[Bizgres-general] Is Bizgres dead?

[Seth Grimes]

Mark, you wrote --

> Yeah it was completed quite a while ago (in April I think!) - so the CVS 
> code uses 8.2.4 currently.

I looked at the CVS.  The March 2007 file 
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/bizgres/bizgres/postgresql/README 
and other files say "Initial checkin for merge with 8.2.3 sources.  At 
this point the main Bizgres extensions: Bitmap Indexes, Resource Queues 
and COPY enhancements are broken."  So perhaps the port to 8.2.x wasn't 
completed, explaining why the Bizgres packagings haven't been updated from 
April 2006's 0.9.

I'm planning to post a blog article on this stuff in a few hours, so if 
anyone has comments, please let me know.

 				Seth, 301-270-0795



On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Seth Grimes wrote:

> Thanks Mark.
>
> The last version available at bizgres.org and at 
> http://www.greenplum.com/index.php?page=bizgres is 0.9, based on 
> PostgreSQL 8.1.3.  Will you package the updated code and/or builds for 
> distribution so that people don't have to extract from the codebase and 
> build themselves?  At least it would help to have some indication 
> on-line that the later version of the code is available.
>
> 					Seth
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>> Seth Grimes wrote:
>>>  There were a couple of April 2007 list messages titled "Bizgres 
>>> update to use postgres 8.2 codebase underway."  Did that work stall or 
>>> is it progressing?
>>> 
>>> 
>> Yeah it was completed quite a while ago (in April I think!) - so the CVS 
>> code uses 8.2.4 currently.  (but now 8.3 is out... guess what needs to 
>> happen!!).
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>

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Seth Grimes   Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management
               Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP), Contributing Editor
grimes at altaplana.com       http://altaplana.com    301-270-0795