[development] Do not let postgresql hold back great patches

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Dec 3, 2007 1:49 AM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:

>
>
> As for in-SQL operations on the date value, like MONTH() or YEAR() in
> MySQL?
> If someone has an idea for those that doesn't involve regexing every query
> I
> would dearly love to hear it. :-)
>

The current use of UNIX timestamp is a compromise, and has its issues, but
still allows in-SQL operations.

In-SQL operations is very very important. Going to ActiveRecord type of
abstraction without the ability to do aggregate operations on the data is
just not an option.

Without in-SQL, doing things like:

select n.nid, n.type, n.title, count(*) as num_votes, avg(value) as avg_vote
from votingapi_vote v inner join node n on content_id = n.nid where n.type =
'image' and n.created between unix_timestamp('2007-11-01 00:00:00') and
unix_timestamp('2007-11-30 23:59:59') group by v.content_id having num_votes
> 1 order by avg_vote desc, num_votes desc limit 20;

Would be impossible, or would entail very expensive full table scans.
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