Re: your mail

Moved off of -announce ...

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Diana Eichert wrote:

> hi
>
> i'm not a Linux user, but an OpenBSD user. recently Louis
> Bertrand posted some requests for assistance in getting ODBC support to
> work on the postgres port to openbsd. i didn't see many responses to his
> requests, though I saw lots of discussions re: Linux problems.

I'm not much into ODBC myself, so can't help much, but could you have
Louis repost his problem. The problem is that the 'Linux community' makes
up a very very large chunk (sadly *grin*) of our user base...but not
necessarily a large chunk of the developers.

I don't know if there are any OpenBSD "developers" right now...I'm
FreeBSD, as I believe Vadim is, Bruce is BSD/OS, and Thomas is Linux...I
don't know what anyone else is...except D'Arcy, who's Net/BSD ... Vince, I
believe, is FreeBSD also ... so there is a pretty good proportion of *BSD
users out there, but I don't think any of us use ODBC vs 'straight
interfaces'...

Basically, if you are non-Linux in this world nowadays, you have to learn
to be a little more pushy to get your point across :(

> I'd like to use PostgreSQL, but it doesn't seem like there is
> much interest from this community in assisting an OpenBSD developer.
> I'll change databases before I change OS's.
>
> Sorry if this sounds like sour grapes, just call 'em like I see them
>
> Diana Eichert
> Network Systems Analyst
> Sandia National Laboratories
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >
> > LinuxDev.Net is currently conducting a poll of "The Most Popular DBMS", at
> > http://linuxdev.net. Currently, PostgreSQL ia in second place, with 21
> > out of 84 votes, while MySQL is in first with 33...
> >
> > Even if you aren't using Linux, take a minute and make your vote...we like
> > to see PostgreSQL on top, no? :)
> >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Diana Eichert
> deichert(at)wrench(dot)com
>

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org