Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > huh? all i do is './configure;make;make install' ... > > And what about CVS? Have you changed the CVSROOT since it was changed between 7.0.0 and 7.0.2? My nightly CVS mirrors have worked perfectly for a long time -- that is, once I got the CVSROOT change properly d

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-12 Thread eschmid+sic
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:40:27PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote: > > > > > > Is anyone else noticing this: Everytime this sort of thing comes up a > > > number of people invariably tell that they are using MySQL because it's > > > easier to install,

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Lamar Owen wrote: > And, if most people's experience with the RedHat 5.2 RPM's is what > they're going on, they need to get with the program -- RH 5.2 shipped > PostgreSQL *6.3.2* which is absolutely ancient. Although, at the time, > 6.3.2 was better than nothing. Hello Lam

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Lamar Owen
"Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote: > > Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Once I ran into a guy who said that the postgres rpm was broken in Red Hat > > 5.2. This was when I was first getting into postgres. I spent some time > > with it and realized that there were a number of things that

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Lamar Owen
Travis Bauer wrote: > > Once I ran into a guy who said that the postgres rpm was broken in Red Hat > 5.2. This was when I was first getting into postgres. I spent some time > with it and realized that there were a number of things that had to be > done before it would work: creating the postgre

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Prasanth A. Kumar
Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once I ran into a guy who said that the postgres rpm was broken in Red Hat > 5.2. This was when I was first getting into postgres. I spent some time > with it and realized that there were a number of things that had to be > done before it would work: c

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Travis Bauer
Once I ran into a guy who said that the postgres rpm was broken in Red Hat 5.2. This was when I was first getting into postgres. I spent some time with it and realized that there were a number of things that had to be done before it would work: creating the postgres users, initializing the datab

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:24:20AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Is anyone else noticing this: Everytime this sort of thing comes up a > number of people invariably tell that they are using MySQL because it's > easier to install, and that PostgreSQL is difficult ("a pain") to install. I've no

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > J.R. Belding wrote: > > > > #mysql has much more activity than does #postgresql, and since I prefer > > this method of communication over mailing-lists, I found this to be very > > much in MySQL's favor. > > > Hmm. So which server do most postgresql p

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > OK, thanks to the www.phpbuilder.com PostgreSQL/MySQL comparison, there > is another PostgreSQL/MySQL thread on shashdot.org. Looks interesting, > and of course, we are looking good too. Is anyone else noticing this: Everytime this sort of thing comes up a number of peop

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot discussion

2000-07-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
> P.S. My tolerance is negligible for anything that goes "beep" the way > mysql insists on doing when giving error messages. Like anyone needs > that when they're trying to figure out SQL syntax! Having to figure > out SQL syntax is pennance enough, surely ... MySQL beeps at you on an error. E

Re: [GENERAL] Slashdot...

1999-07-29 Thread Michael Simms
> > > Does anyone know what you have to do to get anything on slashdot? When > v6.5 and v6.5.1 was released, I posted something to Slashdot announcing > it, especially considering that the new MVCC code added by Vadim... To get anything on /. you need to have a very big stick and live close to

[GENERAL] Slashdot...

1999-07-29 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Does anyone know what you have to do to get anything on slashdot? When v6.5 and v6.5.1 was released, I posted something to Slashdot announcing it, especially considering that the new MVCC code added by Vadim... I just did a look around Slashdot, and the newest thing is a notice about v6.3, whic