| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Derek Hamilton <derek(at)capweb(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql |
| Date: | 2003-07-15 22:18:44 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0307151618280.28417-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On 16 Jul 2003, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> Ð ÐÑÑ, 15.07.2003, в 23:32, Derek Hamilton пиÑеÑ:
> > I'm not sure this is still the case, but I recently chose PostgreSQL over
> > Firebird because Firebird requires direct access to the database file.
> > There is no way to access it via TCP/IP with drivers, etc. That killed
> > Firebird in my mind.
>
> It's not like that anymore, you "just" need to know the path to the
> database file on the remote server. It has the ability to spread a
> database over several files to overcome OS limitations to the file size,
> but it's not transparent iirc. Firebirds concept of a database name in
> PostgreSQL is a filename on the servers file system. Other that that
> it's a serious database.
I think that issue is being fixed in v 1.5, which is in beta right now.
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