Re: Postgres vs Firebird? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Postgres vs Firebird?
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Msg-id 20050506060143.GF88920@decibel.org
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In response to Re: Postgres vs Firebird?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:08:47PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Firebird is a nice database but I don't think it can scale as well as
> PostgreSQL. IIRC they just added support for SMP. Also, although their
> community is very active I do not believe it is as large nor does it
> have the commercial backing like PostgreSQL.

Support it in what way? Do they allow for parallel query execution?
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