
> I'v ebeen asked to write an article comparing these two. Before I agree 
> like to know if anyone's having some pointers for me.

There has been some discussion on this list some time ago. You can look in
the archices on www.postgresql.org for Jan-Feb-Mar 2000.

Unfortunately, the search engine is down, and the overview by index and
date only has the last week of each month, so your only option right now is
to take the mbox format and wade through it.

Wed, 10 May 2000 10:37:42 GMT
"Kaare Rasmussen" <kar@webline.dk>
Re: Comparison PostgreSQL 7.0 vs. Interbase2000 (fwd)
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

> 
> > I'v ebeen asked to write an article comparing these two. Before I agree 
> > like to know if anyone's having some pointers for me.
> 
> There has been some discussion on this list some time ago. You can look in
> the archices on www.postgresql.org for Jan-Feb-Mar 2000.
> 
> Unfortunately, the search engine is down, and the overview by index and
> date only has the last week of each month, so your only option right now is
> to take the mbox format and wade through it.

I just checked now, and other then being slower then it was (am
investigating that), it just returned results for me ... we are havign a
problem that is under investigation where the postmaster freezes up for no
apparent reason, requiring a manual restart, so its possible that you got
caught by that :(


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Wed, 10 May 2000 08:54:53 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: Comparison PostgreSQL 7.0 vs. Interbase2000 (fwd)

> > Unfortunately, the search engine is down, and the overview by index and
> > date only has the last week of each month, so your only option right now > > to take the mbox format and wade through it.

> I just checked now, and other then being slower then it was (am
> investigating that), it just returned results for me ... we are havign a
> problem that is under investigation where the postmaster freezes up for no
> apparent reason, requiring a manual restart, so its possible that you got
> caught by that :(

It _is_ slow alright! I'm trying a search and after a couple of minutes I
still haven't received a reply. Did you remember to vacuum the dabasase? 
:-)

OK, now I got an answer, but what about the second problem, that if you go
to the hackers mailing list and select by index or by thread, you only get
the last week of each month?

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Wed, 10 May 2000 12:03:01 GMT
"Kaare Rasmussen" <kar@webline.dk>
Re: Comparison PostgreSQL 7.0 vs. Interbase2000 (fwd)
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

> 
> > > Unfortunately, the search engine is down, and the overview by index and
> > > date only has the last week of each month, so your only option right now > > to take the mbox format and wade through it.
> 
> > I just checked now, and other then being slower then it was (am
> > investigating that), it just returned results for me ... we are havign a
> > problem that is under investigation where the postmaster freezes up for no
> > apparent reason, requiring a manual restart, so its possible that you got
> > caught by that :(
> 
> It _is_ slow alright! I'm trying a search and after a couple of minutes I
> still haven't received a reply. Did you remember to vacuum the dabasase? 
> :-)

Yup *nod*  

> OK, now I got an answer, but what about the second problem, that if
> you go to the hackers mailing list and select by index or by thread,
> you only get the last week of each month?

As I mentioned to someone else recently, you might want to check out that
link at the top of the page, that has always been there, that says "next
page"? :)

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


Wed, 10 May 2000 09:18:41 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: Comparison PostgreSQL 7.0 vs. Interbase2000 (fwd)