Re: [HACKERS] Back from OSCON

2005-08-08 Thread Brendan Jurd
> I apologize that my server was down Monday/Tuesday, rendering the > patches queue unavailable. I also apologize that my secondary MX was > misconfigured, causing some email bounces. I think everything is fixed > now. Hi Bruce, I was checking out the patches queue, and there seems to be a mi

[HACKERS] gettime() - a timeofday() alternative

2005-08-06 Thread Brendan Jurd
Hi all, I propose to add an internal function gettime() that transparently returns the current system time, as a timestamptz with maximum precision. Calling gettime() would be a more elegant approach than calling timeofday() and converting it to a timestamp, and avoids some of the potential probl

Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: [HACKERS] pgFoundry)

2005-05-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 5/18/05, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O.k. then I misunderstood and apologize. I think the above is > reasonable. I wouldn't think that the main developers would stop > developing to create this system, nor would I want them to take time > away from development to implement it. >

Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: [HACKERS] pgFoundry)

2005-05-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 5/18/05, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Brendan Jurd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In the interests of putting my money where my mouth is, I would be > > willing to enlist in the housekeeping effort for this hypothetical new > > system. > > If

Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: [HACKERS] pgFoundry)

2005-05-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 5/18/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Postgres project has been exceedingly successful while using email > lists as the primary means of communication/organization. I for one > am disinclined to tinker with such a fundamental aspect of the way that > the community operates. If we

Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: [HACKERS] pgFoundry)

2005-05-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 5/18/05, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The key requirement that has always come up is that the core developers > wouldn't use anything web based, so the tracker would have to somehow tie > into the mailing lists themselves ... > What's the basis of this objection to a web-ba

Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: [HACKERS] pgFoundry)

2005-05-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
As someone who's been lurking on the postgres lists for quite some time, and submitted one (minor) patch, I think the notion of an "entry-level" task list for we beginners is fantastic. And, I'm sure this has been asked and answered a billion times already, but why *don't* we have a real bug track

Re: [HACKERS] pgdump

2005-01-17 Thread Brendan Jurd
Neil Conway wrote: I would be OK with just ignoring this case, but on reflection I would prefer removing the "-t schema.table" syntax. Removing the feature resolves the quoting issue and also simplifies pg_dump's behavior. We lose the ability to dump table t1 in schema s1 and table t2 in schema s2

Re: [HACKERS] Time span conversion function

2005-01-14 Thread Brendan Jurd
Tom Lane wrote: Brendan Jurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Of course, it would be possible to create a shorthand version of the function which expects (text, interval), and passes directly to time_span($1, now(), $2). This bothers me a bit. That essentially says that (text, interva

Re: [HACKERS] Time span conversion function

2005-01-14 Thread Brendan Jurd
Kris Jurka wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Brendan Jurd wrote: > SELECT time_span( 'minute', now(), interval '10:43:55' ); 643 The timestamp argument to this version of the function seems completely irrelevent. Kris Jurka I don't think so. As I pointed

[HACKERS] Time span conversion function

2005-01-14 Thread Brendan Jurd
I've got an idea for a new internal function. I'm more than willing to code it myself, but I'd like to run it past the list and thrash out any conceptual issues before I get too excited about writing a patch. When dealing with time values, it's not unknown to want to see a particular time span

Re: [HACKERS] Verbosity of column definition mismatch error

2005-01-10 Thread Brendan Jurd
Tom Lane wrote: Brendan Jurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ERROR: query-specified return row and actual function return row do not match With that in mind, I'd like to submit a request, that the verbosity of this error message be increased to explain which ordinal column po

[HACKERS] Verbosity of column definition mismatch error

2005-01-10 Thread Brendan Jurd
Originally posted in psql-general, submitted here as a prospective RFE: When using a row-returning function (RETURNS SETOF record) in the FROM clause of a query, you have to supply a column definition list. I was recently attempting to use a row-returning function in a query and received the fo

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