Xarg blog Archive

I finished the forums performance tuning writeup I did a couple months ago and fixed the last big problem which was the message delete function.

Actually spending more time working with PostgreSQL made me like it more (which is the opposite of the what I always came away with from my Oracle tuning experiences). I think it's often more pleasant to work with open source software since so much of the development is driven by what bothers individual developers. There is a lot less marketing and features for feature's sake. On the other hand, in the case of PostgreSQL it's also not had to face the demands of terabyte+ data warehouses and really demanding transactional environments since so few of the contributors are confronted by those problems. I think it will get there though -- sooner rather than later is my guess as well (since there are people now trying to use Postgres for such things).

This time someone wants to fix my design:

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They say they partner with flamingtext.com and I think I definitely should take them up on it. There is a decided lack of flaming text on my site!