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Re: (Re: Database is needed) PostGres95 is stronger then ...?



Postgres 95 is now called PostgresQL, and has recently had a big upgrade,
to version 6.
It is now supposedly ANSI SQL compliant, although I have not tried it. I
suggest you look up http://www.postgresql.org and find the details there.


Daniel Baum

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> At 03:34 AM 7/5/97 +0300, RHS Linux User wrote:
> >	...
> >> consider PostGres95, which has a stronger SQL syntax and more features than
> >> MySQL or miniSQL, but is probably considerably slower.
> >PostGres95 has a stronger SQL then ... ?
> >I don't know about the other DBMS that you mentioned, but as much that I 
> >recall, PostGres95 basic SQL is quite limited. Perhaps if you do quite 
> >extensive programming yourself then what you wrote holds. 
> >Can you wrote some references and/or be more specific about where it is more 
> >strong ?
> >
> Well, I'm not an expert on PostGres95 and I've never used it nor plan to in
> the near future. Anyway mSQL and miniSQL, for example do not support
> sub-queries, nor use of SQL built-in functions (like regex(), length() )
> within the WHERE clause. I think that PostGres supports this stuff, but on
> the other hand - maybe not.
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
> 
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> The Bible dictates that "Thou shalt not seethe [=cook] a kid [= young goat]
> in his mother's milk." To avoid possibility of breaking that regulation,
> the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature
> goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats. It is
> also forbidden to eat the meat with fresh milk, and it applies to beef and
> mutten as well (including mixing the milk and meat of two different
> beasts). Finally, chicken, which are incapable of milk production, may not
> be eaten along with any mammal's milk either. 
> 
> We are fortunate that most mathematicians were not Jewish. Otherwise, it
> would have been forbidden to divide by all numbers between -1 and 1.
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