Thread: PostgreSQL v7.4 Release Candidate 1
After a relatively short period for beta5, where nothing major arose, we
have just packaged up our first Release Candidate for v7.4, with the hopes
of producing a full release over the next 7 to 14 days.
There is only one major change between Beta5 and RC1 that, so far, has
been reported back ... RC1 will no longer work with TCL8.0.x, due to a
change to pgtclCmds.c:
Use Tcl ByteArray objects to avoid unwanted character set
translation in libpgtcl's lo_read/lo_write commands. Also, deal
correctly with failure return from lo_read(). ljb and Tom Lane.
There are a few other changes that were made, affecting RI, Java and ECPG,
among others, with a full list of changes available at:
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/sources/v7.4/ChangeLog.BETA5.to.RC1
As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as
possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the
build process, or running in "real life" scenarios.
If we've heard no reports back before midnight on Thursday, we are looking
at a full code freeze, with a Final Release to happen on the following
Monday.
Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>: > > After a relatively short period for beta5, where nothing major arose, we > have just packaged up our first Release Candidate for v7.4, with the hopes > of producing a full release over the next 7 to 14 days. > > There is only one major change between Beta5 and RC1 that, so far, has > been reported back ... RC1 will no longer work with TCL8.0.x, due to a > change to pgtclCmds.c: > > Use Tcl ByteArray objects to avoid unwanted character set > translation in libpgtcl's lo_read/lo_write commands. Also, deal > correctly with failure return from lo_read(). ljb and Tom Lane. > > There are a few other changes that were made, affecting RI, Java and ECPG, > among others, with a full list of changes available at: > > ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/sources/v7.4/ChangeLog.BETA5.to.RC1 > > As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as > possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the > build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. > > If we've heard no reports back before midnight on Thursday, we are looking > at a full code freeze, with a Final Release to happen on the following > Monday. > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > Something told me to email you (or the list) over the weekend. I just got two P4 boxes in and the first thing that went on there was beta5 so I could play around with pgbench and some other things to get my feet wet... but there was a little voice that was saying perhaps I should wait. :) *happy 7.4 is almost released dance* Hopefully I'll get some play time this week. -- Keith C. Perry Director of Networks & Applications VCSN, Inc. http://vcsn.com ____________________________________ This email account is being host by: VCSN, Inc : http://vcsn.com
>>>>> "MGF" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes: MGF> As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as MGF> possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the MGF> build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. MGF> If we've heard no reports back before midnight on Thursday, we are looking MGF> at a full code freeze, with a Final Release to happen on the following MGF> Monday. Does this now guarentee no more initdb will be required? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/
Vivek Khera wrote: >>>>>> "MGF" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes: >>>>>> >>>>> > > MGF> As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as > many as > MGF> possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as > part of the > MGF> build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. > > MGF> If we've heard no reports back before midnight on Thursday, we > are looking > MGF> at a full code freeze, with a Final Release to happen on the > following > MGF> Monday. > > Does this now guarentee no more initdb will be required? > > > do I have to be a major guru or coder to be on the dev list? I'd REALLY like to find out what the roadmap is for Postgres, especially in relationship to locale's, sorting, and encodings.
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "MGF" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes: > > MGF> As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as > MGF> possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the > MGF> build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. > > MGF> If we've heard no reports back before midnight on Thursday, we are looking > MGF> at a full code freeze, with a Final Release to happen on the following > MGF> Monday. > > Does this now guarentee no more initdb will be required? I hate to say *guarantee*, but it will be one helluva bug needing to be fixed for it to be required ...
