Re: Lion and WO

2011-08-07 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Right, on Lion client. The big problem is the change in the way the postgres user is set up. Evidently, it existed as 'postgres' on older versions, but it is now '_postgres' with no shell. Ramsey On Aug 6, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Johan Henselmans wrote: Op 7 aug. 2011, om 06:37 heeft Ramsey

Re: Lion and WO

2011-08-06 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Not entirely fine… Just in case anyone is trying to install Postgres on a clean install of Lion, you'll hit a snag at the very end of the installer that prevents the creation of the initial database and installation of the apps in /Applications. Until the Postgres people fix this in their

Re: Lion and WO

2011-08-06 Thread Johan Henselmans
Op 7 aug. 2011, om 06:37 heeft Ramsey Gurley het volgende geschreven: Not entirely fine… Just in case anyone is trying to install Postgres on a clean install of Lion, you'll hit a snag at the very end of the installer that prevents the creation of the initial database and installation of

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-30 Thread Lachlan Deck
To do it correctly it would be a property (I think) as it assumes you've used MySQLs default of case-insensitiveness which is probably true for most people but perhaps not all. I didn't get around to contributing it last year after contributing the H2Plugin as others like Ramsey were working

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-30 Thread Ramsey Gurley
On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: To do it correctly it would be a property (I think) as it assumes you've used MySQLs default of case-insensitiveness which is probably true for most people but perhaps not all. Well, when you put it that way, yeah, you're both right (^_^)

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-29 Thread Lachlan Deck
What are the replication possibilities these days for dbs such as Postgres et al? Part of the success of MySQL I gather is having this support. We unfortunately use MySQL where I'm working, and it certainly struggles for certain things. One of the things that kills mysql as well is refactoring

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-29 Thread Johann Werner
Am 29.07.2011 um 12:54 schrieb Lachlan Deck: What are the replication possibilities these days for dbs such as Postgres et al? Part of the success of MySQL I gather is having this support. We unfortunately use MySQL where I'm working, and it certainly struggles for certain things. One

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-29 Thread Ramsey Gurley
I don't think it would be a property. That would just be the correct behavior. I wasn't aware of such syntax when I wrote the initial MySQL plugin for wonder, or I would have certainly included this. I dug through the manual trying to solve this problem but never found the answer. I don't

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-29 Thread John Huss
The changes in PostgreSQL 9 allow for hot standby databases, which are running and allow read-only access and can instantly become stand-alone masters if failover is needed. You can have many standby DBs being fed by one master with little performance degradation. The slaves are updated

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-28 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Just to get the last word in ;-) ……. In fairness though, _my_ user experience with MySQL 5.1 using InnoDB Plugin 1.0.x on Linux 12-core 48GB RAID server with databases of ~40GB and having a number of tables between 10 and 70 million rows has been a very good experience in terms of performance

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-28 Thread James Cicenia
All great wealth has a slight illegitimate origin. Cheers On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Q wrote: If you want a bit of history about MySQL you won't read on Wikipedia, here is the backstory: Back in 1993 there were no free lightweight SQL servers. The first one to appear was mSQL* (aka

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Beatty
Greetings James, I tend to agree, but there are somethings that MySQL had going for them. Most notably, they were able to get academia to tell just about every student to build a web page with PHP and MySQL. They even had them recommending the two of those in book after book. Something that

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-28 Thread dru
Realistically, it is too late for WO to penetrate that space. The combination Oracle controlling Java, the current love affair with weak typed scripting platforms like node.js and academia's love of doing things the purist way instead of pragmatic means that academic trained programmers will

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Jérémy DE ROYER [INGENCYS]
+1 Jérémy Le 27 juil. 2011 à 07:58, Mike Schrag a écrit : Rule #1 of not being Google, Twitter, or Facebook: You're not Google, Twitter, or Facebook. Rule #2: you never will be. Embrace your newfound freedom and use whatever database you want. ms On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Kieran

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andrew Satori
roughly 20 million rows in a table with ~120 columns in the table. On Jul 27, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: Hi Andrew. What exactly was the scale/size of your MySQL database that caused it to fall over? Row count? (Row count x field count) max? Regards, Kieran. (Sent from

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Kieran Kelleher
I find it hard to believe that such a table would cause MySQL to fall over. Possibly your engine selection, /etc/my.cnf and/or hardware/memory allocations might not have been appropriate in the setup that failed to meet your expectations. I found this book helped a few years back when I got

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andrew Satori
You asked, about rows and columns so I answered. I know what killed it. I know why. I know what I could have done to prevent it and work around it. The net result is that in order to get the performance I needed, I was going to have to alter things to be MySQL specific, rather than the

