From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 18 01:53:04 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA09795 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:53:04 -0700 Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA09780 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:52:56 -0700 Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA02469; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:52:30 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199508180852.KAA02469@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Postgres95 for FreeBSD To: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:52:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Alistair G. Crooks" at Aug 18, 95 01:18:34 am Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 852 Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Alistair G. Crooks wrote: > [postgres versions] > > Postgres95 is derived from Postgres v4r2 - there's an incomplete port > of v4r2 to NetBSD/i386, and a version by (I think) Clarence Chu, who > wouldn't release his sources. Pg95 is superior to v4r2 - there's now > an SQL monitor (SQL-3, the O-O one) in place of Postquel, lots of bugs > cleaned up, support for dead features/devices removed, and speeded up > (30% better on Wisconsin benchmarks than v4r2). All in all a nice > piece of work, by two grad students in Berkeley. And, like I say, it > already works on FreeBSD, and has done for a coupla months now. Yes, I know, but from what I remember, postgres95 is a beta version with sometimes changing interfaces or formats. postgres v4r2 should be a stable and already widely known and supported version, so people might want to use it. tg