Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 items

> At 10:11 PM 6/8/99 +0800, Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> 
> >We discussed this issue recently and decided to follow this way,
> >so I didn't post message when pg_dump was changed, assuming
> >that it's known by all -:)
> 
> I don't mean to this group, or any of the postgres groups,
> I mean to the world at large, in which Postgres has a very
> negative image for web work.  Consistent dumps, killing
> of one very bad memory leak (and a bunch of not-so-bad
> ones), and moving to mvcc from table-locking - these are
> three huge improvements for people building web sites.
> Folks outside the normal Postgres community deserve to
> know this.
> 
> And the latest download executes my "group by" clauses rather
> than killing the backend, as I found out last night.  I've
> just sped up a page that returns a bar graph of monthly
> data by an order of magnitude, woo-hoo!  Before I was
> forced to do a separate select for each month (against
> about 100,000 records, boo-hiss), now one nice select
> grouping data by month just like real databases let me
> do, I'm happy!

We really don't have access to web admin channels except through our
mailing list and software lists.  You need to get the word out.  We
addressed these issues escecially for web/high traffic users.

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