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From: Chris Tacy <chris@enginered.com>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Advice needed on large database project
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 10:00:38 -0700
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Mario Jorge Filipe - LEI wrote:
> 
> Tony Griffiths (tonyg@OntheNet.com.au) wrote:
> 
> : Rich Burton wrote:
> : >
> : > Can anyone recommend a good, solid SQL server/web development system
> : > that runs on BSDI or FreeBSD?
> 
> : MiniSQL (mSQL) v1 is nice and solid, but is rather limited in data types
> : (ints and strings only) and keys (single primary key only).
> 
>         Try PostGreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org). It has a nice C
> interface that should do for your web development.
> 

i would strongly suggest checking out mSQL 2.0 rather than 1.0
the improvements are significant.

it's far faster than Postgres.

it's too bad Solid doesn't run on BSD...

-c

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