Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-16 Thread Gurjeet Singh
2009/12/16 decibel > On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian writes: > >> Ashish wrote: > >>> I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: > >>> --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated > >>> and actual row counts differ by a specifie

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-15 Thread decibel
On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: >> Ashish wrote: >>> I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: >>> --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated >>> and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. > >> I even have a

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Tom Lane escreveu: > I'm not sure there is any really nice solution within the confines of > plain ASCII text output. There was an interesting approach online > at http://explain-analyze.info, but that site seems to be down now :-( > Estimation error is one of the ideas. The other ones I have in

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Ashish wrote: >> I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: >> --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated >> and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. > I even have a sample patch you can use as a start, attached. Of co

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Ashish wrote: > >> I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: > >> > >> --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated > >> and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. > >>

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Ashish wrote: >> I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: >> >> --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated >> and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. >> >> I picked this because it is s

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Ashish wrote: > I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: > > --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated and actual > row counts differ by a specified percentage. > > I picked this because it is somewhat related to query proc

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Ashish wrote: > I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: > > --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated > and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. > > I picked this because it is somewhat related to query processing > which is what I am most

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-11 Thread Ashish
I am thinking about starting with the following TODO item: --> Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE issue NOTICE messages when the estimated and actual row counts differ by a specified percentage. I picked this because it is somewhat related to query processing which is what I am most interested in. It also

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Peter Eisentraut wrote: But unless the item is linked to a mailing list thread that already shows a consensus about the feature, you need to start with a discussion about a plan. And realistically, even if the item is so linked, someone new to the project still shouldn't just plow away on it

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-12-07 at 09:53 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: > I would start with the TODO list: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo > These are things for which there is a consensus that it would be > a good idea to implement them. The Todo list is not a list of things for which such a consensus exist

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ashish wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks. If I may, what encompasses your area of expertise... > > BTW Congratulation on becoming a committer! Thanks. As others have said, it's probably best to pick a project first, or at least an area. It's more important to find s

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Ashish
Hi Robert, Thanks. If I may, what encompasses your area of expertise... BTW Congratulation on becoming a committer! Regards Ashish On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM, wrote: 2. Would someone be willing to be a mentor? It would be nice to be able to get

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Josh Berkus
On 12/7/09 4:41 PM, Ashish wrote: > Albe & Joshua, thanks for the advice. I am in the process of deciding > what to work on and am looking at the TODO list. I definitely do not > intend to work in a vacuum :-) I am really excited about this and look > forward to being challenged and learning a lot.

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Ashish
Albe & Joshua, thanks for the advice. I am in the process of deciding what to work on and am looking at the TODO list. I definitely do not intend to work in a vacuum :-) I am really excited about this and look forward to being challenged and learning a lot. Regards Ashish On Mon, 7 Dec 2009,

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM, wrote: > 2. Would someone be willing to be a mentor? It would be nice to be able to > get some guidance on a one-to-one basis. I might be willing to do this, but if you pick a project that is outside my area of knowledge then I might not be able to help as much.

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: > abindra wrote: > > Next quarter I am planning to do an Independent Study course > > where the main objective would be to allow me to get familiar > > with the internals of Postgres by working on a project(s). I > > would like to wor

Re: [HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-07 Thread Albe Laurenz
abindra wrote: > Next quarter I am planning to do an Independent Study course > where the main objective would be to allow me to get familiar > with the internals of Postgres by working on a project(s). I > would like to work on something that could possibly be > accepted as a patch. > > This

[HACKERS] Need a mentor, and a project.

2009-12-06 Thread abindra
Hello there, I am a graduate student at the University of Washington, Tacoma (http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/tech/) with an interest in databases (especially query processing). I am familiar with database theory and in an earlier life I used to be an application developer and have done a lot o