Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439072E355C for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:40:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10731-09 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:40:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from mailbox.samurai.com (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D1E2E3538 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:40:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB2061DFE; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:36 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailbox.samurai.com Received: from mailbox.samurai.com ([205.207.28.82]) by localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id VQTgXqQ76b7q; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.10.30.141] (204.11.227.33.static.etheric.net [204.11.227.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8358E61E02; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: VLDB Features From: Neil Conway To: Josh Berkus Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs In-Reply-To: <200712111053.11178.josh@agliodbs.com> References: <1197371508.4255.1327.camel@ebony.site> <200712111053.11178.josh@agliodbs.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:41:01 -0800 Message-Id: <1197416461.29432.10.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/443 X-Sequence-Number: 111732 On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:53 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Just so you don't lose sight of it, one of the biggest VLDB features we're > missing is fault-tolerant bulk load. I actually had to cook up a version of this for Truviso recently. I'll take a look at submitting a cleaned-up implementation for 8.4. -Neil