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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: FreeBSD as DB Server Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:19:32 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 47 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <767557012.AA03351@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu TO: byron * In a message originally to All, byron@ocf.nms.unt.edu said: >From: byron@ocf.nms.unt.edu (Byron Goodman) >Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development >Organization: University of North Texas >Can FreeBSD used as a database server? Does a datbase exist >for >FreeBSD? Where can I get it and what is it? What kind of >documentation >can I get for it? What protocol is used to access the >database? If IP >does it use sockets or packets? hi byron, you may use FreeBSD as a database server. DBMS, named Postgres have just been ported to FreeBSD-1.1-beta and later. it happens that it's me who ported it! to get it, try to locate file pg_fbsd.tgz at s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu at /pub/upload area. documentations are included in the file in postscript and ascii format, if you are to try making postgres-v4r2 work on your favorite unix, try to fetch all the source code of postgres at s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu or tr-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu to add, postgres is an OODBMS, allow user to define types, dynamic loadable functions, operators, support inheritance. it is very extendible. source code amount to about 200,000 lines of C code however, it is an unsupported software, how nice it is depend on how strong is your development team. nevertheless, what cost you to experience it is just about 10MB disk storage, so. have a try! clarence chu p.s. drop me a line in case of installation problems, postgres-v4r2 had been released for about a month, the port is definitely undergoing changes. ... * Origin: BiG (since 87) - a BBS for programmers (6:700/132)