Re: somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

Hi Tom,

after beeing offline because of a chrashed box, I able to mail again.
I would like to volunteer for the uptime() function. Is that OK?

cheers,

Matthias

Am 13.12.2004 um 03:31 schrieb Bruce Momjian:

> Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> Am 07.12.2004 um 19:24 schrieb Tom Lane:
>>
>>> Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm(at)mock-software(dot)de> writes:
>>>> By the way: Do you have an idea about a small or
>>>> medium sized task from the TODO-List for a newbee, which gets me up
>>>> to
>>>> speed?(!Win32)
>>>
>>> A lot of the tasks listed under DATA TYPES are fairly self-contained
>>> problems ... but what draws your interest? I think most of the tasks
>>> that are on TODO are there either because they're hard problems, or
>>> because nobody was very interested in them. Unfortunately they are
>>> not
>>> marked as to which is which :-(. Make a list of things you find
>>> interesting, and we can tell you if they're very hard or already
>>> claimed.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> this is a list of things I'm interested in:
>>
>> 1) Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
>>
>> Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
>> though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
>> cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination.
>
> This one seems hard.
>
>> 2) Add a function that returns the 'uptime' of the postmaster
>
> Seems like a good starting point.
>
>> 3) Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side
>> variables
>
> Also a good one for you.
>
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