Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
Gregory Youngblood wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 12:05 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: 5) Independant patent license firms. I guess it is a possibility, but in the end, companies that mostly manufacture lawsuits usually go broke. Why would you sue a non-profit if you were mostly trying

Re: [GENERAL] PGPool and replication enforcement On multi-master

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:04:54PM -0700, Chris Travers wrote: Out of curiosity, what is wrong with requiring client SSL certs to access the system and only issuing them to the PGPool system (or using a different CA if you need to issue client certs to the end users

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:19:53PM -0700, Chris Travers wrote: Ok. but it is still a lazy approach and indicates that Oracle has not singled us out for special treatment. Again, this was not the case with MySQL as of 2000 at the latest. I may be more paranoid

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
campaign on the part of Oracle directed specifically at us and not tied to any specific project (fairly likely). Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
Jan Wieck wrote: On 10/17/2005 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is bad about leaving pg_catalog all lower case and expect everyone to query the catalog quoted? The fact that it will break every nontrivial client currently in existence. Those quotes

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
Tom Lane wrote: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I make the following assumptions: 1) All backend references to identifiers are treated as quoted by the backend as mentioned in a previous thread. 2) Same with official clients like psql. 3) We don't guarantee complete

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
will be worried if and when Oracle demonstrates any intelligent competitive strategy against us. A poorly orchestrated and hasty FUD campaign does not qualify. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
target. This is a very interesting move by Oracle... It will be interesting to see where it goes Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
you rather deal with the likes of Larry Ellison and his peons or the likes of you, Josh (both of them), etc? I think Oracle will start marketing PostgreSQL sometime after IBM jumps on ship. But don't expect either soon. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Travers
inverse strategy of subsidizing the high-end with the commodity market is ultimately more effective). Maybe when Bizgres MPP comes out things will change ;-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
) NEVER EVER guess as to what the user really meant when the exact instructions are ambiguous. If we didn't make these assumptions, we would be using MySQL :-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology COnsulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x

Re: [GENERAL] On multi-master

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
, if these are the only objections you have :-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
into FOSS. Third, they may be after personnel (i.e the buyout may be really a hiring bonus). Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
Jan Wieck wrote: On 10/13/2005 2:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So basically, the problem is that any fix for case folding would touch a fair bit of code and possibly cause other problems. However, I haven't seen anyone worry about performance issues

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
. Autocommit is a bad example. A better option is the GUC variable that allows you to go back to the way we used to do things and allow NULL = NULL to return TRUE instead of NULL. In both these cases, the difference is a semantic change in what a given SQL statement means. Best Wishes, Chris

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:46:03PM -0700, Chris Travers wrote: This is largely what I have been suggesting. However, you still have two (small) problems that could be solved fairly easily I think. Take Tom's example: SELECT MAX(relpages) FROM pg_class

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
a larger number of smaller users so they technically have better market share numbers *and* they have better plublicity. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
think they do own that one Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Travers
am willing to do this work if people decide that they are going to go ahead and try to get this in the next release. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-15 Thread Chris Travers
are not guaranteed to be backwards compatible and have been changed in the past? Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] On multi-master

2005-10-15 Thread Chris Travers
to allow connecting from another host, and then issue the change, but then this isn't really the same objection, is it). Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [GENERAL] On multi-master

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Travers
. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technoloy Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
performance any day if it was user error and could be fixed with the help of the people on the PERFORM list. If we didn't believe that, we would all be using MySQL, right? Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
is pretty mazy... Again, this is likely doable. There are hidden fields that I suppose could be extended in a view to reference unique rows (maybe ctid since the whole thing is expanded in a single SQL statement, but I haven't tried it). Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:09, Chris Travers wrote: The problem, as explained to me when I floated this idea, is that the CATALOGS are all in lower case, and many references to them are behind the case folding mechanism (i.e. they get accessed by their lower case names

Re: [GENERAL] On multi-master

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
of a useful piece of a solution. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
Tom Lane wrote: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So basically, the problem is that any fix for case folding would touch a fair bit of code and possibly cause other problems. However, I haven't seen anyone worry about performance issues in such a fix, just that it might be a fair

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
Ok. here are some indepth thoughts after reviewing as many prior threads as I could find on the archives. Tom Lane wrote: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Since the end reward for all this work would be having to read CATALOGS WRITTEN IN ALL UPPER CASE, none

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gotchas

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Travers
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:21:14PM -0700, Chris Travers wrote: Since the end reward for all this work would be having to read CATALOGS WRITTEN IN ALL UPPER CASE, none of the key developers seem very interested ... I think you're slightly missing

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations of PostgreSQL

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Travers
for development, it should be adequate. Hope this helps, Chris Travers Metatron Technology COnsulting I would like to know the limitations of PostgreSQL. Also, I would like to know, whether there is any limitations for the number of records or the size of the tables or database in PostgreSQL? Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations of PostgreSQL

