Re: Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Excerpts from Atri Sharma's message of dom mar 18 01:05:23 -0300 2012:
>>
>>> I am understanding the scenario now. I will take a little of your time to
>>> modify my original idea:
>>>
>>> The "middle layer" still exists, but NOT on the individual client side ,
>>> rather , on the server side. That is, we maintain the middle layer on the
>>> server, and it is same for all the users. We can mutate the ordering, and
>>> changes would be reflected in all the clients, since they are all accessing
>>> the same middle layer, present on the server.
>>
>> I will take a little of your time to ask whether you read the older
>> threads on the topic -- the one that Andrew Dunstan linked to, and the
>> older ones, to which that email links to?  This whole area has been
>> extensively discussed before.
>>
>> In any case, I repeat what I said before: this is way too complex a
>> topic for it to make a good GSoC project (unless you're already
>> intimately familiar with the parser and executor code.)  You need to
>> pick something smaller, more localized.
>>
>> --
>> Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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>
>
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>
> Hi Alvaro,
>
> Thanks for your reply.Yes,I have read the earlier posts.
>
> I am familiar with database systems.I have worked on them before and I
> have done designing of some very basic databases.
>
> Please guide me to some area where I can research for some gsoc project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Atri
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Atri
> l'apprenant


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Hi Alvaro,

I was just going through PGfoundry and I think I will be able to work
on the PL/Java project.Please let me know If I can proceed further on
ot for GSOC and also,if currently there is any work that needs to be
done on PL/java.
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Regards,

Atri
l'apprenant