Re: [HACKERS] Advanced projects ... anyone interested?

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Gunther Schadow <gunther(at)aurora(dot)rg(dot)iupui(dot)edu>
Cc: "hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advanced projects ... anyone interested?
Date: 1999-12-09 07:43:51
Message-ID: 19991209084351.A2250@fam-meskes.de
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On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> is anyone interested in, or actually working on advanced issues
> with PostgreSQL, like:

Yes and no.

> - recursive queries and transitive closure optimization

Yup, that's the topic I'm interested in.

> I am planning to use PostgreSQL for medical information and medical
> knowledge, so I run into all these problems. I wonder whether it
> makes sense to tweak on PostgreSQL for these matters or whether a
> more generic approach (where the client does all the advanced stuff)
> is more realistic.

IMO the backend should be expanded to handle this stuff. In fact I had
actual plans to add the recursive stuff but have not even found enough time
to dig into the source code.

For those who don't know, I made my Ph.D. in deductive database systems
which is mostly about recursive queries and transitive closures.

Michael

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