Re: [HACKERS] Getting to 8.3 beta1

2007-09-28 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Simon Riggs wrote: ...knock-on... tackle Been watching the Rugby World Cup? :) ---(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

Re: [HACKERS] UPSERT

2007-03-02 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Simon Riggs wrote: I'm a bit surprised the TODO didn't mention the MERGE statement, which is the SQL:2003 syntax for specifying this as an atomic statement. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-05/thrd5.php#00497 There is a thread there entitled Adding MERGE to the TODO list

Re: [HACKERS] UPSERT

2007-03-02 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Tom Lane wrote: Bricklen Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-05/thrd5.php#00497 There is a thread there entitled Adding MERGE to the TODO list The more interesting discussion is the one that got it taken off TODO again, from Nov 2005. Try

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to admit to being presinet.com?

2006-02-13 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Tom Lane wrote: And if so, would you mind stopping your mail system from regurgitating copies of pghackers traffic? It's especially bad that you're sending the stuff with a fraudulent envelope From, ie, one not pointing back at yourself. That would be me. I've notified one of our admins

Re: [HACKERS] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-31 Thread Bricklen Anderson
J. Andrew Rogers wrote: snip A graphical installer for Unix is fine, but please, do not make it anything like Oracle's graphical installer. Oracle's graphical install process gives command line installs a good name for ease of use. J. Andrew Rogers I heartily second that!

Re: [HACKERS] Rollback Mountain

2006-01-26 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Michael Fuhr wrote: Rollback Mountain A raw, powerful story of two young transactions, one serializable and the other read-committed, who meet in the summer of 2005 updating tables in the harsh, high-volume environment of a contemporary online trading system and form an unorthodox yet

Re: [HACKERS] prefix btree implementation

2005-10-05 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Qingqing Zhou wrote: I am not sure if this idea was mentioned before. The basic prefix btree idea is quite straightforward, i.e., try to compress the key items within a data page by sharing the common prefix. Thus the fanout of the page is increased and the benefits is obvious

Re: R: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-23 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Paolo Magnoli wrote: Hi, I seem to recall that in Oracle you load into specific partitions without specifically naming them in insert statements (in other words you insert into table, the engine redirects data to the corrisponding partition), This is correct --

Re: [HACKERS] Tablespace-level Block Size Definitions

2005-05-31 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Jonah H. Harris wrote: Hey everyone, I'm sure this has been thought of but was wondering whether anyone had discussed the allowance of run-time block size specifications at the tablespace level? I know that a change such as this would substantially impact buffer operations, transactions,