Re: [GENERAL] How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

2001-09-14 Thread Gunnar Rønning
28 MB ram, don't know the speed of the disks. My laptop had no problem outpeforming the others by a factor of 2. On a big batchimport, I first tested on my laptop and it took like 15-20 minutes. The same import uses approximately 4 hours on our production box(the Solaris Sparc...) -

Re: [GENERAL] business perspective

2001-09-13 Thread Gunnar Rønning
oint of view. On the contrary, I visited the latter three of them in I've always liked sendmail.com, but I agree that the latter three are not well done. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/ --

Re: [GENERAL] Ridicolus Postgresql review

2001-09-11 Thread Gunnar Rønning
use of the term "stored procedure". To me it sounds like bad marketing, something we really shouldn't need in the open source world. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/ ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Ridicolus Postgresql review

2001-09-11 Thread Gunnar Rønning
tabase instances." "Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are multithreaded servers" But I agree, this author is a joke. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-09-05 Thread Gunnar Rønning
ns. In the end there is however no proof to claim that Java applications are faster than mod_perl applications. But having Java in the PgSQL backend would be nice for some, regardless of how well Java compares to Perl. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polyg

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-09-01 Thread Gunnar Rønning
o free more memory when it is running short, e.g. purge caches etc. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unre

Re: [GENERAL] url to free text search stategies in postgresql?

2001-08-30 Thread Gunnar Rønning
heck the openfts addon for postgresql at : http://openfts.sourceforge.net/ You can also test it in action by searching the PostgreSQL mailing lists at : http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/ cheers, Gunnar -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS,

Re: [GENERAL] middleware for PostgreSQL: sneak preview

2001-08-21 Thread Gunnar Rønning
ma and O/R layer based on a XML schema. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nom

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Re: Storing images in PG?

2001-08-16 Thread Gunnar Rønning
t turned out be messy to manage. E.g. If the disk is full when adding a image, rollback transaction. What if some ignorant user messes up the files ? Access control to the images, for that we need to go through the application anyway. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Se