Posts Tagged ‘bazy danych’

Waiting for 8.4 - partial-match support in GIN, and sequence restart

2008-05-17 17:20:36 CEST | No Comments | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Today we have two interesting patches:

  • patch by Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, and committed by Tom Lane, which adds interesting capability to GIN indexes
  • patch by Zoltan Boszormenyi, also committed by Tom, which adds “RESTART” option to ALTER SEQUENCE. With some interesting consequences

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Waiting for 8.4 - CASE in pl/PgSQL

2008-05-16 11:54:27 CEST | No Comments | Tags: , , , ,

Another patch from Pavel Stehule - committed by Tom Lane. This patch adds CASE construction to pl/PgSQL:

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Waiting for 8.4 - function stats

2008-05-15 17:33:36 CEST | No Comments | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Today another great patch, committed by Tom Lane. This patch was written by Martin Pihlak (with some edits by Tom).

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Waiting for 8.4 - pl/PgSQL RAISE

2008-05-14 18:01:20 CEST | 2 Comments | Tags: , , , ,

Today we have one new feature - extension of plpgsql’s RAISE command.

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Prepared statements gotcha

2008-05-10 21:09:50 CEST | 7 Comments | Tags: , , , , ,

Friend from my previous employer told me that plans of execution of prepared statement, and the same statement run “as it” are different.

Well, I checked and this is what I found (it’s not shocking, it’s actually quite obvious, but You have to think about it for a while to “get it”).

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Waiting for 8.4 - psql vs. tabs + wrapped output

2008-05-09 19:12:21 CEST | No Comments | Tags: , , , , ,

Today I will describe 2 new patches which modify psql:

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MySQL’s timestamp in PostgreSQL

2008-05-08 17:16:43 CEST | 5 Comments | Tags: , , , , , ,

MySQL has this nifty/annoying feature/bug of special data type “TIMESTAMP”. It is like a DATETIME, but it gets automatically updated whenever you modify the row.

I’ll try to add the same feature to PostgreSQL.

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“ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = text” how to fix it?

2008-05-05 13:11:31 CEST | 8 Comments | Tags: , , , ,

PostgreSQL 8.3 brought us many great new features. Among them were concurrent autovacuum, enums, tsearch in core.

On of the changes though made a lot of people dislike 8.3. It was removal of implicit casts.

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Waiting for 8.4 - pg_conf_load_time, time-related generate_series and enum values in \dT+

2008-05-05 09:32:38 CEST | 5 Comments | Tags: , , , , , ,

3 new functionalities from 3 people:

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Waiting for 8.4 - RETURN QUERY EXECUTE and cursor_tuple_fraction

2008-05-03 14:52:19 CEST | No Comments | Tags: , , , , ,

Today another two new additions to PostgreSQL - as You can see may commit-fest seems to work pretty good :)

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