Re: pgAgent: C++ Port - Patch Review

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Linreg <linreg@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
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> Connection Pooling:
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> okay. I will reimplementing the connection pool.
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> Am Sonntag, 15. September 2013, 15:02:03 schrieb Dave Page:
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>> > > Another problem that I've noticed is that you've unconditionally
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>> > > changed the logging format to be pipe delimited. This is also not
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>> > > acceptable as part of this patch, and should be discussed and
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>> > > implemented separately. At minimum, this would need to be a
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>> > > configurable behaviour change, and by default, I would want it to
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>> > > implement standard (comma delimited) CSV, not a pipe delimited
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>> > okay. i change this feature to configurable behaviour.
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>> > By default logging will be as before.
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>> > can i add an commandline parameter for this?
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>> > is it than acceptable?
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>> I think so - but please do that as a separate patch. We don't like to
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>> multiple changes in the same patch/commit as it's harder to find issues or
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>> review the history in the future.
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> okay. I will make it so.
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>> > Okay, thats a problem.
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>> > I use features from c++11 standard like "atomic" and "thread"
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>> > My suggestion:
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>> > the Pure-C++-Version is is for newer OS / Compiler suits and not
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>> > compatible (relating compiler / c++ version)
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>> > Is the way a possible?
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>> Not really, as it requires maintenance of 2 code branches until we can
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>> completely deprecate the old wxWidgets code. That's why PostgreSQL itself
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>> is extremely conservative about what they'll support. We're not nearly as
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>> bad as that, but we do need to carry on supporting RHEL 5 and similarly
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>> aged OSs for a while.
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> I examine whether the use of the boost lib is possible. it should.
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> I think they has a better backward compatibility.
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> Please can you review this for me by
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/statechart.html
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> you know better than i the version of supported compiler / plattforms.

They have a limited list of platforms there, but FYI, RHEL 5 ships
with Boost 1.41.0, so if that works, we're probably OK.


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