{"id":94,"date":"2005-05-03T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T00:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-05-07T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T22:41:30","slug":"i-beg-you-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"I beg you pardon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ithout going to deep into the specific “B-Wars”1<\/sup> (‘My Database Is Bigger\/Better\/Br0ken than yours’), Postgres-mailing-list readers already know that this Microsoft guy<\/em> is blurting out hype as usual<\/a>. (Now On Slashdot<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n

  “What’s interesting is that PostgreSQL is already working on some of
\nthese things. Of note, there’s a patch to allow sequential scans to ‘piggyback’ on top of other sequential scans. See the quote “For petabyte-scale databases, the only solution may be to run continuous data scans, with queries piggybacked on top of the scans.” on page 4. There’s also been discussion about how to more intelligently cost UDF’s, something also mentioned on page 4.”\n<\/p>\n

Or rather more precise, as another contributor jokingly adds:<\/p>\n

w\/o reading the URL docs, it sounds suspiciously like ‘tagged command queueing’ for sequential scans. (pause for comedic effect)
\nI wonder what the best way to spend $7K for performance improvement might be?\n<\/p>\n

Exactly. Oh, from the same list the following signature, which is quite funny. I only read the mailinglist because of the great articles:\n<\/p>\n

Windows:<\/strong> “Where do you want to go today?”
\nLinux: <\/strong>“Where do you want to go tomorrow?”
\nFreeBSD:<\/strong> “Are you guys coming, or what?”\n<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Hereby I, Arthur, claim to have invented the word ‘B-Wars’, which refers to the typical Bigger\/Better\/Broken arguments between geeks2<\/sup>.<\/small>\n<\/p>\n

<\/small>2<\/sup>I’m not a geek: I’m a programmer.<\/small>\n<\/p>\n

Update 05\/07\/05: I see that the HTML Sup is broken in Internet Explorer.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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