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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
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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