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote: > do I have to be a major guru or coder to be on the dev list? Nope, anyone's welcome to join
Dennis Gearon writes: > do I have to be a major guru or coder to be on the dev list? No, you merely have to be able to follow the instructions to subscribe. > I'd REALLY like to find out what the roadmap is for Postgres, especially > in relationship to locale's, sorting, and encodings. These things might be addressed in the next release. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
Marc G. Fournier writes: > As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as > possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the > build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. Folks, we still need verification of PostgreSQL 7.4 on certain platforms. See <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/supported-platforms.html> for a list of what has already been tested. In particular, if you have any of the following platforms available, IRIX NetBSD (anything but ix86) OpenBSD (anything but ix86 and sparc) SCO OpenServer please get the release candidate tarball and run ./configure; make all; make check; make install on them to see whether everything works. If you have several compilers available (GCC and vendor compiler), try both. Report the results together with `uname -a` to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
Dennis Gearon wrote: >> > do I have to be a major guru or coder to be on the dev list? I'd REALLY > like to find out what the roadmap is for Postgres, especially in > relationship to locale's, sorting, and encodings. > Use the news server.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:53 am, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as > > possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of > > the build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. > > Folks, we still need verification of PostgreSQL 7.4 on certain platforms. > See > <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/supported-platforms.html> > for a list of what has already been tested. In particular, if you have > any of the following platforms available, > > IRIX > NetBSD (anything but ix86) > OpenBSD (anything but ix86 and sparc) > SCO OpenServer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just a sarcastic remark: Should SCO be supported at all after what they are doing ?? UC - -- Open Source Solutions 4U, LLC 2570 Fleetwood Drive Phone: +1 650 872 2425 San Bruno, CA 94066 Cell: +1 650 302 2405 United States Fax: +1 650 872 2417 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p+5djqGXBvRToM4RAj5jAKDLvT1rhBKf30LQvXdbvs6ZI5C7fwCdGGCq e6aNjbWUcwKawYoGRHOnmV4= =R2ga -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
El Mar 04 Nov 2003 14:53, Peter Eisentraut escribió: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > As we are in the home stretch of a full release, we encourage as many as > > possible to test and report any bugs they can find, whether as part of the > > build process, or running in "real life" scenarios. > > Folks, we still need verification of PostgreSQL 7.4 on certain platforms. > See > <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/supported-platforms.html> > for a list of what has already been tested. In particular, if you have > any of the following platforms available, > > IRIX > NetBSD (anything but ix86) > OpenBSD (anything but ix86 and sparc) > SCO OpenServer > > please get the release candidate tarball and run ./configure; make all; > make check; make install on them to see whether everything works. If you > have several compilers available (GCC and vendor compiler), try both. > Report the results together with `uname -a` to > pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org. I saw that no body tried it on 64 bit Linux SPARC. bugs:~# uname -a Linux bugs 2.4.21 #1 Thu Aug 7 20:30:12 EDT 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux -- select 'mmarques' || '@' || 'unl.edu.ar' AS email; ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | mmarques@unl.edu.ar Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telemática Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------
Martin Marques writes: > I saw that no body tried it on 64 bit Linux SPARC. > > bugs:~# uname -a > Linux bugs 2.4.21 #1 Thu Aug 7 20:30:12 EDT 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux Well, I did build it on a machine whose uname looked much like this, but it was in fact a 32-bit build. Are you sure yours was a 64-bit build? (For example, long should be 8 bytes.) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
El Mar 04 Nov 2003 16:13, Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> Martin Marques writes:
>
> > I saw that no body tried it on 64 bit Linux SPARC.
> >
> > bugs:~# uname -a
> > Linux bugs 2.4.21 #1 Thu Aug 7 20:30:12 EDT 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux
>
> Well, I did build it on a machine whose uname looked much like this, but
> it was in fact a 32-bit build. Are you sure yours was a 64-bit build?
> (For example, long should be 8 bytes.)
Havn't built it yet, just got 7.4RC yestearday and thought about the 64 bit
build.
Are you saying it's not that all straight-forward to build a 64 bit
aplication, even having a 64 bit compiler, kernel, and, obviously,
architecture?
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El Mar 04 Nov 2003 16:13, Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> Martin Marques writes:
>
> > I saw that no body tried it on 64 bit Linux SPARC.
