Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update Optimization

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:00 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > EnterpriseDB has been running a research project to improve the
> > performance of heavily updated tables. We have a number of approaches
> > prototyped and we'd like to discuss the best of these now on -hackers
> > for community input and patch submission to PostgreSQL core.
> > 
> 
> Excellent! It would certainly be good for use cases like:
> 
> - session data from web (or similar) applications
> - real time summary tables maintained by triggers
> 
> to "just work", as (certainly in the case of the first one) quite a few 
> folks have been bitten by exactly the issue you describe.

...and of course it would be good if LISTEN/NOTIFY were able to use this
concept also, to help Slony along also.

--  Simon Riggs              EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com