Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (bright@ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA38630 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 04:41:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4M9F6g13664; Mon, 22 May 2000 02:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 02:15:06 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kaare Rasmussen Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org Subject: Re: rolap Message-ID: <20000522021505.P28097@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3928E3A0.6815433A@webline.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3928E3A0.6815433A@webline.dk>; from kar@webline.dk on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:37:04AM +0200 X-Archive-Number: 200005/432 * Kaare Rasmussen [000522 01:19] wrote: > Relational online analytical processing. A variant of OLAP systems, > which have their roots in decision support systems (DSSs) and executive > information systems (EISs). > > Why the original poster will use MySQL over PostgreSQL for this is maybe > best he explains. Maybe because of the supposed speed advantage ? Reasoning which goes into the bit bucket when he has to run his next isamchk. -Alfred