Thread: [OT] PgSQL Feature List

Hi,

I'm in the process of quoting a completely free software solution to a
client, and need to make the choice of software attractive with
feature lists (I know PgSQL is the Ultimate Database, but how do I
convince the buyer? :-)

You won't believe that I spent more than 4 hours last night, trying to
find simple, pointwise feature lists for such popular software as
Sendmail (no, a ready-made feature list doesn't exist), Apache, Bind,
etc.  OK, these are more or less ready.  Now the Rs 64000 question: is
such a feature list available for PostgreSQL?  Would appreciate any
pointers/URL's you may have.

TIA and regards,

-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur          raju@kandalaya.org           http://kandalaya.org/

On 4/12/01 8:50 PM, "Raju Mathur" <raju@linux-delhi.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of quoting a completely free software solution to a
> client, and need to make the choice of software attractive with
> feature lists (I know PgSQL is the Ultimate Database, but how do I
> convince the buyer? :-)
>
> You won't believe that I spent more than 4 hours last night, trying to
> find simple, pointwise feature lists for such popular software as
> Sendmail (no, a ready-made feature list doesn't exist), Apache, Bind,
> etc.  OK, these are more or less ready.  Now the Rs 64000 question: is
> such a feature list available for PostgreSQL?  Would appreciate any
> pointers/URL's you may have.
>
> TIA and regards,
>
> -- Raju


Visit the User's Lounge. Among other things there is a link to the Features
page. Release notes are good too. I don't think you'd have to look to hard,
just a little.

--

Hi Richard,

I came, I saw, I was disappointed.  Looks like I'll have to roll a
feature list by hand, which is necessarily going to be incomplete
since I don't have much experience with PgSQL.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard T Robino <rickspam@wavedivision.com> writes:

    Richard> On 4/12/01 8:50 PM, "Raju Mathur" <raju@linux-delhi.org>
    Richard> wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I'm in the process of quoting a completely free software
    >> solution to a client, and need to make the choice of software
    >> attractive with feature lists (I know PgSQL is the Ultimate
    >> Database, but how do I convince the buyer? :-)
    >>
    >> You won't believe that I spent more than 4 hours last night,
    >> trying to find simple, pointwise feature lists for such popular
    >> software as Sendmail (no, a ready-made feature list doesn't
    >> exist), Apache, Bind, etc.  OK, these are more or less ready.
    >> Now the Rs 64000 question: is such a feature list available for
    >> PostgreSQL?  Would appreciate any pointers/URL's you may have.
    >>
    >> TIA and regards,
    >>
    >> -- Raju


    Richard> Visit the User's Lounge. Among other things there is a
    Richard> link to the Features page. Release notes are good too. I
    Richard> don't think you'd have to look to hard, just a little.
--
Raju Mathur          raju@kandalaya.org           http://kandalaya.org/

Raju Mathur writes:

> You won't believe that I spent more than 4 hours last night, trying to
> find simple, pointwise feature lists for such popular software as
> Sendmail (no, a ready-made feature list doesn't exist), Apache, Bind,
> etc.  OK, these are more or less ready.  Now the Rs 64000 question: is
> such a feature list available for PostgreSQL?  Would appreciate any
> pointers/URL's you may have.

Joel Burton has posted an early draft of such a document.  See

http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-general/2001-04/msg00409.html

--
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

Hi Raju -
You're basically looking for marketing materials, which has never been
a strength of open source projects: it's a business need, really. The
problem seems to be that an old list is _worse_ than no list, and noone
has the time/incentive to keep a list up to date.

If you do write something up, be sure to send a copy back to the lists,
so at least it's in the archives, with a date on it, for the next person.

Another place to look is www.greatbridge.com. GreatBridge is having a
go at providing commercial distributions of PostgreSQL. As a business,
they've the incentive to keep this kind of marketing materials up to date.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:19:41AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I came, I saw, I was disappointed.  Looks like I'll have to roll a
> feature list by hand, which is necessarily going to be incomplete
> since I don't have much experience with PgSQL.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raju
>