Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Josh Berkus
Joe, > I've considered relicensing PL/R with a BSD license, but I haven't been > able to decide whether I really can do that given libR's GPL status, and > I'm afraid it might tick off the R core developers if I do. Seems like you could ask them. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Fran

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note that what Tom is proposing is actually yanking *all* PLs from the core source tree, but having them all within the core CVS ... I believe his "motivation" is that he only has one CVSROOT to set to get at all the

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Cramer
What we are proposing is just including the C code which will have no external dependancies. We understand that building the java pl's requires many tools which are not normally available to people building the source. Dave Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that what Tom is proposing is actually yanking *all* PLs from the > core source tree, but having them all within the core CVS ... I believe > his "motivation" is that he only has one CVSROOT to set to get at all the > files, but that they are

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Dave Cramer wrote: pl-j and pl/java are working together to create a shared interface so that they can co-exist. This is the part that we wish to have added to the main source tree. It will just be the C portion of the code that does rely on the backend. Note that what Tom is

Re: [HACKERS] 'infinity' in GiST index

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Held
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:17 PM > To: Oleg Bartunov > Cc: Pgsql Hackers > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 'infinity' in GiST index > > [...] > Seems like it's not really GiST's fault but a definitional problem > for the timest

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Interesting article on transactional algorithms includes

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:05, Oleg Bartunov wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Dann Corbit wrote: > > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Papers/actual-icde-submission.pdf > > thanks, interesting analysis. I've seen many papers where PostgreSQL > was used as a research database and wondering why we have no

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've considered relicensing PL/R with a BSD license, but I haven't been > able to decide whether I really can do that given libR's GPL status, and > I'm afraid it might tick off the R core developers if I do. The direction I see this going in wouldn't req

Re: [HACKERS] "Priority Mechanisms for OLTP and Transactional Web Applications"

2005-05-05 Thread Anastassia Ailamaki
Hi Dann, I am also very happy you are interested in our work. I am working inside the DB engine and have coauthored the work you are interested in; David will happily share code with you. The latest and greatest on my side has to do with componentization of database systems; we are using staging t

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long)

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Dave Page" writes: > 3) One example of a catalog change that has caused a number of bug > reports for us is the removal of pg_database.datpath. Whilst your > views could have prevented the error itself, we would still have had > to modify pgAdmin to prevent it displaying the path on newer servers

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long)

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > Tom, >> To put it more bluntly: exactly what are you accomplishing here that >> isn't already accomplished, in a *truly* standard fashion, by the >> INFORMATION_SCHEMA? Why do we need yet another nonstandard view on >> the underlying reality? > To quote myself: > Q: Why no

[HACKERS] plpgsql SET OF functions in field list of select

2005-05-05 Thread falcon
Hello. Why pgplsql setof ... function cannot be used in field list of select? It is possible to use C functions, plperl functions and sql functions, but pgplsql returns: ERROR: set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "my_gen_ser" line 6 at retur

Re: [OT] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On 5/4/05, Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005 04:40 am, Tom Copeland wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:26 -0400, Mitch Pirtle wrote: > > > > Of course, Mitch is running the second largest GForge site on the planet > > (as far as I know) second only to https://helixc

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Cramer
pl-j and pl/java are working together to create a shared interface so that they can co-exist. This is the part that we wish to have added to the main source tree. It will just be the C portion of the code that does rely on the backend. Dave Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long)

2005-05-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus wrote: > a) all view and column names are as explicit and as readable > as possible (e.g. "type_schema_name", not "typnsname") I would suggest that you align your terminology with the information schema as much as possible, so it would be "type_schema" and not "type_schema_na

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long)

2005-05-05 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Josh, it's very difficult to read your messages (I'm using Pine), because of some symbols (~Z on my xterm) which broke formatting. Is't known problem of pine (4.62) or your mailer ? Regards, Oleg _ Oleg Bartunov, sc

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long)

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Page
Hi Josh, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus > Sent: 05 May 2005 05:38 > To: PostgreSQL-development > Subject: [HACKERS] Views, views, views! (long) > > This > has kept the pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin teams busy since 7.2, and

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