Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-26 Thread Curtis Maurand
I stand corrected on the licenses. I was aware of the dual license for MySQL, which is the one that Novell bought. Curtis On Friday 25 April 2003 12:24, Joby Walker wrote: > Curtis, you're misinterpreting the notice. You are free do use > PostgreSQL for any purpose and without paying a fee to

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-25 Thread lou
In some email I received from Joby Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:24:27 -0700, wrote: > Curtis, you're misinterpreting the notice. You are free do use > PostgreSQL for any purpose and without paying a fee to the University of > California(s) or the PostgreSQL Global Developm

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-25 Thread Joby Walker
Curtis, you're misinterpreting the notice. You are free do use PostgreSQL for any purpose and without paying a fee to the University of California(s) or the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. The only requirement is that the copywright notices, etc appear in all copies. BSD-style licenses

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-25 Thread Curtis Maurand
from the postgresql website: PostgreSQL Database Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then as Postgres95) Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group Portions Copyright (c) 1994, The Regents of the University of California Permission to use, copy, mo

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-23 Thread Joby Walker
Curtis Maurand wrote: Novell can't distribute PostgreSQL as part of the Netware distribution. That would be a violation of the BSD license. However, they've licensed MySQL in such a way as to be able to include it with Netware. That leads me to believe that MySQL would be the preferred SQL

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-23 Thread Curtis Maurand
Novell's product used to be called "Novell Internet Messaging System" its now called Netmail 3.1 and Netmail XE (for windows environments) They claim that it scales to millions of accounts. It is not the same product as Groupwise, even though Groupwise makes much better sense than Exchange Se

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Philip Warner
At 03:16 AM 23/04/2003 +1000, Chris Nolan wrote: Not at all! http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html My understanding of the way READ_COMMITTED works is that a the dump process will only see the results of a transaction after it is committed. I assume the dump process works by processing

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Chris Nolan
Microsoft's highend SMTP product uses MSSQL? What's the name of the product? When you say "Novell's highend system" are you talking about Groupwise? If so, you might find it uses PervasiveSQL. Novell have had a long association with it and I doubt they've pulled it out of Groupwise just yet. T

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Chris Nolan
Not at all! http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html Chris Philip Warner wrote: At 12:38 AM 23/04/2003 +1000, Chris Nolan wrote: make sure that you've got your isolation level set to READ_COMMITED in your my.cnf file though In which case I think you will lose the point-in-time validity

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Philip Warner
At 12:38 AM 23/04/2003 +1000, Chris Nolan wrote: make sure that you've got your isolation level set to READ_COMMITED in your my.cnf file though In which case I think you will lose the point-in-time validity of the backup. Philip

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Curtis Maurand
Let us not forget that the really highend email systems such as Openwave Email Kx uses Oracle (AT&T Broadband, RoadRunner, Bell Canada and a host of other very large systems use the Openwave product), Microsofts highend smtp product uses MSSQL server, Novell's highend system (which outperforms m

Re: [Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Chris Nolan
Kiran N S wrote: Hi All, I am not an out and out techie, but would still like to know more about the stability of the PostgreSQL / MySQL database used in case of say, 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 / 500 / 1000 users. What are the db restoration processes executed and how, in case of PostgreSQL or say, M

[Dbmail] Query on Database Stability in DB Mail

2003-04-22 Thread Kiran N S
Hi All, I am not an out and out techie, but would still like to know more about the stability of the PostgreSQL / MySQL database used in case of say, 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 / 500 / 1000 users. What are the db restoration processes executed and how, in case of PostgreSQL or say, McKoi / MySQL? Somebo