How do you do this in PostgressSQL?
Licence policy and price is driving away my will to promote Oracle.

Not at present, although Oracle University has asked me about working through their virtual learning system. So far I haven’t managed to fit in any dates to have a go with their technology, but in principal I’ve said we could try it.

Tanel recently asked if I would join in an on-line event with him, Cary Millsap and Kerry Osborne some time in the next couple of months – so keep an eye on the blog for an announcement.

Thanks for the comment – if I can persuade the ACE director program to pay my air-fare for 2013 I’ll try to fit AIOUG into my calendar again.

Compression (table and index) is on the agenda, both for space saving and for side effects – though I haven’t made up my mind whether or not to include EHCC (Exadata hybrid columnar compression) in any detail.

That’s a good idea.
I’ll have to highlight the possibilities for using partition views instead of partitioned tables, and cunning tricks with B-tree indexes to substitute for btree/bitmap conversion. At the moment I can’t think of any other good examples – so feel free to give me a few one-liners.