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Addressing the eighth convocation of the Rajiv Gandhi Technological University in Bhopal last evening, Mukherjee said that it was sad to note that we do not have a single Indian university within the top two hundred universities in the world today.
Stating that this was not the position earlier, Mukherjee said: "In ancient India, Indian universities - Takshashila, Nalanda, Valabhi, Vikramashila, Somapura and Odantapuri - had dominated the world. Takshashila was a global university and the meeting point of four great civilizations - Indian, Persian, Greek and Chinese. The ancient Indian education system had attracted students from all over the world."
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He further said that there are several grass root innovations that have the potential for development into viable products.
"Our Universities should support such micro initiatives. Innovators Clubs should be set up in the Central Universities as a platform for interaction between the teaching and student communities and grassroots innovators," he added.
He said that he recently had the opportunity to inaugurate such clubs at two Central Universities in Uttar Pradesh and Assam. He urged the University to try and inculcate the innovation culture.
The President laid the foundation stone of University Knowledge Resource Centre Building and inaugurated blocks for School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and School of Information Technology. On the occasion, a policy on women's safety, security and empowerment of Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya was also released and its first copy presented to the President. (ANI)


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Around 2,500 area residents participated in the Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off, marking the largest turnout for the event since Killeen began participating 13 years ago.
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As of Saturday afternoon, nearly 400 bags of trash had been taken off city streets. Participants ranged from 2 to 88 years old.
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Traveling along Fort Hood Street between Rancier Avenue and Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Harper said they picked up a lot of cigarette butts and broken beer bottles.
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A DOZEN dead birds suspected of having avian flu have been found on the M65 motorway near Burnley.
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There are more signs of an economic slowdown in India. Industrial growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2008-09 dipped to 5.2%, down from 10.3% in the previous year and a result of high interest rates and input costs plus the weaknesses in the global economy.
A new government report has forecast GDP growth for the year at 7.7%. This is down from earlier forecasts of around 8% and the average 8.8% growth recorder over the past four years.
And the panel responsible for this report said: "The downside risk to our growth expectations in 2008/09 is primarily from a further deterioration in global conditions with its attendant impact on India — be it in the sphere of oil prices or capital markets."
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Republicans meet to discuss what went wrong and to discuss minority outreach..
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GOP retreat to feature helpful tips on how not to piss off women, minorities
Included in today's GOP retreat schedule: a helpful panel discussion for Republican legislators on "Successful Communication with Minorities and Women." This seems long past due. (And I dare say if they would have allowed videotape, they could have even made a fair bit of money selling the outtakes.)
Alas, some scoundrel somewhere (in this case, half the internet) always needs to crack wise about these things. (Republicans have trouble communicating with minorities and women? That's unpossible!) Things are complicated by the fact that their discussion on talking with minorities is being held in the Burwell Plantation room, named after the famous Virginia slave plantation. The entire GOP retreat is being held on the remnants of the Kingsmill Plantation, which advertises itself thusly:
You want a chuckle about just how stupid they are, read the Kos post!
You can also read some more about the history of the retreat they chose here on the Colonial Williamsburg website:
The Burwells Move Their Slaves to the Southside
by Julie Richter
When I read the description of the Ann Powell Burwell Commonplace Book in The Guide to African-American Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society, I knew I wanted to see the document. The entry in the guide reads, Contains lists, 1746-1839, of slaves owned by Armistead Burwell and John Burwell, including ages or dates of birth. One list includes names of mothers. I hoped to find information in these lists about slaves who lived in eighteenth-century Williamsburg for my ongoing study of this community. What I found was a puzzle: More than one person wrote the lists in the small notebook, the authors did not always date their entries, and the lists were not in an order that made sense. I turned to a variety of documents (including court records, land and personal property tax lists, and the Virginia Gazette) and the jumbled contents of the commonplace book to analyze the information in these lists. The entries in the small notebook provide details that I used to identify several black families owned by three generations of the Burwell family. The appearance of slave families on more than one list helped me to sort the various records into chronological order and to follow the forced movement of Burwell slaves from the Tidewater to the Southside. In addition, the names on the lists enabled me to analyze the reasons the several authors decided to record details about the enslaved men, women, and children whom they owned.
The seven lists of slaves recorded by four members of the Burwell family between 1746 and 1839 fill ten pages in the Ann Powell Burwell Commonplace Book. (See table below.) A Williamsburg merchant named Armistead Burwell authored two of the lists in 1746. The first was a record of Negros sent to Roanoke 5 march 1746 & seated there. This inventory included the names of four men and an equal number of women. Perhaps Roanoke was the name of Burwells 3,404-acre plantation on the south side of Finney Wood Creek in Mecklenburg County, land for which he received a patent on January 12, 1746/7.
