Re: [HACKERS] next CommitFest

2009-11-09 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
*snip* One pretty major fly in the ointment is that neither Hot Standby nor Streaming Replication has been committed or shows much sign of being about to be committed. I think this is bad. These are big features that figure to have some bugs and break some things. If they're not committed in

[HACKERS] draft RFC: concept for partial, wal-based replication

2009-10-30 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
hello ... as my day has worked out quite nicely up to know i thought to f... it up and post a new concept which has been requested by a customer. the goal is to collect some feedback, ideas and so on (not to be mixed up with "flames"). we have funding for this and we are trying to sort out how

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/plantuner - enable PostgreSQL planner hints

2009-10-12 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
hi there ... for this work i will include you in my evening prayers for at least one week. i know there has been a lot of discussion about this but what you just posted it excellent and more important: USEFUL to many people. i had something else in mind recently as well: virtual indexes. it w

Re: [HACKERS] SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [WAIT integer | NOWAIT] for 8.5

2009-09-23 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Jeff Janes wrote: Will statement_timeout not suffice for that use case? we tried to get around it without actually touching the core but we really need this functionality. patching the core here is not the primary desire we have. it is all about modeling some functionality which was truly mis

Re: [HACKERS] SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [WAIT integer | NOWAIT] for 8.5

2009-09-23 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus writes: Jeff, Will statement_timeout not suffice for that use case? Well, currently statement_timeout doesn't affect waiting for locks. Sure it does. And as a DBA, I don't think I'd want the same timeout for executing queries as for

[HACKERS] happy birthday Tom Lane ...

2009-09-18 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Tom, On behalf of the entire PostgreSQL team here in Austria I want to wish you a happy birthday. We hope that you fill be a vital part of PostgreSQL for many years to come. Best regards, Hans-Jürgen Schönig + team -- Cybertec Schoenig & Schoenig GmbH Reyergasse 9 / 2 A-2700 Wiener

Re: [HACKERS] combined indexes with Gist - planner issues?

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
consider doing with partly with gist and partly with a btree. is there any option to adapt gist in a way that a combined index would make sense here? many thanks, hans Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL wrote: my knowledge of how gist works

Re: [HACKERS] combined indexes with Gist - planner issues?

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:06:22PM +0200, Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL wrote: ok, i thought it would be something gist specific i was not aware of. the golden question now is: i am looking for the cheapest products given a certain text in an insane

Re: [HACKERS] Bison crashes postgresql

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Werner Echezuria wrote: Hi, I have a code in which I translate some code from sqlf to sql, but when it comes to yy_parse the server crashes, I have no idea why, because it works fine in other situations. I don't understand why you're doing what you're doing this way.

Re: [HACKERS] combined indexes with Gist - planner issues?

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Tom Lane wrote: Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL writes: what we basically expected here is that Postgres will scan the table using the index to give us the cheapest products containing the words we are looking for. i am totally surprised to see that we have to fetch all products given

[HACKERS] combined indexes with Gist - planner issues?

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
hello everybody, we are seriously fighting with some planner issue which seems to be slightly obscure to us. we have a table which is nicely indexed (several GB in size). i am using btree_gist operator classes to use a combined index including an FTI expression along with a number: db=# \d p

Re: [HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch

2009-07-03 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL wrote: hello, this patch has not made it through yesterday, so i am trying to send it again. i made a small patch which i found useful for my personal tasks. it would be nice to see this in 8.5. if not core then maybe contrib. it transforms a tsvector to

[HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch

2009-07-03 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
hello, this patch has not made it through yesterday, so i am trying to send it again. i made a small patch which i found useful for my personal tasks. it would be nice to see this in 8.5. if not core then maybe contrib. it transforms a tsvector to table format which is really nice for text pro

[HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch

2009-07-02 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig -- PostgreSQL
hello, i made a small patch which i found useful for my personal tasks. it would be nice to see this in 8.5. if not core then maybe contrib. it transforms a tsvector to table format which is really nice for text processing and comparison. test=# SELECT * FROM tsvcontent(to_tsvector('english',