Re: Add support for data change delta tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Add support for data change delta tables
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In response to Re: Add support for data change delta tables  (PavelTurk <pavelturk2000@gmail.com>)
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po 15. 1. 2024 v 11:27 odesílatel PavelTurk <pavelturk2000@gmail.com> napsal:

On 1/15/24 12:17 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:


po 15. 1. 2024 v 11:11 odesílatel PavelTurk <pavelturk2000@gmail.com> napsal:

On 1/15/24 12:05 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
Hi

po 15. 1. 2024 v 11:00 odesílatel PavelTurk <pavelturk2000@gmail.com> napsal:
Hello all,

Currently PostgreSQL doesn't support data change delta tables. For example, it doesn't support this type of query:

SELECT * FROM NEW TABLE (
     INSERT INTO phone_book
     VALUES ( 'Peter Doe', '555-2323' )
) AS t

PostgreSQL has RETURNING that provides only a subset of this functionality.

So I suggest to add support for data change delta tables. Because this feature is more powerful and it is included
in the SQL Standard.

This is the wrong mailing list - probably you should send your proposal to pgsql-hackers.

I sent message to pgsql-hackers https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b85900eb-9e3c-e358-aa8f-5a27b30c17e7%40gmail.com
but got no answer. I decided that my message was ignored because I used wrong mailing list.

The community development is based on patches. If you propose some feature,  usually you should implement it. Probably nobody will implement it instand you.

I am Java developer - I wish, but I can't

I am sorry, but you cannot expect, so somebody will accept your proposal extra seriously. Proposing some feature is a simple thing, but implementing some not trivial feature requires hundreds of hours of development.


To tell the truth I find it rather strange. I know that there is a big difference between proposing some feature and implementing it. But all projects I came across with work this way -
you as a user come and propose a feature. The developers of the project consider your issue and either accept it to implement or decline it.

PostgreSQL is not a project where somebody says, you will do this, and you will do this, in this and this priority. There are a lot of nice features from standard - SQL standard is big, but a) you have to have funds to pay the developers, b) you have to have developers with free time who want to do free work. Sure, you can write a proposal, but without a) money or b) your hard work is not a big possibility so your proposal will be implemented in the next few years. With the patch the situation is different. Then developers can see, so it is possible to implement, and how much code (and work) needs it.



You can check the work on features for Postgres https://commitfest.postgresql.org/ and I don't think so there is a lot of free capacity for implementing some new features partially redundant to already supported features.

Regards

Pavel



Best regards, Pavel


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