Re: Very interesting article about the future of databases

w/o reading the URL docs, it sounds suspiciously like "tagged command queueing" for sequential scans.

<pause for comedic effect>

I wonder what the best way to spend $7K for performance improvement might be?   ;-)



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For those who didn't see it on slashdot: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=293

What's interesting is that PostgreSQL is already working on some of these things. Of note, there's a patch to allow
sequentialscans to 'piggyback' on top of other sequential scans. See the quote "For petabyte-scale databases, the only
solutionmay be to run continuous data scans, with queries piggybacked on top of the scans." on page 4. There's also
beendiscussion about how to more intelligently cost UDF's, something also mentioned on page 4. 
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