Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib
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Msg-id 44DF90A3.5070906@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am still waiting for someone to tell us that they would use this
> capability for a real-world problem.

It's extremely useful for data mining and data consolidation where 
you're given messy or sparse data to "clean up" and present intelligently.

For example, if it had existed 4 years ago, I would have used it for 
importing ELBS data from the UDF table (with lots of null rows) into 
PostgreSQL.

--Josh


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