Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic nodes

2003-12-15 Thread John Isaacks
> > > > We did it with C++ and a memory mapped file for persistence. > > We had to use a 64bit cpu and 12G of RAM. > > Wow! That's only 300 bytes of RAM for every 10 digit phone number! We didn't use all of that, last time I checked it was using apx 4G of RAM, We had to plan for every possible U

Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic

2003-12-06 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
> Rick Gigger wrote: > > I was glad to see this topic come up on the list as I was > about to start asking about some of these issues myself. I > would like to discuss each of the methods I have researched > so far for doing trees in sql and see if anyone has some > experience or insite into

Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic

2003-12-05 Thread Rick Gigger
I was glad to see this topic come up on the list as I was about to start asking about some of these issues myself. I would like to discuss each of the methods I have researched so far for doing trees in sql and see if anyone has some experience or insite into the topic that could help me. That be

Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic nodes

2003-12-04 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
> Christian Fowler wrote: > > So it seems Materialized Path is my only option, however I am > concerned about LIKE performance for the right hand side of > the tree, where the path is 8digits x 6 levels = 48 chars. > Should I be concerned? I need split-second real-time > performance, and can't

Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic

2003-12-04 Thread Joe Conway
Alvar Freude wrote: I want to change this to bytea to avoid base255 encoding and the character set problems, but there are still some Bugs with bytea and the like operator. :-( Be patient, I'm working on it. Apparently you are the first person to ever really try to *use* the like operator for byt

Re: [GENERAL] Making a tree with "millions and millions" of dynamic

2003-12-04 Thread Alvar Freude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, - -- "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an alternative which may not perform very well but may > still be better than risking a full table-scan... I use exactly this method in a forum software, and it performs VERY