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 1DC2D30F71C for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:19:15 +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 17025-05 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:19:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32D430F615 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:19:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C94C921058; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:19:04 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: "scott.marlowe" Cc: "Advocacy (PostgreSQL)" Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread Message-ID: <20030623171904.GY97131@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <200306231143.29703.techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Archive-Number: 200306/196 X-Sequence-Number: 1408 [ killing cross posting between general@ and advocacy@ ] > For this reason and many others, it is considered a bad design > decision to have included the connect libs in the PHP's source tree. > It basically made it easier for junior sys admins to shoot > themselves in the foot. :-) Or for Jr. Admins at www virtual hosting ISPs to setup PHP pizza boxes without having to install PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL needs a --client-only option to ./configure to be competitive in terms of cost of installation in that dept. -sc -- Sean Chittenden