Re: Cisco Systems fail - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christian Ramseyer
Subject Re: Cisco Systems fail
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Msg-id 4EF0A26A.1020305@networkz.ch
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In response to Cisco Systems fail  (Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>)
List pgsql-general
On 12/14/11 7:03 PM, Ray Stell wrote:
> I've been using a network management tool for a number of years from
> cisco to manage storage networking (fibre channel).  The thing is
> called Fabric Manager and I was thrilled that they supported pg for the
> backend when I first installed.  However, their latest and greatest is
> frozen to pg 8.2.  Sigh.  I think they tripped over the datatypes not being
> automatically cast to TEXT.  That's what spewed anyway when I tried it
> to go around them.
>
> Maybe there is porting opportunity for someone since they seem to have
> lost their way:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/5_0/release/notes/fm/fm_rel_notes_507.html
>

If you're looking for a workaround: You can probably get this product to
work with >= 8.3 by re-enabling the old casting behavior:

<http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in-postgresql.html>


Good luck
Christian

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Christian Ramseyer
rc@networkz.ch

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