Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-04 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of D'Arcy J.M. Cain Sent: Sat 9/4/2004 2:24 PM To: Jim C. Nasby Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL > The only "generation" differentiation I hav

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
On L, 2004-09-04 at 16:24, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:11:54 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any generally accepted definitions of generations > > > of > > database management systems. > > > > Nor am I, but I'd say MySQL would be at lea

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-04 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:11:54 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not aware of any generally accepted definitions of generations > > of > > database management systems. > > Nor am I, but I'd say MySQL would be at least 2 if not 3 or 4 > generations behind PostgreSQL if there was

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-04 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:24:04AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:11:54 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any generally accepted definitions of generations > > > of > > database management systems. > > > > Nor am I, but I'd say MySQL

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-03 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:12:43PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 13:00 schrieb Eyinagho Newton: > > Part of my final year thesis involves creating a > > database using PostgreSQL. As a way of documentation, > > is it correct to say that PosgreSQL belongs to the >

Re: [HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 13:00 schrieb Eyinagho Newton: > Part of my final year thesis involves creating a > database using PostgreSQL. As a way of documentation, > is it correct to say that PosgreSQL belongs to the > fifth generation of database management systems? Where > does MySQL fall

[HACKERS] Thesis on PostgreSQL

2004-09-02 Thread Eyinagho Newton
Part of my final year thesis involves creating a database using PostgreSQL. As a way of documentation, is it correct to say that PosgreSQL belongs to the fifth generation of database management systems? Where does MySQL fall into? The fourth generation? Thanks, Newton Eyinagho