On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > >> There has been previous talk of allowing WITH (COPY ...) and I am > >> personally of the opinion that it would be nice to be able to do > >> WITH (EXPLAIN ...). DDL seems like a poor idea. > > > > It may be, but I can see use cases for partitioning... > > Like what?
Managing partitions, or creating partitions in some way the partition syntax doesn't anticipate, whatever it turns out to be. > >> P.S. Call me a prude, but your choice of shorthand for > >> insert-update-delete may not be the best. > > > > Then I presume you'll be supporting my idea of using the word > > "span" for temporal data types rather than the current idea whose > > name appears in academic literature. > > Wise guy. In all seriousness, the temporal stuff is giving us a fantastic opportunity, as a project, to break our tradition of lousy naming. "Span" is descriptive, mnemonic, and easy to spell. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers