On Friday 10 September 2004 20:00, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
On Fre, 2004-09-10 at 17:50 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > - MySQL has a fine grained access control
> How fine do you need?
No, but I doubt that you can restrict a user to read-only access of
single column.
> Major is like 7.2 to 7.3. PostgreSQL's versioning is more
like the Linux
> kernel than other packages in versioning. Even then, the Slony
> replication engine allows you to replicate to a newer version and keep
> both up and running concurrently.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I consider 7 to be the current
major
and 4 to be the current minor version.
Is this true with the Linux kernel? I consider 2.6 to be a major version over
2.4. 2.6.8 is a minor version over 2.6.7. This is the way the PostgreSQL
developers (of whom I am one) number it.
But even when stepping from 7.4.x
to 7.4.2 the PostgreSQL developers recommend a dump/restore cycle.
Nope. You can do it, but it's never been 'recommended' to do. If you make a
copy of the data tree you're pretty safe, since any 7.4.x is binary format
compatible with any 7.4.y.
AFAIK PostgreSQL is licensed as GPL with no exceptions, so it is a
problem for commercial applications.
PostgreSQL is, has been, and likely will always be BSD licensed. No problems
for anyone.
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Lamar Owen
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