On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:20 PM, MauMau <maumau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Long time no see. I'm back.
This is a good surprise. > Although you may not remember me, I was certainly here more than a year ago, > submitting tiny patches for bug fixes and trivial functionalities, and > reviewing/testing patches from others. That was a fruitful and fun time for > me. Thank you a lot for helping me. Glad to see you back. > After that, I had to stay away from the community for some reason. Now, I'd > be happy if I can contribute to PostgreSQL again. But please excuse me for > my slow restart, as the blank period needs some rehabilitation. I don't think you need to explain yourself. Matters of life happen all the time. > Let me briefly introduce myself. I'm MauMau, this is a nickname at home. > And I'm Takayuki Tsunakawa, a male database engineer who works for Fujitsu > in Japan. I'm now able to participate in the community activity at work. Cool to hear that as well. We are pretty close by... よろしくお願いいたします。 > Finally, I'm wondering what direction PostgreSQL is headed for. Especially, > I'm curious about whether PostgreSQL will become a MPP database for OLTP and > analytics by integrating with Postgres-XL/XC. I don't yet figure out which > segment PostgreSQL should aim for, now that Hadoop family is prominent in > analytics and MySQL is still more popular in Web apps. I'd like to know > what community people are seeing in the future of PostgreSQL. These days, there is a lot of discussion and activity to make Postgres better at scaling out. There are discussions about backporting stuff from XC/XL back to core, though that's a tough work. This thread is a good summary of what is happening lately in this area: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160223164335.ga11...@momjian.us Thanks, -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers