[ale] On Databases...

[James P. Kinney III]

http://www.postgresql.org

Postgresql does/has all you listed.

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:38, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> I for one am very interested in this subject. My company currently uses 
> a transportation application written in a proprietary 4GL for the 
> X-Windows platform. The database product and 4GL is made by a company 
> called Progress. They have a good database product but dropped support 
> for X-Windows a long time ago. In addition, the license fees are killing 
> us. We have been busy writing on own native X-Windows interface and we 
> will be looking at switching databases very soon. We hope to find 
> something in the GPL realm that will meet our needs. Here's what we must 
> have:
> 
> 1.    Rollback recovery.
> 2.    Database side triggers. Quite a bit of the business logic is 
> presently enforced in database triggers written in Progress. We would 
> still want to be able to have that logic where it is albeit in a 
> different language.
> 3.    It must me relatively fast but there would only be about a hundred 
> connections to the database at any given time.
> 4.    We must have an API to our interface code (written in C).
> 
> Anybody have any input on what GPL type products would fit the bill for 
> us? Of course, this would need to run on Linux.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> >>From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:hbbs at attbi.com]
> >>Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:12 AM
> >>
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>I don't just want a code jockey; I want someone that
> >>groks DBMSses in the general case - and I don't mean
> >>someone who JUST knows Oracle or JUST knows DB2, but
> >>rather someone who can basically study and work with
> >>ANY of those and pick among them for the best effect
> >>(i.e., PostGreSQL if it'll do the job, and something
> >>else if it won't
> >>:-) )
> >>
> >
> >Hmmm...
> >
> >Is there *anything* that you can't do in PostgreSQL that you can in another
> >RDBMS?
> >
> >;)
> >
> >Charles
> >
> >
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