Thread: It's PR time!
... 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
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.eduhttp://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 =========================================================================== Martin Weinberg Phone: (413) 545-3821 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy FAX: (413) 545-2117/0648 530 Graduate Research Tower weinberg@astro.umass.edu University of Massachusetts http://www.astro.umass.edu/~weinberg/ Amherst, MA 01003-4525