Hi,
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Here's the other VLDB features we're missing:
>
> Parallel Query
Uh.. this only makes sense in a distributed database, no? I've thought
about parallel querying on top of Postgres-R. Does it make sense
implementing some form of parallel querying apart from the distribution
or replication engine?
> Windowing Functions
Isn't Gavin Sherry working on this? Haven't read anything from him lately...
> Parallel Index Build (not sure how this works exactly, but it speeds Oracle
> up considerably)
Sounds interesting *turs-away-to-google*
> On-disk Bitmap Index (anyone game to finish GP patch?)
Anybody having an idea of what's missing there (besides good use cases,
which some people doubt)? Again: Gavin?
> Simon, we should start a VLDB-Postgres developer wiki page.
Thanks, Simon, wiki page looks good!
Regards
Markus