Re: [GENERAL] embedded postgresql + C++ IDE

2003-12-04 Thread Randolf Richardson
http://www.openwatcom.org/ It's a C++ compiler, linker, etc., that's now open source and free. It used to be very expensive and has been around for a long time, but previously known as just "Watcom" before it was upgraded to open source. -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-28 Thread Randolf Richardson
ut the various side-effects that you see are, by and large, > quite intentional, even the ones that don't play into scenarios of > Richard Stallman as "Evil Overlord." The big question is this: Has the GPL been violated by MySQL? -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc., was Re: PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-28 Thread Randolf Richardson
A very interesting idea, but my feeling is that pure PERL is best suited for dealing with flat text files. > Next question-- any ideas how one could generate something like MySQL's > heap tables (maybe in shared memory?) within PostgreSQL? I have no idea. Anyo

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread Randolf Richardson
> re-check your DB structure, check all your querys using EXPLAIN... maybe > new indexes should be added etc. -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Please do not eMail me directly when responding to my postings in the newsgroups. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Where is Postgesql ? - MYSQL SURPRISES WITH MAXDB /

2003-11-26 Thread Randolf Richardson
destructive? Oh wait, I see your point now that I consider who's in power at the White House. -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Please do not eMail me directly when responding to my postings in the newsgroups. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-24 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
7;s too bad, because it just won't be able to meet the performance of well-programmed mail servers such as Mercury (uses Novell Directory Services for the user database) or qmail (can use PostgreSQL, and other database engines, for the user database). -- Randolf Richardson

Re: [GENERAL] Export CSV from psql

2003-11-24 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
eet applications? If not, please feel free to post both .TAB and .TXT files in a reply here in this newsgroup and I'll try to load them up in Quattro Pro and post the results (and maybe others who use different spreadsheet applications could do the same if they have a little extra ti

Re: [GENERAL] Where is Postgesql ? - MYSQL SURPRISES WITH MAXDB /

2003-11-24 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
se Table Spaces instead of a group of individual files in the "base" directory (as it does now), then I believe it would add a whole new dimension to performance tuning (in addition to other things such as table, index, etc., size management). -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [GENERAL] SCSI vs. IDE performance test

2003-11-24 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
is caching algorithm is also beneficial, but it really shines with SCSI drives. In all my experience, SCSI drives are much faster and far more reliable than IDE drives. I've always assumed that it boils down to "you get what you pay for." -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-24 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
ry, you could be charging them for some very expensive courier services, if for which they don't pay then you won't deliver. =) -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.8x.ca/ This m

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
mation you were provided. Making insults to discredit someone because you don't like their official response due to their job title is a childish tactic that doesn't help anyone. -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vanc

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
, simply isn't suitable for large scale applications (and even some small ones that will use a table in many different ways). -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.8x.ca/ This message

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
roblem very quickly as soon as multiple users attempt to send large (greater than 10 MBs) file attachments -- perhaps JDBC is part of the problem, but in the Apache James error logs there is indication of MySQL connectivity problems (also during busy times on systems sending approximately 500,000 eMai

Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
etWare 6 it shut down gracefully. I don't see why this would be different on other Operating Systems since the code base is essentially the same (isn't it?). -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Can

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
or other languages. -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.8x.ca/ This message originated from within a secure, reliable, high-performance network ... a Novell NetWare network. ---

Re: [GENERAL] Picture with Postgres and Delphi

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
s frequent) from a web server such as Apache HTTPd accessing the file system directly vs. a CGI script/program sending it dynamically through Apache HTTPd? -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www

Re: [GENERAL] CASE tools

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
lti-platform ones. I like this one a lot -- it's written in Java and it's open source: Druid, The Database Manager http://sourceforge.net/projects/druid/ -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle and regular expressions ???

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
> New features in version 10g (commin soon) : > > SQL Regular Expressions > ... Hmm, I wonder if they've been influenced by PostgreSQL? ;-D -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca