postgres-xc-general Mailing List for Postgres-XC (Page 2)

> I have read the (just) story about bizgres and c-store, from it's
> development progress until it was commercialized by it's developer.
> That's so sad because the original project was not to be maintained.
>
Postgres-XC is under BSD license (PostgreSQL license), so you can edit the
code, copy the code and even sell it if you wish as a closed source package.
You can also make money from it by becoming a specialist of this technology
and sell support and consulting services.
However there are really few specialists in the world that really
understand deeply this kind of technology, and even lesser who can work on
the code or design applications for clusters based on XC.

What are Postgres-XC plans, will be in the future?
>
Becoming a reference and a real alternative to closed source (and costly)
solutions like one I won't give the name (Or????AC).

How to achieve them?
>
By supporting and helping the project.
There are several ways to support the project:
- first learn how to use it
- register to the mailing lists and do not hesitate to ask questions
- report bugs, even better => report bugs and submit patches fixing them.
- improve the documentation and submit patch for that
- build and publish packages
- search for funds to support developers if you want some new features
- promote the project at conferences or by writing articles about it.
- provide machines for buildfarming and extend the currently supported OS.
- provide some website architecture similar to postgresql.org.
That's all I have in mind now... However, there may be some other things
people could do.

Regards,
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com

Thanks Michael for sharing this. It's nice article.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Michael Paquier
<mic...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a small article about XC at PGCon:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/498853/
>
> The project is presented as a clear initiative to OracleRAC.
> --
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com
>
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Hi,

I have read the (just) story about bizgres and c-store, from it's
development progress until it was commercialized by it's developer.
That's so sad because the original project was not to be maintained.

What are Postgre-XC plans, will be in the future?
How to achieve them?

On 6/8/12, Michael Paquier <mic...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a small article about XC at PGCon:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/498853/
>
> The project is presented as a clear initiative to OracleRAC.
> --
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com
>

Hi all,

Here is a small article about XC at PGCon:
http://lwn.net/Articles/498853/

The project is presented as a clear initiative to OracleRAC.
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com

We should definitely avoid to create threads based on announces done on
PostgreSQL mailing lists...
Sorry for the incovenience.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Michael Paquier
<mic...@gm...>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Michael Vitale <mic...@ar...> wrote:
>
>>  is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?
>>
> It looks that Devrim is going to work on that.
> If you are interested in the RPM specs, I uploaded the ones used by Devrim
> for 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 here:
>
> http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/pgxcrpm;a=summary
>
> Regards,
> --
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com
>



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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Michael Vitale <mic...@ar...> wrote:

>  is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?
>
It looks that Devrim is going to work on that.
If you are interested in the RPM specs, I uploaded the ones used by Devrim
for 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 here:
http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/pgxcrpm;a=summary

Regards,
-- 
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http://michael.otacoo.com

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 14:06 +0000, Michael Vitale wrote:
> is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?

Not yet, but I have a plan to work on this next week.

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2012/6/7 Michael Vitale <mic...@ar...>

