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* New survey
@ 2003-12-23 21:18 Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2003-12-23 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
FYI: I added a new survey:
What PostgreSQL API do you use the most?
/D
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* New survey
@ 2004-04-20 07:11 Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2004-04-20 07:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Anyone got any ideas for a new user survey? It's long overdue for a
change...
Regards, Dave.
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 07:58 Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2004-04-20 07:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: [email protected]; +Cc: pgsql-www
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Clift [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20 April 2004 08:33
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New survey
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> > Anyone got any ideas for a new user survey? It's long overdue for a
> > change...
>
> Um, I changed it around last week. ;-)
Did you - oh sorry, hadn't noticed (thought I was the only one who ever
did that).
> For the next questions, I was thinking about getting some
> demographic information. i.e. a couple of weeks of stuff like:
>
> How old are you?
>
> < 20
> 20 > 29
> 30 > 39
> 40 > 49
> 50+
>
> So we start to get an idea of the types of people that visit
> the website (and answer polls).
Could do I suppose - not overly sure that it's that interesting.
Regards, Dave.
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 08:02 Justin Clift <[email protected]>
parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Justin Clift @ 2004-04-20 08:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Dave Page wrote:
<snip>
>>So we start to get an idea of the types of people that visit
>>the website (and answer polls).
>
> Could do I suppose - not overly sure that it's that interesting.
After I thought of it the other day, it became more interesting.
Started to wonder... what's the normal, everyday person out there
visiting the PostgreSQL site like?
So, this seems like a decent way to start figuring it out.
:)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
> Regards, Dave.
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 12:32 Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Oleg Bartunov @ 2004-04-20 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Page wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas for a new user survey? It's long overdue for a
> change...
the best way to find information.
* mailing list archive
* search interface (www.postgresql.org)
* search postgresql resources (www.pgsql.ru)
and something else....
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 12:46 Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Devrim GUNDUZ @ 2004-04-20 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
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Hi,
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Page wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas for a new user survey? It's long overdue for a
> change...
I've already suggested some surveys last year. Here are two of'em:
Q: How many people do you serve with PostgreSQL? <text may change>
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
* <10
* 10-50
* 50-100
* 100-1000
* 1000-5000
* > 5000
Q:"How large is your PostgreSQL database?"
- ------------------------------------------
* 0-100 MB
* 100-500 MB
* 500 MB - 1 GB
* 1 GB - 500 GB
* 500 GB - 1 TB
* 1 TB - 4 TB
* > 4 TB
Regards,
- --
Devrim GUNDUZ
[email protected] [email protected]
http://www.TDMSoft.com
http://www.gunduz.org
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 14:03 Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Marc G. Fournier @ 2004-04-20 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
One of the web forums I'm on for web hosting has a 'create a survey'
option that allows ppl to do so on the fly ... maybe something like that
on our site would be good? have it similar to the events, where it has to
be approved before being put into circulation, but if there is a new one
in the wings, then have it cycled in at the end of the week, so that each
survey would last a minimum of 1 week ...
Then, have a 'last seen' date that would allow the same survey to be
displayed, say, a max of once every 3 months, so you could see changes in
results? ie. last survey might have shown PHP4 was the preferred
programming language, but in 3 months, it shifts to more of a perl focus
...
Just thoughts ...
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Page wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas for a new user survey? It's long overdue for a
> change...
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 16:46 Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
parent: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
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From: Josh Berkus @ 2004-04-20 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>; Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
People,
I second Devrim's suggestions, with some changes to the question text and
categories:
> Q: How many users do you support on PostgreSQL?
> - -------------------------------------------------------------------
> * <10
> * 10-50
> * 50-100
> * 100-1000
> * 1000-5000
> * > 5000
>
> Q: How large is your largest PostgreSQL database cluster?
> - ------------------------------------------
>
> * 0-10 MB
> * 10-250 MB
> * 250 MB - 1 GB
> * 1 GB - 25 GB
> * 25 GB - 1 TB
> * 1 TB - 4 TB
> * > 4 TB
Also Q: What is your favorite PostgreSQL add-in feature among the below?
* Tablefunc
* Tsearch/OpenFTS
* PostGIS
* eRServer
* OraPGSQLviews
* lTree
* dbLink
* I've never heard of any of them.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-20 16:54 Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
parent: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
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From: Josh Berkus @ 2004-04-20 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Folks,
Oh, another one:
For what task do you primarily use PostgreSQL?
* Data Warehousing/Data Mining
* Web Content Serving
* Transaction Processing
* Scientific Applications
* Games/Hobby
* Several of the above
* Other/None of the above
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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* Re: New survey
@ 2004-04-21 07:22 Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2004-04-21 07:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20 April 2004 15:03
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New survey
>
>
> One of the web forums I'm on for web hosting has a 'create a survey'
> option that allows ppl to do so on the fly ... maybe
> something like that on our site would be good? have it
> similar to the events, where it has to be approved before
> being put into circulation, but if there is a new one in the
> wings, then have it cycled in at the end of the week, so that
> each survey would last a minimum of 1 week ...
We already have a web interface to create them on the admin site. It's
not public though, and it currently doesn't have any method of hiding
surveys we don't want to display yet. It just sets one of them as the
current survey.
