Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-30 Thread GH
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:58:29AM -0800, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > At 09:44 AM 11/21/00 -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: > > >What about the php module? Does it take advantage of API? > > I don't know. If not, though, there wouldn't be much point in using > AOLserver, since the simple and effic

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-30 Thread Don Baccus
At 07:50 PM 11/30/00 -0600, GH wrote: >On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:58:29AM -0800, some SMTP stream spewed forth: >> At 09:44 AM 11/21/00 -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: >> >> >What about the php module? Does it take advantage of API? >> >> I don't know. If not, though, there wouldn't be much point in u

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-23 Thread Don Baccus
At 09:44 AM 11/21/00 -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: >What about the php module? Does it take advantage of API? I don't know. If not, though, there wouldn't be much point in using AOLserver, since the simple and efficient database API is the main attraction. So I think there's a pretty good chance it

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-23 Thread Tim Uckun
> > > AOLServer isn't the only system that can pool database connections, so > >can servlets/JSP, ColdFusion, ASP, etc. No doubt AOLServer would be more > >widely accepted if it used something other than TCL. > >There's also support available for Python, though there's still a lot of >work to b

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-21 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> I've wondered and am still wondering what a lot of these benchmark tests > are out to prove. In this case, the "benchmark test" was not out to prove anything. It was an good-faith result of a porting effort with a suprising (to the tester) result. > I'm not sure that any PostgreSQL advocat

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread Mitch Vincent
"Don Baccus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert D. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Fork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Poul L.Christiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "pgsql-general" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Don Baccus wrote: > At 09:43 AM 11/13/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I made it all the way through the article. I'll summarize it for you: > >Postgres - hooray! > >MySQL - boo! > >Since this is an open source database article linked off of slashdot, I > >imagine they'

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread Don Baccus
At 11:22 AM 11/13/00 -0500, Robert D. Nelson wrote: >Still...Regardless of what database they're running, either their >abstraction layer is shit or their queries really need optimized. Is that >perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went >significantly above 10/sec? Th

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread Don Baccus
At 09:43 AM 11/13/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I made it all the way through the article. I'll summarize it for you: >Postgres - hooray! >MySQL - boo! >Since this is an open source database article linked off of slashdot, I >imagine they're getting pounded. Why is all this e-mail showing

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread Don Baccus
At 06:16 PM 11/13/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Still...Regardless of what database they're running, either their >> abstraction layer is shit or their queries really need optimized. Is that >> perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went >> significantly above 10/

[HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread fabrizio . ermini
> Still...Regardless of what database they're running, either their > abstraction layer is shit or their queries really need optimized. Is that > perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went > significantly above 10/sec? > I think this could be because they used real kill

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
markw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a question, however, what is the feeling about the way statistics are > currently being calculated? They suck, no question about it ;-) > My feeling is that some sort of windowing > algorithm be used to normalize the statistics to the majority of the entr

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread Don Baccus
At 01:53 PM 11/15/00 -0500, markw wrote: >I'd rather not pollute the application's SQL with postgres-isms. Not that I >don't love postgres, but there are always critics looking for a reason to use >Oracle or (gasp) MS-SQL. Define some global variable with the name of the database being run (curr

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread markw
Andrew McMillan wrote: > mlw wrote: > > > > My music database has 50,000 arises and 210,000 albums. Many artists > > have only one or 2 entries in the albums table (for the youngsters, CD > > table ;-). About 34,000 have the integer key for "Various Artists" as > > their artist entry, and another

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread Don Baccus
At 09:27 AM 11/15/00 -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > AOLServer isn't the only system that can pool database connections, so >can servlets/JSP, ColdFusion, ASP, etc. No doubt AOLServer would be more >widely accepted if it used something other than TCL. There are two separate modules that support

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, carl garland wrote: > >perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went > >significantly above 10/sec? > > I think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They are > using Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additio

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread joseph
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, carl garland wrote: # >perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went # >significantly above 10/sec? # # I think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They are # using Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additio

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread mlw
carl garland wrote: > > >perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went > >significantly above 10/sec? > > I think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They are > using Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additional > overhead of maki

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-15 Thread carl garland
>perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went >significantly above 10/sec? I think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They are using Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additional overhead of making the db connection. Now if th

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > >And now it's on www.slashdot.org ... > > > >http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/1342208.shtml > > > >Poul L. Christiansen > > > >Michael Fork wrote: > >> > >> Thought this may be of interest to some... > >> > >> http://www.phpbuilder.com/colum

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-13 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
And now it's on www.slashdot.org ... http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/1342208.shtml Poul L. Christiansen Michael Fork wrote: > > Thought this may be of interest to some... > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3 > > Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+ > Network Support - Toled