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1. Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with Innstalling PostGreSQL 6.5.2 on Win NT

   Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw> — 1999-10-01T10:30:40Z

   Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
   
   > on a related note, i've been thinking about trying out postgres on NT,
   > but i've been hesitant to do so because it seems to be a "just because i
   > can" port -- maybe not as stable or fast as on a unix system, but neat
   > to have.  are people actually using it for serious (ie, it needs to be
   > reliable but not necessarily mission critical) work?
   
   Hi, Jeff,
   
   I know Postgres on NT is not as stable as on a UN*X system so far.
   Some friends of mine works on NT platform, they just want to learn SQL,
   but you know, almost databases on NT are commercial, they are expensive
   and they cannot pay it just because they want to learn SQL, right?
   Now they can run PostgreSQL on NT, and study more fun :-)
   Becuase Postgres is *free* and *open source*, so that's why I port
   PostgreSQL to NT.
   
   > jeff
   
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2. Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with Innstalling PostGreSQL 6.5.2 on Win NT

   Oleg Broytmann <phd@sun.med.ru> — 1999-10-01T11:00:31Z

   On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kevin Lo wrote:
   > Some friends of mine works on NT platform, they just want to learn SQL,
   > but you know, almost databases on NT are commercial, they are expensive
   > and they cannot pay it just because they want to learn SQL, right?
   
      If you know (or agree to learn) Python programming language I cannot
   resist to recommend you to try Gadfly. It is SQL engine written entirely in
   Python, and thus it is portable to any platform where python exists
   (DOS/Windows/UNIX/Mac/etc). It is free, it is small and simple, but
   powerful enough to use it even in commercial projects. To speed things up
   some internal parts had been rewritten in C, but I don't know how this work
   on NT (on UNIX it is pretty good).
   
      http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html
   
   > > jeff
   
   Oleg.
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3. Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with Innstalling PostGreSQL 6.5.2 on Win NT

   Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw> — 1999-10-02T14:09:36Z

   Oleg Broytmann wrote:
   
   > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kevin Lo wrote:
   > > Some friends of mine works on NT platform, they just want to learn SQL,
   > > but you know, almost databases on NT are commercial, they are expensive
   > > and they cannot pay it just because they want to learn SQL, right?
   >
   >    If you know (or agree to learn) Python programming language I cannot
   > resist to recommend you to try Gadfly. It is SQL engine written entirely in
   > Python, and thus it is portable to any platform where python exists
   > (DOS/Windows/UNIX/Mac/etc). It is free, it is small and simple, but
   > powerful enough to use it even in commercial projects. To speed things up
   > some internal parts had been rewritten in C, but I don't know how this work
   > on NT (on UNIX it is pretty good).
   >
   >    http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html
   
   Hi, Oleg,
   
   Thanks for the info. It's very cool!! Well, I believe you're a Python guru :-)
   
   > > > jeff
   >
   > Oleg.
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   >     Oleg Broytmann     http://members.xoom.com/phd2/     phd2@earthling.net
   >            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
   
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