Re: add column sillyness - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rick Gigger
Subject Re: add column sillyness
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Msg-id 003f01c3c0df$c8ad5ab0$0700a8c0@trogdor
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In response to add column sillyness  (Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>)
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> "Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:
> > Does anyone have a link to such a comparison?  Also can anyone elaborate
on
> > the features that postgres has that firebird lacks?
>
> AFAICT, the main thing that Firebird lacks is a viable open-source
> development community :-(.  It's a nice bit of software, and I'd be
> happy to see it doing better, but it seems like they just have not been
> able to gather critical mass around it.  So in any comparison you need
> to factor in the likelihood that Postgres will be improving at a much
> greater rate than Firebird.

Last night after posting this I asked myself.  Could I get the same kind of
support (basically an answer to any question within 24 hours from one of the
actual postgres developers) with firebird that I can get here?  I doubt it.


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