Re: [HACKERS] Covering Indexes

2012-06-29 Thread Eric McKeeth
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:16 AM, David E. Wheeler > wrote: >> Hackers, >> >> Very interesting design document for SQLite 4: >> >>  http://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki >> >> I'm particularly intrigued by "covering indexes". Fo

Re: [HACKERS] VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype

2011-05-10 Thread Eric McKeeth
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > > A customer came to us with this request: a way to store "any" data in a > > column. We've gone back and forth trying to determine reasonable > > implementation restrictions, safet