Re: [HACKERS] Some download statistics

rball. > Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts? I also found the split sources + a non-split sources version to be confusing. As you, I think that splitting should be dropped. -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] Extending System Views: proposal for 8.1/8.2

is - solely - or part of - a uniqueness constraint - solely - or part of - a foreign key (pointing where?) - if it is subject to a (set of) CHECK constraints I could use this to more easily build user interfaces (forms). -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

CREATE TYPE bigobj (INPUT = lo_filein, OUTPUT = lo_fileout,...) Reference 1: Stonebraker & Olson: Large Object Support in POSTGRES (1993) http://epoch.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres/papers/S2K-93-30.pdf -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

IO-wise to "jump" around in an index than to go back and forth between index and tuple blocks? -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

ointers in the index? Am I right that the answer is related to BlockIdData? If I store BlockIds in an index, do I then have to worry about physical blocks on the disk which might somehow move? -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

ams (or > modify them to 4,5,6 or 7-grams ;) to get some feel how that works. > > trigram module is in contrib/pg_trgm. (/me Printing readme.) Thanks. -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

ies), as opposed to very long, contiguous sequences. Am I mistaken? -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEma

[HACKERS] Adding a suffix array index

ng a large index covering all the indexes values in the column. Is it conceivable to create such an index "cluster"? 2. Does someone know of interesting documentation (perhaps in the form of interesting code comments) which I should read, as a basis for creating a non-standard

Re: [HACKERS] DETERMINISTIC as synonym for IMMUTABLE

n: It's still safe to call a function including now() NOT DETERMINISTIC==VOLATILE; no unexpected results should result from this, except - potentially - lower performance. I think it's a common phenomenon that performance can sometimes be increased by utilizing certain pr

Re: [HACKERS] DETERMINISTIC as synonym for IMMUTABLE

the same thing. I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between DETERMINISTIC and IMMUTABLE. My suggestion for "NOT DETERMINISTIC"==VOLATILE is because VOLATILE seems to be the least strict of the three PostgreSQL volatility categories. Do you disagree on both, or just the

[HACKERS] DETERMINISTIC as synonym for IMMUTABLE

x27;d rather spend my time finishing the conformance review. -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4: CHAR padding inconsistency

ence 1: An interesting one is this one: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/10958/match=char+padding -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] 7.4: CHAR padding inconsistency

e like? I see no justification for the change: It may break old queries in subtle ways and doesn't make the CHAR-type any more consistent than before. -- Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subs