Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Jan Urbański
<j(dot)urbanski(at)students(dot)mimuw(dot)edu(dot)pl> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIFVyYmHFhHNraQ==?= <j(dot)urbanski(at)students(dot)mimuw(dot)edu(dot)pl> writes:
> >> 2. Implement better selectivity estimates for FTS.
> >
> > +1 for that one ...
>
> OK, this one might very well be the one that'd be more useful. And I can
> always reuse the other idea for my thesis, after expanding it a bit.
> Speaking of @@ selectivity, I even mailed about it once on the
> -performance list, but the mail somehow got lost in the processing queue
> and never reached the list. Anyway, the idea has been on my mind for
> some time now.
> So are you considering putting FTS selectivity estimates on this year's
> SoC ideas list? That is, if PostgreSQL is planning to participate in SoC
> this year, which I'm sure it does ;)

We are - but the idea doesn't need to be on the list for us to
consider it. Just write up a good project outline and plan ready to
submit when the doors open.

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Dave Page
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