X-Original-To: pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1822030F6A8 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:46:05 +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 13967-01 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:45:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from www.postgresql.com (www.postgresql.com [64.117.225.209]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E0830F666 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:45:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from cheetah.mail.utk.edu (cheetah.mail.utk.edu [160.36.178.61]) by www.postgresql.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C16CF6537 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:40:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from voyager.phys.utk.edu (voyager.phys.utk.edu [160.36.28.203]) by cheetah.mail.utk.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5NFd33x001024 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:39:03 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" Reply-To: techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:48:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us> <16073.1056340630@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20030623044621.GA28777@dcc.uchile.cl> In-Reply-To: <20030623044621.GA28777@dcc.uchile.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200306231148.35227.techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Archive-Number: 200306/1462 X-Sequence-Number: 44390 On Monday 23 June 2003 12:46 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:57:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > 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). AFAIK, if you choose to install "Database Server" in Redhat Linux, it will= =20 install PostgreSQL, and have PHP supports PostgreSQL by default. IIRC, it= =20 won't install MySQL by default, although the RPMs are included in the distr= o=20 and you can install it your self. RDB --=20 Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN