| From: | "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: add column sillyness |
| Date: | 2003-12-12 18:43:05 |
| Message-ID: | 003f01c3c0df$c8ad5ab0$0700a8c0@trogdor |
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> "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> writes:
> > Does anyone have a link to such a comparison? Also can anyone elaborate
on
> > the features that postgres has that firebird lacks?
>
> AFAICT, the main thing that Firebird lacks is a viable open-source
> development community :-(. It's a nice bit of software, and I'd be
> happy to see it doing better, but it seems like they just have not been
> able to gather critical mass around it. So in any comparison you need
> to factor in the likelihood that Postgres will be improving at a much
> greater rate than Firebird.
Last night after posting this I asked myself. Could I get the same kind of
support (basically an answer to any question within 24 hours from one of the
actual postgres developers) with firebird that I can get here? I doubt it.
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