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:35 PM
Scuba (53,475 posts)
1. "We have to figure out why those lazy blah people don't like us."
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:39 PM
auburngrad82 (5,029 posts)
2. I can see it now...
"We'd like to welcome all the Coloreds, uh, I mean Negroes into the Grand Ole' Party. We'd also like to take this time to say "Aloha to our Mexican friends from Guatemala and Honduras and all them other Mexican countries. Limbaugh tells me great things about some of the vacation spots south of the border...
"And to the Women out there, we welcome you with groping, I mean open arms. It's about time we had some better legs on our side of the isle, heh heh heh. Just kidding, hugs all around for the pretty ladies in the House!
"To The Gays out there, we welcome you too, as long as we don't have to know you're The Gays..."
I see big things for the GOP in the future.
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 03:23 PM
Little Star (16,235 posts)
5. Bingo
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:52 PM
yortsed snacilbuper (4,059 posts)
3. The maid will probably wonder where all the white sheets went to,
oh, The republiKKKans are wearing them at their meetings!
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 01:24 PM
Proud Liberal Dem (15,934 posts)
4. If they want to discuss "minority outreach"
they might want to think back to how they've responded to President Obama during the past 4 years. Might give them some clue......
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6. Note to Republicans:
Stop talking about rape.
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CNN's special "worldwide investigation" "Planet in Peril," in two segments looking at the debate amongst politicians and scientists on whether climate change is a man-made phenomenon, failed to mention that NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen [pictured at right], one the scientists featured in the second segment, has received funding from George Soros, while mentioning that "second biggest contributors to [global warming skeptic Senator James] Inhofe's Senate office are energy and natural resource companies."
The first segment, which began 8 minutes into the 10 pm Eastern hour of Wednesday night's program, examined the political debate over climate change, focusing on "the loudest voice" of Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta introduced the segment by referring back to the previous segments of "Planet in Peril," which looked at the impact of climate change in different parts of the world. "From what we've seen in Greenland, Alaska, and Africa, the Earth's climate is clearly changing. It's not a theory. It's a fact. But what's causing those changes? The majority of the scientific community says it's mankind. But there are powerful voices who say otherwise."
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A transcript of the segment from Wednesday night's "Planet in Peril:" (Note how Cooper assumes that at least some viewers think the debate over climate change has been settled.)
SANJAY GUPTA: From what we've seen in Greenland, Alaska, and Africa, the Earth's climate is clearly changing. It's not a theory. It's a fact. But what's causing those changes? The majority of the scientific community says it's mankind. But there are powerful voices who say otherwise.
SEN. JAMES INHOFE (R), OKLAHOMA: And, with all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is.
COOPER: If you thought the debate over what's causing the Earth to warm was settled, think again.
INHOFE: I don't want to be rude, but, from now on, I'm going to ask...
ANDERSON COOPER: James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma, is the loudest voice, with probably the biggest platform, who questions whether man is responsible for climate change. His position has led to some intense political theater.
AL GORE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT: If I could complete my answer.
INHOFE: Well, if you do, then my time has expired. Are you aware of that?
GORE: Well, I can't help that, because you went on for a long time. But I would like to...
INHOFE: No, I have 15 minutes.
INHOFE: You, sir, had 30 minutes. I have 15. You have got to let me...
COOPER: This year, 2,000 scientists on the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded, with 90 percent certainty, that man is responsible for global warming. They were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work. But Inhofe questions the motives of those who say man is responsible for global warming.
INHOFE: This whole idea of global warming is something that has been brought up by certain groups who have a lot to benefit from it, and has nothing to do with real science.
COOPER: Nothing to do with science and everything to do with money. Support human-caused climate change, Inhofe's thinking goes, and you get more funding. But Inhofe's critics question his funding. The second biggest contributors to Inhofe's Senate office are energy and natural resource companies. We wanted to talk to Senator Inhofe about those contributions and his position on climate change. But after agreeing to an interview with us, he canceled.
In the next segment following a commercial break and a news update on the California wildfires, Cooper featured two scientists in a segment on the debate in the scientific community over the cause of climate change. Cooper called the first scientist, Dr. Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia [pictured at right], a "so-called climate change skeptic" according to Cooper. Michaels criticized the reliance of the climate change advocates on computer models. Cooper added that according to Michaels, "animals like the polar bear and humans will simply adapt" to the changes in climate and that "while a scientific consensus says man is responsible for global warming, Michaels, like Senator Inhofe, says money is the prime motivator."
