[GENERAL] The best agile methods and open source books

2009-09-19 Thread Dirk Riehle
Hi, I'm currently preparing a lecture on "agile and open source software development"; with the help of friends I created a list of "best" books on the topic. I'd like to hear your opinion. Which books do you know? Which are actually any good? Please take the survey here: http://www.surveymonke

[GENERAL] Open Positions in Ph.D. Studies in Open Source at the University of Erlangen, Germany

2009-09-19 Thread Dirk Riehle
au.de, the open source research group's home page at http://osr.cs.fau.de, or the blog of Dirk Riehle at http://dirkriehle.com. To apply, please send an email with your interests and a C.V. to the group's leader, Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, at dirk.rie...@cs.fau.de. Informal inquires are we

Re: [GENERAL] Weird disk/table space consumption problem

2009-07-11 Thread Dirk Riehle
Tom Lane wrote: Dirk Riehle writes: For one analysis, I created a table of about 15 columns, and then ran an insert with a subselect on the table, where the select was drawing from three other tables, merging over ids. One of the other tables has about 60M rows. The insert ran for about

Re: [GENERAL] Weird disk/table space consumption problem

2009-07-11 Thread Dirk Riehle
Scott Marlowe wrote: So, I wonder what went wrong? Any explanation? Soft raid no good for PostgreSQL? I've no such problems caused by modern linux software RAID (md). It's no surprise pgsql didn't free up the space, as it was all likely dead tuples at that point. Are you sure you didn't hav

[GENERAL] Weird disk/table space consumption problem

2009-07-11 Thread Dirk Riehle
Hi, I had some weird disk space consumption problem. I do (non-mission-critical) data crunching using large data sets. For one analysis, I created a table of about 15 columns, and then ran an insert with a subselect on the table, where the select was drawing from three other tables, merging

[GENERAL] Short CVS question, history

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk Riehle
Hi, I have a short CVS question please: How do I go from a particular file revision like pgsql/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c.1.3 to the complete commit? I.e. I would like to navigate back from this particular file to the commit and see all the other files that were touched by th

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Dirk Riehle
The main company, MySQL AB was all that was left to effectively give them control of MySQL. PostgreSQL obviously doesn't have this risk - No one company holds that much power, and even the -core team is split between the various supporting companies around PostgreSQL. Is this up to date?