| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi(dot)ML(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib |
| Date: | 2006-08-13 20:50:43 |
| Message-ID: | 44DF90A3.5070906@agliodbs.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am still waiting for someone to tell us that they would use this
> capability for a real-world problem.
It's extremely useful for data mining and data consolidation where
you're given messy or sparse data to "clean up" and present intelligently.
For example, if it had existed 4 years ago, I would have used it for
importing ELBS data from the UDF table (with lots of null rows) into
PostgreSQL.
--Josh
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