Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin Brown
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I agree it should be bumped up, but the issue is whether to do that in a minor release. It will increase shared memory by 36k. Is that safe in a beta? Tom, Mr. FSM, can you comment? It seems a reasonably safe change, but I

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Philip Warner wrote: At 10:49 PM 18/12/2002 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I don't think we can bump that up in a minor. Why not? It's a relatively serious problem with the default config. Should we? Yes. I concur. The problems of a too-low fsm setting are

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
scott.marlowe wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Philip Warner wrote: At 10:49 PM 18/12/2002 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I don't think we can bump that up in a minor. Why not? It's a relatively serious problem with the default config. Should we? Yes. I concur. The problems of

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I agree it should be bumped up, but the issue is whether to do that in a minor release. It will increase shared memory by 36k. Is that safe in a beta? Tom, Mr. FSM, can you comment? It seems a reasonably safe change, but I

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Kevin Brown wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I agree it should be bumped up, but the issue is whether to do that in a minor release. It will increase shared memory by 36k. Is that safe in a beta? Tom, Mr. FSM, can you comment? It seems a

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: Note: If you are upgrading an existing system and are going to install the new files over the old ones, then you should have backed up your data and shut down the old server by now, as explained in the Section called If You Are

[HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Going to announce later this evening to give the mirrors a chance to catch up ... let me know if there are any problems .. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone over the list of things to do when we release to make sure things like the websites getting updated or perhaps getting rpm builds coordinated has been done? Robert Treat On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:18, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone over the list of things to do when we release to make sure things like the websites getting updated or perhaps getting rpm builds coordinated has been done? No, we don't do that

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:51, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone over the list of things to do when we release to make sure things like the websites getting updated or perhaps getting rpm

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:51, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Robert Treat wrote: Is this going to be announced to a wider press audience? Has anyone gone over the list of things to do when we release to make sure things like the

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 18 Dec 2002 at 8:54, scott.marlowe wrote: www.linuxtoday.com has weekly updates from many gnu / OSS projects which are far less interesting than our 7.3.1 release is. I could see posting a minor upgrade release notice there and on other OSS news web site (freshmeat, slashdot, etc...)

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Going to announce later this evening to give the mirrors a chance to catch up ... let me know if there are any problems .. Tarball looks good from here. regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Going to announce later this evening to give the mirrors a chance to catch up ... let me know if there are any problems .. Tarball looks good from here. Great, put out a short techy announcement this evening

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Kevin Brown
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On 18 Dec 2002 at 8:54, scott.marlowe wrote: www.linuxtoday.com has weekly updates from many gnu / OSS projects which are far less interesting than our 7.3.1 release is. I could see posting a minor upgrade release notice there and on other OSS news web site

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem is that there is nothing to announce ... Hi, we fixed some bugs? :) minor releases don't have any features added to them, so isn't really news worthy ... :( I don't know, if you're a postgresql user and you don't read these lists, you

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, scott.marlowe wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem is that there is nothing to announce ... Hi, we fixed some bugs? :) minor releases don't have any features added to them, so isn't really news worthy ... :( I don't know, if you're a

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Justin Clift
scott.marlowe wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The problem is that there is nothing to announce ... Hi, we fixed some bugs? :) minor releases don't have any features added to them, so isn't really news worthy ... :( I don't know, if you're a postgresql user and you don't

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Greg Copeland
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 08:53, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2002 14:51 To: Robert Treat Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ... On Wed, 18 Dec 2002

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: Going to announce later this evening to give the mirrors a chance to catch up ... let me know if there are any problems .. Plenty... The release notes are missing at least one item and contain at least one factual mistake that needs to be fixed. The HISTORY file

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major version number for this release, which may require recompilation of client code in certain cases.

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: file needs to be updated to get the list of supported platforms up-to-date and the references to 7.3 need to be changed to 7.3.1. A note about the Marc applied the patch after I stamped it. Marc, do you want me to do it? Just curious as to

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: file needs to be updated to get the list of supported platforms up-to-date and the references to 7.3 need to be changed to 7.3.1. A note about the Marc applied the patch after I stamped it. Marc, do you want me to do

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: I was unclear on that. If they install right over their existing pgsql/lib directory, the old libpq will still be there, so a recompile will not be required. That's kind of like saying, if you keep using PostgreSQL 7.2 then a dump/restore will not be required. ;-)

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: How do you do that? Do you manually reformat the whole file after you generate it, or do you just cut-paste the new release info into /HISTORY so the old manual formatting remains? It did line break badly. I put in the changes I had in mind and reformatted it, so as

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier writes: Just curious as to whether any of this is critical enough to force a rebuild of the .tar.gz files, or can they wait until v7.3.2? That is my only concern ... we can do it, and I can do the announce in the morning instead of this evening, just want to make sure that

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'K, I'm going to remove the tar files ... Bruce, can you go through these and get them fixed up? Peter, I have to take part of the blame away from Tom ... I'm on the road tomrorow afternoon to Ontario, and won't be back online until *late* Fri, so we kinda rushed it all ... Tom, we tried ...

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Philip Warner
At 11:26 PM 18/12/2002 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Tom, we tried ... I'll do up the tar ball on Friday, if everyone can tak the next day and a bit to make sure we haven't missed anything? Seeing the setting for MAX_FSM_RELATIONS bumped to 1000 would be good (patch already sent)

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
I don't think we can bump that up in a minor. Should we? --- Philip Warner wrote: At 11:26 PM 18/12/2002 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Tom, we tried ... I'll do up the tar ball on Friday, if everyone can tak the next

Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

2002-12-18 Thread Philip Warner
At 10:49 PM 18/12/2002 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I don't think we can bump that up in a minor. Why not? It's a relatively serious problem with the default config. Should we? Yes. Philip Warner|