Re: [HACKERS] Temporal extensions

2015-04-28 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Jim, On 28/04/15 03:49, Jim Nasby wrote: On 4/27/15 6:08 PM, Dave Jones wrote: (Though, I dislike using timestamps to do change/history tracking, but that's just me...) I've been playing around with history tracking (in the context of BI, typically with batch loaded reporting databases)

Re: [HACKERS] Temporal extensions

2015-04-27 Thread Jim Nasby
On 4/25/15 7:49 PM, Dave Jones wrote: I've been working on a conversion of several utilities I wrote for another engine, and was wondering if there was any interest in seeing any of them added to contrib/ at some point in the vague undefined future? Not in contrib, no, because there's no

Re: [HACKERS] Temporal extensions

2015-04-27 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Jim, On 27/04/15 21:48, Jim Nasby wrote: On 4/25/15 7:49 PM, Dave Jones wrote: I've been working on a conversion of several utilities I wrote for another engine, and was wondering if there was any interest in seeing any of them added to contrib/ at some point in the vague undefined

Re: [HACKERS] Temporal extensions

2015-04-27 Thread Jim Nasby
On 4/27/15 6:08 PM, Dave Jones wrote: (Though, I dislike using timestamps to do change/history tracking, but that's just me...) I've been playing around with history tracking (in the context of BI, typically with batch loaded reporting databases) for about 7-8 years now and always found

[HACKERS] Temporal extensions

2015-04-25 Thread Dave Jones
Hi all, My apologies I couldn't directly respond to the earlier thread on this subject (http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50d99278.3030...@dc.baikal.ru) but I wasn't subscribed to the list at that point. I've been working on a conversion of several utilities I wrote for another engine, and