G'day Robert,

Does it support the following?

Sub-Selects
Views

(which MySQL doesn't)

and DATE and TIME data types

(rather than DATETIME).

Just trying to save myself some homework time here...

At 15:26 02/08/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Yup
>
>It supports everything you'd need.
>
>Besides the fact that it also has sequences, I love the fact that its 
>varchar2 implementation has no size limit.  So you can have a 
>varchar2(32000) and it works just fine.  No need for CLOB
>
>R
>
>On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Ben Johansen wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>Does PostgreSQL support Stored Procedures?
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>>On Behalf Of Jesse Parker
>>Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:39 AM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
>>Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question
>>
>>I'm very happy with PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org)
>>
>>I believe MySQL has better and more elaborate administration GUIs than
>>Postgres.
>>
>>I only have experience with Postgres from the command prompt, where it
>>behaves a lot like a well thought out version of Oracle.  Backups and
>>restores are very easy.  Good SQL client.  Support for everything.
>>Commercial support available.
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Alex Kac wrote:
>>
>>>Here�s a more on-topic question for here....
>>>
>>>We�re a Win2k shop looking to move to OS X Server 10.2 on XServe.
>>Currently
>>>we�re running SQL Server 2k � but frankly, part of my goal is to get
>>rid of
>>>all MS software for our servers. There are quite a few reasons for
>>this, but
>>>I won�t elaborate.
>>>
>>>Now, my budget is already going to go down the tubes with the
>>XServes...and
>>>possibly WiTango (price still matters, and I�ll say that a large part
>>of my
>>>reluctance to embrace paying $$$ for WiTango 5 is the price and my
>>viewpoint
>>>that yes, its just an SP2 derivative). But you don�t want to skimp on
>>the
>>>database. So...I may just keep one of our servers for SQL Server � but
>>what
>>>low cost or freeware databases do you suggest? MySQL is what many
>>people
>>>seem to use, but from my reading � not experience mind you � its not a
>>>�real� database. Yet large sites like SlashDot and others run off it
>>just
>>>fine.
>>>
>>>I�m not looking for a database war here, I�m not looking for support
>>options
>>>� I�m just asking from what you currently run or have run in the past
>>� what
>>>do you recommend?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Alex Kac, CEO/Developer
>>>
>>>Innovation in Personal and Business Information Management
>>><http://www.pocketinformant.com/>http://www.pocketinformant.com/
>>>
>>>zoomzoom
>>>
>>>
>>
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