Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Jan de Visser
On Thursday 07 September 2006 01:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > How about adding a simple: 'touch snapshotdate' .. in the root directory? > Would that suffice? I'd say date "+[something]" > snapshotdate I betcha that people that can't remember trivial things will muck up file timestamps by copy

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: Josh, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't Po

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Josh, Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't Po

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Josh, > >> Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit > >> date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you > >> don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you > >> have a process problem you ought to fix. > > > > These aren

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit > date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that. If you > don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you > have a process problem you ought to fix. These aren't PostgreSQL test p

Re: [HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure > how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot > instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before > being built. Is there a file somewhere that

[HACKERS] Build date for snapshots?

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I'm not getting bug reports for 8.2 from inside Sun. However, I'm not sure how I can determine from the source what build day a particular snapshot instance is from -- sometimes these files get copied around a bit before being built. Is there a file somewhere that would carry a timesta