I\'m currently searching for a topic related to PostgreSQL for a student research project 
i have to write this semester. 
Since i really would like to write this in a PostgreSQL  context and there are 
many ongoing projects here on -hackers, i wonder if somebody has a topic 
of kind \"that needs to be done\" and \"can be done in a student research project\". 
Perhaps there are some open issues in PITR, replication, XML or others....

The student research project has a duration of 3-4 month and is supervised by a 
professor from my university. 

A short brief of me:
I am studying in the 7th semester information technology in Aalen, Germany. 
I have experiences in database programming due to an employment at IBM Germany last year 
and a long running project for a web company related to a self developed middleware 
(Perl, C/C++ and Kylix driven) and PostgreSQL as a backend. 
Linux is my preferred platform for years.

Any ideas, suggestions or hints are appreciated.

TIA
  
  Bernd Helmle



Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:14:53 +0100
mailings@oopsware.de
Topic for a student research project
http://developer.postgresql.org/todo.php

Gavin

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:22:21 +1100 (EST)
Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
Re: Topic for a student research project
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 02:14 pm, mailings@oopsware.de wrote:
> I\'m currently searching for a topic related to PostgreSQL for a student
> research project i have to write this semester.
> Since i really would like to write this in a PostgreSQL  context and
> there are many ongoing projects here on -hackers, i wonder if somebody
> has a topic of kind \"that needs to be done\" and \"can be done in a
> student research project\". Perhaps there are some open issues in PITR,
> replication, XML or others....
>
> The student research project has a duration of 3-4 month and is
> supervised by a professor from my university.
>
> A short brief of me:
> I am studying in the 7th semester information technology in Aalen,
> Germany. I have experiences in database programming due to an employment
> at IBM Germany last year and a long running project for a web company
> related to a self developed middleware (Perl, C/C++ and Kylix driven) and
> PostgreSQL as a backend.
> Linux is my preferred platform for years.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions or hints are appreciated.
>

Would you like to work with incrementally updating materialized views? I am 
currently deleting then reinserting rows that get updated with a pretty 
stupid algorithm. If you would like to investigate incremental updates, and 
work with me on that, it would probably be interesting and educational.

I think I will be doing most of it in PlPythonU at first, then port it to C 
later.

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardner@jonathangardner.net

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:34:25 -0800
Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@jonathangardner.net>
Re: Topic for a student research project
--On Dienstag, März 16, 2004 17:34:25 -0800 Jonathan Gardner 
<jgardner@jonathangardner.net> wrote:

>
> Would you like to work with incrementally updating materialized views? I
> am  currently deleting then reinserting rows that get updated with a
> pretty  stupid algorithm. If you would like to investigate incremental
> updates, and  work with me on that, it would probably be interesting and
> educational.
>
> I think I will be doing most of it in PlPythonU at first, then port it to
> C  later.
>

Sounds interesting. I have a talk on monday next week where i had to 
discuss my topics...do
you have any documentation, sources or so that i can use for a first 
examination?

> --
> Jonathan Gardner
> jgardner@jonathangardner.net
>
>



--

  Bernd



Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:07:50 +0100
Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Re: Topic for a student research project