Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-13 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 7/13/06, Bernd Helmle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Mittwoch, Juli 12, 2006 20:58:08 -0500 Jaime Casanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if nobody step up i can do the list. > > i think this is the last patch that he post: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg00586.php

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-13 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 7/13/06, Bernd Helmle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm still working on this and trying to get all open issues done for 8.2 feature freeze. Sweet! -- Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1300 EnterpriseDB Corporation| fax: 732.331.1301 33 Wood Ave S, 2nd Floor

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-13 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Mittwoch, Juli 12, 2006 09:30:38 -0700 Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jaime Casanova wrote: is anybody working on the Bernd Helmle's updateable views patch? or know what the status of this is? I'm still working on this and trying to get all open issues done for 8.2 feature

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-13 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Mittwoch, Juli 12, 2006 20:58:08 -0500 Jaime Casanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if nobody step up i can do the list. i think this is the last patch that he post: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg00586.php The code drifted since then in some parts. I'll sent a

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-12 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 7/12/06, Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jaime Casanova wrote: > > is anybody working on the Bernd Helmle's updateable views patch? or > know what the status of this is? I was just wondering about this also. If no one else is working on it, I'd like to try to push it through to completi

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-12 Thread Joe Conway
Jaime Casanova wrote: is anybody working on the Bernd Helmle's updateable views patch? or know what the status of this is? I was just wondering about this also. If no one else is working on it, I'd like to try to push it through to completion for 8.2 myself. Can anyone summarize what the ope

[HACKERS] Updateable views for 8.2 or 8.3?

2006-07-12 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi, is anybody working on the Bernd Helmle's updateable views patch? or know what the status of this is? -- regards, Jaime Casanova "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and bett

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views was:(Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for

2006-03-10 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Freitag, März 10, 2006 09:43:04 + Richard Huxton wrote: I'd certainly be interested in having auto-updatable views in 8.2 - even if it was only for the simplest of cases. If I can be of any help testing etc. let me know. Yeah, that would be cool. I've sent the latest patch to -h

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views was:(Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for SYNONYMS)

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Huxton
Jaime Casanova wrote: On 3/9/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josh Berkus writes: Eh? I thought that it was just syntatic sugar that was missing. I've built lots of updatable views manually; I don't see what's difficult about it. I think you'll find that corner cases like inserts in

[HACKERS] Updateable views was:(Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for SYNONYMS)

2006-03-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 3/9/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Berkus writes: > > Eh? I thought that it was just syntatic sugar that was missing. I've > > built lots of updatable views manually; I don't see what's difficult about > > it. > > I think you'll find that corner cases like inserts involving n

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you want to extend the SQL syntax to allow updating views, and > implement plan nodes and executor functionality to handle them. So things > like this works: > UPDATE (SELECT id,val FROM t) SET val=0 where id < 100 > Then the rules you create on th

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views

2004-12-26 Thread Jaime Casanova
--- Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > - What if we cannot create one of the three > >rules? > >Make the rule not updateable at all? > >Or create the rules we can? (i think this is > >the correct) > > I seem to be in the minority here. But I think > creating compl

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views

2004-12-25 Thread Greg Stark
> - What if we cannot create one of the three rules? >Make the rule not updateable at all? >Or create the rules we can? (i think this is the >correct) I seem to be in the minority here. But I think creating complex rules to fiddle with the updates to translate them to the underlyi

[HACKERS] Updateable views

2004-12-25 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi, I'm currently working with Bernd in an implementation of updateable views and want to know the hacker's opinion on this issue. What features have to be implemented in a first extension in order to the patch to be accepted? What features can wait until a second extension? This are my first th

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable Views?

2004-08-09 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:24:34 -0400, Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have not heard of "updatable subselects" yet. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:6693556430011788783::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:273215737113, | Here we update a join. [...] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]> upd

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable Views?

2004-08-07 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/3/2004 11:38 PM, Greg Stark wrote: "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:05, CSN wrote: > Just wondering, is updateable views slated for a > future version of Postgresql? In addition to using > rules that is. I would think that a basic fleshing out of the logic w

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable Views?

