From: Wolfgang Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 01/28/93


From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Petzke)
Subject: Re: PostGres? (was Re: INGRES BROKEN BY 0.99, STANDBY...
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:02:47 GMT

In <1993Jan17.010436.5084@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:

>In article <1993Jan17.001338.25541@watson.ibm.com> uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal,35-016,8621267,) writes:
>>
>>Please forgive my ignorance, but maybe somebody could
>>clarify this to me: is Postgres a "next generation"
>>for Ingres? If yes - is it Postgres, which Linux
>>has?

>Yes, POSTGRES is INGRES:The next genreration. Postgres is an order of
>magnitude larger than ingres. It also uses ipc (still alpha in Linux) and
>dynamic loading of object code (is this avialable on linux?). One look at
>the code sent me running for my sanity. If someone has 45-50MB of spare
>hard-disk space and a working csh they can try to compile it.

>Linux only has ingres (for now).

I got 64 MB of spare hard-disk space, some time, a working csh, but I don't
know where to upload postgres from. I don't have much knowledge of ipc yet,
but this could change ...

So: does someone know a site near (or in) Berlin, where to get postgres?

Kai Petzke, wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Phone: +30/262 18 79
Address: Stresemannstr. 62 / W - 1000 Berlin 61, Germany