Re: [HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-21 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to say, I am wondering more and more how real the need is for the two representations of timestamps. Would it be better to deprecate the float format or at least make

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Add TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs

2008-03-21 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs to get rid of the instances using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define being used to determine the types of variables or functions

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-20 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's an initial bit of my attempt at cleaning up the the timestamp datatype. I'm starting to work through this now. Your two messages of 3/09 are still the latest version

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-18 Thread Warren Turkal
Give the discussion on this. Is this small patch being considered for inclusion? If not, what do I need to change to make it acceptable? Thanks, wt On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PosgreSQL hackers, Here's an initial bit of my attempt at cleaning up

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-18 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there anything I can do to help? wt On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Give the discussion on this. Is this small patch being considered for inclusion? If not, what do I need to change to make it acceptable

[HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Turkal
PosgreSQL hackers, Here's an initial bit of my attempt at cleaning up the the timestamp datatype. I have gone through the backend and made a couple small changes to stop using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define to select a type in code by creating typedefs in a header and using the typedef in the

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Clean up date/time variable type selection

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Turkal
I have removed all instances of using HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP to determine the type of a variable in files depending on timestamp.h. --- src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c |6 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Add TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Turkal
I added TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs to get rid of the instances using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define being used to determine the types of variables or functions in timestamp.c. --- src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c | 77 +++- src/include/utils/timestamp.h

[HACKERS] timestamp datatype cleanup

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Turkal
PosgreSQL hackers, Here's an initial bit of my attempt at cleaning up the the timestamp datatype. I have gone through the backend and made a couple small changes to stop using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define to select a type in code by creating typedefs in a header and using the typedef in the

[HACKERS] code cleanup of timestamp code

2008-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
I am working on some beginner level patches to help clean up the timestamp code in PostgreSQL. Basically, my first few patches are aimed at removing the dependence on the HAVE_INT_TIMESTAMP to choose types for variables. I will eventually try to remove the use of HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP to choose

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Add TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs

2008-01-22 Thread Warren Turkal
I added TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs to get rid of the instances using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define being used to determine the types of variables or functions in timestamp.c. --- src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c | 77 +++--

[HACKERS] Fixed patch for timestamp refactor effort

2008-01-22 Thread Warren Turkal
Here is a fixed patch for the timestamp refactor. I apologize for sending the wrong patch earlier. I would like to get some comments on if this patch is heading in the right direction. Here's the proposal for what I am doing: Proposal for Refactoring of Timestamp Datatype Goal: The primary

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Add TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs

2008-01-22 Thread Warren Turkal
I added TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs to get rid of the instances using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define being used to determine the types of variables or functions in timestamp.c. --- src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c | 77 +++- src/include/utils/timestamp.h

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Add TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs

2008-01-22 Thread Warren Turkal
This patch is in error. Please ignore. I have already sent the corrected patch. Thanks, wt On Jan 22, 2008 12:50 PM, Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added TimeOffset and DateOffset typedefs to get rid of the instances using the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define being used to determine

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp refactor effort

2008-01-14 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 13, 2008 9:21 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question. Are the low level representations of Timestamp and TimestampTZ the same? They're the same but the interpretations are different, which is why I think it's useful to have

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp refactor effort

2008-01-13 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 12, 2008 5:23 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, PackedTime seems like a fairly random name for the type --- there's not anything particularly packed about it IMO. I'm a bit inclined to suggest just using the Timestamp typedef. I guess though that there's some risk of confusion

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp refactor effort

2008-01-13 Thread Warren Turkal
-my gmail account On Jan 13, 2008 12:13 AM, Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12, 2008 5:23 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, PackedTime seems like a fairly random name for the type --- there's not anything particularly packed about it IMO. I'm a bit inclined

Re: [HACKERS] Declarative partitioning grammar

2008-01-11 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 11, 2008 3:42 PM, Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the drawbacks of CREATE TABLE tablename(...) PARTITION BY function_taking_row_returning_partition_name instead of the explicit types? Would that still allow the optimizer to work as well as it could? It seems that

[HACKERS] timestamp refactor effort

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
77db4f84999161c0c7ba8ded78636512cc719878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:19:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add PackedTime typedef. The PackedTime type is meant to be a type that holds the hour, minute, second, and fractional seconds part of the time

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
The year to month and day to second intervals should not overlap. The standard doesn't actually allow it IIRC. wt On Jan 9, 2008 7:17 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ilya A. Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest one more standard date/time operator, to divide one interval by

