Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-09-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 07/29/2014 10:43 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: * When a user tries to run psql -f some_custom_format_backup, detect this and emit a useful error message. Ditto stdin. Uh, good idea, but can we really do that in psql? Where stdin is a file, or an explicit -f is given, then yes. Just look for

Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-09-18 Thread Andres Freund
On 2014-09-18 17:30:38 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: On 07/29/2014 10:43 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: * When a user tries to run psql -f some_custom_format_backup, detect this and emit a useful error message. Ditto stdin. Uh, good idea, but can we really do that in psql? Where stdin is a

Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 07/29/2014 10:43 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: * A function that converts a json array to a PostgreSQL array of a given type if all json members are compatible with the type * Expanding the set of json/jsonb operations to introduce features that people are used to from jquery, mongo, etc.

Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-07-30 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Both these might be possible. I am not planning on doing them, at least. My current json plans for 9.5 are limited to implementing jsonb equivalents of those json functions that didn't make it into the 9.4 jsonb work due

Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 07/30/2014 06:11 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Both these might be possible. I am not planning on doing them, at least. My current json plans for 9.5 are limited to implementing jsonb equivalents of those json functions

Re: [HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-07-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:58:54AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Hi all Someone recently mentioned that there's no generate_series(numeric, numeric, numeric) . That strikes me as a great candidate for a new-developer-learning-PostgreSQL TODO. A couple of other things I occasionally run

[HACKERS] New developer TODO suggestions

2014-06-23 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi all Someone recently mentioned that there's no generate_series(numeric, numeric, numeric) . That strikes me as a great candidate for a new-developer-learning-PostgreSQL TODO. A couple of other things I occasionally run into that'd fit the bill: * A user-level elog(...) / ereport(...)