[Xastir] Re: MySQL/PostgreSQL Discussion

[Gerry Creager]

RH has both packages.  The PostGres package is available as a tarball 
from their site, and typically compiles and installs well.  It's been a 
while since I used Slack... which was my distro of choice, but abandoned 
because I needed a better package management system some while ago... 
but I don't recall it being too hard to load tarballs into cleanly.

Still, your argument is well taken, and we're at a point where getting 
an idea which database is more universal would be beneficial.  Of 
course, we could be really generic, retain only recognized generic SQL 
statements, and then have a config switch the user sets for deciding how 
to connect to said database, but that's starting to get a little 
far-fetched:-)

So:
Slackware: 		MySQL
RedHat			MySQL		PostGreSQL
SuSE	
Debian
YellowDog
SCO/Caldera
Others?

Arno Verhoeven wrote:
> Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
>>>
>>>> MySQL 4 ha spatial capability.  From my perspective, it's now a matter
>>>> of personal choice...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But is it adequate for our needs?  I recall that Oracle Spatial and
>>> PostgreSQL were quite a bit ahead of MySQL last time we discussed
>>> this, and that the planned upgrades to MySQL wouldn't quite get
>>> where we wanted to be.
>>>
>>> Have they progressed even further now?
>>
>>
>>
>> We aren't doing anything _that_ complicated.  However, if there's a 
>> question, I vote for PostGreSQL/PostGIS.
>>
> 
>  From a packagers perspective I vote for going with whatever is included 
> in most distributions.
> I only know about Slackware, which includes mysql.
> 
> If you choose for something that is not part (or conflicts) with what's 
> already part of that distribution (and Xastir really needs another 
> database), then it becomes difficult to include a Xastir package with 
> those Linux distributions.
>