Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-24 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:09:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: Can someone turn these items into a beginning hacker's TODO as has been discussed before? Or find a way to mark them on the main TODO? If someone wants to tell me how this should be done and give me

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-24 Thread Meir Maor
IMHO (as a wanbe pgsql hacker) it is more important to mark tasks as suitable for beginners, if they do not require in depth knowledge of the pgsql codebase, and not according to how easy they are in other terms. for example If a task requires a significant amount of new non trivial code which

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thanks, added. I think numbering them is too complicated. --- Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:09:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: Can someone turn these items into a beginning

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers (was: indexes spanning multiple

2005-08-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:48:52PM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote: Another source of items on the TODO list is the Unsupported Features portion of the SQL Conformance documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/unsupported-features-sql-standard.html Maybe we should just have a

[HACKERS] beginning hackers (was: indexes spanning multiple tables)

2005-08-22 Thread Rosser Schwarz
while you weren't looking, Tom Lane wrote: [indexes spanning multiple tables] Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker; the locking considerations alone are a bit daunting. That being the case, is there a list anywhere of open/wish list/TODO items that are suitable

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Rosser Schwarz wrote: while you weren't looking, Tom Lane wrote: [indexes spanning multiple tables] Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker; the locking considerations alone are a bit daunting. That being the case, is there a list anywhere of open/wish

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: A couple of nice visible projects on the TODO list that might be suitable for beginners: . Add include file functionality in postgresql.conf . Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Rosser Schwarz wrote: while you weren't looking, Tom Lane wrote: [indexes spanning multiple tables] Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker; the locking considerations alone are a bit

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: A couple of nice visible projects on the TODO list that might be suitable for beginners: . Add include file functionality in postgresql.conf . Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type Actually they are both

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
If someone wants to mark easy items on the TODO list with some mark, like %, I can apply the patch. Please patch TODO and not TODO.html. --- Andrew Dunstan wrote: Rosser Schwarz wrote: while you weren't looking,

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Actually they are both bad projects. The include file patch was submitted by the @mohawksoft guy whose name I can't remember; it was rejected with good reasons. The money type was proposed for removal some time ago, and the author also asked not to. Well the money type seems it should be a

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Would work on one of the pl languages constitute a good place for a beginning hacker to start? plPerl, plPython, plRuby, and plPHP all need support for IN/OUT parameters I believe. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Your PostgreSQL solutions company - Command Prompt, Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers (was: indexes spanning multiple

2005-08-22 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:24 -0500, Rosser Schwarz wrote: while you weren't looking, Tom Lane wrote: [indexes spanning multiple tables] Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker; the locking considerations alone are a bit daunting. That being the case, is there

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Actually they are both bad projects. The include file patch was submitted by the @mohawksoft guy whose name I can't remember; it was rejected with good reasons. The money type was proposed for removal some time ago, and the author also asked not to. Well the

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, Would work on one of the pl languages constitute a good place for a beginning hacker to start? plPerl, plPython, plRuby, and plPHP all need support for IN/OUT parameters I believe. Probably need named parameter support first, I suspect. But I also

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:53:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: If someone wants to mark easy items on the TODO list with some mark, like %, I can apply the patch. Please patch TODO and not TODO.html. I'll take a stab at this unless someone else beats me to it; though I'm not a coder myself

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: Can someone turn these items into a beginning hacker's TODO as has been discussed before? Or find a way to mark them on the main TODO? If someone wants to tell me how this should be done and give me whatever files need to be changed I'd be happy to submit a patch. Sure,

Re: [HACKERS] beginning hackers

2005-08-22 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
* Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME That one is easy and handy. Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend