From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 07:50:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16589 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 07:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-43.netcom.ca [207.181.94.107]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16566 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 07:50:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA07048; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:48:43 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:48:43 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SQL on FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <199702211553.PAA06587@mail.global-sol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > I am using my FreeBSD 2.15 server for my web and mail site and it has > performed very well. I now need to go to the next level and start > developing databases and be able to access them from the www. > > I have seen the MSQL product and was not sure if it would meet the > requirements or not. I don't want to go to another platform to be > able to accomplish this. > > If any one else has had experience doing this on FreeBSD I would > appreciate your input. > There is also PostgreSQL v6.0, which is another FreeDBMS that was developed out of Berkeley and is now being maintained/distributed through http://www.postgresql.org I haven't looked into mSQL in a very very long time, so I don't know what its current SQL support level is at, but when I did use it, it didn't even come close to what PostgreSQL *was*...and we've been pushing some *major* feature enhancements through over the past 6months or so.