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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:23:49 +0100
From: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
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CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>,
	Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: VLDB Features
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Hi,

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Here's the other VLDB features we're missing:
> 
> Parallel Query

Uh.. this only makes sense in a distributed database, no? I've thought 
about parallel querying on top of Postgres-R. Does it make sense 
implementing some form of parallel querying apart from the distribution 
or replication engine?

> Windowing Functions

Isn't Gavin Sherry working on this? Haven't read anything from him lately...

> Parallel Index Build (not sure how this works exactly, but it speeds Oracle 
> up considerably)

Sounds interesting *turs-away-to-google*

> On-disk Bitmap Index (anyone game to finish GP patch?)

Anybody having an idea of what's missing there (besides good use cases, 
which some people doubt)? Again: Gavin?

> Simon, we should start a VLDB-Postgres developer wiki page.

Thanks, Simon, wiki page looks good!

Regards

Markus