Hi everyone,

> > with some frequency.  We have the usual 180 students  we get every 
> > semester (yep: 180!), but this year we've instituted 2 changes:

We're looking at >100 students taking the class here every year.

> Double cool.  I'm just down the road, if Natassa needs a visiting
> lecturer.

Tom - that's really super-cool! Tom, let's take it offline to schedule a
visit.
We will be delighted to have you lecture.

> Yes.  As of CVS tip, we have hash-based grouping but it doesn't spill
> to disk.  Want to ask them to start from CVS tip and fix that little
> detail?  Or fix the various other loose ends that have been mentioned
> lately?  (make it work with DISTINCT, improve the estimation logic,
> some other things I'm forgetting)

As Joe said, this is what we are doing. We intend to use your todo-list to 
design projects for future semesters... so all such suggestions
are greatly appreciated.
 
Natassa

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:31:54 -0500
Anastassia Ailamaki <natassa+@cs.cmu.edu>
Re: Berkeley and CMU classes adopt/extend PostgreSQL 

Any chance of giving them all separate TODO items?  That way, we would
get more items completed;  greedy request, I know.  ;-)

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Anastassia Ailamaki wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> > > with some frequency.  We have the usual 180 students  we get every 
> > > semester (yep: 180!), but this year we've instituted 2 changes:
> 
> We're looking at >100 students taking the class here every year.
> 
> > Double cool.  I'm just down the road, if Natassa needs a visiting
> > lecturer.
> 
> Tom - that's really super-cool! Tom, let's take it offline to schedule a
> visit.
> We will be delighted to have you lecture.
> 
> > Yes.  As of CVS tip, we have hash-based grouping but it doesn't spill
> > to disk.  Want to ask them to start from CVS tip and fix that little
> > detail?  Or fix the various other loose ends that have been mentioned
> > lately?  (make it work with DISTINCT, improve the estimation logic,
> > some other things I'm forgetting)
> 
> As Joe said, this is what we are doing. We intend to use your todo-list to 
> design projects for future semesters... so all such suggestions
> are greatly appreciated.
>  
> Natassa
> 
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Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:12:06 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Berkeley and CMU classes adopt/extend PostgreSQL