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Ramsey Gurley
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Satori wrote: I've been down this path a few times with several platforms. MySQL, OpenBase, MSSQL, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, DB/2, and PostgreSQL to name a few (I have only used FrontBase for prototyping so I have no deployment experience with it and

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andrew Satori
for that matter neither can MSSQL, they both use select top ## * syntax instead of limit :D On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote: On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Satori wrote: I've been down this path a few times with several platforms. MySQL, OpenBase, MSSQL, Oracle,

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Good detail. Thanks for the insight. And yeah, it was obvious from the beginning that you loathed MySQL! ;-) Cheers, Kieran On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Andrew Satori wrote: You asked, about rows and columns so I answered. I know what killed it. I know why. I know what I could have

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Chuck Hill
Even more than I do! :-P On 2011-07-27, at 12:22 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: Good detail. Thanks for the insight. And yeah, it was obvious from the beginning that you loathed MySQL! ;-) Cheers, Kieran On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Andrew Satori wrote: You asked, about rows and

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread John Huss
Finding a weak spot in the query optimizer can be done for any database, can't it? That's just the nature of the beast. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Kieran Kelleher kelleh...@gmail.comwrote: Good detail. Thanks for the insight. And yeah, it was obvious from the beginning that you loathed

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Q
650 million rows, 230Gig, growth rate of ~20 rows/sec, ~5 queries/sec MySQL = KaBoom! :( PostgreSQL = Mostly idle. MySQL is fine for simple queries and datasets that don't need lots of IO. For complex queries, or very large datasets MySQL's index handling and query planner are garbage, but

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Cool! I actually used macports to build /install PostgreSQL today. Regards, Kieran. (Sent from my iPhone) On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Q qdo...@gmail.com wrote: 650 million rows, 230Gig, growth rate of ~20 rows/sec, ~5 queries/sec MySQL = KaBoom! :( PostgreSQL = Mostly idle. MySQL is

MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Q
If you want a bit of history about MySQL you won't read on Wikipedia, here is the backstory: Back in 1993 there were no free lightweight SQL servers. The first one to appear was mSQL* (aka miniSQL), which wasn't technically open source, but it was free for non commercial use, and distributed

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
Beware PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL on the Mac, but the Mac is by far, the worst performing PostgreSQL host. The shared memory implementation is not well suited to the Mac, and when push comes to shove, pg exposes those weaknesses. PostgreSQL performs best on Linux. It works on OS x. If

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
I had heard most of this, but some of the detail is fascinating to hear from the msql side. Andy 'Dru' Satori - all typos courtesy of fat finger and an iPad On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Q qdo...@gmail.com wrote: If you want a bit of history about MySQL you won't read on Wikipedia, here is

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Pascal Robert
Ah yes, I remember that we had mSQL hosting (on Solaris 2.5!) at an ISP I was working for in 1996 to 2000, and I remember the discussions about how much code MySQL stole from mSQL. Not trust me, nothing was worse than the Access/NT/ASP combo, or even worse OS 8.6/WebStar/FMP 4.1 (with the Web

Re: MySQL was: Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-27 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
I'll give you really scary, in 1995 I was hosting a commercial website on a win95 box that had been butchered to run a cgi scripting engine in VB. To make matters worse, the DB was MSSQL 1.0 running on a MS OS/2 1.3 server ( IBM Microchannel PS/2 ). All I can say is that it worked. To this

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-26 Thread dru
Well, the issue I have in general is that the market seems to have adopted a MySQL or commercial mindset. MySQL is, to put it mildly, a trap. Skipping over the license issues, and going straight to the real stuff, MySQL has been shown repeatedly to have very real and finite limits on growth and

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-26 Thread Travis Britt
FWIW, once you reach that level scaling on *anything* is hard. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:02 AM, d...@druware.com wrote: Well, the issue I have in general is that the market seems to have adopted a MySQL or commercial mindset. MySQL is, to put it mildly, a trap. Skipping

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-26 Thread Andrew Satori
To a degree, but if you have committed to the MySQL way to get past it's core weaknesses, you have also made transitioning to anything else very very hard. In the case of Facebook, they have hit the wall where the front end is still scaling, but the backend is not. It is so wedded to it's

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-26 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Hi Andrew. What exactly was the scale/size of your MySQL database that caused it to fall over? Row count? (Row count x field count) max? Regards, Kieran. (Sent from my iPhone) On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Andrew Satori d...@druware.com wrote: To a degree, but if you have committed to the

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Schrag
Rule #1 of not being Google, Twitter, or Facebook: You're not Google, Twitter, or Facebook. Rule #2: you never will be. Embrace your newfound freedom and use whatever database you want. ms On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: Hi Andrew. What exactly was the scale/size of

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Worman
The only problem I had was that I had to use Direct Connect in Lion - probably a config problem somewhere. I'm stuck in Snow Leopard for dev right now since my current database doesn't install in Lion. Tim Worman UCLA GSEIS On Jul 20, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: yes, long ago ..

