On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 07:59 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >A lot of Oracle guys came up to the booth and one of them asked specifically
> >about table partitioning. He asked "when is it going to get done?" and "if we
> >want to do it why aren't we canvassing the corporate world (or a particular
> >company) to sponsor it?".
> >
> >
> >
> Interesting. Well I can tell you that Command Prompt routinely
> pursues companies to help push features back into the source.
> The ECPG changes we submitted and some upcoming ODBC features
> are an example of this.
>
> However what we have found is that most people running PostgreSQL
> don't need table partitioning. We only have 3 customers that
> would benefit from it.
>
I think that a better survey would be the number of people
who decided that they couldn't use PostgreSQL because
they felt that they really needed table partitioning.
Tim
> Of course, now that I think about it I haven't talked to them
> about the feature --- time to make some phone calls!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
>
> >Your input would be appreciated.
> >
> >Robert Bernier
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