From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 12:36:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06130 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (slip-33.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05856 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA23111; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:31:02 -0400 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:31:02 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: FreeBSD Hacker cc: Adam Turoff , Atipa , freebsd-hackers Subject: RE: Informix on FreeBSD (maybe) (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, FreeBSD Hacker wrote: > > > Can someone explain to me what would be involved in implementing a > database engine specifically for FreeBSD. How much work likely, if you > were to work from scratch, and what kind of support would you want to > offer for other platforms (i.e. Windoze). If it were specifically Tuned > to be a high performance solution on a FreeBSD box and part of the > Distribution, Why would you want to start from scratch? There are at least two out there that are already built, and just recently Redhat has begun including PostgreSQL as part of its standard distribution *shrug* Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org