Cooper then featured Dr. Hansen, "one of the first scientists to bring global warming into the public's consciousness in the 1980s." Cooper, during his introduction of Hansen, states that the scientist "doesn't believe scientists are simply chasing funding." But Cooper doesn't mention that Hansen received $720,000 from George Soros's foundation in 2006.
A transcript of the portion of the segment featuring Dr. James Hansen, including the last portion of the part from Dr. Michaels in order to provide context:
ANDERSON COOPER: While a scientific consensus says man is responsible for global warming, Michaels, like Senator Inhofe, says money is the prime motivator.
MICHAELS: You write a proposal and you tie it to climate change, you got a good chance.
JAMES HANSEN, DIRECTOR, NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES: You know, nothing could be further from the truth. And, in fact, I'm a good example of that, because when I first spoke out about this in 1981, I ended up losing my funding.
COOPER: Dr. James Hansen doesn't believe scientists are simply chasing funding. Hansen, with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was one of the first scientists to bring global warming into the public's consciousness in the 1980s.
HANSEN: We conclude that there is evidence that the greenhouse effect increases the likelihood of heat wave drought situations.
COOPER: Hansen was nearly alone back then. But, today, he's brought the vast majority of the scientific community to his side. We are changing our climate, he says, and are risking a different planet. He rejects nearly all of the skeptics' points, from moderate estimates...
HANSEN: We're talking about several meters of sea level rise if West Antarctica begins to go unstable.
COOPER: ...to computer modeling.
HANSEN: That's another big misconception. The computer models are helpful, but they are not the primary source of information. It's the Earth's history that tells us, with the most accuracy and the most reliability, what the climate sensitivity is. We have measurements of the atmospheric composition, very precise, from the bubbles of air trapped in the ice sheets as a function of time over the last 700,000 years.
COOPER: Climate science is clearly complicated and often controversial. Both sides of the debate know that. For Jim Hansen, that makes the situation all the more pressing.
HANSEN: The nature of science is, you say, on the one hand, this and, on the other hand, that. And, even as the story becomes quite clear, we may not be making clear that we're really talking about a different planet. So, I think we are running out of time. We have really got to get started in the next few years, so that we are really on a different path.
As Dan Gainor pointed out in his blog about the first night of "Planet in Peril," the series has been a mixed bag. It spent a good amount of time criticizing the environmental record of China, something you don't often see played-up in the mainstream media. But when it subjects more scrutiny to Senator Inhofe than Dr. Hansen in the area of funding, you know CNN is pushing another biased miniseries in the line of "God's Warriors."


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My friend Fr. Finigan, His Hermeneuticalness, has an amusing post in which he wrings his hands over the incorrigible children of his parish.
The nerve!
My friend Fr. Finigan, His Hermeneuticalness, has an amusing post in which he wrings his hands over the incorrigible children of his parish.
The nerve!
Looks like the future of the Church :)
Thank you!
I remember those days and I'm so glad the pictures are of *these* days!
What "nerve" indeed !!
At this rate we might end up back with TLM Mass everywhere and Saints.!!
Could you believe SAINTS !! in this age of "enlightenment"
We might even find Catholics here and there.
Great post Fr. Finigan. Yes, the future!
Perhaps he can keep those hands from wringing by using large, nightmarish puppets at Mass to scare the children into line?
The part about a child singing the Salve Regina can't be right. Obviously Gregorian Chant is way too hard for even adults to sing, yet alone children. That's why we need user friendly music such as Haugen and Hass at Mass! :)
Gol darn it! Who taught that kid to sing that at THREE???
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There has been a lot of talk lately about PostgreSQL and what MySQL can learn from the PostgreSQL clan. We would like to look at the reverse of that. This article is a bit of a complement to Joshua Drake's What MySQL (and really, Sun) can learn from PostgreSQL.
First of all a lot of staunch advocates of PostgreSQL wonder what exactly is it that MySQLers see in that beast of a database or as Martin Mickos likes to call it The Ferrari of databases?
For example, as Magnus Hagander pointed out in A new MySQL gotcha and we pointed out in SQL Math Idiosyncracies, MySQL's casting behavior is shall we say odd. I won't even recount our frustrations with using their ODBC driver with the MySQL 5.0 incarnations, but that could be ignorance on our part. Zack Urlocker of Sun has espoused, the upcoming MySQL 5.1 will have no bugs so perhaps this along with other bug complaints is a moot point.
