Re: [HACKERS] Re: New data type: uniqueidentifier

2001-07-02 Thread Thomas Swan
I sit corrected.   *slightly humbled* Why not do an unsigned int16 to hold your UUID generated numbers.   Ultimately, this would seem to be a more general solution and accomplish your goals at the sametime.  Or, am I completely missing something. Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: don't c

Re: [HACKERS] selecting from cursor

2001-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Alex Pilosov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm done with change of RangeTblEntry into three different node types: > RangeTblEntryRelation,RangeTblEntrySubSelect,RangeTblEntryPortal which > have different fields. All the existing places instead of using > rte->subquery to determine type now use IsA

[HACKERS] Buffer access rules, and a probable bug

2001-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
I have been making some notes about the rules for accessing shared disk buffers, since they aren't spelled out anywhere now AFAIK. In process I found what seems to be a nasty bug in the code that tries to build btree indexes that include already-dead tuples. (If memory serves, Hiroshi added that

Re: [HACKERS] shared library strangeness?

2001-07-02 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I am always confused when to bump the minor and when the major. I also > was not sure how significant the change would be for apps. We added > const, and I changed the return type of one function from short to int. > Seems like ConnectionBad was also

[HACKERS] Re: New data type: uniqueidentifier

2001-07-02 Thread Thomas Swan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Dmitry G. Mastrukov writes: I've developed new data type for PostgreSQL - unique identifier - 128-bitvalue claims to be unique across Universe. It depends on libuuid frome2fsprogs by Theodore Ts'o. ISTM that this should be a function, not a data type.