Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Marcel Kornacker did implement concurrency for GiST - I confirmed as much with Joe Hellerstein (his advisor). I know there's a paper he wrote with C.Mohan on it. I don't know which version his implementation was for. The 7.4 GiST docs have a link to Kornacker's thesis that details how to implement

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:47, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> Robert Treat wrote: > > >> While some form of bitmapped indexing would be cool, other ideas might > >> be to implement different buffer manager strategies. I

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:16, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> allowing indexes for searching nulls, or adding > Robert> concurrency to GIST, or allowing non btree indexes to > > Oh this has come up before on -hackers and

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> "Robert" == Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> allowing indexes for searching nulls, or adding Robert> concurrency to GIST, or allowing non btree indexes to Oh this has come up before on -hackers and I've been meaning to chime in. Marcel Kornacker did implement concu

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Robert Treat wrote: >> While some form of bitmapped indexing would be cool, other ideas might >> be to implement different buffer manager strategies. I was impressed by >> how quickly Jan was able to implement ARC over

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:31, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike> How about extra credit for PITR? > > One step at a time :-) > > Actually a big problem is figuring out new pieces for the > projects. Most of the items in the TODO list

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Mascari
Robert Treat wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:31, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: >> >>One step at a time :-) >> >>Actually a big problem is figuring out new pieces for the >>projects. Most of the items in the TODO list are way too much for a >>class project - we gave 'em 3 weeks to make the Hash Gr

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-19 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> "Greg" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> I think you're talking about situations like "where x = ? or Greg> y = ?" or "where x = ? and y = ?" Greg> When both `x' and `y' are indexed. It's possible to do the Greg> index lookup, gather a list of tid pointers in

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Stark
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:31:03PM -0800, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > > Another thing I toyed with was having an implementation of a > > Tid-List-Fetch .. sorting a TID-list from an index and fetching the > > records of the relation off the sorted

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:31:03PM -0800, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > Another thing I toyed with was having an implementation of a > Tid-List-Fetch .. sorting a TID-list from an index and fetching the > records of the relation off the sorted list for better IO > performance. AFAICT something li

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> "Chris" == Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! At UC >> Berkeley, we have our undergraduate students hack on the >> internals of PostgreSQL in the upper-division "Introduction to >> Database Systems"

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! At UC Berkeley, we have our undergraduate students hack on the internals of PostgreSQL in the upper-division "Introduction to Database Systems" class .. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/ Hi Sailesh, You know what would be kind of coo

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Robert Treat wrote: >> http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/hwk0/index.html >> >> Are these screenshots of PgAccess on Mac OSX? Yup .. that's from Joe Hellerstein, who was the instructor in the Spring when I was a

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Mascari
Robert Treat wrote: > http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/hwk0/index.html > > Are these screenshots of PgAccess on Mac OSX? It's pretty sad that "Mike Stonebraker" only has a salary of $15,000. ;-) I also thought this SIGMOD article was a nice read: http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issue

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Robert Treat
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/hwk0/index.html Are these screenshots of PgAccess on Mac OSX? Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:07, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! > > At UC Berkeley, we have our undergraduate students hack

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! At UC Berkeley, we have our undergraduate students hack on the internals of PostgreSQL in the upper-division "Introduction to Database Systems" class .. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/ The "official" platform is Solaris x86 - tha

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the near future???

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
I think they are actually trying to pull it out of the dumpster, whether from desperation of marketing acumen no one knows. I think they've gone back to the 'if we can get them hooked on a dual opteron box, we can sell them some massive E1' or whatever. On Nov 18, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Chris

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the near future???

2003-11-18 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoper Smiga) transmitted: > Does anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in > the near future. What is the decission to develop on this platform > since Sun is pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever. I

Re: [HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

2003-11-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Christoper Smiga wrote: > All: > > Does anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the > near future. What is the decission to develop on this platform since Sun > is pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever. Doesn't it work? I've run on Solaris 8 x86 extensi

[HACKERS] Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the near future???

2003-11-18 Thread Christoper Smiga
All: Does anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the near future. What is the decission to develop on this platform since Sun is pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever. -- Christopher Smiga System Engineer (Sun SCSA) N2 Broadband Network Operations Phone: 888-671-1268 (NO