[GENERAL] Use cases for lateral that do not involve a set returning function

2014-12-06 Thread AJ Welch
I was reading this post the other day: http://blog.heapanalytics.com/postgresqls-powerful-new-join-type-lateral/ I suspected some of the claims in the post may not have been accurate. This one in particular: "Without lateral joins, we would need to resort to PL/pgSQL to do this analysis. Or, if

Re: [GENERAL] I did some testing of GIST/GIN vs BTree indexing…

2014-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 01:15:50AM -0800, Guyren Howe wrote: > GIN is certainly not the “three times” size suggested in the docs, but perhaps > that just hasn’t been updated for the 9.4 improvements. Certainly, there isn’t > sufficient difference here to make the BTree advantage compelling in most

Re: [GENERAL] Updating timezone setting

2014-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:09:10PM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: > >Would there be any issues then just leaving the columns as "timestamp > >without time zone"? I know that's not ideal, but that would be a big > >project to try and convert every single one of those columns. > > The plus for converti