Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Thought some people might find this article interesting. http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php The only interesting thing I noticed is how fast it crashes my Netscape-4.76 browser ;) Use Konqueror :-) I can't tell if the results are biased, but it puts PostgreSQL way ahead of MySQL

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: Thought some people might find this article interesting. http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php The only interesting thing I noticed is how fast it crashes my Netscape-4.76 browser ;) Yours too? I turned off Java/Javascript to get it to

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Interesting Atricle

2001-06-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: Yours too? I turned off Java/Javascript to get it to load and I am on BSD/OS. Strange it so univerally crashes. Really odd. I have Java/Javascript with FreeBSD and Netscape 4.76 and read it just fine. One difference tho probably, I keep

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
[ continuing a discussion from last August ] Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian writes: My assumption is that we never came up with any solution to this, right? It stopped when we noticed that proper support for non-finite values will break indexing, because the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking about making NaN equivalent to NULL. Mumble ... in the thread last August, someone made the point that SQL's idea of NULL (unknown value) is not really the same as a NaN (I know that this is not a well-defined number). Even though