Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:04:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: libreadline is not a problem because you can distribute postgresql compiled with readline and comply with all licences involved simultaneously. It doesn't work with openssl because the licence requires things that are

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Lukas Smith
Hi, I really think that PostgreSQL could benefit from a packaged solution that incorporates a lot of the contrib stuff (tsearch2, maybe even some replication setups ..). I really like the approach that PostgreSQL is a clean yet highly extensible base from which other people can build their

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that direction? I just think that

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: ... apt-get install postgresql-8.1 postgresql-contrib-8.1 Voila! Tsearch installed at your fingertips. What else were you expecting? I expect this to be one package and I expect this to be what is pushed as the default package on all platforms. If someone just sat

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/20/06, Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that direction? I just think that whatever highly

Re: [HACKERS] String Similarity

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
What I was hoping someone had was a function that could find the substring runs in something less than a strlen1*strlen2 number of operations and a numerically sane way of representing the similarity or difference. Acually, it is more like strlen1*strlen2*N, where N is the number of valid

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
My question is whether psql using libreadline.so has to be GPL, meaning the psql source has to be included in a binary distribution. If I understand what I have been told by lawyers, here's what using a GPL, and NOT LGPL, library means: According to RMS, the definition of a derivitive work is

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: Hi, I really think that PostgreSQL could benefit from a packaged solution that incorporates a lot of the contrib stuff (tsearch2, maybe even some replication setups ..). I really like the approach that PostgreSQL is a clean yet

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Then again PGfoundry is great to keep development centered, but finding and building a new package is not really a one-liner, and if you're unlucky you might get alpha-quality code installed. :) Mammoth PostgreSQL was designed to fill this role. It is an FOSS project

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:04:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: libreadline is not a problem because you can distribute postgresql compiled with readline and comply with all licences involved simultaneously. It doesn't work with openssl because the licence requires things that are