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Travers
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 16:16, Chris Travers wrote: Denis G Dudhia wrote: Hello There... I am new to PostgreSQL. I usually check out negative sides of any software or system, before implementing it or using it. Compared to MySQL, I can't think of any

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Travers
turn of data verification and then insert dates like Feb 31, 2005? (Strict mode can be enabled/disabled per connection/session) snip Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Travers
are running an production database on Windows 98 you have bigger problems than support from Microsoft Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http

Re: [GENERAL] Setting up a fine-grained permission system

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Travers
to. denied columns could be filled in with NULLs or or something else. Denied rows could simply be omitted. As for updating and inserting, you can do your own permission schemes here too with triggers checking them and providing the needed logic. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron

Re: [GENERAL] Extraordinarily slow!!

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Travers
Tom Lane wrote: Justin R. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've solved the problem. I was accessing Postgres over an ssh connection and had enabled X forwarding in the sshd server (not the default configuration). For reasons that pass understanding, psql attempts to establish an

Re: [GENERAL] Function keys cause psql to segfault

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Travers
) in the data from the Fn key sequences that is causing Readline to crash. In that case it would be a readline bug not something correctable in psql I'm afraid. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consultingp -Doug ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] list manipulation at column level

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Travers
column || ',' ||'value' Delete would require some regular expressions-- check the manual on these. Or you could write a Perl function. However, this strikes me as quite denormalized Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] How to write jobs in postgresql

2005-09-08 Thread Chris Travers
getting at... Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get

Re: [GENERAL] Query questions

2005-09-05 Thread Chris Travers
don't care which RDBMS you use, management of 1000 identical tables is going to be a real pain and I think that everyone here will probably suggest that it is not exactly a sane thing to do. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology COnsulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris

Re: [GENERAL] newbie - postgresql or mysql

2005-09-01 Thread Chris Travers
is that you wait until 8.1 is released as some of the issues involved in application porting will be resolved (LEAST and GREATEST, for example). Any feedback on the guide would be appreciated. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email

Re: [GENERAL] Php abstraction layers

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Travers
to rewrite a whole lot. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] POSS. FEATURE REQ: Dynamic Views

2005-08-27 Thread Chris Travers
, and then rebuild dependant views. Again the fact that it is not commonly done indicates simply that there is no need. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-27 Thread Chris Travers
William Yu wrote: Chris Travers wrote: 1) Efficiency of network throughput 2) Tolerance to attempts at repeat transactions before replication (emptying an account multiple times) 3) Availability of a transaction. We ended up having to give up #1. It's possible to have our

Re: [GENERAL] POSS. FEATURE REQ: Dynamic Views

2005-08-27 Thread Chris Travers
; ' LANGUAGE PLPGSQL; You might have to extend this to track and maintain rules for inserting and updating on the view. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Travers
and forth. The trick I used here was for each master to use a different SERIAL field as its primary key so there are no duplicates. Another option is to have a compound primary key which is a serial and a server-hash (this would scale to a larger number of masters). Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Travers
William Yu wrote: Chris Travers wrote: Why not have the people who have rights to review this all write to the master database and have that replicated back? It seems like latency is not really an issue. Replication here is only going to complicate What master database? Having

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Travers
William Yu wrote: Chris Travers wrote: I guess I am thinking along different lines than you. I was thinking that the simplest solution would be to have master/slave replication for *approved* transactions only and no replication for initial commits prior to approval. This makes

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Travers
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Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Travers
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Re: [GENERAL] Generating random values.

2005-08-18 Thread Chris Travers
did it in under 10 minutes. A token set of 16 characters, and a fixed length of 8 charachters just isnt a very big search space. This is why I suggested a variable-length random string function. But this not as trivial to impliment. Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [GENERAL] Generating random values.

2005-08-18 Thread Chris Travers
, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: [GENERAL] Generating random values.

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Travers
it to use. You can then create another function like this: CREATE FUNCTION random_string(int) returns varchar AS ' SELECT random_string($1, ); ' LANGUAGE SQL; This becomes much harder when working with Unicode, I think Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting Fernando

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking PL/PGSQL example

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Travers
FOR IN EXECUTE ''SELECT '' || tname || ''AS table_name, count(*) from '' ||tname; LOOP RETURN NEXT; END LOOP; END LOOP; END; ' LANGUAGE PLPGSQL; Not saying this will work but it might be a good start. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] Poll on your LAPP Preferences

2005-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
by the user. This makes it easier to manage permissions. Of course you cannot use connection pooling in this case without a partial rewrite of your app... Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6

Re: [GENERAL] untrusted languages and non-global superusers?

