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, and that

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

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 people hang

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

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

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:

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 postgres

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 had to be

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 Lamar,

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. Ewe.

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 people