<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/31 Zaher Dirkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parmaja@gmail.com">parmaja@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graemeg.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">graemeg.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 31 January 2010 01:52, Marc Weustink <<a href="mailto:marc@dommelstein.net" target="_blank">marc@dommelstein.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> If it is to be for the FPC website too, then Firebird is a must.<br>
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</div>> When talking databases, I'd prefer Postgresql.<br>
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Postgresql eluded me for many years (I don't know why). I was<br>
pleasantly surprised when I took a look at Postgresql a few months<br>
ago. A very nice database system and with excellent tools and<br>
documentation.<br>
<br>
Saying that, Postgresql is a bit more advanced than Firebird, in the<br>
sense of setup, maintenance etc. So people with limited time, I would<br>
still recommend Firebird. Firebird has the benefit of a "deploy and<br>
forget" style and hardly needs maintenance afterwards.<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br clear="all"></div></div></div>Firebird has less features than Postgresql but Postgresql has bad client (for me), I prefer FirebirdSQL.<br><br><br>-- <br>Zaher Dirkey<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Postgresql admittedly has a steep initial learning curve, but once you have that behind you, it interfaces seamlessly with the sqldb components in Lazarus/FPC. I have been using Lazarus/FPC/Postgres for a commercial app and I have not had any hiccups with it. It does what it is told and does so reliably. What's more - it is a cross-platform RDBMS as well. Runs as sweetly on Linux et. al. as it does on Windows.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Alex du Plessis<br><br>