postgresql

[Erik Price]

Cole Tuininga wrote:

> I agree that it has some great features, but when we looked into using
> it, we found some serious drawbacks to it.  If anybody has comments on
> these, I'd be very interested to hear them.

I don't have any comments except to say thanks for mentioning them Cole, 
because I didn't know about any of these.  So, just out of curiosity, 
which database(s) do you prefer*?  Again, I've only used MySQL 3.2.x and 
HSQLDB so experimenting with some of Postgres's features has been quite 
a bit of fun, but I haven't done any real testing or taken a "serious" 
look at it.  I'm using it as the back-end for the project I'm working 
on, and none of the mentioned problems are real showstoppers -- but I've 
also been careful to make sure that the project abstracts this enough to 
make it trivial to use another DB.


(* don't feel you have to limit your answer to OSS DBs, though of course 
those are always preferred [to me] -- but I personally wouldn't be 
interested in any DB that doesn't at least run on Linux.)


Erik