Re: Major features for 9.1 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua Tolley
Subject Re: Major features for 9.1
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In response to Re: Major features for 9.1  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Re: Major features for 9.1
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On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:02:21PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> I'm betting that only about 10% of people that care about databases
> would know what SQL/MED is. Much better to say "Distributed Database
> (Read-only)", or similar.

At first glance, "distributed database" makes me think only of two-phase
commit, rather than SQL/MED. Perhaps it would be better to use words like
"management of external data" or "foreign data sources".

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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com

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