On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Rafael Martinez
<r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> wrote:
> * Auto-tuning / auto-configuration
Perhaps. Though, people have been saying they were going to do it
since 2001, and yet nothing substantial exists.
> * Easy update-in-place - 'pgmigrator'
This should be upgrade-in-place, not update-in-place
> * More SQL99 and SQL2003 features
Likely.
> * Update-in-place optimizations which enhance OLTP performance
Postgres does not have update-in-place. I would just say OLTP
performance enhancements.
> * Auto partitioning / Dynamic partitioning
Likely.
> * External tables interfaces (SQL/MED compliant)
It would be nice to see distributed/federated code integrated into the
core, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
> * More exotic datatypes
Doubt it.
> * More query optimizer improvements
Always
> * Elimination of vacuum
I wish.
> * Improve XML support
Probably.
> * Pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported syntax.
Doubtful. That's a pgfoundry-type external project.
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