Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases...
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980303214800.322D-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases...  (teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases...  (Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>)
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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, teunis wrote:

>  If you were to talk about
> networking, BSD is the standard that Linux follows.

    And follows badly, last I heard...Linux's networking support
doesn't perform as well as *BSDs, and, last I heard, has been rewritten
from scratch 3 times in the past 6 years or so...

  Who wants STREAMS
> anyways?  If you're talking API interface (and here's where I bate
> non-glibc users), GLIBC-2 is the standard for Unix98+.  (I still don't see
> why postgres doesn't support it... though I haven't gotten around to
> writing a patch (or looking recently)...).

    Key reason why we don't support it...nobody except for Linux
currently is using it...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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