[HACKERS] Automatic Index Creation for Column Types

2013-08-19 Thread Charles Sheridan
to a table. In the case of CREATE TABLE, this would be less of a concern, and more of a concern for ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN. Such a configuration would also specify the type of index. What do you think ? Thanks, Charles Sheridan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Automatic Index Creation for Column Types

2013-08-19 Thread Charles Sheridan
In my use, mainly arrays and hstore cols, including arrays of hstores. These are column types that I suspect benefit from indexes more than most column types. Charles On 13-08-19 8:14 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello 2013/8/19 Charles Sheridan cesh...@swbell.net mailto:cesh...@swbell.net

Re: [HACKERS] Automatic Index Creation for Column Types

2013-08-19 Thread Charles Sheridan
for these cols to identify that they have auto-generated indices. Best, Charles On 13-08-19 8:42 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 08/19/2013 09:10 AM, Charles Sheridan wrote: Hi, I don't see indication that the capability described below exists in Postgres (or any RDBMS), so this is likely a feature

[HACKERS] Colon Omitted From pgSQL Assignments

2015-08-18 Thread Charles Sheridan
Hi, I was looking at PL/pgSQL documentation and realized that contrary to spec, I've been omitting the colon ':' from assignments, e.g. writing 'x = 5' rather than the correct 'x := 5' I don't see any error messages about this. I am not aware of any problems due to this. I suppose that

[HACKERS] Do Layered Views/Relations Preserve Sort Order ?

2015-09-09 Thread Charles Sheridan
Hi All, When there are several views defined on top of each other, are SELECTs on views that do not specify a SORT order guaranteed to preserve the cumulative sort order of the lower-level views ? Is the answer true for any arbitrarily large set of layered views? Is the answer the same if

Re: [HACKERS] Do Layered Views/Relations Preserve Sort Order ?

2015-09-09 Thread Charles Sheridan
On 9/9/15 7:44 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Charles Sheridan <cesh...@swbell.net <mailto:cesh...@swbell.net>>wrote: Hi All, When there are several views defined on top of each other, are SELECTs on views that do not specify a SORT orde