Re: [HACKERS] Re: Need 25 million hackers ....... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hello,
I am working in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay
as a System admin and programmer. I had been in a project where we had
implemented Temporal DB (extensions to SQL ) from scratch. I am mailing you
the Announce which was crossposted to one of our local groups.

Vijaya

[ Article crossposted from
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k
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[ Author was Al Dev ]
[ Posted on Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:27:01 +0100 ]

Announce: Need 25 million hackers for SQL RDBMS database

Linux needs a powerful RDBMS which is SQL 92 compliant and which is
free and its source code is available. There is already one called
'PostgreSQL version 6.0'. The next major release of PostgreSQL
Version 7.0 requires atleast 25 million hackers worldwide, the more
the better! Database internals is the most complex and demanding on
 brain power. It need to be very fast, reliable and compact.
The database development is a real "brain twister", and hackers like
'brain twisting' projects like PostgreSQL version 7.0. Please Join!!

    See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page:-
    Email questions to:
        pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

    To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to
        pgsql-hackers-request@postgresql.org
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PostgreSQL Version 6.0 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant - Its FREE!!

PostgreSQL Version 6.0 is free database, complete source code is given
to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92
and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating
systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data
center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and
application servers.

  PostgreSQL is Commercialised:
             PostgreSQL is commercialised & sold by Illustra
             Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.)
             http://www.illustra.com

  Title:             PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database
             (Relational Database Management System)
  Version:           6.0
  Date:              20MAY97
  Age:                  PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985
  Description:       Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase,
             Informix

  Authors:           Developed by millions/universities on internet for
             the past 12 YEARS

  Primary WWW:       http://www.postgresql.org/
  Secondary WWW:     http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/
             http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/
             http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/
    Please help!! More mirror sites are needed!!

  Primary FTP:       ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub
  Secondary ftp:     ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql
             ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/
        ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95
             ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL
             ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95
             ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95
             ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95
    Please help!! More mirror sites are needed!!

  More information:  Go to yahoo and do search on 'postgresql'
             More than 260 topics will be listed on
             PostgreSQL. Also search on 'postgre' and
             'postgres95'.
             http://www.yahoo.com

  GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL :
             PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution.
             TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more
             powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once
             and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, unixes!!
             To get TCL/TK -
                 http://sunscript.sun.com/
             http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/
             ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z

  ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL :
             http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/
             http://www.openlinksw.com

  UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC
             independent of driver managers and DLL support,
             used to embed database connectivity support
             directly into applications.
             http://www.openlinksw.com

  JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL
             http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html
             ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz
             http://www.openlinksw.com

  Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL:    Java Rapid Application Tool for
             PostgreSQL
                 http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html

  Java Classes for PostgreSQL :
             ftp://www.blackdown.org/pub/Java/Java-Postgres95

  PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications:
              http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html

  Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL :
             Email: E.Mergl@bawue.de

  Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL:
             http://www.oswego.edu/Earp

  Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL):
             Email: keidav@accessone.com
             http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html
             Email: de@ucolick.org
             Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL!!

  Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals):
             Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very
             similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus.

  WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL:
             http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/

  Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL:
             http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/

  PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL
             (WWW Interface Tool):
             http://www.vex.net/php

  "C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
             'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib,
              Informix CLI libraries.

  "C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
             'libpq++'.

  PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C,
             Informix ESQL/C:
             ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus
             Email : linus@epact.se

  Tested Platforms:  Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX,
                     Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix,
                     NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, OS/2, NT, Windows 95 etc
             All flavors of unix.
             Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32,
             GNU gcc is available for win32.

  Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page.
    Email questions to:
        pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

    To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to
        pgsql-hackers-request@postgresql.org
    The body of the message should contain the single line
        subscribe
        (or)
        unsubscribe

 Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide'
         for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing
         database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals,
         online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in
         Postscript format for printing hard copies.

 Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New
    SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon
    Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of
    other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore.

  Free Unix:    Get a free Linux OS, providing "Bumper to Bumper"
        solution with 1,000,000 miles warranty, from operating
        system to database to front-end gui application -
        a Total Quality Solution. Check out these sites:
            http://www.caldera.com
            http://www.redhat.com

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