Re: Firebird and PostgreSQL at the DB Corral.

rwelty@averillpark.net says...


> > Ditto for FB. If you want to extend the code, though, you have to give
> > those changes back to the community - the licence is more GPL than BSD.

> maybe you need to clarify what you think of when you say "extensible".

> postgresql has sql extensions like "create type"; extensibility is possible
> w/o going into the source code. it sounds like you're talking about making
> changes to the firebird code base here.


I took the "extensible" bit from the URL that I posted

http://advocacy.postgresql.org/advantages/http://advocacy.postgresql.org
/advantages/

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Extensible
The source code is available to all at no charge.  If your staff have a
need to customise or extend PostgreSQL in any way then they are able to
do so with a minimum of effort, and with no attached costs.  This is
complemented by the community of PostgreSQL professionals and
enthusiasts around the globe that also actively extend PostgreSQL on a
daily basis.
------------------

This seemed to me to be basically a touting of the virtues of PostgreSQL
being Open Source, which Firebird is also, but in a different way.

FB has the "CREATE DOMAIN url VARCHAR(100)" for example.


Paul...


> richard


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