Re: distibuted transactions, SQL+XPath+XTree

Тюрин Дмитрий wrote:
> Hi list,

Hi Dmitry, nice to have you back again.

> I see the following business opportunity for Postgres:
> I) Simple man can't program middleware to connect XML-client and
> Postgres.

Aha! still trying to push an XML command system and http server into the
backend.

> II) Request into several databases does not exist.

Well, there are middleware layers that'll do so, or various
case-specific solutions requiring dblink. The key problem is what you do
with cross-database dependencies. How were you thinking of dealing with
this?

> III) Notebooks need several switching-on and switching-off during
> transaction.

How are you dealing with the locking issues?

> IV) Distance between strings are not supported, that makes
> aproximate searching impossible.

Would that be "not supported" in the sense of "contrib/fuzzystrmatch"?

> V) There is no possibility to hide some (not all) records of table,
> granted to other users, from these users

Apart from views or the veil pgfoundry project of course.

> I ask you to implement these solutions, that Postgres get
> advantage before other DBMS-es. I have prepered several drawing
> http://sql50.euro.ru/sql5.11.3.ppt to explain ideas.
> More details are described below.

Were you looking to hire developers, or do you have customers who are
looking to hire developers?

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