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 8:33 PM, Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I argued in a long-dead thread that we should disallow these kinds of comparisons altogether, but I didn't manage to generate much enthusiasm. The overall sentiment seemed to be that the slightly bogus results were more useful than

[HACKERS] flex/bison output wrongly created in the source directory

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
I was wondering if there is a reason that the flex and bison and other generated source files end up in the source directory when doing an out-of-tree build. Would a patch that puts those files in the build trees be accepted? wt ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 9:29 PM, Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, a correction. The issue of years vs. days isn't ignored. A year is just 12 months, which yields 12 * 30 = 360 days, which is actually a pretty significant error (1.4% on average). YEAR TO MONTH and DAY TO

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 10:44 PM, Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 5:00 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spec's approach to datetime operations in general is almost totally brain-dead, and so you won't find a lot of support around here for hewing to the

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 11:06 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 10, 2008 5:00 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spec's approach to datetime operations in general is almost totally brain-dead, ... It's true that the spec fails to consider

Re: [HACKERS] operator suggest interval / interval = numeric

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 10:00 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I think you've confused some unimplemented decorative syntax with what the underlying datatype will or won't do. Fair enough. The underlying type certainly will do it since it works without the opt_interval. This is

Re: [HACKERS] flex/bison output wrongly created in the source directory

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 9, 2008 9:51 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there is a reason that the flex and bison and other generated source files end up in the source directory when doing an out-of-tree build. Would a patch that puts those

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp typedefs

2008-01-04 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 4, 2008 4:20 AM, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps what you want here is to define a type for calculation results (double/int64). Whether it is used in the code for minutes or hours is irrelevant to the typedef. Okay...that sounds good. Do you have a good name for it?

[HACKERS] timestamp typedefs

2008-01-03 Thread Warren Turkal
00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:59:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add typedefs for hour and minute types. The HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP define was being used to select the types for the hour and minute field variables. I changed them to use a typedef to make

Re: [HACKERS] timestamp typedefs

2008-01-03 Thread Warren Turkal
On Jan 3, 2008 8:54 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: Do we really need fhour_t and fminute_t on top of fsec_t? This seems like a bad factorization ... After some more thought: I think that what's bugging me is that fsec_t is intended to denote fractional seconds. The other

[HACKERS] question about timestamp

2007-12-30 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there a reason that the value of the HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP macro is used to choose a datatype in datetime.c instead of having a typedef defined? I would like to write a patch to change constructs like the following: #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP int64 span1, span2;

Re: [HACKERS] Altering a plan

2007-07-17 Thread Warren Turkal
On Monday 16 July 2007 22:32:07 Shruthi A wrote: Please reply soon, this is an emergency.. This may be obvious, but a quick reply might call for commercial support. Check out [1]. [1]http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t

Re: [HACKERS] Vista/IPv6

2007-04-13 Thread Warren Turkal
case. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [HACKERS] Vista/IPv6

2007-04-11 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:24, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we could use configure for MSVC this would have Just Happened (tm). I wonder how many other little bits we miss out on? CMake anyone? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] broken doc

2007-03-02 Thread Warren Turkal
that you are using the SGML processor to generate the document instead of the XML processor? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-27 Thread Warren Turkal
. Cvs2svn makes its through where the error originally occurred. Joshua, can you see if your conversion script can do a conversion without deleting the perl5 directory? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-27 Thread Warren Turkal
-cvs /home/cvsmirror/pg and the exclude file has these four lines:   /sup/   /CVSROOT/loginfo*   /CVSROOT/commitinfo*   /CVSROOT/config* This setup prunes 1.25MB. Are you suggesting that I prune this from the conversion? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
,v * test.pl.oldstyle,v wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
) * vimdiff wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
On Monday 26 February 2007 10:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: Done. Any other problems? Only figuring out the encoding issues with cvs. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
conversion takes (about 3.25 hours on my laptop). Here's ([1]) another interesting bit. [1]http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVNMigration wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [HACKERS] Seeking Google SoC Mentors

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
for valid time tables * add support for transaction time tables * add support for bi-temporal tables Check out [1] for more info. [1]http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/ wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
On Monday 26 February 2007 10:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: Warren Turkal wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:47, Chad Wagner wrote: head pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.oldstyle,v head ? ?1.3; access; symbols ? ? ? ? Release-1-6-0:1.1.1.1 ? ? ? ? creation:1.1.1.1

