Re: Academic help for Postgres

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Academic help for Postgres
Date: 2016-05-11 20:24:36
Message-ID: b0a99ba4-6d56-85d0-8d7e-398d08d4a043@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 12/05/16 02:20, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am giving a keynote at an IEEE database conference in Helsinki next
> week (http://icde2016.fi/). (Yes, I am not attending PGCon Ottawa
> because I accepted the Helsinki conference invitation before the PGCon
> Ottawa date was changed from June to May).
>
> As part of the keynote, I would like to mention areas where academia can
> help us. The topics I can think of are:
>
> Query optimization
> Optimizer statistics
> Indexing structures
> Reducing function call overhead
> CPU locality
> Sorting
> Parallelism
> Sharding
>
> Any others?
>
optimization of performance under very heavy loads
ranging from almost all reads to almost all writes/updates, & other usage profiles
single box, and multiple boxen

large numbers of CPU's
most efficient use of SSD's
best use of insanely large amounts of RAM

optimization of handling arrays & JSON structures

Cheers,
Gavin

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