I've run 7.1 beta 3 with no problems. It is _much_ faster
than 7.0.2 (2.5x on some rough benchmarks) and finally
supports OUTER JOIN.
I've never used blobs with it though so I cannot speak
for that support.
-tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: What versions of Postgres are people using?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Following on from my earlier questions about alternatives to
> Hypersonic, a
> few people recommended Postgres.
>
> Well, I'd been meaning to try Postgres generally for a long
> time anyway, so
> downloaded the latest version from the site (703) and installed it.
>
> Orion wouldn't run with it, complaining about lack of binary
> object support
> (fair enough given that looking inthe JDBC source reveals
> that it's not
> implemented in 703!). Thing is, I was talking to the guy who wrote the
> Postgres drivers and it sounds like there was no stream support in 6.5
> either; this is new in 7.1 (which isn't released yet). But Orion must
> require the use of somthing like this to store serialized
> data, surely?
>
> So what are the people on the list who use Postgres actually
> using? Have you
> patched the JDBC drivers to work, or did someone release
> patched 6.5 drivers
> for Postgres which everyone's installed? Or have you modified Orion to
> serialize data using some other mechanism to the default? I
> imagine most
> people on the list are using 6.5 rather than 7.0.3?
> Confusing, to say the
> least...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
