Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Steven Lembark
Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure and other areas the project needs some work. Would introducing a Duration (i.e., time-series a'la Date, et al)) data type be considered useful? I'd

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Steven Lembark wrote: Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure and other areas the project needs some work. Would introducing a Duration (i.e., time-series a'la

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Josh Berkus
On 4/2/09 8:48 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Steven Lembark wrote: Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure and other areas the project needs some work. Would

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Josh Berkus wrote: On 4/2/09 8:48 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Steven Lembark wrote: Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure and other areas the project needs some

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:19 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: The data type itself is quite trivial. It's all the operators that are more difficult to implement, and also immensely useful. That part is still incomplete. Can you please let me know what you find lacking (note: the SVN repo is

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Jeff Davis wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:19 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: The data type itself is quite trivial. It's all the operators that are more difficult to implement, and also immensely useful. That part is still incomplete. Can you please let me know what you find lacking (note:

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:58 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I have not yet implemented temporal join. That, and temporal union and difference. You have a union operator, but that's not enough for a temporal union, as in: Ok, so you were talking about the relational operators, not interval

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: Also, it would be nice to generalize the thing so that it works not only with intervals of time, but also floats, integers, numerics etc. The concept of an interval is not really tied to timestamps,

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-04-02 Thread Josh Berkus
All, Please: A. Stop cc'ing this thread to the WWW list. B. Please change the topic of this thread to Duration or Time types. --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] Mentors needed urgently for SoC PostgreSQL Student Internships

2009-03-25 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure and other areas the project needs some work. God, could someone do the module thing? :- I'd be