Re: postgresql 7.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Uckun
Subject Re: postgresql 7.1
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Msg-id 4.2.0.58.20001011222044.00a6f898@mail.diligence.com
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In response to Re: postgresql 7.1  ("Martin A. Marques" <martin@math.unl.edu.ar>)
Responses Re: postgresql 7.1  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Re: postgresql 7.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 11:04 PM 10/11/2000 -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Asidha Luhwidyanto wrote:
> > What;s the new in Postgresql 7.1 ?
>
>TOAST and WAL!!!!
>
>I think these are big changes that will make me think about postgresql as a
>big time competitor against the big commercial database engines.
>
>WAL is a backup system.
>TOAST is a system for working with rows that have to use more then the 8K
>limitation.
>AFAIK!

What happened to outer joins? Don't you need outer joins to compete with
the big boys?
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