take a look at : http://www.twit.tv/floss18
podcast interview about postgreSql On 10/11/07, Fernando Vilas <fvilas at iname.com> wrote: > On Thursday 11 October 2007 06:44:30 Dustin Puryear wrote: > > I thought this was an interesting interview: > > > > http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/08/22/interview-with-josh-berkus-postgre > >sql-core-team-lead-sun-microsystems/ > > > > What I thought was interesting was that even though Sean, the > > interviewer, mentioned the word "MySQL", it was never brought up again. :) > > Very interesting interview. I knew PostgreSQL was the default db on Solaris > distributions (at least 11/06 and 08/07), but I didn't realize how involved > Sun was in the development. And I'm glad to see their policy about not > shipping with any patches that don't have a really good shot at getting into > the mainline. > > There was an announcement recently about a PostgreSQL patch to support SELinux > labels. With Sun having the Trusted Extensions in Solaris 10 just to get > EAL4+LSPP, it will be interesting to see if some of those patches have to do > with TX. Or even better, if the pgsql daemon learns to read CIPSO headers on > packets sent to its port. > > On another note, the db holy war is very much in the realm of vi/emacs, > Linux/BSD, GPL/BSD, and the like. The PostgreSQL developers were wise to > dodge that. I like that PostgreSQL focuses so much on standards compliance > to aid in portability, both in terms of ANSI SQL and POSIX interfaces, and I > tend to use it for my own projects, but I've used others and I don't engage > in zealotry about it. > > -- > Thanks, > Fernando Vilas > fvilas at iname.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
