Re: Proposal to join the hackers list

On 03/13/2014 08:54 AM, Rajashree Mandaogane wrote:
> We have decided to modify the storage of PostgresSQL for columnar storage
> along with row based tuple storage. We are trying to modify the planner and
> optimiser to generate the plan using data stored in both both row and
> columnar storage. We are thinking to extend this project after curriculum
> and will integrate btrfs file system with PostgresSQL to store columnar
> data.

Huh?  btrfs?  Why would anything on the filesystem later be involved?
And why would you tie a PostgreSQL storage backend to a specific filesystem?

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