Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Weslee Bilodeau
Russ Brown wrote: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ What does this mean for Sun's support of Postgres? Speaking from pure opinion here :) Oracle for example is buying out the little techs that MySQL relies on - BDB and InnoDB. The main company, MySQL AB was all that was

[GENERAL] Idle in transaction - Explination ..

2007-01-24 Thread Weslee Bilodeau
Where I work I'm in charge of more then a few PostgreSQL databases. I understand why idle in transaction is bad, however I have some developers who I'm having a real difficult time fully explaining to them why its bad. Oh, and by bad I mean they have transactions that are sitting idle for 6+

[GENERAL] Google Co-op

2006-10-24 Thread Weslee Bilodeau
Thought this might be useful for others. I'm commonly doing searches against the documentation, mailing lists, pgforge/gborg, etc. almost daily for PostgreSQL specific items. Google is nice for this, but you have to tweak your site: search to get just what you want. There is also the helpful