> Then, have a 'last seen' date that would allow the same
> survey to be displayed, say, a max of once every 3 months, so
> you could see changes in results? ie. last survey might have
> shown PHP4 was the preferred programming language, but in 3
> months, it shifts to more of a perl focus ...
That would take a fair bit of work to do as we would need to start
storing results for each 'run' of each survey, and then display the
results in an easy to compare format - probably a bar chart of some
description.
Regards. Dave.
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* new survey
@ 2006-04-10 14:38 Robert Treat <[email protected]>
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From: Robert Treat @ 2006-04-10 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
I'm stealing this idea from http://www.postgresqlfr.org/?q=node/641 but adding
a twist:
Aside from pl/pgsql, which procedural language do you use most often?
pl/j or pl/java
pl/perl
pl/php
pl/python
pl/r
pl/ruby
pl/tcl
what is a procedural language?
lmk if there are any objects, else I will put it up later today.
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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* Re: new survey
@ 2006-04-10 14:48 Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
parent: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
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From: Devrim GUNDUZ @ 2006-04-10 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
Hi,
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:38 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> lmk if there are any objects, else I will put it up later today.
Ok, no objection from here.
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Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting
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* Re: new survey
@ 2006-04-11 16:33 David Fetter <[email protected]>
parent: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
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From: David Fetter @ 2006-04-11 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:38:55AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> I'm stealing this idea from http://www.postgresqlfr.org/?q=node/641 but adding
> a twist:
>
> Aside from pl/pgsql, which procedural language do you use most often?
I think SQL counts as one as our version is Turing-complete :)
Cheers,
D
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phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666
Skype: davidfetter
Remember to vote!
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* Re: new survey
@ 2006-04-21 17:23 Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
parent: David Fetter <[email protected]>
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From: Jim C. Nasby @ 2006-04-21 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>; +Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>; pgsql-www
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:33:10AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:38:55AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > I'm stealing this idea from http://www.postgresqlfr.org/?q=node/641 but adding
> > a twist:
> >
> > Aside from pl/pgsql, which procedural language do you use most often?
>
> I think SQL counts as one as our version is Turing-complete :)
Yeah, but we already know you're the only one who'll vote for it, so it
doesn't matter. :P
BTW, anyone thought about soliciting survey ideas on the website?
--
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vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
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* Re: new survey
@ 2006-04-21 17:27 David Fetter <[email protected]>
parent: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
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From: David Fetter @ 2006-04-21 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>; +Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>; pgsql-www
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:23:53PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:33:10AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:38:55AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > I'm stealing this idea from
> > > http://www.postgresqlfr.org/?q=node/641 but adding a twist:
> > >
> > > Aside from pl/pgsql, which procedural language do you use most
> > > often?
> >
> > I think SQL counts as one as our version is Turing-complete :)
>
> Yeah, but we already know you're the only one who'll vote for it, so
> it doesn't matter. :P
Not true. My second-most-used PL is PL/PerlU, followed closesly by
PL/Perl :)
Cheers,
D
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David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/
phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666
Skype: davidfetter
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* New Survey?
@ 2007-08-03 17:11 Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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From: Josh Berkus @ 2007-08-03 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Folks,
The survey currently up is way out of date. Here's replacement suggestions.
It would also be great if David could announce new surveys in PWN.
===========
OS: it's been a while since we did a server OS survey:
Q: On what operating system are the largest or most of your production or
chief development PostgreSQL servers running?
-- Red Hat Linux
-- Debian/Ubuntu
-- Other Linux
-- Windows
-- Solaris
-- FreeBSD
-- Other OS
==========
App type:
Q: What is the database task for which you primariy use PostgreSQL in
production?
-- OLTP / e-commerce
-- Web content management
-- Web 2.0 applications
-- Data warehousing
-- Monitoring & Security
-- Several / all of the above
-- Do not use PostgreSQL in production
===========
Version:
Q: Which version of PostgreSQL are most of your servers currently deployed on?
-- 7.2 or earlier
-- 7.3
-- 7.4
-- 8.0
-- 8.1
-- 8.2
-- Latest CVS snapshot, yeah!
============
Upgrades
Q: When do you upgrade your main machines after a new PostgreSQL release?
-- I upgrade during beta
-- Immediately after .0 comes out
-- I wait for the .1 release
-- 1-3 months
-- 4-9 months
-- I'm generally 1 or 2 versions behind
-- Whenever my OS supports the new version
-- Never
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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* Re: New Survey?
@ 2007-08-03 17:17 Jonah H. Harris <[email protected]>
parent: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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From: Jonah H. Harris @ 2007-08-03 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
On 8/3/07, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote:
> The survey currently up is way out of date. Here's replacement suggestions.
As a first choice, I'd say the upgrade survey. Second, I'd choose app-type.
--
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EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301
33 Wood Ave S, 3rd Floor | [email protected]
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* Re: New Survey?
@ 2007-08-03 18:20 Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
parent: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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From: Andrew Sullivan @ 2007-08-03 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:11:56AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> The survey currently up is way out of date. Here's replacement suggestions.
I don't know where the survey is, but I hate those things online.
They're dumb because the sample qualification is both self-selected
and unknown. Can't we dump it?
A
--
Andrew Sullivan | [email protected]
A certain description of men are for getting out of debt, yet are
against all taxes for raising money to pay it off.
--Alexander Hamilton
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