Archive for February, 2005

Optimizing Postgresql

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Rene discovered nice options in postgresql.conf

# – Planner Method Enabling -

#enable_hashagg = true
#enable_hashjoin = true
#enable_indexscan = true
#enable_mergejoin = true
#enable_nestloop = true
#enable_seqscan = true
enable_seqscan = false
#enable_sort = true
#enable_tidscan = true
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Automake/autoconf for Ant

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Yesss, it’s a good idea. Ant is a substitute for make, designed to be free of make’s wrinkles. It is, however, only a make substitute, and allows only to write build files.

The reality shows that most of the builtfiles are written ad hoc and are of varied quality. For example, given the source code application X, there’s no common way of specifying how to build and install this application in a given path or how to build the documentation.

Wait a second… haven’t we had a similar problem with makefiles? ;-) Yessss, the answer is automake/autoconf. How about a similar tool for Ant, without autocont/automake’s wrinkles?
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JUNG

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

JUNG – Java Universal Network Graph Framework
Looks quite advanced… we will see what it can do.

Trying out a graph framework to implement PageRank and other algorithms. We will see how it will work with PageRank.
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