For those who didn't see it on slashdot: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=293 What's interesting is that PostgreSQL is already working on some of these things. Of note, there's a patch to allow sequential scans to 'piggyback' on top of other sequential scans. See the quote "For petabyte-scale databases, the only solution may be to run continuous data scans, with queries piggybacked on top of the scans." on page 4. There's also been discussion about how to more intelligently cost UDF's, something also mentioned on page 4. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
