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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Postgres Support Volunteer
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nferrier |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Postgres Support Volunteer |
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27 Aug 2002 08:38:10 +0100 |
Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> Reto Stamm <address@hidden> said:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am considering to volunteer to keep a PostgreSQL Database running on
> > Savannah,
> > (continuous commitment, backups, vacuuming, base level of support for users
> > etc.)
> >
> > I am running a multi million record DB on my machine at home, and a slightly
> > smaller one at work. I got some experience tuning it, have not had to
> > recover
> > from crashes yet, though (look at this whichever way you want).
> >
> > Big question (more once this is clear):
> >
> > * Is the License free enough? (do you want PostgreSQL?)
>
> No problem with the license. PostgreSQL was already free in the old
> age while mysql was not completely free.
>
> Anyway, we will support pgsql while switching to a perl version of
> savannah using perl module DBI. So pgsql will be transparent.
That's good because pgsql is better and I have some stuff for
supporting the java projects that could do with going onto a GNU
machine somewhere.
Nic