Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Database was: Re: uptime on hub.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970917103511.4582E-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970917082400.4698A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Atipa wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > scrappy@zeus.trends.ca> uname -a > > FreeBSD zeus.trends.ca 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Jul 17 02:24:10 EDT 1996 scrappy@zeus.trends.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/zeus i386 > > scrappy@zeus.trends.ca> uptime > > 10:01AM up 279 days, 19:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > No users, as its being used as a PostgreSQL database server for > > the accounting system on an ISP... > > IS there a decent SQL-based database for FreeBSD? (I do NOT want to hear > anyone say mSQL... because it is slow as hell and featureless). > > We just dropped a bunch of cash on Informix's Online Workgroup Server for > Sparc becauses I could not find any professional quality database for > FreeBSD. What is PostgreSQL? Sounds interesting... check out www.postgresql.org for more details... > Speed is definitely a must, along with some nice features, like > variable-length strings, BLOB support, nice CLI interface, professional > support, and most importantly reliability. It will be used as a primary > database for inventory tracking (about 400-2000 parts / day, each > individually trackable w/ serial number), invoicing, warranty, etc., so it > MUST work reliably. We are just about to release 6.2, which has had *alot* of work put into it to improve speed issues, with alot of stuff planned for v6.3 to improve that further. Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org Systems Administrator @ hub.org scrappy@freebsd.org
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