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

2003-12-01 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Hiya, As I've mentioned before, we happilly run and offer PostgreSQL and MySQL hosting to our customers.  We also offer shell access which simplifies things a little.  I'm a little confused as to why people find having auth control from pg_hba.conf a problem?  We never use the same passwords o

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Advocacy, Thoughts and Comments

2003-11-29 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Further to this post, what might actually work is to convince O' Reilly (since they have PostgreSQL book/s) to do some articles like they have for PG, but making full use of the PG database. For instance, building a simple data-warehouse using PG. Articles that show off an OSS product/project

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql on file system EXT2 or EXT3

2003-11-29 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
I'm in agreement with Joshua in some aspects of his reply but not others. I use Reiserfs on many production servers and have done so for a couple of years. I have needed perform one repair only on the filesystem, which was automated with the tools provided. Reiser is still beta, in the same

Re: [GENERAL] PGSQL on shared hosting

2003-11-21 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Hiya, Without wanting to get flamed for gratuitous advertising, my company offers shared hosting with PostgreSQL 7.4. I'll leave it at that. Apologies in advance to anyone I've offended. Regards Tony. Francois Suter wrote: i am a newbie to the pgsql world, so pls bear with a possibly stupid

Re: [GENERAL] Recomended FS

2003-10-20 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Hi Ben, You asked so here's my take on the subject, but I've gotta say that you can't go far wrong with reading Bruce Momjian's paper at: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/hw_performance/ But with that aside. 1. Unless your doing major league DB stuff, the FS should make more than m

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

2003-10-08 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Hi John, I've been thinking about this for sometime, since a couple of my associates are looking to build a commercial app based around JDBC. The difficulty came when we looked at redistributing a MySQL JDBC driver .jar with the application. From what I can tell, since you distribute the JDB

[GENERAL] Replication Bundled with Main Source.

2003-10-08 Thread Unihost Web Hosting
Hi All, Firstly I've gotta say that I think that PostgreSQL is one of the finest OSS projects out there and full credit to all of those involved. After talking to a couple of other consultants who use Pg, and fully encourage their clients in the enterprise that Pg is a perfectly viable soluti