Pavol STAREK wrote:

> Firebird is missing:
> 1. Lot of admin management tools. For example you do not know what
> databases are opened in time, how much connections is there for server not
> database and other monitoring tools.

Firebird 2.1 is the solution

> 2. security - nearly all about this topic :)

Agreed.

> 3. performance limitations. As hosting provider you cannot let wrong code
> to kill your servers with infinite queries. Killing of query.

Firebird 2.1

> 5. client connectors support. php support is not very good

Care to explain what is lacking?

> 8. good client applications. There are some for windows, but for linux
> there is only flamerobin AFAIK which is not as user friendly

You meant: not as Windows-user friendly. :)

FlameRobin is not meant to be, and probably will never be a copy-cat
replacement for Windows tools. If you really want that, you can run DB
Workbench in Wine - but maybe then you shouldn't be using Linux in the
first place.

> pgsql is rock stable, have no more downtimes then firebird, have great
> support, great documentation and it works on windows since some time ago.

I don't see how is that argument *for* PG? Firebird is also 'rock
stable', has 'no more downtimes' than itself, and works on Windows since
a long time ago?

> And lot of other advantages.

I don't see any advantage (that you listed) in the first place.

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Milan Babuskov
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