Re: Topic for a student research project

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 02:14 pm, mailings@oopsware.de wrote:
> I\'m currently searching for a topic related to PostgreSQL for a student
> research project i have to write this semester.
> Since i really would like to write this in a PostgreSQL  context and
> there are many ongoing projects here on -hackers, i wonder if somebody
> has a topic of kind \"that needs to be done\" and \"can be done in a
> student research project\". Perhaps there are some open issues in PITR,
> replication, XML or others....
>
> The student research project has a duration of 3-4 month and is
> supervised by a professor from my university.
>
> A short brief of me:
> I am studying in the 7th semester information technology in Aalen,
> Germany. I have experiences in database programming due to an employment
> at IBM Germany last year and a long running project for a web company
> related to a self developed middleware (Perl, C/C++ and Kylix driven) and
> PostgreSQL as a backend.
> Linux is my preferred platform for years.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions or hints are appreciated.
>

Would you like to work with incrementally updating materialized views? I am 
currently deleting then reinserting rows that get updated with a pretty 
stupid algorithm. If you would like to investigate incremental updates, and 
work with me on that, it would probably be interesting and educational.

I think I will be doing most of it in PlPythonU at first, then port it to C 
later.

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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner@jonathangardner.net