Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2007-01-26 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
Dear Developers, Thanks for your answers. I didn't know about generate_series, but it looks to be exactly what I was suggesting. Regards, Sorin Schwimmer Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Ya

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Lane
Sorin Schwimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My suggestion is to allow INSERT to do it REPEAT x. You can do that today. INSERT INTO foo SELECT const1,const2,... FROM generate_series(1,1000); regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2007-01-24 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > Dear Developers, > > I would like to suggest the inclusion of an extension > in PostgreSQL. There are instances, I found, when one > needs to INSERT several times the same record in a > table. The front-end application can do it easy in a > loop of a s

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2007-01-24 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:26 -0800, Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > The front-end application can do it easy in a > loop of a sort, but on remote servers (and that's the > norm these days) it creates unnecessary network > traffic. You can avoid this easily via a stored procedure. > My suggestion is to al

[HACKERS] New feature proposal

2007-01-24 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
Dear Developers, I would like to suggest the inclusion of an extension in PostgreSQL. There are instances, I found, when one needs to INSERT several times the same record in a table. The front-end application can do it easy in a loop of a sort, but on remote servers (and that's the norm these days

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-23 Thread Marc Munro
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:35 -0700, Marc Munro wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > This could all be solved in a cleaner, more bulletproof way if you > > simply require such add-ins to be preloaded into the postmaster process > > using the existing preload_libraries hook.

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Munro
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Marc Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My proposal makes it possible for properly configured add-ins to have a > > guaranteed amount of shared memory available. > > This could all be solved in a cleaner, more bulletproof way if you > simply

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My proposal makes it possible for properly configured add-ins to have a > guaranteed amount of shared memory available. This could all be solved in a cleaner, more bulletproof way if you simply require such add-ins to be preloaded into the postmaster proces

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Munro
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 10:05 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, > > > The add-in would not "know" how much had been allocated to it, but could > > be told through it's own config file. I envisage something like: > > > > in postgresql.conf > > > > # add_in_shmem = 0# Amount of shared mem to set

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Josh Berkus
Marc, > The add-in would not "know" how much had been allocated to it, but could > be told through it's own config file.  I envisage something like: > > in postgresql.conf > > # add_in_shmem = 0    # Amount of shared mem to set aside for add-ins >                       # in KBytes > add_in_shem =

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Munro
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:41 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:39 -0700, Marc Munro wrote: > > > For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use > only > > what shared memory has been reserved for postgres add-ins. > > How would Postgres ask the add-in ho

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Andreas Pflug
Marc Munro wrote: Veil http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil is currently not a very good Postgres citizen. It steals what little shared memory it needs from postgres' shared memory using ShmemAlloc(). For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use only what shared memory has be

Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:39 -0700, Marc Munro wrote: > For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use only > what shared memory has been reserved for postgres add-ins. How would Postgres ask the add-in how much memory it needs? How would the add-in know how much has been reserv

[HACKERS] New feature proposal

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Munro
Veil http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil is currently not a very good Postgres citizen. It steals what little shared memory it needs from postgres' shared memory using ShmemAlloc(). For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use only what shared memory has been reserved for post