> >
> > bugs:~# uname -a
> > Linux bugs 2.4.21 #1 Thu Aug 7 20:30:12 EDT 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux
>
> Well, I did build it on a machine whose uname looked much like this, but
> it was in fact a 32-bit build. Are you sure yours was a 64-bit build?
> (For example, long should be 8 bytes.)
Just got this from "configure":
checking whether long int is 64 bits... yes
checking for unsigned long... yes
checking size of unsigned long... 8
checking for short... yes
checking alignment of short... 2
checking for int... yes
checking alignment of int... 4
checking for long... yes
checking alignment of long... 8
checking for double... yes
checking alignment of double... 8
I think we have a 64 bit system here! :-)
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>>SCO OpenServer >> >> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Just a sarcastic remark: Should SCO be supported at all after what they are >doing ?? > > > I could see UnixWare but OpenServer is an end of life platform, it seems odd that we would support it. Regardless of the SCO/Caldera BS that is going on. J > UC > >- -- >Open Source Solutions 4U, LLC 2570 Fleetwood Drive >Phone: +1 650 872 2425 San Bruno, CA 94066 >Cell: +1 650 302 2405 United States >Fax: +1 650 872 2417 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/p+5djqGXBvRToM4RAj5jAKDLvT1rhBKf30LQvXdbvs6ZI5C7fwCdGGCq >e6aNjbWUcwKawYoGRHOnmV4= >=R2ga >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com Editor-N-Chief - PostgreSQl.Org - http://www.postgresql.org
--On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:36:26 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > >>> SCO OpenServer >>> >>> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Just a sarcastic remark: Should SCO be supported at all after what they >> are doing ?? >> >> >> > I could see UnixWare but OpenServer is an end of life platform, it seems > odd that we would support > it. Regardless of the SCO/Caldera BS that is going on. Actually, It's not. with the Legend Release (Due next year), it's getting a major update. I wouldn't say it's dead. LER > > J > > > > >> UC >> >> - -- >> Open Source Solutions 4U, LLC 2570 Fleetwood Drive >> Phone: +1 650 872 2425 San Bruno, CA 94066 >> Cell: +1 650 302 2405 United States >> Fax: +1 650 872 2417 >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQE/p+5djqGXBvRToM4RAj5jAKDLvT1rhBKf30LQvXdbvs6ZI5C7fwCdGGCq >> e6aNjbWUcwKawYoGRHOnmV4= >> =R2ga >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org >> >> > > > -- > Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC > Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. > +1-503-222-2783 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com > Editor-N-Chief - PostgreSQl.Org - http://www.postgresql.org > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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scrappy@postgresql.org wrote: >... > There is only one major change between Beta5 and RC1 that, so far, has > been reported back ... RC1 will no longer work with TCL8.0.x, due to a > change to pgtclCmds.c: >... I sent in a revised patch which removes the loss of Tcl8.0.x compatibility. Guess it didn't make RC1. I doubt anyone cares about Tcl 8.0.x anymore, but it would mean one less thing to document in the release notes.
ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com> writes:
> I sent in a revised patch which removes the loss of Tcl8.0.x compatibility.
When? I don't recall having seen any such patch.
regards, tom lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: > ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com> writes: >> I sent in a revised patch which removes the loss of Tcl8.0.x compatibility. > > When? I don't recall having seen any such patch. I must be doing something wrong. I can see my second patch on the news server news.us.postgresql.org as message 196 in comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.general, posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:17:41 +0000 (UTC). But it isn't showing up on the archive of pgsql-interfaces on the web site. Other things I posted to the interfaces group (like a beta release announcement of pgin.tcl for PostgreSQL-7.4) also don't show up. But my posts to pgsql-bugs and other groups are showing up in the archive. Is there a problem here? I did notice that the mailing list name (pgsql-interfaces) does not match the newsgroup (comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.general). I'll repost the patch on pgsql-patches. But it's going to be against PostgreSQL-7.4beta5, not 7.4RC1, because I can't download RC1 from here. If you need the patch against 7.4RC1, I should be able to get it in a few days.