Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2003-11-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Jean-Michel POURE wrote: OK, now, some of us will complain that Win32 is not needed at a time when the Debian Synaptic graphical installer gives access to 13.748 packages. Win32 sounds like an "old Atari game station". Agreed. On the long-run, everyone will leave Win32, even my grand-mother. Wel

[HACKERS] Win32 port

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Michel POURE
Le Mardi 18 Novembre 2003 20:22, ow a écrit : > Not really. I simply think there are more pressing issues than win32 port. Dear friends, Porting to Win32 can multiply: - direct users (i.e. developers) by a factor of two or three, - indirect users by a larger factor, provided that major projects i

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port - current status?

2003-07-13 Thread Joe Conway
Claudio Natoli wrote: just wondering if the guys involved in the Win32 port could give a quick update? I'm just (one of the many?) hanging out for this, to justify continued use of Postgres to the powers that be. Seems like there has been no word on this for a couple weeks, and I'm not even sure wh

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port - current status?

2003-07-13 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 01:58, Claudio Natoli wrote: > I'm just (one of the many?) hanging out for this, to justify continued use > of Postgres to the powers that be. Seems like there has been no word on this > for a couple weeks, and I'm not even sure whether or not it has made/will > make it into 7

[HACKERS] Win32 port - current status?

2003-07-13 Thread Claudio Natoli
Hi all, just wondering if the guys involved in the Win32 port could give a quick update? I'm just (one of the many?) hanging out for this, to justify continued use of Postgres to the powers that be. Seems like there has been no word on this for a couple weeks, and I'm not even sure whether or no

Re: [HACKERS] win32 port

2003-02-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
It is going to be non-threaded in 7.4. SRA may contribute their threaded version to a future release of PostgreSQL, but I don't think it will be 7.4. We are using PeerDirect's Win32 port, with a few improvements from SRA's port (minus their thread changes). I am going to work on it in March. -

[HACKERS] win32 port

2003-02-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
Has a final decision been made if the win32 port is going to be threaded or not? Merlin

Re: [HACKERS] win32 port --asynchronous I/O and memory

2003-02-03 Thread Jan Wieck
Merlin Moncure wrote: > > Just a quick question... are you guys using the C runtime or the win32 > API to do things like file i/o and memory allocation. If you are using > the win32 api, are you using asynchronous I/O? Generally, how much raw > win32 code do you expect to write (assumption: as l

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 01 February 2003 12:40 > To: Greg Copeland > Cc: Dave Page; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List; Tom Lane > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing > > > Tr

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:30:17AM -0600, Greg Copeland wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 00:34, Adam Haberlach wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:31AM -0600, Greg Copeland wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote: > > > Please go with XFS or ext3. There are a number of blesse

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-02-01 Thread Greg Copeland
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 00:34, Adam Haberlach wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:31AM -0600, Greg Copeland wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote: > > > > > > I intend to run the tests on a Dual PIII 1GHz box, with 1Gb of Non-ECC > > > RAM and a 20Gb (iirc) IDE disk. I will run

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-02-01 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Try it with FreeBSD's UFS and FreeBSD 5.0's new UFS2 filesystems perhaps - or I could! Chris On 1 Feb 2003, Greg Copeland wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote: > > > > I intend to run the tests on a Dual PIII 1GHz box, with 1Gb of Non-ECC > > RAM and a 20Gb (iirc) IDE disk. I wi

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-01-31 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:31AM -0600, Greg Copeland wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote: > > > > I intend to run the tests on a Dual PIII 1GHz box, with 1Gb of Non-ECC > > RAM and a 20Gb (iirc) IDE disk. I will run on Windows 2000 Server with > > an NTFS filesystem, and again

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-01-31 Thread Greg Copeland
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote: > > I intend to run the tests on a Dual PIII 1GHz box, with 1Gb of Non-ECC > RAM and a 20Gb (iirc) IDE disk. I will run on Windows 2000 Server with > an NTFS filesystem, and again on Slackware Linux 8 with either ext3 or > reiserfs (which is preferred?

