Re: [GENERAL] Embedded SQL inherently faster than others?

2004-05-05 Thread lnd
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Sent: 4. maĆ­ 2004 17:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [GENERAL] Embedded SQL inherently faster than others? > > > Hello, > > I've read when using embedded sql with an Oracle database,

Re: [GENERAL] PHP or JSP? That is the question.

2004-03-23 Thread lnd
It may be added to the Mark's points bellow that PHP has more libraries in the out of the box setup (like regular expressions) but PHP is interpreted (right?) while JSP is compiled: when I was making decision I have chosen JSP because of "compiled" criteria: I do like the idea to catch as many bugs

[GENERAL] Optimizing SQL: bind variables, prepared stms, histograms

2004-01-23 Thread lnd
A few question regarding PostgreSQL handling of queries: - Is each query submitted parsed and planned even if it is identical to a query submitted before? For example, 10 queries "select * from animals where id=:b1" with possibly different bind variable :b1 values will be fully processed (parsed

Re: [GENERAL] tablespaces a priority for 7.5?

2004-01-22 Thread lnd
> On Behalf Of Cott Lang > It seems to me that the lack of point-in-time recovery is a > much bigger roadblock against big users. :( Meaning incremental (hot)-backups? Or as protection against DROP/TRUNCATE/DELETE ALL TABLE/SCHEMA/DATABASE? With a WAL it should be doable in some 7.x version, al

[GENERAL] Ending transaction inside stored function

2004-01-21 Thread lnd
This was probably asked n-times but still: Is there any way to end (commit/rollback) a transaction inside a stored function? (The reason why it is good to commit/rollback in a stored procedure is that in C/S environment it is not uncommon to have a dead client holding locks(unfinished transactio

Re: [GENERAL] Postgress and MYSQL

2004-01-15 Thread lnd
I am currently evaluating all open source databases and possibly my fresh opinion will be of interest. I went over documentation and setup of Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSql and here is "perception"(to get better understanding one has to run thing for quite a while): As for "user friendly" image:

FW: [GENERAL] Postgres: VACUUM

2004-01-14 Thread lnd
> On heavily used databases (over 100,000 transactions an > hour), vacuum is > a killer That's about 27 tx/second - not so many, for some tasks at least. If VACUUM is rather a killer - are any plans from PostgreSQL to deal with that? Thank you in advance, Laimis P.S. it's notable that eve

[GENERAL] Postgres: VACUUM

2004-01-14 Thread lnd
Any comments on multi-versioning problem: As far as I understand from PG documentation, *CURRENTLY* VACUUM must be run regulary, otherwise: -Q. database will grow as fast as there are many DML going on it, won't it? -Q. transaction ID may wrap - no doubt here. -Q. Good news that VACUUM nowday