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 5804E30F727; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:30:07 +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 03611-07; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:29:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from www.postgresql.com (www.postgresql.com [64.117.225.209]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4820C30F6B7; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:29:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from aspirin.dii.utk.edu (aspirin.dii.utk.edu [160.36.0.81]) by www.postgresql.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A02CF7FCB; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:34:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from voyager.phys.utk.edu (voyager.phys.utk.edu [160.36.28.203]) by aspirin.dii.utk.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5NFXwLI016381; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:33:58 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" Reply-To: techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu To: "Advocacy (PostgreSQL)" , PostgreSQL-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:43:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us> <15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20030623032251.GA27826@dcc.uchile.cl> In-Reply-To: <20030623032251.GA27826@dcc.uchile.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200306231143.29703.techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Archive-Number: 200306/188 X-Sequence-Number: 1400 On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:22 pm, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:19:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > Interesting thread (php-dev subj: removing bundled libmysql): > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dphp-dev&m=3D105621066832429&w=3D2 > > Note the comment on > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dphp-dev&m=3D105624024116515&w=3D2 : > > Georg Richter wrote: > > Unbelievable. > > Guess the postgres guys are licking their chops over this. > > > > > We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to > > > PostgreSQL. > > > > Indeed. What can we do exactly? > > Probably the Postgres client library (that'd be libpq) can be included > as part of the PHP distribution. With that, according to the thread, > the Postgres support could be built in by default. I can't find the PHP > license on their website though. I don't quite understand this. I thought PostgreSQL library _is_ included w= ith=20 PHP distribution. All I needed to do to compile is put --with-pgsql in=20 configuring php. --=20 Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN