On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:16:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that Dylan Paul Thurston said:
> > I was curious about this last statement, and, having never used
> > PostgreSQL, decided to test it. I downloaded PostgreSQL 7.0-beta5
> > from the Debian distribution, installed, fixed the buggy install
> > script, created a database, and created some tables, and ran a few
> > relational (multi-table) queries. Elapsed time: 1 hour, much of which
> > was fixing Debian's buggy install script. (I run the unstable version
> > of Debian, so such things are expected.)
> >
> > What makes you say it's difficult to adminster? I can't believe MySQL
> > could be much easier.
>
> Any day now, there will be hoards of non-programmers using linux, and
> if that isn't bad engough, they won't know what the word 'administer'
> even means. Think 'could my mom/grandma do this'?
My mom could do what I did (maybe with help), but not my grandma. But
I'd expect it to be better packaged for my grandma, anyway. It would
be easy to do to give a directed PostgreSQL distribution that
installed itself single-user (that is, as the user doing the install),
picked reasonable defaults, etc. Debian's PostgreSQL distribution
(server only) takes 1.8M installed, which is a little much; perhaps it
could be trimmed.
But I don't know if there would be any point, as pointed out in
another thread. There would be headaches, like data migration.
Best,
Dylan Thurston
