Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-27 Thread Doug McNaught
Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: 1. You can't easily generate a clean diff of your local version against the original imported from postgresql.org. The changes you actually made get buried in a mass of useless $Foo$ diff lines. Stripping those out is possible

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: I'm just interested in what everyone's personal plans for 7.5 development are? Here is a pretty good hit list: http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/unsupported-features-sql99.html There are still some low-hanging fruit and some

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera writes: (I will probably be doing lots of translation work too, or maybe enable someone else to do it ...) I think in 7.5 we'll be able to get everything fully translat{ed|able}. We already have initdb, and we'll do ecpg, pg_ctl, and decide the fate of initlocation and ipcclean.

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:30:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Alvaro Herrera writes: (I will probably be doing lots of translation work too, or maybe enable someone else to do it ...) I think in 7.5 we'll be able to get everything fully translat{ed|able}. We already have initdb, and

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-27 Thread Joe Conway
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: I'm just interested in what everyone's personal plans for 7.5 development are? There are still some low-hanging fruit and some below-the-cloudy-sky-hanging fruit in there, for instance [...snip...] Basic array support ^^^

[HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hi everyone, I'm just interested in what everyone's personal plans for 7.5 development are? Shridar, Gavin and myself are trying to get the tablespaces stuff off the ground. Hopefully we'll have a CVS set up for us to work in at some point (we didn't think getting a branch and commit privs

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:27:22AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: What's everyone else wanting to work on? I want to get the nested transaction patch thingie sorted out. I feel it's not that far away. After that, maybe - try using a pg_shareddepend shared catalog to check user

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Changing all our $Id$ tags to $Postgres$ would make a separate CVS a lot easier, hint hint :) Why? From the info pages: `$Header$' A standard header containing the full pathname of the RCS file, the revision number, the date

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Rod Taylor
So, what does changing it to $PostgreSQL$ do? Or am I reading the wrong part of the manual? After applying the patch in -patches to CVSROOT and running the update script... It will allow Chris and other to import the PostgreSQL source into their own CVS tree without having do to a ton of diff

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: So, what does changing it to $PostgreSQL$ do? Or am I reading the wrong part of the manual? After applying the patch in -patches to CVSROOT and running the update script... It will allow Chris and other to import the PostgreSQL source into their

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, what does changing it to $PostgreSQL$ do? Or am I reading the wrong part of the manual? The BSDs wen't through similar measures to ensure they could maintain multiple CVS sources without diff / patch going nuts. Yeah, I have gotten similar requests

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'k, but why can't that be accomplished with $Id$? $Id$ isn't much better than $Header$ --- the point is to avoid keywords that downstream people's CVS repositories will want to replace. Are there any caveats to the change? Ie. if Tom has a checkout

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 23:32, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: So, what does changing it to $PostgreSQL$ do? Or am I reading the wrong part of the manual? After applying the patch in -patches to CVSROOT and running the update script... It will allow

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Hi everyone, I'm just interested in what everyone's personal plans for 7.5 development are? Shridar, Gavin and myself are trying to get the tablespaces stuff off the ground. Hopefully we'll have a CVS set up for us to work in at some point (we didn't think

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 23:32, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, but why can't that be accomplished with $Id$? When you import the files into the other CVS system the version and file information $Id$ represents will be replaced by the other system. So, when you

Re: [HACKERS] 7.5 Plans

2003-11-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Tom Lane wrote: 1. You can't easily generate a clean diff of your local version against the original imported from postgresql.org. The changes you actually made get buried in a mass of useless $Foo$ diff lines. Stripping those out is possible in theory but painful. Is that the reason linux does