Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> writes: > On 16/09/10 13:22, Tom Lane wrote: >> What exactly do those get you that an ordinary index, or at worst an >> index-organized table, doesn't get you?
> It is pretty rare to see key value stores vs relational engines > discussed without a descent into total foolishiness, but this Wikipedia > page looks like a reasonable summary: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL That doesn't do anything at all to answer my question. I don't want to debate NoSQL versus traditional RDBMS here. What I asked was: given that PG is a traditional RDBMS, what exactly are you hoping to accomplish by putting a key-value storage mechanism in it? And if you did, how would that be different from an index-organized table? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
