Re: add column sillyness

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Rick Gigger wrote:

> > "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> writes:
> > > Does anyone have a link to such a comparison? Also can anyone elaborate
> on
> > > the features that postgres has that firebird lacks?
> >
> > AFAICT, the main thing that Firebird lacks is a viable open-source
> > development community :-(. It's a nice bit of software, and I'd be
> > happy to see it doing better, but it seems like they just have not been
> > able to gather critical mass around it. So in any comparison you need
> > to factor in the likelihood that Postgres will be improving at a much
> > greater rate than Firebird.
>
> Last night after posting this I asked myself. Could I get the same kind of
> support (basically an answer to any question within 24 hours from one of the
> actual postgres developers) with firebird that I can get here? I doubt it.

But it's just a theory until you test it. I'm willing to bet you'd get
decent support on the simple stuff. But it's few projects that have the
kind of developer support postgresql gets.