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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 18:52:53 +0930

linux database better than postgres?

On the subject of databases for linux,
Can anyone tell me whether there is a better database for linux
(form the point of view of most things, but especially programming)
than postgreSQL?

Lately, I've tried using postgreSQL, because I thought it was
the leading open-source linux database, but I've come up against
a couple of problems.
First, I can't find anything like serious documentation of postgreSQL.
There are several documents and man-pages, but there are big gaps
in what is covered. 
Second, more specifically, the API for libpq to program the
database in C/C++ has no info on the Oid type, which is
necessary for access to the binary versions of database fields.
It only seems to be possible to get text representations of
all fields.

I could read all the source and write documentation, but I don't
understand why the developers didn't do this already.

So I have two questions:

1.	Is there a much better source of postgreSQL
	documentation than the standard redhat 5.2 distribution
	or the http://postgresql.nextpath.com/ site.

2.	Is there a better database for linux than postgreSQL
	which is also open-source.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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