Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> rhubbell <Rhubbell@iHubbell.com> writes:
>
> > What's your list look like? Or maybe you want everyone else to do your work
> > for you and don't have anything to share.
>
> Heh, fair enough. Perhaps I should just say you should come to FOSDEM though
> :)
>
> The usual bugaboos are things like having to do a dump/restore to upgrade,
> weak support for partitioning, no index-only-scans, etc. Things which have
> been mentioned several times.
>
> One thing which has *not* been mentioned which i find positively shocking is
> VACUUM. This was once our single biggest source of user complaints. Between
> Autovacuum improvements and HOT previously and the free space map in 8.4 the
> situation will be much improved. However there are still some common usage
> patterns where people run into problems.
Yes, that is surprising, and something most database product struggle
with.
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