Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>

From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-12-31T17:16:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 05:40, Bret Busby wrote:
> I would feel more confident about having a personal database "on the 
> Internet"; a backend to my web site, if I knew that the database wasn't 
> thrown into the same storage area as everyone of the ISP's other account 
> holders, who also have the same DBMS database backends to their web 
> sites. 
<snip>
> I am not sure whether it can all be done with symbolic links, to place 
> PostgreSQL databases where a (OS, not DBMS) user or developer or DBA 
> wants them to be stored, but I suggest that provision should exist for a 
> person to determine where the person's (as owner of the database) 
> database file(s) exist, for security, backing up, etc.
> 

Find an ISP that will allow you to install a local copy of postgresql
for only your user account, then you will have full control from top to
bottom. 

Robert Treat
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