Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-05-03 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 04/29/2011 09:50 PM, James Mansion wrote: Bit of an issue with the codepage for the single quotes here but it should hold. Someone has too much free time. We know these and have fixed them (one of the first patches after 3.1.3 iirc). server/server.cpp:223: error: ignoring return value

Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-04-29 Thread James Mansion
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: You also recommend windows, though ;) Only over Linux. I'd rather use Solaris for real stuff. ;-) ZFS seems to manage to flush drive caches too. The whole state of affairs as far as what fsync should actually persist before it returns is very sad. Note sure why

Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-04-28 Thread James Mansion
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: This is all before the server starts. Have a look at the postgres log file. You've clearly found a bug, in that aox doesn't say why it won't start. I've noticed that: In the Postgres constructor, called from newHandle, the return code from connect is ignored.

Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-04-25 Thread Mykel
On 11-04-24 07:09, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: On 04/23/2011 03:21 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: As far as I can tell, aox doesn't care if you have PostgreSQL 8.3, 8.4 or 9.0. True, but some pg searches grew faster. I'd take 8.4 over 8.3. Never looked at 9.0, but I imagine it's a fine

Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-04-25 Thread Axel Rau
On 25.04.2011, at 09:27, my...@mware.ca wrote: I'm thinking about upgrading mine to 9, but I'm also realizing I'm looking at a multi-hour if not multi-day import window... My pg dumps are ~20GB at this point. Probably smaller than some others', but still a challenge. Thoughts?

Re: What to upgrade to?

2011-04-24 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 04/23/2011 03:21 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: As far as I can tell, aox doesn't care if you have PostgreSQL 8.3, 8.4 or 9.0. True, but some pg searches grew faster. I'd take 8.4 over 8.3. Never looked at 9.0, but I imagine it's a fine reliable database. I'd upgrade aox first, then

What to upgrade to?

2011-04-23 Thread James Mansion
For a variety or reasons, principally: - Thunderbird 3 seemed to cause all sorts of aggro - I'm very lazy I have: - Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (on Win7, mostly) IMAP - archiveopteryx 2.13 - Ubuntu Hardy - PostgreSQL 8.3 Some other family users have MS Mail and use a mixture of POP3 and IMAP. And a