>  question regarding the "--with-libxml" configure option during the
> install...
>
> Does this mean that certain XML functions like XMLPARSE will not work
> unless I install with this option?
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Michael Vitale [mic...@ar...]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:06 AM
> *To:* Michael Paquier; Postgres-XC mailing list; PostgreSQL mailing lists
> *Subject:* Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.0
>
>   is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Michael Paquier [mic...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:30 AM
> *To:* Postgres-XC mailing list; PostgreSQL mailing lists
> *Subject:* [Postgres-xc-general] Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.0
>
>  Hi all,
>
> Postgres-XC, read&write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on
> PostgreSQL, version 1.0.0 is released.
> This project is seen as an open-source alternative to costly products such
> as OracleRAC. Postgres-XC is based on the code of PostgreSQL, so it can
> naturally use all its technologies, which are enhaunced to have a
> shared-nothing multi-master PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
>
> This first stable version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1.4. All the patches in
> PostgreSQL 9.1 stable branch have been merged up to commit 873d1c1 (1st of
> June 2012).
> This includes the security fix related to pg_crypto dated of 30th of May.
> You can download the source tarball directly from here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/files/latest/download
> This tarball contains all the HTML and man documentation.
>
> 30 bug fixes have been made since release of beta2, with some notable
> enhancements:
> - Support for EXTENSION is fixed
> - Stabilization of the use of slave nodes in cluster
> - Fix of a bug related to read-only transactions, improving performance by
> 15%.
> - Support of compilation for MacOSX
> About the scalability of this release, Postgres-XC 1.0.0 scales to a
> factor of 3 when compared to a standalone server PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on 5
> nodes using a benchmark called DBT-1.
>
> Compared to version Postgres-XC 0.9.7, the following features have been
> added:
> - Fast query shipping (FQS), quick identification of expressions in a
> query that can be pushed down to remote nodes
> - SERIAL types
> - TABLESPACE
> - Utility to clean up 2PC transactions in cluster (pgxc_clean)
> - Utility for initialization of GTM (global transaction manager, utility
> called initgtm)
> - Relation-size functions and locking functions
> - Regression stabilization
>
> The documentation of 1.0, including release notes, is available here:
> http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/.
>
> The project can be followed on Source Forge:
> http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/.
> And a couple of GIT repositories are used for development:
> - SourceForge:
> http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/postgres-xc;a=summary
> - Github: https://github.com/postgres-xc/postgres-xc
>
> The core team is currently working in the addition of new features for the
> next major release including:
> - Merge with PostgreSQL 9.2
> - Data redistribution functionality, changing table distribution in
> cluster with a simple ALTER TABLE
> - New functionalities related to online node addition and deletion for a
> better user experience
> - Triggers
> - Planner improvements
> - Global constraints.
> The roadmap of the project is located here =>
> http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/ in section Roadmap.
>
> The project is under the same license as PostgreSQL, now managed under a
> single entity called "Postgres-XC Development Group".
> In order to keep in touch with the project, whose development follows the
> same model as PostgreSQL, you can register to the following mailing lists:
> - pos...@li..., for general questions.
> Registration can be done here:
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-general
> - pos...@li.... hachers mailing list.
> Registration can be done here:
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-developers
>
> See you soon on the project mailing list, and have fun with this stable
> release.
> --
> Michael Paquier
> Member of core team of Postgres-XC, and Postgres-XC Development Group
>

question regarding the "--with-libxml" configure option during the install...

Does this mean that certain XML functions like XMLPARSE will not work unless I install with this option?



________________________________
From: Michael Vitale [mic...@ar...]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:06 AM
To: Michael Paquier; Postgres-XC mailing list; PostgreSQL mailing lists
Subject: Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.0

is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?


________________________________
From: Michael Paquier [mic...@gm...]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:30 AM
To: Postgres-XC mailing list; PostgreSQL mailing lists
Subject: [Postgres-xc-general] Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.0

Hi all,

Postgres-XC, read&write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on PostgreSQL, version 1.0.0 is released.
This project is seen as an open-source alternative to costly products such as OracleRAC. Postgres-XC is based on the code of PostgreSQL, so it can naturally use all its technologies, which are enhaunced to have a shared-nothing multi-master PostgreSQL-based database cluster.

This first stable version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1.4. All the patches in PostgreSQL 9.1 stable branch have been merged up to commit 873d1c1 (1st of June 2012).
This includes the security fix related to pg_crypto dated of 30th of May.
You can download the source tarball directly from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/files/latest/download
This tarball contains all the HTML and man documentation.

30 bug fixes have been made since release of beta2, with some notable enhancements:
- Support for EXTENSION is fixed
- Stabilization of the use of slave nodes in cluster
- Fix of a bug related to read-only transactions, improving performance by 15%.
- Support of compilation for MacOSX
About the scalability of this release, Postgres-XC 1.0.0 scales to a factor of 3 when compared to a standalone server PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on 5 nodes using a benchmark called DBT-1.

Compared to version Postgres-XC 0.9.7, the following features have been added:
- Fast query shipping (FQS), quick identification of expressions in a query that can be pushed down to remote nodes
- SERIAL types
- TABLESPACE
- Utility to clean up 2PC transactions in cluster (pgxc_clean)
- Utility for initialization of GTM (global transaction manager, utility called initgtm)
- Relation-size functions and locking functions
- Regression stabilization

The documentation of 1.0, including release notes, is available here:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/.