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
can use a trigger to insert into a message queue and use NOTIFY to let a listening process know that some action needs to be taken. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version

Re: [GENERAL] indexes are fucked

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
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Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] New MySQL to PostgreSQL Migration Guide

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: PDF not found? Argh Ok. Fixed. It is about 12 pages. Table of contents entries are clickable. I am not familiar enough with Docbook so I just wrote it in LaTeX (sources available upon request). Direct link is

Re: [GENERAL] New MySQL to PostgreSQL Migration Guide

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
To anyone who tried before, the link is fixed. http://www.metatrontech.com/wpapers/mysql2postgresql.pdf Chris Travers wrote: Hi; I have just posted a MySQL to PostgreSQL migration guide at http://www.metatrontech.com/wpapers and it is free for pretty much any use (I do have a somewhat

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
mode debuts in 5.x, it is unlikely that this will be enabled by default as MySQL will be largely required to be backwards compatible. Hope this helps. Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE

[GENERAL] New MySQL to PostgreSQL Migration Guide

2005-07-31 Thread Chris Travers
changed. I am also considering creating a set of wrapper functions which will provide compatibility with many of the non-standard functions in MySQL. Any feedback, etc. is appreciated. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Design question

2005-07-30 Thread Chris Travers
? Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading from 7.1

2005-07-28 Thread Chris Travers
this helps, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet

[GENERAL] MySQL to PostgreSQL, was ENUM type

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
them as well. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] GUID for postgreSQL

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
unique identifier along with a globally unique location identifieer. Sort of like we have with IP addresses, MAC addresses, telephone numbers, etc... Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting Ben wrote: Yes, this is the problem with GUIDs... you can calculate them by mashing

Re: [GENERAL] GUID for postgreSQL

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
* collisions. Similarly, if we want a guaranteed uniqueness to a GUID we have to have some sort of unique string to the GUID prepended to it (not merely used in a hash). So you could use the Mac address of the machine, I guess, if you wanted to Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading from 7.1

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
a monolithic dump/restore? I seem to remember encountering an issue some time ago with pg_dump dumping tables in an order that prevented them from being reloaded. The solution was to specify the order of the tables in the commandline. Hope this helps. Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL to PostgreSQL, was ENUM type

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
for at least tables and data definitions. Triggers, functions, etc. would be more difficult. But I think it is reasonable to expect that functions might have to be manually ported in most circumstances. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Chris ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs Firebird?

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Travers
never been pleasent. These are however caveats and are not insurmountable. However, I would choose Firebird anyday for larger Windows installations, and it is quite a bit better than MySQL... Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting Tony Caduto wrote: Hi, We have a big project

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL meta-character

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Travers
.: No Ok, how about a better way to do this? select * from mytable where lower(mycol) LIKE lower(% || lower(X) || %); Does this work? It seems that this may be the best way to handle this sort of thing. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ERROR: invalid regular expression

Re: [GENERAL] sql question

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Travers
, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting -- /A computer is like an airconditioner. When windows open, it stops working ! / -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Steven Verhoeven, ICT Support Engineer Department

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Travers
, but not PostgreSQL crashing. As I said, the core team takes the security of your data very seriously. Note that this does not mean that it will nto be supported, but just that people don't think you should consider doing this. I hope this response is helpful. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Travers
it on their development efforts. But YMMV. And again, this is not the reason for the dearth of tools, but something to think about when deploying a solution. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla

Re: [GENERAL] pl sql to check if table of table_name exists

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Travers
information_schema.tables where table_name = $1). the structure of the information schema is defined in the SQL standards and will be stable between versions. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology COnsulting Thanks in advance Kind Regards, Shaun Clements ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Travers
connections to use. One you need to scale, you will probably have to go to Linux, BSD, etc. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql vs mysql performance comparison

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Travers
in their right mind wants to ask the courts whether a work which might or might not be (f. ex. links to a GPL'd library) is a derivative work. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL worm attacks Windows servers

2005-01-29 Thread Chris Travers
, but I don't think we are that invulnerable. Maybe we should set the default authentication to only use TRUST on local sockets only. At least as of 7.4, the default was to trust network ports. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL worm attacks Windows servers

2005-01-29 Thread Chris Travers
Tom Lane wrote: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe we should set the default authentication to only use TRUST on local sockets only. At least as of 7.4, the default was to trust network ports. Perhaps you should check your facts before posting. Ok. Pardon me. I misread

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] DWH on Postgresql

2005-01-25 Thread Chris Travers
to research this too. Should I be testing on 8 or the 7 version? 8. Has better cache management, meaning will likely perform better. Hope this helps. It is not a typical question on the list, but if you start running into issues, this is a good list to ask question on :-) Best Wishes, Chris

Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution

2005-01-21 Thread Chris Travers
for something like PostgreSQL... There are a few caveats for other software but this becomes a bit off-topic. For example, some games won;t work because they require access to a framebuffer device which FreeBSD doesn't have. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting -Original

[GENERAL] Would a wiki help newbies?

