On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote a few months ago:
>
> >PostgreSQL's behavior on these cases is poor. I don't think anyone
> >who has tried to use PG for this sort of thing will disagree, and
> >yes it is getting better. Does anyone else consider this to be a
> >problem? If so, I'm open for suggestions on what can be done.
> >I've suggested a number of things, and admittedly they have all
> >been pretty weak ideas, but they were potentially workable.
> >
> What about a dblink style interface to a non-MVCC SQL database? I
> think someone on this list mentioned that there are open source
> in-memory SQL databases.
Funny you should mention this. I'm working on a generalized one that
uses PL/PerlU at
http://fetter.org/pg_ps/
Thanks to Josh Berkus for design ideas & implementation roadmap, and
to Josh Drake, Andrew Dunstan, Abhijit Menon-Sen and (of course) Tom
Lane for the infrastructure that makes this doable. :)
Cheers,
D
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