Re: [HACKERS] Re: [Oledb-dev] double precision error with pg linux server, but not with windows pg server

2007-05-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Greg Smith wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> This is not data given to store. It's data being exported. > > Data being exported has a funny way of turning around and being stored > in the database again. It's kind of nice to know the damage done > during that round trip is

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [Oledb-dev] double precision error with pg linux server, but not with windows pg server

2007-05-20 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: This is not data given to store. It's data being exported. Data being exported has a funny way of turning around and being stored in the database again. It's kind of nice to know the damage done during that round trip is minimized. Tom seems to

Re: [HACKERS] Signing off of patches (was Re: Not ready for 8.3)

2007-05-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/19/2007 12:48:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Well, but if you ask at an early stage it's perfectly fair to ask for comments on how much work an implementation of idea X might be. Plus people could save you from wasting time going down dead-end paths. True. But then I wouldn't get extra points

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml

2007-05-20 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
On 5/20/07, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: contrib is a misnomer at best. When 8.3 branches I intend to propose that we abandon it altogether, in line with some previous discussions. We can change the configure help text if people think it matters that much - which seems to me much m

Re: [HACKERS] Idea that might inspire more patch reviewing.

2007-05-20 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Ron Mayer wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that". Would it inspire more people to learn enough to become patch reviewers if patch authors scheduled walkthroughs of their pa

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Full page writes improvement, code update

2007-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Koichi Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As replied to "Patch queue triage" by Tom, here's simplified patch to > mark WAL record as "compressable", with no increase in WAL itself. > Compression/decompression commands will be posted separately to PG > Foundary for further review. Applied with so

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote: The current CVS' configure is really confusing: it has "--with-xslt" option, while there is no XSLT support in the core. At least let's change the option's comment to smth like "build with XSLT support (now it is used for contrib/xml2 only)"... contrib is a misnom

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml

2007-05-20 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
On 4/15/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, if we're going to make libxslt an explicit thing, then it'd be trivial to add an xslt transformation function into the core, and then I think we can claim equivalent support. But we'll have to check the details, of course. I have bee

Re: [HACKERS] Passing more context info to selectivity-estimation code

2007-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Comments, better ideas? > How about building a separate Var-node for the variable when it's above > an outer join? [ itch... ] That would be a whole lot *more* invasive than what I'm proposing now. It might be an interesting a

Re: [HACKERS] Passing more context info to selectivity-estimation code

2007-05-20 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane wrote: Comments, better ideas? How about building a separate Var-node for the variable when it's above an outer join? That node would point to the original Var, and have an additional modifier which indicates the percentage of injected nulls. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB