. > > > Currently, the only "figuring" it does is to allow it on Linux. (It is my > > > un

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 RPMs

2001-09-17 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > > * The {pgaccess} parameter doesn't do anything AFAICT. PgAccess is > > > installed whenever Tk support is configured (which is correct, IMO). > > > Maybe this is ju

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Makefile.PL for Pg.so

2001-08-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > > Pg.so does not get the proper RPATH in a DESTDIR build environment. > > > > Rather: Perl decides it wants to specify a LD_RUN_PATH in its makefile. > > This will automati

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Makefile.PL for Pg.so

2001-08-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
nstallation? > > Pg.so does not get the proper RPATH in a DESTDIR build environment. Rather: Perl decides it wants to specify a LD_RUN_PATH in its makefile. This will automatically make use of -R. It's fixed in the RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/teg/

Re: [HACKERS] User locks code

2001-08-24 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
sing it internally, you have no obligations to release it to anyone, to give one example. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] bugs - lets call an exterminator!

2001-08-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
notification to the bug list, email notification > to the reporter of the bug. FTR, we're using bugzilla for this and it works great. We're working on porting it PostgreSQL. ftp://people.redhat.com/dkl/ should contain a recent state -- Trond Eivind G

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
endmail to qmail, mailing list delays dropped from hours, or > sometimes even days, to seconds. The MTA used for various redhat.com mailing lists is postfix (and mailman as listmanager) -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] To be 7.1.3 or not to be 7.1.3?

2001-08-12 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
If he hasn't committed > in a few hours I can take care of back-patching it. It must be pushing > midnight in Japan by now... That's a couple of days ago now... anything happening? -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Update to 7.1.2 Question...

2001-07-31 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello all > I have a postgresql 7.0 > and I'm trying to update to 7.1.2 using rpms > but some files is missing > like: > libcrypto.so.0 > libssl.so.0 > > anyone knows what package i can find this files??

Re: [HACKERS] Re: RPM source files should be in CVS (was Re: [GENERAL] psql -l)

2001-07-20 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the only python shebangs I can find in CVS look like > #! /usr/bin/env python > Isn't that OK on RedHat? It is. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL Gemini code

2001-07-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
hould stick > together. We may have our own disagreements, but at least we are > working for the same common goal (open source domination). > > If you ever need any support from us regarding the RedHat database,, > please contact me personally about this

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ally want to > > support that over the long run, so why put effort into it? > > The only reason to add double-crypt is so we can continue to use > /etc/passwd entries on systems that use crypt() in /etc/passwd. Haven't many systems (at least Linux and FreeBSD) switched fro

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
't sure about Linux. > > > > Most recent (3-4 years and newer) use PAM, which can use MD5 as an > > underlying module. > > But what is the default? crypt or md5? Varies. In Red Hat Linux, it's been user configurable during install for a couple of years now - it&#x

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
r algorithms as default, like MD5? (and usually found in /etc/shadow) > > Yes, most BSD's are MD5. I wasn't sure about Linux. Most recent (3-4 years and newer) use PAM, which can use MD5 as an underlying module. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] postgres dies while doing vacuum analyze

2001-06-16 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
On 16 Jun 2001, Manuel Sugawara wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > > [...] > > OK, this works with my system - no coredump, correct results. I'll > > take a look at the glibc sources to verify that, but it looks like > > this was fixed b

Re: [HACKERS] postgres dies while doing vacuum analyze

2001-06-16 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Manuel Sugawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > > > Will do... what is the expected result of the testcase? It seems to > > work alright for me, but I'm running a slightly newer version than we > > have relea

Re: [HACKERS] postgres dies while doing vacuum analyze

2001-06-16 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ed result of the testcase? It seems to work alright for me, but I'm running a slightly newer version than we have released yet... (glibc-2.2.3-11, look in rawhide). -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Re: [HACKERS] postgres dies while doing vacuum analyze

2001-06-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
at strcoll.c:229 > > We've heard reports before of strcoll() crashing on apparently valid > input. We haven't AFAIK, but would be very interested if it can be reproduced. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] Any time estimates for 7.1.2 RPM's ?

