On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Philip Mak wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote:
>
> > And while we are discussing "not cutting corners", those who still use
> > MySQL should switch to a real DBMS before they even think of abstracting
> > the SQL away from their Perl code.
> >
> > That people still use MySQL really shows how many lusers there are with
> > computers that try to develop real software. I said _try_.
>
> What would you consider to be a real DBMS? Sybase and Oracle obviously,
> but I actually am the hypothetical programmer with a 233MHz machine with
> 64 MB RAM (hey, it runs emacs fine :/) on a shoestring budget who is
> mostly limited to using freeware tools.
>
> What about PostgreSQL and Interbase? Do those have the features of a
> 'real' DBMS?
Yes. Postgres has integrity constraints triggers, stored procedures, a
well-known extension interface, transactions, high concurrency, and all
of ANSI SQL. PostgreSQL is Free.
-jwb