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Travers
://www.metatrontech.com/sql-ledger-wiki/ The site will not be branded with my company information except in a contributed by bit, and in the domain name. Do people think that this would be helpful? Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers

Re: [GENERAL] When to encrypt

2004-12-11 Thread Chris Travers
) Push security enforcement back as far as possible. Let the database server maintain its security. If it can be exploted, you are toast anyway. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and javascript

2004-12-10 Thread Chris Travers
support, but it doesn't look like it has been maintained in a while. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on in the internet

2004-09-10 Thread Chris Travers
including DoS, etc. than IPSec is, and having a good set of security barriers is critical when you are looking at business data. The SSL issue could be used as well, but I don't really know what sorts of options are available on Windows for SSL-based VPN's. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron

Re: [GENERAL] Web application: Programming language/Framework

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Travers
Just a little on the history of the tools might be helpful. I think that these environments are easy to criticize by people who are not really aware of what the tools are really good for. PHP: This is worth noting in the context of this thread though fairly off-topic for the list. PHP was

Re: [GENERAL] Losing records when server hang

2004-08-15 Thread Chris Travers
? Could this be leading to a system hang (say when swap space is being called back into memory)? Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting begin:vcard fn:Chris Travers n:Travers;Chris email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: [GENERAL] Is olap possible on postgresql????

2004-08-08 Thread Chris Travers
than a set of supported technologies. PostgreSQL handles OLAP *much* better than MySQL which doesn't even support views If you can tell us more about what you need, maybe we can help. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting Jason Monserrate wrote: I'm a student currently

Re: [GENERAL] Composite types in tables

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Travers
This has been recently covered in a discussion both on this list and on Hackers. It is not easy to do, apparently, but it is on the radar. Check the archives. Best Wishes, Chris Travers On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:53, you wrote: Are there any plans for PostGreSQL to support something like

[GENERAL] Interest in database-based email?

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Travers
/iCalendar)? Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Interest in database-based email?

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Travers
, be nice to avoid worrying about SMTP and IMAP servers as well, though. One thing I noticed about DBMAIL was that it didn't seem to have many docs on their site. Maybe I will have to download it and play with it though. See how easy it would be to extend. Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [GENERAL] Touch row ?

2004-01-25 Thread Chris Travers
before considering it infinite. Best Wishes, Chris Travers - Original Message - From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric B.Ridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NTPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PostgreSQL-general

Re: [GENERAL] OT: SCO Extortion

2004-01-25 Thread Chris Travers
but this other server got the support last week. So we only need one subscription. Again, RHEL's licenses are not licenses but rather service contracts. Best Wishes, Chris Travers IANAL, but I have checked with them in the past over this issue. - Original Message - From: Bruce Momjian

Re: [GENERAL] OT: SCO Extortion

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Travers
vs. SCO, and SCO vs. Novell) are worth following, but I am not worried yet. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[GENERAL] Mailing list? was Postgress and MYSQL

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Travers
. The list could also serve as a place for consultants to go if they want competitive information relating to other products. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] what we need to use postgresql in the enterprise

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Travers
.sp_log_error(r_return_cd,r_return_type,r_return_msg); END; Ok. I understand. This is extremely useful. I agree that this should be done. Is it on the ToDo? Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your

Re: [GENERAL] Postgress and MYSQL

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Travers
the operation/transaction rather than truncate your data in a NUMERIC column. So what is the alternative? I am working on some documentation but my work is slowed by my laptop being in the shop. Perhaps we could have a technical education category in Techdocs? Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [GENERAL] Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Travers
using MD5 to hide the details of the MAC and IPV4 address from the outside world, and it is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this discussion. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire

Re: [GENERAL] Best practice? Web application: single PostgreSQL user vs. multiple users

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Travers
. 2: Have multiple accounts for different roles and store these in the LDAP user profiles. This creates a large number of headaches (are the role fields properly secured, for example). 3: Finally you could have a user profiles table which contained the allowed accounts to use. Best Wishes, Chris

Re: [GENERAL] Nested transaction workaround?

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Travers
the pending commit become 'committed' when transaction xid is commited. Again this is just off the top of my head. Also an 2PC framework if added into the protocol would allow for true nested transactions via DBLink. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Best practice? Web application: single PostgreSQL

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Travers
this is an issue, I usually create functions to do this so that my information does not get out of sync. However, I can imagine this being a concern, security wise. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your

[GENERAL] What are nested transactions then? was Nested transaction workaround?

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Travers
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