Today we have one new feature – extension of plpgsql's RAISE command.
Tag: postgresql
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.
Polish TSearch in 8.3 (polski tsearch w postgresie 8.3)
English disclaimer: this post will be in Polish only, as it's use for other nationalities is somehow limited 🙂
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