Interview With The PostgreSQL Team

Gentu writes "OSNews features an interview with some members of the PostgreSQL team regarding the much needed replication feature, their competition to MySQL, their future plans and a "native" Windows/.NET port."

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Re:Great work for their niche

[FroMan]

The basic Postgresql installation is a bit of a pain to get up and running with a basic database, which keeps pushing new users to MySQL, [snip]

Hmmm, even one of the developers in the article seemed to think that, which I didn't get.

For myself I found setting up postgresql to be a cinch. It was basically an initdb, if I remember right, then createdb. One of those commands needed a path for the data. Then you run pg_ctl start. Once the database was created and started you use psql to login and create users with permissions, which I'd assume has to be done on any database. Then create tables and go at it.

That was for setting up my home setup. I think I needed to edit one file to setup security for logins on remote hosts which was pretty self explaintory.

The hardest part was finding a jdbc driver, which didn't take too long. I found one that claimed to be better than the one that came with postgresql and droppped the .jar in the classpath and tada, instant database.

All said and done, just setting up and getting running probably takesless than two hours. And that was starting from emerge postgres.

Certainly its not like oracle and all enterprise like and what not, but it was sure a heck of a lot easier to setup.

Compared to mysql? I dunno, I'd rate it about as easy. I've setup mysql before, but it still didn't seem a clean a setup to me. That might just be me though.

What the Fuck?

[Moosbert]

I'm Peter Eisentraut, I'm quoted in this article, but I never knew I was doing an "interview".