Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue -> wiki (was varadic patch)

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
Aidan Van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The one concern I have with the way the last commitfest went (and I say > this as strictly an observer), there was no "discussion" on anything. Umm ... in the first place, the fest isn't over yet. In the second place, the reason you haven't seen much di

Re: [HACKERS] COPY Transform support

2008-04-03 Thread PFC
Data transformation while doing a data load is a requirement now and then. Considering that users will have to do mass updates *after* the load completes to mend the data to their liking should be reason enough to do this while the loading is happening. I think to go about it the right way w

Re: [HACKERS] psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Dawid Kuroczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The idea of \G command is to perform the query, but with printing > query results using extended table output format. Seems a bit useless --- if you prefer \x format, wouldn't you prefer it all the time? Or at least often enough that the toggling com

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] SHA1 on postgres 8.3

2008-04-03 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > That line of argument could be used to justify putting anything and > everything in core. I think that our extensible architecture is an > important feature and one we should not hesitate to use to the fullest. I agree, but part of the probl

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue -> wiki (was varadic patch)

2008-04-03 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
The one concern I have with the way the last commitfest went (and I say this as strictly an observer), there was no "discussion" on anything. Now, I know that "discussion" happened, but it happened somewhere, in some web-forum, in a community that seems to generally promote mailing lists as the pr

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Greg Sabino Mullane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080403 09:54]: > Right now contrib is a real catch-all of various things; it would be nice to > categorize them somehow. And by categorize, I emphatically do NOT mean > move to pgfoundry, which is pretty much a kiss of death. But that begs the question

Re: [HACKERS] COPY Transform support

2008-04-03 Thread NikhilS
Hi, On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a proposal for COPY to support the T part of an ETL, that is adding > the > capability for COPY FROM to Transform the data it gets. > > The idea is quite simple: adding to COPY FROM the option to run a funct

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > At any rate, that's a bit blue sky right now. I haven't seen any > disagreement with our kissing "contrib" goodbye as a name, so let's work > on that. Unfortunately, that's going to involve a bit of pain, Yes, I'm not sure I see the point of

[HACKERS] COPY Transform support

2008-04-03 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Here's a proposal for COPY to support the T part of an ETL, that is adding the capability for COPY FROM to Transform the data it gets. The idea is quite simple: adding to COPY FROM the option to run a function on the data before to call datatype_in functions. This needs some syntax additio

Re: [HACKERS] psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format

2008-04-03 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
Hi! I have sent a patch to pgsql-patches: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00050.php ...which adds \G command to psql client. The idea of \G command is to perform the query, but with printing query results using extended table output format. For example: postgres=# SELE

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Zeugswetter Andreas OSB SD wrote: The closest analogy to what I'm thinking is the perl CPAN or ruby gems. I think this is more a developer thing. I don't think an ISP would want all that automagic (and certainly does not do that for joe user). I think you are missing an ess

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas OSB SD
> > The closest analogy to what I'm thinking is the perl CPAN > or ruby gems. I think this is more a developer thing. I don't think an ISP would want all that automagic (and certainly does not do that for joe user). > One thing that might be worth looking at is an install command at the > SQL

Re: [HACKERS] modules

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Dunstan
I had some thoughts about similar issues when looking at what it would take to make pl/java yum-installable. The end goal was to be able to say e.g. yum install pljava; echo "create language pljava;" | psql mydb. Currently there's a non-trivial install process involving running an sql script and ja

Re: [HACKERS] Patch queue -> wiki (was varadic patch)

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is not clear to me how a wiki can be easily created for 2k emails and > then maintained in a reasonable way, or how emails can be added to it > easily. That seems like a *really* odd thing for one of the founders of

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