On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 06:49:01 AM you wrote: > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 06:20:41 -1000 Stephan Fabel <sfabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We'd be very interested in seeing the effects of integrating LMDB [*] in > > terms of performance gains. Has this avenue been explored before? > > I have to say that I'm VERY happy that there's been little to no focus on > supporting different backend storage in PostgreSQL. Fair enough... > For me, this is a database system, not a reality TV show. I'd much rather > have the focus stay on a tightly integrated, reliable system than have a > bunch of weird choices that can improve my performance by .5% while causing > unexpected breakage. Hardly .5%... - see http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/ I do agree, however, that it is definitively better to focus on one thing and do it right rather than get lost in a bunch of random choices. The reason I asked was that it is currently being adopted by a lot of other open source projects, so I was curious to see what the PostgreSQL community's take on it was. Cheers, Stephan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general