On 4/15/06, Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doing the latter is a precondition for implementing the former in a > reasonable way, I believe.
> BTW, these two web log entries summarizing Mono and Mozilla's > experiences with SoC might make interesting reading: Thanks for the reading material. I don't think our project is exactly the same, but it's good information to keep in mind. > Given the above, I would be wary of such projects bit-rotting. If the > upstream project hasn't bothered to add PostgreSQL support, there might > be a good reason why: writing truly database-agnostic applications is > not always easy (or even desirable). This isn't always the case. In a lot of cases, the developers just wanted to take the easy route and used MySQL... they have a lot of people asking for PostgreSQL support but they don't have the expertise to add it themselves. -- Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect EnterpriseDB Corporation 732.331.1324 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster