Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:12, John DeSoi wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Ron Mayer wrote: If not postgres, what other database could possibly do this, if any? I really don't want to have to write our own RDBMS. :) Doesn't seem much like a database question. I'd say ask on some

Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-09 Thread John DeSoi
On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Ron Mayer wrote: If not postgres, what other database could possibly do this, if any? I really don't want to have to write our own RDBMS. :) Doesn't seem much like a database question. I'd say ask on some trusted computing (google Trusted Computing) list if

[GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-08 Thread pakt sardines
Hi all, We're currently developing some large-scale software with the intention of selling it (online and off-the-shelf). The version in development uses Postgres to store stuff in a number of large databases. Ignoring potential licensing issues for now, the big issue for us is that the data

Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-08 Thread Walter Vaughan
pakt sardines wrote: Hi all, We're currently developing some large-scale software with the intention of selling it (online and off-the-shelf). The version in development uses Postgres to store stuff in a number of large databases. Ignoring potential licensing issues for now, the big

Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-08 Thread Ron Mayer
pakt sardines wrote: ...the big issue for us is that the data in the databases has significant intellectual property value. It has taken literally years of work to collect the data. We do not want the users of the commercial product to be able to fire up postgres and type something like:

Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-08 Thread David Fetter
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:14:42AM +1100, pakt sardines wrote: Hi all, We're currently developing some large-scale software with the intention of selling it (online and off-the-shelf). The version in development uses Postgres to store stuff in a number of large databases. Ignoring