[Roadster] new gdk renderer and drag to scroll

[Ian McIntosh]

Hi Dustin,

Is this the ECPG you're talking about?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/ecpg.html

If so, still no embedded PostgreSQL server. :(

My earlier comment shouldn't be read as a criticism of MySQL.  It's no
surprise that a SQL database isn't fast enough to sit in the render
loop.  (That said, it currently DOES sit there and it's actually
usable!)

-Ian


On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 13:20 +0000, Dustin kirkland wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 04:54:18 -0500, Ian McIntosh
> <ian_mcintosh at linuxadvocate.org> wrote:
> > The database is the new bottleneck.  Now it seems crazy that we're
> > loading from disk for EVERY FRAME drawn (while dragging!!).  Some kind
> > of memory cache may be the next step.
> 
> At some point, this conversation will certainly degenerate into a
> religious debate, but I'm going to throw it out there...
> 
> I've chosen PostgreSQL over MySQL several times in enterprise web
> applications for its performance superiority.  The following article
> discusses PostgreSQL's shared buffer cache, which might have what
> you're looking for:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4791
> 
> Other articles directly comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL are a dime a
> dozen these days.  To grossly oversimplify the majority of those
> articles, "the bigger the database, the more you want the performance
> of postgres; to smaller the database, the more want the ease of
> mysql."
> 
> I think the "ecpg" package may provide the functionality Roadster
> needs for embeddeding postgres.
> 
> Just a thought...don't shoot me!
> 
> Dustin
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