Did some research over the weekend.
First of all some good news:
Heavy duty sites that run Postgres include;
A) RubyForge (rubyforge.org). They have 300K records. Not too many but
moderately high.
B) .org domain.
c) sourceforge used to run postgres. AFAIK, they moved out because IBM made
that a co
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Correct!
To be more precise:
The standard form of VACUUM is best used with the goal of maintaining a
fairly level steady-state usage of disk space. The standard form finds old
tuples and makes their space available for re-use within the table, but it
do
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Ambar> [snip].
Ambar> So does VACUUM require the database to be taken offline? Or
Ambar> was this an issue with older versions of pgSQL? As I don't
Ambar> see the Geocrawler under
> The standard form of VACUUM is best used with the goal of maintaining a
fairly level steady-state usage of disk space. The standard form finds old
tuples and makes their space available for re-use within the table, but it
does not try very hard to shorten the table file and return disk space to
t
: Raj Mathur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please check
http://formation.espacecourbe.com/choosing/dbc_crashMe20001011.html
and some comparision reports
http://formation.espacecourbe.com/choosing/
Regards
shantanu
On 16 Oct 2003 12:15:25 +0530, Tarun Dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:35, Ambar Roy wrote:
> Geocrawle
Some more information, some numbers from mysql:
http://www.mysql.com/information/features.html
http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks-old.html
regards
shantanu
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>> > Surely NO...so we would certainly be interested to know some
>> of your >
Ambar> "Biggest Internet Sites running on open source".
>> Geocrawler use Postgres.
Ambar> Intres
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:35, Ambar Roy wrote:
> > Geocrawler use Postgres.
> Intresting thing about Geocrawler & AudioGalaxy using postgres was that both
> of these sites seemed to go offline for daily maintainence during the middle
> of the day here in India. Both the sites ran Postgresql, and wer
> > Surely NO...so we would certainly be interested to know some of your >
"Biggest Internet Sites running on open source".
>
> Geocrawler use Postgres.
Intresting thing about Geocrawler & AudioGalaxy using postgres was that both
of these sites seemed to go offline for daily maintainence during the
I do'nt know for sure but as far as my memory goes.
sf.net started of with postgres and then moved on to use DB2 from IBM
because of scaling issues with postgres.
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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:58, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote:
> Hi Tarun,
>Let me make it very cleat that I don't have any hunch in open source
> and thats why I am in the list but my dear, facts are facts.
> (Is Amazon.com running on open source (database)? Is eBay.com running on op
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On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:13, Gurpreet Sing
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:13, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote:
> The strategy of employing dual servers to divide your data
> is a short term arrangement. Lot of performance related issues *will* crop up in the
> future and lot of fingers would be raised on you.
No such things would happen if the
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Gupreet,
It is a real application. It's an OLTP appliaction for banking and
credit card industry. From a concurrency
small web services
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We have a cu
hdeva
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Hi Tarun,
I think you are trying to compare a Apple with a Water Melon.
But any case if you are really facing a real time scenario, please
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We have a customer application on oracle.
They want to crate a "small footprint" version of it to be sold at a cheaper
price.
We have a customer application on oracle.
They want to crate a "small footprint" version of it to be sold at a cheaper
price.
I want to suggest that Postgres could be the right choice of database for
that as it is close to oracle in its sql syntax and hence porting should be
simpler.
Can anybody
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