Re: [HACKERS] Full text searching, anyone interested?

2001-06-02 Thread Gavin Sherry
Hi guys, On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, mlw wrote: > I frequently rant on this about full text searching. > [snip] > I would love to find a way to get a bitmap like index native to Postgres. I > would, in fact, love and expect to do an amount of it. The problem is to do it > "right" will require a lot of

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was thinking about making NaN equivalent to NULL. Mumble ... in the thread last August, someone made the point that SQL's idea of NULL ("unknown value") is not really the same as a NaN ("I know that this is not a well-defined number"). Even though

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
[ continuing a discussion from last August ] Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce Momjian writes: >> My assumption is that we never came up with any solution to this, right? > It stopped when we noticed that proper support for non-finite values will > break indexing, because the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Yours too? I turned off Java/Javascript to get it to load and I am on > > > BSD/OS. Strange it so univerally crashes. > > > > Really odd. I have Java/Javascript with FreeBSD and Netscape 4.76 and > > read it just fine. One difference tho probably

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Thought some people might find this article interesting. > > > http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php > > > > The only interesting thing I noticed is how fast it crashes my > > Netscape-4.76 browser ;) > > Yours too? I turned off Java/Javascript

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
> > Thought some people might find this article interesting. > > http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php > The only interesting thing I noticed is how fast it crashes my > Netscape-4.76 browser ;) Use Konqueror :-) I can't tell if the results are biased, but it puts PostgreSQL way ahead of M