X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1214E30F4C5; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:46:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73996-06; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:45:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from cm-lcon6-153-250.cm.vtr.net (CM-lcon6-153-250.cm.vtr.net [200.83.153.250]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADDA30F3FE; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:45:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: by cm-lcon6-153-250.cm.vtr.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id EA84B8023F; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:46:21 -0400 (CLT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:46:21 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Josh Berkus , Joe Conway , "Advocacy (PostgreSQL)" , PostgreSQL-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread Message-ID: <20030623044621.GA28777@dcc.uchile.cl> References: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us> <15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20030623032251.GA27826@dcc.uchile.cl> <16073.1056340630@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <16073.1056340630@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Archive-Number: 200306/171 X-Sequence-Number: 1383 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:57:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Better hurry. Sterling Hughes is proposing to enable SQlite support by > > default; that move could be bad for the lobbying of activating Pg > > support. > > SQlite? Sure, give it a try. Actually, I read the website right after I sent the email and I was... "surprised." I am still wondering if it allows some kind of concurrent access. > (I was slightly astonished to compare > these two pages: > http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/omitted.html > http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/datatypes.html The omitted features I can understand. But his take on datatypes is really simplistic (read: absurd.) > I'd be happy if PHP would adopt a database-neutral stance, ie, nothing > in particular bundled into their core distribution. What probably won't do. If they are desperate enough to activate SQLite by default, it means they want to have at least database support at all times. > Maybe we could talk them into bundling more than one DB interface --- > if they put both PG and SQlite support into their distro, that'd be > fine with me too. Sure, because users are very likely to use Postgres if support is readily available (and it is already installed by default or at least included in most Linux distributions). -- Alvaro Herrera () "La persona que no quería pecar / estaba obligada a sentarse en duras y empinadas sillas / desprovistas, por cierto de blandos atenuantes" (Patricio Vogel)