2004-08-04 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:38 pm, Greg Stark wrote: > "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:05, CSN wrote: > > > Just wondering, is updateable views slated for a > > > future version of Postgresql? In addition to using > > > rules that is. > > > > I would think

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable Views?

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Stark
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:05, CSN wrote: > > Just wondering, is updateable views slated for a > > future version of Postgresql? In addition to using > > rules that is. > > I would think that a basic fleshing out of the logic with some kind of > stored

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Stark
Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I beleive this should allow queries such as: > UPDATE (SELECT bar, baz FROM foo) SET bar=1 WHERE baz=2; > as well as the > CREATE VIEW foo_view AS SELECT bar, baz FROM foo; > UPDATE foo_view SET bar=1 WHERE baz==2; > DROP VIEW foo_view; > three-query a

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Eric D Nielsen
After finding the SQL92 draft spec that Tom quoted from earlier I think I understand the conditions for the spec's version of view updatability. I've made few comments below on the conditions and I'ld appreciate it if anyone would correct any mis-interpretations on my part. > 12)A QS is

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stanards URL's are in the developers FAQ. --- Tom Lane wrote: > Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable > > views. I'm trying to track down

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable > views. I'm trying to track down a copy of the SQL92 standard, I thought that > ANSI sold them, but I can only find SQL89 and SQL99 there; am I looking in > the wrong place? I

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-07 Thread Eric D Nielsen
I'm pressing ahead with trying to implement the SQL92 version of updateable views. I'm trying to track down a copy of the SQL92 standard, I thought that ANSI sold them, but I can only find SQL89 and SQL99 there; am I looking in the wrong place? Eric Nielsen ---(end of bro

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In either case is this a place where "exceeding" the spec would be a good > > thing or a bad thing? > > Unless there is an obvious definition of what updating a join means > (obvious not only to the implementor

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > I see how that is what the spec says, but aren't the majority of joins that > people use/want to update a join of some type? I thought that SQL99 allowed > updating view created by joins. > > In either case is this a place where "exceeding" the spec wou

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:39, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > > Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I haven't had time to look into it further, but it occurs to me that > > > handling views which rely on joins would be far from trivial. > > > > Views containing joins would not be updatable; prob

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Lane
Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In either case is this a place where "exceeding" the spec would be a good > thing or a bad thing? Unless there is an obvious definition of what updating a join means (obvious not only to the implementor, but to the user) I think this is dangerous terri

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Eric D Nielsen
> Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I haven't had time to look into it further, but it occurs to me that > > handling views which rely on joins would be far from trivial. > > Views containing joins would not be updatable; problem solved. I see how that is what the spec says, but aren'

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't had time to look into it further, but it occurs to me that > handling views which rely on joins would be far from trivial. Views containing joins would not be updatable; problem solved. The set of views the automatic-rule-generation machinery n

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Eric D Nielsen
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:26, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > > The one place I haven't been able to use PostGreSQL to experiment is with > > regards to updateable views. I've found a few threads in -general and -hac > kers > > (including one linked from the ToDo list), but they all seem to die out wit >

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > The one place I haven't been able to use PostGreSQL to experiment is > with regards to updateable views. I've found a few threads in > -general and -hackers (including one linked from the ToDo list), but > they all seem to die out without really reachin

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Stark
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:26, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > > The one place I haven't been able to use PostGreSQL to experiment is with > > regards to updateable views. I've found a few threads in -general and -hackers > > (including one linked from the ToDo lis

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:26, Eric D Nielsen wrote: > The one place I haven't been able to use PostGreSQL to experiment is with > regards to updateable views. I've found a few threads in -general and -hackers > (including one linked from the ToDo list), but they all seem to die out without > really

Re: [HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Lane
Eric D Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The one place I haven't been able to use PostGreSQL to experiment is with > regards to updateable views. I've found a few threads in -general and -hackers > (including one linked from the ToDo list), but they all seem to die out without > really reachin

[HACKERS] Updateable views...

2003-03-04 Thread Eric D Nielsen
Let me preface this by expressing my appreciation for all the hard work for the people who develop, maintain, and support PostGreSQL. I've been using it for a little over two years for a variety of projects and have been extremely happy with both the software and the support on these lists. Recen