Today another great patch, committed by Tom Lane. This patch was written by Martin Pihlak (with some edits by Tom).
Tag: postgresql
Waiting for 8.4 – pl/PgSQL RAISE
Today we have one new feature – extension of plpgsql's RAISE command.
Prepared statements gotcha
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").
Waiting for 8.4 – psql vs. tabs + wrapped output
Today I will describe 2 new patches which modify psql:
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MySQL’s timestamp in PostgreSQL
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.
“ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = text” how to fix it?
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+
3 new functionalities from 3 people:
Waiting for 8.4 – RETURN QUERY EXECUTE and cursor_tuple_fraction
Today another two new additions to PostgreSQL – as You can see may commit-fest seems to work pretty good 🙂
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Waiting for 8.4 – \o and \d+ in psql
Today, we have 2 new changes in psql. One of them is not actually new feature, but I decided to write about it anyway, because of its implications.
Waiting for 8.4 – generate_subscripts
Yesterday, Alvaro Herrera committed patch written by Pavel Stehule which adds generate_subscripts(…) function.