Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-14 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Stefan Keller, 08.03.2012 20:40: Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan What about an extension to the CREATE TRIGGER syntax that combines trigger definition

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-14 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi all, 2012/3/14 Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net: Stefan Keller, 08.03.2012 20:40: Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan What about an extension to

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-13 Thread Samba
Excuse me if what i say below is nonsensical, for I haven't read much about compression techniques and hence these ramblings are just out of common sense. I think the debate about level (row, page, file) of compression arises when we strictly stick to the axioms of compression which require that

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/12 12:01 PM, Andy Colson wrote: 2) better partitioning support. Something much more automatic. that would be really high on our list. and something that can handle adding/dropping partitions while there's concurrent transactions involving the partitioned table also a planner

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-13 Thread Kiriakos Georgiou
+1 to seamless partitioning. Although the idea of having a student work on this seems a bit scary, but what seems scary to me may be a piece of cake for a talented kid :-) Kiriakos http://www.mockbites.com On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/08/12 12:01 PM, Andy Colson

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-12 Thread Albe Laurenz
Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? Also those who are on this thread, we are

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-09 Thread mgould
Original Message Subject: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas? From: Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com Date: Thu, March 08, 2012 12:40 pm To: pgsql-general List pgsql-general@postgresql.org Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-09 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Andy Colson a...@squeakycode.net wrote: I know toast compresses, but I believe its only one row.  page level would compress better because there is more data, and it would also decrease the amount of IO, so it might speed up disk access. er, but when data is

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-09 Thread Andy Colson
On 3/9/2012 9:47 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Andy Colsona...@squeakycode.net wrote: I know toast compresses, but I believe its only one row. page level would compress better because there is more data, and it would also decrease the amount of IO, so it might

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-09 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Andy Colson a...@squeakycode.net wrote: On 3/9/2012 9:47 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Andy Colsona...@squeakycode.net  wrote: I know toast compresses, but I believe its only one row.  page level would compress better because

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-09 Thread Selena Deckelmann
Hi! On Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? Also those who are on this thread, we are collecting

[GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-08 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-08 Thread Andy Colson
On 03/08/2012 01:40 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan How about one of: 1) on disk page level compression (maybe with LZF or

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-08 Thread dennis jenkins
Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan How about one of: 1) on disk page level compression (maybe with LZF or snappy) (maybe not page level, any level really) I know toast compresses, but I believe its only one row.  page level would compress better

Re: [GENERAL] Call for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012: Project ideas?

2012-03-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Andy Colson a...@squeakycode.net wrote: On 03/08/2012 01:40 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi I do have a student who is interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 Now I have the burden to look for a cool project... Any ideas? -Stefan