Re: [GENERAL] What is the average salary for Postgresql DBA

2011-05-19 Thread Rob Wultsch
Sr DBA:80-120k (several years DBA experience plus extensive knowledge) Anyone feel like correcting me? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-08-02 Thread Rob Wultsch
nstance PG will likely have a significant advantage over Innodb for that reason. *Pretend to be a developer and install MySQL on windows. You will probably not get a MyISAM default. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote: >> - Innodb : The primary transactional storage engine for MySQL. It does >> not have all the features of PG (like check contraints), but it has >> some featu

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
n place. > > Things may be a LOT better by now.  I'd certainly hope so.  But I have > no real confidence or evidence of such an internal change. Sun/Oracle has improved things a lot. Long standing bugs are being closed and it feels like more care is being put into releases. -- Ro

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote: >> MySQL has several full text search solutions. The built in MyISAM >> solution is the best known, but there is also an engine for using >> sphinx. >> >> ...

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jim Montgomery wrote: > Remove me from your email chain. > Remove yourself. -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:22 AM, John Gage wrote: > There are features, are there not, that Postgres has that MySQL does not > have? > > I refer in particular to things like tsvector. > > Am I mistaken in this? > > John > > > On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Rob Wults

Re: [GENERAL] Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

2010-06-24 Thread Rob Wultsch
t integer value: '' for column 'i' at row 1 If it were me I would generally work with whichever system I knew better unless there was a specific reason to migrate. Both systems will be a bit of a pain as they are both complicated. C'est la vie. All else being equal I would

Re: [GENERAL] Completely wrong row estimates

2010-04-04 Thread Rob Wultsch
gres only thinks matches 766. > > Is this a bug in postgres? > > > -- > mvh Björn > You probably want to run "analyze" or "vacuum analyze" to update statistics. Do you have auto vacuum setup? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] What is Cost 100 in stored procedure

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Wultsch
nguage and internal functions, and 100 units for functions in all other languages. Larger values cause the planner to try to avoid evaluating the function more often than necessary. " http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createfunction.html -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-19 Thread Rob Wultsch
o the HAVING. This is often done without a specific GROUP BY. The MySQL optimizer does not deal with this well. When would it make logical sense to have a HAVING clause that deals with a column that is not inside a aggregating function? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com

Re: [GENERAL] Annoying Reply-To

2008-10-23 Thread Rob Wultsch
a reply (not reply all --- remove > original author) should go back to the list where I am subscribed at, in in > my opinion the source is the list aswell (that's why I am getting it in the > first place). > I know of at least one other list that is similar: MySQL. And I brought it up a year ago with no eventual change: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/209593 After a while you just get used to hitting reply all when you mean to reply all. I now prefer (though not strongly) this setting. -- Rob Wultsch

Re: [GENERAL] Optimzing Postgresql

2008-05-25 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ram Ravichandran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..."High Performance MySQL" ... BTW: The current version of this book is (somewhat) out of date, and the next version will be released in next few months. -- Rob Wultsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sen

Re: [GENERAL] How to modify ENUM datatypes?

2008-05-02 Thread Rob Wultsch
rces or interest to maintain an ever-increasing > number of back branches. > > regards, tom lane Not really Postgres's problem, but for whatever its worth if I do the following on Debian stable: $apt-get install postgresql I get 7.4 . When I install Debi

Re: [GENERAL] How to modify ENUM datatypes?

2008-04-23 Thread Rob Wultsch
h female phenotype > > transgender with male phenotype > > > > and you should be set from current medical science's point > > of view ;-) > > > > The standard is unknown, male, female, and n/a. Both unknown and n/a sounds like NULL to me. -- Rob Wult

Re: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Wultsch
Postgres environment. -- Rob Wultsch -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general