Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 12/02/2010 12:44 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: wrote: If possible can you provide glimpses of History. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARK_IV_%28software%29 I don't want to go back there, myself. YMMV. Me either. BTDTGTTS. :-) cheers

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
wrote: > If possible can you provide glimpses of History. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARK_IV_%28software%29 I don't want to go back there, myself. YMMV. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-02 Thread Vaibhav Kaushal
I know world's population. Non of the person thinks alike and still many peoples goal can be the same. Nothing is virgin in this world. If someone thinks like that then it is a mistake. My aim is to prove that Postgresql can be the great leader if we put natural intelligence in database which is m

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread ghatpande
which is missing all over. Regards, Vijay. Experience the Excellence.. - Original Message - From: Tom Lane Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:20 pm Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent,integrateddatabase To: ghatpa...@vsnl.net Cc: Dann Corbit , pgsql ha

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread ghatpande
, December 1, 2010 8:32 pm Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent,integrateddatabase To: Tom Lane Cc: ghatpa...@vsnl.net, Dann Corbit , pgsql hackers > > > On 12/01/2010 09:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > ghatpa...@vsnl.net writes: > >> Create domain is onl

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread Josh Berkus
> Something that did what Pavel mentioned: > > SELECT name, parent->name FROM children; > > would be very useful. It means you no longer have to write explicit joins (or > perhaps more accurately, you no longer have to specify exactly how to join > the two tables). Already exists: http://htsq

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread ghatpande
.net wrote: > > Be positive ... Negative thoughts are not good... > > > > - Original Message - > > From: David Fetter > > Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:42 pm > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards > Intelligent,integrateddatabase>

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Nasby
On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 12/01/2010 09:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> ghatpa...@vsnl.net writes: >>> Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields >>> into single location for maintenance. It may not be useful to link tables. >> It's still uncle

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread David Fetter
David Fetter > Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:42 pm > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards > Intelligent,integrateddatabase > To: ghatpa...@vsnl.net > Cc: pgsql hackers > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 03:19:32PM +0500, ghatpa...@vsnl.net wrote: > >

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread ghatpande
Be positive ... Negative thoughts are not good... - Original Message - From: David Fetter Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:42 pm Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent,integrateddatabase To: ghatpa...@vsnl.net Cc: pgsql hackers > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 12/01/2010 09:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: ghatpa...@vsnl.net writes: Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields into single location for maintenance. It may not be useful to link tables. It's still unclear what this does that you don't get from inheritance, typed

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
ghatpa...@vsnl.net writes: > Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields > into single location for maintenance. It may not be useful to link tables. It's still unclear what this does that you don't get from inheritance, typed tables, use of a table's rowtype as a fi

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

2010-12-01 Thread ghatpande
Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields into single location for maintenance. It may not be useful to link tables. - Original Message - From: Dann Corbit Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:04 pm Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Proposal: First step towards