Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread

On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:22 pm, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:19:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Interesting thread (php-dev subj: removing bundled libmysql):
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105621066832429&w=2
>
> Note the comment on
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105624024116515&w=2 :
>
> Georg Richter wrote:
> > Unbelievable.
> > Guess the postgres guys are licking their chops over this.
> >
> > > We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to
> > > PostgreSQL.
> >
> > Indeed.  What can we do exactly?
>
> Probably the Postgres client library (that'd be libpq) can be included
> as part of the PHP distribution.  With that, according to the thread,
> the Postgres support could be built in by default.  I can't find the PHP
> license on their website though.

I don't quite understand this. I thought PostgreSQL library _is_ included with
PHP distribution. All I needed to do to compile is put --with-pgsql in
configuring php.


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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN