Received: from localhost (pluto.hub.org [200.46.204.4]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF389FA14D for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:24:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.4]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63065-04 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:24:33 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D199F9ED1 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:24:33 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO spooky.sf.agliodbs.com) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 10534276; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:28:09 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Block B-tree etc. (was Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:24:29 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: "Heikki Linnakangas" , "Luke Lonergan" , "Simon Riggs" References: <3E37B936B592014B978C4415F90D662D04E6EB21@MI8NYCMAIL06.Mi8.com> <45505719.1070602@enterprisedb.com> In-Reply-To: <45505719.1070602@enterprisedb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611070924.29842.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/201 X-Sequence-Number: 93663 Luke, > That's our plan to achieve speedups that other DBMS's have achieved with > Index-Organized-Tables or Clustered Indexes. We're running initial > performance tests of it as we speak, and if all goes well we're hoping > to get that into PostgreSQL 8.3. Also, if the EDB folks weren't clear, the two proposals are meant to compliment each other. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco