Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Arturo Perez
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Nasby) wrote: > Two more ideas for the manager, now that we seem to have consensus to > build one. > One other thing a webapp would allow that would help grow the community. If the patches are all in a public place then reviewer wannabe

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm feature request: some way to track/classify failures

2007-03-20 Thread Arturo Perez
I don't know if this has come up yet but In terms of tagging errors we might be able to use some machine learning techniques. There are NLP/learning systems that interpret logs. They learn over time what is normal and what isn't and can flag things that are abnormal. For example,

Re: [HACKERS] Hints (Was: Index Tuning Features)

2006-10-13 Thread Arturo Perez
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:34:45AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > Some statistics are very hard to gather from a sample, e.g. the number > > of distinct values in a column. > > I like the suggestion, though, tha

Re: [HACKERS] Fixed length data types issue

2006-09-13 Thread Arturo Perez
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Nasby) wrote: > I'd love to have the ability to control toasting thresholds > manually. ... Being able to force a field to be > toasted before it normally would could drastically improve tuple > density without requiring the developer t