Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2QGFcw23150 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:15:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA12670; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:15:26 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200103261615.LAA12670@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: pgmonitor on solaris In-Reply-To: <08CD1781F85AD4118E0800A0C9B8580B0949D6@NEZU> "from Jeff Eckermann at Mar 26, 2001 10:06:42 am" To: Jeff Eckermann Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:15:26 -0500 (EST) CC: Tom Lane , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roberto_Jo=E3o_Lopes_Garcia?= , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200103/179 X-Sequence-Number: 1340 Can someone suggest what it is failing on in Solaris? Can you put # before each line starting from the top until the error goes away so I can know the cause. Comment out one line, try it, then remove the comment and try the next line until it doesn't fail. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > The problem is that Solaris uses the "original" version of Awk by default > (apparently nobody knows why). > This version lacks many features which have been available in later versions > for approximately forever (in computing chronology :-)). > Two other versions exist on Solaris: > * "nawk" ("new awk", i.e. the updated "old awk") > * /usr/xpg4/bin/awk (another, posix-compliant awk). > Solaris seems to be weird this way. Other platforms don't seem to have this > problem. Linux and FreeBSD, for example, use GNU awk, which would have all > of the required functionality and more. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bruce Momjian [SMTP:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] > > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:46 PM > > To: Tom Lane > > Cc: Roberto Jo?o Lopes Garcia; pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org > > Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] pgmonitor on solaris > > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to > > disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original > > character set. << File: message.txt >> > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026