>>>>> "Shahbaz" == Shahbaz Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shahbaz> There are bound to be people in the academia (grad Shahbaz> students, professors of CS, etc.) on this mailing list, Shahbaz> yet I see few RDBMS courses using postgresql as an Shahbaz> example. If people still have connections to Shahbaz> universities, it would seem that inviting researchers to Shahbaz> use PGSQL for their experiments will quickly make it Shahbaz> comparable to Oracle/etc. This would be specifically At Berkeley, PostgreSQL is used for projects in the upper division undergraduate database systems class. At least it was used this past Fall, and we plan to use it in the Spring as well (I will be TA'ng). The projects involved using pg as a back-end and a small buffer replacement policy assignment. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/ In addition, we (the database systems research group) are using the PostgreSQL code base (7.2.1) to build TelegraphCQ, our new system to process continuous queries over data streams. Preliminary paper here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~franklin/Papers/TCQcidr03.pdf No, it's not really close to a release yet ... :-) -- Pip-pip Sailesh http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])