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-01-31 Thread Hannu Krosing
Dave Page kirjutas R, 31.01.2003 kell 22:36: > Despite some people's thoughts that a powerfail test is of little use, I > going to spend some time doing one anyway because I think Tom's > arguments for it are valid. I have lashed together the attached test > program (the important bits are the setu

[HACKERS] win32 port --asynchronous I/O and memory

2003-01-31 Thread Merlin Moncure
Just a quick question... are you guys using the C runtime or the win32 API to do things like file i/o and memory allocation. If you are using the win32 api, are you using asynchronous I/O? Generally, how much raw win32 code do you expect to write (assumption: as little as possible). As for memor

[HACKERS] Win32 port powerfail testing

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Page
Despite some people's thoughts that a powerfail test is of little use, I going to spend some time doing one anyway because I think Tom's arguments for it are valid. I have lashed together the attached test program (the important bits are the setup, run and check functions) for review before I actu

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-29 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:47 AM > To: Peter Eisentraut > Cc: Justin Clift; Hannu Krosing; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; > Postgres development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches su

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-29 Thread Jan Wieck
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Justin Clift writes: > > > The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with > > Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed > > there), > > You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever > compiler can

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches

2003-01-28 Thread Alan Gutierrez
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:49, Hannu Krosing wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:34, Curtis Faith wrote: > > tom lane writes: > > > You think we should drive away our existing unix developers > > > in the mere hope of attracting windows developers? Sorry, it > > > isn't going to happen. > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed there), You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever compiler can also be used with a m

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Justin Clift writes: > The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with > Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed > there), You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever compiler can also be used with a makefile-driven build

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > I do have a problem with MKS toolkit, which is a commerical purchase. > I would like to avoid reliance on that, though Jan said he needed their > bash. I don't believe that quite yet. Jan said the regression test script crashes Cygwin's bash, but how come it has never cra

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
Justin Clift wrote: Since March 2002 (less than 1 year ago), it's been downloaded about 120,000,000 times. Wow. 120 Million downloads in less than 1 year. That's a pretty popular IDE (16th most popular project on SourceForge) Arrrgh. Thought that sounded a bit too high. Wrong column, i

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hannu Krosing wrote: Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07: Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well req

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Hannu Krosing
Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't see a strong reason not > > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see a strong reason not > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > > shell environment. > > Indeed. I think the

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin Brown
Curtis Faith wrote: > tom lane writes: > > You think we should drive away our existing unix developers > > in the mere hope of attracting windows developers? Sorry, it > > isn't going to happen. > > Tom brings up a good point, that changes to support Windows should not > add to the tasks of tho

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches

2003-01-23 Thread Darko Prenosil
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Firebird uses a set of Borland command line tools and Borland's make, > which they give away as a free download. Even if you're compiling for > Windows, the build process uses Borland's command line "make". A batch > build script copi

Re: [HACKERS] WIn32 port

2003-01-22 Thread Jan Wieck
Viacheslav N Tararin wrote: > > Hi. > > Exists in CVS Win32 port sources? Not yet. I sent patches for a native Win32 port of v7.2.1 out a few days ago. It's sure a couple weeks away before something against current CVS HEAD comes out of that. You can find the patches at http://www.janwieck.ne

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches

2003-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firebird uses a set of Borland command line tools and Borland's make, which they give away as a free download. Even if you're compiling for Windows, the build process uses Borland's command line "make". A batch build script copies makefiles from a single source directory and spreads them aro

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > We focused on porting the programs. The goal was to have PostgreSQL > running native on Win32 for a user. Having a nice and easy maintainable > cross platform config, build and test environment for the developers is > definitely something that still needs to be done (hint, hint

[HACKERS] WIn32 port

2003-01-22 Thread Viacheslav N Tararin
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Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches

2003-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 02:01, Dann Corbit wrote: > Maybe because most of the machines in the world (by a titanic landslide) > are Windoze boxes. On the desktop, yes. On the server, no. PostgreSQL is nore intended for a server, no? I can see the utility in having a development installatio

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches

2003-01-22 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:34, Curtis Faith wrote: > tom lane writes: > > You think we should drive away our existing unix developers > > in the mere hope of attracting windows developers? Sorry, it > > isn't going to happen. > > Tom brings up a good point, that changes to support Windows should

Re: Windows Build System was: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-22 Thread Curtis Faith
tom lane writes: > You think we should drive away our existing unix developers > in the mere hope of attracting windows developers? Sorry, it > isn't going to happen. Tom brings up a good point, that changes to support Windows should not add to the tasks of those who are doing the bulk of the w

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:54 PM > To: Brian Bruns; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > > > Brian Bruns wrote: > > >P

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy") built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. Correct. I wonder why we need a Windows port

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Bruns
sentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jan Wieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Postgres development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:40 PM > Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > > > > Jan Wieck wr

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > "Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > > e

