Re: Berkeley DB license - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Berkeley DB license
Date
Msg-id 200005170149.VAA28477@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Berkeley DB license  ("Michael A. Olson" <mao@sleepycat.com>)
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> At 11:13 AM 5/17/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> 
> > Why do you even need wrappers? You just link with libpgbackend.so and
> > call whatever functions you want. Or would the agreement say something
> > like you can only call postgresql functions that are not part of
> > sleepycat?
> 
> Yes, the agreement would state that only the PostgreSQL application
> could call the Berkeley DB interfaces directly.

Well then, let's start looking into the options.  I know Vadim has a new
storage manager planned for 7.2, so he is going to look at the sleepycat
code and give us an opinion.

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