So why do people choose MySQL time and time again over PostgreSQL and why is PostgreSQL sometimes a hard sell? Some of what we are going to say is a bit tongue-in-cheek so please don't take offense.
MySQL is pervasive and ubiquitous
Being pervasive and ubiquitous is a huge selling point.
How did MySQL get to that point and what tricks can PostgreSQL borrow from that experience?
PostgreSQL has a lot of selling points that MySQL lacks, but this is a talk about why MySQL is so great, so we'll save that talk for another day.
PostgreSQL people look like a gang of geeks and Martin Mickos looks polished
PostgreSQL clan is heavily loaded with geeks and the first thing that comes to at least my mind is geek when trying to summarize the generic face of a PostgreSQL user. This is a good thing from a development standpoint and for attracting great developers, but is bad when a large constituency you are trying to sell to are not geeks and they perceive your database as a thing that only a geek can use effectively. While we would like to think otherwise and at least think that its in vogue to be a geek, most people are not geeks. We need to sell more to the otherside of the fence - because like it or not - they are often the ones that make the decisions.
Martin Mickos is riding on what Leo likes to call People who look alike play together rule of social behavior. He is forced to wear a suit like most money-decision making people and looks comfortable in that outfit. He looks like a CEO. He might be a geek inside but he covers it well, and he gives you the polished feel that he can endure the torture of a CEO recounting his golf game or bragging about his greatness. Why is this important? Isn't it all an act? Yes it is an act, but it sends the message - I know how to act right - when to open my mouth and when to keep it shut. This is incredibly comforting to a generic CEO, CFO or CIO type. Yes it does often come down to he got the contract not because his technology was better but because he had a better suit on, got drunk on his own cool-aid and could finish a sentence without saying "Uhmm".
Martin Mickos balances Michael "Monty" Widenius disposition well, whereas a lot of PostgreSQL folk look and sound like Monty with very few balancing Martin's to level the see-saw.
We don't have a very strong prominent non-geek face to offset this imbalance. We need a CEO friendly imposter. I would say the closest are some of the EnterpriseDb folk, but EnterpriseDb is a commercial offering so that can only get the clan so far.
It would help if core PostgreSQL had a prim and proper looking figure or a comedian like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Marc Fleury (founder of JBOSS), or geekesses in disguise like Kim Polese (the woman behind SpikeSource, Marimba, and Java) who exudes subtle persuasion abilities or a quietly confident woman such as Diane Greene, CEO and CoFounder of VMWare. Some PostgreSQL folks come to mind that can be molded into some of those type figures, but they still have that geek suit on (the T-shirt and the long hair that appeals to geeky sysadmins who are not always allowed to make decisions). Steve Jobs is a geek, but one with style. His brat geek kid who never grew up and with an obsession with clean interfaces that look good is great marketing. Similarly Larry Ellison's farcical obsession with wardrobe, racing, womanizing and destroying competitors is equally entertaining. Marc Fleury seems to be a compromise between the Steve and Larry personalities and some others mixed in. He has an air of mystique, but he knows when to behave as well.
Kim Polese perfectly complemented the advanced geekism of James Gosling who wanted to call Java a stupid name like Oak.
Diane Greene is an equally neat woman. She is not pushy, doesn't quite look like everyone else, but enough to make one feel comfortable, and she has that look that just screams - I can lead an army of ships into war. She balances out the more behind the scenes personality of her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist of VMWare.
Bill Gates (please don't throw stones at me for listing Bill Gates as one of those we respect). We for the most part like Bill Gate's and admire him. Both he and Diane Greene are what I shall refer to as anchors. Another rule of social behavior is that people like to hang around anchors. Anchors are those people who have a horned or natural instinct for feeling out what makes their audience comfortable and becoming it. They don't quite dress like their audience, but are not vastly different enough to be scary. They stand out just enough to look different, but not too much. They seem as content being by themselves as they do with being with other people. You only need to look at video of Bill Gates last full day to see what an anchor he is.
A lot of PostgreSQL folk, from a cursory observation, are suffering from some form of geekism and while it is not something that is easy to cure or should be cured - we need to offset it more with at least people who can hide their disorder or highlight those who have it to such a ridiculous level that it serves as a natural parody.
