Excerpt from the mentioned article: "PostgreSQL ... also has ... advanced
design features such as inheritance in database designs". What does
inheritance mean there? Can be some table inherited fron another table ?
Ales

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann W. Harrison [mailto:aharrison@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:33 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] Firebird mention
>
>
> Sean Leyne on the firebird development list:
>
> Firebird is mentioned in reasonably good terms (on page 37) along with
> MySQL, PostgreSQL and mySAP.
>
> For more details have a read of the article at:
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,367213,00.asp
>
> Sean, being Canadian and terribly polite, didn't react to some
> of the statements in the article. For those of you who disagree that
>
> "Firebird ... [has]n't established open-source developer or user
> communities, and online support resources are limited."
>
> or that Firebird is more costly to manage than Oracle
>
> "Graphical administration tools are available but simple in scope
> and not competitive with the comprehensive configuration, control,
> monitoring and tuning features found in the large commercial
> offerings.
> Management costs are higher among these database products as a
> result."
>
> Here's the author's email address... timothy_dyck@...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ann
>
>
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