Re: [HACKERS] [PROPOSAL] Temporal query processing with range types

2017-10-06 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Paul A Jungwirth wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Anton Dignös wrote: >> We would like to contribute to PostgreSQL a solution that supports the query >> processing of "at each time point". The basic idea is to offer two new >> operators, NORMALIZE and ALIG

Re: [HACKERS] Fuzzy substring searching with the pg_trgm extension

2016-02-11 Thread Mike Rylander
? > At least for this English speaker, substring_similarity is not confusing even if it's not internally accurate, but English is a strange language. Because I want the bike shed to be blue, how does query_string_similarity sound instead? If that's overly precise, then word_similarit

Re: [HACKERS] old bug in full text parser

2016-02-10 Thread Mike Rylander
around this by pre-normalizing strings matching /(\d+)-(\d+)/ into two numbers separated by a space instead of a hyphen, but if fixing this bug would remove the need for such a preprocessing step it would be a great help to us. Would such strings be parsed "properly" into lexems of the form o

Re: [HACKERS] xpath changes in the recent back branches

2015-03-04 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote: > Hi, > > Commit 79af9a1d2668c9edc8171f03c39e7fed571eeb98 changed xpath handling > with regard to namespaces, and it seems to be fixing an actual issue. > However, it was also backpatched to all branches despite it breaking for > example code

Re: [HACKERS] standby registration (was: is sync rep stalled?)

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Rylander
rate this into quorum commit > to express 3 of 5 "reporting" standbys, 1 "berlin" standby and 1 "tokyo" > standby from a group of multiple per data center, or even just utilize role > sizes of 1 if you wanted individual standbys to be "named" in th

Re: [HACKERS] Issue: Deprecation of the XML2 module 'xml_is_well_formed' function

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Rylander
ity to simply return a > truth value > in the way that we need?. You could do something like this (untested): CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_xml_is_valid ( x TEXT ) RETURNS BOOL AS $$ BEGIN PERFORM XMLPARSE( DOCUMENT x::XML ); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN RETURN FALSE; END; $$

Re: [HACKERS] JSON manipulation functions

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Rylander
) are and the data types of the elements, simply by removing the redundant object keys. This function would be extremely useful to me when creating or persisting raw class instances of these sorts. -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone:

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Rylander
mit, which it isn't. But if we name it > something like: > > # -1 = no timeout > # 0 = kill conflicting queries immediately > # > 0 wait for N seconds, then kill query > standby_conflict_timeout = -1 > > it's more clear that the setting is a timeout for each *c

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Add JSON support

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Rylander
o far. It violates the JS part of JSON ... > I don't think we should because doing so would be rather zany.  It > would mean JSON content could be invalid in value context, as in: > > // JavaScript > var content = "key" : "value"; > Right. Thanks, Joseph. I

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Add JSON support

2010-04-03 Thread Mike Rylander
ms, not > humans. >  * Output is expected to be valid JSON and work anywhere JSON should work. >  * Strict JSON is what more people would expect, I'd think. +1 -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Add JSON support

2010-03-28 Thread Mike Rylander
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: >> In practice, every parser/serializer I've used (including the one I >> helped write) allows (and, often, forces) any non-ASCII character to >> be encoded as

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Add JSON support

2010-03-28 Thread Mike Rylander
t a matter of scanning for multi-byte sequences and replacing those with their \u equivalents. I have some simple and fast code I could share, if it's needed, though I suspect it's not. :) UPDATE: Thanks, Robert, for pointing to the RFC. -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research a

Re: [HACKERS] Probably badly timed suggestion: pl/perl calling style same as C style

2010-02-24 Thread Mike Rylander
nteger >     AS 'DIRECTORY/funcs', 'add_one' >     LANGUAGE C STRICT; > > CREATE FUNCTION add_one(integer) RETURNS integer >     AS 'My::Package', 'add_one' >     LANGUAGE plperl STRICT; > +1, fwiw -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | E

