Software Engineering Issues in RDBMS, a Preliminary Survey

International audienceRelational database management systems (RDBMS) come with many features. Tables and columns but also views, triggers or stored procedures. Some database architects (DBAs) feel a lack of tools to help them during the implementation and the evolution of the database. In this paper, we conducted a preliminary survey in the PostgreSQL community to get an idea of the usage they make of some of the PostgreSQL features and to gather feedbacks of the issues they face using these features. The results of this survey suggest that these features are fairly well used by DBAs and that DBAs using them encounter implementation issues