Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-20 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > or is the real > problem that it'd take a whole lot of both OO-fu and Postgres-fu? > If so, can we find someone with the former nature to collaborate with? OO-Fu, mostly. I've already posted to the DBA project on OOo. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco -

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:04:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > libreadline is not a problem because you can distribute postgresql >> > compiled with readline and comply with all licences involved >> > simultaneously. It doesn't work with openssl because the licence >> > requires things that

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Then again PGfoundry is great to keep development centered, but finding and building a new package is not really a one-liner, and if you're unlucky you might get alpha-quality code installed. :) Mammoth PostgreSQL was designed to fill this role. It is an FOSS project (www.mammothpostgresql.or

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I really think that PostgreSQL could benefit from a packaged solution > that incorporates a lot of the contrib stuff (tsearch2, maybe even some > replication setups ..). I really like the approach that PostgreSQL is a > clea

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 06:01:19PM -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On 5/19/06, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And with that, I am going to sit in a lawn chair and watch the bonfire. > > This is one of the finest examples of unfocused discussions I've ever > seen on -hackers... while

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
> > My question is whether psql using libreadline.so has to be GPL, meaning > the psql source has to be included in a binary distribution. If I understand what I have been told by lawyers, here's what using a GPL, and NOT LGPL, library means: According to RMS, the definition of a derivitive work

Re: [HACKERS] String Similarity

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
> What I was hoping someone had was a function that could find the substring > runs in something less than a strlen1*strlen2 number of operations and a > numerically sane way of representing the similarity or difference. Acually, it is more like strlen1*strlen2*N, where N is the number of valid r

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/20/06, Lukas Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that direction? I just think that whatever highly pack

Re: [HACKERS] String Similarity

2006-05-20 Thread Mark Woodward
> Get pg_trgm http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/ReadmeTrgm > It doesn't depends on language. That's an interesting approach. This is what I got: apps$ ./stratest "pink floyd dark side of the moon money" "dark side of the moon pink floyd" Match: dark side of the moon Match: pink flo

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: ... >> apt-get install postgresql-8.1 postgresql-contrib-8.1 >> >> Voila! Tsearch installed at your fingertips. What else were you >> expecting? > > I expect this to be one package and I expect this to be what is pushed > as the default package on all platforms. If someone

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that directi

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: > The improvements to the installer are great, but there simply needs to > be a packaged solution that adds more of the things people are very > likely to use. From my understanding Bizgres goes in that direction? I > just think that w

Re: [HACKERS] [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

2006-05-20 Thread Lukas Smith
Hi, I really think that PostgreSQL could benefit from a packaged solution that incorporates a lot of the contrib stuff (tsearch2, maybe even some replication setups ..). I really like the approach that PostgreSQL is a clean yet highly extensible base from which other people can build their sp