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> From: Dominic J. Eidson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:09 AM > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > > Agreed, but some code requires it. Which was my point. I'm > talking smaller > > vendors, like Oracle. BTW, how do I fake in-addr.arpa > responses for NAT'd > > space? My Oracle 8i server keeps checking the reverse addr > every time I try > > to create a DB. It's really annoying. Funny thing, my DB2 > servers do the > > same thing ... > > I find it funny that PostgreSQL - while being used as replacement for > Oracle by more and more people - does _not_ have this > problem... I didn't > even have a NIC in the server when I installed it... > > (And yes, PostgreSQL does have ACL's - but the ACL list is checked at > connection time - not everytime you execute a DML statement.) Are you seriously suggesting using PostgreSQL over Oracle, in production? Mind you, I do pgsql too. But, not in high-volume production.
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