On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:37:06AM +0200, Nicolai Petri (lists) wrote: > >Anyone interested in pooling funds for features should take a look at > >http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html, which is about a FreeBSD > >developer who offered to work full-time on developing some specific > >features should enough people donate. Also worthy of mention is > >http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/. > This was really a great idea and we (my company) also supported it because > we use freebsd as our primary os. We also use PostgreSQL as our primary db > so it would be more than likely that we would donate money for something > similar with postgresql if either : > a) we can direct the money at one or more specific tasks > or > b) the tasks founded will be related to core postgresql features e.g. > generel performance or other benefits that fits all. > > >I think that for certain key features there's probably a lot of > >people who would fork over between $100 and $1000 towards getting a > >feature completed.
> Yes - without any promise I would probably be able to raise between > $1000 and $3000 in a period of the next 3 months. I would definately > try it and I have multiple customers that have giving their intent > on something like this. Great! > >Improved replication might be a good example. Table > >partitioning would absolutely be an example. If there was a means for > >these people to donate money towards work being done on some feature, > >it's very likely that large chunks of development time could be paid for > >just from smaller shops, let alone places that can afford to toss $20k > >towards the development of something. > I totally agree. In our preference list I would have the following tasks : > 1) IOT (Index Ordered Tables) Is this different from CLUSTER? > 2) Table partitioning That'd be nice. It may be part of the bizgres effort, which underscores the point others have made about this being not exactly easy to find. > 3) Better multimaster replication framework Slony-2 will be one of these. It depends (I think) on 2PC, which appears slated for 8.1. :) > 4) Extending PostgreSQL's plugin support with additional hooks in the > backend e.g. : > - for adding new tablestore engines (like mysql can) To some approximation, DBI-Link http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/ does this. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, as it is quickly approaching the edge of my skillset. > - for adding callbacks that get's called on transaction > success/failure using SPI. (e.g. for housekeeping and cleanup) Would this be like an ON COMMIT TRIGGER? > 5) Adding parameter support for NOTIFY / LISTEN What's this for, and what cool stuff could one do with it? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
