Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:52:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199508180852.KAA02469@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <m0sjMdO-0000FgC@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> from "Alistair G. Crooks" at Aug 18, 95 01:18:34 am
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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
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