: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle
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
does not try very
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
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
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Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Some more information, some numbers from mysql:
http://www.mysql.com/information/features.html
http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks-old.html
regards
shantanu
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:38:34 +0530, Raj Mathur [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:
Geocrawler
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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 Intresting thing about
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 open
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 Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:13, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote:
The strategy of employing
Gurpreet
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We have a customer application on oracle.
They want
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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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
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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 make
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