Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Robert Treat wrote: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00288.php I remember after reading this post wondering whether Tom uses caffeinated soap... Reading that link, I'm reminded of the "tertiary storage" code that somebody (at UCB?) grafted onto the PostgreSQL server.

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-05 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:47 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00288.php > I remember after reading this post wondering whether Tom uses > caffeinated soap My RHCE course book is still at WC -- I read it on some days ;) -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE dev

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/4 Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00288.php >> I remember after reading this post wondering whether Tom uses caffeinated >> soap... >> > > well, some

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-04 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2008/12/4 Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00288.php > I remember after reading this post wondering whether Tom uses caffeinated > soap... > well, some ppl come up with ideas on wc-thone ;) What do you suggest they do there ... ;> -- G

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 01 December 2008 22:09:08 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which reminds me, of my favourite recent quote: > > "Think I'll go fix this while I'm watching the football game ..." > > We really need a favorite Tom Lane

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Merlin Moncure
2008/12/1 Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> which reminds me, of my favourite recent quote: >> "Think I'll go fix this while I'm watching the football game ..." > > We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thre

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Mark Roberts
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:40 +, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > but than you have to add cost of backing up and restoring labour time, > and that's going to be a massive latency - if you ask me. Of course it is, but really latency probably isn't the key issue - more that the data itself isn't los

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes: > "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly): > >> We don't support that, but you're free to try it, you just get to keep >> both pieces if it breaks. > > Hate to disillusion you, but that'

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Shane Ambler
Scott Marlowe wrote: What is a tape? Apparently something to do with backups. But I don't know what those are either... :-P From The Top Of My Head Dictionary - Backup Tapes noun Thin flimsy strip of plastic with a fine coating of iron oxide or similar compound which is then wound up arou

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:51 -0500, justin wrote: > On idiotic benchmark comparisons "Try to carry 500 people from Los > Angeles to Tokyo in an F-15. No? Try to win a dogfight in a 747. No? > But they both fly, so it must be useful to compare them... especially > on the basis of the most simplisti

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Picavet Vincent < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That seems to be kind of a joke, but I heard that the french CNES (spatial > agency) is doing some huge database replication between two sites thanks to > big trucks carrying the data once a month, because current netw

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Picavet Vincent
Hi, > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of > tapes hurtling down the highway." -Tanenbaum, Andrew S. > (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 83. > ISBN 0-13-349945-6. > > A modern chrysler town and country(1) has a cargo capacity of > 140.1 cubic feet

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-02 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Klint Gore írta: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:37 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> >> Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups: >> >> >> >> "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Klint Gore
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:37 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups: >> >> "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as the place burning to >> the ground,

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Apparently something to do with backups. But I don't know what those > are either... :-P > well, we're all waiting for built in replication ;) About the tapes, I love that Oracle emps bit :D Sure, they write too much jav

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:37 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups: >> >> "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as the place burning to >> the ground, or getting drowned by

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:37 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups: > > "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as the place burning to > the ground, or getting drowned by a break in the city reservoir that's a > couple hundred yards up the hill...Or

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Greg Smith
Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups: "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as the place burning to the ground, or getting drowned by a break in the city reservoir that's a couple hundred yards up the hill...Or maybe being burgled by Oracle employees who are specifically

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread justin
Tom Lane wrote: "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly): We don't support that, but you're free to try it, you just get to keep both pieces if it breaks. Hate to disillusion you, but that's a standard c

Re: [GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly): > We don't support that, but you're free to try it, you just get to keep > both pieces if it breaks. Hate to disillusion you, but that's a standard comment around Red Hat. I have no

[GENERAL] Favorite Tom Lane quotes

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which reminds me, of my favourite recent quote: > "Think I'll go fix this while I'm watching the football game ..." We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly): We don't support that, but y