On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > I spent weeks doing hash aggregates, weeks doing IN-subselect
> > optimization, and am in the middle of many weeks on FE/BE protocol
> > improvement. I am sorry that you don't see these as killer features
> > ... but they are all things that we desperately needed to do.
> >
>
> Yes, I know they are _very_ needed, but they don't increase
> functionality the way Win32 or PITR would do.
They don't increase functionality for whom? When someone is comparing
PostgreSQL to Oracle, as an example, for consideration in a project, I
would think that speed would be one thing that they would consider key
'functionality' in that comparison ... no?
I'll never use a Win32 port ... so Tom's work on optimizing queries is
more important to me then a Win32 port is ... 'functionality' is
completely in 'the eye of the beholder' ...
