[GENERAL] Re: Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?

[Gunnar R|nning]

Frank Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I don't see why it shouldn't work, since 7.1 supports an unlimited row
> width. The question is: Why would you want to do that? A filesystem is
> always faster than a database, which is usually a very important
> consideration with a mailserver (or were you thinking about archiving
> messages?).

I'm interested in the archiving aspect, e.g. having pgsql as the storage
for an imap server.

regards, 

        Gunnar