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Postgresql? On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Tim Worman wrote: The only problem I had was that I had to use Direct Connect in Lion - probably a config problem somewhere. I'm stuck in Snow Leopard for dev right now since my current database doesn't install in Lion. Tim Worman UCLA GSEIS

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
PostgreSQL is just fine in lion Andy 'Dru' Satori - all typos courtesy of fat finger and an iPad On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Ramsey Gurley rgur...@smarthealth.com wrote: Postgresql? On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Tim Worman wrote: The only problem I had was that I had to use Direct

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Worman
No, I've been using Openbase for a long time. I'm probably going to have to make a move though since there seems to be very little activity around the product. There's a tweet mentioning a beta release for Lion: http://twitter.com/#!/OpenBase/statuses/90781766431936512 Tim Worman UCLA GSEIS

RE: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D
: webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com [mailto:webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Tim Worman Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 17:03 To: Ramsey Gurley Cc: WebObjects Development Subject: Re: Lion and WO No, I've been using Openbase for a long time

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
: webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com [mailto:webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Tim Worman Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 17:03 To: Ramsey Gurley Cc: WebObjects Development Subject: Re: Lion and WO No, I've been using Openbase

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Worman
-Original Message- From: webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com [mailto:webobjects-dev-bounces+daniel.beatty=navy@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Tim Worman Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 17:03 To: Ramsey Gurley Cc: WebObjects Development Subject: Re: Lion

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread John Huss
I don't know what I would do if I was using some proprietary technology that hadn't been updated in years, with almost no communication from the company in charge of it! What is that like? ;-) On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Tim Worman li...@thetimmy.com wrote: Openbase has been a great

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Chuck Hill
ROFLAMO! On 2011-07-25, at 8:36 PM, John Huss wrote: I don't know what I would do if I was using some proprietary technology that hadn't been updated in years, with almost no communication from the company in charge of it! What is that like? ;-) On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Tim

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Worman
Now that right there IS funny. But if no one were on the list to see that and laugh, then I'd have to develop in something other than WO. :-) Tim Worman UCLA GSEIS On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:36 PM, John Huss wrote: I don't know what I would do if I was using some proprietary technology that

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-25 Thread Chuck Hill
FrontBase is pretty quiet these days too, though the dev list does see some traffic and there are new releases. Marketing a proprietary SQL database these days is swimming upstream, you can't expect wide success. FrontBase fills a niche market, of which WO is probably less and less every

Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Pascal Robert
Just before people start asking. I installed Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server and the Wonder variants of wotaskd and Monitor works well. Apache WO adaptor compiles correctly too. But Java is not pre-installed, so just start any Java process (a simple call to /usr/bin/java will do) and Finder

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Jesse Tayler
and then all else was groovy? On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Just before people start asking. I installed Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server and the Wonder variants of wotaskd and Monitor works well. Apache WO adaptor compiles correctly too. But Java is not pre-installed,

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Joel M. Benisch
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Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Ricardo J. Parada
So far I've encountered Wonder bar stops working after taking Safari to full screen. And for those who use sqlplus to connect to ORACLE at the command line you get Segmentation fault: 11. I searched google and others are having the same problem but I don't see a fix by ORACLE. On Jul 20,

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Simon
what about upgrading a dev machine - anyone braved it yet ? On 20 July 2011 16:32, Pascal Robert prob...@macti.ca wrote: Just before people start asking. I installed Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server and the Wonder variants of wotaskd and Monitor works well. Apache WO adaptor compiles

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Mike Schrag
yes, long ago .. works fine. On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Simon wrote: what about upgrading a dev machine - anyone braved it yet ? On 20 July 2011 16:32, Pascal Robert prob...@macti.ca wrote: Just before people start asking. I installed Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server and the Wonder

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Paul D Yu
I've upgraded my primary client development machine and it works just fine. Upgrading the second one now. SSD makes the process go really fast. Spinning disk? not so much... Paul On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Simon wrote: what about upgrading a dev machine - anyone braved it yet ? On 20

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Jesse Tayler
oh, rub it in. On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Paul D Yu wrote: SSD makes the process go really fast. Spinning disk? not so much... ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list

Re: Lion and WO

2011-07-20 Thread Pascal Robert
Ah yes, I forgot. You have to change the wotaskd and JavaMonitor launchd scripts so that the user is _appserver, not appserver (in the script, not for the owner of the script), if you don't do it, they won't be started. On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Just before people