Re: [HACKERS] ARC patent

2005-01-18 Thread jearl
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Riggs wrote: So, it also seems clear that 8.0.x should eventually have a straight upgrade path to a replacement, assuming the patent is granted. We should therefore plan to: 1. improve/replace ARC for 8.1 2. backport any replacement directly onto

Re: [HACKERS] Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

2004-07-01 Thread jearl
Andreas Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Justin Clift wrote: Tom Lane wrote: This question has been touched on before, but I guess it's time to face it fair and square: is it reasonable for an SQL implementation to add implementation-specific columns to an information_schema view? One

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

2004-05-04 Thread jearl
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:12, Alvaro Herrera wrote: You know, that's kind of the point of all things related to MySQL. It's better than nothing. PostgreSQL doesn't do things because it's better than nothing. snip (Same as how MySQL guesses the

Re: [HACKERS] contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

2004-04-23 Thread jearl
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The difference is that a better admin tool is very subjective where as a buffer strategy is not... or maybe the difference is really that everyone thinks they are qualified to pick a better admin tool, but very few can really argue as to a better buffer

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-05 Thread jearl
Thomas Swan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Apparently, I have failed tremendously in addressing a concern. The question is does PostgreSQL need to rely on symlinks and will that dependency introduce problems? There is an active win32 port underway (see this

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Tablespaces

2004-03-04 Thread jearl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without symlinks. To create symlinked directories on Win2k NTFS see:  

Re: [HACKERS] Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

2003-09-06 Thread jearl
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mendola Gaetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't be fixed without an on-disk format change. How can we avoid this kind of mess for the future ? Build a time