Re: [GENERAL] ssl connections with psql

2001-03-16 Thread Ron Chmara
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Christian Marschalek writes: well i ment over apache (with php) to a database :o) Apache encrypts the connection to the web user, PostgreSQL encrypts the connection to the database user, which in this case would be Apache. I.e.: Web user ---SSL--- Apache ---SSL---

Re: SV: [GENERAL] MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare

2000-12-29 Thread Ron Chmara
Jarmo Paavilainen wrote: Just curious, what kind of tables did you set up in MySQL? My Ehh... there are more than one kind... I did not know. Still with transactions on PostgreSQL (unsafe method?) MySQL was 2 times as fast as PostgreSQL. I will check this out, and return to this list with

Re: SV: [GENERAL] MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare

2000-12-29 Thread Ron Chmara
John Burski wrote: I really don't understand why people expect computers to do everything for them, the burden of using tools properly belongs to the user. Let the congregation say "Amen!" The counterpoints: (Complex tool) A car comes assembled, from the factory, tuned to accelerate, and

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL - pgsql

2000-10-21 Thread Ron Chmara
Andrew Evans wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:43:32AM -0700, Ron Chmara wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread, but I'm currently wranging a large set of migrations: postgreSQL- Oracle Would you mind explaining why your company's migrating a PostgreSQL database to Oracle? I'm hoping

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL article in LinuxWorld

2000-06-01 Thread Ron Chmara
Bruce Momjian wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:27:24PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-05/lw-05-database.html It mentions PostgreSQL. I was interviewed for the article. Nice article, but the author should get some facst straight.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql usage clip.

2000-05-29 Thread Ron Chmara
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote: MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data or data that doesn't change often. It doesn't scale very well at all, and for larger sites it really falls apart without anyy referential integrity or supprto for views. But beyond that, you

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql usage clip.

2000-05-29 Thread Ron Chmara
Lamar Owen wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote: Well, you have binaries for NT, but what about home users/developers on 95? 98? mySQL even does OS/2. Really. For home use/development, run either Linux or FreeBSD in another partition on your Win9x machine. Or, even use one

Re: [GENERAL] cgi with postgres

2000-01-16 Thread Ron Chmara
Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 2000-01-14, Alfred Perlstein mentioned: issue: how to secure cgi's that access postgres problem: passwords for postgres database are stored in plain text in scripts. (lets assume, perl, not a compiled language) points: make

Re: [GENERAL] cgi with postgres

2000-01-16 Thread Ron Chmara
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Ron Chmara [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000116 16:18] wrote: Snip_ Of security items. All these options don't take into account that perhaps you don't want people _on the same box_ Well, I assumed that web clients, using cgi, was the "Subject:", so I didn'

Re: [GENERAL] Intro/Win9X

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Chmara
Alexei Zakharov wrote: - Original Message - From: Huynh, Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 2:16 AM Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Intro/Win9X Well, is there NT version for evaluation? Well, there's no PostgreSQL evaluation. And what is

Re: PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future ofPostgreSQL)

1999-12-31 Thread Ron Chmara
Robert wrote: Hi, one of the important factors that contributed to the popularity and success of Apache, Perl, Tcl/Tk etc. was their platform independence. I'm big fan of Unix (and even bigger of Postgres ;-), but BeOS, MacOS X, even Win2000 all look quite interesting too and I don't want