Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished
Date: 2007-08-23 15:20:01
Message-ID: 59F062BF-949D-4C7B-BFDD-4FA5F1D31ECC@myemma.com
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On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Tony Caduto wrote:

> Check it out here:
>
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb
>
>
> When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is
> probably BLOB support.
> PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb. Bytea is pretty
> slow as well when compared to the FB BLOB support.

Actually, Postgres's large object facility allows storage of binary
data up to 2GB in size. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/
interactive/largeobjects.html

Erik Jones

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