Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Tomas Vondra
>> With all their talk about "community this" and "community that", >> what else could they be but communists? > > I think you missed my joke there... Yeah, Ron Johnson wrote me about that already. Sorry for that, I'm probably too touchy when it comes to marking someone as a communist, especially

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/07 14:51, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:59, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/06/07 10:59, Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote: >> [snip] >

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:59, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/06/07 10:59, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote: > [snip] > >> It's been said a million times by BSD advocats: put one line of code > >> under GPL and

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Tomas Vondra
> On 02/06/07 10:59, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote: > [snip] >>> It's been said a million times by BSD advocats: put one line of code >>> under GPL and you instantly become a willingless slave of Richard >>> Stallmans hoards of children-eating communists.

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/07 10:59, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote: [snip] >> It's been said a million times by BSD advocats: put one line of code >> under GPL and you instantly become a willingless slave of Richard >> Stallman

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote: > > The FSF says the MPL is not compatible with the GPL, but, well, the FSF > > generally finds **all** non-GPL licenses incompatible with the GPL (BSD, > > MPL, Apache, etc.). The only truly GPL-compatible license I know of is > > LGPL (and ther

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Tim Tassonis
ed with the performance of anything that has used JetSQL (Exchange especially). -- Brandon Aiken CS/IT Systems Engineer *From:* Justin Dearing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 05, 2007 6:29 PM *To

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-06 Thread Brandon Aiken
ruary 05, 2007 6:29 PM To: Brandon Aiken Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird On 2/5/07, Brandon Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FireBird is a direct descendant of Borland InterBase 6. Consequently, much like Postgres inherited a lot of Ingres's weirdness (most of which has

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-05 Thread Andy
RPK wrote: How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? Firebird is a good db. But it has its spaces. Its is the little brother of PG. It has two modes: classic (spawn per connection, small caching) and superServer (one program w/threads and lots of caching). superserver does no

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-05 Thread Brandon Aiken
FireBird has a different target audience than PostgreSQL, which is why it's not compared to PostgreSQL as often as MySQL is. FireBird is a direct descendant of Borland InterBase 6. Consequently, much like Postgres inherited a lot of Ingres's weirdness (most of which has since been weeded out or s

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-02 Thread Tony Caduto
RPK wrote: How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? I used to be a big time user of Firebird, but then I discovered PostgreSQL and have never looked back. Firebird has only a few built in functions even the simple ones are missing. To get the built in functionality of PostgreSQL'

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-02 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Feb 2, 2007, at 04:48 , Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 21:31, RPK wrote: How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? Rated? Clearly, Firebird is a 2.0 and PostgreSQL is an easy 8.2. Alexander. ---(end of b

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-01 Thread Gene
firebird is a 7.3 and postgresql is a 9.7 On 2/1/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 21:31, RPK wrote: > How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? Rated? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-01 Thread Chad Wagner
On 2/1/07, RPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? I don't know how it is rated, but honestly I looked at Firebird and it is way too "quirky" and I could never get it to compile embedded. The documentation is very very poor for that project when it

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 21:31, RPK wrote: > How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? Rated? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwrSGS9HxQb37XmcRAj+lAJ9uFM+hNm+ink5SeOaaNRjCuASMaACgiBeE PmhLjdXNwlPKRHHYpGuK+c4= =v