[GENERAL] OT: Oleg Bartunov in Himalaya...

2011-03-16 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, please forgive me, but I am so impressed that Oleg, besides his splendid work on TSearch, gives us such unbelievable pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1366794/Rainbow-cloud-towers-Mount-Everest.html I stumbled about this completely by accident, and can't

[GENERAL] Are there any projects interested in object functionality? (+ rule bases)

2011-01-21 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, for the sake academic teaching, a colleague asked me in how far PostgreSQL does support object functionality these days. I am afraid my web research was not very fruitful to him; the impression is that hardly anybody is occupied in working on PostgreSQL object functionality --

Re: [GENERAL] Are there any projects interested in object functionality? (+ rule bases)

2011-01-21 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Andy, to a considerable extent I agree with you -- but the motivation exactly is not typical business apps, but *academic teaching* needing a demonstration platform for *non-standard* apps -- these guys are a DB chair, and I was optimistic there might be some projects here which might

Re: [GENERAL] Are there any projects interested in object functionality? (+ rule bases)

2011-01-21 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Jeff, this is worse news than I expected -- I had that that at least somebody would be playing around with this... Of course there is a price to pay for OO functionality -- but is there evidence that, given I tweak the frontend into such a direction, PostreSQL due to its backend