Symptoms of this disorder include
MySQL has a pluggable storage architecture
Now this one we wouldn't suggest bothering with, although we should probably dissect this thoroughly to understand better what value people see in this and what substitutions can be made and pointed out that PostgreSQL offers. Granted the camp is divided here. Personally the fact that some things are supported on one MySQL storage engine and not another MySQL storage engine makes MySQL somewhat unpleasant to work with. As Tom mentioned in his The Value of MySQL Storage Engines I suppose there is some charm that we just can't appreciate.
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Regarding "Zack Urlocker of Sun has espoused, the upcoming MySQL 5.1 will have no bugs so perhaps this along with other bug complaints is a moot point."
Huh? Software with no bugs? Sounds like a marketing gesture to me. Where did you get this quote from?
Its in the eWeek Ferrari of Databases article we listed above. The exact phrase used was "This version now has zero bugs," Urlocker told eWEEK. I think what he meant was all bugs in MySQL bug tracker have been corrected.
> PostgreSQL people look like a gang of geeks and Martin Mickos looks polished
I'm curious just exactly which "PostgreSQL people" you're referring to here. The vast majority of the people who travel and speak keep both their hair and their words short and tidy. There are two people I can think of offhand who wear ponytails, and neither of them otherwise fits any "geek" stereotype.
Hi David,
I tend to agree with you that I think the pony-tail/geek argument doesn't hold too much water. I mean, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, has a ponytail and bridges the professional and the geek quite gracefully. :)
However, I *do* think that the authors of this article are correct in that there is certainly an attitudinal difference between MySQL "advocates" and PG "advocates". The former, in my experience, tend to me more moderate and less dogmatic about theoretical things than their PG counterparts. The dogmatism and ideology of some PG advocates, especially in the arena of licensing (BSD vs GPL) and the arena of "pure relational DBMS" arguments have been a turn-off to elements of the broader technology field that are not DBAs by trade.
To put it in a one-liner, you will rarely find a MySQL user/advvocate say that "PG is crap". Instead, often they will say "PG is great, but different, and more complex". But the opposite, im my experience, is not true. I often run across blog posts and PG advocates that generalize "MySQL is crap. Use PG, it's a *real* database".
This attitude is a turn-off to a large segment of people.
Just my two cents. Cheers,
I would have to agree with Jay's thought about attitude. While it's not true for everyone in the pg community it is true for many. It's not even *just* against mysql. It's against every other database. It seems that if it's not done the pg way, it's not done the right way.
Okay I admit, the ponytail pick was a bit unfair. I guess I was thinking of the comic store owner guy in Simpsons whenever I hear someone in PostgreSQL groups make a snide remark about MySQL and other things. I admit I am not immune to this fault so part of it is a pick at me too. It just irritates me immensely when I see the reflection of my worst inner faults in others. :)
- e.g. "ah you were using that pedestrian database to do real work? No wonder you have problems." "STOP TOP POSTING!"
You have to admit that comparing being terse and to the point vs. being mean is like comparing apples and oranges. You can be very mean and to the point at the same time.
#2.2 Regina on 2008-05-05 00:47
This post reads a bit like a joke -- it's hard to take it seriously. Maybe that was done on purpose?
Anyhow, I'd appreciate it if you could elaborate on "...PostgreSQL has caught up there and is beginning to see the fruits of that labor." -- what kinds of fruitds of that labour is PG seeing? Could you describe that a bit more, please? Thank you.
#3 Anonymous on 2008-05-04 00:18
This is just from personal experience. We meant that before we'd have clients where PostgreSQL was a better option for them than say MySQL or SQL Server and it was a really really hard-sell to pitch PostgreSQL. For lots of things it really doesn't matter if you run MySQL or PostgreSQL or SQL Server.
Now we are seeing clients (even those running on Windows) that are already sold on PostgreSQL before they come to us.
#3.1 Regina on 2008-05-05 01:35
MySQL is popular for the same reason Visual Basic is popular, it is simple to get started with and you see instant results.
Take a fresh download of Postgres, the steps to get TCP/IP configured are not straight forward or obviously documented - MySQL just works.
Some of the non-standard features that make MySQL so poor in the eyes of a professional, actually help soften the learning curve of the database for those with little experience who aren't used to thinking like a DBA. As you get started on your first MySQL based project and start creating a schema, things like auto_increment are easy to get your head around.
And just as with many Microsoft extensions to standards, those features end up being a barrier to entry with other databases as you progress, keeping people hooked on MySQL and finding ways to make it work for them, rather than having to discard everything they've learnt to date.
