Databases

Gary Layng glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 16 03:37:02 UTC 2005


Thanks, guys.  Postgresql it is.

One of our senior IT guys at work hadn't even heard of postgreSQL...

On March 15, 2005 09:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:47:21PM -0500, Gary Layng wrote:
> > A somewhat esoteric seeming question about PostgreSQL  and Firebird
> > database programs, but: is one preferable over the other?  The only thing
> > I know about them is that they're both open source database programs.
> >
> > I'm giving Quasar a try. ?It's a newly open-sourced accounting program
> > created by this Calgary company. ?The earlier, "OK to use on a single
> > computer" non-open-source licence version was no biggie for setup and
> > etc., but the new version is demanding either one of these database
> > programs (or Sybase, which is proprietary, and therefore if possible to
> > be avoided...), and the only database program I have is mySQL.
>
> Well at least postgresql is in use by many people.  Never heard of
> firebird.  I wonder if it is something at the level of MS Access.
> Postgresql is very easy to setup and use in general and has very good
> performance.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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