Le 03/05/2011 12:40, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>> Le 03/05/2011 10:24, Dave Page a écrit :
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>>> So far:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cio.com.au/article/384968/open_source_postgresql_9_1_beta_released/
>>>>
>>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/440666/ (subscriber-only content)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.databasejournal.com/features/postgresql/article.php/3932351/PostgreSQL-91-Gets-Synchronous.htm
>>>
>>> I have to wonder why these mention PGXN given that at the moment it's
>>> just a download site, providing similar functionality to software
>>> catalog on www.postgresql.org.
>>>
>>> When there is a command line client available, then sure, it should be
>>> promoted, but until then it's a WIP (I would say vapourware, but I
>>> that seems unfair, as I know David certainly is working on it). We
>>> shouldn't be promoting features for which the primary feature isn't
>>> yet written in our major version release announcements imnsho.
>>>
>>
>> A command line client written by Daniele Varrazzo is available here:
>> https://github.com/dvarrazzo/pgxnclient
>
> Is it a supported client? The pgxn website says there isn't one.
>
Indeed the website is outdated. The blog and the official twitter
account are very clear though :
http://blog.pgxn.org/post/5118152273/new-release-for-the-pgxn-client
http://twitter.com/#!/pgxn/status/64856551160168448
>> You can install it by typing :
>> $ easy_install pgxnclient
>
> Hmm, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work too well. I tried
> installing both pg_top and pg_proctab, and both errored out. Not sure
> whose fault that is though, and don't really have time to investigate
> now.
>
To my knwoledge the problem with pg_top is being investigated by Mark
Wong. Whati understand is that it seems to be a Makefile problem.
Anyway, this PGXN client may have some bugs but it's far from being a
WIP or vaporware ;-)
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damien clochard
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