Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql

On 16 Jul 2003, Markus Bertheau wrote:

> В Втр, 15.07.2003, в 23:32, Derek Hamilton пишет:
> > I'm not sure this is still the case, but I recently chose PostgreSQL over
> > Firebird because Firebird requires direct access to the database file.
> > There is no way to access it via TCP/IP with drivers, etc.  That killed
> > Firebird in my mind.
>
> It's not like that anymore, you "just" need to know the path to the
> database file on the remote server. It has the ability to spread a
> database over several files to overcome OS limitations to the file size,
> but it's not transparent iirc. Firebirds concept of a database name in
> PostgreSQL is a filename on the servers file system. Other that that
> it's a serious database.

I think that issue is being fixed in v 1.5, which is in beta right now.