Re: A little hint

Gustavo Perez wrote: > Hi, > > I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go ;) > > I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help. > > A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature > was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are > in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the > concurrency was better. > > Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux > (i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL > available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has > problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The > alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO). > > After all this stuff, my question is : > > - Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind > the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff > free avalailable), Try www.iiug.org. You need to become a member, but it's free. > - Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked > alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been > checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there > are not much information about that). Most news readers allow a search, and entering "postgres" on mine lists groups like news:linux.postgres and news:list.linux-activists.postgres. Never been there though. I would have thought that MySQL was a more logical route on Linux. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list