Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-21 Thread John Smith
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Smith wrote: guys, Please don't cross-post, especially since nobody on the PostGIS mailing list answered your previous question. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-21 Thread Colin Wetherbee
John Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't cross-post, especially since nobody on the PostGIS mailing list answered your previous question. please don't cross-post my cross-post. if i wanted to post it to the postgresql list, i

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-21 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't cross-post, especially since nobody on the PostGIS mailing list answered your previous question. please

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-21 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:02:12 -0400 From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PostgreSQL General pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points? Cc: PostGIS Users Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8888SNIP

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-21 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/03/2008, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please don't cross-post my cross-post. if i wanted to post it to the postgresql list, i would have ;) That seems to be quite a silly request, considering

[GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread John Smith
guys, how many min. floating-points must a server hardware support for postgresql+postgis? does postgresql+postgis do much floating-point math to make a difference? can someone give postgresql+postgis application examples that will require high floating-points? thks, jzs -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread Colin Wetherbee
John Smith wrote: guys, Please don't cross-post, especially since nobody on the PostGIS mailing list answered your previous question. how many min. floating-points must a server hardware support for postgresql+postgis? does postgresql+postgis do much floating-point math to make a

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
John Smith wrote: guys, how many min. floating-points must a server hardware support for postgresql+postgis? does postgresql+postgis do much floating-point math to make a difference? can someone give postgresql+postgis application examples that will require high floating-points? thks, jzs I do

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:02:12PM -0400, John Smith wrote: how many min. floating-points must a server hardware support for postgresql+postgis? does postgresql+postgis do much floating-point math to make a difference? can someone give postgresql+postgis application examples that will require

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Sam Mason wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:02:12PM -0400, John Smith wrote: how many min. floating-points must a server hardware support for postgresql+postgis? does postgresql+postgis do much floating-point math to make a difference? can someone give postgresql+postgis application examples

Re: [GENERAL] [postgis-users] how many min. floating-points?

2008-03-20 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 21/03/2008, Colin Wetherbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno about that. On the PostGIS list, he said: i got an old box supporting only 1 floating-point Maybe he means an FPU? *boggle* Maybe floating-point registers on the FPU? So many options! Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top