Re: [HACKERS] New Index

2007-07-28 Thread David Fuhry
algatt, You might find the examples of PostGIS [1] and SP-GiST [2] helpful in implementing your PR-Tree index, although the former implements only 2D R-Trees and the latter implements tries, quadtrees, and kd-trees but not R-Trees (and extends GiST). Yours may be the first PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Behavior of GENERATED columns per SQL2003

2007-05-07 Thread David Fuhry
Oracle 10g, MySQL 5, and SQL Server 2005 don't appear to support the syntax. The SQL:2003 SIGMOD paper [1] indicates pretty clearly that their intention is for the values of generated columns to be stored on disk: ... commonly used expressions are evaluated once and their results stored for

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - 'SKYLINE OF' clause added!

2007-03-07 Thread David Fuhry
The query Ranbeer gave - as with any skyline query - can be solved with just pure SQL: select * from books b where not exists( select * from books b2 where b2.rating = b.rating and b2.price = b.price and (b2.rating b.rating or b2.price b.price) ); book_name | rating | price

Re: [HACKERS] GIN documentation

2006-09-16 Thread David Fuhry
Teodor, Attached is a diff -c against your original gindocs patch. I did my best not to change any of the semantics. My changes no doubt overlap conflict with those Jeff Davis sent you earlier, so consider both of our diffs. Thanks, Dave Fuhry Teodor Sigaev wrote: Patch adds GIN