Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe@softhome.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-01-01T16:33:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Casey,

Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> Alex Satrapa (Sunday 28 December 2003 22:16)
> 
>>Just convince your distribution's
> 
> 
> My what?  I don't use no stinkin' distribution :).
> 
> 
>>postgresql package maintainer
> 
> 
> That would be postgresql.org, I know not of binary packages.
> 
> 
>>"suggests/recommends" portion of the package management metadata.
> 
> 
> Tar does not provide such metadata, and a suggestion is hardly the same as an 
> inclusion.
> 
> I'm just saying that it would be nice to include both CLI and GUI interfaces, 
> not to mention things like ODBC, as an alternative to the "minimalist" 
> download.

No. NO! Definitively not. I really dont want GUI interfaces on a
database server. We are not on Windows here where all servers
better reside on the desktop...

But you could provide a wget script for the configure file
to fetch all sources one would need to install to his
postgres server if desireable.

Regards
Tino