Could this be an interesting test use of https://www.fossexperts.com/ ? 'Community' driven proposal - multiple people / orgs agree to pay various portions? Maybe with multiple funders a reasonable target fund amount could be reached. Just throwing around ideas here. Mark -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Haas Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:29 AM To: Neil Whelchel Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Slow count(*) again... On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Neil Whelchel <neil.whelchel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I might go as far as to rattle the cage of the developers to see if it makes > any sense to add some column oriented storage capability to Postgres. That > would be the hot ticket to be able to specify an attribute on a column so that > the back end could shadow or store a column in a column oriented table so > aggregate functions could work on them with good efficiency, or is that an > INDEX? I'd love to work on that, but without funding it's tough to find the time. It's a big project. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
