| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | teunis <teunis(at)mauve(dot)computersupportcentre(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Martin <martin(at)biochemistry(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases... |
| Date: | 1998-03-04 01:50:04 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980303214800.322D-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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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(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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