Re: Cool hack with recursive queries

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, David Rowley <dgrowley(at)gmail(dot)com>, 'Gregory Stark' <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, 'Postgres' <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cool hack with recursive queries
Date: 2008-11-22 23:52:39
Message-ID: 20081122235237.GA29947@fetter.org
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:33:16PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > David Fetter escribi?:
> > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:11:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > > This is a cool hack, agreed, but that doesn't make it a useful
> > > > regression test. Whatever value it might have isn't going to repay
> > > > the community-wide expenditure of cycles.
> > >
> > > What's the slowest it runs?
> >
> > If we want to do some advocacy with it, how about making some banners?
> > Posters? Flyers?
> >
> > Or go blog about it.
>
> Agreed, there is great PR advantage to this, like us running on a PS2.

I think our ability to make a return map is way cooler than our
running on a PS2, but that's just me ;)

Anyhow, I put it in my 8.4 talk, which I gave today at the first
annual PGDay Argentina :)

Cheers,
David.
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