Re: Sponsoring enterprise features

Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca> writes:
> Personally, I think the best way is simply to make a post on -hackers
> with a description of what you want to accomplish with a call for
> estimates and proposals. ...
> I say a description of what you want to accomplish because certain
> features are not as useful on PostgreSQL as they are other databases
> (data partitioning being one of them, due to the ability to use partial
> indexes) so you may not achieve what you are expecting.

Right.  You can in any case get a great deal of free advice by starting
a pghackers discussion ;-)

It should be noted that "because Oracle does it that way" is a
guaranteed nonstarter as a rationale for any Postgres feature proposal.
There are enough differences between Postgres and Oracle that you will
need to do significant investigation before assuming that an Oracle-
based feature design is appropriate for Postgres.  Aside from technical
differences, we have fundamentally different priorities --- one of which
is simplicity of administration.  You'll get no buyin on proposals that
tend to create Oracle-like difficulties of installation and tuning.
        regards, tom lane