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

2001-03-06 Thread dom
I especially don't think that we should second-guess what the admin wants us to do by auto-killing backends that are still serving clients. Sure. But it would be nice anyway if pg_ctl could do this with a specific command line switch. -- Tout n'y est pas parfait, mais on y honore

Re: [HACKERS] Ungraceful handling of fatal flex errors

2001-02-05 Thread dom
scan.c:2145: warning: `yy_fatal_error' defined but not used I have a sneakier idea to avoid the warning. [...] #define fprintf(file,fmt,msg) elog(FATAL, "%s", (msg)) Meaning no disrespect : yuck... IMHO this is asking for trouble whenever someone decides to use another yacc. One

Re: [HACKERS] Ungraceful handling of fatal flex errors

2001-01-29 Thread dom
This is flex, not yacc, and our lexer has been flex-only for a long time. It's possible that the hack would break in a future version of flex, but I doubt it. What else is a lexer going to use fprintf for? Hmm, well of course you are right... (and I could use some sleep too :-). OK, this

Re: [HACKERS] Re: AW: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB (fwd)

2001-01-25 Thread dom
yup :-) Maybe this could even be raised to the SQL level, so applications could use this ? I have not seen this elsewhere, but why actually not ? Yes please :-) if someone is to code this quicker than me (I suppose so, since I have other projects to deal with concurrently). -- Tout n'y

Re: [HACKERS] 2-phase commit

2001-01-24 Thread dom
[ sorry to repost this, but I didn't receive my mail back... Anything wrong with the mailserver ? ] I am involved in a project of open-source, PostgreSQL-backed, buzzword-compliant replication/high availability software that would act as an SQL one-to-many gateway (but still in the design

Re: [HACKERS] Re: AW: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB (fwd)

2001-01-23 Thread dom
This 'pre-commit' 'really commit' two-step (get 'yer cowboy hats, right here) is what's needed, and is currently missing from pgsql. Hello, I'm very interested in this topic since I am involved in a distributed, several-PostgreSQLs-backed, open-source, buzzword-compliant database