I've read that a new version (7.2) of PostgreSQL was released
recently.
http://www.de.postgresql.org/sitess.html

Regards,
Thomas

--- In ib-support@y..., "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@i...> wrote:
> At 08:28 AM 2/7/2002 -0800, Rob Schuff wrote:
>
> >... there needs to be a ... feature-by-feature comparison of the
three. A
> >white paper I suppose...i.e. some strong marketing. Is there such
a thing
> >planned, in existence, etc?
>
> Anyone on this list who has experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL,
please
> contact me. I can pull together some feature lists from the
documentation,
> but there's nothing like real experience. MySQL has a comparison
tester
> called crashme which works very badly with Firebird. If anyone
would
> like to try to improve it, that would help us a lot.
>
> For a talk that I'm about to give at an OSDN (open source
developers'
> network) conference, I'm suggesting that:
>
> MySQL is designed to be a blindingly fast back-end to a web
server
> but lacks features needed for read-write processing.
>
> PostgreSQL lacks the "active database" features of Firebird -
> triggers for view updates, computed columns, select procedures,
> etc. Their triggers and stored procedures seem more like our
> UDFs.
>
> Do remember that our competition is not MySQL or PosgreSQL, but
> Microsoft and Oracle. There's space in the world for different
> databases with different focus.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann