Re: Rockets (was Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Rockets (was Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL)
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In response to Re: Rockets (was Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL)  (Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>)
Responses Re: Rockets (was Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL)
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Richard Welty wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:49:32 -0600 (MDT) "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> > What's a Saturn IV?  Do you mean the Saturn V?
>>
>> http://www.aviation-central.com/space/usm50.htm
>
> actually, may i suggeset
>
>   http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/saturnv.htm
>
> there actually was a design for a "Saturn IV" (really called a Saturn C4,
> the contemporary Saturn C5 became the Saturn V, and development of the C4
> was dropped) see
>
>   http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/saturnc.htm)
>
> this is awfully off topic, but here is a web page i've been working on
> sporadically now for a couple of months that rocketheads may find
> interesting:
>
>   http://www.averillpark.net/space/booster.html
>
> I would suggest that if Tom wanted to use the rocket analogy, he might want
> to compare PostgreSQL to maybe a contemporary Atlas 5 medium configuration.
> the Titan II is quite old now and there's only one more launch scheduled.

Whereas despite the crashes, the Space Shuttle with it's
Add-On-Collection look alike is yet most popular ;-)


Jan
>
> cheers,
>   richard

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