Consider this:
The stock market going crazy over Linux stocks
Interbase users are considering moving en-mass to PostgreSQL
Publishers are crawling all over each other to publish a PostgreSQL book
With these signs, it is possible we may be _very_ popular in the near
future
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Consider this:
>
> The stock market going crazy over Linux stocks
> Interbase users are considering moving en-mass to PostgreSQL
> Publishers are crawling all over each other to publish a PostgreSQL book
>
> With these signs, it is p
> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Consider this:
> >
> > The stock market going crazy over Linux stocks
> > Interbase users are considering moving en-mass to PostgreSQL
> > Publishers are crawling all over each other to publish a PostgreSQL book
These three items rep
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The worst thing we could do is to intentionally try to stay less than
>> popular. There's a reason Linux is taking off and *BSD isn't really, and
>> it's not technology. (Sorry, Marc.)
>
>I think everyone can
Hi Folks,
Does anyone out there know of a DBI driver for Postgres for Perl? I
searched CPAN and didn't see one. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong
spot...
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> >We certainly have the power to add a license of our own. BSDI has done
> >this, as well as many other companies. I don't want to wait until
> >things get very busy and then try to address these issues. We may
> >decide we don't want to do anything, but I would like to decide that
> >now.
>
Peter Berghold wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Does anyone out there know of a DBI driver for Postgres for Perl? I
> searched CPAN and didn't see one. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong
> spot...
It's there...DBD::Pg, by E. Mergl. Works well.
Cheers,
Ed Loehr
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> My big question is, what new challenges will we face as we become more
> popular?
The 3 greatest technical/engineering challenges: 1) system reliability
& recoverability, 2) system reliability & recoverability, and 3) system reliability
and recoverability. The masses won
See DBD-Pg under http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/
Ed Loehr wrote:
> Peter Berghold wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> > Does anyone out there know of a DBI driver for Postgres for Perl? I
> > searched CPAN and didn't see one. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong
> > spot...
>
> It's there...DBD::Pg, b
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > My big question is, what new challenges will we face as we
> > become more > popular?
> >
> > The 3 greatest technical/engineering challenges: 1) system
> > reliability & recoverability, 2) system reliability & recoverability,
> > and 3) sy
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > My big question is, what new challenges will we face as we
> become more > popular?
>
> The 3 greatest technical/engineering challenges: 1) system
> reliability & recoverability, 2) system reliability & recoverability,
> and 3) system reliability and recoverability.
> > > system that won't stay up consistently is approaching worthlessness
> > > for mission-critical 24x7 applications. And if the masses
> > > leave because of system reliability problems, you can be very,
> > > very certain about what they will tell their friends and coworkers.
> >
> > And we
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> My big question is, what new challenges will we face as
> we become more popular?
Plug-in Oracle 7 compatibility.
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > My big question is, what new challenges will we face as
> > we become more popular?
>
> Plug-in Oracle 7 compatibility.
I believe we are adding Oracle compatibility as possible. We are
working on write-ahead log, long tuples, foreign keys,
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > My big question is, what new challenges will we face as
> > > we become more popular?
> >
> > Plug-in Oracle 7 compatibility.
>
> I believe we are adding Oracle compatibility as possible. We are
> wor
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We don't have roll-forward logging until 7.1, and require vacuum
> regularly. Other than that, I don't know of any major issues.
> Reliability has always been of primary importance. We wouldn't be where
> we are today without reliability.
Here's an idea: How about a web
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Clark C. Evans wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > My big question is, what new challenges will we face as
> > we become more popular?
>
> Plug-in Oracle 7 compatibility.
I know we have (and have for awhile) a good deal of Oracle
compatibility...
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Ed Loehr wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > We don't have roll-forward logging until 7.1, and require vacuum
> > regularly. Other than that, I don't know of any major issues.
> > Reliability has always been of primary importance. We wouldn't be where
> > we are today wit
> I don't think the *BSD's have intentionally tried any such thing. You
> could possibly have picked up these vibes from certain members of the Open
> BSD camp, but I wouldn't extend them to encompass the *BSD community at
> large. (And I wonder if I should comment about how Linux people are
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