On 12 September 2011 05:21, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote: > Hackers, > > Later this week I'm giving a [brief][] for an audience of what I hope will be > corporate PostgreSQL users that covers how to get a feature developed for > PostgreSQL. The idea here is that there are a lot of organizations out there > with very deep commitments to PostgreSQL, who really take advantage of what > it has to offer, but also would love additional features PostgreSQL doesn't > offer. Perhaps some of them would be willing to fund development of the > featured they need. > > [brief]: http://postgresopen.org/2011/schedule/presentations/83/ > > Toward the end of the presentation, I'd like to make some suggestions and > offer to do some match-making. I'm thinking primarily of listing some of the > stuff the community would love to see done, along with the names of the folks > and/or companies who, with funding, might make it happen. My question for you > is: What do you want to work on? > > Here's my preliminary list: > > * Integrated partitioning support: Simon/2nd Quadrant > * High-CPU concurrency: Robert/Enterprise DB > * Multimaster replication and clustering: Simon/2nd Quadrant > * Multi-table indexes: Heiki? Oleg & Teodor? > * Column-leve collation support: Peter/Enterprise DB > * Faster and more fault tolerant data loading: Andrew/PGX > * Automated postgresql.conf Configuration: Greg/2nd Quadrant > * Parallel pg_dump: Andrew/PGX > * SET GLOBAL-style configuration in SQL: Greg/2nd Quadant > * Track table and index caching to improve optimizer decisions: > Robert/Enterprise DB > > Thanks to Greg Smith for adding a few bonus ideas I hadn't thought of. What > else have you got? I don't think we necessarily have to limit ourselves to > core features, BTW: projects like PostGIS and pgAdmin are also clearly > popular, and new projects of that scope (or improvements to those!) would no > doubt be welcome. Also, I'm highlighting PGXN and an example of how this sort > of thing might work. > > So, what do you want to work on? Let me know, I'll do as much match-making at > the conference as I can.
I have a wish-list of features, but I don't know of anyone specific who could work on them. In addition to some you've mentioned they are: * Distributed queries * Multi-threaded query operations (single queries making use of more than 1 core in effect) * Stored procedures * Automatic failover re-subscription (okay, I don't know what you'd call this, but where you have several standbys, the primary fails, one standby is automatically promoted, and the remaining standbys automatically subscribe to the newly-promoted one without needing a new base backup) * ROLLUP and CUBE * pg_dumpall custom format (Guillaume mentioned this was on his to-do list previously) -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
