Re: [HACKERS] a few crazy ideas about hash joins

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Dunlop
On 2009-04-03, Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 18:03 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: I wonder if we need a whole class of index algorithms to deal specifically with read-only tables I think we can drop the word index from the sentence as well. Read-only isn't an

[HACKERS] Data archiving/warehousing idea

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Dunlop
G'day hackers, I had some hand-wavy thoughts about some potential gains for postgres in the data archiving/warehousing area. I'm not able to do any work myself on this, and don't actually have a pressing need for it so I'm not requesting someone do it, but I thought it might be worth discussing

Re: [HACKERS] Data archiving/warehousing idea

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Dunlop
G'day Gavin, In maillist.postgres.dev, you wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Chris Dunlop wrote: The main idea is that, there might be space utilisation and performance advantages if postgres had hard read-only tables, i.e. tables which were guaranteed (by postgres) to never have their data

[HACKERS] Statement parsing problem ?

2004-09-15 Thread Chris Dunlop
G'day, There seems to be a kind of statement parsing problem in 7.4.5 (from debian postgresql-7.4.5-3, i386). Either that, or I'm missing something... The following script: -- create table t1 ( foo1 integer, foo2 integer );

Re: [HACKERS] Statement parsing problem ?

2004-09-15 Thread Chris Dunlop
Replying to my own post, thanks to the assistance of Paul Bort... On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:43:47PM +1000, Chris Dunlop wrote: There seems to be a kind of statement parsing problem in 7.4.5 (from debian postgresql-7.4.5-3, i386). Either that, or I'm missing something... \echo

[HACKERS] Permissions problem

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Dunlop
Hi, There seems to be a minor bug related to permissions. If you create a table and grant permissions on that table to someone else, you lose your own permissions (note: do this as a non-dbadmin account): testdb= create table tester ( test int4 ); CREATE testdb= insert into tester