A little hint

#1

Hi,

I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go

I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help.

A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature
was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are
in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the
concurrency was better.

Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux
(i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL
available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has
problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The
alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO).

After all this stuff, my question is :

- Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
free avalailable),

- Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked
alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been
checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there
are not much information about that).

Again, t

#2

Gustavo Perez wrote:

Quote:

Hi,

I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go

I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help.

A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature
was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are
in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the
concurrency was better.

Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux
(i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL
available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has
problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The
alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO).

After all this stuff, my question is :

- Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
free avalailable),

Try www.iiug.org. You need to become a member, but it's free.

Quote:

- Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked
alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been
checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there
are not much information about that).

Try news:linux.postgres never been there, but it looks like a logical
location.

Cheers,
--
Mark.

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#3

Gustavo Perez wrote:

Quote:

Hi,

I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go

I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help.

A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature
was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are
in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the
concurrency was better.

Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux
(i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL
available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has
problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The
alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO).

After all this stuff, my question is :

- Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
free avalailable),

Try www.iiug.org. You need to become a member, but it's free.

Quote:

- Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked
alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been
checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there
are not much information about that).

Most news readers allow a search, and entering "postgres" on mine lists
groups like news:linux.postgres and news:list.linux-activists.postgres.
Never been there though.

I would have thought that MySQL was a more logical route on Linux.

Cheers,
--
Mark.

+----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+

Quote:

Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock (AT) MydasSolutions (DOT) com |//////// /|
Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //|
+-----------------------------------+//// / ///|
|We value your comments, which have |/// / ////|
|been recorded and automatically |// / /////|
|emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////|
+----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+

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#4

Quote:

- Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
free avalailable),

There is no such thing as "free" version of Informix who has some value.

(To me... at least).

Chucho!

Gustavo Perez wrote:

Quote:

Hi,

I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go

I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help.

A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature
was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are
in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the
concurrency was better.

Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux
(i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL
available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has
problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The
alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO).

After all this stuff, my question is :

- Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
free avalailable),

- Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked
alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been
checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there
are not much information about that).

Again, t

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Atte,

Jesús Antonio Santos Giraldo
jeansagi (AT) myrealbox (DOT) com
jeansagi (AT) netscape (DOT) net

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