Re: interest in this list?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:28:52AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> Two things come to mind:
>
> - Is anyone interested in running an intro course on PL/pgSQL ? - I
> have never really had DBs myself that needed this sort of
> performance improvement but it would be a good thing to do.

PL/pgsql is relatively simple as languages go. Are there particular
issues you've been having?

> - I soon will need to set up large and growing DBs of large chunks
> of written text and be able to parse that for semantic meaning - it
> looks like Sphynx and Xapian would be more suited to this sort of
> stuff but it would be nice if I could stick to PG - any comments?

What kinds of volumes are we talking about at the moment, both the
extant corpus of work and the rate at which it's growing?

Cheers,
David.
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