Postgres documentation for those who are already literate in DB speak is very comprehensive and covers all the features. However there are two distinct gaps in the documentation:
1. Beginners guides, written in plain English, that explain the basic concepts and technical terms that people are going to come across, as well as taking them step by step through their first example project. This guide should really be database agnostic, but provide examples for Postgres.
2. A concept migration guide - there are lists of features that Postgres has that MySQL doesn't, and the like, but I have not found a guide that explains in simple terms what each of those features is, how to use them, why you should use them, and how they all fit together. Finding out the syntax for a particular statement is easy, but finding out how and why you should be using that facility is not covered.
I think that both these issues help reinforce the outsiders view that PG people tend to have an elitist attitude to non-PG people. I write this as a recent convert, having finally had enough of MySQLs limitations with an enterprise class project, that had started out small and grown beyond the DB's capabilities. I always looked at the feature set in PG with envy, but until recently I found the DB just too different for me to want to invest in making the switch.
Having no experience with PostgreSQL I will not engage in technical details but rather speak of my journey with MySQL. In the late 90's, my former boss decided to switch our SW to true SQL server. After many a discussion, choice fell on MySQL. At first, we were amazed with speed and ease of use. Later on, when problems surfaced, I was always able to get Monty or Sinisa on the phone and ask for advice. This was a great asset to us! Following on this, MySQL got from us one of the first Windows GUI client and numerous replies on windows mailing list once it was established. My point being you need quality response from community and to get that you need to invest a lot! Take a Jay Pipes for example (btw. Hi Jay!), MySQL community team consists of great professionals lead by one of the most important persons in MySQL. No compromise, community get's the best.
This brings me to, along with Chris's comment "1. Beginners guides, written in plain English", another point I wish to make. Although above seems unrelated, it is! What Marten brought to MySQL, besides looking sharp ;-), was enough money to be spent on community, support & docs team. It is my opinion that all three teams are of top quality in business. And only support makes money.
So, it doesn't seem right to attack MySQL over commercializing part of it's offers as most of the money goes back to where it should, to community.
To the authors, minority of one doesn't mean you're crazy! Although Nietzsche was well aware how hard that might be. Do not antagonize people for being fond of "anchoring", it is our nature. I have never met a vegetarian that didn't try to "convert" my eating habits ;-).
Finally, I'm looking forward to checking into PostgreSQL deeper, now that we're all part of SUN.
It's all about the name.
Well, no, it's not all about the name. But I wish it would change. It's not that it's really bad (not compared to the gimp anyway), it's just that it stumbles off the tongue, and it's not very memorable. "Howdyou say that now? Post Rest QL?"
Quite honestly I've recommended the use of PostgreSQL quite a few times when it was the appropriate tool but the name always seemed to be a bit of a stumbling block. When you're trying to pitch to a non-techy crowd, the name is more important than it ought to be.
It started as Ingres. Why couldn't it have been called Egress and saved me all this hassle? :-)
I agree too. Even Oak as stupid as it is slides off the tongue more easily. Saying PostgreSQL just doesn't make you sound like a smooth talker in meetings.
#5.1 Leo on 2008-05-05 00:14
I would like to raise one MySQL feature to the list, working integrated replication. PostgreSQL replication is a joke compared to MySQL one. Not to even get started with non-working PgCluster compared to very proven MySQL Cluster. Building high available, scalable systems is quite hard with Postgres, and that is a big problem if one wants to use Postgres for commercial applications.
Yes it's possible, I have setup DRBD + Slony replication for my company, but I used to maintain large MySQL replication and damn it was easy and better working.
#6 Toba on 2008-05-05 03:53
Thanks for the link. I'm happy to see others using S9Y. :)
I'm actually more a fan of PostgreSQL than MySQL. In fact, the only thing I like about MySQL is the pluggable storage engine option. If there's a way to do something similar with PostgreSQL I'd love to learn about it.
One comment concerning the lack of polished geeks promoting PG: Martin Mickos fits in with the business types because he runs a business. And that's really the key - the simple fact that there's a business behind MySQL makes it immensely more acceptable in the corporate world. There's a contract to sign and an entity to sue (if necessary), and that makes it palettable. Not so with PostgreSQL, at least not as far as I know. And until or unless that changes, PostgreSQL will never be adopted, officially or unofficially, as much as MySQL.
You are welcome Tom. I remember someone mentioning that way back when (e.g. maybe in the 6+ era) PostgreSQL had a pluggable storage engine, but the feature was discarded because it was too much trouble to maintain.
