Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest Code Sprint with PUGs

2009-09-03 Thread Webb Sprague
>>> How about this: 6:00 Tuesday evening (Pacific), the three of us (and >>> anybody else) agree to be around a table with laptops on, cellphones >>> ready, listening at an IRC channel. Could you assign us good patches >>> before then (like 10)?  And then we commit, commit, commit. > > Sounds good,

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest Code Sprint with PUGs

2009-09-03 Thread Webb Sprague
> The CommitFest is scheduled to start 9/15, so doing this on 9/8 might > be a bit too soon.  I wouldn't object to doing it a few days before > the start of the CommitFest to flush out any patches with obvious > problems, but I think a week ahead of time is too much. Yeah, I meant Tues 9/15. > Al

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest Code Sprint with PUGs

2009-09-03 Thread Webb Sprague
Hi Josh et al, I believe we are all still interested (Selena? Gabrielle?) How about this: 6:00 Tuesday evening (Pacific), the three of us (and anybody else) agree to be around a table with laptops on, cellphones ready, listening at an IRC channel. Could you assign us good patches before then (lik

Re: [HACKERS] Commitfest Code Sprint with PUGs

2009-07-21 Thread Webb Sprague
So if the general commitfest begins on Sept 1, I recommend that we hold our sprint the weekend following (saturday 5, say 10am to 4pm Pacific Standard?). Thoughts? If we set a date, then people can converge on it. Pardon me if I am replying without enough context -- I have enough compelling ti

Re: [HACKERS] Website request -- developer docs along with release docs

2008-10-27 Thread Webb Sprague
Thanks to all for the link.\ > they are already referenced in the development section of the website: They are actually a little difficult to find for those of us that don't use that section frequently, or at least finding a navigation page to that section. > I'm not sure we actively should put

[HACKERS] Website request -- developer docs along with release docs

2008-10-27 Thread Webb Sprague
Could I request that a link to the developer docs be posted along with the release docs on http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/ ? First -- it is interesting. Second, if one is running CVS HEAD for testing (always a service to the community, if not your data), they are the appropriate docs.

Re: [HACKERS] Plugin system like Firefox

2008-08-12 Thread Webb Sprague
.. an OS-agnostic way of installing packages. >>> >>> Uh.. I don't think such a thing exists. >> >> Seems to in Firefox. > > And Perl's CPAN repository and installation module. Don't forget the command line installation of packages for the R programming language. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers m

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: new function array_init

2008-06-02 Thread Webb Sprague
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There was more time questions about array's initialisation. I propose >> function array_init. As one of the questioners, I will give some short thoughts below. >> CREATE OR REPLACE

Re: [HACKERS] Ideas input sought for this year's SOC page

2008-03-12 Thread Webb Sprague
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > > We need to update the SoC page: > > http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode > > > > ... with new ideas and projects appropriate for PostgreSQL 8.4/8.5. Can we add a project to impleme

Re: [HACKERS] creating new aggregate function

2008-02-29 Thread Webb Sprague
This probably belongs on General, but On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need help and direction creating new aggregate functions. > > We need to add more average functions for both scientific and finical > purposes > > RMS for electrical measurement purposes

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql Materialized views

2008-01-13 Thread Webb Sprague
> But did you clear your cache? :P Freud might say it takes a lifetime to clear one's cache Luckily, in therapy you don't have to wait for those darn Postgres developers ;) > > Joshua D. Drake > > > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > > TIP 1: if

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql Materialized views

2008-01-13 Thread Webb Sprague
I realize that some very important navel-gazing (^H^H^H "group process") is happening, but let us remember where bona-fide feature requests should go: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html So far, I don't see any mention of materialized views on this page, and I did refresh ... :) --

Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql Materialized views

2008-01-13 Thread Webb Sprague
Just my two cents on this (rapidly degenerating) thread. On 1/13/08, Sean Utt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good to see things haven't changed, and requests for > features and improvements on the pgsql-hackers list can still degenerate > rapidly into a discussion about how to request features and i

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying Text Search

2007-11-13 Thread Webb Sprague
> ... Therefore, we have to tell people > to use some other API anyway. The existing tsearch2 API at least has > the virtue of having been proven in the field over several years. I can only speak as a moderately sophisticated end user, but ... I think the tsearch2 API has been "proven" to alienat

Re: [HACKERS] INSERT/SELECT and excessive foreign key checks

2007-08-19 Thread Webb Sprague
> ... People keep proposing variants of the idea > that the executor should optimize updates on the basis of examining > the query tree to see whether columns changed or not, and they're always > wrong. You don't know what else might have been done to the row by > BEFORE triggers. Is there a dif