The project can be followed on Source Forge: http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/.
And a couple of GIT repositories are used for development:
- SourceForge: http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/postgres-xc;a=summary
- Github: https://github.com/postgres-xc/postgres-xc

The core team is currently working in the addition of new features for the next major release including:
- Merge with PostgreSQL 9.2
- Data redistribution functionality, changing table distribution in cluster with a simple ALTER TABLE
- New functionalities related to online node addition and deletion for a better user experience
- Triggers
- Planner improvements
- Global constraints.
The roadmap of the project is located here => http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/ in section Roadmap.

The project is under the same license as PostgreSQL, now managed under a single entity called "Postgres-XC Development Group".
In order to keep in touch with the project, whose development follows the same model as PostgreSQL, you can register to the following mailing lists:
- pos...@li...<mailto:pos...@li...>, for general questions. Registration can be done here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-general
- pos...@li...<mailto:pos...@li...>. hachers mailing list. Registration can be done here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-developers

See you soon on the project mailing list, and have fun with this stable release.
--
Michael Paquier
Member of core team of Postgres-XC, and Postgres-XC Development Group

is there an RPM for 1.0.0, and if so, where?


________________________________
From: Michael Paquier [mic...@gm...]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:30 AM
To: Postgres-XC mailing list; PostgreSQL mailing lists
Subject: [Postgres-xc-general] Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.0

Hi all,

Postgres-XC, read&write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on PostgreSQL, version 1.0.0 is released.
This project is seen as an open-source alternative to costly products such as OracleRAC. Postgres-XC is based on the code of PostgreSQL, so it can naturally use all its technologies, which are enhaunced to have a shared-nothing multi-master PostgreSQL-based database cluster.

This first stable version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1.4. All the patches in PostgreSQL 9.1 stable branch have been merged up to commit 873d1c1 (1st of June 2012).
This includes the security fix related to pg_crypto dated of 30th of May.
You can download the source tarball directly from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/files/latest/download
This tarball contains all the HTML and man documentation.

30 bug fixes have been made since release of beta2, with some notable enhancements:
- Support for EXTENSION is fixed
- Stabilization of the use of slave nodes in cluster
- Fix of a bug related to read-only transactions, improving performance by 15%.
- Support of compilation for MacOSX
About the scalability of this release, Postgres-XC 1.0.0 scales to a factor of 3 when compared to a standalone server PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on 5 nodes using a benchmark called DBT-1.

Compared to version Postgres-XC 0.9.7, the following features have been added:
- Fast query shipping (FQS), quick identification of expressions in a query that can be pushed down to remote nodes
- SERIAL types
- TABLESPACE
- Utility to clean up 2PC transactions in cluster (pgxc_clean)
- Utility for initialization of GTM (global transaction manager, utility called initgtm)
- Relation-size functions and locking functions
- Regression stabilization

The documentation of 1.0, including release notes, is available here:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/.

The project can be followed on Source Forge: http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/.
And a couple of GIT repositories are used for development:
- SourceForge: http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/postgres-xc;a=summary
- Github: https://github.com/postgres-xc/postgres-xc

The core team is currently working in the addition of new features for the next major release including:
- Merge with PostgreSQL 9.2
- Data redistribution functionality, changing table distribution in cluster with a simple ALTER TABLE
- New functionalities related to online node addition and deletion for a better user experience
- Triggers
- Planner improvements
- Global constraints.
The roadmap of the project is located here => http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/ in section Roadmap.

The project is under the same license as PostgreSQL, now managed under a single entity called "Postgres-XC Development Group".
In order to keep in touch with the project, whose development follows the same model as PostgreSQL, you can register to the following mailing lists:
- pos...@li...<mailto:pos...@li...>, for general questions. Registration can be done here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-general
- pos...@li...<mailto:pos...@li...>. hachers mailing list. Registration can be done here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-developers

See you soon on the project mailing list, and have fun with this stable release.
--
Michael Paquier
Member of core team of Postgres-XC, and Postgres-XC Development Group

Hi all,

Postgres-XC, read&write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on
PostgreSQL, version 1.0.0 is released.
This project is seen as an open-source alternative to costly products such
as OracleRAC. Postgres-XC is based on the code of PostgreSQL, so it can
naturally use all its technologies, which are enhaunced to have a
shared-nothing multi-master PostgreSQL-based database cluster.

