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September 28, 2004
Cat, Icons, and MaxDB
This morning I took the cat to get her stitches out. Which went fine, took about 5 minutes, and didn’t even make me late for work. When she got spayed, Ebony was hissing at her when she got back. It doesn’t look like that happened this time. It was probably because she stayed there for the whole day, all kinds of other cat and dog smells got on her.
I’ve asked Alex to make me an icon for Gravatar, the wacky icon service I’m interested in. It’s probably going to wind up being a band logo (probably Death or Mekong Delta, what a surprise) because it’s difficult to take a bunch of band logos, programming language names, the PostgreSQL elephant, pornography and the Anarchy symbol and bring them together in an 80×80 icon. Though I welcome people to try. :)
At work, we were talking about what we need (or want) in a database system, and that’s clustering, hot failover, and other high-end features. We found MaxDB, the new SAP DB, but in addition to strange commercial restrictions which miraculously don’t apply to us, it doesn’t build on the Mac nor is it ever expected to. The client libraries don’t even build on the Mac. So, fuck it. I just wish PostgreSQL would get these truly high-end features someday:
- Hot failover
- 2-way replication or clustering
- Incremental backups (suck, yes, but needed sometimes)
That’s about it.
Posted by FusionGyro at September 28, 2004 09:57 PM
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