Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

From: Bret Busby <bret(at)busby(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Is my MySQL Gaining ?
Date: 2003-12-30 19:09:21
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0312310305350.23339-100000@BBRH73.busby.net
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Martin Marques wrote:

> > >
> > > Now, Joshua was talking about getting PostgreSQL started, which Bruce
> > > assums you already know.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I must admit that if you have PG installed and running, which is
> > > very simple on normal Linux distributions, this book gives a huge boost
> > > to any newbie.
> >
> > And, if a person did not already have it installed and set up, would the
> > person then have not been required to find elsewhere, how to do those?
>
> The question then is: "How difficult is it for a newbie to get PostgreSQL
> started on a RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Mandrake,... Linux?"
>
> My answer is that it's not difficult at all, except if you are upgradeing, in
> which case, you are not a newbie any more. :-)
>
>

Do you answer that, as a "newbie", or, as someone who has done it
before? And, in using the term "newbie", do you refer to a person who is
new to Linux, or, new to PostgreSQL?

If a person has no experience with PostgreSQL, is that person expected
to already know how to instal, and set up, PostgreSQL, pgaccess,
pgadmin, etc, without any instructions? I think not.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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