Received: from volcano.defudata.dk ([195.97.164.2])
	by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA21117
	for <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>; Mon, 22 May 2000 03:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from kar@webline.dk)
Received: from VOLCANO [195.97.164.2] (HELO localhost)
	by volcano.defudata.dk (AltaVista Mail V2.0J/2.0J BL25J listener)
	id 0000_004d_3928_e3a9_2161; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:37:13 +0200
Message-ID: <3928E3A0.6815433A@webline.dk>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:37:04 +0200
From: Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk>
Organization: Webline
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Subject: rolap
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Archive-Number: 200005/429

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 ?