| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, jamesr(at)best(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Sponsoring enterprise features |
| Date: | 2003-11-23 02:39:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20031123023934.GC4220@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:54:45AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > In a nutshell, the features on my short list are all about heap
> > management (e.g. partitioning). This is really important when databases
> > reach a certain size, but something for which Postgres has almost no
> > support.
>
> heap management == table partitioning?
It was just an example. Another example could be a B-Tree sorted heap
(like an index, but with the whole tuple at the leaf pages instead of a
pointer to the heap). There was a thread about this some time ago.
It seemed a good idea ...
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Para tener más hay que desear menos"
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