As far as contracts to sign and entity's to sue, I always thought most organizations are over that or at lest they are into suing consultants rather than software vendors. I can't really imagine suing Oracle for anything and their contracts seem more like customer chains. Still I think a lot of people read a lot into a suit and just because we are open source hackers doesn't mean we can't look good too :).
I never think of an entity to sue behind apache, but that is largely an accepted webserver by corporate types although I never paid much attention to the Apache model or the face of apache so maybe there is something behind that.
#7.1 Regina on 2008-05-05 22:20
And we have to add that MySQL is vastly easier to program than PostgreSQL. Just try to write a procedure that returns a result set in PostgreSQL.
The weird distinction between PostgreSQL and PlSQL means programming PostgreSQL requires more skills.
For most applications MySQL is good enough. And easier to program.
Note that I myself prefer PostgreSQL, but would hardly ever recommend it to a customer.
#8 Berend de Boer on 2008-05-06 18:11
I would agree that for most applications MySQL is good enough, but not necessarily easier to program. I too have recommended it over PostgreSQL for other reasons - e.g. it was an application that they needed well supported by many ISPs, they already had a MySQL server and were comfortable with it and they weren't doing anything complicated. But NEVER because it was easier to program.
The easier to program is I think more a perception than reality. If you are doing something trivial it will be trivial in either. Just because people tend to do simpler things in MySQL doesn't make it easier to program.
If you look at even Monty's criticisms of MySQL http://www.scribd.com/doc/2575733/The-future-of-MySQL-The-Project on slide 12. You can not use set returning stored procs of MySQL in the from clause which I find to be a huge disadvantage for most of the applications we write and makes many SQL Server to MySQL job ports painful. For simple set returning functions - nothing is easier than a PostgreSQL SQL set returning function. The MySQL PL is NOT easier.
I have had really bad experiences in MySQL where I wrote a marginally complicated View for one 5..release. something version and in a minor point newer release the view just didn't work at all. The same view works perfectly in SQL Server and PostgreSQL with no change. For MySQL prior to 5 - I even refused to work on many such jobs or charged a 20% premium because I can't imagine living without views for a marginally complex project.
#8.1 Regina on 2008-05-07 02:31
I think a big part of the issue is support. I can google MySQL and find more sites and problem resoultions and work arounds than I can count. Attempting to do the same thing with PostgreSQL, a developer and DBA finds themselves with limited resources. Even looking for books locally, there is amuch smaller selection and therefore less support.
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But Giants manager Bruce Bochy just informed me that there will be no changes. The Giants will carry the same 25 players from the NLDS and NLCS.
The club could have subtracted a pitcher such as right-hander Guillermo Mota for backup catcher Eli Whiteside, which would allow them to use Hector Sanchez's switch-hitting bat more freely off the bench. But the club doesn't want to burn Tim Lincecum in any kind of mop-up duty, which has been Mota's role.RELATED: San Francisco Giants 2012 World Series page
Bochy hasn't decided on a DH yet, but it won't be Melky Cabrera.
Giants CEO Larry Baer said there has been no discussion about reconsidering the club's stance on Cabrera, who satisfied terms of his 50-game suspension for a failed PED test at the conclusion of the NL Division Series with Cincinnati.
"This was a group decision and everybody believed it was the right thing given all the information at hand," Baer said. "The way the team was playing, the way we thought the team could keep going -- it was the entire set of issues."
Yes, but now the Giants are in need of a DH -- and Cabrera was leading the major leagues in hits and runs scored on the day he was suspended. So it's a suspect contention, at best, that the Giants truly believe their team is better off without him.RELATED: Bochy tells his team the journey is not yet over
There are other issues, though, including the fact that many teammates, players and coaches felt betrayed when Cabrera lied to all of them about the positive test when rumors of it began to leak. He still has not spoken to teammates and his sudden appearance no doubt would disrupt a chemistry and unity that has allowed the Giants to win six consecutive elimination games this postseason.
Then there is the fact that one of Cabrera's associates tried to dupe MLB investigators by creating a phony Web site selling a phony product to explain the positive test.
"This was not a split decision," Baer said. "This was everybody on the same page -- Bruce Bochy, Brian Sabean, our scouts, all our ownership, the CEO -- it was right for us when we made the decision."
RATTO: 'Rust' factor for Tigers? It's a mythThere is a sense around the team that Cabrera could be brought back as a free agent after the season, especially after his olive branch to convince Major League Baseball to disqualify him from the batting title, which passed to Buster Posey.
"But we can't wrap our brains around any of that now," Baer said. "Nobody's taken out the 2013 calendar yet."
As for their current situation, the Giants could use Aubrey Huff or Sanchez at designated hitter -- although with Sanchez in that spot, they'd have to give up the DH if Posey were to get hurt behind the plate.RELATED: Giants, Tigers World Series capsules
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Mel's Drive-In Pushes Things Just a Little Too Far: Presenting GOOD-4-U-BURGERSThursday, March 9th, 2017
Twitterloin Update: The LAFAYETTE COFFEE SHOP Diner is Long Gone, But It's Neon Sign is Still A-Glowing, For Some ReasonFriday, July 15th, 2016
On It Glows…
Relief for the Longest Grocery Line in Frisco: "ADDITIONAL PARKING NOW AVAILABLE AT LUCKY PENNY" on MasonicFriday, April 15th, 2016
Ex-Lucky Penny Diner Now an Idled Graffiti Magnet – See What's Become of ItFriday, March 4th, 2016
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Take a close look – perhaps your crew is represented here:
(Note that nobody tried to save this greasy spoon…)
Oh look, those four-bedroom apartments are coming, sooner or later.
Our Former LUCKY PENNY Diner has Become a Graffiti MagnetTuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Turns Out That the Best Way to Fill Up the Parking Lot at the Horrible LUCKY PENNY Diner was SHUTTING THE PLACE DOWNMonday, February 22nd, 2016
Here's the lot of our former LUCKY PENNY ("People Hate Us On YELP!") as it is these days:
Man, the only time I've seen as many cars here was that week in December when news got out that the joint was going kaput. (Otherwise, this place was like a ghost town in the daytime…)
So now this parcel of land can fulfill its highest and best purpose – as a parking lot for neighboring Trader Joe's #100:
Good times.
Hey, are people living inside the Lucky Penny, our Brokedown Palace these days? IDK. But what are the people in there doing?
Oh well.
Pick a Font, Any Font: "SILVER CREST, SILVER CREST, SILVER CREST, SILVER CREST" – The Ungentrifiable BayshoreTuesday, January 19th, 2016
Stop the Presses: 24-Hour Diner LUCKY PENNY No Longer 24-Hour – Put This Icon on Your Bucket List, Afore It's Too LateTuesday, November 17th, 2015
Here's how it used to be, via the Yelp:
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How soon afore this valuable parcel, betwixt Trader Joe's & City Target West and smackdab at the crossroads of Geary & Masonic, will become mad million dollar plus condos? IOW, How Soon Is Now?
The writing's on the wall, so let's visit, like for the first time in my life, ever, in all my years.
Oh look, no waiting!
I'm never going back, but I'm glad I went, you know, afore it leaves us…
Japantown Diner Evolution at 1700 Post: Denny's –> Danny's –> New Danny's –> Minny's –> New Minny's –> ???Friday, May 15th, 2015
Do I have that right?
The record on Yelp ends in 2009:
This is all the same place:
Perhaps this location is now Ssisso and Dennys/Dannys/Minnys is gone? IDK, but I think the New Minny's sign is still there
I can't see how New Minny's is still in operation, so I'll assume that the mall people simply left the sign up 'cause that was the easier choice.
A mystery solved.
Anyway, memories:
Changes include the removal of graphics and the substitution of trademarked names with generic terms ("Grand Slam" became "Humongous Breakfast" and "Heartland Scramble" became "Hearty Scramble").
And suffer J.E.:
We were vacationing in San Francisco this week, staying at the Tomo hotel in J town and I stupidly wanted to eat breakfast nearby. What a mistake!! The owner/manager? practically pulled us into this trap of a joint off the sidewalk. We should have kept on walking! Anyway, after looking at what he told us was a Denny's menu, he switched it with a menu that had a "Danny's" logo, the sign outside this place was "Minny's or New Minny's?, the food was lousy and when I went to pay the bill for our breakfast for 3 it came to $36!!! I elected not to argue with this turkey and just get the hell out! I paid with plastic and had to ask him for a receipt which he reprinted and gave me a duplicate. When we got home today in So-Cal and I checked my on-line stmt, the SOB billed me an extra $10!! for a total of $46 for two lousy bacon and egg meals and one pancake breakfast!! Boy am I upset!!
Mel's Drive-In Partially Goes Gluten-Free – Buckwheat Pancakes Anybody? – Sic Transit Gloria 94118Monday, August 4th, 2014
Mel's Drive-In at 3355 Geary: 1953 to 1974 and 1988 to 2014?
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Good-bye, Mel's. I'll remember you for 50's nostalgia and your gluten-free pancakes…


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