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Al Sutton wrote: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Al Sutton
gres development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > Jan Wieck writes: > > > I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the > > patches mailing list. > &

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see a strong reason not > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > > shell environment. > > Indeed. I think t

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't see a strong reason not > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > shell environment. Indeed. I think the goal here is to have a port th

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the > patches mailing list. I'm concerned that you are adding all these *.dsp files for build process control. This is going to be a burden to maintain. Everytime someone changes an aspect of how a file is b

[HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-20 Thread Jan Wieck
Hi, I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the patches mailing list. If you are not subscribed to the patches list you can download them from http://www.janwieck.net/win32_port Jan -- #==# # It's

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port (native)

2003-01-17 Thread Joe Conway
Jochem van Dieten wrote: everything. Even when connecting to a 7.3 server the problems (no schema support etc.) are far outweighted by the advantages of having a lightweight (just libpq.dll + psql.exe, no cygwin, no installation) client tool. But it would be nice if schema support etc. was avai

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port (native)

2003-01-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jan Wieck wrote: As a PostgreSQL coreteam member I want to thank my employer, the PeerDirect Corporation, for contributing this work, which IMHO is an important step for PostgreSQL. Yes, a very important step. A big thank you to PeerDirect. What we need from here are some ideas how this port

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port (native)

2003-01-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
My idea was to go through the patch and break it out into the items it addresses: fork/exec loop rename test handle \r in COPY copydir for cp -r backslash tests rmdir not recursive for rm -r shared memory could map to new address in

[HACKERS] Win32 port (native)

2003-01-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Okay, I have finally extracted out a patch that applied to a 7.2.1 tree get's me something that compiles and passes all regression tests on RedHat Linux and Windows 2000. To clearify upfront, even if the build process of this port uses a few cygwin tools, the final executables and libraries do no

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2003-01-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan is working on the port and should be posting it to the patches list in the next few days. After that, we will all look over the patch, port it from 7.2.1 to CVS HEAD, and make improvements before applying to CVS HEAD. Stay subscribed to hackers and you will see all the activity as soon as it

[HACKERS] Win32 port

2003-01-17 Thread Viacheslav N Tararin
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Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > OK, Steve's vote is enough to indicate that most want [something] Amazing. How can others hope to achieve such powers? ;-) -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscrib

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-08 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@;candle.pha.pa.us] > Sent: 08 November 2002 16:10 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Steve Howe; Katie Ward; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port > > I hope I didn't sound too unappreciative

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@;candle.pha.pa.us] > > Sent: 08 November 2002 04:54 > > To: Steve Howe > > Cc: Katie Ward; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-08 Thread Katie Ward
TECTED] > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@;postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Steve Howe > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:43 AM > To: Katie Ward > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port > > > Hello Katie, > > Thursday, November 7, 2002, 7:08:20 PM, you wrot

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-08 Thread Katie Ward
Hi, all. I just wanted to give you an update on where my company (PeerDirect) is with regards to our native Windows port. We are planning on contributing the code for the native port sometime next month (in December). We would have liked to contribute it earlier, but our work schedules here didn

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-08 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@;candle.pha.pa.us] > Sent: 08 November 2002 04:54 > To: Steve Howe > Cc: Katie Ward; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port > > > > OK, Steve's vote is enough to ind

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, Steve's vote is enough to indicate that most want to wait for PeerDirect's version before moving forward with the Win32 port. This also confirms that this will _not_ be an abreviated release cycle but a full 4-6 months of development, followed by 2 months of beta. --

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-07 Thread Steve Howe
Hello Katie, Thursday, November 7, 2002, 7:08:20 PM, you wrote: KW> Hi, all. KW> I just wanted to give you an update on where my company (PeerDirect) is with KW> regards to our native Windows port. KW> We are planning on contributing the code for the native port sometime next KW> month (in Dece

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-07 Thread Katie Ward
Hi, all. I just wanted to give you an update on where my company (PeerDirect) is with regards to our native Windows port. We are planning on contributing the code for the native port sometime next month (in December). We would have liked to contribute it earlier, but our work schedules here didn

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Howe
Hello Bruce, Thursday, November 7, 2002, 12:56:57 AM, you wrote: BM> I have thrown out the idea and some felt that if we could get PITR and BM> Win32, that would be enough for a release, even if we could get it done BM> in a month or two. BM> However, I see your point that releasing too often ca

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whilst having a regular 4-6 month cycle (er... when was the last time > THAT happened?) is alright, we should get the *Windows* native version > out to the world ASAP. We don't have a Windows native version, and it sounds like it'll be awhile before we ha

