[clue-talk] Any linux package specialists out there?

[David Rudder]

A friend off-list sent me to pkgwrite.
http://ffem.org/daveb/pkgwrite/
It seems to do what I want. I'd still like to have an automated service 
that can create these packages and run basic sanity tests on the actual 
distribution, but I think I can scare up a machine with a removable hard 
drive to test this with.

Thank you!
-Dave

David Rudder wrote:
> Don't take me as a scientific case at all. It's entirely possible that 
> I had it configured wrong. My test machine is low on memory, so it's 
> possible that it would run faster with more memory. Plus, PG's weak 
> spot is, IIRC, connection setup and teardown, but I use a connection 
> pool so I don't do many connections.
>
> There's another reason I use PG above HSQL that I didn't bring up 
> before. I have a friend that's a contributor to postgres :) He gives 
> me free help if use PG and buy him beer occasionally.
>
> -Dave
>
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>> On 05-10 19:13, David Rudder wrote:
>>> That's a good idea, but I tried it already. I had it running with 
>>> HSQL and McKoi, both Java embedded databases. They were slow, and so 
>>> the app looked slow. I haven't tried Derby, but I don't think this 
>>> is an area where I want to sacrifice speed for portability. I'd 
>>> rather...um...rely on RPM?
>>
>> Hm, I'll have to remember that and keep that in mind for future 
>> projects. I
>> have not used Postgres in some time, and Hsqldb/H2 not at all, but it 
>> was
>> my understanding they were actually *faster* than Postgres at some
>> operations, and on par on others.
>
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