Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[adding webmaster to cc] On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21.20:20 Andres Freund wrote: create account, ... Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup Hmm. Could it be that this web form doesn't have a mail queue and thus doesn't retry to send the mail when the first

Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 13:00, Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote: [adding webmaster to cc] On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21.20:20 Andres Freund wrote: create account, ... Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup Hmm.  Could it be that this web form

Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13.05:55 Magnus Hagander wrote: I see a graylisted email that's in the queue... I'll give it a kick, but normally you jsut have to wait... Thanks, it arrived. I'm used to wait when I enable greylisting. 4h delay is rare, though. greets -- vbi -- I liken ISPs to

Re: [webmaster] [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Adrian von Bidder's message of mié mar 09 09:13:04 -0300 2011: On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13.05:55 Magnus Hagander wrote: I see a graylisted email that's in the queue... I'll give it a kick, but normally you jsut have to wait... Thanks, it arrived. I'm used to wait when I

[HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho! I'm poking around a bit in PostgreSQL's source for curiosity's sake. Is there a short howto on how to start / debug postgres from within the unpacked/compiled tar? Are there scripts that set up linker paths and Postgres' environment? thanks in advance -- vbi -- This statement is

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote: Is there a short howto on how to start / debug postgres from within the unpacked/compiled tar? Are there scripts that set up linker paths and Postgres' environment? You should probably start by reading the developer FAQ page:

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, On Tuesday 08 March 2011 15.39:56 Kevin Grittner wrote: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ thanks If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS. Sorry, forgot. Linux. The Basic system testing item is where I'm kinda stuck. You advise to perform run time testing

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 08 March 2011 15.39:56 Kevin Grittner wrote: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ thanks If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS. Sorry, forgot.  Linux. The Basic

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote: Or do you advise to just make install and test from there? Pretty much. For development you will want to specify a few options in the ./configure step. At a minimum I recommend: --prefix= --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-depend See

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2011-03-08 at 16:17 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Aagain, my question: are there wrappers/helpers to do this easily from the source/compile tree? Like: set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PG_WHATEVER, call initdb, ... Many developers have their own wrapper scripts, mainly to handle

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, On Tuesday 08 March 2011 16.58:58 Kevin Grittner wrote: Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote: Or do you advise to just make install and test from there? Pretty much. Thanks for all your answers. I was just a bit confused because when I write stuff for myself I usually set

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch writes: Thanks for all your answers. I was just a bit confused because when I write stuff for myself I usually set up stuff to run directly in the build environment, so I was expecting something like that to be available. But make install into ~/pg

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred working environment of this sort. I think I've published mine at least once That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might make it easier to get started:

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 03/08/2011 01:04 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred working environment of this sort. I think I've published mine at least once That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho again! Now this kind of stuff is what I was after :-) On Tuesday 08 March 2011 19.04:53 Kevin Grittner wrote: That reminds me -- Greg Smith put something together which might make it easier to get started: https://github.com/gregs1104/peg/ Since you don't allow anonymous editing of

Re: [HACKERS] Beginner question: Hacking environment?

2011-03-08 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21:12:53 Adrian von Bidder wrote: Since you don't allow anonymous editing of the wiki, nor have an obvious create account, I leave it to you to add this: Its linked on the mainpage: http://www.postgresql.org/community/signup Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers