On 1/13/17 9:22 AM, Peter Moser wrote: > The goal of temporal aligners and normalizers is to split ranges to allow a > reduction from temporal queries to their non-temporal counterparts. > Splitting > ranges is necessary for temporal query processing. Temporal aligners and > normalizer may then be used as building-blocks for any temporal query > construct.
I would need to see the exact definitions of these constructs. Please send some documentation. > We have published two papers, that contain formal definitions and > related work > for the temporal aligner and normalizer. Please see [1] and [2]. I don't have access to those. >> I think there are probably many interesting applications for normalizing >> or otherwise adjusting ranges. I'd like to see an overview and >> consideration of other applications. > > Please see the attached file adjustment.sql for some interesting > applications. That's surely interesting, but without knowing what these operations are supposed to do, I can only reverse engineer and guess. >> Ideally, I'd like to see these things implemented as some kind of >> user-space construct, like an operator or function. I think we'd need a >> clearer definition of what it is they do before we can evaluate that. > > Can you please explain what you mean by "user-space construct" in this case. Implement them using the extensibility features, such as a user-defined operator. I don't know if it's possible, but it's something to consider. Using common terms such as ALIGN and NORMALIZE for such a specific functionality seems a bit wrong. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
