,--- Peter Eisentraut (Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:14:09 +0300) ----* | On tor, 2011-10-06 at 20:15 -0400, Alex Goncharov wrote: | > P.S. And on the odd chance that somebody thinks that this | > functionality would be possible and helpful to add to libpq, and | > the problem is in the lack of human resources: I would be more | > then happy to dig into some PostgreSQL (the product) development | > under somebody's coaching, to start with. This topic or other. | > I just wouldn't know where to start myself. | | I had some some research on this particular topic/feature recently. My | notes currently say, it's better to not tackle this before the not-null | cataloging patch (see entry in current commitfest) is finished.
Peter, Thank you -- this is very helpful: I was not aware of a commitfest list. Will try to check it out within a few days. | Because that patch would presumably already implement much of the | logic necessary to determine whether a give expression implies | nullability or not and catalog this in a simpler fashion. Based on | that you will then have to drag this information around and put it | on the wire so that the client APIs can process it. `-----------------------------------------------------------* Good to hear that I am not alone in the expressed wish. Thank you again for all the technical details! -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