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-25 Thread Warren Turkal
except that some commit comments appear to be in some encoding other than ascii. I am in the middle of checking commits involving those files to make sure they make sense. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-25 Thread Warren Turkal
, for instance, I converted to svn and then imported that. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-25 Thread Warren Turkal
$-type keyword lines. However, I am having a problem with encodings in some of the files. How does cvs handle files with different encodings? For instance, it looks like the Chinese documentation gets messed up upon svn conversion. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
good thing. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 24 February 2007 00:24, Warren Turkal wrote: The interesting thing about Git is that is has two way sync support for a SVN repository also. You could run a Git repository pushing changes in real time to a SVN repository and present a CVS frontend also. I would like to try

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
to. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: conversion efforts (Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
a cvs maintainer please correct this file by adding a ; after the first creation line and removing the second creation line? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
? I'll even volunteer to set it up. [1]http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/svn2cvs.html wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(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

[HACKERS] RFI: Looking a PERIOD data type developer

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
cycle would probably be a more appropriate time. However, that doesn't mean we can't start thinking now. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

2007-02-24 Thread Warren Turkal
to me. This all sounds truly reasonable. I am glad that I could get all your opinions on the subject. If you do decide to move to anything else in a couple years, hopefully I can help the process somehow. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
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developer wiki (was Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question)

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
[1]. [1]http://www.postgresql.org/developer/ wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
, they could be moved to Git. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
repository pushing changes in real time to a SVN repository and present a CVS frontend also. I would like to try converting the CVS repository of PostgreSQL to Git and try setting some of this stuff up. Does anyone know how I could get the CVS repository files? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
), you can't easily find the history for a file, and for (2), you can't check out old version and expect them to just work. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
. Cogito makes it as simple as anything else I have seen out there. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
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Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-23 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:23, Warren Turkal wrote: Are there any plans to move to another SCMS in the future? I am curious, I guess. Is it possible to obtain a mirror of the CVS repository? The version of CVS on the repository server is incompatible with cvsps (at least the version

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-22 Thread Warren Turkal
is better at disconnected operation than CVS, so it might be a non-issue for many. Even so, it might be a pity to have to forego the facility. Check out svnsync for SVN. It's part of a normal SVN installation. With git, a checkout brings the whole repository anyway, I think. wt -- Warren

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-22 Thread Warren Turkal
monotone) but most projects I know are moving from cvs to svn or starting with svn. Git is also pretty cool, too. You can even present a CVS interface on a git repository. That might address the build farm issue. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-22 Thread Warren Turkal
with it AFAIK. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-22 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:23, Warren Turkal wrote: Are there any plans to move to another SCMS in the future? I am curious, I guess. Speaking of which...Are there any plans to upgrade the CVS server to the latest version? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end

[HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
Are there any plans to move to another SCMS in the future? I am curious, I guess. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

[HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there a reason why the DATE type does not support infinity something like the DATE type? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:20, Tom Lane wrote: Nobody got round to it.  I believe it's listed in the TODO file ... It's not at [1]. Should someone add it to the TODO? [1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
to check out new SCMSes? Would you want distributed like Git or centralized like CVS/Subversion? wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http

Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:42, you wrote: I think you just made my point for me. I wasn't trying to convince so much as get an opinion. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL

2007-02-17 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 17 February 2007 01:50, Hannu Krosing wrote: Is tinterval meant to be open/closed at start and end ? I don't see the tinterval doing anything other than storing two times. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL

2007-02-17 Thread Warren Turkal
. But it wouldn't really tell you much useful info, as it's not normally what you're looking for with time. wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan

Re: [HACKERS] New feature request: FlashBack Query

2007-02-17 Thread Warren Turkal
://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg00540.php wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL

2007-02-16 Thread Warren Turkal
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:39:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: FWIW there's already a type called tinterval that stores (start,end). I don't think it's very much documented; maybe it can be extended or used as base for a new, more complete and robust type, indexable in a more natural way,

[HACKERS] RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL

2007-02-09 Thread Warren Turkal
Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL by: Warren Turkal I would like to see a comprehensive solution to time varying tables (or temporal) in PostgreSQL. I specifically want to see suuport for valid-time and transacation-time and bitemporal (valid-time and transaction-time) tables. I will be defering

[HACKERS] period data type

2007-02-05 Thread Warren Turkal
of a conforming implementation of this data type. [1]http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/tdbbook.pdf Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] period data type

2007-02-04 Thread Warren Turkal
of a conforming implementation of this data type. [1]http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/tdbbook.pdf Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal (w00t) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command