2001-06-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ersion, as both 3.0.5 and 4.0.2 have been released at erratas at different times. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] ORDER BY Problem...

2001-06-06 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I know, this is the standard (ASCII-ordered) way of sorting text. No, it's the "we don't know anything about text, but we can compare their numeric values" approach.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: OpenOffice compile

2001-05-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
it needs an _exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception handling. Very strange. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subs

Re: [HACKERS] Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2

2001-05-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
better, and stability (at least for me) has been just as good. The 2.4 kernels make sure that fdatasync() works properly, which could improve performance in certain scenarious quite a bit. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Need Postgresql ODBC Driver

2001-05-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
inux. You can find PHP rpms with ODBC support in Rawhide ( ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ ) - I tested it with unixODBC and postgresql 7.1.1 (also in that directory), and it worked fine for me. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

2001-05-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
of datadir. It conflicts with the FHS - and no, I don't consider configuration files and data as an identical item. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

2001-05-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
it which file to use. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

2001-05-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
cations of allowing Postgres > config files to be world-visible. The files doesn't need to be visible to others... -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

2001-05-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ow different postmasters to have different > config files; You could search in a path... first sysconfdir, then datadir. > (b) not allow a person to create an unprivileged > installation (assuming that sysconfdir is root-owned). Sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc, so that's not a pr

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

2001-05-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
; $PGLIB into postgresql.conf during initdb. While on the subject of postgresql conf... shouldn't it be in sysconfdir instead of the database directory? And there's no switch to the postmaster to tell it you've put it somewhere else either. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat,

Re: [HACKERS] Shared library versions

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
pull in libraries that only unlying code has > > changed, but not the API ... > > ISTM that you should read up on shared library versioning. I second that... if new functionality is added, bump the minor. If functionality changes or is removed, bump the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
rent transactions. > > That is all the fsync delay, probably, and it should be using fdatasync() > on that kernel. And it does seem to work that way with XFS... -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-09 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > > > "Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week > > &

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > "Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week > > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers? > > I think I

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
a 2.2 kernel) includes installing a 2.4pre kernel, AFAIR. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
proach gives a 100% performance boost, it's probably worth doing. At 1% it probably isn't. Same goes for FreeBSD and others. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] File system performance and pg_xlog

2001-05-07 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
e users). And who uses all the new features and performance enhancements done in other ways? It all comes down to if it actually would give a performance boost, how much work it is and if someone wants to do it. > -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-04 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers? I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run? -- Trond E

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-04 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
the filesystem is journaling or not. Cheers, Stephen ******** -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-04 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
e ondisk format) That said, I'm certainly looking forward to xfs - I believe it will be the most widely used of the current batch of journaling file systems (reiserfs, jfs, XFS and ext3, the latter mainly focusing on an easy migration path for existing system) -- Tr

Re: [HACKERS] Extrordinarily Poor Performance....

2001-05-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
leads to a question: > How often are you running VACUUM ANALYZE? > > If this were PostgreSQL 7.0.3, we could ask Alfred about his lazy vacuum > patches, as they work as well for Red Hat 7 as they do for FreeBSD. Postgresql 7.0.3 from Red Hat Linux 7.1 should work just fine on Red

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Rachit Siamwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linux init > scripts that appear in the RPM but not on the pgsql cvs tree. (i am also > curious on why it is different, and how the RPM is built). Lamar Owen and I. -

Re: [HACKERS] 7.1 on 7.1

2001-04-17 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > PostgreSQL 7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.1[1]: All 76 tests passed. > > I'll submit it to the website soonish. > > [1] Available this morning, >http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_sevenone.html I've not

[HACKERS] 7.1 on 7.1

2001-04-16 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
PostgreSQL 7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.1[1]: All 76 tests passed. I'll submit it to the website soonish. [1] Available this morning, http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_sevenone.html -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broa

Re: [HACKERS] Re: 7.1 RPMs

2001-04-14 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ellent compiler, but it needs a set of classes to compile against from a JDK. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone have any good addresses ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ion. > > do you have email addresses fo freshmeat/linuxtoday? I have 6 web sites > that I have bookmarked for announces also, so if you have a good web URL, > I'll take those too ... Seems to be web based (painful): http://freshmeat.net/faq/view/20/ http://linuxtoday.com/co

