Re: Pet Peeves? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Pet Peeves?
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Msg-id 20090129172228.GA10314@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Pet Peeves?  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Pet Peeves?  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> I'm putting together a talk on "PostgreSQL Pet Peeves" for discussion at
> FOSDEM 2009 this year. I have a pretty good idea what some them are of course,
> but I would be interested to hear if people have any complaints from personal
> experience. What would be most interesting is if you can explain an example of
> when the problem caused real inconvenience to you, since sometimes it's hard
> to see from a theoretical description where the real harm lies.
>
> So, what do people say? Is Postgres perfect in your world or does it do some
> things which rub you the wrong way?

No foreign keys in inheritance trees

No true clustered indexes

Lazy vacuum is not able to release free pages in the middle of a table

No concurrent reindex

Cross-column stats problems

No integrated job agent ;-)

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Alvaro Herrera                 http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J
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