Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-25 Thread Andreas Pflug
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: I wonder if this could be combined with the configurator somehow. Currently, integration won't work with Perl, so maybe C for the core and Perl for the interactive part would be better. Probably so. Seems there is a bit of convergent evolution going on. When I

Re: [PERFORM] Performance - moving from oracle to postgresql

2005-06-25 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
- Oracle has one particular performance enhancement that Postgres is missing. If you do a select that returns 100,000 rows in a given order, and all you want are rows 99101 to 99200, then Oracle can do that very efficiently. With Postgres, it has to read the first 99200 rows and then