Re: [HACKERS] remove contrib/xml2

2010-01-28 Thread Mike Rylander
t TEXT columns, as the xml2 versions do. I hope these (attached) will be of some help to others. Note, these are not the exact functions I use, they are lightly edited to remove the use of wrappers I've created to paper over the transition from xpath_nodeset() to core XPATH(). -- Mike Rylan

Re: [HACKERS] xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Rylander
e, in this case the uuid element. > The API is less intuitive than the previous incarnation and is, indeed, > more difficult to use. It may be easier to use for those not familiar with more advanced XPath, but it also has non-standard default actions. That being said, I'd love to se

Re: [HACKERS] xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Rylander
l\.myclass/uuid/text()', XMLPARSE(CONTENT datum)))[1] as uuid from table; Not as clean, but it produces the same result as xpath_string(). Combined with array_to_string() could can collapse the array instead of just grabbing the first element (in cases other than uuid, of course). -- Mike Rylander

Fwd: [HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch

2009-07-08 Thread Mike Rylander
Sorry, forgot to reply-all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mike Rylander Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch To: Alvaro Herrera On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Mike Rylander escribió: >> On Fri, Ju

Re: [HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Rylander
+-- > good   |    8 > patch  |    9 > pretti |    3 > sure   |    4 > (4 rows) > This looks very useful! I wonder if providing a "weight" column would be relatively simple? I think this would present problems with the cast-to-text[] idea that Peter suggests

Re: [HACKERS] sun blade 1000 donation

2009-05-27 Thread Mike Rylander
umption. > > Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for the > buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us. > Would you like an IPC instead? Though building PG on it might take longer than the average release cycle. ;) -- Mike Rylander | VP,

Re: [HACKERS] Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Rylander
files are not particularly compressable to be sure, but due to (and given) the nature of the data bzip2 works pretty well, and much better than gzip. > > So you may have some kB changes in the wal logfile every minute but you > still copy 16 MB data. Sure, it's not so much - but if you rot

Re: [HACKERS] Spoofing as the postmaster

2007-12-22 Thread Mike Rylander
On Dec 22, 2007 1:04 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wouldn't SSL work over Unix-domain sockets as well? The API only deals with > > file descriptors. > > Hmm ... we've always thought of SSL as being primarily comm security > and thus usel

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch2 in PostgreSQL 8.3?

2007-08-17 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:06:15PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > Bruce, > > > > > Oh, so you want the config inside each tsvector value. Interesting > > > idea. > > > > Yeah, hasn't anyone

Re: [HACKERS] Another idea for index-only scans

2007-08-15 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/15/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added another idea for index-only scans to the TODO list: > > > A third idea would be for a heap scan to check if all rows are visible > > and if so set a per-table flag which can be checked by index scans. > > Any change to the ta

Re: [HACKERS] default_text_search_config and expression indexes

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/14/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mike Rylander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My application (http://open-ils.org, which run >80% of the public > > libraries in Georgia, USA, http://gapines.org and > > http://georgialibr

Re: [HACKERS] default_text_search_config and expression indexes

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/14/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > >> Oleg Bartunov wrote: > >>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the configuration > is

Re: [HACKERS] tsearch2 in PostgreSQL 8.3?

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/14/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Basically, the default GUC doesn't work because of: > > > > error prone > > if super-user only, non-super-user doesn't work on restore > > if non-super-user, can cause mismatch (perhaps this is the

Re: [HACKERS] default_text_search_config and expression indexes

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/14/07, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rylander wrote: [snip] > > Don't you need to use the right configuration to parse the query into a > tsquery as well? > Only if the user (or user agent) can supply enough information to move away from the

Re: [HACKERS] default_text_search_config and expression indexes

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/13/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > >> Removing the default configuration setting altogether removes the 2nd > > >> problem, but that's not good from a usability point of view. And it > > >> do

Re: [Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] tsearch in core patch]

