Kaare Rasmussen <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk> writes:
> But yes, it has to be enabled, and yes it has to have a performance cost
> somehow, but people are requesting it, and somehow I don't think Oracle
> developed the feature just for fun.
No, they developed it for marketing.
Keep in mind that Oracle has six thousand full-time developers and an
already extremely mature database. Stuff that they see fit to add is
not necessarily going to be on our radar screen in the foreseeable
future.
regards, tom lane