From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 17 16:56:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19766 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19758 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id TAA04095; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:56:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id TAA05884; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:56:32 -0400 (EDT) To: The Hermit Hacker cc: Atipa , Wolfram Schneider , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Good Database was: Re: uptime on hub.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:37:37 EDT." Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:56:31 -0400 Message-ID: <5882.874540591@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Hermit Hacker wrote in message ID : > > 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. Hows the ODBC support? The last time I checked the freeware odbc `veneers' for PostgreSQL, they were sadly lacking, which stopped me deploying it :( Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info