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From mark
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In response to Re: Slow count(*) again...  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Could this be an interesting test use of https://www.fossexperts.com/ ?

'Community' driven proposal - multiple people / orgs agree to pay various
portions? Maybe with multiple funders a reasonable target fund amount could
be reached.

Just throwing around ideas here.


Mark

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[mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Robert Haas
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:29 AM
To: Neil Whelchel
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Slow count(*) again...

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Neil Whelchel <neil.whelchel@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I might go as far as to rattle the cage of the developers to see if it
makes
> any sense to add some column oriented storage capability to Postgres. That
> would be the hot ticket to be able to specify an attribute on a column so
that
> the back end could shadow or store a column in a column oriented table so
> aggregate functions could work on them with good efficiency, or is that an
> INDEX?

I'd love to work on that, but without funding it's tough to find the
time.  It's a big project.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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