2007-06-25 Thread Mike Rylander
On 6/25/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Mike Rylander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can certainly understand the benefit of making the default > configuration a simple locale to language map, but there are > definitely uses for searching using dif

Re: [Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] tsearch in core patch]

2007-06-25 Thread Mike Rylander
avoided. Thanks for listening (and for all the great work on getting tsearch into core! :) ... -- Mike Rylander ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Rylander
On 6/1/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Rylander wrote: > I understand that XML support is planned and at least partially > implemented for 8.3, but many production instances will be unable > (or, in fact, unwilling) to upgrade to 8.3 for quite some time. >

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Rylander
x27;ve seen on -hackers, nothing surrounding explicit support for said issue jumped out at me. Thanks again. -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Rylander
On 3/6/07, Mike Rylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/6/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rylander wrote: > > The patch adds support for default XML namespaces in xml2 by providing > > a mechanism for supplying a prefix to a named namespace U

Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER and MVCC

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Rylander
s, Florian Pflug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Rylander
On 3/6/07, Nikolay Samokhvalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/6/07, Mike Rylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attatched you'll find a patch that I've been kicking around for a > while that I'd like to propose for inclusion in 8.3. I attempted to > submit t

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Rylander
On 3/6/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Rylander wrote: > The patch adds support for default XML namespaces in xml2 by providing > a mechanism for supplying a prefix to a named namespace URI. How does it support multiple namespaces in one document? It supports

[HACKERS] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

2007-03-05 Thread Mike Rylander
t. Please let me know if there is any more I can/need-to do to help this patch along! -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org xml2-namespaces.patch Description: Binary data ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Rylander
tp://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly -- Mike

Re: [HACKERS] Ontology on PostgreSQL - is there something?

2006-11-18 Thread Mike Rylander
ll.org/~hjort CELEPAR - Cia de Informática do Paraná - Brasil http://www.pr.gov.br -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you chec

Re: [HACKERS] Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Rylander
> > > -------(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > >http://archives.postgresql.org > -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] First Aggregate Funtion?

2006-03-31 Thread Mike Rylander
2; $$ LANGUAGE SQL STABLE; -- And then wrap an aggreagate around it CREATE AGGREGATE public.last ( sfunc= public.last_agg, basetype = anyelement, stype= anyelement ); Hope that helps! -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Develop

Re: [HACKERS] Surrogate keys

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Rylander
My Own Twin" from the Discovery Health Channel. Couldn't find a link from the official page, but: http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000547.html . > -- > "cbbrowne","@","gmail.com" > http://linuxdatabases.info/info/lsf.html > "Ca

Re: [HACKERS] Surrogate keys (Was: enums)

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Rylander
aybe > their retinal scan. Of course, that could change due to serious injury. > Maybe some kind of representation of their DNA? Unless the person in question happens to be a chimera (yes, they do exist). ;-) -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Databas

Re: [HACKERS] Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Rylander
TL for the DNS record, and not a reload of our config. just my $0.02. > > Jon > > -- > Jon Jensen > End Point Corporation > http://www.endpoint.com/ > Software development with Interchange, Perl, PostgreSQL, Apache, Linux, ... > > ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Rylander
. > We cannot decide this sort of thing just by debate alone. So, I'll leave > this as a less potentially fruitful line of enquiry. > > Best Regards, Simon Riggs > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 5: don't forget to

[HACKERS] platform test

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Rylander
dl -lm -lbsd VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.1RC1 -- == All 98 tests passed. == -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] LDAP Authentication?

