Re: 'a' == 'a ' (Was: RE: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buysInnobase)

2005-10-20 Thread Rick Morris
Richard Huxton wrote: Dann Corbit wrote: I can see plenty of harm and absolutely no return. We are talking about blank padding before comparison. Do you really want 'Danniel ' considered distinct from 'Danniel ' in a comparison? In real life, what does that buy you? 100% YES! If two va

Re: [GENERAL] Anybody using PostGIS?

2005-10-17 Thread Rick Morris
CSN wrote: I've been meaning to try out PostGIS and see what it is capable of. Is anybody using it? Do you have accompanying URLs? Yes: www.anisite.com (see http://www.anisite.com/state.php?state=FL). I am using it to serve dynamic layers for UMN Mapserver. Setup was fairly easy, and it chugs

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-09 Thread Rick Morris
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Stupid question, but what does MySQL bring to the equation? MySQL brings to the table an impressive AI interface that knows what you really meant to do and thus does away with those pesky error messages. After all, who wants to be told that -00-00 is not a date, or

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-09 Thread Rick Morris
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Uwe C. Schroeder") writes: On Saturday 08 October 2005 21:07, Chris Browne wrote: 2. The code base was pretty old, pretty creaky, and has a *really* heavy learning curve. It was pretty famous as being *really* difficult to build; throw tog