Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, webmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! apache doesn't send cgi's output... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970515110135.311G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970515094343.16513A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > Take a look at PostreSQL as well, if you're in the market for a free > database! I've just switched and I like the PostreSQL much more than mSQL. PostgreSQL is better for many reasons, but one consideration for CGI applications is there is a much larger overhead involved in starting up a "backend" to service a request than with mSQL. If you have big complex queries PostgreSQL is a clear winner, but for simple databases and simple queries, mSQL may be better just because of the lower startup overhead. There may ultimately be postgresql server running on www.freebsd.org to support the mailing list archives. The freewais-sf software works pretty well for keyword type queries, and can work for thread retrieval but the performance is unacceptable. I think postgresql should prove much more suitable for that task. > More features, quicker, and a cleaner C API (IMHO). I'm quite impressed. > http://www.postresql.org for the info. Oh, a much friendlier license as ^^ That should be www.postGresql.org. :) Alas, I'm still running Postgres95-1.08 because PostgreSQL 6.0 crashes and burns when I try to load in one of my databases (see http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/mapfinder). I have not yet had a chance to investigate why. -john
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