This first stable version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1.4. All the patches in
PostgreSQL 9.1 stable branch have been merged up to commit 873d1c1 (1st of
June 2012).
This includes the security fix related to pg_crypto dated of 30th of May.
You can download the source tarball directly from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/files/latest/download
This tarball contains all the HTML and man documentation.

30 bug fixes have been made since release of beta2, with some notable
enhancements:
- Support for EXTENSION is fixed
- Stabilization of the use of slave nodes in cluster
- Fix of a bug related to read-only transactions, improving performance by
15%.
- Support of compilation for MacOSX
About the scalability of this release, Postgres-XC 1.0.0 scales to a factor
of 3 when compared to a standalone server PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on 5 nodes using
a benchmark called DBT-1.

Compared to version Postgres-XC 0.9.7, the following features have been
added:
- Fast query shipping (FQS), quick identification of expressions in a query
that can be pushed down to remote nodes
- SERIAL types
- TABLESPACE
- Utility to clean up 2PC transactions in cluster (pgxc_clean)
- Utility for initialization of GTM (global transaction manager, utility
called initgtm)
- Relation-size functions and locking functions
- Regression stabilization

The documentation of 1.0, including release notes, is available here:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/.

The project can be followed on Source Forge:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/.
And a couple of GIT repositories are used for development:
- SourceForge:
http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/postgres-xc;a=summary
- Github: https://github.com/postgres-xc/postgres-xc

The core team is currently working in the addition of new features for the
next major release including:
- Merge with PostgreSQL 9.2
- Data redistribution functionality, changing table distribution in cluster
with a simple ALTER TABLE
- New functionalities related to online node addition and deletion for a
better user experience
- Triggers
- Planner improvements
- Global constraints.
The roadmap of the project is located here =>
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/ in section Roadmap.

The project is under the same license as PostgreSQL, now managed under a
single entity called "Postgres-XC Development Group".
In order to keep in touch with the project, whose development follows the
same model as PostgreSQL, you can register to the following mailing lists:
- pos...@li..., for general questions.
Registration can be done here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-general
- pos...@li.... hachers mailing list.
Registration can be done here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/postgres-xc-developers

See you soon on the project mailing list, and have fun with this stable
release.
-- 
Michael Paquier
Member of core team of Postgres-XC, and Postgres-XC Development Group

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd...@co...>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Alright so this is what I have going on right now. I have Drupal 7 up
> running on PostgreSQL 9.1 @ xc.commandprompt.com . I am currently trying
> to figure out a logical structure for menu items vs content.
>
> If anyone wants to start a discussion on that problem it would be a great
> help so I am not throwing work at a dart board that is going to be cleared
> at the end of the day.
>
Some menu items for download and documentation would be great.
For the time being documentation is stored here:
http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/docs/
But the structure is very basic, I just upload the html files generated.
There is no search functionality on the documentation generated either.

Regarding the download options, a menu with the list of versions and links
to download packages and tarballs would be great.
For the time being, the release is done by simply uploading with a source
tarball in sourceforge.
There is no plan to work on packages there, so assuming that some people
would work on rpm, debian, or whatever, a page redirecting to all the
possible downloads would be nice.

Then, in the About part, why not creating a menu with a couple of sub-items
like:
- quotes
- examples of configuration
- Q&A
- etc.

Regards,
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http://michael.otacoo.com

Hello,

Alright so this is what I have going on right now. I have Drupal 7 up 
running on PostgreSQL 9.1 @ xc.commandprompt.com . I am currently trying 
to figure out a logical structure for menu items vs content.

If anyone wants to start a discussion on that problem it would be a 
great help so I am not throwing work at a dart board that is going to be 
cleared at the end of the day.

Sincerely,

jD

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