On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
In all seriousness, though, out of the Open Source contenders, I think PostgreSQL is a great choice. It has every feature I'd look for in a serious database, including procedural languages, triggers, views, etc. It is available for Unix and (with a little help) Windows.
Do you know of any Windows binaries? I haven't found any, at least none that don't require the Cygnus stuff to be installed. Most people, including me, don't want to mess with Cygnus shells and compilers, so Postgres is effectively unavailable unless someone knows of Windows binaries compiled under a regular Windows compiler.
Good, modern installation instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html I just set up a new 2000 box this week, but haven't yet determined that it works fine. If it does, I'll be happy to post my binaries. -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington