Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964152E3207 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17095-02 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:45 -0400 (AST) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (unknown [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D022E31B4 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:45 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.2.3]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 14280020; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:57:34 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: VLDB Features Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:53:11 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Simon Riggs References: <1197371508.4255.1327.camel@ebony.site> In-Reply-To: <1197371508.4255.1327.camel@ebony.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712111053.11178.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/420 X-Sequence-Number: 111709 Simon. > VLDB Features I'm expecting to work on are > - Read Only Tables/WORM tables > - Advanced Partitioning > - Compression > plus related performance features Just so you don't lose sight of it, one of the biggest VLDB features we're missing is fault-tolerant bulk load. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who's working on it. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco