Re: 10 missing features

On 04/25/2011 10:48 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> You can see this in certain items in the top 10. Three, four, five,
> seven, maybe 8 eight, and ten all seemed to me to be things I've
> actually done before, but not using something directly inside
> Postgres.
>

The idea that something must ship in the database to be useful is really
engrained in some people. I do this talk nowadays about common mistakes
people make when deploying PostgreSQL, and one of the top items I put on
there is not actively investigating external tools.

None of the items on this list would be on my own top list of missing
things in PostgreSQL. I see "Better fragmentation management" as a
footnote and there's an intro discussion to that on the blog at
http://blog.kimiensoftware.com/2011/04/compacting-postgresql-tables/
Apparently the struggles required to sort out a little 25GB table
apparently didn't make enough of an impression to put that into its
proper place, which is way ahead of every item listed on the suggested
missing feature set. Query progress is #1? It's annoying, yes, but so
not even close to pole position to me. From reading the blog a bit, it
sounds like the author is managing lots of smallish (to me) databases,
so putting so much emphasis on making each individual one easier to
troubleshoot makes more sense.

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