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone have any good addresses ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
IL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freshmeat, linuxtoday. If the release includes RPMs for Red Hat Linux, redhat-announce is also a suitable

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for platforms

2001-03-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
I haven't put those in the list yet... I'll wait until we release a product, and test it on that. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscri

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-23 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22 Mar 2001, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsrød wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > > > > > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > If a

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-22 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If a platform you are running on is not listed, make sure it gets > > included! > > Red Hat Linux, Wolverine Beta (and some updates) - glibc 2.2.2, > 2.4

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

2001-03-22 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
lel_schedule). I'll update this info when we do our next release. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms (linux 2.4.x ?)

2001-03-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Franck Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would be nice to certify it is running on kernel 2.4.x as they claim this > is entreprise strength kernel... Lamar, if you send me your SRPM I can do that... -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] RPM building (was regression on RedHat)

2001-03-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
andrake people regarding the problem? Most people will use what the vendor ship - a vendor (like us) look into the benefits (stability, performance, compatiblity) of different packages, and make a selection. If they've done a choice of which options are used in their distribution, they are obvi

Re: [HACKERS] RPM building (was regression on RedHat)

2001-03-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
g. Can you suggest mechanisms for > putting a "-fno-fast-math" into the spec file? Isn't there a mechanism > to mark things as "distro specific"? Suggestions? If Mandrake wants to be broken, let them - and tell them. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Do you plan an RPM release of beta 6

2001-03-19 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to ask you if someone is planning to release beta 6 RPMs. > I am running Redhat 7.0 test servers and the compiler is broken. The compiler is not broken. If you find some bugs, please submit them and we'll fix them. -- Tron

Re: [HACKERS] How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

2001-03-08 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
d Hat's Fisher Beta has split the 2 includes, which caused an error trying > to compile a (I guess badly configured) kernel module. It was split in Red Hat Linux 7 as well. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

2001-03-06 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ch obviously hasn't always been the case - the FHS isn't exactly old. Things have changed since then, we have followed. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Turkish locale bug

2001-03-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> I don't have any opinion how can solve this problem. But, > I don't agree with this solution. SQL is naturally English. I am > against SQL to be localized. Has anyone come up with a good solution? The last one I saw from Tom Lane required compile-time options which isn&

Re: [HACKERS] GPL, readline, and static/dynamic linking

2001-02-22 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
; PostgreSQL backend binaries makes the distribution of backend binaries > fall under the GPL. This was discussed extensively earlier. Linking dynamically or statically doesn't make a difference in the case of a library, but as long as readline is an optional feature for the user it's not a problem. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
barring some other solution) is going > to be, so that there are the fewest variants out there. FHS is a good starting (and end-) point. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
and lockfile are created and held open by the > postmaster for the duration of its run. Client programs don't even know > that the lockfile is there, in fact. How can you argue that client > program lifespan has anything to do with it? Nothing but the postmaster uses it? If so, there shouldn't be a problem moving it. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ays /tmp is for temporary files. Also, > > it says programs shouldn't count on data to be stored there between > > invocations. 10+ days isn't temporary... > > We aren't counting on data to be stored in /tmp "between invocations". Between invocations of client programs. You're using /tmp as a shared of stored data. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > It would probably be better if the socket files weren't in /tmp but in > > > a postgres-owned directory

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

2001-01-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ptions?) > There is an option in 7.1 to support defining a different directory > for the socket files, but I doubt very many people will use it. I intend to, for the RPMs we ship. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error

2001-01-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
SO-8859-1 (Latin 1). en_US is latin1 - this is what distinguishes it from POSIX/C. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.1beta3 being uploaded.

2001-01-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > We have a libtool tuned to work with lots of platforms, like ia64, > > > s390 etc... this makes sure it's used. > > > We don't use

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.1beta3 being uploaded.

2001-01-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > > We don't use libtool. > > > > Doing so would be a good thing. > > Not if our code is more portable than libtool's. And this is the case? libtool covers prett

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.1beta3 being uploaded.

2001-01-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > We have a libtool tuned to work with lots of platforms, like ia64, > > s390 etc... this makes sure it's used. > > We don't use libtool. Doing so would be a good t

Re: [HACKERS] RPMS for 7.1beta3 being uploaded.