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > What do others want, a regular 4-6 month cycle or a shorter one? Whilst having a regular 4-6 month cycle (er... when was the last time THAT happened?) is alright, we should get the *Windows* native version out to the world ASAP. This (and secondly PITR) will greatly enh

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have talked to Jan, and PeerDirect wants to submit a complete working > > Win32 patch, rather than the piece-by-piece merged patch I was working > > on. > > Is there a reason you're doing the actual merging with CVS? ISTM it > mi

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have talked to Jan, and PeerDirect wants to submit a complete working > Win32 patch, rather than the piece-by-piece merged patch I was working > on. Is there a reason you're doing the actual merging with CVS? ISTM it might be more straight-forward to j

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:20:16PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Let me map out the calendar. I think we are very close on the > > point-in-time recovery patch. I am hoping to get that in during > > November, and I _was_ hoping for the Win32 port too, so we could have

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:20:16PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Let me map out the calendar. I think we are very close on the > point-in-time recovery patch. I am hoping to get that in during > November, and I _was_ hoping for the Win32 port too, so we could have > another two months of develop

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
pgman wrote: > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I > will post patches that deal with

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Howe
Hello Bruce, Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 8:33:32 PM, you wrote: BM> Steve Howe wrote: >> Hello Bruce, >> >> Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 3:19:35 AM, you wrote: >> >> BM> I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to >> BM> Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission t

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Steve Howe wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 3:19:35 AM, you wrote: > > BM> I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > BM> Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > BM> patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > BM> Now that

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Howe
Hello Bruce, Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 3:19:35 AM, you wrote: BM> I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to BM> Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged BM> patch that can be applied to 7.4. BM> Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Jan Wieck writes: > > > > > > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like > > > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I > > > > don't know much about MingW and

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Here is a list of patch areas that I will address with the Win32 port: > > > > fork/exec > > loop rename test > > handle \r in COPY > > copydir for cp -r > > backslash tests > > rmdir not recursive for

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Here is a list of patch areas that I will address with the Win32 port: > > fork/exec > loop rename test > handle \r in COPY > copydir for cp -r > backslash tests > rmdir not recursive for rm -r > shared memory could

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Jan Wieck writes: > > > > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like > > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I > > > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that wi

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Here is a list of patch areas that I will address with the Win32 port: fork/exec loop rename test handle \r in COPY copydir for cp -r backslash tests rmdir not recursive for rm -r shared memory could map to new address in exec child c

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Jan Wieck writes: > > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I > > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it. > > Before long someone wil

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@;joeconway.com] > Sent: 06 November 2002 16:16 > To: Bruce Momjian > Cc: Jan Wieck; Hannu Krosing; PostgreSQL-development; Tatsuo Ishii > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port > > > > Bruce, I can com

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Jan Wieck writes: > > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I > > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it. > > Before long someone

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it. Before long someone will port the Windows port to MinGW, so w

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Jan Wieck wrote: > > > >>>Actually, I will be doing all the coding on BSD/OS. I am more merging > >>>patches than actual coding, though. This will guarantee that the > >>>patches will not affect the Unix platforms. I will need help from > >>>others t

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: Actually, I will be doing all the coding on BSD/OS. I am more merging patches than actual coding, though. This will guarantee that the patches will not affect the Unix platforms. I will need help from others to check the various Win32 compilers. I was w

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: > > Actually, I will be doing all the coding on BSD/OS. I am more merging > > patches than actual coding, though. This will guarantee that the > > patches will not affect the Unix platforms. I will need help from > > others to check the various Win32 compilers. > > I was wonder

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > Bruce Momjian kirjutas K, 06.11.2002 kell 08:19: > > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > > > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > > > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > > > Gr

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hannu Krosing wrote: > Bruce Momjian kirjutas K, 06.11.2002 kell 08:19: > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > Great! > > > Now that 7.3 is almost c

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Hannu Krosing
Bruce Momjian kirjutas K, 06.11.2002 kell 08:19: > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > patch that can be applied to 7.4. Great! > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 01:32, Justin Clift wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > > > Now that 7.3 is almost complet

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I > will post patches tha

[HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-11-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged patch that can be applied to 7.4. Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I will post patches that deal with specific portability iss

[HACKERS] Win32 port

2002-06-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have added the recent threads discussing a Win32 port to CVS TODO.detail, and have added an item on the TODO list: * Create native Win32 port [win32] -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your l