Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql
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Msg-id 20030715211803.GJ9410@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Firebird vrs Postgresql  (Erick Dennis <edennis@rootshell.be>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:26:54PM +0200, Erick Dennis wrote:

> had Somebody compared Postgresql vrs Firebird? What is the main
> diferent between this DBs? performance? support? flexibility?.

I've heard from two different and unrelated sources that Firebird
corrupted data for them; the only way out was with backups.  They didn't
have problems with PostgreSQL, so I guess that make it unlikely that the
problem was hardware issues.

I'm also told that Firebird's numerical datatypes handling is horrible.
I don't have personal experience with it though.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Crear es tan dificil como ser libre" (Elsa Triolet)

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