Re: [Sheflug] Re: Hypercard

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Matt Fairtlough writes:
 > Will Newton wrote:
 > 
 > > > for a company or whatever.  Not particularly bothered about databases.
 > >
 > > Most "Publishing Systems" for Linux/U*IX seem to be database backed for
 > > better or worse.
 > 
 > Fair enough.   Need to think again about the ISP for my pages then.   But of
 > course I don't have Oracle or any other serious db engine on my machine at
 > home
 
Try PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL v7.1 on will do outer joins - this was one of the main
complaints I'd heard about earlier versions.

http://www.postgresql.org/ has all the info.

Of course, if you have pots of money, Oracle would be the way to go,
but PostgreSQL is some what friendlier on the money side of things :-)

Baz.
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