Hi all, I've recently started using Postgresql and am impressed with how complete an RDBMS system it really is. It seems that while some corporations may balk at using it for day to day operational use, bringing in PGSQL for a more niche use will allow many professionals to see its potential.
One such niche market is decision support systems (DSS). Doing something like Sybase IQ on PGSQL (bitmap/bitwise index) would greatly help exposure. I noticed that adding BITMAP index is not only on the TODO list but has also been discussed quite a bit in the past. I'm not sure if any one has seen this http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in/~rvijay/dbms/proj/ , a bitmap index implementation using GiST! I, my self, run a DB (about 2 GIG and growing) with over ten million rows...and the need to be responsive enough to be used on the web. This would be great. I haven't seen this in any of the mailing lists, a new book "PostgreSQL" by Korry Douglas (comes out in februrary '03) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735712573/qid=1041197382 /sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/104-4850283-3895915?v=glance&s=books) which explains the internals of PostgreSQL ...good for people who would like to contribute to this project but haven't done hardcore C/C++ programming since college (like myself). There are bound to be people in the academia (grad students, professors of CS, etc.) on this mailing list, yet I see few RDBMS courses using postgresql as an example. If people still have connections to universities, it would seem that inviting researchers to use PGSQL for their experiments will quickly make it comparable to Oracle/etc. This would be specifically helpful for adding capabilities that are not considered top priority (time-series DBs...I work in a fiancial firm and trust me when I say that they spend HUGE amounts of money on software that does nothing more than what postgresql developers could add: ordered set of tuples, link to data streams, memory based tables, etc.) Any way, I hope this isn't considered off-topic :). Shahbaz C. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org