BAD sig (was: Re: [HACKERS] v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database...)

2003-01-23 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
The keep-annoying-everybody-until-it-really-works caompain gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) gpg: Signature made Mit 22 Jan 2003 18:43:21 CET using DSA key ID 8C3ABF0C gpg: BAD signature from "Rod Taylor (Database Developer) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 18:43, Rod T

Re: [HACKERS] Options for growth

2003-01-20 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
[no cc:s please] On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:31, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > >>>"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" said: > > On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:59, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrot > e: > > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:42, D'Ar

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

2003-01-19 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:20, Justin Clift wrote: > > Now, we don't necessarily have a speed problem, as people who take the > time to tune the database can attest to, so this is making me consider > why such a large percentage of folk would vote for that. > > The possibilities that come to min

Re: [HACKERS] Options for growth

2003-01-16 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:42, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > We are also looking at hardware solutions, multi-CPU PCs with tons (24GB) of > memory. I know that memory will improve access if it prevents swapping but > how well does PostgreSQL utilize multiple CPUs? At most one CPU is used for any sin

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:29, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > I'm just saying that there are > >*some* small arcane details in postgres, too (although, at least, they > >don't affect stability, just performance)

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
> (i.e. arcane > little "need to know" things that trap all but the initiated... So, for postgres, that means: - a good thing the autovacuum thingy is coming along - postgres should auto-tune itself - the *cost could perhaps be adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there shou

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 07:03, Kevin Brown wrote: > I have no problem with ads being put there, but they should load at > least as fast as the rest of the site. Huh!? :-) cheers -- vbi -- Packages should build-depend on what they should build-depend. -- Santiago Vila on debian-devel

Re: [HACKERS] UTF-8 encoding question regarding PhpPgAdmin

2003-01-08 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > - Some letters, like the euro sign, do not belong to Latin1. Example: let's > > say we have a Latin1 database and use SET CLIENT_ENCODING = 'Unicode'. If I > > input a euro sign, does it get rejected by PostgreSQL? > > Currently, it gives

Re: [HACKERS] How to compile postgres source code in VC++

2002-12-03 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:59, scott.marlowe wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Prasanna Phadke wrote: > > Catch all the cricket action. Download Yahoo! Score tracker > Step 1: Get VC++ to run under unix... Virtual Cricket++? I don't exactly see how this applies here. (sorry) -- vbi -- this email i

Re: [HACKERS] eWeek Article

2002-11-30 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:21, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Looks like the eWeek article has been published: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,732789,00.asp > > Sorry for sounding like such a dork :) A very good article, imho, for psql: The one thing people will remember about mysql: it

Re: [HACKERS] [ANNOUNCE] Server downtime ...

2002-10-28 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
Yo! Would it be sensible not to use -announce for such things? These bits are not really interesting if I'm subscribed to -announce to keep on top of what's happening wrt to new releases and such things. (Yes, I'm also subscribed to a few postgres lists, but I only read them when I have spare tim

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle beats up on Open Source Database(s) ... and

2002-10-03 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:14, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just in case anyone enjoys these sorts of things :) It deals with the > whole .org TLD assignment ... > > http://forum.icann.org/org-eval/gartner-report I like this one: | Unlike many of the conventional commercial databases, Post

Re: [HACKERS] Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

2002-07-30 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
[Still no cc:s please] On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 14:28, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020730 08:01]: > > On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 13:46, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > I think one of the values of

Re: [HACKERS] Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

2002-07-30 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
[No cc: please. Especially if you're not commenting on anything I said] On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 13:46, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > Curt Sampson wrote: > > > > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance > > > > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even

Re: [HACKERS] Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

2002-07-30 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
[don't cc: me, please.] [please leave proper attribution in] On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:45, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it > > > ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system. [Inheritance] > >

Re: [HACKERS] Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

2002-07-30 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:30, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Curt Sampson wrote: > > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance > > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started > > to come up with anything. > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I d

Re: [HACKERS] Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE

2002-04-18 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 19:43, Tom Lane wrote: > Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OTOH, it is also important where the file is on disk. As seen from disk > > speed test graphs on http://www.tomshardware.com , the speed difference > > of sequential reads is 1.5 to 2.5 between inner and o

Re: [HACKERS] Platform comparison ...

2002-03-19 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 15:52, mlw wrote: > Dale Anderson wrote: > > > > Hello Group, > >I need your help, in putting together a list of comparisons, and good solid >technical reasons, to why to use PostgreSQL over using Microsoft SQL Server. Right >now, we are using PostgreSQL for a back-en

Re: [HACKERS] Platform comparison ...

2002-03-19 Thread Adrian &#x27;Dagurashibanipal&#x27; von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 15:52, mlw wrote: > Dale Anderson wrote: > > > > Hello Group, > >I need your help, in putting together a list of comparisons, and good solid technical reasons, to why to use PostgreSQL over using Microsoft SQL Server. Right now, we are using PostgreSQL for a back-end fo