Re: Sponsoring enterprise features - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Sponsoring enterprise features
Date
Msg-id 20031123023934.GC4220@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: Sponsoring enterprise features  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:54:45AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:

> > In a nutshell, the features on my short list are all about heap
> > management (e.g. partitioning).  This is really important when databases
> > reach a certain size, but something for which Postgres has almost no
> > support.  
> 
> heap management == table partitioning?

It was just an example.  Another example could be a B-Tree sorted heap
(like an index, but with the whole tuple at the leaf pages instead of a
pointer to the heap).  There was a thread about this some time ago.
It seemed a good idea ...

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Para tener más hay que desear menos"


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