From: | "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> |
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To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: add column sillyness |
Date: | 2003-12-12 23:09:49 |
Message-ID: | 005901c3c105$0be09250$0700a8c0@trogdor |
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> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Rick Gigger wrote:
>
> > > "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.
>
> But it's just a theory until you test it. I'm willing to bet you'd get
> decent support on the simple stuff. But it's few projects that have the
> kind of developer support postgresql gets.
Yes, I didn't mean to make a statement about firebird support (which I know
nothing about) but rather I was just trying to comment on and show
appreciation for the amazing support that I get here.
rg
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