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- From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Petzke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: PostGres? (was Re: INGRES BROKEN BY 0.99, STANDBY...
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:02:47 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- Message-ID: <1k8lhnINN929@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- References: <1993Jan16.001816.2613@netcom.com> <1993Jan17.001338.25541@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan17.010436.5084@netcom.com>
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- In <1993Jan17.010436.5084@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan17.001338.25541@watson.ibm.com> uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal,35-016,8621267,) writes:
- >>
- >>Please forgive my ignorance, but maybe somebody could
- >>clarify this to me: is Postgres a "next generation"
- >>for Ingres? If yes - is it Postgres, which Linux
- >>has?
-
- >Yes, POSTGRES is INGRES:The next genreration. Postgres is an order of
- >magnitude larger than ingres. It also uses ipc (still alpha in Linux) and
- >dynamic loading of object code (is this avialable on linux?). One look at
- >the code sent me running for my sanity. If someone has 45-50MB of spare
- >hard-disk space and a working csh they can try to compile it.
-
- >Linux only has ingres (for now).
-
- I got 64 MB of spare hard-disk space, some time, a working csh, but I don't
- know where to upload postgres from. I don't have much knowledge of ipc yet,
- but this could change ...
-
- So: does someone know a site near (or in) Berlin, where to get postgres?
-
- Kai Petzke, wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
- Phone: +30/262 18 79
- Address: Stresemannstr. 62 / W - 1000 Berlin 61, Germany
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