... on Slashdot of all places.

Some fellow wants to install a large database on Linux and is considering
Oracle vs. PostgreSQL. (Perhaps the poster with the 60GB astronomical db
from the other day could come forward?) I know you guys always wanted to
be on Slashdot, so here's your chance.

Not to start this all over again, but I especially liked this post:

"If you are looking for mission critical data, why not give a chance to
MySQL?"

Take a look.

	-Peter


Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:38:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE>
It's PR time!
Peter Eisentraut wrote on Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:38:41 +0200
>(Perhaps the poster with the 60GB astronomical db
>from the other day could come forward?)

That was me . . . I'm on the 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey)
Science Team.  This survey, now nearly 70% complete, has
amassed about 20TB of image data and from this we compile
catalogs of stellar and galaxian sources.  The star catalog
will contain about 500 million sources and be about 100GB
on disk in condensed form.

Our goals for pgsql is to recommend a local data server system
for astronomers who want to spin and query all or parts of 
this catalog.

The URLs for the project are:

	http://pegasus.astro.umass.edu
	http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass

I am not the right person to head an "official" pgsql response,
but I'd be happy to help and "donote" additional info on our
applicaton.

--Martin

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Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:42:58 -0300
Martin Weinberg <weinberg@osprey.astro.umass.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] It's PR time! 