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LinuxTag ended on Saturday. The PostgreSQL booth was staffed by Jeroen Vermeulen, Bruce Momjian, Andreas Pflug, Cornelia Boenigk, and myself. The attendance (16175 this year) was down a bit because they moved the show from Thu-Sun to Wed-Sat, but that way we had more "enterprise" visitors and less souvenir hunters. Among the former group most people knew about PostgreSQL and used it or were just about to switch to it from Informix. Among the latter group we had about half asking the usual "so how does this compare to MySQL". The asked-for features were mostly related to high availability, but that problem is solved, so we're in good shape. The real killer question, however, was how to replace MS Access. No, OpenOffice is not the answer yet. I held a presentation in the conference program about the upcoming features in 7.5, which was well-received. To distinguish the talk from the immediately preceding talk from the "Ministry of Announcements" (quote Andreas) I was able to point out that the features I talked about actually already exist in CVS. I stayed to hear Brian Aker talk about MySQL Replication and Clustering and had a good laugh. Wisely, they didn't put his slides on the conference DVD, otherwise anyone would have figured out after a short while that these people are completely insane. If anyone finds those slides, we should put them into the Amusements section on our web site. I will put up some pictures later in the week. The next PostgreSQL event in Europe that I know of is LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Frankfurt, October 26 to 28.
Peter, > LinuxTag ended on Saturday. Sounds like fun! Thank you for the report. > The next PostgreSQL event in Europe that I know of is LinuxWorld > Conference and Expo in Frankfurt, October 26 to 28. Will you be going? If so, do you need swag? I'm trying to get "swag supply" worked out ... -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Josh Berkus wrote: > Will you be going? If so, do you need swag? I'm trying to get > "swag supply" worked out ... What do you people actually mean by "swag"? AFAICT, it is a synonym for contraband, and I don't think I want that. :-/
Peter,
> What do you people actually mean by "swag"? AFAICT, it is a synonym for
> contraband, and I don't think I want that. :-/
No, stuff to hand out and/or display at conventions. T-shirts, CDs,
banners, etc.
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Slang for T-Shirts, CD's, etc. Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Josh Berkus wrote: > > >>Will you be going? If so, do you need swag? I'm trying to get >>"swag supply" worked out ... >> >> > >What do you people actually mean by "swag"? AFAICT, it is a synonym for >contraband, and I don't think I want that. :-/ > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > >
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The real killer question, however, was how to > replace MS Access. No, OpenOffice is not the answer yet. Do you mean in the sense of a desktop forms+reports builder? I've always just admitted that Access is good for that (and it pretty much is). So long as your reports don't need to be too dynamic. PS - ta for the write-up Peter. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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Peter, Richard, > > The real killer question, however, was how to > > replace MS Access. No, OpenOffice is not the answer yet. > > Do you mean in the sense of a desktop forms+reports builder? I've always > just admitted that Access is good for that (and it pretty much is). So > long as your reports don't need to be too dynamic. OpenOffice.org *is* working on this, though. By the time we reach OpenOffice.org 2.0, we should have an MS Access killer. When that'll be, though ... -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
>>Do you mean in the sense of a desktop forms+reports builder? I've always >>just admitted that Access is good for that (and it pretty much is). So >>long as your reports don't need to be too dynamic. > > > OpenOffice.org *is* working on this, though. By the time we reach > OpenOffice.org 2.0, we should have an MS Access killer. When that'll be, > though ... > If you are trying desparately to get away from MS then you could use Paradox (which is actually quite cool). Also ReKall is cross platform and scriptable with Python. J -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. Integrated Replication for PostgreSQL
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> > Huh? I thought that Rekall required KDE and the full QT environment to run. Nope. ReKall is written in Py/QT -- is GPL and runs on Windows and Linux and presumably Mac OSX. It does support PostgreSQL although the driver is a little weak and needs some work. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. Integrated Replication for PostgreSQL
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Josh, > If you are trying desparately to get away from MS then you could use > Paradox (which is actually quite cool). Also ReKall is cross platform > and scriptable with Python. Huh? I thought that Rekall required KDE and the full QT environment to run. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> > I don't know about "ReKall", but last time I looked at "Rekall" there > was an awful lot of C++ code in there, and the author said he will not > publish the Windows version under the GPL. Ahh that may be true... I know that it is "scriptable" in Python so maybe just the framework is C++. As it is GPL there is nothing stopping people from making it work on Windows though. J -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. Integrated Replication for PostgreSQL
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Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Huh? I thought that Rekall required KDE and the full QT > > environment to run. > > Nope. ReKall is written in Py/QT -- is GPL and runs on Windows and > Linux and presumably Mac OSX. It does support PostgreSQL although the > driver is a little weak and needs some work. I don't know about "ReKall", but last time I looked at "Rekall" there was an awful lot of C++ code in there, and the author said he will not publish the Windows version under the GPL.