Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:30 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > Hah! I gave you kudos :P (you are in the FAQ) > > Ah, thanks. The link is missing a "G": It's "PGXN," not "PXN". Yeah that is already fixed, just waiting for cache to clear (on

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-28 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jul 28, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hah! I gave you kudos :P (you are in the FAQ) Ah, thanks. The link is missing a "G": It's "PGXN," not "PXN". Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:55:18 -0700, "David E. Wheeler" wrote: > On Jul 27, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> Correct. We are also hoping to get some sponsorship for it. >> >> https://www.fossexperts.com/ > > Frigging copycat. Hah! I gave you kudos :P (you are in the FAQ) JD -- P

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jul 27, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Correct. We are also hoping to get some sponsorship for it. > > https://www.fossexperts.com/ Frigging copycat. Any sponsorship for PGXN in there? ;-P Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To m

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Nilson Damasceno wrote: The Tom's message was in Dec/2006. We are in 2010. So what? The problem hasn't changed. Sincerelly, I'm not afraid to seem naive, but I believe that a column that inherits the persistent semantics of attnum solves the 99.9% problem with column reordering of legac

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Nilson Damasceno
Andrew, The Tom's message was in Dec/2006. We are in 2010. Sincerelly, I'm not afraid to seem naive, but I believe that a column that inherits the persistent semantics of attnum solves the 99.9% problem with column reordering of legacy software. The exceptions seems to be: 1) software that addr

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 17:56 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Robert Haas wrote: > >> Please review the previous discussions on this. In particular, see this > >> proposal from Tom Lane that I believe represents the consensus way we want > >> to go on this: > >>

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Haas wrote: Please review the previous discussions on this. In particular, see this proposal from Tom Lane that I believe represents the consensus way we want to go on this: Alvaro is planning to work on this for

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Nilson wrote: >> >> Quoting  "wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position >> " : >> >> "The idea of allowing re-ordering of column position is not one the >> postgresql developers

Re: [HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Nilson wrote: Quoting "wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position " : "The idea of allowing re-ordering of column position is not one the postgresql developers are against, it is more a case where no one has stepped forward to do t

[HACKERS] Toward a column reorder solution

2010-07-27 Thread Nilson
Quoting "wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position" : "The idea of allowing re-ordering of column position is not one the postgresql developers are against, it is more a case where no one has stepped forward to do the work." Well, a ha