2005-10-10 Thread Mike Rylander
't really > know PAM... > Most of the work has already been done: http://pgina.xpasystems.com/ -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] Found small issue with OUT params

2005-09-30 Thread Mike Rylander
d of special casing single-OUT functions? If I understand correctly, Tom has just added a test to make single-OUT functions look like RETURNS functions. If that were removed then we'd have what, at least by counting the responses on this thread, seems to be the desired (and expected) beh

Re: [HACKERS] Found small issue with OUT params

2005-09-29 Thread Mike Rylander
functions with one OUT param would be the same as a function returning a rowtype with only one column, and the one column in such a rowtype certainly has a name of it's own. -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg polymorphic functions)

2005-06-24 Thread Mike Rylander
t/smallest of the non-null inputs)? > [snip] > > > Please, if You think, so Oracle way is good, correct it. > > I'm still favoring non-strict but it deserves more than two votes. > Anybody else have an opinion? > > regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] bitmap scans, btree scans, and tid order

2005-05-16 Thread Mike Rylander
query for tenk2 from above? I'd be very interested to see if the bitmap forced TID order fetch actually does help, or if it's outweighed by the bitmap setup overhead. TIA -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org --

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Install some slightly realistic cost estimation

2005-04-21 Thread Mike Rylander
BALLY UNIQUE (unique_column); That could use a bitmapped OR scan of indexes on "unique_column" on the base table and all descendant tables to check for a unique value across a "partitioned table". Hmmm... thinking more, I suppose it could just to a quick scan of

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Install some slightly realistic cost estimation

2005-04-21 Thread Mike Rylander
the new code did to your test query...), or a seq scan. > Things will get more interesting once we can AND the results of > unrelated indexes ... I can't wait! How close to initial testing is the AND stuff for unrelated indexes? Could this bitmapping code be used to combine indexes

Re: [HACKERS] FunctionCallN improvement.

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Rylander
Sorry, forgot the compiler version. gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6) On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:12:04 +, Mike Rylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:23:56 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a_og

Re: [HACKERS] FunctionCallN improvement.

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Rylander
time ./pg_test -unrolled 10 test Unrolled(5): 10 real0m3.347s user 0m3.343s sys 0m0.000s Hope the numbers help! -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Bitmap Indexes

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Rylander
001001000 2 | 1001011 3 | 010110100010110 ctids 1 | {2,5,8,11} 2 | {0,7,9,14} 3 | {1,3,4,6,10,12,13} The index scan would do bitwise a OR on bitmaps 1 and 3, find the possition of the "1"s, jump to those possitions in the ctid array, and bounce to t

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Bitmap Indexes

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Rylander
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:07:59 +1100, Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rylander wrote: > > For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes. I don't see any reason this couldn't > > be done with GiST > > It might be possible to do it with GiST, but GiST is design

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Bitmap Indexes

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Rylander
tats. The planner would be able to choose a multi index scan based on multiple single column stat entries and completely sidestep the need for precalculated cross-column correlations. Am I getting that right? -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http:/

Re: [HACKERS] DBD::PgSPI 0.02

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Rylander
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:17:29 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > > > Just so that you have some info, I've been using DBD::PgSPI with Pg 8.0 > > since beta 1. The only restriction I've run int

Re: [HACKERS] DBD::PgSPI 0.02

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Rylander
#x27;re merrie than you know. :) > -alex > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing l

Re: [HACKERS] Error handling in plperl and pltcl

2004-12-01 Thread Mike Rylander
developer to use 'eval', but that is a familiar concept to defensive developers. -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet,

Re: [HACKERS] patch: plpgsql - access records with rec.(expr)

2004-11-23 Thread Mike Rylander
work, Matt. Please, CORE, include this one! As an alternative, what would be the possibility of creating a new PL as a contrib module, say PLPGSQL_NG, to move forward with extensions like this and perhaps EVALUATE? -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer

Re: [HACKERS] Odd plpgsql behaviour

2004-11-15 Thread Mike Rylander
ECT statement after replacing the TG_* identifiers with their respective values. Your first example is essentially IF (SELECT (TG_OP = 'INSERT' OR (TG_OP = 'UPDATE' AND NEW.name != OLD.name) IS TRUE) ... In this case, since OLD.name does not exist during INSERT it cannot be

Re: [HACKERS] APR 1.0 released

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Rylander
A while back I was looking the backend code in preparation to start beginning to look at parallelization techniques for PG ;)... My thought was instead of trying to parallelize each individual plan node (multi-process sort, etc.) I would look at creating worker threads/processes for each plan node

Re: [HACKERS] Mislabeled timestamp functions (was Re: [SQL] [NOVICE] date_trunc'd timestamp index possible?)

