Re: [GENERAL] Yoga

>
> Would someone who's been using PostgreSQL for production use like to do
> some advocating in the Yoga (or Gnuotes) project?
>
> Yoga is a project meant to build a Notes killer.
>
> The general feeling seems to be to use SleepyCat DB, which I've never
> heard about before. The Web Page tells that it's in reality Berkeley DB,
> a very simple file construction, not at all what I consider a database.
> Back when I programmed Cobol, it was just indexed files...
>
> I think the main problem is that people doesn't know how far PostgreSQL
> has come. In my eyes, the only thing missing could be hot backup, but I
> don't know for sure. Also there's the question of reliability (up time).
>
> Personnally, I'm not sure how PostgreSQL will handle documents (that's
> what Notes / Yoga is about), as I believe that BLOBS are poorly
> supported, but perhaps the developers of PostgreSQL would accomodate
> Yoga in this matter.

I agree with your conclusion that PostgreSQL would be superior for this
type of application, though Berkeley DB has its uses for simple embedded
applications that don't need any end-user access to the data.

Basically, let them download 6.3.2 and try it. Not much more we can do
if they don't want to download it. If they want to send specific
questions to the list, I am sure they will be answered.

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