Re: [GENERAL] Yoga

On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

> Would someone who's been using PostgreSQL for production use like to do
> some advocating in the Yoga (or Gnuotes) project?
>
> Yoga is a project meant to build a Notes killer.
>
> The general feeling seems to be to use SleepyCat DB, which I've never
> heard about before. The Web Page tells that it's in reality Berkeley DB,
> a very simple file construction, not at all what I consider a database.
> Back when I programmed Cobol, it was just indexed files...
>
> I think the main problem is that people doesn't know how far PostgreSQL
> has come. In my eyes, the only thing missing could be hot backup, but I
> don't know for sure. Also there's the question of reliability (up time).
>
> Personnally, I'm not sure how PostgreSQL will handle documents (that's
> what Notes / Yoga is about), as I believe that BLOBS are poorly
> supported, but perhaps the developers of PostgreSQL would accomodate
> Yoga in this matter.
>
> A big problem for SleepyCat is in my eyes that it doesn't support SQL at
> all!
>
> Yoga can be found here: http://samba.anu.edu.au/yoga/
> The database web page: http://samba.anu.edu.au/yoga/team/datastore/
> And the discussion is taking place here:  yoga-list@samba.anu.edu.au

    I've joined the list...I'll at least lurk, if not say something...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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