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>Postgres advantages over Firebird:

>1) There are several books on Postgres SQL, including three or four good
>ones. There isn't a single Firebird book...

There are currently no "books" but there are volumes of practical interbase/
firebird documentation available.

>3) Postgres has more traffic on public access newsgroups relating to
>"how to do" things.

Is MORE traffic better? The ib-support mailing list is very active
and has a VERY good signal to noise ratio.

I've used both Postgresql and Interbase/Firebird (just switched
to FB v1 internally) I like them both. Postgresql seems
to have a larger especially wrt. to open source developers
and web development. Of course if you want a large following
switch to MySQL (have fun)

I ran Interbase 5.x on windows 95 for years. I could literally
unplug the machine and when i restarted i never lost data in
interbase (cause heaven knows win95 crashed often enough)

I have a script that runs backups once a day for my interbase/firebird
databases,
I literally do no maintenance at all besides that (is that bad?)

That's about the greatest feature for me. Install and forget.

-Darryl