RE: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Mickol
To all who are fanning the flames -- this is not the place for prolonged discussion on operating systems (nor sarcasm and zealous diatribes), is it? -- please take it offline (please?) thanks in advance tjm "Imensis laboribus comparatur emditio: ac post moriendum est." -Original Message---

RE: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Mickol
As long as it's a robust, managable, and open arhcitecture, I'm generally agnostic as to technoliogies. That said, my red hat experience: ran multiple java application servers and multiple oracle 8i db instances on red hat 6.n (medium size 100-200 tables) with a moderately high computationally a

RE: [GENERAL] Speed...

2001-06-22 Thread Tim Mickol
some quick (and I might add disappointing) benchmark results... must tune.. . will be performing -and publishing results- of more comprehensive and rigorous suite on: - 2x700MHz cpu - 4GB RAM - 6x35GB 10k rpm RAID 5 system - linux 2.4.4 - postgres 7.1.2-2 I've perf-tuned many an oracle db -

[GENERAL] PGDG?

2001-06-09 Thread Tim Mickol
what does the element PGDG in an rpm filename, e.g., postgresql-test-7.1.2-2.PGDG.i386.rpm, allude to? PostGreSQL Development Group? What does it mean? I'm trying to get a compete collection of the 7.1.2 binary rpms but have discovered many of the ftp mirrors aren't synched yet. Also many of th