In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I was curious > >> about SQL, and also because it appears to be capable of anything I > >> could want to do. It's probably overkill, but that's OK. > > > >You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want, > >and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing > >list use it already. > > > >Tim > > > > MySQL does look like the real deal. I was not aware of it, it certainly > looks to be better than mSQL. > > Is MySQL stable enough to be included as a debian dpkg? I did see that a > Redhat RPM package is available.
mysql and the dbi/dbd perl drivers for it are already in hamm. I'm using both the debianized and scratch built versions. It's still under heavy development, but *very* stable. Bugs are fixed within hours of being reported in most caese. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You mind if I smoke?" Joan D'Arc ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
