On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:50:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: database choice
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > > Besides, this seems like a nice discussion topic for this group.
> >
> > Are you sure you don't want to discuss whether workstation users should be
> > given the root password instead? ;-)
>
> What are you trying to say Ben?
>
> =8^)
>
> > PostgreSQL claims to be one of the best SQL databases available in terms of
> > implementation of the SQL specification. Whether you care about that or not,
> > I don't know. PostgreSQL also has a reputation for being slower then some
> > other products. How much slower, I don't know.
>
> As I recall, one of the major RDBMS systems (can't remember which one) is
> based on the PostgreSQL code... It's a reletively full-featured SQL
> server, from what I understand, though I haven't really used it
> muself...
Ingres (Postgres as in after ingres), now owned by CA.
Also, the immediate followon to Ingres got purchased by Informix
(above from http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devhistory.html)X
If you read the docs at the web site (www.postgresql.org), the current maintainers of
Postgres took over after the founder et al started their commercial
product. Part of its slowness has been due to them not knowing the
intracacies of all the code. The good news is, as of Postgres 7.0
(current), they now are up on all the code, and speed is one of the
things they're working on.
This actually shows the Open Source model - the original was basically
abandoned, so a bunch of other folks took over, and continued the
project.
jeff
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