Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Mayer
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: ...in favor of renaming the database Horizontica. ...should definitely be HorizonticaSQL Surely that should be capitalized HorizonticASQL, no. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/12/07, Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: ...in favor of renaming the database Horizontica. ...should definitely be HorizonticaSQL Surely that should be capitalized HorizonticASQL, no. I can just see it now. I've been using Horizont and followed by

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-12 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 9/9/07, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! Some of us just figured out how to pronounce PostgreSQL properly. Postgreh SeeQuell?? /me ducks -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-12 Thread volunteer
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Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-08 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Given past history of this project and its relation to Stonebraker, I was tempted earlier today to suggest that the Postgres vs. PostgreSQL renaming argument be dropped in favor of renaming the database Horizontica. That name could be

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-08 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 9/7/07, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... renaming the database Horizontica. Following the naming convention, wouldn't it be Horizonta? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/8/07, Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Given past history of this project and its relation to Stonebraker, I was tempted earlier today to suggest that the Postgres vs. PostgreSQL renaming argument be dropped in favor

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: Definitely a niche product. Stonebraker's commentary was unfortunately spun by the ComputerWorld columnist. I hope people followed the link to his actual blog entry at http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/09/one-size-fits-all.html where his arguement

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/07 01:37, Greg Smith wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: Definitely a niche product. Stonebraker's commentary was unfortunately spun by the ComputerWorld columnist. Tech journalist morphing reality to make a provocative

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ribe
Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete The headline is grossly misleading; the article is only somewhat less misleading. The actual blog entry: - Does not claim that relational databases per se are obsolete; - Claims that the idea of a single one size fits all implementation

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-07 Thread Guy Rouillier
Greg Smith wrote: the idea of one database approach always being right just isn't true anyway. Or one software development approach or one application runtime approach or ... . One of the major contributions of the relational model compared to the myriad network model implementations

[GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread volunteer
Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9034619 kindlt explain how?? sincerely siva ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:33 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] an other provokative question?? Relational database pioneer says

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Ron Mayer
Dann Corbit wrote: All of the database systems that I know of that use this column-oriented scheme are in-memory database systems. I don't know if Mr. Stonebraker's is also. KDB+ (http://kx.com/) is column-oriented and has both on-disk and in-memory capabilities http://kx.com/faq/#6 . It's

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm curious, given that Postgres wasn't even an SQL-centric database when the original project ended, how much of the current Postgres code base still contains code from the original project before the incorporation of SQl rename to PostgreSQL? You

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=3DviewArticleBasicarticleId=3D9034619 This bit is a hint: Column-oriented databases -- such as

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=3DviewArticleBasicarticleId=3D9034619 This bit is a hint: Column-oriented databases -- such as the one built by Stonebraker's latest start-up,

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/07 22:54, Tom Lane wrote: Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=3DviewArticleBasicarticleId=3D9034619 This bit is a hint:

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9034619 kindlt explain how?? There are several spins relevant to this: 1. He's trying to sell His New Thing, and it certainly