Re: [HACKERS] Packaging begins in 4 hours ...

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought I saw something this weekend about a new zic/timezone database > being > released though having trouble finding out the details now... is this > something that should be backpatched into the 8.0.x series? Too late for 8.0.1. It's not like th

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging begins in 4 hours ...

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:01, you wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any last minute show stoppers that needs a bit more time, let me know > > before 23:00 GMT > > AFAIK we're good to go. I've updated all the version files and release > notes --- it's ready to tag and w

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-01-30 Thread John Hansen
> Note also that the btree optimization for << depends on having a > plan-time-constant righthand side; so it's useless for joins, for > instance. I didn't look closely, but I'd suppose that rtree could > help for << searches without that constraint. Indeed it can... tho rtree seems to be unable

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
John Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On the contrary I'm using it for something that isn't really what it was >> designed for precisely *because* of the index methods. What index access >> methods are you looking for that are lacking? >> >> db=> explain select * from foo where foo_code << '4

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-01-30 Thread John Hansen
> On the contrary I'm using it for something that isn't really what it was > designed for precisely *because* of the index methods. What index access > methods are you looking for that are lacking? > > db=> explain select * from foo where foo_code << '4.0.0.0/8'; explain select * from foo where f

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-01-30 Thread Greg Stark
"John Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wouldn't think so, anyone I've spoken with has come up with other ways of > managing that kind of info, because of, as you mentioned, it's lack of > proper index methods. On the contrary I'm using it for something that isn't really what it was design

Re: [HACKERS] Rtree index method for inet/cidr

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
"John Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Attached, an rtree implementation for inet/cidr values. Er ... what about IPv6? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging begins in 4 hours ...

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any last minute show stoppers that needs a bit more time, let me know > before 23:00 GMT AFAIK we're good to go. I've updated all the version files and release notes --- it's ready to tag and wrap. regards, tom lane -

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Bitmap Indexes

2005-01-30 Thread Pawel Niewiadomski
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:46:44 +, Mike Rylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes. I don't see any reason this couldn't > be done with GiST, perhaps even as a generalization of the index stuff > in the int_array contrib module. I was thinking about playing with th

[HACKERS] Packaging begins in 4 hours ...

2005-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Any last minute show stoppers that needs a bit more time, let me know before 23:00 GMT Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)-

[HACKERS] Rtree index method for inet/cidr

2005-01-30 Thread John Hansen
Hi, Attached, an rtree implementation for inet/cidr values. It's beyond me to implement this as a patch, but if anyone has the time and energy to do so, feel free! Comments, positive and negative welcome - and appreciated :) Kind Regards, John Hansen Makefile Description: Makefile rtree_

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Bug in create operator and/or initdb

2005-01-30 Thread John Hansen
> I suspect that the right thing to do is to kill the inet type > entirely, and replace it with a special case of cidr. (And > possibly then to kill cidr and replace it with something that > can be indexed more effectively.) Yes, which is actually what brought this to my attention. I'll be send

[HACKERS] Repleacement for src/port/snprintf.c

2005-01-30 Thread Nicolai Tufar
Greetings, I would like to submit my changes to src/port/snprintf.c to enable %n$ format placeholder replacement in snprintf() and vsnprintf(). Additionally I implemented a trivial printf(). I also attach a diff for configure.in to include snprintf.o in pgport but I am sure it is not the right thi

Re: [HACKERS] Implementing Bitmap Indexes

2005-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:56:12PM +0200, Victor Y. Yegorov wrote: > 2) Queries, like "where A = 1" or "where A != 2" will require only 1 scan of > the index, while "where A < 3" will require 2 stages: 1st create a > list of > values lesser then 3, 2nd --- do OR of all bitmaps for that values.