Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Hans, Andrew, > > I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to > > look in contrib before they look at gborg. pgFoundry/project.postgresql.org will be up by next week, I promise. Working on it now. This should increase the visibility of non-core components. -- -Jos

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-16 Thread Steve Atkins
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:10:20AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote: > > > > I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to > > look in contrib before they look at gborg. > > This may be true, but if so, per

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote: > > I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to > look in contrib before they look at gborg. This may be true, but if so, perhaps it's a reason to add a contrib/gborg directory with just a README that s

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: > the reason why dblink, dbmirror and the "rserv prototype" are under > contrib/ while projects like erserver and slony1 live on gborg - just to > take this class of projects as an example. Since the rserv prototype actually does not wo

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-07 Thread Jan Wieck
Fabien COELHO wrote: > Is it better in /contrib or gborg? Gborg imho. I thought we were trying to move all non-core code there now. Isn't that why psqlodbc etc. were moved? The argument was that it can be devopped and released independently? Features in "contrib/" have a premium over external ad

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-06 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Paul Tillotson wrote: Hans et al: People asked me to put a simple extension for PostgreSQL Open Source. The attached package contains a simple functions whichs tells a remote TCP socket that somebody is about to modify a certain table. I would very much appreciate being able to receive notific

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Jeff wrote: On Apr 5, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: For me, /contrib is for things closely tied to the backend code, like GIST stuff, and for key tools, like conversion programs. something that would be useful (and perhaps may be part of that pgfoundry or whatever its called movement) w

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Fabien COELHO
> say "Silly, thats on gborg!" and they look at me strangely Sure. The "gborg" name does not strike as being related to postgresql. -- Fabien Coelho - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choos

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Jeff
On Apr 5, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: For me, /contrib is for things closely tied to the backend code, like GIST stuff, and for key tools, like conversion programs. something that would be useful (and perhaps may be part of that pgfoundry or whatever its called movement) would be makin

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Fabien COELHO
> > Is it better in /contrib or gborg? > > Gborg imho. I thought we were trying to move all non-core code there > now. Isn't that why psqlodbc etc. were moved? The argument was that it can be devopped and released independently? Features in "contrib/" have a premium over external add-ons. -- F

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Dave Page
It's rumoured that Bruce Momjian once said: > > Is it better in /contrib or gborg? > Gborg imho. I thought we were trying to move all non-core code there now. Isn't that why psqlodbc etc. were moved? Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3:

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: > > > > Is it better in /contrib or gborg? > > > > > I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to > look in contrib before they look at gborg. > Also, when people ask for training most of them ask for stuff in > contrib. It is people's mind t

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Is it better in /contrib or gborg? I have learned (please correct me if I am wrong) that people tend to look in contrib before they look at gborg. Also, when people ask for training most of them ask for stuff in contrib. It is people's mind that contrib is somehow a source of additional, smal

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Nested transactions: I don't think nested transactions will really help > >>to resolve the core problem. Committing a subtransaction will most > >>likely not imply that a

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Bob . Henkel
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Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nested transactions: I don't think nested transactions will really help to resolve the core problem. Committing a subtransaction will most likely not imply that a parent transaction can be committed as well. A

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nested transactions: I don't think nested transactions will really help > to resolve the core problem. Committing a subtransaction will most > likely not imply that a parent transaction can be committed as well. Agreed. > As

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: People asked me to put a simple extension for PostgreSQL Open Source. The attached package contains a simple functions whichs tells a remote TCP socket that somebody is about to modify a certain table. Doesn't

Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Bob . Henkel
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Re: [HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People asked me to put a simple extension for PostgreSQL Open Source. > The attached package contains a simple functions whichs tells a remote > TCP socket that somebody is about to modify a certain table. Doesn't this encoura

[HACKERS] Socket communication for contrib

2004-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Community, People asked me to put a simple extension for PostgreSQL Open Source. The attached package contains a simple functions whichs tells a remote TCP socket that somebody is about to modify a certain table. Why would anybody do that? Currently PostgreSQL provides a nice LISTEN / NOTIFY mec