Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-24 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, > What they don't say is whether that is a 50% speed up from the > default settings or a 50% increase from a carefully hand tunes file. AFAIT, most of their performance speed-up comes from two sources: 1) a carefully hand-tuned compile of Postgres using ICC, and 2) Improving on the default

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Josh, On 2/18/06 7:38 AM, "Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figure they'll have to do quite a lot to make progress in their chosen > market, including: > > - SQL*Net protocol compatibility > - Oracle Number datatype support > - ROWID unique row identifier > - Oracle Redo/Undo log fo

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Josh, On 2/18/06 7:15 AM, "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EnterpriseDB is a fork of PostgreSQL that contains a reasonable level of > pl/SQL (Oracle) compatibility. > My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that they support packages, > in, inout paramters etc.. in > the same syn

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I also wonder where their project is too - they seem publicly opaque about progress, etc. From the web site's statements it looks like they've written a tool to tune the postgresql.conf file from which they claim a 50% speed-up, but that's not new or unique "fork-level" functionality. Ente

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-16 Thread Lukas Smith
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2006/02/16/enterprisedb-where-is-the-source/ Any comments on this? Is he referring to EnterpriseDB extensions that they don't make public? I think so. Trying to "battle" the perception that EnterpriseDB is an open source data

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-16 Thread Rick Gigger
Any comments on this? Is he referring to EnterpriseDB extensions that they don't make public? I've noticed a lot of press lately is mentioning their name next to ingres as an alternative to MySQL, so the MySQL folks might be feeling some Postgres heat from their direction. I also wonder w

Re: [HACKERS] Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

2006-02-16 Thread Luke Lonergan
Christoper, On 2/15/06 11:14 PM, "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments on this? Is he referring to EnterpriseDB extensions that > they don't make public? I've noticed a lot of press lately is mentioning their name next to ingres as an alternative to MySQL, so the M