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Rylander
Not that my 2c is worth 1c, but I second this. I'd rather initdb now than get bitten by some catalog difference when I move my DB into production. :) --miker On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:22:50 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > I'd prefer if all users of 8.0 were guaranteed to hav

Re: [HACKERS] FYI: 8.0beta2 on Monday

2004-08-29 Thread Mike Rylander
Tom Lane wrote: > Just so you know --- core has agreed that it's about time for beta2. > If you've got any "must fix" issues, please get 'em in over the weekend. Will we be looking at a re-initdb with beta2? I didn't notice any changes that would force it, but just to be clear... > > regards,

[HACKERS] nntp server craziness

2004-08-06 Thread Mike Rylander
Seems the NNTP server went wonky again... TIA! -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indentation is a wonderful form of commentary from programmer to programmer, but its symbology is largely wasted on the computer. We don't tell poets how to format their poetry. -- Larry

Re: [HACKERS] Portals and nested transactions

2004-07-14 Thread Mike Rylander
Mike Rylander wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:57:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >>>> I've been thinking about what to do with cursors in subtransactions. >> >>> So

Re: [HACKERS] Portals and nested transactions

2004-07-14 Thread Mike Rylander
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:57:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I've been thinking about what to do with cursors in subtransactions. > >> So within this proposal, a query executed by normal means will get its >> resources saved in the

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Rylander
Dennsnippetssklund wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > >> Nested transactions and savepoints serve two different purposes. They >> have some overlap, but for the most part solve two distinct problems. > > Then show some examples that illustrait th

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Rylander
Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > >> They do, if only to make particular constructs easier to write. This is >> an opinion, but for example an EXCEPTION framework for plpgsql would be >> easier to implement and use if it used the ne

Re: [HACKERS] plperl (7.5)

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Rylander
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:18:28PM -0700, elein wrote: >>> The new plperl returns sets by having >>> the function return an array. > >> I think RETURN NEXT does the same thing anyway ... they just store >> tuples in a Tuplestore an

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-09 Thread Mike Rylander
Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> I think we agreed on BEGIN NESTED/COMMIT NESTED, and START NESTED >> TRANSACTION and COMMIT NESTED TRANSACTION. > > Should I read this as pg will get its own implementation of sub > transactions and not implement the almost

Re: [HACKERS] Quick question regarding tablespaces

2004-07-08 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:54 pm, Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > > On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:43 pm, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > In this release, unfortunately not. > > > > That't too bad

Re: [HACKERS] Quick question regarding tablespaces

2004-07-08 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:26 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:54, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:43 pm, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Quick question regarding tablespaces

2004-07-08 Thread Mike Rylander
rt, but with some pointers I'll do what I can! -miker > > Gavin > > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Mike Rylander wrote: > > Now that PG will have tablespaces I can stick my really high I/O data on > > a fiberchannel array, and save some money by putting the rest of it (also > &g

[HACKERS] Quick question regarding tablespaces

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Rylander
Now that PG will have tablespaces I can stick my really high I/O data on a fiberchannel array, and save some money by putting the rest of it (also the majority of it) on less expensive SCSI RAID sets. Will I also be able to tune individual tablespaces with the likes of random_page_cost? Sorry if

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE-esque Functionallity (was: Adding MERGE to the TODO list (resend with subject))

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 09:44 am, Bruce Momjian wrote: [snip] > > > > Bruce Momjian kirjutas E, 10.05.2004 kell 06:58: > > > > > Added to TODO: > > > > > > > > > > * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT > > > > [snip] Hello all. I have been lurking here for a bit and the