Re: interest in this list?

David,

On 2013-04-10 08:27, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:28:52AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> Two things come to mind:
>>
>> - Is anyone interested in running an intro course on PL/pgSQL ? - I
>> have never really had DBs myself that needed this sort of
>> performance improvement but it would be a good thing to do.
>
> PL/pgsql is relatively simple as languages go. Are there particular
> issues you've been having?

No, I haven't used it at all so far - I just thought it might be
interesting if someone is motivated to have a Meetup and give a talk.

>> - I soon will need to set up large and growing DBs of large chunks
>> of written text and be able to parse that for semantic meaning - it
>> looks like Sphynx and Xapian would be more suited to this sort of
>> stuff but it would be nice if I could stick to PG - any comments?
>
> What kinds of volumes are we talking about at the moment, both the
> extant corpus of work and the rate at which it's growing?

Not going yet but I expect tens to maybe hundreds of MBs (maybe
eventually GBs?) for each person and for potentially thousands of people
- however an individual would only ever interact with their own data in
a chatbot-like environment.

Thanks,

Phil.

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