Re: postgres for OLAP & data mining

Are you looking for stuff like this?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-window.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-string.html

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Dario Beraldi <dario(dot)beraldi(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for some information (guidelines, docs, tutorials, etc...)
> about using postgres for OLAP, data mining, data warehousing. The sort of
> questions I'm trying to answer are on the lines of
> - What tools/SQL commands are available?
> - How should postgres be configured?
> - How suitable is postgres for these tasks (compared to other databases)?
>
> I have done some Google search but I would appreciate any advice/hint from
> more experienced users.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Dario