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This looks like it was written by an Oracle salesman: http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/12/05/236220.shtml Perhaps I don't know how /. works, but is there a way this story can be elevated to better standing? Regards, Jeff Davis
Jeff, > Perhaps I don't know how /. works, but is there a way this story can be > elevated to better standing? Depends. Read it another way, it implies that the only reason we're not better than DB2 and Oracle in every way is the lack of windowing functions. Wouldn't that be nice? --Josh
Josh, On 12/5/06 7:17 PM, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Depends. Read it another way, it implies that the only reason we're not > better than DB2 and Oracle in every way is the lack of windowing > functions. Wouldn't that be nice? And we're building the windowing functions as fast as we can ;-) - Luke
> Depends. Read it another way, it implies that the only reason we're not > better than DB2 and Oracle in every way is the lack of windowing > functions. Wouldn't that be nice? Isn't it true? ;-) -- Med venlig hilsen Kaare Rasmussen, Jasonic Jasonic Telefon: +45 3816 2582 Nordre Fasanvej 12 2000 Frederiksberg Email: kaare@jasonic.dk
Jeff Davis wrote: >This looks like it was written by an Oracle salesman: > >http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/12/05/236220.shtml > >Perhaps I don't know how /. works, but is there a way this story can be >elevated to better standing? > >Regards, > Jeff Davis > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > > > > I liked this response: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210124&cid=17123732 Brian
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Luke Lonergan wrote: > Josh, > > On 12/5/06 7:17 PM, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > Depends. Read it another way, it implies that the only reason we're not > > better than DB2 and Oracle in every way is the lack of windowing > > functions. Wouldn't that be nice? > > And we're building the windowing functions as fast as we can ;-) > Yep! The mention of window functions is weird though. DB2 does not support window functions AFAIK. Oracle is the only all purpose database that does. Gavin
On 06/12/06, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Luke Lonergan wrote: > > > Josh, > > > > On 12/5/06 7:17 PM, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > > > Depends. Read it another way, it implies that the only reason we're not > > > better than DB2 and Oracle in every way is the lack of windowing > > > functions. Wouldn't that be nice? > > > > And we're building the windowing functions as fast as we can ;-) > > > > Yep! > > The mention of window functions is weird though. DB2 does not support > window functions AFAIK. Oracle is the only all purpose database that does. > > Gavin Nah. DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows has supported window functions since Version 8 -- three years or so. IBM refers to them as "OLAP functions". A great little resource for comparing SQL capabilities is http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ -- see http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#select-limit for a discussion of windowing functions. The official IBM documentation is at (huge URL warning): http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.admin.doc/doc/r0023461.htm Dan
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> > And we're building the windowing functions as fast as we can ;-) > Interesting. Which functions are you planning on implementing, more specifically? (Personally, I have had great use of FIRST/LAST, RANK/DENSE_RANK and LAG/LEAD) /Mikael
Dan Scott wrote: > > A great little resource for comparing SQL capabilities is > http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ -- see > http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#select-limit for a discussion of > windowing functions. Does someone need to ping this guy to get him to update his pages for 8.2 features. For example, he tests the simple case of row value constructors that postgresql now seems to support. Not sure what else changed on his list since 8.0 that I think he reviewed. > > The official IBM documentation is at (huge URL warning): > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.admin.doc/doc/r0023461.htm > > > Dan > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > > > > And we're building the windowing functions as fast as we can ;-) > > > > Interesting. Which functions are you planning on implementing, more > specifically? (Personally, I have had great use of FIRST/LAST, > RANK/DENSE_RANK and LAG/LEAD) Interestingly, FIRST, LAST, LAG and LEAD are absent from the spec but everyone I've spoken to has said they're close to being the most useful :-). So, I'm aiming to do those as well. Implemenenting the actual functions is trivial compared to implementing the window construct in the executor (and planner). Gavin
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:40 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: > Does someone need to ping this guy to get him to > update his pages for 8.2 features. For example, he > tests the simple case of row value constructors that > postgresql now seems to support. I emailed Troels about row-value constructors -- I didn't notice anything else that needed updating for 8.2. -Neil