From: Avery Payne <apayne@pcfruit.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A Silly Idea for Vertically-Oriented Databases
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:38:58 -0700
Message-ID: <46E1D302.9030803@pcfruit.com> (raw)
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<pre><font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Avery,
<my ramblings snipped>
>If someone writes the rest of the code, I doubt the syntax will be the
>holdup. But writing an efficient C-store table mechanism is much harder
>than I think you think it is; Vertica worked on it for a year and failed,
>and Paraccel took two years to succeed. FYI, Paraccel is based on
>Postgres.
>So, put up a pgfoundry project and start hacking a c-store table; I'm sure
>you;ll get interest if you can make something work.
>--
>--Josh
Well, I did say it was a *crazy* idea. :-)
Given that I would be starting from the ground-floor, learning not only
the innards of PostgreSQL but also C coding as well, I would probably
have to overcome near-insurmountable odds to make this project take off. Still,
if I was crazy enough to think it, maybe I'll be crazy enough to
try for it. ;-)
Just ignore my 2nd posting, I was trying to clarify some of the
ramblings I was typing.
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