[HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Press Release

David Friend wrote:
>
> WARNING:  This is a draft.  Do not post outside of the PostgreSQL
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>           Contrary to our mailing list rules, I ask that comments
>           on this press release be discussed in HACKERS, rather
>           than in DOCS.  Please include comments on spelling,
>           grammer, etc. as well as comments on the content and
>           it's accuracy.  (I do not have easy access to a spell
>           checker.)
>
> QUESTIONS:  - What are "declarative queries"?
>             - When discussing the downside of PostgreSQL, did I
>               say too much?  I deliberately left out the memory
>               leak problems and the lack of thorough testing on
>               all supported platforms.
>
>                         David
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> BERKELEY, Calif. (June 6, 1997) -- The PostgreSQL Development Team is
> pleased to announce the release of PostgreSQL version 6.1.  PostgreSQL
> is an Object-Relational DataBase Management System (ORDBMS).  This
> client/server database software is available at no charge.
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> In 1986 the University of California started the Postgres project to
> explore objected oriented concepts in relational databases.  When the
> university stopped development they released the software to the
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> Internet community.  The
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> PostgreSQL (formerly Postgres95) team of volunteers have continued the
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> development effort.  The result is an RDBMS that is starting to compete
> seriously with the major (and expensive) commercial systems.
>
> PostgreSQL has been popular for several years among the scientific
> community.  When version 6.0 came out its increased reliability and
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> increased support of ANSI/ISO SQL92 commands attracted attention in
> the business community.  This latest release makes major increases in
> execution speed, reliability and platform support.
>
> These ongoing improvements will make PostgreSQL an increasingly
> popular choice in the database industry.
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> PostgreSQL supports an extended subset of SQL.  It supports inheritance.
> It supports declarative queries in SQL, query optimization, concurrency
> control, transactions, multi-user support and a number of security
> features.  It supports user defined operators, types, functions and
> access methods.  There are application programmer interfaces (APIs)
> available for C, C++, Java, Perl4, Perl5, Python, SQL and Tcl.  There
> are commercially available ODBC and JDBC drivers.  (Free versions are
> also being developed.)  The software works on at least 15 different
> Unix platforms.
>
> Future enhancements will cover row
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> level locking, mirroring, a shared SQL cache, parallel queries,
> read-only databases and forms.  Outside of the man pages and the
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> installation instructions, the manuals are way out of date.  (Archives
> of the mailing lists are available.)  PostgreSQL can run significantly
> slower, depending on the platform and the work being done.

David, slower than what? The speed seems to be competitive with my
full-blown Ingres database; it's just slower than systems which aren't
comparable in features. (I may be missing something here, but...)

> You should consider giving PostgreSQL a serious look.
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> PostgreSQL is available at http://www.postgresql.org.

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