From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 21 6:33:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C485915B79 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 06:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA11892; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:32:51 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:32:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Dan Moschuk Cc: "Pedro J. Lobo" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database holywars? In-Reply-To: <19990520144215.E94835@trinsec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: >=20 > | =BFHave you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and i= s 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 usin= g > | 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. >=20 > If I recall correctly, isn't postgresql *based* off of the Berkeley DB=20 > engine? >=20 > -Dan >=20 No. At least I really don't think so. the lineage of postgresql is=20 postgres->postgres95->postgresql =09Sander =09There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - =09all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message