Re: [HACKERS] [GSoC] (Is it OK to choose items without % mark in theToDoList) (is it an acceptable idea to build index on Flash Disk)

2008-03-25 Thread mx
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, mx wrote: The atom unit of flash is page(512~2048byte typically). Page are organized into blocks, typically of 32 or 64 pages. All read write and write operations happen at page granularity, but erase operations happen at block granularity. You made a subtle

Re: [HACKERS] [GSoC] (Is it OK to choose items without % mark in theToDoList) (is it an acceptable idea to build index on Flash Disk)

2008-03-25 Thread mx
Thank you for all of your advices. I think you're right. I should be more realistic. There are so many work to do if I want to do some work on Flash disk. It's too difficult to complete the task only in a summer. Obviously, It's not an appropriate project idea for GSoC anyway. Maybe I'll do it in

[HACKERS] [GSoC] (Is it OK to choose items without % mark in theToDoList) (is it an acceptable idea to build index on Flash Disk)

2008-03-24 Thread mx
Hello,Everyone! I'm a student in China. and I'm preparing for GSocC2008 in these days. There are two questions about GSoC. 1. There's a paragraph about the Example Proposal Ideas in PostgreSQL Summer Projects website. *TODO Items*: A number of the items on our TODO list have been marked as good

Re: [HACKERS] [GSoC] (Is it OK to choose items without % mark in theToDoList) (is it an acceptable idea to build index on Flash Disk)

2008-03-24 Thread mx
Thank you for your suggestion! The biggest problem with the hash index is currently that there's no significant performance over b-tree. If you want to work on hash indexes, I would suggest doing benchmarking and looking at ways to improve performance, before spending time on making it