Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:32:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dan Moschuk <dan@trinsec.com> Cc: "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database holywars? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990521163153.2241g-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <19990520144215.E94835@trinsec.com>
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a > | heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial > | support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it > | adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lot > | its multi-user capabilities. And, I know of some projects that are using > | it for multi-GB databases. I've been using it for or student database > | for more than two years (since version 6.0), and am quite happy with > | it. See www.postgresql.org for more information. > > If I recall correctly, isn't postgresql *based* off of the Berkeley DB > engine? > > -Dan > No. At least I really don't think so. the lineage of postgresql is postgres->postgres95->postgresql Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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