Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

2005-11-09 Thread Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address)
Yes it is exactly that. I will follow you advice and create a abstraction layer for the data access that will return the sparse dataset using the standard dataset as input. There is just one thing I disagree you said it that the performance is not good, right. However, it is practical! Nothing is

[GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

2005-11-08 Thread Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address)
Hi guys, I would like to know if it is possible to have more than 1600 columns on windows without recompiling postgres. Regards -Evandro-- Evandro M Leite JrPhD Student Software developerUniversity of Southampton, UKPersonal website: http://evandro.orgAcademic website:

Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

2005-11-08 Thread Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address)
I'm doing a PhD in data mining and I need more than 1600 columns. I gotan error message saying that I can not use more than 1600 columns. It is happening because I have to change categorical values to binarycreating new columns. Do you know if oracle can handle it? -- Evandro M Leite Jr. PhD

Re: [GENERAL] Beyond the 1600 columns limit on windows

2005-11-08 Thread Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address)
that my software uses. Probably I should use another data structure but would not be as eficient and practical as the one I use now. Many thanks -Evandro On 08 Nov 2005 05:30:07 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Evandro's == Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send

[GENERAL] NTFS partition autodetection during instalation

2005-07-13 Thread Evandro's mailing lists (Please, don't send personal messages to this address)
Dear hackers I want to embed postgres into a software installation. I will use silent install, how do I detect which partition is NTFS so I can tell the installer to use that partition? Many thanks -Evandro-- Evandro M Leite JrPhD Student Software developer University of Southampton,