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From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Databases that runs on FreeBSD
Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:23:30 GMT
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In article <5c1q01$koh@nova.dimensional.com>,
mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr) writes:
> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>>Postgres 95 (or whatever it's named today)
> ...which is available at:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/
> I don't recall having any difficulty building it, but I recommend
> reading INSTALL carefully before starting. You'll need GNU make
> for the build.
Depending on which FreeBSD revision you are running, you may need a
newer version of flex (from memory).
And now a question of my own:
How well would the different ``free'' databases handle, say, several
hundred thousand records, and being queried more than once a second?
I'm curious for an upcoming development I've heard of ...
Thanks,
Gary