Re: [SQL] object oriented vs relational DB

2002-10-18 Thread Marten Feldtmann
Josh Berkus schrieb: I've looked into OODBMS for my business. However, I've kept from using any in production for one simple reason: lack of a standard. There is no international standard for OODBMS, meaning that each OODBMS is its own animal and databases are not at all portable between dif

Re: [SQL] Using a postgres table to maintain unique id?

2000-11-20 Thread Marten Feldtmann
Steve Wampler schrieb: > > Yes, but... > > (1) The application I have is composed of about 50 processes > running on 3 different OS/architectures (Linux/intel, > Solaris/sparc, and VxWorks/ppc). The IDs I need must be > unique across all processes (I suppose one solution would >

Re: [SQL] Using a postgres table to maintain unique id?

2000-11-20 Thread Marten Feldtmann
Steve Wampler schrieb: > > Poet/Joshua Drake wrote: > ? > ? ?However, I also use Postgres (7.0.2) throughout this > ? ?application and it seems cleaner to me to keep the current > ? ?id value in a table and just use postgres to provide access > ? ?(with a trigger function to increment the id on