The lists all seem to be focusing on the things that the developers would like to add to PostgreSQL, what about some
thingsthat users or ISPs might like to have, and thus perhaps something that companies might actually see as worth
funding?<br/><br />For example:<br /><br />A fully integrated ability to query across multiple databases,possibly on
multipleservers, something Oracle has had for nearly two decades. <br /><br />Complete isolation at the user level,
allowingan ISP to support multiple independent customers on a server without having to fiddle with multiple back ends
eachrunning on a separate port, a feature that MySQL has had for as far back as I can recall, and one of the reasons
ISPsare more likely to offer MySQL than PostgreSQL.<br /><br />The ability to restore a table from a backup file to a
differenttable name in the same database and schema. <br /><br />A built-in report writer, capable of things like
columntotals. (SqlPlus has this, even though it isn't very pretty.)<br /> --<br />Mike Nolan<br /><br /><br /><br
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