>
> My inquiry:
>
> Please discuss as to your point of view the advantage of
> PostgreSQL over
> Interbase and/or vise versa. I'm considering three (3)
> important points
>
> 1. Speed
Postgresql is "spotty". Some things it can do fast other
things are very slow. It's really mixed. So P
> 1. Speed
> 2. Data Reliability
The two above depend very much (IMHO) on SYSDBA's skills. IB and its
descendants has, probably, less options to tweak, or, more correctly, less
obvious ways to improve its performance.
OTOH, if you have strong theoretical RDBMS bacground and consider