Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion Message-id: <493823b5.1030...@hogranch.com>

2008-12-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
John R Pierce wrote: chris wood wrote: At a detailed level (which is NOT the direction I want this thread to go) I do not agree with your statement that my proposal has no “hope of ACID compliance or transactional integrity”. When the “slices” are stored back to the cloud, this is the equivale

Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion Message-id: <493823b5.1030...@hogranch.com>

2008-12-06 Thread John R Pierce
chris wood wrote: At a detailed level (which is NOT the direction I want this thread to go) I do not agree with your statement that my proposal has no “hope of ACID compliance or transactional integrity”. When the “slices” are stored back to the cloud, this is the equivalent of a commit and the

Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion Message-id: <493823b5.1030...@hogranch.com>

2008-12-06 Thread chris wood
> yet you propose dumbing down the database even farther, without any hope of ACID > compliance, without any transactional integrity, indeed, without even really being > relational ? > at least, thats what I get from my first read of it. OK so you are a theorist/perfectionist, I can respect

Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion

2008-12-04 Thread John R Pierce
chris wood wrote: Apology in advance, this is not a bug, just wanted to ask if the following issue is being considered: Cloud computing seems to be quickly gaining ground as a deployment technology for web apps. From what I see this has not been good for Postgres. Google App Engine cannot

[BUGS] question/suggestion

2008-12-04 Thread chris wood
Apology in advance, this is not a bug, just wanted to ask if the following issue is being considered: Cloud computing seems to be quickly gaining ground as a deployment technology for web apps. >From what I see this has not been good for Postgres. Google App Engine cannot use Postgres and A