Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits
Date: 1999-10-22 06:45:50
Message-ID: 3810081E.16702D8D@krs.ru
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Let's wait for 7.0 beta - "big tuples" seems as work for 2 weeks...
>
> Thing is, if Vadim could do it in two weeks (sounds about right), then
> maybe I could do it in three or four (I'd have to spend time studying
> parts of the backend that Vadim already knows, but I don't). It seems
> to me that some aspiring hacker who's already a little bit familiar
> with backend coding could do it in a month or two, with suitable study,
> and would in the process make great strides towards gurudom. This is
> a fairly localized task, if I'm not greatly mistaken about it. And
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm not sure. Seems that we'll have to change heap_getattr:
if a column crosses page boundary then we'll have to re-construct
it in memory and pfree it after using...

> there's plenty of time left before 7.0. So this seems like a perfect
> project for someone who wants to learn more about the backend and has
> some time to spend doing so.

And we always ready to help...

> A year ago I didn't know a darn thing about the backend, so I'm a bit
> bemused to find myself being called a member of "the small club".
> Programming skills don't come out of nowhere, they come out of study
> and practice. (See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-:)))

Vadim

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