~ I have been searching for a PostgreSQL-derived project with a "less-is-best" Philosophy. Even though I have read about quite a bit of PG forks out there, what I have in mind is more like a baseline than a fork. ~ My intention is not wrapping the same thing in a different package or code add-ons/value-added features on top of PG, but ridding PG of quite a bit of its internal capabilities and just use its very baseline. ~ All I would need PG for is raw data warehousing, memory, I/O-subsystem management, MVCC/transaction management ... No fanciness whatsoever. What do you need to, say, format dates in the database if formatting/pretty-printing and internalization can be taken care more appropriately in the calling environment say Python or Java? All is needed is to store a long representing the date. Why are arrays needed in a the DB proper when serialization and marshaling/casting can be taken care of in the calling environment. If you are using say, java, all you need PG to do is to faithfully store a sequence of bytes and you would do the (de)serialization very naturally indeed. ~ There used to be a postgresql-base-<version> package with the bare minimum of source code to build and run PostgreSQL which I think would be a good starting point, but I don't find it in the mirror sites anymore ~ http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/download/mirrors-ftp ~ Where can I find it? ~ I know the result will not be a SQL-compliant DBMS anymore, yet I wonder how much faster would SQL+client code doing such things as formatting "on-the-fly" work. ~ Do you know of such tests even in a regular PG installation? ~ Do you see any usefulness in such a project? ~ Do you know of such a project? Anyone interested? Any suggestions to someone embarking in it? ~ It would be great if PG developers see any good in it and do it themselves ;-) ~ lbrtchx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
