Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.]
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Msg-id 199910081825.OAA01200@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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> Found this quote by Philip Greenspun (who is unabashedly in love with
> Oracle) in a LinuxWorld article:
> "> The open source purist's only realistic choice for an RDBMS
> >  is PostgreSQL (see Resources for the URL). In some ways,
> >  PostgreSQL has more advanced features than any commercial
> >  RDBMS. Most important, the loosely organized, unpaid 
> >  developers of PostgreSQL were able to convert to an 
> >  Oracle-style multiversion concurrency system (see below),
> >  leaving all the rest of the commercial competition 
> >  deadlocked in the dust. If you've decided to accept John

That is am amazing quotation.  Vince, can we get a link to it on the
webpage?



> >  Ousterhout as your personal savior, you'll be delighted
> >  to learn that you can run Tcl procedures inside the 
> >  PostgreSQL database. And if your business can't live without
> >  commercial support for your RDBMS, you can buy it 
> >  (see Resources for a link). 
> 
> Cheers!  (the full series of articles, which are about AOLserver, is
> available at http://linuxworld.com)
> 
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11
> 
> ************
> 


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