Your e-mail did not arrive at its intended destination. You need to
send it to Michael J. Davis, not Michael Davis


        From:   dustin sallings <dustin @ spy.net> on 05/05/99 01:57 AM
        To:     mtony @ iname.com@SMTP@EXCHANGE
        cc:     pgsql-general @ postgreSQL.org@SMTP@EXCHANGE 
        Subject:        Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of
documents

        On Tue, 4 May 1999, Mark Fleming wrote:

        // That a good solution, but now that XML is starting to break off
it
        // kinda puts PostgreSQL users at a disadvantage.  We have to have
        // static XML documents on on disk in order to use the format and
have
        // external search engines to search for content in the documents.
It
        // is not that big of a headache, but is an inconvenience.  I will
be
        // doing some work on XML soon for my job and they are going
straight
        // Oracle because they want to create "searchable" XML documents on
the
        // fly to post and distribute on the web.  Very LARGE documents.
Like
        // the legal code for NYC and such.  When Postgre starts using large
        // objects it is going to make a lot of noise.  Especially for
        // "start-up" companies.

                What do you mean when Postgres starts using large objects?
It has
        for quite some time now.  I chose not to use it because I don't like
the
        way the data is stored on disk, though.

        --
        Principal Member Technical Staff, beyond.com    The world is
watching America,
        pub  1024/3CAE01D5 1994/11/03 Dustin Sallings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
        |    Key fingerprint =  87 02 57 08 02 D0 DA D6  C8 0F 3E 65 51 98
D8 BE 
        L______________________________________________ and America is
watching TV. __




Reply via email to