Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Tim Allen
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of developers on top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad people in this community don't see the value of paying people to do ad

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:48, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > >> Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of > >> developers on top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad >

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of developers on top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad people in this community don't see the value of paying people to do adv

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread AgentM
On Aug 30, 2006, at 16:11 , Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of developers on top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad people in this community don't see the v

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of developers on > top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad people in this > community don't see the value of paying people to do advocacy related > developme

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 28 August 2006 17:04, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tony Caduto wrote: > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the > > article claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. > > The contest evaluated the solutio

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-29 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Scott Marlowe wrote: Was this all the same basic task implemented by different teams then? Yep. Can we see the code? hack it? I'm sure someone here could help out. Sure. I don't care about the contest, but it would be nice to be able to put out a version that could compete with MySQL's.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:34, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > I'm wondering if the source code is available. > > http://www.heise.de/ct/dbcontest/teilnehmer.shtml > > > My guess is it was full of MySQLisms and the postgresql "port" was > > written without indexes, no transaction

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:06, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Tony Caduto wrote: > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article > > claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. > > Seems a little fishy to me. >

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Scott Marlowe wrote: > I'm wondering if the source code is available. http://www.heise.de/ct/dbcontest/teilnehmer.shtml > My guess is it was full of MySQLisms and the postgresql "port" was > written without indexes, no transactions, and relied on running > dozens of queries that postgresql could

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Tony Caduto wrote: http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. Seems a little fishy to me. Now, this article really s**ks! First of all, the original contest was spec

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 16:02, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Tony Caduto wrote: > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article > > claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. > > Seems a little fishy to me. > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Ned Lilly
Chris Mair wrote: PS: this is, by the way a few months old, I'm wondering why MySQL does the press release only now... Because they don't have anything else to talk about, and are filling a vacuum? Cheers, NL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: H

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Brandon Aiken
ony Caduto Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:33 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article claims Post

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chris Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article > > claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. > > Seems a little fishy to me. > > There was just one submi

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Mair
> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article > claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. > Seems a little fishy to me. There was just one submission for PostgreSQL made by one guy who didn't manage to finish

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tony Caduto wrote: > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml > > Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the > article claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. The contest evaluated the solutions sent in by whoever wanted to participate. This doesn't prove any

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tony Caduto wrote: http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. Seems a little fishy to me. This has got to be a complete joke. Joshua D. Drake -- === The Postgr

[GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Tony Caduto
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/06/08/28/1738259.shtml Don't know the validity of this dvd order test they did, but the article claims Postgresql only did 120 OPM. Seems a little fishy to me. -- Tony Caduto AM Software Design http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com Home of PG Lightning Admin for