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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:53:47 +0800
From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
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> Otherwise I'm wondering if PostgreSQL will begin really suffering in
> performance on workloads where queries are big and expensive but there
> are relatively few of them running at a time.

Oh, I should note at this point that I'm *not* whining that "someone" 
should volunteer to do this, or that "the postgresql project" should 
just "make it happen".

I'm fully aware that Pg is a volunteer project and that even if these 
speculations were in a vaguely reasonable direction, that doesn't mean 
anyone has the time/skills/knowledge/interest to undertake such major 
architectural change. I certainly know I have zero right to ask/expect 
anyone to - I'm very, very grateful to all those who already spend time 
helping out and enhancing Pg. With particular props to Tom Lane for 
patience on the -general list and heroic bug-fixing persistence.

Sorry for the rely-to-self, I just realized my post could've been taken 
as a whine about Pg's architecture and some kind of demand that someone 
do something about it. That couldn't be further from my intent.

--
Craig Ringer