2001-01-15 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
fi > > > This is useless (because the config.* files are not in src/ anymore) and > > (if it were fixed) not recommendable because config.{guess,sub} is not > > compatible to itself, *especially* in terms of Linux recognition. You > > really should use the ones PostgreSQL comes with. We have a libtool tuned to work with lots of platforms, like ia64, s390 etc... this makes sure it's used. > -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license

2000-12-30 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
led. It bloats on platforms having readline but not libedit. As long as it isn't necesarry for postgresql to function, I don't see any risk of tainting. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] European Datestyle

2000-12-08 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
ers limit 1; > creation_date > > 2000-12-07 04:40:23+01 > ^^ That is the ISO-style, isn't it? There are two ways of making dates make sense, none of them American (but hey, they're still using Fahrenheit, feet, lb, fl.oz. acres and other nonsensical units... ) -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-05 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
#x27;s been a > > _Every_single_ copyright holder of code in the core server would have to > agree to any change. No - GPL projects can include BSD-copyrighted code, no problem there. That being said, creating bad blood is not a good thing, so an approach like this would hurt PostgreSQL a lot. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-03 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
ric (we were priced like we were earning 1 or 2 billion dollars year, which was kindof weird). -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-03 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
e companies contribute engineering resources into core free software components, like gcc, gdb, the linux kernel, glibc, gnome, gtk+, rpm, apache, XFree, KDE - AFAIK, Red Hat and SuSE are by far the two doing this the most. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] OK, that's one LOCALE bug report too many...

2000-11-26 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind GlomsrØd) writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also, since "LC_COLLATE=en_US" seems to misbehave rather spectacularly > > on recent RedHat releases, I propose that initdb change "en_US" to "C&

Re: [HACKERS] OK, that's one LOCALE bug report too many...

2000-11-26 Thread Trond Eivind GlomsrØd
to turn off color ls Ultimately this comes down to: Unix behaviour since 197x versus librarians and others since considerably earlier. We are breaking Unix behaviour but I can now sort of appreciate the thinking behind this. ******** -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] 486 Optimizations...

2000-11-14 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: > Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Trond Eivind Glomsr?d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001114 15:43]: > > > Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Anyone c

Re: [HACKERS] 486 Optimizations...

2000-11-14 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
ay to do it) FWIW, this was what Red Hat Linux used up to and including 6.2 - it increases performance on almost every chip, it runs everywhere, it goes with any gcc. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] 486 Optimizations...

2000-11-14 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
S='-v -O -K i486,host,inline,loop_unroll -Dsvr4' Why would you want to? Not all gccs support -mpentium/mpentiumpro etc. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-11-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
#x27;t use C++ either (which is a horrible mess wrt. binary compatibility - there is no such thing, FTTB). However, if it depended on kernel specific behaviour (like things in /proc, which may or may not have changed its output format) it could break. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
D libcrypt.so.1 NEEDED libnsl.so.1 NEEDED libdl.so.2 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libutil.so.1 NEEDED libreadline.so.4.1 NEEDED libtermcap.so.2 NEEDED libncurses.so.5 NEEDED libc.so.6 [...] It links against nice, round versions of most libraries but wants specific versions of readline ad libpq. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
nd for > this. There usually are no such problems, and I'm not aware of any specific to postgresql either. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
that certainly won't be a problem. [1] which I'm not even close to doing - I've spent a bit of time lately hunting down aliasing bugs in MySQL which causes wrong SQL query results if compiled with "-O2". Ouch. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

2000-10-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
er they have a 7.0 or 7.1 libpq? If there isn't any changes, why bump it? -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] what is CVS?

2000-10-20 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> I'm running RedHat 6.1, and CVS 1.10 which > > What is CVS? An open-source network-transparent version control system. http://www.cvshome.org/ -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] failed assertion error on PG-7.0.2

2000-10-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
t; > ?? Anyone recognize that? > > A few seconds with glimpse shows that there is no file named skeleton.c, > indeed no directory named iconv, in the current sources; much less any > routine named gconv; nor any variable named outbufstart. > So I'm pretty confused... glibc, related to i18n. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.