Re: World's No.1 SQL server!! PostgreSQL defeated Oracle, MS SQLserver, DB2, Sybase, Interbase....!!!!

From: "Martin A. Marques" <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> > >On Mi' 15 Nov 2000 15:32, Carlos Benjamin wrote: > > --- "Martin A. Marques" <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> > > > > > wrote: > > >> 4. You can't backup PostgreSQL without taking the database offline, > > >> which definitely takes it out of the "enterprise ready" catagory. > > > > > >This is untrue. You can't backup a portgres database if you have it > > > offline. Did you see the CAN'T (= can NOT). > > > > > >Saludos... :-) > > > > But we weren't talking about 'portgres', whatever that is. I guess that > > it's worse than PostgreSQL in that respect if you can't even back it up > > when it's offline. > >Postgres is the short of PostgreSQL. Any way lots of new features will be >added to the 7.1 version, which you can download a pre-beta version with >cvs >now to check the code (if you want!). The 8K per-tuple will be over, new >optimization will be added, new backup (with logs) will be added and >ofcourse >vapor-ware. There is a TODO file if you would like to know more about it. > >And by the way, I have had really bad experience inserting stange caracters >in a TEXT blob using Informix. Advise from Obnoxios: "put it in a BYTE blob >type". Not the best idea I think. Where is the integrity check? Jesus, I didn't realize I was Informix's official spokesman. Dammit, where's my paycheck, Informix? >On PostgreSQL I had no problem at all inserting this caracters. >Locale is much more improved in PostgreSQL than it is in Informix. >But I still think Informix (specially the ON-Line) wins. Still, I don't see >a >good future with Informix. Does that mean you'll be moving over soon? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.